Chapter 58: Zuo Ci
Yanzhou in autumn has a completely different scene from Yongzhou in autumn, not because of the region, but Yongzhou under the rule of the imperial court, when it comes to this harvest season, it is a thriving scene, and the golden color that is almost invisible at a glance symbolizes that the people of Yongzhou have enough food to spend another winter.
But in Yanzhou, none of this can be seen!
Originally, Yanzhou was not bad under Liu Dai's governance, and it stands to reason that it should not be the current scene, but since the resumption of the Yellow Turban, Liu Dai has consumed all his energy to confront the Yellow Turban thief army, and the situation in Yanzhou is getting worse day by day, and this year there is no energy to manage people's livelihood at all.
What's more, because of such a bad environment, even the local people in Yanzhou have no confidence, and they hesitate whether they should leave their hometown and take refuge elsewhere, or continue to sweat on the land - risking the possibility of being looted by the Yellow Turban thieves.
At that time, the imperial army had already come to station, but unfortunately in this era, the people's confidence in the imperial court had fallen to the lowest point in hundreds of years, and many people did not think that the arrival of the imperial court soldiers could change anything, and even when Cao Cāo asked the heralds to report the news of the great victory to the emperor all the way, these people thought that the rumors spread by the officers and soldiers to appease them.
And by the time it was confirmed that these were true, the best time had been missed, so when Liu Xuan entered Yanzhou, many fields were so deserted.
"What a good field......
Liu Xuan sat on the horse and walked forward slowly.
Since entering Yanzhou, he has been moving forward slowly without hurry, observing the situation in Yanzhou along the way, and seeing large areas of land being wasted, he also feels pity in his heart.
"If you want to recover from such a scene, I'm afraid it will take at least three years to waste!"
The emperor personally marched, and Liu Xuan didn't want to make much noise, but this time there were many officials accompanying him, and even the six ministries sent people, many of whom were personally accompanied by six Shangshu - it can be said that the current team is a small mobile court, which can solve a major national affairs anytime and anywhere.
Taifu Yuan Yuan claimed that he was not in good health and did not come, but everyone knew that he did not come to avoid suspicion, and Sangongzhong originally wanted Taiwei Yang Biao to accompany him, but Yang Biao suddenly fell ill, so in the end it was Situ Wang Yun who accompanied him.
This time it was Wang Yun who spoke.
"Three years ......"
Liu Xuan estimated in his heart that it should be 193 years now, and there should be no major events in the next few years, but that was the original history.
In his own place, the first thing to do is to pull out the Yellow Turban Thief completely, and then accumulate strength to prepare for a big battle with Yuan Shao in the north - there is no suspense in the result, and after unifying the north, he will take advantage of the situation to go south.
After retrieving Jingzhou, whether he wants to go into Sichuan or go straight to Jiangdong depends on his mood.
If everything goes well, the unification war should be completed within ten years, and more importantly, this ten years is enough time for him to initially bring this dynasty to the system of cultivating true civilization, and then when the dynasty is unified, he can rely on this foundation to continue to develop.
"With the assistance of the court, it may take less than three years!"
Now that Xun You has mastered the tree seed technology, these technologies are all the most initial formations and spells, and they were previously limited by no one to cooperate, but now with the Refining Division, as long as a team is divided into a team to cooperate with Xun You, it is not difficult to restore the basic livelihood of Liaodong within a year.
More importantly, Liu Xuan now has this foundation, and Yongzhou, which has initially shown prosperity, is his greatest confidence -- even if Yanzhou does not produce a grain within three years, Liu Xuan can also let all the labor force in Yanzhou carry out infrastructure construction, and then rely on Yanzhou's grain blood transfusion to ensure Yanzhou's grain demand.
This is the confidence, and it is also the result of his years of squatting in the northwest and not being able to hold it out.
"But at the moment, we still have to uproot the Yellow Turban Thief Army first, otherwise this group of anti-thieves is eyeing each other, and Yanzhou will not be able to resume production at all if it is always under its threat!"
Wang Yun's expression looked very relaxed, if it had been a few months ago, he would not have looked like this, and it was not for Cao Cāo's good news one after another these days, looking at the momentum of the posture that directly wiped out the Yellow Turban Thief Army.
As Situ, Wang Yun was naturally very happy, for this thief army that shook the foundation of the imperial court, he wished that he would be wiped out as soon as possible, Cao Cāo fought so beautifully, and the worry in his heart was put down.
In addition, the Yellow Turban Thieves now occupy half of Yuzhou and Xupu counties, and if Cao Cāo can take advantage of the situation to recapture these two places, the power of the imperial court can reach into these two states.
At that time, the areas south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River were basically controlled by the imperial court, and Yuzhou, which had almost become a terra nullius, could take back the hands of the imperial court by taking advantage of this reason.
At that time, plus the two northwestern states, the imperial court reoccupied the Central Plains, as long as the Yuan family knew each other, then the Han Dynasty was still a prosperous and prosperous era, and he Wang Yun would be the minister of Zhongxing, even if it was just a false name.
