—187 A.D.——

Sili, Hongnong County.

Hongnong, established in the fourth year of the Yuan Ding of the former Han Dynasty (113 years ago), is adjacent to the Hangu Pass known as "the first pass in the world" in the east, and the northwest gateway Tongguan of the pre-Qin Dynasty in the west, and most of the residents are Qin people.

Originally, the original intention of the Han Emperor to establish the county was probably only to control the military stronghold of the Guanzhong Plain, but after hundreds of years of population migration and development, it has become another important political and cultural place in Sili, and Yang Zhen, the former Taiwei known as "Confucius of Guanxi", was born in the Hongnong Yang family here.

Yang Bing, the son of Taiwei Yang Zhen, is the official to the Taiwei, and Yang Ci, the son of Yang Bing, is also the Taiwei, Yang Biao, the son of Yang Ci, and is currently the Taiwei.

Although they can call themselves "Four Worlds and Three Princes", this name has been shouted too much by the Yuan family, and the Yang family has disdained to use it.

What outsiders could never have imagined was that Zhu Jun's "King Qin" team was scattered and hidden in the manor of Hongnong Yang, and the people in charge of matchmaking were Wang Lang, Zhang Zhao and Zhao Yu, who Sun Jian thought would stay in Xuzhou.

Thinking about it carefully, it is not too surprising, after all, Hongnong is too close to Luoyang, and if an emperor is likely to cause controversy and opposition, it is easy to be "pond fish", so they are the most loyal to the emperor, and Zhu Jun, who has the emperor's secret edict, is naturally a strong support.

According to the Han system, local subordinate officials are not allowed to leave their posts without an order, but Hongnong Yang can obviously ignore this rule to a certain extent, and these three people who had apprenticed to Yang Ci went to Hongnong lightly and claimed to visit the teacher, who dared to stop them?

As for Tao Qian, after temporarily acting as the assassin of Xuzhou, he handed over the "donation" in exchange for a formal appointment, and transported a large number of military funds into the division, and no one dared to stop him.

Obviously, this is all within Zhu Jun's plan.

However, due to the encounter halfway, the relationship between Sun Jian and Zang Ba deteriorated sharply, and in order to prevent internal strife before the actual attack, the Yang clan deliberately arranged their respective subordinates and subordinates quite far away, almost one south and one north of Hongnong County.

“…… Yigong, what is the current situation in Luoyang City? ”

In the manor where he lived temporarily, Sun Jian stared at Han Dang tightly and asked-if he was slightly distracted, this family general would "disappear", but because of this, it was most appropriate to send him to gather intelligence.

At that time, the team of the generals was also scattered by the "tiger and leopard riders", and it was because of Han Dang's timely rescue that the others escaped smoothly, and finally found traces along the way and finally successfully joined Sun Jian and Zhou Tai who were resting in the Zhuge family courtyard in Huaxian County.

The old lady Cao obviously had no intention of taking the captives on the road, and after asking about the situation, he directly released them all.

As for whether the news of this "King Qin" was leaked and how much was leaked, it is better to let Zhu Jun have a headache.

"At this time in Luoyang, the wind is surging." Han Dang rarely became the focus of the generals' attention, and responded with some excitement: "I have heard when I was in Xuzhou that relatives, eunuchs, and courtiers are divided into three factions, and they are competing for power and profit with each other, but after careful investigation, I learned that the situation is more complicated than expected. ”

"First, the original goal of this trip, the ten permanent servants, has been divided into three factions, one faction led by Zhang Rang advocates establishing Liu Xie, the son of the noble concubine Wang Rong, as the emperor according to the emperor's wishes, and the other faction led by Jian Shuo intends to support Liu Wei, the son of Empress He Yao, and Cao Jie and others are swaying from side to side, and have not determined their position."

"Oh...... That's why we're dealing with the Bun Guys. Sun Jian nodded.

"Second, although the courtiers are still working together to fight against their relatives and eunuchs in general, they are also divided into multiple factions internally because of the reasons of 'establishing a long or a virtuous', 'choice and consequences', 'interests and morality', etc., for our purposes, only the entire family is in the territory of Sili, such as the Zhao family, the Yang family and other big clans, can be trusted."

"Exactly." Sun Jian continued to nod, after all, this is the Yang family's territory, even if there is an objection, it can't be raised now.

"Third," Han Dang paused: "This matter cannot be confirmed, it is just a folk rumor - it is said that the general He Jin dislikes Liu Wei because he is too old, and he will soon become an adult and return to power, because he is a nephew, he has to return the authority, even so, it is better to set up a younger and foundationless Liu Xie, which is convenient to control, as long as he does not give him the opportunity to contact the eunuchs, he can be worry-free." ”

"Hmm......" The generals of the Sun family seemed to sense that something was wrong, but they couldn't think of the reason for a while.

As a result, because his thoughts were not focused, when Sun Jian raised his head again, Han Dang had already "disappeared", even if he knew that he was in the previous position and did not move, he could not detect it in the slightest.

"That's a brilliant plan!" A clear young man's voice sounded outside the door.

"What people!" Huang Gai jumped up directly, and Zhou Tai also pressed his hand on the handle of the knife.

