Ganling, on the seventh day after Yuan Shao's death, a mighty funeral procession set out from the city of Ganling and headed south.
Xu You and others were all in the team. It was already three days since they left Liu Bei, but the faces of the group of people were still ugly.
For the first time in my life, I was completely looked down upon by someone. In other words, it was no longer looked down upon, but invisible...
This was a huge blow to them. Fortunately, they still had some backup options. Even though they were sure that Liu Bei would sweep the bed and wait for him, they still used it in the end because they were afraid of nothing but just in case.
Fortunately, there was still enough time to give Yuan Shaoban a grand ceremony, and as ministers, they carried the coffin southward, and the righteousness of the emperor and his ministers was also a beautiful story for the ages!
Of course, more importantly, no one will stop them from leaving Jizhou, a place of right and wrong.
It's not that they are afraid of death. If they were other princes, they really wouldn't dare to do anything to them. Even if they go too far, at most they will not die themselves, and they will definitely not harm the family. At this point, Wang
Xuan's reputation is extremely bad, and he often kills people in his family.
Don't talk about going to a barbaric land to educate people. In the eyes of the scholars, the act of sending people directly overseas is no different from the execution of their entire family.
It is precisely because of this notoriety that these people really dare not really break up with Wang Xuan.
Regardless of the fact that their relationship is intricate and their power is huge, they also have more worries. And for people like Wang Xuan, not even Wang Xuan's family can be found in the major aristocratic families, so naturally there is no way to check and balance him.
The whole of Hebei, and even the families in Yanzhou who had received the news, were all paying attention to Yuan Shao's death and wanted to see how Liu Bei planned to deal with it.
There was no stopping, no killing, and the entire Liu Bei force ignored this matter as if it didn't exist at all. This was really unacceptable to the people of these aristocratic families.
The death of Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu, the most powerful prince in the world, could not even be seen by the enemy. It is really a great irony. For the aristocratic family that has merged with the three states of Hebei, this is nothing more than a tragedy.
The huge sap hit them dizzy.
After all, they are far inferior to Yuan Shao.
As for Xu You and the others' visit to Liu Bei, no news came out from Liu Bei. Wang Xuan could ask for such an indifferent treatment, and they themselves were unwilling to expose their predicament to others. Therefore, no one knew at all, even if Qu
Yi and others only knew that Xu You and others had surrendered-Xu You and others came back in despair...
After Xu You and others sent Yuan Shao's body back to Runan, they all turned around and surrendered to Cao Cao.
As for the 50,000-strong army inside the city and Qu Yi and other generals, they were collected by Wang Xuan after the large number of broken troops outside were collected and dealt with.
Wang Xuan didn't pay attention to the things that Qu Yi was worried about. So what if Baima Yicong was completely wiped out? Liu Bei even forgave Li Ru and kept him by his side. Is Gongsun Bogui older than Liu Bei?
As for what to say to Gongsun Zan, Wang Xuan had already thought about it, "Brother Bogui, Na Quyi actually surrendered with his army. I decided to use the trick to trick him and let Brother Bogui kill him personally."
"Brother Bo Gui, don't talk about buying horse bones for a thousand gold, and don't talk about everyone being his own master. I was already very dissatisfied when Duke Xuande forgave Li Ru!"
With Gongsun Bogui's character of attaching great importance to love and righteousness, if he really wanted to pull him to kill Qu Yi, he would not do it. Wang Xuan was very sure of this.
In the end, the entire remaining towns in Hebei, including Yecheng, were decided after Liu Bei stated that he would not embarrass Yuan Shao's family and sent them to their hometown in Runan.
At this point, the battle between Liu and Yuan in the north was settled in less than a month before the people of the world could react and before the princes in remote areas received the news.
Liu Bei annexed the land of the three states, and added his own Qingzhou, half of Xuzhou, Taishan County of Yanzhou, Hanoi and Henan of Sili, and Nanyang County of Jingzhou, making him the veritable number one prince in the world. Half of the Han Dynasty belonged to Liu Bei
in hand.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is half. What we are talking about here is not the size of the geographical area, but the number of population and cultivated land alone. Wang Xuan estimated based on the rough account books reported by various places that it reached about 1300W. You must know that during the Ling Emperor,
Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the entire Han population was about 50 million.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion itself did not cause many casualties. The casualties mainly came from famine caused by drought and the plague caused by a large number of population deaths.
Over a period of twelve years, more than 10 million people died. So far, the country's Han population, excluding the Shanyue Manchus and Qiang people, has a population of only about 3,400.
Therefore, Liu Bei's statement that he is the best prince in the world is indeed worthy of his name.
And all this happened too fast. It took more than 20 days from the unified dispatch of troops to the destruction of Yuan Shao's main force. This gave Cao Cao and others, who expected that both Yuan Shao and Liu Bei would lose, no time to intervene and could only watch.
Under the auspices of Wang Xuan, a successful blitzkrieg was launched to annex the entire Jizhou in one fell swoop.
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Yuzhou, Liang State.
Since Cao Cao occupied half of Xuzhou, and Zhang Ji and others were exposed to secretly defecting to Liu Bei, Cao Cao moved from Chenliu County in Yanzhou. Firstly, it was too far from the newly occupied land, and secondly, it was too close to Zhang Jibingfeng...
Especially after his four generals were severely beaten by Lu Bu last time, Cao Cao paid more and more attention to his own safety.
"I never expected that something like this would happen in the world. The entire three states and more than 20 horizons were occupied. This... is simply too fast!" Cao Cao threw away the information in his hand with a look on his face.
He looked at his important ministers depressedly.
"Lord, this is not necessarily a bad thing." Cheng Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Now it seems that Wang Xuan has a plan for a long time. Looking at its layout, Henan County is adjacent to Chenliu, Nanyang is adjacent to Yingchuan, and Mount Tai has also been laid out.
The entire Yanzhou is enveloped by it, and I highly suspect that its original motive was to harm our army!"
"This person is too cunning. While he continued to show his strength in Qingzhou, he also secretly started to make plans. Now it seems that he has been setting up these secrets for more than two years. Come to think of it, if Yuan Shao hadn't hit him this time,
Once we go up, we may not be exposed yet. Think about it, if one day we suddenly launch a three-sided siege on our army... the consequences would be disastrous!"
After being reminded by Cheng Yu, Cao Cao noticed these things. He couldn't help but shudder and glanced at Xun You. No wonder they failed to win over Zhang Ji and Lu Bu many times before. It turned out that this was the problem.
Cao Cao said with emotion: "Brother Benchu, what a good man!"
Thinking about the last battle in Nanyang, they were standing on the edge of a cliff. If Liu Bei had made a sudden attack at that time, Yuan Shao would probably end up like him and Cao now.