As he was talking, suddenly a young man rode to the front, although he was stopped by the guards next to him, but after Cao Bao next to Liu Xuan turned around and saw the comer, he waved his hand, and the young man came to the front.
Wang Yun glanced at it and found that it was the second son of the Sima family, called Sima Yi, although he was not very old this year, he had already had a reputation, and he Wang Yun had also heard of it.
It's just that I don't know how the Son of Heaven values this young man, and he actually recruited him directly into the palace to arrange an errand, but it's a pity that it's a ridiculous errand, and he works in what refining department.
Wang Yun heard that it was a place dedicated to making strange and obscene skills for the emperor, and he originally wanted to advise him, but the official department Shangshu Xun or, the household department Shangshu Xunyou and even the Taiwei Yang Biao, who was also the third duke, disagreed, and looked mysterious as if there was something important to hide from him.
At that time, Wang Yun, who felt that something was wrong, had been paying attention to this refining division, but he couldn't get any news, only knowing that Li Su often collected some materials from everywhere.
After looking at it again in a blink of an eye, he found that after Sima Yi whispered something in the ear of the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven's face changed slightly, but then returned to normal.
"What the hell is going on?"
Wang Yun was puzzled in his heart, but unfortunately Liu Xuan didn't mean to explain to him at all, so he said casually: "After walking for a while, I'm a little tired, let's find a place to rest!" and then turned the horse back to his big car.
Although he was depressed in his heart, who called Liu Xuan the Son of Heaven, Wang Yun could only go back to his car to rest and ride a horse sullenly, although it didn't take long to ride a horse, but after all, he was not young, and he was also a little tired.
Liu Xuan returned to the car, and there was already someone in the car at this time, who was Shi Daoren.
waved his hand, signaled Shi Daoren not to be polite, and after he sat down, he asked Sima Yi to get in the car and sit down, and then asked Shi Daoren: "Is the news accurate?"
Shi Daoren shook his head: "If you stop it, you should also know what the people in my generation are like, whether this news is accurate or not, no one can pack a ticket." ”
Although Liu Xuan was helpless, he could only nod in approval, but he was most concerned about another thing: "Which one?"
"Yu Ji!"
"Oh!" Liu Xuan nodded: "What is the strength of this person?"
Shi Daoren shook his head: "This person's strength is above the poor road, but I don't know much about the specific situation!"
Liu Xuan sighed, but it was better to be able to get such news than to know that it was coming at that time.
After the original Shi Daoren surrendered to Liu Xuan's account, he carefully inquired about the situation of the monks that Shi Daoren knew, especially focusing on what masters were in this land?
Not surprisingly, he heard those names: Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, Zixu Venerable, and Nanhua, who had clearly opposed him!
Since then, Liu Xuan has asked Shi Daoren to pay attention to the whereabouts of these people as much as possible, among them, except for the Purple Void Master who lives in seclusion in the land of Xichuan, Yu Ji and Zuo Ci are both ethereal and indefinite, and it is really not easy to inquire.
Just when he was going to Yanzhou to take the opportunity to destroy Nanhua in one go, Shi Daoren suddenly hurried from Chang'an, because he heard Yu Ji's whereabouts from a Taoist friend who was traveling abroad.
This is nothing, the key is that the place where Yu Ji was found made made Shi Daoren sense that something was wrong, so he came to inform Liu Xuan, and after Liu Xuan learned the news, he really came to inquire about the details as soon as possible.
"Koto!"
Yu Ji went to Jiangdong, Liu Xuan is not surprised, the key is that Shi Daoren's Taoist friend, when he looked at Sun Ce's army camp from afar, he unexpectedly saw Yu Ji coming in and out of it, and looking at the attitude of those generals under Sun Ce's account, it seemed to be very respectful, and remembered what Shi Daoren entrusted him with a while ago, so he sent a message to Chang'an.
"Sun Ce actually got mixed up with Yu Ji?"
Liu Xuan felt that his head was a little too much to turn, why did these immortals who claimed to be escapist cultivators run out one by one and mingled in this worldly affairs? One Nanhua is not enough, and there is one more Yu Ji?
"Then Zuo Ci can't bear the loneliness and runs out?"
was muttering, suddenly felt something, looked directly at the curtain of the big car, only to see that the curtain was windless and automatic, as if it had been lifted by someone, but I couldn't see half a figure, how weird and weird this scene was.
Ordinary people saw it, I was afraid that they would be frightened at that time, but there was no ordinary person in this car, Shi Dao and Sima Yi were already on guard, but Liu Xuan looked at it twice and said with a smile: "Why does the Taoist want to hide his head and show his tail? If you have anything to say to me, just say it directly!"
Before he said that, there was suddenly one more person in this carriage, Liu Xuan was guessing who was coming, and the Shi Daoist next to him had already opened his mouth: "Zuo Daoyou will come here, how can you still make so many mysteries?" But I haven't seen you for a long time, and Daoyou's cultivation has improved a lot!"
As soon as Liu Xuan heard it, he understood that the very plainly dressed old man in front of him was Zuo Ci, who was still muttering just now!
ps: It's slowed down, and the thinking has smoothed out a lot...... Two shifts will be resumed tomorrow!(To be continued)