In January of the ninth year of the Chuping era, Cao Cao, who was struggling to capture Qingzhou and was trapped without food, read Guo Jia's letter and agreed to surrender with 5,000 of his troops.
Lu Bu readily accepted the offer and submitted a report to enlighten him on his achievements in pacifying Qingzhou, and immediately sent his group of men to garrison Xuzhou as planned, following the instructions of Zhou Yu, the newly-appointed Assassin of Xuzhou.
Since then, the most crucial area of Guandong, except for the two states of Hebei, Hebei and You, which were in a state of war, was all gained by Lu Bu.
However, these big changes in the situation will not have the slightest impact on the ordinary people who are under Lu Bu's protection, especially in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
In the people compete for food, white bones exposed field, nine empty rooms in other counties, compared to the three states under the rule of Lu Bu lived, is really nourishing to cause people to red.
If a child carries gold through the market, it will attract people to scramble for it.
But Lu Bu's military strength is even more amazing than his grain reserves, since no one dares to move.
And so the yellow-faced people struggled through the most agonizing months in envy, and with the arrival of the new spring, with the snow, were finally able to prepare once again for sowing and plowing.
After a year of rest and recuperation, the dispute over Hebei came to an end - Yuan Shao was finally unable to cope with it, and the Yuan family was completely annihilated. Gongsun Zan, who had won a great victory, also honored his word, and handed over half of Jizhou to Lu Bu, who had been providing food and grass, and then went back to Youzhou in a refreshed state.
Of course, he wouldn't dare to renege on his debt is all.
Despite the delay in planting grain and losing a large number of men and women due to the war, Gongsun Zan thought it was beyond worth it when he might get a pain in his heart in return.
As for the other lords, they seized the time and tried to resume production and caress the residents as soon as the spring started.
After this big loss, they are no longer the same as before that small fights to imitate Yan Qing's policy of cantonment, but completely learned from the good, and carried out with great fanfare.
When they find that it is quite effective and taste the big sweetness, they will be more blatant when they follow the example of the gourd and learn from the others.
Yan Qing was naturally clear about this, but he didn't care: as long as the people were the ones who benefited in the end, it was fine.
He didn't want to end up leaving behind, going to Lu Bu's hands, a devastated and broken country with not an inch of grass.
The dynamics of the Lords, in the past can also get prefer to talk with fellow students about some political matters of the many students of the favor, but now more so that they are haunted, but to find out this by the world-famous Yan Dahonglu single-handedly implemented down the system of imperial examinations, the specific is how the matter is.
The Han court now selects officials, the use of all from the bottom to the top of the recommended probationary system, although it did uncover a lot of talent, but the drawbacks are also very great.
Yan Qing did not intend to spend hundreds of years to take the history of Chen Qun proposed "nine products in the system" to carry on the transition, but on the basis of the momentum in a single hand, simply will be destined to be a great resistance to the system, to the implementation of the bold and decisive.
After all, is the first batch, both out of caution, but also the conditions are not mature enough, Yan Qing of course can not be the Ming Dynasty that tends to be a perfect system copied wholesale, but temporarily only in the construction of government schools tends to be complete in Yanzhou, Yang, Yu three states to try and only set up three written exams, as well as a temple test, each early in the month for a, to the last one, since the Xu County test.
If the family is too poor to go to the field to catch the last game, the government can not only provide a simple shelter, financial support for food, and even give their families some allowances as a compensation for the loss of a major labor force, which can be said to give the readers full of decency.
Such favorable conditions, only the rich and powerful as Lu Bu potential can do it.
Of course, in order to prevent people from fishing in troubled waters, the standard of audit is also very strict. Once found, then deprived of three times the qualification of the examination, and in the file to leave a bad record, be sure to let them less crooked brains, love the feather.
Despite the fact that those who were able to enter into the third exam were mostly outstanding talents, Yan Qing didn't want it to become a gap that could be utilized by people with an axe to grind, so he simply blocked it with ugly words at the beginning.
Only two hundred people would be taken in the Temple Examination, and then the positions would be appointed by Lu Bu himself, according to their rankings.
The most important thing is that this exam is only held once every two years.
Now let was still in the wait and see in the other state students whining in the sky, clamor - they out of the noble self-possession of the readers, unwilling to go down, and the beginning of the qualification is not a test, but it is a completely different thing.
I was going to let someone else try it out, waiting for a joke or a hilarious scene before considering whether or not to go down, but when I heard that I'd have to wait a year for this miss, I wasn't too happy about it.
