If you want to say that the biggest feeling in the crusade against South Vietnam in 192 AD is probably that except for Li Ming, the major forces have lost a lot of soldiers, and as a result, there is no way to use troops in 193.

This year can be said to be spent peacefully, and for the people, there is nothing more precious than peace. The displaced people took advantage of this opportunity to quickly stabilize and work hard for their future livelihoods; The princes also took the opportunity to expand the number of soldiers and resume production, and a year passed before they knew it.

In 193, as Lu Kang gave up his position as the Taishou of Lujiang and went south to Wanling, Li Ming couldn't pursue him anymore, and comforted him with false affection, which was considered sincere in the eyes of outsiders.

As for the vacated position of Lujiang Taishou, the successor not only needs to be capable, but also very loyal and valued. Li Ming discussed with Wang Yu, as well as Guo Jia and others for a long time, and finally appointed Gu Yan as the Taishou of Lujiang and Huang Zhong as the general of the expedition to the north.

Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun were transferred to his command, and at the same time, Pang De and Zu Lang were respectively bereaved in Jiangcheng County, and the Dantu side was guarded by Zhou Tai.

Xu Huang was appointed as the general of the expedition to the west, and Tai Shici, Zhang He, and Huang Gai were appointed under his command.

In the past year, Dong Cheng and Peng Die were all pregnant, and Xun Cai was also in the period of giving birth. Peng Die, who has been married for many years until she is now 18 years old, finally experienced the feeling of being a mother for the first time, not to mention how happy she was. was originally lively and lovely, but unconsciously added a layer of maternal aura; As for Dong Hui, it can only be said that it is a matter of course.

During this period, Peng Die's two little girlfriends, who are well-known Qiao sisters in Jiangdong, came to visit from time to time. But he was also looking for an opportunity to float in front of Li Ming without leaving a trace, leaving some wisps of incense blowing in his face.

The Qiao family plans to marry their two daughters to Li Ming as concubines, and he is still very clear about this. Jiangdong Er Qiao, even if Li Ming is lonely and silent, he has heard of it, or in addition to Diao Chan, Er Qiao is one of the few historical beauties he can remember. As for the other two, Mi and Sun Shangxiang committed suicide by jumping into a well in Changbanpo, and the other married Liu Bei for Wu Shu's alliance.

"The head of the family, now the Lu family is spreading everywhere, saying that the head of the family will accept two people as concubines......" When Li You reported on this matter, Li Ming realized that something was wrong.

"What does this matter have to do with the Lu family?" Li Ming suddenly asked.

"Qiao's family is attached to the Lu family, and I am afraid that from the beginning, Er Qiao went south to meet Mrs. Butterfly by chance and become best friends, which was deliberately arranged by the Lu family. As for the purpose, I'm afraid it's the same as the Gu family, and I plan to go online with the head of the family through Er Qiao. If this is the case, then the head of the family will not accept the two for a long time, I am afraid that the Lu family will understand that the head of the family does not want to marry them, and Lu Kang will take refuge in the imperial court, or there may be temptation! Li You combed through the information during this period of time and probably came to this conclusion.

"As a result, Lu Kang defected to the imperial court, or was it because of my relationship?" Li Ming suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, who knew about this situation like this?

"The head of the family, it's not a way to keep delaying...... You are now the lord of Jiangdong, except for you, now in the entire Jiangdong, I am afraid that no one dares to marry Er Qiao, and the actions of the Lu family may not have the intention of making the head of the family make a decision early. Li You reminded.

"What the. Egg thing......" Li Ming suddenly cried and laughed, he has always avoided marrying with the family, especially the old family in Jiangdong, not to mention anything else, he refused the Yu family's proposal to marry.

In the end, it went back to the old path of marriage.

A month later, Li Ming first visited Qiao Gong to propose marriage, but the latter did not put up a fight, but just called Er Qiao to ask what they meant. Er Qiao and Li Ming had no feelings, they just felt that he could be entrusted with his life, so he nodded shyly.

In this way, a table of wine was set up in a daze, and the confused Erqiao was accepted by Li Ming as a concubine, and he greeted Xun Cai the next day after marriage, even if he officially entered the Li family.

As for Li Ming, to be honest, he also attaches great importance to marriage and feelings, and Jiangdong Erqiao became his concubine, and he was inexplicably a little excited. simply comfort yourself, in this era, women are used to clinging to powerful men, why bother to be hypocritical?!

The day after the marriage, Li Ming accompanied Xun Cai for several days, and it was clear that Xun Cai was pregnant and could not have sex together. Many people can see that most of Li Ming's love is given to Xun Cai, which is also the fundamental reason why the latter can tolerate Li Ming's concubine.

In the first half of 193 AD, the pepper was successfully cultivated, and Li Ming summoned some of his henchmen and subordinates to divide the seeds. Some people like this thing and some people hate it, they like to eat spicy hot pot and never like it, but some people avoid it like ghosts. The promotion is not so fast, but it is very fast as a drug, especially in many plasters, this thing is used.

During this time, Li Ming experimented with a part of the dragon bone and blood crystal, and roughly knew the characteristics of the two materials, and then re-forged a long sword with bone jade, iron, blood crystal, and dragon bone.

