Rainy night, post house outside Xiangyang City.

In order to facilitate the departure, Xu Shu did not go to the more comfortable Xiangyang City, but spent the night in the pavilion set up by the side of the road.

The day galloped all the way, changing horses without changing people, and also worshiped the Chengzu Temple a little by the way, but was blocked by the rain, and did not find a boat to cross the river for a while, so I had to stay in the pavilion.

The pavilion chief here hospitalized Xu Shu, and Xu Shu unexpectedly and rarely took a hot bath, and his physical and mental comfort was much better.

In terms of the treatment of his state pastoral level, the pavilions along the way had to provide meat, so after bathing, there was a can of delicious fish soup waiting for him.

During the meal, Xu Shucai asked: "Xiangyang is a prosperous place, there are many fishing boats for the military and civilians, and there are often business trips between the north and the south, how can there be a shortage of ships today?" ”

The pavilion chief on the serving side replied: "Back to the envoy, at the end of July, there were three battalions of summer troops going north to Guanzhong, and they needed to escort a lot of supplies from Lingnan and Xiangzhou, so the Hanshui boats and boats mostly assisted in transportation. ”

"Xia Jun?"

Xu Shu muttered, and ate a spoonful of delicious fish soup, and saw that the fish soup was also decorated with seaweed, which is a Lingnan specialty.

"It's Xia Jun, it's Xia Jun who was transferred to Guanzhong by Xiahou Guo on rotation."

The pavilion chief carefully explained, and consciously said more, lowering his head and not daring to look at Xu Shu.

As a retired low-level officer of the Dangkou Army, he naturally knew how much water this 'Xia Army' had, and how much manpower and material resources the entire Xiahou Kingdom had?

Therefore, the Xia Army was downsized and changed from the Jiangdong Army of the Heqi Division, and there were 15 battalions following the government soldier system, and they went to serve in Guanzhong in the form of rotational service, serving for half a year each time.

The first three battalions of the first three battalions to participate in the war with He Jing were assigned to the Zhaoyong rate, and this rate was sent back to Wuchang after the spring ploughing, and He Qi sent three battalions into Guanzhong to continue to serve, and the three battalions received the number of the Zhaoyi rate.

Now that Zhao Yi is about to be repatriated, they will come back with Lu Yi and be responsible for escorting the new coins minted in Guanzhong. As a handover and change of defense, the new government soldiers, who have been named Zhaowu Rate, will go north, and in order to save manpower, they will also carry all kinds of dried seafood and local products from Lingnan.

These special products are transported to Guanzhong, which are naturally rare and will be rewarded as a regular reward for the New Year.

There is a lack of trustworthy currency, so in-kind rewards have always been popular in Beifu.

Tian Xin himself did not want to see the straight hundred coins, and it was impossible to use the straight hundred coins instead of grain and cloth, and take the straight hundred coins to convert them into physical rewards.

Therefore, the officials in the Beifu system do not have a deep intersection with Zhibaiqian, unlike other armies, whether it is a routine reward, a military merit reward, or a bereavement pension, it is mostly paid with Zhibaiqian.

Xu Shu couldn't help but feel heavy and disinterested, and raised his hand and waved away the pavilion chief.

Although the Han Dynasty is three prosperous, it is an old country with too much historical baggage; Unlike the Sanke family, many things can be done by the Sanke family, but the Han family cannot.

For example, the reform of the official system, the related to the Beifu is in full swing, but the imperial court is struggling, the deeper the study of the new official system, the more rigid the court becomes, but it is not as flexible as the system of three princes and nine secretaries.

Now halfway through my studies, I can't go up or down, and I'm very stuck.

It was like a rope wrapped around the neck of the Han family, slowly pulling, and the feeling of suffocation came from all directions, and it was impossible to avoid it.

Xu Shu couldn't drink the remaining half of the fish soup, maybe the fish soup was cold, or it was the sound of the gradually dense raindrops that made him unintentional.

The darkness of the rain obscured his vision, and he thought of the decisive battle that had broken out here six years ago that had turned the tide of the world.

