As far as the actual situation at this time is concerned, Chen Guo is indeed a relatively wealthy place located in the Central Plains.

It's just that Chen Guo was also a hard stone that was difficult to bite off for Yuan Shu, after all, even Cao Cao couldn't get the benefits, and when he touched Chen Guo's side, he could only retract his hand, not to mention Yuan Shu, who was just a virtual shelf.

didn't expect Yuan Shu to play yin with Chen Guo this time, and he was really yin by him.

Yuan Shu sent Zhang Min, who had defected to Cao Cao for killing Cao Cao's father Cao Song, as an assassin, and passed by Chen Guo under the pretense of a private matter, and used the banquet to trap and kill Liu Chong, the king of Chen, and Luo Jun, the prime minister of Chen, and then took advantage of the absence of Chen to send troops to invade Chen.

It can be seen that going to the banquet this year is really going to meet the Hongmen banquet at any time.

Therefore, in terms of time, although it happened later than the original history, Yuan Shu still sent troops to occupy the land of Chen after assassinating Liu Chong, the king of Chen, and obtained a large amount of money and food from Chen's side.

Originally, relying on Liu Chong's Wu Yong and Luo Jun's governance, Chen Guo, which was considered a rich land in the troubled times, fell into the hands of Yuan Shu, but Chen Guo was really not much away from Xu Du, and there was no danger to block.

If Yuan Shu was willing, he could send troops to Xudu, and perhaps it would only take a day or two for Yuan Shu's soldiers to wander outside the walls of Xudu.

So no matter what Yuan Shu thought, no matter whether Yuan Shu had the idea of hitting Xu Du in one go, anyway, Cao Cao felt threatened by this, and Xu Du couldn't ignore it.

In fact, during this period of Zhu Wei's recuperation, Cao Cao was not idle and did not do things, he was using the name of the Son of Heaven to expand his territory for himself.

It's just that in the first battle of Nanyang, Cao Cao lost more than 20,000 elites commanded by Xiahou Yuan, and for a time it did hurt his capital, and he directly expanded militarily, which was not possible for the time being.

Cao Cao also did not plan to continue to send troops to Nanyang as in the original history, after all, it is no longer Zhang Xiu who controls Nanyang now, but the Jingnan camp of Wei Yan under Zhu Wei, and Cao Cao is not willing to easily provoke Zhu Wei, a strong enemy.

Therefore, Cao Cao only sent people to send troops to defend Zheng County and Kunyang in Yingchuan County, so as to prevent Zhu Wei from sending troops to raid Xudu.

But Cao Cao, who had the righteousness of the Son of Heaven, still appointed Zhong Miao as the captain of the Shou Si Li as in the original history, and let Zhong Miao enter Chang'an in Guanzhong in the name of supervising the troops in Guanzhong.

Next, this Zhong Xuan did have some means, and I don't know if he secretly instigated it or how, Wu Xi, a subordinate of Guo Yan who originally occupied Yi County near Chang'an, rebelled against Guo Yan, and then led the army to attack and kill Guo Yan, and then Wu Xi took his own soldiers and horses to attach himself to the name of the emperor of the court represented by Zhong Xuan.

However, the original Guanzhong was restrained by the two forces of Guo Yan and Li Dao, but now without Guo Bi, Li Dao is the dominant family in Guanzhong, and some of Guo Bi's soldiers and horses have also been annexed by Li Dao.

But Cao Cao soon sent Pei Mao as an envoy, and ordered him to lead the generals of Guanxi, such as Duan Xuan, and other small warlords to crusade against Li Dao.

In this way, a chaotic war soon broke out in Guanzhong, but Li Dao was born as a warlord in Xiliang, and he started by plundering Dong Zhuo at the beginning, and he didn't know what local internal affairs were built, so although his troops were the strongest among the large and small warlords in Guanzhong, he actually lacked a local foundation for food and grass supply.

At this time, Chang'an was under the control of Zhong Xuan, guarded by the remnants of Guo Yan under the command of Wu Xi, while Pei Mao gathered the small warlord coalition army in the northwest dominated by Duan Xuan, devoured the territory occupied by Li Dao little by little, and divided the generals under Li Dao through various means.

Then, such as Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Zhang Heng, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, and other warlords of Xiliang who were attached to their names, also took the opportunity to join in the beating of Li Dao.

As a result, the war became even more unfavorable to Li Dao, which began in September and October of 197 and lasted until now in 198.

Although Li Dao has not yet been completely defeated, he has also retreated to Huangbaicheng (northeast of present-day Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, which was originally a military town in the Eastern Han Dynasty to store grain and garrison soldiers), and is making the last resistance.

According to the original history, in April 198, Li Dao was beheaded by Zhang Heng and Liang Xing's troops who broke through Huangbaicheng, and it is said that the head was finally sacrificed to Cao Cao by these northwest warlords, and Emperor Xian of Han ordered it to be hung high in Xudu to show the public to express his strong hatred for Li Dao.

Anyway, the death of Guo Yan and Li Dao means that there are no more big independent warlords in Guanzhong, and it also means that the old Xiliang Department left by Dong Zhuo is basically gone.

Therefore, the remaining small warlords in Guanzhong and Guanxi basically surrendered to Cao Cao at this time, or they were attached to the name of the Son of Heaven, and Cao Cao also nominally controlled the land of Guanzhong.

Next, Zhong Xuan sent a messenger to send a letter to Han Sui, Ma Teng and other Xiliang warlords, telling them about the benefits, so Han Sui, Ma Teng and other Xiliang warlords did not have the courage to resist the Son of Heaven, and each sent his son to serve Xu Du to show his obedience to the central government, so that Cao Cao could develop Guanzhong through Zhong Xuan's peace of mind.

It can be said that during this period of time, Cao Cao did not need to send his own troops at all, so he easily eliminated the two major warlords in Guanzhong, Guo Yan and Li Xun, in the name of the Son of Heaven, and then ambushed other small warlords in Guanzhong, and expanded his territory out of thin air to a large area, and obtained a large amount of land in Guanzhong.

And although Zhu Wei also had some thoughts about the land of Guanzhong, and also saw the chaos in Guanzhong during this time, after he discussed with his subordinates and strategists, he did not mean to send troops to participate in the chaos in Guanzhong for the time being.

On the one hand, this is the reason why Zhu Wei did not send troops, after all, now Cao Cao is just using the name of the Son of Heaven to remotely control the large and small warlords in Guanzhong to fight with each other, and Zhu Wei will only make trouble for himself if he intervenes.

On the other hand, although Guanzhong, under the means of Zhong Xuan, Pei Mao and others, was nominally attached to the Xudu court controlled by Cao Cao, it was not directly under Cao Cao after all, and could only be regarded as Cao Cao's vassal land.

Therefore, as long as Zhu Wei gets rid of Cao Cao in the future, Guanzhong will naturally be able to attach himself to Zhu Wei's side, and Zhu Wei has no need to spend his troops to participate in the mixed situation in the pass.

In addition, even if Zhu Wei takes Guanzhong now, it is actually not much good, not to mention that he has to allocate troops to garrison, and he has to spend Zhu Wei's materials to spend time on reviving the governance affairs of Guanzhong.

At this time, although there was a lot of land in Guanzhong, there was not enough population.

From the Dong Zhuo Rebellion to the current warlord melee in the northwest, the scourge of war in the past ten years has made Guanzhong a ruin of thousands of miles of red land, and many people in Guanzhong have fled to Jingzhou and Yizhou, so even if Zhu Wei gets the land of Guanzhong, it can't actually bring much practical benefit to Zhu Wei.

It's better to let Zhong Xuan govern Guanzhong now......