People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 225 Are you serious?

Three days later, the combined army of more than 60,000 Qingxu and Xuanxia Yellow Turbans marched northward in a mighty force. However, this was not the final scale of this journey. As the march continued, more and more Yellow Turban women and children would join in, and eventually more than 300,000 people would migrate to Youzhou.

Most of these women and children were family members of the Yellow Turban soldiers, or civilians who had fled along the way. They had been tied to the Yellow Turbans, and after leaving their homes, if they left the team, they would have no place to survive.

If Xuan Xia had not come to pick them up, they would have continued to flee aimlessly without end. But now, they can go to a relatively stable place, where there is enough land to accommodate them and there are enough jobs for them to survive. This is their greatest desire now.

After the army gathered and set out, Xu Chen didn't have to worry about encountering any resistance before leaving Taishan County.

Taishan Ying Shao has been captured by himself, and the local army has been completely defeated by himself. The Yellow Turbans can easily complete their assembly in Taishan County, and then set out with a force of more than 300,000. Anyone who wants to cause trouble at that time must first consider their own abilities.

With an army of more than 20,000 soldiers heading south, no force along the way dared to take action. With more than 300,000 soldiers returning, that would be even more terrifying.

As the army marched, Ju Shou gently hit the horse's belly to speed it up, then ran to Xu Chen, who was riding slowly on the side of the army. As soon as he opened his mouth, he talked about what happened on the first night after entering the city a few days ago.

"I heard that General Guan Hai once offered his daughter as an offering." Ju Su looked quite amused as he spoke.

Xu Chen raised his eyebrows. Although he had not announced this matter to the public, he did not expect that outsiders would still know about it. It seemed that Guan Hai himself could not control his mouth. "It is true, but I do not accept it."

Ju Shou rode his horse, stroked his beard, and looked Xu Chen up and down.

After hesitating for a moment, he asked tentatively, "My lord, do you have any unspeakable secrets?"

Xu Chen's face suddenly darkened, and he glanced at Ju Shou, his eyelids twitching. "I am in good health, you don't have to think too much. The reason why I don't accept it is because I despise forcing you. I am not a beast."

Upon hearing this, Ju Shou realized that he had been thinking wrong, but it was not his fault. It was really too strange that Xu Chen was not interested in women.

With Xu Chen's current status, it only takes a word for him to get a woman, but he has never indulged himself.

In his twenties, when he is at the peak of his vitality, how could he withstand it?

Now even the arranged things are refused. Ju Shou can only wonder if this is not a good thing. If this is the case, then in his opinion this is a huge bad thing.

But now that Xu Chen directly denied it, he didn't know why: "My lord, your noble character is admirable, but if you can't force me, you should also consider getting married. The country has no crown prince and the cause has no successor, which is a great disaster for the country."

If possible, it would not be Ju Su's turn to talk about such things.

But as a secretary, he needs to be responsible for Xu Chen's personal career, so he has to pay attention to this kind of thing. In his eyes, this is not Xu Chen's personal matter, but a major matter concerning the stability of the country.

The country has no crown prince. If something happens to Xu Chen, who will inherit the business in the future?
It is conceivable that once Xu Chen is gone, the current good situation will immediately fall apart, but if there is a crown prince, then everyone will have a backbone, and everyone can support the crown prince to continue his career.

"What are you worried about?" Xu Chen was very calm. He turned around and continued to walk forward, his eyes without a trace of fluctuation: "Am I really that important? Even if something happens to me, will Xuanxia collapse?"

Ju Shou was stunned and shocked by Xu Chen's words. It took him a while to react and continue to follow.

At this time, Xu Chen's voice came again: "Don't forget, Xuanxia has no monarch. Its existence is not maintained by one family or one surname. It is just an ideal that unites everyone."

Ju Shou suddenly felt a huge shock in his heart. He looked at Xu Chen's back and had only one thought in his mind.

Be serious!
Xu Chen said calmly: "After I die, there will naturally be a new successor to the throne. He can be Wang Dang, Lu Ping, or anyone else, but he should never be the so-called crown prince. Without a monarch, how can there be a crown prince?"

Ju Shou took a deep breath. After being together for such a long time, he realized that he had never really understood this man.

In fact, from the very beginning, he had never fully believed in Xu Chen's ideals. In his eyes, the prime minister was just another form of monarch. What was important was never the title, but how the leader was passed on.

He thought that the next prime minister and leader would still be named Xu.

He didn't think anyone could really resist such temptation!

This kind of position has always been a battle for people. This is the real master of all living things. This is the real master above all others. Heroes in the world can step on mountains of corpses and seas of blood without hesitation for the supreme chair. No matter how great the price is, it cannot stop their pursuit. Now Xu Chen has stood at this height, and even Xuanxia is in a very good situation now, with a promising future. Sooner or later, he will look down on all living beings.

