In the winter of the fourth year of Jian'an, Hedong County, a night of north wind swept, heavy snow flew. In the early morning, mountains were covered with silver and the river was frozen for thousands of miles.

In recent years, the famous Hedong City has also been covered with a thick white dress, with streets and alleys and towers and houses intertwined, making the white dress layered and staggered, particularly beautiful. The sound of reading aloud in the morning makes the city exude a strong aroma of books. The guards in the city, who are holding sharp guards, have added a bit of majesty to the city.

In Hedong City, the former General's Mansion had been changed to the Duke of Jin. In the Duke of Jin, Zhang Liao took his two sons and his personal guards to sweep the snow together in the morning. He practiced martial arts for another half an hour and sweated heavily before washing up. He returned to the study to read documents and information.

This year's winter is already cold, with ice and snow flying all night, and the early morning is even more cold. Fortunately, the study has a wall and floor heating designed by Zhang Liao, which is very warm inside like spring.

After Zhang Liao returned from the Western Regions, he did not return to Hedong directly, but stayed in Guanzhong for more than a month, dealing with Guanliang affairs, and did not return to Hedong until half a month ago.

The war in the northern border ended before the beginning of winter. After being defeated by Gao Shun and Zhao Yun in Liucheng of Wuhuan and the Xianbei royal court, three armies swept across the remaining tribes of the northern tribes, seized a large number of cattle and sheep, and captured tens of thousands of Xianbei and Wuhuan people. The rising Xianbei was directly broken, and the vitality of the northern tribes was greatly damaged and it was difficult to recover in decades.

Zhang Liao had just returned to Guanzhong from the Western Regions. After receiving the news of the Northern Xinjiang, he was overjoyed and went straight to the back hall to hold the girls and proclaim their mistresses in the daytime, which made the girls unbearable. He didn't know why his husband was so excited, but he didn't know that Zhang Liao had achieved the most important goal of coming to this era and pacify the northern border. I believe that after this battle, the Hu disaster of the Five Barbarians invading China would not appear again.

Then under the order of Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun and other troops entered the rest period, while the officials of various prefectures and counties became busy. Not only did they build ten cities in the north, set up three major protectors in Yanbei, Jibei and Liaodong, but there were also hundreds of thousands of Xianbei and Wuhuan people moving into Guanzhong, Hebei and even Luoyang, which had a severe population shortage. Zhang Liao wanted to hand over this inevitable national integration to the Han people to dominate, rather than to complete the barbaric invasion and killing of nomadic peoples.

While saving tea, Zhang Liao read the documents. On the table next to him, a girl in a green dress with a flying fairy bun was lowering her head to sort out the documents and information. Her slender hands were extremely neat. Sometimes she looked up at Zhang Liao, revealing her beautiful and gentle face. Her bright eyes were particularly pure and lively, just like a lotus emerged from clear water. She was Cai Yan's sister Cai Ying, the cute little girl Zhang Liao met on Hongnong Road. Seven years later, she is now graceful. Although she is still a girl, she already has the temperament of her sister.

After reading a document, Zhang Liao picked up a pen and made a reply, put it on the right side of the desk. He was about to pick up another document to read it, a familiar fragrance came. He looked up and saw Cai Ying coming to him at some point. He handed over a document and whispered, "Brother, this is the information from Guandong."

Zhang Liao nodded, turned around and read carefully, and in a moment, a strange expression appeared on his face.

Cai Ying kept staring at Zhang Liao secretly, and noticed that he looked strange, and couldn't help asking: "Brother, what happened to Guandong?"

Zhang Liao put the intelligence on the desk and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "Yuan Zhi and Xiaozhi sang the play in Guandong is getting more and more exciting. The court is divided. Fengxian and Cao Cao failed in the battle. My righteous brother and Yu Du took the emperor to Jingzhou. Sun Quan was also ready to move. The southeast half is getting more and more lively."

In fact, Zhang Liao knew a little about Fa Zheng and Xu Shu and others when they were planning to plot against Guandong as early as the Western Regions. Since his expedition to the Western Regions, generals such as Gao Shun and Zhao Yun led the main force of the Jin army to fight against the northern border. Fa Zheng, Xu Shu and Sima Yi and Hedong Academy students concluded during the debate that the internal forces of the Kanto court were intertwined and difficult to integrate. If they lost the threat of being close to each other, they would inevitably have internal strife.

Therefore, Fa Zheng and Xu Shu had already arrived in Kanto to wait for the opportunity. While contacting Lu Bu and gaining Lu Bu's trust, they mobilized some shadows to quietly monitor Ren Cheng within their authority, with the focus on Cao Cao's movements. As expected, not long after, Cao Cao couldn't help but take action and sent Cao Ren and Yu Jin two generals to the mountains to attack the bandits. In fact, they secretly took a detour into Xuzhou.

