Zhang Yan still has a bit of a brotherly plot on his side, and it is not easy to make up his mind, but it is relatively easy on Yu Fuluo's side.

The people who followed Yu Fuluo were all people who had expectations for the future, thinking that they could continue to live a good life, and they didn't want to disobey the orders of a strong man like Liu Bei, and in this case, the existence of Hu Chuquan's department was a huge unstable factor.

Wouldn't it be good if you could exchange the lives of Hu Chuquan and others for a bright future?

As for flesh and blood brotherhood and the like...... He has experienced everything that stepped on his father's corpse and became a single Yu, let alone his younger brother.

I'm sorry, in the face of survival, this is not a matter, we Huns care more about survival, not about family affection.

And so the strategic plan was finalized.

Before officially starting the war against the state, fight two outpost battles to eliminate the Yu Poison Group and the Huchuquan Group.

This actually has a great advantage, because all of them know that Liu Bei is going to recruit them to fight the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, so all the combat readiness of the Zhang Yan group and the Yufuluo group are also public, including the war readiness of Taiyuan County, which is all public.

The change in the goal of the operation was only known to a few people in the upper echelons, and the officers and soldiers at the bottom only knew that they were going to deal with the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, even Yu Poison and Hu Chuquan all looked at this matter in this way.

No one would have thought that the first thing everyone would have to deal with was their own people who were still eating in a pot not long ago, and the speed would be so fast, and the determination would be so decisive, without any procrastination.

Yu Poison Group and Hu Chuquan Group have also privately discussed the possibility of Liu Bei attacking them, and some people are worried that Liu Bei will join forces with Zhang Yan and Yu Fuluo to attack them, but this concern is not mainstream and has no actual basis.

Yu Poison thinks that Zhang Yan is not such a decisive and ruthless person, while Hu Chuquan believes that his existence is valuable to Fuluo, and Yu Fuluo will not give up on himself easily.

They may not know the phrase Asuka is good for the bow, but they understand the specific meaning.

Now the two groups are thinking about a more concrete way forward.

Rejected the demands of the Luoyang Imperial Court, and blindly pursued freedom and power at a price, and if Liu Bei really came to crusade against them, they were not sure that they would be able to carry it.

Yu Poison Group still believed that it could rely on the dangerous terrain to resist Liu Bei, drag the war into a protracted war, and consume Liu Bei, and put forward a strategic plan for digging deep holes and storing more grain.

They believed that if Liu Bei wanted to crusade against them, he would have to mobilize a large number of troops to search the mountains to encircle and fight, and he needed a lot of food, as long as they could not hold out and block the mountain roads, with the daily consumption of Liu Bei's army, it would not be long before they could win the protracted war.

The big deal is the same as in the past, the government can't control them, and they can't help the government, everyone continues to be their mountain king freely on the mountain, and behind closed doors in this acre of land is the king and hegemon, but it is not at ease.

As for the other way, they really can't think of it.

The troubles in other regions have been pacified by Liu Bei, Youzhou and Jizhou have no room for them to exert themselves, to the north is the grassland desert, to the south is the core of Luoyang, except for the Taihang Mountains, they have nowhere to go.

In this silent stall, someone glanced at Yu Poison as if complaining and muttered.

"There's nothing wrong with taking refuge in the imperial court, at least you won't be trapped here and unable to move......"

As a result, this sentence caused a strong reaction from Yu Poison, and he almost didn't hit the dog's brain with the Gu who said this.

Huchuquan Group is a bachelor, thinking that if this land can no longer survive, it is a big deal to return to the north, return to the land where their ancestors lived, and live their nomadic life again, but before that, if Liu Bei persecuted too much, they would definitely fight back.

But having said that, when they really began to prepare for returning north, they found that they had so many unaccustomed and reluctant things.

Living on the land of Bingzhou for a long time, they have not returned to the grassland desert for several generations, and they have adapted to the current life of semi-farming or even full farming.

A considerable number of the people in the various tribes of the Southern Xiongnu maintained a semi-agricultural and full-agricultural living conditions, and even their living habits changed from no fixed place to settle down, and many people would immediately build houses, reclaim land, and carry out agricultural production for themselves as soon as they found a suitable place to live.

