The cold comes and the summer goes by, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, the historian's pen is gentle, and the time advances to the fifteenth year of Jian'an - March, the spring breeze blows the earth, and everything is thriving!

In the past three years, the forces of all parties have been relatively calm, there have been no major wars, God is also very face-saving, the wind and rain are smooth, the five grains are abundant, the people have obtained bumper harvests one after another, the public and private warehouses are full, and the wounds of the war have gradually healed!

Three years have passed, Cao Cao, the king of Wei, has become more and more old, his beard is white, his body is weak, and after occasionally contracting the wind and cold last winter, he has been recuperating in the prime minister's mansion, and he has not shown up for several months, and has not met with civil and military officials!

In the past three years, Xiao Yi has worked hard and has two more sons, one is from Cai Wenji, named Xiao Fu, the other is from Zhen Mi, named Xiao Luo, and has an additional daughter Xiao Xiang, but I don't know who came out, so I had to hand it over to Mrs. Da Qiao to 'raise'.

In the past three years, Sun Quan selected talents and talents internally, worked hard to govern the country, and crusaded against the Shanyue tribe externally, and enriched the six counties with its strong population; And Liu Bei Group was not idle, after digesting the land in Jiaozhou, he peeked into a new target - Yizhou!

"Hello - Wheel, don't drive your lord, don't worry about the Hou Mansion here!"

"Let the old man take a look, the door is tall, grandiose, and the weather is really extraordinary, but there are too many cars and horses, what do they do?"

"They are all officials, celebrities, and wealthy businessmen from all over the world, who have come to see Lord Sima, and the number of people today is not very large, and they can line up at the end of the street at most......"

At noon, two carriages came on Baihu Street, decorated very gorgeously, more than a dozen guards on the left and right followed, and a local aboriginal led the way in front, until they came to the door of the Hou Mansion without worries!

A middle-aged man walked out of the car in front, less than seven feet tall, with figure-eight eyebrows, dead fish eyes, a collapsed nose, and a small black pockmarked face...... The head is slightly larger than the average person, and it is Zhang Song, a visitor from Shuzhong, who is also one of the important strategists of Yizhou Group!

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the princes fought for hegemony, forming large and small forces, including Caoying Group, Hebei Group, Jingzhou Group, Jiangdong Group...... And the most bizarre of them is Yizhou Group, because it has a wonderful founder - Liu Yan!

Liu Yan, the word Junlang, is a descendant of King Lu Gong of the Western Han Dynasty - Liu Yu, a serious Han clan relative, successively served as the Luoyang Order, Jizhou Thorn History, Zongzheng, Taichang and other official positions, very active in the political arena, and the world's evaluation of him: extremely smart, not heroic!

As early as the fifth year of Zhongping, Liu Yan had a premonition that chaos was coming, as a relative of the Han family, he did not serve the country loyally and assist Sheji, but wrote to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, bribed the ten permanent servants, and asked to serve as the pastor of Yizhou, and first got a good land for himself!

After Liu Zhang took office, he first attacked the local tyrants and firmly controlled Yizhou, and then ordered his henchmen and generals to cut off communications, kill Han envoys, cut off ties with the central government, and make Yizhou in a semi-independent state, and then did one more thing: just do nothing!

In the first year of the first peace, the princes of the Eighteenth Road crusaded against Dong Zhuo, the Han world became a pot of porridge, and the capital city - Luoyang was also burned by fire, but Liu Yan ignored it and lived his own life behind closed doors!

In the fourth year of Jian'an, Cao and Yuan's armies confronted Guandu, the sky was dark, the blood flowed like a river, and the princes of all sides had abnormal movements......

In the ninth year of Jian'an, hundreds of thousands of Cao troops marched south, and there was a tendency to swallow the world, and the southern princes organized a coalition to resist, and fought a bloody battle with them in Wulin......

Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and son have been in Yizhou for nearly 20 years, and they have never cared about the outside world.

But recently, Liu Zhang's life is not good, Zhang Lu in the north is pressing step by step, seizing more than a dozen cities in Ba County, the barbarian tribes in the south are making trouble, and constantly plundering all parts of Yongchang County, and Liu Bei in the east is also sharpening his knife Huohuo, eyeing the big fat meat of Yizhou.

In desperation, I took Zhang Song as the messenger to come to Xuchang City to walk around, explore the reality of the court, and see the situation of the princes in each town.

"There are too many people who want to see Da Sima, I'm afraid I won't be able to drive tomorrow, so why don't you come back another day?"

"Yizhou is in danger, the lord is like sitting on pins and needles, how can he delay any longer, there is no worry about the difficulty of entering the Hou Mansion, and you ......will act according to the old man's orders."

"Your Excellency is so smart, get things down!"

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Half a month ago, Zhang Song arrived in Xuchang City, but he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion three times in a row, but he didn't see the face of Cao Cao, the king of Wei, and thought that the traitor's eyes were higher than the top, and he couldn't look down on the envoys from afar!

Later, under the guidance of a master, I learned the inside story: King Wei was unwell and had not shown up for several months, and the military and political affairs of the DPRK and China were all decided by Da Sima, so he came to meet the Marquis Mansion without worries!

I didn't think that the crowd in front of the Hou Mansion was surging, they were all some generals, guards, and high-ranking officials, a small Yizhou don't drive, there is no qualification to cut the queue at all, and I don't know when to wait, but fortunately, although Zhang Songren is ugly, his mind is very smart......

"The people in front of them have all flashed away, and on the order of Lord Sima, they have sent dozens of Shu brocade horses to the new lady, all of which are first-class goods!"

