The Battle of Xuzhou, which lasted for three months, ended with the defeat and disappearance of Cao Cao's army.

Although Han Lie lost as many as 5,000 soldiers in this battle, as many as 23,000 soldiers died in the Donghai Prefecture County, and as many as 130,000 people were killed and wounded in this battle.

As a result, in the two major counties of Pengcheng and Xiapi, the people were displaced, and the ten rooms were empty. The two brothers, Sun Guan and Sun Kang, were recommended by Han Lie to serve as the minister of Pengcheng and the minister of Pi respectively because of their meritorious service in blocking Cao Jun in the battle of Weishui. Although the two places were empty, the brothers Sun Guan and Sun Kang were still quite grateful to Han Lie for keeping his promise, and expressed their allegiance.

The Xuzhou family Cao Bao Cao Hong brothers, because of their merits in the battle to defend the city, were recommended by Han Lie as Taishan Taishou and Donglai Taishou respectively, and at the same time concurrently served as the Sima of the Linhuai Diannong Governor's Mansion in the army.

Now Taishan and Donglai are not Han Lie's territory, this is called Yao Ling, take Yulu and have no real power, the power of Linhuai Dian Nongdu Governor's Mansion is in the hands of Chen Deng, and the two of them concurrently serve as Sima of the army, but in fact it is only a fictitious position, which is called Mingsheng and Secret Descent.

Although the two of them had some complaints about Han Lie's arrangement, after the Xuzhou War, Han Lie controlled the power of Xuzhou and was in full swing, but the two did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction.

Donghai County as the seat of Xuzhou Prefecture, and was operated by Tao Qian for many years, after the battle, was recommended by Han Lie to serve as the county guard of Donghai County, the right Zhonglang General of the Mansion Chief of Staff Chen Qi, then sent the treasury book to Han Lie.

The money in the treasury of the East China Sea was indeed somewhat unexpected by Han Lie, although the gold cake was only 50,000 gold, but the copper coins were as many as 300 million, and the piles of copper coins that were pressed under the bottom had even corroded.

When Han Lie came to the treasury and saw so much money, he looked around at the generals and said, "Tao Envoy Jun has been operating in Xuzhou for many years, and he has accumulated such a lot of wealth for the imperial court, he is indeed a meritorious man. However, in today's troubled times, if the wealth is accumulated in the treasury, the (people) will be poor, which is the same principle as the sages said in the "University" record, "wealth gathers (then) (people) disperse, wealth scatters (then) people) gathers," which is the same reason. ”

"After this battle, the people of Xuzhou can be said to have suffered a lot, and I should treat them well." Speaking of this, when Han Lie turned to leave, he instructed Mi Zhu, who was accompanying him: "Pass on my decree, all the people of Xuzhou will be exempted from taxes this year, and all those who have a newborn girl will be rewarded with 1,000 yuan, and those who have elderly people over 60 years old in the family will be rewarded with 500 yuan. ”

"The great grace of the lord is really a blessing for the people of Xuzhou." As soon as Han Lie's words came out, all the civil and military officials accompanying him couldn't help but be moved, such a gift to the elders and the young was really an eternal precedent.

"Zilan, the soldiers of my Red Flame Army, the soldiers who participated in the war this time will be given three hundred dollars, and those who have made meritorious contributions will be rewarded twice, and the state and county soldiers will also receive this treatment." Han Lie waved his hand, stopping everyone from singing praises.

"Whoa." Junzheng Xia Houlan was busy answering the line.

After that, Han Lie held another big banquet in the county guard mansion of Donghai County, and this banquet invited all the incumbent officials and family members of Xuzhou, and opened a full 120 seats, and the family members opened as many as 200 other seats in the other courtyard.

Han Lie's prestige in Xuzhou has now reached its peak with Cao Cao's defeat, and he has become the savior of the people of Xuzhou, but the more this time, the more Han Lie understands that while getting close to the people, he also needs to be surrounded by these family officials.

If the people are water, then the fishermen on the boat, then the officials of the family that exist in the world are all kinds of fish in the water, when they disperse, they will not be threatened, and they will become fishermen's food and raise fishermen, but once these family officials are gathered together, the fishermen will get nothing, and the worst will be the situation of the boat being overwhelmed.

Han Lie convened a banquet for these family officials, and even invited the wives and children of various families, the purpose of which was to express the intimacy of the family, secondly, to select some people to join the ranks, and thirdly, to choose a daughter-in-law for his own generals.

Now Han Lie's generals are under his account, only Zhao Yun has taken the daughter of the Zhen family from Hebei Wuji as his wife, Xu Huang and Dian Wei, who have followed him for many years, are both bachelors, and Han Lie, as the lord, should naturally worry about everyone.