A considerable part of the Southern Xiongnu people were better at tending to the crops in the field than grazing, preferring to wear linen cloth rather than wearing animal skins, and they were now more accustomed to eating grain than the grassland diet.

Most of their living habits such as dressing, diet, etc. are adapted to the life of the state, and they have lived like this for more than 100 years, which is said to be a return to the life of their ancestors, but how easy is it to say?

He likes to eat mutton scones the most, but now he is worried about where he will go to satisfy his appetite if he can't get enough grain after he returns to the grassland.

Could it be that from now on, if you want to eat a bite of mutton scones, you have to lead troops south to loot a batch of grains?

He had a hard time accepting this fact.

So if you really want to leave here, they may not be willing.

Tangled emotions spread up and down this part of the Southern Xiongnu group.

And while they were entangled and hesitant, the Luoyang court did not have any entanglement and hesitation.

According to Liu Bei's latest arrangement, let Guan Yu dock with Yu Fuluo, deal with the Southern Xiongnu Hu Chuquan Department, let Zhang Yan dock with Zhang Yan, and deal with the Yu Poison Department of the Black Mountain Army.

According to estimates, the population under the command of Huchuquan is about 80,000 or 90,000, and the number of soldiers who can fight is close to 20,000, but less than 20,000, and the population controlled by the Black Mountain Army in the drug department is only 70,000 or 80,000, but the number of soldiers in battle will not be more than that of Huchuquan.

Therefore, in this battle, two armies plus the Black Mountain Army and the Huairou forces of the Southern Xiongnu were dispatched to deal with the rebel forces.

This battle is scheduled to be held on the first day of February in the second year of Jian'an, and before that, it is a period of recuperation for the big guys.

The New Year's Festival of the second year of Jian'an is the first time in many years that Liu Bei has spent a complete New Year's Festival with his family, one is not lacking, one is not lacking, the mother is here, the wives and concubines are there, and the children are also there.

And during the New Year's Festival last year, Liu Bei was still on the way to lead the troops to fight in Youzhou, and he took a day off during the New Year's Festival and ate meat for everyone all day, which was considered a festival.

This year is fine, there is no large-scale war, and there are not too many worries, it is a rare good time to rest in peace, so this year Liu Bei has no intention of continuing to work overtime, but has a happy rest for three days.

In the past three days, he and his family received many relatives and friends, everyone drank and talked together, complained to each other, and the fried food limited to the New Year was also brought to the table, so that adults and children could enjoy it.

And in order to paralyze the enemy's nerves, Liu Bei even asked Guan Yu and Zhao to return to Luoyang for the festival, and let them bring their respective families to Liu Bei's mansion to celebrate the New Year, eat, drink, and have fun.

On the third day of rest, Liu Bei also took the whole family to enjoy the snow outside Luoyang City, and then barbecued meat in the snow together.

Liu Shen and Liu Ze finally came out after a hellish period of study.

In the final exam of this semester when they had just transferred to Sili Academy, Liu Shen won the first place, Liu Ze took the second place, and the two brothers occupied the top two, giving Han Ning a fierce face.

So Han Ning not only allowed the two brothers to rest and have fun during the New Year's Festival, but also allowed the two brothers to go out to play in the company of Liu Bei after the beginning of spring.

These two boys are happy, there is meat barbecue here, and snowball fights start over there - but it is said that Guan Ning and Zhang Chi are not so lucky.

It's not aimed at Liu Shen and Liu Ze, although Mrs. Guan and Mrs. Zhang are both strong women who don't admit defeat, they can still figure out the importance of Liu's problem, so they didn't ask their sons to surpass Liu Shen and Liu Ze as their goal.

But you can't lose to Ji Xiao's livestock, right?

Yes, the third place in the final exam this time was actually Ji Xiao, who historically broke through his best score of seventh place and was admitted to the third grade, pressing Guan Ning and Zhang Chi behind, making Mrs. Guan and Mrs. Zhang angry.

You can't fight anymore, you can't even pass the exam, but the two of you can press Ji Xiao to the ground and beat him, but the two of you are so uncompetitive?

What will happen to them?

Liu Bei didn't know, but it was not good to interfere in other people's family affairs, seeing Liu Shen and Liu Ze playing so happily, he felt that it was very good to be able to take care of these bear children in the family.

