Since the night of talking, the whole Zhen Mansion suddenly became busy the next day.

The Zhen family and servants went in and out one by one, in a hurry, as if there was an imminent matter that needed to be handled urgently, and they were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, and they walked like flying.

But Li Li and his entourage have nothing to do all day long, and every day there is a housekeeper in the front yard of Zhen's Mansion to hold a banquet to entertain them, and everyone is always served by young maids. These maids are quite beautiful, well-behaved, well-behaved, well-mannered, quick and quick-witted, and very thoughtful in service, which makes people very satisfied, and does not get in the way at all.

Of course, if Li Xuan, Guo Jia and Huan Fei and others are romantic, they can let the maids sleep. Because nowadays, when the official eunuch family entertains distinguished guests, they generally arrange maids to sleep, and it seems that only in this way can the sincerity of the host entertain the distinguished guests.

Fortunately, most of the civil and military officials under Li Li's rule did not have such bad habits, they were more self-controlled, and they would not show mercy everywhere, and the macho plot was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

All this comes from a clear order of the coach Li Li, that is, the maids in his house do not sleep or give away, unless the maids are willing to marry, no one can do anything to the maids in the house. This was an order announced by Li Li in public two years ago, and most of the civil and military officials under his rule were present, and after the incident, everyone followed suit, and then spread to the whole army, and even the entire territory of Xiliang, and over time it became a kind of atmosphere and a fixed custom.

However, in some remote villages, there are few adult males and a relatively large number of women, so the bad habit of sending female waiters to bed when encountering male guests from afar is still retained. This is also a last resort, there is no parent in the world who does not love their children, but there is no suitable strong man in the village, only by sending a daughter to keep the seed can continue the incense. This phenomenon was relatively common in the pre-Qin period. The first Qin was martial, and he forcibly recruited strong men to fight for many years. As a result, many men in villages were either killed in battle, or wounded, sick and disabled, forcing the people to do so.

In the past three days, Li Li is really not used to it, and he is busy and idle.

During this period, he took Ma Yunluo to travel all over Wuji County and bought a lot of exquisite jewelry and small playthings, which were gifts for his wife and children at home. In addition, Zhen's Mansion holds banquets every day, which is extremely warm; However, the Zhen family and several elders of the Zhen family have never shown up, and they are busy with the Zhang Luo family's shop all day long. It's hard to have leisure.

Such a day of fine clothes and fine food and nothing to do is indeed extremely rare for Li Li, and he has not experienced the feeling of leisure for many years. However, Ma Yunluo, who is new to personnel. but I hope that this leisurely life can continue forever; Accompany the man you love every day, and linger to death every night. Afterwards, he lay on the man's chest and slept with a smile. Days like this make her very satisfied. With a smile on her face all day long, she feels extremely happy, just like a little woman who guards her husband's life.

After three days of leisure, in the early morning of the fourth day, Li Li and his party set off again.

According to Li Li's arrangement before leaving, Ma Yunluo stayed in Zhen's mansion and Zhen Jiang and other five women as companions. While the others split up and continued to accomplish the purpose of the journey north. Li Li and Li Zhi continued north to Youzhou as one way; Li Xuan and Huan Fei went all the way to the counties and counties of Jizhou; Guo Jia, Xu Chu, and Duan Xuan are all the way. Travel to Qingzhou. Chen Zhi stayed in the Zhen family and took over the guards, protecting Ma Yunluo and the five daughters of the Zhen family, and responding to emergencies at any time.

After arranging everything in advance, the three-way travel team set off early in the morning, and galloped to the intended county after leaving the city.

This is the real purpose of Li Li's trip north to Jizhou, to find out the landform and people's conditions and city defense of Jizhou, Youzhou, Qing and Yanzhou.

If you want to calm the troubled times, you must capture the Central Plains, and at present, among the states and counties in the Central Plains, the strongest princes are concentrated in the four states of Hebei, You, Qing, and Yan. Perhaps the results of this trip may not be useful to Li Li, but it can provide a reference for him to enter the Central Plains in the future for decision-making. In other words, Li Li could have sent a detailed work to find out this information, but hearing is false, seeing is believing, and reading thousands of books is better than traveling thousands of miles, and the ultimate purpose of traveling is this.

However, the power of one person is limited after all, and it is impossible for Li Li to personally travel all over the four states, so he can only focus on selecting some states and counties with particularly important geographical locations and going there in person; Other states and counties need someone else to do it for them, and then tell him what they find. In this way, the situation and customs of each state will be presented in his mind, so that he can clearly understand the situation in the Central Plains, compare the memories of later generations in his mind with the topography and landforms of thousands of years ago, and be familiar with the topographical changes in various parts of the Central Plains.

As the commander of the army, he must be aware of the hills and valleys in his heart, and this hills and valleys not only refer to the art of war, but also must be familiar with the topography of each state and county.

There is a saying: the time is not as good as the place.

What is location? The topographical characteristics of one city and one place are not considered geographical advantages? Since ancient times, soldiers have been fighting, and it is impossible to find it in time, but the location is everywhere. Those who make good use of land interests, even if they cannot survive a hundred battles, will definitely succeed, at least there will be no defeat of Yiling when Liu Bei conquered Eastern Wu.

