Prancing Horse Xiliang

Chapter 59
"What are your orders, my lord?"

Xu Chu and Zhao Yun entered in response to the sound, and stood by with their hands folded.

Luo Zheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Zhongkang and Zilong are exempt from courtesy, and I called you here. The hundred slaves sent by the emperor want you to settle down. I think there are also a few beautiful women inside. If Zhongkang and Zilong Those who are fancy can be accepted as concubines."

"Thank you, my lord."

Xu Chu was overjoyed, and quickly cupped his hands in a bow.

Zhao Yun's face was indifferent, and he didn't have much interest in women.

Luo Zheng said again: "As for the rest, if the Zhongkang people have young men who have not yet married, they can give priority to them, but each person is limited to two people. If there are any leftovers, men under forty can also choose to take concubines , but only for one person.”

Xu Chu was even more delighted, and quickly thanked him again.

Although the Xu family is a big family, it is impossible for every member of the family to be rich.

There are quite a few tribesmen who are not generous, and their lives are extremely difficult. There are at least a dozen men who have not yet married a wife.

Now that Luo Zheng gave all the women rewarded by the emperor to the Xu clan as wives and concubines, how could it not cheer him up.

At that moment, Mrs. Gan first selected four young girls with picturesque eyebrows, around fifteen or sixteen years old, to serve as maidservants, by the way, to serve Wu Zhen, the eldest lady of the Wu family who lived temporarily in the inner courtyard, and Xu Chu also selected two beautiful maidservants.

As for Zhao Yun, he was unmoved in the slightest, a bit unfeminine.

Luo Zheng was secretly amazed, but he didn't force it. In the end, he personally selected two beautiful maidservants and sent them to serve Madam Xun Yu.

At night, the door was opened and the remaining women were sent in.

Zhao Yun also went in this time, knowing the existence of the vegetable garden for the first time.

Sure enough, even though Zhao Yun was brave, he was very surprised when he encountered such a fantasy.

Luo Zheng explained with a smile, Zhao Yun was still a little unbelievable for a while.

However, looking at Luo Zheng's eyes again, there is a little more change.

The fireball of the millstone hung high in the sky. The Xu clan and more than 500 craftsmen who had nothing to do were all lying lazily on the ground in a daze. Except for the entrance, there was almost no place to stay.

More than a thousand people squeezed into such a small place, it is really overcrowded.

There are many people who are about to suffer from illness and don't want to be locked in this birdcage all day long.Fortunately, these fools are in awe of Luo Zheng. Although they are boring, they dare not make trouble.

After more than 90 women came in, they all trembled with frightened faces and pale lips, and looked like they were about to faint.

Xu Chu called all the bachelors in his family over, and there were more than 70 people, most of them were young men of seventeen or eighteen years old, or they had not yet reached the age of starting a family, or they had not yet had time to marry. daughter in law.

"Soldiers are selected first according to their age, and the others are selected later."

Xu Chu roared, and more than 70 people immediately lined up spontaneously.

Most of them are members of the Xu clan who followed Xu Chu and became generals of Luo Zheng's family, and were given priority to choose.

Those in the front row rubbed their hands excitedly, while those in the back had green eyes, envious.

Each person chooses one first, and if there are any leftovers, they will choose the second round.

According to Luo Zheng's distribution plan, the bachelor can choose two, and if there are any remaining, it will be the turn of others.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, there are more than 70 bachelors alone, and there are less than two for each person.As for those Xu family men who already have wives, they can only stare and drool.

Soon, a man in his twenties named Xu Hu picked a beautiful maid.

This is a 16-year-old girl with a delicate face and a bookish air, and she comes from a scholarly family.

Xu Hule, who came out on top, almost laughed crookedly. He originally had a wife, but in a plague half a year ago, his wife and children died, and he hadn't had time to continue. He never thought that now he would have the opportunity to marry into a wealthy family. miss to.

Looking at that delicate skin and big watery eyes, I feel a fire burning in my heart.

Although the Xu family is also a rich family, they can only be regarded as landlords, not nobles of the gentry.

In the eyes of those famous and powerful people, this kind of powerful landlord is not much nobler than those ordinary people.

In this day and age, the marriages of rich families pay attention to the right marriage. If a landlord family like the Xu family wants to marry a lady from a scholarly family, it is a no-brainer. They will definitely be denounced as a toad who wants to eat swan meat.

The beautiful maidservant in Xu Hu's eyes looked like a young lady from a scholarly family, so it was no wonder that she was grinning excitedly.

Not too many women, but definitely not too few.

The guys from the Xu family queuing up had long been dazzled by the choice, because they couldn't take more than ten breaths. These bachelors could only take a rough look first, and then quickly screen out a few targets before making a final decision.

One round passed quickly, and the second round began.

There were only eighteen women left, and only the first eighteen bachelors got two women.

As for the rest, only one was assigned, but all of them were beaming with joy.

The sages often said that a man has no wife.

Put it on ordinary people, this is bullshit.

The powerful choose women as they choose clothes, they can choose beautiful ones, and they are not happy about a new dress.

But ordinary people can't even get a wife, so what right do they have to pick and lose weight.It is already very good to have a woman warming the bed and giving birth. How can I not be excited, so some sages don't feel pain in their backs when they stand and talk.

