Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 795 Step by step

After an unknown amount of time, Feng regained some consciousness from the chaos. She opened her eyes and lay on the bed panting. The few strands of hair on the back of her long and fair neck were already wet with sweat.

She tried to lift herself up, but failed several times, so she had to turn over and face up. The beautiful curves of her chest could not help but undulate and tremble, creating an extremely moving scene.

She bit her lip, glanced at Yuan Xi next to her with a complicated expression, and said softly: "Shijun's bottom line is very intriguing."

Yuan Xi looked embarrassed and said shamelessly: "My biggest bottom line is that I have no bottom line."

He thought that he still overestimated his own strength. With the double bonus of Feng's appearance and identity, his sanctimonious words were like a loud slap on his face, just like the rhythm of the slap just now. .

I have to admit that in this era where information transmission is extremely underdeveloped and entertainment is extremely backward, without the entertainment methods of later generations, communicating with pleasing women is one of the few ways to relieve tension.

He pulled Feng into his arms and said, "After all, I'm not a good person."

"No," Feng murmured: "If Shijun is not a good person, there will be no good people in the world."

Yuan Xi thought to himself that women in this era are really easy to satisfy. In future generations, they would probably be talking about a bride price of 888,000 yuan, right?

Youzhou, Liaodong.

Tian Yu stood on the sea ship and directed the fleet coming and going along the coastline.

In the past six months, he has completed a lot of tasks assigned to him by Yuan Xi. Starting from Yang Le in western Liaoning, along the coastline, to Dongqing in Liaodong Peninsula, and then to Lelang County and Daifang County, he carried out various tasks along the way. A dozen large and small towns and dozens of simple ports were established to serve as trade routes to the Korean Peninsula.

Overall, the effect is pretty good. There are a lot of goods in Youzhou that are urgently needed by the relatively backward tribesmen of the Korean Peninsula. From water tanks, to iron products, and even discarded used tools, the tribes of the Peninsula are willing to spend a lot of money to buy them. .

Of course, most of what it produces is fur ginseng, mixed with a small amount of gold and silver, and a few things Youzhou needs.

The first is bow and arrow materials. Due to the bitter cold in the place, the bows and arrows produced in North Korea are of very good quality. They also produce large quantities of buffalo horns and beef tendons needed for making bows.

The second is war horses, of which there is a unique breed called Guoxiama. Although it is very short, it has good endurance and does not eat much forage. It is indeed not suitable for fighting, but it is quite effective in transportation and other aspects.

It's not that Youzhou doesn't produce horses. On the contrary, a large number of places are suitable for producing horses, and the lower the productivity of the area, the more cost-effective animal husbandry is. After all, as long as there is pasture.

But for Yuan Xilai, who is vigorously developing farming, large-scale horse breeding seems incompatible with his plan. The same land is used for farming and planting cash crops, which obviously has higher returns. Overdevelopment of animal husbandry seems a bit useless, but horses are indispensable. .

Therefore, the route set by Yuan Xi was to ensure the basic output of horses, vigorously develop agriculture and handicraft manufacturing, especially products made by perfect craftsmanship, and use trade routes to exchange raw materials and horses with the Korean Peninsula.

It must be said that this approach greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of craftsmen, and in a short period of time they improved many agricultural tools and water conservancy products that were about to break through, and this was also urgently needed by the tribes on the Korean Peninsula, such as waterwheels and iron plows, which were used over there. Quite popular.

More importantly, sulfur is also produced on the Korean Peninsula.

Some areas, such as the Guangliang Bay in the West Sea, are rich in sulfur, and the role of sulfur is not well known in this world. Extracting sulfur from it is also quite troublesome, so it did not attract attention. However, after people sent by Tian Yu heard about it, I tried my best to bring samples back and tried my best to extract some.

Although gunpowder is not very pure, Hua Tuo has studied that it has the effect of sterilizing and killing insects, is suitable for internal and external use, and has a good control effect on epidemic diseases.

Generally speaking, Yuan Xi gained a lot from opening up the trade along the Liaodong coast, but it was not without twists and turns, because the most important transit port was the Dongqing port borrowed from the Gongsun family.

Although the Gongsun family has not obviously caused trouble, they are obviously very interested in the goods traded between the two parties and have sent many spies to find out the information. Tian Yu, as the person who has been in charge of the prosecutor's office, is naturally familiar with these methods. Resolved easily.

But he knew that this was not a long-term solution. The Gongsun family had great plans and regarded Liaodong and even the Korean Peninsula as its forbidden territories. If Youzhou wanted to continue to expand its power, sooner or later it would conflict with them.

However, the current situation is not bad, because Gongsun Du is using troops against Goguryeo.

Unlike the tribal people along the peninsula, Goguryeo has truly established a political power since the Western Han Dynasty in 37 BC.

In 3 AD, Goguryeo moved its capital to the inner city. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the Han Dynasty weakened, Goguryeo showed strong expansionism and began to annex surrounding forces. It gradually became stronger, so it was inevitable that it and Gongsun There was a conflict in the Du family.

In later generations, after Liaodong County was controlled by Gongsundu, Goguryeo took the initiative to form an alliance with Cao Wei to attack Liaodong County. After Cao Wei captured Liaodong, Goguryeo terminated its cooperation with Cao Wei and sent troops to attack eastern Liaoning. Until the fifth year of Zhengshi (244), Cao Wei counterattacked and destroyed Wandu City. King Dongchuan of Goguryeo fled to Woju. However, after Cao Wei destroyed Wandu City, he thought that Goguryeo was destroyed, so he evacuated the Korean Peninsula.

