Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, Ma Cheng came to inform Tian Fan, and Liu Biao met him. Tian Fan saw that Ma Cheng's face was injured and his mood was not high, so he asked curiously: "I said Ma Cheng, what's wrong with you?" Got into a fight with your daughter-in-law? ”

Ma Cheng smiled a little reluctantly and said, "Lord Tian, I'm fine!" Seeing that he was reluctant to say, Tian Fan stopped asking.

Liu Biao, the word Jingsheng, a native of Gaoping, Shanyang, with a very great appearance, is a famous scholar in the late Han Dynasty, and is called the "Eight Horses" together with seven other people! When Tian Fan saw him, his first feeling was that he was a scholar! The gentle smile makes people feel like a spring breeze, and if they are equipped with a pair of glasses, they are definitely professors who teach Chinese studies in the university. The second feeling is - how handsome! Liu Biao is a little more than eight feet tall, his face is like a crown of jade, and his figure is straight, if he is twenty years younger, I am afraid that he will fascinate countless girls!

Seeing Tian Fan come in, Liu Biao got up to greet him, and then introduced the other three in the hall - Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, and Cai Mao! Kuai Liang is Liu Biao's main book, Kuai Yue is his other driver, and Cai Mao is his military advisor. Cai Mao's eldest sister is Huang Chengyan's wife, and the second sister is Liu Biao's second wife, Mrs. Cai. In history, the reason why Zhuge Liang got involved with Cai Mao was because he married Huang Yueying. In other words, with Huang Yueying's call, Zhuge Liang should call Cai Mao his uncle!

After seeing the salute, several people sat down again. Liu Biao said: "Boguang, I've heard of you for a long time, and when I saw you today, hehe, I didn't expect you to be so young!" ”

Tian Fan said: "Where in Xuzhou is also the name of the envoy Xiande!" When I came to Jingzhou today, it was like a legend, Jingzhou is really a good place! Its prosperity makes Xuzhou incomparable, but I am afraid that the entire Han Dynasty has no such prosperity and stability there, hehe, this is all the credit of the king, so that the king is really the dragon and phoenix among the people! ”

Liu Biao laughed when he heard it, and he didn't even dare to say it.

Tian Fan said to the other three: "I have heard that Mr. Yidu is decisive, Mr. Zirou is strategic, and General Deqi is both civil and military, and the three of you are Liu Jingzhou's right-hand men, and they are all famous talents in the world!" Liu Jingzhou has three assistants, which is really a great luck! There are three in Jingzhou, which is really a great blessing for the people of Jingzhou! If you are lucky enough to meet the three of you today, I hope to give you more advice! Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue smiled, and Cai Mao smiled. The four of them all felt that Tian Fan was good and very good at talking!

Liu Biao smiled and said, "Okay, don't praise each other!" Boguang, what are you doing here? ”

Tian Fan saluted Liu Biao and said: "The envoys, the three, who came on the orders of the lord, are mainly to discuss the two alliances!" ”

Kuai Liang smiled: "Boguang, your father-in-law is in Xuzhou, and my father-in-law is in Jingzhou, but there is a long distance in between!" What is the point of the two joining forces? ”

Tian Fan replied: "Mr. Zirou's words are wrong! It was from a distance that my lord asked me to discuss the alliance with Liu Yuanjun! ”

Cai Mao said: "Oh? Boguang, how do you say this? ”

Tian Fan replied: "General Deju, although our two families are far apart, we are both bordering Yuan Highway!" Thinking that Yuan Highway is not a kind person, he relies on his reputation as the fourth generation and third prince of the Yuan family, and has never put the princes of the world in his eyes! He doesn't have to attack one of my two families at any time! In addition, the hero of Cao Mengdeshi is by no means an easy person! Now my lord has received a secret report that Cao Mengde will attack Liu Pi in Yuzhou. Thinking that Liu Pi is a remnant of the Yellow Turban, he can't become a climate at all, and he must not be Cao Mengde's opponent! When Cao Mengde pacifies Yuzhou, he will border you and me, and it will be difficult to guarantee that he will not attack one of my two families! ”

Seeing that several people were listening very carefully, Tian Fan continued: "Liu Yuanjun and my lord Liu Xuande are both relatives of the Han family, and according to the genealogy of the Han family, they are really brothers!" In this troubled world, the two families should support each other and make a modest contribution to the glory of our Han Dynasty to reproduce the glory of the past! ”…,

After speaking, Tian Fan stopped talking, and quietly watched Liu Biao and the four of them ponder. In fact, he also knew that the other party understood these things, and since they saw him today, it proved that they must have made a decision in their hearts.

After a while, Liu Biao gently patted the small table in front of him and said, "What Boguang said makes a lot of sense!" After speaking, he looked at Cai Mao and the three of them, and continued: "I want to form an alliance with Xuande!" What do you guys think? "Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, and Cai Mao are all good!

After the matter was finished, Liu Biao said to Tian Fan: "Boguang, come to Jingzhou this time, don't be in a hurry to leave, I'll let you take you for a good walk, I still have a lot of good scenery in Xiangyang!" After saying that, he smiled.

