Chapter 12: History Repeats Itself (2360 Monthly Pass Plus Update)
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Five years later, the Xianbei outside Youzhou was almost wiped out by the left and the right. A large number of Xianbei slaves were sent to Youzhou to engage in construction. There are more and more brick factories, cement factories, wool workshops, under the guidance of Zuo Xiaoright, brick houses, cement roads, woolen sweaters appear in large numbers, almost every household in Youzhou has a new house, and in the cold winter season, people in Youzhou have a warm kang to keep out the cold, and there are sweaters to keep out the cold, and in recent years has been planting a large number of cotton, and now there are a small number of rich people wearing cotton clothes, covered with quilts, so that the winter in Youzhou is no longer difficult.
Because of the development and construction of Youzhou for five consecutive years, everyone in Youzhou has a job, everyone can earn money, and the life of the people is getting better and better. Almost every citizen of Youzhou has an unusual support and love for Zuo Xiaoyou, and even many people have set up an immortal tablet for Zuo Xiaoyou at home.
In addition, Zuo Xiaoyou also successfully studied the method of drying salt, so that salt, a precious thing, is no longer exclusive to the powerful, and the people of every household can eat salt. Of course, the snow-white refined salt is still the first time to appear, and the price is still a little expensive, although the people can eat it, but they can only ensure that they have sufficient salt intake, and there will be no more.
This is also to prevent the people from having excess salt and selling it outside. In this era, salt and iron are important strategic materials for the government, and after Zuo Xiaoyou developed the method of drying salt, he passed this method to Liu Bei, which attracted Liu Bei's highest attention. Now there are many salt drying fields under Liu Bei's rule, all of which are secretly protected by the army, and no one is allowed to approach.
Taking advantage of the large amount of refined salt in his hand, Liu Bei began to ask his brother-in-law to organize caravans to sell salt at high prices to other forces to obtain heavy profits. In order to make some more money. Develop more people's livelihood, Liu Bei has not even waged war with the outside world in recent years, and in five years, relying on the sale of salt, Liu Bei's 'treasury' has been expanded again and again, and the beautiful life has made Liu Bei a little happy.
And Liu Bei's side is getting richer and richer, and the other princes are naturally getting poorer and poorer, and the people under Liu Bei's rule are getting richer and richer, causing the people or displaced people under the territory of other princes to move to Liu Bei's territory one after another. In five years, there were 3 million more people under Liu Bei's rule, plus the original people, and now the population under Liu Bei's rule has exceeded 20 million, accounting for more than half of the entire Han population.
To put it simply, Liu Bei has already taken the initiative in the general trend of the world, and the princes all the way around him are trembling, and they don't know when Liu Bei will send troops to attack them? In addition to Jiangdong and Yizhou, which have the Yangtze River and mountain and river natural insurance. No prince thought that he could resist Liu Bei's Bingfeng. Liu Bei himself thinks so.
In five years, Xiao Cao Ying next to Zuo Xiaoyou is also ten years old. has grown a lot taller, and his appearance is becoming more and more in the direction of Li Meiqi.
Zuo Xiaoyou thinks it's very novel, it's obviously a little Lori who is no more oriental, but the longer she grows, the more she looks like a mixed Chinese and Western race, and I don't know what kind of bloodline Cao Ying is?
But there is no perfect logic in the movie world, and Zuo Xiaoyou can only be regarded as a prank in this world.
This spring. Zuo Xiaoyou was supervising Cao Ying's martial arts practice in the courtyard, when a rush of footsteps came, and Luo Ping'an, who was like a black bear, walked quickly: "Lord! β
"Keep practicing." Zuo Xiaoyou criticized Cao Ying who stopped a few words, turned his head and asked, "What's the matter?" β
"The messenger of the King of Han has arrived." Luo Ping'an said: "It seems that the King of Han wants to use troops abroad, probably to invite the lord out of the mountain." β
Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "That's not likely!" β
past few years. The military merits were basically taken away by him, and Guan Zhang and other generals could only take some leftovers, which had already attracted the dissatisfaction of many military generals. However, a few years ago, Zuo Xiaoyou came up with the method of drying salt, and also came up with various good things for the benefit of the country and the people, such as brick factories and cement factories.
Now that the five-year infrastructure construction has been completed, Liu Bei's rule has had an unprecedented prosperity, if it is another thirty or fifty years, it will not be possible to directly enter the industrial age.
But Liu Bei is now fifty years old, and Adou is also five years old, after five years of observation, he found that his son doesn't seem to be very smart, he has a bit of difficulty in learning, and he has no talent in martial arts, and the only advantage is filial piety and obedience. But this is useless for a future emperor.
Afraid that after his death, his son would not be able to take over, Liu Bei made up his mind that he must dominate the world before his son becomes an adult, and give his son a stable political environment, so as not to be ruined.
But he sent a messenger this time, not to let Zuo Xiaoyou lead the troops to fight, but to let him stay in Youzhou with peace of mind and develop Youzhou well.
The main purpose of balabala is to appease his emotions, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble because other generals have military merits to gain, but they don't have his share.
