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Chapter 572
When the country name was set as "Qin", Chang'an was the capital by default.

Du Yu and Suo Jing had no objection, but Lu Zhi did not reply, but he was overworked and seriously ill.

Yang Zheng was shocked, and hurried to Chang'an.

For so many years, the real mainstay is Luzhi.

Silently manage everything in the rear, take care of everything properly, so that the front line has no worries.

It is his credit that Longyou and Hexi resumed production so quickly.

Yang Zheng's brilliant victory, behind his careful planning, sent Liangzhou's resources to the front line.

So Du Yu, Wei Guan and others are the guards, and Lu Zhi is the guard with the highest merit.

Arriving in Chang'an, seeing Lu Zhi's residence, I couldn't help but feel sore, they were all Qin's upper guards and Marquis of Yinping, and the whole family lived in a thatched house without even a servant.

Chang'an originally had the General Zhengxi's Mansion, which was destroyed by the war. When Yang Hu defended Chang'an, he demolished everything that could be dismantled in order to strengthen the city defense.

There are not many decent buildings in the city, and they are either used as government offices or military camps.

The second son, Lu Jing, served in coarse linen clothes.

Lu Zhi is clean and ascetic, does not save farms and houses, and is well-known in Liangzhou for being a clean and honest official and a fair government.

Due to the chaos of Guo Si and Li Jue, his family was ruined and his family was destroyed. He was displaced since he was a child, and he experienced all the hardships of others. The land and money that were rewarded to him were all used to help the poor people.Therefore, where he is in charge, the officialdom is cleared, the people are powerful and sincerely convinced, and the local area can often settle down quickly.

When leaving office, there are always people who stop him from letting him go.

Guanzhong is almost in ruins, how difficult is it to restore the vitality of the past?

How burdensome is government affairs?

Lu Zhi's life is simple, and he is also old. He is 71 this year, so it is reasonable for him to fall ill.

Yang Zheng secretly hated himself for being too careless, immersed in the joy of a great victory and establishing a country, and neglected too many things.

Lu Zhi was sick in bed and could not see guests for a long time.

Yang Zheng didn't care about these vain rituals, and went straight to the sick bed.

There is only a room of bamboo slips and a few pieces of furniture in the house, which is extremely simple.

"My father fell ill in the field ten days ago, and he was sent back to the city to recuperate. He invited a doctor, and his pulse has stabilized. The doctor said that as long as he takes care of him for two or three months, his father will recover." There is some resentment in between.

Lu Zhi lived a simple life and had no private property, so naturally he did not marry a concubine. After his wife passed away, he did not remarry for so many years.

There are only two sons, the eldest son, Lu Gong, first served as Hequ Tuntian Commander.

Yang Zheng was silent for a long time and didn't say much.

For the next two days, he personally served the decoction and wiped his body.

It's like serving your own father.

The resentment on Lu Jing's face dissipated bit by bit.

On the third day, Lu Zhi woke up, his face was a little pale, his eyes were very cloudy, and he was stunned for a long time before he realized that it was Yang Zheng who sighed and said something.

Yang Zheng put his ear close to him, "Da, Wang Rili, Wanwanji, you shouldn't...delay...the old man...ashamed..."

Yang Zheng gently held his hand, "Uncle, please rest in peace. Li Mi, Chen Shou and others will take care of it. I have transferred Suo Jing back to let him take charge of the overall situation in Guanzhong."

Lu Zhi nodded slightly, without saying anything, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Looking at his face covered with age spots and wrinkles, Yang Zheng was really afraid that he would just fall asleep like this.

A little fear in my heart.

The biological father Yang You has only a hazy shadow, and Lu Zhi has more or less replaced this role.

In the next few days, Yang Zheng slept next to Lu Zhi's bed, feeding water and porridge, and serving soup and medicine. Lu Zhi's face gradually turned rosy, and with Yang Zheng's support, he could get out of bed and walk.

In the past few days, the news of the defeat of Bingzhou came back.

Zhou Yu went deep alone, Tang Bin and Liu Hong lay in ambush, besieged but did not attack, Zhou Yu broke through with all his food, Wei Jun then covered up and killed, Du He led two thousand armored soldiers, wounded the enemy several times, but was outnumbered, the whole army died, I also died in the battle.

