Soldiers come to the world

Wuchang City in the 12th year of Jian'an has not changed much compared to three years ago, but the population has decreased. Nearly [-]% of the people have moved to the newly completed Xiakou City.

Xiakou City is actually a military city, most of the residents in the city are military families, and most of the land outside the city is military land, maintaining the glory of Jiangxia's army with almost zero and extremely low taxes.

Liu Jing's army has already broken through the compromise reached in three years, reaching 8000 people. It is impossible to support such a huge army with just one Jiangxia County. The key is to rely on the support of the Tao family.

It can be said that a city of Xiakou was built entirely with the support of the Tao family. When the Jiangdong Army withdrew from Wuchang, it looted all the money and food in the official warehouse.

The Tao family's huge merchant fleet is active on the long Yangtze River, reaching Bashu in the west and Yuhang in the east, earning huge profits every year.

And most of these profits are continuously converted into grain and shipped back to Jiangxia, supporting Liu Jing's huge military and civilian expenses.

At dusk, a military fleet sailing from Xiakou was slowly arriving at Wuchang Wharf. On the wharf, Tao Zhan, who was wearing a ponytail and a long lavender dress, was looking forward to it.

After three years of marriage, under the nourishment of love, Tao Zhan has become more beautiful and gorgeous, with a little more of the unique charm of young women. Her figure is still plump yet slender, and her skin is white and elastic.

But Tao Zhan also has something on his mind, that is, they have no children so far. She is already 19 years old, which is the best age to have children. The expectation of children has always been a heart problem for her.

As the big ship docked, the boatmen working on the pier suddenly became busy. The little bun next to him pointed at a few people who disembarked, and shouted excitedly: "Ma'am, I saw it, the young master has come down!"

If you want to judge the beauty beauty award, Xiao Baozi will undoubtedly win the highest gold award. She is 15 years old this year, but she still looks the same as five years ago. She has a white and fat round face, round and big eyes, and round eyes Small mouth, personality has not changed, always like a child who can't grow up.

But she has grown a bit taller, and her figure has the ups and downs and plumpness of a girl, and she has a little thought. She forbids others to call her Little Baozi, but must be called Little Baoniang, but Liu Jing made her get used to Little Baozi, If she couldn't change it, there was nothing she could do.

The Han Dynasty has always been tolerant of women. Women can go out, go to public places, and associate with men. More importantly, they can get divorced or remarry after losing their husbands, and the other party will not dislike them.

For example, Jiao Zhongqing was just a petty official. After he was forced to divorce his wife, his wife could even remarry the son of a higher-ranking prefect.

Another example is in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Fan is willing to marry his widowed sister-in-law to Zhao Yun. This is actually a very normal thing. It is the author's personal opinion.

Another example is Princess Pingyang. Although she has married two husbands in a row, she can still marry the general Wei Qing for the third time. Of course, there is a factor of princess status, but it is more due to social customs. The royal family is like this, let alone the common people.

Even Wenjun Yeben, who has been chanted through the ages, is also a widow, and she is also married to Sima Xiangru who is not yet married.

However, social tolerance does not mean that women can make friends at will. Regardless of their reputation, especially women with status, after marriage, they generally will not associate with men of the opposite sex. This is also respect for their husbands.

It's just that she is not locked in the house all day like later generations. She can still visit relatives and friends, and travel far away. This kind of tolerance for women has continued until the Tang Dynasty, even the Northern Song Dynasty, until the rise of Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty Finally, the woman was finally imprisoned.

Tao Zhan is the wife of the prefect. She is self-reliant, so she naturally has her etiquette. This time, Liu Jing went to Xiakou and Chaisang to inspect the city defenses. It took a full month. She missed her a lot and got the news that her husband was coming back. She came to the pier to greet her in person.

Liu Jing also saw his wife at a glance, and he was so happy, he walked up quickly, stepped forward, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "I kept my lady waiting for a long time."

Tao Zhan pursed his lips and smiled, "Sir, do you want to go to the county office first, or go home directly?"

Liu Jing looked at the sky, it was already evening, although he had something to discuss with Su Fei, he should probably go home now.

"My lady came to pick her up in person, why don't you go home?" Liu Jing said with a smile.

Tao Zhan knew that he came home with her because it was getting late, but she didn't tell the truth, she walked to the carriage with a smile, Liu Jing helped her into the carriage, and the carriage drove to the mansion.

In the carriage, Liu Jing stretched long, closed his eyes and smiled, "I'm really tired after running outside for a month."

"Husband has turned black a little."

Tao Zhan took out a towel to wipe his sweat, and said with a smile, "This is early spring, my husband can actually turn black, I can imagine that he must be exposed to the sun every day."

"That's right, the city needs to increase its defensive weapons. It's a matter of great importance and cannot be sloppy, so I did it myself and worked for a month."

"Hmm! It seems to be quite hard work, and I lost a few pounds. I will stew an old hen to supplement you at night."

"You don't need stewed chicken, just use you to make up for it." Liu Jing smiled ambiguously.

Tao Zhan pinched him lightly, and Liu Jing suddenly remembered that the little bun was sitting in the back, so he quickly changed the subject, "What's your lady doing at home these days?"

