Jia Xu's willingness to take refuge did not surprise Shen Chen, for thousands of years, whoever wins the most, they will help whoever is the same, it is an eternal truth.

It's just that the world is stupid, and the battle of Guandu feels that Yuan Shao has a big chance of winning, so on the surface, Yuan Shao got so many responses.

But a smart person like Jia Xu, who is the best in the world, can naturally see the essence through the phenomenon, and thinks that Cao Cao's winning side is greater, so he wants to persuade Zhang Xiu to take refuge in Cao Cao.

It's a pity that Shen Chen was killed halfway, so that although Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu, he also suffered heavy losses and his strength was greatly attenuated.

Therefore, Jia Xu must find a new strong person to cling to.

Shen Chen didn't know what he wanted to do, but at present, he only needed to stabilize the rear and ensure that Zhang Xiu didn't make a mess.

In addition to Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu's family members as hostages, Liu Biao will definitely not be fully trusted, and when the time comes, he must also let Zhang Xiu's Xiliang military family members send them to Xiangyang.

After leaving from the city, I first went back to the Yellow Gate Pavilion.

took off a military uniform, put on a scholar's robe, changed from a general Shen Chen to a scholar Shen Chen, and the temperament of the whole person also changed greatly and became elegant.

I saw that he was wearing a blue-gray wide-sleeved robe on his right, a black fine silk

The height of the fifteen-year-old has also reached 1.74 meters, and he has been training outside for a year, revealing a masculine spirit all over his body, and his resolute face looks ahead, quite a handsome demeanor.

"My son is so handsome."

Shen Chen's mother, Deng Shi, was full of praise when she saw her son dressed up, and said with a smile: "Your second uncle's family has a younger sister, who is Axi, who is twelve years old this year, and she looks very pleasant, what do I think?" ”

"Mother, the world is not peaceful, how can I get married, besides, I am only fifteen this year, and I will talk about starting a family after I am twenty and crowned."

Shen Chen only felt that his scalp was numb.

Twelve?

Or a cousin?

Bah.

Disgusting.

I'm all shut.

Bah.

I don't know how many years I have to judge for the future generations.

It's just that the environment of the Han Dynasty was like this, and Cao Cao married his cousin Mrs. Ding when he was a teenager.

Not only the big families, but also the people at the bottom are like this, early marriage and early pregnancy.

So he couldn't resist directly, so he could only make excuses.

Fortunately, Shen Chen is not a low-level person who is manipulated by his parents at will, and now his family status has risen sharply.

His parents are also accustomed to him having his own ideas, so as long as the excuse is reasonable, such as being young, and talking about it after the crown, they probably won't say anything.

After all, even if it is a matter of inheritance, he still has a brother Shen Zhong above him, and there are three nephews and nieces now.

Deng said regretfully: "Even if you can't make a faint, it's better to make a faint appointment first." ”

"Mother."

Shen Chen persuaded bitterly: "You can't think like this, I am also very important in Jingzhou now, if I want to become a faint, I can't marry someone from my parents' clan, but marry with other big clans." ”

"Is that so?"

Deng's eyes widened, and he suddenly remembered the story of his ancestors told by his parents when he was a child, and he remembered that it seemed to be like this.

"Nature."

Shen Chen explained: "So if you want the clan to grow, you must marry with foreign clans. ”

It's just an excuse.

In ancient times, in order to engage in any kind of kinship, they often chose cousins, cousins and brothers to marry each other.

However, when close relatives marry, it is easy to have deformed children or children die early. Cao Cao and Mrs. Ding did not have children, it is very likely because the children died young.

So of course Shen Chen had to refuse to marry his cousins and cousins of his mother's family.

Deng said with some regret: "Then it seems that I can only refuse your second uncle, and the elders of the clan have also asked about this matter, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain." ”

"It's okay, I'll just make my own decisions about clan matters."

Shen Chen waved his hand.

The two clans of Deng Shen are deeply intertwined, and they marry each other a lot, just like the relationship between the Cao family and the Xiahou family, there is no more than him, and there is no less of him, which will not affect the relationship between the two families.

At that moment, after appeasing his mother, Shen Chen stayed at home for the night, and on the second day, he set off in a carriage and headed for Xiangyang.

I set off in the morning and arrived outside Xiangyang City in the afternoon, because I didn't tell everyone in advance, and no one came to greet me.

The wharf outside the city is still the same as in the past, crowded with people, especially in recent days, due to the occurrence of the battle of Guandu, Henan has once again seen a large-scale population migration, and tens of thousands of people have migrated to Nanyang, Nanjun and Jiangxia.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou's population doubled in just over a decade, which was caused by the war in the north. This made Xiangyang City expand again, and it did not come back for a year, and there were countless new street houses in the east and west of the city.

The carriage drove into Deng Hong's house first.

It was already afternoon, Deng Hong had already gone home from work, and when he heard Shen Chen coming back, he happily ran from the backyard to the front yard.

Before anyone could see it, hearty laughter had already been heard.

"Hahahaha, Ah Chen, Ah Chen."

Deng Hong shouted, walked out of the hall, and saw Shen Chen and the servants in the courtyard carrying large bags and small bags, and his mother asked him to bring Deng Hong's gifts, so he rushed up and hugged his grandson with a smile and said, "Ah Chen, you are finally back." ”

"Uncle."

Shen Chen hurriedly dodged, held the big bags and small bags of things, and shouted, "This is the egg that my mother gave to my uncle, be careful not to drop it." ”

"Come on, come on, take so much every time, the family can't finish eating."

Deng Hong put him down, looked at the things brought by the slaves behind, scratched his head, in fact, it was not a valuable gift, it was some bacon, eggs, grain and rice and other farm specialties, which were very valuable to poor families, but Deng Hong was now hugging Cai's thighs, and he had already soared.

