When Yuan Xi came in, Mrs. Wu was breastfeeding the baby. Lu Lingqi was lying on the bedside looking at the baby curiously. She couldn't help but wanted to poke the little guy's forehead with her finger, but in the end she restrained herself.
When she heard the sound, she looked up and saw Yuan Xi coming in. She yelled and was about to use her clothes to cover Mrs. Wu's front. At the same time, she complained: "Why did you come in without knocking on the door?"
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "I've seen it all, and besides, Mrs. Wu doesn't care."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu rolled her eyes at Yuan Xi and concentrated on breastfeeding the child. When Lu Lingqi saw it, she felt bored, muttered and ran away.
Yuan Xi sat next to Mrs. Wu and talked about the wedding with Gongsun, and said: "If Madam doesn't want to, I can just turn it down."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu glanced at the baby in her arms and said softly: "This is the young master's child. You just have to do what you want. I have no other ideas."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "He is also Madam's child."
Mrs. Wu shook her head helplessly. Lu Lingqi, who was secretly observing from the side, had already forced out the inside story of Yuan Xi. Mr. Xin Dao was too courageous. Mrs. Wu was the widow of Sun Jian, and Sun Jian was as famous as his father!
If my father knew that my husband was actually having an affair with Sun Jian's widow, would he probably rush over and beat him to pieces?
No, according to my father’s temperament, he might even praise his husband!
Thinking of all the bad things Lu Bu had done, Lu Lingqi suddenly realized that with her family tradition, she didn't seem to have the right to criticize others?
It's all my father's fault!
Mrs. Wu looked at Lu Lingqi, who was biting her finger next to her, and whispered: "I have someone to take care of me here, and I am already familiar with the matter of giving birth. It is nothing to ask Mrs. Lu to help me all the time. Just let her go back and have a good rest."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi saw that Lu Lingqi had also stayed up all night and looked a little tired, so he said to Mrs. Wu: "Then you should rest first. If you have anything to do, ask someone to come to me."
Mrs. Wu nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said: "I have some things that I shouldn't say at first, but seeing the young master worrying about gains and losses, I still don't want to say it."
"The young master now occupies a high position and is responsible for dozens of millions of people under his control. Now he hangs around in his boudoir for several days. It is really putting the cart before the horse."
"Although the heir is important, we already have enough people here and they are all experienced. Rather than staying here, it is better to go to a place where the son is needed more so that others will not criticize him."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi laughed dumbly and said: "Madam is right, I do have some concerns, but I will be confused."
"I will go to the official residence to handle official business."
He walked a few steps, turned around and said with a smile: "Madam is indeed a good wife."
Mrs. Wu watched Yuan Xi take Lu Lingqi out with some indescribable feelings in her heart.
Yuan Xi walked out, feeling the increasingly cold weather, knowing that the coming days would be even more difficult.
From the late Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, it was the longest ice age in Chinese history, spanning about four hundred years.
Under the destruction of the severe cold climate, during this period of later generations, the dividing line for growing food once reached the central Shaanxi area, and it was almost impossible to grow food in the north. Food was like this, let alone pasture.
Therefore, the nomadic people who were on the verge of life and death, with a strong desire to survive, went south into the Central Plains. And for them, they were very lucky to encounter the Jin Dynasty, a regime that stretched its hips to the extreme.
After the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yue became the final winner and took control of the government. During the internal fighting in the Jin Dynasty, his vitality was severely damaged. Although Sima Yue was domineering in politics, he was still able to resist foreigners.
However, when he led troops to fight against Shi Le, who was marching south, he was stabbed in the back by Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty, who ordered all parties to attack him. Sima Yue died of fear because of this. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command were leaderless and were defeated by Shi Le. The Western Jin Dynasty again
An invincible soldier.
But it was not Shi Le who picked up the leak in the end, but Liu Cong, the son of Liu Yuan, who led troops to attack the capital city of Luoyang. Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty was captured and later poisoned. A few years later, the Western Jin Dynasty perished, and officials and people fled southward.
Therefore, without eunuchs and relatives to intervene in politics and without peasant uprisings, the Jin Dynasty miraculously became a Chinese political power and lost the hinterland of the Central Plains for the first time, abandoning the Han people in the north and crossing to the south, starting a centuries-long history of humiliation for the Han people in China.
Yuan Xi looked up at the snowflakes that were beginning to fall in the sky, knowing that he had nothing to do with what would happen a hundred years later, and that he would not survive that time.
But what he can do in his lifetime is to use all his strength to build Youzhou into a solid line of defense.
If foreigners want to go south, they will have to pay a heavy price. Although they may not succeed in the end, if half of the ten people who go south die in Youzhou, the hinterland of the Central Plains may not fall.
This means that in the next few decades, Youzhou will become a huge meat grinder. Whether Youzhou cannot support it first, or whether the foreigners who move south will collapse first, depends on how well Youzhou can be built.
So Yuan Xi was in a hurry, very anxious. He found that time never seemed to be enough. This was the case here in Youzhou, and it was the same in the Central Plains!
Every time he felt that his strength had grown a lot, but when he looked back at Cao Cao, Sun Ce, or even the Yuan brothers, he found that the other party had also become stronger!
Thinking about it, so many outstanding people finally formed the power of the Three Kingdoms, and they struggled for decades. Only then did they realize the outcome. Where did I get the confidence to think that I could suppress everyone?
Moreover, Yuan Xi discovered that there were too few allies available today. After all calculations, Liu Bei turned out to be the most reliable among them all.
