After Yuan Shu died, everyone buried him in a hurry and then dispersed. Yan Xiang and Yang Hong returned to their hometown and did not care about political affairs since then. His companion Yuan Yin took Yuan Shu's family to the youngest family and were neither willing to defect to Cao Cao nor Liu Bei. Later, because he was an old acquaintance with Yuan Huan, the prefect of Lujiang, he went to join him.

Yuan Huan took Yuan Yin and Yuan Shu's family and sent them to Moling. Zhou Yu properly resettled him and appointed Yuan Yin as the governor of Kuaiji County to assist the prefect Yu Fan in managing Kuaiji County. Later, Yuan Shu's son Yuan Yao became a Langguan under Zhou Yu's hands, so this is something that will not be mentioned later.

Although Yuan Shu was unkind, his family lived a peaceful and stable life after his death, and Zhou Yu's kindness was praised by the world. Some of Yuan Shu's old subordinates also crossed the river to join Zhou Yu when they heard about this. Zhou Yu's strength was growing.

After Yuan Shu died, no one found his most cherished imperial seal. It turned out that when Yuan Shu left Runan and burned his official residence, Xu Yu, the prefect of Runan, took advantage of the chaos to find the imperial seal and buried it secretly. Yuan Shu was in a hurry when he left, but he did not realize that the imperial seal was not around. When he found that the team had already walked a long way, he had to give up.

After Cao Cao led his army to pacify Runan, Xu Yu presented the imperial seal to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed and loved the jade seal and played with it for a long time. But Cao Cao knew that it was a hot potato. With his current strength, if he hid it, he would be afraid that it would cause trouble, so he sent someone to present the imperial seal to the emperor.

After Cao Pi learned about it, he asked reluctantly: "Father, why don't you hide the jade seal? In the future... it may be useful."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Pi'er, you are young and we can develop our strength to this day. The key is that we hold high the banner of the Han Dynasty, and the people in the world have just returned to our hearts. Privately hiding jade seals is a big deal in the eyes of others, which means that if you want to usurp power and seize the throne, the hearts of people who have finally gathered will be scattered."

Seeing that Cao Pi was still reluctant to let go, Cao Cao enlightened: "Do you really deserve it if you are not famous? Before the time comes, even if you force yourself, it will be a failure, just like Yuan Shu. Once the time comes, even if there is no such object, it will be admired by the world. Please go back and think carefully..."

Yuan Shu was dead, and the news made Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, feel quite uncomfortable. In fact, Liu Biao was still happy if he was missing such a greedy and arrogant person next to Jingzhou. However, there was something that made Liu Biao's heart heavy and he couldn't be happy at all.

At the end of the second year of Jian'an, Zhang Xian, a general under Liu Biao, openly raised the banner of opposing Liu Biao, followed the orders of the Xudu court, and sent people to Xudu to contact Cao Cao, expressing his intention of surrender. Cao Cao was naturally very happy, but because Changsha is located in the southern part of Jingzhou and is still nearly a thousand miles away from Xudu, he was out of reach, so he had to comfort him kindly. In the name of the court, Zhang Xian was officially appointed as the prefect of Changsha, General Zhennan, General Changsha, Lingling, Wuling and Guiyang military affairs.

Cao Cao's appointment was a tower in the air, because Guiyang County was in the hands of Zhou Yu, Wen had the prefect Zhao Fan, Wu had the courageous general Taishi Ci, and Zhang Xian was unable to attack. However, Changsha prefect Han Xuan, Lingling prefect Liu Du, and Wuling prefect Jin Xuan were not vegetarians, and they had more than 10,000 troops under their command, and they could not easily be defeated.

Zhang Xian once served as the county magistrate in Changsha and Lingling, which was quite popular with the people. However, Zhang Xian was a tough and unsatisfied person. Liu Biao was very disliked and was very bad at him. Zhang Xian held a grudge and finally raised the banner of rebellion.

