Yuan Shao saw that Cao Cao had already occupied the two states in the world, and like Chu Xiong, he was currently sandwiched between Jizhou, if he didn't hurry up and capture Yecheng and Qingzhou, he might become the food in the mouths of the two at any time.

Today, Yuan Shao decided to end the one-year war, and no matter what the cost, he must take Yecheng.

The officials in Yecheng were all frightened, Yuan Shao's power was so strong, and at this time, Yuan's army came to attack the city again, and all the people in the city raised their hearts to their throats.

After Huangfu Song learned the news of Yuan's attack again, he hurriedly led his elite soldiers to the city gate, and just halfway through the city, he heard the sound of shaking drums outside the city, which can be said to have resounded for dozens of miles, and the formation was monstrous.

Yuan Shao's army was still attacking the city gate, but the soldiers inside the gate resisted to the death, and it would be difficult to capture it with a few thousand people for a while.

"General, is this really feasible, if the emperor refuses to fight, we will also sit helpless." The retinue sighed to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao smiled faintly, his expression vaguely revealed the color of victory, waved his hand and said, "Just see how I take off the head of Huangfu Song Lao'er." ”

After a while, Huangfu Song climbed the tower with several entourage, condescendingly observing the battle situation at this moment. A fast-paced detective walked up to him and reported: "The lord is not good, the mathematics department outside the city found that Yuan Jun had countless banners, because the distance was too far to see the specific number of the other party, but I dare to conclude that Yuan Shao definitely wanted to take Jizhou in one fell swoop this time, and sent almost all the soldiers and horses!" ”

Huang Fu Song frowned when he heard this, and suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "I, Huang Fu Song and Yuan Thief, are incompatible, and they will fight with me to kill Yuan Jun with the last trace of strength, if I can survive this robbery, I am willing to share the glory and wealth with the survivors!" When the soldiers heard these words, they all responded, raising their weapons and beating drums and shouting.

"I didn't expect this Huangfu Song to boost morale, it's okay." Yuan Shao smiled slightly, and then withdrew the siege army without knowing why the general was in the city, and confronted the emperor Fu Song in the city.

There are countless dead bodies under the castle tower, and the fireworks are filled, like a microcosm of hell on earth.

Huangfu Song didn't understand why Yuan Shao suddenly stopped attacking the city, could it be that he was frightened by the morale he brought up, it was impossible to think about it, who would be so bored after fighting for a year and being scared back by a few roars.

Yuan Shao rode his horse alone to a place about thirty meters away from the city gate, although all the soldiers wanted to stop Yuan Shao's rash walk, but they were still stopped by the marshal with gestures.

"Who's coming!" Huangfu Song also knew a little about Yuan Shao, and found that the person who came was Yuan Shao, but he still shouted.

Yuan Shao replied: "I am Yuan Shao, Yuan Benchu, everyone has known each other for a long time, today I will definitely take Jizhou, in order to avoid innocent casualties, I advise you to surrender to our army as soon as possible, so that those soldiers under your command can still reunite with their families." ”

"Hahaha!" Huangfu Song actually laughed on the city tower, "Yuan Shao? Shameless thief, deceitful and vain, and now he has to do such a stealing act, let me surrender, or please kneel down and speak! Hahahaha! ”

"Huangfu Song, don't be too conceited, the Han is dead! Liu Xie is also dead, now why do you say that the thief said, you don't have to be blindly loyal to the Han, obediently sacrifice the city to kill yourself, go with Your Majesty! Otherwise, I raised 150,000 troops today, and now the city of Jizhou has been besieged to the ground, in addition to me, the rest of the city gates are more Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and other generals are waiting for the troops! Huangfu Song, even if you have wings, you can't escape! ”

Yuan Shao's words made Huangfu Song's face extremely ugly, and even the soldiers behind him showed a sad look, as if they were about to be killed. Huangfu Song is also sad in his heart, His Majesty has actually died, and the Han has also died, what is the point of guarding the country for the Han like this.

On the contrary, the soldiers on Yuan Shao's side were a little surprised by Lan Huo's words, but after thinking about it for a while, they knew that this was exactly Yuan Shao's intimidation plan. Taking advantage of the victory of the Yuan army, there was only one city left in Jizhou, and the drums outside the city were constantly beating, and Huangfu Song was suspicious and did not dare to act rashly.

"Give you a chance to kill yourself, I want you Huangfu Song to serve the country wholeheartedly, and they are all a generation of heroes. It would be a great pain and sorrow for you to be killed by the subordinates of the Yuan thief whom you hated. Yuan Shao pressed on Huangfu Song's psychological defense line step by step, "If you fight to the death, you will definitely be stabbed by our army, and then you will not only fail the officials of the city, but also live up to the dead Your Majesty!" ”

Huangfu Song was extremely uncomfortable by Yuan Shaohuo, that's right, as a big man, even if he dies, he can't let the enemy kill him, let alone the traitor Yuan Shao's person. But if you commit suicide, it will be surrendering without a fight, and you will be sorry for your ancestors and Your Majesty, so Huangfu Song is in an infinite entanglement.

