Zhang Yan's side is somewhat of a brotherhood, so it's not easy to make up his mind, but Yu Fulo's side is relatively easy.
The people who follow Yu Fuluo are all people who have expectations for the future. They want to continue to live a good life and don't want to disobey the orders of a strong man like Liu Bei. In this case, the existence of Huchuquan's subordinates is a huge threat.
unstable factors.
Wouldn't it be great if we could exchange the lives of Hu Chuquan and others for a bright future?
As for the brotherhood of flesh and blood... He has experienced everything from stepping on his father's corpse to becoming a Chanyu, let alone his younger brother.
Sorry, in the face of survival, this is nothing. We Huns care more about survival than family ties.
So the strategic plan was finalized.
Before officially starting the battle to merge states, we must first fight two outpost battles to eliminate the Yudu Group and the Huchuquan Group.
This actually has a great advantage, because all of them know that Liu Bei wants to recruit them to fight the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, so all the war preparations of Zhang Yan Group and Yu Fuluo Group are also public, including Taiyuan
The county's war preparations are all public.
Only a few people at the top knew about the change in the target of the operation. The officers and soldiers at the bottom only knew that they were going to deal with the Xianbei and Wuhuan people. Even Yu Du and Hu Chuquan looked at the matter this way.
No one thought that the first person that everyone would have to deal with with all their strength was our own people who were eating in a pot not long ago, and that they would be so fast and determined, without any procrastination at all.
The Yudu Group and the Huchuquan Group have privately discussed the possibility of Liu Bei attacking them. Some people are also worried that Liu Bei will join forces with Zhang Yan and Yu Fuluo to attack them. However, this worry is not mainstream and has no actual basis.
Yu Du thinks that Zhang Yan is not such a decisive and ruthless person, while Hu Chuquan thinks that his existence is valuable to Fu Luo, and Yu Fu Luo will not give up on him easily.
They may not necessarily know the words "Asuka is the only good Gongzang", but they understand the specific meaning to some extent.
What these two groups are now thinking about is a more specific way out.
They refused the request of the Luoyang court and blindly pursued freedom and power at a price. If Liu Bei really came to attack them, they had no confidence that they would be able to survive.
The Yu Du Group even believed that they could rely on the dangerous terrain to resist Liu Bei, drag the war into a protracted war, and kill Liu Bei. For this reason, they proposed a strategic plan of digging deep holes and storing more grain.
They believed that if Liu Bei wanted to attack them, he would have to mobilize a large number of troops to search the mountains and encircle them, which would require a lot of food. As long as they could not hold out and block the roads in the mountains, with the daily consumption of Liu Bei's army, it would not take long for them to gain lasting power.
The victory of the battle.
At worst, it will be the same as in the past. The government can't control them, and they can't do anything about the government. They can continue to be their mountain kings freely on the mountain, and they can be kings and hegemons in this three-acre land behind closed doors. It's not unfettered.
comfortable.
As for other methods, they really can't think of them.
The worries in other areas have been quelled by Liu Bei. There is no room for them to display in Youzhou and Jizhou. To the north is the grassland desert and to the south is the core of Luoyang. Except for the Taihang Mountains, they have nowhere to go.
In this silent stall, someone looked at Yu Du as if complaining and muttered something.
"There's nothing wrong with taking refuge in the imperial court, right? At least you won't be trapped here and unable to move..."
As a result, this sentence caused a strong reaction in Yu Du, and he almost had a fight with Sui Gu who said this sentence.
The Huchuquan Group is a bachelor. They believe that if this land is no longer viable, the worst they can do is return north to the land where their ancestors lived and live their nomadic life again. However, before that, if Liu Bei forces him too much, they will definitely
Fight back.
But that being said, when they really started making preparations to return to the north, they discovered that they were not used to it and were reluctant to part with it.
People who have lived in Bingzhou for a long time and have never returned to the grasslands and deserts for several generations have adapted to the current semi-agricultural or even full-agricultural life.
A considerable number of people in various tribes of the Southern Huns maintained a semi-farming or full-farming lifestyle, and even their living habits changed from living in no fixed place to settling down. Many people would build houses for themselves as soon as they found a suitable place to live.
Reclaim land for agricultural production.