Even if Xu Chen was a little hypocritical, no one dared to say anything, because it was not even a stain. This man could achieve this point and was already an undisputed saint king. People all over the world would still worship him as a god.

For Xu Chen, this is not a matter of "stealing" because it is already in his hands.

Giving up requires tremendous courage, and this man really seems to want to do it, without any hypocrisy. He does not ask for a family or a surname, but just wants to start a new life.

Ju Shou was speechless; he was completely convinced.

If he could resist the temptation of such power as that of a country, then it was not surprising that he could send back the woman who came to him. In comparison, female beauty was just dirt, the lowest level of physical desire, not worth mentioning at all.

It seems that China is about to produce a saint!
Xu Chen didn't know what Ju Shou was thinking, but what he said was indeed what he thought in his heart. It was impossible for him to become the emperor. If he really became the emperor, it would be the greatest betrayal to himself. He would fall from the ladder he had climbed with great effort and return to the starting point of corruption and backwardness.

"That's it. There's no need to talk about these things anymore. My personal affairs have nothing to do with the country, and when the time comes, I will naturally have the time to start a family." After saying this, Xu Chen no longer paid attention to Ju Su, but drove his horse forward and ended the topic.

Marriage is a major matter and should not be taken lightly. It is not possible for Xu Chen to just find a woman and start a family. Naturally, he needs to wait for fate.

In this era, a man in his early twenties should have gotten married a long time ago, but in Xu Chen's opinion, this is actually too young, so he has never been in a hurry. This matter is not easy for him.

If the three values ​​of the person you spend your life with are not in line with each other, it will be a huge torture, and you must be cautious enough about this.

The idea of ​​a crown prince is nonsense. Even if he dies, Xuanxia will continue to move forward under the support of the teachings of the Natural Religion. Although there may be many twists and turns in the process, and even organizational cracks may appear, the philosophy will drive the Xuanxia people to move forward spontaneously, and they will eventually develop in an upward spiral.

The earth will never stop rotating without one person.

The Yellow Turban army left Yanzhou in a mighty manner. Xuan Xia had achieved the goal of sending troops and successfully subdued the Yellow Turbans in Qingxu. Of course, the most valuable thing about this wave was actually the large-scale population replenishment, which greatly made up for the population shortage in Youzhou.

The late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period was a period of great population decline. The Yellow Turban Rebellion, foreign invasions, natural disasters and epidemics, and the fighting among the princes repeatedly claimed the lives of millions of people. Although the most brutal wave of fighting among the princes has not yet taken place, to this day, a large number of population declines have been evident in various places.

Youzhou was the worst hit. As a border area, Youzhou suffered frequent invasions by the Wuhuan and Xianbei. The process of Xuanxia's annexation of Youzhou was also accompanied by a decrease in population, so that a large state eventually had a population of only about 800,000.

Going further in, places like Jizhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou are much better, with each state basically having a stable population of several million.

If Xuan Xia could end the troubled times ahead of time and avoid the war among the princes, it would also be able to prevent a catastrophe of the times and avoid the great extinction of the population.

In addition to Xuan Xia's gains during this period, Cao Cao, who was also in Yanzhou, also began his own road to success.

After the defeat of the Yellow Turbans in the campaign against Xuanxia together with Zhang He and Liu Bei, Yuan Shao had to accept the reality of temporarily losing the two counties of Zhongshan and Changshan. He really did not have the extra strength to compete with the Yellow Turbans again.

Cao Cao finally went to Dongjun according to the established plan to attack the Black Mountain bandit Bai Rao. Although he did not achieve good results in Changshan and had no patience with the Xuanxia Yellow Turbans, turning around to attack Bai Rao's Black Mountain Army was another matter.

The former governor of Dongjun, Wang Gong, had died in battle. After Cao Cao arrived in Dongjun, he fought several battles in succession and immediately turned the situation around. He beat Bai Rao so hard that he fled for his life and soon drove him out of Dongjun.

Then Yuan Shao issued a document to appoint Cao Cao as the prefect of Dongjun, thus driving a nail for himself in Yanzhou.

At this time, Yuan Shao still regarded Cao Cao as his younger brother and did not consider whether his younger brother would set up his own faction. For him, there were more important things to consider now. That was that he had finally stabilized the situation and had to reconsider the matter of recovering Zhongshan and Changshan.

After repeated battles with the Black Mountain Army's Sui Gu Yu Du and the Xiongnu's Yu Fuluo, Yuan Shao was finally able to repel the enemy and gain a firm foothold.

As soon as he freed up his hands, he immediately turned his attention to the north. Yuan Shao could not tolerate the fact that Xuan Xia took advantage of him while he was busy fighting.

Before Xu Chen left Yanzhou, Yuan Shao had already led an army of over 100,000 to Changshan and started a war.

A huge pressure instantly pressed down on Zhang Baiqi who was guarding Changshan.

(End of this chapter)