Gan Ning's subordinates were originally happily waiting for the eldest brother to marry the eldest sister-in-law back, and then the brothers put on a big feast to drunk him for three days and three nights, and the witty second master even booked food and wine. But when Gan Ning returned home, the water thieves were stunned to find that they had been recruited.

Is this Yizhou Mu joking? Two days ago, you were still clamoring to exterminate us, and everyone became a family?

The water thieves are frying.

How good it is to be the overlord on the river freely, if you want to collect money, you can collect money and beat people if you want to, not only no one dares to care, but all parties are like their grandsons to give them confessions, not to mention taking refuge in the imperial court, even if they are free to give an emperor these days, they will not change it!

However, Gan Ning had made up his mind, and he didn't force everyone, only said that if he was willing to follow, he would go together, and if he didn't want to go, he would give enough money to compensate.

The water thieves looked at each other for a long time, and finally most of them decided to mix with Gan Ning. After all, since their debut, it has always been Gan Ning who has taken them to eat and drink spicy, and they don't know what to do after leaving Gan Ning.

There are also a small number of people who choose to take the money and leave, and go to other water villages.

A month later, Gan Ning took his eight hundred water thieves to meet Shen Xian in Jiangzhou City.

Shen Xian sent a document to Jiangzhou Taishou in the name of Liu Yan in advance, asking him to open a vacant land by the water to leave it for Ganning to train the navy, and at the same time issued a conscription announcement throughout Yizhou, encouraging and calling on people over 20 years old and under 30 years old to join the army, and the state pastoral government will give a certain amount of subsidies and so on.

What Shen Xian and Gan Ning didn't expect was that after the announcement was issued, many people came to apply, most of them were lonely and helpless people who lost their families in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. After calculating the income and expenditure of Yizhou in detail, Shen Xian decided that the number of conscripts for this time was 3,000, and the criteria for admission were those with good moral character, strong body, and water familiarity.

After the conscription was completed, Shen Xian picked out ten outstanding people from the Yizhou army under her command and threw them to Gan Ning as an adjutant, and she sealed Gan Ning with the official position of a soldier Cao in the name of Liu Yan, replacing her with full authority to take charge of the three thousand sailors in Jiangzhou Water Village.

Two guys who had no experience in training sailors got together and groped together and began to form sailors.

When Shen Xian and Gan Ning were training the naval army, Liu Yan named Zhang Lu as the Sima of other departments, and led 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack Hanzhong through Micang Road. Su Gu didn't expect that Liu Yan would really blatantly beat his own family to engage in rebellion, and was defeated after rushing to meet the enemy, and was killed a few days later by Zhang Lu and the Heavenly Master Daoists in Hanzhong.

Liu Yan named Zhang Lu as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and under his instruction, Zhang Lu stationed troops in various fortresses under the pretext of clearing out the Yellow Turban thieves. In addition, Zhang Lu also vigorously developed the Heavenly Master Dao in Hanzhong, and for a while, the Heavenly Master Dao swept the entire Yizhou, and even affected Jingzhou, Sili and other regions.

The imperial court was very dissatisfied with Liu Yan's approach, and sent envoys to Hanzhong many times, but they were all blocked by Zhang Lu.

However, soon the imperial court did not have the heart to care about the affairs of Hanzhong, because in April of the sixth year of Hanzhongping, Emperor Ling died, and the young emperor Liu Wei succeeded to the throne, and the Empress Dowager He came to the court to listen to the government.

After learning the news of Emperor Ling's death, Shen Xian immediately returned to Mianzhu from Jiangzhou to meet Liu Yan, and the two reached a consensus after secret talks, Shen Xian immediately issued an order to Zhang Lu in the name of Liu Yan, ordering him to close the two passages of Hanzhong to Guanzhong's Slope Valley and Meridian Valley, and at the same time send heavy troops here to strictly check the passers-by, only allow ordinary people to pass Guò, once the traces of the imperial court soldiers and horses are found, immediately enter a state of readiness.

A few days later, Shen Xian received a document from Zhang Lu, which said that he had closed the passage according to the order, and at the same time sent most of the troops to several checkpoints, but after many days of investigation, only the people came and went, and there were no spies sent by the imperial court. In order to be in case, Lu sent people disguised as merchants and ordinary people to go to Guanzhong to find out, but they have not returned so far. Fearing that the imperial court would use troops in Guanzhong, Zhang Lu requested additional personnel at the end of the document.

Shen Xian thought to herself that Chang'an was already in chaos at this time, the Ten Standing Servants and He Jin were busy seizing power from each other, where was there any air to manage the affairs of Hanzhong, and she asked Zhang Lu to guard the pass not to guard against the imperial court, but to guard against the one who was about to enter Beijing.

Moreover, Hanzhong is a military powerhouse, and there were originally many garrisons, coupled with a large number of Heavenly Master and Taoist disciples, and now the number of soldiers and horses in Hanzhong can reach more than 10,000, far exceeding the number of garrisons that a county should have.

Zhang Lu's power was faintly expanding, and although he asked for additional troops and horses at this time, although it was a legitimate reason, Shen Xian did not dare to approve it before he was sure that Zhang Lu was his own person. Even if Mrs. Qingxuan is left in Mianzhu, who can guarantee that Zhang Lu will not simply break the jar and break with Liu Yan for the sake of power, and ignore his mother? If he really did that, wouldn't Shen Xian cheapen the enemy by sending soldiers and horses over?