The tighter this restriction became, the more they, who had shown scorn for it, were in turn aroused to curiosity and belligerence.
Especially literati light, there are always some self-proclaimed scholar, because Yan Qing repeatedly take advantage of the decline of the scholarly clans and valves, but also the emergence of the great clans of the moment to do something big to move the reform of the previous heart and soul, to him is a lot to look down on him, he regarded him as a reputation, flattery and flattering dog, often openly criticized, claiming that they do not care to be with the people.
As Yan Qing's reputation grew louder and louder, more and more praised and full of honor, these crowds of people who loathed him grew bigger and bigger, not only reviling him alone, but even the populace, who had been favored and deeply embraced him, were angrily rebuked as ''foolish people''.
Imagine as a person who is not agreed to participate in it, once the scene on the top, a shocking, so that the students of the three states can not look at the dust, and then haughtily whisked away, so that such a difference in the treatment of the Yan Qing face red nose green, would not it be painful and enjoyable?
Since only the students who entered the school in these three states' schoolhouses were screened and allowed to register on the field, they would reluctantly make a trip to the school and be temporarily credited in it, as a temporary titular good.
What they didn't realize was that Yan Qing, who had arranged everything, had already figured out their rebelliousness, and was now smilingly sitting in a fishing boat, waiting for the smart ones to scramble to drill the loopholes that he had deliberately left behind.
After he announced that the first exam would be in May, the number of adults applying for enrollment increased dramatically, but he was happy to see it.
Self-appointed, want to openly pretend to hit him in the face, also have to see if the ability is enough.
The first imperial examination, Yan Qing is extremely important, in order to ensure that nothing is wrong, even the details are personally settled, a few months did not go back to the house to rest, but directly rooted in the schoolhouse.
And the gold content was extremely high. Yuzhou Yingchuan already has the reputation of being a place of great talent, and became the place where Yan Qing made great efforts to develop the new official school, build libraries, and print and sell paper books in large quantities, and in the first one or two years, he attracted many scholars who came here in admiration of the name of the scholar.
This is a rare place of stability in the midst of chaos, a few years down the road, can be said to be a mellow style of learning, become a lot of students yearning for the Holy Land.
Because a number of years ago, Yan Dahonglu in full view, personally go to the library to catch away Guo Jia, let the latter from the obscurity of a white body, a step up to become the envy of all the envy of the Yangzhou chauffeur, after the position on the brilliant, enjoy a show of learning not to mention that, but also with the world-famous Yan Chongguang became a lifelong best friend.
This nobleman discerns the pearl, the scholar's beautiful news, since people love to listen to the story, was told, also made countless artistic processing, but the bookstore where this good thing happened, almost every self-confessed that no one can recognize a thousand miles of horse, hope that can be Yan Qing this Bole see, from now on the official career prosperous people, are bound to diligently stroll in the place.
Yan Qing was really in tears after hearing this anecdote from Guo Jia.
These people who think too much are doomed to have their fantasies shattered; he's busy all day long, where would he find so much time to go out and wander around and discover the Legacy Pearl?
Besides, the horse is a real millenium horse, but he is a fake Bole.
In any case, for this session of the imperial examination to take a scholar, at great pressure to do down Yan Qing, still have great expectations: those who learned from the schoolhouse out of the comprehensive qualities with excellent crop of good seedlings aside, single mention no Chajiao system of age limitations, the system of imperial examination under the Lu Xun and Zhu Geliang, but can be at the same time under the field.
With Wolong and Lu Da Dudu, who are young, but can be fully described as learned and wise, to support the scene, it is enough to kill a large number of people.
Not to mention that this is the first of the early emergence of the imperial examination system, the mere fact that there are two jewels competing for glory is definitely worth going down in the history books.
In fact, Zhuge Liang had by this time changed his name to Lu Liang with his righteous father Lu Bu, while Lu Liang took Yan Qing's surname and became Yan Liang.
Yan Qing subconsciously believes that Lu Liang's name is really mediocre, not at all comparable to Zhuge Liang to be wise and wise, so despite the outsiders so called, he and Lu Bu in private when mentioning the second son, or habitually call his old name.
In addition, there were some unexpected arrivals that caught Yan Qing's attention: the famous "Sima Bada" from Hanoi, three of whom came in one breath, but unfortunately Sima Yi was not one of them; the Linhuai Stallion, who had taken refuge in Jiangdong and whose family was declining; and the phoenix chick Pang Tong, who was the only son of his master Pang Degong, Pang Shanmin, who was the only son of his master Pang Degong, who was the only son of his master Pang Shanmin. ......
