In August of the fourth year of Yankang, Liaodong was obscure, and the soldiers and horses of the north and south under the command of Shixun had not yet broken into the territory of Goguryeo, and thousands of miles away in Jiaozhou, the two armies of Wei and Shu formally clashed and launched a fierce battle.

Moreover, the Wei army was able to get Yulin, so Lu Yi suggested that a fortification should be built in the Wenshui River Basin connecting Yizhou, and sure enough, the reinforcements from Shuzhong led by Wu Yi were intercepted in the upper reaches of Wenshui, in the territory of Anyao Autonomous County in the later generations. Immediately, Wen Ping and Huang Zhong pretended to shrink and lured Shi Xie's department to the north, that is, they were broken in Linchen, and Shi Xie's brother, Hepu Taishou, was a first-class arrow and died.

Then he turned around and hit Wu Yi again. Wu Ziyuan was anxious to rescue the Shi clan, did not listen to the advice of the staff officer Huang Quan, and waved his army to storm the Wei village in the mountain pass, but was blocked by the Wei army's more than a dozen crossbow "shock" salvos set up in the village, and could not move forward for more than ten consecutive days, and the soldiers suffered nearly 1,000 casualties. When Wen Ping and Huang Zhong rushed back after breaking Shixie, Lu Yi welcomed the second general and said to them: "Although the earthquake is strong, it is a pity to spend money, and now it is exhausted." If the generals do not return tomorrow, they may die here. ”

Wen Ping said that since we are back, then Bo Yan you don't have to worry - our army is victorious and morale is booming, so we will open the gate of the village to destroy the Shu thieves. Lu Yi waved his hand again and again, saying that the road is narrow, if you go out of the village to the north, I am afraid that it will not be able to spread, and it will be purely fighting - although the enemy is depressed, there is still a fighting spirit, although I am angry, I am tired from afar, and it may be difficult to win. It's better to give up the stockade, lure the enemy to chase after it, and then you can break it in one go.

Huang Zhong also advised, but Wen Zhongye refused to listen, relying on himself to be the main general, and forced him to open the village to fight. Huang Zhong had no choice but to ask for the order to go first, but he was ambushed by the Shu people, lost his troops, and returned with several arrows in his body. Wen Ping didn't have anything to say, so he went to Lu Yi to discuss, and Lu Boyan said that this was also a great opportunity. Let's simply take advantage of the defeat and abandon the village, the enemy army will inevitably chase after ......

The battle situation was unpredictable, Huang Zhong played unfavorably before noon that day, and returned to the camp in defeat, Wu Yi made the deputy general Chen Zhi to win the victory and attack the village, and Lu Yi pretended to block it for a while. By mid-afternoon, they were defeated. Wu Yi entered the village and took a look, and even the ballista that had caused us heavy damage was lost, which shows that it is not a fraud - chase quickly!

Huang Quan came to persuade again, saying: "The crossbow is heavy and difficult to transport, so it is abandoned, and I have not seen it as a real defeat." "Wu Yi said don't fool me, there are wheels under this thing, how can you say that it is difficult to operate? Let's push the ballista back. Even if you take 10,000 steps back, the enemy is defeated, and the pursuit is unfavorable, and it is not beneficial to get this crossbow.

So he ordered Chen to pursue, and then got into the pocket formation of the Wei army. After a fierce battle, Chen Zhi was killed, the Shu army was completely gone, and Wu Yi fled in embarrassment. Withdrew to Yizhou in one go.

Although he won a great victory, after the war, Wenpin complained about Lu Yi. Why did you still give the crossbow cart to the Shu thief? Lu Yi said with a smile: "If there is no arrow in a strong crossbow, there is nothing to use, and useless things, what is the pity of abandoning them?" "Wen Ping said that I am not afraid of suffering such a loss of equipment, no matter how precious this thing is, please play it together. The military department can rebuild dozens of them in a moment, and once the problem falls into the hands of the Shu thieves, if it is copied, we will also suffer its losses in the future.

