For three years, Shang Ji has been recuperating and practicing his internal skills, and the other princes are naturally not idle.

Sun Jian, the Jiangdong Tiger who occupied most of Jingzhou like a meteor and then fell rapidly, will not mention it for the time being, and the other princes have not been in vain over the years.

The first is Cao Cao, who occupies Luoyang.

Boss Cao poured all his net worth into a big gamble, and from now on, it is obvious that he won the bet.

Although Luoyang was demolished by Shang Ji and Diao Chan, and important buildings were swept away, the main structure is still there, and a large number of Luoyang residents are still there.

The average quality of the inhabitants of Luoyang, as the former Dì Dū, far exceeds that of any other region, and the top part of it was taken away by the Shang Ji and Diao Chan, but the remaining hundreds of millions of ordinary residents are still an extremely valuable asset.

Cao Cao is also a very courageous person, listening to the advice of the stranger, using Luoyang City as a bargaining chip, vigorously "attracting investment", attracting wealthy families to join, attracting a large amount of capital and technology, and Luoyang City gradually restored its prosperity in the past.

At this time, Cao Cao's army had a sphere of influence covering the Sanfu region east of Hangu Pass, and all areas of Yanzhou except for Taishan County, Jibei State, and Lu State (county state, equivalent to county), and its sphere of influence was several times larger than that of the Battle of Dong. Especially in Hanoi County and Henan Yin, which were the most elite areas of the Han Dynasty before, although they experienced the ravages of Dong Zhuo and the fierce battles of the princes, so that the vitality was greatly damaged, but the heritage is still there, and after three years of development and construction by Cao Cao, it has also recovered a little bit of vitality.

However, development with the help of external forces is not without drawbacks. People invest in capital, technology, and manpower, and naturally they are not doing good deeds for poverty alleviation. At the same time that the city of Luoyang prospered, a large number of rights were usurped by the wealthy families, and Cao Cao's military power has gradually developed into a large alliance, although Cao Cao is still the lord in name, but in essence has been transformed into the leader of the alliance, and his control over the powerful families under his command is very limited (refer to Washington at the beginning of the founding of the United States).

Since Cao Cao has been mentioned, I have to mention Cao Cao's "good neighbor" Diao Chan.

At the beginning, Diao Chan stabbed Dong Zhuo in the back, and then retreated to Chang'an, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, which really surprised the world's heroes. However, surprise is surprise, the princes did not pay special attention to it because of Diao Chan's gender, but as time passed, everyone slowly discovered that this Diao Chan is really a fierce rival for the world!

After the battle against Dong, Diao Chan, who worked together with Shang Ji to empty Luoyang, had a much stronger start than Cao Cao, and his development momentum far surpassed Cao Cao.

At a very fast speed, the five counties of Hongnong County, Jingzhaoyin, Zuofufeng, Youfufeng, and Hedong County were stabilized, and then Ma Teng and Ma Chao were successfully brought under their command, and the Qiang people who originally belonged to Dong Zhuo were also tamed by Diao Chan.

After that, Diao Chan personally led the army to battle, and in only one year, he successfully put down the Liangzhou rebellion.

However, at this time, Diao Chan also met an opponent, and after completely integrating and digesting the state, the god of war Lu Bu also shifted his attention to Liangzhou and Si Li, and the first beauty of the Three Kingdoms and the first military general of the Three Kingdoms began to confront each other head-to-head.

Diao Chan's opponent was not only Lu Bu, but Cao Jun also joined at the right time and pointed at Chang'an.

It's just that Diao Chan occupies the defense line of Hangu Pass, and Cao Cao is very passive and fails to pose a serious threat, so he can only make a few small fights in Hedong County.

Of course, Cao Cao can unite with Lu Bu to fight against Diao Chan together, Diao Chan is not a fool, anyone can play vertical and horizontal tricks, she turned her head and began to unite with Yuan Shu and Han Fu to fight against Cao Cao and Lu Bu together.

