In the fifth year of Jian'an, in the early summer of April, fifteen miles west of Langling City in Runan at the junction of Nanyang, Runan, and Jiangxia counties, outside a natural rural city agglomeration formed because it was located on a key road, a strict army of up to 10,000 people was marching on the official road...... The flags are listed, the iron armor is dazzling, and the swords, guns, bows and arrows are all insufficient.

For this reason, there are thousands of onlookers gathered in the market, some of whom are stunned, some of whom are curious, but the vast majority of people are wary and afraid.

This sentiment has nothing to do with the camp, in fact, the vast majority of the local people in Langling are grateful and recognized for the Anbei general and Yuzhou Mu Liu Bei above their heads, that is, they have been able to gradually resume production since Liu Bei occupied this place, and this time they also got an order from the township pavilion early, saying that Liu Yuzhou's army was going to pass through here, and they had to avoid it a little.

However, it is clear that except for newborn children, almost everyone has experienced a long period of war and turmoil, and they also know the cruelty and despair behind the war. Isn't it self-deception if you are not afraid?

"It's only been a few years?" Seeing the last wave of more than 1,000 elite armor soldiers surrounded by several high-spirited officers and assistants, they directly crossed this gathering point, and the Wu Zi army headed west, and the people in the market breathed a sigh of relief, but they couldn't help but talk about it. "Is there another war?"

"Less than three years, that's two and a half years." Someone snapped their fingers and snapped at it. "Jian'an has been fighting since the second year, and in the second year of Jian'an, he simply fought here for a whole year, and the water in the west and the water were red at that time...... No one robbed Jian'an once every three years for the autumn harvest, and no one grabbed the autumn harvest once every four years in Jian'an, this year I originally thought that I could come for another year, then even if the autumn harvest was stable for three years, but now I have to fight again......"

"Maybe it's going to be a real war." Someone else couldn't help but interject. "Didn't you say that our General Liu formed an alliance with the surrounding generals and state pastors?"

"Why don't you go to war and transfer troops?" This remark immediately caused a wave of rebuke.

"What if you form an alliance, can you believe the words of those who eat meat?"

"Don't you see so many elite soldiers in iron armor? If you don't go to war, can you still pick up relatives? ”

"The person surnamed Cao who is in charge of Nanyang and Chen County in the north, I heard that he is still the righteous brother of our General Liu......" This person was besieged for a while, but he was indignant and unwilling to let go, so he immediately found a reason.

"What about my brother?" Someone next to him said with a mocking face but a low voice. "I've heard a merchant say before that the one surnamed Cao is also a righteous brother with the General Sun here before, but as soon as General Sun died, Nanyang was snatched away by him, and even his nephew was driven back to his hometown in Jiangdong...... I also heard that this surnamed Cao is not filial to his father and does not allow his own father to enter the house! ”

"You're!" The besieged man immediately returned with disdain. "If that's the case, our General Liu will still make a righteous alliance with him?!"

This remark made the people around him speechless.

"You don't have to worry." At this moment, a young scholar who was sitting in a tea shop in the city to avoid the march of the army just now finally couldn't listen anymore, and said half-correctively and half-comfortingly. "Liu Yuzhou naturally sent troops to fight this time, but he did not fight with Cao Fenwu, but according to the covenant two and a half years ago, he went to Jiangnan to assist Yuzhang Taishou Zhu Hao, and Zhu Hao's situation there is also a bit special, and it may not be able to really fight...... It's just because those generals and Sima Pingsu were stationed in the western section of Runan just now, and it was faster to transfer from Jiangxia led by Liu Jingzhou to the river, so they passed through here. ”

The crowd didn't understand.

Seeing this, the scholar couldn't help but hold the long sword in his waist and laughed: "In a word, this time the troops may not really fight, even if they do, it will definitely not affect here!" ”

At this moment, the people in the pavilion around the tea shop were immediately relieved, and the owner of the tea shop was even more clamoring to give this gentleman an extra pot of tea.

