Chapter 484
When Li Linfei returned to Yangzhou, he made a side trip to Jingzhou and lulled Gan Ning, a Jinfan thief, and Huang Zhong to Yangzhou, where they could not get development and where the world was a world of lineage.
When he returned to Yangzhou, he vigorously developed Yangzhou's strength and Shan Yue . The problem has been solved, the overall strength of Yangzhou is still quite large, it is no exaggeration to say that the first state in the Han Dynasty is certain.
But there are some troubles that should come, although not a threat to Li Linfei, but some people should be solved.
One day, Li Linfei was molesting Miao Cicada in the back room, who was now 18 or 19 years old and had become a beauty.
Li Linfei did get down to it, such a beauty was around, could he not get down to it?
At this time, someone reported that Qiao Xuan had arrived and seemed to be in a hurry.
So he went to the lobby.
When Li Linfei arrived at the hall of affairs, he saw that Xi Zhi Cai and Jia Jia and Qiao Xuan were waiting here, while the servants had long since retired.
Why wasn't Guo Jia there? He and He Qi were now fighting in Jiaozhou with their army.
Li Linfei was familiar with Qiao Xuan, the old man had taken care of him when he was in Luoyang, and after he became the governor of Huiji, the old man had used his power to build up his strength.
After he became the governor of Yangzhou, Qiao Xuan resigned from his post and returned to his hometown of Yangzhou, which helped him to take charge of Yangzhou more quickly, and several of his family members are currently working under Li Linfei as officials.
Qiao Xuan's status in the scholarly world might not be as high as Cai Yong's, but his status in the official world was incomparable to Cai Yong's, and more students wanted to study under him than Cai Yong.
In the beginning, out of gratitude to Qiao Xuan, Li Linfei gave him a lot of elixirs to prolong his life, so basically it was not a problem for him to live for a hundred years, and he had a good chance to live for more than a hundred years.
However, Qiao Xuan rarely came to his residence. He is already old, and there is nothing important enough for him to personally come to his place, but now he is here, is there something wrong? If there was no urgent matter, he couldn't invite this old man!
After bowing to Qiao Xuan, Li Linfei sat down and asked, "I wonder what is so important that I need to bother Uncle Qiao personally to come to the Yun residence."
Qiao Xuan smiled and stroked his beard as he said to Li Linfei, "Something important has indeed happened, some time ago someone proposed marriage to two of my daughters.
Li Linfei knew of Qiao Xuan's two daughters, the famous beauty in history, Big Qiao and Little Qiao! Even if Li Linfei was not a traveller, he knew of their beautiful names, after all, these two sisters were extremely famous in the whole of Jiangdong.
"I wonder who they are?" Li Linfei asked, pretending not to know, could he not know? Zhou Yu and Sun Ce.
"Sun Ce and Zhou Yu." Qiao Xuan said.
"Oh, although the Zhou family of Lujiang is considered a big family, only that Zhou Gongjin, who is known as the beautiful Zhou Lang of Jiangdong, is qualified."
For Sun Ce as well as Zhou Yu he was still very unhappy, these two came to ask for marriage this time must be harbouring evil intentions! After all, these two men were no peacemakers.
Now that Yangzhou is at war with Jiaoshu and is about to fight with Jingzhou, it may seem to outsiders that their forces are stretched to the limit.
Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are unlikely to let go of this opportunity, and it may be their only chance to take advantage of it, as they may still have a chance to dominate the world.
After all, the Qiao family is a prestigious family in Jiangdong, and a marriage with them would be a great advantage.
After all, the Zhou family's reputation and prestige in Jiangdong is even worse than that of the Qiao family. The Sun family had fallen into despair after Sun Jian's death, and Sun Jian had offended many people in Yangzhou, so if they didn't find an ally, it would be difficult for them to get along in Jiangdong.
"Uncle, do you know where Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are now? ?" Li Linfei asked.
At that time, I said to give me some time to think about it, and they had already left my mansion, when I said I would give them an answer in three days." Qiao Xuan had sold his original two sons-in-law short at this point.
In fact, originally Qiao Xuan did not have any good feelings towards Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and historically, Big and Small Qiao were also just forcibly robbed by these two, when Sun Ce's power in Jiangdong was already huge and sharpening his sword against the major families, Qiao Xuan still married off his daughter under the pressure of the sword.
Now Qiao Xuan is not afraid of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, after all, he has Li Linfei to cover him, and for Qiao Xuan, the most suitable marriage partner is Li Linfei.
Chapter 485
Li Linfei saw through the system that the two of them had already left Shan Yin City, it seemed that Qiao Xuan's visit to him was already known to them!
