Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 657 Liu Yan's Impatience
Yizhou, Chengdu.

State Shepherd House.

Liu Yan was kneeling on the bamboo mat, wearing a navy blue robe, wearing a white jade crown, holding a book in his hand, and was constantly flipping through it. The fresh ink smelled from the book.

"Not bad, really good, the font is neat, clear, clear at a glance, and the copybook is more useful!"

After a while, Liu Yan sighed, and said: "This picture of shepherding dragon is really extraordinary. Such a Mohist craftsmanship, I am afraid that even the Mohist inheritance of the direct line could not be created, but he made it out, and it will benefit scholars all over the world!"

The papermaking and movable type printing techniques did not disappear because of the Luoyang Rebellion. In today's world, most of the princes have such techniques. After all, the printing supervisor was experienced by aristocratic families back then, and those techniques have already been passed down.

Yizhou is relatively backward.

It was at the beginning of this year that Liu Yan sent people to bring back this craft from Chang'an. He also summoned many craftsmen from Yizhou, and after several months of exploration, he made cheap and white paper, and could print movable type printing infinitely. surgery.

This greatly eased the plight of Yizhou Shilin, and also accumulated a lot of popular support for Liu Yan.

"My lord, Erlang used a lot of tricks in Chang'an to get it back. It will definitely strengthen my Yizhou Shilin's strength and allow more Yizhou scholars to read books!"

Dong Fu said.

He is also a scholar, so he naturally knows the plight of countless scholars. It is very difficult to study. Books are the most difficult part. Manuscripts take a long time. If you want to get them, unless you are from a wealthy family or a poor family, there are very few.

Now that papermaking and movable type printing are available, the number of scholars in Yizhou will definitely increase exponentially. Now that the feudal lords are separated from each other, the more scholars there are, the more talents will come to seek refuge. This is a great joy for Yizhou.

"Can't the people sent to Chang'an bring Erlang back?"

Liu Yan asked suddenly.

He has many sons, the eldest son Liu Fan, the second son Liu Dan, the third son Liu Mao, and the fourth son Liu Zhang. Except for Liu Mao who fell ill and died early when he followed him into Yizhou, the other three sons are still alive. .

But the eldest son didn't quite agree with his ideas, and he took allegiance to the emperor as his duty, so he was hard to tame. In the past, Liu Fan was in the Yulin Army, and he was the Emperor Ling's confidant. Will.

And the second son Liu Dan also took refuge in Liu Fan, which left him with his youngest son Liu Zhang who had not grown up.

It was nothing.

At the peak of his spring and autumn, he devoted all his energy to running Yizhou. He also had several concubines in the backyard. Some of them wanted sons. What's more, there was Liu Zhang serving by his side.

But at the beginning of this year, he suffered a serious illness and almost didn't survive it. At that time, Liu Zhang seemed extremely weak among the civil and military officials in Yizhou, which almost aroused the enthusiasm of Yizhou, which made him very dissatisfied.

So he thought of the eldest son and the second son.

Both the eldest son and the second son are successful youths in the younger generation, especially the eldest son, if he can return to Yizhou to lead the army, he must be a general. The second son Liu Dan is quite strategic and can also be the leader.

It's a pity that the hearts of both of them are not in Yizhou.

What's more, Chang'an was jealous of him, Liu Yan, and intentionally or unintentionally detained the two of them in Chang'an. If it wasn't for the sake of calming his mind, Liu Zhang would have to be sent as a hostage.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult!"

Dong Fu said in a low voice: "Chang'an is very afraid of us, even the Son of Heaven is vaguely wary of us!"

"why?"

"Our spies in Chang'an reported that someone told the emperor that the jade seal is in our hands!" Dong Fu said softly.

"Impossible!" Liu Yan frowned.

"My lord, paper can't contain fire!" Dong Fu said, "It's not surprising that this matter spread, as long as they don't have enough evidence, they won't dare to go south across Hanzhong!"

"Could it be the Dragon Shepherd Picture!"

"It shouldn't be him!" Dong Fu thought for a while, and said: "He provoked Chang'an, Chang'an went south, and the first one to deal with was Hanzhong. His Mu clan and Chang'an had such a deep hatred, and it was impossible to unite with Chang'an, so he didn't do that. stupid!"

"It seems that the population around us is not dense!"

Liu Yan said coldly: "The king will lose his country if he is not secret, and the minister will lose his body if he is not secret!"

"This matter will be thoroughly investigated!"

"En!" Liu Yan nodded, his eyes became much deeper, and he asked in a low voice, "Mao'an, do you think Zhao Wei can persuade Hanzhong to send troops!"

Yizhou has been gaining momentum for a long time.

Since the pacification of the barbarian rebellion in the south, Yizhou has begun to gather strength, recuperate, clean up the government, and combine the power of Bashu, and now it has achieved initial results.

Moreover, Liu Yan also began to train troops. Zhang Ren's Dongzhou soldiers and Yan Yan's Berkshire soldiers are now well-organized, supplemented with weapons, including large-scale siege equipment, etc., and have accumulated a lot of military rations.

