The resistance to the integration of the two cities will naturally be extremely strong, not to mention its historical evolution, it is said that there are Pengcheng and Xuzhou City, plus Xiapi, Tancheng, and Xiaopei The formation of a large and small triangular defense chain is a major pros and cons that he has to consider, after all, Xuzhou has no danger to defend, so there is only internal potential, so the merger of Pengcheng and Xuzhou City will inevitably make Liu Lan lose a lot of strength, but at the military level, some gains outweigh the losses.

One is a leap forward in the economy, and the other is a great recession in the military, and this choice makes him a little difficult to choose.

In the end, he made up his mind and chose to continue to maintain the status quo, when he did not get the whole territory of Yanzhou or Yuzhou, Xuzhou would become a battlefield at any time, and why should he bother to make wedding dresses for others?

Then the next is the reconstruction of the city, in his heart has always had the idea of moving the governance to Pengcheng, although Pengcheng is not a state governance, although the two cities were also affected by Cao Cao's military disaster, but the prosperity of Pengcheng is far from being comparable to Xuzhou City, and secondly, the resistance to the reconstruction of Pengcheng will be smaller than that of Xuzhou City.

First of all, Pengcheng is not like Xuzhou City, where many families live in Xuzhou who have a pivotal position, but there is an advantage and a disadvantage, compared to Xuzhou, Pengcheng is far away from Wenshui, and the waterway is not as developed as Xuzhou City. If Liu Lan really intends to take Xuzhou as an economic center in the future, then the water and land can not be ignored, especially Caoyun, its throughput is by no means comparable to land transportation, which contains huge business opportunities, Liu Lan is a descendant, naturally knows what kind of profits maritime trade can bring to him.

These things urgently need to be solved, but the rectification of the matter is now in urgent need of one person, that is, Zhen Yu who returned to Jizhou, although the Mi family can also do this well, but after all, it is in Xuzhou City, and some things let Mi Zhu do not have the same effect as Zhen Yu. In this case, it is better to let Zhen Yu take the lead and Mi Zhu is responsible for coordination.

The wind was gentle, and Liu Lan, who was looking out of the window, suddenly had a smile on the corner of his mouth, because just when he was thinking about Zhen Yu, he actually saw Zhen Yan walking towards his room, which made him immediately happy. Because he was about to send him to come, let him pass the book to Zhen Yu, and let him come to Xuzhou sooner.

Liu Lan slowly returned to the front of the table, just a moment Zhen Yan entered the room, Liu Lan was about to open his mouth to ask, he didn't want Zhen Yan to fall to the ground with his legs unusually, tears flowing, and kowtowing.

Zhen Yan's actions puzzled him, and he found that Zhen Yan was much older and haggard in less than a day. And the stubble around his mouth is more and denser, his eyes are blank, no longer the day before yesterday, with tears in his eyes, like a child who has made a mistake, and what is even more terrifying is the strength when he kowtows, he actually exerted all his strength, and every time he knocked. It's as if they can shake the heart.

Liu Lan didn't know what was wrong with Zhen Yan, but anyway. After all, he is his brother-in-law, even if something really happens, there is no need to torture himself like this, step forward to help him up.

Zhen Yan's brows were red, her eyes were filled with tears, and she stubbornly rejected Liu Lan's kindness. Choked up and said, "Lord, Zhong Zheng is sorry for you, Zhong Zheng is sorry for you!" ”

Liu Lan chuckled in his heart, what the hell is going on? looked at him puzzled. said, "What's wrong Zhongzheng, what's going on?" ”

"Lord, that traitor is me!" Zhen Yan cried bitterly and knelt on the ground, saying, "I wrote the secret letter during the morning discussion!" ”

"What!" Liu Lan's body shook again and again, and he didn't even have the strength to stand, and it took him half a day to recover, his eyes stared at him, and he said in a trembling voice: "You say...... You say you wrote this letter? ”

"Yes!" Zhen Yan lowered his head and said in a choked voice: "I wrote it!" ”

A trace of anger flashed in Liu Lan's eyes, staring at him closely, not letting go of any detail, and after a while, he snorted coldly and said, "You don't want to hide it from me!" Do you really think I don't know who the traitor is? ”

Flicking his sleeves, he turned back to the table and said as he walked, "How did he convince you to take his place?" ”

"What?"

