Yu Jin was also a famous general under Cao Cao's tent. In the past two years, he made great contributions with Cao Cao's expeditions and confrontation. This person is brave and resourceful, wise and brave. He is one of the most trusted generals. It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao made him the prefect of Taishan County. Cao Cao believed that as long as Yu Jin was there, Taishan County would be as stable as Mount Tai.

But unexpectedly, something happened in the place he felt most at ease. Just overnight, Taishan County was lost and the entire situation underwent a shocking reversal. Now, not only Xuzhou cannot be preserved, but even Yanzhou is beginning to face serious crises.

Yanzhou is the fundamental place of Cao Cao. If even Yanzhou is gone, it would be impossible to defend it with just the place Yin of Henan.

Therefore, Cao Cao was extremely shocked and immediately ordered that he should take back Taishan County at all costs.

However, Guo Jia said, "Lord, although the loss of Taishan County is indeed something we expected, and it has indeed had an extremely adverse impact on our situation. However, Jia believes that robbing Taishan County at this time is not the most urgent task at all. It is the most urgent task to find a way to guard other counties in Yanzhou. Especially, once Pei Qing occupied Chenliu, we could not even go back to Luoyang. There is another urgent matter. Please ask the lord to immediately order General Zixiao to lead his army to withdraw from Xuzhou from the sea. Now Xuzhou cannot be preserved, and General Zixiao is only guarding there.

It is a waste of time. The fundamental reason is that we preserve the vitality. When retreating, try not to burn, kill, loot, and avoid angering Pei Qing. At the same time, the lord needs to appease Pei Qing in the name of the court and give him higher rewards and treatment. Now that he has just pacified Yuan Shu and Xuzhou, he also needs a breather and will definitely agree to a truce. The lord needs to do the most after the truce gathers troops, and strives to attack and destroy Yecheng, take the opportunity to occupy the land of Jizhou and Qingzhou, and then move the emperor to Hebei. In this way, the lord can occupy the natural danger of the Yellow River to compete with Pei Qing."

This time, because Cao Cao only found a confidant adviser to discuss solutions, what he said was to seize Mount Tai at all costs was just a momentary anger. He also knew that Pei Qing's governor of Yuzhou Lu Su had sent troops to the dangerous land of Mount Tai County, and it was too difficult to forcibly capture it, so his words were just to throw bricks and jade, mainly to hear the thoughts of others.

Now Guo Jia's words are like a beacon in the dark night, giving Cao Cao new hope and illuminating the direction for his future path. After several consecutive battles, especially after losing Taishan County and about to lose Xuzhou, Cao Cao was already very clear that his strength was not enough to deal with Kang Peiqing. Since this is the case, he might as well avoid confronting him, and then hold the emperor hostage to annex other princes, strengthen his strength, and then defend it by risk.

After Cao Cao thought about it, he finally agreed to Guo Jia's request and immediately sent someone to Xuzhou, forcing Cao Ren to lead his people to Qingzhou by sea, and then returned to Yanzhou by way of Qingzhou, and let Cao Ren do this after he arrived in Qingzhou.

Then Cao Cao issued an edict in the name of one day. Because Pei Qing quelled the rebellion of the rebel Yuan Shu, he made great contributions and appointed him as the Supreme General and the Left Prime Minister. He was above the Three Dukes, with a salary of 10,000 stones, and increased his fief of 5,000 households. He also appointed Princess Pingyang as the Princess of Zhenguo, and increased his fief of 3,000 households. Cao Cao also requested to be the Right Prime Minister. In this way, Cao Cao's own official position was under Pei Qing.

After the news spread, the world was shocked. Although Cao Cao did not compromise on the surface, everyone could see that Cao Cao had actually admitted that he was not as good as Pei Qing and began to bow his head to Pei Qing.

Since Cao Cao debuted, he has never bowed his head to others. Even when he first debuted, he beat Jian Shuo's uncle as the Northern Territory of Luoyang. Later, Dong Zhuo was so cruel that he resolutely raised an army to resist and never said a word of surrender. But now he took the initiative to regard himself as Pei Qing. After Pei Qing seized his Taishan County, not only did he not order it to take it back, but also ordered Cao Ren to voluntarily withdraw from Xuzhou, which had never been done in Cao Cao's previous experience.

However, Cao Cao had no choice, because at the critical moment, Yuan Shao appeared again. Cao Cao was not as good as Pei Qing, and he had to deal with the two major forces of Pei Qing and Yuan Shao at the same time. He did not have the strength to fight wherever Pei Qing pointed out, so he could only admit defeat.

In fact, Cao Cao regrets it very much now. He shouldn't listen to Sima Yi and attack Xuzhou directly, but should attack Yuan Shao's Jizhou first. This is the real trouble. He is not strong, but he always makes trouble behind his back.

Pei Qing could also think about Cao Cao's embarrassment at this time, and even more so how did Cao Cao make such a big concession to him and make the decision? However, as Guo Jia said, Pei Qing does have his own problems now. Because of the continuous battle for more than half a year, this led to a lot of food loss under Pei Qing's rule. Even the large-scale investment in bacon he directed was not enough. Pei Qing originally planned to continue working with Yuan Shu's grain and grass as a support after conquering Huainan.

After the battle was broken, he found that Yuan Shu's food was indeed considerable. However, the whole Huainan was hungry and some places even had people eating each other. How could Pei Qing bear to continue fighting with these foods? Naturally, he distributed the food to the people for disaster relief. As a result, he gained a lot of food in this way. Therefore, it was not easy for Pei Qing's treasury to persist until he took Xuzhou. He was really unable to do so if he wanted to continue to expand the battle and capture the entire Yanzhou.

At this moment, the little emperor was much more respectful to Cao Cao because he retrieved the jade seal and Cao Cao's attitude towards him. Cao Cao gave him a beautiful woman to replace Concubine Dong who had just been sentenced to death. Therefore, he also expressed his understanding of Cao Cao's previous behavior and personally came forward to persuade Cao Cao and Pei Qing to make peace.

Seeing that the emperor came forward, and he was really unable to fight again, Pei Qing had to take advantage of the situation and agreed to the peace. At this time, Cao Ren had withdrawn from Xuzhou. Pei Qing had not stopped him before. Now Xuzhou's household registration files and materials have been left behind. Cao Ren's army has not violated the people. Pei Qing knew that this was Cao Cao's sincerity in exchange for peace, so he had to accept it.

Of course, despite this, Xuzhou has passed by Lu Bu, Cao Cao and many wars, and has long been ruined. The people's lives are very difficult. Although the warehousing grain is slightly spare, it is not enough to provide relief to the people. Pei Qing, who is already full of economic problems, has to mobilize some of the food from Nanyang.

"Now, whether it is Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Xuzhou, Huaiyang and other places, the economy is all in decline. My next task is not to further expand the war, but to accumulate strength, to equalize the fields and military farms, and to further expand the government system. At the same time, the Silk Road is officially opened, so that the economy under my rule will be active quickly. I believe that at most two years, I will have the power of offensive power."

Pei Qing thought silently, and at this moment he suddenly remembered someone and ordered Zang Ba to escort Yu Jin over.
Chapter completed!