At the end of the Meiyu season, Guo Jia and Wang Lang came to Xuzhou as two people with a few entourages. But when the Meiyu season ended and the golden autumn came in July, they left as four people with a few entourages.

Wang Lang had taken a leave of absence from General Shi Lufan before he came. He had not been to his hometown in Donghai County for a long time and really wanted to go back and have a look. In addition, Zang Ba was successfully transferred by Guan Yu this time.

When the entire county of Langya, a key area in the north of Xuzhou, surrendered to Hebei, Wang Jingxing inevitably had the idea of ​​moving his family from the East China Sea to Langya.

As for the people who went north with Guo Jia, who was holding the staff on his behalf, they were the two envoys sent by Liu Bei after he actually captured most of the rest of Xuzhou. Their envoys were Lu Su and Lu Zijing. They were from the east city of Guangling, Xuzhou, and their deputy envoys were Lu Su.

Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong were from Xiapi, Xuzhou.

In addition, a close friend of Chen Deng, named Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi, also accompanied him, but Guo Jia turned a deaf ear to it.

In fact, after Chen Deng surrendered to Liu Bei along with the whole family, and coupled with his performance at critical moments, it is understandable that he got this important appointment to avoid risks when Liu Bei was about to clean up Xuzhou. As for Xu Shu, he thanked Zhang in person.

After the gift of a horse, he publicly rejected the invitation to serve as an official, and decided to continue traveling around the world to increase his knowledge and polish his knowledge, but he could not say anything about him.

Lu Zi was the only one who respected him. After several exchanges, Guo Jia felt that this person was a scholar on the outside but a showman on the inside. He was not a simple person, so he couldn't help but pay special attention to him.

By the way, there are some interesting stories and fate between Lu Su and Liu Bei.

You must know that Lu Su was born in Lujiang, but moved to the east city of Guangling in Xuzhou during the early Huainan turmoil. That place is where Guangling County extends into Jiujiang in the Huainan area. Logically speaking, it should not be under Liu Bei's rule. However, it is interesting.

What's interesting is that when Liu Bei relied on Tao Qian to gain a foothold in Penan, there was an episode... Penan was bounded by Suishui River, and there were actually eight counties. Liu Bei, the governor of Yuzhou, only took six counties as his refuge.

Land, why?

The reason is very simple. Tao Qian was still young at the time and was in good health, so his character was naturally as bad as ever. The disgusting things he did during that time were not just sending Zhang Zhao to prison... In fact, he felt that Liu Bei was

It was thanks to him that he was able to gain a foothold, so he simply took away two of the eight counties in Panan next to Xiapi State as reward!

And he took it for granted and was extremely domineering.

However, when Liu Xuande got Zhang Zhao's advice, three thousand ragged soldiers marched south to the Huaihe River and swept through Huainan. After the troops were well-prepared, they did not return the two counties. Instead, they accepted Tao Qian's invitation to Guangling.

After dealing with the harassment of Xue Li, the former Prime Minister of Pengcheng, he took the opportunity to swallow up Dongcheng.

It can only be said that Liu Bei is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

In fact, the Central Plains was really in chaos at that time, and the so-called Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Tao Qian and others were unable to truly grasp all the strategic space:

For example, there are Yellow Turban bandits in Runan and small warlords like Li Tong who effectively separatist power in Langling; there are frustrated people like Xue Li in Guangling who occupy the edges of rivers and seas and harass everywhere; there are tens of thousands of lake bandits and water thieves in Jiujiang and Lujiang.

; Peibei, Liang State has a large number of forts, not to mention the so-called clan thieves, bandits and the like...

And it's not just these, such as the short stories between Liu Bei and Tao Qian, Sun Jian and Cao Cao, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Liu Bei and Sun Jian, there are many similar episodes at the same time... It's like why Sun Jian invited Liu Bei to help him

He rebelled against Runan and wanted to hand over the east of Yingshui River to Liu Bei? One of the reasons he was embarrassed to say was that he was afraid that Runan's rebellion would become bigger. Liu Xuande took advantage of Sun Jian's inability to escape in Nanyang and directly appointed him as the governor of Yuzhou.

In the name of counterinsurgency, they occupied that place and then refused to return it!

When the time comes, will Sun Wentai fall out or give in? You can't say, please ask Liu Xiandi, the governor of Yuzhou, to return to me the counties in Runan County of Yuzhou that you rule?

The complicated situation at that time can be seen from another small detail when Sun Jian promised the territory east of Yingshui. Runan actually had eight counties east of Yingshui. Why only seven were returned because Chengfu County was located in Cao Cao

In hand!