This time the three roads go hand in hand, Li Li made it clear in advance that everyone should not make trouble along the way, should not stop at will, do what they can, and must not be reckless, and must grasp the key points, go and return quickly. In addition, he also set a time limit of half a month to return to Zhen Mansion within 20 days at the latest.

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Half a month is not long, but it is not short.

For those who travel far away, time passes quickly, and half a month passes in a blink of an eye.

In the afternoon of that day, two fast horses came running outside the east gate of Wuji City, but when they approached the city gate, they were forcibly intercepted by hundreds of armor soldiers wearing iron armor and holding spears, and they were forbidden to enter the city.

This made the two tall and strong men in the dust very surprised, and immediately they did not entangle, turned over and dismounted, led the war horse to the shade of the trees outside the city gate, looked coldly at the neatly armored soldiers at the city gate, and scolded the pedestrians who wanted to enter the city.

"Lord, there are changes in the city, these city guards are not the previous Wuji County soldiers, but regular foot soldiers under Yuan Shao." Taking the reins from Li Li's hand casually, Li Zhi led a horse in one hand and said in a low voice.

"Hmm." Li Li bowed his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Not only that, these armor soldiers guarding the city gate are not ordinary foot soldiers, but well-trained personal guards. Look at the armor worn by these people, they are all very strong iron armor, and these people are strong and powerful, and the spears in their hands are also iron spears made of pure iron. Even if Yuan Shao had sufficient money and food, it was impossible to equip all the more than 200,000 soldiers under his account with iron-armored spears; If he really had such strong financial resources, then the Han world must be his Yuan Shao's, and other princes would not be able to compete with him at all. Therefore, I concluded that these armor soldiers were Yuan Shao's personal guards, not ordinary Yuan soldiers.

What puzzles me very much is that Yuan Shao's Chinese army camp is stationed in the territory of Changshan State, hundreds of miles away, how could his personal guards appear here? Could it be that something really happened in the city, so that Yuan Shao personally led his own soldiers to Wuji City? Looking at this situation, Yuan Shao's personal guards have blocked the various gates in the city and taken over the defense of the city. The situation is not good! ”

Seeing that the lord Li Li frowned, the expression on Li Zhi's face gradually became solemn. It's just that he doesn't know what's going on in the city, even if he has the heart to solve the problems for the lord, but he can't do it, and he can't do anything. If Li Li ordered to forcibly rush into the city, he would definitely not say a word, and would have mounted his horse to take the lead. It's a pity that the current situation is unclear, and we can't act rashly, so as not to cause extraneous branches and get out of control.

"Huh?" Just when Li Zhi was at a loss and secretly anxious, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure running towards him quickly. Immediately, he saw the appearance of the person who came, and it was Chen to Chen Shuzhi, who stayed in the Zhen Mansion.

"Look, my lord, my uncle is here!"

"Oh?" Li Li turned around when he heard the sound, and sure enough, he saw Chen Zhi running quickly, and suddenly his frowning sword eyebrows stretched out, and a smile appeared on his face.

"The last will meet the lord." Without waiting for Chen Zhi to bow down, Li Li stretched out his hand to hold him and said in a low voice: "The situation is urgent, so Uncle Zhi doesn't have to be formal." Let's talk about it, what happened in the city, and why Yuan Shao's personal soldiers are here? ”

After hearing this, Chen turned his head to look at the city gate not far away, and said respectfully: "The last general has been waiting for the lord outside the city gate for half an hour, the lord and General Zicheng, please come with me, this place is not suitable for a long time, let's talk while walking." ”

"Okay." Li Li immediately agreed, waved his hand and motioned for Li Zhi to lead the horse and follow Chen Dao, and the three of them left the east gate and walked around the city wall in the direction of the south gate.

After staying away from the city gate, Chen Zhi reported in a low voice: "Lord, here's the thing. Three days ago, Yuan Shao sent people to Zhen's mansion to ask for a meeting with Zhen, claiming that the Changshan camp had been out of food for half a month, and he came to Zhen's house to borrow food on Yuan Shao's order. At that time, the Zhen family was not in the mansion, and he didn't come back until the evening, but he didn't think that Yuan Shao's envoy opened his mouth and opened his mouth to borrow 50,000 stone grain and grass and 30 million money from the Zhen family.

What the result is, presumably the lord already knows. Zhen tried to consult with Yuan Shao's envoy, but the envoy gritted his teeth and refused to give an inch. In desperation, the Zhen family was also very annoyed, and told the messenger that the Zhen family could only lend Yuan Shao 20,000 stones of grain and grass and 10 million money, and also asked Yuan Shao to write an IOU, and wait until the voucher was sent before the two sides could hand over the grain and salary. And the envoy of Yuan Shao was also very angry, after hearing Zhen's words, he was furious on the spot, and threatened Zhen and several clan elders with wild words, and left with more than 100 armor soldiers with anger.

After three days, this morning, the messenger came again, and brought with him 1,500 elite soldiers. He was accompanied by an extremely arrogant rich boy who claimed to be General Yangwu, and later the last general learned that he was Yuan Shao's second son, Yuan Xi. After this person entered the city, the first thing he did was to take over the four gates of the city, block the whole city, and not allow anyone to enter or leave, and then swaggered into the Zhen Mansion with five hundred armor soldiers. Before the last general came out to meet the lord, the elders of the Zhen family were holding a banquet to entertain Yuan Xi, but the Zhen family did not come forward, presumably the feast was almost over now. ”

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