In the 22nd year of Jian'an in the Han Dynasty [217], mid-July.

Huo Jun, the governor of the two counties of Yinping, was granted the title of Wudu, and died in the military camp outside Xiabian City due to ineffective treatment due to illness.

In a moment.

Although his son Huo Yi did not show any tears, he was already heartbroken.

I have been having a lot of food and food for many days.

After several days of sadness, the personal guard Huo Zhong simply took over his funeral.

First, he restrained Huo Jun's body and kept it closed without releasing it.

In order to prevent the leak of the news, the Cao family, who was close to him, knew that the current Wudu and the chiefs of the two counties of Yinping were killed, and they took advantage of the situation to attack.

Following closely.

While Huo Zhong still rectified the soldiers among the army, blocked the army, and avoided the soldiers' leaks.

Then he personally studied the book and sent people to Hanzhong County and the royal city of Chengdu.

We will report details to our direct subordinate Wei Yan and King Liu Bei of Hanzhong.

Decide the position of the chief general of the important delegation as soon as possible.

After days of compassion, Huo Yi seemed to slowly walk out of the shadow of sadness.

When he learned that Huo Zhong had sent someone to Chengdu.

He immediately slapped his head and said, "I almost forgot what my father told me during his lifetime."

After saying that, he took out a letter he had always carried with him from his arms and presented it to Huo Zhong, who was beside him, and ordered, "Uncle Zhong, this letter was written by his father during his lifetime."

"I specifically instructed me to submit it to the king for review after his unfortunate death."

"Uncle Zhong, please arrange a confidant from an extremely reliable person as soon as possible."

A word fell.

Seeing Huo Yi's expression was extremely solemn at this moment.

Huo Zhong has also been served by Huo Jun for a long time, so he knows that this matter is not a trivial matter!

He then immediately bowed, "Please rest assured, young master, let's continue to arrange this."

...

After several days of speeding, the messenger first arrived at Nanzheng, the capital of Hanzhong, and personally visited General Zhenyuan.

When Wei Yan heard the news that the governor of the two counties had passed away, a surprise appeared on his face, "What, Huo Zhongmiao left?"

After this news came, he also knew very well that the important strategic significance of Yinping to his side was the outpost of the future Northern Expedition, and there should be no mistakes!

He also attaches great importance to this matter.

He specially sent additional personnel to protect the messenger Zhou Quan to rush to Chengdu.

It took nearly half a month to work.

The messenger and his party arrived in Chengdu in a hurry.

Passing through the bustling Chengdu market, rushing to the royal palace.

And the royal palace at this time.

King Liu Bei of Hanzhong was wearing his usual clothes and sat against Mi Zhu, while both sides were playing chess.

Only A Dou on one side was reading with a book seat.

However, although the sound of reading was endless, his mind was not between the lines. He could see his father's figure constantly looking through to see if he could be lazy.

While playing chess, Liu Bei's face was calm at this time, but there was no recollection in his tone. He said, "Zi Zhong, for some reason, I always dreamed of my youth in the night, and I was wandering scenes."

"And the old guys who have walked along the way."

"You said, will something ominous happen?"

After his words fell, he became worried as he saw that his face was unconsciously changing.

After the words came, Mi Zhu chuckled softly and responded, "Your Majesty, you don't have to think too much."

"As a person, he always gets nostalgic when he gets older."

"I am not sure about it. In recent days, I have often remembered the days when you were traveling around with the king and had no place to live."

"Although we have a stable residence now, based on Yizhou and Jingzhou as our home, in the past three years since pacifying Yizhou, our old friends have been withering or died of illness."

"Si Gongyou, Xian and them are all away from us."

This conversation ignited in an instant.

The king and his minister suddenly unconsciously showed sadness and exchanged views.

"Yes!" Liu Bei dropped the white boy in his hand and said, "Gongyou, Xian and them have followed them all the way from the most difficult time of their orphans. Even if the road ahead is long, they have never let go of their orphans."

"I gave most of my life to orphans."

"But when I saw Gu just pacifying Yizhou and was about to enjoy the happiness with them, I left us one after another."

