Eight months have passed since Shen Chen opened a township school in Weiting in June last year to February of the third year of Jian'an.

In the process of mutual learning with Zhuge Liang, Shen Chen's thoughts and knowledge were sublimated again.

If it was him before, he would only hold on to Cao Cao's brutality and unkindness, and then attack his character by severing the relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Xie.

But that argument doesn't really convince anyone.

Because for the majority of scholars, the Son of Heaven is the name of righteousness, no matter what reason you come up with, if you fight against Cao Jun, you will fight against the imperial court, and against the imperial court will be a great rebellion.

This is an indisputable fact.

There are people who are loyal to Yuan Shao, and naturally there are Xun Yu who are loyal to the Han family. Moreover, the Han Dynasty has been raising scholars for 400 years, and Xun Yu is not the only one who is loyal to the Han family.

Before Cao Cao humiliated Yang Biao, deposed Zhao Wen, and slaughtered Kong Rong and Zhao Yan and other Han royalists, the royalists in Xuchang were like carp crossing the river, but they were slowly eradicated by Cao Cao.

But even so, after Cao Cao ascended to the throne of Wei and gradually revealed his usurpation intentions, Geng Ji, Ji Ben, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others still stood up, intending to seize military power, help Liu Xie, and save the Han family.

So everyone in this world has their own position.

For example, most of the people who took refuge in Cao Cao were from big families, and they never cared whether the Son of Heaven was surnamed Liu, but only cared about the interests of the family.

Like the countless families who were persuaded to enter when Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty later, for them, changing the son of heaven is nothing more than changing the master.

As long as my family continues to prosper, there is a nine-product Zhongzheng system to ensure that my family will prosper.

Some people think that when troubled times come, we should choose a good lord to help.

With so many people under Yuan Shao's command, don't you know Yuan Shao's ambition?

But even if Cao Cao has the righteousness of the Son of Heaven, he still can't change his position of being loyal to Yuan Shao and others.

Others regard Liu Xie, the son of heaven, as a legal principle, so by the way, Cao Cao, who has not yet shown his intention to usurp, is regarded as a loyal minister who supports the Han family.

As countless scholars in Jingzhou think at present, not only those big families, Confucian scholars from poor families, and eunuchs are all like this.

Later generations certainly understood that Cao Cao and Sima Yi were actually of the same nature.

A Great Han Emperor Wei Wu Emperor, a Great Wei Xuan Emperor.

But the world doesn't understand it.

Therefore, to put it mildly, before the edict, Shen Chen's previous argument wanted to convince Xun Yu that he was not loyal to Cao Cao and only cared about the Son of Heaven and the Han Dynasty.

Not to mention trying to convince the children of the family who only think about the interests of the family.

But now that Shen Chen's thoughts have begun to sublimate, he has truly understood what the unity of knowledge and action is, and proposed the way to save the world, and the depth of his thoughts is no longer the same.

can't convince those big families, but for those ordinary Confucian students from poor families, it is like a golden jade good saying, thought-provoking.

And the composition of Jingzhou scholars is just because of these low-level ordinary Confucian students.

After all, the big families are a minority, and the bottom is the main body.

They have no clan support, no powerful background, and no attention from the upper echelons, but they meet by chance, worship teachers, learn some knowledge, and can barely be called scholars.

Although they can study, they are also a well-off family that can afford to eat, but the room for growth is extremely limited, and in the case of not having to consider the family position in exchange for the official position given by Cao Cao in the name of the Son of Heaven, the way of thinking is naturally different.

Therefore, hearing Shen Chen's words, many people were deeply touched by Shen Chen's words, and their attitude towards him naturally changed greatly.

Even those children of the big families couldn't agree with his views because of their different family positions, but they also felt that what Shen Chen said was very philosophical and thought-provoking.

There are always a few idealists who have betrayed their own class.

For example, Pang Tong and Xiang Lang were both from top families in Jingzhou, but they did not betray Liu Cong in exchange for family interests like Kuai Yue Cai Mao, but followed Liu Bei and took it as his responsibility to support the Han family.

So soon, what Shen Chen said today spread in Jingzhou Shilin, and when no one came out to dominate and deliberately belittle, many people felt impressed by Shen Chen, but they didn't expect his thoughts to be so profound, which made many people admire him very much.

For a while, Shen Chen's original reputation among Jingzhou Shilin was not good, but he slowly changed. Many people feel that even if Shen Chen may have opposing positions with them, he is still a gentleman.

Since then, Shen Chen's name has completely risen from the countryside and spread throughout Jingzhou, and he is a celebrity.

After that, Sima Hui settled in the northeast countryside of Xiangyang City, near Yuliangzhou, and he and Pang Degong were also old acquaintances, talking with him every day, and the friendship became deeper.

Zhuge Liang, Shen Chen, Xu Shu, Pang Tong and others also often talked with Sima Hui and Pang Degong about reasoning, Shen Chen's proposal of the unity of knowledge and action, made them feel like a saint's avenue, Daigo empowerment, praised Shen Chen's talent and thoughts, and spared no effort to promote his fame.

As a result, when the farming season ended in May this year, and by the time of the short agricultural slack in June, Shen Chen's academy was almost overcrowded, and he himself was considered a virtuous person in the countryside, and now his fame spread throughout Jingzhou, and more people came.

However, just when Shen Chen's fame gradually became accessible and his reputation improved significantly, the general trend of the world had changed again at this moment.

