Chapter 683: Wolong Comes Out of the Mountain

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After Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Yi is the busiest beginning, after greeting his mother for the New Year, he will lead a group of tribesmen to pay tribute to the ancestral hall, originally at this time in other families are the first morning of the new year, but King Yan will lead a hundred officials to sacrifice to the sky during the day, wishing the heavens to protect the Han wind and rain, and the country's fortune will be prosperous! This altar is set up in the east of the palace, for the scorching sun, the name of the king of Yan said: Temple of Heaven! Because the Son of Heaven died last year, the descendants of Fu were the exercise of power, and this year the name of the year was changed to Jian'an, which was more valued by the top and bottom of the sacrifice to the sky, and none of the officials of the dynasty were absent, and the scene was extremely grand under the auspices of King Yan.

Waiting for the various departments to visit, at the end of the Han Dynasty, there was no Spring Festival holiday, that is, the first day of the new year also had to work, and the prefectures did not have a fixed rest time, the use of a bit like the rotation rest system of later generations, such a system Liu Yi will not forcibly change, just like he will not introduce the concept of the week for the time being, at this time the method of calculating the time is the tenth day, like the officials of the Beiping Prefecture will have regular meetings at the beginning and end of each decade, that is to say, except for emergencies, the regular meeting in the state capital is six times a month, The DPRK and the Central Dynasty are every Friday.

Now in Beiping, except for some retreat departments in charge of the imperial court etiquette system, all the real power departments are firmly controlled by Liu Yi, and he naturally wants to go to send greetings to his subordinates on the New Year. Originally, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the status of the Spring Festival was not as high as that of later generations, but because of Liu Yi's attention, the key is the stability of the subordinate territory, and the prosperity of the people's livelihood makes this festival at least within Liu Yi's subordinate territory has extremely important significance, and with the continuous prosperity of the market, from the first to the fifteenth day of the new year, Beiping City will be shrouded in a festive atmosphere.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, this festival is really popularized by the Han Dynasty, the beginning is that the Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty in order to commemorate the assessment of the Zhulu rebellion, then ordered the people to put up lanterns to celebrate, the people in the countryside and fields will pick the lanterns on the long bamboo pole of the procession, quite spectacular. And the abundance of people's livelihood in the states of Youzhou makes these festivals more festive, after all, if you don't have enough food and clothing, who still has the idea of celebrating the festival? It is even more difficult to imagine in the war, and in Beiping, the annual Shangyuan Festival has become famous with the Han Dynasty, not only the streets are lit up everywhere but also a variety of folk performances, walking through it is very dazzling.

In these fifteen days, Liu Yi traveled to every key department in Beiping City, naturally did not miss Youzhou Academy, and specially invited by Liu Yu to the students to make a New Year's speech, relative to those celebrities and scholars, Yan Wang's speech should be closer to life, but also can cause a deep resonance of a group of students, that day thousands of students gathered in the square, listening to the majestic figure on the high platform to suppress the words, Yan Wang had expectations for these students made their blood boil, It seems that the cold weather is not worth caring about at this time.

On the last day of the Shangyuan Festival, because this year is the first year of King Yan's assistance to the government, the scene of the Lantern Festival was arranged more grandiosely, the most eye-catching of which is the nine colored lions danced by Liu Yi's personal guard battalion soldiers, since then the lion dance has become a must-have item for all festive occasions, and has been transmitted to every state and county in the Han Dynasty very quickly!

In the first year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, the eighth day of February in the second hundred years of the second century will be the day when Liu Yi, the king of Yan, was included in the three-room side concubine at the same time, and the palace of the king of Yan naturally wanted to celebrate this matter, of course, it was not for the autumn night moon, Wuhuan and the Huns have now become Liu Yi's important arms, and the beauties they presented should be given enough attention in etiquette, and it is reasonable that the scene is warm and magnificent.

However, on the morning of the seventh day of the first month, Tian'er passed on a news, Yangzhou Assassin Liu Beixin recently worshiped only a weak crown of the person as a military advisor, this person has the surname Zhuge Ming, the name of the bright word Kong Ming, in Jingxiang Lumen has the name of Wolong, just with Liu Yi's Pang Tong who is in Xuzhou at this time!

Liu Yi's first feeling when he heard the news was surprise, his arrival had brought almost earth-shaking changes to the situation at the end of the Han Dynasty, but this pair of famous combinations had not been dismantled, although there was no three visits to the thatched house, and the time was also advanced by seven years, but it made Liu Yi pay more attention to Liu Bei, and there were not a few heroes who served this person in Yangzhou, and when it came to reputation and prestige in the DPRK, Liu Bei was far better than Sun Ce in Jiangdong.

If other princes or even Liu Bei's own ministers would still look at Zhuge Liang as young and shallow, Liu Yi would definitely be an exception, when Guo Jia designed it for himself when he was running for wolf, he was only the age of a weak crown, Zhou Yu helped his brother Sun Ce is the same age, the difference in the times makes the men of about twenty years very mature in this era, especially the talents like Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, and the stunning phoenix chick in the battle of Jizhou is even only eighteen!

