Chapter 893 Extraordinary

The hall is deep and cooler than the outside world.

When Zhao Xuan arrived here, the excitement aroused by the drunkenness gradually faded away, and replaced it with a little nervousness.

Jiang Jie was calm and composed.

When the two of them sat down, he even joked: "If Mr. Liang came to ask for guilt, he would have put the knife on my neck at this time, forcing me to cry, kneel down and kowtow, begging for mercy to save his family's life. It is obvious that Ziying would have no embarrassment to follow me."

Zhao Xuan said: "Mr. Zhong Yi, I just don't understand."

"Don't understand what?" Jiang Jie served the soup and asked again: "Don't understand why I betrayed Mr. Liang?"

Zhao Xuan said nothing.

The western land is a border land with barren land; the people of Liangzhou have fought fiercely with foreign races for thousands of years, fighting against Shaodang Qiang, fighting against Xianling, fighting against Qiang and Di people; they live in saddles and horses, have a martial character, and drive away when they hear the wind and look at death. They are used to swords and blood, and are unyielding in their hearts.

But there are differences within Liangzhou people.

In recent decades, as the imperial centers have exclusion and discrimination against Liangzhou intensified, every time the imperial court sends troops to Liangzhou, it will inevitably be accompanied by massacre and plunder. At the same time, the local Qiang, Di and Han people in Liangzhou gradually live in harmony and their bloodlines merge. As a result, more and more Liangzhou people shook their recognition of the Han court and the identity of the Han people. They rely on the strength of the Han family and Qiang and Hu to do their own things and only seek benefits for themselves.

The officials in Liangzhou who defected to the Qianghu rebels, such as Han Sui, Ma Teng and others, were the same. Ma Chao was the same.

But there are still a large number of scholars who are not like this.

So Zhao Xuan could feel that even though Ma Chao became Liang Gong and General Anxi, the scholars in Liangzhou did not really regard him as the master.

Almost all the scholars in Liangzhou knew this in their hearts, and I'm afraid Ma Chao would also have some vague feelings. But with Ma Chao's ability, no matter how irritable and vigilant he was, he could not catch the painful feet of the scholars in Liangzhou, so he could only kill people every few times and deter them, and use his way to deal with the Qiang and Hu people to scare the people in Liangzhou.

His killings could only make Liangzhou scholars more certain that Ma Chao was definitely not the hero of the troubled times.

So when Jiang Jie asked this, Zhao Xuan was a little angry.

Although he is loyal, he is not stupid, and he will not even have this little judgment.

After a while, Jiang Jie asked again: "Ziying doesn't understand why I chose Yizhou?"

"Yes." Zhao Xuan hesitated: "Although the people in Hanzhong do not seem to be ill, the court is in the east."

Zhao Xuan was not unclear about the decline of the Han Dynasty. He had long heard of the destruction of the Central Plains. Cao's autocracy clearly had the intention of replacing the Han Dynasty, which was not a secret.

But for hundreds of years, even among the scholars in Liangzhou, even if they obeyed the court, they would only obey the Han Han who lived in China and pacified the four barbarians. Although Duke Xuande, who was in Yizhou, was established as the King of Hanzhong, in the eyes of ordinary scholars, the emperor of the Han family was still in Xudu. Duke Xuande was only a separatist force after all, and could not be compared with the court that dominated the Central Plains.

Zhao Xuan believes that most of the scholars in Liangzhou have the same ideas as themselves.

"Ziying is indeed a loyal and honest person."

Jiang Jie laughed.

He raised his hand to signal, and Zhao Xuan saw several things of big and small lined up in a row, placed on the side of the hall, covered with gray cloth.

"This is?"

"Ziying must know that at the beginning of each year, I have to contact Yizhou people for trade and make an agreement in advance on the scale, quantity, business qualifications, and even the types of goods. These are the samples brought by Yizhou people at the beginning of this year. Ziying, let's take a look at these first and then continue the topic."

Zhao Xuan stepped forward as he said, lifting the cover of the first thing.

"These are the farm tools that Yizhou people intend to sell in Liangzhou." Jiang Jie stood beside Zhao Xuan and pointed out: "This is a big plow, this plow crown, this plow wall, and it is all iron tools. When combined in one place, it can efficiently prepare the land and dig the ditch. The whole set of equipment can be moved with only one cow. With the handheld light farm tools, the farming of a man is better than the harvest of two people in Liangzhou and three people."

"What happened?" Zhao Xuan squatted down and took a closer look.

Jiang Jie continued: "I think if they can sell iron farm tools to Liangzhou, then their own territory, Yi, Jing, Jiao, and Jiangzhou, will definitely have been promoted, and there will be even better ones. In the four states, the land is better than Liangzhou. How much will millions of people get from farming every year? How much will they get from military and civilians in Hanzhong, Jiangling, Jiaozhou and other places? Is it easy for their military and civilians to eat enough?"

Zhao Xuan didn't know how to answer.

He wanted to touch the iron plow, but his arm was taken by Jiang Jie and walked to the next place of goods.

"Open." Jiang Jie said.

