As soon as everyone heard that Liu Bei was leaving, they hurriedly persuaded each other.

But Liu Bei just refused to obey the death, no matter who said it, it was not easy to use, he just didn't enter Tancheng.

In the end, he withdrew his troops and went back, but only let Ying Shao, Zhang Chao, Zhao Yu, Kong Rong, and Liu Miao stare at the same place.

In desperation, these people could only go to Tancheng first, meet with the officials in the city, and discuss together to stabilize the situation.

With these people in their company, Zhenrong and Que Xuan also dared to enter Tancheng, but they did not dare to bring soldiers and horses into the city, but only set up soldiers and horses twenty miles southwest of Tanxian County.

These people entered the city and met with a group of subordinate officials in Xuzhou led by Mi Zhu and Chen Qi.

The people who scolded Tao Qian in the city just now, now in the city, everyone respects each other and greets each other, as if they are friends who have not seen each other for many years, and there is no embarrassing atmosphere.

This is also the atmosphere of the officialdom of the Han Dynasty.

Scolding and scolding, beating and beating, once the matter is over, everyone is like a brother.

At least on the surface.

In the end, everyone talked about how to settle Xuzhou.

The first thing to do is, of course, to settle the people.

After An Min, it is to make a judgment on the current situation in Tancheng.

After a careful analysis by everyone, there are not many generals in Xuzhou County now, Tao Qian is newly dead, many forces in the territory have their own thoughts, and there are great enemies like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao who covet their wealth in Xuzhou......

Let's ask, under such circumstances, how can Xuzhou be stable?

Which mediocre person dares to lead Xuzhou?

You have to find a strong leader to stabilize the situation!

As for who can do it, it is almost needless to say, the answer is about to come out!

Everyone agreed that it was Liu Bei.

But Liu Bei doesn't enter Tancheng at all now, so what should I do?

In response to this matter, everyone carefully analyzed it and found that Liu Bei did have his difficulties.

What Tao Qian's father and son did was really chilling.

For any person, from Liu Bei's point of view, he will no longer meddle in Xuzhou's affairs, and now if he wants Liu Bei to stay in Xuzhou, he must deal with Cao Hong and Tao Qian's two sons.

Then, it is to unite the local scholars and heroes to invite Liu Bei together, mobilize all the people to keep Liu Bei, and use the people's hearts to hold Liu Bei's heart!

It is also necessary to spread Liu Bei's benevolence and virtue, spread Liu Bei's name of benevolence and righteousness throughout Xuzhou, and at the same time publicize the Tao family and Liu Bei's affairs to the public and widely inform the world!

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Soon, the grievances between Liu Bei and Tao Qian began to spread in Xuzhou, and of course, all the rumors tended to be on Liu Bei's side.

Originally, the speed at which the school government disseminated public opinion was very fast, and now all the official bigwigs in Xuzhou also helped Liu Bei speak and make a reputation, and for a while, Liu Bei became the apex of the moral model in Xuzhou.

The current people of Xuzhou almost only recognize Liu Bei alone, and others don't recognize it!

In the hearts of the military and people of Xuzhou, only Liu Bei can become their guardian.

And Liu Bei's soldiers and horses traveled to Qingzhou during this period.

But the Xuzhou Shi clan is also very fast.

Tens of thousands of Xuzhou Lishu, under the organization of local forces, blocked the road and cried, ate pot pulp, and asked Liu Bei to stay in Xuzhou and preside over the major events in Xuzhou.

Many people said that if Liu Bei insisted on leaving, then they would crash into Liu Bei's horse and die!

I have to say that things have turned out like this, which has greatly increased Liu Bei's influence in Xuzhou, which Liu Jian did not expect in advance.

Of course, this effect is what Liu Jian is looking forward to.

And at this time, Li Gu and others also brought back the news from Tan County, Cao Hong had been characterized as a traitorous minister, and was jointly decided by Chen Qi of Xuzhou and the local heroes and fathers-in-law to be executed in Tan County.

