He Lingsi seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and she said without hesitation: "Just increase your father's share of Luoyang's annual tax revenue from ten percent to twenty percent!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Wei suddenly jumped up: "My mother, do you know how many people have to feed the child?!" The expenses of the officials of the central government, the government, and the thousands of people in the palace, as well as the food and salary of the 100,000 Praetorian Guards directly under the emperor, are all supported by Luoyang's taxes, where can the child double his father's Fenglu......"

"You don't cry poor here!" He Lingsi didn't understand his son's difficulties: "Don't you know that the annual tax of Luoyang is at least more than 10 million taels of silver, plus the annual taxes paid from all over the country every year, how can you be short of money?" ”

"Queen Mother, don't you know that Luoyang's taxes and annual taxes in various places are not all gold and silver, but many of them are replaced by grain and silk. In addition to human use, the renewal and construction of various public facilities cost money, so the money that can be collected into the national treasury in the end is not as much as you imagined! ”

It's a pity that Liu Wei's crying poverty didn't make He Lingsi feel compassionate, she thought about it for a while and said: "Then you can order the reduction of the palace's expenses, and give all the money saved to your father......"

Before He Lingsi's words were finished, Liu Wei really cried, and Liu Yu and Liu Yu's stomachs hurt when they were holding back their laughter! Liu Yu stopped He Lingsi, who still wanted to continue to destroy his son, and said: "Okay, baby, don't force the argument anymore, he is really in trouble!" ”

Seeing Liu Yu speaking for himself, Liu Wei glanced at him gratefully. Then he nodded very hard at his wife. Liu Yu's words made He Lingsi's domineering spirit fade, but she still said: "No matter what, your will will always bring your father some trouble. Even if you don't have filial piety, but based on the psychology of compensation, you have to give your father some real benefits, right? ”

Liu Wei made a broken face and said weakly: "At most, I can only increase my father's share of Luoyang's annual tax revenue to fifteen percent, and there is really no way to do more!" ”

He Lingsi frowned slightly, but after seeing Liu Yu's eyes at her, she finally decided to let her son go: "Okay." My mother won't force you anymore, so let's do it! ”

Probably afraid of what would happen if he stayed any longer, Liu Wei was a little anxious to retire to his "parents". When he was about to go out, Liu Yu's super ear power could hear him muttering: "No wonder people say 'as soon as the husband and wife go to bed, the son throws over the wall', I am really pitiful......"

After Liu Wei left. Liu Xuan said to He Lingsi with a teasing face: "Sister." Isn't Bian'er your sweetheart, how can you bear to treat him like this? ”

He Lingsi didn't care about Liu Yu's ridicule, she leaned on Liu Yu's arms and learned Liu Yu's tone and said: "Bian'er is getting more and more slippery now, if you don't give him a little color to see, he really doesn't know why the flowers are so red!" ”

Cai Yan, who has been in charge of teaching Liu Bian, also sighed: "Yes, the previous debaters were not only humble and courteous to us, but also gentle and generous to those courtiers and servants. But now he is becoming more and more cunning and stingy, and he doesn't know who he learned from! After that, he glanced at Liu Yu meaningfully.

In Liu Yu's laughter, Liu Yu laughed a few times. Changed the topic and said: "Yu'er, what do you think will be the consequences of this 'king incident'?" ”

Liu Yu stopped laughing. After thinking for a while, he said: "Now the principals of the key departments of the imperial court and the holders of the military and political power in the states are all close associates of the husband, so even if there will be some opposition in the officialdom, it will not be able to set off any waves!" As for those so-called gangsters, they pay attention to their own vital interests, and they will not have any interest in this kind of court affairs that have nothing to do with them! ”

How would the people and the scholars react? I've heard before that my husband doesn't have a very good reputation among these people! Gongsun Ting, who was obviously deceived by the Gongsun family, asked.

