At the end of the rainy season, Guo Jia and Wang Lang came to Xuzhou with two people and some retinues, but when the rainy season ended and the golden autumn and July came, they left with some entourage.

Wang Lang came to the Wei general Shi Lufan to take leave, he has not been to his hometown in Donghai County for a long time, he really wants to go back to have a look, plus this time Zang Ba was successfully transferred by Guan Yu, and the whole county of Langya in the north of Xuzhou was surrendered to Hebei, Wang Jingxing couldn't help but move the family from the East China Sea to Langya.

As for the people who went north with Guo Jia, who was holding the scepter, they were the two envoys sent by Liu Bei after he actually obtained most of the rest of Xuzhou - the main envoy was called Lu Su Lu Zijing, who was from Dongcheng, Guangling, Xuzhou, and the deputy envoy was called Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong, who were from Xiapi, Xuzhou.

In addition, there was also a close friend of Chen Deng himself, called Xu Shu Xu Yuanzhi, who also accompanied him, but Guo Jia turned a deaf ear.

In fact, after Chen Deng threw himself into Liu Bei with the whole clan, coupled with his performance at the critical moment, it is understandable that Liu Bei was about to clean up Xuzhou and avoid risks with this important appointment. As for Xu Shu, after thanking Zhang Fei in person for his kindness in the past, he publicly rejected the invitation of the priest and decided to continue to study in all directions, increase his knowledge, and polish his knowledge, but he couldn't say anything about him.

Only Lu Zi respects his person, after Guo Jia exchanged several times, he always felt that this person was Confucian on the outside and beautiful on the inside, not a simple person, so he couldn't help but pay special attention to it.

In other words, there are some interesting things and fate between Lu Su and Liu Bei.

You must know that Lu Su was born in Lujiang and lived in the nest, but he moved to Guangling Dongcheng, Xuzhou during the early Huainan turmoil, and that place is a place where Guangling County extends into Jiujiang in the Huainan region, and it stands to reason that it should not be under Liu Bei's rule. However, what is interesting is that when Liu Bei relied on Tao Qian to gain a foothold in Peinan, there was a small episode...... Peinan is bounded by Suishui, in fact, there are eight counties, Liu Bei Tangtang Yuzhou Thorn History only took six counties as a place of existence at that time, why?

The reason is very simple, it is that Tao Qian was not old at the time, and his body was very good, so his personality was naturally as bad as ever, and the disgusting things he did during that time were not just to put Zhang Zhao in prison...... In fact, he felt that Liu Bei's foothold depended on him, so he simply took the two counties next to Xiapi Country in the eight counties of Peinan as a reward!

And take it for granted, overbearing to the extreme.

However, after Liu Xuande got Zhang Zhao's point, 3,000 tattered soldiers went south to the Huai River and swept Huainan, the soldiers had enough food to become the climate, but they did not return the two counties, but after accepting Tao Qian's invitation to Guangling to deal with the harassment of Xue Li, the former Pengcheng minister, he took the opportunity to swallow Dongcheng.

It can only be said that Liu Bei is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

In fact, the Central Plains was really chaotic at that time, and the so-called Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Tao Qian and others could not really grasp all the strategic space:

For example, there are Yellow Turban thieves in Runan, and there are small warlords like Li Tong who actually cut off their territory in Langling; Guangling has Xue Li, a frustrated person who occupies the edge of the river and sea and harasses him everywhere; There are tens of thousands of lake bandits and water thieves in Jiujiang and Lujiang; Peibei and Liang have a large number of dock forts, not to mention the so-called thieves and mountain bandits......

And it's not just these, such as the little story between Liu Bei and Tao Qian, Sun Jian and Cao Cao, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Liu Bei and Sun Jian, there are many similar episodes at the same time...... It's like why did Sun Jian invite Liu Bei to quell the rebellion against Runan for him, and then hand over the east of Yingshui to Liu Bei? One of the reasons why he was embarrassed to export was that he was afraid that the Runan rebellion would become bigger, and Liu Xuande took the opportunity that Sun Jian couldn't get out of Nanyang, and directly occupied the place in the name of Yuzhou Assassin Shi by means of counterinsurgency, and then did not return it!

