Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 49
In July 209 AD, after the first battle of Hefei, Cao Cao withdrew his troops and returned to Qiao (now Bozhou area.)
In winter, Cao Cao returned to Yecheng.

Over the past year, many changes have taken place in Yecheng.

After Cao Cao returned to his mansion, he found that the mansion was a different place than before.

The buildings of the mansion were all replaced with glazed doors and windows.

In the center of the mansion, Cao Pi also built a cement brick villa for Cao Cao. The villa was decorated almost according to the decoration in Yuyang Restaurant.

There are tile floors, whitewashed walls, sofas, coffee tables, desks and bookshelves, and new quilts from Yuyang.

There are glass mirrors, separate bathrooms, shower systems, and heating in winter.

"You have a heart."

When Cao Cao learned that all these were done for him by Cao Pi, he immediately called Cao Pi to praise him.

In Yecheng, it was not just the villa that Cao Pi built for Cao Cao.

In addition, there are many gentry and wealthy businessmen who have been to Yuyang City, and they have also built many cement brick houses, all of which are very beautiful.

This has also kept the prices of cement and other building materials and decoration materials in Yecheng high.

"Father, if my son wants to marry Liu Rushi, please allow him." On this day, Cao Pi asked Cao Cao.

"Liu Rushi? That Liu Rushi, the number one talented woman in Yecheng, who became good sisters with Cai Wenji?" Cao Cao asked Cao Pi.

In the past two years, Liu Rushi has been flourishing in Yecheng, and Cao Cao has heard of her name.

"Yes." Cao Pi nodded.

"Why did you marry her?" Cao Cao asked.

"Because I like her." Cao Pi replied.

"Does she agree?" Cao Cao asked.

"She agreed." Cao Pi replied.

"Do you know that she has no noble background and will not be helpful to you." Cao Cao continued to ask.

"I know, what I like is her person, not what help she can bring to me." Cao Pi answered bravely.

In fact, he was a bit petty in his heart, he really liked Liu Rushi, and at the same time he also wanted to win over Liu Rushi's Zhang Qingfeng team.

Although none of Zhang Qingfeng and his students has become a high official yet, and Li Bai is just a prefect, it looks very inconspicuous, but Cao Pi attaches great importance to it.

If he can get help from Zhang Qingfeng's family, it will be extremely beneficial for him to fight for family property in the future.

"Okay, since you want to marry, then marry." Finally Cao Cao agreed to Cao Pi's request.

In Yuyang City, when Zhang Qingfeng received Cao Pi's invitation, it was already after Chinese New Year, and the time had entered 210 AD.

"Teacher, aren't you going to get married?" Li Bai asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"You guys go, I won't go, I'm getting old, and I can't bear the fatigue of traveling and traveling." Zhang Qingfeng declined.

"Here, teacher, you don't look old at all. If you don't go, junior sister will definitely be unhappy." Yang Shen also said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"If you don't go, you won't go. I have so many things going on here, can I go away?" Zhang Qingfeng pretended to be a little angry.

The main reason why Zhang Qingfeng didn't go was because he didn't want to see Cao Cao right now.

He has been in this era for almost ten years, and Cao Cao has never personally visited and invited him once. He is going to Yecheng now, isn't he rushing to give it away for nothing?

Seeing what Zhang Qingfeng said, the others stopped persuading him.

Two days later, those who were going to attend the wedding of Liu Rushi and Cao Pi set off.

Many of these people are students of Zhang Qing, including Li Bai, Yang Shen, Li Shishi and so on.

Then there are Liu Rushi's parents, brothers and folks.

These people all went to Yecheng as Liu Rushi's natal family, and there were almost a hundred of them.

Everyone took the canal boat to Yecheng, and together with the gifts, they packed more than a dozen large ships.

These are all dowry gifts collected by her natal family for Liu Rushi. Among these boats, one boat was collected by Zhang Qingfeng alone. At the same time, he also asked Cai Wenji to attend the student wedding instead of him, which can be regarded as an acknowledgment of Cai Wenji's identity. .

