Chapter 261

Chen Gui really did not expect that he would also have a day when he would misjudge.

"But Father, even if that Governor Su's army is strong, you don't have to resign directly from this position of Chief Clerk, right?"

The eldest son was still a bit puzzled.

"Sigh!"

Chen Gui shook his head upon hearing this, "Yuanlong, you tell your eldest brother."

"Eldest brother, the reason Father resigned from the Chief Clerk is to avoid suspicion. The Chief Clerk is the officer who assists Tao Shijun in managing the army. Tao Shijun has absolutely let Governor Su succeed him, and inevitably the army will also be handed over to Governor Su."

"Father was originally opposed. If you continue to manage the army of Xiapi now, what do you think that Governor will think?"

"The battle of Pengcheng, that General Zang Ba directly wiped out several families; isn't this killing the chicken to warn the monkey? Killing the Pengcheng families is to warn monkeys like our families."

Chen Deng said with a heavy face.

He knew a little more about Donghai Commandery. It seemed that this Governor Su was not a strong-willed person.

However, a detailed understanding of East Sea made him understand that this Governor's methods were quite formidable.

Those families in Donghai Commandery were now obedient to that Governor like domestic dogs.

That Governor was not like Dong Zhuo; when facing the families, he was blindly tough. He was soft with hardness and hard with softness.

On one hand, he would take out candy to lure you, and at the same time, he would constantly weaken your power and interests.

Those families in Donghai Commandery were all earning a lot of money, but his control over the local area was getting weaker and weaker.

This was something he only learned recently. The more he understood, the more shocked he was in his heart, and the more wary he was of that person's methods.

In the middle of the fourth year of Chuping, the Governor of Yu Province and General Zhen Dong entered Xiapi City. Tao Qian, the Inspector of Xuzhou, led a hundred officials to greet him ten miles outside the city.

The following month, Tao Qian, the Inspector of Xuzhou, submitted a memorial to request Su Fan to be the Inspector of Xuzhou.

Later, without waiting for the Imperial Court to issue an edict, he also handed over the seal of the Inspector of Xuzhou. From then on, Xuzhou officially entered Su Fan's era.

In this process, it was not that there were no riots, but Su Fan brought an army of two hundred thousand, staring like a tiger, and soon suppressed all the dissatisfaction.

After Su Fan became the Inspector of Xuzhou, he did not make any adjustments to the various parties in Xiapi. First, the forces in Xuzhou were complex, and one move would affect the whole situation.

He needed to figure out the situation in Xuzhou completely before taking action.

Moreover, in terms of talent, he did not have much in his hands. Most of the talent in Yingchuan was in the Donghai Ling.

With the constant expansion there, the demand for talent was also getting bigger and bigger.

Because of the subdivision of job functions, naturally, more manpower was needed. Of course, this would improve efficiency a lot.

Although he did not move the civil official system, he firmly controlled the military power in his own hands. He began to change the defense of the troops in various commanderies, and the commandery lieutenants and the like had all been replaced by his own people.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Su Fan did not care what those families did locally; as long as he firmly controlled the army, the other party could not make any waves at all.

He naturally knew that there were still many people in Xuzhou who were not convinced by him.

For example, the Cao clan of Xiapi, but now he was powerful, and the Cao clan had to lower their heads.

But he knew that these people just lowered their heads to him for a short time. Once there was something external, these people would very likely stand out.

It was just that he was not good at dealing with these people now. After all, they had all lowered their heads, and he could not just give them a charge at will and exterminate them.

If that were really the case, he would be like Dong Zhuo.

Of course, he was not afraid of being assassinated.

The number of experts under his command was much higher than Dong Zhuo's. The only one Dong Zhuo could count on, Lu Bu, was also alienated from him.

As for Hua Xiong, this original number one fierce general of Xiliang, to say that his strength was not bad, but he was not the direct line of Xiliang, so he was always sent away by Dong Zhuo.

So Dong Zhuo finally hung up.

But Su Fan was different. Two great god-level bodyguards, Xu Chu and Dian Wei, had completely fallen into his hands, one in the open and one in the dark, guarding him.

Moreover, his own strength was not something Dong Zhuo could compare to. Over the years, he had never slacked off, and his magic power had been diligently practiced. Although the progress was not great, and he was only at the third level of Foundation Establishment, his progress in martial arts and physical body was not small.

His physical cultivation had reached the sixth level of Gang Refining, and his combat power was not inferior to any martial general at the sixth level of Gang Refining.

And the key was that apart from the core of the Donghai Ling, no one knew, even the Gao clan thought that Su Fan had always been practicing the divine soul.

Another autumn harvest, Su Fan only stayed in Xiapi for less than two months. With the autumn harvest imminent, he returned to the Donghai Ling.

With those Daoist masters of the Taiping Dao, the Donghai Ling had never had any natural disasters, the weather had been favorable, and there had been a bumper harvest every year.

Golden fruits, boundless, the thousand-mile villages of the Donghai Ling were filled with laughter, and at the same time, there were the shouts of the army.

The army and the people were harmonious, and sometimes the army would personally go to the fields to help the farmers harvest grain.

In this piece of the Donghai Ling, the strength of the people's hearts was truly rare, and Su Fan's prestige was simply greater than heaven. Every household had a longevity tablet.

In the Donghai Ling, Su Fan was the Son of Heaven; whoever came would not work.

If someone attacked here, even an army of millions would be very difficult to break in.

Because here, everyone was truly a soldier, and it was the kind whose morale had reached its peak.

"Sun Jian's messenger?"

After the autumn harvest, an uninvited guest came to the Donghai Ling.

"My Lord, this messenger of Sun Jian is afraid that he came here to ask us to send troops!"

Xi Zhicai said.

"Oh! It seems Sun Jian has not had an easy time these past two years."

Su Fan laughed loudly upon hearing this. Ever since Sun Jian and Yuan Shu broke up, although he had captured Yuzhang and even occupied more than half of Lujiang.

However, after Yuan Shu gave up continuing to attack Nanyang Commandery and transferred strong troops to Yangzhou, Sun Jian's life was not easy.

Facing the elites under Yuan Shu, Sun Jian could only passively defend.

No matter how unreliable Yuan Shu was in history, the current Yuan Shu had an army of millions. There were not many fierce generals under his command, but they were not brainless people either.

They could not beat the father and son Sun Jian and Sun Ce in a one-on-one fight, so they stopped fighting one-on-one and used powerful military strength to suppress them.

Yuan Shu was not yet muddled and deaf, and there were military strategists in the army to help, so Sun Jian was forced to choose to fight Yuan Shu head-on.

The result of this was that Sun Jian's vital strength was constantly consumed, and because he had been fighting, his territory could not develop, and the grain was getting less and less.

Sun Jian's state was even more miserable than Gongsun Zan's in You Province.

"Zhicai, Feng Xiao, what do you think?"

"Sending troops is not needed for the time being. Sun Jian has not yet reached the end of his rope, but they are short of grain, so we can support some, which can also allow Sun Jian to consume more of Yuan Shu's strength."

Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia looked at each other and smiled at Su Fan.

"Hmm! Then let's do that."

In fact, they had planned this long ago and guessed that Sun Jian might come, and sure enough, it was as expected.