Lu Yi shook his head: "The general is too worried. "This thing is extremely clever, thinking that Ma Deheng escorted thirty crossbow carts to Sixing. I consulted him for two days and nights, but I didn't understand how it was made. Besides, even the essence of the crossbow must be all in the gear machine, I removed all those things in advance, and there is only an empty shell left, what can the thieves use to imitate?

Wen Ping was relieved at this time, so he left Lu Yi and the wounded Huang Zhong to prepare the enemy in Yulin, and then led the main force south to attack Jiaozhi. Shi Xie had no choice but to surrender, and Wen Ping, in accordance with the instructions issued by the imperial court, asked Shi to withdraw from Jiaozhi County, which was connected to Yizhou, and only allowed to retain the two counties of Jiuzhen and Rinan in the south.

Of course, Shi Xie's position as the assassin of Jiaozhou was also dismissed, and then the imperial court followed Lu Su's suggestion and worshiped his fellow county Buqi Buzishan as the assassin of Jiaozhou. Buqi was originally Sun Quan's confidant, but because his household registration was in Linhuai County, Jiangbei, according to the strategy of "southerners return to the south, northerners return to the north", he was also bombarded back to his hometown and spun into the curtain of Lusu. Lu Zijing recommended Buqi as "broad and deep, accessible and governed", and was familiar with the situation in the south, which could be of great use, so he had to stab Jiaozhou.

When Shixun returned to Luoyang from Liaodong, he was also in time for Wen Ping, Huang Zhongyi and Que to offer prisoners - Lu Yi was the assassin of Guangzhou and stayed in the office. The north and the south won two battles at the same time, Cao Cao was overjoyed, personally led the civil and military suburbs to welcome, and then feasted the ministers in the newly restored royal garden Huolong Garden, and rewarded the meritorious service.

From the conscription of the generals each have a promotion reward not to mention, it is the honor of the seal of 200 households, is to regain the merit of the first to ascend to the bone city, and give the captain of the horse. After the banquet, Shi Xun met Cao Cao alone and sincerely proposed: "The merits of the dog, or there are exaggerated and untrue, suddenly with the captain of the horse, too much, please resign." "It's in front of my father, when he should be honest, he is still quite honest, and he is honest and honest about how his credit came from. Yes Xun also thinks that it is not a big deal to take a little credit, but the captain of the cavalry is a high-ranking official of the forbidden army, and the rank of the Eastern Han Dynasty is more than 2,000 stones, and now it is also a thousand stones.

Cao Cao twisted his beard and smiled: "I know, this I pre-ironize Zi Dan'er." "It's not that my uncle is protecting my nephew, and it's not that Cao Zhen wants to pat your ass as the governor, that's what I hinted to Cao Zhen in advance to give you a little more credit.

Shi Xun was stunned when he heard this: "Why is Your Majesty like this? Cao Cao smiled: "Don't you read the words before leaving? ”

So what did Xun say to Cao Cao before he set out for the expedition? He once said: "The courtiers are very envious of Xiahou Zilin, and the ministers want to do their will." "My son wants to be a princess, so I pulled him into the draft, hoping to make a contribution and get an official position, so that he will not be able to climb high when the time comes.

In fact, whether his son should be a concubine, whether it is a blessing or a curse, Shi Xun himself did not think clearly, and at that time he just used this as an excuse to hope that Cao Cao could allow him to lead the expedition to the east. However, there are many things in the world that are indeed unpredictable, and there is no way to weigh the pros and cons in advance. ”

Cao Cao said that it was very good, and I had this intention for a long time, but - "I want to get my daughter without blame?" ”

After all, it is a relative, and there will always be some movements, and it is clear how many princesses there are in the Cao family, and the approximate age, whether it is Xun. Especially Cao Miao entered the palace from time to time. chatting with the concubines, I can always gossip about the princesses' good looks and temperament. So Cao Cao simply asked directly to show that he was close to Shixun, I have a lot of daughters, which one do you fall in love with?

It's Xun Yi pondering. Since Cao Pi's ascension to the throne is almost a foregone conclusion, it is better to ask his siblings to marry.

