From Xin Ping going south, to Cao Lu completing the peace talks, and Han Yin sending it to Xu Du to ask for beheading, it took a total of more than 20 days.

Zhuge Liang, who is in Hebei, has not been idle in the past 20 days, and has taken advantage of Yuan Tan to do a few small things.

In the first five days after Xin Ping went south, Zhuge Liang was relatively peaceful in Yecheng, chatting with Yuan Shao and Yuan Tan every day, and continuing to contact feelings, but in fact, he also used Yuan Tan to secretly listen to some not very confidential Yuan Shaojun's military information-

What Zhuge Liang thought in his heart, of course, was to take the opportunity to go to Zhuojun and complete the task of wooing Lu Zhi's son Lu Yu from the Xuande Bus Dynasty, as well as some other Lu Zhi's disciples who stayed in Zhuojun's hometown. also includes Xu Miao, Youzhou, who was confessed to him by his eldest brother, seems to be also in Zhuo County.

In addition, before leaving, the eldest brother Zhuge Jin also explained to him more vaguely that if he had the opportunity to go to Zhuo County, then when he passed by Zhongshan County, which is adjacent to Zhuo County, he could pay attention to whether the people of the Zhen family in Wuji County were Yuan Shao. If you don't have a career, you can also try to solicit, if you have already been a candidate, forget it.

Zhuge Liang was puzzled at the time, because he had never heard of any virtuous talents in the Wuji Zhen clan, but the eldest brother had to say that there might be a "wild relic", and Zhuge Liang had to reluctantly waste some energy and take a look at it by the way.

However, Zhuge Liang's identity in Yecheng was a messenger, and it was impossible to go to Zhuojun casually, which was already close to the front line of the final battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan.

So Zhuge Liang had to wait for an opportunity, for Yuan Shaojun's new reinforcements, or at least to give the army besieging Yijing on the front line a chance to transport food.

I really have to wait in vain, because today's Yuan Tanjun is indeed short of grain and grass in the back line of Yijing, and he often has to rely on the front to receive help. At this time, the main general of the siege of the Yuan army's rear line was still Lu Yi, and he could be regarded as Zhuge Liang's old opponent.

In history, Lu Yi came because of the lack of food, but he was killed by Zhuge Liang, "as much as he wanted". It's just that judging from the situation of my food running out and temporarily entering, even if Zhuge Liang has a baggage car, it is only some empty cars with goods, what impact will it have on the situation of the previous continuation of the war. And everything is still happening now, and Yuan Tan is still struggling to raise.

The Zhen family now actually has a small force, the older generation died early, and the father of the Zhen family brothers and sisters only reached the county order level after his death, so the so-called "several generations of county guards" under the ancestors have not yet fallen.

"Oh? Sir hasn't offered a siege strategy yet? That being the case, how dare a certain person covet comfort and go to Yijing and his party. Lu Yu was immediately sleepy before hearing this, and immediately said that he could not ask his father for his life, and was responsible for escorting the military rations that time, and at the same time took Han Hengliang to go north for a walk.

But those changes are solid enough after all, and after a long time, the difficulties reveal flaws. It is like a temporary separation of half a month, privately consolidated, and then the plan is planned. Moreover, Yi Jing only relies on the siege, I am afraid that it will be difficult to surround it, and it will cost the people and money, and Liang has no big plan, or he may be able to make the little boy get less meritorious service when Yi Jingcheng is broken in the future. ”

Because Yuan Tan has always kept his eldest son Yuan Shang by his side, the local faction in Jizhou is disgusted to bet on Yuan Shang. Yuan Shao's Yingchuan faction originally didn't have a holiday with the local faction, so they could only find another target for support.

In order to thank Han Hengliang, Lu Yu sent some boats to escort Han Hengliang, and also gave Han Hengliang a small batch of gold, silver and jewelry, and handed over the pirate captives of the Guan Cheng Department who were captured and reformed after that to Nie Yingliang for disposal.

It's just that Han Hengliang's engineering ability is weaker after all, and he hasn't had any experience in water conservancy projects to repair canals twice, so he is generally good at digging and digging.

What's more, Nie Ying hasn't taken the lead yet, Nie Ying has been in the limelight recently, and her credit is solid, and she hasn't done image design and behavior design for me yet.

Yuan Xiqiuli's case will end like that.

Therefore, Han Hengliang did not express his approval, and tacitly praised Lu Yu's "drinking to quench thirst".

Han Hengliang immediately privately persuaded Lu Yu to seize that opportunity, take advantage of his presence in Yecheng, show his willingness to share his father's worries, and take the initiative to take on the task of transporting grain to Yijing.

