Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Everyone had inquired about Li Yi before, although according to the news from Xiangyang, Li Yi was not a difficult person to get along with, but Liu Biao was suppressing Xiangyang, and the killing of Dong Zhuo was too noisy, so they were still very careful. It wasn't until we met face to face that I was really relieved, and at the same time, I was even more respectful to Li Yi.

Li Yi is also very happy to make friends with these aristocratic families, but it is too late at this time, and it is not easy to hold a banquet. In addition, Li Yi still needs to settle down, so these people retreated knowingly, leaving the place for Li Yi and him subordinates.

Li Yi looked around for a week and confirmed that his backbone team was basically complete. He felt a little hot in his chest, but he didn't say much, just raised his whip and pointed forward, and said loudly: "Enter the city!"

Chapter 242 Seeing Cai Yong Again

Although Li Yi and Jia Xu had a lot to say, they were not in a hurry. After introducing a few unfamiliar people to each other, they let them take them to settle down.

When everyone dispersed, Li Yi also came to his Taishou Mansion. Although it was dark and everything was blurry, Li Yi could still see that there was something unusual here. It is grand, just in terms of height, it is better than Liu Biao's mansion.

Li Yi was a little puzzled at first, he didn't let Jia Xu be extravagant, but he couldn't help laughing in a blink of an eye, he was thanks to Yuan Shu.

After walking a little further, Li Yi saw a few pretty, tall, or resentful girls standing at the door of the mansion. His heart warmed up, and he couldn't help showing a smile on his face, and strode forward to meet her. But after taking two steps, she turned her head and said softly, "Yueying, you can come too."

"Yes."

In the carriage behind, Huang Yueying responded in a low voice, got out of the carriage with the help of the maid, took a peek forward, and found a few women at the door, almost none of them were inferior to her in terms of appearance , and one of them is so delicate and beautiful that even as a woman, I can't help but look at it a few more times.

Huang Yueying clenched her small fist lightly, feeling a little uneasy about her future.

Originally, Huang Yueying was very confident, talented and beautiful. Li Yi even promised her a lot of fame and status, and he also attached great importance to her at work. Slowly, Huang Yueying herself had realized something, but Li Yi didn't really This one insulted her. On the road to Nanyang, Li Yi was even more of a gentleman than a gentleman. He never even got in her carriage, and occasionally spoke through the curtain.

Regarding Li Yi's performance, Huang Yueying feels very good, this is like a person who does big things, but at the same time she is a little entangled, especially after seeing the female family members of Li Yi's family, she can't help but have a little doubt about herself. Could it be that the master really just used himself as a subordinate or disciple?

Huang Yueying is indeed smart, but she is a girl after all, so she can't help thinking wildly.

Li Yi had already arrived at the door, and Fushou brought the girls together to salute, and said softly, "Welcome, master."

Li Yi suddenly burst into a smile, this is definitely a winner in life!

His eyes swept over Diao Chan's life-threatening face, and then he decisively took Fushou's little hand, Li Yi didn't care how many people were here, he hugged her gently, and said softly: "Let's go, let's go home .”

"Yes, husband, husband."

Fushou was originally very polite, and she usually had relatively good rules, but she hadn't seen Li Yi for a long time, and she really missed him very much, and she no longer corrected Li Yi's behavior.

Moreover, Li Yi's various ups and downs in Xiangyang made her heart flutter.

In particular, Li Yi copied a Luoshen Fu, which made Fushou very panicked.

Diao Chan and those women are just concubines after all, no matter how flamboyant Li Yi is outside, to them, it's just an extra sister after all.

But Fushou, as the main wife, saw Li Yi's Luoshen Fu made by someone who didn't know, his heart was sour, he was very sad, and he was afraid that Li Yi would really be deceived by Hu Meizi, and then divorce her.

However, all the anxiety in the past disappeared with Li Yi's actions just now.

This husband still likes himself.

When a group of people entered, there was a maid who had prepared hot water handkerchiefs and waited for Li Yi to change his clothes. Li Yi did not forget to talk to Diao Chan and the others when he was being manipulated by others. Others feel that they are really just as humble as concubines.

It's just that there was a small mistake when introducing Huang Yueying. Originally, Li Yi planned to ask Huang Yueying to call Fushou her sister. After a long time, Li Yi also felt that his face still needed to be tempered under the watchful eyes of several women.

However, Huang Yueying's call as teacher's wife also made her process of integrating into this small family much smoother. After all, everyone is about the same age, and Huang Yueying has already lived her own life. Who would dare to embarrass her?

And Li Yi also said that in addition to being his disciple, Huang Yueying also has the status of a book office. While the girls are secretly envious of this, they can't help but weigh it. Much older than them, it is very unwise to have a bad relationship with Huang Yueying.

After exchanging pleasantries, Li Yiqiang left Diao Chan and others to eat together, but they didn't eat much. Li Yi looked around and asked Fushou in a low voice, "Why didn't you call Cai Yan?"

Speaking of Cai Yan, Fu Shou couldn't help giving Li Yi a light look, and said in a low voice: "You invited sister Yan here, although you can barely treat each other with courtesy afterward, but you have been there for a long time, and you don't care about it. Let me explain, Sister Yan is still a guest, how can I greet her with us?"

Fu Shou has a very good relationship with Cai Yan, and he really complained for Cai Yan.

My husband has already robbed me, I'm already shameless, but if you want to rob me, you can rob me completely, what's the matter with hanging around like this now?