A considerable number of the Southern Huns are better at tending crops in the fields than herding animals. They prefer to wear linen clothes instead of wearing animal skins. They are now more accustomed to eating grain than eating grassland food.
Most of their living habits such as clothing, eating, etc. are adapted to the life in Bingzhou. Living like this for more than a hundred years is said to be a return to the life of their ancestors, but is it easier said than done?
Let alone others, just talking about Huchuquan, he likes to eat mutton pancakes the most, but now he is worried that if he cannot get enough grain after returning to the grassland, where should he go to satisfy his appetite?
Do you think that from now on if you want to eat mutton pancakes, you have to lead troops south to plunder a batch of grains?
It was a little hard for him to accept this fact.
So if we really say that we are determined to leave here, they may not be willing to do so.
Tangled emotions spread throughout this part of the Southern Huns group.
While they were struggling and hesitating, the Luoyang court showed no hesitation or hesitation at all.
According to Liu Bei's latest arrangement, let Guan Yu connect with Fuluo to deal with the Huchuquan Division of the Southern Huns, let Qianzhao connect with Zhang Yan, and deal with the Yudu Division of the Black Mountain Army.
According to estimates, the population under the jurisdiction of Huchuquan is about 80,000 or 90,000. The number of soldiers capable of fighting is close to 20,000, but less than 20,000. The population controlled by the Heishan Army's Poison Division is only 70,000 or 80,000.
, there will not be more troops to fight than Huchuquan’s troops.
Therefore, in this battle, two armies, plus the Montenegrin Army and the soft forces of the Southern Huns, were deployed to deal with the rebel forces with certainty.
This battle was scheduled to take place on the first day of February in the second year of Jian'an, and before that, it was a rest period for everyone.
The New Year's Eve of the second year of Jian'an was the first time in many years that Liu Bei spent a complete New Year's Eve with his family. No one was missing, no one was missing, his mother was there, his wives and concubines were all there, and so were the children.
On the New Year's Eve last year, Liu Bei was still on his way to lead the army to conquer Youzhou. He took a day off during the New Year's Eve and ate meat for everyone all day long, which was considered a holiday.
This year is just fine. There are no large-scale wars and not too many worries. It is a rare good time to have a peaceful holiday and rest. Therefore, Liu Bei has no plans to continue working overtime this year, but is serious about it.
Have a pleasant rest for three days.
In the past three days, he and his family received many relatives and friends. Everyone drank and chatted with each other, and the fried food limited to the New Year was also brought to the dining table for adults and children to feast on.
In order to paralyze the enemy's nerves, Liu Bei even asked Guan Yu and Qian Zhao to return to Luoyang to celebrate the festival, and asked them to bring their families to Liu Bei's house to celebrate the New Year, eat, drink, and have fun.
During the rest on the third day, Liu Bei took his whole family to enjoy the snow outside Luoyang City, and then ate barbecue together in the snow.
After Liu Shen and Liu Ze went through a period of hellish learning and suffering, they finally got through it.
In the final exam of the semester when they had just transferred to Si Li Academy, Liu Shen came in first, Liu Ze came in second, and the two brothers occupied the top two places, which made Han Ning feel bad.
So Han Ning not only allowed the two brothers to rest and have fun during the New Year's Day, but also allowed the two brothers to go out for an outing in the company of Liu Bei after the spring.
These two boys were so happy. They were barbecuing meat here and having a snowball fight there - but it is said that Guan Ning and Zhang Chi were not so lucky.
This is not against Liu Shen and Liu Ze. Although Mrs. Guan and Mrs. Zhang are both strong women who refuse to admit defeat, they can still understand the importance of Liu's issues, so they do not ask their sons to surpass Liu Shen.
Liu Ze as the target.
But you can't lose to that beast Ji Xiao, right?
Yes, the third place in grade in the final exam this time was actually Ji Xiao. He historically broke through his best score of seventh place and passed the exam to third place in grade, leaving Guan Ning and Zhang Chi behind.
Madam and Mrs. Zhang were very angry.
You can't win in a fight, you can't even pass the exam, but your father can knock Ji Xiao to the ground and beat him up, but you two are so unlucky?
What will happen to them?
