It took more than a year for Liu He to clean up Yuan Tan and rectify the annexation of Zhou and Qinzhou, during which the shape south of the Yellow River basically remained unchanged, except for the friction between Liu Zhang in Yizhou and Liu Biao in Jingzhou, the rest of the forces only cared about the development of internal affairs and catching up with the north, which also saved Liu He a lot of heart.

Cao Cao, who controlled Yanzhou and Yuzhou, was originally a man with great ambitions, but if it weren't for Liu He's deployment of main battle armies north of the Yellow River, Xuzhou, and Luoyang to contain and threaten him at all times, perhaps Cao Cao would have gathered his army to expand east or south long ago.

The current Liu He is more powerful than Yuan Shao before the Battle of Guandu in history, Cao Cao relies on the existing troops, relying on the danger of the Yellow River and the walled passes everywhere to hold on, and may be able to resist Liu He for a while, but if he takes the initiative to attack, it will not only give Liu He an excuse to start a war, but also expose his own empty door, so that Liu He's troops can take advantage of the situation to enter Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

Cao Cao stayed in Yanzhou and couldn't move, and Liu Bei, who was entrenched in Nanyang, couldn't move even more. The reason why Liu Bei was able to gain a foothold in the Nanyang area was entirely because Cao Cao and Liu Biao acquiesced to his existence, and also because Luoyang did not regard him as a big threat at all. What Liu Bei is looking forward to every day now is that Liu Biao can hang up as soon as possible, so that he will have the opportunity to meddle in Jingzhou.

It's a pity that Liu Bei is destined to be disappointed, since Liu Biao responded to Liu Yu's request to transport a batch of money and grain for Guanzhong, the relationship between Liu Yu and Liu Biao has been greatly improved, Liu Yu in order to reward Liu Biao, specially asked Liu He to send Hua Tuo's big apprentice from Jicheng to Jingzhou to set up a medical center, and even took it to cure Liu Biao's hidden physical disease, so Liu Biao will not have any worries about his life in three or five years, after all, his current age is in his early sixties, three years younger than Lu Zhilai.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the two most thoughtful guys, were restrained by Liu He, and the rest of the Jiangdong Sun clan was even more honest and disciplined. Sun Jian's fate has already changed, and he did not die under Huang Zu's arrow, so there is no blood feud between Jiangdong Sun and Jingzhou Liu Biao. Although Liu Biao once sent troops to attack Changsha and drove Sun Jian and his son from Changsha to Yuzhang, Sun Jian and his son have been holding back.

If it weren't for Liu Biao's action to get rid of them, they would be embarrassed to use the map to plot the four southern counties of Yangzhou, and now the land of Jiangdong has fallen into the hands of the Wu family except for Wu County, and they can live a stable life for a long time with the Yangtze River natural insurance.

Cao Cao also secretly sent people across the river to contact Sun Jian, and instigated Sun Jian to form an alliance with him and attack Xuzhou from Jiangdong to the north on the grounds that Xiao Qiao's marriage with Sun Ce was sabotaged by Liu He. Then go straight to Qingzhou and fight Liu He together. After Sun Jian met Cao Cao's envoy, his attitude was a little **, he did not object to the secret alliance between the two families, but he was not too active in attacking Xuzhou.

In Sun Jian's view, the marriage of children is a trivial matter at all, and the eldest son Sun Ce is not the daughter of the Qiao family who does not marry. Pay for one's whistle.

The reason why Sun Jian was unwilling to send troops to attack Xuzhou was because he saw that Cao Cao wanted to use his own mind, but at the same time he was not confident that he could really take Xuzhou. At the beginning, Cao Cao and Yuan Shu both sent troops to attack Xuzhou, and their troops were often more than 50,000. In the end, aren't they all bruised and swollen? Now Xuzhou not only has the veteran Lu Zhi in charge, but also the Guangling Chen family has the tacit approval of the imperial court, extending its tentacles into Wu County south of the Yangtze River, if Sun Jian sends troops from Jiangdong. The first thing that needs to be dealt with is Chen Qi's father and son, even if they can succeed, they will wait until they have a head-on move with Lu Zhi. Who knows if Liu He will take advantage of this buffer time to send a large army from the sea to Xuzhou to help in the war?

Although Sun Jian's father and son knew that it would be advantageous to form an alliance with Cao Cao, they did not want to become pawns in Cao Cao's hands, especially when Cao Cao obviously did not have an advantage.

Sun Jian's father and son did not move in Jiangdong, and Liu Biao, who only wanted to hold Jingzhou, would not take the initiative to cause trouble, although the general Huang grandfather and son had some friction with the Sun family across the river near Chaisang from time to time, but where was the opponent of Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, and Zhou Yu, the military advisor, every time they suffered a small loss, and then they did not dare to report it without telling Liu Biao.

Grandfather Huang was a talented man and was not an opponent of Jiangdong's civil and military forces, but a general under Huang Zu grew up rapidly in these constant frictions, and gradually attracted the attention of Liu Biao and Sun Jian's father and son.

This person is Wei Yan, a native of Nanyang.

Time passed in a flash, and another year passed in a blink of an eye, and before I knew it, I came to the sixth year of Jian'an.

In the spring of the sixth year of Jian'an, on the shore of Beihai Lake, thousands of miles away from Ningzhou and Youzhou in the north of the Han Dynasty, a heroic man who has been crisscrossing the vast grassland for more than 20 years finally swallowed his last breath in the torture of illness. This grassland hero is the Xianbei leader Kebineng, who has been fighting with Liu He for more than ten years.

