Chapter 640    Each has its own plans (51)

After Tao Qian fell ill, in order to allow Liu Bei to take over Xuzhou with justification, he submitted a letter to recommend Liu Bei as the governor of Yuzhou.

At that time, although Emperor Xian of Han was only fifteen years old, because of Li Jue and Guo Si's struggle for power and profit, he was able to independently handle memorials from some local areas, which was also her opportunity to win over local officials. He immediately issued an order to approve Tao Qian's recommendation.

Liu Bei was the governor of Yuzhou and stationed troops in Xiaopei.

In the second year of Xingping (195), Tao Qian was seriously ill and said to him:

"It is not Liu Bei that he cannot make Xuzhou stable."

Not long after, Tao Qian died of illness.

Mi Zhu, Chen Deng and others, in accordance with Tao Qian's will, led officials from all over the country to welcome Liu Bei as the governor of Xuzhou.

Liu Bei weighed his weight and felt that just his more than 10,000 troops were not enough to resist external enemies such as Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and could not intimidate Tibetan tyrants at the inside. Sun Guan and other noble families did not dare to accept Xuzhou.

After repeated persuasion from Mi Zhu, Chen Deng and Kong Rong, Chen Deng and Mi Zhu promised to provide enough money, grain and army, and Liu Bei reluctantly agreed.

Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou for more than half a year, but he failed to gain wealth. However, Liu Bei got a bargain. It would be impossible to say that he was not angry!

Cao Cao wanted to snatch Xuzhou immediately, but now the battle between him and Lu Bu is at the critical moment of deciding the outcome. Not only can he not attack Xuzhou, but he also has to make friends with Liu Bei so that he and Lu Bu will not unite to attack him.

With the show of showing kindness from Liu Bei's letters in Xuzhou, it was not difficult for Cao Cao to make friends with Liu Bei.

He used the strategy of "Xi Zhicai" to recommend Liu Bei as the General of Zhendong and was granted the title of Marquis of Yichengting.

Sure enough, not long after Liu Bei took over Xuzhou, someone proposed to jointly attack Cao Cao with Lu Bu to avenge Cao Cao's burning, killing and looting in Xuzhou.

But Liu Bei did not want to be an enemy of Cao Cao in his heart, and the newly formed army was not fully controlled, so he was undecided.

After receiving the olive branch from Cao Cao, Liu Bei had an excuse and rejected the proposal to take the initiative to attack Cao Cao and focused on integrating all forces within Xuzhou.

Cao Cao, who had relieved his worries, tried his best to deal with Lu Bu and soon achieved results.

Cao Cao recovered all the cities in Yanzhou and defeated Lu Bu in Juye. Lu Bu had no place to gain a foothold and fled eastward, preparing to defect to Liu Bei.

After defeating Lu Bu, Cao Cao began to liquidate the traitors inside.

Zhang Miao escaped with Lu Bu, leaving his younger brother Zhang Chao, and led all members of the Zhang family to stand by Yongqiu.

Cao Cao besieged Yongqiu for several months. Zhang Chao used Zhang Miao's plan to use Cao Cao to kill Bao Xin and threatened Cao Cao to retreat.

Cao Cao was furious and captured Yongqiu and slaughtered the city, killing Zhang Chao and Zhang Miao's entire tribe.

Zhang Miao, who had a close relationship with Cao Cao, was destroyed by Cao Cao and ended up in a very miserable way.

On the other hand, Chen Gong had a far less relationship with Cao Cao than Zhang Miao. He betrayed Cao Cao and was the mastermind.

However, Cao Cao did not touch Chen Gong's family, but instead paid money and food to support Chen Gong's family, which was related to Chen Gong's secret protection of Cao Cao's wife and children.

Zhang Miao himself was even more desperate by Cao **.

Cao Cao sent a secret letter to Liu Bei: He would not care about taking Lu Bu in, but threatened Liu Bei. If he dared to take Zhang Miao in, he would immediately send troops to Xuzhou.

Liu Bei was originally famous for his benevolence and righteousness, and he hated those who were betrayal and righteous. He did not want to take in the capricious Lu Bu. With Cao Cao's secret letter, he could openly reject Lu Bu's dependence.

