Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 253 Hidden dangers in Youzhou
A few days later, when Yuan Xi and his party rushed back to Guangling, it was beyond everyone's expectations.

Cai Zhaoji came out to greet her, and saw a long line of horse-drawn carriages queuing up outside the mansion, and said to Yuan Xi who got off the carriage, "What good things did you bring?"

Yuan Xi told about the collection of books that Chen Deng brought out of the house, and said with a smile, "Next, I may have to trouble you."

"I will gather the literate people in the city to transcribe and transcribe, and then you will preside over the compilation, organize these things into a book, and then send a batch to Youzhou before the Chinese New Year."

"The coming year will be the time for spring plowing and planting in Youzhou. If these things can come in handy, that would be the best."

"But maybe you will be very tired in the next period of time, and I will ask everyone in the house to help you."

Cai Yan said with a smile: "This is a good thing. Don't you just want to gather the best of the world and write a brilliant masterpiece?"

She then sighed and said: "There was a fire in Luoyang back then, so many ancient books were lost, what a pity."

Yuan Xi shared the same feeling. The evolution of civilization is extremely difficult and requires long-term accumulation and precipitation, but its destruction is extremely easy. Just a short incident can wipe out the efforts of countless people for hundreds of thousands of years.

Rolls of bamboo slips were moved into the house, and the Yuan Mansion became completely busy. Almost everyone, including the Huan family, was assigned the task of transcribing.

Everyone has been with Yuan Xi for a long time, and they are all used to it, except for one person.

Madam Wu.

Because she is also literate, she has to follow Cai Zhaoji to transcribe classics. In normal times, Mrs. Wu does not object, on the contrary, she likes it very much.

But now she feels extremely frustrated, because in the past few days, she was planning to escape!
Mrs. Wu has already figured out the work and rest time and free time of everyone in the mansion, including Cai Zhaoji's mother and daughter, after Yuan Xi left, and also deduced that the token to leave the city is likely to be in Cai Zhaoji's house.

She has found out the patrol routes of the defenders in the city and the opening and closing times of the city gates, and learned that among the four gates, the north gate can leave the city with a token in the middle of the night!

Her plan was to steal the token while everyone was asleep at night, take her daughter and escape from the city, and then find a way to return to Lujiang County so that she could join Sun Ce.

She had almost planned all of this, and she only waited for a few days to do it, but it turned out that Yuan Xi came back early!

And listening to Cai Zhaoji's tone, in the next period of time.All the people in the mansion have to work all night long to copy the classics!
In this way, the chance of escape that Mrs. Wu finally found disappeared!
She vomited blood in her heart, which was a bit too unlucky!

But Mrs. Wu is a person who won't give up. The Chinese New Year is less than a month away. Before and after the Chinese New Year, the soldiers and common people in the city are busy celebrating. That should be the time when Yuan's family is most relaxed.

Before that, she could only pretend that everything was as usual, waiting for the best time to come.

In the next few days, cartloads of blank bamboo slips, bolts of silk, and boxes of brushes and pine ink were brought in, and everyone in the mansion mobilized, including Yuan Xi and Zhen Mi, who joined the army of copyists. in.

But at the same time, Yuan Xi was not at ease. There were so many letters from Youzhou that he was overwhelmed.

On Liu and Zhao Yun's side, with the help of Jushou who led the troops, they have successfully captured Jicheng in Guangyang County.

Jushou temporarily stayed in Yongcheng, and Quyi returned to Beixincheng to garrison.

Jicheng is a big city in Youzhou, which is good news logically, but Jushou's actions show that Youzhou is showing signs of instability.

Jushou was originally stationed in Beixin City to handle military affairs, but now he leads troops to help fight Yongcheng. Although he is engaged in the military service and has the right to specialize himself, this action is obviously out of bounds.

This should be because Jushou had an unhappy fight with Xu You in Beixincheng, and the letters from Liu, Zhao Yun and others also hinted at this point.

Ju Shou even directly suggested that the location of Beixincheng is too remote to be used as Youzhou government office. If it can be moved to Jicheng, it would be the most ideal.

He contacted Qu Yi's secret letter back in Beixincheng, saying that he would check the inventory after he went back, and that the amount of food, grass and weapons in Beixincheng might not match the amount.

Qu Yi ran to question Xu You, but the other party said that the leader of Ju Shou took him away and had nothing to do with him.

Qu Yi naturally didn't believe it, and Ju Shou led his troops to Yongcheng because he wanted to do something. Ju Shou had nothing to do to corrupt ink in this kind of place.

Qu Yi has a straightforward temper, and the two sides quarreled, and finally broke up unhappy.

Seeing this, Yuan Xi's face became gloomy. If there is no shortage of food and grass in the city, Xu You can save a little, and he can just turn a blind eye and close his eyes, but if he puts his mind on weapons, he will cross the line!

With Yuan Shang behind his back, Xu You is really daring to do these things!
However, it is more likely that Xu You did these things at the behest of Yuan Shang.

Yuan Shang made it clear that he wanted to muddy the waters in Youzhou, but according to Yuan Xi's current status, it was not yet time for him to publicly tear himself apart with Yuan Shang.

Moreover, according to Xu You's personality, if he is pushed into a hurry, it is still unknown whether he will sell Beixincheng to enemies such as black mountain bandits.

So at present, Yuan Xi can only stabilize Xu You temporarily. He wrote a letter to Xu You respectively, politely hinting at his bottom line.

Yuan Xi felt that with Xu You's intelligence, he should be able to understand what he meant. If the other party pretended to be stupid, Yuan Xi would not mind taking some extraordinary measures after returning to Beixincheng.

In all fairness, Xu You is very capable in handling internal affairs, and Beixin City is still relatively stable now, which also has its share of credit.

