Early the next morning, Liu Bei and his beloved wife met with his mentor and uncle again. When they met Lu Zhi, Lu Zhi and Cang Tou were packing their bags. Liu Bei was surprised and asked, "How many more days will the teacher stay in Jinyang if he is not here?"
Seeing their radiant faces, Lu Zhi was quite pleased. Then he shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is seriously ill and his position has not yet been decided. I am worried. Once Your Majesty becomes emperor, the person in charge will be the general. As a general, I
As a minister, I am also an official and a servant. It is the time for me to do my duty and give advice. The country is so worried! You must always remember to take the country as your own responsibility."
Liu Bei said yes, and Lu Zhi took out a hidden sword from his bedroom, gave it to Liu Jia and said, "I am also a Yan person. The Yan people actually have nothing good except swords. You are the daughter of Bingzhou, so you will understand.
I asked someone to make this sword when I was young. Unfortunately, after I entered the world of scholars, this sword was no longer useful, so I gave it to you for self-defense."
Liu Jia saluted and took it. She took the sword out of its scabbard. She could see the sword's gleam as cold as frost. On both sides of the sword were inscribed "Siqi" and "Shaking Light" in small seal scripts. Liu Jia didn't recognize it and only felt the pattern.
She was very happy with the exquisite ancient charm and saluted Lu Zhi again to express her gratitude.
After bidding farewell to his mentor and going to see his uncle again, his uncle Liu Yuanqi was very happy. He recalled the past to Liu Bei: "You are the proud son of the clan. It's a pity that your father died early, so you had to ask me to help you. If your mother were here,
, I must have closed my eyes to see you today." At this point, he couldn't help but sigh, and told him again and again: "The family is very thin, you have to take this into consideration, and don't let the whole family die." The couple didn't know what to say.
Only Nono.
At the lunch banquet, Chen Chong, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other relatives and friends showed up one by one. Jian Yong winked at Liu Bei, while Chen Chong sighed and ruined the scenery. Guan Yu asked why, but Chen Chong took a deep breath and said, "I have been away from home for too long, and I also miss Zhao.
Ji." Zhang Fei said angrily from the side: "I'm not married yet! What do you mean by this!"
Liu Jia was cooking rice and roasting meat in the kitchen, while Liu Bei brought the food. Everyone ate soup cakes with beef pickles and vegetables. Liu Bei smiled at Chen Chong and said, "In the future, Ting Jian will no longer need to cook in person." Jian Yong was in
He tore the beef and dipped it in the sauce, shook his head and sighed: "Your wife's soup is not as strong as the court. Don't you want to ruin the happiness of others!"
Liu Bei tried to kick him, but was pulled down by Chen Chong. Chen Chong smiled at him and said: "Now that Xuande has filled the hall with joy, you must realize that enjoying alone is not as good as enjoying together. There were so many people following the ceremony yesterday, so it is not as good as having a banquet in front of the house in the evening.
Share it with the whole city!" Everyone cheered loudly. Liu Bei looked around and saw that everyone's faces were full of joy. He toasted and smiled at Chen Chong: "Ting Jian, thanks to you, I got married and established a career so quickly. Now that I think about it,
Ten years of Spring and Autumn are like a dream. It would be great if every day was like today."
When Chen Chong saw his true feelings revealed, he couldn't help but be moved and said: "Of course, because the general public can live and be happy as they are today, we have only come to where we are today. Xuande, it's just a long road, and we have just started at this time." The two of them talked.
Pick up the cup and drink it all in one gulp.
In the evening, Chen Chong organized a dinner for the whole city. He directly occupied the street in front of the county government and spread straw mats on the street. He also set up two large cauldrons in the mansion, two for cooking noodles and two for cooking meat. This was the season when vegetables were fresh.
Leeks, courgettes (cucumbers), sunflowers, eggplants, and radish (radish) were all chopped up and put into the cauldron. The steam from the cauldron rose and the city was filled with fragrance. There was no need to send anyone to spread the news. Within half an hour, the people spread the word by word of mouth.
, they all took bowls and boxes and came to eat on the road. Liu Bei and Liu Jia were in front of the mansion, sharing food one by one for the people in the city. While people were eating on the road, they joked and said in private: Liu Shijun is brave, and so is your wife.
So delicate and pretty, they are a perfect match!
But such happiness was short-lived after all. Liu Bei got married during his rest period, and only rested for three days before returning to politics. Fortunately, affected by the festive atmosphere of the wedding, even the officials in the county acted with rare diligence.
The high-ranking officials in the county who had visited frequently before were wise enough to stop bothering me.
But in the land of Bingzhou, peace has always been rare. On the second day of April, new problems faced Liu Bei and Chen Chong.
When Chen Chong met Gao Zhun, he had just returned from the county government and saw him being stopped in front of the door by a doorman. Although his clothes were ragged, he recognized Gao Zhun at a glance. After all, he had a deep memory of Gao Zhun when he was in Santang.
After all, there are few such confident men in the Baibo Army: there is wine in his words and iron in his demeanor. Making friends with him is like galloping a horse, which makes people open-minded.
It's just that Gao Zhun was in a very embarrassed state at this time. He had a hard time along the way. The war had been going on for more than a month. All the Xiongnu cities along the way were under martial law, and the Shanyu set up checkpoints to check people's faces. Gao Zhun had no choice but to bypass the city and go all the way.
He walked along the trail, hunted by himself in the mountains and forests, and slept in the withered grass. One day he woke up and lost his way. He took detours for two more days. When he found Jinyang, his uniform was full of travel dust.