"What about the sixth grandmother?"

Shen Chen didn't see Cai.

Deng Hong said: "Go with Mrs. Ergongzi to accompany Mrs. Cai." ”

"Oh."

Shen Chen's eyes flickered and he nodded slowly.

The second son is Liu Cong.

He is actually not Mrs. Cai's son, and he is a sibling brother with the eldest son Liu Qi.

But Liu Cong married Cai Yan's daughter.

The Cai family has three brothers and two sisters, and the two sisters are Mrs. Cai. Mrs. Da Cai is Huang Chengyan's wife, and Mrs. Xiao Cai is Liu Biao's wife.

The three brothers are Cai Mao, Cai Yan and Cai Zhan, among which Deng Hong's wife is Cai Zhan's daughter, and Liu Cong's wife is Cai Yan's daughter, they are cousins and the niece of Mrs. Cai.

The reason why the Cai family fully supports Liu Cong is that Liu Cong has a weak personality and is easy to manipulate, and second, it is natural that Liu Cong is the son-in-law of the Cai family.

It was already a little late when he returned to Xiangyang today, so Shen Chen wrote a letter and sent someone to send it to the Hussar General's mansion, saying that he would report to the general tomorrow.

In the past, everyone called Liu Biao Liu Jingzhou, but now he has to change his title to Liu Hussar, and he must also be a hussar general in the letter format, and the original state pastoral mansion has also become a hussar general's mansion, because the hussar general's official position is larger, and his position is greater than that of the third duke.

At this moment, it was almost evening, and Liu Biao was reading a book in the study. Although Mrs. Cai is only in her thirties and looks as beautiful as a flower, he is already fifty-eight years old, and the older he gets, the worse his energy becomes.

Mrs. stays alone in the boudoir all the year round, and can only find two nieces as companions, Liu Biao feels guilty, but he is obedient to Mrs. Cai, it turns out that because the eldest son Liu Qi looks similar to him when he was young, he likes it the most, and because Mrs. Cai prefers Liu Cong, and gradually begins to dislike Liu Qi.

Halfway through the book, someone suddenly knocked on the door and said, "General." ”

"Come in."

Liu Biao put down the book in his hand.

Outside the door, a close confidant Cheng Qi came in with a letter and said, "It's General Shen who sent the letter." ”

"Show me."

Liu Biao took the bamboo slip, glanced at it, and a smile appeared on his face: "Well, yes, tomorrow let people prepare a banquet in the hall, and call Cai Mao Kuai Yue and many other guests to welcome my Junwen together!" ”

Cheng Qi was very surprised, he was able to be a confidant of Liu Cousin, naturally he was not illiterate, Junwen was Jia Fu's word, Jia Fu was the third of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, and he was born in Confucianism, but he killed the enemy with a scribe, and he was brave and incomparable, he was a tiger general, but he didn't expect Liu Biao to speak so highly of Shen Chen.

But after thinking about it, Shen Chen was also born in Confucianism, he studied in Xianshan Academy since he was a child, practiced martial arts every day, and led the troops to the expedition this time.

At that moment, he immediately arched his hand and said, "Yui." ”

After Cheng Qi left, the expression on Liu Biao's face was also very happy.

This time, Shen Chen took the initiative to ask for help and went north to attack Cao Cao's rear, but he actually didn't have much hope.

Because his main force was quelling the rebellion in Jingnan, there were too few frontal troops, and there was a hindrance from Zhang Xiu, who was always jumping sideways repeatedly at a critical moment, Liu Biao felt that Shen Chen was going north this time, and he was afraid that it would be more than auspicious, as long as the whole army was not wiped out, it would be considered thankful.

However, he felt that even if the whole army was annihilated, if Yuan Shao won, it would be regarded as an explanation to Yuan Shao.

So he chose to support Shen Chen's troops at that time.

As a result, he never expected that he had the intention to plant flowers and flowers but not bloom, and he had no intention of planting willows and willows in the shade, which was originally just to deal with Yuan Shao's actions, but he had gained a lot.

Shen Chen actually killed a large number of Cao Cao's men and horses with less than 10,000 troops, attacked Xu Du three times, and finally burned Xu Du City, which greatly damaged Cao Cao's vitality.

Jingzhou's military fame is secondary, and Cao Cao's vitality is the most important.

The reason why Liu Biao united with Yuan Shao was because people thought that Yuan Shao would win, and he didn't want to offend Yuan Shao to death, with the same mentality as the Northern Song Dynasty Lianjin and Liao.

As a result, Yuan Shao was defeated in the blink of an eye, and Cao Cao had the momentum to set the north, which made him very worried.

Now that Shen Chen's fire burned Xu Du, Cao Cao's strength and prestige were seriously consumed, causing Yuan Shao and Cao Cao to lose both, then he, a fisherman, would naturally be happy.

After arranging tomorrow's banquet, Liu Biao slowly stood up from behind the desk in the study, walked to the inner room of the side of the study, and took out a black and red robe from the dark compartment under the wardrobe on the side.

This robe is different from a normal robe.

I saw that it was painted with six chapters of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, and Chinese insects on its top, and six chapters of algae, fire, powder, Zongyi, 黼, and 黻 on its bottom, a total of 12 chapters. In the depths of the dark grid, there are also twelve white jade crowns.

The robe and the crown are joined together and are called the large tiara.

Liu Biao picked up the robe and looked at it, with a joyful excitement in his eyes.

Next spring.

He wanted to wear this outfit and go to the suburbs to worship heaven and earth!

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty": Liu Biao did not pay tribute, and he committed many acts of hypocrisy, so he worshiped the world in the suburbs, planned to reprimand the public opinion, and had the move of being the emperor.

(End of chapter)