In the winter of the twelfth year of Jian'an, when Liu Yi set off for Jiangxia, it was already December, and the New Year was approaching, but for Liu Yi, he had no home in this era, and it was the same wherever he spent the New Year.

The new carriage has been prepared, and as for the horses, after Liu Bei returned to Xinye, he ordered someone to send a war horse over.

Sitting in the comfortable carriage, Liu Yi didn't do any more wood carving, but just silently touched Wangcai's head and thought about the future.

In order to avoid the embarrassing scene last time, Liu Yi went to Jiangxia this time, made sufficient preparations, Liu Sandao and another bandit are skillfully controlled, at least there will be no deviation problem, he asked Cui Zhouping in detail about the size of the path along the way, this time he agreed with Lu Lingqi to meet in the suburbs of Xiling, where Jiangxia County is located.

As for where the village will be settled, it is useless to think more now, it depends on Huang Zu's arrangement, Liu Yi They have no right to choose, Zhuge Liang's face is not so big, Huang Zu can see that it is good to allocate a piece of wasteland to them in front of Zhuge Liang.

Now Jingzhou is still peaceful, far from being as chaotic as Nanyang, this road has not taken the wrong road, and it has not encountered too many obstacles.

Deng Ai has been studying every day without sleep and food since he got the Wu Zi Art of War given by Zhuge Liang, and at the moment he is sitting in a spacious and stable carriage, not looking to hold a book to study, and Deng Ai is looking at the scenery outside the window on the side, silently thinking about things.

Liu Yi likes this quietness very much, although he can talk to anyone he meets on weekdays, but as far as he is concerned, he prefers quietness and does not like too many miscellaneous things, now that he is clear, he leans on the carriage and silently conceives in his brain about the walled city that will be built by his own hands, which he has begun to conceive when he was in the cottage.

Although the walled city is not a city, but it is also a miniature version of a city, in Liu Yi's conception, at least to be able to accommodate three or five thousand households, about twenty or thirty thousand people of the walled city, it must not be able to be built overnight, even if the function of the system is used, temporarily give some people the ability to be in general with themselves, if you want to pull up a walled city, it is not possible to complete it in three or five days, among them, the biggest problem is still in the material.

This time he went to Jiangxia, in addition to seeing Huang Zu, he also wanted to see if he could get on a few contacts that could supply materials, and he only had 70,000 yuan in his hand, I am afraid that he couldn't even afford to buy materials, so to speak, he still had to rely on the financial support of Lu Lingqi's side, but how much foundation did the cottage have, and Liu Yi was not a person in the cottage, how could he know.

Thinking of these messy things, when the carriage arrived in Xiling, in addition to the idea of the walled city, everything else was actually in vain, and it depended on the situation of Xiling City and the attitude of Huang Zu.

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Xiling, as the county capital of Jiangxia County, although Huang Zu nominally obeys Liu Biao's dispatch, everyone knows that in this place, Huang Zu is the real master here, even if it is Liu Biao's order, if Huang Zu is unwilling to accept it, then no one will take Huang Zu well.

However, the soil emperor of Jiangxia County is not in a very cheerful mood now.

Recently, the news brought back by the patrol fleet seems to have made another move on the Jiangdong side, if there is no accident, after this winter passes, I am afraid that the Jiangdong naval army will make another move.

Although it is not the first time to fight with Jiangdong, and even Huang Zu has such a fierce record as shooting Sun Jian in his hands, this does not mean that Huang Zu will despise the Jiangdong Water Army, on the contrary, as the person who has fought the most with the Jiangdong Water Army in Jingzhou, Huang Zu knows very well the terrible Jiangdong Water Army, therefore, after finding out the news, Huang Zu has been preparing how to deploy these days.

Two huge ships that are also one of the few ships in Jingzhou today have been transferred by Huang Zu and are in a state of being ready to fight at any time, in addition, he also arranged a large number of rolling logs, gravel and torches on the cliffs on both sides.

Huang Zu knows very well that if he fights in a water fight, he will definitely not be the opponent of Jiangdong's civil and military forces, but if it is defense, after so many years, he has fought with Sun Jian, and he has also fought with Sun Ce, and he has not fought with Sun Quan once or twice.

I have to ask Liu Biao for some people!

Looking at Jiangxia's defense map, Huang Zu worked hard to find what was missing, this is the ability to be abused by Jiangdong, on marching and fighting, although Huang Zu is a general in Jingzhou, but his ability is not ranked, but if it is about the defense of the river, in Jingzhou, he Huang Zu recognizes the second, and no one dares to recognize the first.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Zu has been able to sit firmly in this Jiangxia for so many years, and even if Liu Biao is dissatisfied with him, he does not dare to remove him easily.

"Lord!" Just as Huang Zu was thinking about how to ask for more benefits from Liu Biao, a relative came in and bowed to Huang Zu and said, "Someone outside the door asked to see the lord with a letter, saying that Zhuge Liang recommended it. ”

"Kong Ming?" Huang Zu nodded when he heard this, took the letter casually, and asked casually, "Who is here?" ”

"It is said that it is from a craftsman in Longzhong." Bow down and say.

"Craftsman?" Huang Zu frowned when he heard this, his eyes swept over the letter, he shook his head and smiled: "How could Kong Ming make friends with such people? ”

The Huang family is a big family of Jingxiang, Zhuge Liang and the Huang family are married, Huang Zu has naturally seen it, and he has a good impression of this young man, originally, Huang Zu also wanted to meet this person who was recommended by Kong Ming, but when he heard the identity of the other party, he suddenly stopped thinking about it, the gap between the other party and his identity was too big, and Huang Zu disdained to meet him.

However, Zhuge Liang came by letter in person, and it was not a big deal, just a piece of land in Jiangxia to the other party, Huang Zu was not good at brushing Zhuge Liang's face, after looking at the map, he took a blank official document in his hand, thought about it, and after looking at the map again, he wrote a paragraph on the official document, to the effect that a certain place was handed over to Liu Yi to build a walled city, recruit tenant farmers to reclaim the wasteland, and then cover his own big seal, hand the official document to his relatives and say: "Give him this official document and let him leave on his own." ”

"Whoa!" He agreed, took the official document, and bowed to leave.

This is just a trivial matter for Huang Zu, it is not enough for him to take it to heart, Jiangxia has fought with Jiangdong from time to time over the years, the people are not prosperous, there are few people, and many fields have been abandoned, now since someone wants to build a walled city here, Huang Zu is naturally happy to see it, as for the rest, it is exempt, he is not so idle.