Chen Chong brought him into the hall and straight to the point told the ins and outs of the local uprising. He said sincerely: "Longshou, I just had a thought at that time. I didn't expect such a situation. Now that the city is in trouble both internally and externally, if Liu Shi
If you and I don't lend a helping hand, then more than ten thousand people will not survive!"
Before Chen Chong could make up his mind about the news, Liu Bei happened to receive the news during military training: Huyan King Yuledu resisted Xianbei in Wuzhou for half a month, and finally the city was broken. Yuledu fled north to Zhongling and continued to hold on, but Shanyu's reinforcements were late.
If it was too late, he could only send an envoy to ask Liu Bei for help.
As soon as Liu Bei got the news, he hurried back to the county government and ran into Chen Chong talking with Gao Zhun. This made him speechless for a while. After a long time, he couldn't help laughing at himself: "I dare you, my old Liu is now the pretty man who is loved by everyone in Bingzhou."
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So he called everyone to the hall, laid out the map, and discussed the matter together: There are currently wars in two directions, one in the west and one in the north, and everyone is asking for help from Jinyang. Liu Bei was defeated not long ago. At this time, the only ones who can fight are the ten thousand who were left behind.
The county soldiers can only go in one direction, so what should the Han army do?
Dou Fu, the governor of the county, was Liu Bei's nominal deputy, so he expressed his opinion first. He frowned and asked everyone: "What is there to worry about? Yu Fuluo was a Shanyu conferred by the imperial court.
How can we help the rebels in Shuofang? As a general who protects the Xiongnu, resisting Xianbei is the emperor's imperial order. How can we abandon the near and seek the far away? Once Dingxiang falls, how can we explain to the court?"
Most of the officials agreed with him and nodded silently. But Guan Yu frowned greatly when he heard this, and his eyebrows were pressed together like two flying knives. He couldn't help but retort first: "Why did Dou Juncheng say this? Mencius once said:
'If the king regards his ministers as his hands and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his heart; if his ministers regard his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman; if his ministers regard his ministers as earth and mustard, then his ministers will regard him as a bandit.' What's wrong with Fuluo?
Everyone here knows that he is a cunning jackal and a slippery fox, but he has only been able to ascend to the great position with the help of the imperial court. In the past few months, he has abused the people to the extreme and the country is in chaos. If he is allowed to continue to do what he does
, even if they defeated Xianbei for a while, they could not eradicate the root cause of the disease, and they only allowed the situation to repeat itself."
Dou Fu couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words. He looked at the angry warrior. Under the words that were about to explode, there was a calm face and sharp eyes. He felt that his pupils were "injured", which made him withdraw.
Although he looked down upon Guan Yu, he still retorted:
"Things are divided into priorities, and actions are classified according to their severity. Xianbei is currently besieging Dingxiang and conquering several cities. It is not said that he is not in a hurry. However, the number of people under his command who can fight is no more than 10,000, while the Xiongnu alone has more than 100,000 people.
, no less than 90,000 people went out to conquer Shuofang. If we want to defeat a large number of people with a small number, it can be said that it is not unreasonable. I have heard that the general has a benevolent heart in all battles. But on the battlefield, is there any principle of abandoning urgency and moving slowly, abandoning lightness and taking advantage of the most important?
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Guan Yu was about to continue the argument when he saw Chen Chong reaching out to stop the argument, shaking his head and saying to everyone: "What Zixun said makes sense, but it is not entirely true. What Yun Chang said also makes sense, but it is not clear enough. But in my opinion
, there is only one solution to this behavior."
Now that Chen Chong had expressed his stance, everyone turned their attention to listen to his analysis of the current situation: "At the beginning of the year, in order to prevent Xianbei from entering the invaders, I burned the grassland along the river in the north of the county to white ground. This not only prevented Xianbei from going south, but also made it difficult for us to go north and forcibly
The losses in the rescue operation will be countless. If the battle is unfavorable and there is no way to retreat, we must not act like this."
After listening to this, everyone was convinced. After explaining the reasons why he could not go north, Chen Chong continued to point out the key points of the westward journey: "Although Yu Fuluo has a large army, he has repeatedly used force, as violent as Jie and Zhou, and the people's hearts are unstable. This time he used nearly one hundred thousand people to
They made a big mistake by attacking Shuofang. The big city of Shuofang is located in the middle of the desert. He Naifang has to go out to find food, but he wants to surround it with heavy troops. How ridiculous is it? We can estimate the situation of being trapped if we don’t have enough troops. Although we will
There were less than 10,000 soldiers, but Yuvluo was trapped in the land of civilian thieves, and he was able to capture him alive even if he was riding alone."
"Therefore, we have only one solution for using our troops."
Speaking of this, Chen Chong waved his hand and drew a large circle on the map from west to north, and said with a smile: "According to the imperial court's order, we stationed in Meiji, sent an edict to all the tribes, and removed Yu Fuluo from his position.
Attack the big city, capture all its people, then go north to Dingxiang, and defeat the invading Xianbei invaders with a single blow!"
Gao Zhun was tired of waiting in the wing room and yawned continuously. He finally heard the hall door open and the footsteps of people leaving the meeting. He opened the door and saw Chen Chong walking out of the crowd while talking to someone.
When they met each other's eyes, Chen Chong clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life."
Gao Zhun finally felt relieved, but felt that something was wrong. He could only touch the waist knife and mutter to himself: "Everyone is made of flesh, you have to fight for your reputation!"