Why did Kong Ming leave the land of Jingzhou to meet Liu Bei, this is something that Tian'er needs to explore, Liu Yi will not care too much, what he cares about is that Liu Xuande finally got a minister who can guide him in the overall strategy, even if Zhuge Liang's performance in the history books is by no means as magical as the romance, but it is an indisputable fact that Liu Bei has been flying in the sky after he has won him for half his life, and from a military point of view, Liu Yi would rather believe the description in the romance, Paying attention to the enemy strategically will always be in his heart and will not be forgotten for a moment!

What is Liu Bei like? Liu Yi in this world is undoubtedly the most qualified to judge, in his eyes, this is a role that can compete with Cao Cao in terms of scheming, scheming, and employing people, and his early displacement is more limited by status and strength, and there is an important reason that Cao Cao values him, and always restricts Liu Bei as a confidant, once it shows the momentum of development, it is ruthlessly killed, this degree even exceeds the fierce rival Yuan Shao, and now Liu Yi's strategy towards Liu Bei is to imitate Cao Cao's back then, I can give you the land of the four wars in Xuzhou, if you are really attached to this, you can save your thoughts!

It's a pity that Liu Bei has never been his incompetent son Liu Adou, who is "happy here", Liu Yi's thoughts are well known to him, but Lang Sheng's conspiracy is irresistible to him, after all, the gap in strength between the two is too big, and Yuan Shaoshang, the general of hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, was destroyed by this person, not to mention him whose strength is far below Yuan Shao and his foundation is unstable? Patience and standby has become Liu Bei's inevitable choice, with the development of the situation, if the opportunity does not appear again, he has already considered joining forces with Cao Mengde, with Liu Yi's momentum to expand again, this Han family will really have nothing to do with him Liu Bei, fortunately, at this time, Sun Ce attacked Yangzhou Liu Miao gave him this opportunity!

There is a famous saying in later generations, opportunities will always be given to those who are prepared, this sentence is also very appropriate if it is placed on Liu Xuande's body, he is struggling in Xuzhou to recuperate for this moment, and when the opportunity really appears, he is more resolute than anyone else, and he is afraid that the victory or defeat between Sun Ce and Sun Ce will be unpredictable, so he does not hesitate to give up the rich Xuzhou in exchange for Liu Yi's troops, on this point Liu Bei is obviously better than his opponent.

Liu Bei believes that Liu Yi will definitely send troops to help him, because it is beneficial and harmless to him at this time, and even under Liu Bei's firm determination, he also knows that his choice is a big gamble, if he can't defeat Sun Ce to get the land of Yangzhou, what awaits him is the same fate as Liu Xuan, and in Liu Yi's eyes, this battle will pay a heavy price for both him and Sun Ce, even if such a winner gets Yangzhou, he may not be able to pose much threat to him, but Liu Bei has no choice, Unless he is willing to be kept in captivity by Liu Yi in Xuzhou like this, the ambition and pride in his chest make Liu Bei prefer to choose this gambling method to fight to the death! Even a vigorous defeat is more painful than the loss of life in an hopeless environment!

I have to say that he bet right, there are two people who helped him the most in this gamble, one is naturally Liu Yi, Gan Ning's Flying Tiger Army completely defeated the Jiangdong Naval Division in the hands of Jiang Qin in the battle of Jiang Xinzhou, and successfully transported Zhang Fei's Danyang elite soldiers across the river, at that moment, Liu Bei has mastered the initiative of this battle, Sun Ce's strength lies in the navy and the army, but the governance is by no means his strength, and the instability of the people at the beginning of the territory is his biggest weakness, and this weakness is also used by Liu Bei in an almost gambling way, And after the cavalry led by Guan Yu also crossed the river to join and defeated Zhou Yu's army with Xu Gong's defection in the first battle of health, he was already a big victory in this battle!

At this time, Liu Bei did not strike at Sun Ce again as expected, he had already begun to preserve his strength, with most of Yangzhou in hand plus the Yangtze River moat, a stable rear can already allow him to start to display his ambitions, of course, there are other reasons, then I have to mention the second person who helped him the most.

This person is Cao Cao, who planned the Han and Zhang coalition forces to capture Hangu and continue to attack Sizhou, his strategy is, of course, to curb Liu Yi, who has been developing by leaps and bounds from his own point of view, but I have to say that this matter has also made Liu Bei a great beneficiary, even if Liu Yi coped properly under extremely unfavorable conditions, with the help of the Wuhuan Huns to drag the battle situation, and with the active cooperation of a group of advisers and fierce generals, he not only held Sizhou, but also broke the 290,000 troops of the coalition army! But after this battle, not only did the soldiers suffer heavy casualties, but also the subordinates were under great pressure, which made it difficult for him to make progress in a short period of time, which gave Liu Bei the opportunity to develop.

After accurately judging the situation, Liu Bei was not willing to fight Sun Ce to the death immediately, he already had better ideas and strategies in his heart, in many cases, the military is not the best way to solve the problem! And after having a military advisor who can overlook the situation in the world, the hope in Liu Bei's heart is even stronger!