The Spring Festival of the thirteenth year of Jian'an was a double happiness for Yuan Xi, and on the third day of the first month, he received a holy decree from Liu Xie and canonized him as a general.

When Yuan Xi heard the date of the holy decree, he understood that this should have arrived a year ago, and the delay until now seemed to be a small move by Liu Xie.

How could Cao Cao let the position of general be given to him, it seems that this is a holy decree issued by Liu Xie while Cao Cao is not in Xu Du.

also has to bypass Xun Yu and the others, this should be sent secretly.

But these things are none of his business, it's good to get the benefits himself, as for the headache to give Cao Cao a headache, anyway, Liu Xie and Cao Cao have not been fighting for a day or two.

The general in the Eastern Han Dynasty is very powerful, above the three dukes, can decide for himself whether to conquer or not, the Eastern Han Dynasty's ministers are almost all generals.

From Huo Guang to Liang Ji, and then to He Jin, each of them is powerful, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to make himself a general, but Yuan Shao quit, so he had no choice but to give it to Yuan Shao and be his own commonplace.

Since Yuan Shao's death, the position of general has been vacant, and Yuan Tan only dares to proclaim himself a general of the chariot and cavalry, and now it has finally fallen on his head.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the news came, the battle of Xiakou ended, Cao Cao was defeated, and the naval army in his hand was almost swept away by the Sun and Liu coalition forces.

Although it was not as tragic as the Battle of Chibi in history, it also made Cao Cao unable to conquer the south for at least several years, and there was no way to conquer the south without a naval army.

The result of this defeat was not only the loss of troops and generals, but the biggest impact was that Cao Cao's rear was going to be chaotic, and on the contrary, Liu Bei finally had a stable territory of his own.

Liu Bei's army crossed the Jiangxia County area and occupied the triangle area north of Dongting Lake and east of Huarong County in Nanjun.

Cao Cao retreated to Dangyang and Zhijiang to defend Liu Bei in the east, bounded by the Yangtze River in the south, and occupied the Jiangbei region of Nanjun, leaving only one Jiangling city to Liu Qi.

And the Jiangnan part of Jiangxia County is still in the hands of Sun Quan, and it is impossible to return it to Jingzhou, which was forcibly occupied before, but now the three parties have recognized it.

This also reduced the pressure on Jiangdong, so as not to have to defend Liu Qi and Liu Bei with heavy troops, and they had plans to recover the lost territory.

It's just that in this way, Liu Qi's forces are trapped in the center, and there are only four counties in Jingnan in his hands, although the territory is very large, but it is not a good place.

The four counties of Jingnan in this era were not only poor and small in population, but also Wulingman, Changshaman, and Linglingman, among which Wulingman was the most powerful in the southwest.

These ethnic groups, known as barbarians, should be the predecessors of the Miao and other ethnic minorities in the southwest, and after merging with the Qiang people who went south, they formed dozens of ethnic groups in the southwest in later generations.

Before this, the so-called barbarians here should be the descendants of the Baiyue tribe, or the descendants of the Jiuli tribe.

Because they were born and grew up in the mountains and forests, they were very good at mountain warfare and were difficult to exterminate, so the rulers of the past dynasties could only use Huairou means to keep them from making trouble.

Liu Biao's greatest achievement was actually to let these barbarians settle down, coexist in harmony with the Han people, and gradually merge together.

Of course, it is still too early to say integration, but it was Wulingman who rarely made trouble in the later period of Liu Biao, and was able to trade and get along with the Han people peacefully.

Before this, they attacked the county from time to time and threatened the safety of Jingzhou, but in fact, it was caused by the Han people bullying them.

Liu Biao suppressed the Han people and enslaved them, and this merit should be affirmed.

A major incident happened on the fifteenth day of the first month, and Cao Cao, who was still halfway back from the withdrawal of the army, vomited blood angrily and fainted at that time.

"Zhang He, I want you to peel and cramp, and I cut you alive!"

Cao Cao, who woke up, roared angrily, and his subordinate Wen Wu hurriedly persuaded him not to be angry, so as not to hurt his body.

It turned out that Zhang He took advantage of the excitement on the night of the fifteenth to rob Zhang Xiu's daughter and Cao Cao's two wives, and fled from Xu Du without a trace.

By the time Yuan Xi received the news, Zhang He had already arrived in Liyang and entered the Hebei sphere of influence.

Yuan Xi was stunned and asked, "General Junyi's brain is broken, why did you kidnap Cao Cao's wife?" ”

Feng Ji smiled and invited credit: "Lord, this matter is explained by a certain person, and Zhang He is just executing." ”

"It's you! Why? ”

Seeing Yuan Xi's puzzled appearance, Feng Ji said triumphantly: "Gan Meng knows that he robbed Da Qiao to the lord, how can a certain person be inferior to him as an important minister of Hebei, Cao Mengde's ladies are good, and it is still okay to warm the bed for the lord or something." ”

With a "poof", Yuan Xi almost jumped up and pointed at him for a long time speechless.

After a long time, he hated iron and steel: "Which of his women is not an old woman, if you want to rob him, you will rob his daughter!" ”

"Huh! yes, I didn't think of that. ”

Feng Ji still looked annoyed, Xin Bi directly opened fire: "Feng Yuantu, you are crazy, you robbed Meng De's concubine, you want him to go crazy and start a war with us, right?" ”

"Cut! Would he dare to go to war? Xia Kou defeated his most important stable military heart at the moment, and then Ma Teng and Han Sui will definitely have different intentions, unless he wants to give up Guanzhong, otherwise the Northwest War is inevitable, how can he still have the heart to fight with us, George will say empty words to scare whom. ”

Xun Chen shook his head and sighed: "What Yuan Tu said is indeed reasonable, but this kidnapping of people's wives and daughters should not be, it is not done by a gentleman, and it will damage the reputation of the lord." ”

Then everyone also said that Feng Ji didn't think about it, but he was so red that he wanted to refute it, but he was afraid that the public would be angry, so he had to sulk himself.

Yuan Xi hurriedly mediated when he saw it: "Forget it, the person has already arrived in Hebei, and it is pointless to say it again, but it is better to come back with the daughter of Chang." ”

Speaking of Zhang Xiu's daughter, Xu Shu said: "It's a good thing for people to come back, but I'm afraid that the lord will have to bother to marry in the future, and I can't let good things become bad things, so as not to leave resentment is not worth it." ”

Everyone nodded when they said this, and Yuan Xi suddenly frowned, Zhang Xiu's daughter had already given birth to a child, which separated their husband and wife, mother and son, and it was impossible not to resent.

Besides, he had a headache for a long time about Cai Yan's marriage, and in the end, people said that it was only in the past that he didn't marry, and now he has another one, and he has a headache again.

Ten days later, Zhang He arrived in Yanjing, and Yuan Shang, who had nothing to do, went to pick him up in person, but he was so surprised that he almost couldn't recognize the third son.

"The criminal minister Zhang He pays a visit to the lord!"

Zhang He is also a clever person, as soon as he entered the main hall of the General's Mansion, he immediately knelt down towards Yuan Xi and called him a criminal minister.

Yuan Xi smiled with a smile on his face, personally sat down and helped him by the arm and said: "It's good that General Junyi is okay, the general is not to blame for what happened back then, this account should be counted on Chun Yuqiong and Xu You, hurry up." ”

Zhang He peeked over, only to see Yuan Xi's eyes full of sincerity, and he immediately put his mind at ease, and stood up after thanking him, but he still bowed his head respectfully.