White Emperor City, backed by the high gorge, facing the Yangtze River in front, surrounded by water on three sides, the momentum is majestic and magnificent, it is located on the water and land to Jin, and it is the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight. Now, the temporary headquarters of the Han army is located in the White Emperor City.

After setting up camp in the White Emperor City, Ao Lie issued two edicts one after another, the first of which was to transport Liu Bei's body back to Yanjing and bury it next to Liu Xie's grave as a courtier. In this regard, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took the initiative to ask Ying to take over the task. Ao Lie knew that the two of them wanted to send Liu Bei on his last journey and say goodbye to everything in the past, so Ao Lie agreed and allowed the two of them to lead 3,000 Han troops and return to Yanjing with Liu Bei's corpse first.

In the second edict, Ao Lie gave Liu Bei's two wives and son Liu Chan enough money and moved their mother and son to a remote area adjacent to Nanzhong, so that they could spend the rest of their lives in peace. At first, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong resolutely disagreed with Ao Lie's approach, believing that Liu Chan would one day grow up and cause trouble in order to avenge his father, so they advocated that Liu Chan be imprisoned in Yanjing forever. But Ao Lie didn't take their advice, Ao Lie knew that Liu Chan couldn't help Adou. In history, even if there is a figure like Zhuge Liang who is very good at governing internal affairs and leading troops to fight, he can't make Liu Chan complete his transformation, and even after the destruction of Shu, he still enjoys a luxurious life with a smile, and he doesn't worry about becoming the king of the dead country, and it has triggered an allusion of "not thinking about Shu", becoming a laughing stock for the ages, such a heartless person, what threat is there?

At Ao Lie's insistence, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong had no choice but to give up their plan to turn Liu Chan into a caged canary and obey Ao Lie's decision. Although these two peerless thinkers are not as sleek as Jia Xu, they are not as upright as Tian Feng, and they also believe in Ao Lie's judgment, after all, Ao Lie's knowledge of people is well-known. Since Ao Lie has already decided on Liu Chan's fate, it must make sense.

After properly handling the affairs of Liu Chan's mother and son, Ao Lie invited Shixie to his camp. had a long talk with him and persuaded him to reintegrate into the territory of the Han Dynasty. Although Shi Xie was grateful that Ao Lie did not kill Shi Yi and Wu Ju, he did not immediately agree to Ao Lie's request, but said that he needed to consider it before he could give an answer. Shi Xie's attitude was expected by Ao Lie. Jiaozhou is remote, the news is closed, Shi Xie has been deceived by Liu Bei once, and he will not easily trust others anymore, so Ao Lie did not persecute Shi Xie. Instead, he was given enough time for him to think about it slowly.

This consideration is more than 20 days, and Shi Xie still has not given a clear answer. In the end, it was Liu Tao's arrival that broke the deadlock. Liu Tao is Shixie's mentor and is deeply respected by Shixie. After Liu Tao arrived, he and Shixie's master and apprentice closed the door and talked heartily in the camp tent for more than two hours. No one knows what they talked about, but everyone does. After this long talk, Shi Xie led more than 80,000 Jiaozhou troops under his subordinates to surrender to Ao Lie in front of all the officers and soldiers of the Han army. and announced that Jiaozhou would return to the Han Dynasty from then on.

After Shi Xie led his troops to surrender, Ao Lie immediately appointed Shi Xie to continue to serve as the pastor of Jiaozhou, becoming the first pastor of Jiaozhou since the founding of the Northern Han Dynasty. In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Jiaozhou army and fill the shortcomings of the weak force of the Jiaozhou generals. Ao Lie deliberately selected twelve generals from among the generals in Shu and handed them over to Shixie. In order to assist him to better deter those alien races in Jiaozhou. Zhang Wei and Zhang Yi, the two famous generals in Shuzhong, are among them. Under the persuasion of Liu Bei before his death, these Shu soldiers had dispelled their resistance to the Han army, officially surrendered to Ao Lie's command, and were willing to let him go.

Three days later, Shi Xie led his troops to leave the White Emperor City and embarked on the return journey back to Jiaozhou. As when he came, Shi Xie's position has not changed, but the banners in his army have all changed flags, from the original Jiaozhou local army flag to the five-clawed golden dragon banner of the Northern Han Dynasty. At this point, after decades of separation from the imperial court, Jiaozhou returned to the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Shi Xie left, but Liu Tao was left behind. stayed with Liu Tao, and Xu Shu who came with him. Xu Shu was specially summoned by Ao Lie, because Ao Lie was ready to let him take over Zhuge Liang's current position to take charge of Yizhou, and Liu Tao would stay in Yizhou as Xu Shu's deputy to help Xu Shu govern Yizhou together. At present, Yizhou has been pacified, and Liu Bei's repentance before his death has made most of the xenophobia of the soldiers in Shu dissipate invisible, so there is no need for Zhuge Liang to continue to stay in Yizhou, and the rest of the things, with Xu Shu's talent, are enough. What's more, with the sincere assistance of Liu Tao and a group of Shu Chinese military officials, Shuzhong is being taken care of in an orderly state, which is just around the corner, and there is no need for Ao Lie to bother more.

Compared with the calm in Shuzhong, Jizhou is still facing the threat of Cao Cao, and transferring Zhuge Liang back to Jizhou to fight hard and prepare for Ao Lie's next conquest of Cao Cao will undoubtedly reflect his value and wisdom more than leaving him in Yizhou. Good steel is used on the blade, Ao Lie will not waste the talent of any of his subordinates, let alone a rare genius like Zhuge Liang for thousands of years.

