As for the remaining brothers...he will definitely avenge them!

Speaking of which, the reason why he was able to bring most of his brothers back was thanks to his lord's intense training.

If everyone had not maintained a very high level of training and strong martial arts skills, they would have been completely annihilated under the heavy siege of tens of thousands of troops.

Any breakthrough is just a dream...

While the black and white knights were training, Cao Pi did not go as Xi Yu expected, but he took action within three or four days.

A very talented notice written by his younger brother Cao Zhi described Xiyu as like a wild mountain. Not only was he of low status, but he was also ungrateful. He gained the power of the Cao family and opposed the Cao family. He snatched the emperor and ignored the power of the Han Dynasty...

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The notice contained thousands of words in a eloquent manner. Although the words were not dirty, they described Xi Yu as a petty thug who repaid kindness with hatred, could not be reused, and was a thief.

This notice calling Xi Yu a villain for the ages was spread throughout the world in just ten days, reaching as far north as remote nomadic peoples and as far south as Jingzhou and Jiangdong.

Even the Yelang people who live in a small area have heard some rumors.

However, four or five days later, nearly a thousand Confucian scholars from Qingxu and Xuzhou issued a joint statement, scolding the Cao family, saying that they were shameless and shameless, and that they clearly wanted to usurp the Han Dynasty, but they turned their backs on them.

Push the basin onto someone else's body.

Because it was a joint message, it spread faster than Cao Pi's notice, and many of them copied it and spread it further along the trade routes.

In just a few days, the news reached the ears of people from southern barbarians and northern barbarians. Not only that, this joint statement even had a faint tendency to spread overseas!

Among the Wuhuan tribe in the far north, a Central Plains man named Yuan who was struggling to survive here couldn't help but smile so happily after seeing the fight between Cao Pi and Xi Yu.

To this end, he even used his few assets to treat the leaders of the Wuhuan tribe to several drinks.

As the fourth generation and third prince, he has long since lost the courage to go south to compete with others, and now he has no choice but to live here as a nomadic merchant on horseback, trying to survive.

It's just that...most of the goods that allow him to make a living come from Xiyu's trading firm...

Behind this scolding battle, Xi Yu also began to make secret plans again.

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

A two-sided pincer attack took only one night. While marching in a hurry, the two armies also captured Pei County and Taishan County.

The leader of this battle was Gao Shun. Like Xi Yu, he was once a member of Cao Cao's guard.

Seeing that the war was going smoothly, 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 military plans, Xi Yu also asked the emperor to write an edict, urging the people around him to surrender to the Han and oppose Cao's army and many other traitors.

Because of the emperor's edict, it was not too difficult for many people to switch sides.

Soon, the people in the surrounding counties all surrendered to Xi Yu and the emperor. Not only did Cao Pi's plan fail, he also suffered the consequences.

Before you know it, spring plowing has arrived.

I have to admit here that Xi Yu always timed the start of the war just right.

It is either harvesting in autumn or plowing in spring. This is completely pressing the enemy to the ground and rubbing it.

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

Not to mention anything else, the level of farming tools alone is extremely polarizing.

With Xiyu, although the farming tools in Qingxu and Qingxu are not as good as those of later generations, they are still far from what other places can match at the moment.

Therefore, if the people living in these two places want to open up wasteland and farm, they only need to bring farm tools and work hard as a family for a few days.

The same goes for growing food.

In addition, after the people have finished sowing, Xi Yu will also order people to open granaries and release grain, so as to win people's hearts by offering more rewards for more work.

Especially those refugees and refugees who first came to settle here have now become attentive families in the city, and they don't have to pay too much attention when tending the crops.

This is also the main reason why Xi Yu ordered local officials to include their names in the list of hundreds of local names.

In addition, he also built many residential houses in the original wilderness areas for homeless people to live here.

This statement is true in a world dominated by those who win the hearts of the people.

Xi Yu's ability to build Qingxu into his most solid rear area in a very short period of time through his own management has a lot to do with winning the trust and support of these people.

Now Taishan County and Peixian County are also in his hands. According to past habits, he directly followed the original model and gathered the people from these two places.

Especially Taishan County, which originally had high mountains and dense forests, dangerous and complex terrain, and many gangsters' homes, was quickly pacified by him.

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

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

Speaking of which, since he made several achievements, he has already become the commander-in-chief of Xiyu's Western Front Expedition. He no longer has to accept orders from anyone except Zhao Zilong.

After Peixian and Taishan counties were completely stabilized, Xiyu, the Duke of Sheng, was successfully granted the title of Duke of Yonghan by the emperor, with his capital in Qingzhou, and his country's title of Qi.

At this time, he can basically be regarded as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, a person who is inferior to one person and superior to tens of thousands of people.

