Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Before Yuan Huan suggested to Li Yi that Lu Bu go to Dongjun, although he could think that Yuan Shu had been shaken, he still couldn't see the situation in Yanzhou clearly. Now that Li Yi reminded him, he finally understood that Li Yi asked Lu Bu to go to Yanzhou agreed.

Think again about why Li Yi asked him to ask Yuan Shu for something in the name of Cao Cao. Obviously, after calculating Yuan Shu, Cao Cao is the next target.

After thinking about this, Yuan Huan sighed. What he sighed was that he thought he was smart and could assist Li Yi as his confidant, but just looking at Li Yi's plan, it was impossible for him to participate. big.

But soon, Yuan Huan's heart became hot again. Li Yi's resourcefulness is far from being comparable to Yuan Shu's. If he follows Li Yi, even if he can't be the mastermind, it will be no problem to continue to be a meritorious Cao. ?

Yuan Huan can be sure that Li Yi's career will definitely have a better future than Yuan Shu's.

Putting down the last trace of hesitation and confusion in his heart, Yuan Huan retreated to a distance in front of Li Yi, and first clasped his hands and said: "Please rest assured, Marquis Xiang, Huan will do everything he can to let Yuan Shu send five thousand sets of weapons to Cao Cao." Armor!"

Li Yi was about to give words of encouragement, but he saw Yuan Huan take another small step back, and then directly prostrated himself on the ground, saying: "Huan, although he is not talented, but he is proficient in pen and ink, please recommend yourself as a small official under the account of the Marquis Xiang, and look forward to the Marquis Xiang Take it in!"

Li Yi laughed loudly, stepped forward and pulled Yuan Huan up, and said with a smile: "Mr. is willing to help me achieve a career. Yi is very happy. I will tell you the truth. I met Mr. in Yangzhou for the first time. Yi You has the intention to win me over." One or two, it's just that he is in a dangerous place and has to suppress what he thinks in his heart, today, Yi finally made his trembling wish!"

Yuan Huan couldn't help being moved when he heard the words, and bowed again: "My lord loves you so much, Huan will definitely repay you with death!"

Li Yi smiled again, and pulled Yuan Huan up again. In this way, there was another civil servant beside Li Yi. Seeing this, Jia Xu and Guo Jia also stepped forward to congratulate him. Only Dian Wei kept staring at Yuan Huan's hand, Let's see if he makes any small moves. As for congratulations, forget it.

Li Yi saw Dianwei's disapproval of Yuan Huan from Yuguang, he just smiled, because Li Yi understood this matter better than Ke Dianwei did.

Yuan Huan recognizes him as the master today, although at the root, it can be said that Yuan Huan took the initiative to join him, in order to assist Li Yi, and also to use Li Yi to become famous, but Yuan Huan and Li Yi's original counselors had a close relationship. , there is a difference in nature.

Guo Jia, Jia Xu and others were discovered and promoted by Li Yi. Although they are masters and slaves, they have shared honor and disgrace. Jia Xu, who is famous for his name, can be loyal to Li Yi.

But Yuan Huan is different. He came here entirely because of the situation and profit. As long as Li Yi's group has enough momentum, Yuan Huan will be Li Yi's capable minister. If one day Li Yi loses power, people like Yuan Huan It is very likely that the door will be changed again.

Therefore, Li Yi didn't like Yuan Huan at first, but soon, Li Yi found himself in a dead end.

Now Li Yi is still the prefect of one party. When he gets Jingzhou and occupies Yangzhou in the future, Li Yi will take over a considerable part of the old officials in these places. At the same time, there will be other talents who will come to pay homage. How much loyalty will those people have to Li Yi?

Li Yi doesn't have system support, and if everyone's loyalty to him is one hundred, he can only wait for the rest of his life. Therefore, Li Yi realized that instead of asking others to give up, it is better to let his prestige go further. When the world is no longer invincible, As far as the eye can see, who dares to be obedient to him, who dares to be unfaithful to him?

Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 374

When Yuan Huan entered Wancheng, it was like a gust of wind passing over the lake, only the waves moved gently, but after a letter was quietly sent to Yangzhou, everything returned to tranquility, and Yuan Huan also "set off" for Yanzhou, preparing to Had an in-depth exchange with Cao Cao again.

Next, because of the arrival of spring plowing, most states and counties in the world, no matter what happened before, have temporarily shown a reassuring peace and busyness.