Perhaps it was due to the influence of blood crystals, the body of the long sword was red, and the iron was sharpened like mud, and it took Li Ming more than a month before and after to create it.

Bloody Slasher: +20 Force, +25% Break, +30% Critical Strike Chance, 1500/1500 Durability.

The breaking rate and critical strike rate come from its sharpness, and the sharpness is actually above the Tiger Courage Spear, and the ordinary armor can be split directly with a sword in the past, and even with the enemy's body, it can be split in half.

The remaining remnants are made of snake scales and skin as the main material to create a set of dragon scale armor, the scales are light but extremely strong, and the hardness of each piece is even higher than that of steel, and the armor created is even stronger.

It happened to be the day when the weapons and armor were made, and Li Ming's second eldest son, Li Ling, was born, which was the third male in Li Ming's family. At this time, Li Chong was already the son of the world, and his position could be said to be very stable.

In order to celebrate his sister's pregnancy, Peng Hu expanded his sphere of influence to the entire Nanhai County in the autumn of 193, and Li Ming appointed him as the Nanhai County Warden and Cui Yan as the County Cheng to assist from the side.

The location of Guiyang County was very awkward at this time, and the north and south were sandwiched by Changsha County and Nanhai County respectively. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Ming will inevitably use troops against Guiyang, because Guiyang is too protective of Zhao Fan, so he can only strengthen his armaments on the one hand, and write a letter to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao on the other hand to cry.

Liu Biao lost his general Wang Wei this year, and he lost his nephew Liu Pan, and he has not had time to recover. Seeing the letter of help written by Zhao Fan, a mouthful of old blood suddenly spurted out, and he angrily reprimanded: "Li Ming is so despicable!" ”

Originally, they had planned to recover Nanhai County next year, but now they were preempted by Li Ming! Liu Biao was angry and planned to use troops against Changsha County, but Jingzhou's Jiangling fleet, when crossing the river, was sniped by Gan Ning, and almost put Zhang Yun in.

Liu Biao suddenly found out that they even crossed the river to fight, which became a luxury, and they were suddenly trapped in Nanjun and Jiangxia County, and the four counties of Jingnan were equivalent to being separated, and they could only rely on themselves to take care of themselves.

For a time, the remaining three counties in Jingnan were all in a panic. However, Li Ming did not have a plan to continue the expedition this year, because the nerves of the three counties had been broken for several months, and with the arrival of the Spring Festival in 194 AD, he relaxed a little.

In the last three months of last year, printing and papermaking techniques were further improved, and the cost of books dropped by 30 percent. A large number of books flooded the market, and unless people were really numb to the point of resigning themselves to their fate, they would find a way to buy three books and go back to read them.

Why three? It can only be said that the guys in the bookstore will tell them when they hesitate that if they want to learn to read and write, then the first indispensable thing is three books, namely "Erya Vernacular Phonetic Edition", "Hanyu Pinyin" and "Punctuation". The latter two can be said to buy one get one free, so people don't mind buying them.

If you are doing business at home, or doing some small business, you will also recommend the popular science book "Elementary Mathematics". There are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations and Lee's numbers, as well as bead algorithms, and bookstores also sell abacus, a calculation tool invented by Li Ming.

Only the "Erya Vernacular Phonetic Edition" is the most expensive, and the whole book requires 300 texts to sell. However, for most of the commonly used words, they are processed in vernacular culture, and pinyin is also marked.

After that, whether it is the Analects or the Spring and Autumn Period, or even the Book of Songs or other books, you can always understand it when you read it slowly. Not to mention, Li Ming also plans to publish the "Analects Zhuyin Edition" and the "Spring and Autumn Zhuyin Edition".

According to inside sources, Li Ming even planned to edit books such as the "Vernacular Version of the Analects", but was threatened with death by Wang Yu, so he temporarily gave up this idea.

In the second half of 193, in the cities or townships of Wu County, Huiji County, Danyang County, Yuzhang County and Changsha County, there were many people who claimed to be Hanmenshi, but in fact, they were originally just ordinary people. They took out these three books, took apprentices in the countryside and cities, helped them enlighten, earned a lot, and slowly formed a profession.

And because there are too many of these people, families everywhere can't ban them, so they can only let them go. On the other hand, he kept an eye on Li Ming at the source, as long as he dared to print "Vernacular Version XX", he would immediately come out and die, it was really the kind that never died.

"How ignorant the world is, but it's so ......" Li Ming just smiled when he learned about this.

His original intention was only to promote enlightenment education, and the next step was to run the township school, which became less dazzling when enlightenment education was common. As for "Vernacular Version XX", of course he knows that it is not feasible, but without this in front, how can the family loosen up on Mengxue?

Agriculture, commerce, education, industry, and even navigation were all slowly improved in 193, and all gained some gains.

In the blink of an eye, 193 years have passed, and the time has come to 194 AD......

After cultivating for a year, the princes in various places recovered some of their vitality slightly, and the three forces of Taishan thieves, black mountain thieves and Lu Bu began to germinate their ambitions for foreign expansion.

At the beginning of this year, Hao Lang left Tianmu Mountain, came to Wanling, handed over the name thorn to the concierge of the Li Mansion, and came to pay a visit.