When returning from Youzhou, Liu Zheng deliberately went to Yangle County.

I plan to find out some information about Youzhou from Yangle County.

Sure enough, during the half a month he spent in Youzhou, the situation in Youzhou had changed somewhat.

Yuan Shao's guy, after being rejected by several important princes to support Liu Yu as the emperor, was not afraid, he directly found Liu Yu, although Liu Yu refused, but he still held Liu Yu hostage, and unilaterally announced that Liu Yu was the emperor in Jizhou.

Liu Yu suddenly became Yuan Shao's puppet emperor, and Yuan Shao suddenly changed from the leader of the Ten Towns Princes Alliance to an opponent who was scolded by the alliance.

Cao Cao was the first to stand up and rebuke Yuan Shao's unrighteous actions, which was an act of blatant rebellion, no different from Wang Fen.

And although Yuan Shu scolded Yuan Shao for being shameless on the surface, he didn't dare to openly reprimand Yuan Shao, after all, they were all members of the Yuan family, and they still had to work together as surface brothers.

After Yuan Shao co-opted the Taishou who had befriended him and announced that he would support Liu Yu as emperor, this matter was not a big deal, and the imperial court had already sent Gongsun Zan to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses of the king of Muqin in several states to kill Jizhou and prepare to eliminate Yuan Shao.

But Yuan Shao, this guy, didn't do anything, and directly cooperated with Nanlou, the leader of Karasuma in northern Jizhou.

In the name of Liu Yu, the emperor, he sent a holy decree to Nanlou, sealing Nanlou as the pastor of Youzhou, protecting Karasuma Zhonglang General, and the new Karasuma Shan Yu.

All of a sudden, Nanlou pulled it to his side.

Nanlou, this person, has always been haunted by Qiu Liju's dispatch of troops to occupy Youzhou, and he has long been impatient in his heart, and wants to intervene to get a piece of the pie.

But it was too late for him to send troops, and there was no excuse, and now Yuan Shao gave him an excuse and a reason.

With the title of the imperial court, the name of the new Karasuma Shan Yu and Youzhou Mu, Nanlou's dispatch of troops has become a fact, and his strength is the strongest among the many Karasuma tribes, and he has beaten down the small half of Youzhou at once.

and opened up the border with Yuan Shao's territory, so that the two of them are linked together, each other's horns, and cooperate with each other.

In order to draw Nanlou to his side, Yuan Shao not only let his eldest son Yuan Tan personally go to Nanlou's subordinates until Nanlou attacked Youzhou, but also supplied a large amount of grain and grass to Nanlou in exchange for Nanlou and his cooperation.

And the cooperation with Nanlou allowed Yuan Shao to have a large number of cavalry in a short period of time.

Gongsun Zhan's army of 50,000 soon reached Jizhou and had the first head-to-head confrontation with Yuan Shao.

It's a pity that Yuan Shao, whose strength has risen greatly, has tens of thousands of troops under his command, plus the cavalry obtained from the Nanlou Department, his strength has soared, and he easily defeated Gongsun Zhan.

In the first confrontation, Gongsun Chan lost his troops and generals, 50,000 troops, and directly lost more than 20,000 people, which disrupted the rhythm of Gongsun Chan's attack.

Led a defeated army of 30,000, Gongsun Chan could only retreat to the junction of Jizhou and Sili region, and confronted Yuan Shao's men and horses, on the one hand, he did not dare to attack again, on the other hand, he had just suffered a defeat, and Gongsun Chan was sad at this time.

Today's Yuan Shao, after all, is not his 30,000 soldiers and horses, which can be dealt with.

In the same way, Nanlou's attack, attacking Youzhou, occupied a lot of Qiu Liju's territory, which made Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju have some contradictions.

The two sides were tense, Nanlou united with Yuan Shao, Qiu Liju and Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and began to Chen Bing, it seemed that a big war could break out at any time.

Regarding this, Liu Zheng is not worried at all, the more chaotic the situation in this Youzhou, the better, as long as it is chaotic enough, Liu Zheng can sit back and relax in the south, accumulate grain, and build a high wall.

Early January 187.

Liu Zheng loaded 800 war horses and 100 cattle and returned to Jiaozhou.

Of the 800 war horses, more than 500 of them were captured from Qingzhou, and the remaining 300 war horses were exchanged for grain from Su Yandan.

Just when Liu Zheng returned to Jiaozhou, the ships of the second round of northbound trade on the Jiaozhou side had already sailed on the way to Youzhou.

Walked down from the boat and stepped on the land of Jiaozhou.

Liu Zheng's whole person was suddenly refreshed, after half a month of drifting at sea, the ship has been swaying, and every second has been a little tormented.

Now that I don't have to blow the sea breeze anymore, the feeling of walking from the sea to the land is completely different.

Especially from that place in Youzhou after half a month to arrive in Jiaozhou, from a cold place full of snow, the eyes are white and boundless, when you arrive at a Jiaozhou as warm as spring, that feeling is unrelieved.

It's not just Liu Zheng who feels this way, but the other people on his boat, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and others are also the same.

In the past, they would never have thought that in this great Han world, in the vast world, there are some places where there is no snow, and some places are so cold.

It is impossible for these people who live in the south all the year round and have never been to the north in their lives to experience the cold of the north.

At the same time, they finally understood that not every place has four seasons, some places may have a distinct spring, summer, autumn and winter, and some places only have two seasons, one is spring and the other is summer.

After Liu Zheng returned to Jiaozhou, he immediately came to Hepu City to deal with the things left over from the time he left.

Soon, Yuan Zhou came to report to him about his work during this time, and at the same time, Liu Zheng told Yuan Zhou about the things that happened in the north and told him some things about Yuan Shao in the north.

When Yuan Zhou heard that Yuan Shao actually supported Liu Yu as emperor in the north and colluded with the Karasuma people, he was immediately furious.

"Damn, Yuan Shao, bastard! He's smearing our Yuan clan! ”

"My Yuan clan is the fourth generation and the third duke, how could there be such a bastard as Yuan Shao, he will make our Yuan clan fall into a land of injustice, disloyalty and filial piety!"

Yuan Zhou was originally a member of the Yuan clan, speaking of which. He should still belong to Yuan Shao's cousin.

Yuan Zhou joined Liu Zheng, in fact, the original purpose was just to mix better than those descendants of the Yuan family, and now although Liu Zheng has some achievements, Yuan Zhou's status is naturally not comparable to Yuan Shao and others.

But Yuan Zhou also wanted to prove to those Yuan clan people that these side branches were no worse than the children of the lineage.

But now, Yuan Shao is doing such a thing, isn't he just letting the Yuan family recruit black.

Although the prestige of the Han court is getting lower and lower, it is still orthodox in the world after all.