A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 439: Teach the prince to marry a beautiful concubine, and the war in Lidong Palace is hindered

In the inner palace of King Zhao, Crown Prince Liu Chan was reciting one of the Five Classics, "Bai's Spring and Autumn Annals" in the Queen's Palace.

Queen Bai Yue was holding bamboo slips of official documents that needed to be dealt with in the inner palace. She was reading and reviewing them while listening to Liu Chan's stuttering recitation.

"Wrong, it was the 253rd year of Bai Bai, not the 25th year of Lu Zhaogong. At this time, Lu Gong was driven out of the Lu State by the powerful officials in the country. He should not be regarded as a king. Moreover, at the time of the transition, Lu Gongzi was at odds with each other. , a new Duke of Lu was not elected for several years, and was re-appointed by the King of Zhou, so the year was temporarily based on the Bai Kingdom.

Among the countries of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Bai Kingdom was the only country that was not known as a gentleman among the countries due to inheritance issues and rebellion among its ministers.

Even the kings of Zhou had a situation where no king had ascended the throne for several years. Therefore, when the kingdoms were in chaos and they didn't know how to record the year, they often used the Bai Kingdom's year instead to make sure that the records of the year were accurate. This is the rule of historians. "

Liu Chan looked astonished: "I see, why didn't the teacher tell me? If I had told you this earlier, I would have known it. The queen mother is still the best."

Bai Yue is only over forty years old. She has a beautiful appearance and a graceful temperament, but she still has a bookish air. This may be related to the Bai family's family history.

"You, if you pay more attention, you won't miss it. Sir must have mentioned it, but you were just distracted, right?"

Facing Bai Yue's accusation, Liu Chan scratched his chubby head and smiled sheepishly.

"Forget it, as long as you know it, you are the king's only heir and the future master of the country. You must know how to be a king. Unlike Guan Xing and Zhang Bao, they don't have to understand, because They are generals.

You can't do it. You will be the king from now on, that is, the leader. If you lose your sense of proportion and lose your way, your country will fall into chaos and eventually lead to the destruction of the country. This was true for the Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, and the former Han Dynasty, but know? "

Liu Chan nodded sharply and encouraged himself: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, Chan'er won't have to worry about it."

After warning Liu Chan, Bai Yue turned to look at the eunuchs serving Liu Chan and warned: "You are all the servants of the prince. You and the prince will both be prosperous and destructive. You must not take the prince to those dirty places. If Let me know, huh.

The prince is kind and cannot bear to see you suffer, but I am not so easy to talk to. Please be careful about your life. "

The princes and eunuchs immediately knelt down and said, "I obey the queen's order."

After beating the eunuch for a while, Bai Yue turned around and started caring about Liu Chan's food, clothing, and daily life. She also asked someone to bring some rare objects sent by Bai Guo, as well as some daily necessities, and asked Liu Chan to take them back to show off. Don't lose face and let those second generations look down upon you.

Liu Chan happily took these things, looking left and right, very curious.

"Okay, these are all yours. You can read them slowly when you go back, but remember not to indulge in them. Also, your father wants you to follow your Uncle Zhang to practice martial arts and lose weight. You have to be careful and don't get caught by him again. Give him a beating."

When Liu Bei was mentioned, Liu Chan couldn't help but shudder, and nodded quickly in agreement. After returning to the palace, he was going to go to Zhang Fei to practice martial arts immediately, and also to see how Zhang's sister was doing recently.

Since he only had this son, Liu Bei attached great importance to Liu Chan's education and was very strict about it. He not only invited a great scholar from the Bai Kingdom to serve as a young master to teach Liu Chan literature classes, but also asked Zhang Fei in Ye to teach Liu Chan martial arts classes. .

However, he was busy with government affairs and often had to go to the military camp to train troops, so he entrusted Liu Chan to Queen Bai Yue and asked her to supervise Liu Chan's homework.

What Liu Bei couldn't stand the most was Liu Chan's chubby body. Every time he saw it, he would criticize him and say how he was in those days. It must be that Liu Chan was too comfortable and that's why he developed such fat.

"By the way, there is something serious that I need to tell you. Your father has prepared a marriage for you. Zhen Mi, the daughter of the Zhen family, will be selected as the crown princess. You should prepare."

"Ah, here, who is Zhen Mi!..." Liu Chan jumped up all of a sudden, with a look of reluctance on his face.