"I don't think Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are good enough for Miss Qiao, what do you think Uncle Qiao?" Li Linfei smiled and said, letting two fresh cabbages go to two pigs, this was something Li Linfei would never allow, in his dictionary people like Sun Ce and Zhou Yu who loved to cause trouble should never live in the world!
Perhaps a little cruel, but for the sake of the future, the more talented and ambitious such people were, the more they had to be wiped out, and it was not Li Linfei's fault for being cruel, it was his responsibility to others.
Qiao Xuan froze and nodded, such words were so domineering! Only, he wanted to introduce his daughter to Li Linfei, but it was hard to say that!
"In the future, I guess there are not a few people who want to hit the two Miss Qiaoisms, especially those from other vassals!" At this time Jia spoke up.
"That seems to be the case!" Li Linfei nodded thoughtfully, only he had a slight twinge of displeasure in his heart that two such good cabbages were about to be vaulted by pigs!
"Now I am asking the two Miss Qiao for my lord's hand in marriage, I wonder what Old Man Qiao thinks?" Then Jia continued.
Jia's words shocked Li Linfei and Qiao Xuan, they could not have imagined that Jia would say such a thing, what kind of rhythm was this?
Li Linfei looked at Jia and then at Xi Zhicai, who nodded slightly as if the matter had already been planned.
What is this? What is this? A rhythm to expand your harem? What do you want?
"As long as your nephew agrees, I have no problem with it, my two daughters have long admired your nephew!" Qiao Xuan looked at Jia, nodded his head, and said.
"Then the matter is settled, next the Lord will arrange for someone to come and place the bride price." Jia said.
"Good, then I will take my leave and tell Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao about this." Seeing a puzzled Li Linfei, Qiao Xuan bade farewell to the crowd.
He knew that Li Linfei did not object on the spot and Jia was leading the matter, so this was already considered a done deal.
After seeing Qiao Xuan leave, Li Linfei asked, "What's going on with you guys? What exactly do you mean?"
Jia and Xi Zhicai said after glancing at each other, "It is also extremely beneficial to Yangzhou's rule for the Lord to include Big and Little Qiao in his room, and the Yangzhou families are happy to see this happen."
You guys make so much sense that I am surprised that I have no words to oppose it.
"Also my lord, some time ago the Yan family of Jizhou sent someone to say that they wanted to join with my lord in marriage and wanted to send Yan Mi over, and I agreed to do so in my lord's stead." Xi Zhicai finished.
"How did the Zhen family want to join forces with us?" Li Linfei asked, puzzled.
"Being pushed too hard by Yuan Shao, I heard that both of Yuan Shao's sons have their eyes on Zhen Mi, but the Zhen family can't see Yuan Shao ..... . " explained Xi Zhicai.
It dawned on Li Linfei that, because of his presence, Yuan Shao's prestige in Hebei had fallen more than a notch short, and now he was fighting Gongsun Zan without even fully grasping the Jizhou region Han Fu had ceded to him, with little hope of victory.
The Yan family naturally didn't want their most precious daughter to marry Yuan Shao's son, and Gongsun Zan didn't look like the emperor, they considered all the vassals and finally looked at us, and they wanted to cooperate with themselves, which is why they moved: the idea of marriage, think of all this is their own credit ah!
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do. The first time I saw it, I was in the middle of it. If he hadn't pushed the Yan family too close, they wouldn't have chosen him, or at least they wouldn't have been so eager to send Yan Mi over. History says that Yan Mi is a woman with the destiny of the Empress, for whom a merchant family like the Yan family would be waiting for a good price, waiting for a buyer?
But in any case, it was a bargain for him, as Zhen Mi was an incomparable beauty, second only to Miao Cicada, one of the Four Beauties, and ranked above Xiao Qiao.
Chapter 486
This side was discussing how to join forces, while Yuan Lao Er, who had been doing battle with Boss Cao at Zhou Yu's urging, suddenly turned his guns and attacked Yangzhou.
He led an attack on Lujiang County with 200,000 men. Fortunately, Li Linfei had long ago arranged for 30,000 troops to be stationed in Lujiang County.
Although 30,000 men did not seem equal to over 200,000, this was enough in Li Linfei's view, as Zhou Yu, who single-handedly pushed Yuan Shu to attack Yangzhou, did not have Yuan Shu's trust and was not given the authority to lead the troops.
Zhou Yu was very eloquent and he managed to persuade Yuan Shu to attack Yangzhou, although Yuan Shu did not really trust Zhou Yu.
Originally, like Yuan Shu, he had a high regard for the sons of families, and basically those who followed him and did well were the sons of large families, and the Zhou family was no small family.
