At this time, Liu Yan was stunned, and hurriedly convened an emergency meeting to analyze this matter with Xu Shu and Pang Tong. Everyone unanimously expressed a high degree of trust in the character of Ma Liang and Deng Ai, and unanimously believed that the two should have encountered something in Jiaozhou and were stumped, as for Shi Shi said that he had not seen these two people, the truth is to be discussed. But now people are on other people's territory, and they have to rely on others to help find them, so they must give others a little sweetness first.

Concerning the two lives, Liu Yan was not ambiguous, and directly asked Jiang Wan to send an official letter to Chen Zhen, the Taishou of Changsha, asking him to allocate 100,000 stone of grain to Guiyang and give it to Shi, asking them to help find the whereabouts of the two, saying that if there is definite news, there will be heavy thanks after finding someone.

Shi Shi was worried that there was no way to have a good relationship with the new Jingzhou pastor! This opportunity fell from the sky! Naturally, he was very happy, and he collected food to help find someone.

Everyone knows that the land in Jiaozhou is barren and there is no way to grow grain, and in the past, it was relied on the Shi clan to send people to Jiangdong and Jingzhou to ask for food with money and goods, but every time they exchanged for food that was only enough to make a living, and none of Sun Quan and Liu Biao were not misers. Now, Jingzhou has a new owner, and I don't know if the new owner will be more generous than the old master, or more slamming than the old master, so I always have to find an opportunity to test it.

Now, Liu Yanbai gave them 100,000 stone of grain, so that Shi Shi seemed to see the rich man, how could he not be diligent? So, Shi gave an order to search for Ma Liang and Deng Ai throughout Jiaozhou, and the news he got made Shi Shi break out in a cold sweat, and it turned out that the reason why the two did not see him was that they were detained.

I want to ask who has the audacity to detain the envoys on the territory of the Emperor Shi's clan. Then there is only one person, and this person is Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju.

Although Jiaozhou is respected by the Shi family, this Cangwu Taishou is Liu Biaofeng, and there are three or five thousand troops in his hands, and he usually operates on the edge of the Shi family's territory.

No one expected that Wu Ju would actually do such a thing at this time, Shi Shi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly fed back the news to Liu Yan through Guiyang Taishou.

Liu Yan was furious when she heard this. Convene a military emergency meeting directly. handed over Shi's handwritten official document to Huang Zhong: "Old man, what kind of character is this Wu Ju, why did Liu Jingzhou seal him in Cangwu back then?"

"Princess, you don't know, this Wu Ju. and Liu Biao have some kinship. Sealed in Cangwu is really because Liu Biao is not at ease with Shi. In addition, Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling were all independent. Liu Biao couldn't reach it, so he wanted to make the situation a little more chaotic, and he inserted Wu Ju as a confidant into this chaotic force, just as he inserted one eye, which was actually useless. ”

"Oh, this person is Liu Jingzhou's henchman?" Liu Yan frowned and said: "Then it seems that he deliberately wants to target me! In this case, teacher, if you let Senior Brother Wen go, calm him, and rescue Ma Liang and Deng Ai for me, it can be regarded as another big gift to the Shi family, and I will clear the hidden dangers of the border for him!"

Xu Shu nodded, a small role like Cangwu Taishou is actually not a big deal. Kou Feng came with two or three thousand soldiers and horses, enough to trample him under his feet and stomp on him twice. The key is to rescue Ma Liang and Deng Ai, and this needs to be measured. However, I believe that with Kou Feng's ability, he should be fully capable of this task.

After things were laid out, she didn't have to worry about it. On the contrary, as soon as Cangwu Taishou went to this position, there was only one voice in the Jiaozhou territory, as long as he continued to be friendly with the Shi clan, with the consistent practice of the Shi clan's moderate neutral faction, in fact, boiling the frog in warm water could still boil him and surrender, and it was not impossible to subdue Jiaozhou.

However, the top priority at the moment is not to subdue Jiaozhou, but only to borrow the way, as long as they agree, it is a matter of minutes to send troops to destroy them, and the allusion of the cold lips and teeth is not to tell the tragic story of destroying the country because of the way?

And put Jiaozhou in his pocket, Kou Yan waited for Wei Yan's news, and at the same time also cared about Cao Cao's movements in the north, I heard that the north has recently been infighting, Cao Cao is being collected by the big nobles in the north, and said that he would go south to share the big cake, but the cake was not shared, the loss of each family is not small, the casualties of the soldiers represent the withering of the population, and for the big families, the population is their private property, more will not be too much, less is like cutting meat.