Bai Yue didn't know Liu Chan's little thoughts, so she covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Okay, stop complaining. I heard people say that this Zhen Mi was so beautiful that she was so beautiful that she gave you the ration, so you can enjoy it secretly." .

I know that you are interested in your Uncle Zhang's daughter. In this way, you will marry Mrs. Zhen, and she will become the crown princess. How about choosing a day to welcome Mrs. Zhang in as a side wife? "

Liu Chan felt a little embarrassed that his thoughts were exposed, and then nodded slightly shyly: "Everything is decided by the queen."

Although Liu Chan was already twelve or thirteen years old when he was given to Bai, Mrs. Gan passed away when Liu Chan was five years old, and he has been raised by Mrs. Mi ever since.

And Bai Yue is not a jealous woman. Although she has no children, her tutor made her think clearly. She married Liu Bei just for her career. It is better to have children, but it is okay to have no children.

Liu Chan was kind-hearted. When he came, he was plump and cute, so mother and son got along very well.

For Liu Chan, having an extra white moon means he has an extra mother. His biological mother died young and he longed for maternal love.

Fortunately, Mrs. Mi was very kind to him at the beginning, so he was very satisfied with his life. If he had less homework, it would be perfect.

It can be said that Liu Bei's harem is so harmonious, with a virtuous wife and filial son, which is also very rare among the emperors and princes of the past dynasties.

May th
Liu Bei officially named Liu Chan the crown prince, and selected a daughter from the Zhen family for him, who was canonized as the crown prince.

He also worshiped Zhang Wen, a great scholar of the Bai Kingdom, as the prince's young tutor; Zhang Fei, the general who conquered the South and Marquis of Zhuolu Ting, also served as the prince's young tutor; Xu Shu, the imperial censor and Marquis of Pingyang Ting, also served as the prince's young tutor and served as the prince's third division.

Liu Chan also allocated 500 veteran soldiers to Liu Chan's palace to serve as the prince's guard to protect the prince when he went out. Guan Xing was appointed as the prince's left guard, leading 250 people, and Guo Zhang (Lü Bu's son-in-law) was led by the prince's right guard. Two hundred and fifty people. Bai Jun (the second son of Bai Dian) was the prince's family magistrate, responsible for all matters in the prince's womb; Zhao Guang (the second son of Zhao Yun) was the prince's horse washer, responsible for the personal protection of Liu Chan, and led fifty personal guards.

Supplemented by dozens of officials affiliated with the prince, they formed a Qiandi team that belonged exclusively to Liu Chan. Let’s not talk about these.

Although Liu Chan was called the prince before because he was Liu Bei's only son, after all, there was no formal procedure and no subordinate officials. There were only a group of palace maids, eunuchs and playmates who had grown up together.

May 8
With the support of the Zhen family, Liu Bei, who was ready, led 100,000 troops to forcefully cross the Yellow River from Hanoi and advance to Yongzhou.

Due to the sudden arrival and the advance preparations made by Lu Bu who was guarding Hedong, Zhao Jun successfully captured Cao Jun's important Yellow River town in Feng Yi County, Yongzhou, Linjin.

Zhao Jun marched westward along the north bank of the Wei River, aiming directly at Chang'an, the hinterland of Guanzhong.

Here, Cao Cao, who entered Shu from Micang Road, finally took Nanjiang for nearly a month because of Liu Qi's army's strong resistance in Nanjiang.

Later, when the army arrived at Hanchang, they made no further achievements. Every day they just scolded each other as usual and then returned to camp. They never found an opportunity to attack.

In addition, Zhuge Liang invented a crossbow that could fire continuously. Whenever Cao Jun attacked, tens of thousands of crossbows were fired. Cao Jun suffered heavy losses and was unable to advance. He had to set up camp fifteen miles north of Hanchang and pinned his hopes on the other two. road.

However, Cao Hong, who was on the Jinniu Road on the left, was injured by Ma Chao. Now he was fighting with his injuries. He was even surrounded by the Shu army led by Zhang Ren. He was almost wiped out and died in Shu.

Fortunately, Cao Hong was lucky. Thick fog appeared in the mountains, and the Shu army had to lead the army to retreat. Cao Jun escaped with his life, and retreated into Yangping Pass with the remaining army. Since then, he has been in seclusion and no longer fights.