Let them study and be strict with them, that's a point, but it's also necessary to let them have time to relax, so that they don't always have a tense nerves and have problems in their hearts.

As he was thinking like this, Gong Qin and Gong Ling had already rushed out to join the two boys in the snowball fight.

Although Gong Qin and Gong Ling are already mothers, they still have a girlish mentality, they don't often see snow, and when they saw the two boys having a snowball fight, they also happily joined in.

The four of them made a mess.

Liu Bei was amused when he saw it, and he also put down all the shelves, rushed out at once, picked up a ball of snowballs and threw it out suddenly, just hitting Gong Qin.

Gong Qin was furious.

"Lang Junling is too bad! Ah Ling! Ashen Aze! Let's join forces! ”

Gong Qin's arm flutter ushered in a group response from the other three, so the scene became Liu Bei's one-to-four.

Liu Bei was very happy about this.

One-on-four?

When he was young, he saved the bullied Liu Hui in the battle, he was a pair of four, it was his awakening battle, fighting with an injury in exchange for a better standard of living, since then, he has never been afraid of one enemy!

"I'm not afraid to bully too much! You four show me the tricks! ”

Liu Bei laughed and threw a snowball, and the five of them fought.

This gratifying scene seemed to others to be a little envious.

Han Ning, as the main mother, sat on the side and instructed the servants to barbecue, and Han Xiaodie accompanied the servants as always, with no intention of ending.

The rest of the concubines were worried about Han Ning's meaning, and they all had their own identities, although their eyes were full of yearning, but they were embarrassed to take that step.

At this time, they were a little envious of Gong Qin and Gong Ling's temperament that was completely unconstrained by the Central Plains etiquette.

Do whatever you want, and naturally have a snowball fight with Liu Bei, who is freeing himself, and looks very happy.

And they couldn't take a step.

Fortunately, the snowball fight didn't last long, and the housewife sent a message to ask them to come back quickly and prepare to eat barbecue, so this happy snowball fight came to an end.

The barbecue on this day was particularly fragrant, eating and eating, but it made Liu Bei miss the hot pot, and remembered the hot scene when the family gathered around the hot pot to eat hot pot when it was in the cold winter of the month, and he really yearned for it.

So after returning to Luoyang City from the suburbs, Liu Bei instructed his men to go to the barracks to find craftsmen and make a cauldron of copper and iron for him, and he planned to eat a hot pot at home.

Speaking of which, with the development of Liangzhou iron smelting technology and the formalization of iron ore mining, the success of Liangzhou Iron has made a large number of high-quality steel from the military field to the civilian field.

With the expansion of Liu Bei's power, by the second year of Jian'an, the Liangzhou iron system has been promoted in the land of Sanfu and the land of Sanhe, where there are iron mines, mines and iron-smelting workshops have been set up, and special iron bureaus have been set up for management.

The traditional iron officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty were expanded by Liu Bei and set up as the Iron Bureau, which was responsible for the statistics of iron ore mining, as well as the distribution, division and delivery of civil and military iron quantities.

There are standards for how much iron is used to produce civilian appliances and how much iron is used to produce military weapons.

The technology of using coal to smelt iron in Liangzhou was soon extended to these areas, and with the continuous establishment of various mines and iron-smelting workshops, the quantity and quality of steel produced in the Han Empire were greatly improved.

At the same time, under Liu Bei's control, the tax barriers between the counties have also been broken, and important materials related to the field of people's livelihood such as steel, salt, and grain have zero tariffs between the counties, and the passes and important places of water and land transportation in the counties cannot levy taxes on these materials.

As a result, other areas except the iron mining areas were no longer bothered by the high price of iron products, and a large number of cheap and guaranteed iron tools finally flew into the homes of ordinary people.

In the areas where Liu Bei was in power, at least in agricultural production, farmers would no longer lack the use of iron farm tools, and they could safely invest a large number of iron farm tools to improve production efficiency during agricultural production.

With the passage of time, not only agricultural tools can be used for iron, but even in some areas where there is no shortage of iron, civilian kitchen knives have begun to be sold in iron shops.

