Xu You's plan is not only a big gamble, but also a big project.

It is not easy to mobilize tens of thousands of people to attack Jiangling and attack the Jiangling area. Not to mention anything else, it is not easy to hide from the eyes of the Wu army scout.

Chen Gong expressed strong opposition and even had a conflict with Xu You. But in the end he surrendered. In addition to Cao Cao's plan to support Xu You, Chen Gong also knew that the strength of the two sides was too different. If Sun Ce was given enough time to prepare, Shu would not last long.

Instead of doing this, it is better to take the initiative to break the deadlock while Sun Ce is not ready to fight hard.

In order to confuse the opponent and reduce the possibility of leaks, Cao Cao found Wei Ji and asked Wei Ji to explore Sun Ce's words to see what conditions Sun Ce could agree to. If the conditions were right, he was willing to surrender.

Wei Ji didn't think much about it. He stayed in Yizhou for more than half a year. Although he met some people, his movements were limited and the tasks were not completed well. It would be useless to stay too much. Since Cao Cao was interested in negotiating, he might as well send some news.

Cao Cao sent Wei Ji away, and his mission was contacting Qiang in Huangzhong. He asked them to hold on and not fight Yan Xing easily. With the terrain, they could still be entangled with Yan Xing for a while. If they really faced the battle head-on, they would definitely lose.

Cao Cao once fought with the Western Liang cavalry led by Ma Teng and Han Sui. The equipment of these cavalry was not the best, and they already had such combat effectiveness. Yan Xing and Han Shaoying, with the support of Sun Shangxiang and Lu Su, could get better military weapons. The cavalry under his command were stronger, which was definitely not comparable to the Qiang people.

Therefore, in addition to the doubts of the army, Cao Cao also spread news that he would support the eldest son of the emperor to ascend the throne in the autumn, and ordered Ding Zhuang to be drawn from the counties, formed an imperial guard, gathered in Chengdu, and protect the emperor.

As all kinds of true and false news were spread, Cao Cao encountered a real problem. Da Nong Ling Liu Ba reported that Jiangdong tea had been adjusted, and a large amount of tea entered Guanzhong and Liangzhou, squeezing the Yizhou tea market. Yizhou tea was unsalable and there might be a large funding gap.

Cao Cao was very troubled and asked Liu Ba what to do. Liu Ba said that there were solutions, but it was not the root cause. It could only save the urgent problem, which was to cast big money. Crush big money and collect the money from the people from the people of the country. He purchased and sold tea, lowered prices, and competed for the market with Jiangdong. He used the name of the emperor ascending the throne to exchange official titles for the support of the Yizhou families, and worked together to overcome difficulties.

Cao Cao knew that he didn't have much time and didn't care about long-term life. He accepted Liu Ba's suggestions and implemented them one by one.

Yizhou suddenly had a cavalry galloping, and feathered edicts were frequently passed.

Wei Ji left Yizhou and learned that the emperor had already arrived in Youzhou. He headed straight for Youzhou. When he arrived in Jizhou, Sun Ce also came along the north shore of the Bohai Sea and arrived in Yanzhou.

Originally, Youzhou was only five or six hundred miles north and south, but more than two thousand miles east and west. It was also traveling along the Bohai Sea. The Youzhou Governor's headquarters was located in Ji County, but it was actually not in the east. Now Sun Ce intends to develop Liaodong and Sanhan, so he naturally needs to increase efforts. Therefore, the Liaoxi County is divided into the middle, Yanzhou is the west, Ji County is the east, Youzhou is the east, and Dashi.

The reason why the capital of the new Youzhou is placed in the Dashi is not only about Lelang and Sanhan, but also about controlling the Bohai Bay. At present, the arable land in Youzhou is limited, and the Little Ice Age is coming again, and farming cannot support much of the population. For a long time, marine fishery has been the focus of development. The Dashi is located in the sea, which is the most convenient.

Jian Yong was appointed as the governor of Youzhou, while Gu Hui was appointed as the governor of Yanzhou. Gu Hui had been with Sun Ce for many years and was familiar with Sun Ce's ideas. He had just been in office for a few months and had already achieved results.

Sun Ce went up the water and inspected Yuyang and Guangyang counties to Juyongguan.

Ma Chao, Gongsun Du and others came to pay their respects. After receiving the news from Wuhuan, Shanggu, he rushed to Juyongguan in person and presented gifts such as famous horses and minks. Seeing his son Lou Lu standing majestic beside Sun Ce, Nanlou was very pleased.

Sun Ce issued an edict, granting the surname Wuhuan Lou of Shanggu, and giving the name Loulu, named Zilu.

Lou Lu read books and knew that Zilu was a disciple of a saint, and it was a great honor for him to have the same name as such a wise man. In front of his father Nanlou, he swore to Sun Ce that he would take Your Majesty as his teacher, be loyal to Your Majesty, and protect Your Majesty.

Nanlou was also very happy. His son became a confidant of Emperor Dawu, and the safety of Wuhuan in Shanggu was guaranteed.

Sun Ce invited a banquet at the Nanlou and roughly discussed the principle of mutual trading with him. There was originally a Hu market in Shanggu. Shepherds from the grassland would bring war horses, cattle, sheep and fur to trade. Merchants from the Central Plains would unload goods there and exchange them for goods on the grassland. Relying on central trading, the Wuhuan people in Shanggu have always lived a comfortable life and their population has continued to grow.

