The annual income of military food expenditure: 751,738 soldiers who go out to fight, the military food consumption is twice as much as possible

Urban Policy: Developing Interior Affairs

The 23 people referred to in "active service" are 14 of them are Wu Fan's original team, namely: Hua Xiong, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Zhou Tai, Zhang Ren, Lu Dai, Qiu Liju, Tian Feng, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Chen Qun, Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin, and Xi Zhicai. Seven other people are ministers under Emperor Xian, namely: Wang Yun, Yang Biao, Lu Zhi, Xun You, Dong Cheng, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Yan.

Since Wu Fan is the prefect of Luoyang, although these seven ministers belong to Emperor Xian, they also obey Wu's dispatch and execute military and political instructions.

As for the other two people in the service, they are naturally Wu Fan and Emperor Xian.

Every day, Emperor Xian went to the morning court in Wende Hall and met with 22 civil and military officials, including Wu Fan. Since Emperor Xian's power has been emptied, this summoning ceremony is essentially a superficial form, maintaining the face of Emperor Xian's emperor.

In the morning court, there was nothing to do and everything else to Wu Fan. Basically, ten minutes later, Wu Fan directly assigned military and political instructions to all civil and military officials in the hall. After everyone left, Wu Fan was the last to bow to Emperor Xian and bid farewell to the morning court. In the rest of the time, civil and military officials would go to the prefect's office to deliver or continue to receive military and political instructions.

As the days went on, Luoyang City gradually recovered under Wu Fan's careful management, and soon prospered, even more prosperous than before the locust plague.

...

Time goes back and pour it back.

Three days after Wu Fan became the prefect of Luoyang, Yuan Shu, who had already been salivating at Xuchang, was ecstatic to get the news. Without Wu Fan and his important officials, Yuan Shu thought that he had finally had the opportunity to bring Xuchang, the largest city in the Central Plains, into his hands. So he appointed Ji Ling as the general, Wei Yan, Wen Pin, Li Feng, Lei Bo, Liang Gang and Chen Lan as temporary generals, and attacked Xuchang with 60,000 troops.

Xuchang prefect Le Jin immediately sent someone to ask Chenliu and Cao Cao for help. Considering that Luoyang is close to Yuan Shao, Hebei and is currently in a tense time for the city to recover, Cao Cao did not dispatch Luoyang troops, but instead dispatched Chenliu, Puyang and Runan cities, a total of 40,000 troops, and went to rescue Xuchang himself.

Before sending troops, Cao Cao used the emperor's name to order Yuan Shu to retreat, but Yuan Shu naturally refused. Then, Cao Cao used Yuan Shu to disobey the emperor's name to ask Liu Yan, Yizhou and Liu Biao, Liu Biao, Jingzhou, to jointly send troops to fight Yuan Shu. After receiving the imperial edict, Liu Yan and Liu Biao each raised 50,000 troops to attack Yuan Shu. In addition, Cao Cao led 40,000 troops and 140,000 troops to defeat Yuan Shu, and ran away with his head.

Yuan Shu, who was in Wancheng, saw that the situation was going to go, scolded Cao Cao for being treacherous; but even if he scolded him hoarsely, it would be useless. With the advice of his ministers, Yuan Shu had to lead the generals to abandon Wancheng, fled to Jiangdong at night, and defected to Sun Jian.

Subsequently, Wancheng was occupied by Cao Cao in the name of the emperor and appointed Li Dian as the prefect of Wancheng.

At this point, Cao Cao's power has expanded to four prefectures and six cities. The specific situation is:

Chenliu: The prefect Cao Cao, who is under Yanzhou, has 5 military generals: Cao Cao, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu, Cao Xiu, and Cheng Yu.

Puyang: The prefect Xiahou Dun, who is under Yanzhou, has four military generals: Xiahou Dun, Yu Jin, Cao Hong, and Mao Jie.

Runan: The prefect Cao Ang, who is under Yuzhou, has 4 military generals: Cao Ang, Man Chong, Cao Chun, and Liu Dai.

Xuchang: The prefect Le Jin, who is affiliated with Yuzhou, has three military generals: Le Jin, Zhu Ling, and Chen Jiao.

Wan: The prefect Li Dian, who is under Jingbei, has four military generals: Li Dian, Lu Qian, Liang Xi, and Liu Fu.

Luoyang: The prefect Wu Fan, under Sili, 22 military generals: Wu Fan, Hua Xiong, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Zhou Tai, Zhang Ren, Lu Dai, Qiu Liju, Tian Feng, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Chen Qun, Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin, Xi Zhicai; Wang Yun, Yang Biao, Lu Zhi, Xun You, Dong Cheng, Huangfu Song, Zhu Yan and Wu Fan seem to have more people under his command...

Cao Cao made great contributions to "quelling the rebellion" this time, so Emperor Xian naturally wanted to reward him. He appointed Cao Cao as the second-rank general of the State, the Marquis of Linxiang, and led the central military to pacify the rebels of the world.

Cao Cao, who was promoted to the second rank official, immediately granted Wu Fan, and granted Wu Fan the highest military official position of the fourth rank official of the Left General, with a maximum command of 20,000 troops, Xiaoting Hou, and the prefect of Luoyang.

...

Three months passed without a storm, just November of the year.

During these three months, after resting and recuperating, the military and political index of the six cities of Cao Cao's power had reached a high level; Jia Xu, an opposition "poison" who traveled to Chenliu, also joined Cao Cao's corps and became Xi's counselor. During the same period, Liu Bei received the help of Lu Bu and finally defeated Sun Jian's army. Sun Jian's army had to temporarily change its strategy of dominating the Central Plains, and instead retreated to Shouchun, and strived to expand the Yangzhou and Jiaozhou areas.

Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, was terminally ill during this period and was about to die of oil soon.

After nearly a year of operation in Xuzhou, Liu Bei used the military funds supported by Tao Qian to build dams and drainage facilities many times, and made a large number of friends with local powerful families in Xuzhou, which made him very high expectations in the minds of the people of Xuzhou. Basically, becoming the lord of Xuzhou after Tao Qian was already the will of the people and the general trend.

...

After reading the latest information from Xuzhou sent by Cao Cao, Wu Fan nodded:

The Central Plains must be dominated by the world, and the Central Plains must be dominated by Xuzhou. It is time to advance to Xuzhou.
Chapter completed!