Chapter 54: Usturbation of the Han Dynasty

Zhang Fei's eyes were as big as a copper bell. After a long time of reaction, he asked, "What did you say? Say it to me again!"

"My sister has arrived outside the city and is still with the prince." Zhang Bao repeated.

Zhang Fei opened his mouth in surprise. After a long time, he actually laughed, and then said, "I said my daughter won't go out for no reason. It turns out that she is going to find his future husband! Let's go and see!"

The shouting of Zhang Bao and Zhang Fei made the whole Zhang Mansion know. In the backyard, Xiahou breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, while the second lady of the Zhang family was confused after hearing this.

"Didn't the eldest sister run away from marriage if she doesn't want to marry Brother Adou? Why are you with Brother Adou again?"

Chengdu city gate.

Looking at the towering Chengdu City, a hint of sorrow arose in Adou's heart.

Returning to Chengdu means a lot of things are waiting for him. A Dou in his previous life knew nothing about internal affairs. In the Three Kingdoms, he read a lot of military books, but the way to govern the country was not good at apart from the military farms learned from Cao Cao.

However, there are many experts in Shu who are good at internal affairs, such as Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wan, Zhang Song, Fei Yi, and Dong Yun. These people should be able to support the scene!

"I can only drive the ducks to the shelves!" Adou sighed and walked towards the city.

At this moment, a few people rushed out of the city, led by a black-faced man, Zhang Fei, who was behind Zhang Fei, followed closely behind. After Zhang Xingcai saw Zhang Fei, he was so scared that he hurriedly hid behind Adou.

"I've met Uncle Third!" Adou hurriedly greeted Zhang Fei.

"Okay, our uncle and nephew don't have to be too polite!" Zhang Fei walked over with a smile, then glanced at Zhang Xingcai behind A Dou.

When he found that Zhang Fei looked at him, his face turned pale, but Zhang Fei did not blame Zhang Xingcai for being proud. Zhang Fei smiled and then shouted at Zhang Xingcai: "Daughter, why did you run out? It turned out that he was looking at his future son-in-law!"

Zhang Fei's voice was so loud that everyone around him heard it. Zhang Fei was ashamed, but Zhang Xingcai, a big girl, couldn't stand it anymore. At this time, Zhang Xingcai's face was flushed and she didn't know what to do.

Adou listened in confusion, but when he saw Zhang Xingcai's embarrassment, Adou also guessed a few points in his heart.

At this time, Zhang Fei's eyes were already aiming at the half cart of wine behind. Looking at the jars of wine, Zhang Fei asked, "Gongsi, what is the one in your car?"

"Uncle San, the car is filled with wine."

"Wine? But what you gave to Pang Tong last time?" When it comes to good wine, Zhang Fei is smarter than anyone else.

"Yes, this wine is to be given to you by Uncle San. I am about to deliver it to you!" Adou said politely.

"Oh, since that's the case, just drive the car to my mansion!" Zhang Fei said, pointing to Zhang Bao, and said, "Go and catch the car!"

I saw Zhang Bao coming over, and without saying a word, he took the cart and rushed around like a city.

"Hey!" Adou sighed slightly in his heart. Zhang Fei's face became thicker when he saw the wine. Such a large cart of wine was swallowed by Zhang Fei with such a shameless face.

After A Dou returned to Chengdu, he found out that Guan Feng and Zhang Xingcai had already betrothed to him. However, A Dou is still too young now, so it is estimated that it will take several years to get married.

As Adou expected, Liu Bei gave Adou a big deal, most of which were political affairs.

Liu Bei was not good at both internal affairs and military affairs, but fortunately, Liu Bei knew how to hire people, and Liu Bei was also willing to give everything to his subordinates. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Liu Bei's Hanzhong Palace does not directly handle military and political affairs. Only when major matters occur will the ministers gather in the Hanzhong Palace to discuss matters. Usually, internal affairs are left to the Zuo General's Mansion to manage.

The head of General Zuo’s mansion was Zhuge Liang, so Adou is now arranged under Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang also understood that Liu Bei was asking Adou to learn political affairs, so Zhuge Liang also tried his best to teach Adou, from small matters of a village and a household to big matters of a county and a state, he let Adou participate in it.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. After a period of study, A Dou has already learned a little about government affairs. At the same time, A Dou discovered that Zhuge Liang was indeed the same as the one written in the record. He did everything himself and did it himself. Fortunately, there are Pang Tong, Zhang Song, Jiang Wan, Ma Liang and others in Bashu today to help Zhuge Liang share the burden.