When the time comes, will he Sun Wentai turn his face, or will he admit it? You can't say, please ask Brother Liu Xian, the assassin of Yuzhou, to return to me the counties of Runan County, Yuzhou, which you ruled, right?

The complicated situation at that time can also be seen from another small detail when Sun Jian promised the territory east of Yingshui - Runan actually has eight counties east of Yingshui, why only seven, because Chengfu County is in Cao Cao's hands!

Although the city father belongs to Runan, it is actually downstream of the whirlpool, not far from the place where Cao Cao and Gongsun Xun bathed, where Cao Cao has not yet raised troops, and was occupied by Cao Ren with thousands of gangsters, which belongs to Cao Cao's original territory, Cao's influence in the vortex is too great, and Sun Jian's strength has not been caught.

These things, to put it bluntly, are just the external manifestations of these relatively high-level warlords pulling and fighting with each other and taking care of the overall situation...... In general, the overall situation is the overall situation, but in private, we still have to fight for territory and population.

Promote peace through struggle, and win respect through struggle!

Back to Lu Su, when Liu Bei arrived in Guangling, he easily defeated Xue Li, and then occupied the east city with a rabbit in the grass, and went to find Lu Su as soon as possible, because Lu Su was born in the Lujiang clan, and his reputation in Huainan was very great, and Liu Ye, a local talent in Huainan, was friends with each other, and Liu Bei had heard of him a long time ago.

However, when I arrived in Dongcheng, I realized that Lu Su had run away again!

This guy saw the chaos in Guangling in Dongcheng, so he went home and went back to the nest...... Liu Bei returned to Huainan and sent people to Juchao to conquer Lusu, only to know that this guy actually ran away again, but he had the intention of becoming a leader, and this time he was preparing to go to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao!

So Liu Bei hurriedly chased after him, chased him to the riverside and changed to a boat to chase, but he didn't catch up.

However, when he returned to his base camp in Huainan Shouchun in frustration, he was surprised to find that Lu Su was actually waiting for him here!

It turned out that when Lu Zijing was running around with two poles, he also felt that he was a little unreliable, so before leaving, he came to Shouchun to discuss with his friend Liu Ye, and almost made Liu Ziyang laugh - if you don't vote for the master in front of you, what are you running around?

Lu Su defended and said, this Liu Bei is a Yan person, we don't know him, and once the eldest husband is committed, he will have to obey him to life and death, can he easily defect?

Liu Ye is too lazy to say, and Liu Ziyang is a fuel-efficient lamp? With a wave of his hand, this big man who has been killing people since he was a child simply locked up Lu Su by force, and waited for Liu Bei to come back before letting him out.

And when Lu Zijing saw Liu Bei and learned that the other party almost chased him all the way to Jiangxia in order to chase him, he was grateful, bowed his head, and became Liu Bei's confidant from then on.

In all fairness, whether it is Cao Cao or Liu Bei, or Sun Jian, they are by no means smooth sailing in the Central Plains and Huainan, but now that the world is in troubled times, who doesn't have a few stories? And if Liu Bei or Cao Cao can't set the world in the future, who cares about these stories?

Back in front of him, Lu Zijing and Guo Fengxiao took Chen Deng and Xu Shu to the north together, passing through Langya, originally wanted to visit Guan Yu, the general of Zhendong who incorporated Langya Zangba's department, but did not want to be released by Zangba's subordinate Changene because of the Taishan bandits' poison, so they took advantage of the chaos to flee and float south, Guan Yunchang was angry at this time...... Guo Jia, who knew Guan Yu's temper, was not good to stay long, so he hurriedly left a book to pay his respects, and set off north again.