Tian Fan hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, you came to Jingzhou this time, I also want to enjoy the scenery of Jingzhou!" Hehe, not to mention anything else, just the market in the west of the city, it impresses me! But I won't ask you to send someone to accompany me, I still have a Jingzhou native there! I'm thinking of taking her to General Deju's house to visit! Hehe. ”

Cai Mao looked at Tian Fan strangely and asked, "Oh? Who is Boguang talking about? ”

Tian Fan replied: "Hehe, it's the daughter of Huang Gong, the general's precious niece - Sister Yueying!" ”

Cai Mao was surprised and asked, "Why is Yueying's girl where you are?" How did you meet her? ”

Tian Fan said: "Hehe, in April this year, Huang Gong went to Xuzhou, and I was fortunate to meet him!" Yueying's sister is playful and wants to play more days in Xuzhou, so she lives in my house for a few days. This time, I'm also going to send Sister Yueying home! ”

Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang glanced at each other, and said in their hearts that Huang Chengyan could rest assured that he would hand over his baby girl to him, it seems that Huang Chengyan values him very much! Liu Biao also knows Huang Yueying's famous "ugly girl", after all, Huang Yueying has to call him uncle!

He said, "Oh? In that case, why didn't you bring Shuo'er with you today? ”

Tian Fan said: "Hehe, first, let's talk about business today, and second, I went to the West Market yesterday, Xiao Yueying was probably tired, and she didn't get up until I came!" ”

When a few people heard this, they chuckled. Because of the relationship between Huang Yueying and Huang Chengyan, the relationship between Tian Fan and the four of them has been invisibly narrowed, and they can be said to have a good conversation!

When Tian Fan said goodbye, Liu Biao and Cai Mao both instructed him to take Huang Yueying to see them, and Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue also said that they were welcome to come as guests. Tian Fan agreed one by one, and then said goodbye.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tian Fan took Tian Jia and Tang Yi to the place that Li Liang said. A few girls are really tired, plus the story of the night, it is a bit long, they haven't slept well, I heard that Tian Fan is going out of the city, none of them are willing to follow.

Li Liang lives in a village thirty miles south of Xiangyang, with beautiful mountains and rivers and picturesque scenery!

When Tian Fan arrived, Li Liang was busy with work. Seeing Tian Fan coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, but his hands were covered with mud, and he saluted awkwardly, which made Tian Fan almost laugh. The two didn't talk nonsense, Li Liang took Tian Fan to visit his workshop and porcelain kiln. Tian Fan took a look and found that Li Liang's porcelain kiln was very simple, burning firewood, and the output was small, so it was really difficult for him to make porcelain bottles.

When asked him about the porcelain vase, he scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I did it by accident!" I took it and sold it, but the response was not good, so I didn't do it again! Tian Fan hurriedly asked, "Then do you still make that kind of bottle?" Li Liang said: "I can do it, but it is more difficult!" I've tried it, white porcelain has special requirements for soil quality, and the temperature is also high, so it's not easy to make! ”

Tian Fan nodded and said, "As long as you know how to do it!" patted Li Liang on the shoulder, "In this way, you go to Xuzhou with me!" I'll pay you to build a workshop and a big kiln, and you'll be in charge of making porcelain for me! What do you think? Seeing that Li Liang was embarrassed, he continued: "Money is not a problem, you don't have to worry about how much money you spend!" Well, you don't have to think about the temperature, I'll solve it for you. As long as you can burn white porcelain, I will be rewarded! ”…,

After thinking about it for a while, Li Liang finally made up his mind!

Li Liang's home is very simple, there is only one elderly mother in the family, and it is very easy to move! Li Liang's mother heard that Li Liang was going to move to Xuzhou, and she was very reluctant to give up the family's house and a few acres of thin fields. Tian Fan said: "Aunt, after you and Brother Li Liang moved to Xuzhou, I am responsible for building a house for you and giving you land, which is definitely much better than the house and land here!" You can rest assured! Mother Li agreed. This cannot be said that the old lady is greedy, after all, the Chinese's enthusiasm for the land is difficult to find in the world.

Tian Fan knew that firing porcelain required a lot of special materials, mainly kaolin, but he didn't know if there was one in Xuzhou. He instructed Li Liang to remember the origin of that special material, and take some with it, you can find it in Xuzhou, if you really can't find it, then find a way, anyway, there is a big living person, you can't let the urine suffocate to death!

In a few days, the Tian family spirits business will go to the next level, because the spirits that have been aged for a year will soon be on the market! Tian Fan looked for Zhang Fei and Lu Bu, who had found good wine, and a few old men who had drunk wine all their lives and tried it, and they all said that the aroma of aged wine and the quality were much better than that of burning knives! He was thinking about finding a suitable container for the new wine, and now someone could burn the porcelain, which was just enough to hit the muzzle of his gun.

If there is no other suitable container, the pottery used for the burning knife must be used in a better container. In this day and age, most of the containers used by people are made of wood and pottery, and only the Yin Shi family can afford to use lacquer and bronze. If this new sake is made of lacquerware, then what will be used for the sake that will be aged for three or five years, or even ten or twenty years? Besides, the cost of lacquerware is too high to be suitable! Don't even think about copperware, it's more expensive!

Now with Li Liang, who can fire porcelain, the problem is solved! Besides, even from the point of view of pure money-making, porcelain should also be engaged! Porcelain is more practical, more durable, and more beautiful than pottery, and it's not expensive to produce! It is also very meaningful to add a choice of utensils to the people of the Han Dynasty!