When Lu Bu returned to the mansion with a fatigue, it was rare to see Yan Qing, who had been so busy recently that he stayed in the inner hall, but he took Lu Xun's article and read it carefully and appreciated it.
Lu Bu sat down expressionlessly, took the lukewarm teapot, and without pouring a cup, directly gurgled on the spout and poured it into his mouth.
Yan Qing only noticed him at this moment, and laughed with great honor: "Lord may as well take a look at it, Zhi'er this article, but the more he writes, the better he gets."
Lu Bu tugged at the corner of his mouth, barely putting on an appearance of interest as he picked it up and read through it at a glance, casually echoing, "Not bad indeed. In that case, Liang'er's has also grown quite a bit."
Yan Qing was slightly concerned in his heart.
Lu Bu is an uncompromisingly pragmatic, in the poetry and song and the way is not proficient, where can judge Zhuge Liang's writing good or bad?
However, he was very reasonable and did not expose Lu Bu's pretense, but smiled brightly and said, "Oh? Can you allow Qing to have a look?"
He bristled and said in a very disgusted tone, "Am I hardly going to have to carry around a furry child's homework?"
Yan Qing: "......"
He silently recalled that the composition from Lu Xun's hand seemed to have been happily pasted up by himself on an entire wall of the study and the inner sanctum so that he could enjoy his baby son's masterpiece whenever he wanted to.
Had it not been for the fact that Lu Xun, who had always treated him with what could be termed sincere trepidation, had shown a rare expression of such intense embarrassment on this point that it had come to the point of having to make a solemn objection to it at the table, Yan Qing would never have been able to let go of these halls in which he could have better flaunted himself to his visitors.
Just a sigh of relief Lu Xun did not know is that Yan Qing held back a few days, but more a new problem - the guests are brought into the inner hall to slip around, implicitly mention a few sentences, and so they hear the strings and know the meaning of elegant, Lu Xun a hard to praise, only to feel satisfied to start discussing the main event.
The effect is immediate, not a month's work, the whole world knows that Yan Qing won a love so much of the righteous son, not only as if it were their own, completely as a treasure, their own hold is not enough, have to be surrounded by people to follow the hold only line.
Yan Qing is now one hundred percent satisfied with Lu Xun, and when he heard that Lu Bu was scribbling and letting go of Zhuge Liang like this, he couldn't help but say, "You're a little too rusty and cold towards Liang'er. The child is still young, you should be more intimate with him."
Lu Bu lightly hummed, back to the righteous: "He knows all day long to follow Feng Xiao around, where see to me have half a bit of adoration?"
Yan Qing thought about it briefly, and it seemed like that was indeed the case.
For this reason Guo Jia was still surprised and pleased, and deliberately wiggled around in front of Lu Bu.
To continue talking on this topic, I'm afraid the fire will have to burn into Guo Jia, Yan Qing wisely changed the topic and smiled, "It's been a long time since I've sat down like this with the Lord and had a good catch up."
Lu Bu nodded, "Shiguang can be considered busy?"
Yan Qing gave a hmmm, rubbing his brow with undisguised fatigue: "It's been reviewed twice, and there is no way that a major mistake can be made. Tomorrow starts the countryside examination, I can be idle for a period of time, mainly relying on the people underneath to be busy."
As the examiner, he is the one who gets busier and more responsible the further back he goes.
Lu Bu patted and caressed Yan Qing's shoulder not lightly, skillfully rubbing it for him as he said under his breath, "It's also been many days since I've seen Zhi'er come back."
Yan Qing also did not know his relationship with Lu Xun, how bizarrely good, sniffing slightly frustrated, said, "Yes, both to facilitate the revision, to ask the teacher to teach the lessons, but also to avoid suspicion strike."
Although he would use the paste name system, but Lu Xun has written articles, Yan Qing are busy to take the time to read over and over again, a few can recite by heart, where would not recognize the handwriting and style of writing?
He thought about it and decided not to get involved in the process of rewriting the final exam.
Although he himself has been busy lately, with full preparation for the examination Lu Xun want to really say a few words, it is not easy, but the thought of such a long time can not see the figure of his son who makes him proud of pride, can only through the appreciation of the way he writes, to talk about comfort, but also as a boot to scratch the itch, is always not too much energy.
He could only send two careful and considerate subordinates to take care of his living and resting, so that he would not collapse from that crazy concentration before the test was finished.
