Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

You can open it when you encounter difficulties, but it's better if you don't have the opportunity to open it.

Zhang Yan thought silently.

Watching the other party's figure enter the carriage and gradually go away, Zhang Yan no longer stayed at the north gate, but walked towards his home against the cold winter wind.

While feeling the creaking footprints of the leather boots on the snow in the street, he secretly recalled what was recorded in the letter Zhang Rang sent him today.

Because of the influence of countless TV dramas in later generations, after reading the entire letter, he asked Ye'er to throw the letter into the light, and the burning light illuminated the yellow door. What do you mean again.

However, this information already existed in his mind, so it would not be difficult to recall it now.

As a letter from home that had been sent for a long time, Zhang Rang naturally didn't just complain about it.

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In addition to the recent situation in Luoyang, Zhang Rang also mentioned many other things in the letter.

For example, the movements of many princes in the north of Luoyang in recent days, the division of the left and right royal courts caused by the death of Khan Qiangqu of the Huns, and the series of actions of He Jin in Luoyang City.

Regardless of He Jin's preparations, Zhang Rang seemed completely ignorant and allowed the other party to do what he did, even a little indifferent...

You know, the eunuch's news channels are quite scary.

For example, He Jin secretly sent someone to invite the two great northern powers to Beijing. Not only did Zhang Rang know about it, but he even told Zhang Rang who was far away in Lujiang about this matter and his own speculation about He Jin. Yan.

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Could it be that Zhang Rang is not in a hurry about this at all?

It is impossible to say that there is no hurry.

No matter who it is, once facing two of the three major armies of the Han Dynasty at the same time, the faint sense of oppression is enough to make a person who has been scrubbed and polished by power breathless.

It's just that compared to the pressure he felt, Zhang Rang did not comment on He Jin's behavior this time.

In his eyes, the opponent's move is just his own, and while he can't say that he has enough threats to him, he may even help Zhang Rang get more chips of his own from other angles.

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Zhang Rang's Tips at the End of Chapter 70

Who is Zhang Rang?

Zhang Rang is the head of the ten permanent servants, the lieutenant of the Han Dynasty, the biggest celebrity in front of Emperor Liu Hong, and the great eunuch.

As the leader of the ten permanent attendants, Zhang Rang naturally knows where his rights come from.

Not relying on forming cliques for personal gain, not relying on selling officials to win titles, not even relying on trying to support his followers and followers in the court like General He Jin did, trying to improve the views of civil and military officials on him.

For Zhang Rang, there is only one person who has "supported" him step by step to the point where he is now covering the sky with one hand, and that is Liu Hong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty who has great trust in his relatives, even better than his own parents. .

In other words, Zhang Rang does not need to win the support of various forces like He Jin. As long as Liu Hong is still around, he will never be able to fall.

Now that He Jin is pulling the frontier army into Beijing, it seems to be a serious threat to Zhang Rang on the surface, and he even has the idea of ​​using force to force the other party to compromise with him.

But then again, these are all assumed on the basis that Liu Hong has become Han Lingdi and the entire Han family has changed its face.

If Liu Hong is gone now, He Jin's doing so may indeed bring him a lot of threats, and even make him helpless, he can only compromise under the opponent's soldiers...

But now?

Now Liu Hong is not dead yet. Originally, the pressure exerted on Zhang Rang, as long as Zhang Rang reveals the news, that side will gradually come to Liu Hong's side.

When the emperor was still in power, the generals coerced the frontier troops into the capital. To put it mildly, it was just improper command and ignorance of the general situation. If it was said to be serious, it would be deceiving the emperor, and there was a very obvious risk of rebellion.

Of course, Zhang Rang also knew that it was impossible to trip He Jin directly by relying on such trivial charges.

Even according to Liu Hong's character that gradually ages with age, even if He Jin is not punished this time, just verbal criticism is a very likely thing.

After all, as I said before, Zhang Rang and He Jin are like Liu Hong's money and sword. If they lose either of them, Liu Hong as the emperor will not feel too good.

However, if he did not react at all, the consequences of Liu Hong's silence in the face of the external frontier troops entering Beijing would be extremely risky.

After all, I don't know what the other party came to Beijing for. If he really watched the other party initiate a palace change without doing anything, then the clown would become Liu Hong himself.

According to Zhang Rang's grasp of Liu Hong's character, this time when Liu Hong knew that He Jin had the ability to directly dispatch the frontier troops to Beijing, the most likely action he would take was to strengthen his own side again. Find a way to make Shi Changshi and He Jin have the same weight, so that the other party will not be directly crushed.

As for the direction of strengthening, it will naturally be the same as He Jin, that is, in terms of military power, let the ten permanent servants who were originally somewhat weak stand up, and have the capital to compete with He Jin again.

About a year ago, Liu Hong had set up an imperial army in Xiyuan, which was not only controlled by Jian Shuo, one of the ten permanent servants, but also completely independent of He Jin's soldiers and horses in the world. , The allocation of equipment satisfies the opponent as much as possible, expanding the Xiyuan Imperial Army from an experimental army of 1 people to 5000 people, which made He Jin, who had lost control of the Imperial Army, frown suddenly.

After knowing what happened this time, it was almost a certainty that the Forbidden Army of the West Garden would expand again.

At the very least, the most elite troops in the imperial city can't really be weaker than those frontier troops, and lose the prestige of the emperor's imperial army.

According to what Zhang Rang said in the letter before, at this moment, when Zhang Yan knew about this matter, Zhang Rang had already entered the palace to face the saint, and informed Liu Hong of He Jin's invitation of foreign troops to station in Beijing. know.

