Chapter 441: Liu Yu’s Death, 2 Points in Youzhou

During the battle between Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu, Zhang Yu made the most money.

Not to mention the money, there are tens of millions.

Zhang Yu took the opportunity to ask for more than 600,000 refugees.

Part of it was obtained from Liu Yuna, and part of it was purchased by Gongsun Zan from Zhang Yu.

The two sides collected money and made a lot of war money.

There are more than 600,000 people, Zhang Yu resettled more than 100,000 people in Xuantu County, and established two county towns on both sides of Shenyang City. The county towns are not very large, but they can form a triangle with Shenyang City.

The most important thing is that the two counties, one of which is close to Liaodong, can better communicate with Liaodong. Once the enemy attacks again, they will be able to better defend Shenyang City.

For the other more than 400,000 people, most of Zhang Yu assigned them to Lelang County and Daifang County.

There were too few people in these two counties, and it happened to be enriched at this time.

At this time, Zhang Yu had already controlled the five counties of Youzhou. Although they were all the poorest counties in the past, after Zhang Yu's painstaking efforts, they now had a population of more than 3 million, a prosperous economy, and a strong military.

Youzhou has reached a critical juncture, and Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan are about to decide the winner.

Zhang Yu made up his mind to let Liu Yu lose quickly.

"What? The Zhang's Escort is no longer in business?"

"It wasn't good before, why did you stop taking business all of a sudden, didn't you make money?"

"It must be Zhang Yu, a vampire who wants to take advantage of our difficulties and increase the price?"

"Send someone to get in touch right away, and tell Zhang Yu to speak up if he sees something about us."

Xian Yufu heard the report from his subordinates that Zhang Yu would no longer accept any business from them, so he began to cry out in surprise.

After thinking about it, Xian Yufu guessed that Zhang Yu saw that their situation was not good, so he wanted to ask for more benefits, which was Zhang Yu's usual practice.

However, when they sent someone to contact, there was no news again, and they couldn't be contacted after that.

Now Xian Yufu immediately realized the big problem.

Xian Yufu thought of two possibilities. One was seeing that Gongsun Zan was powerful, and he didn't want to continue to offend Gongsun Zan, so he withdrew and went back.

The second possibility is that Zhang Yu reached an agreement with Gongsun Zan.

Regardless of the two possibilities, it is very unfavorable to them.

Xian Yufu hurried to find Liu Yu.

"Lord Zhou Mu, the situation is critical now. We might as well ask Yuan Shao for support." Xian Yufu told Liu Yu the problem and then made a suggestion.

Liu Yu shook his head and said: "Haven't you seen it through now? They are no longer the courtiers of the great man, but all chaotic officials. None of them will sincerely help us. Zhang Yu is like this, and Yuan Shao probably wants us to perish even more."

Xian Yufu felt sad, Yuan Shao was indeed waiting for Liu Yu's defeat at this time.

Liu Yu's identity is there, he is an authentic clan member of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao would never dare to do anything to him, but now someone is coming to deal with him, of course he is happy to see it.

Yuan Shao had the same idea as Zhang Yu.

If you want to kill Liu Yu, you have to borrow someone else's hand.

In this way, Liu Yu completely lost support.

Xianyu Fu immediately mobilized troops and horses urgently, and put more soldiers and horses into transporting and protecting grain and grass.

In this way, they will have many loopholes.

There were a lot of loopholes on the front line, and Gongsun Zan immediately saw an opportunity.

Among other things, Gongsun Zan's military talent is absolutely top-notch.

He immediately rushed in with his troops, attacking from several groups at the same time, and defeated Liu Yu's attack one after another.

Liu Yu was defeated one after another, and almost lost all his territory in less than a month.

At this time, entering June, Liu Yu couldn't support it.

In the end Liu Yu was left with only Juyong.

"Liu Yu is not suitable for this era. The sooner it is destroyed, the better for Youzhou to start a new era." Zhang Yu sighed again after receiving the news.

New era?

What is a new era is that there is no state pastor in Youzhou.

On the surface, Zhang Yu is an authentic second-rank general appointed by the imperial court, and Gongsun Zan's status cannot be compared with Zhang Yu's.

Although Gongsun Zan controlled a larger territory than Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu had no enemies around him.

But Gongsun Zan became enemies on both sides.

On the one hand, he had to guard against Zhang Yu's sneak attack from the rear, and on the other hand, he had to deal with Yuan Shao.

For Zhang Yu, there may still be a possibility for the two sides to compromise. Although it is a temporary compromise, there is no chance of compromise with Yuan Shao at all.

Therefore, the new era is the era in which Zhang Yu gradually dominates Youzhou.

After entering June, another event with a very huge impact occurred.

That is, Cao Song, Cao Cao's father, was killed in Xuzhou.

Cao Cao raised his troops in anger and surrounded Xuzhou.

Tao Qian and Cao Cao are both great princes, and their influence is huge.

At the same time, another event with a relatively large impact occurred.

It was Yuan Shao who ordered high officials to lead Bingzhou, and Bingzhou was completely controlled by Yuan Shao.

The two events did not have a direct impact on Youzhou, but had a great indirect impact.

Cao Cao's troops besieged Xuzhou, and Zhang Yu had close contacts with Xuzhou. To be precise, Zhang Yu had a huge economic relationship with the Mi family.

After Cao Cao's soldiers besieged Xuzhou, it would have a great influence on Zhang Yu.

The second thing is that Yuan Shao has completely won Bingzhou, and more power can be devoted to dealing with Youzhou, so it has a great impact on Youzhou.

In July, Liu Yu couldn't hold on.

Gongsun Zan and the others attacked Juyong and beheaded Liu Yu.

When Liu Yu died, Youzhou was shaken.

The common people reacted strongly, and Gongsun Zan's popularity plummeted.

Maybe it's because of politics, Gongsun Zan didn't expect this at all.

Or maybe Gongsun Zan had no choice.

Before attacking Jizhou and returning after a disastrous defeat, if we want to develop and expand our strength, we can only attack Liu Yu.

Otherwise, Gongsun Zan has no room for development at all.

But if he just defeated Liu Yu to grab the territory, the situation might not be so serious, but he directly killed Liu Yu, causing Gongsun Zan to quickly lose a lot of support.

Liu Yu can't do anything else, he really has a hand in developing the economy.

Under his governance, the lives of the people in Youzhou have been greatly improved, and their lives are also stable.

Therefore, after Gongsun Zan killed Liu Yu, his popularity plummeted.

With Zhang Yu's intervention, Liu Yu's defeat was very fast. In history, it would take October to be defeated, but now it is three months earlier.

It quickly led to the defeat of Liu Yu, Gongsun Zan retained some strength, and Yuan Shao had no time to react.

According to estimates, Yuan Shao did not expect Liu Yu to be defeated so quickly.

They also counted Zhang Yu's support, thinking that Liu Yu could persist for more than half a year.

This huge gap prevented Yuan Shao from intervening in the battle in Youzhou.

Afterwards, Yuan Shao's counselors Xun Yu, Xu You, Ju Shou and Tian Feng all lamented Zhang Yu's shrewdness.

Zhang Yu's move gave Yuan Shao no chance to intervene, and it also gave Gongsun Zan more power to block Yuan Shao.

There are only two major forces left in Youzhou. At this time, there will be no war between the two major forces, or even conflicts. Youzhou seems to have calmed down all of a sudden.

"Report, my lord, an envoy has arrived in Xuzhou." Zhang Yu was handling government affairs when an orderly came in to report.

"Is Tao Qian going to ask me for help?" Zhang Yu said with some surprise.