As for the rest of the brothers······ He will avenge it!

Speaking of which, the reason why he was able to come back with most of his brothers was also thanks to the high-intensity training that the lord has been training all the time.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone has always maintained a very high level of training and super martial arts skills, I am afraid that they would have been annihilated by tens of thousands of troops.

Whatever stands out of the encirclement is just a dream······

Just when the black and white rode to cultivate, Cao Pi did not expect it, but he had a move in three or four days.

A talented notice written by his brother Cao Zhi wrote that Xi Yu was like a reckless man, not only humble status, but also ungrateful, and got the power of the Cao family to oppose the Cao family's action, snatching the Son of Heaven and ignoring the power of the Han Dynasty·····

The notice was written thousands of words freely, although the words were not dirty, but it described Xi Yu as a petty man who would take revenge, could not be reused, and stole chickens and dogs.

This notice that scolded the joke into a villain for thousands of years was known all over the world in just a few days, from remote nomads in the north to Jingzhou Jiangdong in the south.

Even the Yoro people who live in the Land of Projectiles have heard some rumors.

It's just that four or five days later, in a joint article from nearly 1,000 Confucian scholars in Qingxu and Xu, the Cao family was scolded and scolded, saying that they had no face and no skin, and they obviously wanted to usurp the Han, but they deducted the basin on others.

Because it was a joint letter, it spread even faster than Cao Pi's notice, and some of them copied it and then spread it further along the trade route.

In just a few days, the news spread to the ears of people in Nanban and Beiyi and other places, not only that, but this joint article even faintly has a tendency to spread overseas!

Far away in the Wuhuan tribe in the north, a Central Plains person surnamed Yuan, who was struggling to survive here, couldn't laugh too happily after seeing Cao Pi and Xi Yu's fighting methods.

For this reason, he even took out a few assets to invite the leader of the Wuhuan tribe to drink several times.

As the third prince of the fourth world, he has long lost the courage to go south to compete with others, and now he has to live here as a nomadic merchant on horseback.

It's just ······ Most of the goods that can make him barely survive like this come from Xi Yu's trading houses······

Behind this scolding battle, Xi Yu also began to secretly lay out again.

He first ordered people to secretly lead troops from Xuzhou to Xiaopei, and then sent another pair of troops to Mengyin.

The two-sided flanking attack took only one night, and the two armies also pocketed Pei County and Taishan County while marching rapidly.

The commander of this battle was Gao Shun, who, like Xi Yu, was born in Cao Cao's guard.

Seeing that the war was going well, Xi Yu immediately ordered the fierce general Zhang Wenyuan to guard Mount Tai, and at the same time ordered Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin to go to Pei County to manage government affairs.

As for the others, they set off again, frightening the guards of Lujun and Jibei.

In addition to the military plan, Xi Yu also asked the Son of Heaven to write an edict to persuade the surrounding people to submit to the Han Dynasty and oppose many traitors such as the Cao army.

Because of the edict of the Son of Heaven, it is not too difficult for many people to turn against them.

Soon, the people of the surrounding counties all surrendered to Xi Yu and the Son of Heaven, and Cao Pi's plan fell through, not to mention that he also suffered the bitter fruit.

Before you know it, spring ploughing has arrived.

I have to admit here that Xi Yu always takes the right time to start the war.

Either in the autumn harvest or in the spring ploughing, this is all about pressing the enemy to the ground and rubbing it.

Because Qingxu is different from any other place in this world.

Not to mention anything else, the level of farming tools alone is very polarized.

There is a joke, although the farming tools in Qingxu are not as good as those of later generations, they are far from being comparable to other places now.

Therefore, if the people living in these two places want to cultivate the land, they only need to bring farming tools and work hard for a few days with their families.

The same goes for growing food.

In addition, after the people finished sowing, Xi Yu would also order people to open warehouses and release grain, and win people's hearts by working more and getting more.

In particular, the displaced people and refugees who first settled here have now become the courteous homes of the city, and they don't care too much about tending to the crops.