It would not take too long, and the order to strengthen the Xiyuan Imperial Army again, or even expand the army, would come from the palace to let the people of the world know about it.

This faint behavior like an arms race shocked Zhang Yan's heart even more, and he couldn't stop jumping.

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"Could it be that it hasn't been the sixth year of Zhongping, Emperor Ling of the Han...ah, isn't it, is the atmosphere between the two of them already endangered to such a degree that the Emperor of Han Liu Hong has not died yet?"

"It's no wonder, it's no wonder that in the original world, within three days of Liu Hong's death, Jian Shuo was the first to lose in the battle between the two sides and was killed by Minister He Jin, while the entire Shichang The confrontation between Shi and He Jin did not exceed ten days."

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Frowning slightly, Zhang Yan was almost certain that no matter how cautious Zhang Rang was, he would never have thought that Liu Hong, who seemed to be doing well now, would die as soon as he said he would die in the next few months, just like being killed by someone. As crisp as poisoned.

What Zhang Rang didn't even expect was that Jian Shuo, the commander of the Forbidden Army in Xiyuan, had a conflict with He Jin before he defeated him, and he was killed by the opponent before he could play a role in a very cheating manner, dragging Shi Changshi here hind legs.

Even Liu Hong's will, Jian Shuo failed to make it public.

Taking a deep breath of air-conditioning, in the sub-zero temperature around, Zhang Yan only felt that the internal and external troubles of the whole big man had been prepared, and he was waiting for the death of Liu Hong to give the order like a starting gun, and then he did everything possible. With force, he unstoppably blasted the entire big man into scum all over the place.

Under such a crisis, even Zhang Yan was a little afraid to confirm how effective his own black technology would be.

After all, things like gunpowder, or dynamite packs, can be sent quietly on the road, but they can't solve the imminent disasters such as the invasion of the Huns and the rebellion of the frontier army.

As for whether the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which has gone through a whole cold winter, will run over Xuzhou and Yanzhou and rush to him next year, no one can guarantee this.

Liu Hong's illness and death, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the Huns' invasion and more are like the fuses in a series of firecrackers. As long as one is ignited, it will happen unstoppably in one go.

Such pressure even made Zhang Yan, who had already made some achievements in Lujiang, feel a sense of crisis, and began to regain the feeling of being chased forward.

Compared with this invisible pressure, the threat of coming and not coming like Jiangdong Shanyue can only be said to be like pediatrics.

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"Um, why don't I just pull another army out?"

"Although I don't know what the use of this army is, at least if you prepare in advance, you can be prepared, and you won't regret it when you need to use it..."

Turning around and looking at the gradually bustling Wancheng neighborhood around him, Zhang Yan couldn't help feeling like this.

With a population of less than 100 million to support [-] troops, he now obviously feels that there is still some surplus. It seems that it is not unacceptable to simply recruit more professional troops.

Just thinking about it, Zhang Yan felt a little depressed.

It's not because of anything else, but because according to Lujiang's production capacity or resources, even the equipment for the second army has to be raised for a long time, and the artillery needed by the artillery is scheduled to be until the end of next year. All feel headache.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously not wise to directly pull another army that has no equipment available.

And if you want to solve this problem from the root...

Zhang Yan's expression became even more helpless when he thought of the reward for completing the rare wonder in his hands for the first time.

The blast furnace ironmaking method, or the method of building a metal smelting blast furnace, is now kept in his mansion, and construction can be started anytime, anywhere.

This is also something that can quickly increase Lujiang's steel and military production capacity like a plug-in.

But now, due to the need to build a large number of artillery and other equipment, Lujiang's finances have bottomed out, and there is no money left to recruit craftsmen and carry out other construction activities.

Perhaps after the tax collection comes up next year, or after the large amount of real estate in Lujiang is realized, Zhang Yan can carry out a major construction... But by then, it may be too late.

Silently lamented in his heart, Zhang Yan didn't expect that just now he was hoping that he would not get into trouble, and then he was slapped severely by reality, making him dizzy.

But if that's the case... Zhang Yan's eyes suddenly lit up as he took out the brocade from his bosom.

Now he is not playing a game, nor is he a character in those novels, so he naturally does not need to follow the dramatic development to decide his own actions.

Even if Zhang Rang told him that this brocade could help him when he was in trouble...

So what can he do if he opens the brocade silk to have a look now?

Is it possible that there will be a system prompting him that the prerequisites have not been met?

He smiled a little embarrassedly, but Zhang Yan didn't even notice that he was almost affected by his inertial thinking just now, and subconsciously followed what Huangmen told him.

He opened the brocade silk repeatedly, and the moment Zhang Yan's eyes touched the words and patterns on it, he trembled and stopped on the spot like petrified.

"what?"

"This... this seems to be..."

Chapter 1 New Year

Time passed by little by little, and under the gaze of everyone, 188 AD, that is, the fifth year of Zhongping in the traditional Chinese sense, finally ushered in the end.

During this year, many things happened, and many people changed because of it.

But in any case, life goes on, and people soon usher in a new year after the end of the year.

Maybe it's because of the good year last year. Even though the population of Lujiang River increased by a full 30 million last year, fortunately, with sufficient food reserves, the entire Lujiang River was frozen. Few died or starved...

At least in the "cities" directly under Zhang Yan, such as Wancheng and Shuxian, there were only a handful of people who died of freezing or starvation.

As for those who died on the road to escape from famine, or those who passed away in some marquis' kingdoms... Zhang Yan can only say that it is a pity that these people were neither born in a good time nor in a good place.

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In 189 AD, the sixth year of Zhongping in the Chinese calendar, on the eighth night of the first lunar month.

Wancheng.

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"Drink, drink!"

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"belch--!"