Speaking of internal affairs, Zhuge Liang should be regarded as the best-deserved first person in the Three Kingdoms. Especially in terms of rural and commercial affairs, Zhuge Liang's talent is incomparable. Even Pang Tong's ability in internal affairs is inferior to Pang Tong. In comparison, Pang Tong is more familiar with criminal laws. No matter how difficult the case is, it becomes very simple to reach Pang Tong's hands.

Zhang Song has the ability to remember everything and is good at calculating. The money and grain allocation in Shu are under the jurisdiction of Zhang Song. It is precisely because Zhang Song is unforgettable and his mental arithmetic ability is not ordinary, so the huge amount of money and grain in Shu is in order and there is no mistake in Zhang Song's training.

After a period of familiarity, Adou also understood how powerful Liu Bei's strength is now.

According to Zhang Song's calculations, even if Cao Cao and Sun Quan attack at the same time, the two rivers can mobilize 400,000 troops to defend without delaying the production of Shu. Shu is originally easy to defend but difficult to attack. With the dangerous terrain, 400,000 people are absolutely foolproof to defend Shu. It is difficult for Cao's army and Sun Quan to enter Shu.

If you attack Cao Pi or Sun Quan, you will not be able to mobilize so many troops. After all, the offense and defense situation are completely different. When you defend, you just need to occupy the city and defend, while when attacking others, you need a lot of logistics supplies.

If Liu Bei attacked Dongwu, at least 150,000 troops could be drawn. In addition to defending Hanzhong, the remaining people's main task was to transport food and grass. Although Liu Bei could use water to transport grain to Jingzhou, the navy in Shu was far less powerful than the Jiangdong navy, so the water transport grain was easily robbed by Dongwu, and the safety factor was not high. If he transported grain by land, the road would be difficult to travel abnormally, and the loss of grain transportation was very large. It was precisely because of the food restrictions that if Liu Bei wanted to attack Wu, the 150,000 troops would be the limit. If there were too many, the logistics supply would not be provided.

If Liu Bei wanted to send troops to Yongzhou to attack Cao Pi, he could mobilize 300,000 troops. Although the road from Yongzhou to Chengdu was not easy to walk. However, because Hanzhong was a large granary itself, and Zhang Lu had stored a lot of grain before, Hanzhong can now fully support the supply of grain from 300,000 troops. The transportation of grain from Hanzhong is much simpler than that from Chengdu, and the supply line has also been greatly shortened. Therefore, Liu Bei's attack on Yongzhou could mobilize more grain and grass.

However, the current situation is that Cao is strong and Sun Wukong. If Liu Bei attacked Jingzhou, Sun Quan should be able to send 40,000 to 50,000 defenders. If Liu Bei attacked Yongzhou, although Liu Bei could send more people, Cao Pi could also send more than 100,000 defenders, so compared with Liu Bei's attack from any direction, he would not take advantage of it.

Looking at the tax situation in Xichuan in recent years, Ah couldn't help but start to praise the wealth of Shu. Since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population of the Central Plains has dropped sharply, but the population of the two Sichuans has increased due to the influx of refugees. Although Liu Zhang is incompetent, he can be regarded as sympathetic to the people. Now that Shu is rich in money and food, the people live and work in peace, and can definitely withstand one or two battles.

"Your Highness, this is the land tax revenue from last year. The military advisor asked me to send it to you." Fei Yi took a thick stack of documents and put it in front of Adou.

Looking at the thick stack of documents, Adou's face suddenly became bitter. In his previous life, Adou was a knight who was walking around the world. It was okay to dance with swords and swords. If he sat down and read the documents with peace of mind, he would be worried. When will he finish reading so many documents?

Adou looked through the first page helplessly and found that the first booklet recorded the income from military farming.

Speaking of military farming, Cao Cao is an expert in this field. After years of war, the Central Plains have been full of holes and their productivity has been severely damaged. If Cao Cao had not launched a large-scale military farming, he would definitely not be able to withstand the years of war consumption. This military farming was also something that Cao Cao was quite proud of, otherwise Cao Cao would not have written his experience in military farming in "Meng De's New Book".

Of course, military farming was not Cao Cao's patent. There were records of military farming as early as the pre-Qin period. Other princes found that military farming could indeed solve the problem of insufficient food, and they also implemented military farming one after another.