Hearing this, Shizi couldn't help but laugh again: "Although it won't be affected, once the Yangtze River is blocked, your tea will inevitably not be transported, and the price of tea will increase in the future, won't I take a big advantage?" ”

The owner of the tea shop didn't care, but replied casually while making tea for this person: "What did the little gentleman say?" In previous years, the soldiers were in turmoil, and they couldn't even buy salt all year round, once they fought for a long time, there must be soldiers and thieves to loot together, and two or three of the ten families were starved to death and beaten to death, and some people followed to be thieves as soldiers, and the result was never returned, and now it's just that the southern tea goods are cut off for a while, who cares? And Mr. Xiao's words can make us calm down, we don't have to be so frightened that we can't sleep, and we don't have to take our wife to the mountains to hide in a momentary fright, what is a pot of tea...... You use it slowly, I have to tell my brother-in-law's family at the other end of the market that it is going to the Yangtze River to fight, don't worry, if there is anything to call my family, this half-grown child. ”

The gentleman bowed slightly, but felt that his joke was a little frivolous, so he immediately accepted the other party's pot of tea, and then continued to eat tea in the shade in front of the tea shop.

However, just as he finished chewing the tea, took a second pot of tea and prepared to enjoy it slowly, avoiding the afternoon sun before hurrying, another group of guests sitting in the tea shop took the initiative to call him over and chat.

In fact, this young gentleman had already noticed the strangeness of the other group in the tea shop...... The first of these people, about fifty years old, with gray hair but a ruddy complexion, and his clothes were more luxurious than his own, and he hugged him back and forth, so it was reasonable to say that he should be a scholar of a higher level.

However, in addition to the fact that this person accompanied him a lot, he actually carried many cages, which contained bottles and jars, metal pottery, dry and wet, and a bit like a businessman.

That's not all, it's obviously a scholar, but when I saw the rebellion before, this group of people was as dazed and panicked as the people here, and they didn't know anything about the chaos in Jiangnan, which was even more suspicious.

At this time, the other party invited him over, and sure enough, he also asked about the war.

"Actually, there's nothing to say, isn't that what the war is all about?" In the last few words, although the fifty-year-old man did not speak, the few scholars in his entourage were all scholars with names, surnames and origins from all over the Central Plains, and they were obviously not people of unknown origin, and the young sword warriors were much more simple.

Two years ago, Sun Ce, the son of the general of the Broken Captives, went south, transferred from Danyang to Fuchun, the hometown of Wu County, and took advantage of the situation along the way to capture a lot of territory west of Huoze (Taihu Lake), at that time Zhu Jun was already in good health and could not cope. However, fortunately, the Nanyang Huimeng was successful, and Sun Ce also cast a rat trap, so he took Zhu Zhi, the chief under his command, as the middleman, and talked about the friendship between the two families of Sun and Zhu in the past, and asked Liu Yuzhou as a guarantee to reach a rapprochement with the Zhu family...... At that time, the two sides agreed that Sun Ce would take Wu County, and the Zhu family would have two counties, Yuzhang and Huiji, and Danyang Taishou Zhou Shang would be a native of Lujiang, and his family would be under the rule of Liu Yuzhou, so he simply attached Liu Yuzhou.

And now that two years have passed, Sun Ce was crowned last year, and he is a self-proclaimed general, and he naturally wants to forge ahead while having a solid foothold. As the so-called long and long, Jiaozhou Mu Zhu Jun was killed last year, one death is resting, two sons and one according to Huiji, one according to Yuzhang, among which Zhu Fu, who occupies Huiji, is notoriously greedy and rude, and no one can accept it, so in the spring of this year, it was easily defeated by Sun Bofu. ”

"I see." The fifty-year-old man who was the leader did not speak, and the person in charge of the communication was the next thirty-year-old man from Guangling, called Wu Pu, who woke up at this moment. "This must be that Sun Ce is not greedy enough, he still wants to take Yuzhang after taking Huiji, and even Danyang, although Liu Yuzhou's mind is on the Central Plains, but for the sake of the overall situation, he has to teach his nephew a lesson......"

