He Jin frowned and said hatefully: "He Miao's kid is too ignorant, and sooner or later there will be problems." He Miao's matter is very important, and I immediately sent someone to find him. He has been hiding in Zhang Rang's mansion for the past few days. ”

He Hao said: "General, why do you want to beat him? I wonder if we can reveal our plan to him a little bit......"

"Nope." He Jin waved his hand resolutely and said, "He can't be relied on, and he can't let him know the slightest." This bastard, don't beat him? If we don't beat him, he'll kill us. ”

"Originally, did Xu Yu have a reply?" The general asked, "This person is too proud, and I am very worried about putting him next to Wang Fen." ”

Yuan Shao arched his hand and said, "That's because the general is not familiar with him." I've been playing with him since I was a child, I know him, this person can definitely rest assured, it's just that Ziyuan looks down on people, and his temper of boasting is really annoying. He recently wrote to him that he went to Pingyuan County to ask someone to help him, and he was not in Jizhou for the time being, and he would not contact him for a while. Is there anything the general needs to tell him? ”

"Nope. At this time, everyone has to be improvised, and there is no instruction. You told him to be careful in Jizhou, and never expose himself. If something happens, he will pay for his life at most, and we will be miserable. He Jin said worriedly.

"General, Apo is back." Yuan Shao said, "It is estimated that we will arrive in Luoyang in the next few days." ”

He Jin snorted coldly and said, "The eunuchs are in a hurry. What is Cao Cao doing when he comes back now? Is there any other way for the eunuchs to deal with it? In addition to Dong Fatzi, they have power that we don't know about? ”

He Hao shook his head and said, "Dong Zhuo is greedy for fame and fortune, it is easy to solve, but Cao Cao is still in trouble." ”

He Jin glanced at He Hao and Yuan Shao suspiciously.

"If we launch an operation to eradicate the traitorous eunuchs, will Cao Song be killed or not?" He Hao asked, "Cao Song is Cao Teng's son, and Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang are brothers, can we kill them?" ”

"What do you mean......" He Jin hesitated. Asked.

"After Apo comes back, with his military exploits in suppressing the Yellow Turban in the past, as well as his achievements as an official in the county government, he can at least go to the Northern Army to become a lieutenant, if the emperor intends to embarrass us, he can also let him be the ruling Jinwu, he has this qualification." Yuan Shao said worriedly, "This is a trouble, we were negligent." ”

"Birg, primordial. Aren't you friends with him? It's the New Year, you take the opportunity to get in touch with him and think of a remedy. He Jin said indifferently, "He's not a problem. ”

He Hao and Yuan Shao knew that He Jin didn't take it to heart, and the two glanced at each other, and a trace of uneasiness passed through their hearts.

He Jin continued: "The matter of the eunuch is basically solved, and the rest is Li Yi. The knife in the right hand of the Son of Heaven is extremely sharp, and it may not be easy to hit it with one blow. ”

He glanced at He Hao. He asked, "Have all the people you want to invite come?" ”

"It's almost there." He Hao said, "Inviting these people was originally to prepare for emergencies, but I didn't expect it to come in handy." ”

"Spent money. Of course, they have to help. Yuan Shao smiled, "General, do I still want to go to Zhangyuetai?" ”

He Jin thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Forget it." This tiger is too dangerous, so it's better to kill it. ”

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The twenty-ninth day of the third year of Zhongping, the Chinese New Year's Eve.

this day. Every household has to set up a wine banquet at home, people visit back and forth to call it "Farewell Year", in addition, every household also burns incense outdoors, called "Tianxiang", usually for three days.

The heavy snow suddenly hit the sky, and the majestic Luoyang City was soon covered with a layer of gorgeous silver and took on a new look.

Cao Cao took his wife Liu and walked into Luoyang City in the snowstorm.

Cao Song was very happy, and kept circling around his son, shushing and asking for warmth, as if Cao Cao was still a naughty child and had to be taken care of by his father.

In the evening, the father and son talked about the affairs of Beijing.

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The thirtieth day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, they began to stick to the door gods, cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinners, make shorns (modern dumplings), observe the New Year, and set off firecrackers. Before the first eve, the store goes to collect the bills, and after the Chinese New Year's Eve, it can't be done. People who don't have money use two peach planks with the names of the two door gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" written on them, and hang them on the door, so that the ghosts dare not come. In addition to the god of the door, there are also hanging reed ropes, that is, grass ropes. Ropes can tie people, and naturally in people's understanding, they can also tie ghosts, so ghosts are afraid of ropes.

On this day, the palace will hold a ceremony of "Dada", beating drums to expel the ghosts of the plague, called "expulsion".

The snow was still falling on the ground.

Xu Jing hurriedly entered Luoyang City on this day.

Xu Jing did not go to Sikong Mansion, but went to Yuan's Mansion.

When Yuan Kui heard that Xu Jing, a great Confucian in Runan, was visiting, he was overjoyed and personally greeted him.

At the same time, Xu Xiang was very sad when he heard that Xu Jing had arrived in Beijing, but he did not enter his own door. He knew that his brother hated him for being close to the lieutenant and looked down on him. He lingered in the courtyard for a long time, letting the snow fall all over him.