This is also the main reason why Xi Yu ordered the local officials to include their names when compiling the local directory.

In addition, he built a number of dwellings in the original wilderness and open areas for the homeless to live in.

The world of those who win the hearts of the people is true.

Through his own management, Xi Yu was able to build Qingxu Erdi into his most solid rear in a short period of time, which has a lot to do with winning the trust and support of these people.

At present, Taishan County and Pei County are also in his hands, and according to the past habits, he directly followed the original model, and the people of these two places were also brought together.

Especially Taishan County, this place was originally high and densely forested, the terrain was dangerous, the terrain was complicated, and there were many bandit homes, but they were quickly pacified by him.

Not only that, but he also sent Zang Ba here to temporarily serve as a local official and handle internal affairs.

As for Zhang Wenyuan, he is just stationing troops here and waiting for the news from above.

Speaking of which, since he established his merits several times, he has already become the commander of Xiyu's expedition on the Western Front, and he no longer has to accept orders from anyone except Zhao Zilong.

After Pei County and Taishan County were completely stabilized, Xi Yu, the Duke of Shengguo, was also successfully given by the Son of Heaven as the Duke of Yonghan, with the capital of Qingzhou and the country name Qi.

At this time, he can basically be regarded as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, an existence under one person and above tens of thousands of people.

Not to mention the position and ministers, he is also called the uncle of the country by the Son of Heaven, so he is comparable to Cao Cao at the beginning, and even ······ In terms of military and popular convenience, it is far more powerful and exaggerated than Cao Cao.

No one in the whole territory opposed these revelations of the Son of Heaven, and the vast majority of them even applauded.

It can be seen from this how popular he is, and he almost doesn't even need to go through the process.

The Son of Heaven is even more like a man who advises him to be promoted to an official of drama, and he immediately nods without hesitation, almost saying that he will be finished.

But even so, he had no intention of becoming king.

It is precisely in this way that the people in the cities that have just been captured believe that he is doing things for the Han Dynasty and recovering the Han Mountains and Rivers for the Son of Heaven, and he is not at all the ungrateful villain in Cao Pi's mouth.

Of course, in addition to this, his other practices also aroused the admiration of the people, and gratitude arose.

First of all, in the name of a number of academicians of the design academy, a lot of strong men were recruited to the "construction team" of urban construction, preparing to build a new place to live.

Then I found thousands of young students in schools from all over the world who were in their teens and twenties to help design the house model.

Finally, with the lure of grain and grass, a large number of fields and houses were built for people to live in, and at the same time, all the dwellings were designed to be of a uniform size and size, so that enough people could have a shelter from the wind and rain, and through the hearts of the people, they could expand their territory.

Create a new county in Taishan County, and plan fields for every farmer, even wasteland.

In addition, Xi Yu also roughly estimated that in the case of tax reduction and exemption, and then through the help of Qingxu and Xu, if this place can achieve self-sufficiency and the people have surplus grain in their hands, it will take three years, to say the least.

In order to make the place gradually richer, he stopped attacking again.

Because if you can't defend it, then why bother to fight?

How can such a large territory as Yanzhou be able to be closed overnight?

In order to attack blindly, it is better to fight steadily, at least after Taishan County has become a place that can accommodate 500,000 or even millions of people and the development level can keep up with Qingxu Erdi, he will consider the possibility of continuing the attack.

Therefore, even if he got Pei County and Taishan County now, he only ordered people to focus on external defense and internal encouragement, and try his best to make this place another copper wall like Qingxu Erdi.

In addition, he also sent Zhang Liao to Shouzhang to keep an eye on the situation in Dongjun and other places.

In fact, when it comes to Shouzhang, there doesn't seem to be a clear belonging, this was the case when Cao Cao was there, one moment to the Xi Yu Tun soldiers, and another time to Cao Ren to guard, barely a special zone that anyone can manage, but no one cares too much.

