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Early the next morning, Liu Yi instructed Cheng Yu to write a notice about harvesting crops in advance, and then sent someone to distribute it to all towns in the county, and the people in each town were very puzzled after reading it. But because they were all favored by Liu Yi before, they didn't think much about it, and they went to the field to start harvesting crops; In order to harvest the crops before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Yi also sent troops to various towns to help harvest.

On this day, Liu Yi was taking Wang San and his soldiers to repair the city wall outside the city.

"Mr. Cheng, why don't you rest at home? This kind of trivial matter doesn't need to be bothered by Mr." Liu Yi said to Cheng Yu, who came in a hurry.

Cheng Yu walked up to Liu Yi, lifted the package in his hand, and then saluted Liu Yi.

"Lord, my wife is still in Yanzhou, I want to take advantage of the turmoil to take them over first!"

When Liu Yi heard that Cheng Yu and his wife were outside, he suddenly panicked in his heart, and did not stop him, and hurriedly called Wang San, who was repairing the city wall with the soldiers.

"San'er, you quickly bring some people to protect Mr. Cheng back to Yanzhou"

Wang San wiped the mud off his hands and asked puzzledly, "What are you doing in Yanzhou?" ”

Liu Yi briefly told Wang San about Cheng Yu's wife, and Wang San hurriedly ran back after hearing this, and rushed out of the city after greeting 200 cavalry.

Cheng Yu was very moved when he saw this, reported to Liu Yi, hugged his fists, and said gratefully: "Lord, please wait for Cheng for a few days, Cheng will definitely return before the fifth day of the new year!" ”

"Sir, don't worry, you must pay attention to safety on the road!"

After Liu Yi instructed Wang San to bring Cheng Yu's family back, everyone got on the horse and rushed back to Yanzhou.

After seeing everyone leave, Liu Yi's flustered feeling improved just now, just now after Cheng Yu said that Yanzhou still has a wife, Liu Yi suddenly remembered Xu Shu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", if Xu Shu hadn't been robbed by Cao Cao because of his mother, he would not have left Liu Bei, and Liu Bei would not have been so miserable in the early stage. Liu Yi was very afraid that Liu Bei's experience would also fall on him, so after Cheng Yu finished speaking, he hurriedly asked Wang San to accompany Cheng Yu back to Yanzhou, Cheng Yu was to Liu Yi as important to Liu Bei in the early stage, so Liu Yi would not let Cheng Yu leave him no matter what.

Wang San and Cheng Yu returned to Yanzhou, Zhang Fei and Cui Si went down to help the people harvest the crops, and now there are only Liu Yi and less than a thousand soldiers left in the city, and Liu Yi personally started repairing the city wall with the soldiers.

Because of the reason of disrepair, many places on the city wall have collapsed, Liu Yi can only order people to deduct the collapsed place first, and then refill it with stones, although it is time-consuming and laborious, but the effect is okay.

On the side of the Arsenal Division, Liu Yi listened to Cheng Yu's suggestion and asked Li Blacksmith and others to work overtime to build weapons and equipment, in Cheng Yu's words, the equipment will be prepared first, and the follow-up will definitely recruit and surrender troops, and they will be able to use it when the time comes.

Not only that, Liu Yi also sent people to buy war horses in the surrounding counties, and the price was much more than usual, so many horse dealers ran to Zhuo County to sell war horses to Liu Yi, and within a few days Liu Yi bought nearly 2,000 war horses, plus the original 2,000 cavalry, now Liu Yi can form a cavalry team of 4,000 people, but unfortunately there are not so many soldiers with horses, Liu Yi did not dare to recruit soldiers because of the restrictions of his official position, and he could only raise these war horses for later use.

Liu Yi and others' actions made the county officials of several surrounding counties a little confused, so there were always county officials from other counties who took the opportunity to ask Liu Yi when they went to Liu Yi to buy iron tools, and Liu Yi would find an excuse to prevaricate at this time, but because the counties always bought things from Liu Yi, it could be regarded as some friendship, and Liu Yi finally reminded everyone a few words because he couldn't bear it, as for the reason, Liu Yi never told those people.

