Qiao Xuan has no sons under his knees, only two daughters who are like flowers, and in order not to let the children regret it, he finally left the power to stay to Xiao Qiao.

If Xiao Qiao is willing to leave Anhui County with his family, then the Qiao family promised that the marriage of the Sun family in Jiangdong can be put on hold for a while, anyway, it is impossible for Sun Jian to run to Youzhou with his soldiers and horses to arrest people, and Xiao Qiao is still young and can afford to wait. It is impossible for Qiao Xuan to sacrifice the marriage of another daughter for the sake of one daughter's marriage, not to mention that this is still a marriage that the Qiao family must not give up.

If Xiao Qiao is not Sun Jian's son Sun Ce does not marry, then Qiao Xuan will leave his daughter in Anhui County and entrust it to the people to take care of. At this time, the marriage customs and etiquette were not as complicated as those in later generations, and marrying a daughter was just like that.

When Xiao Qiao knew her father's decision, she was only fifteen years old, and she hesitated, not knowing what to do. A woman of her age, where has she experienced any twists and turns in life, and suddenly has to make a choice about her future life, not only mentally unprepared, but also emotionally difficult to give up.

Xiao Qiao envied her sister in her heart, because the person her sister was going to marry was said to be a big hero with a lofty and graceful demeanor, and she also heard that the eldest son of the Sun family was also a young hero, so she actually had some longing to marry Sun Ce. Sometimes, the hero complex of an ignorant girl is really a painful thing......

Qiao Xuan did not express any dissatisfaction or urging for the hesitation of the children, anyway, there is still a period of time before the final farewell, when the Qiao family leaves, the key depends on when Xuzhou releases the people, so it is enough for Xiao Qiao to think about it before and after, and finally make a decision that she will not regret.

In Tancheng's Farewell Mansion, Mi Zhu had just received a secret letter from the Qiao family's trustee, and couldn't help frowning.

"Qiao Xuan, this old guy, everything that happens to us now will be related to our Mi family. It's clear that his daughter wants to serve with his little sister in the future, but why should I help outsiders to add competition to my sister? ”

"However, this time the matter is really important, no matter who Qiao Xuan is looking for, it will eventually be transmitted to the north, if I don't try my best to promote this matter, I will fall behind, which is criticized."

"Well, who knows what the outcome of the Tao will be in the future? Even if it disturbs the marriage of the daughter of the Qiao family this time. With Liu Shiren's identity and strength, he will still marry the daughter of someone else's family in the future, so it is better for me to help him and form a good relationship with the Qiao family. ”

After some thought, Mi Zhu finally decided to help the Qiao family move to Youzhou.

Not long after Lu Zhi returned to Tancheng from Xiapi, Mi Zhu came to ask for a meeting, and he truthfully reported to Lu Zhi that Yan Xiang wanted Xuzhou to release Zhang Xun and Yuan Jian through the Qiao family, and then Lu Zhi decided whether to exchange or not.

Lu Zhi naturally understood the twists and turns contained in Mi Zhu's words, and also knew the relationship between Liu He and the Qiao family in Anhui County. He said to Mi Zhu: "Keeping Zhang Xun is a waste of food, I originally wanted to use him to exchange some grain and grass with Yuan Shu to come back, since it involves the daughter of the Qiao family, then give Yuan Shu the rest of this money." But. I can put it in front, when the Qiao family arrives in Youzhou, I have to ask Liu Shiren, this kid, to send me another 3,000 sets of heavy step armor as compensation! ”

Mi Zhu saw that Lu Zhi readily agreed, so he kindly reminded: "There is also that Yuan Zhuan." Was it released all together? ”

Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and said with some "regret": "I also want to send Yuan Jian back, but he has already had an attack due to injury a few days ago. He died in his cell in Xiapi. At that time, because I was worried about the outbreak of epidemics in the city, all the prisoners who died of injuries and diseases were burned at that time, and now Yuan Jian has a jar of ashes left, and this time send it back to Yuan Shu! ”

"My lord, if that's the case, I'm afraid that Yuan Shu will make things difficult for the Qiao family again."

"Well, that's easy! I gave an order to Xu Sheng, who was imprisoned in the city, to return 5,000 to Yuan Shu, how can 5,000 soldiers be more valuable than a Yuan Shu? ”

"My subordinates, thank you for the success of the state pastor!"

Mi Zhu got Lu Zhi's consent, and the rest of the trivial things were implemented by a cadre from the state pastoral mansion, and what he needed to do now was to arrange the fleet to go north and send Qiao Xuan's family to Jicheng safely.

In Xiapi City, after Xu Sheng received Lu Zhi's order, he played a little trick, he asked his newly surrendered soldiers in Yuan Shu's army to descend into the barracks to select those soldiers who were plain and stubborn, disobedient to military discipline and nepotism in Shouchun, and then made up 5,000 of them, ready to return to Yangzhou to continue to "scourge Yuanshu".

There were more than 30,000 captured Yuan Shu's troops, and Xu Sheng and Guan Hai had selected more than 10,000 Yangzhou soldiers from honest and poor backgrounds to fill the Xiapi camp and Pengjun camp, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were originally to be sent to Youzhou as trophies to exchange a batch of weapons and war horses, but now Xu Sheng has eliminated 5,000 "black sheep", which can be regarded as helping Youzhou do a good job in political trial in advance.

Xuzhou was ready to exchange, the news soon spread to Shouchun, Yuan Shu learned that Yan Xiang used a hot Qiao family to exchange for the general Zhang Xun and 5,000 soldiers, it was quite happy, as for Yuan Lian, who died in Xiapi due to injury and illness, it was his bad life, Yuan Shu just asked people to send a little money to Yuan Lian's family to talk about condolences, as for how Yuan Lian's family will live in the future, it doesn't matter what he does.