Liu Yu smiled slightly, pinched Gongsun Ting's pink cheeks and said: "I can't say what kind of reaction the people outside the country will have, but my sister can be sure that the people under our rule will not only not oppose the promotion of the husband to the king, but will clap their hands and celebrate, because they have always been grateful to the husband who can let them live and work in peace and contentment!" ”

Gongsun Ting and Yourong glanced at Liu Yu, and then asked, "What about those scholars?" They're the best at chewing their tongues! ”

Liu Yu looked at Liu Yu with affectionate eyes and said: "When it comes to this topic, I really want to express my great admiration for our husband!" ”

"Why do you want to show your admiration for your husband?" Gongsun Ting asked curiously.

"It's up to my sister to explain this!" Cai Yan took over the conversation and made a disdainful look at Liu Yu, but Liu Yu still found a hint of admiration in her eyes when she peeked at him: "Our cunning husband has vigorously developed education a few years ago and opened many colleges in our sphere of influence. My sister thought that our husband was opening up the wisdom of the people and educating the public, but later I learned that the real reason why he did this was to make a name for himself! ”

"What's the name? What kind of momentum is it making? Gongsun Ting's curiosity became stronger and stronger.

Cai Yan turned his head and glared at Liu Yu viciously and said, "You also know that our husband used to have a very bad reputation in Shilin, and there were scholars who cursed him almost everywhere. And what kind of 'freedom of speech' does our husband believe in, and he refuses to take action against those who speak foul language. But he didn't want to be so insulted all the time, so he came up with a bad trick to get the gentlemen who taught in the academy he opened to do their best to instill a positive image of him in their students. Through these nearly ten years of hard work, the vast majority of the new generation of scholars who have gradually grown up have not only stopped cursing their husbands, but have become loyal followers of them. ”

"Wow, my husband is really far-sighted, so powerful!" Gongsun Ting and Zhen Mi, who heard this statement for the first time, praised with amazement on their faces at the same time, and their eyes were full of admiration and fascination when they looked at Liu Yu.

Although Gongsun Ting and Zhen Mi's expressions and praises made Liu Yu feel a little proud. But Cai Yan's words still made Liu Yu depressed. You must know that his original intention of opening the college was only to popularize education and improve the quality of the whole people, and it was also incidental to correct the name and build momentum. But Cai Yan said so. It was as if the academies he had opened had become institutions dedicated to brainwashing the masses......

He Lingsi, who felt Liu Yu's discomfort, kissed him on the face, and in order to divert Liu Yu's attention, she asked Liu Yu: "Sister, in this way, we will have no objection to the husband being the king?" ”

"Yes, what we should consider most now is the reaction of the surrounding princes." Liu Yu also noticed Liu Yu's expression, and she answered He Lingsi's question as she answered. While quietly glancing at Cai Yan.

Cai Yan is also a delicate and penetrating character, she understood the situation after sweeping her eyes, and immediately grabbed one of Liu Yu's arms. While rubbing it on it with her abundance, she asked angrily: "Husband, what kind of response do you say the princes around us will make to your promotion to the prince?" ”

Liu Yu naturally knew that Cai Yan was selling favor to him, so he immediately went down the stairs and said: "The only ones who will express their clear opposition to this are the three princes Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian. Most of the other princes' attitudes were not too direct. ”

"Cao Cao and Sun Jian were both defeated under their husbands. And Liu Bei has always been good friends with his husband, according to this, the reaction of the princes is not to worry, husband, you should be the prince! Although Cai Yan is extremely smart, her intelligence is mainly manifested in music, art, and miscellaneous studies, and she is not very good at military and politics, so her optimistic attitude just makes Liu Yu smile slightly. Perhaps sensing the dissent in Liu Yu's smile, Cai Yan pouted. Buyi asked, "What, husband." Don't you agree with the opinion of the concubine? ”