Once he thought about this, Yan Qing was somewhat helpless, "I don't know why, but there seems to be a slight discord between Liang'er and Zhi Zhao'er."
This is still a rather polite way of saying he's employing.
It's more than a slight disagreement. It's simply a tit-for-tat situation.
Although Zhuge Liang is young and vigorous, sharp, but also is not a brutal and unreasonable person. On the contrary, the reason why the surrounding people take him a lot of headaches, but no way, is because he can speak well, he can not really hate up, but also to maintain the surface of the harmony.
And he's gradually attracted a small following for this independent specialty.
If you want to say he's a sword fighter, Lu Xun would fit most people's definition of a gentle gentleman perfectly.
But strange to say, has always been strict to their own, lenient to others, do not compete, humble self-control, courteous Lu Xun, but only in Zhuge Liang lost the attitude of mild tolerance, but indifference to treat, do not hide their dislike of him.
Because both of them are phoenixes and belles, they soon moved from occasional exchanges of words to a contest on the examination and evaluation, which is really a dark tide.
To let Yan Qing pertinently look at the words, the other not to say, just in the age, younger than Zhuge Liang on two years, less than two years of study Lu Xun, has lost a chip.
As a result, Lu Xun was spurred on, more and more furious, in order to exceed each other in the ranking, the will of the firm, even always most looking forward to sharing morning and evening meals with his father can be temporarily put aside, directly rooted in the schoolhouse.
He was already superbly gifted, and with this kind of day-and-night effort, he soon showed his prowess.
When Zhuge Liang was overtaken for the first time by Lu Xun, who tended to hover between second and fourth, the whole group was confused for a moment.
Although Lu Xun won a round, also did not go in front of him to show off, but Zhu Geliang is still by the great stimulus, and then not to ponder that exquisite new crossbow, are about to imitate the ancients head hanging beams and cones stabbing the femur, only to pull this distance away again.
Despite reclaiming the top spot again, it was obvious to anyone that the gap between them was closing.
So Zhu Geliang no longer breathe leisure, but also be forced to continue to learn, but let the husband is quite pleased.
After Yan Qing was a little idle, he discovered Lu Xun's abnormalities, actually the whole person was boiled to a large circle of thinness, where can not be heartbroken.
When a son is lazy and neglects his studies, his father worries; when a son is overly diligent, he still has to worry.
The sea of books is endless. Where is the waste of your body to read as hard as you can?
After understanding the general nature of the matter, although he did not know what the root cause of their conflict was, Yan Qing thought about it and immediately sought out the other parent, Lu Bu, to have a few words.
Lu Bu didn't want to pay attention to the two little brats' fight, and directly waved his hand, handing the whole thing over to Yan Qing to deal with.
Yan Qing originally wanted to persuade him a few more times, but was rewarded with Lu Bu's excited fist-pumping, "Want to get your hands on him and beat him up? If you beat him up more, he'll listen to you."
Yan Qing could not, had to find this happy to see the husband for a long talk, and will be Lu Xun grabbed ear to ear some orders, only to put this fierce fight to abort.
Lu Xun started to be good and come home on time again, and Zhuge Liang was able to have time to fiddle with his little inventions again.
In fact, nothing to do is love to toss handmade, get some strange little creation of Zhuge Liang, if you go to the later world, obviously more suitable to the science, and by the gentleman's way Lu Xun, is a complete liberal arts student.
Two people who are supposedly at the opposite end of the spectrum are just barreling along.
Yan Qing was incomparably curious about this, and it wasn't as if he hadn't asked Lu Xun, yet he, who had always answered his own questions, insisted on refusing to open his mouth this time.
So is Zhuge Liang.
Yan Qing had no other choice but to continue to harbor this doubt and leave it for later to find the answer on his own.
As it turned out, the answer was not found, and the battle, which he thought had been laid to rest, was about to be resurrected with the imminent organization of the countryside examination.
Yan Qing was so tired that she was not afraid of losing her demeanor, and after taking a hot towel for her eyes, she directly rested on Lu Bu's sturdy thighs.
Again, he thought it was too hard, so he grabbed one of Lu Bu's arms and padded the slightly softer palm behind his head before he said helplessly, "I'm so close to you, more than a husband and wife, how could my sons not get along?"
Lu Bu raised the corners of his lips, obviously enjoying the first half of the sentence, but not wishing to comment on the second half.
