In May of the ninth year of Jian'an, that is, in June 204 AD, the war in Jiangdong was very smooth.

Huang Zu's water warfare ability is even stronger than Zhang Yun's, plus Liu Biao sent 100,000 troops, in addition to Huang Zu's 60,000, Liu Pan has also sent several small forces to infiltrate.

Although Sun Quan reused Zhou Yu, Lu Su and other capable people to resist Huang Zu's attack, and even cooperated with Liu Zhang to counterattack Jingzhou, he was outnumbered after all.

Yuzhang County is in hand, Jiangdong is also in danger, Liu Biao was very happy when he learned the news, and his spirit was much better.

On the fourth day of the fifth month, after discussing with Jia Xu, Liu Biao was already making preliminary preparations for becoming emperor.

However, Jia Xu believes that just because the war against Jiangdong is going smoothly now, it does not mean that they will be able to quickly take down the entire Jiangdong.

And even if Jiangdong is taken, it will take a long time to digest, and it is expected that it will take at least three to five years to be pacified. If Liu Biao can't wait, he should break Liu Zhang in the west again, play majestic, and be the emperor.

It's just that Jiangdong is easy to break, but Yizhou is difficult.

The main reason is that the Jingzhou Navy Division is already strong, and after Liu Biao increased his troops, the 100,000 army fought against Sun Quan's 50,000, which had a great advantage in troops.

The upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Yizhou are not conducive to the navigation of the navy, with turbulent currents, narrow terrain, and countless reefs, so the strengths of the Jingzhou Naval Division cannot be brought into play, so they can only choose to attack from the land.

However, if you attack by land, it is difficult to attack Yizhou from Jingzhou, and there are countless mountains and mountains along the way, and there are countless dangerous checkpoints, so it is difficult and dangerous to fight Bashu in the west.

In history, Liu Bei attacked in two ways, all the way from Jiameng Pass to the south, all the way from Jingnan to Shu, and the result was a full two years, which can be seen.

Although Liu Biao didn't know Liu Bei's road to Shu later, he also knew that it was not easy to attack Shu, so he was very hesitant.

The Jingzhou Navy Division is powerful, but the army can also see in the Battle of Yingchuan, and it is completely incomparable with the elite infantry in the north.

In a water war, he could have the advantage of having more food and grass to hang Jiangdong to fight, but the foot battle, and it was still a mountain and forest battle, and Jingzhou did not have such an excellent infantry army.

However, at the moment of hesitation, Jia Xu gave him a suggestion - he could send those two people.

Liu Biao was overjoyed when he heard it.

On May 6, Shen Chen, who had been teaching in Longzhong Township for two years, received an order that Liu Biao said that he was going to give him a Maocai quota this year, hoping that he would be able to become a professional in Jingzhou.

On the seventh day of junior high school, after giving the last lesson to the students, Shen Chen returned to his residence in the backyard of the school and silently packed up his salutes.

There were already several carriages waiting outside the school, and Deng Pi, Shen Qi and other guards helped him carry his clothes onto the carriage.

Shen Chen in the backyard took a shower and changed into a brand-new scholar's robe.

He is eighteen years old this year, with a tall posture, a height of 1.82 meters, a well-proportioned body, and although his face is not particularly handsome, it is full of masculinity.

Dressed in a cyan scholar's Confucian robe, with a big coat on the outside, and a sword hanging from his waist, he slowly walked out of the door of the school.

At this moment, hundreds of students were already pouring in outside the school.

From the year before last to the present, he has taught as many as 1,000 students, and there are more than 100 permanent students, ranging in age from the oldest to the youngest, some in their twenties, and some only eight or nine years old, all of whom are from his disciples.

He could name everyone, their faces, personalities, academic levels, and even family situations, Shen Chen knew everything about them and cared about them.

Among them, there are many students from very poor families who have been sponsored by Shen Chen.

Everyone was full of gratitude to him.

There are six students standing at the front of the door, namely Xie Hui, Zhang Li, Hu Wei, Huo Yang, Wu Dang, and Wu Tao, they came the earliest, when they were in the second year of Jian'an, when Shen Chen was in Weiting for the first time, there were more than 40 students at the beginning of the school year.

But for various reasons, more than 40 students came and went, and they all left one after another. Especially after Shen Chen participated in the Battle of Guandu, he disappeared for more than a year, and the students were basically gone.

Only these six people still go to the school every day, even if there is only Wang Yan, a teacher in the township who is generally educated, in the school, they often study the books left by Shen Chen with him.

Because of this, these six people became the core six of Shen Chen's disciples, and the rest of the disciples regarded the six of them as senior brothers and called them the six sages of Shen Sect.

As for the newly recruited students in the past four years, there are dozens of them who have come forward, and they are all very academic.