Liu Bei didn't know, but he didn't want to interfere in other people's family affairs. Seeing Liu Shen and Liu Ze playing so happily, he felt that it would be great if he could take care of these naughty children in the family.
Let them study and have strict requirements on them, this is one thing, but it is also necessary to let them have time to relax so that they do not always tense up and have mental problems.
Just as he was thinking this, Gong Qin and Gong Ling had already rushed out and joined the two boys in the snowball fight.
Although Gong Qin and Gong Ling are already mothers, they still have the mentality of girls. They don't often see snow. When they saw the two boys having a snowball fight, they happily joined in.
The four of them fought together.
When Liu Bei saw this, he put down all his pretensions, rushed out, picked up a ball of snow and threw it out, hitting Gong Qin just in time.
Gong Qin was angry.
"Lang Junyi is so bad! Ah Ling! Ah Shen and Ah Ze! Let's join forces!"
Gong Qin's shout received a unanimous response from the other three, and the scene turned into Liu Bei one against four.
Liu Bei was very happy about this.
One to four?
In the battle when he saved Liu Hui from being bullied when he was still young, he was one against four. It was his awakening battle. He fought hard to get a better standard of living for himself, and from then on
Since that time, he has never been afraid of one against many!
"I'm not afraid of bullying those with more! You four, show me your moves!"
Liu Bei laughed and threw the snowball, and the five of them mingled.
In the eyes of others, this happy scene is quite envious.
As the mistress, Han Ning sat aside and instructed the servants to grill the meat. Han Xiaodie was accompanying her as always, with no intention of ending.
The remaining concubines were concerned about Han Ning's intentions, and they all maintained their identities. Although their eyes were full of yearning, they were too embarrassed to take that step.
At this time, they were somewhat envious of Gong Qin and Gong Ling's temperament, which was completely unconstrained by the etiquette and laws of the Central Plains.
You can do whatever you want, and naturally have a snowball fight with Liu Bei who lets himself go. He looks very happy.
But they couldn't move forward no matter what.
Fortunately, the snowball fight didn't last too long. The mistress spoke and asked them to come back quickly to prepare for the barbecue, so this happy snowball fight came to an end.
The barbecue on this day was particularly fragrant. As he ate it, Liu Bei missed the hot pot. He remembered the sight of the family gathering around the hot pot to eat hot pot and getting warm. He really yearned for it.
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So after returning to Luoyang City from the countryside, Liu Bei ordered his men to go to the military camp to find craftsmen and make him a big pot out of copper and iron. He planned to have a good hot pot meal at home.
Speaking of which, with the development of Liangzhou's iron smelting technology and the regularization of iron ore mining, the successful operation of Liangzhou Railway has enabled a large amount of high-quality steel to move closer from the military field to the civilian field.
With the expansion of Liu Bei's power, in the second year of Jian'an, Liangzhou's railway system has been promoted in the Sanfu Land and the Sanhe Land. Wherever there are iron ores in these places, mines and iron smelting have been set up.
Workshops are managed by a dedicated railway bureau.
The traditional iron officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty were expanded by Liu Bei and set up as the Railway Bureau, which was responsible for the statistics of iron ore mining, as well as the distribution, division and delivery of the quantity of civilian iron and military iron.
There are standards for how much iron should be used to produce civilian appliances and how much iron should be used to produce military weapons.
Liangzhou's technology of using coal to smelt iron was quickly extended to these areas. With the continuous establishment of various mines and iron smelting workshops, the quantity and quality of steel produced in the Han Empire were greatly improved.
At the same time, under Liu Bei's control, tax barriers between counties were also broken down. Important materials related to people's livelihood, such as steel, salt, and grain, had zero tariffs among counties. The passes of each county, water and land
No transportation hub can levy taxes on these materials.
As a result, other areas except the iron ore areas were no longer troubled by the high prices of iron products, and a large number of cheap and quality-guaranteed ironware finally flew into the homes of ordinary people.
In areas where Liu Bei was in power, at least in agricultural production, farmers no longer lacked the use of iron farm tools. During agricultural production, they could safely invest in a large number of iron farm tools to improve production efficiency.
As time went by, not only farm tools could use iron, but even in some areas where there was no shortage of iron, civilian kitchen knives began to be sold openly in iron shops.