"I'm the prince, there's no doubt about it! However, I don't agree with the first half of the sentence! In order to raise Cai Yan's political consciousness, Liu Yu explained: "Although Cao Cao and Sun Jian have indeed suffered losses at the hands of our army, it does not mean that they are my defeated generals, because they have never fought a complete battle with our army. I'm pretty sure they're not as good as us, but if we really fight them to the death, we'll be broken. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Yu glanced at the thoughtful Cai Yan, and continued: "As for Liu Bei, although it seems that he has a good relationship with us, he still left 50,000 elite soldiers at the border with us when he sent troops to Jiaozhou to meet the shortage of military strength, which shows that he is still wary and even hostile to us. I'm sure he wouldn't mind stabbing me if he had the chance! ”

Looking at Cai Yan's somewhat worried look, Liu Yu smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Yan'er, you don't have to worry, with our strength in light and dark, even if these three families unite with an iron heart, it is impossible to fight with us!" ”

Although Cai Yan was attracted by Liu Yu's words, her abundance was still subconsciously rubbing Liu Yu's arm, and such a teasing was naturally not something Liu Yu could resist. He smiled lewdly and said to Liu Yu and the others: "Baby, in order to celebrate the New Year and my lord, we might as well have an uncovered meeting here!" ”

"Nonsense!" The women all blushed because of Liu Yu's words, and Liu Yu said even more coquettishly: "This is the palace, how can you ...... here, husband?"

Liu Yu interrupted her words with a wave of his hand, and said disappreciatively: "The most powerful women in the palace are all my women, why can't I love love here?" Alright, let's not talk about it, let's have fun in time! ”

"Damn", "Villain", "You dare", Liu Yu in the coquettish and disgusted Liu Yu couldn't be shocked at all, Liu Yu used both hands and mouths, and in the midst of the flying clothes, the uncovered conference opened smoothly!

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When the news of Liu Yu's canonization spread throughout the country, the reaction of all parties was as they expected, but there was still something that surprised them, that is, Zhang Lu's He Wen in Hanzhong. He even clearly expressed his joy that Liu Yu could be named a prince, and even unexpectedly handed over the Hanzhong household registration book to Liu Yu as a congratulatory gift. This act of surrender made Liu Yu very happy, and immediately asked the emperor to make him a hereditary marquis. And let the Jingzhou general Huang Zhong send troops from Shangyong into Hanzhong to receive the city defenses from all over the city.

However, before Liu Yu's order was issued, he received information from Jinyiwei, saying that Xiahou Yuan, one of Cao Cao's "Five Good Generals", had attacked Xiegu Pass, an important pass connecting Yongzhou and Hanzhong, and Cao Cao's army to conquer Liangzhou was also gathered. It seems that there are signs of returning to the division to attack Hanzhong.

"Send troops, I will send troops immediately!" Liu Yu shouted loudly after reading the information.

"Husband, what's wrong with you? Who are you going to fight? Seeing Liu Yu's angry appearance, Liu Yu couldn't help but ask curiously.

"You see, Cao Cao is gathering forces and preparing to attack Hanzhong. Now that Xiahou Pass has been occupied by Xiahou Yuan, there is only Yangping Pass left in Hanzhong! While handing the information to Liu Xuan. He said stupidly: "Cao Cao, he actually dares to eat the meat in my bowl, I must give him a profound lesson, and let him know why the flowers are so red!" ”

After reading the information, Liu Xuan read. Said thoughtfully: "It seems that Cao Cao is short of food, otherwise he would not have sent troops to Hanzhong after he just captured Liangzhou." ”

"How did you see that Cao Cao was short of food?" Anger didn't stop Liu Yu's curiosity.

Liu Xuan smiled slightly and replied: "Although Yongzhou has rich and fertile land known as 'Eight Hundred Miles of Qinchuan', it can only support Cao Cao's 200,000 troops. And Liangzhou is rich in horses. but there is a shortage of food. In order to settle Liangzhou as soon as possible. Cao Cao will definitely open a warehouse to release grain. As a result, the food he had saved for several years was basically exhausted. Whether it was to increase the war reserve or expand the army for war, he must take Hanzhong, the world's largest granary. With Cao Cao's scheming, the concubine can guarantee that he must have made this plan to seize Hanzhong before attacking Liangzhou......"

