In mid-August, a shocking news that triggered the dispersal of all the powerful families in Langya quickly spread everywhere:

Located in the southern suburbs of Xiahe City, the Xu manor was slaughtered by the infiltrated Yellow Turban thieves, the second master of the Xu family, Xu Huan, the third master Xu Yun, and more than 130 members of the family, all of whom were spared, and a huge amount of money was looted, and more than 30 continuous houses and two workshops covering an area of nearly 100 meters were engulfed by fire. <

The tragedy of the Xu family caused chaos in the entire Langya Wang Kingdom, and the terrified government immediately closed the city gate after receiving the bad news, and once again recruited the young people in the city to be on guard day and night, strictly guarding to the death, and allowing the tens of thousands of displaced people who were rejected from the city to wail bitterly.

A few days later, Zhang Jiao, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, suddenly fell ill and died, and hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were defeated again and again under the blows of the Han officers and soldiers. Liu Cun and Liu Zijian's benevolence and virtue also spread all over the world.

What is puzzling is that Xu Yang, the patriarch of the Xu family, who had been hiding in the house in the city and escaped, howled and cried for several days, and then quietly sold his land and house, and led more than 100 people of the family to leave Xiahe City in a hurry, and moved to Yangzhou in the south.

In October, Zhang Liang, the deputy commander of the Yellow Turban Army, and more than 80,000 remnants of the Yellow Turban Army fell apart under the pursuit of double officers and soldiers, and Zhang Jiao was broken and killed, and the head was transported back to Beijing.

Immediately afterwards, after the 60,000 officers and soldiers of Qingzhou cleared the hinterland of the Liukou, Kaishu went south, frightened all the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the northern part of the Langya Kingdom, Qiancheng and Jiaoshan regions, fled westward and jumped into the reckless Yimeng Mountain, which made Liu Cun and Wang Qi, who were training young and strong and preparing to attack the Jiaoshan bandits to take revenge, remorse, but the northern area of the Wolf Tooth Kingdom was able to restore order.

Entering November, the sky is still clear when it should have snowed, indicating that the drought of the Han Dynasty will continue for three consecutive years, and it may be accompanied by locusts that cover the sky.

Under the warm winter sun, Huangfu Song, the commander of the Han army, made persistent efforts and led the four-way army to successfully encircle Zhang Bao, the only remaining commander of the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Quyang, and cut off Zhang Bao's head, and the more than 100,000 captured Yellow Turban soldiers were all slaughtered.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, which lasted vigorously for more than half a year, has been declared to have subsided, but there are still hundreds of thousands of scattered Yellow Turban armed forces that have broken into the mountains and counties of various states, in order to take revenge, and in order to survive, hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants in various parts of the branch have become bandits who occupy the mountains for the king, burn, kill and loot, and most of the Han Dynasty has fallen into a more chaotic crisis.

At the beginning of December, the good news of the Han Dynasty to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion spread to all parts of the country, and more than 100,000 Qing Yan refugees stranded in the territory of Langya State braved the biting cold wind, all the way to the open and slept all the way home, and more than 50,000 people still lost their homes because of the war, and continued to stay in the relatively wealthy Xiahe City and Ju County further south in Langya State.

Only the Xiahe Chengbei Manor under Liu Cun's name squeezed into more than 8,000 people, of which 5,000 young and young women were hired by the manor to build a 40-mile official road from Xiahe City to the mountain pass at the western foot of Zhushan, relying on labor to obtain food, and more than 3,000 old and weak women and children, relying on a bowl of rice porridge and a piece of salted fish distributed by Liu Dashan, who was famous and famous, every day.

What outsiders don't know is that as early as the Mid-Autumn Festival, more than 7,000 young and displaced people with families as units have been quietly taken to the foot of Zhushan Mountain, and with the help of more than 3,000 people who have settled down in advance, they have built houses along the banks of the small river north of Fenghuanggang, and half of the young people who have been separated drive more than 300 cattle and horses, and used new farm tools and plows made of fine iron to reclaim more than 30,000 acres of wasteland in only 40 days, and to plant a season of wheat at the tail of the season.