Liu Yuan, commander of the left side of the Xiongnu, led three thousand Hun Yi Cong to hold Zhou Yu back.

Tens of thousands of Tang Bin and Liu Hong, who had eaten the three thousand soldiers from Duhe, came and surrounded them on three sides. After being cut off the way to retreat to Taiyuan, he led his troops to the west and retreated to Luliang Mountain, only to barely escape the pursuit of the Wei army.

The Wei army regained all the lost land south of Taiyuan and besieged Taiyuan!

Yang Zheng crushed the bamboo slips.

Two thousand soldiers were beheaded, the government soldiers dispersed, and more than 1 pro-military elites were severely injured...

Since Xiping raised troops, it was the first time that he suffered such a big defeat.

You know, this is actually Yang Zheng's first battle since the founding of the country!
Liu Heng and Pang Qing were also "unacceptable to the king's fate" back then, but they made a series of correct adjustments based on the battlefield situation, and did not violate Yang Zheng's grand strategy of harassing and attacking Bingzhou.

And Zhou Yu's attack roughly contradicted Yang Zheng's plan to recuperate and stick to Taiyuan.

In fact, Zhou Yu's mentality has gradually changed in recent years.

He rushed to the front in the conflict of interests several times, as if he was the head of the Yuan Cong faction.

In the past, everyone lived in Xiping, poor and begging for food everywhere, and everyone worked together to drink the northwest wind, thinking about making Liangzhou bigger and stronger.

Now occupying Hexi, opening up Hetao, and winning the Guanzhong Shu Kingdom in World War I, the expansion is too fast.

This also led to the expansion of some people inside.

The greater the benefits, the more ideas there will be.

All kinds of internal strife also came to the fore.

Yang Zheng rubbed his forehead, he deeply felt the difficulty of sitting in the world, and fighting the world, all he had to do was to slash at the enemy with the edge of the knife.

Sitting in the world, there are thousands of threads, and it is necessary to balance various interest factions...

"Taiyuan's defeat may not be a good thing." Lu Zhi said.

Long before the information was sent, gossip brought by merchants from the Central Plains spread in Chang'an.

Yang Zheng could hear it, and Lu Zhi would naturally hear some of it.

Seeing Yang Zheng's gloomy expression, he knew it in his heart.

"Why is this?"

"Your Majesty won Guanzhong and Shuzhong in the first battle. Sima Zhao's 16 troops were defeated by [-] troops. The arrogant soldiers did not know how many ordinary people were, and they regarded the Central Plains as nothing. It’s a bit bigger, but the defeat of Bingzhou is better than the defeat of Guanzhong!” Only Lu Zhi dared to be so straightforward.

Having said that, Yang Zheng was still very depressed, "What uncle said is very true."

Lu Zhi continued to comfort him: "I suddenly understand a truth after being seriously ill."

Yang Zheng became curious.

"In this serious illness, all the ailments in my body were exposed. After the medicine stone was removed, I suddenly felt a lot of comfort in my body. I dare to boast that I can live at least ten years. If the ailments accumulate in the body, within two years, the medicine stone will be weak. This subject will die!" Lu Zhi said eloquently.

He is 71 this year, and in this world, it is also a long life to live to be in his eighties.

"For example, Daqin, if there is no such defeat, the army's arrogance will grow day by day, and if a serious illness breaks out in the Guanzhong battle in the future, I'm afraid that the achievements of the bloody battle of the king for more than ten years will be gone forever!"

"Thank you uncle for your teaching!" Yang Zheng bowed his hands.

There are too many examples of this.

The overlord broke the boat, and eight thousand Jiangdong children fought against 20 Qin troops, sweeping the world without a single defeat, but after a defeat, they could never get back up again.

The same is true for Fu Jian and Murong Chui a hundred years later.

Sima Zhao abolished the system of garrisoning land and promulgated the system of occupying land, and the people of Kanto were very happy.

Especially when the Central Plains was on the defensive, Kanto was full of grand cities, with a population four to five times that of Kanxi, with abundant money and grain, and the Sima family's leading figures were not stupid, so how could Yang Zheng keep winning?

Therefore, if you are sick, you should treat it early, and you can't hide your illness from medical treatment.

(End of this chapter)