The next day, on the road leading from Changshe to Yangzhai, outside a Liyi that was still emitting scattered black smoke, a Han army of more than 4,000 foot cavalry was resting outside this Liyi.

Nearly 3,000 Han knights were scattered everywhere, or sorting out their weapons, or gathering people to chat, or closing their eyes to recuperate, and resting themselves, and some even simply took out their gaming tools and called friends to gamble a few hands. In fact, gambling has always been prohibited in the army, but because there are few entertainment activities in the military, gambling is repeatedly banned.

In this regard, although Fu Quan felt that gambling was not good during the war, he did not come forward to prohibit it after all, and most of his soldiers were veterans who had followed him for many years, they worshipped themselves, trusted themselves, and were willing to follow him to fight on the battlefield, living a dangerous day that there might be today but no tomorrow, and Fu Quan naturally couldn't bear to deprive these soldiers of the little entertainment left?

Besides, this is not outside the Saiwai, in the Saiwai Fuquan can allow his Hu Xia soldiers to commit violence against the Hu people, rob, kill, and even rape women, and he will let it go, but in the Central Plains, for his own compatriots, Fuquan will not give such an order. Therefore, Fu Quan also thinks that it is very worthwhile to be able to use gambling to let these tigers and wolves control their animal nature, and Fu Quan is still very relieved that nothing has happened to disturb the people on this march.

Of course, after such a scourge as the Yellow Turban Moth Thief, there are very few people who can escape alive along the way, and those who can be touched by the Han army are all poor people who have little oil and water. If these people say that they are going to rob them, the soldiers of the Han army have to follow Fuquan's order, take out part of the military rations to help, and inform them that the direction of Changshe County is temporarily safe, and let them go to take refuge.

Not far from where the soldiers gathered to gamble, Fu Quan led the army to discuss things with civil and military personnel, but with their angry looks, it was obvious that they did not discuss the strategy of rescuing Yangzhai County.

"Moth thieves are really hateful! Bocai should be killed! The people are innocent, suffering from this great calamity, Taiping Dao is really evil! Fu Quan pointed to the Liyi, who had obviously just been plagued, and scolded, anyone who saw such a look felt uncomfortable, as for who did this, there was no need to think about it at all, only after the defeat of the Changshe, Bo who fled all the way would do so.

Seeing that Fu Quan was angry, Zhong Xuan hurriedly comforted him: "Don't be angry! The Taiping Demon Dao will not last long, and the top priority is to break the army of wave thieves! His words were very tactful, in fact, he was asking Fuquan not to rub on the road in disguise, to go to Yangzhai as soon as possible to rescue, and to calm Bocai's Yingchuan Yellow Turban, so that Zhong Xuan could leave Fuquan reasonably.

In this regard, Fu Quan Wan'er smiled and said: "This matter is not urgent, the scouts have been reported, and the thieves have gathered more than 70,000 people, although they are all rabble, but our army is only more than 5,000, and it is necessary to take it carefully!" ”

After speaking, Fu Quan stopped Zhong Xuan's continued persuasion, and then changed the topic and said: "I have heard that Yingchuan is deep in the summer breeze, the government is loyal and simple, and there are many young talents, Yuan Chang is free today, why not talk to Gu Xiao?" ”

In fact, of course, Fu Quan knew what Zhong Xuan meant, but he had other plans in his heart, so he naturally wouldn't go to the rescue as soon as Zhong Xuan wished. As for the more than 70,000 people in Bocai now, Fuquan is still not in his eyes, after all, after the previous defeat, although Bocai escaped and engulfed many homeless people along the way, it is obviously compared with before, whether it is combat power or equipment, it is a big difference.

Even though there are still thousands of armored men under Bocai's command, it is undoubtedly very difficult to conquer Yingchuan County and Zhiyang Zhai County. After all, Yangzhai County is a gathering place for many Yingchuan clans, these clans have their own servants to guard, once they encounter the Yellow Turban Moth thieves who may kill them to attack the city, for the sake of the clan can only take the family's blood to defend the city, so from the beginning Fuquan understood that Yangzhai County will not be broken, and even Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun also understand, so they will let Fuquan lead more than 5,000 troops to attack Bocai more than 70,000 people, and even let all the cavalry in the army Fuquan take away, in order to hope that he can quickly pacify Yingchuan Yellow Turban and meet them, Let's go together to fight against Chen Guo and the Yellow Turban of Runan County.