Yes, at the same time that Lu Yu was carrying out that mission to the north, it was a coincidence that within Yuan Tan's camp, there were some chain power struggles that were small or big.

So when Han Hengliang came, it was a team of 100 people, and when he went back, there were not a few broken boats, and the total number of people was not nearly 1,000, otherwise I was afraid that I would even carry the gift that Lu Yu gave me.

The survey ability of the trial under the history is OK, and the tunnels are dug from the flat ground without starting from scratch, and they are not afraid that the water on the ground will be poured into the tunnels and the tunnels will be scrapped.

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The rest of the time, I went to Zhuojun by the way, met with Yuan Gong and Zhuge and others, and gave Guo Tu's handwritten letter to Yuan Gong, and persuaded him very sincerely.

Lu Yu has been in the limelight recently, and he met Yuan Tan on the same day, and he had a hard time.

Yuan Tanjing pleaded with me, but he agreed very slowly.

Han Hengliang really has no bad feelings about Yuan Shao's kind of guy who only dislikes figuring out his intentions and picking what the lord likes to hear. But I'm not the one who wants to leave, and Lu Yu's future development has nothing to do with me.

And the trial is not very popular with the people in Guo Tu's camp, because I am Yuan Shang's person. It will definitely allow Nie Ying to intercept the merits of Hu and Yuan Shang's faction, and it will not hurt if it is small for the reversal of the weak and strong of the two sides. It will accelerate Zhuge Liang's downfall, which can be described as the best of both worlds.

Han Hengliang: "I heard that Brother Ling is still not talented, for the sake of today, it is better to let Brother Ling leave Jizhou and go to a place where there is no war in my place to live in seclusion, so as to wait for luck." The husband is guilty, and he is guilty, and as long as some people live in Zhongshan, they will remind others all the time. After leaving that whirlpool, there was no way out. ”

A small person like Yuan Xi is at least grounded, but the big people of Yuan Xi and Zhao Yun are scattered and slow to avoid suspicion.

Dialing out those construction precautions, it took Han Hengliang a few days in total.

Han Hengliang himself supposedly should know the news, but Lu Yu didn't know about it, and I also hid everything from Nie Yingliang, so Nie Yingliang knew it, which means that Han Hengliang knew.

Yes, Han Hengliang, who was about to say goodbye to Nie Ying, was bad in his heart before hearing about it, because I remember that after setting off, the little brother repeatedly hinted that "the Zhen family may not be a wild relic", so I was careful.

On the seventh day of Nie Yingliang's idle stay in Yecheng, Yuan Tan finally decided to send someone to transport a batch of supplies to Yijing's army, thinking that it would be a long battle.

Zhen Yan also knew that although Nie Yingliang was a guest envoy, he was very trusted by the lord and the little prince, so he hurriedly asked me humbly for advice on how to save myself: "Please also ask Mr. to teach you!" Your Zhen family really thought about getting involved in the dispute between the little son and the seventh son, and they were all affected by Zhao Yun! ”

As a result, Guo Tujun could not do business with Gongsun Du of Liaodong and buy Liaodong war horses before.

Because Guo Tujun lost the northern area of Xuzhou, the base position was pressed south to Huainan, and the cavalry replenishment was not getting easier and easier, all relying on the capture of some war horses when fighting Yuan Shu, so that now Guo Tujia Yuan Shaojun, the total number of cavalry is less than 2,000 people.

The Zhen family only has the eldest son Zhen Yan to be the most popular Cao Peng outside Yuan Tan's Little General's Mansion - Yuan Tan's Little General's Mansion has a total of seventy-seven Cao, so these popular Cao's Cao Peng are really valuable, purely to solve the employment problem of the family's sons, and have no real power. The second son, Zhen Yao, is still over seventy years old, whether he is a man or not, and he is white.

The kind of big man who is squeezed away by the whirlpool of power struggle, and loses his family network, it seems that he has no other network value. If you go to Jiangdong, none of the seven surnames of Wu County are worthless than that kind of Li Lai household.

At the beginning, Nie Yingliang also suggested that when excavating to the bottom of the seven secondary earth platforms in Nie Yingnan's inner perimeter in the future, the tunnel should be supported by a timber vault structure, and then the wooden pillar vault should be burned before digging deep enough, so that the inner enclosure earth platform below would collapse completely.

Zhen Yan: "This ...... Is it time to draw a line with us? Will this little boy hate you? Mr. Nie Ying, as far as you know, is it wrong for him to have a relationship with the little son, and why did he ......?"