Seeing that the effect he expected had been achieved, Yuan Shao led his horse back to his army, and then pulled out his sword and ordered: "Huangfu Song is obsessed, give me a quick capture of the city gate." ”

After doing this, Yuan Shao whispered something to a soldier behind him, who nodded, and rode away into the distance.

Looking at the direction in which the soldiers disappeared, Huang Fu Song thought that Yuan Shao must have ordered someone to inform the rest of the city gate generals to prepare to attack the city, after all, Yuan Shao's real main force must be Yan Liang or Wen Chou in Huang Fu Song's opinion.

"Lord, good news, good news!" A soldier said happily to Huangfu Song, "Someone just now came to report that there were only less than 1,000 soldiers outside the gate of a city, and the morale was low and they were chatting, and the ranks were extremely untidy. We can escort the lord away, save his life, and I am not afraid that there will be no chance of revenge in the future, my lord. ”

In fact, in order to better let the emperor Song be in the middle of the plan, Yuan Shao let a thousand soldiers be set up outside the city gate where there was an ambush and deliberately pretended to be a declining soldier.

"Hmph, presumably the traitor Yuan Shao thought that the old man would be stupid to go out of the city, he had many strategists, how could there be such negligence during the war. Jizhou City, which can be captured soon, hum, traitor, I underestimate my Huangfu Song, but I am also familiar with the strategy of military books.! Huangfu Song smiled proudly, and then ordered the general to go back and guard the city.

Yuan Shao thought that Huangfu Song would definitely escape, so he deliberately put on the illusion of attacking the city, and let Zhang Jaw lead his troops to rush to the city and start a bloody battle.

I could wait for a long time, but I didn't see any signs of escape from the city gate over there.

"Huangfu Lao'er, why don't you run away."

Sure enough, after shouting, Huangfu Song came out and shouted, "Yuan Shao Xiao'er, that little plan, also take out the ugliness, old man, even if you die, you must live and die with the city and be loyal to Your Majesty." You'd better stop playing tricks. ”

Yuan Shao was so angry that he glanced at Guo Tu next to him, and shouted, "Siege the city, take down the head of Huangfu Song and reward a thousand gold." ”

Yuan Shao's army immediately rushed desperately, went up the ladder, attacked the city gate, etc., the war was very miserable, but it was a pity that after a year of fighting, there were only 10,000 or 20,000 people left, outnumbered, and it didn't take long for less than one-tenth of Huangfu Song's people to die. Several loyal subordinates protected Huangfu Song with their lives.

"That's Huangfu Song, kill!" How could the soldiers let this leader escape?

Huang Fu Song saw that he was going to be a real tragedy today, and Huang Fu Song felt weak in his heart, so he slowly put the knife on the side of his neck and killed himself under the gaze of tens of thousands of people.

The sergeant next to him saw that the lord was killing himself, and he also resolutely stabbed himself in the neck, and all the remaining more than 1,000 people committed suicide at once, and accompanied Huangfu Song. Seeing Yuan Shao's ruthless birdman, tears rolled uncontrollably, of course, he was not sentimentalizing Huangfu Song, but himself, thinking that if he died, who would be willing to be buried for him!

At this point, Yuan Shao captured the city of Jizhou and killed Huangfu Song. Yuan Shao completely occupied the entire territory of Jizhou, and according to Jia Xu's advice, after stabilizing Jizhou, the next step was to immediately send troops to Qingzhou.

I don't care about Yuan Shao's defeat of Jizhou, this is all expected, but it's a pity that a loyal minister like Huangfu Song can't tolerate such a loyal minister in troubled times.

And there are big things happening in my Youzhou today.

First of all, I was excited by the completion of the three institutes of the Youdu - the research institute, the medical school, and the academy at the same time. In fact, the graduate school and the medical school have been operating for a long time, and this time it is just a move.

The most important achievement of the research institute is the success of the improvement of dark paper, and now I am concentrating on further developing other varieties of paper, especially some household paper, because I feel very inconvenient without daily necessities such as napkins and toilet paper. In the past, there was no way, but now that there is a successor of the master of papermaking, I will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

This paper is actually some paper, according to the improvement of Cai Hou paper, the last time I went back to Youzhou, I began to prepare to convene papermaking talents, but there are really not many talents, but I accidentally inquired about the whereabouts of the descendants of Cai's papermaking.

I remember that day in the study I received that special guest with great spirit, that person was Cai Bin, the descendant of the Cai family, and it took a lot of effort to find him.