Now, they have been cut off by Cao Cao with such a large piece of flesh and shed so much blood, how can they not compensate at all? Therefore, Cao Cao has been busy pacifying all kinds of discordant voices in the north recently, and he has to stare at Gongsun Kang, Wuheng and other places who have long been subdued by himself, for fear that the opposition forces over there will resurge, he has no spare time to care about how Liu Yan and her Jingzhou are thriving, so Liu Yan wants to develop and grow, and now is the best opportunity, to seek development under Cao Cao's nose, and let him have no temper, only when he has no time to care about you, time is pressing, only two years at most.

In the past two years, Liu Yan wanted to revitalize the economy of Jingzhou, make a lot of money, and go to sea through Guò Jiaozhou, find Yizhou, and occupy Yizhou. Not only that, but she also had to develop maritime trade, avoid the eyes of Jiangdong and Cao Cao, do business with Liaodong, and seek a large number of high-quality war horses. In addition, on the side of Nanyang, it is necessary to vigorously develop Tuntian, strengthen the city, step up the pace to improve the level of defense, and guard against Cao Cao.

In short, Liu Yan has a lot of things to do and a lot to do. When the territory is bigger, there will naturally be more things, and people will become more motivated.

Soon, news came from Kou Feng's side that Wu Ju, the Taishou of Cangwu, was killed by Deng Ai himself, and Ma Liang and Deng Ai were successfully rescued, and during this period, the Jiaozhou Shi helped a lot.

As a result, Ma Liang continued to negotiate with the Shi clan, and the Shi clan agreed to let Liu Yan borrow the way to go to sea, and was willing to let his border people teach Jingzhou people how to build sea ships and navigation skills. The condition is that Liu Yan trades grain with Jiaozhou every year at a price lower than the market price.

When Liu Yan heard this condition, she agreed without thinking about it, and asked Ma Liang and Shi to complete the alliance. Ma Liang stayed in Cangwu and became the new Cangwu Taishou, who was in charge of Jiaozhou affairs, when Kou Feng came back. He also brought back a large number of jewels that Shi used as a gesture.

Seeing these jewels, Liu Yan smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, and said to Xu Shu: "Teacher, you see, is Jiaozhou so poor that there is only money left, pearls and gems are no different from ordinary stones in them, and they will definitely make a profit if they do grain business." ”

Xu Shu was always not optimistic about her dream of trading with Liaodong by sea, and when she saw that she was happy, she couldn't help frowning and said: "The wind and waves at sea are strange and unpredictable, and it is a long way to Liaodong." Are you really going to do that?"

"Except for this road, of course. I have no other way to go. Sun Quan has a great enmity with me, and the waterway of the Yangtze River is seen to death by him, and it is impossible for me to go to sea from the Yangtze River, so I can only find another way. Except for this waterway. Is there any other land route that can help me get a good quality war horse? Will Cao Cao agree? I can't help it. I had no choice but to take risks. Moreover, if Liu Jingzhou's people were able to discover Yizhou back then, why couldn't I? If I occupy it, I will be able to have an overseas military base, and if the Sun clan comes to bully me again in the future, I will be able to send troops from the sea and destroy his third inheritance!"

"Yan'er, after the last war, your murderous intent has become heavier and heavier. As a teacher, I don't know if this is good or bad for you. Xu Shu sighed.

"Of course it's good!" Liu Yan smiled disappreciatively: "I used to be too stupid and always passively beaten. It wasn't until now that I realized that as long as I had the strength, it was okay to take the initiative to attack. Besides, I'm looking for Yizhou mainly to do cargo transit, attack Jiangdong or something, I just said casually, now, where do I have the spare time to pay attention to that!

Xu Shu lowered his head: "As a teacher, I always think, you are a girl......"

"By the way, teacher, do you know, just ten days ago, Cai Mao married Cai Lu, married to the side branch of the Kuai family, not the branch of the Kuo family! Hey, Cai Lu is such a beautiful person, it's a pity, if you nodded at the beginning, it would be better to stay as a maid than to be cheaper!" Liu Yan deliberately diverted the topic and pulled it to Cai Lu's body.

"You don't need a maid to be a teacher. Xu Shu immediately stopped talking and said sullenly.

"How can it not be needed? Aunt Xu always thought that there was a daughter-in-law who could serve her tea and water, instead of a maid. You have to have someone to take care of you too, don't you?" Liu Yan deliberately persuaded.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, my subordinates remembered that they still had official business to deal with, so my subordinates took their leave first. "I can't afford to hide, Xu Shu didn't say a word, stood up and arched his hand, raised his feet and left. Leaving Liu Yan to eat and laugh behind her back.