Baby altar heart too soft, discipline not come stubborn place. But this is no harm, to heavy light really worried about them can not get along if, and so on after the examination, carry Zhuge Liang hard beat a good, when the old man is not also with a stick lesson of self?
In this way, Zhuge Liang had to treat Lu Zhi better.
As for the boy Lu Zhi, although sympathetic to quite annoying, in the end is not a good temperament will take the initiative to find people in trouble, but also by the heavy light in the hands of the hate to spoil the sky to go, easy to teach not.
Yan Qing did not know that Lu Bu's heart reckoning played clattering, after sighing a few words in terms of parenting experience, he turned elsewhere, "Ma Zhong this has been gone for almost two years, can there be a letter to pass on?"
Since bringing Cao Cao, a major danger to his heart, under control, Yan Qing's state of mind was much more refreshed and open.
After all, compared to Cao Cao, who has a strong appeal with his arms and numerous followers, Liu Bei, who is a late bloomer, who sees the wood for the trees and takes the pro-people route, is much easier to deal with.
Especially Liu Bei, who lacks everything in the early stages except for two righteous brothers with high force, as long as you don't give him a chance to catch a break.
And Ma Zhong was sent to Jingzhou to wait for an opportunity to assassinate Liu Bei under the suggestion of Guo Jia in the beginning, but for some reason, has been nowhere to be seen and heard.
Lu Bu froze at his words and thought back for a moment, "Oh, his letters seem to have come one after another."
Yan Qing wondered, "How come it wasn't sent to me?"
Where Yan Qing could not see, Lu Bu's eyes drifted slightly, but he avoided answering, "Turn it out for you in a moment."
"Good."
Yan Qing was always well-informed and did not pursue the matter, closing her eyes again and enjoying Lu Bu's massage technique while saying, "Actually, it's good not to kill Liu Bei, it's enough to drive him away and save him from getting in the way at critical moments. He can't get his own territory, even if he can harvest the hearts of the people again, he is not enough to fear."
I'm afraid that the spectacular scene in history where more than 100,000 people followed after Ambassador Liu because they felt grateful for his benevolence and virtue, even though they had left their homes, could not be seen.
It is clear that he has not formally sent troops to crush anyone in the past one or two years, but Lu Bu's territory is expanding rapidly: Xuzhou, which Tao Qian gave away for nothing, Qingzhou, which surrendered with Cao Cao, and Jizhou, which was divided in half by Gongsun Zan. No matter which way you look at it, Lu Bu is the strongest warlord in the world, and he has the reputation of being a loving man who loves people like a son, who is compassionate to the people, who is courteous to the virtuous and who hires the wise and the talented, and who is deserving of everyone's respect and admiration.
The road really does get easier as you go along.
Thinking of the hardships and difficulties at the beginning, Yan Qing couldn't help but feel a great deal of emotion in her heart.
At first, he was a notorious guard under Dong Zhuo, then he took Dong Zhuo's death as his own; then he persuaded Lu Bu to refuse to stay in the capital to share the government with Wang Yun, and instead he asked to be the assassin of Yuzhou; then he took advantage of the over-ambitious Yuan Shu to attack Cao Cao, and then he attacked Yangzhou, and then he brought the little king of Jiangdong and the beauty of Zhoulang under his command; and then he designed to ignite a war between Tao Qian of Xuzhou and Cao Cao of Yanzhou, with the help of Xu Chu and Lu Su, who helped to conceal the fact that the war was going on. Then designed to ignite the flames of war between Xuzhou Tao Qian and Yanzhou Cao Cao, by Xu Chu Lu Su contributing people to help hide the sky over the sea, with tens of thousands of elite to strong attack on the empty camp, quick to Xun Yu and others to guard the hardcore of the three counties; not yet had time to breathe a sigh of relief, it was Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan alliance south attack, during the time there is also a small emperor listening to Zhang Xiu words in the back stab stabbing knife stabbed happily ......
Finally, it's all mixed up.
"Uh-huh." Lu Bu had never put Liu Bei in his eyes before, and he did not know why Guo Jia and Yan Qing were so like an enemy, so when he heard this, he only faintly answered, indicating that he knew.
His hands were extremely steady, one at a time, just like a patient owner smoothing the fur of a beloved cat, calling Yan Qing so comfortable that she was about to fall asleep.
Yan Qing just to close his eyes to rest his mind, this moment is sunk to lift not up, forcibly raise some spiritual energy, continued: "How is the heavenly altar repaired?"