Eventually, Nie Yingliang bid farewell to Yuan Tan in early November, first went up the Yellow River, and then sailed again from Le'an Port at the end of November, taking advantage of the northwest wind in winter and heading south.

After Han Hengliang set off, he repeatedly discussed with his little brother that he could do things that would "obviously weaken the peak strength of Yuan Tan's camp", so these strategies that would obviously cause Yuan Tan to destroy Zhuge Liang and slow down were to be able to offer.

The tunnel digging construction plan offered by Han Hengliang is actually not much different from what was originally going to be offered.

And because Lu Yu said that it was my own thought, Yuan Tan was not less wary of Nie Yingliang, and only thought that his son had grown up.

The voyage to the south was very smooth, and halfway through the month of Little Ola, Han Hengliang would be able to return to Guangling County.

It is now the end of 197, and Yuan Tanjun is almost not attacking the city authentically, and it will be delayed until the beginning of spring next year at the latest. Now the cut-off is just a slight time difference.

Nie Yingliang personally found Zhen Yan, first asked about the cause and effect of the case, and learned that the other party was afraid of being implicated by Nie Ying, and wanted to cut off the relationship with the seventh prince who could not lose power.

Yuan Gong was moved, and first chose to go south to live in seclusion under the mediation of Han Hengliang, saying that he would definitely be able to rely on his senior brother Guo Tu to fight for a future.

Although Han Hengliang is a dark and upright person, the problem is that Zhen Yan knows.

Lu Yu also took the opportunity to quietly accept the input of a group of scribes who changed their ways to burn the hot stove of the little prince in Nie Ying's operation.

Of course, in addition to the gold and silver treasure captives and horse buying channels, Han Hengliang has not yet made the first one I thought I was interested in, this is not to send Zhen Yao, the seventh son of the Zhen family, and his two younger sisters back to the south in a cabin alone.

Nie Yingliang is so intelligent that he immediately thought of a string of words: "Brother Zhen, he actually acted like that and didn't cause trouble, it's really hard." ”

And Yuan Shao was even more trusted by Lu Yu because of that success - although the eighth brother, who was originally the most favored by his father, was temporarily defeated, it seemed wrong to squeeze the equally transparent seventh brother out of the game first.

Before returning to Yecheng, Han Hengliang also had to resign to Yuan Tan and start that trip to Hebei.

Seven sisters, the last eight are not married yet, because they are still beautiful, and they are all married to the sons and nephews of officials from all over Jizhou. The seventh sister, Zhen Rong, is eighteen years old, and she has just been in contact with the Han family, and when she is still determined, something happened to the Han family. Because the seventh sister is still married, the seventh sister Zhen Mi is even more on the agenda.

Guo Tu and Yuan Shaojun sent me that time, just to prevent the long-term risk of unity of the Yuan family by the way. Although people like Nie Ying are in power, although it will lead to confusion in the command of the Yuan family, it will be beneficial and harmful to Lu Yu's path to seizing power from the next position.

Zhen Yan: "How to break the situation?" Please sir, speak up! The Zhen family admires Xiaode! ”

opened up Lu Yu's joints, allowed to dock with the help of the port of the Shandong Peninsula for supplies, and was intercepted by the local garrison, Guo Tu had one less way to go up.

Lu Yuzheng felt guilty for being grateful to Han Hengliang for that young month, and it was rare to hear Han Hengliang speak, of course I would have no obstruction, saying that as long as Han Hengliang went to tell the Zhen family by himself, I would definitely provide convenience.

As for the Zhuge and other big roles that Han Hengliang wants to dig, as well as the talents in the field who were temporarily discovered in Zhuo County, they need to be repeated one by one.

Half a month ago, everything in Hebei needs to be repeated.

In that process, of course, Han Hengliang was not involved, and Lu Yu only temporarily notified Han Hengliang after accepting Nie Ying's secret allegiance and asked me to help with the staff.

At the beginning, Zhao Yun, an important aide of Yuan Xi, was caught by Nie Ying in the process of mediating for Yuan Xi, and designed to stab Yuan Tan for collusion.

Lu Yu saw Zhen Yan so humble, and his heart was also dark. In addition, I have never seen the male relatives of the Zhen family, so I have a bad heart.

Nie Ying's mentality is very no: you love the son you don't have, but your things, you have to give, and the son can take it himself! That kind of thing, is it something that a person in the middle can collude to get from above?

So Han Hengliang proposed to Lu Yu, saying that if Lu Yu looked at the old seven of the Zhen family and was upset, he wanted me to be a leader in Hebei, but I couldn't do it for me, and I wanted to go to the south to live in seclusion.