Turn into Taishan County, cross Jibei, go to Dongjun, cross the river from Cangting, and then go east to Wei County...... From this point of view, the Central Plains of Hebei seems to be separated by a water, far from being as clear as imagined.

And after entering Wei County, Xu Shu took the initiative to say goodbye and traveled on his own, although Chen Deng was reluctant, he had nothing to say - the experience of Xiapi hit the two almost the same, Xu Shu decided to walk more and see more, what else could Chen Yuanlong do?

A few days later, at noon in late July, a group of people entered the extremely prosperous Yecheng, just stayed in the post house in the east gate, and before they had time to sigh and play, they learned that General Wei Gongsun Xun was going to summon them - at this time, Gongsun Xun was inspecting the construction site of Tongquetai in the southwest of the city, but after hearing that it was Lu Zijing and Chen Yuanlong as messengers, he did not want to wait for a moment, and summoned them directly.

Lu Chen and the others didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took the gifts prepared by Liu Bei, and hurriedly went out of the city to Tongquetai on the bank of Zhangshui in the southwest of Yecheng.

Due to the popularization and development of rammed earth technology, the Han Dynasty's desktop architecture has actually reached a very mature point, the rammed earth in the military camp, the rammed earth periphery of the military fortress, the rammed earth foundation of the government, schools, and sacrificial buildings are extremely common. As far as the prestige of Tongquetai is concerned, as a ruling group, its scale is also undoubted.

Not to mention anything else, even if there are not many buildings standing on the platform at this time, a single ten-zhang high platform is also shocking.

The time was already in the evening, Lu Su climbed the stairs and went on stage to meet Gongsun Xun, and before he came to the stage, he heard a voice above his head and asked:

"People have a sharp blade in their hands, murderous intentions, climb high and look far, and be proud...... Zi respects Huainan Yingjie, what do you think is going to happen here? ”

Lu Su hurriedly raised his head with Chen Deng beside him, but saw a person with only a beard but no beard, tall, with a crown and sword sleeves, standing on the top of the steps with a smile and a negative hand, asking condescendingly.

Lu and Chen looked at his appearance quite upright, his speech was clear and young, as if he was only thirty-two or thirteen years old, and he didn't even have a seal on his body, so he thought it was a son of an important minister's family here in Yecheng who heard that the Huainan envoy came here to find fault!

But in the next moment, almost at the same time, Lu Su and Chen Dengqi caught a glimpse of an extremely long and strangely shaped saber on this person's waist, but they were in a panic, and they bowed down with Guo Jia on the side, calling him 'General Wei'!

"If it's not an official temple reception, why bother with more courtesy? Langya started, the itinerary was complete, and Feng Xiao should have been allowed to rest first, but when I heard that Lu Zijing was here, he didn't dare to slack off, but he worked hard to be filial piety. Gongsun Xun went down half a step, but he helped Guo Jia up first and praised him for a while.

"Where is the duty, how dare you call it hard?" Guo Jia, who was helped to the stage, hurriedly leaned over and called his life.

"Since you're here, let's take a trip with me on stage, Zhicai is also here, and you will go to him to report again!" Gongsun Xun bowed slightly, but let go of the other party, letting him go to find Xizhong, and then looked at Lu Su under him again. "Zijing, what I said is suitable, you haven't answered yet, right?"

"Foreign Minister ......"

"What about foreign ministers, aren't you a Han courtier?" Gongsun Xun smiled at each other. "Besides, if you come to me, even Xuande will not be called a foreign minister, but will call himself a younger brother."

"Uh, subordinates...... The minister thought that the Tongque Terrace was magnificent, although the high-rise buildings were not completed, but there were also many weather! Lu Su reluctantly changed his words.

"What can you see in the audience?" Gongsun Xun smiled again, and stretched out his hand to help the other party to the stage. "Let's take a look!"