Shen Xian struggled for a long time, and finally simply sent someone to send Zhang Lu's documents to Liu Yan.

Sure enough, Liu Yan politely rejected Zhang Lu's request, and reassured him in the letter, once the situation in Hanzhong changed, the rear would immediately send troops to help.

Maybe Zhang Lu was just testing Liu Yan's attitude, and after being rejected, he never mentioned the increase in troops.

The trouble is far more than that, four months after the new emperor ascended the throne, the struggle between the general He Jin and the ten permanent servants finally divided the victory and defeat, He Jin was killed by the eunuchs outside the palace gate, Yuan Shao, who learned the news, led his soldiers to rush into the palace to slaughter the eunuchs, Zhang Rang in the ten permanent servants tied up the new emperor Liu Wei and Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, and escaped from the palace, but the unlucky halfway met Dong Zhuo who led the troops into Beijing, and Zhang Rang was hacked to death by Dong Zhuo.

The little emperor probably thought that he had finally waited for a savior, but the fact was that he had just come out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den. Dong Zhuo was not a loyal minister, maybe he had been loyal before, but the growing power in his hands and the weakness of the Son of Heaven with his own eyes made him have another idea.

Soon, the ministers of the court found that compared with Dong Zhuo, He Jin was simply a little angel.

Dong Zhuo magnificently led troops into Beijing, connived at his subordinates to commit adultery and robbery in Luoyang, not only that, but he also forcibly deposed the new emperor who had only been on the throne for five months, and renamed Liu Xie, the king of Chenliu, as the emperor. Immediately afterwards, Dong Zhuo killed the Empress Dowager He, proclaimed himself a lieutenant, and ruled the government alone, and anyone who disobeyed was dragged to death outside the palace gate.

The bloody shadow of the killing hung over Luoyang.

Shen Xian held the document sent by Zhang Lu in her hand, which recorded the latest news from the capital from his spies who had infiltrated Luoyang. One by one, all of them were Dong Zhuo's heinous crimes, and Shen Xian seemed to be able to smell the disgusting smell of rotten blood between the lines.

"It's going to change the sky...... Shen Xian said softly: "No, it's already changed." ”

Gan Ning, who was comfortably training the navy army in Jiangzhou, was urgently transferred back, and as soon as he arrived in Mianzhu, he was dragged to the study of the state pastoral mansion by the butler of the state pastoral mansion who was waiting at the gate of the city. There were two soldiers guarding the door of the study, and after checking Gan Ning's identity token, the two put him in.

Shen Xian and Liu Yan were both in the study, and Gan Ning's gaze swept over the figures of the father and daughter, and found that the atmosphere was very delicate.

Liu Yan glanced at Gan Ning, and took the lead in speaking before he met: "Hanzhong can resist Dong thieves and soldiers by guarding the two valleys, I am in a corner of Yizhou, and it is rare to be able to stay away from the war, why do you have to go to Luoyang to get involved?" ”

Gan Ning opened his mouth, lowered his head and decided to disguise himself as a mural, and slowly pasted in the direction of Shen Xian.

"Father, under the nest, there are no eggs?" Shen Xian looked at Liu Yan and said firmly: "Cao Mengde and Yuan originally called for Dong in the name of King Qin, and the states still responded, not to mention that as a royal family, we share the honor and disgrace with His Majesty today, if you can't shrink, how will others think of you, father?" ”

"Presumptuous!" Liu Yan slammed the table and stood up and glared at Shen Xian, "How can I mind a person who is famous!" ”

Shen Xian was slightly stunned, this was the first time in memory that Liu Yan was angry with her.

"Xian'er, you ...... it" Liu Yan said as he suddenly remembered that Gan Ning was still there, so he coughed and prevaricated casually: "The reason why Dong Zhongying dared to swagger all the way into Beijing without any scruples was all due to the extremely elite iron cavalry under his command that crisscrossed Xiliang. And Liang Erzhou was originally fierce and advocating martial arts, plus he fought with the Qiang people on the border all the year round, and he had rich experience, how could you resist it? What do you use to hit him? Those thousands of soldiers and horses under your command? It's not enough to drag it out and fill in people's teeth! ”

After Liu Yan finished speaking, Shen Xian actually felt that his words were very reasonable, and she seemed to feel some kind of awkward concern called tsundere from Liu Yan's pretended angry words...... However, it is useless, no matter how dangerous and difficult it is, you must participate in this matter!

How can you collect people if you don't go? The talents are all gathered in the north, Yizhou currently has no talents that can be used, Shen Xian's subordinates are strictly short of people, only she and Gan Ning, Yizhou's IQ is completely insufficient!

Shen Xian said lightly: "Father, you misunderstood, the child didn't think about sending Dong Zhuo back to Liangzhou, going to participate in the alliance and beating Dong Zhuo are completely different things." ”

Liu Yan smacked the taste of Shen Xian's words, and asked very suspiciously, "Then what did you say so righteously before?" ”

Shen Xian was silent for a while, and replied expressionlessly: "Sounds more handsome." ”

Gan Ning: "......"