But the bad thing is that if it brings the wind of greed for ink into the officialdom of Youzhou, what is the difference from the greed in the world during the period of Emperor Han Ling?
In private, he sent two secret letters, one for Jushou to return to Beixincheng to continue to take charge of military affairs, and the other for Qu Yi to go directly south to Sili in secret.

Both of them are an important part of his future plan, and at this time, they must not cause turmoil in Beixin City.

In addition, there is also good news, that is, after several large cities in Guangyang, Yuyang were laid down, iron ore mining in the territory has been on the right track. up.

However, it takes several years for a blacksmith apprentice to become a teacher, so Liu He, who is temporarily in charge of Jicheng's internal affairs, wrote to ask Yuan Xi what to do.

After Yuan Xi read it, he discussed it with Guo Jia and started to recruit blacksmiths and apprentices from Guangling County to Youzhou.

When the blacksmiths in Guangling City saw the recruitment, they were quite disdainful at first.

The bitter cold in Youzhou is far worse than the affluent Guangling, so is a fool willing to go there?

But when they saw the conditions on the list, they immediately opened their eyes wide. The blacksmiths who went to Youzhou, after passing the examination, would have a piece of permanent land of tens of acres in the local area.

This field does not look like much, but it is the dream of many blacksmiths, because from then on, the household registration of their descendants can be changed from workers to farmers!
With agricultural registration, it is much easier for children and grandchildren to study in corvee, and even their official career. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
For a while, except those who were in Lianzhan, who wanted to go to Youzhou for a try, there was an endless stream of people who came to sign up. After a simple assessment, they took their families and apprentices and boarded the sea boat bound for Youzhou.

After Yuan Xi was busy with these things, it was already more than ten days later, and the Chen family's classics had not been copied yet, but Tai Shici came to report this day, saying that Liu Yao from Wujun had sent someone.

Yuan Xi asked Tai Shici about the recent military situation, and guessed that Liu Yao might have come to ask for help. He opened the letter and saw that it was indeed the case.

He found Guo Jia and discussed it with Tai Shici. Guo Jia read the letter and said, "Sun Ce is in a hurry to attack Liu Yao?"

"Not to mention whether the young master can help you across the river, even if you help, it seems that there is no benefit, and you will get stuck instead."

"Besides, young master, most of these soldiers are good at land battles, so water battles are not suitable."

Tai Shici said: "Mr. Feng Xiao's words are very reasonable. Ships in water warfare need to be agile and nimble. They almost don't wear armor, or they only need to protect at vital points."

"Now that our fully armored soldiers are on board, not only is it inconvenient to move, but the weapons are not suitable for water warfare. The same number may not be cheap."

Yuan Xi nodded. This is the characteristic of the troop. Just like the pikemen can only display their advantages when they form formations on the plains. If they go to the rough places in the mountains, they will become a mermaid existence.

Those who are suitable for land warfare are not suitable for water warfare. Even if they are trained and trained, they may not be as good as native soldiers.

The best way is to recruit soldiers suitable for different combat methods and conduct targeted training.

The northern soldiers go to land battles, and the Jiangdong soldiers go to water battles, which is probably the case.

Yuan Xi suddenly thought of something, and said kindly to Tai Shi, "I heard that Liu Yao, the shepherd of Yangzhou, is also from Ziyi's hometown?"

Taishi Ci hesitated for a moment, and said: "Although I am from the same town, but Ci comes from a humble background, Liuzhou Mu may not like me."

Yuan Xi saw that Tai Shici's expression was a little unnatural, and after questioning, he learned that the messenger who delivered the letter for Liu Yao showed some disdain when he knew Tai Shici's birth, and said, "It turns out that Xu Zijiang was the one who criticized him badly." !"

Guo Jia heard this, frowned slightly, and said: "What a Xu Zijiang, he is disrespectful to his elder brother, no wonder Yuedan, who was in the limelight for a while, has now faded."

Only then did Yuan Xi realize that it was Xu Shao!
Guo Jia was talking about Xu Shao's suppression of his cousin Xu Jing.

Xu Shao and Xu Jing co-initiated Yuedan Ping, but the two turned against each other afterwards. After Xu Shao became a meritorious officer in Runan, he tried his best to suppress Xu Jing, forcing him to make a living by pulling carts.

It wasn't until Liu Yi became the prefect that Xu Jing came out and became a county official.

This matter caused a lot of trouble. The Han Dynasty valued filial piety and family relationships, so the gentry criticized Xu Shao for this, and Yuedan's comments gradually declined.

Yuan Xi suddenly remembered that although the later generation Xu Jing was very famous, his ability was very mediocre, but his luck was much better than Xu Shao's.

Xu Shao died of illness in his 40s. Xu Jing first surrendered to Liu Zhang, then Liu Bei, and finally became Situ and even Taifu.

Now Yuan Xi heard that the envoy was disrespectful to Tai Shici, so he sneered, "Ziyi is my other Sima, if the envoy disrespects him, doesn't that mean he looks down on me?"

"It seems to me that if you are so confident, it shouldn't be very difficult for Liu Yao, so let him wait a few more days."

Guo Jia listened and said with a smile: "My lord, aren't you afraid that Xu Shao will give a bad comment?"

After Yuan Xi heard this, he sneered and said, "Then he is going to die."

"Although one more friend is better than one more enemy, but for me now, Yangzhou is more troublesome than Xuzhou."

"It takes at least three years to as many as five years to build a navy, and it takes a lot of money to build warships."

"Before this, it was impossible for me to rely on the dozens of merchant ships of the Zhen family to fight in the water?"

"Of course, I would like to ask, what do you think of Liu Yao's visit?"

(End of this chapter)