After the young emperor returned to Luoyang, in order to commemorate this grand event, he decided to change the reign of the first year of Xingping in 194 AD, and also issued an edict to amnesty the world.

What the little emperor didn't know was that because of his general amnesty, a criminal who fled from Yingchuan to Xiangyang was pardoned for his sins, so he was able to learn from his fellow villager Sima Hui. His original surname was Xu, his name was Shu, and his name was Yuanzhi, and his previous pseudonym was Shan Fu.

Time flies very quickly. In a blink of an eye, it was the summer of the first year of Xingping. When Pei Qing took Cai Zhaoji and Dong Bai as concubines, a big incident happened in Xuzhou. A person died there. In fact, it was not a big deal to die in that era, but the problem was that the person who died was named Cao Song, and Cao Song had a son named Cao Cao!

It turned out that after Cao Cao and Chenliu rose up, Cao Song fled to the Langya Kingdom of Xuzhou to avoid disaster. Later, although Tao Qian formed an alliance with Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were allies, and the two brothers were in conflict, which led to conflicts between the two major groups of Cao Cao and Tao Qian. However, Tao Qian had never moved Cao Song, and there was no direct military conflict with Cao Cao. Although Tao Qian had certain ambitions, he just wanted to monopolize Xuzhou. Therefore, even if he formed an alliance with Yuan Shu for self-protection, he never participated in the melee between the heroes. On the contrary, he was quite polite to Cao Song.

However, after Cao Cao pacified Yanzhou and Lu Bu fled to Xuzhou, the situation changed. It would be unsafe for Cao Song to live here again. After all, there was a deep grudge between Lu Bu and his son, so when he learned that Lu Bu was taken in by Tao Qian and appointed as the Prime Minister of Langya, Cao Song was completely panicked. He lived in Langya, while Lu Bu was the Prime Minister of Langya, which was simply a dead end.

Fortunately, Lu Bu's first thing after taking office was to go to Chang'an to pick up his family. Cao Song decided to take this opportunity to leave Xuzhou, go to Yanzhou, and then go straight to Luoyang.

But after all, this is Tao Qian's territory, and Cao Song must obtain Tao Qian's consent if he wants to leave, so he personally wrote to Tao Qian to explain the matter.

Tao Qian understood this very well and immediately ordered his general Zhang Kai to lead 200 cavalrymen to escort Cao Song out of the country. After all, Cao Cao is at its peak in the court, and his power is close to him, so there is no need to offend him.

However, what is unexpected is that Tao Qian used the wrong person this time. History has proved that Tao Qian is a relatively kind person, but he is not very good at using people. The most typical ones are Zhang Kai and Zuo Rong. One of these two brought him a huge disaster, while the other took advantage of the situation, which made Xuzhou, which was already in a serious disaster, even worse.

Zhang Kai was originally a thief general. During the process of being ordered to escort Cao Song, he saw that Cao Song had a lot of money and property, so he became malicious and killed Cao Song's whole family, including Cao Song, his wives and concubines, his youngest son Cao De and others.

After killing Cao Song, Zhang Kai knew that he had caused trouble and could not stay in Xuzhou at all, so he quickly fled from Xuzhou and went to Huainan to join Yuan Shu.

Now Yuan Shu has occupied the entire Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, forcing Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou sent by the court, to Qu'a to take office. However, even Danyang County where Qu'a is located, was almost defeated by Sun Ce. At the same time, Sun Ce sent his adviser Yu Fan to persuade the new Yuzhang prefect Hua Xin to surrender. Therefore, Yuan Shu has occupied nearly four counties, with more than 100,000 troops under his command, and there are also powerful generals like Sun Ce who are minions. His current strength has exceeded his heyday.

However, since he was hit hard by Xu Rong, the prefect of Nanyang under Pei Qing, who was under Pei Qing's command, when he was attacking Nanyang, Yuan Shu has almost lost the idea of ​​fighting with Pei Qing. Instead, he took advantage of the hatred between Sun Ce and Liu Biao to successfully incite Sun Ce to lead his army to launch a fierce attack on Liu Biao's Jiangxia.

Although the two sides are evenly matched, it is conceivable that Yuan Shu's strength is now strong. In this world, only Yuan Shu can ensure Zhang Kai's safety.

Tao Qian almost fainted after hearing the news. He quickly wrote a letter to Cao Cao, explaining the story in detail, and ordered people to send Cao Song's family's body to Luoyang.

曹操满心欢喜的期盼着父亲能够回到洛阳,毕竟曹嵩当年曾经做过司隶校尉,曹嵩的养父曹腾更是名震天下的大宦官,虽然现在曹腾已死,可现在的曹氏也算是历代簪缨,在朝廷中有着深厚的人脉,一旦曹嵩能够到达洛阳,必然会对曹操更加有利.

But he never expected that what Cao Cao looked forward to was his father's body.

In fact, when he heard that Cao Song was about to leave Xuzhou, Cao Cao sent people to greet him. He sent Mount Tai Prefect Ying Shao to lead his army to welcome him. However, Ying Shao waited for only the news of Cao Song's death.

Ying Shao, who was shocked, was afraid of being punished by Cao Cao, so he immediately fled to Yuan Shao, Jizhou to avoid disaster.

Cao Cao was distraught when he heard the news. He immediately ordered the envoy Tao Qian who was escorting the body to be killed on the spot, and gritted his teeth and announced: "Old thief Tao Qian, how dare he harm my father, I will be incompatible with him!"

Cao Cao actually blamed Tao Qian for all the crimes and said that Tao Qian had deliberately wanted to murder his father in order to win over Lu Bu, otherwise why would he have appointed Lu Bu as the prime minister of Langya? Where is the result of Xia Pi, Donghai, Guangling and other places? He appointed Lu Bu in Langya? What is the relationship between Lu Bu and himself? Tao Qian would not be unclear, but he still did this, and his intention was obvious.

In fact, since I heard that Lu Bu fled to Xuzhou, Cao Cao was already very dissatisfied. However, his father was in Xuzhou at that time, and he did not dare to act rashly, so he could only send someone to persuade his father to come back and find a way to deal with Tao Qian after Cao Song came back.

Now Cao Song's death made him catch the excuse and immediately ordered the creation of white flags and white armor, and the three armies were filial. Then he personally led his army to conquer Tao Qian. This time he would definitely kill Xuzhou and avenge his father!

"But lord, once you leave Luoyang, Dong Cheng will definitely take the opportunity to strengthen his influence in the court. If he makes other moves, the lord may never be able to return to Luoyang in the future."

When Cao Cao decided to lead his army to fight, Cao Ren, who was responsible for staying in Luoyang, said to him with great concern.
Chapter completed!