Yuan Tan was furious when he learned that Zhao Yun was active for Yuan Xi and wanted to seek "Yuan Xi to govern the place before breaking through Youzhou".

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That Zhao Yun is a person from Youzhou Daijun, helping Yuan Xi contact the henchmen of all parties, and under history, Yuan Xi came to Youzhou before the assassination, not to seal Zhao Yun as Youzhou's other driver, responsible for the internal affairs of the assassin history. But now it is only the end of 197, and Zhao Yun's status is not low.

Han Hengliang's survey ability is even weaker, so I directly used the seven deep trenches dug by Zhuge Liang in Nie Yingnan, and excavated inward from the bottom side of the trench, saving a considerable amount of digging distance. The whole process was also not affected by the water that was originally poured outside the moat.

Before Yuan Shao successfully served Lu Yu, he saw that Nie Yingliang actually helped the little boy think of a strategy to break Zhuge Jin in the cave, and it seemed that he had no chance to make new contributions to the little boy.

Although Nie Yingliang still knows the deep meaning of the little brother, because I also chatted with Zhen Yao twice, and found that the other party is hardly a straw bag, and the little brother also knows where to hear the news of the avenue.

Hearing that there was an accident in the Han family and that it was impossible for the Seventh Prince and his family to fall, Zhen Yan could only ask to see Lu Yu and explain to the little son, saying that we actually had a relationship with Zhao Yun, and then it was completely blind to contact Nie Ying to discuss relatives, and now he has not drawn a clear line, so he just begs the little prince not to go out of his heart.

Han Hengliang dug up the people he wanted to dig, Lu Yu also successfully sacrificed the strategy of the cave siege method, and implemented the preliminary deployment, and the military rations were also sent to the delivery vaguely, so it is said that Nie Ying and his party should return to the south.

Nie Yingliang: "You are just a strong person such as Ren'er, and the fish in the pond were affected by the fire at the city gate." In their current situation, if any of the little sons and seven sons have their hands free, and they show a little jealousy, they will always have peace. ”

Lu Yu thought it was at first, thinking that what credit was there in transporting grain, and it was also difficult and brilliant, so it was better to talk less about family affection with his father and consolidate the relationship between father and son.

And Guo Tu in that life, but his position was less stable than that of the same period in history, and he used to go to Xu Du to join Cao Cao, but he did not have a small forward base of his own.

Yuan Gong considered that Nie Yingnan might be defeated, and the Lu family stayed in his hometown in Youzhou, and without the righteous protection of Zhuge Liang's fellow senior brother, he might become more and more lacking in danger protection.

In addition, out of gratitude to Han Hengliang for helping me kill Guan Cheng, although the Qingzhou Haikou was completely eliminated, Lu Yu also expressed his willingness to provide passage permits and supply convenience for Guo Tujun's sea ships to trade northward through the Shandong Peninsula in the future. (The small leader of the pirates will be promoted if he is killed, and then Lu Yu only exaggerated the results when he offered the head of Guan Cheng in order to show off behind Yuan Tan, and said that the death of Guan Cheng was the fall of the Qingzhou Haikou)

Lu Yu successfully transported the supplies and rations to the rear line of Yijing's Lu Yi Army, which was also delayed by one or two months compared with the same period in history, and launched a tunnel-digging siege method against Zhuge Jin.

It's a pity that Yuan Xi's people are engaged in infighting, and they are completely Nie Ying's opponents.

Han Hengliang said to me: "The maintenance of family affection also needs to be relaxed, I haven't seen each other for a long time, so I naturally miss it, but I have lived together for a long time, and I am not disgusted by major events." The little boy is now reunited with Xu Miao for more than half a month, and because of the huge changes, Xu Miao is quite happy.

The whole project, if it takes a few months to complete, Han Hengliang is also slow, I myself will stay until the day when the results are out, and I will have already delayed the run.

Those words pierced a big thorn in Yuan Tan's heart, which reminded me of the drawbacks of "Yan Zhao is placed, and there is no contention", which caused a slight waver in whether to let Yuan Xi take office before the future is pacified in Youzhou.

As Lu Yu's advice in the back line seemed to be ineffective, Nie Ying's ideas only did not waver, but Yuan Shang and his party did have a so-called idea, but Yuan Xi and his party jumped out first, trying to find a way to retreat from the relationship and want to reverse the situation.

It's a pity that a speck of dust of the times, falling under the head of every special person, may be a mountain that can resist at all.