Lu Su was helpless, just let the other party help him to the stage with one arm, and Chen Yuanlong was behind, and he couldn't help but be envious.

The three of them took the stage, only to see that in addition to the hundreds of guards with feather iron cloaks on the stage, there were dozens of high-crowned and majestic people, tall or short, white or black, roughly divided into two piles, one of which was divided into two piles except for a very small number of young people like Guo Jia, most of them were middle-aged and elderly people, and almost all of them were green and silver-sealed, as if they were important ministers, famous generals, and Confucians here in Yecheng; On the other side, there are mostly young people in their twenties and thirties, all of them are heroic, monstrous, and most of them are black ribbon copper seals of thousands of stones and six hundred stones, and some people have no seals, and there are even four or five young people with hair without crowns, as if they are new talents or children of local nobles, and except for one Jiujiang Jiang Gan is acquaintance, the rest of Lu Su does not know.

And Gongsun Xun walked with Lu Su arm-in-arm, and he was not in a hurry to introduce him, but came directly to the side of the stage and looked west by the railing...... At this time, it is evening, the so-called Zhangshui is long, the sunset is gorgeous, the ten-zhang high platform, thousands of miles of smoke and waves, self-proclaimed meteorology.

"How?" After looking at it for a while, Gongsun Xun suddenly asked again.

"It does ......"

"Is there poetry?"

"Minister...... Dull. "Lu Zijing is quite embarrassed." I don't know how to write and ink. ”

"I think so," Gongsun Xun shook his head and sighed as he looked at Lu Su who was being dragged by himself. "Huainan is a place in the middle of the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River, on the one hand, you can get in touch with the culture of the Central Plains, but on the other hand, the people are fierce and barbaric, so the heroes there are more good at plotting and killing people without permission, but they are not good at scriptures, and they don't care about the small way of poetry and songs...... This kind of habit is difficult to compete for the top in the ordinary world, but it is the capital that is proud of the world in the troubled times! ”

Lu Su didn't know whether to refute or not, and even he didn't know whether the other party was praising himself or scolding himself, and this feeling soon became stronger with Gongsun Xun's words.

"Gentlemen," Gongsun Xun finally looked back at his group of subordinate courtiers, but pointed at Lu Su and said with a smile. "This is one of the three heroes of Huainan that I told you...... When Lu Zijing was young, he sold his house in the standard field, divided the wealth and made a fortune, which can be described as a rare ambition and ambitious, and his people looked at the overall situation like a fire in the hole, and his heart had already divided the world with a Ming lord and dominated the ambition for a while, but he was not good at civil affairs, and his talent was still limited, not comparable to Xiao He, but it could be slightly compared to Deng Yu in front of Guangwu! ”

The ministers of Ye all stared at Lu Su up and down, as if they had seen the elephant sent by Shixie from the sea before, even Chen Deng was also dumbfounded, looking at Lu Su in a daze.

Lu Zijing himself was also quite embarrassed, but in the end, he was a hero, so he simply gritted his teeth and asked: "As General Wei said, the rich man of Huainan can be called ambitious, and he can be compared to Deng Yu, so what are the other two heroes?" ”

"Does that need to be said?" Gongsun Xun didn't care. "Liu Ye and Liu Ziyang are scheming and decisive, and they are even better at killing people than Zijing...... It is less than Zhang Liang and slightly better than Chen Ping. ”

Lu Su was irrefutable.

