Xue Rengui and the others returned to the shuai tent from the school field, Zhang Zai had been staring at the sand table in the army for a long time, and this sand table was made by Zhang Zai after Zhang Zai made the bad people work hard for half a year. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The sand table in front of you contains the entire territory of the state, down to every bridge and pass, and at the same time shows the deployment of your own troops above.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhang Zai inquired about the progress of the troops' training and gave them an order to increase their training efforts and complete the training as soon as possible.

Zhang Zai's power developed rapidly, and the others did not stop, Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao fought in Jieqiao, Juma Shui, and Longcuo one after another, and finally Gongsun Chan withdrew from Jizhou.

After Gongsun Zhan returned to Youzhou, after a simple cultivation, he began to attack the remnants of Liu Yu, and finally broke through Juyong and controlled the entire territory of Youzhou.

Cao Cao, on the south bank of the Yellow River, ushered in rapid development.

Qingzhou Yellow Turban broke out again, Li Wei listened to Zhu Jun's suggestion, ordered Cao Cao to go to Qingzhou to quell the rebellion, in the end, Cao Cao broke the Yellow Turban, recruited nearly 300,000 people, Cao Cao chose Qingzhuang, incorporated into the army, called "Qingzhou soldiers", the rest of the old and weak women and children, ordered them to return home, engaged in production and labor.

The good news reached Chang'an, and the imperial court added Cao Cao as the general of Zhendong, and since then Cao Cao has been famous, and then a large number of talents began to defect to him.

The most famous is Xun Yu, Xun Yu's uncle and nephew, Xun Yu left Yuan Shao after Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zhan, and after hearing the name of Cao Cao, he came to vote, and also brought Xun Yu who abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown.

Then Xun Yu recommended Cheng Yu again, and after being reminded by Cheng Yu, he recommended Guo Jia again, so Cao Cao directly recruited Guo Jia.

After receiving the letter from Xun Yu and Cao Cao respectively, Guo Jia fell into hesitation, the year before last he had received a letter from Zhang Zai, the pastor of Bingzhou, inviting him to go to Bingzhou, but after he saw the letter, it was already half a year later, Zhang Zai had taken root in Bingzhou, and his subordinates were all ready, so he had been waiting and watching, and then Zhang Zai's reputation was getting bigger and bigger, and he was preparing to take advantage of the fact that there was no good under Zhang Zai, and he was going to merge with the state.

Now that his friends have invited, Guo Jia is in a dilemma, he is ready to go to Bingzhou to see what the world-famous Zhang Zai has to do, as for the rumors of the family, how unbearable Zhang Zai is, how to abuse the scribes, he doesn't believe it at all, he wants to be the opposite, he has all the interests in Zhang Zai's meritocracy and Bingzhou Academy, and most importantly, he wants to see the legendary Bingzhou books.

Guo Jia is not a person who drags mud and water, since he decided to go to Bingzhou, he packed his luggage today, wrote a letter to Xun Yu at the same time, and then left Yingchuan.

After Xun Yu received Guo Jia's letter, he was extremely remorseful, he should have personally come to the door to invite him, otherwise Guo Jia would not have mistakenly voted for others.

And after receiving the news that Guo Jia defected to Zhang Zai, Cao Cao didn't care, and now his strategists are like rain, and the fierce generals are gathered, and one less Guo Jia has no impact.

Later, two more people came to vote, one is a native of Changyi, Shanyang, with the surname Man, the name pet, and the word Boning; One is a native of Wucheng, surnamed Lu, whose name is pious, and whose name is Ke.

Cao Cao also heard about the reputation of the two, so he hired them to serve in the army. Then Man Chong and Lu Qian recommended a person, who was Chen Liuping Qiu, surnamed Mao, named Jue, the word filial piety, and Cao Cao was also hired to engage in it.