Although Chengfu belongs to Runan, it is actually on the lower reaches of the Whirlpool River, not far from the place where Cao Cao and Gongsun took a bath. Before Cao Cao raised his troops, Cao Ren led thousands of gangsters to occupy that place. It was Cao Cao's original territory.

, Cao's influence in Guoshui was too great, and Sun Jian's strength was not enough.

To put it bluntly, these things are just the external manifestations of fighting and fighting between these relatively high-level warlords, and they also have to take care of the overall situation... Generally speaking, the overall situation is the overall situation, but privately they still have to fight for territory and grab the population.

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Use struggle to promote peace, use struggle to win respect!

Returning to Lu Su, Liu Bei arrived at Guangling and defeated Xue Li easily. Then he occupied the east city by hunting rabbits and immediately went to find Lu Su because Lu Su was from a wealthy family in Lujiang and his reputation was very great in Huainan.

Liu Ye and other local talents in Huainan were good friends with each other, and Liu Bei had heard of him a long time ago.

However, when we arrived in Dongcheng, we found out that Lu Su had run away again!

This guy saw the chaos in Guangling in Dongcheng, so he went home, back to Juchao... Liu Bei returned to Huainan, and sent people to Juchao to conquer Pi Lusu, only to find out that this guy actually ran away again, and was in trouble.

The idea of ​​becoming an official, this time was to go to Jingzhou to defect to Liu Biao!

So Liu Bei hurriedly chased him. He chased him to the river and changed into a boat to chase him, but he couldn't catch him.

However, when he returned to Shouchun, his base camp in Huainan, he was so frustrated that he was surprised to find that Lu Su was waiting for him right here!

It turned out that when Lu Zijing was running around, he also felt that he was a bit unreliable, so before leaving, he came to Shouchun to discuss with his friend Liu Ye, which almost made Liu Ziyang laugh.

If you don’t vote, why are you running around?

Lu Su argued that Liu Bei was from Yan, and we didn't know him, but once a man committed his life, he had to obey him life and death. Could he defect to him so easily?

Liu Ye was too lazy to say more, and how could Liu Ziyang be such an economical person? This murderer who had been killing people since he was young simply locked up Lu Su by force with a wave of his hand, and would not let him out until Liu Bei came back.

But when Lu Zijing met Liu Bei and learned that he almost chased him all the way to Jiangxia, he burst into tears of gratitude, bowed his head and worshiped him, becoming Liu Bei's confidant from then on.

To be fair, whether it is Cao Cao, Liu Bei, or Sun Jian, they are by no means smooth sailing in the Central Plains and Huainan. But now that the world is in troubled times, who doesn't have a few stories? And if Liu Bei or Cao Cao can't be determined in the future.

Who in the world cares about these stories?

Back in front of us, Lu Zijing and Guo Fengxiao took Chen Deng and Xu Shu to the north, passing by Langya. They originally wanted to pay a visit to Zhendong General Guan Yu who was recruiting Zang Ba's tribe in Langya, but they did not want to become a leader of Zang Ba's subordinates because of the Taishan bandit Yu Du.

En Suo took advantage of the chaos and fled southward across the sea. Guan Yunchang was furious at this moment... Guo Jia, who knew Guan Yu's temper, couldn't wait long, so he hurriedly left a letter to express his gratitude, and then set off northward again.

Turn to Taishan County, pass through Jibei, go to Dongjun, cross the river from Cangting, and then go east to Weijun... From this perspective, the Central Plains of Hebei seems to be separated by just one water, which is far less than imagined.

The barriers are clear.

After entering Wei County, Xu Shu took the initiative to say goodbye and traveled on his own. Although Chen Deng was reluctant to leave, he had nothing to say. The experience in Xiapi had almost the same impact on both of them, so Xu Shu decided to walk more and see more.

Look, what else can Chen Yuanlong do?

A few days later, at noon in late July, a group of people entered the extremely prosperous Yecheng. They had just stayed in the posthouse inside the east gate. Before they had time to sigh and play, they learned that General Wei Gongsun was going to summon them. At this time, Gongsun was

They inspected the construction site of Tongquetai in the southwest outside the city, but when they heard that Lu Zijing and Chen Yuanlong were the envoys, they did not want to wait for a moment and summoned them directly.

Lu and Chen did not dare to neglect, so they immediately took the gifts prepared by Liu Bei and hurried out of the city to the Tongque Terrace by the Zhang River in the southwest of Ye City.

