Xuande

Chapter 741 Cai Mao and Kuai Yue

In order to achieve this plan, quite a lot of resource mobilization is required. In order to ensure that they can reach Jingzhou, Jiaozhi and even Rinan County alive, many people need to make preparations in advance.

He, Mrs. Zheng, was a delicate and expensive man, but he couldn't bear the suffering of being displaced. He didn't want to walk all the way south, get sick and die in the middle of the road, that would be too bad.

Therefore, preparations must be made, and the route from Luoyang to Jiaozhi must be well planned.

As a result, the huge family resources of the Zheng family began to operate, and began to investigate a direct route to Lingnan, and a large number of family members belonging to the Zheng family began to embark on this road of death that was not at all safe.

As for what will happen to those who don't know after this, and how those who are also conservatives will be hit by Liu Bei, Zheng Tai doesn't care.

As long as he and his family are protected, nothing else is important. These bastards are careful to protect themselves one by one, watching me act without doing anything...

It's not a good thing at first glance!

Count on me to help you charge forward?
Expect me to exchange my life for your good life?

Zheng Tai said that you are thinking too much.

Let me push you to charge forward!
Therefore, Zheng Tai did nothing while Liu Bei was manipulating the governor of Yangzhou. He waited peacefully for his family to plan a reliable escape route for him.

There were some remarks from the conservative side, but these remarks did not touch Liu Bei's fundamentals. Liu Bei didn't care, and neither did the court.

Gui Bao, the governor of Yangzhou, was successfully dismissed by the court and dismissed as a commoner, and rushed back to his hometown to reflect.

Cheng Yu, on the other hand, successfully became the governor of Yangzhou and became the chief administrator of the Yangzhou area. On the first day of taking office, he announced that he would promote the imperial court's slave restriction order in Yangzhou, hoping that the people in Yangzhou area would firmly support the imperial court's decree.

Then, the Lu family of Wujun and the Gu family of Wujun, who had greater prestige in Jiangdong, took the lead in responding.

They released a large number of family servants to Cheng Yu, and mobilized other small and medium families within their sphere of influence to respond together, calling on everyone to obey Cheng Shijun's order and the imperial court's decree.

Together, these servants' relatives and families also put together a pretty good number and gave it to Cheng Yu, which showed his sincerity.

So the slavery restriction order in the Jiangdong area began to be promoted in full swing, starting with Wu County and Danyang County. Cheng Yu's first fire after taking office was vigorous and lively.

At the same time, Cheng Yu announced that he had received a considerable amount of development funding from the imperial court, and was planning to promote large-scale land reclamation and collective farm construction in Yangzhou, in order to turn the wasteland into fertile land and grow food that could feed more people.

He decided to use the organized and released slaves to carry out a large-scale reclamation operation to reclaim a large amount of wasteland on the land of Yangzhou. From Wujun to the south, it took five years to reclaim more than 100 million mu of fertile land that could grow food.

Under Cheng Yu's call, the Yangzhou Great Production Movement started in February of the fifth year of Jian'an. Cheng Yu planned to complete the large-scale reclamation of one million acres of fertile land and increase Yangzhou's grain production by about three times before the tenth year of Jian'an.

He ambitiously launched his own production plan.

What's interesting is that while the various sports in Yangzhou were unfolding, Gu Yong, a veteran player who worked hard in the General's Mansion, was transferred by Liu Bei to be the Prime Minister of Langya Kingdom in Xuzhou, and began to perform his duties outside.

Gu Ti, a member of Gu Yong's family, was summoned by Liu Bei and became a general.

In addition, Gu Yong's eldest son, Gu Shao, who is only five years old, was personally recommended by Liu Bei to enter the Sili Academy to study in the junior grade.

At the same time, the two children of the Lu family—[-]-year-old Lu Yi and [-]-year-old Lu Ji were also recommended by Liu Bei to enter the Sili Academy to study in the elementary school.

Obviously, they were wooed.