After staying in Yizhou for a few more days, after delineating the general direction, Ao Lie decided to lead his troops to leave Yizhou. However, the place he was going to was not Yanjing, but Xiangyang. It has been nearly a year since Lu Meng crossed the river in white clothes and took Jingzhou in three ways with Sun Ce and Zhou Yubing, and Ao Lie felt that it was time to deal with Jingzhou's affairs. Jingzhou is a brilliant people, a vast territory, and a very important geographical location, it is impossible for Ao Lie to put such a big state in the hands of Sun Ce, although Sun Ce's loyalty to Ao Lie is undoubted, but the decentralization of power is something that any wise monarch will not do. It's not that Ao Lie turns his face and doesn't recognize people, but under the feudal social system, a country can only have one talker, so as to ensure the centralization of power and ensure that Ao Lie's rule will not crack from the inside.

And going to Jingzhou, Ao Lie has another purpose. Sun Ce and Sun Quan brothers, although they are both disciples of Ao Lie and have great respect for Ao Lie, but after all, they have not officially announced their submission to the Northern Han regime, strictly speaking, the Jiangdong region they represent is still a separatist warlord group with a high degree of freedom, which is also a negative impact on the Northern Han Dynasty's domination of the world. After Liu Bei's death, when there is strength and Ao Lie's long and short people, only Cao Cao who is entrenched in the Central Plains and the Sun brothers who are in Jiangdong and Jingzhou are left, at this time, Ao Lie must get a clear statement from the Sun brothers, once the Sun brothers are officially submitted to the Northern Han Dynasty, it will not only have a huge impact on the Cao Cao group in terms of momentum, and then isolate the Cao Cao group, but also get the strong arm of the Jiangdong army, and form a trend of great encirclement of Cao Cao strategically, so that the Han army is in opposition to the Cao army. Gain the absolute upper hand.

Facing the rising sun, the Han soldiers brought by Ao Lie from the north divided into two routes, each embarking on a new journey. Zhuge Liang will lead most of the Han army from Yizhou to Hanzhong, then pass through Chang'an, turn to Bingzhou, and finally reach the destination Jizhou; Ao Lie, on the other hand, led 20,000 bloody battles, 20,000 tiger warriors and 20,000 Qilin sailors from Yizhou to the east, passing through Jingzhou, and then arriving at Jianye, the political center of the Jiangdong region, and had an in-depth conversation with Sun Ce and Sun Quan brothers.

When Ao Lie led his troops to leave, Xu Shu and Liu Tao led a group of civil and military officials in Shuzhong to see Ao Lie off. The farewell of one era means the beginning of another, and Shuzhong finally got back on track after decades of rule by Liu Zhang's father and son and Liu Bei, opening a new chapter in the history of Yizhou.

Leaving Yizhou, all the way to the east, after a few days of rapid marching, Ao Lie's department has come to the junction of Yizhou and Jingzhou, the long journey for days, so that Ao Lie, whose heart is like a rock, can't help but feel bored, so Ao Lie simply jumped off the back of the horse of the night, and pulled the night to the warship of the Qilin Navy, while following the advance of the Qilin Navy, while enjoying the magnificent scenery of the turbulent and rushing river.

Standing on the new warship carefully developed by Wang Hun and others, feeling the deck under his feet, with the waves of the Yangtze River constantly rising and falling, looking at the magnificent scenery in front of him, Ao Lieden felt a lot more open-minded, the fatigue caused by continuous combat was also swept away, and ambition was born spontaneously.

Turning his head to look at Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Gan Ning beside him, Ao Lie pointed in the direction of Xiangyang and said: "Xiangyang, once upon a time, the land of wind and clouds, the land of heroes, how many heroes and heroes throughout the ages have been bloodstained on the battlefield in order to compete for Xiangyang, but unfortunately it is no longer a matter of time. Today's Xiangyang, after all, will still be included in the territory of my Han Dynasty and become a piece of the puzzle for my Han Dynasty to dominate the world. ”

Zhao Yun and the other three did not speak, but quietly listened to Ao Lie's words and savored the artistic conception. These three people are all important ministers who followed Ao Lie's side relatively early, they have witnessed the whole process of Ao Lie's growth from a hairy boy to a male lord, and also witnessed Ao Lie's process of starting from Yanjing in the north, step by step towards the goal of dominating the world, and finally occupying most of the world, this process, Ao Lie only took more than ten years to almost complete, from ancient times to the present, no one has been able to reach such a height as Ao Lie in such a short period of time, which has to be said to be a miracle, Just like the ups and downs of the river rushing in front of you, rising from the calm, a majestic wave is rolled up in an instant, although the process is short, but it is thrilling enough. What they have to do is to help Ao Lie maintain this huge wave at the peak for as long as possible, and it will not fade for a long time......

"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes. Success or failure turns empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. On the white-haired fisherman river, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, how many things in ancient and modern times, all pay a joke and talk ......" Ao Lie sang this song that has been passed down in later generations Linjiang Immortal, his passionate and powerful voice, rolling endlessly with the river on the river surface, bringing up wave after wave of wave peaks. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: Today Da Kun's grandfather finally came to his senses, although he can't move yet, but he can also call out the names of a few people in a limited way, Da Kun is very happy. Therefore, the state has also picked up, and I feel that today's chapter is quite easy to write, Da Kun once again thanks everyone for their blessings to grandpa, thank you for helping Da Kun through one difficulty after another.