Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

Chapter 37

Can't help but sigh, Zhou Zhong is not a fool who can be fooled easily, let alone the head of a small family who is obsessed with his own immediate interests. Regarding Qiao Xuan's behavior today, he naturally has his own opinion Insights.

Regardless of Qiao Xuan's rather weak appearance today, let alone his relatively amiable personality, he also promised everyone present that he would never overextend himself.

For those new aristocratic families, these words may make them feel better, but for Zhou Zhong, he knows that what can really influence a family's decision is definitely not some promise, but some real benefits.

As far as he is concerned, the Zhou family has a good reputation in Lujiang, and he usually keeps some promises very well.

But this kind of thing is not because of his character of keeping promises, but because for the Zhou family, the benefits of keeping promises are far greater than the benefits of breaking those promises.

As for this matter, although the Qiao family had promised everyone that they would not do anything too outrageous, Zhou Zhong was indeed still a little uncertain about the other party's final plan.

If you want to say that Qiao Xuan has arranged this matter in advance...

To be honest, Zhou Zhong doesn't quite believe it now.

After all, from various perspectives, Qiao Xuan's performance was not too suspicious.

But if it is said that Qiao Xuan would really guard his one-acre three-point land, and would not stuff his clansmen into the Lujiang prefect's mansion during the process of relocating Lujiang...

Do you believe it?

Yes, he, Zhou Zhong, definitely doesn't believe it either.

You know, that is the son-in-law, and the new Lujiang prefect is the son-in-law of the Qiao family!

As the saying goes, for Qiao Xuan, a son-in-law is half a son, even if Zhang Yan can't directly serve as the power of his Qiao family to help the Qiao family go further in this Lujiang, but in the open and in the dark, when making some decisions , the other party will definitely subconsciously have some eccentric behavior towards the existence of the Qiao family.

Just like this time, the other party directly parachuted to Lujiang from Luoyang, the capital. From Zhang Yan's behavior, Zhou Zhong could clearly feel that the other party had a very obvious favorable impression of the Qiao family, or the entire Lujiang area. Or kindness.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Yan did not say that he was directly influenced by the Qiao family in the decision-making of some matters. To Zhou Zhong, the other party was already very concerned about his own image, and he was unwilling to show that eccentric behavior too much. Obvious.

I really hope that the entire administration and personnel of the other party can be fully disclosed...

Are you dreaming?

Although his Qiao family is extremely weak among the first-class families in Jiangdong, Zhou Zhong knows that as a family that has stood for hundreds of years, it is absolutely impossible for the Qiao family to be as ordinary as it appears on the outside.

On the contrary, in terms of dealing with the world, the other party must be extremely shrewd.

Different from what the appearance shows, although the Qiao family has never had any high-ranking officials in the capital for several generations, the behavior of the Qiao family can be said to be in the matter of cooperating vertically and horizontally to check and balance the forces around them. It is a typical specification like a textbook...

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For example, his Qiao Xuan's two daughters, the eldest daughter Qiao Wan was betrothed to Wu Chenghou, Sun Bofu, the eldest son of Changsha prefect Sun Jian's eldest son, Qiao Wan, a few years ago.

Although the marriage date between the two has not yet arrived, and the daughter has not really married out, but no matter what, the Qiao family has already reported to the Sun family's thigh, and it was also under control during the chaos of the war a few years ago. Sun Jian of the military power was of no small help.

As for the other youngest daughter, Qiao Ying, she did not know where her luck came from. This time, she stabbed directly into the Luoyang Imperial City with a stick, and became the daughter-in-law of Zhang Rang, the powerful Zhongchang servant. It can be said that she is blessed by heaven. , went directly to the sky in one step.

Honey, that's the daughter-in-law of Zhongchang servant Zhang Rang.

Zhou Zhong glanced out of the window enviously, knowing that Marquis and Marquis cannot be compared.

Although Sun Ce, as the eldest son, also has the right to inherit the title of his father Sun Jian, but looking at it from the background, the other party is simply a world away from Zhang Yan.

In this world, whether it is the Qiao family or the Zhou family, they can only be regarded as third-rate forces at best among this family.Maybe the Zhou family is a little better, it can be regarded as the third-rate peak, and the Qiao family is about the upper middle. Although there is a distance between the two, the difference is not too far.