So he was ready to move and wanted to step out of Yizhou.

Stepping out of Yizhou is nothing more than going north and going east.

Going north to Hanzhong, after a fight, he had to face Chang'an head-on. Now he didn't intend to face Chang'an head-on, so he chose to go east, aiming directly at Jingzhou.

But relying on the power of Yizhou alone, it is a little close to fighting Jingzhou.

So according to Dong Fu's suggestion, he sent Zhao Wei as an envoy to Hanzhong, with the purpose of persuading Hanzhong to join him in sending troops. With the Hanzhong herding army as the vanguard, the war would be much bigger.

And he also hopes that the Hanzhong Mujun can fight with the Jingzhou army and lose both sides, so that he can eat both sides.

Only by winning Jingzhou can he have the confidence to call himself emperor.

Based on Yizhou alone, he still lacks confidence.

The world was in chaos, and the Chang'an court couldn't subdue the heroes of the world at all. His ambition to become emperor had already been clearly revealed. After he got the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, his ambition became even hotter.

"do not know!"

Dong Fu smiled wryly: "I was a little sure before, but just now there was news from the northern border that Mu Longtu sent troops to Wudu, defeated the Xiliang army, beheaded Dong Zhuo's love general Zhang Ji, captured Wudu, and pushed his troops to the big Clear the customs and directly confront Chen Cang!"

"If you don't move, you're done. If you move like a thunder!"

Liu Yan was a little surprised when he heard this, and then sighed, "It seems that Mulongtu is not a person waiting to die!"

"But I still think it's promising!"

Dong Fu said: "I'm afraid he also has the desire to go east!"

"Will it feed him enough? It will be difficult to check and balance in the future!"

"Don't be afraid yet!" Dong Fu said: "Mu's army has cut tens of thousands of troops, and the strength is only tens of thousands. I have 20 armored soldiers in Yizhou. In fact, he can shake tens of thousands of soldiers. Mu Longtu is a mighty general. If it can be used for the lord, it must be the lord's spear!"

"It's a pity that this person is arrogant and hard to recover!"

"There may not be no chance!"

"How to say?"

"If he can be pushed to a desperate situation, he can only rely on the lord. You must know that the Mu clan today is the enemy of everyone in the world, but only the lord is defeated. After all, the lord has taken him in. If the lord hadn't taken him in, he would have been a homeless dog back then. How can there be a glimmer of life, and when he is desperate, if he doesn't turn to the Lord, who else can he turn to!"

"Who can drive him to a desperate situation?" Liu Yan was thinking.

"Hanzhong's military strength is not enough if it doesn't move. Once he has ambitions and uses weapons, he will be torn apart by the heroes sooner or later. The lord will just wait and see!" Dong Fu said.

Hanzhong is different from Yizhou.

Yizhou is full of dangers, and it is an important place to live. With 20 soldiers, it is as solid as a rock. Even if the imperial court has a million troops, they can stop it. However, Hanzhong is surrounded by enemies. Once it is attacked, it will undoubtedly be defeated.

"Hahaha!" Liu Yan burst out laughing immediately: "What Mao An said is true, so I will wait for this opportunity!",

If he can take all those arrogant soldiers in Hanzhong under his command, he should really laugh. Whether it is Ming Hou Mujing, or the Xi Zhicai who put him together, they are all young talents that he thinks are rare.

"My lord, we can't rely on others, we have to get ready!" Dong Fu cupped his hands and said, "This time, Jingzhou must be taken!"

"Ok!"

Liu Yan suddenly became serious, and a flash of determination flashed in his eyes. It wasn't that he wanted to be impatient, but he could take it step by step, but this year's serious illness caused many doctors to tell him that he had hidden injuries in his body. Recurrence, if relapse, is likely to be fatal.

So he hoped that before that, he could become emperor.

He had been looking forward to that throne for a long time, and there was only one thought in his heart, even if he died, he still wanted to sit on it.

"We are both clansmen of the Han family, so we didn't want to be promoted with Liu Jing, but now, only Jingzhou is the most practical. If we get Jingzhou, we will have enough strength to deal with the people of the world!"

Liu Yan said calmly: "So, this time I will go out with all my strength. Not only will I mobilize the Yizhou Army, Dongzhou Army, and Berkshire Army, but I will also conquer Jingzhou myself. I must take Jingzhou!"

"In addition, I want to mobilize the barbarian army to go north!"

"Barbarians?"

When Dong Fu heard this, he was a little worried: "I'm afraid those barbarians will not be easy to subdue!"

Although the barbarian tribes in the south now intend to surrender, most of them are bought for food. They don't have much respect for Liu Yan. Once they go to the battlefield, they may do bad things.

"An unruly general has unruly courage!"

Liu Yan is very confident: "I can give them what they want, but I don't believe it. They are not tempted. These barbarians are useful soldiers, but the barbarian king Meng Huo is young, brave, unruly, and treacherous. You can't believe it, you can only use it!"

(End of this chapter)