"Wu Jun is transparent." The young man immediately bowed his head.

"It's a pity that there are always endless battles in this world?" Hearing this, the fifty-year-old man finally twisted his beard and sighed. "Isn't it good to have some peace in the world? It is necessary to know that it is easy to heal people and difficult to heal the world, and there are countless casualties in the war, not to mention the casualties on the battlefield? As the group of local people just said, it was only safe to survive the two autumn harvests...... "Speaking of this, the old man felt strange. "The old man has lived for so long, he has seen the thirty years of peace, and he has seen ten years of war, and now I don't know if these two years without war are really rare, or is it worth mentioning?"

"Boy Yingchuan Xu Shu, the character is straight, I have seen the elder......" Seeing that this person finally spoke, when the other party finished speaking, Xu Shu quickly got up and greeted.

"Xu Yuanzhi, right?" The old man was a little impatient, and seemed unwilling to know his name at all. "Sit down, I see that you are a knowledgeable person, but we people don't know much about it, so I called you over...... I ask you, when will this war be over? This time it's a birthday event, and I still want to go to Jiangdong for a walk. ”

"Yes......" Xu Shu sat back on the bench with his sword, thinking for a moment, but smiling bitterly. If it was just about this battle, I thought that the elder would never be delayed in his southward journey, because although Sun Bofu was enterprising, he could never be Liu Yuzhou's opponent, and he was afraid that if he collided and suffered some losses, he could only simply withdraw to Wu County and Huiji. However, it is not recommended that the elders and their party go to Koto ......"

"Why is that?" After the group of people on the opposite side looked at each other, Wu Pu took the opportunity to ask.

"Because Sun Bofu will never be satisfied with the land of the two counties, even if Liu Yuzhou's soldiers are stronger than him, greater than him, and will be superior to him, he will only endure for a while, and when the Central Plains is in chaos and Liu Yuzhou has no time to take care of his body, his people may break the contract and use force, and when the time comes, it is difficult to say where to fight and where to fight." Xu Shu is frank and sincere. "And the chaos in the Central Plains is imminent, and Liu Yuzhou has no time to look south soon...... It is always right to be able to avoid Jiangdong, not to say whether you can avoid military disasters, but to worry about whether you can come back safely when the time comes. ”

"Understood." Wu Pu thought for a moment and bowed his head slightly, but he couldn't help but ask in a low voice. "But how can the Central Plains be chaotic? Cao Fenwu and Liu Yuzhou will always be hands-on, right? Liu Jingzhou and Tao Xuzhou don't seem to be people who are good at war, right? ”

"Let's put it that way." Xu Shu said earnestly after a little wording. "This matter has nothing to do with Liu Yuzhou, Cao Fenwu, or even Liu Jingzhou and Tao Xuzhou, as I said, they should not have the intention of taking the initiative...... But there will be changes in the world, and there will be chaos when there are changes, but the Central Plains is not as good as Hebei, but it is the result of the alliance of the princes of all walks of life, not one, so this chaos will inevitably affect the Central Plains. ”

"What's changed?" Wu Pu became more and more puzzled, and the old man frowned.

"The Son of Heaven has bundled his hair and reads." Xu Shu replied with some embarrassment. "The Son of Heaven should have tied his hair last year, and at that time someone suggested that the Son of Heaven should choose a harem, but he was fooled by General Wei for a year, and this April is the sixteenth birthday of the Son of Heaven...... It is impossible for General Wei to fool around any further. ”

"I vaguely understand it, but I still don't understand it." Wu Pu was also in the tea shop, earnestly whispering to each other. "Please also look at my stupidity, be more direct."

"Let me say so." Xu Shu suddenly smiled bitterly. "In the previous years, the world was turbulent, and all kinds of generals, state pastors, assassins, and Taishou divided the states and counties, and the war was non-stop, so that the war was in turmoil for many years, and if they wanted to truce and suppress the bandits, they had to meet the alliance...... One by one, it seems that they can't live without fighting or fighting, so why do they want to fight, and what are they fighting for? You must know that their positions were also held during the peaceful years, so why did they not fight at that time? At that time, can you have to meet the alliance to join forces to suppress the bandits? ”

Wu Pu and the others became more and more at a loss.