After months of construction, Liu's Zhushan village grew fivefold in size, with rows of new red-brick and grass-roofed houses rising from the perimeter of Liu's courtyard to the village and workshop area four miles to the south.

If it weren't for the fleet of fifteen wooden boats under the leadership of Bao Laosan, Liu Cun would not have been able to maintain his reputation if it had not been for the fleet of fifteen wooden boats under the leadership of Bao Laosan to pull the sails of the grass mats with the help of the north wind to transport 500,000 catties of snow-white sea salt to the Mijia fishing port at the mouth of the big river in Donghai County.

To Liu Cun and Wang Qi's sadness, the former Wangjiazhai has been wiped out, leaving only two young people and a seven-year-old child, the two surviving young people were sent to the pottery workshop in Zhushan Village, and the seven-year-old child left by Uncle Wang was taken into the door by Liu Cun.

After the large-scale farming was over, in order to prevent the villagers who had just been resettled and were still anxious to be idle, Liu Cun not only demanded that all rivers be dredged to strengthen the embankments, but also asked all the idle laborers to be organized, and that a team of 1,000 people should take their own responsibilities, open the mountain to quarry stone and burn ash to make bricks, make every effort to build the Zhushan Reservoir embankment in the south, build two waterwheel diversion canals with a high drop and large water volume, use reinforced concrete to build a seaside shipyard, and pour 36 large pillars to build the roof of the dock, and so on.

After lunch, he rode with Wang Qi to the seaside wharf, entered the large conference room built with stone bricks and reinforced concrete in the shipyard, walked to the five wide silk cloths with the design drawings of the blessed ship hanging high, and solved the problems encountered in the construction process with the master craftsman Huo Jian and more than a dozen senior craftsmen.

In order to better cooperate, Liu Cun sent someone to urgently call two craftsmen from the smelting workshop to unify more accurate weights and measures, tool models, nail specifications, materials and quality requirements, etc., and form a text specification, and the heads of each department signed their names and put their fingerprints on them one by one.

Hunting in the cold wind, the sky was gloomy, Wang Qi, who came to the dock again to inspect, walked under the simple wooden shed, carefully inspected the structure of the first lucky ship that had just laid the keel, and finally asked Liu Cun, who came to his side: "This huge keel is almost ten zhang, if the size ratio of two to five is built, how much should the total length be?" How much can a boat hold? ”

"After the completion of the total length of 12 zhang 6 feet, width of 4 zhang 5 feet, the bottom of the set up eight watertight compartments and the upper and lower two layers of cargo holds, can carry 300 stone cargo, this ship is a double mast design, the bow also set up an oblique soft sail, the crew only needs 12 people, no higher than five feet of waves under the boat, the average per hour can go more than 20 miles. This is the first time we have built a big ship, the craftsmen are not familiar with the structure of the sea ship and the connection method, change and continue to explore, so it is not fast to think fast, it is good to be able to launch in February next year, but with the experience of building the first boat, it will be fast, the shipyard has prepared enough wood, are the best wood stored for more than two years. ”

Liu Cun explained to Wang Qi in detail that Liu Cun was overjoyed by the positive changes that had taken place in Wang Qi recently, so he was willing to let Wang Qi know more things.

Wang Qi asked again: "How much does a ship cost?" ”

Liu Cun calculated for a moment: "A ship like this costs at least eighty gold, and now it seems that it is not enough." ”

Wang Qi was taken aback: "So expensive? ”

Liu Cun shook his head: "It's not expensive, remember the fifteen small boats that we transported salt to the mouth of the river in Donghai County?" ”

"Remember, what's wrong?" Wang Qi asked.

Liu Cun said with a smile: "The fifteen small boats were roughly drawn by me and handed over to the craftsmen to accumulate experience, and the salt was transported to the mouth of the East China Sea due to the bad wind, but the Mi family took a fancy to it, and each boat was priced at 80,000 yuan, deducting the arrears we paid for buying grain, cloth, gum, paint, mercury and other odd goods, that is, each small boat paid us eight catties of gold." ”

Wang Qi's eyes widened: "In this way, if this big ship is favored by the rich Mi family, wouldn't it be worth more than 100 gold?" ”

"100 gold? Two hundred gold is about the same, this is the strongest and fastest sea ship that the Han Dynasty has never had! When the crew is proficient, there is no problem in going north to Liao, southeast and southeast, where does the profiteering come from? Isn't it just about interoperating, whether to seize the opportunity? When we have a fleet, are we afraid that we will run out of money? If it is slightly modified and used in the military, it will be even more unbelievable, such as attacking Jizhou from Qingzhou, quietly sending 100 such ships to transport nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers to quietly land in the rear of the enemy army, big brother imagine what the result will be? Liu Cun smiled meaningfully.

