On August 1 of the second year of Jian'an, Zheng Xuan, a Confucian in Qingzhou and known as the first scholar in the world by Jin Jue, actually took only a few disciples and brought his family with him, first to the south, quietly passed through Xuzhou, and then transferred to Nanyang County, preparing to enter Guanzhong through Wuguan.

All of them had to take a detour, instead of taking a straight line, of course, to avoid Cao Cao.

Today's Huainan and Huaibei regions have basically entered a short period of peace.

Yuan Tan would naturally be very concerned about Zheng Xuan's movements, but this time, Yuan Tan and Zheng Xuan had just attended the banquet held by Yuan Shao in Yecheng, and Yuan Tan did not expect that Zheng Xuan would leave Qingzhou in such a hurry. By the time he knew about it, Zheng Xuan had already entered Xuzhou with his apprentice, and he couldn't catch up at all.

As for Zheng Xuan's own collection and writings, they were all divided up by the many disciples of Qingzhou who arrived later, and when Yuan Tan came to Zheng's house in person, except for the three Zheng Xuan's former residences, he was not even able to get a single piece of paper. Zheng Xuan's disciples were also smart, and after taking away the books, they moved to the vicinity of Mount Tai one after another, hiding their names incognito.

Don't really look down on the Taishan thieves, in the intersection of Yuan Tan, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the area controlled by the Taishan thieves who have always shown a neutral attitude is really a relatively safe place.

No matter which side starts the war, and no matter who the Taishan thieves end up turning to, this will not be the main battlefield, and the military pressure on the Taishan thieves is relatively small.

After only a very small number of Zheng Xuan's disciples got the news, they immediately chased after Zheng Xuan and his party alone and caught up. Of course, this kind of disciple is only a very small number after all, and in this troubled world, everyone has their own family members and relatives.

Those who dare to abandon their wives and children like this, and abandon their family business to follow Zheng Xuan, are either a lonely family, or there are many brothers in the family, and someone supports his parents, even his wife and children on his behalf, or he is a son of a family, and the family has other brothers and cousins to take care of.

Zheng Xuan's route was also about to pass through the territory of the Taishan thieves in the middle. Although these people were born as thieves, they are indispensable in any era, and the drama of officials forcing the people to rebel is indispensable, not to mention, most of the people here are under the influence of many Confucian students in Qingzhou on weekdays, and they know some etiquette. Back then, when the Yellow Turban Army ravaged the entire Qingzhou, because of Zheng Xuan, the Yellow Turban Army did not disturb Zhenggong Township, Gaomi County, and Kong Rong, who was famous all over the world, could not do this.

Therefore, Zang Ba and others did not dare to do so.

After entering Xuzhou and arriving at the first stop, Donghai County, Zheng Xuan and more than a dozen of his disciples saw a scene that had never been seen in Qingzhou in the past.

Every Xuzhou citizen they met could still see the dishes on their faces, but every person's face was filled with a smile from the heart.

In the second year of Jian'an, in the territory of Dahan, the area north of the Yangtze River once again encountered a locust plague, although the scope of this locust plague and the impact on grain production were far less than the locust plague in the first year of Xingping, but it was precisely because of the bad impact of the locust plague that the lives of the people in the north of the Yangtze River still could not be relieved.

In fact, when they set off from their hometown, Zheng Xuan and his entourage found that all the people who fled south with their families along the way, but unfortunately, Zheng Xuan's strength was weak, and he was originally from a poor family, so he couldn't help it.

Seeing such a scene, Zheng Xuan couldn't help but sigh that this year's sudden locust plague would make the Han Dynasty die. It was not appropriate to starve all over the wilderness, but along the road, they had seen many people dying of hunger on the road.

Therefore, Zheng Xuan and his entourage could see many people fleeing south with their families along the way like them, and this situation was especially obvious when they really entered Donghai County.

Not only Qingzhou, but even the areas controlled by Taishan thieves, as well as Yanzhou and Yuzhou, there are people who have fled to Xuzhou.

"Fellow, where are you going? Could it be Xuzhou? At Zheng Xuan's suggestion, Ren Yan stepped forward to stop an old man with a Le'an accent, who was obviously a talker, and asked respectfully.

The old man was teaching his son a lesson, and he was stopped on the way to escape, so he naturally had it in his heart, but, who knows, as soon as he saw Ren Yan, he actually recognized him at a glance, pointed to a dozen men, women and children who were looking at him timidly, and took Ren Yan's hand and asked enthusiastically: "Ah, you are Ren Prodigy!" Mr. Ren, whose husband's surname is Zhang, is also from Le'an, and he is going to flee to Xuzhou with his family.

When my husband was young, my husband was fortunate enough to see your ...... with his own eyes. By the way, Mr. Ren, you didn't follow Zheng Gong, why did you flee with us ordinary people? ”

If there is Ren Yi to follow, the safety of their family will be guaranteed, and they will not have to worry about it all the way after entering Xuzhou. He chattered for a long time, and at last, suddenly, asked a question that puzzled him.

Old man Zhang didn't understand the fact that Ren Yi actually fled, with Ren Yan's reputation and talent, it was very easy to ask for an errand under Yuan Tan's hands, if he was willing to go out of the mountain, being the Taishou of a county was like playing, how could he not flee with him!

"Hehehe!" Ren Yan shook his head, smiled bitterly and explained three times: "Uncle Zhang, you don't know, I really can't get used to what the Yuan family is doing, so I can only leave Qingzhou with my family first, and prepare to go to Xuzhou to have a look first." However, Uncle Zhang, I heard that Xuzhou also suffered a locust plague this year, if only your family would have fallen.

However, you see, almost all of the people you see along the way are Qingzhou people, and the people of Xuzhou have not had a good time in recent years, if so many people all flee to Xuzhou, even if Liu Tingshi is benevolent, does he have the ability to feed so many people at once? In the end, he asked the questions in his heart, as well as in the hearts of Zheng Xuan and the other senior brothers.

"Hahaha, Ren prodigy, you don't know this! It is naturally impossible to rely on the ability of this Liu Yuanjun alone, otherwise, Liu Yuanjun helped Tao Yuanjun back then, but he was not able to stop Cao Cao. Saying this, Old Man Zhang suddenly closed his mouth, first looked around, and then, mysteriously approached Ren Yan, lowered his voice very low, and said, "All this is not because Liu Yuanjun got guidance from the Little Heavenly Master. ”