Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

Chapter 123 Go to Luoyang

The Xuzhou war is over, and the farm has been secretly prepared to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes in large quantities.At the same time, Xuzhou began to accept a large number of refugees from all over Xuzhou.

However, Li Chen intercepted a large amount of food and supplies from Yuan Shao, the captain of his transportation team. At this time, it can be said that there is no shortage of money and food.And Li Chen doesn't need to hold back, it only takes more than 100 days for his first batch of sweet potatoes to be harvested, and at that time he doesn't need to worry about food and grass at all.

In a blink of an eye, half a year has passed.Xuzhou is developing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The military, agriculture, and commerce are developing in an all-round way. Xuzhou has become the wealthiest state in the entire Han Dynasty.

Xuzhou City, Yunlong Palace.

"Report to my lord, the first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes have been harvested, and now there is plenty of food in the warehouse. If calculated according to the current population and military strength of Xuzhou, it will be enough for three years." Chen Deng is reporting, and he is in charge. It is the matter of farming in Xuzhou.

"Master, in the past six months, Xuzhou has collected a total of 30 victims, and now the victims have been resettled in various counties. It is almost the end of the year, and the number of victims accepted these days is much less." Yu Qian also reported his work, He is responsible for the absorption and resettlement of disaster victims.

Even in this era when it is difficult to eat, Han people attach great importance to the concept of home and year.A few days ago, victims from all over the country rushed to Xuzhou in groups. These days may be due to the close of the new year, and fewer and fewer victims came to Xuzhou.

After listening to everyone's report on his work, Li Chen said: "The work of absorbing the victims has to be accelerated, we want to make Xuzhou the most populous state in the entire Han Dynasty. Now we have no shortage of food, and we have a population. It’s like having a source of troops.”

"The next big battle may not be far away."

These days, the situation in Luoyang has become more and more severe.A few years ago, Dong Zhuo held Han Xiandi Liu Xie hostage to Chang'an, Wang Yun and Lu Bu planned to kill Dong Zhuo.Then Li Que and Guo Si killed Wang Yun to avenge Dong Zhuo, and brought Han Xiandi Liu Xie back to Luoyang.

Just a few months ago, Li Que killed Fan Chou, a general in the Xiliang Army, which made Guo Bang feel a sense of crisis.At this time, the honeymoon period between Li Que and Guo Si was almost over, and the civil strife in the Xiliang Army was about to begin.

At this time, the biggest node in the entire transition from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period came.The ministers in Luoyang, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Xiliang army, sneaked out of Luoyang with Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and escaped from the control of the Xiliang army.

There is no doubt that many warlords robbed Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and then Cao Cao took the emperor to command the princes and moved the capital to Xuchang, thus occupying the initiative throughout the Three Kingdoms period.

194 AD is coming to an end, and after the end of the year is 195 AD.According to the history of previous lives, the time when Cao Cao coerced the emperor to order the princes should be 196 AD.

But Li Chen always felt that it seemed that the wind blown by his butterfly wings had blown the entire historical trajectory a little off.Judging from the current situation, Li Que and Guo Si's honeymoon period will definitely not last for a year.

Whether he can get the things in the dry well in Luoyang is related to whether Li Chen can take the initiative and be righteous in the warlord melee in the future.Therefore, he had to make plans early, and because of this, Li Chen was going to sneak to Luoyang secretly.

"Yuanlong, I'm going to Luoyang this time. It can take a few months at the earliest, and half a year at the slowest. I will leave the affairs of Xuzhou to you." Li Chen told Chen Deng.

"My lord, don't worry, Chen Deng will go all out." Chen Deng cupped his hands and said.

"Qingzhi, as soon as my military order arrives, you will immediately lead the army to Hulao Pass without delay." Li Chen hastily urged Chen Qingzhi again.

"No." Chen Qingzhi clasped his hands and said.

Outside Luoyang, there is Xiongguan Hulao Pass.This is a place where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it.Back then, even when the [-]th princes were begging for Dong, they didn't knock on the door of Hulao Pass.

If Dong Zhuo hadn't panicked in the end, burned Luoyang, and moved the capital to Chang'an, I am afraid that even the loose sand of the Eighteenth Route princes would not be able to attack Hulao Pass at all.

When the Eighteenth Route princes were begging for Dong, the reason why they were able to form a group was because everyone was still very weak.A school of small fish can huddle together against a big fish, but the big fish and small fish together will eat the small fish.

Therefore, it is impossible to replicate the situation of the Eighteenth Route princes seeking Dong.Therefore, Li Chen only asked Chen Qingzhi to rush to the vicinity of Hulao Pass to listen to the order as soon as he received his military order, not the reason for attacking Hulao Pass.

Once there was civil strife in the Xiliang army, those ministers would flee with Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and there was no need to do such thankless things as storming Hulao Pass.The reason why Li Chen sneaked into Luoyang was not for Liu Xie, but for that thing in the dry well.

Li Chen is not good at dealing with political affairs, so he simply became the hands-off shopkeeper.Xuzhou's political affairs are handled by Chen Deng and Yu Qian, and the military affairs are handled by Chen Qingzhi. Xuzhou is like an iron bucket.

Li Chen's sneaking into Luoyang this time is also a super luxurious team.Wen has Liu Bowen by his side to advise, and Wu has Yuwen Chengdu as his bodyguard.Professionals have the intelligence expert Luo Yangxing, and then bring the mascot Cheng Yaojin.

With such a team around, it's not going to work.

AD 194, December.Not many days before the end of the year, Li Chen brought his team of heavenly kings and came to Luoyang disguised as a merchant.

The northwest wind howled, and the sky was scattered with heavy snow like goose feathers.Heavy snow fell one after another, and the snow on the ground was more than a finger thick.

"Da da da."

There was a sound of unhurried hoofbeats, and a horse team that looked like a merchant appeared in front of Luoyang City.

Why do you say that this is a horse team that looks like a merchant?Because the two leading white horses looked exceptionally handsome, one could tell at a glance that these two were good horses that could travel thousands of miles a day.

Naturally, this caravan was disguised by Li Chen's Heavenly Kings. As for the leading two handsome white horses, they were Yuwen Chengdu's Sailong five-spotted horse and Li Chen's red rabbit horse.

Naturally, Li Chen would not enter Luoyang on this famous red rabbit horse, so in order to disguise, he used the method of fooling Gongsun Zan back then.The red rabbit horse and Yuwen Chengdu's Sailong five-spotted horse were dyed white.

As we all know, the red rabbit horse is red, no matter how handsome the white horse is, no one would think that it is the red rabbit horse.

Looking at the tall city wall in front of him, Li Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.After all, the place where the emperor lived was unusual. Even though Dong Zhuo had burned it to the ground a few years ago, it seemed to have returned to its former prosperity now.

As a businessman, if you have milk, you are a mother.Wherever there are business opportunities, they will go there.The emperor lived in Luoyang, and Luoyang's merchants were naturally everywhere.

It's just that these businessmen are afraid they don't know.These barbarians from Xiliang are afraid that they will toss Luoyang, who has just recovered a little vitality, again.After the civil strife in the Xiliang army, when Li Que led his army back to Xiliang, he would naturally loot Luoyang, which had just recovered a little.

(End of this chapter)