Chapter 256

In the 10th year of the early Han Dynasty, Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, formally went to the eastern County of Yanzhou and changed the name to Xingping, that is, the year 2000 was the first year of Xingping. Dong min was removed from the post of prime minister, and Cao Cao was promoted to be Prime Minister of Han Dynasty. He was also granted the title of marquis Wei and Marquis Wu. Sun Jian was appointed as the grand Sima, ranking the third Duke. And there's amnesty.

The emperor of the Han Dynasty escaped from the clutches of Dong min, which greatly boosted the morale of the civil servants and military generals who were interested in the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao, who welcomed the emperor, became a vassal next to Sun Jian of the eastern Wu Dynasty. All the people with lofty ideals in the north also turned to Cao Cao. Cao Cao set up a recruiting officer in the counties under his jurisdiction, and hung up a sign, which said, "the people in the world are only capable." It also attracted many poor people to join in, and pushed the fame of Cao Cao to a climax again.

As the saying goes, a few people are happy and others are worried. Cao Cao is successful, but some people are not happy. First of all, it is Gongsun Zan of Youzhou. Two years later, the battle of Youzhou ended with Gongsun Zan's failure. However, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were determined to revenge, did not waste their victory again and successfully forced Gongsun Zan to Fan Yang, the capital of Youzhou. In the absence of foreign reinforcements and the destruction of the city, Gongsun Zan finally chose the same ending as in history. He killed his wife and children, and then set fire to the building and committed suicide.

As for the mysterious regiment, which was once a flash in the pan in Youzhou before and under the banner of Liu Yu, disappeared quietly when the war between Daijun and Gongsun Zan became complicated because of Cao's intervention. As the winner of the war, Cao Cao seems to have forgotten this army, as if there had never been such an army.

Gongsun Zan became the stepping stone of Cao Cao's fame and disappeared forever in the long history. Dong min, another victim of Cao Cao's power, had a hard time. Since the loss of the barrier of Han Emperor, Dong Min has been in danger in Chang'an. However, the generals Li Min and Guo Si killed ministers without authorization and caused great disaster to Dong min. If these two men had not some prestige in the Xiliang army, Dong min would have killed them to vent their anger. The betrayal of Bingzhou army and Yang Feng made Dong min distrust his subordinates. I'm afraid that Dong Rong's first object of suspicion would not have been Xu Min's first object of suspicion.

It can be said that since the Han Dynasty fled to the East, Chang'an and even the whole Yongzhou have been shrouded in an atmosphere of terror. From time to time, generals were dragged out of their houses and beheaded. In Chang'an City, people are in danger. Even Li Ru, a military division of the Xiliang army, is cautious, and his daily life is very low-key. Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, because of the relationship between Zhang Xiu and Jiangdong General Chen Ren, were stripped off by Dong min for a long time, and were sent to the niufu tent in Xiliang as generals.

Dong min himself has gradually become cruel, even more so than his brother Dong Zhuo. In the eyes of Yongzhou people, Dong Min has become a devil climbing up from the underworld. Some people even use Dong min's name as a way to frighten their crying children. In short, the foundation of Dong Zhuo has become precarious, and there is a danger that the building will collapse at any time.

In the eastern Wu Dynasty, Sun Jian, who had just led troops to seize Jiaozhou, returned to Jianye with his army at a time when everyone thought he would seize Yizhou. Of course, only a few people in Jiangdong new army knew that it was because of receiving an urgent secret letter from Jianye that Sun Jian gave up his plan to seize Yizhou and returned to Jianye.

In Jianye city of Eastern Wu, Chen Ren was riding a horse on his way to the Marquis Wu's residence. He could not help feeling a headache when he thought of what happened during this period of time.

On that day, Chen Ren and Xun Yu discussed for a long time in Chen's residence, but they couldn't come up with a proper method. Chen Ren proposed that sun ce of Xuzhou should increase the pressure on Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and Cao Cao would not dare to increase his troops. However, this was just a drop in the bucket. Chen Ren also had to recruit messengers from the snake ministry to send the information to Sun Jian.

During this period of waiting for Sun Jian, Chen Ren didn't do anything. The problems brought about by sun must be solved as soon as possible, especially now there is such a thing. Chen Ren quickly issued an order to restore Baobao, the governor of Yuzhang, and asked Bao Bao to take Yuzhang's soldiers to inspect Yangzhou and Yuzhou. Zhuge Jin, the brother of Zhuge Liang, took the post of prefect of Yuzhang.

Bao Bao made a tour of Yangzhou and Yuzhou. Fortunately, things did not develop to the level Chen Ren worried about. Because of sun Bi's reason, Yangzhou Shouchun did have some complaints, but Sun Jing still conscientiously maintained Yangzhou's government affairs. After knowing what sun did, Sun Jing personally went to Jianye to plead with Chen Ren. Sun Xuan did not know Chen Ren's position in Sun Jian's mind, but Sun Jing was very clear. In the face of Sun Jing, Chen Ren changed sun's prison into house arrest. Although the same person is not free, but at least better than in a dark prison. As for the punishment in the future, let's wait for Sun Jian to come back and make a decision according to the big Wu family.