And above these third-rate families, there are some big families who dominated the officialdom of the Eastern Han Dynasty all the year round and fought hard in the melting pot of the Central Plains. Yingchuan Xun, Chen, and Hedongwei are the representative forces among them.

As an aristocratic family, it can be said that these big families in the Central Plains have far surpassed the level of local tyrants like the Jiangdong gentry in terms of strength, and they have begun to show their image in the political situation.

But compared with the top giants like Yuan and Yang, if you want to fight against them, the families like Xun and Chen are inevitably not qualified enough.

You know, even if they are the model of the younger generation of the Yuan family, the famous brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, in order to avoid being directly defeated by Zhang Rang's authority, they had to attach themselves to the leader of the foreign relatives - the big brother. General He Jin was able to barely survive in the officialdom of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

And as the adopted son of Zhang Rang, another giant who has been fighting with He Jin for ten years, in terms of power or status, the gap between Zhang Yan and them Jiangdong's "rich locals" can be imagined.

Even though Zhou Zhong dared to discuss the division of rights in the entire Lujiang River with Qiao Xuan, it was because he only thought that the other party's airborne Lujiang was due to Qiao Xuan's reason, so he wanted to take a ride with the Qiao family and let the other party take off Don't forget to pull yourself up when you are in trouble.

After knowing the actual situation of the Qiao family, Zhou Zhong had already given up his previous thoughts, and at the same time felt a little pity for those families that still had hostility towards Zhang Yan.

Subconsciously withdrawing his gaze from the car window, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but feel a little emotional at this time:

You said that the Han family is so big, where is it not good for a power at the level of a middle-level servant to act as a tyrant?He just wanted to go to Jiangdong, a place that is only a little better than Xinshou Village, to stir up trouble.

And it's nothing more than you coming here, but this Lujiang changed the county government because of you, which caused a lot of changes in the power center in the entire county.

God is pitiful, although there are as many gentry in the Jiangdong area, compared with those giants in the Central Plains Fudi, the gentry in Jiangdong often last for a short period of time. It is far inferior to those old monsters who have passed on for more than a thousand years.

If Zhang Yan really came here this time, he wondered how many of the Lujiang family would be washed out during the administration of the other party.

His gaze became a little worried. Zhou Zhong thought of the dots of local power, and thought of the Lu family of Wu County who had been deprived of his official position but did not say a word and only planned to join the other party when he could not compare. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the development of the entire Lujiang River.

But at the very least, as a native of Lujiang, he felt that Qiao Xuan was right in saying something.

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Lujiang, this time it's really crazy.

Chapter 1 Country Road

At the end of June in 188 AD, Lujiang County.

On the small road to the west of the county town, the hot sun still spread its majesty in the sky.

The scorching rays of light fell on the hills of the Lujiang River, making the farmers sweat profusely while facing the loess, and at the same time made the travelers along the way a little irritable.

Now, the time has come to the end of June, and the paddy fields in Lujiang this year have basically completed the transplanting work. Most of the land that cannot be reclaimed into paddy fields has been sown with crops such as wheat by hard-working farmers .

Now, after more than two months of growth, most of those young wheat seedlings have grown more than two feet above the ground, and the greenness can be said to be one of the few gratifying things on this mountain.

And the population of more than 50 on and off the Lujiang River is also eagerly watching their rations for the next year, which will grow and mature slowly under the nourishment of the Yangtze River water network.

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"Hey, I don't know how far it is to reach the inside of Wancheng..."

"It's been a while since we entered the border of Lujiang, right?"

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"Ying'er, it shouldn't be far from your hometown."

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The crisp sound of horseshoes can be heard from the end of the path, and it can be seen that a carriage pulled by several white horses is slowly driving towards the east under the curious eyes of travelers along the way.

Looking at the complicated patterns and carvings on the carriage, one can tell that the person riding in this carriage is definitely not an ordinary person, but a big man of considerable background.

After staring slowly for a while, the farmers turned their eyes away again, and stopped paying too much attention to each other...