Along with this is the improvement of agricultural productivity, the grain output in the area controlled by Liu Bei from the first year of Jian'an to the third year of Jian'an, has achieved a triple jump in grain output, the number is gratifying, so that the court of Luoyang is happy.

The living standards of ordinary families in the Han Empire also ushered in a significant leap with the great development of the steel production industry in the Han Empire.

On this basis, Liu Bei's dream of having an iron pot that can stir-fry vegetables was also realized in September of the first year of Jian'an.

It is said that this iron pot was made by hand, and it also gathered the efforts of five or six skilled blacksmiths, and finally succeeded in meeting Liu Bei's requirements.

However, Liu Bei had too many things to do at that time, and he never remembered to use it, until the New Year's Festival, when Han Ning asked, and Liu Bei remembered the existence of this iron pot.

Walking into the kitchen, in the surprised eyes of the cooks, Liu Bei took out the big iron pot, weighed the weight, touched it, and then asked the cooks to light a fire and start preparing for stir-frying.

The first stir-fry in the history of this world was done in the kitchen of Liu Bei's house.

The cook, who didn't know how to stir-fry, completed a pot of sunflower stir-fried meat under Liu Bei's personal command, simple seasoning, and stir-fry over high heat.

After the first stir-fry in this world came out, Liu Bei became the first person in history to enjoy stir-fried dishes, and after tasting a bite, he was full of emotion-

Fuck, sunflower isn't cooked! The meat is also cooked on the outside and not cooked on the inside!

When I first started using this brand-new cooking utensil, the cook didn't control the heat well, I didn't know how long it was the most appropriate, and my eyes were not very skilled, and Liu Bei was standing next to him, and the gap in identity made the cook panic.

Liu Bei himself is also a problem, he is a mouth cannon kitchen god, he thinks he is proficient in the practice of the eight major cuisines, and after reading the recipes, he feels that he is the kitchen god in the world, so he blindly commands, trying to make the chef reproduce the traditional eight cuisines at the speed of light.

As a result, the cook was even more panicked, and after a few stir-fries at will, it came out of the pot, wasting good ingredients.

Liu Bei realized that his talent was not in the kitchen, and realized the mistake of the layman commanding the insider, so he withdrew from the kitchen and let the cook figure out the use of this iron pot by himself.

After the New Year's Festival, on the 15th and 16th, the cook came to report that they were finally able to use the iron pot to cook a table of meals that Liu Bei could see.

Liu Beixing rushed over to take a look, seven or eight dishes, all fried, simple vegetables and meat slices, stir-fried over and over again, hey, it's really like that.

At that meal, Liu Bei ate very well, and called Han Ning to eat them together, and also got good feedback, saying that the food made in this way had a different taste from the one eaten in the past, and it had a different taste.

Liu Bei then rewarded the cooks at home, asking them to make persistent efforts to study more delicious stir-fry methods, take out all the ingredients they can find and try them, and try all the condiments they can find, and definitely don't be stingy.

If you are a general, you can eat freely or something.

After the stir-fry is in place, the hot pot is also in place.

In this cold winter, Liu Bei and his family used the boiled bone broth to make the soup base, shabu beef and mutton to eat, and any ingredients that could be obtained were brought to eat, and the food was hot, warm and comfortable.

Liu Bei has always been a person who pays attention to [it is better to be happy alone than to be happy], so he quickly placed orders for several newly established iron-smelting workshops in the Luoyang area, and prepared a batch of large iron pots for the army soldiers.

It can not only be used for shabu shabu, but also for the old fireheads of the army to fry the big pot of dishes, and in the future as a way to improve the army's food, so that the soldiers can eat shabu shabu around the cauldron in the cold wind, although it costs a lot, but the morale boost is quite high.

The morale boost is irreplaceable.

In the first month of the second year of Jian'an, Liu Bei did these things that seemed like no big deal, and even as a general, he did these things quite unprofessionally.

However, after he ascended to a high position, there was no need to do everything himself, he recruited so many talents to form the Great General's Mansion, in order to help him share the pressure and deal with some things.

Otherwise, why spend money to recruit so many people?

He likes Zhuge Liang very much, but such a perfect existence also has the small disadvantage of "everything must be done personally".

That's not going to work.

(End of chapter)