Due to the promotion and development of rammed earth technology, the table-top architecture of the Han Dynasty has actually reached a very mature stage. The rammed earth general platforms in military camps, the rammed earth periphery of military fortresses, and the rammed earth foundations of governments, schools, and sacrificial buildings are all very important.

Universal. As for Tongquetai as a majestic building for a ruling group, its scale is unquestionable.

Not to mention anything else, even if there are not many buildings erected on the platform at this time, a single ten-foot-high platform still looks shocking.

It was already evening. Lu Su climbed up the steps and went to the stage to see Gongsun. Before he reached the stage, he heard a voice above his head and asked:

"People say that with a sharp knife in hand, murderous intention arises. When you climb high and look far, heroism arises... What do you think of this place when you respect the heroes of Huainan?"

Lu Su and Chen Deng beside him hurriedly raised their heads, only to see a tall man with a beard but no beard. He was smiling and standing on the steps with his hands behind his back, asking condescendingly.

Lu and Chen saw that his appearance was quite upright, his speech was clear and he looked young. He seemed to be only thirty-two or thirteen years old. In addition, he didn't even have a seal or ribbon on his body, so they thought he was an important official in Yecheng.

The disciples heard that the Huainan envoy came here specifically to find trouble!

But the next moment, almost at the same time, Lu Su and Chen Deng both caught a glimpse of a strangely styled sword with a very long handle on this man's waist. However, they each panicked, and followed Guo Jia beside them, bowing and saluting, saying "General Wei".

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"If it's not an official reception, why bother to be polite? Langya bought it and the trip was successful. Fengxiao should have been allowed to rest first, but I heard that Lu Zizi was so respectful that he didn't dare to neglect, but he worked hard for Fengxiao." Gongsun went down.

Half a step later, he helped Guo Jia up first and praised him for a while.

"How dare you call it hard work when it's your duty?" Guo Jia, who was helped to the stage, quickly leaned over and said his duty.

"Since you're here, come with me on stage. Zhicai is also here, so you don't have to go find him to report to him again!" Gongsun nodded slightly, but then let him go and let him go to find the actor himself.

, and then looked at Lu Su underneath him again. "Zijing, you haven't responded to what I just said, right?"

"Foreign Minister..."

"Why talk about foreign ministers? Aren't you a minister of the Han Dynasty?" Gongsun smiled and said, "Besides, when you come to my place, even Xuande will not call himself a foreign minister, but will call himself a younger brother."

"Uh, my subordinate... I think that the Tongque Tower is majestic. Although the tall building has not yet been completed, it still has a lot of atmosphere!" Lu Su had no choice but to change his mind.

"What can you see when you are in the audience?" Gongsun laughed again and reached out to help him onto the stage. "Come up and have a look!"

Lu Su had no choice but to let the other party support him on the stage with one arm, while Chen Yuanlong was behind him, and he couldn't help but be envious.

The three of them stepped onto the stage, and saw that in addition to hundreds of guards in iron armor and cloaks, there were dozens of towering people with high crowns, some tall or short, some white or black, roughly divided into two piles, one pile except

Except for a very small number of young people like Guo Jia, most of them are middle-aged or old people, and almost all of them have green ribbons and silver seals. They seem to be important ministers, famous generals, and great Confucian figures here in Yecheng. On the other side, there are many

They are young people in their 120s, 20s, 30s, all of them are handsome and powerful, and most of them have bronze seals with thousand-stone or six-hundred-stone ribbons. Some of them have no seals and ribbons, and there are even four or five young men with tied hair and no crowns.

They were new talents or children of local nobles, and except for one of them, Jiang Gan of Jiujiang, who was an acquaintance, Lu Su did not know the rest.

But Gongsun and Lu Su walked arm in arm, but he was not in a hurry to introduce him. Instead, he came directly to the edge of the stage and leaned on the railing to look west... It was evening at this time, the so-called Zhang River is long, the sunset is gorgeous, the platform is ten feet high, and it is thousands of miles away.

Yanbo, calls himself weather.

"How?" After watching for a while, Gongsun suddenly asked again.

"really……"

"Is there any poetry?"

"I'm... stupid." Lu Zijing looked quite embarrassed. "I don't know how to write or write."

"I think so," Gongsun looked at Lu Su who was being dragged by him and shook his head and sighed. "Huainan is a place between the Central Plains and Jiangnan. On the one hand, it can be exposed to the culture of the Central Plains, but on the other hand, the people are fierce and there are many barbaric things.

, so the heroes there are good at planning, military, and killing, but they are not good at scriptures, and they don't care about poetry and poetry... This kind of habit is difficult to strive for in ordinary times, but it is arrogance in troubled times.
To be continued...