After all, the common people are the majority, and they have to eat to support their families, so they cannot be required to have such a high ideological level.

If the common people really had such a high level of thought, they would not have to work at all, and they would not even need to plant land. They would all go to study principles or do learning, and the society would not need to develop.

Luo Zheng told Xu Chu again, "They are all poor women, let the clansmen treat them kindly, and try not to beat and scold them."

"As ordered."

Xu Chu agreed, and hurriedly went to tell the clansmen.

Luo Zheng took Zhao Yun around the vegetable garden again, and tasted a few melons and fruits that were not available in this era.

The newly opened seven acres of land has already been fragrant with melons and fruits, corn and wheat, which are the most planted, have already set ears, and high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes have long branches and luxuriant leaves, which makes people happy.

On the cucumber seedlings, there are also small cucumbers with thick fingers, which are tender green and exude a fresh smell.

Zhao Yun couldn't take his eyes off it, and was amazed.

He had never seen these things, let alone ate them.

At this moment, Luo Zheng, the lord, is a little more mysterious in his heart.

Unknowingly, the subconscious resistance in Zhao Yun's heart also faded a lot.

After leaving the vegetable garden, Luo Zhengdi's brows gradually wrinkled.

Xu Chu, who was buried in Han Dynasty, had no taboo in his speech, so he asked at that time: "What is your lord worrying about?"

Luo Zheng sighed: "Although Luoyang is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time!"

Although Zhao Yun likes to think, he doesn't know what Luo Zheng is thinking, so it's not easy to intervene.

Luo Zhengdao: "There are more than a thousand people waiting to be resettled in the world in the palm of the general, but Luoyang is not a place to stay for a long time. There will always be a day to leave, so General Erben has not released them."

Xu Chudao: "My lord is now a general of the Han Dynasty, and his rank is equal to that of the chief official of the state capital. Why don't you ask the prime minister to appoint a state herdsman and go to a place to be a state herdsman? There will be room for these people to be placed. .”

Zhao Yun shook his head lightly, this matter is not that easy.

Luo Zheng said coldly: "There are only thirteen prefectures in the Han Dynasty. Except for Sili, none of the remaining twelve prefectures listened to the imperial court's order. Liangzhou was occupied by Ma Teng and Han Sui, and Bingzhou was controlled by the clan. Although Zhang Ji was sealed You are a governor of Bingzhou, but you dare not take office in Bingzhou, you think it is so easy to be a governor of Bingzhou, this general will never think of being the governor of the Central Plains in this lifetime!"

Xu Chu was puzzled, "Why is that?"

Zhao Yun replied: "The lord led the army to burn, kill and loot in the Central Plains, targeting the powerful landlords and noble clans. If the lord goes to the Central Plains, it's fine if those noble clans don't join forces to attack. How can they still support the lord?"

"This……"

Only then did Xu Chu understand, and he was a little speechless.

Luo Zheng rubbed his eyebrows and said: "Although Dong Zhuo is ambitious, he is not the material to be an emperor after all. Even if he is not killed, he will die in ten or twenty years, and the Xiliang Army will still disintegrate at that time. The world is in chaos, At that time, there must be a foundation in order to gain a foothold. Therefore, instead of staying in Luoyang, it is better to leave early and find a place to live."

Xu Chu's face is the same, this fierce man's idea is very simple, whatever Luo Zheng asks him to do, he will do it.

As for other things, it's not something he wants to worry about, nor does he want to worry about it.

Zhao Yun was taken aback. Luo Zheng's words were a bit outrageous, and it could be said that he was nakedly showing his ambition.

It's just that the time to follow Luo Zheng is still short, and it's not easy to express any opinions.

Luo Zheng said again: "Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jizhou cannot go. The only places left are Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jingzhou, Youzhou, Jiaozhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Yizhou, and Yangzhou. Xuzhou is controlled by Tao Qian, and Jingzhou is occupied by Liu Biao. Now, Yizhou was occupied by Liu Yan, Jiaozhou is remote, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou are not the foundation for success, Liangzhou is a war-torn place, and only Yangzhou is left."

Zhao Yun couldn't help but said: "Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, is well-known as a virtuous person, and he is also a member of the clan. My lord may not go there."

Luo Zheng nodded, Yangzhou gentry family is powerful, based on what he did in the Central Plains, it is impossible to get the support of Yangzhou gentry family, counting and counting, the rest is only Liangzhou.

Liangzhou has a complex population and years of wars, and the power of the noble families has almost been wiped out.

Only by going to Liangzhou can you not be restrained by the gentry.

But the problem is that Liangzhou is the state with the smallest population among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and after the gentry family was baptized, although there were fewer places to restrain their elbows, there were very few scholars who could read and write. It was really a mess .

Even if they can gain a firm foothold, it is extremely difficult to manage the place well.

Not to mention, Liangzhou now still has two extremely powerful warlord forces, Han Sui and Ma Teng, entrenched.

If you want to gain a firm foothold in Liangzhou, you must face these two warlord forces.

Luo Zheng didn't have enough strength to face the chaos in Liangzhou, and he had a headache for a while.

(End of this chapter)