As for Yuzhou, there is no problem. Wu Jing, who is in charge of the government affairs of Yuzhou, is Sun Jian's brother-in-law, and he is an official family. He has some experience in dealing with government affairs. However, Wu Jing was very unconvinced by Chen Ren, who was born in a poor family. So he sent someone to contact the little Wu family and secretly tried to get Chen Ren down. Then he took advantage of his status as Sun Jian's brother-in-law. Chen Ren couldn't help crying and laughing when he learned of this situation. This kind of typical infighting between aristocratic families actually happened to him. However, Chen Ren did not deal with this matter. Instead, he sorted out all the data and handed it to the big Wu family. As for how the big Wu family handled it, we should wait until Sun Jian came back.However, the great Wu family did not show any partiality. After Sun Jian received Chen Ren's secret letter, he went back to Jianye day and night. After a night's rest in the government, Sun Jian issued an order the next day to demote the eldest son of Sun Jing into a common people, to drive out the sun family, and to send him to Nanyue to open up wasteland. Sun Jing was also called back by Sun Jian because he had no way to teach his son. His official position was also lowered several grades. Wu Jing was also recalled to Jianye by Sun Jian, but he was not as lucky as Sun Jing. As soon as he returned to Jianye, he was ordered by Sun Jian to be put into prison for reflection. As for the little Wu family, although the big Wu family asked Sun Jian to terminate her, Sun Jian also saw that the big Wu family was really in love with her sister. Moreover, the little Wu family also gave birth to a son and a daughter, so Sun Jian still ordered that the little Wu family be put under house arrest in the government, and she would not be allowed to contact other people.

After this series of actions, Chen Ren's prestige in Soochow has been improved once again. Sun Jian's brother-in-law and nephew's son-in-law have all opened their swords for Chen Ren's sake, and even nearly divorced his wife. Sun Jian's brother-in-law is still in prison. All the ministers of the eastern Wu understood once again that no one could control Sun Jian's trust in Chen Ren.

However, these things are small things. Sun Jian's main purpose of returning to Jianye was to solve the war in Youzhou. However, before Sun Jian and Chen Ren and other advisers came up with a solution, a news that surprised Sun Jian and others was that Zu Mao led a 400000 army to join up with huanggai's water army, and had already crossed Qingzhou and arrived in Xuzhou in huanggai's boat.

It was Pang Tong's plan to land in Xuzhou rather than go back to Jianye by boat. Later, according to Pang Tong, although it seems that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei sent troops ahead of time to prevent Gongsun Zan from dying in their hands, they let zumao retreat safely with the army. But those who can make this plan will never leave such a big flaw and let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead the army. Nine times out of ten, it's to find out the route. So when they were in Youzhou, they didn't go directly to the coast agreed with huanggai. Instead, they took a very big turn. They even made a special turn to the southwest of Youzhou, and then they suddenly turned back to the coast.

However, if he went back to Jianye directly, I'm afraid Cao Jun would have guessed that they were going by water. So Pang Tong offered to land in Xuzhou and make a new appearance of escaping from Qingzhou to hide Cao's army. After all, the road from the sea is likely to become a key to victory in the battle between the eastern Wu and Cao troops in the future!

After understanding the whole incident through military information, Chen Ren immediately fell into a deep thought. With the analysis of Xunzi, Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu, Chen Ren quickly guessed Cao Jun's intention. It was obvious that these top-ranking Eastern Wu counsellors were fooled by others. The one who can offer such a strategy for Cao Cao is definitely not Tian Feng and juxu who were dug from Yuan Shao before! Chen Ren could not help but think of a person's style. Therefore, Chen Ren immediately asked Cheng Yu to arrange for him to immediately find out who the counsellor was now advising Cao Cao. If it is really the person Chen Ren thought of, then Chen Ren and others before the Cao Cao designated a series of plans will be overturned!

In these days, Chen Ren is still waiting for the reply from the snake ministry, and the army led by zumao has returned to Jianye a few days ago. The few people who went to the expedition were not in any serious trouble. Only Gan Ning had a fight with Zhang Fei when he broke through from Daijun county and was seriously injured. However, due to the timely treatment, there was no danger to his life. He needed to be recuperated for a period of time and was able to bounce around again.

Chen Ren, sitting on his horse's back, could not help smiling when he remembered that when he visited Ganning the day before yesterday, Gan Ning was still obsessed with begging for wine from Chen Ren. Looking up, Chen Ren was suddenly stunned. He immediately grabbed the dark clouds under his seat and stepped on the snow. Looking at the scene in front of him, he could not help thinking of question marks.