So as soon as the people sent by Xi Yu arrived, from Mount Tai to Dongping, almost all the people of Shouzhang who heard the wind opened their doors to greet them.

This frightened the soldiers and horses of Dongjun a lot, and they hurriedly gathered in Jizhou, and then began to station a large number of troops in Puyang, trying to fight against Zhang Liao.

It's just that there is no boss in Puyang at the moment, as for Xiahou Chun, who is in Yecheng, Wei County, if he wants to lead a large army here, it will take more than half a month, but Zhang Liao has been waiting here with an army of 100,000 for a long time, and he is gearing up for Dongjun.

With them, Xiahou Chun just wants to rush to Puyang, but I'm afraid that Cao Pi won't agree.

If he really sent an army to Puyang, he was afraid that the situation of the two sides stopping the war would be broken again, so he never gave an order, and Cao Wei's army did not dare to make a big move.

As a result, under the circumstance of their inaction, the people living in Yanzhou gradually wavered, especially in the northeast, most of them did not need to think of a way to submit directly.

Jibei Prime Minister Bao Xin originally thought that he would die alone in this place, and he would be crippled, but who would have thought that this place would be easily collected by Xi Yu.

Their Bao family naturally took advantage of the situation and served as some local officials here for the use of Xi Yu, which can be regarded as a return to the orthodoxy of the Son of Heaven.

During spring ploughing, there are no soldiers, which is almost a customary rule in the whole era.

Xi Yu naturally won't break it, after all, even if his Qingxu is rich, he also knows the importance of food.

Therefore, Xi Yu, who planned to settle accounts after the autumn, ordered the generals and soldiers in Qingxu and Xu to train day and night, just to maintain the best combat condition.

At the same time, he also ordered the caravans to stop the development of trade in the west, and only transported up and down the longitudinal line, some people went north, some people went south, so that the cities along the north and south gradually developed and became a lot more prosperous.

This was the main purpose of his initial insistence on building caravanserais, as each city had its own specialty.

It may be that the grain planting area in a certain place is small, but the mineral resources are abundant, and the value of the caravan is reflected at this time, and the grain and grass are exchanged for local specialties, which not only satisfies the stomach of the local people, but also enriches their own mineral resources.

For example, some defenders who lack military equipment can also be exchanged for minerals, food, and gold and silver treasures.

You must know that there are not a few military equipment that have been eliminated in Qingxu Erdi, such as a one-handed continuous long crossbow, a large double-shot crossbow, and a catapult······ The whole nine yards.

These things are obsolete scrap metal to Xi Yu, but to the defenders elsewhere, they are treasures.

After all, no one is a joke, and he doesn't have the ability or ability to set up a Tiangong Academy, he can't support it, and he doesn't want to support so many skilled craftsmen.

Therefore, many elaborate machines and even newly invented weapons and munitions are foolish dreams for them.

In this way, the days passed uneventfully until August.

It was supposed to be a festive day for the autumn harvest, but it was broken by a sudden autumn rain.

Whether it is Qingxu or Yanzhou, there are small-scale floods due to frequent rains.

Thanks to Zhuge Liang's proficient knowledge of celestial phenomena and his knowledge of the wind phase, he evacuated some local people early and gave up some of the grain that was about to be harvested, so that all losses were minimized before the rainy weather continued to come.

Then, he ordered people to use huge flood gates around Lei Ze and Pushui to block and hoard a large amount of rainwater, planning to open the floodgates to discharge the flood when Dongjun and Jiyin Realm were not paying attention······

He kept moving here, and Cao Pi didn't stop there.

After half a year, Xiahou Chun finally led the army to Dongjun in batches, and came to this hometown where he had been guarding for many years.

In the past, he was the Taishou of Dongjun, specializing in Puyang, and later because of his outstanding achievements, he made great contributions in the Northern Yuan, so he was promoted to the general of the expedition to the north and was named the marquis.

Promoted to one of the generals of the Four Expeditions to the North, he has a particularly high status and reputation.