In Jingzhou, Liu Biao, who had been eyeing Li Yi all the time, kept putting pressure on him, and hoped that Li Yi would panic. Although Liu Biao was unwilling, he also withdrew most of his troops for the livelihood of the people and the stability of the place.

As for Nanyang, it is rare for Li Yi to plant a field in person, because spring plowing is extremely important these years, and it is directly related to the life and death of the people. make an example.

Originally, Li Yi was still a little depressed about this matter. It wasn't that he didn't want to farm, or that he was contemptuous of farming. It was because he had never touched farm work in two lifetimes. Wrong, that would greatly damage Li Xianghou's glorious image.

Fortunately, things turned out well.

Because Shi Tao was in charge of farming, and he had planted land himself, after Li Yi asked Shi Tao and a few guards to teach him a few things, he felt that it was okay. When the day came, he found a common people's field as a demonstration field, and rolled up his sleeves. Then, the thousands of people who were summoned to admire Li Xianghou's farming demeanor, the accompanying officials of all sizes, and the invited family members of the Nanyang family were all stunned.

To plant the land, plow the land first. Generally speaking, the plow is pulled by oxen. Some fields are not good, and even two oxen are needed to pull the plow.

There were not enough cattle in Nanyang to be used by the people, so Li Yi asked the soldiers to help the people plow the land. In order to avoid unnecessary damage and improve work efficiency, Li Yi arranged for ten soldiers to pull a plow.

But when it was Li Yi's turn to plow the land, Li Yi smiled and waved his hands to the old farmer who came to lead the ox for him, not to mention calling for the soldiers, and directly wrapped the noose of the plow around his arm, and exerted force on his feet , directly pulled the plow forward, leaving only a neat ravine behind him, and the old farmer's eyeballs almost fell out.

Moreover, Li Yi's footsteps were so fast that Fushou, who was helping to pretend to hold the plowshare behind, couldn't keep up with his rhythm.

Seeing Li Yi's supernatural power, the surrounding people, officials, and aristocratic families all marveled and bowed down, calling out to Marquis Xiang repeatedly.

After that day, some people in the market said that Marquis Li Xiang was stronger than cattle and tigers, opened fields for the common people, and walked dozens of acres a day, just like a god-man.

A few days later, someone said that Li Xianghou was the reincarnation of the god of agriculture, but wherever Xianghou walked, the fields appeared, so the people's homes began to enshrine Li Yi's portraits one after another, hoping that Li Yi would bless them with good weather, and that they would not be affected again in the future. The pangs of hunger.

In fact, during this period of time, Li Yi's main energy was on Liu Biao and Yuan Shu. When Shi Tao was in charge of the village and everything went well, Li Yi didn't care about this aspect even more, but no one thought that Li Yi just played a cameo role as an old scalper, and the follow-up impact will be so good. Not only the people are more and more attached to him, even the people of the family are no exception.

Some time ago, because of Liu Biao’s series of threatening actions against Nanyang, although many aristocratic families had no ill feeling towards Li Yi, but because they were afraid of Liu Biao’s power and reputation, they were very worried that Li Yi would not be able to resist Liu Biao. Liu Biao was killing Li Yi In the future, he would vent his anger on them, so his attitude towards Li Yi became somewhat alienated, and even the children of the aristocratic family who worked under Li Yi found an excuse to resign.

But after the spring plowing, many aristocratic families began to move closer to Li Yi again.

In these days, Li Yi carried the plow with his own strength, and walked like flying. To put it simply, he had great strength, but in more detail, the meaning was complicated.

Li Yi killed Dong Zhuo and controlled the imperial city with a mere two or three thousand soldiers, which represented Li Yi's martial arts.

In the confrontation with Liu Biao, it seemed weak at first, and gave way everywhere, but in fact, he took up morality step by step, turned against the guest, and forced Liu Biao to target Li Yi in a way of tearing his face. This is Li Yi's strategy.

Furthermore, Li Yi worked tirelessly for Zhuge's family, traveled thousands of miles to Yangzhou, put himself at risk, and made Zhuge's family a member. This is Li Yi's benevolence and righteousness.

Now Li Yi is performing amazingly again in the spring plowing, which is different from the previous act of gathering refugees and opening warehouses to release grain. In the eyes of the aristocratic family, it is bad intentions. There are a lot of bad intentions in the world, and bad intentions often do not end well Therefore, although everyone praised Li Yi's love for the people on the surface, many people disagreed in private, thinking that Li Yi actually didn't know the art of governing the people.