Only seventy years later, Goguryeo rebuilt Wandu City and began to attack Liaodong, Lelang and Xuantu. In the fifth year of Yongjia (311), taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains, Goguryeo attacked Anping in the east and west of Liaodong, cutting off the Korean Peninsula. The land and water channel leading to Liaodong, and then invaded Lelang County in the seventh year of Yongjia and captured more than 314 men and women. In the second year of Jianxing (), they invaded Fang County and gained control of the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. One of the branches of Huanhua.

Goguryeo's experience of enslaving the Han people gave them confidence, so they behaved respectfully on the surface, but in their hearts they always had thoughts of rebellion, which was a huge hidden danger.

Yuan Xi naturally knew this period of history. He wrote a letter to warn Tian Yu not to conflict with Goguryeo for the time being, because this capricious nation will come back after a wave of defeat, causing disaster to future generations, so Yuan Xi wants to wipe it out first. Yu Nei, concentrate on plowing the court and sweeping the holes to completely eradicate this cancer.

However, it was not all good news. After Wuhuan Chanyu learned about Yuan Xi's achievements over the past year, he was obviously a little panicked. He immediately sent envoys to come for peace talks. Jushu, who stayed in Jicheng, followed Yuan Xi's instructions. ideas, and took the opportunity to carry out targeted political measures against hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan tribesmen in Liaoxi County.

One is to let the direct descendants of the Wuhuan tribe come to Jicheng to study and teach the prescribed subjects. After five years, those who are willing to go home will be let go. This time is enough to subtly change the minds of most people, so that they can Later decisions favored Youzhou and even Huaxia.

The second is to allow young men and women from the Wuhuan tribe to come to Youzhou to settle in the fields and promote exchanges and intermarriage between Hu and Han. In this way, we can explore the path for the integration of Hu and Han in the border areas.

Both of these are time-consuming efforts and will not bear fruit in one or two years. However, Yuan Xi's focus in recent years has been on fighting for the Central Plains, so he can afford to wait.

But for Tian Yu, when the port is built to the end of the Korean Peninsula, he will have to deal with Baekje Mahan, and the joints here are also very troublesome.

The original idea was to open up trade routes in a friendly manner. The ultimate goal was to find a suitable port from the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and establish a sea route with the Wonu Kingdom to carry out trade.

But now it seems that there are many difficulties. Baekje, Mahan and Han all have no advantage and can't afford to go early. Coupled with the decline of the Han Dynasty, it has become more courageous. The envoys sent several times are also extremely arrogant, which makes Tian Yu very angry.

He was furious in his heart, as long as I live, I will try my best to destroy your home!

However, in the short term, the idea of ​​going to the Wonu Kingdom from the Korean Peninsula was in vain. Tian Yu looked at the map and thought that Qingzhou was the most suitable.

There are several large ports on the Qingzhou Peninsula, and the route to the Wonu Kingdom has been recorded since the Qin Dynasty. By the Spring and Autumn Period, Qingzhou had very frequent exchanges with the Korean Peninsula and even the Wonu Kingdom.

Nowadays, sea-going ship technology has been improved many times, and the risk is no longer as high as it was hundreds of years ago. As long as you can settle in Qingzhou, according to the distance on the map drawn by Yuan Xi, the nearest sea distance to the Wonu Kingdom is only six to seven hundred miles. , which is a fairly acceptable distance.

Previously, Tian Yu felt that his idea might not be realized for a long time, but a secret letter from Yuan Xi made him excited.

Moreover, in the letter, Yuan Xi asked Tian Yu to send his subordinates to take charge of the trade route, and asked Tian Yu himself to rush back to Jicheng to cooperate with Jushou in recruiting troops and adjusting food supplies. He also asked Yan Rou to be his deputy general and stay on standby near the port of Yuyang Piaoyuyi.

Tian Yu was excited. He didn't need to guess to understand that Youzhou was going to launch troops again!

He is not without selfish motives. In recent years, Yuan Xi has always brought Tian Yu along with him in every battle. One is to build his personal prestige, and the other is to accumulate military merits for Tian Yu. Tian Yu has calculated in private that if he gets credit for attacking Qingzhou, I can almost become a marquis myself!

This is the highest level that most warriors can reach. Tian Yu never imagined that he could reach this point step by step. At this moment, he suddenly thought of Tian Kai who died in the battle of Yijing, and couldn't help but feel a wave of pain in his heart. Sadly.

But his confused eyes quickly regained their determination. He wanted to go down the road that Tian Kai had not seen and see how far people in this world and even the world could go under Yuan Xi's rule.

Compared with Youzhou, which was heavily mobilized, Xuzhou was much quieter. Whether it was the stalemate between Zang Ba and Zang Hong in Donghai County, or the confrontation between Guangling and Jiangdong across the river, everything seemed extremely calm.

Chen Deng has also been under a lot of pressure recently, so much so that he once wanted to eat raw fish and shrimps again, but thinking of Hua Tuo's warning, he endured it. After all, everyone wants to live a few more years.

He lamented in his heart, Yuan Xi did not let some famous generals defend Xuzhou, a place with four battles. Did he really think he was Han Xin and Xiao He was still alive?

Chen Deng was in a panic now. Everyone knew that the next place where the war was about to start was probably Xuzhou. However, Yuan Xi was still sitting in Shouchun with no intention of helping him at all, so Chen Deng could only look for it with a grimace. People who can help themselves.

In the past year, he has not cared about nepotism. He has recruited all useful people as officials, and at the same time he is looking for talented people everywhere.

Guangling didn't find many, but he had a surprise in Kuaiji County. The spies he sent met two impoverished people, and both of them were on Yuan Xi's roster.

At this time, the two families were unable to open the matter. After some deception and the payment of settlement expenses, and the fact that the situation in Kuaiji was indeed unstable, the two families returned to Guangling to visit Chen Deng.

(End of this chapter)