At this moment, everyone was standing in the doorway.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "I have already said today that the school will be temporarily suspended, and the sons should return to study at home, why are they still here?" ”

Xie Hui said: "Master, are you leaving again this year?" ”

"yes."

Shen Chen looked at him with a smile and said, "The world is restless, the world is not pure, and the teacher has to protect the common people." ”

Xie Hui walked up to Shen Chen and arched his hand to him and said, "Shijun wants to practice the "unity of knowledge and action", but the students also want to practice this way, so they want to go with Shijun. ”

"No."

Shen Chen shook his head and said, "I'm going to the battlefield here, my life is at stake, isn't it child's play?" ”

Xie Hui said: "Shijun said that people's faith is the foundation of heaven and earth, and if there is no faith, there is no humanity, because people without credibility dare to do anything that breaks through people's conscience and morality. I also often say that I want to serve the country, and the teacher also often says that knowledge and action should be united, I want to practice the oath and practice the faith, should the teacher also stop me? ”

Shen Chen laughed and said, "You're too good to learn some clever arguments." ”

Speaking of which, Xie Hui has been with him for seven years, and has accepted Shen Chen's thoughts of patriotism, love for the people, and light on the monarch for the longest time, he is seventeen years old this year, he is quite short, but he has always been able to speak well, and among his many disciples, no one is as eloquent as him.

Xie Hui smiled innocently.

Shen Chen muttered: "Ah Hui is right, people should practice their own faith. But sometimes, practice requires ability. ”

"If a person has lofty and lofty ideals, but does not learn knowledge and the ability to match his ideals, and then practices this way, then it is not the unity of knowledge and action, but stupidity and self-inadequacy."

"I have told you many times that the unity of knowledge and action first requires you to have "knowledge", and this "knowledge" is not only conscience, but also knowledge and learning. ”

"If you want to help the world, then you should know how to help the world, what to do now, what to do in the future, and then do it in the direction you set, this is the unity of knowledge and action, not just do it without thinking about anything."

"Now many people are not very old, and they have not even reached the crown, and their knowledge still needs to grow, and the most important thing is that their bodies are not strong.

As he spoke, he looked around at everyone again: "So this is not the time when you need to follow the teacher to do great things, but you should think about it at home, what is the situation in the world now, and what will become of it in the future, only in this way can you truly practice what the teacher said for the country and the people." ”

made everyone quite ashamed.

Because Shen Chen was right, most of the students he taught were local civilians, at most of them were disciples of poor families, and they were not very old, the oldest was twenty-seven years old, less than thirty people were twenty years old and above, and more than ninety percent of the remaining hundreds of people were not crowned, which was considered a minor at that time.

So if you don't think about anything, you don't care about anything, and you recklessly shout that you want to follow Shijun to fight the world, which is a hot-headed behavior in itself, and naturally you can't let them be so reckless.

It's just that there are still some people in the crowd who are not convinced, and a giant man with a height of one meter and nine meters crosses the crowd, and said angrily: "Shijun, I am in good health, I have studied with Shijun for four years, and I still have some knowledge, so I want to follow Shijun and protect Shijun!" ”

Shen Chen looked over.

His name is Shan Yi, and he takes the word Yide, and he is a Wuxi barbarian.

During the Han Dynasty, Wuling County in Jingnan was mostly occupied by barbarians, and after 400 years, there were many wars between Han and barbarians.

And whenever the barbarians are defeated and captured, they are often captured as slaves by those big families, because the barbarians are strong and strong, and they are mostly placed in the farmland to be used as cattle and horses.

Shan Yi's parents were slaves used by the Xiangyang family to cultivate the land.

The big clan has some land in Longzhong Township, and Shan Yi's parents are among them, they are considered the second generation of slaves, and they have been rude to the Han civilization, and they know that slaves are slaves all their lives, so they want to change their fate.

After Shen Chen's fire burned Xu Du and shocked the world, he returned to Longzhong Township to teach.

Shan Yi's parents privately asked Shen Chen to see if he could accept their seventeen-year-old son as a student and teach him knowledge.

After Shen Chen learned of this, he sent someone to inform the family, ransomed the slave status of Shan Yi's parents, gave them land, and collected Shan Yi under the door.

As a result, Shan Yi has grown stronger and stronger in the past few years, and he is only twenty-one years old this year, and his body is already very burly and strong.

However, the strength is great, Shan Yi's strength is the strength of the previous master's cattle as horses and ploughing the land, it is dead strength, I have not formally learned martial arts, I am afraid that if I meet someone like Zhang Fei, I will have to be killed in one round.

Therefore, Shen Chen hesitated for a moment and said: "Yide is quite brave, but he doesn't know martial arts, you follow the teacher first, and then send someone to teach you to the teacher." ”

"Thank you, Master."