Tao Zhan snuggled into Liu Jing's arms and sighed softly. Although she didn't say anything, Liu Jing understood that it must have something to do with begging for a child. He apologized in his heart and hugged his wife's shoulders tightly.

At this time, Tao Zhan sat up straight and said in a low voice, "There is one thing, I want to ask my husband if he agrees?"

"what's up?"

"The day before yesterday my father came to me and said that my grandfather had an old friendship with Zhang Ji, the prefect of Changsha. My grandfather wanted to ask Zhang Ji to diagnose my pulse. I wonder if my husband agrees?"

Zhang Ji is Zhang Zhongjing, he is naturally skilled in medicine, but Liu Jing knows that this kind of thing often happens to men, it can be seen that the Tao family is also very worried about Tao Zhan's childlessness.

Liu Jing smiled, "If Eunuch Zhang wishes to come, of course he can, but he should first check my pulse, Jiu Niang, don't worry about this anymore, let nature take its course."

Tao Zhan secretly sighed in his heart, this kind of thing is related to the happiness of a woman's life, how could she not be troubled, but even though she was troubled in her heart, she didn't want to show it.

Tao Zhan forced a smile again and asked, "This time my husband is home, do you have any plans to go out again?"

"There shouldn't be any for the time being!"

As soon as Liu Jing finished speaking, a soldier came rushing from a distance and reported urgently: "Report to the prefect, something happened to Tao's merchant ship!"

Tao Zhan was surprised, "Ah! ', and held Liu Jing's hand tightly, Liu Jing patted her hand, comforted her, and then asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"

"It seems that a merchant ship was sunk by the Jingzhou navy. The details are unknown. General Wei asked the prefect to go to the military office."

"I'll be right there!"

Liu Jing was very annoyed, but also a bit puzzled. For three years, they had lived peacefully with the Jingzhou navy, but today the navy actually attacked the Tao family. What's the reason?

He said to Tao Zhan again, "I'm going there."

"Husband, go quickly! I guess my father is also there."

Liu Jing got out of the carriage, got on the horse, urged the horse to gallop towards the military office.

The Jiangxia military office and the county office have been separated. The military office is located in the east of the city, and its full name is Jiangxia Governor's Military Mansion. Liu Jing has also served as Jiangxia's captain since the year before last, and has taken over the military power in the name of the captain.

After a while, he came to the military office, dismounted from his horse, and walked quickly into the lobby. Tao Sheng was like an ant on a hot pot, extremely anxious, while Wei Yan and Xu Shu comforted him in a low voice, and sent someone to inform the prefect. Be there soon.

"Master Yue Zhang, what happened?" Liu Jing walked into the lobby quickly.

Tao Sheng hastily stepped forward and said, "My son-in-law! It's about the stallions we talked about last time. We got more than a dozen top-quality stallions from Hexi, but they were intercepted by the Jingzhou navy in Yicheng County and snatched the stallions. horse."

Three years ago, a batch of war horses were sold from Hexi, but the Qiang people cast their minds and castrated all the male horses. Although the war horses in the army did need to be castrated, the purpose of the Qiang people was to not let the stallions flow out.

In the next three years, hundreds of war horses were successively bought, all of which were castrated horses. Liu Jing wanted a few high-quality stallions, so he entrusted the matter to the Tao family.

Unexpectedly, the stallion was obtained after a lot of hard work, but was intercepted by the Jingzhou navy. Liu Jing's face changed drastically immediately, and he turned to Wei Yan and asked, "Isn't there a military ship guarding it?"

Wei Yan sighed and stepped forward to report, "The ten escort warships we sent were also severely damaged by the siege of the Jingzhou navy, five warships were sunk, and more than thirty brothers were killed in battle. Many brothers fell into the water and their whereabouts are unknown. .”

Liu Jing clenched the handle of the knife tightly, and murderous intent burst out in his heart, what a Zhang Yun, who dared to kill his people and rob his horse, he was impatient to live.

He turned his head and said to Dong Yunling, who joined the army: "Dong Canjun, send an order to order troops immediately, prepare [-] warships, and [-] troops!"

Wei Yan next to him was startled, and hurried forward to persuade him: "Prefect, this happened suddenly, the other party's intention is unknown, maybe it's just to lure us to send troops, don't act recklessly."

Liu Jing nodded, "I know, I will pay attention to this matter first, and if Zhang Yun refuses to admit it, then I have to fight each other."

At this time, Xu Shu, who had been silent all this time, winked at Liu Jing, Liu Jing understood, he comforted Tao Sheng a few words, and ordered someone to send him back to the Tao Mansion, and then entered the inner hall with Xu Shu, and took Wei Yan and Dong Yun called together.

Dong Yun only stayed in Jiangxia Academy for less than half a year, and then officially became Liu Jing's staff, and then served as Xu Shu's assistant. Down, without saying a word.

Xu Shu pondered for a while, and said to Liu Jing: "Zhou Mu is seriously ill. At this moment, Zhang Yun suddenly launched an attack. Has the eunuch considered a deeper reason?"

Liu Jing nodded silently, he actually thought about it on the way, this may be Cai Mao's trick to lure soldiers, wanting to provoke a war before Liu Biao died of illness, and trap himself in injustice.

But fifteen top stallions are very important to him, he must get them back, it is difficult for him to have both.

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