Not to mention his position and ministers, he was also called uncle by the emperor. In this way, he was comparable to the original Cao Cao. He was even... far more powerful and exaggerated than Cao Cao in terms of military and popular support.

No one in the whole country objected to these announcements made by the emperor, and the vast majority of them even clapped their hands and applauded.

This shows how popular he is, and there is almost no need to go through the process.

The emperor also nodded immediately without any hesitation whenever someone suggested to him that he should be promoted to the official position of Xiyu.

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

It was precisely in this way that the people in the newly captured cities believed that he was working for the Han Dynasty and recovering the Han Dynasty for the emperor. He was not at all the ungrateful villain Cao Pi said.

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

First, in the name of several academicians of the Design Academy, many strong men were recruited into the "construction team" of urban construction to prepare for the construction of brand new residences.

Then we recruited thousands of young students from various schools in their teens to twenties to help design the house model.

Finally, they used grain and grass as a lure to build a large number of farmhouses for people to live in. At the same time, all the residences were designed to be of the same scale and size, which not only allowed enough people to have a shelter from wind and rain, but also expanded the territory through the hearts of the people.

Create a brand new county in Taishan County, and plan fields for every farm family, even wasteland is no exception.

In addition, Xi Yu also made a rough estimate that under the circumstances of tax reduction and exemption, and with the help of Qingxu and Qingxu, if this place can achieve self-sufficiency and everyone has a surplus of food, it will take at least three steps.

Years long.

In order to make this place gradually prosperous, he stopped attacking again.

Because if you can't defend it even if you capture it, then why bother fighting?

How could a territory as big as Yanzhou be covered overnight?

Instead of attacking blindly, it is better to attack steadily. At least he will consider the possibility of continuing the attack after Taishan County has been transformed into a place that can accommodate 500,000 or even millions of people and its development level can keep up with Qingxu.

Therefore, even if Peixian and Taishan counties are obtained now, he will only order people to focus on the policy of external defense and internal encouragement, and try his best to build this place into another iron wall like Qingxu.

In addition, he 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 seems to be no clear ownership. It was like this when Cao Cao was here. Sometimes it was under Xiyu to garrison troops, and sometimes it was under Cao Ren's guarding. It was barely anyone who could take care of it, but no one cared much about it.

special zone.

When the people sent by Xi Yu arrived, almost all the people in Shouzhang from Mount Tai to Dongping who heard the news opened their doors and went to greet him.

This frightened the soldiers and horses of Dongjun, and they hurriedly gathered towards Jizhou, and then began to station a large number of troops in Puyang, trying to resist Zhang Liao's branch.

However, there is currently no capable coach in Puyang. As for Xia Houchun, who is in Yecheng, Wei County, it will take more than half a month to lead an army here. However, Zhang Liao has already been waiting here with an army of 100,000 people.

For a long time, he was eager to face Dongjun.

With them here, Xia Houchun just wanted to rush to Puyang, but he was afraid that Cao Pi would not agree.

If he really sent troops to Puyang, he was afraid that the situation where the two sides had stopped fighting would be broken again. Therefore, he never gave the order, and Cao Wei's army did not dare to take any drastic action.

Therefore, due to their inaction, the people living in Yanzhou gradually became shaken, especially in the northeastern part. Most people directly submitted without Xiyu thinking of a way.

Bao Xin, the Prime Minister of Jibei, originally thought that he would die alone and disabled here, but who would have thought that this place would be easily taken over by Xi Yu.

The Bao family naturally followed the trend and served as some of the local officials here for Xi Yu's use. In this way, they could be regarded as submitting to the emperor's orthodoxy.

During spring plowing, there should be no troops. This is almost a customary rule of the entire era.

Naturally, Xi Yu would not break it. After all, even if his Qingxu land was extremely rich, he still knew the importance of food.

Therefore, Xi Yu, who planned to settle accounts after the fall, ordered the generals and soldiers in Qing and Xu to drill day and night, just to maintain the best fighting condition.

At the same time, he also ordered the caravans to stop developing trade in the west and only transport up and down the longitudinal line. Some people went north and some went south, so that the cities along the way in both directions gradually developed and became prosperous.

Quite a few.

This was the main purpose of his initial insistence on establishing a caravan, because each city has its own unique specialties.

There may be a small area of ​​grain cultivation in a certain place, but rich mineral resources. At this time, the value of the caravan is reflected. Exchanging grain and grass for local specialties not only satisfies the stomachs of the local people, but also enriches one's own mineral resources.

For example, some defensive cities that lack military equipment can also be exchanged for minerals, food, gold, silver, and silk.

You know, there are quite a few military equipment that have been eliminated from the Qingxu area, such as single-handed long crossbows, two-person cooperative large repeating crossbows, slings... everything.

To Xi Yu, these things were discarded scrap metal, but to the defenders elsewhere, they were treasures.
To be continued...