Zhen Yan exclaimed, but then said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "I don't know what the lord said, I only know that I wrote this letter." Lest Liu Lan not believe it, he directly said the content of the letter word for word.

Until this moment, Liu Lan had a trace of doubt in his heart, could it really be him? But the spy is obviously ...... Thinking about this, he said sideways: "Since you said that the traitor is you, then what are you for?" ”

"For my mother!" Zhen Yan lowered her head and muttered.

"For the sake of mother?" Liu Lan was even more puzzled, and said in a deep voice: "How can you have something to do with your mother when you are a traitor?" ”

Zhen Yan burst into tears and said, "Not long ago, a stranger came from Jizhou. Speaking of this, Zhen Yan actually took out the Yao Hai and said, "They came to me with it, saying that Yuan Shao had controlled his mother and asked me to be their internal response, if I don't agree." is going to behead the whole Zhen family! ”

"What?" Liu Lan immediately felt that the world was spinning, his eyes were full of anger, and he said, "So you wrote this letter?" ”

"Yes!"

"Nonsense!" Liu Lan took the case and said angrily: "That is the case, why do you still say that I did not go to Qingzhou? Aren't you hurting your mother? ”

"Me!" Zhen Yan lowered his head and said with difficulty: "After he looked for me, I didn't know what to do, after all, on the one hand, my brother-in-law and sister, on the other hand, my mother, are all Zhongzheng's relatives, Zhongzheng doesn't want to be an unfaithful person, but he doesn't want to see the Zhen family die tragically, so I can only write like this in desperation!" ”

"You fool!" Liu Lan hated iron and scolded: "You should have told me about this at that time!" ”

"I ...... I ......" Zhen Yan opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to explain it.

"Alright, you get up first."

Liu Lan waved his hand and said: "I don't blame you for this, you are also filial piety, since Yuan Shao wants to hear my news so much, then you can send him some real news." ”

"What?" Zhen Yan looked at him in surprise and said, "Wouldn't this make the lord ......?"

"It's okay!" Liu Lan smiled meaningfully: "When the time comes, just let the messenger delay for a while!" But he smiled and said, "And we can still give him a plan!" Speaking of this, he came to Zhen Yan's ear and whispered.

After Liu Lan finished speaking, Zhen Yan was already smiling from ear to ear and said with a smile: "Wonderful, wonderful!" ”

But at this moment, Xu Shu hurriedly broke into the house and said, "Lord, something is wrong." He ran away......" suddenly found Zhen Yan in the hall, and immediately shut up, but at the same time secretly looked at Liu Lan.

"He can't get far." Liu Lan laughed loudly and said, "Let's go, let's go meet him!" ”

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The scenery passed, and four healthy horses galloped away. The sound of clattering horses' hooves broke the silence between heaven and earth.

The whip in Liu Lan's hand kept hitting the foal belly, and the foal neighed and ran harder on the official road, followed by Zhen Yan and Xu Chu.

Just a moment ago, Liu Lan wanted to get rid of Zhang Jaw quickly, and betrayal must be done with thunderous means, so as to punish future generations. But he finally gave up, and at that time he actually thought of one person, and he was Cao Cao.

Even Cao Cao can give Guan Yu a gift. Don't he, Liu Lan, even have this kind of mind? Although Guan Yu made a great contribution to Cao Cao, Zhang Jaw betrayed ......

But Liu Lan finally gave up, since the master and servant were a game, he was leaving, so he would give him a ride.

Liu Lan sighed, he actually wanted to know why Zhang Jaw betrayed, the answer is not difficult to guess, one. From beginning to end, he is playing the role of a spy; Second, open the jaw sincerely surrendered. But the final betrayal was involuntary, and the answer he hoped to get from his mouth was the second.

"Junyi, don't say a word when you go!"

Finally saw Zhang Jaw, Liu Lan shouted loudly behind him, and said, "Since Junyi is leaving, Liu Lan is here to see him off!" ”

Zhang Jaw, who was hurrying ahead, stopped when he heard the shout. He didn't want to run, and he didn't want to run at this time, maybe it was time to make a break.