"Don't be surprised, this is the Yang family's private residence, and it is impossible for outsiders to sneak in," Cheng Pu reacted the fastest, raised his hand to suppress everyone's overreaction, and complimented the visitor by the way: "Which young talent of the Yang family should come." ”

"This plan is a perfect fusion of strategies such as 'making something out of nothing', 'pointing at Sang and scolding Huai', 'wanting to capture the old and indulging', and 'hiding a knife in a smile', presumably which master has landed on this chessboard," With the words, a young man in a cloth robe with thin eyebrows, thin lips, and smart eyes, about a teenager, walked into the courtyard, like Sun Jian and the others: "Boy Yang Xiu, I have seen all the heroes." ”

Is the son of the current Taiwei Yang Biao? Sun Jian returned the salute: "I've seen Yang Xiaolangjun." ”

He would not even know the family of the master where he was temporarily living—although it was mainly Zhang Zhao, Wang Lang and others who were negotiating with them.

"Come uninvited, answer without asking, this is indeed a repair," Yang Xiu said: "However, this manor was originally owned by the kid, and it was recently borrowed by the family, so out of curiosity, I came to see who the hero was, a little reckless, and asked Haihan." ”

Have such a big garden at such a young age? Moreover, this manor is still connected to several other manors in the vicinity, are the children of the Hongnong Yang family so powerful......

"Yang Xiaolangjun, you just said 'very wonderful'?" Sun was determined to bring the topic back to what he could understand.

"According to the ...... Hao Jie said, "Yang Xiu looked left and right, but could not find the person who spoke, so he continued: "The problem with this rumor is that the content is too detailed, and there are too many simple 'ideas' and too few 'facts', as long as they are too ...... An upright person will never be easily trusted. ”

Sun Jian and Cheng Pu nodded slightly, while Huang Gai and Zu Mao glanced at each other, and each turned their heads to look at the sky.

"The genius of the person who does this is that he arranges a set of content that he is very likely to think so according to He Jin's behavior, even the queen He Yao will take it seriously, but the whole content is full of He Jin's arrogance of planning to monopolize power from beginning to end, and he regards all the people and forces who are in Luoyang at this time and have influence on the throne as ants." Yang Xiudao.

That's true, Sun Jian nodded, and the feeling after reading through the rumors was that He Jin actually regarded the throne as his own bag, and he could give it to whoever he wanted? If he is a loyal person, he is afraid that he will take the case and scold.

"After expressing this inner meaning, the truth of this rumor is not so important," Yang Xiu continued to talk eloquently: "Whether you believe it or not, all the forces in Luoyang have to deal with it, so it can be seen that the person who fabricated this rumor is from outside Luoyang, and has no interest in the throne, and just wants to muddy the water to achieve his goal - hehehe, interesting." ”

Sun Jian and the others were a little sluggish when they heard it, could it be that this little Langjun is the legendary "strategist"?

In the end, Cheng Pu, who was barely half of Sun Jian's strategist, finally reacted: "Yang Xiaolangjun is so open and honest, but do you need our help in something?" ”

"This matter is not difficult," Yang Xiu grinned: "Jia Yan refuses to tell Xiu what kind of 'big thing' he is planning, but Xiu can also guess a thing or two, as long as you go to Luoyang to do 'big things', you can bring the kid." ”

――――

Xiapi.

"Yu'er, are you sure that General Wentai has gone to Luoyang?"

In the courtyard of the forest, Qiao Xuan, who had inconvenient legs and feet, was sitting on a Taishi chair and asking Zhou Yu.

Although the Xiapi County Order has disappeared for more than two years, there are no inappropriate and urgent problems in Xiapi, at least, it can be perfectly dealt with by only one person from the county, which also proves from the side that Sun Jian's measures of "ruling by doing nothing" are quite effective.

"I am not convinced, but it can be inferred from the correspondence between Uncle Sun and his father." Zhou Yu replied that he had grown a lot taller than when he discovered this strange courtyard, and his already handsome appearance became more and more handsome.

"Huh? How do you see a letter without breaking the letter stamp? "It's the same as growing taller, but Sun Ce has become a lot rougher.

"It's useless to explain to a fool." Zhou Yu replied without looking back.

"What-"

"Hehe, speaking of which, the emperor did intend to ask for help from the states at first, but that general Qice doesn't seem to trust anyone from the Liu clan who has the possibility of succeeding to the throne." Qiao Xuan ignored the arguing of the two children, and continued: "This step out, if it becomes good, if it fails, the participants will no longer have a foothold in the Central Plains." ”

"That's right," Zhou Yu responded: "After discussion, our two families have decided to return to Jiangdong, and we have come here today to say goodbye." ”

"Are you here to say goodbye, or are you here to see the little girl?" Qiao Xuan suddenly showed a playful smile that did not match his age.

"......" Zhou Yu and Sun Ce were silent in unison.

"I'm still going to listen—" "No, but, yes." Outside the study, a petite bright yellow figure was firmly dragged away by another, slightly taller large red figure.

"Actually, you are here to persuade the old man to go along," Qiao Xuan raised his hand to stop the two teenagers from explaining: "Hehe, you can rest assured, the old man is not old enough to walk." ”

As if to prove that he "can still walk", Qiao Xuan picked up the crutches on the side of the chair and stood up with a limp: "Look-oh? ”

The old man's other foot was fine, but the hand on crutches lost its strength, and the whole person fell forward again—and was firmly caught by the nearest Sun Ce.

Do you always feel this scene familiar? Sun Ce helped Qiao Xuan back to the Taishi chair, and thought to himself, shouldn't he plan to repeat the allusion of Zhang Liang picking up shoes......