He led his troops to Dongjun this time, the main purpose was not only to guard Yanzhou and prevent Xi Yu from entering the territory again, but more importantly, to order the army to work with the people to do a good job in the grain harvest in September.

They don't have the confidence of Qingxu Erdi, so they don't dare to waste even a little bit of food, not to mention, there are not a few grain lands in Dongjun.

If you don't have time to grab it, I'm afraid that when it comes to war, you will lose the enemy.

For this reason, when he came, he also specially asked Cao Pi for Yu Ban.

As a general with a foreign surname, Yu Ban's achievements in the war may not be so significant, but in the matter of Tuntian, he still has some fame.

At the beginning, Xi Yu took him under his command and guided him for more than a few months, and then ordered him to be the great Si Nong.

It's just that Yu Ban did not choose to play Yu later, but instead submitted to the later general Cao Hong.

The first time the two came to Dongjun, they rushed to the nearby fields to investigate.

Seeing that the water level of Lei Ze and Pu Shui did not rise by half a point, Yu Ban was stunned for a moment, with a little panic in his heart, and asked, "Why hasn't the water flow here risen?" ”

"Isn't it a good thing not to have water? This shows that God blesses, and the grain must be harvested in half a month! ”

Looking at the golden fields, Xiahou Chun said with a smile: "As long as the grain and grass in the territory are harvested, we can accumulate troops here for a year without worrying about the grain and grass. ”

"But······ In recent days, the upstream rain has been continuous, and the waterline that will be affected to some extent has not moved at all, which is obviously not normal, and it is difficult to do it······ Is there someone upstream who is tuning water? ”

"How is this possible?"

Xiahou Chun disagreed because he didn't understand, and continued: "Maybe somewhere collapsed and blocked the tide?" Besides, you also said that the upstream is rainy and rainy, and the autumn harvest is imminent, and the drainage is enough for them to be busy. ”

"If the territory is really flooded, isn't it putting the cart before the horse and asking for a dead end? How could Xi Yu be so stupid? ”

"That's not right! If there is a continuous torrential rainstorm upstream, even if the waterline does not rise, the speed of the water will change somewhat. ”

Yu Ban shook his head, the current situation is not normal.

Although Xiahou Chun's words are also somewhat reasonable, judging from his understanding of Xi Yu, he must not be an ordinary person.

In addition, the rain has been going on upstream for a long time, and if there were only three or five days of heavy rain, I would not be so nervous, but the problem is that I haven't seen the sun rise for a few days in August.

This means that the rain is almost uninterrupted.

In such a situation, it is presumably that some places upstream have been flooded by the river, and the downstream river should also be flooded, and there may be some floating corpses or grain and grass in it.

But right now, there are not even a single weed on the river, the waterline is the same as usual, and even the current is quite slow, which is obviously wrong.

"But General, you see that the water flow is quite gentle, which is not surprising if it is placed in normal times, but after the rainstorm, it is very likely that the upstream water is blocked."

"Even ······ Hoarded! ”

"General, I think that we should be careful, if we can send someone upstream to investigate, it would be great, if something really goes wrong, don't say that the crops are not harvested, I am afraid that we will be deeply affected by floods!"

"I suggest that the army should be ordered to establish a defensive line on both sides of the river in advance, and at the same time send people to evacuate the people, and it is best to gather all the people around the river into Puyang City, and then come back to harvest grain and grass after the rainy season is over!"

"It can't be!"

Listening to the other party's words, Xiahou Chun shook his head decisively, in fact, he also understood the hidden dangers, but ······ For now, it's hard to do.

"Do you know how much grain and grass have been spent over the years to govern the people? Now if we can't grab the harvest, I'm afraid that we can only reach out to Yecheng to ask for food, but no matter where we are, everyone's life is not easy, especially the grain and grass are quite scarce. ”

"Under such circumstances, it is difficult to feed the tens of thousands of troops guarding in Dongjun, let alone be fed, and even the soldiers on the front line can't eat enough, how can they fight?"

(End of chapter)