Ma Chao and Zhang Ren set up camp twenty miles outside Yangping Pass, and fell into a confrontation with Cao Hong's army who had retreated into Yangping Pass.

Xu Huang, who was on the Ziwu Road on the right, knew that the Ziwu Road was difficult to walk, but he did not expect it to be so difficult. He lost more than a thousand soldiers just by crossing the Daba Mountain. Later, he was misled by hunters in the mountains and got lost in the mountains. He went round and round. He came out of the mountain on the sixth or seventh day.

At this time, the hunters in Sichuan had already informed Yan Yan of Wanyuan about the arrival of Cao Jun, so Yan Yan took advantage of the time before Cao Jun arrived to set up a stronghold at the entrance of Ziwu Road, which was less than thirty steps wide.

Cao's army couldn't move. Even though Xu Huang was brave, Yan Yan and Wei Yan were no different. Even two of them fought one. Xu Huang couldn't support it. In the end, seeing no profit, the army piled up on Ziwu Road. Fearing that something would happen, he had no choice but to retreat.

Finally, he went through all kinds of hardships and crossed the mountains, returned to Hanzhong to garrison, and sent a letter to Cao Cao about the battle to apologize.

To the north of Hanchang, Cao Jun camped.

Cao Cao sat on his horse, looked at the Shu army camp in front of him, and then looked at the towering boundary mountains on the horizon surrounding the middle of Shu. He was a little jealous and secretly said to himself:
"If I have such natural dangers, why should I fear Liu Bei, and why should I worry about Sun Quan from Jiangdong? How qualified is Liu Zhang's son?"

Then he said to the left and right: "Sichuan not only occupies an advantageous location, but also has an advantage in equipment. It actually has a crossbow that can shoot continuously. It is so unique and unique that it is embarrassing.

However, despite this, the Shu army is weak and will be defeated as long as it fights in close combat. It has the advantage of the five states, abundant food and grass, and continuous reinforcements. There are few people in Shu and limited food. What can Liu Zhang and Liu Qi do with Gu Hu? Yi Gu I can see that in just one year, the danger of Shu will be broken.

The day before yesterday, another messenger from Shu came and talked about Liu Zhang's faults. There were many slanders and accusations in his words, indicating that he could not control people. If he persists for a few more months, Shu will inevitably be in chaos. When the time comes, we can easily take him. "

Hearing that Cao Cao was so confident, the generals behind him also lost their fatigue and became full of fighting spirit.

Seeing this scene, Cao Cao couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and finally the general calmed down.

Previously, Pang Xi and Li Yi, the generals in Shu, did send envoys to submit their intention to surrender to Cao Cao, but Liu Zhang was still on guard and needed to take precautions.

But what Cao Cao lacks most now is time. Liu Bei is in the north. The two armies have fought many times, but he can't win. Fortunately, because his power is too great, Liu Bei needs to prepare several times more military resources than Cao Cao every time he fights.

Therefore, Liu Bei had limited time to launch an offensive each time, and Cao Cao could only take advantage of Liu Bei's truce to attack other directions as much as possible, improve his strength, find opportunities, and counterattack.

"Report... Your Majesty, the governor of Yongzhou has come to report that Liu Bei's army has invaded. At this time, it has crossed the Yellow River and is heading towards Linjin."

Just when Cao Cao had calmed down his troops and the generals had not dispersed, a messenger from the north rushed to deliver orders and ask for reinforcements.

Cao Cao's face changed drastically, and the generals also started to uproar. Cao Cao reacted very quickly, with a sharp look in his eyes, and shouted:
"You are so bold that you dare to falsely pass on military orders. Liu Bei only launched his troops last year. Why are you committing the crime this year? You must be Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang's spies. Anyone who comes to shake the morale of our army will be pushed out and killed by me."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I am really not a spy. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

Xu Chu, who was standing next to him, with an indifferent expression on his face, lifted the kneeling soldier out like a chicken, and then threw it to the ground outside the tent, decapitating him with a knife.

Cao Cao said calmly: "Zhuge Liang is so poor that he came up with this childish plan. All the generals should go back to the camp and stay in the camp for a while, and all the generals should follow the orders of the solitary general."

When the generals retreated, Cao Cao suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and then he felt a splitting headache, as if countless villains were in his head, hammering him with awls, and he could hardly speak.

(End of this chapter)