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Ma Han received the results of the North Sea Battle from Hawkeye on his way back to his home from His Highness Chongde.≥

Yuan Tan was a great loss in this battle. Guanting camp was completely lost, and all the supplies were lost. Five thousand hu of grain and fodder alone were lost, which was equivalent to paying back all the benefits of the exchange of grain given to Yuan Shao. The loss of troops was even worse. Seven thousand troops, Guanting lost 2,000, and nearly a thousand under Duchang City. During the Battle of Seizing Bridge, more than half of a unit was lost, even if it was broken. But the matter was not over. Because the retreat was cut off, Yuan Tan could not return directly to Qingzhou. The remnants were sandwiched by the Donglai Army and the Beihai Army in the narrow area between the east bank of the ripples and Duchang. The army was disintegrated and fled day and night. In just a few days, the troops were less than a thousand people left in their troops...

In a dilemma, Yuan Tan adopted Hua Yan's strategy and asked Kong Rong for peace.

A few days ago, he finally bowed his head and was full of strong enemies who could not raise his head. The Beihai was full of people. However, there were many calm people among them, so Wang Xiu agreed cautiously and suggested to monitor Yuan Jun closely. However, Kong Rong had other plans. He did not have the intention of Wang Xiu forcing Yuan Jun to surrender, nor did Taishi Ci's idea of ​​capturing Yuan Tan alive. He just wanted to send the plague god.

Yuan Tan was grasping Kong Rong's thoughts, and three days later, he gathered 200 elite entourages to break through the Hanting defense line south of Duchang, fled into the remnants of Laoshan, and went to the ravine. The remaining more than 700 soldiers who were bait surrendered to the Beihai.

When Ma Han received the news of the battle, Yuan Tan had just crawled out of the ravine, detoured through Yanzhou, and returned to the plain. At this time, there were only a few confidants such as Su You, Hua Yan, Kong Shun, etc. around him. Everyone had messy hair and hair, a face with vegetables, and incomplete armor. Even when Guo Tu, the newly appointed Qingzhou Bianzhu, saw them, he almost thought that the Yellow Turban Thief had come out again...

"Behead Lu Kuang, capture Wenda alive, eliminate Guan Tong, Ziyi, Shengde, and I will do a good job. Donglai will be fine from now on." After seeing this, Ma Han transferred the information to Jia Xu and Guo Jia beside him.

Guo Jia was dressed in white, handsome and gentle as a virgin, and was sitting leisurely on the chariot equipped by the court for officials. While looking at the information, he tapped the car with his white and slender five fingers, as if he was thinking.

After a while, Guo Jia knocked on Xuan's hand and suddenly slapped heavily, saying, "There is a lot of stuff to do in this battle. General Pingdong will not hurry to withdraw from Le'an Country. The lord can send an envoy to Yecheng."

Ma Han was slightly stunned: "Do you want Le'anguo? General Yuan is afraid that he will not agree, and there is a Beihai in the middle, which seems useless."

Jia Xu twisted his beard and smiled: "The meaning of filial piety is not to be happy and peaceful, but to Yan County."

Ma Han suddenly realized that he hit the saddle with a whip and said happily: "Good idea! Exchange Yan County for Le'an. Well, if it is not enough, you can add a Wenda."

Yan County is on the south bank of the Yellow River, across the river from Yuan Shao's Liyang Camp. It was originally a power of Cao Cao in Yanzhou. Later, because Lu Bu seized Yanzhou, all counties and counties rebelled. Yan County was close to Jizhou's forces and then surrendered to Yuan's family. Later, Cao Cao led Lu Bu to Yanzhou and recovered most of the counties. Because of his alliance with Yuan Shao, and at this time, he needed strong support from Jizhou, it was inconvenient to have a rift because of a Yan County, so he acknowledged the Yuan family's occupation of Yan County.

For the Yuan family, Yan County has only one more county, not many, but there are not many, but it has a lot of significance to Ma Han and Cao Cao.

Every time Ma Han transports grain from Liyang, the grain transport ship is exposed to the Baima camp troops stationed at the south bank of the Yellow River. At any time, it will be under the influence of the Cao army. If Yan County takes the initiative, the grain transport ship will be completely within its sphere of influence and will be safe.