Li Yi smiled awkwardly. Although he saved Cai Yong's life and avoided the tragedy of Cai Yan being taken away in the future, it took a long time to lose him like this. Diao Chan is too much.

Li Yi nodded and said, "I'll go see their father and daughter tomorrow, and I need Cai Zhonglang's help with something else."

Fu Shou thought that Li Yi said he would help, so he still asked Cai Yong to help Li Yi write jokes. He couldn't help but smile, but after thinking about it, he said: "After you left for Xiangyang, Cai Zhonglang would come to me from time to time and complain about you. Let the things he wrote be nondescript, let me give you more advice, I can only respond, and then send Cai Zhonglang away, but these days Cai Zhonglang no longer mentions the matter of advice, but instead started to ask about your husband's past."

Li Yi became curious and said, "What is it?"

Fu Shou was puzzled, and said: "Most of the questions are about my husband's daily life and conversation. I was still wary at first, but what Cai Zhonglang talked about did not involve secrets. Even if I ask others, I can know it. The more I feel that Cai Zhonglang is a bit weird coming in."

Li Yi also became more and more confused. Cai Yong was able to work for him entirely because he was blackmailed by Cai Yan, but now it seems that he is really interested in him.

Li Yi thought for a while, and vaguely had some guesses, but it was not easy to tell Fushou, so he skipped this matter, picked up some interesting words to tell the girls, and did not go back to their rooms to rest until very late.

Although he endured all the way, Li Yi felt a little restless in his heart, but he did not go to Diao Chan's place, but honestly pulled Fushou to talk, and after listening to Fushou's many things, Li Yi wrote them all down, and then fortunately In the future, corroborate the information you have received from others.

In addition, Li Yi also talked about some things that are inconvenient to say in public, the most important of which is related to Cai Yu.

Originally, Li Yi was worried that what happened to Cai Yu would make Fu Shou unhappy. He didn't want Fu Shou to know that the Luoshen Fu was used to make Cai Yu happy, not to praise Cai Yu sincerely. Not only was he not annoyed, but he was relieved a lot , I almost raised my little hand to cheer for Li Yi.

On the second day, Li Yi got up early and summoned Wenwu under his command to the prefect's mansion to discuss matters. Although Li Yi had some knowledge of the situation in Wancheng through letters before, the content was too rough, and many things had to be reviewed in detail to reassure him.

Everyone knew Li Yi's intentions, and they told all kinds of things in detail. It was not until after noon that Li Yi almost understood the current situation in Nanyang.

In terms of officials, from Li Yi down, the few with the highest positions, except for meritorious service, were all divided by Li Yi's own people. situation.

As a last resort, I can only call some decent disciples from aristocratic families in the city to become officials. However, although Li Yi is the prefect of Nanyang now, he does not need to manage the entire Nanyang. Once you have your own people, fill them up slowly.

In addition, in order to avoid the situation of being ostracized, Jia Xu selected hundreds of more exciting soldiers from the army and asked them to go to various government offices to act as low-level officials.

There is also the gathering of refugees.

Because of Yuan Shu's previous calamity, many refugees appeared in Nanyang. Although the houses and fields at home are still there, without food savings, it is difficult for the people to survive until next year, so they were attracted to Nanyang by Li Yi's reputation. The prefect's mansion provided them with food.

Now there are more than [-] refugees outside Nanyang City. Originally, the big households in the city wanted to recruit young people from them, but after seeing that Li Yi obviously had the idea of ​​taking the refugees for his own use, they stopped and did not jump out to fight with Li Yi. Rob people.

Because there was no order from Li Yi, Zhang Liao only recruited 2000 people into the army for the time being, and the rest of the people began to clear the wasteland outside the city, but the weather was getting colder and the progress was not fast.

In terms of grain and grass, because of the supply from Xiangyang, the grain and grass are relatively sufficient at present, and there are even a lot of surplus. However, Li Yi is worried that he will tear up his face with Liu Biao and be cut off by Liu Biao, so he told Jia repeatedly early on. After Xu arrived in Wancheng, he would start buying food in the name of helping the refugees.

Because of Li Yi's attention, Jia Xu cast a wide net to buy grain. Not only the big households in Nanyang, but also Yuzhou and Xuzhou have contacted each other. However, except for Nanyang, the price of grain in other places has not been negotiated for the time being.

Jia Xu’s bid in Nanyang was relatively generous, slightly higher than the market price. The big households in Nanyang were happy to sell some grain, and many people would give away another batch of grain after they sold it. Prices have returned to normal levels.

Now Wancheng’s grain storage, as long as there is no war, even if Li Yi expands his army, it will be enough for two years. Jia Xu intends to slow down the purchase of grain, especially for the purchase of grain in Yuzhou and Xuzhou, because the merchants in these two places are too dark-hearted , but Li Yi asked Jia Xu to continue to buy, even if he added money.

Because Li Yi knew very well that after the fight in the Central Plains, the price of food would definitely soar, and even if he had money, he couldn't buy it. Now that he has enough money, he can naturally buy as much as he can.

After understanding these situations, Li Yi thought for a while, and then ordered some things to be done with a few people.

First, recruiting and training soldiers.

The 2000 men Zhang Liao recruited were too few, so Li Yi asked Zhang Liao to continue recruiting troops. First, he would round up [-] troops and declare [-] troops to the outside world. After waiting for the formation of combat power, he would proceed with the second recruitment.