Yuan Shu was happy here, and it was time for the Qiao family to leave.

In the small garden in the backyard of Qiao's house, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao sisters are one of them playing the piano and the other is playing the flute.

After a while, the two sisters stared at each other silently, and their eyes were full of unrelenting friendship.

"Sister, I can't bear you and Daddy." Before Xiao Qiao finished speaking, his eyes turned red.

Da Qiao lovingly hugged his sister into his arms, and then comforted him: "Silly girl, since you are reluctant, then go north with me and my father." Daddy didn't say that he ruined the marriage of the Sun family, he just moved the family to Youzhou, if the Sun family really cares about you, even if it is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, he will send someone to marry you away at that time! If the Sun family doesn't care,"

My sister's words made Xiao Qiao, who worships heroes, suddenly understand something.

"If he really cares about me, even if he is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, he will come to marry me. is like Liu Shiren in Youzhou, who has dragged on for so many years and is so far away. I still have to marry my sister. If he doesn't care about me, then go to Youzhou to get rid of it, anyway, I haven't seen him, and I will find a hero in the north to marry in the future, and I can still communicate with my sister often. ”

Thinking about these things, Xiao Qiao burst into tears and smiled, and said to his sister: "Sister, you go and tell your father, and say that I am willing to go north with you." ”

Three days later, Yan Xiang personally came with a convoy to help Qiao's family move. The long procession caused a lot of discussion among the people in the city.

Escorted by Yan Xiang personally, Qiao's family first took a boat down the Yangtze River, and arrived at the upper reaches of Dantu a day later, and the Mijia fleet responsible for receiving Zhang Xun and some middle- and lower-ranking officers of the Yuan army sent Zhang Xun and some middle- and lower-ranking officers of the Yuan army to the south bank by boat, and then Yan Xiang accompanied Qiao's family to the north bank, and the exchange was completed smoothly. As for the thousands of Yuan's troops surrendered, they had already returned to Zhongli by land from Xiapi a few days earlier.

After Mi Zhu received Qiao Xuan, in order to ensure safety, he did not let the fleet continue to enter the sea along the Yangtze River. Instead, they traveled overland through Quang Ling to the East China Sea. Although the Guangling Chen family suffered a lot of losses this time, this account should not be counted on the Mi family, and the Chen family also counted on using the Mi family's unique sea route to do business with the north, so not only would there be no twists and turns. Instead, he sent someone to escort him all the way, and he was courteous.

After Zhang Xun returned to Shouchun in a gloomy manner, he wept bitterly and pleaded guilty to Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu scolded Zhang Xun fiercely. also extinguished the fire, and still used Zhang Xun as a confidant.

Zhang Xun's military advisor Yang Hong was lucky to get out of the battlefield safely, and after hearing that Zhang Xun returned to Shouchun. He hurried over from Zhongli to see Zhang Xun, and he told Zhang Xun that the 30,000 soldiers who fled back had been taken over by Qiao Rui, and if Zhang Xun still wanted to make a comeback, then he should aim at Liu Xuan, Zhu Hao and Wu Jing in the south, as long as Zhang Xun solved these self-respecting guys for Yuan Shu, then he could wash away the shame of the failure of the Northern Expedition to Xuzhou.

Zhang Xun listened to Yang Hong's advice, and he told Yuan Shu a lot of bad things about Zhu Hao and Wu Jing, and also mentioned many times that Guangling Chen's father and son secretly had many dealings with Zhu Hao. Yuan Shu was originally a very suspicious guy, and after he listened to Zhang Xun's provocative words, Huo Ran found that Wu Jing in Danyang seemed to be a little close to Sun Jian's father and son, who occupied Yuzhang, and Zhu Hao didn't seem to contribute much grain and grass and soldiers to him when he stayed in the rich Wu County.

Yuan Shu then appointed Zhang Xun as the governor of Yangzhou South Road, Yang Hong as the military advisor, Chen Lan, Lei Bo and Li Feng as deputy generals, and was fully responsible for the use of troops in Wu County, Danyang County and Huiji County in southern Yangzhou.

In order to cover up people's eyes and ears, Yuan Shu declared to the outside world that Zhang Xun's newly formed army was mainly to clear and deal with the Shanyue tribe who were in turmoil from time to time in Yangzhou. The banner played by Yuan Shu and Zhang Xun can definitely stand up, because the Baiyue ethnic groups distributed in Yangzhou at that time were difficult to tame and posed a great threat to the rule of the government.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Baiyue people were distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places in later generations, and were ethnic mixtures formed by the indigenous descendants of the ancient Yue people as the core and gradually integrated into the Han immigrants. Shanyue is a branch of Baiyue, and according to its literal meaning, it originally referred to the ancient Yue people who lived in the mountains.

Due to the ethnic integration since the Qin and Han dynasties, Shanyue has become indistinguishable from the Han Chinese, including some Han people who have escaped government service and entered the mountains. Therefore, although Shanyue is called by race, it is actually a mixture of ethnic groups distributed in the southern mountains, among which there are Han and Yue elements, so they are also called "mountain people". Shanyue's production method is mainly agriculture, growing grains, and because "the mountains produce copper and iron", they often "cast their own armor". They are scattered and live in small clusters, are good at practicing martial arts, and rely on mountain hazards to form armed groups, whose leaders have many titles such as "handsome", "big handsome", "zongshuai", etc., and are in a semi-independent state for the central court and local governments.

Because the Shanyue people were widely distributed in Yangzhou, Zhang Xun could completely use the military power held by Wu Jing, Zhu Hao, Liu Miao and others under the banner of clearing and suppressing the chaos in Shanyue, and divide and disintegrate. (To be continued......)