Zhang Jaw stopped the horse, turned the horse, and not only saw Liu Lan and his party. Hearing his words later, he instantly became speechless, and even his expression changed from frank to embarrassed.

This era does not allow betrayal, or in the minds of the Chinese, there is Li Ling in the past, and there is (dare not say) today, but when Zhang Jaw saw that Liu Lan and his party were only four people, and after what was said later, his hard heart was completely melted.

Negative emotions such as guilt and shame occupied his heart, Liu Lan treated him as a national soldier, but he betrayed him or even trapped him to death, that is, after defecting, Liu Lan did not bring troops to arrest him, but came to send him.

The eyes as sharp as an eagle greeted him, no longer the same as before, but full of guilt, as if he was a child who had done something wrong, just avoiding his gaze at a glance and bowing his head in shame.

Liu Lan slowed down the speed of the horse, and stopped outside the open jaw, two years can change a lot, two years ago he was still a small Xiangping order, but now he is the state pastor of the herding side; Two years ago he was alone, but now he has a wife, a concubine, and a son to continue to have children.

Liu Lan was stationed on the horse opposite Zhang Jaw, but his thoughts wandered out of the sky, and he just stood in place, motionless.

He knew that this farewell, Cao Wei's five sons-in-arms were about to leave him, and the comrades-in-arms who had been together for two years went their separate ways from then on, maybe the next time they met, they would become enemies, and they would meet each other.

If this situation is an outsider, it will naturally be very surprised, but Xu Chu and Zhen Yan beside him, and even Zhang Jaw himself have already seen it, Xu Chu thundered in a loud voice, and said: "Lord, he is in front, don't you have something to ask him?" ”

Liu Lan smiled awkwardly, looked at Zhang Jaw, and said, "Junyi, do you really have to go?" "He wants to make a final attempt, and now he is in dire need of talent, and if he opens his jaw and leaves, it will be like missing an arm for him.

"Lord, Jun Yi is ashamed of you!" Zhang Jaw had already dismounted, and at this time it was difficult to help himself, so he pounced and knelt on the ground: "Jun Yi has no face to return again, but he begs to die!" With that, he held the sword at his waist with both hands above his head.

Zhang Jaw's performance made him completely sure that his refuge was not to come to be an undercover agent, but to have another hidden secret, and said softly: "Jun Yi, I know that you can't help yourself by doing this, I don't blame you, but I want to know how Yuan Shao threatened you!" ”

Zhang Jaw raised his head, looked at him with complicated eyes, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything, and after a while, he shook his head and said: "Jun Yi has nothing to say, but beg for death!" ”

Zhang Jaw's single-minded desire for death made him understand the seriousness of this matter, but what means did Yuan Shao use to make Zhang Jaw not even explain, but just blindly begging for death?

Liu Lan pondered in his heart for a long time, and when his eyes swept to Zhang Jaw again, he found that he was trembling all over, and there was nothing but guilt on his face. More often than not, it was painful, as if his questions were not only difficult to answer, but also embarrassing to answer.

What does such an expression mean? Is it because of money and women?

Liu Lan vetoed it in his heart, Zhang Jaw is not a greedy and womanizer, not to mention that he already has a wife in his hometown, and the husband and wife have a harmonious relationship. He also has a son named Zhang Xiong.

Liu Lan was completely at a loss, could it be that he misunderstood, the look of shame was not because he accepted money, but because he thought he was rebelling against himself, and pain was the key to Yuan Shao's obedience.

Is it possible that he is behaving like this now?

As if he had been empowered, Liu Lan's heart suddenly brightened, after all, he dared to serve him. It is because the country between rivers is occupied by Gongsun Zhan, and since the safety of his parents is guaranteed, he can also rest assured that he can boldly surrender.

Now is different from the past, Hejian Kingdom was lost by Gongsun Zhan, and how could Yuan Shao let go of the Zhang family in Yan County, coupled with the precedent of the Zhen family in Zhongshan before, it is not surprising that Yuan Shao took the Zhang family as a hostage and persecuted him.