Wang Qi didn't ask any more, turned around and stroked the huge keel and fell into deep thought.

Liu Cun didn't disturb him to think, turned around and walked a few steps, and saw a jujube red fast horse running into the wide dock, and the eldest apprentice of Lu Ping, the chief administrator of Xiahe City, flew off his horse and looked around.

Liu Cun immediately strode up to meet him, took the letter presented by the young man, asked while reading it, quickly patted the young man on the shoulder and admonished him, turned around and returned to Wang Qi's side, and handed over the letter with the joy in his heart: "Big brother, there are two more counties of county magistrates who resign and return to their hometowns, and nearly 100,000 displaced people in the entire Langya Kingdom are stranded and waiting to be fed, and the two counties of Dong'an and Dongguan in the west of Ju County have been captured by the remnants of the Yellow Turban of Xiaoju Taishan, and the monarch may not be able to hold on." ”

Wang Qi hurriedly read the letter, and his face was full of surprise after reading it: "Ju Maocai, it's finally here!" Congratulations! The monarch has asked for an audience within five days, and it seems that we will have to rush to Kaiyang, the royal city, tomorrow. ”

Liu Cun nodded: "Big brother, if the younger brother becomes the commander of Xiahe County, how about the eldest brother become the county lieutenant?" ”

Wang Qi grinned, revealing a mouth full of white teeth: "Dare not obey your fate!" ”

On the morning of the next day, Liu Cun and Wang Qi rushed to Xiahe City with six apprentices with the best martial arts, rode their horses on the four-zhang-wide Xinxiu Avenue, and ran a distance of 42 miles in only one and a half hours.

Knowing that the chief bookkeeper Chen Qi had been promoted to the commander of Pingchang County, and the county lieutenant Dong rank had been promoted to half a level, he was urgently transferred to Kaiyang Wangcheng to assist the lieutenant of the county to lead the army to Juxian County to suppress bandits, Liu Cun was surprised and secretly happy in his heart.

Cheng Bing enthusiastically reported a lot of inside information to Liu Cun, Liu Cun listened to it and suddenly found that this county order is not good, not only to deal with the monarch to catch up and not drive away, kill and dare not kill more than 30,000 homeless people, but also from next year to pay the county's taxes on a monthly basis, and in the past three years, the county has been in deficit every year, not only has no penny to pay, but also needs the monarch to allocate funds to officials at all levels to pay salaries, the county's wealthy families moved south nearly half, Langya County has been reduced from 120,000 households three years ago to 72,000 households today, whether it is land area, salt production, None of the various taxes, ceremonies, etc., have completed the quota, and if it were not for the fact that this place is the birthplace of the monarch, I am afraid that it would have been relegated to an inferior county long ago.

Early the next morning, Liu Cun and his entourage rode a horse to accompany Cheng Bing, who returned to Wangcheng to work, all the way south, walked out of a few miles, Bing shouted to stop, opened the curtain and stretched out his head, and asked Liu Cun to get in the car and go along.

After Liu Cun got off the car, Cheng Bing shouted and left, put down the windshield curtain and sighed to Liu Cun: "I haven't had a chance to thank you yet, but I put Zijian on the fire to roast, Zijian won't resent me, right?" ”

"What do you say, sir? It's too late for the students to be grateful, and if it weren't for the strong recommendation of the adults, the students would still be a rich man in the countryside. Liu Cun replied humorously.