Bian is the queen, and she has four sons and two daughters, and the two daughters are named Cao Jie and Cao Hua respectively. In the original history, Cao Cao offered three daughters to the Han Emperor at the same time, namely Cao Xian, Cao Jie, and Cao Hua, but after a short time, he skipped the older Cao Xian and put Cao Jie on the back seat. The reason for this is that the son is valued by his mother, and since the Bian family is already in the throne, then Cao Jie is the concubine, and it is impossible to give up the concubine and not enter, but let a concubine be the main room for the emperor.

For that Cao Jie, there is not just a name left in the history books. Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The Queen's Chronicle said: "Wei Shouchan sent an envoy to ask for a seal, but he was angry. And so on for generations. Later, he called the messenger in, and let him go. When he arrived at Xuanxia with a seal, he wept and said: 'Heaven is not Zuoer! You can't look up to the left or right. It can be seen that this Queen Cao has a relatively strong temperament, and she is married to her husband, and when her husband and brother have conflicts, she is willing to openly stand on her husband's side. Shi Xun naturally did not have the heart to usurp Wei. But I don't want my daughter-in-law to always have her heart set on her mother's family and become a chess piece that Cao Pi planted in her own mansion.

So he immediately pleaded with Cao Cao: "Dare to invite Princess Shanyang." "Princess Shanyang is Cao Jie. Like her eldest sister, they all eat in the county, while the other sisters mostly eat in the county.

Cao Cao laughed "haha" and said: "Gu Zhiqing wants to get my love." ”

Cao Cao has a lot of sons, and the number of daughters is less than half of his sons (of course, there are many who died young, not here), and most of them are very young, Shanyang Princess Cao Jie is the third daughter (there is also Princess Qinghe, and Xin'an Gong Liu Xiefei Cao Xian), nineteen years old, several months older than Fu Fu, and then the back row is sixteen or seventeen, and there are even less than ten years old.

Therefore, if you want to choose a princess of the same age to marry Shi Fu, there are only three or four real alternatives, among which Cao Jie and Cao Hua are both concubines, of course, they should be given priority. Question: Cao Jie has passed the age of Xuan, according to the customs at the time, she is actually an old girl, and I don't know why she has never married, you can't skip her and choose Cao Hua, who has just become an adult, right? Therefore, Cao Cao had long expected that Xun would choose Cao Jie, and the reason why he let the other party choose it was just to express a gesture of closeness - of course, it was impossible for him to know that the reason why Xun fell in love with Cao Jie was actually from the historical records of later generations......

So he slapped the table: "I am promised, but ......" focuses on Xun - "The Qing family is rich, what will you do?" ”

Shi Xun was stunned when he heard this, and said that the dowry should naturally be given, but ...... When you married Princess Qinghe, you didn't ask the Xiahou family for too many dowries. But think about it, when Princess Qinghe got married, Cao Cao had not yet been called the emperor, so it was a princess, not an imperial princess, with different identities, and the dowry requirements were naturally different; Second, Xiahou is very rich compared to the common people, and he is really among the ministers, and his family property is only in the middle.

The key is that at that time, Xiahou Nan was not in charge of breeding......

Now that she is asking for an imperial princess to be born for her son, although she does not have much land, her wealth in industry and commerce is also obvious to all, how can Cao Cao not open her mouth? Of course, this is not Cao Cao's greed for the family's money, one is to give more dowry, which seems to be the sincerity of marriage, and the other is that you give more dowry, and I will be able to reward more dowry in the future, and my daughter will have a bright face when she gets married.

However, Shi Xun is not directly in charge of the accounts at home, and how much money he can take out to marry his son has really not been seriously calculated-besides, since he has given birth to a son-in-law, will Cao Miao take the financial power and leave more for his son, and refuse to take out too much to reuse? This should not be left untouched. So he could only give an appointment: "Please hire with ten thousand gold." ”

Cao Cao shook his head, ten thousand gold is not enough, and then stretched out three fingers: "Thirty thousand gold is enough." ”

Shi Xun couldn't help but frown with a sad face, and said in his heart that this old-fashioned marriage is really a waste of money - that's it, that's it, life is in the world, there is nothing in the body, and the money earned is to be spent, and it is willing to spend it on his son.

(Originally Nothing Volume 22 Final) (To be continued......)