Yanzhou in autumn and Yongzhou in autumn have completely different scenes, not because of the location, but because Yongzhou is under the rule of the imperial court. In this harvest season, it is prosperous, and the golden color that is almost invisible symbolizes the people of Yongzhou.

There is enough food to survive another winter.

But in Yanzhou, you can’t see any of these!

Originally, Yanzhou was doing well under Liu Dai's governance. Logically speaking, it should not be like this. However, since the Yellow Turbans came back and Liu Dai spent all his energy fighting against the Yellow Turbans, the situation in Yanzhou has become worse day by day.

This year, we have no energy at all to manage people's livelihood.

More importantly, because of such a bad environment and atmosphere, even the local people in Yanzhou have lost confidence. They are hesitating whether they should leave their hometown and seek refuge elsewhere, or bite the bullet and continue to sweat on this land -

—Running the risk of being robbed by Yellow Turban thieves.

At that time, the imperial army had already arrived. Unfortunately, in this era, the people's confidence in the imperial court had dropped to the lowest point in hundreds of years. Many people did not think that the bringing of imperial troops and horses could change anything. Even when Cao Cao let

When the messengers went all the way to report the news of the great victory to the emperor, these people thought it was the rumors spread by the officers and soldiers to appease them.

By the time it was confirmed that all this was true, the best opportunity had been missed. Therefore, when Liu Xuan entered Yanzhou, many fields were abandoned.

"What a field..."

Liu Xuan sat on the horse and walked forward slowly.

Since entering Yanzhou, he moved forward slowly and calmly. He kept observing the situation in Yanzhou along the way. When he saw the large areas of fields abandoned there, he felt pity in his heart.

"I'm afraid it will take at least three years to recover from such a situation!"

The emperor personally went on an expedition, and even though Liu Xuan didn't want to make a big splash, this time there were many officials accompanying him. Even the six ministries sent people, including many of the six ministers who personally accompanied him. It can be said that this team is now a mobile small court, ready to go at any time.

All national affairs can be solved anywhere.

Grand Tutor Yuan Wei claimed to be in poor health and did not come - but everyone knew that he did not come to avoid suspicion. Among the three princes, it was originally preferred that Grand Lieutenant Yang Biao would accompany him, but Yang Biao suddenly fell ill, so in the end it was Situ Wang Yun who accompanied him.

This time it was Wang Yun who spoke.

"Three years..."

Liu Xuan made an estimate in his mind. It should be 193 now. There should be no major events in the following years, but that was the original history.

The first thing I have to do here is to completely pull out the Yellow Turban thieves, and then accumulate strength to prepare for a battle with Yuan Shao in the north - there is no suspense about the outcome. After unifying the north, they will take advantage of the trend and move south.

After regaining Jingzhou, whether he wants to follow the trend to Sichuan or go straight to Jiangdong depends on his mood.

If everything goes well, the unification war should be completed within ten years. More importantly, these ten years are enough for him to initially bring this dynasty into the system of cultivation civilization. Then when the dynasty is unified, he can rely on this foundation to continue

It has developed upwards.

"With the help of all the princes in the court, it may take less than three years!"

Now Xun You of the Ministry of Finance has mastered the tree seeding technology. These technologies are all the earliest formations and spells. In the past, they were limited by no one to cooperate. Now that there is the Weapon Refining Department, as long as a team is set up to cooperate with Xun You, within a year

It is not difficult to restore basic people's livelihood in Liaodong.

More importantly, Liu Xuan now has this foundation - Yongzhou, which has initially shown prosperity, is his greatest confidence - even if Yanzhou does not produce a grain of grain within three years, Liu Xuan can still use all the labor force in Yanzhou to carry out infrastructure construction

, and then rely on Yanzhou’s food transfusions to ensure Yanzhou’s food needs.

This is his confidence, and it is also the result of squatting in the northwest for many years.

"But now we still have to root out the Yellow Turban bandits first, otherwise Yanzhou will not be able to resume production if Yanzhou is always under threat from these rebel bandits!"

Wang Yun's expression looked very relaxed. If it had been a few months ago, he would not have looked like this. These days, Cao Cao's success reports came one after another. Looking at his posture, he was able to destroy the Yellow Turban bandit army directly.

momentum.

As a Situ, Wang Yun was naturally very happy. He was eager to wipe out the traitor army that shook the foundation of the imperial court as soon as possible. Cao Cao fought so beautifully, and the worries in his heart were relieved.

In addition, the Yellow Turban bandits now occupy half of the counties in Yuzhou and Xuzhou. If Cao Cao can take advantage of the situation and take back these two places, the imperial power can reach out to these two states.

By that time, the areas south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River will basically be controlled by the imperial court. Not to mention Yuzhou, which has almost become a terra incognita, even Xuzhou, which has been officially conferred by the imperial court, can be taken back into the hands of the imperial court on this basis.

At that time, together with the two northwest states, the imperial court reoccupied the Central Plains area. As long as the Yuan family knew a little bit, the Han Dynasty would still be prosperous, and Wang Yun would be the minister of ZTE - even if it was just a false name.