After reading the letter, Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly, turned his head and asked Luo Ping'an and Zhao Zilong: "I don't have to go to war this time, do you two want to make some military achievements?" β
Of course, Luo Ping'an wants to make military merits, after all these years of hard work, although Luo Ping'an's current force is worse than Zhao Zilong, it is enough to be promoted to a first-class general, almost the level of force of Xiahoudun back then. But Luo Ping'an has become the commander of the infantry battalion of the Youzhou Army in Youzhou, with 30,000 people under his command, and the position is also a miscellaneous general - General Huwei.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Yu Ban once had such a title.
With 30,000 soldiers in charge and the title of general, Luo Ping'an can now be said to be the glory of his ancestors, two years ago, Luo Ping'an was invited back to Changshan by the people of Changshan because of his success, and the people beat gongs and drums to welcome Luo Ping'an, so that Luo Ping'an felt that he had no regrets in this life.
Originally, the people also wanted to invite Zhao Zilong, but because Zhao Zilong was in charge of 10,000 cavalry, he often had to patrol outside the fortress to avoid the comeback of the steppe wolf clan, so he didn't have time to return to his hometown at all. This also made the people of Changshan deeply regretful.
At present, Zhao Zilong is also a miscellaneous general - General Dangkou, that is, the military position that Zhang Liao has done in history, the main task is to sweep away foreign thieves everywhere, and Luo Ping'an is responsible for it in the territory, but it is basically a deterrent effect, and this is how the name of General Huwei came from. There are tigers in the town here. Who would dare to rebel?
But who doesn't want to make their military exploits even greater when they become generals! Therefore, there is an opportunity to make military achievements, and Luo Ping'an will definitely not miss it, so for this opportunity given by Zuo Xiaoyou, Luo Ping'an hesitated for a moment, and still told the truth: "Lord, the last general wants to help the King of Han dominate the world and seal his wife and son." β
Regarding Luo Ping'an's choice, Zuo Xiaoyou is not surprised. nodded: "Okay, you go and prepare, tomorrow I will take my letter to Xuchang to meet the King of Han, I believe that the King of Han will make arrangements for you." β
"Thank you, Lord." Luo Ping'an was overjoyed and thanked.
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly, turned his head and asked, "Zilong, what about you?" β
Zhao Zilong shook his head: "The last general has the duty of sweeping the border, so I won't go this time." β
Zuo Xiaoyou nodded with a smile: "It's okay, there must always be a general in Youzhou." So as not to mess around with some eyes that are not long-sighted. β
Now that it has been arranged, Zuo Xiaoyou has also written the letter. Let Luo Ping'an take him to Xuchang to see Liu Bei and let him earn more military merits. Luo Ping'an is an ambitious person, but he didn't have enough strength to support his ambitions before, but now he has the strength of a first-class general, since he has the strength, why not strive for greater military merit?
It's like what the left and the right say. A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, Luo Ping'an is a good soldier. Military merits are all made, as long as you have enough ability, you can make full use of military merits.
And Zhao Zilong is an ambitious person, he doesn't care what he does. It is all out of a sense of responsibility, and it is unconsciously and naturally achieved to climb to the current position.
Now on the border of Youzhou, there are still some wolf clans on the grassland on the border that have not been wiped out, for the long-term stability of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Zilong has the responsibility and obligation to sweep the wolf clans abroad, so as to ensure the long-term stability of the Han Dynasty.
Out of love for Zhao Zilong, Zuo Xiaoyou also passed on a method of rejuvenating qi and health to Zhao Yun, as long as he studied and practiced hard, he could make Zhao Yun's lifespan exceed two hundred years old, even if he was one hundred years old, he was no different from a forty-year-old middle-aged person. And there is an eighty-year-old Lian Po veteran in history, and according to this standard, Zhao Zilong can also work in the army until he is 160 years old.
One hundred and sixty-year-old old general, that's really a living fossil.
A month after Luo Ping'an left, Liu Bei really launched an attack on Xiangyang.
At this time, Liu Biao had died of illness, but Liu Biao's concubine Cai wanted to support his son Liu Cong as the state pastor, and the military in Jingzhou was in charge of Cai's younger brother Cai Mao, so it was too easy to support his son.
But in this way, Liu Qi, the son of Liu Biaozheng's wife, is in danger. Knowing that he had been targeted by the Cai family and would be eliminated at any time, Liu Qi fled to Liu Bei's rule in a panic, crying and begging Liu Bei to uphold justice for him.
Liu Bei was worried that there was no reason and opportunity to send troops, but he fell asleep and someone sent a pillow, Liu Bei had a good impression of Liu Qi, and immediately patted his chest and promised that he would definitely uphold justice for Liu Qi, and then sent an army of 100,000 troops to Xiangyang.
Cai Mao is a wine bag and rice bag, it's okay for him to engage in infighting, but when he encounters a war, he will be cowardly. What's more, this time it is still the world's largest prince, Liu Bei, who has already proclaimed himself the king of Han!
So before the army arrived in Xiangyang, Cai Mao sent a table of surrender and opened the city to welcome Liu Bei into Jingxiang.
Perhaps it was Jingzhou that was too easy to get, which made Liu Bei complacent, thinking that his army was invincible in the world, so after a short rest, he took a large army and prepared to cross the river to attack Eastern Wu and dominate the world.
But after a battle of Chibi, Liu Bei suffered the biggest defeat in history, and almost gave away the Jingzhou he had just gotten. (To be continued.) )
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