However, the spring plowing this time has greatly changed the opposing views of many people in this regard. Although Li Yi's performance is only his own extraordinary, but due to the times and knowledge, what Li Yi did was to a large extent The above foreshadows that he will be able to govern the place well and make the people in the area under his jurisdiction happy and prosperous.

For Li Xianghou, who is almost perfect in every aspect, even if he has an enemy who is in the high position of state shepherd in front of him, people can't help but want to take refuge.

For those aristocratic families who have come closer again, Li Yi showed them his broad mind, and did not show any contempt or prejudice. This is not Li Yi's intentional pretense, but Li Yi really does not have too much affection for them. Opinion.

People, it is natural to seek good fortune and avoid evil. The family is their own family, not Li Yi's subordinates. They have their own right to choose. As long as they don't want to stab him in the back, Li Yi can completely accept their choice.

But Li Yi is not the Holy Mother. Regarding those who made excuses to resign from him some time ago, and now express their desire to come back, although Li Yi said on the surface that they should let the past go, and even spoke to appease them, he turned around and said their names, together with their location. His family is all recorded in his own little notebook.

Those people took the salary from Li Yi and wanted to do things for Li Yi, but when they encountered danger, they packed up and left. That was Chi Guoguo's betrayal, and Li Yi couldn't bear it!

Just considering that the war is about to start, and for the sake of overall stability, Li Yi has not troubled them for the time being, but Li Yi has already instructed Jia Xu and Zhuge Xuan, who is in charge of the official assessment, that these people will not be promoted for life unless he personally speaks. And once you make a mistake, you must deal with it severely.

It is not difficult to imagine that when Li Yi becomes famous in the future, the pawns in front of the door in the past can ascend to heaven and lead the army, but some officials, although they have been officials under Li Yi early, they can only stay where they are in their official career throughout their lives. Stepping on, watching his younger boss change after another, the feeling is probably worse than death

Of course, things during this period were not all satisfactory, and there were also things that made Li Yi upset.

One day, Li Yi visited people's households to condolence to the people's lives, and accidentally saw a portrait enshrined for him in the main hall of a family. At that time, Li Yi opened his mouth several times, it was really hard to say.

I don’t want to talk about the painter, Li Yi, a literary copyist, doesn’t know how to appreciate it at all. Just the two mustaches on the portrait that are very literary and youthful make him a little unacceptable.

After Li Yi traveled through time, he did not follow the trend of the times and grew his beard like others. He had to clean his beard every day. As a later generation, Li Yi felt that it was very refreshing and energetic. , Li Yi doesn't care at all, just relying on his previous achievements, who in the world can say that he can't do things well?

Therefore, Jia Xu and others suggested that Li Yi grow a beard, but after he refused, they knew that he didn't like it, so no one mentioned it.

It’s just that the common people don’t think so. For the sake of Li Xianghou’s face, an unknown folk painter painted a beard on him. Yi himself was disharmonious no matter how he looked at it, but this painting was still widely circulated, and it was difficult for Li Yi to correct it even if he wanted to.

In this way, in an atmosphere that was tense but not too serious, the time finally came to April [-], the day when Yuan Shu proclaimed himself King of Chu and launched troops against Jiangxia.

At this time, spring plowing has been going on for a while, but it is not over yet. Only the most elite ten thousand people guard Wancheng and its surroundings in Nanyang, and other soldiers are still in the fields. It was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and Li Yi judged that Nanyang would not participate in the war for a while, so he did not recall them for the time being.

However, Li Yi also issued a strict order at this time that all soldiers and horses are not allowed to travel far, and are not allowed to fight and conflict with others without authorization, and do everything possible to avoid unnecessary friction with Liu Biao at the last moment.

At the same time, Li Yi also sent hundreds of people in the direction of Xiangyang and Jiangxia to inquire about the news in disguise, trying to get the situation of Jiangxia and Xiangyang as soon as possible.

But at this time, Liu Biao in Xiangyang was still kept in the dark. Liu Biao saw that Li Yi was only focused on spring farming, and it was obviously impossible to fight him. He was very relieved. He also put aside his original plan to recall the soldiers in advance. After all, Liu Biao is a kind man. People, I don't want to be too harsh on the soldiers below.