After all, compared with those things that have little to do with their own lives, the agricultural tools in their hands and the food growing in the ground under their feet are obviously more important to them.

A few days ago, I heard that there was another disaster in Qingzhou in the north.

Those yellow turban thieves like locusts swept from all over the Han Dynasty. I don't know where I heard that the people of Qingzhou are rich and the food is abundant. Millions of people poured into the border of Qingzhou like desperately.

In this unprecedented chaotic scramble, not only the government treasury was swept away, but even the rations of the honest farmers were ruined a lot.

Some people even heard that many of the fields that farmers were plowing were abandoned because of the war.

Silently bending down to remove the weeds under their feet, the people of Lujiang don't know how long they can live in such a peaceful life, and they don't know when those thieves who have corrupted their backs will step on their feet. Leaving Qingzhou, continue to rush towards the next relatively stable Dahanzhou County...

For them, all they can do is to make the rice tank in their home as full as possible before the disaster strikes.

Of course, as if people with different identities played different roles in the same event, they who were born relatively poor would not want to understand that under such external pressure, what is happening in Yangzhou, Xuzhou and Qingzhou today? What are the governors of the states and counties who are very close to each other thinking about at the moment.

And these people who have worked hard for more than half a year in order to have a full meal, they can't even imagine that the "top leader" of Lujiang above their heads is under such a poisonous sunlight What are you doing.

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"Hmm... crying for Lucy."

"Why is the weather so hot? Is it true that the temperature near the water network along the river is so much higher than that in the plains?"

Humming and leaning on his carriage, Zhang Yan was wearing a simple unlined garment at the moment, looking tiredly at the emerald green wheat field outside the carriage window, listening to the pleasant singing of birds, his whole body was caused by the heat. The weather has become a bit sweaty.

In his arms, Qiao Ying had already let go of her restraint in front of Cai Gu, she just leaned on his shoulder and sat on his lap, as if she was taking a nap.

In the past, the light and fluttering hair was wet with sweat. Zhang Yan looked at the fine sweat on the opponent's forehead, and couldn't help but speed up the movements of his hands again.

"Husband..."

"hot."

Lying in Zhang Yan's arms, at this moment Qiao Ying seemed to feel the unbearable heat surging up again, subconsciously grabbed Zhang Yan's arm, and said something to him in a daze.

Beside her, Zhang Yan sighed helplessly when he heard the words.It's just that seeing the other party's uncomfortable appearance, he still subconsciously waved the fan harder in his hand, and grasped the other's waist with his left hand even tighter.

Seeing his somewhat tired appearance, after Qiaoying slowly opened her eyes, she suddenly felt a little distressed.

"I guess it's almost here... When I came out last time, I had only walked this distance for less than two hours."

"It is estimated that after a while, you will be able to see the city wall of Wancheng."

Pursing her lips lightly and saying something to Zhang Yan, Qiao Ying raised her head and glanced at the opposite side of the carriage. After seeing that Cai Ku was still asleep, she made up her mind and raised her head to peck Zhang Yan's chin like a superficial peck. for a moment.At the same time, the corners of Zhang Yan's mouth also raised subconsciously, but after seeing that the other party was still a little sleepy, he just hugged Qiao Ying lightly, and didn't say much.

"Sleep for a while, and I'll call you when I get home."

Whispering in Qiao Ying's ear, although Zhang Yan also felt a little tired at this time, he still held on to his energy, acting as if he was nothing important.

On the other hand, I don't know if it's because the journey along the way is really too physically and mentally tormenting, Qiao Ying just let out a soft "um", and put her cheek back on the other's chest.

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"okay."

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It has been almost 20 days since everyone set off.

In the past ten days, not only the soldiers and common people who traveled on their own legs were exhausted, but even Zhang Yan himself felt a little tired when he was sitting in the carriage.

According to his original estimate, it only took about fifteen days for everyone to set off from Luoyang and arrive at Wancheng, the seat of Lujiang County.

It's just that he didn't expect that this long journey of more than a thousand miles was obviously not as simple as he expected.

During the 20-day journey, everyone walked for more than [-] days, and it was at the end of June that they arrived in Wancheng.

"Hey, work harder, I guess we can enter the city before dark."