It is said that before Cao Hong died, he had been angrily scolding Donghai Mi and Peiguo Chen, and all the subordinate officials in Xuzhou were rebellious thieves!

Obviously, Cao Hong's death was a power struggle between the local heroes of Xuzhou and the Danyang faction, at least on the surface.

His death can be said to have little to do with Liu Bei.

But in fact, people who really understand things know that this is what the Xuzhou clans deliberately did in order to flatter the Hebei forces and leave Liu Bei.

But no matter what, Cao Hong's death no longer affected Liu Bei's reputation.

As for the two sons of the Tao family......

Tao Qian was dead, Tao's reputation was ruined, and the two men were sent back to their hometown of Danyang County by a group of officials led by Xuzhou.

Tao Qian's death was not committed by Liu Bei, but his own narrow-mindedness, and he died because he framed Liu Bei.

But after all, he is the chief of supervision of Xuzhou, although his two sons are despicable, but after all, Tao Qian is the assassin of Xuzhou who was enshrined by the imperial court, Tao Qian is dead, and his two sons, from the perspective of the people of Xuzhou, are not easy to dispose of at will.

Even if they are allowed to go back, judging from the Tao family's current prestige, they won't be able to make much of a storm.

In the future, it is very questionable whether they can mix in the scholar group in Danyang County.

After all, Liu Bei had a good relationship with Tao Qian in the past, although the two of them became bad later, and Tao Qian never showed mercy to him, but in Liu Bei's opinion, Tao Qian did not commit any serious crimes that were enough to destroy the family.

Now that Tao Qian is dead, if his two sons can return to their hometown and continue the incense for him, this will make Liu Bei feel quite gratified.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei turned back to Liu Jian and said: "Although Tao Gongzu died of depression, but his two sons can stay and prolong his Tao lineage, I have some peace in my heart, and it is not an acquaintance." ”

When Liu Jian heard this, he was silent.

Seeing Liu Jian's face, Liu Bei was very strange.

"Deran, what is your expression?"

"Brother, do you really think? Will the Dow brothers survive when they return to their hometown this time? ”

Liu Bei was greatly surprised when he heard this.

"Are you going to send someone to assassinate these two boys?"

Liu Jian shook his head and said, "Brother, you don't know who I am?" I have so many things to think about in my heart, how can I have the leisure to see these two shafts? Besides, they couldn't be a threat to me, so why should I do such a thing...... Just because I don't move them doesn't mean that others won't move. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he was silent.

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At this time, the two brothers Tao Shang and Tao Ying were taking their domestic slaves and Tao Qian's corpse towards their hometown Danyang with a sad face.

The carriage behind them was carrying their father's body.

The ancients also had certain means of dealing with the maintenance of corpses, which allowed the body to slow down the decay.

However, compared with the means of later generations, it is still backward.

Therefore, the two brothers, Tao Shang and Tao Ying, needed to speed up their march and transport Tao Qian's body back to their hometown for burial.

The brothers were in a mess along the way.

During this period of time, the situation of the brothers seemed to have fallen from the sky to the ground.

Although the two of them did not lose their lives in the end, in this fight, they lost everything themselves because of their stupidity.

And the reputation of their Dow lineage, if they want to recover it from now on, it will be difficult without the efforts of one generation or two generations.

"I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced!"

Tao Ying in the back suddenly screamed.

The potter turned his head to look at his dejected brother, and sighed:

"Brother, we lost completely this time, the Tao family has no chance, right now, our purpose is to go back to our hometown to bury our father, you don't have to be too yourself."

Tao Ying yelled angrily: "Why! Why do they all look down on our brothers? We are obviously the sons of Uncle Fang, but we have to end up like this, now Cao Hong was killed by them, Mi Zhu refused to marry his sister to me, they still in front of us and my father, all of them supported Liu Bei, they humiliated us in front of so many people in the city, what is our Tao brother who is not as good as the surname Liu? ”

In fact, for the potter, he didn't understand this very well.

