A cold rain approaching November announced that Shouchun City had entered early winter.

Guanglu Doctor Jia Xu's mansion, Jia Wenhe personally watered for more than half a year of all kinds of flowers and plants have withered and withered a lot, and some of the remaining flowers and plants have also been moved into the flower room by the servants, and because Jia Xu himself likes to be quiet, the total number of guards and servants in the house is only thirty, so the huge Jia Mansion seems to be very empty and idle for a while.

In the past, poisoners had three things every day, one was to personally water and cultivate the flowers and trees in the courtyard in the morning, the second was to read various military and political affairs in the inner room at noon, and the third was to taste tea in the courtyard at night, read books and watch astronomy.

In recent months, Guo Jiazi, who goes by the pseudonym Jia Fuzi, has handled military and political affairs on behalf of Jia Xu. At the beginning, Guo Jia was still a little dishonest, Jia Xu was lazy if he didn't urge him, and he was secretly cautious in doing things, but after being "educated" by the poison once or twice, Guo Fengxiao finally completed the transformation from a swinger to an obedient good boy.

Especially in the past three or four months, Guo Jia not only did not need Jia Xu's supervision and inspection, but also straightened out all the military and political affairs sent to Jiafu one by one, and really put himself in the shoes of Zhang Xiu's group.

The most important thing is the relationship between Guo Jia and Zhang Xiu, who finally became friendly in the months of the attack on Jiangdong, and the ghost talent also actively played his own tricks in the several battles of Zhang Xiu and Sun Cejun.

Therefore, Guo Jia was finally no longer treated differently by Zhang Xiujun's civil and military affairs. Although it is said that he is a strategist who was forcibly captured, but looking at his current performance and attitude, he is under the command of General Zhendong. After all, wasn't the Qing scholar Han Song forcibly detained by Zhang Xiu when he was an envoy to Liu Biao, and in the end, wasn't it used by General Zhendong.

With the ghost to take over the burden, Jia Xu's free time every day has greatly increased. But it was a cold winter, Jia Xu lost the joy of raising flowers and plants, and it was impossible for an old bone to count the stars every day in the cold night. So the recent poison is a bit boring.

If you are bored, you have to have some fun, no, early in the morning, Old Man Jia was ready to go out and go to Shouchun Prison to find all kinds of prisoners to chat.

The horseman had already prepared the carriage, and more than a dozen attendants were also waiting outside the middle gate with their horses. Jia Xu took care of the clothes and accessories, and then glanced at Guo Fengxiao lying on the desk in the middle hall, playing with bamboo slips with one hand and swaying ink with the other, and walked out of the house.

An accompanying old servant helped Jia Xu to board the carriage and sit down, and then a group of elite guards of the former Wuwei Battalion specially selected by Zhang Xiu stepped onto the war horses, hugging the carriage from front to back. Then the groom flicked his whip, and the two horses lifted their hooves at the same time. At this time, Dr. Jia in the car was already sitting upright and closed his eyes to recuperate.

More than half of the people in Jiafu were empty for a while, and most of the rest were maids and maids. Guo Jia was finally able to stretch his waist naturally and freely, but there was no lazy and idle expression on his face, and after stretching his waist and moving his neck and shoulders, he still continued to bury his head in reading and dealing with military intelligence and politics.

In the courtyard, a servant who was clearing the dead grass quietly moved a doorpost in the corner of the wall to the left after Guo Jia lowered his head.

After the expansion, the infrastructure of Shouchun City is quite perfect, and the main roads in the city are divided into carriage and horse lanes for carriage and horses. In particular, the area where Jiafu is located was planned as an "imperial city" during the Yuan Shu period, and the roads were even more spacious and flat, and people could not feel the slightest stagnation and bumps when sitting in the carriage.

When Yuan Shu built Shouchun, he only built the Shouchun Palace and two altars symbolizing imperial power. Roads, walls, barracks, arsenals, and Cangao, which were extremely critical during the period of the battle for power, were postponed. In Zhang Xiu's hands, he first started from the road wall, and then repaired the barracks and warehouses, because the materials were not in place, and he even had the idea of demolishing the Shouchun Palace and the Temple of Heaven and Earth to use local materials.

However, in the end, because of the smooth pacification of Jiangdong, a large amount of timber transported from Jiangdong and Liu Ye's large-scale mining of stones from the Lujiang Mountains, coupled with the developed water and land transportation in Huainan, finally made the resolution to demolish the Shouchun Palace and the two altars of heaven and earth be called.

Of course, because of the huge project, it is difficult to achieve the goal of timely transfer of raw materials in a short period of time with Zhang Xiu's strength alone. But fortunately, Zhang Xiu proposed the method of using private merchants to transport and mine raw materials, and in the end, not only did he no longer need to levy redundant conscripts and people, but also greatly improved the status quo of Huainan.

As a result, countless small and medium-sized merchants became active, and by actively organizing the surplus labor force in their hometowns and using nearby resources, they continuously provided stone and timber to Shouchun in exchange for the hardest currency in the troubled times - grain.

The final result is that Zhang Xiu used the normal amount of less food, and obtained more and better building materials and labor!

Both coercion and spontaneity can achieve the goal, but spontaneity is always more effective than coercion!