At the end of September, the city wall was finally repaired, Liu Yi looked at the patched city wall everywhere, and was still a little worried, so he sent people to dig a moat more than three meters deep and six or seven meters wide outside the city wall, because there were not enough people in the city, so Liu Yi spent money to hire those people who were busy with farming to help, and finally not only the people of the county came, but even the people of several nearby counties came after hearing the news, although the cost was very large, but at this time Liu Yi couldn't take care of so much, In Liu Yi's thoughts, what can be solved with money is best solved with money.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, the moat was finally dug on the third day, saying that it was a moat, but it could only be regarded as a moat "ditch" at present, because there was no river flowing nearby and it was too late to fill the time, so Liu Yi also gave up the idea of diverting the canal to inject water.

After the moat was dug up, Liu Yi sent people to put a circle on the outside of the moat to "reject the horse", the so-called rejection horse is a wooden obstacle that can be moved, the head of the log is sharpened, and then crossed and fixed into a frame to stop and delay the movement of the enemy's military horses, and at the same time can also kill and injure the enemy.

After all the fortifications were built, it was the fourth day of the first month of October in a blink of an eye, and after a few days of overnight rush work, most of the farmland had been harvested, and only a few farmland within the county defense remained, which Liu Yi intended to use to make seeds for the coming year, so it was not harvested.

According to the regulations at the beginning of the year, the people need to pay 50% of the grain as a tax, but Liu Yi is afraid that the food will be taken away by thieves if it is left in the hands of the people, so he insisted on collecting 80% of the grain.

If it weren't for Liu Yi's good reputation and the trust of the people, I am afraid that before the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, the people in his county would have to rebel first.

Because at this time, a lot of grain is not fully ripe, and the moisture is very large, if you put it into the warehouse now, I am afraid that it will not take long to become moldy. After the grain was harvested, Liu Yi instructed the soldiers to spread the grain in the field of the school training ground, take advantage of the sunny weather to dry the excess moisture in the grain first, and then put it into the warehouse after drying, the granary in the city is behind Liu Yi's mansion, Liu Yi instructed Zhang Fei to find some trustworthy subordinates to take turns guarding the granary 24 hours a day.

On the evening of the fourth day of October, Cheng Yu and his family finally rushed back under the protection of Wang San.

Cheng Yu and his wife have a son, named Cheng Wu, less than ten years old this year, because he is Cheng Yu's eldest son, so Cheng Yu usually teaches very strictly, although he is less than ten years old, but he has been familiar with the scriptures, and his polite appearance makes Liu Yi and others like it very much, especially Wang San's wife Wang, after seeing Cheng Wu's well-behaved appearance, he has to recognize him as a righteous son, Cheng Yu and his wife saw that he was so enthusiastic and responded.

After there was an extra child in the house, the atmosphere suddenly became lively.

It is said that Liu Yi is waiting for the rectification of the army and horses, and Zhang Jiao and others from Jizhou Julu are also planning a rebellion at this time.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political situation was unstable, the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the dictatorship of eunuchs, and the war against Xiqiang lasted for decades, with huge costs and heavy military service. In addition, the phenomenon of land annexation is serious, and the people are not able to make a living. In addition, in ancient society, the people all had religious beliefs, Zhang Jiao took this opportunity to help the people with his own medical skills combined with the content of the strange book "Taiping Yaoshu", and vigorously promoted "The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand".

"Cangtian" refers to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and "Yellow Sky" refers to the Taiping Dao, and according to the speculation that the five virtues have always said, the Han is the fire virtue, the fire gives birth to the earth, and the soil is yellow, so all believers tie the yellow scarf on their heads as a mark.

Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Dao, which won the hearts of the people in a religious way, and established prestige among the poor peasants, with hundreds of thousands of believers. Zhang Jiao used his prestige among the people to divide the believers in the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan into 36 parties; There are more than 10,000 people in the big square and 6 or 7,000 people in the small side; Each side has a commander under his unified command.

On the one hand, Zhang Jiao sent people to make marks on the doors of the county and county government offices, and on the other hand, he sent his subordinate Ma Yuanyi to Jingzhou and Yangzhou to gather tens of thousands of people to Ye to prepare, and he also went to Luoyang several times before to collude with the eunuchs Feng Xu, Xu Feng and others, wanting to cooperate with the outside world.

At this time, in the Yellow Turban army tent of Julu, Zhang Jiao was discussing tomorrow's battle plan with his subordinates.

"Second brother, have you been notified of the time of tomorrow's uprising?" Zhang Jiao, who was sitting on a high-backed chair in the middle of the tent, asked with a serious face as he caressed the armrests on both sides of the chair with both hands.

The person who was questioned was Zhang Jiao's second brother, Zhang Bao, who called himself "General Digong", Zhang Bao saw Zhang Jiao's questioning, and hurriedly replied, "Big brother, I have sent people to inform the people everywhere early, and the rebels will revolt tomorrow morning, and then the rebels from all states and counties will march to Luoyang at the same time!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Jiao shouted when he heard this.

"After tomorrow, even if we officially break with the imperial court, whether we succeed or not, we will definitely leave our name for eternity!" Zhang Liang, the third brother who calls himself the "General of the People", said excitedly.

When Zhang Jiao heard this, he turned his head to look at Zhang Liang and said with a ruthless face: "This uprising can only succeed!" Can't fail! ”

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At this time, the followers of Taiping Taoism in Youzhou are now gathered in Guangyang, commanded by the main general Cheng Yuanzhi and deputy general Deng Mao, both of whom were originally farmers in Guangyang County, after joining Taiping Taoism, because of their active missionary work in the local area, they have made great contributions to the development of local Taiping Taoism, so Zhang Jiao, who was still a "great good teacher" at that time, ordered the two to take charge of the branch of Youzhou, after so many years of painstaking management of the two, there are more than 50,000 followers in Youzhou at present.

At this time, Cheng Zhiyuan pointed to a simple map in front of him in the tent and said to Deng Mao, "Brother Xian, after the uprising tomorrow, you will lead 10,000 people to go straight to the nearest Zhuo County, don't fall in love with the war halfway, just take Zhuo County directly, the entire Zhuo County, the richest place is Zhuo County, after taking Zhuo County, speed up the collection of property, and then go north to meet me in Beiping." ”

Deng Mao nodded and said with some hesitation: "Brother, General Zhang Bao wrote from before that let's march to Luoyang immediately after the uprising, let's go north instead of obeying the order, will we be blamed by the bishop at that time!" ”

The bishop in Deng Mao's mouth is the "Tiangong General" Zhang Jiao.

"Hundreds of thousands of disciples under the bishop, not inferior to us, besides, General Zhang Bao asked us to rob the troops along the way, think about it, we are behind them, when we arrive, where is there any property left for us to rob? It's better to grab enough money and food in Youzhou first, maybe you can take Youzhou by chance, and then the bishop will not only not blame, but will definitely reward you and me! ”

"That's right! My brother is so resourceful! Deng Mao shouted happily after listening to Cheng Zhiyuan's explanation.

Cheng Zhiyuan was slapped by Deng Mao's sycophants and floated into the sky, and said with a look of ambition to win: "The entire Youzhou belongs to Gongsun Chan in Beiping, and the most powerful is the best. ”

After speaking, Cheng Zhiyuan laughed proudly.

At this time, Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao didn't know how powerful Gongsun Zhan, who had one of the strongest armies in history, "White Horse Yicong", was so powerful that they wanted to destroy Gongsun Zhan, and Zhang Jiao, an army of 50,000 people, would be handed over to such two brave and unscrupulous people to manage, so the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising in history was inevitable.