As soon as Cao Cao made a move, Fa Zheng and Xu Shu immediately offered Lu Bu a general's plan to behead the Hongmen Banquet.

Xu Shu was quite kind, but Fa Zheng advocated concealing from Lu Bu that Cao Cao had secretly sent Cao Ren to attack Xuzhou, and proposed two attacks to attack Lu Bu Mingli, asking Lu Bu to lead 800 elite troops to enter Rencheng from the south to attract Cao Cao's attention. In secret, he sent Wei Xu. Song Xian led his main force out in full swing, walked at night and hiked during the day, and detoured from the north of Lu State, raided Rencheng, leaving only Cao Bao to guard Xuzhou.

If Cao Ren and Yu Jin did not lead the elites to attack Xuzhou secretly, Fa Zheng would undoubtedly give Lu Bu a clever plan. If Cao Ren and Yu Jin did not lead the elites to attack Xuzhou secretly, Cao Cao would not be afraid of Lu Bu's attacks from both sides. But the fact is that Cao Ren and Yu Jin led the elites to attack Xuzhou, and Yanzhou was relatively empty. Lu Bu's main force took a detour to attack Yanzhou, and Xuzhou was empty. So Cao Cao and Lu Bu were both tragic. Fa Zheng, Xu Shu and other groups of strategists were fooled by their intentions and had no intentions, and they both cheated Cao Cao and Lu Bu.

At the Hongmen Banquet in Linsitai, Lu Bu failed to kill Cao Cao on the spot, and was fled into the city by Cao Cao. Both sides fought outside the city gate. Cao Cao was skilled in training troops, and Le Jin and Cao Chun who were desperate to take death, were as good as Lu Bu's attack. Then, Cao Cao was furious and mobilized his troops to launch a fierce attack on Lu Bu's 800 cavalry, and sent a secret letter to Cao Ren, Yu Jin, and ordered the two to attack Xuzhou immediately and take down Lu Bu and Xuzhou. However, unexpectedly, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and two generals under Lu Bu's command, led a large army suddenly from the northeast, with tens of thousands of troops. At the same time, there was a split within the Guandong court. Yu Du, who had been suppressed by Cao Cao, raised an army to support Lu Bu under Xu Shu's lobbying, while Liu Bei raised a heavy army to protect the emperor. For a time, Rencheng was in chaos and all sides fought endlessly.

At this time, the information on the Zhang Liao case platform was the sixth piece of information from Guandong. The Rencheng chaos has been around for nearly two months since the autumn.

In the past two months, Cao Cao was first attacked by Lu Bu and Yu Du, and had to withdraw from Rencheng until Li Dian's hometown Juye, and rebuilt the defense line. When Lu Bu occupied Rencheng and was chasing Cao Cao hard, news came from the rear that Yu Jin, the general of Cao Cao who sneaked into Xuzhou, captured Xia Pi. Cao Ren defeated Cao Bao, captured Tancheng, and killed countless people. Xuzhou had completely fallen into Cao Cao's hands. Lu Bu was shocked and hurried back to the army, but was ambushed Yu Kangfu's important road by Yu Jin, who rescued Cao Cao, and his troops were severely damaged. Cao Cao attacked decisively and defeated Lu Bu again. More than half of Lu Bu's troops were damaged, and he had to withdraw from Rencheng. He was captured by Cao Ren and had nowhere to go, so he could only escape north into Lu.

During the Rencheng melee, Yu Du saw that Lu Bu had failed, so he turned to join forces with Liu Bei, who had been holding the army, and took advantage of the fierce battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu, and took the emperor to the south to surrender to Liu Biao in Jingzhou. When Cao Cao came to his senses, the emperor had left Rencheng, so Cao Cao could only fight Lu Bu first and appease Xuzhou.

During these two months, Zhang Liao quietly watched the situation in Hedong. He did not expect that the changes in the situation in Guandong were beneficial to him. Of course, he also contributed to the fire at the critical moment, just like Liu Bei, who took the emperor to join Liu Biao in Jingzhou and had to pass through Yuzhou. If Zhang Liao had not secretly approved, how could they pass safely?

Perhaps Liu Bei believed that Zhang Liao was still afraid of the emperor and did not dare to take advantage of the world's tyranny, but in fact, Zhang Liao just felt that it was time to deal with Jingzhou. Liu Biao lived in Jingzhou for a long time and was already in harmony with Zhang Liao. Although Zhang Liao built his son Zhao Wu, it was not enough. For example, today Zi and Liu Bei were going to Jingzhou, which was exactly what Zhang Liao wanted to do, so he needed Jingzhou to move.
Chapter completed!