Lu Bu replied skillfully, "If Shiguang wants it to be fast, it can be accomplished in one year; if Shiguang wants it to be slow, it will be difficult to accomplish it in ten years."
Yan Qing smiled knowingly, "In Qing's opinion, when Lord Gong takes Jing, Yi and Jin states, then the Heavenly Altar should be repaired."
As for Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, who has never had much trouble with them, and Ma Teng and Han Sui of Xiliang, as well as the Liaodong County, which is in the southernmost part of the country and is difficult to visit Shijian, and which is directly confronted with the foreign barbarians in the northeast of the country, this is not a top priority.
By taking the most fertile land, the richest cities, and the most densely populated states, we can replace the Han Dynasty. For the rest, there is no harm in taking your time to clean up and achieve unification.
Actually, this was still a bit of a rush, but Yan Qing didn't want to delay it for too long.
was tired of having to be polite to the little emperor all the time, by him trying to ride on Lu Bu's head and provoking them at every turn with the convenience of his monarchical status.
Lv Bu is the man of the world, if not for his courageous battle, many times to save the driver, just count on those who were killed by Dong Zhuo left, more only know 'usually talk about the nature of the heart with their hands up their sleeves, in the face of danger, a death to report to the king' the so-called bone of the ministers, Liu Xie's bones afraid of the cold through the bones.
But Liu Xie does not know to remember the grace, slightly provoked on the face, Yan Qing is tired of the old let Lu Bu condescending to the knee, to coax a big frame of the child.
Moreover, Lu Bu is now thirty-seven.
Of course, for a already famous and powerful lords, it is not old, put into the modern era, more can be said to be rich and strong, in the prime of life.
But at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when living to seventy was considered rare, it could not be said to be young.
Early ascension to the Great Treasure will enable Lu Bu to enjoy the glorious honor that is supreme and worthy of his heroic dominance and overwhelming grace for a longer period of time.
If Lu Bu were to be just like Cao Cao, who had been born and died in the wind and rain, and had been busy for most of his life, but had always been scrupulous, and had not even claimed the title of Emperor, or had been posthumously appointed by his son, Yan Qing would never have been able to endure it.
Lu Bu said with good humor, "Bu thinks so too."
Yan Qing flew those three states over in his mind, and soon found the soft persimmon, but did not say anything about it first, but wanted to test Lu Bu first: "Which state does the Lord think it is appropriate to invade next year?"
Without thinking, Lu Bu said, "Jinzhou."
Yan Qing blinked, a guess popping up involuntarily.
He at least used to be Lu Bu's hardcore fan, so naturally, he could not forget that his idol was a native of Wuyuan County in the parallel state, and had served in the parallel state army for many years.
Later fully proved their own martial arts courage, got the assassin Ding Yuan valued, the status also step by step upward, when a period of time not to mention the main book, but also did a pretty good job.
Before he became a magnificent and stately general, he killed his father Ding Yuan for the Red Hare and Jin Zhu, and followed Dong Zhuo to aid and abet him in his evil deeds, which is not to be mentioned.
Even if Lu Bu was quite nostalgic because he had left his homeland for many years and now that he had achieved success and fame, he was quite nostalgic, and that was why he was thinking of a sensational return to his hometown through the powerful way of directly attacking the parallel state, Yan Qing was not going to speak out against it.
Instead, he was prepared to change his plans on the fly and indulge him in his heart's desire.
Lu Bu knew nothing about how much Yan Qing favored him, and only casually replied, "Cooked, easy to fight."
Afraid that Yan Qing didn't understand enough, Lu Bu busily added, "The chaos in the state is trivial, the terrain is familiar, and he is familiar with Zhang Yang (the current assassin of the state), so he knows all his weaknesses, and it's good to fight."
In fact, Lu Bu also has a small mind, that is, want to take Yan Qing to go to the parents' grave to pay homage, so as to tell the two old man in the nine springs, since I can be regarded as looking for a decent daughter-in-law.
But one thought since he left home, the situation has always been chaotic and unbearable, a few grassy graves I'm afraid it's hard to keep, and then some of the mood, simply pressed not to mention.
Yan Qing, however, heard his eyelids slightly jumping - dare Lu Bu still have the problem of bullying the familiar with a straight face.
Lu Bu asked, "What does Shiguang think?"
Yan Qing shook his head, "With Zhang Yan happy to bring tens of thousands of elites from the Black Mountain Army to help hold up the northern barrier, and doing a good job, why bother to grab this tiring job with him?"