As for Han Lie's original wedding in mid-August, because of the delay of the Battle of Xuzhou, the wedding date is at most a prevarication, and the completion of the marriage is a matter of time.

Although they had just experienced the battle of life and death in Tancheng, these guests were still in high spirits and were not affected in the slightest. Some heads of famous families have also brought out the most virtuous and beautiful daughters in the family, hoping to get Han Lie's favor.

But when Han Lie appeared at the banquet with Mi Zhen, some noble ladies in the family, when they saw the handsome and handsome Han Lie in Yushu, and the glamorous and elegant Mi Zhen, although they secretly slandered themselves, they also had to admit that these two people stood together, and they were indeed the best candidates for a match made in heaven.

Mi Zhen, who is tall and tall, has a lively and free personality, wearing an emerald green dress, trimming her body upright and upturned, coupled with delicate facial features, healthy wheat skin, full of youthful and gorgeous atmosphere.

Mi Zhen was brought by Mi Zhu, but as soon as this little girl saw Han Lie, she fell and generously stuck to Han Lie's side, and said to Han Lie with a smile: "Brother Ziyang, I finally saw you, I haven't seen Sister Wen Ji for a long time, and people still miss her." ”

Looking at Mi Zhen in front of him with a sweet smile and lightly bared her teeth, Han Lie nodded happily: "The virgin girl is getting more and more beautiful, how about it, do you have a mother-in-law?" If not, what do you think of my generals? ”

"Hmph, if you want to be nosy, why don't people get married?" Mi Zhen was still smiling, her face turned black in a blink of an eye, and she turned to Mi Zhu's side angrily, still muttering in her mouth: They are all rough barbarians, who wants to marry, I won't marry.

In order to show goodwill, at the banquet, Han Lie took a sip of the toaster, even if he didn't finish drinking, to express his respect, this toss, even if it was just rice wine, Han Lie didn't feel drunk.

Coupled with the end of the war in Xuzhou, Han Lie also had a drunken heart, to relieve the long-suppressed desire to kill in his heart, and faced the killing on the battlefield for a long time, Han Lie recently found that his temper was obviously much more irritable, this situation is not only in him, but also in many generals under the account have such emotions, which is also a reason why Han Lie held a celebration banquet and hoped to find a suitable wife and concubine for the generals.

The warmth of the family, the warmth of the wife, the son and the daughter, and the venting of the woman's (desire) are undoubtedly a catharsis point to vent the murderous intent in the heart.

And Han Lie usually after the war, after rewarding the soldiers, he would also let the soldiers out of the camp in batches to relax, of course, not to burn, kill, loot, and bully women, but to go to the singer shop on the street to vent. This can not only alleviate the depression and fatigue of soldiers in long-term fighting, but also stimulate the local economy, for this reason, Han Lie has only two prohibitions on the operation of the singer's fang, one is not to force the good to become prostitutes, and the other is to collect taxes from the operators with heavy money.

For Mi Zhen, Han Lie does not have any feelings between men and women, at most, he treats her, a lively girl, as the little girl next door, this is not Han Lie's noble and does not love women (sex).

As a normal man, Han Lie also loves women, but for this aspect, his willpower is stronger than others, and secondly, he has higher requirements for women, which has nothing to do with beauty and ugliness, because he doesn't want the woman he sleeps with is not the same heart as himself, and he doesn't have any feelings at all.

At the beginning of the business, as the head of the crowd, he had too many things to do, and he didn't have time to communicate with women, especially multiple women. It's Cai Yan who has followed him for many years, but in fact, the two of them get together less and leave more, even if Han Lie doesn't have a war, because he is busy with government affairs, he rarely has time to chat with her, or eat a meal quietly.

The last time in Guangling, the two finally broke through the layer of window paper and were able to have fun together often, and it was also because Han Lie pushed everything he had on hand to Zhang Zhao to deal with, which allowed him to find time to live a comfortable life at night.

Sometimes Han Lie himself was thinking about why he was so hard. Back in ancient times, it was supposed to be enjoyable, but now in order to consolidate the position of survival, it is necessary to constantly run around and be tired, and if you slack off, you have to worry about the attack from the enemy, or the stability of the people in the country.

The greater the power, the more things Han Lie found himself to worry about, the more things to worry about, this battle of Xuzhou, although he won and obtained a lot of money, but the responsibility he had to bear will be greater, which is what the old saying goes, there will be gains, there will be losses.