"Alas, it hurts!"

After the words, Liu Bei's sadness became stronger.

The past two talked about for a long time.

Immediately, Liu Bei got to the point and said: "Zi Zhong, how is the market development of Juxianjiu now?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Mi Zhu did not hide anything at all and responded truthfully, "Report to the king, the market has been gradually opened up according to my publicity and promotion in recent days."

"Especially, the many altars of Yujuxian wines sent to Jingzhou were sent back to the military situation. According to the military information he had passed, when Na Lu Zijing went to Jiangling, General Guan specially ordered him to bring several altars back to Jiangdong to offer to the Lord of Wu Sun Quan."

"After hearing about Sun Quan's performance, I praised it very much."

"And buy Juxian wine from a large sum of money."

"I have already sent a batch of immortal wines to explore through various means. This wine is very popular in the upper circle of the gentry in Jiangdong and has made great profits."

"Only Cao's family was very strict in their defenses and failed to open up the market for a while."

After a while, he paused again, and a deep joy and boastful words rose on his face: "By the way, king, in addition to the ability to command the army, Ah Tong has a lot of business knowledge, but also even more."

"I have never heard of the many promotion methods he mentioned in opening up the market for a lifetime, but practice has proved that it is effective!"

When talking about Zhao Tong, Mi Zhu was also not stingy in praise, and he was always talking in front of Liu Bei.

After hearing this, Liu Bei's face suddenly turned to joy, and he agreed, "A Tong is indeed talented!"

"He first entered the army and helped Shi Yuan Luofeng defeat Zhang Ren, and he also offered a plan to attack Mianzhu Forest and cut off the grain road in Luocheng."

"After the rebellion of Nanzhong, he was recommended by Shi Yuan, and ordered his troops to go deep into Baku to suppress the rebellion. At that time, although Atong was young, he relied on the attack strategy of seven capturing and seven platoons to capture the heart of the Southern Barbarian King Meng Huo, who was highly prestigious in the Southern Central region, and established the entire southern central area."

"Not only that, A Tong was quite foresighted. He found out in advance that the Sun family wanted to secretly collude with Cao's thieves and raid several counties in Jingnan."

"He worked tirelessly and opened up a mountain road, took the Wuxi barbarian garrison to enter Lingling County and smashed Lu Meng's intention to sweep Jingxiang."

"According to the order of the military advisor, he led his troops north to conquer Shangyong's territory."

"I think this military strategy is a great idea that A Tong will become the mainstay of our revival of the Han Dynasty!"

"Now, Zizhong, you still have such a high evaluation of his business talent. It seems that A Tong is worthy of being a genius and a good scholar in the country!"

"Zilong, I really have a good idea to teach my children."

At this moment, when talking about Zhao Tong, Liu Bei's smile on his face became much stronger.

As the lord, he naturally felt more intuitively that his generation of generals had grown old one after another, but restoring the Han Dynasty was not something that could be determined overnight.

For a young leader like Zhao Tong with outstanding talents.

He could not stop his joy from the bottom of his heart.

"However, Zi Zhong, I heard that Juxian Brew consumes more food than ordinary wine. Will large-scale brewing affect our military capital inventory?"

As soon as this statement fell, Liu Bei heard Mi Zhu's report that Juxianjiu opened up the market and sold it very smoothly. A smile appeared on his face, but he couldn't help but ask in a deep voice.

Although he wanted to rely on this special fairy-gathering wine to gather wealth.

However, if the production line is increased, military rations will be consumed too much.

He thought this move would be more than worth the loss!

By then, it will have to be terminated.

After hearing this, Mi Zhu followed him for a long time, and this time he could hear Liu Bei's deep worries.

But Juxianjiu is selling a lot.

This move not only allowed the wealth under Cao and Sun's rule to be plundered.

Mi can also benefit immediately.

He naturally didn't want to be called off, so he thought for a while and gave in and explained slowly, "King, you don't have to worry too much about this!"

"Juxian wine does consume more food than ordinary wine, but according to contact with Asun, Asun seemed to have selected some drought-resistant farming in the border areas."
To be continued...