Moreover, Zhang Yan, to put it nicely, is a wise man, but to put it bluntly, he is a bully. In the beginning, he was a rebel bandit leader, and in his heyday, he also claimed to have gathered millions of people, who were rampant for a while, and the government army was unable to eliminate them.
After picking the right time to submit to the court as a sign of submission, he fought the Yuan family of Jizhou to the death, only to lead his troops to surrender in time after Cao Cao showed his strength to unify the north.
As long as Lu Bu maintains this strong aura that no one can mess with and sweeps across the land, Zhang Yan will definitely not dare to go head to head with Lu Bu.
Seeing Lu Bu showing a thoughtful attitude, Yan Qing then continued: "However, over the years, the people of Ji suffered from the war, it is fearful, need to be careful with the Oracle, it is not good to move the troops, to really transfer, in addition to some of the fighting spirit of the wounded and defeated, but also can not find any available people."
In fact, there are still some words, is Yan Qing scruples Lu Bu in the end is a person of the parallel state, to the countryside inevitably have a sense of glorification and sense of belonging, but also because it involves a number of future things, and not very good to say.
In the history from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, there is actually very little mention of the area of Jinzhou. This is not because of the barrenness of the area, which Cao Cao in history could not see eye to eye, but because of its geographic location for foreigners and the role it once played as a place for foreigners, namely the Hu, to be resettled by the Han court.
With the decline of the Han Dynasty and the repeated defeats of the border guards, large tracts of land were lost, even Lu Bu's hometown, Wuyuan County, and Zhang Yang's hometown, Yunzhong, were lost, and were no longer at the disposal of the Han Dynasty. After that, the most ferocious army of the state, which was once controlled by Ding Yuan, was annexed and taken away by Dong Zhuo, and the internal affairs of the state were in a complete mess.
Don't look at the large forces that seem to be just Zhang Yang, the assassin appointed by the orthodox and Zhang Yan, the Black Mountain Army, but those small forces that are fighting on their own are too numerous to count.
Really out of heavy troops to suppress, just rely on these single small warlords, of course, are unlikely to be Lu Bu a back of the enemy, but the next to how to resettle these accustomed nuisance surrounding the people's interest, hooligan temperament of the residents, to put an end to the civil unrest, is the sky is the big problem.
At the same time, one had to be ready to defend against the invasion of the Southern Xiongnu outside of Guanwai, as well as the Xianbei clan led by the cowman Kobinen in the region of Xihe.
It's not that we can't do anything about them, but it's tricky enough that we can't spare that much energy and manpower to solve it at this stage, so it's better to leave it there for now, and prioritize cleaning up the affluent and centrally located targets at this stage.
Lu Bu asked, "And where does Shiguang think is the appropriate place to invade?"
Yan Qing put it succinctly, "Since that land of Jingxiang."
Lu Bu thought for a moment: "Although I have never dealt with, but it is rumored that although Huang is a little smart, Wen Hui is considered to have real skills. And extremely affluent, pouring the whole state's strength to resist, can also unite the rear Liu Yan, I am afraid it is not good to fight."
Yan Qing said: "If you are willing to rely on Qing's plan, if the Lord wants to take Jingzhou, should not need to spend a soldier." At the end of the insurance point, or added a sentence: "Although not ten percent certainty, but try on a try, certainly no harm."
After experiencing Tao Qian's archness, Lu Bu was able to maintain his composure when he heard this, "Please also teach me Chong Guang."
Yan Qing said, "Once Liu Biao is dead and Liu Chong succeeds to the throne, the Lord may wish to divide his troops into three and canton them at Lushan, Yiyang, and Sanjiangkou, so that he can watch a good show in which the surviving family members surrendered without a fight, offered their states to each other, and did so in order to keep the peace."
Lu Bu wondered, "How could it be that Liu Cong succeeded to the throne?"
Liu Biao's eldest son is Liu Qi.
Another quick response, "He's going to make the same mistake as Yuan Shao in establishing an heir?"
Yan Qing thought about what the history books wrote, back to: "Abolish the long and set up the young, although not the intention of Liu Biao, but also called the same way. Liu Qi looks like him, the original very favorite, but because he has a wife Cai's, his deep favor, has reached the point of love, do not want to blame his brother Cai Mao in the military cast a big mistake."
"Cai's family has come to power, but Cai has no son, so he has drawn in Liu Qiong, who married his nephew, so that Liu Qi has been discredited and abandoned by his father. If something happens to Liu Biao, the Cai Clan, which is in control of the inside and outside, will take the opportunity to support Liu Chong to succeed the throne."