Zhao Xuan uncovered the gray cloth, and under it was a wooden frame. On the wooden frame was placed a whole set of iron armor, swords, halberds and other objects. The shape of the iron armor is different from the contemporary sleeve armor. The armor leaves on the chest are forged in a whole piece, polished to make the brilliance. Weapons such as swords and halberds can also be seen to be excellent at a glance.

"This is the armor that the people of Yizhou are willing to sell to us. This armor sword is hard to hurt, it is extremely strong, and its armor leaves are so huge, which shows that the means of manufacturing must be extremely unique. Just such a set of armor can be exchanged for a thousand-mile horse in Liangzhou! Such a knife is the same!"

Jiang Jie drew his knife and waved it in a diagonal way. A cold light flashed, and a small branch on the side of the wooden frame broke in response to the sound, just like cutting tofu.

Jiang Jie patted the wooden frame and asked, "Does Ziying know that such armor and such a knife are used by the King of Hanzhong?"

Zhao Xuan focused on looking at the exquisite patterns forged on the armor leaves: "Are they a powerful general under the command of the King of Hanzhong, or a senior lieutenant?"

"It's Qu Chang and Du Bo."

"What?"

"I had carefully asked merchants from Yizhou. I heard that under the command of King Hanzhong, the Sijin School Commander was responsible for mining, iron smelting, and using special hydraulic machinery to make various objects. In Chengdu, Jiangling, and Cangwu, Jiaozhou, there are huge iron fields. In the past two years, the armor-wearing rate of the troops under the command of King Hanzhong has been increasing. Now, Qu Chang and Du Bo are able to be equipped with such iron armor, and ordinary soldiers are not bad. Ziying thinks that with hundreds of thousands of such strong armored and intelligent soldiers, the Hanzhong King is not purely boasting to attack the Cao bandits and revive the Han Dynasty? Are you sure?"

"It is said that Zhuge Liang, an important official under the command of the King of Hanzhong, is good at governing the country... but he didn't know that he was so powerful?"

Zhao Xuan was still hesitating, and Jiang Jie took him to the next place again.

When you lift the cover, there is a table table below. There are a few small things on the table table, including bamboo sheets, silk, and a scroll of paper that feels very rough when touched.

"This is not for sale, but a gift given to me by merchants. Ziying, please open it and take a look."

Zhao Xuan opened one of them and looked at it.

The text on these boards or scrolls is not profound, including books such as "Xunzang Pian" and "Jijiu Pian", as well as "The Book of Filial Piety" and excerpted from "The Book of Zhouren Abbreviation", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and re-compiled texts.

"This is?"

"The King of Hanzhong has a great general named Xinning Hou Lei Yuan. He once defeated Ma Chao's troops in Ba County, forcing Ma Chao to flee to Qiang land. This king is now appointed as the Left General, Dong Governor of Jiaozhou. He was in Jiaozhou and sent people to teach retired soldiers under his command, and then granted them land and made them serve as grassroots officials. Later, this move was followed by Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places. Such books have been added and deleted several times to make them suitable for minor officials. This article..."

Jiang Jie opened a page and pressed his hand on it, saying that "When a man was born with good nature" several lines: "This article is called the Three Character Classic, which is said to be written by Xue Zong, a great scholar of Jiaozhou. Although his writing is simple, it contains great meaning, which is not a small matter."

Zhao Xuan followed Jiang Jie's pointing and read a paragraph softly, and said in surprise: "It's really extraordinary!"

Then there were several objects blocked by gray cloth, but Jiang Er was not busy taking Zhao Xuan to see it.

He led Zhao Xuan back to his seat and said in a deep voice: "Ziying, I will show you three things. One is farming, the second is war, and the third is honest humanities and teaching education. Since the King of Hanzhong can do these three things, how do you think he is better than Ma Chao? The King of Hanzhong's regime is better than the bearish court of Xu Du?"

Zhao Xuan was speechless for a while.

After a while, he whispered, "But, Mr. Zhong Yi, what else can you do now that you are confined to your home?"

"There is always something to do." Jiang Jie smiled and said, "Is Ziying willing to help me?"

"Zhong Yigong, let me think about it."

Just as the two of them were talking, the messenger who informed Liangzhou's military situation entered the former General's Mansion in Jiangling.

The former general's mansion was always on guard, but today the garden in the backyard was specially sorted out, with flowers added, and new swings, wooden pony and carts were also arranged.

Among the beautiful flowers, there are a few girls chasing each other, laughing and playing. Their laughter is crisp and it is spread far under the blue sky.

Even Guan Yu, who had always been serious and noble, couldn't help but smile when he saw this situation.

The messenger came at this time and leaned over and reported, "General Guan, General Lei, there is a report from the Shuzhong Army."

Guan Yu took out the letter from the box, expanded it and frowned slightly.

He stroked his long beard and leaned slightly towards Lei Yuan, who was sitting next to him, saying, "Xuzhi, something is strange about Liangzhou."

"What does Junhou mean?"

"I heard that it is common sense for military strategy to speak without saying anything and use military force. Now, Hanzhong is intent on making a big move. However, Liangzhou is already so in a panic that Ma Chao is furious and intimidating the soldiers, as if someone is deliberately spreading a message and inciting him to be enemies with us."
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