Is there a shortage of food in Liangzhou? Liu Yu remembers that the Hexi Corridor once had the reputation of "Saiwai Jiangnan" in history, could it be that it has not been developed yet?

With a relieved smile, Liu Xuan continued: "The concubine was still wondering why Zhang Lu suddenly surrendered to her husband. Now it seems that he should have gotten the news that Cao Cao was going to attack him, and he felt that he was not an opponent. That's why I simply handed over this problem to you! ”

was reminded by Liu Yu like this, and Liu Yu also understood it. Although he was very dissatisfied with Zhang Lu's failure to report his knowledge, he still said: "Anyway, the current Hanzhong is already my territory in name, do you want me to watch it being eaten by Cao Cao?" ”

"Of course we can't let Cao Cao take advantage of us." Liu Yu smiled softly and said, "According to the intelligence, Yang Bai and Yang Song, the principals of Shangyong, have announced that they belong to Cao Cao. The mountains there are complicated, which is not conducive to the movement of siege equipment, and Shangyong, as the second strongest city in Hanzhong, has 50,000 defenders, so it is very difficult to enter Hanzhong from this aspect! And to help Hanzhong from other places, you have to pass through Cao Cao's territory. So, husband, this matter has to be considered in the long run. ”

"There's no way to think about it in the long run!" Liu Yu frowned and said: "Now that Xiahou Pass has been occupied by Xiahou Yuan, although there are still a few passes in Hanzhong, but the natural danger is lost, and other places can't stop Cao Cao's army for long, and now it depends on the speed of soldiers." And you missed one thing, that is, Zhang Lu's influence in Hanzhong. ”

Liu Yu was slightly stunned, and then his eyes lit up and said, "What the husband said is very true. Hanzhong is the foundation of the Wudou Rice Sect, almost everyone in the local area believes in religion, Zhang Lu as the leader of the Five Dou Rice Sect, his status in the minds of the people is extremely lofty. We can use him to launch what my husband called the 'people's war', so as to delay Cao Cao's entry into Hanzhong and buy time for our army's actions. As she spoke, she confirmed to Liu Yu: "Husband, have you decided to do this?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yu nodded vigorously, and said wildly: "This time, I not only want to take back Hanzhong, but also eat Cao Cao's territory in one bite!" ”

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Under Liu Yu's urgent order, an army of 200,000 was quickly assembled, and the supporting grain and grass logistics were also arranged abundantly and properly. In this attack on Cao Cao, Ma Chao and his brothers and sisters naturally had to go out with the army, in addition to Guo Jia, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Huang Xu, Tai Shici, Wei Yan, Chen Zhi, Lu Su, Fa Zheng, Zhuge Jin, Sima Lang and other civil and military generals.

In addition, Liu Yu also asked Huang Zhong to lead an army of 60,000 to take Shangyong. The order Liu Yu gave him was: It is not necessary to win the mediocrity, but it is necessary to contain the mediocre forces. In order to cooperate with his actions, Liu Yu sent Xu Shu to serve as a military advisor under Huang Zhong.

More than ten days later, Liu Yujun approached Tongguan. Set up camp ten miles from the pass. After resting for one night, Liu Yu ordered Chen to be in charge of guarding the camp the next day, and the others followed Liu Yu directly in front of the pass, but he didn't want Cao Cao to personally lead the army to wait for them there.

When the enemies saw each other, their eyes were red.

"Lord Wang, please go to war." Because of Liu Yu's rebellion against Cao, Ma Chao has officially announced on behalf of the Ma family that he has joined Liu Yu's camp.