The Gu family and the Lu family became the first batch of powerful local families in the Jiangnan area to be won over by Liu Bei.

This was Liu Bei's first step in extending his influence to the Jiangnan area, and the second step was carried out almost simultaneously with the first step.

But this second step was really not taken by Liu Bei on his own initiative, but someone took a step towards him, and he responded.

On the third day of February in the fifth year of Jian'an, more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages from Nanjun County of Jingzhou entered Luoyang City one after another. After paying the taxes and fees for entering the city through the city gate, the convoy slowly arrived outside a very imposing mansion in the city.

The two submitted invitations to the doorman next to the gate of the mansion together, and the doorman took it and went to Tongchuan. After a while, Cao Cao laughed and appeared outside the door.

"Degui! Degui! Long time no see! Hahahahaha!"

Cao Cao stepped forward quickly, walked in front of Cai Mao, held Cai Mao's hands with both hands, and embraced him intimately.

Cai Mao was also overjoyed and hugged Cao Cao, the two looked at each other and laughed.

"After receiving your letter, I have been looking forward to you coming to Luoyang day and night, and now you are finally here, hahahaha!"

"Aren't I eager to come to Luoyang as soon as possible? I have traveled day and night for this, and I hope to see you sooner!"

Cai Mao laughed loudly and said, "Meng De, you are now a great success, a majestic Yin of Henan, two thousand stones at the feet of the emperor, I am tossing and turning in envy!"

"Hahahaha, you Cai Degui, you are actually teasing me here! If you don't get drunk today, you will never get out!"

Cao Cao and Cai Mao laughed happily for a while, and Cai Hao led Cao Cao to Kuai Yue who was standing aside with a smile all the time.

"I am not the only one who came to Luoyang this time, there is also a famous celebrity who came with me."

"Kuai Yidu! Kuai Jun! Hahahahahaha!"

Cao Cao bowed to Kuai Yue: "A few years ago, we heard about Kuai Jun's reputation. What worried me most was why Kuai Jun went in and out to make plans. Later, I heard that Kuai Jun left Luoyang and returned to his hometown. The general was very happy about it. Kuai Jun, even the general is afraid of your reputation."

Kuai Yue showed a helpless expression.

"Things at that time were really difficult to make a decision. Even I never knew that He Jin had the intention of treason, so much so that he once offended the general. This time, he came to Luoyang just to plead guilty to the general. I also hope that Mr. Cao can speak a few words in front of the general. If so, I will be more grateful!"

Cao Cao smiled and nodded.

"It is true that no one could see clearly what happened at that time, but Mr. Kuai was able to see through the usurping faces of He Jin and Yuan Kai at the last moment and voluntarily resigned from office, which in itself was an act of drawing a line with the usurpers. The general is not an ignorant person, so you can rest assured that Mr. Kuai is."

"If so, thank you Mr. Cao."

Kuai Yue salutes again.

After that, Cao Cao held Cai Mao's hand and led Kuai Yue into his mansion to attend the reception banquet that had been prepared.

During the banquet, Cai Mao and Cao Cao recounted the interesting stories they experienced when they taught and passed on their careers. When they talked about their absurd self, they couldn't help laughing, thinking why they were so frivolous and able to do so many absurd things.

In addition to reminiscing about the past, Cai Mao and Cao Cao also paid attention to allowing Kuai Yue to participate in their topics, not to neglect Kuai Yue, and the topics that Kuai Yue could participate in were nothing more than topics related to Luo Yang.

"Five years ago, the more I left Luoyang, when I left, I didn't expect that there would be a day to come back. Now that I come back, it feels like a lifetime away, and I find that Luoyang is really completely different from the past."

Kuai Yue took a sip of his wine and said with a smile, "I heard that the general wants to expand Luoyang City?"

Cao Cao nodded with a smile.

"Well, there is such a thing, and the person who is mainly responsible for the expansion of Luoyang City is me, Henan Yin."

(End of this chapter)