"Da Sima only has eight wives, when will he marry a new lady, why don't I know the news?"

"You are really a human head and a pig's brain, I haven't heard of a daughter of Da Sima Xin, but it is not from the eight ladies...... Do you need to elaborate on the rest, one of the two pearls of Jiangdong! ”

Under the command of Zhang Song, the guards moved out dozens of Shu brocade horses from the back car - colorful stripes and flowers, bright colors, shouting all the way forward, the officials along the way did not know why, and the result really gave way to a road!

When he arrived at the door of the Hou Mansion, Zhang Song tidied up his clothes, took out a gift list, and asked to see Lord Sima...... In exchange, there was a shouting and scolding from behind, but the wood was already in the boat, so he could only be the first to enter!

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"Yizhou was the country of Ba and Shu in ancient times, the place is remote, the culture is backward, the environment is extremely harsh, poisonous snakes and beasts are rampant, the water of the Minjiang River is flooded from time to time, flooding the manor and fertile land, and the people of Bashu are deeply affected!

In the ninth year of Qin Huiwen, Qin sent troops to annex Bashu, and took Li Bing as the Taishou of Shu County, this person was very good at controlling water, and led the people to build the Dujiangyan project, which was composed of fish mouth, flying sand weir, treasure bottle mouth and channel network, which completely solved the problem of flooding of the Minjiang River!

After the completion of Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain turned into a thousand miles of fertile soil, water and drought from people, do not know famine, no famine years, the world called "the country of abundance", and so on in the future to govern the country, remember that the first-rate ruler builds the country, the second-rate ruler conquers the country, and the third-rate ruler destroys the country......"

"Nuo-Obey the teachings of my father and master, and be a first-class ruler!"

In the study of the Hou Mansion, there is a huge picture of the Han Dynasty, Xiao Yi is holding a ring ruler, explaining the behavior of the mountains and rivers in various places, customs and customs, and today's focus is on Yizhou!

Xiao Xuan, Xiao Huang...... Guo Jing, Deng Ai, Hao Zhao, and Sun Shao gathered around, concentrating on studying, and bowing their heads from time to time to copy notes.

This kind of punishment is not beating, but it is more 'cruel', such as cleaning the stables, fertilizing the vegetable fields, helping the farmers to cultivate the fields...... Until he passed the make-up exam, in Xiao Yi's words: "If you don't work hard, it's better to pick up a lot of dung, at least you won't starve to death when you farm in the future!" ”

"Dare to ask my father, people say that Yizhou is dangerous, fertile and thousands of miles, it is one of the two largest states in the world, Gaozu became an emperor because of it, why did Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and son have been in Shu for nearly 20 years, but they have not done anything at all?"

"Jing'er asked a good question, it seems that a month's dung is not in vain, as the so-called first has the Ming Lord, and then there is a strong country, although Yizhou is the capital of the emperor, Liu Yan and Liu Zhang are all guardian dogs, so it is naturally difficult to make great achievements!

In addition, if there is a benefit, there must be a suffocation, Yizhou has the dangers of mountains and rivers, although it is difficult for foreign enemies to invade, it is not easy for the people inside to come out, it must be connected with Guanzhong, in order to really exert its power, and the Great Qin Dynasty has benefited from this! ”

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Guo Jing is ten years old, he has lived in the Wushou Mansion since he was a child, and his treatment is no different from that of the Xiao family's sons, and he has a baby with Xiao Yiding, so he has always called Xiao Yi his father, and the two are also like father and son!

After more than three years of recuperation, the vitality of the Cao Ying Group has recovered, and now the soldiers are strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, and they are fully capable of fighting a big battle, and the first target is Yizhou!

Yizhou has fertile land, abundant products, second only to Jizhou in strength, can keep pace with Jingzhou, and with the dangers of mountains and rivers, it has not been affected by the war in the Central Plains, the people live relatively stable, the population is more than one million, the real king's capital!

More importantly, Yizhou is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and if the Caoying Group can take it as its own, it can use sufficient manpower, material resources, and financial resources to train soldiers and horses, build warships, and then wave its troops down the river to capture Jingzhou and Jiangdong in one fell swoop, and complete the great cause of dominating the world!

Because the topography of China - high in the north and low in the south, high in the west and low in the east, and the use of troops is like water, and it is most advantageous to be condescending, so all the wars of unification have occupied the Central Plains first, and then swept the south counterclockwise, encircling the strategy in great depth!

The problem is that the Cao Ying group occupies the north, and if they want to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Yizhou, they must first conquer Hanzhong County, which is Zhang Lu's territory, there are hundreds of thousands of crazy sect members, and there are mountains and rivers blocking the road, so it is very difficult to attack!

In addition, according to the careful investigation, Liu Beitun's army is in the west of Nanjun, accumulating grain and grass, building ordnance, and seems to have a tendency to enter Xichuan in a big way.

"Qiqi Da Sima, the envoy of Yizhou-don't drive Zhang Song to ask to see, he is waiting outside the mansion!"

"Zhang Song is here...... Haha, I was really just yawning when someone brought me a pillow! ”

While pondering, the chief of the guard, Cao Xing, announced the news, which made Xiao Yi overjoyed, and at the same time recalled the evaluation of Zhang Song by later generations: ugly, talented, extremely self-esteem, and able to die for his confidant...... Is there a way to deal with such people?

"Open the middle door, play music in the two corridors, and wait with me to welcome the VIPs into the house!"

"No!"

(End of chapter)