Immediately afterwards, Ma Chao carefully explained the benefits of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and peanuts, and several people were shocked when they heard it. If these crops can be introduced to the territory of Dahan for large-scale planting, as long as it is not a once-in-a-century disaster year in the future, it will be difficult for the people in the territory to have a famine, and the benefits are self-evident.

Ma Chao did not mention the science and technology and economy in Yecheng, but said that although a group of yellow turban thieves led by Guan Hai in Qingzhou was dispersed, Qingzhou has always been a place of wrong, not only yellow turban thieves and water thieves, but also many powerful families entrenched here to gather in Tuntian. Many local warlords also wanted to pocket the fertile Qingzhou, with Gongsun Chan being the most powerful.

Gongsun Zhan was born in a strong family, but because his mother came from a humble background, his future as a concubine was not optimistic. Later, because of his good skin, handsomeness, loud voice, and outstanding intelligence, he was appreciated by Liu Jun, the Taishou of Zhuo County, and was recruited as a son-in-law and appointed as a royal car. He was also helped by his father-in-law, and once worshipped the great Confucian Lu Zhi as his teacher with Liu Bei and Liu Deran.

Later, Liu Jun, the Taishou of Zhuo County, was sent to the state for violating the law, and Gongsun Zhan dared to violate the law and disguised himself as a soldier to escort him along the way, and Liu Taishou was pardoned and returned on the way. Gongsun Zan was also promoted to filial piety and honesty because of his virtue, and was appointed as the governor of Liaodong. Soon after, he was promoted to the county magistrate of Zhuo County. Later Zhang and Han Sui rebelled, and the imperial court requisitioned 3,000 elite cavalry from Youzhou, and gave Gongsun Zan the charm to act as the governor to command the 3,000 cavalry.

Gongsun Zan led the army to Xiliang to quell the rebellion, when the army marched to Jizhong, Zhang Chun, a native of Yuyang, lured Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuheng in Liaoxi, and others to rebel, and captured Youbeiping County, Liaoxi County and other places. Gongsun Chan had to put down the civil strife first, defeated Zhang Chun and other traitors with 3,000 cavalry, made war exploits, and was promoted to cavalry captain. Later, he fought with the northern Wuheng and other forces for many years, and was promoted to Zhonglang General by virtue of his military exploits, and was named the Marquis of Tingdu.

In 188 AD, Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju rebelled, Gongsun Zhan and Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju and others fought in Shimen, a subordinate state of Liaodong, Zhang Chun and others were defeated, and Zhang Ju left his wife and children and fled into Xianbei. Gongsun Chan continued to pursue, because Wuheng had the Xiliang army led by Pang De to echo, Gongsun Chan besieged Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju in Guanzi City in Liaoxi for more than 200 years. Qiu Liju's army ran out of food, and most of the soldiers were killed and wounded, and they left Liucheng.

Gongsun Zan was promoted to the general of Fenwu by virtue of this military exploit, leading the post of Beiping Taishou, so far, his power has developed to the peak, holding an army of 50,000, and most of them are elite soldiers, of which 5,000 "White Horse Righteous Cong" is even more famous in the world. Liu Bei has been attached to Gongsun Zan since the Yellow Turban was pacified, and was promoted to the Pingyuan County Order by virtue of his military exploits in the crusade against Zhang Chun, which was under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou.

In the same year, Liu Yu was appointed by the imperial court as the pastor of Youzhou, and he collected military and political power in one hand, and he couldn't help but be very jealous when he saw Gongsun Zan raising 50,000 troops in one county. But Liu Yu had just taken office, and the troops in his hands were not as good as Gongsun Zhan, so he could only secretly suppress while recruiting troops and horses, and slowly isolated Gongsun Zhan.

But Gongsun Zan was not willing to be subject to Liu Yu, and took advantage of Dong Zhuo's chaos to send his henchman Xia Tian Kai to lead an army of 30,000 to Qingzhou, and wrote to Dong Zhuo's court to appoint Tian Kai as the assassin of Qingzhou. Tian Kai was not recognized by the imperial court, and most of the remaining local officials in Qingzhou, such as Kong Rong and others, did not recognize the identity of Tian Kai and Qingzhou Thorn History, and only Pingyuan County ordered Liu Bei and Xuzhou Tao Qian to befriend Tian Kai.