No one would have thought that Cao Ren would be so unbeaten, no one would have thought that Sun Quan would attack Jiangling with his back against the alliance, and no one would have thought that the Jingzhou army would be so capable of fighting, and almost beat Sun Quan to death in Maicheng.

Since then, Wei has no way to retreat, and has completed the last step of usurping the Han; Sun Quan also actively joined, and in order to strangle the Han family Sanxing, Wei and Wu each abandoned their former hatred, and as a result, they were swept away by the Han army.

In just five years, the intensity of the war was far greater than that of the ten years after Guandu.

In the past five years, the Beifu headed by Tian Xin has developed extremely rapidly, what did the first emperor think, why did he never dispose of and split the Beifu?

It was the first emperor who gave up the split and pinned his hopes on the unification of Beifu; Or has the Sanke family completed the union, so that the first emperor did not dare to act rashly?

On this rainy night, Xu Shu pondered the recent rumors of enemy countries in Jiangdu and the local area, and secretly metaphorically implied that the three emperors were conspiring against the country and wanted to usurp the country, and caused the first emperor to die of the epidemic because of the epidemic.

Zhijin Wu Chen Zhizheng has full authority to track down this Wei State spy case that divides the core of the imperial court, and this spy case can be described as sinister in provoking people's hearts.

Even he was a little shaken.

But the general still trusts himself, gives himself the military power of Yanzhou, and allows him to consolidate the position of the four states of Kwantung to support the Han family, so that he can have the opportunity to take revenge and seize the land of Hebei.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Shu could only sigh.

It was also raining around Luoyang, and Cao Pi lived in the warm pavilion, looking out at the night through the slightly hazy brown crystal window.

The rain is not very dense, sparse and sparse, you can see the palace lanterns from far and near, and some of the palace lanterns standing by the canal have lights refracted to the water surface, which seems to have a big pool.

Recently, he has become more and more mentally weakened, so that although he is drowsy at night, he always wakes up, and during the day he is also in a trance and hallucinates.

At this moment, I woke up in a dream again, and I knew something in my heart, and I was more calm and calm in addition to my mental decline.

As a failed emperor who was expelled by his courtiers, I thought of Emperor Han Chengzu at this moment, and I don't know what he was thinking in the last moments of his life.

Are you worried about your children, or are you worried about the survival of the country's society? Or is it just pure remorse, didn't listen to Tian Xin's words, and killed Sun Quan, the source of the plague, early?

Or is he unrepentant and very calmly accepts what happened in this life?

Only virtue, meritorious service, and words can be immortal.

The virtue of becoming an ancestor, washing away the filth of the troubled times, respecting the virtue of the ancestor regardless of the enemy and me. Sun Quan was not angry, and he was always unaccustomed to becoming an ancestor, so he brought about his own destruction.

I really can't figure out the thinking of Wu Guojun and his ministers, with such good conditions and relationships, isn't it good to surrender early?

The meritorious service and words of the ancestors are also impeccable, and it is both fortunate and unfortunate to be in the same era as such a life.

Cao Pi was secretly sad, and began to cry again in emotional loss, feeling sad for his fate.

What has become of my life? This is by no means what he wanted to live when he was a teenager, Ziwen Ganglie has become the posture he wants to live, and Zijian is probably very unhappy now.

What about yourself? How did it get to this point?

Could it be that this is your fate?

In addition to regret and frustration, he thought of Tian Xin, as a person who will become an emperor sooner or later, will he regret it when he reaches the moment when he knows the destiny of heaven?

Probably not, he's always doing what he wants.

is not like himself, willful and reckless and can't listen to advice, there are only people like Xu Chu who are dedicated to obeying orders, and other people who have some ideas will leave him.

When Cao Pi wiped his tears, he heard a slight sound behind him, and listening to the frequency of his footsteps made him feel at ease, he was the queen.

With his back to Queen Guo, after wiping away his tears, he turned around and said in a slightly discolored tone: "What I'm worried about now is just the blood of the clan and family affairs. I want to build a high platform in the Sunset Pavilion and invite him to hunt so that I can entrust him with things. ”

Queen Guo covered her mouth with her hands and shed tears, and Cao Pi squeezed out a pale smile at her: "Perhaps, this meeting, there is still that glimmer of life." ”