All the princes in the world, seeing Liu Bei's ability to win people's hearts, were worried about joining forces with him. They might be turned away from him that day, but now Yuan Xi had no choice. His current situation did not allow him to pick and choose.
Therefore, he decided to form an alliance with Liu Bei on a deeper level. Only Liu Bei could become Yuan Xi's solid fighting force against Cao Cao.
Therefore, Yuan Xi wrote a letter to Liu Xie and Liu Bei respectively, preparing to recommend Liu Bei to assume an important position in the court, because at this time, Liu Bei needed the name and status in the Liu clan the most.
Although Liu Bei is the queen of Prince Jing of Zhongshan, there are only eight thousand or more members of the clan with the surname Liu who are similar to Liu Bei in the world.
The real people in the inner circle of the clan surnamed Liu are Liu Yu, Liu Yao, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Liu Yan, and Liu Dai, the clan children who have been appointed as high-ranking officials. If Liu Bei had some upper-level connections, he would not have to rely on private
The army conquered the Yellow Turbans and made a fortune through military exploits.
Thinking of this, Yuan Xi was also quite helpless. The situation in the late Han Dynasty was too complicated, with internal and external troubles, but now everyone was fighting for their lives, not knowing that the climate in the north would become even worse, and foreigners might finally take advantage in the future.
Even if Yuan Xi said it now, no one would believe it. Even if he did, who in the world would stop?
So the last and only solution is to see the truth on the battlefield.
Lu Lingqi nudged Yuan Xi with her elbow, pulling Yuan Xi back from his thoughts, and said teasingly: "Why, do you feel uncomfortable after being taught a lesson by Mrs. Wu?"
"How does it feel to be a father?"
Yuan Xi said helplessly: "Don't laugh at me all day long. When the time comes for you to have a baby, you may behave even worse."
Lu Lingqi's face turned red and she said fiercely: "Who wants to give birth? We haven't fought enough yet!"
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "I'm afraid even Marquis Wen is still waiting."
"It's not easy to fight a war. There will be a war soon."
Lu Lingqi said happily: "Really?"
She wondered: "It's almost the Chinese New Year, who can we fight with?"
Yuan Xi replied: "Qingzhou pirates."
Yuan Xi can be sure that Yuan Tan is instigating or conniving behind the Qingzhou pirates.
Qingzhou originally has a long coastline, and there have always been fixed routes between Qingzhou and Liaodong. Both passenger transportation and cargo trade are of considerable scale.
Originally, Qingzhou pirates were mostly used by the Yellow Turban Army to rob fishermen and merchants, and most of the ships they used were small boats. However, in the past two years, larger ships have gradually appeared.
These pirates are quite cruel. They not only steal goods but also kill people. They are scattered along the coast from Donglai, Shandong Peninsula, and often appear on the waterway from Youzhou to Xuzhou.
At first, when these people saw the flag of the Zhen family caravan belonging to Youzhou, they would avoid it, but these days they became more courageous and began to take action without restraint.
Several ships of the Zhen family's caravan have gone missing, causing people to panic. Those who managed to escape and those who identified those who boarded the ships and robbed them all spoke the Qingzhou dialect.
Yuan Xi wrote a letter to Yuan Tan specifically about this matter, but Yuan Tan's reply was vague and stated that he had no knowledge of it.
Yuan Xi thought to himself that if this was the case, then he would not be polite. After all, trade routes were his bottom line.
Although the two brothers were once allies, Yuan Xi was very unhappy with the other's probing behavior.
Moreover, the interruption of one's own trade route is equivalent to severing a major artery. This will cause immeasurable losses to Youzhou, which is in urgent need of blood transfusions to build water conservancy and defense.
Therefore, Yuan Xi decided that if he wanted to fight, he had to hit him painfully. The Qingzhou pirates would be so vital that they would never dare to go to sea again. It would be best if they could be annihilated.
Previously, Yuan Tan was afraid that there were many hidden dangers from foreign enemies in Youzhou and he could not spare any time to deal with this disease. However, after several months of hard work, Yuan Xi finally suppressed the many foreign dangers in Youzhou for the time being.
He secretly reached an agreement with the central Xianbei master Kebi Neng outside the pass, and used some benefits to let him contain the western Xianbei master Bu Dugen and the eastern Xianbei master Su Li.
Of course, this was not negotiated, but in the past few months, after Yuan Xi mobilized all the elites under his command and fought several fierce battles with Xianbei, who was constantly invading the border in the north, Kirby was convinced.
In the past few months, the three large Xianbei tribes outside the pass have been persistent in their evil intentions and still sent a large number of light cavalry to invade the border.
During this period, Yuan Xi ordered the brothers Zhao Yuntian Yu, Yan Rou and Xian Yufu to all attack. The soldiers and horses were equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and armor, and a death order was issued to leave no survivors on the battlefield.
After several battles, the Xianbei outside the Pass, who had not expected such ferocity from the Youzhou Army, suffered heavy casualties. Finally, after Tian Yu erected a Jingguan with thousands of heads on the gap in the Great Wall, all the Xianbei retreated in a hurry.
It is no longer important whether these dead people are from Eastern Xianbei or Middle Xianbei.
When Yuan Xi later received the news that Kirby, who had been delaying, sincerely requested peace talks, he sneered in his heart. Sure enough, in this world, the only language acceptable to both parties is killing and violence.
Once the little thought was gone, he was naturally willing to talk. He was really mean.