Thinking about this, Liu Lan was immediately relieved. The so-called family and country in the world, think about the family first. After considering the country, and the foundation of the Han Dynasty is to pay attention to filial piety, the first scripture that children come into contact with after reading enlightenment books is the Book of Filial Piety, in such an environment, even Zhen Yan was forced to be a spy, let alone open his jaw? If you say that you really kill yourself to apologize for your sins today. So where does Zhen Yan go?

Although he has forgiven him in his heart, there is an example of open jaws, how should Zhen Yan deal with himself? At that time, it is very likely that he will also kill himself, not to mention the Zhang family in Hejian, even the Zhen family may also stand on the opposite side of him because of this.

Look at the open jaw. said: "I know that Jun Yi is dragged down by his parents' clan, but the filial piety of his parents is human nature, and Jun Yi must not blame himself too much!" ”

"Junyi can't bless his parents, it's because he is unfilial; Trapping the lord and death is for disloyalty, so disloyal and unfilial, how can he have the face to live in the world again! Zhang Jaw said miserably.

"It's not to blame Junyi, it's only to blame Yuan Shao for using such a subordinate method, do you really plan to work for such a villain again?"

Zhang Jaw knew that Mo said that he would not work for Yuan Shao, even if he worked again, how could Yuan Shao continue to reuse him, but he opened his mouth, but hesitated, and said, "But ......" He wanted to say that his parents were still hostage in Yuan Shao's hands, and what way did I have to choose, but in the end he didn't say a word.

"Actually, have you thought about it, only if you continue to stay with me, can you better protect yourself and your family, you go back now, with Yuan Shao's temperament, not to mention your family, it is your own safety, is it really guaranteed?"

"This ......"

Wake up in the dream, the reason why Yuan Shao did not move the Zhang family is first and foremost because he still has use value, if he is no longer valuable, then Yuan Shao wants to kill or chop, it all depends on personal preference.

And the reason why he fled was because he knew that Liu Lan would not let him go, but now he not only didn't kill him, but also let him stay, which immediately made him feel a little moved in his heart, but after all, he betrayed Liu Lan, could he still let him treat himself like that before?

Zhang Jaw was a little drumming in his heart, but more of him was confused, at a loss for the future, back to Yuan Shao, life and death were unknown, in Liu Lan's place, the future was worrying, thinking about the world, Zhang Jaw had a feeling of no place to stand for a while.

It's not that his vision is limited to Liu Lan and Yuan Shao, just ask if there are so many heroes in the world, how can there be no place for him to open his jaw?

If you talk about strength, whether it is Yuan Shu or Cao Cao, how can you compare to Yuan Shao, and how can you compare to Liu Lan in terms of corporal Lixian or kindness, so although there are many heroes in the world, there are only these two people to choose from at the moment.

Liu Lan didn't know what he was still worried about, but he didn't say a word, if he really worked wholeheartedly, it should be loyal to the death, not about personal power, honor and disgrace, if he has been swaying from side to side, then such a wall grass, even if he is talented, he will not continue to retain.

He was afraid that he would become Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, or Liu Lan in Xiaopei City again!

"I would like to go back with my lord!" opened his jaw and bowed down, which made Liu Lan completely relieved, but at the same time, he thought of many things in his heart, such as Xu Shu, such as Tian Yu, although Tian Yu did not serve him, but Tian Yu in history left Liu Lan because he missed his mother, just like Xu Shu.

It seems that some preparations must be made, and now Xu Shu's reputation is not obvious, so no one has to worry about it yet, but when Xu Shu becomes famous one day, it is unknown whether Cao Cao will use tricks again to force Xu Shu to leave.

But whether it will be or not, now he has to move the parents of his generals to Xuzhou as soon as possible, so as to ensure that they have no worries.

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PS: According to the outline, Zhang Jaw has been executed, it can be said that when he wrote it for the first time, Zhang Jaw was already dead, but since Zhang Zheng's death, I really can't bear to let more people die, such as Li Xiang who looks like a boy and a girl, and then Zhang Jaw now, it is for one reason or another that brought him back to life. After all, it's the Three Kingdoms, and I still don't want the real 'Five Tiger Generals' to die like this, it's a little selfishness of Sima, forgive me. (To be continued.) )