Liu Yu nodded considerately. agreed to Ma Chao's request to play. Ma Chao looked excited and saluted Liu Yu on his horse, and then slapped his horse and ran between the two armies. Glancing at the rest of the Ma family, who were also excited, Liu Yu simply did a good job to the end and asked them all to go to Ma Chao's formation.

Ma Chao in front of the battle was about to scold. Who knew that Cao Cao, who was opposite, spoke first: "Ma Chao, your Ma family has been loyal and good for generations, why do you want to oppose Han and follow thieves?" If General Ma Yuan had a spirit in the sky, I'm afraid he wouldn't want to see you do this! If you turn from darkness to light now. I will protect your family's reputation and wealth! ”

Cao Cao's words made Liu Yu almost laugh out loud. He didn't expect Cao Cao to be so shameless. And Ma Chao was also furious, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "Cao Cao, you dog thief harmed my parents and relatives, and you have a grudge against me. Now you are insulting me with words, I must scrape you with a thousand knives to vent the hatred in my heart! ”

"The horse thief is talking nonsense, Lord Taiwei loves you so much, how dare you be arrogant, wait for a certain family to teach you a lesson!" One obviously doesn't know how powerful Ma Chao is. And the enemy general who wanted to earn a performance in front of Cao Cao slapped his horse out of the battle, and went straight to Ma Chao with a gun.

Ma Chao, who already has the strength of the ground level, will not only take this strength in the eyes of first-class people. When the enemy approached, he didn't even raise his eyes to put away the steel spear in his hand, and the nameless enemy general who wanted to show his loyalty had already been killed by him, and blood was spurting from his throat.

After killing the general, Ma Chao didn't speak, just looked coldly at Cao Cao in the enemy formation. Maybe it was the hatred and contempt in Ma Chao's eyes that made Cao Cao very unhappy, he looked around and said, "This son is too blind, which general will go up and teach him a lesson?" ”

Before a ground-level master like Xiahou Dun could speak, the two guys with half a tank of water spoke up first: "The last general is willing to go." ”

Liu Yu noticed that after these two people spoke, Cao Cao's face showed a trace of embarrassment, probably he was not very optimistic about these two. Probably taking care of the face of his subordinates, Cao Cao actually agreed to the request of the two generals who only had innate primary strength, and said a little hypocritically: "Then trouble the two generals!" ”

may have understood Cao Cao's meaning, or maybe he felt that Ma Chao was indeed slightly better than himself, and after glancing at each other, the two generals rushed towards Ma Chao together. While driving a horse, he also reported to his family in a loud voice: "Riding Captain Qin Lang, and supervising the gate general Wang Cai to teach Your Excellency a high move." ”

Ma Chao still didn't say anything, until Qin Lang and Wang Cai ran three zhang away from him, he opened his mouth and roared, Liu Yu definitely had reason to believe that this deafening roar like a thunderbolt on a sunny day was a kind of kung fu that hurt people with sound. Because of this loud noise, Qin Lang and Wang Cai both showed painful expressions, and Qin Lang even subconsciously threw away the weapon in his hand and covered his ears.

Maybe Ma Chao's sonic power was only issued for people, or maybe the war horses under the crotches of the two enemy generals had been tested for a long time, and it was more likely to be due to inertia, in short, when Qin Lang and Wang Cai lost their minds due to the loud noise, their war horses had already carried them and ran in front of Ma Chao.

This kind of door-to-door delivery service Ma Chao will not refuse, he used his gun as a stick, and with a stroke, one of the heads of the military general named Qin Lang was smashed so that it didn't look like a human head! And Wang Cai, who had just woken up at this time, was weak and frightened, and his fighting spirit was lost, and he turned around and ran. But as soon as he ran five or six steps away, Ma Chao's glittering cold spear head appeared on his chest very abruptly.

The galloping war horse did not notice that its owner had been hung on the head of the gun, and left on its own. And Wang Cai, who was picked up by Ma Chao, actually had time to look at the bloody gun head on his chest, and then twitched slightly, and finally stopped moving! (To be continued.) )