A Dou looked through a few pages, then asked, "There are not many military garrisons in our Yizhou."

Fei Yi nodded and said, "Prince, there are indeed not many military camps in Yizhou. A few years ago, there were chaos in the Central Plains, and a large number of refugees brought their families to Yizhou. Because all the refugees were young, they could not reorganize the army, so they had to implement civil camps."

"The income from this talent in the military farm is stable. It has not increased much in so many years." Adou continued.

"Yizhou has not been affected by war for many years, and there is not much free land among the people, so there has not been much military farming in recent years." Fei Yi continued.

"Yes!" At this time, Adou had already realized the problem.

In the early Han Dynasty, many people still used bronze ware as agricultural tools. It was not until the middle of the Han Dynasty that the Central Plains region completed the transition from bronze to iron. However, the technology of iron smelting in this era was still far inferior to that of later generations, which also shows from one aspect that the level of productivity during the Three Kingdoms period was far inferior to that of later generations. In the A Dou era, Sichuan could feed tens of millions of people, and there was also surplus grain transported to the Central Plains through the Yangtze River. Today, Yizhou could support this few million people, which was already the limit.

"It must be expanded, otherwise you will be trapped to death in Yizhou!"

Thinking of this, Adou brought the map from the side and slowly started to look at it.

Seeing Adou looking at the map with great concentration, Fei Yi left quietly.

As soon as Fei Yi walked out of the room, he heard footsteps coming from the side. Fei Yi turned his head and found that Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong were walking side by side.

"I have met two military advisors." Fei Yi bowed to the two.

"Wenwei, can that talent booklet be delivered to the prince?" Pang Tong asked.

"It has been delivered. The prince looked at the map after reading a few pages." Fei Yi replied.

"Look at the map?" Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong looked at each other, and then Zhuge Liang spoke to Pang Tong: "The prince is indeed extremely smart. It seems that His Highness has realized that he cannot unify the world with these two rivers."

"Yes." Pang Tong nodded beside him, with a hint of sorrow on his face: "These days, the King of Hanzhong has been looking at the map. I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will think of him with the King of Hanzhong."

Spring is always a very busy season. The so-called plan for the year lies in spring. At this time, most of the officials under Liu Bei went down to the local area to supervise the spring plowing matters.

The Eastern Wu side was led by Lu Xun in Jingzhou, while Sun Quan also returned to Jiangdong and began to supervise spring farming.

In comparison, Cao Pi was more unlucky. Wuwan, the north led his troops to invade, and the chaos in Runan was disturbed by Adou in the south had not yet subsided. In the west, Yan Jun, Yan Zhang, Heluan, Huang Hua, and Xiping Tuo Yan all joined the county to rebel. There was another Cao Zhang inside that gave Cao Pi a headache, and at the same time, Cao Pi had to arrange spring farming matters. Everything always made Cao Pi feel a little unfavorable for the passing years.

In history, when Wuwan attacked, Cao Pi sent a large army to defend. Now it is different from history. Runan is in chaos. The east side of Runan is Huainan and Chenliu in the northeast. These two places are grain-producing areas, especially Huainan, which feeds 100,000 troops on the eastern front of Cao's army. In order to prevent the war in Runan from spreading to the surrounding areas and affecting spring farming, Cao Pi had to send troops to quell the Runan Rebellion first. As for Youzhou, you can only put second place temporarily.

Similarly, in history, the rebellion of Yan Jun, Zhangye Heluan, Jiuquan Huang Hua, Xiping Tuo Yan was quelled by Hao Zhao, Su Ze, Wuqiu Xing and others. Now Hao Zhao was burned to death by Adou in Huluyu, and the northwest lost Hao Zhao, Su Ze, Wuqiu Xing and others alone, so they had to give up Jincheng and withdraw back to Yongzhou, and work with Zhang Ji to guard the entire Liangzhou. This is equivalent to giving up the entire Liangzhou.

What Cao Pi needs most today is time. Cao Pi needs to use the fastest speed to quell the chaos in Runan and then support Youzhou. At this moment, he helped Cao Pi a lot.

In March of the 25th year of Jian'an, the cavalry commander Deng Ai led his troops with injuries and defeated the coalition forces of Runan's robbers head-on. The Runan's robbers fell into decline since then, and Deng Ai took only one month to completely quell the chaos in Runan. More than a thousand robbers of Runan were destroyed by Deng Ai and collapsed.