At the beginning, Liu Biao did not take Zhang Xian too seriously. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xian captured five or six county towns in Changsha County without reinforcements, and his army was greatly promoted. Liu Biao sent troops to clear the enemy, but he failed to win. Until this year, Zhang Xian's army became more powerful and he actually captured Linxiang, the county seat of Changsha County. The prefect Han Xuan was defeated and fled back to Xiangyang.

What made Liu Biao even more trouble was that Zhou Yu, who had occupied Jingzhou, Jiangxia and Guiyang counties, took advantage of the reason for Zhang Xian's rebellion and ordered Wang Yue and Taishi Ci to lead their troops to fight, constantly eroding the territory of Jingzhou. Liu Biao did not have the energy to organize large troops to fight back.

After Cao Cao eliminated the threat from Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, he worked hard to prepare his troops. Finally, in September of the third year of Jian'an, he personally led a 30,000 army to fight Zhang Xiu for the third southern expedition. Zhang Xiu was at this time under the protection of Liu Biao, and Nanyang County was also the territory of Jingzhou. Cao Cao's army had a fierce offensive, and Zhang Xiu's army retreated step by step and retreated to Xinye.

Jingzhou is actually in a storm.

Liu Biao urgently recruited Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, Yi Ji and others to the palace for discussion. After several discussions, everyone agreed that the first step of resolute foreign policy was to calm the country. The most urgent thing at the moment was to send a large army to eliminate Zhang Xian's rebellion and recover Changsha County as soon as possible. When Zhang Xian was destroyed, Zhou Yu's two troops would probably not fight with the Jingzhou soldiers at this moment. Then they would return to Nanyang to help Zhang Xiu repel Cao's army.

Liu Biaoranzhi, Zhou Yu and Cao Cao were both the strongest opponents in his life, especially Zhou Yu. In the past two years, he implemented his so-called new policy in Jiangxia and Guiyang counties, which actually won the strong support of the people and the effect was very good. This made Liu Biao, who had always been conceited in politics, always indignant. Needless to say, Cao Cao used the emperor to order his ministers to rule and occupy the highest point of morality. Liu Biao was just dissatisfied and had to look respectful on the surface.

Liu Biao could not call many troops at this moment. Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were all navy troops, and Wenpin's troops still needed to sit in the northern part of Jingzhou to prevent Cao's army from attacking next. Liu Biao turned his gaze to Huang Zu.

At this time, Huang Zu's official position was the prefect of Xiangyang, with 20,000 elite soldiers under his command, which was quite powerful in combat. At present, there were not many wars near Xiangyang, leaving 10,000 troops to guard the death, which was enough to block the attack of Wang Yue's troops.

A few days later, Liu Biao took Huang Zu as the main general and Su Fei as the deputy general. He led 10,000 troops to Xiangyang, plus 10,000 Liu Biao's direct troops to fight to Changsha. There were unexpected situations in the sky, and people had good fortune and fortune. Zhang Xian suddenly fell seriously ill at this moment and could not do it. He soon died of illness in Linxiang City. Zhang Xian's subordinates supported his son Zhang Yi as the leader and led his army to fight Huang Zu.

Huang Zu had been in martial arts for many years and had rich experience. He led heavy troops to confront Zhang Yi head-on, and sent Su Fei to lead a side division to attack Linxiang. Linxiang City was empty in defense and was knocked down by Su Fei. The news came that Zhang Yi was young and had a mess. He hurriedly wanted to lead the army back to take back Linxiang, but was defeated and fled by Huang Zu.

The soldiers were very fast, so Huang Zu led his army to chase him hard. Finally, he captured Zhang Yi on the bank of the Xiangjiang River and beheaded him. After Zhang Yi's death, his subordinates scattered, and Huang Zu successfully took back several counties occupied by him.

I know what happens next, and listen to the next chapter to explain it.
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