"Because there was a court constraint at that time!" Xu Shu didn't sell the guanzi, but directly broke the key. "The court is powerful, the Han family is virtuous, and everyone is one...... But the Han family is gradually decadent, and the center is even more powerless, so the authority that belongs to the center and the Han family will naturally fall, and these people are fighting for the power and authority that the Han family has lost! It's just that everyone used to be colleagues, and no one could obey who rode on their heads to make a fortune, so they had to meet each other with swords and fight each other. Among them, General Wei seized the most, so he was General Wei, and Liu Yuzhou and Cao Fenwu were not as good as him, so they could only get together to compete with him. ”

The people in the tea shop couldn't help but look at each other, and they didn't know whether they had woken up or thought of something.

"And if today's son reaches the age of sixteen, after all, he is recognized as the son of the Han family in the world, so it is inevitable that he will take back some of the authority of the Han family......" At this point, Xu Shu couldn't help but smile bitterly. But the authority has long been robbed from below, and who wants to give it back? And if it is not returned, there will be some prestige in the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, and people's hearts will be dissatisfied, and if they are not satisfied, there will be chaos! Once there is chaos in the center, it will inevitably affect the princes, and the whole world will be shaken by this. At that time, there will inevitably be a resurgence of smoke. As for why it is said that it is the Central Plains turmoil, it is not because the Son of Heaven wants to accept the authority of the princes of the Central Plains, but because no one is immune to the general trend, and compared with Hebei, the Central Plains is a situation maintained by several families. ”

"That's kind of a way of saying it." The old man finally spoke again. "The principles of the world are all the same, and your practice of turning authority into water and food is unique and easy to understand."

"The elder praised it falsely." Xu Shu stood up again and saluted. "Dare to ask the elderly......"

"You don't have to be so polite, the old man is impatient with this." The old man gestured casually. "The old man Pei Guoqiao County Hua Tuo, the character is yuan, he only focuses on medical skills, and he doesn't want to be an official, so he doesn't pay attention to anything...... Since Jiangdong is not easy to go, why don't we go to Guangling after coming out of Shouchun, and then transfer to the north of Xuzhou? ”

The front of this sentence is to introduce Xu Shu, and the back is to say to his entourage, and Wu Pu was overjoyed when he heard this: "I was about to go to my house to coil one or two, but I didn't know that our Guangling's fish were famous all over the world......"

"Eat less fish!" Hua Tuo heard this, and immediately solemnly said a lesson. "Raw fish meat is easy to carry insect eggs, and it can still grow in your body, why do you think that the epidemic prevention booklet says again and again that you should drink boiled water and not drink raw water, and why you say that you should avoid snails, it is all a truth!"

Wu Pu was immediately stunned.

At this time, Xu Shu, who had been stunned for a long time next to him, finally reacted, but hurriedly shook it to the end: "I have heard the name of the medical immortal for a long time......"

"It's this again, I don't know how to become a medical immortal myself......" Hua Tuo became more and more impatient when he saw this. I think I am a scholar who loves medicine, since I was tied up my hair, I have traveled around to see people, before and after thirty or forty years, I don't know how many incurable diseases I have seen, and I also wrote books early, and the five poultry operas and Ma Boiling Powder also came out early, but I didn't see anyone call me a medical immortal, and as a result, General Wei and his mother, who had never seen anything, turned me into a medical immortal as soon as they opened their mouths...... It's as if Zhang Jiao and I are generally calling for wind and rain and thunder. ”

"Yuan Huagong didn't even recognize General Wei's mother and son? What about last year's proclamation and this epidemic prevention brochure? Rao is Xu Shu has always traveled all over the world, has been a thief, has read books, can be said to be quite knowledgeable, but also stunned on the spot, and simply took out a printed booklet from his arms, not caring about what is not to lead thunder.