When Runan was pacified, Cao Pi finally got sick. At this time, Cao Pi could finally concentrate on dealing with the nomadic peoples in the north.

The Karasuan people came and went quickly. The Karasuan school captain Tian Yu guarded Betty for many years and had rich experience in fighting with Karasuan. The Karasuan people could not gain any advantage from Tian Yu. Then Cao Pi's reinforcements arrived again, and the Karasuan people had to retreat.

Then Cao Pi ordered Cao Zhen to be the commander and Zhang He as the vanguard, leading troops to Liangzhou, preparing to quell the Liangzhou rebellion. At this time, the rebels in Liangzhou started to fight. First, He Luan killed Yan Jun, and then the King of Wuwei secret killed He Luan. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was taken advantage of by Cao Zhen. Cao Zhen marched quickly overnight and went to the city of Xiping. Tuo Yan didn't expect Cao Zhen to come so quickly. Unprepared. Xiping was captured by Cao Zhen, and Tuo Yan was also beheaded by Zhang He. Seeing Tuo Yan's defeat, Huang Hua in Jiuquan knew that the situation was hopeless, surrendered to Cao Zhen and Hexi Suiping.

Later, Cao Pi ordered the left general Zhang He, the champion general Yang Qiu, and the chief secretary Guo Huai of Zhenxi to attack the Qiang land Zheng Gan, Lushui rebelled, and Zheng Gan surrendered. At this point, the rebellion in Guanzhong was completely quelled. This was August of the 25th year of Jian'an.

At this time, Sun Quan saw that Cao Pi had stabilized the internal situation with lightning speed and was worried that Cao Pi would attack Jiangdong, so he sent an envoy to Xudu again to make friends with Cao Pi.

The successive pacification of Runan, Youzhou and Guanzhong, and Sun Quan lowered his posture to show his goodwill, which made Cao Pi feel proud in his heart. At this time, Cao Pi was no longer satisfied with a mere King of Wei.

At this time, those officials who were still loyal to Emperor Xian were purged by Cao Cao several years ago. Today, the Han court is full of officials who are loyal to the Cao family. Now Cao Pi has a little bit of his intention to be an emperor, and those officials who are loyal to the Cao family will immediately understand.

In August, documents from all over the country flew towards Xudu like snowflakes. The phoenix came to Shiyi County, the Qilin appeared in Linzi City, and the Huanglong appeared in Ye County. In short, the so-called "auspicious signs" appeared in various places. At this time, the General Li Fu of the Central Army and the Chief Secretary of the Grand Historian Xu discussed that these auspicious signs were precursors to the contemporary Han Dynasty of Wei, and Emperor Xian should abdicate the emperor in Cao Pi.

So the two joined forces with Hua Xin, Wang Lang, Xinpi, Jia Xu, Liu Yi, Liu Ye, Chen Jiao, Chen Qun, Huan Jie and other civil and military bureaucrats. More than 40 people went directly to the palace and asked Emperor Xian to abdicate in the Wei King Cao Pi, but Emperor Xian refused to rely on it.

On the second day, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu and others brought swords into the palace and forced Emperor Xian to give way. Emperor Xian had no choice but to issue an order to abdicate Cao Pi and hand over the imperial seal.

Cao Pi felt that this was not so grand enough, so he ordered people to cast an altar called Suchan Altar, and chose a good day, and brought civil and military officials to Suchan Altar to accept Emperor Xian's abdication. Later, Cao Pi appointed Emperor Xian as the Duke of Shanyang and allowed him to worship the Han Dynasty in his fiefdom and build Han ancestral temples to worship Han Dynasty.

Later, Cao Pi also granted a great title of ministers, Jia Xu as the Taiwei, Hua Xin as the Situ, Zhong Yao as the Taifu, and Cao Pi's brothers were also awarded many of them.

Cao Pi's brothers were the largest, but Cao Pi never gave Cao Zhang any power. At this time, Cao Zhang's power in Youzhou had been secretly dismantled by Cao Pi. At this time, Cao Zhang was like a tiger without teeth. However, even so, Cao Pi was still worried about Cao Zhang.

Cao Pi wanted to kill Cao Zhang, but was afraid that the people in the world would say that he was unkind and unrighteous, so he could not kill him openly. Cao Zhang was very skilled in martial arts and had many guards around him, so it was impossible to send assassination to assassination. At this time, the only way Cao Pi thought of was to poison!
Chapter completed!