The fifth year of Jian'an, August 13.

Wang Chong led his troops back to Ancheng, and on this day, Wang Chong received a reply from Shangcai Caohong sent someone to hurry up.

The content of the letter was very simple, Cao Hong hoped that Jinfan could continue to stay in Runan for a while, because once Jinfan returned to Huainan, who dared to guarantee that Liu Bei would not jump out of the mountains again to counterattack Runan?

Wang Chong asked Ji Jiaxu: "Wenhe, what do you think of Cao Hong's request?" ”

Jia Xu smiled and asked, "What does the lord think?" ”

Wang Chong shrugged his shoulders and said: "Help people to the end and send the Buddha to the west, but Jinfan is busy with affairs, I can't lead the troops for a long time, and Bo Yuan can't leave Shouchun for too long, so I decided to let the five thousand soldiers and horses under the command of Wen Qian continue to garrison Ancheng for half a month, what about Wen Heyi?" ”

Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "But! ”

Wang Chong nodded and said: "In this way, I have to bother Wen He to accompany Wen Qian to stay in Ancheng for a while longer, in case Liu Bei really makes a comeback, I am afraid that Wen Qian alone will not be able to fight that scheming Xu Yuanzhi!" ”

Jia Xu smiled: "The lord is here, I'm afraid it's more than that, right?" ”

"It seems that my little caution still can't hide it from Wenhe!" Wang Chong said with a smile, "Now that my Jinfan army is hanging alone, and the daily needs are extremely large, we have to ask Cao Cao for this loss, right?" Otherwise, wouldn't it be for nothing to work for him? ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "But Cao Cao definitely can't take such a big sum of money now, so the lord decided to let them use the population as compensation?" ”

Wang Chong glanced at Jia Xu meaningfully, and then there were two foxes, one big and one small. They all laughed tacitly.

Obviously, at this time, Wang Chong and Jia Xu consciously ignored the fact that Cao Cao had ceded Guangling to Jinfan.

As the saying goes, it is a fool not to take advantage of it. At present, Yuan Shao is marching into the camp of Guandu Company, dozens of miles from east to west, relying on the sand pile as a cantonment, launching a fierce attack on the Cao camp who divided the troops to stick to the camp, what to make a high turret, raise the earth mountain to shoot arrows at the Cao camp, what dig tunnels to attack the Cao camp from the ground and other attack methods emerge in endlessly. Cao Cao, who was already busy, was anxious, so even if Wang Chong moved people to Huainan on a large scale in Runan, Cao Cao could not only send someone to accuse Wang Chong of not doing things properly. The rest can't do anything at all, and for Wang Chong, who is very thick-skinned, you can scold if you want, anyway, I will take advantage of it. You're just scolding. It doesn't change anything.

After more than a year of operation and construction, the current area south of Hefei, the population has been very dense, plus the newly occupied Yuzhang, Danyang two counties and the upcoming Guangling County, the total population under the rule of Jinfan, I am afraid that it has exceeded two million, the entire Han world, in addition to Jingzhou, Yizhou, Jizhou three populous states. The rest are far from being comparable to Yangzhou under Jinfan, but in Wang Chong's opinion. Such a small population, but it is still far from enough.

In ancient times, the population is equivalent to a symbol of national strength, in the past 20 years, after years of war and famine, the total population of the Han Dynasty originally exceeded 50 million, and now only more than 20 million people have died, and if in the next few years, Cao Cao can occupy the four states of Hebei and Qingyou as in history, then the population under his rule will instantly skyrocket to more than 8 million, almost accounting for two-fifths of the total population of the Han Dynasty, so Wang Chong wants to fight Cao Cao with such a small population, it is obviously unrealistic.

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The fifth year of Jian'an, August 14.

Wang Chong left Jia Xu, Le Jin and 5,000 troops to garrison Ancheng, while he withdrew from Runan with the rest of his soldiers and horses and returned to Huainan.

The fifth year of Jian'an, August 15.

Lu Dai led 3,000 troops to officially settle in Guangling, and in this way, Jiangdong's road to the north was completely blocked by Jinfan, within three years, if Jiangdong did not want to tear up the agreement with Jinfan, then they could only choose to develop south, but Jiaozhou is barren, sparsely populated, and now it is about to fall into the hands of Liu Biao, and the degree of difficulty will undoubtedly be greatly improved, so that their rise will become more bumpy and slim.

The fifth year of Jian'an, August 17.

Wang Chong led the army back to Anhui City, and after appointing Liu Pi as the Sima of the other department and dumping it to Gan Ning, he immediately recruited Zhuge Jin, Yan Xiang, Kan Ze and other ministers, and asked them to cooperate with Jia Xu in Runan, preparing to receive the people who were about to migrate.

The fifth year of Jian'an, August 19.

Xiangyang, the state pastoral house.

Liu Biao received a warning letter sent by Wang Chong, the content of the letter was very tough, and solemnly warned Liu Biao that if he dared to take Liu Bei in, it would be an enemy of Jinfan.

"Okay, you Jinfan thief, it's too deceitful!!" When was Liu Biao so threatened? He was so angry that he didn't know how many bottles and cans he had broken.

If it were any tough person, Wang Chong's move might backfire, but Liu Biao had a weak personality, and although he was not angry in his heart, he was already quite jealous of Jinfan, and after calming down, he did hesitate.

"Come on, go and invite the military advisor and the brothers of the Kuai family to come over!"

The hesitant Liu Biao shouted outside the door, this scene was very similar to the Jade Emperor who was frightened by Sun Wukong when he hid under the table and shouted, "Come on, go and invite the Buddha".

It didn't take long for Cai Mao and the Kuai brothers to arrive one after another.

After reading the letter written by Wang Chong to Liu Biao, several people's faces rose with a solemnity.

Cai Mao asked, "How is the lord going to respond?" ”

Liu Biao glared at Cai Mao: "I just didn't know how to choose, so I called you here, why did you ask about me?" ”

Cai Mao laughed twice and reminded: "Lord, although Wang Chong is arrogant in his letter, the lord must know that Wang Chong sent troops to attack Liu Bei this time, at the invitation of Cao Gong, in other words, Wang Chong's attitude also represents Cao Gong's attitude, if the lord really takes in Liu Bei, it is not only Jinfan, but also Cao Gong!" ”

As soon as Cai Mao finished speaking, Kuai Liang on the other side also spoke: "The military advisor only knows one of them, but I don't know the other, Liu Bei is the emperor's own uncle of the Han Dynasty, and he is of the same origin as the lord, and the name of benevolence and righteousness is known to the whole world, if the lord rejects him, I am afraid that it will be bad for the lord's reputation!" ”

Liu Biao's face changed when he heard this, you must know that a well-known person like Liu Biao pays the most attention to reputation on weekdays, so as soon as Kuai Liang's words came out, his heart was already faintly inclined to accept Liu Bei. (To be continued.) )