But these are not important, this year's fist is big, and the soldiers are the last word, Tian Kai quickly gained a firm foothold in Qingzhou with 30,000 elite soldiers, and pocketed Chengyang County and Donglai County. Since then, in addition to the Yellow Turban Thief and Haoqiang, there are two major warlords left in Qingzhou, Kong Rong and Tian Kai.

This time, the Yellow Turban thieves made a rebellion, first attacking Zibo County, the seat of Qingzhou governance, Tian Kai led the army to resist several days, after all, the enemy was not able to defeat hundreds of thousands of people. In order to preserve his strength, Tian Kai persisted for a few days and then abandoned Zibo City and led the army to Donglai. In this way, Beihai County, which was relatively stable, was immediately exposed to the Yellow Turban Thieves. How can Guan Hai stop when he captures an empty city? A group of more than 200,000 people went straight to Beihai City, the seat of Beihai County.

Kong Rong won the hearts of the people in the local area, and the people also supported him, but after all, he was born as a literati, although he had more than 30,000 troops under his command, but there was no military general who could take charge alone. In desperation, Kong Rong had no choice but to send people around for help, and the first thing that came to mind was Ma Chao, the general of the dynasty.

During the period when the princes were discussing Dong, Kong Rong and Tao Qian were ordered by Yuan Shao to ask Ma Chao for grain and grass. Ma Chao happily donated 400,000 grains and grass, which can be said to have greatly sold the favor of the two. Ma Chao's move is also purposeful, one is to buy the Kwantung princes and completely draw a line with Dong Thief, and the other is to win over Tai Shici and the Xuzhou Mi family through Kong Rong and Tao Qian, otherwise how can he make a loss-making deal?

This matter was planned very well, but the result was a little unsatisfactory, Kong Rong was very faithful, and soon found Tai Shici's mother, and wanted to send it to Yecheng, but the old lady of the Nai family didn't do it! said that he was unwilling to leave his hometown in Qingzhou. Ma Chao was depressed after learning about this from Kong Rong's letter, so he could only retreat and send Ma Xiu to Beihai to visit the old lady, and sent a few subordinates and some belongings, which was considered familiar.

And Tao Qian is a little inauthentic, Ma Chao wanted to win him over, and by the way, he snatched Liu Bei's wife, Mrs. Mi, Xuzhou Mizhu's sister-in-law, and promised it to Ma Dai as his wife. That knew that Tao Qian had disappeared and had no news, and there was no contact after a farewell.

Although Ma Chao had the intention to send troops to Qingzhou after receiving Kong Rong's official letter, it was difficult to quench his thirst from far water, but he let Liu Bei, who was in Qingzhou, pick up the cheap.

It turned out that Kong Rong had just sent messengers to the princes from all walks of life to ask for help on the front foot, and a small group of people came on the back foot, which was Donglai Tai Shici, who heard that Beihai was besieged and was worried about the disaster of Chengpo's mother. Tai Shi Ci since childhood, seven feet seven inches long, beautiful beard, ape arms good shooting, strings are not vain, martial arts are extraordinary, Chengren later served as the county Cao Shi.

Later, he was forced to go into exile in Liaodong because he offended the local officials, and a year ago he heard that his fellow villager Liu Miao had raised troops against Yuan Shao and traveled thousands of miles to defect. But Liu Miao doesn't have the ability to know people like Ma Chao, and the fierce general who is both wise and brave is only a tun commander, that is, a centurion.

Because Liu Miao refused to send troops to rescue, Tai Shici had to return alone, coinciding with the siege of the Yellow Turban Thieves, but fortunately he was able to enter the city because of his martial arts. After entering the city and seeing his mother, Tai Shici was stunned for a moment, it turned out that the old mother at home not only had no worries about food and clothing, but also had maids to serve her, and there were more than a dozen strong men in the mansion in the city who were responsible for guarding, as if she had become a big family. If it weren't for an acquaintance leading the way, Tai Shici wouldn't even dare to enter the door.