What followed was an increase in agricultural productivity. From the first year of Jian'an to the third year of Jian'an, the grain output in Liu Bei's control area had achieved a triple jump. The figures were gratifying, and the Luoyang court was delighted.
The living standards of ordinary families in the Han Empire also ushered in a significant leap with the great development of the steel production industry in the Han Empire.
On this basis, Liu Bei's dream of owning an iron pot for cooking came true in September of the first year of Jian'an.
It is said that this iron pot was purely handmade and took the efforts of five or six skilled blacksmiths, and finally succeeded in meeting Liu Bei's requirements.
However, Liu Bei had too many things to do at that time and never thought of using it. It was not until Han Ning asked during the New Year that Liu Bei remembered the existence of this iron pot.
Walking to the kitchen, under the surprised eyes of the cooks, Liu Bei took out the large iron pot, weighed it, touched it, and then asked the cooks to light the fire and add oil, and began to prepare the cooking.
The first stir-fry in the history of this world was done in the kitchen of Liu Bei's home.
The cook who didn't know how to cook carefully completed a pot of fried meat with sunflower seeds under Liu Bei's personal command. He simply seasoned it and stir-fried it over high heat.
After the world's first stir-fry dish came out, Liu Bei became the first person in history to enjoy stir-fry dishes. After taking a bite, he was filled with emotions——
Damn it, the sunflower is not cooked enough! The meat is cooked on the outside but not on the inside!
When he first started using this brand-new cooking utensil, the cook couldn't control the heat well and didn't know how long it would be. He wasn't very good at observing with his eyes. Moreover, Liu Bei was standing next to him. The difference in status made the cook panic.
Liu Bei himself also had a problem. He was a fast-talking chef. He thought he was proficient in the recipes of the eight major cuisines. After reading the recipes, he felt that he was the chef of the world. So he gave random instructions and tried to make the chefs reproduce the eight traditional cuisines at the speed of light.
As a result, the cook became even more panicked and stir-fried the food a few times before it came out of the pot, wasting good ingredients.
From this, Liu Bei realized that his talent was not in the kitchen, and realized the mistake of a layman commanding an expert, so he left the kitchen in despair, leaving the cook to figure out how to use the iron pot.
After the New Year's Day, around the 15th and 16th, the cook came to report that they were finally able to use an iron pot to prepare a table of meals that Liu Bei could like.
Liu Bei excitedly ran over and took a look. He saw seven or eight dishes, all of which were stir-fried. Simple slices of vegetables and meat, tossed and stir-fried together. Hey, that's really what happened.
Liu Bei enjoyed that meal very well, and even invited Han Ning and the others to eat with him. He also received good feedback, saying that the food he made this way had a different texture and taste than what he had eaten in the past.
Liu Bei then rewarded the cooks at home and asked them to keep up their efforts and study more delicious cooking methods. They should try all the ingredients they could find and all the condiments they could find. Don't be stingy.
As a general, you can still have freedom of food and drink.
After the stir-fry is done, the hotpot is also in place.
In the cold winter months, Liu Bei and his family used the bone soup to make soup base, boiled beef and mutton, and used whatever other ingredients they could get to eat. The food was hot, warm and comfortable all over.
When you are comfortable yourself, you must make others comfortable. Liu Bei has always been a person who values "pleasure alone is not as good as happiness for everyone", so he quickly placed orders for several newly established iron smelting workshops in the Luoyang area to prepare a batch of large iron smelting workshops.
Iron pots were provided to army soldiers.
Not only can it be used to make hot pot, but it can also be used by veterans in the army to stir-fry large pots of food. In the future, it will be used to improve army meals. It will allow soldiers to eat meat in a big pot in the cold wind. Although it is expensive,
Not a lot, but the boost to morale is quite high.
A boost in morale is priceless.
In the first month of the second year of Jian'an, Liu Bei did these things that seemed to be no big deal. Even as a general, he did these things that made people feel that he was not doing his job properly.
However, after he ascended to a high position, there was no need to do everything personally. He recruited so many talents to form the General's Office in order to help him share the pressure and handle some things.
Otherwise, why spend money to recruit so many people?
He likes Zhuge Liang very much, but such a perfect existence also has the shortcoming of "doing everything by himself".