Shan Yi was overjoyed and stood triumphantly behind Shen Chen.

Seeing that he had succeeded, many disciples around him hurriedly shouted, "Master, I'm going too." ”

"Master, take me, let me do some paperwork."

"Master, the disciple is willing to live and die together!"

Everyone signed up enthusiastically.

What I said just now was impassioned, brushing them off in the name that most of the disciples were not old enough.

However, there are still a small number of students who have reached the age and academic standards.

These people all want to go, and with the example of Shan Yi, they naturally don't want to let go of this opportunity.

Shen Chen was helpless, and finally selected more than a dozen students who were good at learning and art, all over the age of twenty-two, and promised them to let them go with him.

The rest of the people either have an average level of learning and art, or are still young, or they have a single seedling in their family and have not been selected.

For a while, the people who were selected were overjoyed, and they were extremely disappointed that they were not selected.

In fact, the reason why they are willing to follow Shen Chen is that the concept that Shen Chen has instilled in him in the past few years is to love the country and the people, and there are countless people who want to serve the country.

Second, I also want to make contributions.

Now everyone knows that Liu Biao suddenly recruited Shen Chen to Xiangyang, and it is very likely that he will be awarded an official position to participate in Jingzhou's foreign wars in recent years.

Most of the people who followed Shen Chen were civilians and disciples of the poor sect, and those big families all had family education, so they didn't send students here.

The greatest wish of civilians and poor disciples is to come forward, and there is an opportunity right now, so they naturally want to seize it.

It's a pity that Shen Chen knew that this battle was not simple, so he didn't want to take all the disciples with him, but just selected more than a dozen suitable ones to go through the experience.

Among the six sages of the Shen Sect, only Wu Dang is qualified, and the rest are knowledgeable enough, but they are not old enough, they are all under the age of twenty, and they are very sad for a while.

Xie Hui said in disappointment: "I also want to follow Shijun to serve the country and rejuvenate the country." ”

Shen Chen said with a smile: "You are the heir to my mantle, if I die on the battlefield, you still need to spread my knowledge, and you are still young, you should learn to enrich yourself first, and in a few years, after the crown, we will talk about the rejuvenation of the country and the country." ”

"Then when will Shijun come back?"

Xie Hui asked again.

Shen Chen said: "Let's wait for the day when the family and country are calm, not to mention that this farewell is not permanent, after you wait for the crown, you will come to find me." ”

"Yui."

Xie Hui and other disciples should give up.

Shen Chen waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's disperse, I'm leaving." ”

And they got out of the way.

Shen Chen slowly passed through the crowd, and every student who looked at him nodded slightly as a sign of encouragement.

After a while, he walked to the carriage, surrounded by Shan Yi and Wu Dang and other disciples, Shen Chen got into the carriage.

He stood on the carriage, pressed his sword in his left hand, and looked down on the crowd: "My disciples need to remember that only when there is a country can there be a home, and only when there are all the people can there be a country. At the time of national crisis, it is time to stand up, turn the tide and help the building to fall. As a teacher, this trip is to unite knowledge and action, and to correct the world. You should work hard, and after your knowledge grows and your intelligence is successful, you should not forget all the people, and the teacher and the king will encourage you! ”

With that, he bent down and bowed to his disciples.

"Obey the teachings of the master."

The disciples also bowed to him.

Shen Chen laughed and sat in the carriage and shouted: "This is going to Xiangyang, the master has gone first, don't forget your studies!" ”

"Yui!"

All the disciples kept their hands in an arched posture and replied in unison.

The coachman slapped the horse's buttocks.

The carriage slowly left, and many disciples looked at Shen Chen's side face, and bowed their hands in unison: "Congratulations to Shijun!" ”

Shen Chen waved his hand outside from the carriage.

The convoy headed east.

Shan Yi, Wu Dang, and other disciples walked slowly behind the wheels with their heels.

The speed of the car is not fast, but it is getting farther and farther away.

The disciples behind him still maintained the posture of arching their hands, unwilling to leave for a long time.

In their hearts, Shijun is the best person.

Shijun's age is not as good as many disciples, but he is full of talent and learning, and his exit is complete.

Shijun's physique is not as strong as Shan Yi, but he is fierce and courageous.

He was humble and gentlemanly.

He is jealous and hateful, and if there is any injustice in the countryside, they will come to him.

The world only said that Shen Chen was like a murderer, and he was a handsome talent rising under Liu Jingsheng's account in Jingzhou.

But I don't know.

In the hearts of the disciples, that elegant, polite, and kind young man is their favorite teacher.

Master and go first!

The disciples will follow!

(End of chapter)