"There is another person, called Zhou Yu Zhou Gongjin, compared with Han Xin, the army is slightly late, but he is personable, he can be called a Confucian general, and more importantly, this person is like Zijing, once he is a minister, he cannot be shaken...... Overall, I don't think it's worse than Han Xin! Gongsun Xun said with emotion. Does Zijing know? Last year, after I knew that the three of you were under the curtain of Xuande, although I also understood that the land of Huainan belonged to him, and the three of you could not escape from him, I still couldn't help but issue an edict to let the three of you enter the court as officials...... It's a pity that after receiving the letter, Xuande not only pretended not to know, but directly replied to me with a box of ashes. And today he sent you, as if he was not afraid of me to win him over...... What a pity! ”

Lu Su's heart moved slightly, but he really had a little gratitude: "Why should General Wei be like this? As the general said, my family Liu Yuzhou has Huainan, An Huainan, and then with his people to be virtuous corporals, don't say Huainan talents, even stupid people like me have to repay him with all their hearts; And General Wei is in charge of Hebei and Sanfu, will the heroes of Hebei and Sanfu not obey General Wei? Why does the general have such a high regard for us and the other three...... Let the general fall in love by mistake. ”

Gongsun Xun knew that the other party was unshakable, so he laughed again, and then finally let go of his hand.

In other words, Gongsun Xun touted what Huainan Sanjie before, Deng Yu, Chen Ping, and better than Han Xin, many ministers around him were actually not angry in their hearts, but some of the important ministers and elders had many cities and had never appeared, but there were always young people on the other side who couldn't help but be angry.

There were as many as three people who came up at the same time, but after looking at each other, the two uncrowned teenagers, one ugly and one handsome, immediately stopped, and only a young official with a ribbon took the lead and asked Lu Su:

"As the envoy said, Liu Yuzhou lives in Huainan, and Huainan Yingjie is attached, but is my Jiawei general just living in Hebei District? Since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, General Wei has actually held the power of the world, and he is known as a talented person, comparing himself to Deng Yu, but he only feels the grace of Liu Yuzhou and Huainan, why not the grace of General Wei in the world? ”

Lu Su didn't recognize this person, so he could only give his hand blankly, and then asked seriously: "Dare to ask the name of the foot!" ”

"Last year, the seventh official position ranked first in the performance assessment of Jizhou, and the county order was issued, Taiyuan Wang Ling Wang Yanyun!" The man held his head high.

"It's rude." Lu Su was stunned, and then continued to inquire earnestly. "What about the other two?"

"This is the one who entered school last autumn, the first in the Ming Economics Department, Sima Yi of Wen County, Hanoi!" Wang Ling pointed casually. "And this one is the first in the liberal arts last year, Shanyang Wang Cang!"

Lu Zijing became more and more emotional, but he first glanced at Gongsun Xun, who didn't say a word but seemed to be smiling, and knew that he couldn't avoid this experience, so he responded proudly: "I've seen three...... In fact, what Wang Jun Shicai said is very reasonable, and whoever feels his kindness should be his business, and he is quite right. But since Huainan Yingjie is unwilling to follow General Wei and follow Liu Yuzhou, it can only show that Liu Yuzhou has kindness to Huainan, and Huainan has not seen General Wei's kindness! ”

Wang Ling was flustered for a moment, and couldn't help but peek at Gongsun Xun, but found that the latter was just laughing.

——————I'm the dividing line with a smile on my face——————

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yuzhou sent Lu Su to visit Taizu in Yecheng, Chen Deng accompanied him, met in Tongquetai, Taizu followed the ministers and the university leaders from the court, the dinner was over, Su asked Deng and said: 'The right person to deal with the hurry, not exhausted talent, crowned as an official, not to mention, who is better for the young Yuanlong?' Deng replied: "There are two teenagers on the stage who are outstanding, the handsome one is called Sima Yi, and the ugly one is called Wang Cang, both of which are the choice of the moment. Su shook his head: "Sima Zi's words are sharp, Wang's son is talented, but I and Zhu Ye's subordinates debated, and made bold words, saying that General Wei had no kindness in the Central Plains, and everyone changed color, and the only eldest boy stood on the side of the stage, standing still, like standing out from the crowd, and was trying to hear his name. "Deng private asks the ancients in the clan, and it is Langya Zhuge Liang!" ——"The World Speaks New Words". Tasting