Yan County is very close to Puyang, the former Yanzhou capital, only more than 200 miles. If it were more than half a year earlier, Cao Cao would definitely not be happy and would definitely interfere. However, since Cao Cao seized Yuzhou, the center of gravity has moved south and the base camp has been moved to Chenliu. The importance of Yan County has been reduced a lot. If you use Yuan Shao to put pressure on it, it will probably not cause too strong rebound.

"I'll let Dong Gongren do this." Ma Han used Dong Zhao as an envoy. Anyway, he was named a court counselor and his salary was paid by himself, so he didn't need to be useless.

When they arrived at the mansion of General Cavalry in Yongheli, Jia Xu and Guo Jia said goodbye and returned to their homes. As soon as Ma Han took a few steps to Lifang, a guard came to report to him: "The envoys of Xuzhou and the envoys of Yanzhou have set off."

Ma Han nodded, these two groups finally left.

In fact, neither Xun Yan, who represented Cao Cao or Sun Qian, who represented Liu Bei, planned to leave so soon. Xun Yan was determined to get Cao Ang back, otherwise it would be difficult to get a job. However, after staying in Luoyang for more than two months, he had no chance except seeing Cao Ang on both sides.

Sun Qian asked for the title of General Anton for his lord, which was the title of former Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian. With this title, Liu Bei had great righteousness in Xuzhou. However, if he wanted to truly rule Xuzhou with just a legitimate rule, there was also a formal appointment from the court. Sun Qian had two important responsibilities during this trip, one was to ask the court to appoint the lord as the governor of Xuzhou; the other was to let the lord return to the royal family's clan, but both of them encountered resistance. The first was the general of the cavalry as a joke, and the second was the emperor's doubts.

Sun Qian had no hope for the latter item, so it would be best if the lord had a trip in person, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with it. This trip was to make the lord's final decision when he went to Luo in the future. However, Sun Qian was very angry about the lord's obstruction. According to the convention of the late Han Dynasty, the lord's lord's ruler is now the court should recognize the fait accompli, just like Cao Cao's Yanzhou governor, why did he have a stir in his life when he was in his lord's life?

Ma Han did not explain this, just one word: drag.

He knew that reality would soon give Sun Qian a powerful explanation.

Sure enough, at the end of August, news came that Lu Bu, who was stationed in Xiaopei, took advantage of the battle between Liu Bei and Yuan Shu in Guangling, and joined forces with the Cao brothers of Xia Pi and the general of Liu Bei, and launched a rebellion, defeated the remaining Zhang Fei, captured Liu Bei's wife and daughter, and occupied Xuzhou.

This bolt from the blue suddenly caused the Xuzhou envoy group to fall into chaos. Sun Qian could not sit still and resign from the emperor as soon as possible.

After hearing the news, Mi Fang immediately visited General Cavalry. When he saw Ma Han, he was straight to the point: "My sister, please ask the general to take care of him."

At this time, Mi Fang was very pleased with his brother's wise decision to send his younger sister to Luoyang. This was the most wise "investment" of the two brothers.

Ma Han let out a long sigh. Did Lu Bu finally take action? The water flowing in Xuzhou is even more muddy, but it is not enough to let him get into the water. Keep watching the show.

As soon as the Xuzhou envoys left, the Yanzhou envoys rushed back in a hurry - a major incident happened in Yanzhou. Li Zheng, the governor of Qingzhou, who was appointed by Cao Cao, suffered an old injury and suddenly passed away. Li Dian heard the bad news and had no time to ask someone to tell Ma Han and rushed back immediately.

After the escort team left, Xun Yan naturally couldn't stay any longer, so he could only return to Yanzhou before making plans.

All are good news! From the perspective of a friend, Ma Han regretted Li Zhengzhi's death. But from his own interests, Li Dian replaced his brother, which is definitely good news. As for the Xuzhou Rebellion, it seems to be good. Lu Bu's capture of Xuzhou is much better than letting Liu Bei gain a foothold in Xuzhou.

With a happy mood, Ma Han found it a bit unusual as soon as he stepped into the mansion gate. In front of the mansion gate square, there was a car with exquisite workmanship and lacquered vermilion gold. Outsiders could not tell the name of this car. But Ma Han recognized it at a glance that it was one of the three luxury cars designed by Ma Jun. Not to mention all the functions in the car, the four-sided car (top) are made of iron plates, which have extremely high safety performance.