As they were talking, a young man suddenly rode up to him. Although he was stopped by the guards, Cao Bao, who was beside Liu Xuan, turned around and saw the visitor, waved his hand, and the young man came close.

Wang Yun glanced at it and found that it was the second son of the Sima family, named Sima Yi. Although he was still young, he had long been famous, and Wang Yun had heard about it.

I just don’t know why the emperor valued this young man, and actually recruited him directly into the palace and arranged an errand. Unfortunately, it was a ridiculous job, working in some kind of weapon refining department.

Wang Yun heard that it was a place dedicated to making strange and obscene things for the emperor. He wanted to give him some advice, but Xun Yu, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Xun You, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and even the Taiwei Yang Biao, who was also the third prince, did not.

Agreed, and looked mysterious, as if he was hiding something important from himself.

Wang Yun, who felt something was wrong at that time, kept paying attention to the Weapon Refining Department, but could not get any news. He only knew that Li Su often collected some materials from everywhere.

In a blink of an eye, he looked again and found that after Sima Yi whispered something in the emperor's ear, the emperor's expression changed slightly, but then returned to normal.

"What on earth happened?"

Wang Yun was confused, but unfortunately Liu Xuan had no intention of explaining to him. He said casually: "After walking for a while, I feel a little tired. Let's find a place to rest!" Then he rode back to his big car.

Got in the car.

Although he was depressed in his heart, Liu Xuan was the emperor, so Wang Yun could only go back to his car to rest gloomily. Although he had not been riding for long, he was already quite old after all, and he was also a little tired.

Liu Xuan returned to the cart. At this time, there was someone in the cart, and it was Shi Daoren.

He waved his hand to indicate that Shi Dao Ren didn't need to be too polite. After he sat down, he asked Sima Yi to get in the car and take a seat. Then he asked Shi Tao Ren: "Is the news accurate?"

Shi Daoren shook his head: "Your Majesty should also know what people of my generation are like. No one can guarantee whether this news is accurate or not."

Although Liu Xuan was helpless, he could only nod in approval, but what he was most concerned about was another thing: "Which one is it?"

"Yu Ji!"

"Oh!" Liu Xuan nodded: "How strong is this person? Do you understand him?"

Shi Daoren shook his head: "This person is stronger than Pindao, but I don't know much about the specific situation!"

Liu Xuan sighed, but it was better to get such news than to know it was coming when the time came.

It turned out that after Taoist Shi Daoren surrendered to Liu Xuan's account, he carefully asked Taoist Shi about the situation of the monks he knew about, especially who were the masters in this land?

Not surprisingly, he heard those names: Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, Master Zixu, and Nan Hua, who was clearly against him!

From that time on, Liu Xuan asked Shi Dao to pay as much attention as possible to the whereabouts of these people. Except for Master Zixu who lived in seclusion in Xichuan, Yu Ji and Zuo Ci were all elusive and had no fixed abodes.

It's not easy to find out.

Just when he was heading to Yanzhou to take advantage of the opportunity to destroy Nanhua in one fell swoop, Shi Daoren suddenly rushed from Chang'an because he heard about Yu Ji's whereabouts from a Taoist friend who was traveling abroad.

This is nothing, the key is that the discovery of Yu Ji made Shi Daoren aware that something was wrong, so he came to inform Liu Xuan, and after Liu Xuan learned the news, he came to ask for details as soon as possible.

"Koto!"

Liu Xuan was not surprised that Yu Ji went to Jiangdong. The key is that Taoist friend Shi Daoren unexpectedly saw Yu Ji coming in and out of Sun Ce's army camp when he was looking at it from a distance. Moreover, judging from the attitude of the generals under Sun Ce's account, they seemed to be very respectful.

, and then remembered what Shi Daoren had entrusted him with a while ago, and then sent the message to Chang'an.

"Sun Ce actually got involved with Yu Ji?"

Liu Xuan felt that his head was a little hard to turn around. Why did these immortals who claimed to be escaping from the world to practice all come out and get involved in the affairs of the world? If one Nanhua is not enough, there is an extra Yu Ji?

"Then Zuo Ci can't bear the loneliness and runs away?"

Just as he was muttering, he suddenly felt something. He looked directly at the door curtain of the big car, and saw that the curtain moved automatically without wind, as if it had been lifted up by someone, but not half a person could be seen. This scene was so weird.

Weird.

Ordinary people would be frightened when they saw it, but there was no ordinary person in this car. Shi Dao and Sima Yi were already on full alert. But Liu Xuan took a look at it and said with a smile: "Why should Taoist priest hide his head and show his tail?"

If you have anything to say to me, just say it directly!"

Just before he finished speaking, someone suddenly appeared in the carriage. Liu Xuan was guessing who it was, but Taoist Taoist next to him had already spoken: "Fellow Taoist Zuo comes here as soon as he comes, why are there so many mysteries? But I haven't seen you for a long time, Taoist friend.

My cultivation has improved a lot!"

Liu Xuan understood as soon as he heard this. The very plainly dressed old man in front of him was the Zuo Ci he had been muttering about just now!

p.s: I have calmed down a bit and my thoughts have become much smoother... I will definitely resume two updates tomorrow!

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