What happened immediately afterward in history was that she feared the strength of Cao Cao's army, which had entered Xiangyang, and raised her state to seek surrender.
The most ironic part of the story is that she was not able to save her life even after giving such a great gift, and was silenced along with Liu Chong by Cao Cao's Yu Ban.
Yan Qing had no ill feelings towards Cai who was ridiculed as an ignorant woman for surrendering her kingdom for the sake of self-preservation, but lost her life. If she was as sensible as that, there was nothing wrong with keeping her alive.
But to use this as a bargaining chip to follow Zhang Yan's example and continue to serve as an assassin of a jurisdiction is delusional.
Yan Qing Yuan was about to fall into deep thought, but without realizing it, he could not hold back his exhaustion and fell into a deep sleep right here in the warmth of the room that flowed with pulsating warmth.
When he woke up, already let Lu Bu help change the bedclothes, rules alone sleep on the couch. The outside is bright, Lu Bu obviously went out early in the morning.
On the table were several pieces of crumpled white paper pressed by a paperweight, with the backs facing upwards, so that the black ink handwriting underneath could be vaguely seen.
Yan Qing fetched it and unfolded it, and sure enough, it was those letters that Ma Zhong had sent.
Ma Zhong apologized but ashamed to say, because Liu Bei and Liu table step-wife Cai's bad, the latter want to harm Liu, several times almost succeeded, so that the martial arts strong Guan Zhang two people hate the heart of the extreme, but also to raise the vigilance, not to mention the deep living simply out, and the brother inseparable, every time you go out, certainly when a careful examination.
By means of poor Mrs. Cai this horizontal insertion, so that the two big men were inspired by the big brother's simple back to protect the heart, Liu Bei protected airtight, but tired in the dark to see the opportunity to act in the Ma Zhong, the pressure root can not find a gap to start.
It doesn't matter if I can't kill Liu Bei, I'll change my target to Liu Biao.
Yan Qing feels that this is more like an opportunity that comes to her doorstep, and it is not even necessary to deliberately drive Liu Bei away so as to ensure that the plan goes smoothly - as long as Liu Biao is assassinated while Liu Bei is still in Jingzhou, the power will naturally be transferred into the hands of the Cai Clan, which will surely splash the sewage of ineffective protection, or even scheming against Liu Bei, who is regarded as a thorn in her flesh, on the body of Liu Bei.
In that case, unless Liu Bei didn't want to die, he would have to leave immediately.
The Cai Clan who had achieved the victory could not be happy for too long, waiting for the army led by Lu Bu to approach the city would scare them out of their guts.
But lately they had been so busy with the imperial examinations that it would be more appropriate to ask Ma Zhong to wait patiently for a few months instead.
Yan Qing sprawled out the new instructions to Ma Zhong, sealing them tightly, and without noticing, his gaze drifted back to the letters and papers that had somehow been crumpled by Lu Bu.
Thinking about the uncomfortableness that Lu Bu brought in his previous tone, Yan Qing's mind moved, and he could not help but pick it up again, and observed it very probingly.
Because the paper was extremely thin, if it was not properly pressed, it was not uncommon for it to be wrinkled like this. Yan Qing did not put the overall wrinkles in mind, focusing on the scattered distribution of a few heavy wrinkles.
The marks, rather, looked a bit like they had been dampened by a wet spot of water and casually ripped away to dry.
If the inside letterhead was like that, the outside envelope, not to mention the outside envelope, must have been even wetter.
But the study is the key place in the house, guarded tightly, outsiders are absolutely not allowed to enter, even the maidservant in charge of cleaning, but also have to have a few guards under the solid, before being allowed to go in.
If such a big mistake is made, even if one eats a bear's heart and leopard's guts, it is unlikely that anyone would dare to conceal it.
Lu Bu, on the other hand, was mostly in his bedroom reading, or deliberating with him, and seldom went there, and he himself had even less of a bad habit of accidentally dribbling water all over the place.
So what the hell is going on here?
It was really fishy, and under Yan Qing's puzzlement, he inadvertently brought the paper up to his nose to sniff it, and the result was instantly understood.
With a scowl, he tossed them into the charcoal basin without hesitation, destroying the bodies.
In this way, that back to Lu Bu a whim, he also a moment of weak will, could not withstand each other softly, was that big rogue pressed on the desk a meal of nonsense when ......
Padded underneath, there did seem to be a few unopened letters in addition to some unused white paper.