But the population that the grassland can support is limited after all. Once this limit is exceeded, it is inevitable to expand outward, and the prosperous Central Plains is the first choice. Sun Ce knew this and knew that it was impossible to defend it alone. No matter how high the Great Wall was built, it could not stop the laws of nature.

After discussing with Ju Su, Guo Jia and others, he designed a plan to integrate both sides. On the one hand, scholars were sent to the grassland and set up schools to teach the children of herders on the grassland to read. Of course, what they read was books written in Chinese characters, and what they learned was loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. On the other hand, they selected elites from them to supplement them into the army and prefectures and counties, so that these grassland people could see hope and truly regard themselves as the people of the Great Wu.

After all, the population on the grassland is limited, and the number of elites selected from it is not enough to affect the career of the Central Plains scholars, but it can promote national integration and turn the Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, Xiongnu people and even further Fuyu people into Wu people.

Ju Su and Guo Jia were a little hesitant at first, but Sun Ce was very confident. The Chinese nation in later generations claimed to have 56 ethnic groups, and the Han people were still the main body, and many ethnic minorities had long been the same as the Han people. Now there are only a few ethnic groups? Who has a more advantage in the Han people with a household registration of tens of millions and Hu people with a household registration of millions, isn’t it obvious?

Besides, conservatism cannot solve the problem, it will only hide the problem. If you do not actively integrate others, you will be integrated sooner or later by others. Moreover, after the war in the Central Plains, the population loss is not small. If you can actively integrate the elites from these ethnic minorities, it will not only weaken the strength of these Hu people, but also supplement the gap in the labor force of the Central Plains, and the best of both worlds.

After repeated explanations by Sun Ce, Ju Su and Guo Jia accepted Sun Ce's opinion.

When he saw Wei Ji, Sun Ce didn't care when he learned that Cao Cao was interested in surrendering. At this point, Cao Cao had no other choice, so it was natural to ask for surrender. But he felt it was a little early. With Cao Cao's personality, it seemed that he shouldn't have given up so early.

According to the original history, the Battle of Guandu has just ended, and it is not time to write poems with a spear, so why are you scared?

Sun Ce did not think deeply, after all, history had changed, and Cao Cao knew that he was powerless to turn the world back, so it was a wise move to give up. He immediately ordered Jiang Gan, the Great Emperor, to rush to Jiangling, and cooperated with the right guardian Sun Yi, to preside over the relevant issues of King Cao Cao's surrender to the king of Shu.

Ju Su and Guo Jia agreed to Sun Ce's decision, but suggested reminding Cao Cao to be cheated. As for the situation, Cao Cao had just killed Han Sui and defeated Ma Teng not long ago, and his morale was quite strong. Although Yan Xing returned to Liangzhou, he had not really stabilized Jincheng. Taishi Ci and Gan Ning arrived in Jiaozhi not long ago, and they were still doing pre-war preparations. It would be at least until after the autumn. Cao Cao was not urgent to surrender at this time, and at most it was just a test.

Sun Ce felt it was reasonable and sent an edict to Sun Yi and Zhuge Liang, asking them not to rush to accept Cao Cao's conditions and prevent him from cheating.

After the arrangement was completed, Sun Ce came to Yuan Quan's cabin.

Yuan Quan was busy sorting gifts in the cabin. He came with the concept of national integration. Sun Ce's trip to the northern border was very smooth and was warmly welcomed along the way, especially the few Yuan women who married on the grassland were the most excited. Their tribes integrated into Dawu and were given the Han surname, which had an important premise: the inheritance system of brothers and brothers. In other words, even if their husbands die, they do not have to marry their husbands' younger brothers or sons.

For them, this was undoubtedly a great joy. They all encouraged their husbands to be loyal to Sun Ce, requesting their surnames, and offering generous gifts. When they learned that the queen was pregnant, they were about to give birth to a legitimate son or a legitimate daughter, they specially arranged for someone to go to Jianye to congratulate him. Yuan Quan, who was accompanying him, received warm hospitality, and the gifts were as high as a mountain, and Sun Ce had to prepare a boat for her alone.

The things on the grassland taste too much, especially those skins.

When Sun Ce entered the cabin, Yuan Quan was taking out a box of wild ginseng from piles of gifts. Hearing Sun Ce's footsteps, he looked back and smiled sweetly. "Why is Your Majesty here? Are you not afraid of the smell?"

"You are not afraid, what's there to be afraid of?" Sun Ce looked over. "What's this?"

"Shan ginseng, today I want to make pheasant soup, add two slices of ginseng to replenish qi."

"Who wants to make up for it?"

"Telling too much hurts your anger. Your Majesty has said too much and drunk too much wine these days. You have to take care of it. I have no other skills, so I can only arrange some food, which is better than nothing." Yuan Quan stood up, lifted up the hair hanging from his temples, and his plump face was a little red. "Your Majesty is coming, can't you care about what I am doing today, right?"

Sun Ce smiled. He came here in person, naturally not for food. He didn't like to talk to Yuan Quan, and he didn't like to go around the corner. He just told Cao Cao about his surrender. Yuan Quan understood as soon as he heard it.

"Your Majesty still remembers it, I forgot it. Speaking of which, it was because Cao Cao kidnapped Boyang, and my father was so angry that he asked Your Majesty to avenge him. Now that Boyang is safe, he has been granted the king again. It's too much to expect, so it's better not to mention those old things."

Yuan Quan walked up to Sun Ce, raised his head slightly, and seductive with the warmth of his body fragrance. "Cao Mengde is already fifty and can't live for a few years. He thinks every day that he will be ridiculed by his father after his death, and has to survive. It is quite interesting to live as many days as possible."
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