Later, Yu Ban brought hundreds of people to vote, and was named the military Sima by Cao Cao, and then Xiahou Dun also came with a fierce general, it was he who passed by a manor, and saw a fierce man, dragging the tail of the ox upside down, and dragged the crazy cow for several miles, Cao Cao gave it with brocade clothes, and named him the commander of the pro-army.

So far, Cao Cao's guarantee is basically perfect.

As for Guo Jia, he passed through Jizhou Huguan, and then joined the party, and when he passed through Huguan, he saw the soldiers guarding Huguan, and couldn't help but admire: "It really deserves to be an invincible northern army." ”

But after entering the Shangdang, he immediately frowned, the life of the people in the Shangdang territory was a little worse, and there were some dishes on their faces, compared to the soldiers they saw, their lives seemed to be very hard.

"It seems that this one is a bit unworthy of its name." Guo Jia passed by the wine shop, entered the wine shop, ordered some wine, and sighed while drinking, he instinctively thought that Zhang Zai was a poor soldier.

It may be that his voice was loud, and after a person in the seat next to Guo Jia heard it, he asked, "This little brother is from out of town, and he has just arrived in the party, right?" ”

Guo Jia saw that he was neatly dressed, his face was ruddy, and he did not look like the people, and then replied: "A certain person who traveled the world and heard that the people of Bingzhou are rich and politically clear, so I came to see him." ”

"Then it's not surprising." The man arched his hand and said: "In Xia Sushuang, it is a group of foot merchants, going back and forth between Jizhou and Bingzhou, seeing the little brother fall in love, how about you drink?" ”

Guo Jia is also an alcoholic, how could he be polite to him, and when he heard the invitation, he said directly: "In Xia Guo Jia, thank you brother Tai." ”

The two sat opposite each other and toasted each other with a glass of wine before continuing with the original topic.

"Brother Guo just came to Bingzhou, he may not know that this Shangdang was originally occupied by Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang did not follow the orders of the state pastoral government, and was later defeated by Zhang Zhengbei, and the Shangdang returned to Zhang Zhengbei's hands." Su Shuang explained.

After hearing this, Guo Jia nodded slowly and motioned for Su Shuang to continue.

Su Shuang drank a glass of wine and continued: "Brother Guo, but you see some people with earthy faces? ”

"Nature."

Su Shuang smiled and said, "If Brother Guo came here a year ago, he should admire Zhang Zhengbei at this time." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Guo Jia didn't know why.

"A year ago, when Zhang Yang occupied Shangdang, it was even poorer, and even some people would starve to death, but now in the hands of Zhang Zhengbei, the life of the people in Shangdang has improved, if Brother Guo doesn't believe it, you can go outside to inquire, I believe that the people will not hide it." Su Shuang sighed.

"I see, it's Jia who blames Zhang Zhengbei, then this Zhang Zhengbei, Jia wants to see it." Hearing Su Shuang say this, Guo Jia regained interest.

"Brother Guo is planning to go to Zhang Zhengbei? That's right, along the way, you can take a look at the life of the people in Taiyuan today. Su Shuangdao.

"Jia Zheng has this intention."

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After separating from Su Shuang, Guo Jia went all the way north, and sure enough, when he arrived in Taiyuan, it was a completely different scene.

The people here are ruddy-complexion, and their lives are much better than those in Jizhou, and there are many new waterwheels and other production tools that he has never seen.

What surprised Guo Jia even more was that the roads were wide, all paved with rammed earth, and the people said that this was built by the state pastor himself, in order to facilitate the journey.

But when you think about it, it is frightening, with such a road, no matter where Zhang Zai is deployed, he can follow the road and quickly reach his destination, and at the same time, the logistics transportation is also extremely convenient.

Walking along the official road, Guo Jia turned to several villages and towns, and the scene he saw was like that, so Guo Jia looked forward to meeting Zhang Zai even more.

Finally, a day later, Jinyang City appeared in front of Guo Jia's eyes.