Of course, in addition to the dowry ships, there are dozens of ships behind that are all equipped with weapons and armor, with 30 swords and guns, [-] feathers and arrows, and [-] pairs of armor. This is half of Xun You's weapon order. It just happened to be sent to Yecheng by the way.

"Teacher, I hope you will take more care of Yuyang City while I am away. I will leave the Volunteer Army to you. If anything happens, you can directly give orders to the Volunteer Army." When leaving, Li Bai said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"I know, don't worry." Zhang Qingfeng nodded.

Finally, under Zhang Qingfeng's gaze, the fleet began to set sail and finally disappeared from sight.

Li Bai led the fleet to leave. On the way, they met the fleet of Chang Lin, governor of Youzhou, and began to travel south to Yecheng together.

In the middle of the first lunar month, Li Bai's fleet arrived in Yecheng. The arrival of hundreds of ships caused a great sensation at that time.

In particular, there are dozens of ships of weapons and armor inside, so Cao Cao couldn't help but come to see them in person.

Subsequently, the weapons and armor of dozens of ships were fiercely contested by Cao Cao's generals.

In the end, all the swords, guns, feathers and arrows were divided up by various generals. Among the [-] pieces of plate armor, except for a few dozen that he awarded to the generals, Cao Cao decided to use the rest to build a new heavy armor battalion.

In February, in a grand ceremony, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi successfully married Liu Rushi, the most talented woman in Yecheng.

At this time, the dignitaries in Yecheng finally saw the power behind Liu Rushi, which can be seen from the exquisite porcelain glazed cotton quilts and other dowry items on the dozen or so boats.

The value of these dozen or so boats of dowry objects is definitely not less than one billion yuan, which is equivalent to a million yuan of money.

Of course, this is the market price. In fact, these commodities are produced in the workshops of Zhang Qingfeng and his students in Yuyang City, and the cost price is not much.

The most magnificent ship should belong to the dowry ship. Several of them are large ships with thousands of materials, each of which can carry [-] tons of cargo.

This kind of ship is the latest large-scale inland river transport ship manufactured by the Luping Shipyard. This time, it is used as a dowry ship, and it can be regarded as a show for Liu Rushi by her natal family.

Originally, Li Bai also wanted to bring the giant Galen with a displacement of [-] tons, but because the Galen ship was a sea-going ship, the draft was too deep to sail on the canals of the Han Dynasty, so he had to give up.

With Liu Rushi's wedding this time, Yuyang's reputation in Ye City suddenly became very loud.

Yuyang has exquisite porcelain, beautiful glass, useful soap, beautiful cotton cloth, practical ironware, exquisite pendulums, cheap and exquisite furniture, etc., and so on.

This trip to Yecheng by Li Bai and others brought Liu Rushi enough face and made Yuyang a well-known place name.

The situation of Yuyang, through this wedding, was also seen by Cao Cao.

The five thousand pairs of plate armor that can't be broken by knives and arrows, and the big ship that he has never seen before, made him attach great importance to Yuyang. In his heart, Yuyang has risen to a strategic level s position.

In February, Cao Cao asked the imperial court to appoint Chang Lin, the governor of Youzhou, as the minister, Li Bai, the prefect of Yuyang, to be the governor of Youzhou, Yang Shen, the magistrate of Junping County, and Liu Ping, the magistrate of Junping County, to succeed him. make.

At the same time, officials at all levels under Li Bai were also promoted.

In addition, Cao Cao also placed many of his confidants in Youzhou, such as Youzhou Biejia (equivalent to a senior official), Bing Cao engaged (in charge of military affairs in a state), Merit Cao engaged, (in charge of personnel adjustment, selection and assessment), etc.

It can be seen from these arrangements that Cao Cao began to attach importance to the development of Youzhou.

At the same time, Cao Cao also promoted many juniors from the same school as Li Bai and arranged them to serve as assistant officers in various places.

During this trip to Yecheng, Zhang Qingfeng's students received a huge amount of money, at least more than 50 of them became small local officials of the imperial court.

(End of this chapter)