Here Zhong Xuan heard Fu Quan change the topic, and knew that he couldn't persuade him anymore, so he could only talk to Fu Quan briefly about the talents of Yingchuan County he knew. After all, Zhong Xuan is also the key cultivation talent of the Zhong family of Changshe, so he has intersected with many young people in Yingchuan, and the introduction is also very detailed, which makes Fuquan have a further understanding of the geography, customs and customs of Yingchuan.

Yingchuan County is a large county in Yuzhou, the seventeenth year of the reign of King Yingzheng of Qin, named after Yingshui, so the name is "Yingchuan", the governance is located in Yangzhai, and the city has jurisdiction seventeen so far. Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were more than 260,000 households and 1.4 million mouths in Yingchuan, second only to the two counties of Runan and Chenguo in Yuzhou.

Its place is full of humanities, including Yingyin Xun family, Xu County Chen family, Yang Zhai Guo family, Changshe Zhong family, Wuyang Han family and so on. Moreover, while Yingchuan talents are frequent, they have also inherited the legacy of "plagiarism" and "lightness" inherited from the pre-Qin period.

"Historical Records" contains: Yingchuan, Nanyang, the residence of the Xia people. The Xia people are still loyal and simple, and they still have the legacy of the previous kings. Yingchuan wishes. This is the meaning, and the so-called "fierce" is to describe the people of Yingchuan County.

The Book of Han says: "Yingchuan, Nanyang, the country of Xia Yu. Xia people are loyal, and they are despicable and simple...... Yingchuan, Handu. There are Shenzi, Han Fei, Yu Lie, Gao Shieun, good grammar, and the people are greedy and disputed. Because of the influence of the ancestors of the Legalists, Shen Buxian and Han Fei, their place not only emphasizes the rule of law, but also emphasizes the rule of arts, and has a strong idea of power and strategy.

Its place is only 500 miles away from the capital of Luoyang, where the transportation center is located, and there are many local wealthy families, close marriages, and many talents, the so-called "eight horses" of the party leader, Yingchuan occupies the third. It is precisely because of this that with the beginning of the party, Yingchuan can be the hardest hit area of the party's disaster, and the surnames Xun, Chen, Guo, Zhong, and Han in the territory have been implicated, but now with the lifting of the party, I think that soon after, in the court, Yingchuan will give birth to many high-ranking officials.

As for the so-called "light" style, it is said that it is a cold-door ranger warrior, and the famous person is like the Yingyang Waiting Sacrifice in the "Yuntai Twenty-eight Generals" under the command of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. Zou Yang, a famous scholar of the former Han Dynasty, once commented on the atmosphere of various places, and when talking about Yingchuan, he said that it was "a strange festival". The so-called "strange festival" has the meaning of eunuchs forming a party and a ranger atmosphere.

Zhong Xuan introduced the geographical customs of Yingchuan to Fuquan one by one, and talked about the atmosphere of "plagiarism" and "lightness" among the cold families of the Yingchuan scholars, but he did not shy away from it at all, but let Fuquan have a deeper understanding of the Yingchuan scholars.

Subsequently, it was time for Zhong Xuan to introduce Yingchuan talents, after Zhong Xuan introduced some of the older generation of Yingchuan talents such as "Xun's Eight Dragons", then Fuquan heard a lot of familiar names of Yingchuan who have become famous, such as Sima Hui, Xun Yu, Xun Chen, Xun You, Xi Zhicai, Xin Ping, Guo Tu, etc., all of whom are famous and capable ministers.

In this regard, Fu Quan couldn't help but sigh, this is the cornerstone of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's ability to start, that is, compared with his hometown Xuzhou and its talent reserve, serious comparison is also a lot worse.

Thinking of the sentence that Luo Guanzhong later borrowed the name of Sima Hui and advertised, "Fulong and phoenix, the two of them have one, but they can settle the world", Fuquan also poked his nose, it is true that the two of them are talented, but if they only rely on one or two anti-geniuses, they want to win the world, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

In Fuquan's view, if you want to advertise, it is better to say that "if you get the people of Yingchuan, the world can be determined". Although this is also suspected of exaggeration, there is no doubt that after the party is lifted, judging from the talent reserves of all states and counties in the world at this time, the people of Yingchuan are obviously at the top of the list.

"It's a fight!"

"Yingchuan has moved his sword!"

……

In the distance, there was a sudden sound of shouting, which alarmed the two people who were negotiating, Fu Quan and Zhong Xuan were surprised, and then followed the prestige, but among those gambling soldiers, two of them somehow fought privately in the army.