Sun Jian had been in his employ for some time, otherwise Sun Ce would not have defected to Yuan Shu after his death, except that Sun Jian had the intention of going it alone and did not listen to his elder brother when he attacked Dong Zhuo, which displeased Yuan Shu and made him think that Sun Jian was an anti-bone, and he looked down on Sun Ce.
Similarly, after Sun Ce defected to him, Yuan Shu was slow to reuse him, knowing full well that Sun Ce was a great martial artist, and instead suppressed him from time to time. Zhou Yu was one of Sun Ce's men, and Yuan Shu also despised Zhou Yu.
It has to be said here that Yuan Shu had some vision, Sun Ce did want to stand on his own, and history. If Sun Ce had not exchanged the Jade Seal for some troops and horses, he might have been frozen out for life.
The current governor of Lujiang is none other than Lu Kang, and it is Zhou Tai who assists him in defending the city.
Lu Kang, a man many people may not know, but his grandson Lu Xun was known to many people in later times as the later Grand Viceroy of Eastern Wu, the one who burned Liu's ears to the ground with one fire.
As for Lu Kang, he was actually a very famous and loyal minister in this era.
In history, when Yuan Lao Er's cantonment forces were heavily fortified in Shouchun, the county capital of the neighbouring county of Jiujiang, Lao Er asked Lu Kang for 30,000 drachms of rice because his army was short of food.
But although the Han dynasty was weakened, Lu Kang was a notoriously loyal minister who considered Yuan Shu a rebel and closed his door to him, and refurbished his war preparations to meet the enemy.
Yuan Shu was furious and sent Sun Ce to attack Lu Kang, surrounding the city of Lujiang in many layers.
Lu Kang led his army to hold the fort, and his soldiers, who had previously been away on leave, returned to Lujiang and climbed the walls at night to help defend the city.
Lu Kang held on for two years before the city fell, after which he fell ill and died at the age of seventy in a month. It is only the relationship between Lu Xun and Sun Ce afterwards that makes it somewhat intriguing.
But Lu Kang's opinion of Li Linfei was still good, for he was the one who ruled Yangzhou openly and honestly, and was given the title of Yangzhou pastor by the court. Moreover, Li Linfei had always been a good disguise, and since he took office, he had done a lot of great things to benefit the people, so that the economy of Yangzhou had been improved quickly, which was very important for an official who would sincerely work for the court and the people.
It was also for this reason that Li Linfei dared to continue to make him the governor of Lujiang, allowing him to guard the northern gateway to Yangzhou, while also sending just one Zhou Tai over to help him guard Lujiang.
Here it has to be said that Lu Kang's ability to defend the city is still very good, even considered top in this era, plus the assistance of the fierce general Zhou Tai, in Li Lin Fei's side seems to be absolutely able to hold Lu Jiang. ,
In fact, Li Linfei's arrangement proved to be successful, as Lu Kang really did hold Yuan Shu's 200,000-strong army at bay with his 30,000-strong army and the city walls.
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No way who let him have the system and at the same time seem to have an inexhaustible supply of food! According to their economic power, they don't replace all their soldiers with. The armour was already very low-profile!
The entire Yuan Shu army was held up by Lu Kang for three months in Lu Jiang, Yuan Shu's whole mood was bad, he already hated Zhou Yu, who told him Yangzhou was easy to defeat! Look at this!
A whole army of 200,000 couldn't defeat Lu Jiang for three months, and the defender was just an old man who was too old to walk and an unknown military general.
Suddenly he realised that this could be a pit! A pit that Li Linfei had deliberately set up for himself!
Yuan Jue, although he sometimes looked foolish and dumb and could be a piggyback, if he really did not have any intelligence, he could not be the heir of the Yuan family just by virtue of his status as the first son!
Faced with the delay in breaking Lujiang, Yuan Shu already hated Zhou Yu to the core of his teeth, he had lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the past three months, and had eaten food from several granaries! If he had chosen to fight with Cao Cao for the Central Plains, he would not have known who would have won or lost!
Now he had given up the Central Plains to Meng Dejun, and he hadn't even gotten Yangzhou, so he had really lost his wife and his army! He felt that he might have stepped into the pit that Li Linfei had buried before, which he would not have stepped into before, all because of Zhou Yu's misguidance.
Compared to Yuan Shu's torment, Lu Kang and his men were much happier! Because of the thorough preparation, there was no problem at all with the military supplies, and the 30,000 strong army seemed to be more than enough to hold this Lujiang.
And Zhou Tai, the future general, is growing up fast under Lu Kang's tutelage in this battle, so I'm sure it won't be long before he becomes a great general on his own!
Yangzhou is not in a hurry, but Yuan Shu is! The daily expenses of an army of 200,000 were enormous, and the food had to be consumed in transit! It seems very difficult to take Lujiang!