A few days later, Tao Qian's subordinate Zhang Min coveted Cao Song's family wealth, killed Cao Song's entire family, and plundered the family wealth, which has spread throughout the Central Plains states.

After Liu Bei learned the news, he scolded Zhang Min in his heart, this mediocre talent delayed Liu Bei's big plan and completely ruined Liu Bei's overall plan to plot Xuzhou. At present, Xuzhou has become a crisis, and Cao Cao will inevitably raise troops sooner or later to avenge his father and take Xuzhou's quick fat meat in the name of righteousness. What Liu Bei needs to consider now is no longer how to plot against Xuzhou, but how to avoid the evil and avoid Cao Cao's soldiers.

Liu Bei was also confused for a while, knowing that Zhang Min was greedy, thinking that with a blank check of two thousand taels of gold, he could drive Zhang Min to sell his life for himself, and when he poisoned Cao Song in Yanzhou, afterwards, even if some people were suspicious, they could not trace Liu Bei's body at all, at most they suspected that Tao Qian's motives were not pure, which would be more conducive to Liu Bei's plot against Xuzhou. However, Liu Bei ignored one point, Cao Song is a well-known rich man, can he still have less money with him?

This is not to blame Liu Bei, Liu Bei was born in a slightly cold background, although he has the name of the Han family, but unfortunately, he was removed from the Han family two years ago by Liu Xie, who is today's son, from childhood to adulthood, Liu Bei has never seen a huge amount of money, so naturally he can't imagine how rich Cao Song is. Because of Liu Bei's neglect, it caused the fact that Zhang Min grabbed money and killed him, and even Zhang Min couldn't wait to go to Yanzhou to do it, and he did it directly in Xuzhou, Zhang Min's move. Let Xuzhou fall into panic. Speaking of which, Liu Bei's plan can really be said to be clever but mistaken by cleverness.

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. This is Liu Bei's consistent life creed. At this moment, Xuzhou is no longer Liu Bei's refuge, and it is no longer a place where Liu Bei can make great achievements in his imagination. But the problem is that in the past two years, Liu Bei has been plotting against Xuzhou every day and every hour. all put on a model of benevolence, righteousness and morality, which gave him a high voice in Xuzhou, and some heroes were also secretly co-opted by Liu Bei. For example, Chen Jue and Chen Deng father and son in Xiapi, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers in the East China Sea, and so on. Now that Xuzhou is facing Cao Cao's soldiers at any time, Liu Bei will retreat at a critical moment. Not only will it ruin the public image that he has built up for a long time. It will also chill the hearts of heroes such as Chen Qi and Mi Zhu, who will be willing to believe him in the future? What other heroes dare to serve him again? Therefore, Liu Bei fell into unprecedented boredom. It is not to go, it is not to go, there are two roads in front of Liu Bei, one is to sacrifice his life for righteousness, coexist and die with Xuzhou, and win the praise of the people of Xuzhou; The second is to withdraw from Xuzhou. dodged Cao Cao's soldiers and fell into infamy; It's just these two paths. None of them were what Liu Bei wanted.

In fact, Liu Bei's dilemma today is completely caused by his own hands, from the beginning of entering Xuzhou, trying to plot Xuzhou, today's situation is already doomed, but out of the inferior nature of human beings, Liu Bei will categorically not admit that it was he who created such a situation with his own hands, but put all the faults directly on Zhang Min's body, thinking that Zhang Min destroyed the stability of Xuzhou and sent Xuzhou to the cusp. Liu Bei completely forgot that Zhang Min had accepted a bribe from someone to escort Cao Song.

Time back to half a year ago, after pacifying Buyeo, Ao Lie led his army westward, joined Zhao Yun's department, and stationed in Zhangwu to resist Xianbei in the east of Kebineng's department. Although Goguryeo and Buyeo were successfully resolved, it did not mean that Ao Yeol could calmly deal with the overall attack of Xianbei.

A rare heavy snowfall plunged the nomadic tribes in northern Xinjiang into an unprecedented crisis. Almost all the cattle and sheep they raised were frozen to death, and even the lambs and calves of the next year were missing, and the huge crisis plunged the Xianbei people into hysterical madness. Plunder! Only plundering can make their own people reproduce, otherwise, it will not be long before the Xianbei people will lose their rule over the northern frontier and then become slaves of the Huns or Wuhuan people. Of course, the Xiongnu and Wuhuan people are not comfortable at the moment, and the heavy snow, which is in danger of extinction for the Xianbei people, is equally effective for the Xiongnu and Wuhuan people. Therefore, the Xiongnu and Wuhuan people also participated in this southern invasion, trying to plunder enough materials from the hands of the Han people to pass on their nation.

Under such a background, all the alien races in the entire northern Xinjiang launched a large-scale plundering war against the territory of Youhe. After the first battle in Shaxian, Ao Lie only had less than a year to recover, and today, just barely recovered, he is about to face such a big war against the alien races in the entire northern Xinjiang, which can be described as the autumn of life and death.