The imperial court worshiped Liu Biao as a hussar general, holding the festival and supervising the affairs of the four states of Yi, Jiao, Jing and Yang.

In May this year, Nanyang had a bumper harvest, and Liu Biao obtained nearly 10 million new grains, and the treasury was filled too much at once. Two years in advance, he enjoyed the strength he had two years later to pacify Zhang Xian, which made Liu Biao's ambition swell again.

Knowing that the imperial court intended to give him greater nominal power, just in exchange for millions of stones, grain and grass, Liu Biao agreed to the matter without any hesitation after discussing with the mastermind Kuailiang.

So five million stone grains and grass were transported to Xuchang, which instantly filled Cao Cao's nearly exhausted treasury, and this year's new grain in Yingchuan, Yanzhou and other places was also collected, so that Cao Cao could worship the Son of Heaven while finally sending troops to fight and no longer worry about grain and grass.

In June, after holding out for four months, Cao Cao sent Xiahoudun to rescue Liu Bei.

But unexpectedly, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were quite tough, and after a stalemate between the two sides for more than a month, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao suddenly launched an attack and repelled Xiahoudun, so that Cao Cao had to prepare to start his own expedition.

In autumn and September, Xiaopei was breached.

Shen Chen once replied to Liu Bei and asked him to march outside, settle his family and not be with him.

Liu Bei listened to his persuasion, and at that time he placed his wife and children in Xiayi, and his family was not captured, but his soldiers and horses were lost, and he fled to Liang with Guan Yu, Zhang Feitai, Shi Ci, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Sun Qian, and others.

It happened that Cao Cao also went east to Lu Bu at this time, and after having grain and grass to lay the foundation, he supplemented some troops, about 70,000 or 80,000 people, and marched to Xuzhou with an army of 30,000.

The rest of the army stayed in various places, such as Ling Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu led more than 20,000 horses and horses in Yanzhou Sili and other places to guard against Yuan Shao.

He also asked Cao Hong, Xun You, Li Tong and others to have 10,000 horses to guard against Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu.

On his side, he brought Xiahoudun, Yu Ban, Xu Chu, Xu Huang and others to Xuzhou.

Although Cao Cao lost the fierce general Dian Wei in the Battle of Wancheng last year, when he went back, it didn't take long for him to meet Xu Chu leading thousands of men to surrender.

Cao Cao has always liked this kind of person who brings his own soldiers, such as Li Dian's uncle Li Gan, as well as the double-gun general Li Tong, and later Zhang Xiu, not to mention that Xu Chu is still Cao Cao's fellow countryman.

Knowing that he was extremely brave, he quickly let Xu Chu take Dian Wei's place and become the leader of Cao Cao's guards.

After Cao Cao arrived in the Liang Kingdom, he met with Liu Bei.

At this time, the poor uncle was like a child who was beaten outside, and went back to report to the parents, and the parents brought the guy to avenge the child.

Although the truth of the matter is that Cao Cao must eliminate Lü Bu in order to prevent being attacked from both sides in the future decisive battle with Yuan Shao.

But the scene at this time is quite vivid, and you can know that Uncle Huang has not had a good life since he went to Xuzhou. Running around, wandering around, living a miserable life all day long, in stark contrast to Shen Chen, who lived and worked in Jingzhou in peace and contentment. jújíá?y.?? m

After joining Liu Bei, Cao Cao continued his march, reaching the outside of Xiapi by the end of September and writing to Lü Bu asking him to surrender.

At this time, Lu Bu still had a chance, as long as he surrendered, Cao Cao might not necessarily kill him.

But Chen Gong and Cao Cao have already had a great contradiction, and he has stabbed Cao Cao in the back, he knows very well that Cao Cao can let go of Lu Bu, but he will never let him Chen Gong go, so he strongly persuaded Lu Bu to hold on, and suggested dividing the troops to fight against Cao's army with the momentum of the horns.

It's a pity that Lu Bu didn't listen, but he didn't choose to surrender.

So Cao Cao continued to besiege Xiapi, and under the condition of sufficient grain and grass, the siege lasted for almost three months, but although the grain and grass were sufficient, the soldiers were very tired and thought of giving up.

Guo Jia still strongly persuaded him to continue attacking Lü Bu, and proposed a strategy of flooding Pi.

Cao Cao then acted according to the plan and continued to attack Xiapi.

At the same time, Lu Bu's army in Xiapi City had also been separated from Germany, because Hou Cheng was punished by him for disobeying Lu Bu's order to ban alcohol, and he was resentful, so he had the idea of surrendering.

On December 7, 199 AD, the weather was still sunny on this day, but because of the Xiaoice period, the sun hung high, but the fierce north wind still made people feel slightly chilled.

In recent days, Lu Bu has quit drinking and sex, recovered some of his spirits, inspected the city gate every day, and today when he arrived at the White Gate Tower, he saw from a distance that Cao Jun's camp was still quiet, and the military flag on the camp was blown by the wind, and he sighed for a while: "Today is another ordinary day." ”

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Left and right said: "It feels so quiet, the Cao army outside the city has not attacked the city for a long time, I'm afraid it won't be long before they will retreat due to lack of food." ”

"Well, let the soldiers wait, we will be able to repel the Cao army soon."

Lu Bu perked up and said words of encouragement to everyone.

The voice did not fall.

"Knock knock knock!"

The cardiac arrest-like beating of the drum sounded.

Cao's military camp suddenly opened, and a group of mighty and majestic soldiers slowly walked out.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.