If you leave your brother who came thousands of miles from his hometown and braved the wind and snow to spend the New Year in Yuan's mansion, he will feel guilty for the rest of his life, and he will become a laugher for others. Although they have different political views, they are brothers after all.

Xu Xiang sighed and decided to go to Yuan's Mansion in person and take Xu Jing to his home for the New Year.

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In the fourth year of Zhongping in the Great Han Dynasty (187 AD), the first day of the first month.

The ancient Emperor Zhuan and the Xia Dynasty both took the first month of Meng Chun as the yuan, that is, using the Xia calendar of Jianyin, and the first day of the first month as the New Year's Day; The Shang Dynasty used the Yin calendar, and the Yin calendar built an ugly calendar, with the first day of December as the New Year's Day; The Zhou Dynasty used the Zhou calendar, and the Zhou calendar was built into a son, with the first day of November as the New Year's Day; The Qin Dynasty used the Qin calendar, and the Qin calendar built Hai, with the first day of the new year as the New Year's Day; In the early period of the Han Dynasty, the Qin calendar was still used, and in the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (104 AD), the Taichu calendar created by Sima Qian and Luo Xiahong was changed, and the summer calendar of Jianyin was reused, with the first day of the first month as the New Year's Day.

On this day, people have to worship their ancestors, welcome the gods to go to each house to pay New Year's greetings, and set off cannons.

The first day of the first month is still the New Year. Occupy the year is the folk to enter the new first few days of the weather to account for the year. It began with Mr. Dongfang Shuo's "Year of Occupation" in this dynasty, which means that the first day is the day of the chicken, the second day is the dog, the third day is the pig, the fourth day is the sheep, the fifth day is the cow, the sixth day is the horse, the seventh day is the great man, and the eighth day is the grain. If the day is fine, then the things of the lord will multiply, and the day of the lord will be cloudy, and the day of the lord will not be prosperous. Later generations follow his habits and believe that from the first day to the tenth day of the new year, the weather is clear, and there is no wind or snow as auspicious.

The main activity of people on this day is to pay New Year's greetings.

The wind of New Year's greetings has existed in the Han Dynasty. If there are too many relatives and friends in the neighborhood, it is difficult to visit the door, and the general eunuch and wealthy family will send their servants to congratulate them with their names, which was called "thorn" at that time, so the current business card is also called "famous thorn". At that time, the upper echelons of society had the custom of congratulating each other with famous posts. The "famous thorns" and "famous confessions" mentioned here are the origins of the current New Year's card.

From the first day of the first lunar month to the fifth day of the first lunar month, most families do not accept women, which is called "taboo", and women must wait until the sixth day of the first lunar month before they can go out to visit.

The New Year's greetings will be extended for a long time, until around the 15th day of the first lunar month. In the evening, it is called "Night Festival" when you go to people's homes, and after the tenth day of the new year, it is called "Lantern Festival".

On the first day of the first lunar month, the ministers entered the palace to worship, the monarchs and ministers enjoyed together, and the emperor gave the ministers a soup made of millet (or other grains) and mutton.

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Just when the Son of Heaven invited his ministers to drink soup, Li Yi, who was far away in Youzhou, also accompanied his relatives to celebrate the seventh Spring Festival after he came to the Han Dynasty.

In the blink of an eye, he had been living in this era for six years. Looking back, Li Yi has a feeling that time flies.

And when the New Year's bell rang, Li Yi also received the reward of the seventh year from the system: primary mineral detection.

This is an interesting technology that can greatly improve the exploration efficiency of several minerals commonly used in daily life, including gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, zinc and mercury.

It seems that this technology is not very useful, but in fact, it is not, which has a huge effect on the development of Youzhou.

Li Yi found that at the beginning of each year, the technology of system rewards is actually very useful and applicable. In the first year he was given the extraction and purification of table salt, in the second year he was again in winemaking, in the third he was in the selection and training of horses, in the fourth year he was in the steel filling method, in the fifth year he was in breeding, and in the past sixth year he was given a rudimentary weaving technique, plus this year he was given mineral exploration, each of which is a practical technique that can change lives.

In addition, Li Yi also discovered a rule, that is, the technology rewarded by the system at the beginning of each year is closely related to production and life, and those technologies that are closely related to military warfare basically do not appear.

In this regard, Li Yi can avoid this aspect of technology when he usually uses merit points to exchange technology, unless it is urgently needed, he generally does not exchange it, because maybe at some point, the system will directly reward it.

Four years after entering Zhongping, although the north is still in the ice and snow, the Youzhou Army has already taken action. According to his original plan, he will go north to Xianbei from this year.

Today's Xianbei, although it is in a state of division, but Tanshi Huai has not died for a few years after all, and the strength of the Xianbei people is still very strong. Especially the military strength of the Xianbei people is much stronger than the power in Li Yi's hands now, and Li Yi has no possibility of completely defeating the Xianbei people in the short term, let alone directly conquering the Xianbei people.

Therefore, this requires a process to gradually weaken the strength of the Xianbei people, and finally achieve the goal of completely conquering the Xianbei people and the northern steppe.

Li Yi hopes to control this process within three years, because after three years, the Central Plains Chaos will begin, and he can't miss this chaos, that is when his struggle for world domination begins. (To be continued.) )