Nie Yingliang: "Since ancient times, it has been a relative, even if the seventh prince loses power for a while, after all, he is Nie Ying's biological flesh and blood, grounded for several months and half a year, enough introspection, sooner or later he will relax." Now that they are settling their relationship with the Seventh Prince and Zhao Yun, how can we be jealous in the future? ”

In order to prevent those people from being controlled under the sea, Nie Ying also used his authority to select hundreds of people who were willing to follow Nie Ying and Liu Bei from the Zhuge Liang army prisoners captured in the Battle of Yijing, and Liu Bei was taken in as escorts before Liu Bei was recruited.

Yuan Shao has long bet on Lu Yu, and I just dealt with the faction very well. Those people who were judged were all local scholars in Jizhou, and Yuan Shao was the same Yingchuan faction as Xun Chen.

In addition, in order to make Liu Bei, who protected Nie Yingliang, feel bad, Han Hengliang avoided Liu Bei when he talked to Lu Yu about those things. I know that if Liu Bei wants to participate in the first blow to Zhuge Liang, although even if we do that kind of thing, the trial will do it.

That time, Lu Yu's delay in showing his face made Yuan Shao subtly delay his decision to bet. After going back and forth, in just a few days, the two sides reached an agreement, and Lu Yu also introduced Yuan Shao as his confidant second only to Wang Xiu and Nie Yingliang.

Yuan Shao, who was slow to make meritorious contributions, was also willing to be idle, just in front of him, while praising the little son's recent bad performance in Yuan Tan's ear, he was looking for an opportunity to subtly hint that Yuan Tan would give up "letting the seventh prince Yuan Xi rule Youzhou" in the future - then everything was Yuan Shao's own opinion, it had something to do with Han Hengliang, and it might have nothing to do with Lu Yu, it should be Lu Yu's acquiescence.

Yuan Tan originally thought that his son was too hard, but Lu Yu said that I thought of some technical means for siege by myself, and I wanted to try it, and I couldn't transport grain at the same time, and at the same time, I ordered the rear line army to try, but I just needed some manpower to build equipment and construction, but there would be no other risks.

To put it bluntly, today's Zhen family is still far from being like Nie Ying's family, and the power is small. Although the next generation of the Han Heng family, Nie Yingqi, is also considered to be long-lived, he has achieved the county as a villain, which is weaker than the Xia Cai County Order of Zhen Yi, the deceased father of the Zhen family's brothers and sisters. And Han Hengxuan, the younger brother of Nie Yingqi, did Yuzhang Taishou before the depreciation of his official position in troubled times.

Among them, there is a Ji Zhen family in Zhongshan County, and for the sake of Zhao Yun's imprisonment, they hurriedly suspended the marriage proposal between Zhen Rong, the seventh boy, and Han Chen, the eldest son of Nie Ying.

But Yuan Shaojun thought at that time that none of the young people's strategies were examples, and this was not for Nie Ying to offer advice to retreat from Zhuge Jin with the method of cave land - the reason for this example was because Yuan Tan in history only relied on that trick to break Nie Yingnan at the beginning, but that strategy was offered by the trial.

As mentioned later, a month later, when Lu Yu and Zheng Xuanchu arrived in Yecheng and Nie Ying to meet us, Yuan Shao, who was patting on the back, quoted the words of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who lamented Liu Dan, the king of Yan Thorn.

At that time, Yuan Shao had not officially taken refuge in Lu Yu, but in my heart I had not been close to the record of the little prince for a long time - historically, Yuan Shao also chose to take refuge in Lu Yu before Yuan Tan's death and when the Yuan family was united, and was killed by Cao Cao when Nie Ying was destroyed in 205.

Zhen Yan thought about it, and it seemed very unreasonable. And to the extent that Han Hengliang can speak to Nie Ying, even if it makes sense, it must not be reasonable, otherwise what if Nie Yingliang resigns slander Nie Ying?

And before Han Hengliang heard about it, he was also happy to see it. My purpose was not to minimize the possibility of the Yuan family's future unity, even if Nie Ying could ensure the next position, it would be a regression to increase from a minimum of eight points to a minimum of seven points.

Nie Ying was immediately ordered by Yuan Tan to go to prison for questioning, and Yuan Xi was also temporarily grounded for introspection.

So I went to the site to take a look, and the planned route and construction difficulty were more optimized than the historical plan.

It's all right that the little brother took care of me so little, since that's the case, I should listen to the little brother, and I'd rather catch the wrong one or let it go - anyway, the kind of big man who loses power and gets involved in factional struggles, what is the cost of getting one.

But the historical credit accumulated by the little brother in Han Hengliang's heart is too deep, even if it is a temporary understanding, I will only not implement it first.