The two sides come and go, and no one can take the other.

Speaking of which, the princes who are in the limelight at this time are neither Diao Chan nor Cao Cao, nor Shang Ji, who has been silent for three years, but Yuan Shu and Yuan Highway!

Sun Ce led the remnants of the Sun family to serve Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu's prestige soared.

And Sun Ce led his troops to take effect, which also made up for the lack of high-end combat power of Yuan Shujun's high-end combat power to a certain extent, and Yuan Shu immediately turned on the crazy and cool hanging and bombing mode.

It has occupied most of Yuzhou, part of Xiapi County in Xuzhou, all of Guangling County, Jiujiang County, Lujiang County, Danyang County, Wu County in Yangzhou, plus part of Huiji County, and beat Liu Xuan, who is a pastor in Yangzhou, to the point of embarrassment, and only one and a half counties (part of Yuzhang County and Huiji County) are left under his command, becoming the most miserable state pastor today.

If you count the Nanyang County that you occupied before, then Yuan Shu's sphere of influence is all over Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jingzhou, surpassing Shang Ji and becoming a super prince whose sphere of influence spans four states!

Although there is no complete state under his name, the areas occupied by Yuan Shu are all elite areas, especially Runan County and Nanyang County, the population of any county can exceed that of other states, simply counting the population of the control area, Yuan Shu is the deserved number one prince at this time!

Yuan Shu is known to the outside world as a powerful army, that is, a total of more than 100 million troops. According to the information sent back by Qianhuan, Yuan Shu really didn't brag this time, counting the garrison troops in various places, the total number of troops under Yuan Shu's command really exceeded 100 million!

Yuan Shu's performance at this time not only far surpassed Yuan Shao, who was still trapped in the Bohai Sea, but even overshadowed the limelight of Shangji, and many people thought that Yuan Shu was the number one prince today.

However, careful people will find that in just a few years, Yuan Shu successfully offended the four princes of Tao Qian, Liu Xuan, Liu Biao, and Cao Cao, and there is also an inscrutable Sun Ce under his command.

It can be said that in just a few years, Yuan Shu offended all the people he could offend to death.

Ignore the hidden crisis under Yuan Shuxuan for the time being, and focus his attention on the other princes.

Compared with Diao Chan, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Yuan Shu, who are all in the mix, the next two who will appear are much more difficult.

Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, Qingzhou Mu Kong Rong (the original Qingzhou Thorn History, after the battle of Dong was promoted to Qingzhou Mu by Diao Chan) became difficult brothers.

Tao Qian is also a state pastor of a state, he was robbed by Yuan Shu, he didn't even dare to say a word, he trembled under Yuan Shu's obscenity, and after losing his pi, he had to send money and food, and asked Yuan Shu not to go further north, and properly accept the gas bag.

Kong Rong's condition was not much better than Tao Qian's, on the one hand, he needed to be careful to guard Liu Bei of Taishan County, and on the other hand, he had to bear the pressure at sea.

Over the past three years, the naval division of the Shang Ji Army has come to the waters of Qingzhou twice in three days to "train" and show off their might in the coastal areas of Qingzhou.

Kong Rong had the heart to fight back, but he was worried about more violent retaliation, and second, he was incapable.

The small sampans of the Qingzhou Sailor are not even worthy of carrying shoes for the Pingzhou Sailor. Kong Rong also gritted his teeth and wanted to vigorously develop the sailor, but every time he just started, he would be attacked by "pirates", and the Qingzhou sailor who had just grown up would be nip in the bud.

Can you believe a pirate with such strategic equipment as a large ship???

Regardless of whether Kong Rong believes it or not, Ling Cao believes it anyway! It also took the opportunity to intensify patrols in Qingzhou's waters, in the name of preventing the people of Qingzhou from being harmed by pirates.

Kong Rong's nose was crooked after hearing the explanation!

After coming and going, Kong Rong gradually gave up resistance, and lay down completely, what do you like.