The three luxury cars are one of the emperor, one of the princess, and one of the queen.

The princess's car would not be parked in the square used by the guests. The emperor... I just came down from the court, and the emperor would not do anything else and sneaked into the general's mansion without saying hello. The answer was about to come out.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the atrium, a waiter came to report: "The queen is here, and the princess and all the ladies are accompanying each other in the inner courtyard."

Whether it is a general of the cavalry or a man, Ma Han should not go to see the queen. On the contrary, he should avoid it, but it is necessary to make someone accusation.

Just as Ma Han was about to walk through the atrium and return to his room, he saw a group of female officials holding various round fans, Ruyi, Wang Gai and other guided ceremonial guards.

It's such a coincidence? Ma Han was considering whether to avoid it. Su Ying flashed not far away, and the queen of the sixteenth year appeared in front of her.

Ma Wen was not easy to avoid now, so he stood down under the silhouette and glanced at the queen. Well, he was dressed in plain white, without the joy of a new queen. His beautiful face also looked depressed and unhappy.

No, I have only been the queen for a few months... But that's not what I think. I've carefully thought about it. The emperor and the queen have been together for more than six years, and it seems that some "seven-year itch" is coming...

After a sudden encounter, the queen's psychological quality was obviously not comparable to that of Ma Han, and she was a little panicked. When Ma Han bowed and bowed, the queen's eyelids drooped and said in a soft voice: "Ma Qing doesn't have to be too polite, I'm disturbing her."

Ma Han originally wanted to say, "The princess is idle, and she should go around more." But this kind of thing is always a bit wrong for the queen, and finally said, "Disturbate more, it's okay."

The queen bit her lips and hung her head and walked quickly. The palace ladies held back their laughter and walked quickly past Ma Han while saluting.

It seemed that I was really not used to dealing with a woman above me. Ma Han shook his head and walked into the inner courtyard. After a while, a maid came over and said that the princess was invited.

When Ma Han came over, he saw Princess Wannian sitting alone, and there was no one else. As soon as he saw Ma Han, Princess Wannian said directly: "Your Majesty has been practicing magical arts recently. Do you know?"

Ma Han was stunned and quickly reacted: "You mean... to practice Taoism?"

Princess Wannian nodded slightly with a hidden worry.

Ma Han was speechless. He didn't ask the people about ghosts and gods, and the emperor and the cultivation of immortals lasted for thousands of years. Since the first emperor in China, there were always a few emperors who were keen on seeking immortals and asking for the truth. The four representatives of the Chinese emperor: Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Emperor Song Zu, and Song Zu, were also the general representatives of seeking immortals and asking for the truth. Even the four wise and wise emperors in the traditional sense could not escape this strange circle. How could ordinary emperors avoid the vulgarity?

However, all the emperors only asked for immortals when they were middle-aged and old, and it was too early for you, the young emperor, to start playing this trick now?

Princess Wannian pushed a palm-sized box in front of her knees and signaled Ma Han to open it.

The brocade box is opened, and the fragrance is swaying. It has a built-in red pill the size of a finger, and is crystal clear and transparent.

Princess Wannian whispered: "This is the first elixir that the immortal Zhang of Longhu Mountain refined for His Majesty..."

Ma Han asked for advice with his eyes, but he didn't speak, but the princess knew his intentions and nodded slightly. Neither of the couple said the word "Queen", but they had a tacit understanding for many years and understood each other.

Princess Wannian looked begging: "My husband has a wide range of knowledge. Please tell me, can this elixir be in the mouth for identification?"

The "Xiandan" looks bright, round and smooth, and emits a strange fragrance, which looks very good. But this can't confuse Ma Han at all - the seafood "developed" by sulfur in later generations, which looks equally good?

Ma Han doesn’t know what alchemy is, but at least common sense is known. There are two things that are indispensable for alchemy: lead and mercury, which are heavy metals that are chronically damaged to the body.

Ma Han silently handed over the "immortal pill" to the princess and sighed: "Please advise him that it is best not to eat it. Although he is a hard emperor, he finally survived it. Aren't he still the leader of the revival? Besides, the immortals are so misty, how are they like the emperor on earth?"

Since ancient times, if the emperor insisted on cultivating immortals, it seemed that no minister could persuade him, and Ma Han could only do this.
Chapter completed!