Huangfu Chaobo, who came back to Luoyang, had no time to rest. As the territory of the Tang Kingdom grew larger and larger, daily government affairs became more and more onerous. Although there were three gongs and nine Qing monks and calligraphy desk to share, they could not handle many things. Even if they had made a temporary decision, they still needed Huangfu Chaobo's personal intervention afterwards.

However, Huangfu Chaobo, who returned to the palace, did not immediately deal with the government affairs. Instead, he came to the back palace. First, he took a look at his children and accompanied them for an afternoon. Then, he had a family dinner with MI and Han, and had a good night's rest. The next day, he began to meet with the officials and deal with the government affairs.

After the early Dynasty, Huangfu Chaobo came to the side hall to deal with government affairs. Not long after they sat down, Shi a and Guo Jia took the information they had just sorted out from all over the world and asked for a meeting outside the hall.

Huangfu Chaobo looked at the memorials piled up in front of him like a hill. He came forward helplessly and told the servant, "pass it on!"

A moment later, the two joined hands to enter, and immediately knelt down to Huangfu Chaobo and said, "I beg to see the king!"

Huangfu Chaobo looked at the memorials in his hand and said without raising his head: "excuse me, you two, please sit down first and wait for Gu to finish the two memorials."

"No!"

Soon after reading the two memorials, Huang Fu Chao Bo wrote a few words on them, and then handed them to his entourage, saying, "send them to Shang Shu's study immediately, and give them to Shang Shu's order, so that they can arrange as soon as possible!"

The servant took two memorials and went away. Then Huangfu Chaobo took a cup from the table and sipped it gently. He said, "it's just right that if you two don't come, I will send someone to call you. Let's talk about the situation of the counties in China first! "

"No!" As soon as Shi a heard this, he immediately got up to respond. Then he spread out a notebook he had with him and told Huangfu Chaobo in detail about the situation of the counties in China in recent months.

Fortunately, because of sufficient preparation in advance, nothing happened in the country during this period. Although the state of Qi had several exploratory attacks, the generals led by Lu Su, Huang Zhong and Xu Rong resolutely fought back. Several times, several hundred soldiers sent by Cao Cao were almost completely annihilated. After these wars, Cao Cao's subordinates were very proud I don't feel like I'm provoking the state of Tang any more. In addition, Wu and yelaixiang constantly had friction with Qi, so Cao Cao's main energy went to Xuzhou.

The development of Yanbei county and several islands is also very stable, especially Changshan island and yuzhoushan island. Now the construction of the two counties has been completed, and the population has reached more than 30000, especially the docks attached to the two cities are well developed. After thinking about it, Huangfu Chaobo said: "send a messenger to transfer Li Gui, the Deputy captain of Changshan Island City, to Yuzhou mountain city as the county magistrate."

After listening to the situation in China, Huangfu Chaobo was relieved. However, when he looked at Guo Jia, they were not half relaxed. So he said, "come on, you two have some bad news."

Shi ah gave a bitter smile and looked at Guo Jia. Guo Jia nodded, went to the side wall of the side hall and pointed to the land map of Youzhou: "it's really not good news. According to the news that shadow guard came back from Youzhou these days, the king of Yan has rarely appeared since he was defeated and fled back to Youzhou."

In this year's war, Gongsun Zan suffered a great loss. He lost tens of thousands of elites and most of the cities of Zhuo county. Now there are only two cities in Zhuo County, Zhuo county and Liangxiang.

However, after returning to Jicheng, Gongsun Zan didn't show up much, but his action was constant. First of all, he once again ordered the dispatch of elite soldiers from all prefectures and counties, and reorganized 50000 elite soldiers in Jicheng, which were divided into five battalions, named Qinglong camp, Baihu camp, Zhuque camp, Xuanwu camp and Yulin camp respectively. At the same time, he also organized 20000 cavalry from all prefectures and counties, plus the original 20000 Baima Yicong, there were 40000 cavalry.

The 90000 troops were firmly controlled by Gongsun Zan himself, and even his favorite righteous brothers had no chance to get involved. In this way, the most elite troops of the whole Yan kingdom were basically concentrated in Gongsun Zan's own hands. For example, in the hands of other prefects, even Gongsun fan and Gongsun Yue, except for 2000 white horses, only 8000 prefectural soldiers were used to defend the county city, not to mention the soldiers of wangmen and Danjing.

The reason why this happened was that it came out from the palace of King Yan that in order to divert Gongsun Zan's attention and reduce his criminal responsibility for instigating troops, his righteous brothers, Yan Guoxiang, Guowei, Liaoxi and Lulong County guards, easily organized tens of thousands of elite soldiers with their allies without Royal orders Cavalry, if any of them want to support themselves, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Gongsun Zan, who has been defeated by Yuan Shao in succession, is now more headstrong. Just a few words from Liu Weitai and Li Yizi make Gongsun Zan suspicious of his two younger brothers. In this way, the front move appears.

In addition to dispatching troops, Gongsun Zan also ordered a large number of grain and grass to be collected from all counties and counties to Jicheng, and then tens of thousands of craftsmen were recruited to expand the inner city of Jicheng to almost half of the outer city, and to concentrate the vast majority of the 90000 elite soldiers in the inner city.The five battalions took turns in the defense of the outer city. Not only that, he made people constantly strengthen the defense of Ji City, and then he wantonly built the palace, and kept himself in the palace all day long.

Even the most important officials of Jing and Zhongcheng gongsunji, the censor of the state, seldom have the chance to see gongsunzan. At any time, the only people who can see gongsunzan are his three brothers, the person in charge of Yingchao and gongsunhao, the leader of gongsunzan's personal guard.

After listening to Guo Jia's introduction, Huangfu Chaobo was stunned and speechless for a long time. After a long time, he said slowly: "Gongsun Zan, this is going further and further on the road of death! It seems impossible to pull it back. "

After staying with Huangfu Chaobo for a long time, Guo Jia understood the meaning of "death", and said: "as the king said, Gongsun Zan is killing himself."

"In Qing's opinion, what should Gudang do?" Huangfu Chaobo looked at Guo Jia and asked;

"Jia has not yet come up with a good solution. The king might as well call all the people in Shangshutai and discuss it carefully." Guo Jia shook his head and said,

now Pang Tong and Lu Su, who are going to Wei county and Shanyang County, have both returned to Luoyang. That's why Guo Jia said so.

Huangfu Chaobo nodded, and immediately sent someone out of the palace to summon several people. At the same time, he also invited Xu Shu. Gongsun Zan's practice was obviously like building a city in Yijing in history. He wanted to die. Huangfu Chaobo had to find a way to deal with it, otherwise Yanbei county would be in danger again.