The mother and son were very happy to see each other, and then Tai Shici's mother explained the recent situation in detail. Tai Shi Ci was surprised when he heard this, and Kong Rong took care of his mother, but when did he meet this world-famous champion Hou? I asked the two maids, but I didn't know anything.

The next time, Tai Shici went to Xie Kongrong under the advice of his mother, and asked for orders to go out of the city to move rescue soldiers. Kong Rong knew Tai Shi Ci's bravery, and the two discussed it and decided that Tai Shi Ci would rush out of the encirclement and rush to the plain to ask Liu Bei for help.

Liu Bei also really has some ability, since the princes broke up unhappily with Dong, the three brothers who did not get any benefits stayed in Pingyuan County and worked hard. Qingzhou is the place where yellow turbans are raging, and Pingyuan County is naturally no exception, but this is not a good opportunity.

Liu Bei has always had the ability to buy people's hearts, and he has no direct boss, except for Ma Chao, all powerful princes will not take a small county order seriously. Liu Bei, who had no external troubles, only took three years to subdue tens of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves and pocketed all the counties around Pingyuan County. Now with 20,000 horses in hand, he has already stepped into the ranks of local small warlords, if it were not for the lack of food and grass, Liu Bei would have raised an army of more than 100,000 people.

Liu Bei has coveted the rich Beihai County for a long time, how can he let go of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters now? Even if Tai Shici doesn't come, he will also find an excuse to send troops to Beihai. At that moment, Zhang Fei led 10,000 troops to garrison Pingyuan County, and he took Guan Yu and Tai Shici to lead 10,000 troops straight to Beihai City.

The main purpose of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Rebellion was to loot the grain for the winter, and the millions of Yellow Turbans first attacked Xuzhou, and then turned to attack Bohai County after being beaten back, but Zhang He led 30,000 troops to resist the enemy in the south of the Yellow River. Xuzhou and Bohai could not make progress, and the million yellow turbans were divided into two groups, one group of about 200,000 thieves under the leadership of Guan Hai to attack Zibo and Beihai, and the other group of about 6,700,000 people to attack Taishan County, with a great posture of rushing into Yanzhou.

Guan Hai, who besieged Beihai County, was also unlucky, and during the siege of Zibo and Beihai City, he also fought with the defending generals, and beheaded five generals in a few days, and his morale was greatly boosted, and the 200,000 Yellow Turban thieves almost regarded him as a god. Hearing that Liu Bei led 10,000 troops to rescue, he also took it seriously in his heart, and even if he led the army to meet him, in front of the two armies, Guan Hai just met Guan Yu, and was cut under the horse with a knife within twenty times.

Although the rest were numerous, they were only thieves, not regular soldiers, and when they saw that the big leader had died, they immediately became confused. Liu Bei led Guan Yu and Tai Shici to lead the army to rush and kill, beheading countless people. In the city, Kong Rong and Xuzhou, who led troops to help, saw the opportunity and hurriedly sent a large army out of the city to attack inside and outside.

These Yellow Turban thieves have men, women and children, and most of their weapons are hoes, shovels, wooden sticks, hunting forks and other agricultural tools, where is the opponent of the regular army, otherwise they would have broken through Beihai City a long time ago. Guan Hai died, and the more than 200,000 people who were leaderless suddenly became a mess, and the two groups of people and horses were like entering a no-man's land, killing from noon to dusk before collecting troops. More than 20,000 people were beheaded, nearly 20,000 were taken prisoner, and the rest were scattered in several groups.

After resting for a while, Liu Bei led the army to chase and kill again, until late at night, when he returned and captured more than 10,000 strong men again, and the siege of Beihai was solved in a battle, and Ma Chao had just arrived at Yecheng at this time. Kong Rong thanked Liu Bei and sent 500,000 pieces of grain and grass, 3,000 catties of gold, and 2,000 horses of silk. (To be continued.) )