Han Lie, who was drunk, was in a daze, thinking that he had returned to his home in Guangling, smelling the faint fragrance of the woman's body in his nose, a primitive desire arose, and then it was a wild vent.

until he fell asleep from exhaustion. But at dawn, Han Lie, who had a dry mouth, couldn't help but open his eyes suddenly when he turned over and felt a piece of smooth skin under his tentacles.

"Xiaozhen, why are you here?" Han Lie hesitated to knock on his skull, but he couldn't remember how he came back. But looking at Mi Zhen, who was covered with a thin veil in front of her eyes and a pitiful face, how could Han Lie not understand what he had done.

"Alas, this wine is a mistake, Xiaozhen is sorry, I will be responsible for this matter." Han Lie sighed lightly, and softly hugged the somewhat nervous Mi Zhen in his arms, caressing her smooth and white skin, and comforting the other party because of the trauma caused by his own brutality and roughness.

"Brother Ziyang, I don't blame you at all, I did all this voluntarily." Mi Zhen, who felt Han Lie's kindness and was encouraged, couldn't help but raise her head, looked at Han Lie with her eyes that were still mist, and said bravely.

"Silly girl, I hope you don't regret it in the future." Han Lie smiled bitterly, feeling the rising body temperature of the beautiful woman in his arms, and the full and plump twin peaks on his chest, the lower body that was already a little erect in the morning looked even more hideous.

"Yikes." Mi Zhen, who felt Han Lie's changes, snorted lightly, blushed and buried her head in Han Lie's arms, looking like Ren Jun tasting it, which suddenly caused Han Lie's desire to rise again.

Because of drunkenness last night, where did Han Lie experience the warmth of a woman, at this moment both parties were full of energy, and they were in high spirits, under a burst of kissing and caressing, Mi Zhen under her was already languishing, when she felt Han Lie's action of standing up, the little girl couldn't help but nervously and gently pushed and refused with the jade hand holding Han Lie: "Ziyang don't want it, it's dawn!" ”

"I have to send it when I am ready to fly, and I can't control it." Han Lie smiled and jumped into action.

Afterwards, the shy Mi Zhen did not dare to go out for a whole day, and Han Lie, who was physically and mentally satisfied, was not rigid, and after going out, he found Guo Jia and asked him to come to the door to ask Mi Zhu for marriage, expressing his willingness to marry Mi Zhen as his wife.

Han Lie, who was originally going to return to Guangling after the East China Sea was settled, finally had to lead the army to urgently withdraw to Guangling because Yuan Shu sent the general Ji Lingtun to smear the water and look down on the Jiangdu.

After leading the army back to Guangling, Han Lie learned that the reason why Yuan Shu drew his troops so quickly, stationed his troops in the water, and pressed the troops to Jiangdu and Danyang on the south bank of the Yangtze River was mainly because of Sun Ce's help.

It turned out that Sun Ce, who had retreated from Danyang, although he was recommended by Han Lie and nominally succeeded his father Sun Jian as the general of the captives, and quickly gained a firm foothold in Chaisang, but Sun Ce always cared about many of his father's old subordinates, that is, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zhu Zhi, and the five Lu Fan, who had a good personal relationship with him.

Just when Sun Ce was thinking hard about how to get back these talents, Yuan Shu's crusade against Lujiang County was lost because of the desperate resistance of Lu Kang, who was too guarded by Lujiang.

At this time, Zhou Yu happened to come to Chaisang, and Sun Ce participated in a major event, and immediately volunteered, went to Shouchun, and persuaded Yuan Shu to exchange Sun Jian's troops for the general of Sun Jian, and Sun Ce commanded the army to send troops from Chaisang to attack Lujiang.

It was precisely because of Sun Ce's dispatch that Yuan Shu was able to conquer the Lujiang River, which had been besieged for several months and failed to conquer, and obtained the wealth of the Lujiang Treasury for many years, so that he could draw troops from it, enter the Tushui line, press Guangling, and then threaten Danyang.

The meeting hall of the mansion of the right middle lang of Guangling.

"Tu Shui is an important place on the north shore, and stationed here, it is like a sharp sword hanging over the head, and it has to be guarded against." After the generals arrived, Han Lie took the lead in speaking: "Yuan Shu occupies Huainan, the intention is obvious, that is, to occupy Yangzhou, and now he has sent troops to occupy Tushui, although he has not made further moves, but as the saying goes, the side of the couch will not allow others to snore, so I decided to send troops to eat this enemy, I don't know what you think?" ”

"Yuan Shu, the dry bones in the grave are only, greedy for small profits and forgetting the great righteousness, sooner or later it will be captured by the lord. To deal with this person, why do you need a large army to conquer. The lord might as well send someone to negotiate with Yuan Shu and express his intention to get married. Now that Cao Cao's army is defeated and missing, and Yanzhou and Yuzhou are in chaos, as long as the lord expresses the alliance between the two families and jointly divides the land of Yuzhou and Yanzhou, Yuan Shu will definitely agree. At that time, there is no need for the lord to send a single soldier, and the soldiers and horses of Yuan Shu's various departments will inevitably fall into the battlefield of Yuzhou, how can they pose a threat to our department again? Guo Jia is full of contempt for Yuan Shu, in his eyes, Yuan Shu is not just an arrogant (extravagant) (lewd) disciple who relies on his family background to become famous.

