Hearing the news that Liu Bei was breaking through the encirclement, somehow, Xun Yu, who had always liked to scold Liu Bei secretly, felt a light in his heart and muttered to himself: "It's good to break through, it's good to break through." ”

Frustrated Hu stood quietly, since he was engaged in intelligence work, this young man had a calmness that children of the same age did not have, he smiled shallowly, looked at Xun Yu who was excited, and stopped talking.

Qingzhou's intelligence department is mainly composed of orphans adopted by Liu Bei, and the group of scouts who were abducted by Sun Jian joined in, which made the intelligence department jump to a higher level. These boy scouts have been baptized by the fire of war, and the parents of the family are meritorious men or big businessmen and junior officers, and they all want their children to get ahead, so they use their own resources to help the children find out the news.

In particular, the Qingzhou caravan, which used to unconsciously collect intelligence, is now either entrusted by friends or the parents of the children to go into battle shirtless, and collect intelligence on a large scale in an organized and planned manner. Since then, Qingzhou has no longer been blind to the movements of potential opponents.

Xun Yu noticed the frustrated expression and asked, "Is the news of the lord's breakthrough confirmed?" ”

Frustrated Hu replied, "Confirmed." ”

Xun Yu was silent, looking at the frustrated Hu with his eyes, waiting for him to speak.

After all, he was a child, and he couldn't hold back. Angry, he said: "Lord Xun, there is news that Cheng Yu once appeared in Cao Cao's camp, and some businessmen pointed out that he had collected some military supplies for Cao Cao's army. ”

Xun Yu was shocked in this newsletter. In the era when people basically rely on roaring, transportation is basically walking, and clothing is basically spinning, the amount of information that everyone is exposed to is extremely poor, and it is basically a coincidence that the businessman who saw Cheng Yu could meet him elsewhere. This coincidence can be reported to the Intelligence Department, which is a reflection of the business

The sense of responsibility of the people and the strong ability of the Intelligence Service to work.

Since Cheng Yu concealed and did not report his affairs in Cao Ying, Tu. What is the idea of coming to see him in the woods?

"Each for its own master", Xun Yu groaned slightly, and immediately made a plan. The mouth asked Frustrated: "Do you want to detain him immediately, ask him to understand." ”

Frustrated Hu smiled, did not answer, bowed a long bow, and said goodbye.

Xun Yu stood stunned for a moment, and continued to look at this. Walk around the residential area. With his wisdom, he had roughly guessed that this residential area might be the heart of Guanghuan City: the residence of the heroes who first followed Liu Bei to build the city. Curiosity prompted him to keep going inside and find out.

The streets of Guangrao are already wide, and this residential area is even more special. The houses have no courtyard walls, and there are large lawns in front of the houses, which makes the streets appear more empty.

It was noon, but there were few people walking around the street, and two or three children who were not in school were chasing each other, bringing a little life to the street.

Walking and walking, Xun Yu found that not far away, in front of a particularly large house, more than a dozen people were gathering on the lawn to talk.

The house had a long wing, and in front of the wing, several strong men in casual clothes sat or stood, scattered along the road. On the lawn, a woman in a yellow shirt led a child and was talking to several people in purple robes. Behind the woman in the yellow shirt, a woman in a green shirt was swinging.

Qingzhou is still purple, and the position of earl or above is only allowed to wear purple clothes. With so many purple robes surrounding a woman, Xun Yudi's curiosity was aroused, and he quickened his pace and approached the crowd. I happened to hear the woman in the yellow shirt speak: "Now that you have the news of your husband, Feng'er doesn't have to go to see the minister every day, he is still young, and he sits in a chair all day, so tired." ”

A tall purple-robed man interjected fiercely: "As a king, how can you take into account your own preferences? Let Young Master Feng know the responsibilities of the human monarch since he was a child, it will be of great benefit to the great cause of the lord, what is a little tiredness? Feng Shao was destined to be different from other children when he was born, and we should let him understand this truth since he was a child. ”

Xun Yu quietly glanced at the badge plate in front of the house: a smiling bear, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other—it was Liu Bei's residence. In the crowd, there were frustrated and Tian Chou who he knew. A majestic red-faced man, fully armed, stood beside the woman in a yellow shirt.