The war in northern Xinjiang has touched the hearts of countless people. First of all, the people in the territory of Youji, they are most concerned about this war, if the alien race successfully invades the south, it will undoubtedly be a catastrophe for these people, not to mention the family wealth, and even their lives may have to be put into it. In addition to the people of the secluded annexation, some people of insight in other parts of the Han Dynasty are not without worries in their hearts, lest Ao Lie will not be able to resist the alien races in the northern Xinjiang, once the alien races in the northern Xinjiang invade and occupy the land of the secluded annexation, it is equivalent to planting a time bomb in the north of the Han Dynasty, and they can plunder the hinterland of the Han Dynasty at any time, becoming a major hidden danger in the north.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the war between Ao Lie and the aliens in northern Xinjiang, Cao Cao rose rapidly, conquered half of Qingzhou and Yuzhou in succession, and faintly presented the form of encirclement of Xuzhou, which could launch war against Xuzhou at any time and become a veritable overlord of the Central Plains. Because Cao Cao quelled the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou by the edict of the Son of Heaven, he was also crowned Sikong by Liu Xie, and became the prince of the real power faction ranked among the three dukes.

At the same time, Yuan Shao was not willing to miss the opportunity, although he was burned by Ao Lie to the granary of Yecheng, unable to launch a large-scale war in the short term, and Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Zhang He and others laid heavy troops on the border line, so that Yuan Shao did not dare to go north, but Yuan Shao set the target on Qingzhou in the east, taking advantage of the opportunity of Cao Cao and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to fight, in one fell swoop to capture the four counties west of Qingzhou, and Cao Cao divided Qingzhou equally, and later because Zang Ba served Cao Cao, and lightning took away Qi County from Yuan Shao, But Yuan Shao still controls the three relatively wealthy counties in Qingzhou, occupying half of Qingzhou.

In addition to the psychological changes and trends of the above-mentioned people, the war in northern Xinjiang also affects the hearts of some conspirators. For example, Wang Yun, who wants to put Ao Lie to death. As soon as the war broke out in northern Xinjiang, Wang Yun began to become active, secretly spreading unfavorable news about Ao Lie, trying to take the opportunity to reduce Ao Lie's prestige and shake the military spirit of the Youhe army. After a period of hard work, Wang Yun was disappointed to find that everything he did was in vain, the Youhe army was under the governance of generals and strategists at all levels, like an iron plate, Wang Yun's rumors, could not shake the military heart of the Youhe army at all, these soldiers, the worship and admiration of Ao Lie, far beyond Wang Yun's expectations, in their hearts, Ao Lie is the existence of the god of war, the god of war, it is impossible to be defeated.

Wang Yun and Ao Lie have had a long-standing grudge, since Lu Bu took away Diao Chan and let Wang Yun's beauty plan fail, Ao Lie suppressed Wang Yun everywhere, stole all the limelight of King Qin's rescue, and made Wang Yun resentful, and even did not hesitate to unite Yuan Shao and other twelve princes to set up an ambush in Shaxian, intending to intercept Ao Lie on the way back, but unfortunately Ao Lie returned to Youzhou unscathed, making the resentment in Wang Yun's heart even more difficult to calm. Seeing that spreading rumors did not work, Wang Yun changed his strategy and wanted to put pressure on Liu Xie through the ministers of the court and China to remove Ao Lieyou and the governor of the capital.

But Wang Yun, who is anxious for quick success, ignores one point, and today's Liu Xie is no longer the ignorant young son he was at the beginning! Now Liu Xie has more than 10,000 personal soldiers in his hands, and Zhang Ji leads 70,000 troops to sit in Chang'an, which is not far away. In addition, in history, famous generals such as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, who should have been killed by Dong Zhuo, were not killed because of Ao Lie's relationship, but were reused by Liu Xie, and the Wenchen headed by Zhong Xuan and Du Ji cooperated with the famous generals headed by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, forming a strong camp around Liu Xie, and gradually mastered nearly half of the rights in the court, and the scholars were invisibly fighting against each other, so Wang Yun's plan was once again declared bankrupt. Liu Xie blocked all of Wang Yun's tricks in one sentence: I believe that the imperial brother will be able to conquer the northern frontier and make my Han as stable as a rock!

A plan failed, and a plan failed, and the unwilling Wang Yun thought hard and meditated, and came up with another poisonous plan. In Wang Yun's opinion, Lu Bu could even betray Dong Zhuo, who had a life-saving grace for him, for the sake of Diao Chan, let alone Ao Lie, who was just a sworn brother? In the face of real interests and beauty, brotherhood is not even a fart. So, Wang Yun found ten singers with good colors and arts in Luoyang City, and sent people to the camp of Lu Bu who was resisting Xianbei in the north of Xinjiang, and gave Lu Bu a message, as long as Lu Bu deliberately released water, so that the central Xianbei successfully invaded the interior of the Youhe Annex, which led to Ao Lie's disrepute, Wang Yun was willing to go to the table of the Son of Heaven, and crowned Lu Bu as the new governor of Youhe, after the matter was completed, as a reciprocal condition, Lu Bu also wanted to support Wang Yun to ascend the throne of the prime minister, and from then on, the two of them were one inside and one outside, and jointly controlled the power of the court.

In the face of Wang Yun's tempting conditions, Lu Bu did not give a direct reply, but ordered the army and horses of the headquarters to stop advancing, and found various reasons to repeatedly postpone the battle with Xianbei in the central part of the country, and also detained the generals and colonels from Youzhou in the army under the pretext of arresting all the military power in their hands.

Lu Bu's reaction made Wang Yun very pleased. Although Lu Bu did not make a clear statement, from his actions, Wang Yun could see that Lu Bu couldn't help but be able to withstand the bait he thrown, and had already begun to bite the hook! (To be continued......)