When he said this in one breath, Guo Jia paused again and said: "At present, to consolidate the power of Jianghuai, the navy is very important, as long as our navy is strong, Yuan Shu can only look at the river and sigh." ”

For Guo Jia's words, everyone deeply agreed. At this time, Han Lie's gaze also fell on Jiang Qin and asked, "Gong Yi, how has your navy been training recently?" ”

"Although it is not a division of a hundred battles, it is worthy of a battle." Jiang Qin, who was sitting on the ground, sat up straight and replied.

"Okay, but you should have heard what the military advisor said just now, if we want to cross the Jianghuai, the naval army still needs to be strengthened in terms of combat effectiveness and strength." Han Lie praised and said, "Mr. Zibu, I have decided to expand the strength of the naval army to 8,000 people, and the cost of the required needs to be prepared by Mr. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, this is a matter for the ministers." Zhang Zhao nodded happily, this year's year is quite good, plus the battle in Xuzhou, the harvest is quite rich, Zhang Zhao's money in his hands is also quite sufficient, he has no objection to the expansion of the navy.

Jiang Qin found that the troops were insufficient through training and patrolling along the river during this period of time, and he was naturally very happy to learn that Han Lie was going to expand the naval army, although Xu Sheng's official position was low, but because of his relationship with Han Lie, this would also be the first to listen to the government, and he was also very happy to hear the expansion of the naval army.

"Ziyi, have you picked all the cavalry candidates?" In the Battle of Xuzhou, Han Lie captured 2,600 live horses of Cao Cao, and during this time, Han Lie appointed Tai Shici as the captain of the Xiao cavalry, and asked him to select 1,500 sergeants with a cavalry and archery foundation from various armies and put them into the Xiao cavalry battalion.

The establishment of the Xiao cavalry battalion is 2,000 people, and the reason why 1,500 people are transferred is because there are 500 Cao army soldiers who chose to surrender under the leadership of Yu Ban, and Han Lie saw that they were all good at riding and archery, so he stayed in the Xiao cavalry battalion.

Tai Shi Ci was transferred to the lieutenant of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and Yu Ban, who surrendered, was reused by Han Lie and promoted to the captain of the rear battalion, taking over Tai Shi Ci's position. Han Lie's move can be regarded as a thousand gold to buy horse bones, but Yu Ban, as a general, has been reused, which once again shows Han Lie's leniency and eclectic mind to promote talents.

Yu Ban's surrender was also inevitable, and after Zhao Yun's recommendation, Han Lie also knew that this person had the ability, so he naturally promoted this person. Although Han Lie sent Yu Ban to lobby, Li Dian said that he could not be loyal to the enemy on the grounds that his uncle Li Gan and his cousin Li Quan were both killed under Han Lie's account.

In this regard, Han Lie did not force it, when he withdrew this time, he was imprisoned and brought back to Guangling, ready to be locked up for a year and a half, if he had no intention of taking refuge in himself at that time, he would either kill him or throw him into the salt field to do labor, at present, Han Lie has two major salt farms, which require a lot of labor, one is the salt field of salt desecration, and the other is the salt field of Haiyan.

Salt is now unintentionally the largest income output in Han Lie's power, when occupying Haiyan, Han Lie let Lu Dai, who went to serve as the order of Haiyan, put forward the method of boiling salt for the production of sea salt, after several months of research and development of salt craftsmen, the method of boiling salt has finally been studied, and now the new salt produced not only has no impurities, but also as crystal clear as snow particles, compared with the coarse salt and impurity salt in the past, this new production method, not only greatly improves the efficiency, after transporting the market, It also lowered the price, and naturally seized the market of the entire Xuyang Erzhou at once.

"Back to the lord, the two thousand cavalry battalion sergeants have been successfully established, and in three months at most, the subordinates will definitely be able to make this cavalry a steel knife of the Red Flame Army." Tai Shici's biggest dream is to command the cavalry, and this time he was able to realize his dream, and he was full of passion, although it was only a small cavalry team of 2,000 people. (To be continued.) )