However, even so, the outer city of Shouchun City has not been fully completed until now. The barracks and warehouses of the defenders in the city are also under preliminary expansion and repair, and the so-called palace walls of the palace and the walls of the imperial city have not yet begun.

There is no city wall barrier, and the common people can easily see many Zhang Xiu groups such as Jia Xu. In the past, there were often some ordinary people who blocked the road to intercept the cars of people such as Jiujiang Taishou Yuan Lian, Changshi Yang Hong, and Zhu Bo Yanxiang to shout grievances, or some strong and powerful rangers from other places intercepted the generals of Zhang Xiujun, hoping to seek an official position in the army by showing their tendons or martial arts.

However, since Shouchun transferred the new Shouchun to Liu Fu, those ordinary people who blocked the road everywhere and shouted grievances were finally gone. This is, of course, because this new county magistrate is very effective and does practical things for the people.

In addition, because of the reason why Yuan Yao, the first captain of Shouchun Palace, took office, those ranger high-rollers who believed that they had some skills did not dare to wander around the Shouchun Palace for three miles. A bad thing is the result of being chased and bitten by a vicious dog, if you are not convinced and want to sue the official, you have to go to Yuan Yin, the commander of Shouchun Palace, who is in charge of this piece.

As a result, Shouchun City, especially near Shouchun Palace, has a very good public security environment. Except for the occasional barking of a dog, it is quite peaceful and peaceful. In the past, Jia Xu basically closed his eyes and opened his eyes, and he arrived at the place he wanted to arrive.

But today is clearly an exceptional day. Because someone blocked the road of Jia Xu's carriage and horse.

To be precise, it was a group of people blocking the carriage road.

The leader of the guards rode on his horse, held the handle of the knife with one hand, and said condescendingly: "This is not the carriage and horse of the Shouchun official office, you want to shout grievances and go elsewhere!" ”

The group of people, old and young, men and women, all dressed in the same tattered rags, one of the young men swallowed a mouthful of saliva and shouted in a dry voice towards the carriage: "Daddy! ”

The commander of the personal guard was a little impatient, and waved his other hand heavily: "It's useless to call grandpa, it's Doctor Jia here, not the parent official who cares about your affairs!" ”

What I didn't expect was that after hearing that there was a doctor Jia Xu Jia who didn't have any real job sitting in the car, this group of people who were not wearing complete straw sandals and the soles of their feet were blistered with blood blisters suddenly knelt down on the spot, and several of the young people even shouted in unison: "Dad! ”

The commander of the guards was a little annoyed, but he wouldn't and didn't dare to do anything with this group of poor people who knew at a glance that they had taken refuge, but it was still easy to let people notify the Shouchun Palace Lieutenant to solve the problem.

But what he didn't expect was that the curtain on the carriage was suddenly opened, and Jia Xu stretched out half of his body and opened his eyes. Yes, the poisoner didn't actually close his usual eyes, but poked his head out with his eyes open.

"Mu'er, Wan'er, Ji'er?"

The Commander of the Guards kept his mouth shut. After all, he was born in Wuwei Camp and is an authentic Wuwei person, and he naturally knows that Jia Xu has three sons, called Jia Mu, Jia Wan and Jia Ji.

At the beginning, it was because of his family that Jia Xu lost Emperor Han Xian, who left Chang'an and returned to the east. Later, when he was living in fellow villager Duan Xuan, Jia Xu's family also followed Jia Xu in Wuguan. Later, Jia Xu was suspicious of Duan Xuan, so he had to switch to Zhang Xiu under the banner of finding foreign aid for Duan Xuan, and Jia Xu's family was treated well by Duan Xuan.

However, later, Zhang Xiu competed for the Central Plains, established himself in Huainan, far away from the land of Guanzhong, and lost the news about Wuguan and Duan Xuan for a long time.

It wasn't until Cao Cao entered Shouchun that he got the news that Duan Xuan had submitted to Cao Cao, as for Jia Xu's family, Cao Cao, who wanted to recruit poisoners for his own use, had personally said that he had sent someone to pick up Jia Xu's family in Xudu, but for some reason, at this moment, the Jia clan would appear in Shouchun City like this.

Jia Xu himself didn't understand the answer either, until he saw a middle-aged man who had no blood relationship with him in a group of family members kneeling on the ground.

"Why did Wen You see me with this courtesy?" Jia Xu's face turned happy, and he got out of the carriage, but he didn't talk to his wife and children first, but made a gesture to the middle-aged man who was mixed with his family.

The middle-aged man caught a glimpse of Jia Xu's happy face, but he was a little frightened, knelt on the ground and still didn't dare to move, and said respectfully: "Brother Wen and Brother have met again." ”

The commander of the guards over there recalled Jia Xu's title to the middle-aged man for a long time, and secretly recalled his appearance, but the moment he finally came back to his senses, his face was full of vigilance, and the hand that pressed on the handle of the knife also pulled out half of the blade in an instant. It was as if the middle-aged man, who was so ragged that he was not even a beggar, was an extremely dangerous figure.

Jia Xu laughed twice, and then flicked his hand lightly and said: "Wen You is not worried, today is yesterday, you and I haven't seen each other for several years, today just by my family, I should drink a glass of wine with you." ”