When Hua Tuo heard this, he snorted coldly, too lazy to speak.

However, his disciple Guangling Wu Pu smiled a little bitterly, and explained a few words for his own master: "Actually, don't hide Yuanzhi, my family master has never done diagnosis and treatment with the mother and son of the northern general Wei, even Hebei, let alone meet?" But for some reason, General Nawei's mother and son wanted to call my teacher a medical immortal, and Nanyang Zhang Zhongjing a medical saint, and they often used the name of my master and Zhang Gong to issue those notices and print these brochures, saying that it was for the people of the world to prevent the epidemic......"

"The pamphlet is a forgery?" Xu Shu panicked. "My mother has always maintained her health according to what she was taught...... How is this good? ”

"Yuan Zhi doesn't have to worry too much, in fact, this is also where we are not easy to justify, because the things written in this notice and booklet, such as washing hands frequently, bathing frequently, drinking boiled water, building toilets, and fighting mosquitoes and mice, are all things that are not wrong no matter how you do it! There are also mild heat stroke irrigated with cold salt water, and mild wind chill can be taken with boiled water from large green root (banlan root), which is also extremely symptomatic. Even when it comes to drinking more tea, at first we thought it was Amway wanting to sell tea, but after drinking it, my master felt that tea was indeed a good thing for the body...... As for the shoddy five-bird drama in the booklet, as well as the eye-protecting play, although it is a little sketchy compared to the teacher's five-bird play, it still basically implies medical theory. ”

Xu Shu breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly got up again: "No wonder I haven't heard the medical immortal refute......"

"The point is that no one believes it even if it refutes it." Another Hua Tuo disciple couldn't help but interject. "The proclamation issued by the general of the dignified guard, and this booklet is printed all over the world, I heard that Bashu, Xiliang, and Hainan are all there, you say that under such a handwriting, who will believe the words of a group of doctors? Wherever we went, we said that we didn't know General Wei's mother and son, and they all thought that our master wanted to be quiet...... Our master wants to be quiet, but I really don't know him! Shizun has never even been to Youzhou in his life, how could he have talked about medical theory with the old lady Gongsun and the medical saint Zhongjinggong in Liaoxi ten years ago, and asked and answered, as if he remembered it vividly? ”

"That's not all!" Another Hua Tuo disciple couldn't help but complain. "It is important to know that people are different, although the things in the booklet are all right, but when you meet people with special physique, you should make a slight adjustment, and you can't act completely according to the booklet...... At the end of last year, my master encountered such an incident, and wrote a prescription alone, but the patient was literate, and directly took the booklet and scolded our master, saying that this is the prescription of the medical fairy. ”

"Actually, it's Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Gong, our master and he are still the first ......time we met in Nanyang after this booklet became popular all over the world last year, and we visited it in the spring of this year," Wu Pu continued with a wry smile. Fortunately, Zhang Gong is from the Nanyang family, and his brother Zhang Xian is the Taishou of Changsha County under Liu Jingzhou, and no one dares to disturb him. And what about our master, since this booklet and proclamation came out, not to mention where to show the name of the dignitaries have been forced to stay, what's more, after someone talked to us and knew about this booklet, he felt that General Wei wanted to take this opportunity to find our master, so he wanted to tie us up and transport us to Hebei to ask for a step into the body! Thankfully, I ran fast! ”

"This ......" Xu Shu originally thought that this matter was too mysterious, but when he looked down and saw the sword in his waist, he was speechless for a moment, and then immediately changed his words. In fact, this kind of thing should also be looked at from two sides, so that if Yuan Huagong goes to diagnose and treat again, there will always be many fewer people who avoid medical treatment, right? For example, if the scolding person before really wants to report his name, he will definitely earnestly follow the doctor's instructions. ”

"That's just as well." Hua Tuo sighed slightly, but he didn't know what to say for a while.

