In February, Yingchuan, after several major turmoil, was not as prosperous as it was ten years ago, and it was no longer possible to see the grand scene of scholars calling friends or reading or discussing or traveling or feasting.

On a green hill, a young scribe rode a lean horse, walked on a rugged mountain path, turned a few big bends, crossed a small stream, and finally came to a small bamboo house made of yellow bamboo. The outside of the small bamboo hut was empty, and there was nothing, like the place where a mountain hunter lived.

When the scribe came to the small bamboo hut, he jumped off his horse, tied the thin horse to the side of the small tree, let it gnaw on the grass of the surrounding mountains and fields, and pushed open the door and stepped in.

"Fengxiao, you're finally here."

A peaceful young man in the small bamboo house said happily, as if the things in his heart had been done, and he was about to complete it. The young scribe sighed and said, "I shouldn't have come, since I received Wen Ruoru's letter, I have guessed something......"

"When Feng Xiaoru still came, didn't he!" Another black-shirted scribe in his thirties, with a white face and a smile, walked out of the room and chuckled.

The scribe named Fengxiao sat lazily on the steps and said with a wry smile: "Say, if you call me, what is the matter?" ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo sighed and said: "Seeing that the Han family is about to fall, tyrannical power, hundreds of officials are being killed, and scholars are being tragically exiled, my heart is deeply saddened. If I hadn't been too careless and didn't guard against the hypocritical and cunning son-in-law, the Central Plains was Cao Gong, why would things be like this. ”

The scribe named Fengxiao coughed lightly and said: "In the Central Plains, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and their families have surplus property; Merchants travel in all directions, and there is no evil official bullying; Everyone can go to school and study, whether it is a scholar or a Han clan, or a Li people, or a slave, as long as they are talented, everyone can be an official. The way to promotion does not need to rely on who to serve, as long as you are honest and conscientious, there will be a day when you will be promoted. In this way, it is not too much. ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo's face flushed, but it was fleeting, and he chuckled: "Feng Xiao said it so well, but why is it that a ghost talent like Feng Xiao who has good and peaceful talents, a few years after defecting to that son-in-law, is still just a mere Zhu Cao Shuzuo with 300 stones?" ”

The scribe named Fengxiao was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly for a while: "Wen Ruo came to laugh at me again, I have never been a prodigal person, impatient with the affairs of the case, neither virtuous nor talented, although there are tricks, but no one knows, how can I be a high-ranking official." ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Then Feng Xiao doesn't want that son-in-law to regret losing a good and peaceful talent?" ”

The scribe named Fengxiao shook his head and said, "Since I have arrived, I have some expectations for Wen Ruo, and I will see what kind of tricks Wen Ruo has." but I have not come to hear you stir up the law against me. ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo smiled and said: "Although the son-in-law only occupies a few counties and counties in the five states of the world, most of them are rich lands in the Central Plains, and with the help of tigers and wolves from the prefectures, they are eager to cut. However, Yuan Shaozhi of Jizhou is very talented, although he has the Han Emperor in hand, it is difficult to resist his son-in-law alone. And Youzhou Gongsun Zan is kind to his son-in-law, and he has a lot of elites, and Yuan Shao is difficult to conquer for a while. Jizhou alone, its situation is at a loss. ”

"Qingzhou Liu Bei is ambitious, unwilling to live under the people for a long time, and has repeatedly had grievances with his son-in-law, but it can be said that he helped Yuan, but I am afraid that he will not attack Gongsun Zhan. However, I have gone to Shujizhou to discuss with Cao Gong not to persuade Liu Bei to move him, so that Yuan Liu will destroy Gongsun Zhan, gather the power of Sanzhou, and then summon Xianbei and Wuhuan as helpers, so that he can be the enemy and son-in-law. ”

However, there are too many variables in this strategy to be used alone, and it is necessary to call on other parties to help. Jiangdong Yuan Shu, is a dry bone in the mound, surrounded on both sides, and will die. Liu Biao of Jingzhou has a son-in-law in the north, and Sun Ce, a young lion in the south, who is still breathing and unable to do anything. Don't count him in these two places. Liu Zhang was weak in Shuzhong, and my nephew Xun Gongda got the help of Zhu Zhongyi, and won most of Yizhou with the strength of a county. Liu Zhang has Zhang Lu in the north and Sun Ce in the east, and if he dies, he doesn't need to pay much attention. ”

"Looking at it now, only Sun Ce in the south may hinder his son-in-law, but now the power is still small, and it will take time to develop. I thought about it, the only people in the world who can touch the son-in-law are Ma Teng and Han Sui in Xiliang. These two people have a heroic posture, but there is no resourceful person to support each other, so that the Kansai generals cannot unite. Otherwise, with the help of tens of thousands of strong soldiers in Xiliang and countless Qiang elite cavalry, wouldn't he be able to do a career. ”

The scribe named Fengxiao asked, "If Wen wants me to go to Xiliang to help Ma Teng?" But summon the soldiers of other tribes into the Central Plains...... Is this inappropriate? ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo smiled: "What's wrong with this, a group of other tribes are a rabble, not accustomed to the customs of the Central Plains, and there are no Han people with strong troops, many people and horses, and they enter the Central Plains to seek wealth at most, just like the soldiers of Dong thieves, and they will disperse to Xiliang after a long time." ”

The scribe named Fengxiao said: "It will take me one or two years to go to Xiliang to integrate the generals of Guanxi." However, Han Pingdong has a lot of money and food, and there are many soldiers and horses, if he captures several more places in this one or two years, his momentum will be stronger, and even if Hebei and Xiliang are united, I am afraid that they will still fight with it. ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo smiled and said, "Don't worry about filial piety, with Zhong Yuan often acting for us and others, it will not make the Han family have too many opportunities for development." ”

The scribe named Fengxiao sighed and said, "Zhongyuan has been stable, but because of your Han obsession and my unwillingness to be mediocre, there will be war again. I don't know how many people are still left in the Central Plains after this battle. I hope that in the future history books, don't blame you and me for today's plans. ”

The scribe named Wen Ruo laughed and said, "I'm not afraid, I don't want you, a prodigal son, to be afraid of the pen of a historian......"