Cheng Bing laughed, laughed and sighed: "My mother sent two letters, so that I thank you, the set of gold silk black pottery tea set you fired by yourself, my mother was overjoyed after receiving it, the letter said that after reading the teapot with a small seal inlaid with gold "The Wanderer's Yin", her old man sighed, shed a night of tears, now, Zijian's "The Wanderer's Yin" has been spread out of my hometown Runan, it is estimated that it will soon be transmitted to Luoyang, spread all over the world, every time I recite, I can't help but think of the kind mother and childhood, tears, thousands of thoughts! ”

Cheng Bing took a long breath, opened the curtain against the cold wind, and sang over and over again in his loud and slightly desolate voice: "The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt, the dense seam before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late, who is careless, and I will repay Sanchunhui......"

Quietly listening to Cheng Bing's sincere chanting, the guilt in Liu Cun's heart disappeared instantly, and he couldn't help but have a sour nose and hot eyes in a trance.

Wang Qi and his entourage, who were riding horses outside the carriage, were deeply infected, and they looked ahead one by one, as if they were in endless remembrance.

Cheng Bing sang five times in a row before stopping, raised his big sleeve and gently wiped the moist corners of his eyes, suddenly laughed, and praised loudly: "With this song "The Wanderer's Yin", who dares not to be impressed by Zijian? The monarch was inexplicably moved, and after bathing in incense, he copied it down, and hung it in the study, enjoying the silent recitation from time to time! ”

Liu Cun was slightly surprised, and his expression became even more humble: "The monarch is wrong to love, and the students dare not be ashamed!" ”

"Why don't you dare? Who in my Langya county can have such sincere emotions and talents? What's more, Zijian's house is kind-hearted, Ze is by all the people, and the name of the virtuous has already been broadcast to the Quartet, if it weren't for my Langya's urgent need for Zijian's talent, as a rule, recommended to enter the court as a lang, Zijian's career will be broader, and the future will be more ambitious! Cheng Bing really appreciates Liu Cun very much, and unconsciously his title has changed, just like a confidant and friend.

A thought suddenly appeared in Liu Cun's mind: "My lord, the student has always had an idea, lingering in his heart, and I want to ask the adult for advice." ”

"Although Zijian is here, what is polite to be with Brother Yu?" Cheng Bing said with a smile.

Liu Cun straightened his waist and said: "The students heard that since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, many people of insight have resigned and gone into hiding, although the court has lifted the party ban, and all parts of the country have been ordered by the imperial court to release the Confucian scholars who have been convicted for their words, but the political system is unbalanced, and the rule of officials is dim, so that the scholars of the world are worried, and then pessimistic and desperate, and would rather go away with regrets, die in the wilderness, rather than respect the imperial court, and are deeply afraid of humiliation and not clear their names. Therefore, the students thought that if a college was built on the shore of the Bihu Lake under the Langya Terrace in the southeast of Xiahe City, so that people of insight could gather and exchange ideas and concentrate on learning without distractions, it might be beneficial to the cultural inheritance of our Han nation. Adults, I wonder if the student's idea is feasible? ”

Cheng Bing was stunned: "Zijian, if you can do it, it will definitely make people of insight in the world cheer, the benefits are needless to say, there is only one question: Zijian can know how much this matter costs?" ”

Liu Cun said with a smile: "My lord, what is the value of a set of glass colors made by the students themselves?" ”

Cheng Bing immediately comprehended, laughed and slapped his palm: "Zijian, if you really do it, the foolish brother is willing to resign from his official position and enter the academy to do chores for you." ”

Liu Cun waved his hand again and again: "Students don't dare, students want to spend a year to build a different academy from all over my Han Dynasty, the materials are red bricks and gray tiles and local wood and stone, at least ten or more can easily put down twenty desks in the study room, a heavy eaves type library desk, convenient for scholars to consult and study, but also to build no less than ten independent guest houses, convenient for scholars to rest in peace, and then build a garden with a pavilion of water pavilions, all the roads of the academy are compacted with triple soil, and the road is planted with peach and plum, plum, elm willow and juniper. After the completion of the college, students will not care about the rest of the college except for the monthly expenses required by the college, and they will not be asked what to do, and the college scholars will decide their own affairs. ”

Cheng Bing's heart was like a huge wave, and he looked at Liu Cun blankly and muttered: "Is there such a place in the world......

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