Kebineng's death was twenty years earlier than in another time and space in Liu He's memory. In the time and space in Liu He's memory, Kebi Neng, as the outstanding leader of the Xianbei nation during the Three Kingdoms period, was elected as an adult by the Xianbei people because of his brave combat, fair law enforcement, and not greedy for money. Kebineng's tribe was close to the border of the Han Dynasty, so he seized various conditions to actively learn the advanced technology and culture of the Han people, which promoted the progress of the Xianbei people and the integration of ethnic groups in the north. The subordinates under his command are law-abiding and quite powerful in combat. Since Cao Cao's northern expedition, he has paid tribute to the Cao clan to express his allegiance. By the time of Emperor Wen of Wei, Kebineng was also named the king of Fuyi. Later, Kebineng was heavily affected by the intervention of Wei in the war to unify the Xianbei tribes, so he was disobedient to Wei and deliberately dedicated a letter to Emperor Cao Pi of Wei to show his loyalty in order to paralyze the Wei court and make him relax his vigilance. Since then, Kebineng's troops have become stronger, controlling more than 100,000 horsemen, and harming the Wei border is becoming more and more serious. Every time, after plundering the Han people to the south and getting the property, Kebineng distributed it openly and transparently, so he was in awe of the people of the tribe. After the strength of the Kebi can continue the tribal unification war, so the tribes are under control, and a strong Xianbei regime is established. Feeling deeply threatened, the Wei State Youzhou assassinated Shi Wang Xiong, and sent the assassin Han Long to the northern grasslands to assassinate him, and his Xianbei regime immediately collapsed, and the Xianbei people fell into chaos again.

If it weren't for the rise of Liu He, if it weren't for Liu He's failure to thwart Kebineng's plots again and again, if it weren't for Liu He's great killing and wounding of the Xianbei fighters in the previous wars against the northern nomads, Kebi Neng might not have fled the cold Beihai, but took advantage of the opportunity of the warlords within the Han Dynasty to unify the Xianbei tribes outside the Saiwai, and finally established a huge nomadic regime in the north of the Han Dynasty.

Because Liu He knew that Kebineng was powerful, and because Liu He was familiar with the tragic history of Wuhu Chaohua that almost wiped out the Han people, Kebineng in this time and space was destined to become a disaster star of the Xianbei people, not a hero. Because he repeatedly insisted on the southern invasion, as a result, the eastern Xianbei, the small Xianbei and the western Xianbei all suffered attrition losses, and the plague a few years ago, Kebineng wanted to lead the disaster to Liu He's territory, but it was also resolved by Liu He with decisive and rapid means.

After repeated setbacks, Kebineng's belief in his heart was shaken, and when he learned that Liu He had established Ningzhou in the northern part of Bingzhou and completely solved the Yuan father and son, he seemed to see that the blue sky above the heads of the Xianbei people had been obscured by dark clouds, and the dazzling sun had disappeared without a trace.

Kebi can know better than anyone else Liu He's methods of dealing with foreign races, but he has no way to deal with it now, if Liu He's method of "killing a group, pulling a group, and assimilating a group" continues for decades, and when Kebi can die of old age, he will not be able to see the Xianbei people on the grasslands in the north.

Falling into despair, Kebi was finally ill in the harsh living environment of Beihai, and he was not yet fifty years old, because he no longer had nostalgia for life, so he quickly weakened until he came to the end of his life.

Before he died, Kobi Neng left his last words to his clansmen and tribal leaders: Go west, never look back!

A hundred years ago, the Huns, who were forced by the Han Dynasty to be unable to gain a foothold in the north, migrated all the way west, crossed the inaccessible green mountains, and got rid of the nightmare of hundreds of years.

A hundred years later, Kebineng left a similar last word, only this time it was replaced by Xianbei people.

Liu He received the news of Kebineng's death two months later, while he was touring Ningzhou and Bingzhou.

Although he knew that there were most elements of the show of this kind of behavior, Liu He knew that engaging in politics was inseparable from all kinds of shows in many cases, so he meticulously inspected along the road leading from Youzhou to Ningzhou in line with the attitude of "either don't put on a show, or show the best", and then turned south from Ningzhou to Bingzhou to inspect it.

The arrival of Liu He is of great significance to the newly established Ningzhou and the restored and revitalized state. The exploration team, the press corps, and the businessmen who followed Liu He were paying attention to what Liu He said all the time, and then some people would be secretly excited because Liu He said that a certain place might have a large amount of coal and stone, and some people would add oil and vinegar to the few sentences that Liu He deliberately said in an accentuated tone into an article, and then publish it in various newspapers such as "Dahan Times", "Feng Bao", "Yenching Journal", and "Fortune Daily......

To put it simply, because of Liu He's inspection, it will bring a lot of support and opportunities to Ningzhou and Bingzhou.

When Liu He walked to Jinyang, Tian Chou sent him the news of Kebineng's death in Beihai, and Liu He said with emotion after reading it: "If I remember correctly, Kebi Neng is only forty-six years old this year, and he is in his prime of life, but he died so badly, and since then there is one less person in this world who can be my opponent!" ”

After Guo Jia listened, he said, "Childe, it's time to go to Luoyang!" ”

Li Ru also nodded and said: "The Xianbei people are already in the waning mountains, and the general will leave one or two generals to guard the north, so that the Xianbei people will not dare to look south, and now the time is ripe to reorganize the rivers and mountains, and please cross the river as soon as possible!" (To be continued......)