Cai Bin was in rags, his face was yellow and thin, obviously this time was not very good, he looked at the large piece of paper on the several cases in front of him, and was full of emotion, and told Liu Xin about the source of this paper: "Back to the prince, the first one to make paper was my great-great-grandfather who often treated Cai Lun Cai, and I am his fourth-generation grandson." My grandfather wanted to make the best paper in the world, but after years of hard work, he couldn't do it. Later, when he occasionally passed by a small stream, he saw a tree falling in the water, and the bark of the tree had rotted and turned white, revealing wisps of slender and clean filaments, so his grandfather took paper and tried it again and again, and finally made a paper with a wonderful texture. Xiaomin inherited the ancestral industry and opened a paper mill in his hometown, and finally made this white and flexible paper after several twists and turns. Before the paper could be mass-produced, the paper mill was destroyed by the yellow scarf, killing my family. ”

I nodded and said, "Then why don't you reopen a paper mill?" ”

Cai Bin sighed: "The Yellow Turban kills people everywhere, and Xiaomin is also hiding everywhere, and later the Yellow Turban exterminated Xiaomin before he dared to come out, but he was so poor that it was a problem to eat by himself, and what kind of paper mill did he open." ”

I smiled and said, "Actually, there are many raw materials that can be used to make paper, and if this king guesses correctly, the tree that your grandfather met is a green sandalwood tree." ”

Cai Bin opened his mouth wide and asked in surprise, "My lord, how do you know?" This is the most important secret of our Cai family, is there any unscrupulous descendant who dares to leak it? It can't be, absolutely impossible! I'm the only one left in the Cai family's death. ”

I said meaningfully, "Nothing is impossible in this world. Let's not talk about this, this king wants to open a very large paper mill, please come over and be the director, are you willing? ”

Cai Bin hesitated, but still said: "If I was willing to open with others, I would have found someone to cooperate in managing the paper mill a long time ago..."

I interrupted him and said: "Others have no technology, this king is different from them, this king still knows some about the papermaking industry, such as hemp, mulberry, bamboo and even straw can be very good papermaking raw materials, but this king is busy with official business, and has no time and energy to devote to this aspect, so he will invite you to take charge, if you really don't want to, this king can also find someone else." ”

I paused and said, "In addition, this king also wants to set up a research institute, if you want, you will first serve as an academician in the academy, specializing in papermaking, and earn 300 stone a year." In this way, he is also a subordinate official of the Wangzhou Pastoral Mansion, are you willing? ”

In fact, I was bluffing Kong Wen with words, I don't really know how to make paper, even if there is ready-made pulp in front of me, I can't make paper.

But Cai Bin was really frightened by him, he had also tried many kinds of raw materials for papermaking, and the ones Chu Xiong said were indeed easier to use, so that the technology of papermaking was not his exclusive mastery. What made him even more unbelievable was that Chu Xiong gave him an annual salary of 300 stones, even if he opened a paper mill by himself, he would not be able to earn 100 stones in a year of hard work, and he also had the title of academician. Such a good thing can't be found with a lantern, does Cai Binyan have a reason not to agree?

After Cai Bin happily left the Governor's Mansion, Fu Zhu opened the whole piece of paper he had brought with him, and a map was drawn on the paper, which was the expanded Youdu City. He said to me: "This is painted by a scribe named Zhuge Liang, come and see, my lord, here, and here......"

I nodded with satisfaction and said: "Well, this Zhuge Liang is good, he has some talents, and he is very thoughtful, I think that the expansion of Xiangyang City will be handed over to him to be responsible, and let him concurrently serve as the deputy of Ma Jun, the head of the research institute." ”

"Wait, you say that's Zhuge Liang? How old is he now? Where are the people? "How does it sound so familiar? Zhuge Liang, how could it be a design drawing.

"Lord, in fact, this Zhuge Liang was promoted exceptionally, you also know that the Zhaoxian Pavilion is managed by Ma Jun, that Zhuge Liang is only thirteen years old, because Ma Jun was shocked by his talent, so he accepted him as a small official and equipped him as an apprentice, but the old man Ou Yezi also took a fancy to this doll, and the two of them are grabbing it." When he heard the lord ask, Zhuge Liang also said with relish.

Are you big? Father? Oh, if it's really Zhuge Liang in history, it's really a big sin to turn such a talent into an engineer. "Remove all of Zhuge Liang's positions and send them to this king. This king will teach himself. ”

"Lord, this is not good."

"Moving on to the drawings, that's it."

I was now eager to expand the city in one day, and I pointed my finger at several places on the map one after another, and said, "These places are set aside separately to build academies, medical schools, research institutes, and official residences. By the way, you informed Ma Jun that the construction of these places began at the same time as the city wall. If he still has any doubts, tell him to come directly to this king. ”

He was really tired from being in charge of the expansion of the city during this time, which was not his specialty, and he was always worried that he would mess up his errands, and he hadn't slept a good night's sleep for many days. Now that he heard that he could hand over this errand, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Chu Xiong with a sigh of relief: "My lord is wise, I will go and inform Ma Jun." ”