Nancheng County, Yuzhang, Zhou Yu looked gloomily at the Hidden Eagle Guard who had just left, the former Hanfei general Li Guangning was willing to commit suicide, and he was unwilling to face the layers of criticism of the sword and pen officials, and now Zhou Yu also has such thoughts.

At the beginning, when he heard that Han Pingdong was defeated and died, Zhou Yu mistakenly thought that the affairs of the world would be twists and turns again, so he sent troops and food to Sun Ce, with the meaning of the three holes of the cunning rabbit. I didn't want Han Pingdong to use the method of deception to death, inducing all the uneasy scholars in the territory to jump out, and then swept away with the momentum of thunder.

Thinking of Han Yi pretending to kill all the officials under the pretense of Yang Feng and Dong Cheng's hands, Zhou Yu couldn't help but shudder. Han Yi has always regarded himself as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty and an honest and honest person, and he is so ruthless when he is ruthless. Just escaped from the hands of Dong Zhuo and Li Guo's thieves, but they were all wiped out in the hands of Han Yi, a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, which must be described as vicious.

Zhou Yu sighed secretly: Although he and Zhu Ning are brothers-in-law, Zhu Ning is not Han Yi's sister-in-law after all, so I am afraid that he will not be able to protect himself. And he had an appointment with Brother Bo Fu, but if the Han family was not in danger, he abandoned the Han family and went to Brother Bo Fu. Brother Bo Fu is now in the land of Jingnan, but there are Qiu Rui in the east, Shixie in the south, Liu Biao in the north, and Liu Zhang in the west.

Zhou Yu then sealed and abandoned the official, hypothetically went west to Luling so that Zhu Ning thought it depended, Yin Yingwei was unprepared for a while, but lost Zhou Yu's trace in Pingdu County for no reason, and when he got the news again, Zhou Yu had already arrived in Linxiang County, Changsha County.

Sun Ce remembered Zhou Yu's help when he was pressed, and not only appointed Zhou Yu as the general of Jianwei, but also allocated 2,000 soldiers and 50 horses to him. In addition, Sun Ce also gave Zhou Yu a drum band and built a residence for Zhou Yu, and the reward was so generous that no one could compare. He was ordered to leave the town of Baqiu and peep into Jiangbei.

Han Yi has been very irritable recently, and in just over a month, rumors have spread everywhere in the jurisdiction that Han Yi secretly ordered Yang Feng and Dong Cheng to kill hundreds of officials. Although Han Yi has a clear conscience, this is secretly instructed by Lu Ping, but what is the difference between Lu Ping's instructions and his own instructions, outsiders will think that he instructed them.

With the already powerful soldiers, there is almost no resistance in the world. Even though Yuan Shao had the Han Emperor in his hands, he couldn't help the Han army, so most of the generals under his command were complacent and didn't take everything to heart.

Suddenly, I heard that the hundred officials took the lead in making trouble in Runan, and the generals also regarded it as equivalent to a child's play, and they were indifferent and watched coldly. Therefore, even Lu Ping, who led the Hidden Eagle Guard lurking in Runan, did not regard Baiguan as such an important person. So in the order that Han Yi handed over to him with full power to eliminate the traitor, he did not wait for Han Yi to return, so he instructed Yang Feng Dong Cheng to kill the hundred officials first.

Of course, Han Yi also knew that Lu Ping did it on purpose, just to make Han Yi face the reality. Since he is determined to usurp the Han family, he can't be too indulgent to the loyal ministers of the Han family, as long as they are all wiped out, so that they can easily change the world. Otherwise, sooner or later, there will be a descendant of the Han family like Emperor Guangwu who will rise up and attack it. At that time, the hundred officials will be the ones who respond to the chaos.

According to Lu Ping, there will not be more than 10,000 scholars in the entire world, and the number of people will only be a million at most. And it would be good if half of them were loyal ministers of the Han family. As long as these loyal ministers of the Han family are punished, there is a strong army in hand, and there is the support of the broad masses of people in the world who live and work in peace and contentment, it is a military force in the world, and forced reunification is also possible.

Han Yi didn't fully agree with this, those who can win the world in the world can't get it by killing. Mere killing will only bring more hatred, not stability. Just like Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, the reason why they got the world is more because they used various political means to suppress or win over. Although Han Yi has the talent of governing politics, he has no imperial talent who is good at political means. Including Han Yi himself, it is okay to command troops and govern the locality, but the political struggle with the scholars is absolutely impossible.

In the face of the rumors spread in the world that Han Yi killed hundreds of officials, most of the generals thought that there was no need to cover it up, and they directly admitted that they could take the opportunity to spread the word that the Han family had the ambition to seize the world. Or, Han Yi could directly claim the title of emperor in Runan and build the Korean Empire to control the world. Re-energizing the army to launch a war of reunification, so that three years may be able to pacify the world.