In the winter of the 12th year of Jian'an, when Liu Yi set out to Jiangxia, it was December and the end of the year was approaching. However, for Liu Yi, he had no home in this era, and it was the same everywhere for the New Year. In the era of frequent wars, the taste of the New Year is difficult for ordinary people to experience.

The new carriage was already ready. As for the horse, Liu Bei ordered people to send a war horse over after returning to Xinye.

Sitting in the comfortable carriage, Liu Yi did not do wood carving anymore, but just silently touched Wangcai's head and thought about future events.

In order to avoid the embarrassing scenes of the last time, Liu Yi went to Jiangxia this time and made sufficient preparations. Liu Sandao and another bandit were skillful in controlling it, at least there would be no problem of going off the road. He asked Cui Zhouping in detail about the big and small paths along the way. This time, the place where he agreed to meet with Lu Lingqi was outside Xiling, where the capital of Jiangxia County was located.

As for where to settle the village, it is useless to think about it now. It depends on Huang Zu’s arrangement. Liu Yi and the others have no right to choose, and Zhuge Liang’s face is not that great. It would be good if Huang Zu could give them a piece of wasteland in front of Zhuge Liang.

Jingzhou is still peaceful now, far from being as chaotic as Nanyang. There has not been a wrong path along the way and has not encountered too many obstacles.

Since Deng Ai received the Wu Zi's Art of War presented by Zhuge Liang, he has been studying it day and night. At this moment, he is sitting in a spacious and stable carriage, not hoping to study it with books. Deng's mother was looking at the scenery outside the window and thinking silently.

Liu Yi likes this quietness very much. Although he can talk to anyone he meets on weekdays, as far as he is concerned, he prefers quietness and does not like too many chores. Now that he has calmed down, he leans on the carriage and silently conceives the city that will be built by himself in his mind. He has already started conceiving this matter when he is copying the village.

Although the city wall is not a city, it is also a smaller version of a city. In Liu Yi's idea, a city wall that can accommodate at least 3,500 households and about 20,000 to 30,000 people will definitely not be able to be achieved overnight. Even if the functions of the system are used, some people will temporarily give the same ability as themselves. It will not be completed in three or five days if they want to pull up a city wall. The biggest problem is still in the materials.

This time when he went to Jiangxia, he also wanted to see if he could get a few connections that could supply materials. He only had 70,000 yuan in his hand and could not even afford the materials. In this way, it still depends on the financial support of Lu Lingqi. It was just that the copycat had a foundation. Liu Yi was not a person in the copycat, so how could he know?

Thinking of these messy things, when the carriage arrived in Xiling, in addition to the idea of ​​the city, everything else was actually in vain. It also depends on the situation of Xiling City and the attitude of Huang Zu.

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Xiling, as the county government of Jiangxia County, although Huang Zu nominally obeyed Liu Biao's orders, everyone knew that Huang Zu was the real master here in this place. Even if it was Liu Biao's orders, if Huang Zu was unwilling to accept it, then no one would do anything to Huang Zu.

However, the local emperor of Jiangxia County is not very cheerful now.

Recently, the news brought back by the fleet patrol of the river seems to have taken action again in Jiangdong. If nothing unexpected happens, after this winter passes, the navy in Jiangdong may have taken action again.

Although this is not the first time he fought with Jiangdong, and even Huang Zu had such a fierce record of shooting Sun Jian in his hands, this does not mean that Huang Zu would underestimate the Jiangdong Navy. On the contrary, as the person who fought the Jiangdong Navy in Jingzhou, Huang Zu knew the terror of the Jiangdong Navy. Therefore, after exploring the news, Huang Zu was preparing for how to deploy defenses these days.

The two huge ships, which are also one of the few ships in Jingzhou, have been transferred by Huang Zu, and are in a state of being able to fight at any time. In addition, he also arranged a large number of rolling wood, stones and torches on the cliffs on both sides of the straits.

Huang Zu knew very well that if he had a water battle, he would definitely not be the opponent of the civil and military officials in Jiangdong, but if he was defending, he had fought with Sun Jian and Sun Ce over the years, and he had fought with Sun Quan again and again. Huang Zu still had many experiences in defense.

I have to ask Liu Biao for some people!

Looking at Jiangxia's defense map, Huang Zu tried hard to find out what was missing. This was the ability to be abused by Jiangdong. In terms of marching and fighting, although Huang Zu was a general in Jingzhou, his ability was not ranked. However, if it were about Jiang Shang defense, in Jingzhou, Huang Zu recognized the second place, so no one dared to recognize the first place.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Zu has been firmly in the prefect of Jiangxia for so many years. Even if Liu Biao is dissatisfied with him, he will not dare to replace him easily.

"Lord!" Just as Huang Zu was thinking about how to get more benefits from Liu Biao, one of them came in and bowed to Huang Zu, saying, "Someone outside the door asked to see the lord with a letter and said, "There is a letter outside the door asking for help, and Zhuge Liang recommends it to Longzhong."

"Kong Ming?" Huang Zu nodded when he heard this, took the letter and asked casually: "Who is coming?"

"It was said that it was from a craftsman in Longzhong." He bowed in person.

"Craftsman?" Huang Zu frowned when he heard this, glanced over the letter, shook his head and smiled, "How could Kong Ming make friends with such people?"

The Huang family is a large Jingxiang clan. Zhuge Liang got married with the Huang family. Huang Zu naturally had seen him and had a good impression of this young man. Originally, Huang Zu wanted to meet this person recommended by Kong Ming, but when he heard the other party's identity, he immediately stopped thinking. The other party's identity was too far apart, and Huang Zu disdained to meet him.

However, Zhuge Liang came in person, and it was not a big deal. He just gave him a piece of land to the other party in Jiangxia. Huang Zu didn't want to rub Zhuge Liang's face. After looking at the map, he took a blank official document. After thinking about it, he took a paragraph on the official document, which was to hand over a certain place to allow Liu Yi to establish a village, recruit tenant farmers to reclaim wasteland, and then stamped his own seal, handed the official document to his follower and said, "Give this official document to him and let him leave on his own."

"Here!" He agreed with his personal opinion, took the official document, and bowed and left.
Chapter completed!