But even if you can't figure it out, what can you do?

It's all a foregone conclusion!

Tao Ying suddenly said to the pottery merchant: "Brother, you shouldn't just accept your fate, right?" ”

The pottery merchant looked at Tao Ying sadly and said, "The matter has come to this, what can we do not accept our fate?" ”

Tao Ying roared angrily: "This world is now a world of great controversy, who said that our brothers can't achieve a career?" ”

"Let's go back to our hometown in Danyang, sell our property, recruit soldiers and horses in Danyang County, and find an opportunity to deal with Liu Bei!"

"And those who look down on us, let them know what kind of person I am in the Danyang Tao Clan!"

When the potter heard this, he was taken aback.

He looked at Tao Ying in surprise: "Brother, are you crazy?!" ”

Tao Ying said hoarsely: "I just can't swallow this breath!" ”

"Besides, what he Liu Bei can do, why can't our brothers do it?!"

"Hahaha! Because you're about to die, there's no time to do it. ”

With a shout, a team rushed out from both sides of the official road.

Clearly, this team has been in ambush here for a long time.

The potter and Tao Ying were startled, and they hurriedly turned their heads to look, only to see that the standard army had surrounded them.

In the woods next to them, a burly man rushed out, looking at the two brothers coldly.

The potter pointed at the man: "Who are you waiting for?" Want to rob money? ”

"Robbery?"

When the man heard this, he laughed and said:

"Then you are wrong, we are not here to rob money, but to take your lives."

"Our lives! Why take our lives?! ”

The big man laughed: "It's just acting on the orders of my family's Ming Gong, in fact, according to Ming Gong's intentions, it should have been to kill Tao Qian to worship Taigong, but now that Tao Qian is dead, this blood feud will naturally have to be borne by you!" ”

"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, I'm under the command of Cao Gong! Here's a special way to send your brothers on the road! Take your heads, to comfort the soul of the prince in heaven, and you two can go down to accompany your father! What are you still thinking about returning to Danyang to recruit soldiers and horses for revenge? It's just ridiculous! ”

When Tao Shang and Tao Ying heard that the other party was Cao Cao's general, they cried in fright.

"Oh my God!"

"Father, save us!"

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die......"

That Yu Ban didn't give the two of them a chance to talk at all, and with a wave of his hand, he saw a group of big men under his command holding weapons, rushing towards the Taoying pottery merchant brothers like wolves.

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When all the people were killed, someone came to report to the forbidden.

"Captain Yu, everyone is killed."

The big man frowned: "Everyone is dead, what is it called Captain Yu...... Where am I forbidden? ”

"Huh? Haha, it's called smooth, it's called smooth......"

"Boss, let's cut off the heads of these two boys, go back to Xuzhou and ask the Chen family for credit, how much money does the Chen family allow us?"

The big man was not in a hurry, and he was also happy.

He turned his head to look around, and finally landed his gaze on Tao Qian's coffin.

"Carry the people out, whip the corpse five hundred, and then leave!"

"Huh? Why? Well, that's a bit too much......"

The big man gave his subordinates a kick, frowned, and said: "Since you are pretending to be Cao Jun, then you naturally have to do something like this, Tao Qian and Cao Cao have a grudge against their father, if they don't take out Tao Qian's corpse and whip it, how can it be like Cao Jun sent someone to do it?" If you whip you, you will whip, are you still afraid of a dead man! ”

The man suddenly realized.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something.

"Boss, you didn't come up with such a lack of moral idea, didn't you think of it, didn't it ...... that Old Man Chen taught you?"

"Less nonsense, whip you and whip! Ask the east and west, what does it have to do with you! ”

"Yes, yes!"

(End of chapter)