In the first month of the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211), Cao Cao was defeated and returned to Xudu.

But Cao Cao can still control the Han court, with his second son Cao Pi as the general of the five officials, placing the official subordinates, and being the deputy of the prime minister.

As a result, Cao Pi was admired by all the people in the world, and the guests were like clouds for a while.

Cao Pi's status was improved, and Sima Yi was happy.

The first is, of course, that he has an excellent relationship with Cao Pi, and Cao Pi takes care of him as a teacher. The second is that Sima Yi himself likes to have a noble son, and he is famous and has a word.

Sima Zhao is Sima Yi's second son, the eldest son Sima Shi has just been born, only four years old, but his performance has already made Sima Yi extremely satisfied.

Yang Xi is not very cold to Sima Yi, although his family has many brothers and strong strength, compared to himself, it still belongs to the level that can be extinguished without stretching out all his fingers.

What Yang Xi has to deal with now is Liu Bei.

In the first month, Yang Xi went to Shuzhong, asked for Zigui County, and demanded compensation of 3 million stone for grain, otherwise 300,000 troops would be raised. In addition to asking for compensation, the letter also demanded that the rebel general Kou Feng be tied to the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and that his troops be returned intact, and no one should be left behind.

At this time, Sun Quan had already fled to Yizhou, losing all of Jiaozhou and Zhongnan Prefecture, and Liu Bei was very frightened.

He didn't expect that Yang Xi didn't make a move, just a peripheral force, and with a wave of his hand, Sun Quan was kicked out of the base that had been in business for more than ten years.

Now it is equivalent to the two parties guarding the in-laws, sharing Yizhou, surrounded by Cao Cao and Yang Xi in this small land.

Looking at Yang Xi's letter, Liu Bei was furious in his heart, but he didn't show it.

He was afraid that he would show fear, and the civil and military forces under him would be even more unbearable, and he estimated that if Yang Xi was willing to be encircled at this time, there would be a few people under his own command who would follow him without knowing how to die.

The meeting scene was very dull, Guan Yu didn't speak, the old god was there, the main battle faction headed by Zhang Fei jumped out, and Liu Bei was noncommittal.

Fa Zheng said: "Yang Xi's letter is extremely threatening, and he proposed that the impossible task in my Shu is to attack Shu Zhong's self-confidence, this is a strategy to attack the heart, and we don't need to pay attention to it." If he really raised 300,000 troops, how could he get into Shuzhong? ”

Zhuge Liang said: "If there are more than 10,000 troops, with the method of survival in the wild specially trained by Yang Xi, and lose some men and horses, they can enter Shu, but with 300,000 military horses, he Yang Xi has the ability to escape, and he can't do this." ”

With these two relieved hearts, Shuzhong was much more relieved, and Liu Bei also felt down-to-earth.

But a few days later, news came from Jingzhou that Yang Xi mobilized 200,000 people to Yiling, and he didn't know what his intentions were.

A few days later, Liu Bei got the "Chenhe Ten Daily" of the first month, and was shocked after reading it. It turned out that Yang Xi actually requisitioned 200,000 people, and Lu Meng in the Jingnan Theater led another 100,000 troops, starting in Yiling, building a cement road, going northwest to the mountains, opening roads in the mountains, building bridges in the water, and wanting to build a road to Shuzhong in the mountains and mountains.

This made Shuzhong see Yang Xi's determination, thinking that this was going to fight to the death with himself.

Liu Bei had no choice but to increase his troops to Zigui again in case Yang Xi attacked.

But how did they know that Yang Xi's purpose was not to deal with them.

Yang Xi is just concentrating people's resources to build civil projects.

After the survey of the five roads, Yang Xi decided to open a highway to Shuzhong from Nanyang after careful consideration. The road must be a solid cement road, although it is through high mountains and mountains, but even if there are many bends, it must be built.

The highway must be repaired, and Yang Xi just brought it forward.

According to Yang Xi's idea, wherever the highway goes, the originally uninhabited land, will slowly form villages, and transportation is one of the most important obstacles restricting social and economic development in ancient times.

Yang Xi's move is just to concentrate the scattered people's forces and carry out the construction of large projects.

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Between South and North America, there is a narrow strip of land called the Isthmus of Panama, which is now occupied by a country called the Martin Empire.

On this day, Emperor Martin was leisurely writing something in the garden of his palace, when suddenly someone came running in a hurry, and even his shoes ran away.

Martin shouted angrily: "What makes you so flustered, without any etiquette! ”

This emperor Martin turned out to be fluent in Chinese.

The man who ran away from his shoes said with a look of sincere fear: "Here it is, here it is!" ”

"What is coming! Make it clear to me! "Martin is really angry.

"Report to the Emperor! The overseas ship you want our attention to is here! ”

"What do you say? What overseas ships are coming? Martin still didn't get it.

"Your Majesty, there are dozens of foreign ships on the sea, and the volume is huge, I am afraid that one is more than 100 meters long and four or five stories high. They say they come from a country called the Han Dynasty. ”

"What?" Martin quickly stood up and said, "Quick! Prepare the horses! Prepare the horses! ”

The reporter left, and Martin shivered a little in the palace.

"As I expected, the Han Dynasty was the first to develop, and it seems that my decision was correct. You're finally here, and I've been waiting for you for twenty-eight years. ”

This Han Dynasty fleet is naturally the global fleet led by Lu Dazhi.

After an extremely difficult voyage, the fleet finally arrived in Panama, as Childe had spoken, and finally saw the people two days ago.

To the surprise of Lu Dazhi and the others, although the appearance of this country is quite different from that of the Han people, the language spoken and the words written are exactly the same as those of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

What was even more surprising than Lu Dazhi and others was Cao Zhi and his party.

The Han Dynasty is thousands of miles away from this place, and the land without people is thousands of miles away, is it a coincidence?

If it weren't for their own experience, Cao Zhi and others would have thought that everything was a dream.

After several days of sailing, the fleet came to a large seaside city called Martin City. Martin City by the sea, there is a huge port by the sea, Lu Dazhi according to Yang Xi's explanation, handed over the post, sure enough, only three hours, the port gongs and drums are noisy, it is said that Martin Emperor Martin himself came.

Lu Dazhi was also like a dream, and hurriedly led 3,000 guards off the ship, not daring to be careless at all.

Martin scanned Lu Dazhi and knew that it was not Chenhe who came in person.

Think about it, how could Chenhe come in person.

But Martin still warmly received the inexplicable Lu Dazhi.

After Martin inquired about the situation of the Han Dynasty with Lu Dazhi, he exclaimed from time to time, but he still had some regrets that Yang Xi had not yet unified the Han Dynasty.

When he learned that the population of the Han Dynasty now has tens of millions, he couldn't help but secretly envy.

Lu Dazhi also learned that the Martin Empire only had a population of more than one million.

When Lu mentioned that he wanted to make a detour throughout South America and continue east, Martin gave him a suggestion.

Martin told Lu that he is now digging a canal connecting the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, with a total length of about 70 kilometers, which is expected to open in six months, when it can go directly from west to east, saving months of navigation and mid-way risks.

Lu Dazhi didn't understand the enthusiasm of Martin's empire very well, how did he know that the relationship between Yang Xi and Martin was good decades ago, and they were both civilized people. What's more, Martin can foresee the strength of Dahan in the future, which is absolutely unparalleled in the world.

Under Martin's arrangement, Lu Dazhi and his entourage temporarily stopped in Martin City, and Lu Dazhi finally had time to complete the task handed over to him by Yang Xi, collecting all kinds of plant seeds and tree species, and only a few months later, the canal was opened and continued to set off.

(End of chapter)