Lu Bu and Chen Gong also felt that Zhang Miao wanted to arrest and kill the family of his friend Cao Cao, and there was no bottom line in doing things, so they secretly guarded against Zhang Miao.

Now that Zhang Miao's reputation is completely destroyed, he has no use value. Leaving Zhang Miao is left behind, he is not good for his own reputation.

After Lu Bu and Chen Gong conspired, they decided to send Zhang Miao aside.

Because Zhang Miao and Yuan Shu had a good relationship before, Lu Bu and Chen Gong pretended to ask him to go to Yuan Shu to seek rescue.

But he secretly bribed Zhang Miao's confidant and killed Zhang Miao halfway.

Cao Cao's father was killed by Tao Qian's men, and his anger was difficult to calm down. He made great efforts to send troops to Xuzhou to take revenge.

Now Tao Qian is dead, and the so-called "debt is lost when a person dies", he no longer has the excuse to attack Xuzhou.

Now Zhang Miao has actually harmed his wife and children again, not only breaking the unspoken rules, but also using Cao Cao as a soft persimmon. Cao Cao was angry and it was reasonable to use Zhang Miao to establish his authority.

But when he dealt with the two traitors Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, the difference was so big that it was so different that it was a waste of time.

Cao Cao wanted to tell the people of the world: it is okay to grab territory, but you have to abide by the rules of the game, and the disaster will not be as good as your wife and children.

After Cao Cao established his authority, all the princes clearly agreed with Cao Cao's rule.

Thanks to Tao Qian's "Three Gives to Xuzhou", Liu Bei firmly became the governor of Xuzhou.

Lu Bu led Zhang Miao away, but Liu Bei had no reason to refuse and had to accept Lu Bu's dependence.

He asked Lu Bu to lead his troops and horses to station them in Xiaopei to act as a barrier to fight against Cao Cao.

What Liu Bei did not expect was that he accepted Lu Bu's dependence and started his experience of "three losses to Xuzhou".

This is the ups and downs of life! Liu Bei was able to become the biggest beneficiary of the rule of "misfortune is not as good as his wife and children".

After all, Liu Bei was in the same camp as Gongsun Zan and was in a hostile relationship with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao took the initiative to extend an olive branch, which did not mean that he could watch Liu Bei become bigger and stronger.

When Cao Cao learned that the Mi family brothers and Chen Deng was Liu Bei's right-hand man, he thought about how to disagree with their relationship.

He used the strategy of "Xi Zhicai" and submitted a letter to recommend Mi Zhu as the prefect of Yingjun, and his younger brother Mi Fang as the prime minister of Pengcheng, and mixed sand for Liu Bei's group.

When he was at Hulao Pass, Cao Cao recognized Liu Bei's talent quite well. He didn't want him to manage Xuzhou safely.

Of course, Cao Cao wanted to capture Xuzhou. On the one hand, he took the initiative to form Liu Bei, and there was no suitable reason to send troops; on the other hand, he had more than a year of fighting with Lu Bu. Although he had won, he had no spare energy to continue to clear out Liu Bei and Lu Bu, but he successfully provoked Yuan Shu to lead his army to attack Xuzhou.

Liu Bei met Yuan Shu, and the two armies met in Xuyi and Huaiyin.

Yuan Shu had many soldiers, Liu Bei was brave, and each other had a victory or defeat, and no one could do anything to each other, and entered a stalemate.

Lu Bu had long been thinking of seizing Xuzhou. When he saw Liu Bei's main force leaving, he used the Chengong strategy to sneak attack Xia Pi at night, drove away Zhang Fei, and captured Liu Bei's wife. This was the first time that Liu Bei lost Xuzhou.

Liu Bei, who had no place to establish a foothold, wanted to take Guangling east as his place to establish a foothold, but was defeated by Yuan Shu and had to turn to Haixi, which was extremely distressed.

Mi Zhu, who was recommended as the prefect of Ying County, did not accept Cao Cao's kindness.

Although he was alienated by Liu Bei, he never left him and followed Liu Bei.

After various warlords fought against the autumn wind and Cao Cao's Ming robbery in Xuzhou, the Mi family's property shrank mostly and their business was much worse than before.

Mi Zhu deeply felt the helplessness of Fan Li's family's wealth back then, and he was also considering how to spend all his money.

(End of this chapter)
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