Chapter 26: The Threat of the Yellow Turbans
There are currently two situations for the children in Xunfu, one is to go out to find an errand, such as Xun Shao, who is relatively young and utilitarian, and the other is a person like Xun Yu, although he also wants to go out, but he is not as eager as Xun Shao, Liu Zhi knows that Xun Yu has always been loyal to the Han court in his heart, which also made the relationship between him and Cao Cao in his later years cracked, and he was gradually alienated by Cao Cao. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Therefore, Liu Zhi didn't have any thoughts about Xun Yu, but there was another person in the Xun family who could talk to him very well, and this person was Xun Yu.
Xun You is Xun Yu's nephew, but the age of the two is exactly the opposite of their generation, Xun You is six years older than Xun Yu, he is over thirty years old this year, and he has been out of any of the Huangmen servants under his hands, but later because Dong Zhuo was imprisoned for plotting to assassinate Dong Zhuo when he entered Beijing, and then abandoned the official and went home, until five years later, he will not go out of the mountain again, and took refuge in Cao Cao when Cao Cao sent troops to Yuzhou.
At this time in history, Xun You should still be in the prison of the Xiliang Army, but I don't know if it was because Liu Zhi, a little butterfly dressed indiscriminately, flapped his wings, which led to a deviation in the development of history, Dong Zhuo did not think of Xun You on the way to Chang'an, so he was able to escape from the prison.
At this time, Xun You, like his uncle Xun Yu, was deeply educated in Confucian orthodoxy, so he wanted to serve the imperial court, but Xun You was different from Xun Yu, he admired those heroes in the world more, such as Sun Jian and Cao Cao, who had outstanding performances in the coalition crusade against Dong Zhuo.
Xun You has been hesitating recently, not knowing which person to go to, originally he was more optimistic about Cao Cao, so Cao Cao's Jiao County is the land of the Central Plains, with a large population and more room for progress, while Sun Jian's Jiangdong is just a wild land in their opinion, sparsely populated, economically backward, and it will definitely be easier to succeed if they choose Cao Cao.
However, after Cao Cao suffered a major defeat before, he will definitely not be able to develop in a short period of time, and although the Jiangdong Army was attacked by Liu Biao, their foundation is still there, and such a war between Jiangdong and Jingzhou will be opened, Cao Cao already has a resourceful drama talent around him, and Sun Jian has no such strategists by his side, so Xun You wants to go to the Jiangdong Army to find an errand, Liu Zhi is naturally very welcome, if Xun You can go to Jiangdong, Then there will be no shortage of him by Sun Jian's side, and he will be able to stay out of the matter.
Out of Xunfu, Liu Zhi visited several other big clans one after another, they all regarded him as Sun Jian's representative, so some families who wanted to go to Jiangdong District to seek an errand were also very enthusiastic about him, Jiangdong wanted to develop, it must be indispensable literati, so Liu Zhi also did not refuse, anyway, he was picking talents with Sun Jian, and Sun Jian made his own decisions when the time came, he didn't care.
The person Liu Zhi wanted to see most on this trip was neither Xun Yu nor Xun You, but the ghost Guo Jia.
Guo Jia had not yet left the mountain at this time, and history recorded that he was in a state of seclusion at this time, and it was also said that he liked to make friends with celebrities.
For this reason, Liu Zhi also asked Xun Yu and Xun You, both of whom said that he was in Yingchuan now, but Liu Zhi did not see him when he went to visit Guo's mansion, which made Liu Zhi a little disappointed.
After staying in Yingchuan for more than ten days, Xu Chu's injuries were almost better at this time, although there were many arrow wounds on his body, but the wounds were not very deep, plus he was young and strong at this time, and his body recovered quickly, so he was already healed after more than ten days of injuries in Yingchuan.
As soon as Xu Chu's injury was good, he wanted to go to Liu Zhi, he had been coming out of Xujiazhai for more than a month, and he had been worried about the situation of the cottage at this time, but he was suffering from injuries on his body and couldn't act, so he had to wait.
Xu Chu wanted to leave, Liu Zhi must be reluctant, so he set off to work with Xu Chu, so that there was still time to persuade Xu Chu to follow him.
Xu Chu's hometown is from Qiaoxian County, Yuzhou, which is also the seat of Yuzhou's assassination history, and it is still far away from Yingchuan.
Yuzhou is located in the Central Plains, has always been an important producer of grain, and the population is also very large, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is no family planning policy of later generations, in this era, population is the strength, not the burden, so Yuzhou has naturally become a place where soldiers must fight.
At this time, there was no state pastor in Yuzhou, there was only one Yuzhou assassin history, that is, Kong Ling, who had participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo before, and this person Liu Zhi had also seen it, but he was not impressed, and he was not ready to visit this person.
Yuzhou was originally an important town in the Central Plains, but because of the influence of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the early Yuan Dynasty, the military disaster in Yuzhou was very serious, coupled with the previous drought of the Yellow River, which aggravated the loss of population, and a large number of people moved south to Jingzhou and Yizhou.
The reason why Xu Chu left his hometown before was because of the Yellow Turban Army's Runan Gepi thief soldiers more than 10,000 people attacked, and it was recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that Xu Chu won this battle, but this is not the case, no matter how unbearable the Yellow Turban Army is, it is also a force of 10,000 people, they are killed from Runan, Kong Ling still does not dare to plunder its edge, Xu Chu with a group of less than 1,000 people Xiangyong, how can it be beaten.
In the end, it was the official army that defeated the Yellow Turban Army, but Xu Chu led people to resist the Yellow Turban Army for a long time, creating an opportunity for the official army to fight.
Xujiazhai was seriously damaged by this battle, most of the men in the village were killed, when Xu Chu replied to his hometown, the people in the village were preparing to move south, they were ready to go to Jingzhou, Jingzhou Thorn Shi Liu Biao had just been named the state pastor by Dong Zhuo, he aimed at the opportunity of the **** in the north, and was absorbing the population from the north, Jingzhou's Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, and Changsha County are all sparsely populated but large counties with a lot of land, Liu Biao needs at least two million to fill these places, therefore, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou have become his targets.
"Uncle He, after you go to Jingzhou, what will happen to the fields in the village? Isn't that all in ruin? ”
Xu Chu couldn't understand why everyone didn't plant the fields that were good, and had to go to the south where the land was unfamiliar, I heard that the south was full of mountains, almost no plains, so many people had passed, could they get as many fields as their hometown?
"Eldest nephew, don't you know, our family has three descendants, all because of natural disasters and man-made disasters, two were captured, Huzi and his two eldest brothers died in the hands of the Yellow Turban thief, now there is drought and locust plague in the field, people can't live, our family is left with Huzi this only seedling, if you don't leave, even he can't keep it, if you don't go, you can't go!"
Uncle Xu was quite helpless, and when he left, he always looked back at his old house, with a reluctant face.