Frustrated with a light cough, he said: "The lord disappeared this time, and the hearts of the people in Qingzhou have not been dispersed, thanks to the appeasement of the prince. In the past few days, Feng Gongzi has met with officials from various counties and counties every day, and everyone praised him for his general understanding of behavior, and there are successors to the lord's business. Although the news of the lord's breakthrough is true, during the period when the lord has not returned to Qingzhou, we still need Feng Gongzi to come forward and stabilize the hearts of the people in Qingzhou. This trivial matter is also a matter that the housewife does not need to fight again. ”

On the swing, the green-shirted woman let out a burst of crisp laughter, and said one after another: "I said it a long time ago, my husband is a hero of the world, and no one in this world can trap him." You don't have to worry at all. Now, with the news of your husband, what are you afraid of? ”

Ignoring everyone's contemptuous gazes, the woman in the green shirt said with an intoxicated face: "I know that my husband is unparalleled in the world, and there is no man in the world who is better than him, well, sure enough!" See, I have a lot of vision. ”

Frustrated with a strong smile, he said, "Second master, even so, it is necessary to let the son go around the council hall every day. ”

The green-shirted woman continued to revel and replied casually: "Eldest sister, the men's business is up to them." The husband is coming back soon, we have to dress up so that the husband will be happy to see us. By the way, Mi Fu, where did you die? Hurry up and come up with a new dish, and when my husband comes home, I'll serve it to him. Also, the Farming Festival is coming, I need to add a few clothes, hurry up and ask what new styles are on the street. ”

Let the woman in green stir up, the conversation couldn't continue, and she bowed frustratedly and led Liu Feng to walk outside. The woman in green immediately called frustrated and said with a smile: "I don't care about men's affairs, but my husband is always out to fight around, you also have to think about it, don't happen like this again." Let him be old and missing, it's not good, look, I've been wrinkled these days, alas, ......, make me sad. ”

Frustrated, he couldn't cry or laugh, and he couldn't even say it, but he retreated.

The next day, Liu Bei's exact news reached Qingzhou, and the Qingzhou soldiers who went down the river landed in the area of Hongdong (there was no such place name at the time, and Liu Bei named this crossing point after the Izumo caravan surveyed the map), and then bypassed Fushan, and then went south along the water to cross the Yellow River to Mengjin. Qingzhou's army was stationed in Mengjin, where Liu Bei met with the Qingzhou elders in Luoyang City and asked Qingzhou to send a fleet to transport them into the sea.

In Liu Bei's letter to Qingzhou, he introduced the situation of the Zuo Xiongnu using plagued horses and diseased cattle, although the Zuo Xiongnu used the Fen River as the boundary to control the spread of the epidemic area, and Liu Bei never set foot on the west bank of the Fen River, but for the sake of insurance, he planned to isolate the army he brought and set foot on the land of Qingzhou in the spring of next year

。 At the same time, in order to prevent future outbreaks, Liu Bei asked all counties to use the winter farming time to dig up sewers, renovate drinking water facilities, and sanitation facilities. The people of all counties are also required to practice good hygiene.

The Xiongnu's use of epidemic horses to attack, as well as the subsequent tragic situation of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once rebuked it in the "Luntai Edict". Frustrated and the others understood the danger of this matter, and immediately sent a fleet to meet Liu Bei. Yin Dong volunteered to go with the fleet. Before leaving, he explained that Qingzhou needs a lot of savings

Herbal ephedra. To cure typhoid fever, ephedrine is the most effective.

In view of the fact that Zhou Yu guarded Gucheng and was not conducive to the exclusion of Cao Cao's army, Liu Bei Lin ordered when he left Mengjin: This winter, replace Zhou Yu with Zheng Qi, the "iron wall" who showed his skills in the defense of Yecheng, to guard Gucheng, recruit Zhou Yu to his side, and report the battle situation after farewell.

On August 15 (September 20 of the Gregorian calendar), Qingzhou Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Festival, when Liu Bei's fleet traveled to the Miaodao Islands, an unexpected event delayed Liu Bei's trip: the Great Qin State sent envoys to pay tribute, and arrived in Lianyun through Jiaozhi. After learning the news, he didn't dare to deal with it without permission, so he wanted to

Liu Bei stayed temporarily on Temple Island, waiting for the arrival of the envoys.

"Envoy? I think it's a businessman who came to cheat money. When Yin Dong heard the news, he secretly sneered on the side.

Great Qin, in the Han Dynasty, was the name of Rome or Egypt (Egypt was a Roman province at the time). When all countries come to the court, it has always been the Confucian people's flaunted world rule, the performance of the four Yi guests, and the prosperity of the country, no wonder the frustrated and others dare not call the shots.

However, is there really a situation in Chinese history where "all nations come to court"? At least, in the history of Egypt and Rome, there is no record of sending tributary emissaries.

During the Cultural Revolution, British businessmen who arrived in China all got off the plane brandishing red treasure books, and the People's Daily was flattered to report that this shows that the toiling masses in Britain support our revolutionary actions, and that our Cultural Revolution also has a far-reaching impact in the world.