I saw that a young man wearing a scarf and dressed as a Confucian scholar, holding a long sword with a cloak, waved his sword at the Ban Yu barbarians under Fu Quan's command, and under the swing of the long sword, the unarmed Ban Yu barbarians could only dodge in all directions.

Fortunately, the Ban Yu barbarians are good at hand-to-hand combat, and under the attack of the Yingchuan Confucian scholars, there is not much damage, but the Confucian swordsmanship is also very good, if you don't stop it, you can't say that you will die.

Seeing that the Confucian sword was swinging more and more violently, and there was a great intention that the other party would not give up if he did not die, Fu Quan hurriedly shouted, ordered his soldiers, took the two people into custody, got off the Confucian sword, and brought them to himself for questioning. Private fighting is strictly forbidden in the army, and if the two of them don't give themselves an explanation, not to mention the Confucian who wields the sword, even the barbarian soldiers under their command, they will not be punished.

When the two of them were brought up, the Confucian man's hair had been hastily arranged, and he looked like a handsome young man, but he didn't know why he was rough.

Fu Quan just wanted to ask, but he couldn't help but hear Zhong Xuan beside him, and suddenly exclaimed: "Xu Fu! ”

When the words came out, he also swallowed Fuquan's question, with a trace of exquisite expression, looked at Xu Fu in front of him in a daze, and said secretly, this person can't really be him, right?

"Yuan common sense to get this person?"

After Fuquan finished asking, Zhong Xuan replied: "Back to Pingkou, this person is Xu Yuanzhi, a fellow villager of Xuan, who is slightly talented, but he is chivalrous, it is a pity......

It's him!

Absolutely, yes!

It had to be him!

In his previous life, Fu Quan still remembered several sad characters, one of whom was named Xu Shu, of course, before Xu Shu changed his name, he was called Xu Fu, a native of Changshe County, Yingchuan County.

And with Zhong Xuan's introduction, Fu Quan can be sure that the person in front of him is that Xu Shu, after all, now this guy has not changed his name after avenging others.

At that time, after Xu Shu killed someone, he smeared white powder on his face, fled with his hair scattered, and was caught by officials. Later, the official asked Xu Shu what his name was, and Xu Shu didn't say a word, so the official tied Xu Shu to a pillar to prepare for dismemberment, and beat the drum to order the people in the surrounding markets to come out and identify, but they didn't dare to say that they knew this person. In the end, Xu Shu's friends appeared and rescued Xu Shu together, Xu Shu was very grateful, and thought about it painfully, so he stopped dancing with guns and sticks, changed his usual plagiarism and strange festivals, changed his name, and went to the school to study seriously.

But the students in the same dormitory all disliked Xu Shu for being a thief before, and refused to be with Xu Shu in everything. Xu Shu got up very early every day, cleaned alone, asked other people's opinions first about everything, and studied Confucianism seriously. Gradually, Xu Shu was very proficient in Confucian scriptures and righteousness, which later spread the anecdote of his "broken section knowledge".

As for Xu Shu being sad, the reason is naturally very simple, Luo Guanzhong's sentence "Being in Cao Ying's heart is in Han" doesn't explain everything? Of course, Xu Shu really went to Cao Cao's place, the reason was not what Lao Luo said, he went to Cao Wei, and it was completely related to Liu Bei.

At that time, Cao Cao went south, broke Xinye, Liu Bei did not listen to the persuasion and had to escape with the people, slowing down the progress of the escape, Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang were defeated by Cao Cao when they traveled to the Changban slope together, and Xu Shu's mother was also arrested by Cao Cao at this time.

Then, Xu Shu said, "Those who want to work with the general to plan for the hegemony of the king, and use this square inch of land." Now that I have lost my old mother, I am in a mess, and it is useless, please say goodbye from now on. "Come to say goodbye to Liu Bei and switch to Cao Cao for the sake of his mother, otherwise, this famous man from the Yingchuan Hanmen, at least in Shu Han, can also be an official to a high position.

Of course, the so-called "Xu Shu entered Cao Ying - without saying a word" in later generations was completely unfounded. Xu Shu not only didn't say a word, but said a lot. Otherwise, Xu Shu would never be able to become an official to the right middle Lang general and the middle of the imperial history, after all, unless Cao Cao was stupid, otherwise he would not use Qianshi's official position to raise a strategist who didn't mention any suggestions.

Thinking of this, Fu Quan suddenly felt that this matter was much more interesting, after all, in his memory, Xu Shu was a standard poor scholar, and he was very suitable for Yingchuan talents to win over him, and if he didn't say words of loyalty, Xu Shu was really a good strategist.