In other words, Hua Tuo and his entourage saw that although Xu Shu was a talent, with a tall head and a luxurious sword, he acted simply, without any scholars, and took the initiative to comfort those people in the market, so they had a good impression. And after some exchanges, I saw that this person was neither humble nor arrogant, the key was to know that Hua Tuo was neither entangled nor despised, but a rare and transparent person among scholars, so as a non-mainstream scholar in this year, I couldn't help but appreciate it more.

Later, I found out that both sides were going to cross Huai to Shouchun, and they happened to be on the same road, so they simply invited each other to go together, and Xu Shu was also a chic character, and he didn't make a gesture, and directly led the horse and the sword to accompany him, in order to be Hua Tuo's guard.

And it wasn't until Shouchun that I learned that the reason why Hua Tuo came here was because of Cao Fenwu's father, who had lived here for a long time, so Taiwei Cao Song was in poor health, because Cao Song and Cao Cao were both villagers, and at that time, Cao Cao's brother Cao De personally went to Zhang Zhongjing's house to ask for it, Hua Yuanrang was really hard to refuse, so he had to stop academic exchanges with Zhang Zhongjing and lead his disciples from Nanyang here.

And Xu Shu arrived in Shouchun, and waited for a long time, until Hua Tuo saw Cao Song's illness and taught the latter five bird plays, and was about to go to Guangling, only to wait for the news of Zhang Fei, the target of his trip-It turned out that Liu Bei easily crossed the river to defeat Sun Ce, but suddenly heard that Tao Qian in Xuzhou was seriously ill, and after being shocked, he hurriedly forced Sun Bofu and Zhu Hao to sign an alliance without fighting under the city, and then immediately returned to the division.

Most of the tens of thousands of troops are everywhere, but only one of them, Wan Shouchun, is directly under the elite, but under the leadership of Zhang Fei, Zhou Tai, Lu Su, Chen Wu and other henchmen and generals, he went straight to Xuzhou.

So, Xu Shu, who couldn't wait for the goal, teamed up with the medical immortal Hua Tuo and his party again and went to Guangling, and Hua Tuo's master and apprentice really liked this young man who was both civil and military, and he was even more happy.

Of course, in May, when everyone arrived in Guangling, before they had time to eat a bite of fish tart, they were hurriedly sent by the local Taishou Zhao Yu to Xiapi City, which is now under the rule of Pi County, where Tao Qian lives.

Of course, Xu Shu from this province specially went north to find Zhang Fei again, because there was no reason why they would not meet in Xiapi.

Only what I saw along the way, Xuzhou, which had been peaceful for a long time, suddenly went up and down, and the soldiers everywhere made Xu Yuanzhi suddenly think of a gossip that General Wei said in the proclamation when he sent troops to Yinshan in the autumn of the previous year.

As the so-called:

Everything in the world is not easy to fight alone!

—————I am the dividing line of war that never changes—————

"Cao is not only a general of Fenwu, but also the head of the Central Plains League, and Liu Bei, the pastor of Yuzhou, should take up the new policy to live up to the world, so that he can fight for the north. and returned, Dutian stopped at his father Song and his younger brother Hong in the south, and stopped at Yanzhou tycoon Li Gan in the north, and the imperial examination also stopped at Yanzhou celebrities Bian Rang and Zhang Miao. Song, Hong, the flesh and blood relatives, Qian, let, Miao, those who sacrifice Yanzhou, and rely on the power to rely on it...... At that time, people thought it was difficult, and Cao also slowed down the implementation of the new policy, and took Li Gan as the middle general, and Bian Rang as the other driver. In the first month, he asked his father Song and his younger brother Hong to send his daughter to Jiangdong through Shouchun to marry Sun Ce, and then let and Qian go to Shouchun to apply for the covenant, and reverted to Danyang Taishou. Five people walked together, crossed Suishui, Song's second son De, Qiandi entered, burned the boat bridge, and prepared to make Zhang Fei hold a spear to lead the armor to show the blade, forced to Shouchun, the five people were enlightened, but finally could not return to Suibei, and the new policy was implemented. Shi Taizu was in Hebei, and sighed when he heard it: 'This solid Cao Meng Dece also! —The Book of Old Swallows. Volume XXVI. The second of the family