Liu Yan has always been very supportive of Xu Shu's unmarried attitude, and she can't tell why, she always feels that if the teacher finds a wife, after she has a teacher, the teacher's focus will be removed from herself and distracted by the teacher and the future child. She silently hopes that the teacher will never get married, so that she can dominate all the teacher's attention forever.

After Xu Shu left, Liu Yan found Deng Ai, after two years of experience, Xiao Deng Ai is not only more calm and introverted, but also has become a lot stronger in terms of figure. When I saw him, I remembered that when I and my senior brother saw him for the first time, he was still a poor boy with no food and no clothes. After four years, he has quietly grown into a powerful teenager. No wonder Aunt Deng is like her own eyeballs, how can such an excellent son not hurt him more?

"Ai'er, your mother must miss her mother so much after leaving her mother for such a long time, and now that you are back, she must be very happy. I came to you because I want to ask your opinion, you have been studying with my teacher in the past, but now you have two choices, are you willing to continue your studies with the teacher, or are you willing to continue your studies with my senior brother Pang?" Liu Yan asked with a pleasant face.

The military concepts of Xu Shu and Pang Tong are two different systems, and Pang Tong is good at using strange tricks and strange strategies, and rarely fights in a stable battle. Xu Shu is different, he pays attention to rules and regulations in war, different enemies use different formations, and use different people to deal with different strategies, he already has a charter in his heart, as long as he does things according to the rules, he will never make mistakes.

These two people have their own strengths, it depends on who Deng Ai wants to learn from. Liu Yan thought that Deng Ai was calm and solid, and he should be more inclined to Xu Shu, and he had been studying with Xu Shu for a while, so it was more likely to choose Xu Shu. Unexpectedly, after Deng Ai thought about it for a while, he said that he wanted to learn from Pang Tong.

Liu Yan was very surprised, but Deng Ai said that his personality was similar to Xu Shu, and he had been able to comprehend his concept. He wanted to learn from Pang Tong because he wanted to get in touch with different concepts and learn more different tactics. I heard that the Pang family has a formation library, which collects many famous battle formations in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Pang Tong is even better at this, so he wants to learn from him.

When Liu Yan heard this, she agreed without saying a word, and wrote him an official document, and Deng Ai became a staff member under Pang Tong. The reason why he was a staff member and not Sima Xiaowei and the like was because Deng Ai was still too young, and she was reluctant to let him go to the battlefield. Learn from Pang Tong first, and wait for another two years, Pang Tong felt that it was okay, so he sealed him under Pang Tong as a little Sima.

Don't underestimate Deng Ai, he will make his debut in two years, he must be afraid of the beasts in the Tiger Roaring Valley, after all, he is a child who uses "Liutao" as an enlightenment, and he has been studying with famous teachers in the army, and he also has a lot of practical opportunities, of course, he can't be compared with ordinary people.

After taking care of Deng Ai's affairs, Liu Yan seemed to have seen that there was another general under her hands, and her mood suddenly improved, and she threw down the affairs in her hand and ran to the backyard, wanting to contact her sister, who knew that she couldn't find her, and the maid in the house said that the young lady had been going to a place recently, and it was not somewhere else when she asked, but it was Huang Yueying's real room.

So Liu Yan found there and happened to see Huang Yueying drawing drawings, and Kou Rong fiddling with various models on the side. Kou Rong's eyes were sharp, and when he saw his sister coming, he ran out with a model of the boat in his arms, and showed his sister like a treasure: "Sister, sister, isn't the model made by Sister Huang beautiful?

Huang Yueying walked over, Ying Ying bowed, and was just about to open her mouth when she was helped by Liu Yan: "Sister Yue'er, this girl is here with you, didn't cause you trouble, right? By the way, are you still designing the thing before? Is there any progress now?"

"Miss Kou often came here to play and didn't disturb her subordinates. At present, a program of rebuilding the warship is underway, and some ideas are being designed and have not yet been put into practice. Huang Yueying said as she led Liu Yan to the workbench and picked up the half-drawn drawings to show her.

Liu Yan actually didn't understand it, but she still pretended to be very serious, and put forward her own opinion: "Jiangdong is unique in the world with a naval army, and their shipbuilding skills are already at the world's first-class level, if we want to surpass them, it is useless to rely on small changes alone, there must be a breakthrough big move." I remember you saying that if the hull itself is bulky, it will be slow, but if the hull is thin, it can easily overturn. So, can we take a compromise and add manpower to the bulky hull, so that the boat can sail on manpower in addition to wind power and ordinary oars?" (To be continued.) )