Later, after the reform and opening up, we learned that at that time, the business brochure printed by the British Ministry of Commerce reminded British businessmen that when they came to China to do business, they could get four times more profits than before when they got off the plane waving a red book. In order to help merchants obtain these profits, the British Ministry of Commerce specially purchased a large number of red books in China and distributed them to merchants free of charge.

Of course, the British Ministry of Commerce's move to purchase the Red Book made the People's Daily show off again.

This is not the first time that Great Qin merchants have come to China. According to historical records, in 120 A.D., the king of the Shan Kingdom dedicated the phantom people of Great Qin (Egypt) to the Han court. They first arrived in Myanmar, and then through the Nu River waterway, to Yongchang County, China. It is recorded that the Great Qin Phantom "can change and spit fire, self-support, easy to be bullish and horse-headed, and good at jumping pills, counting or even thousands." I call myself a Haixi person". This Great Qin Phantom is an Egyptian magician.

King Ptolemy of Egypt records in his Geographical Chronicles that the Egyptians sailed eastward to the Chinese port of Khadikhala, which had access to the Chinese capital. And Khadikala is the Egyptian transliteration of Cochin, and it was the center of trade in the South China Sea during the Han Dynasty. According to Roman history, at that time, 120 ships sailed to the port of Caticala every year. According to Chinese historical records, "In the ninth year of Emperor Huan's reign (166), King Andun of Great Qin sent envoys from southern Japan to offer ivory, rhino horn, and tortoiseshell. ”

The king of Andun here is the king of Ptolemy. The history of Egypt does not record this tributary event. These tributes were all Indian specialties, and it is likely that the merchants purchased them locally when they arrived in India. This merchant offered these things to Emperor Huan in the name of tribute, and the reward he received far exceeded the value of the goods he received from the sale of these goods, and he was really a clever man.

In addition, in 226 AD, the Great Qin Jia people Qin Treatise (Latin translation: Pierrot; The English translation is called: Cheney) to Jiaozhi, Jiaozhi Taishou sent it to the capital of Wu when the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan asked Qin about "Fangtu customs". Qin Lun stayed in Wu for 8 years, and when he left, Sun Quan gave 20 dwarves and a large amount of gold and silver. This is also a smart businessman. In 281 A.D. (the second year of Emperor Taikang of the Western Jin Dynasty), Daqin came to offer, "all the treasures are beautiful, and the fire is youqi." In 284 A.D. (the fifth year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty), the Great Qin State sent an envoy to offer, including 30,000 pieces of dense incense paper.

Dense incense paper is scented paper, it is native to India, Thailand, this thing as a tribute, must be the goods purchased by merchants on the way. It was "tributed" into China, bringing a powerful impact, which directly led to the abolition of Emperor Huan Xuan of Jin more than a hundred years later (404 AD), and the "barbarians" who saw the "tribute" in the treasure house of the palace all used this high-tech paper, so they ordered to replace Jane with paper. Since then, the simple documents have basically disappeared. Thereafter, paper became the carrier of official documents.

Qingzhou's active shipping industry in recent years has spread its reputation to Jiaozhi. Most likely, this is another clever merchant who cheated in the name of tribute. Otherwise, what should he pay tribute to Chang'an, what is he doing in Qingzhou?

"It seems that we should extend our tentacles to the south", Liu Bei closed the letter and whispered to Yin Dong.

Yin Dong looked around and replied in a low voice: "The current nautical charts are very different from the nautical charts of two thousand years later, there is no exact route map, and the South China Sea is full of reefs, so it is not easy to walk." ”

Liu Bei said worriedly: "The current port of Rach-Gia in Vietnam was already a port under the jurisdiction of the Roman Empire (after 2000, a large number of Roman artifacts were unearthed on the ruins of its ancient port, and at the same time, two Roman noble coats of arms were also found, which were suspected to be the coats of arms worn by the nobles under the Roman Governor's Office at that time). The Roman civilization has begun to extend its tentacles to the Chinese civilization, and we have fallen behind in this regard. Times have changed, under the butterfly effect, history is becoming more and more difficult to grasp, and it seems that we must speed up the pace of the southern expedition. ”

"Deceive, deceive this Great Qin merchant's navigation chart, and then we will take him and sail to Great Qin, and open up a new commercial route in the name of thanking the tribute." Yin Dong suggested in a low voice.

"In the past three years, our main focus has been on the Xiongnu, and the land of Xihe Meiji must be recaptured in order to suppress the Xiongnu rebellion. Time is pressing, we need to think of a way and at the same time determine our plan to go south. It was necessary to go south, make contact with the Roman civilization as soon as possible, and establish a colony in the South Seas. Liu Bei's eyes rolled with the gliding of the birds on the sea, and he said worriedly.