The oath ceremony between Guan Yu and Zhao Yun was done very well.

Not only did the Yin people in Henan see all kinds of princes, including a former envoy of the Zhengzheng period, recognize Liu Bei's power to take charge of the jade seal. He also cleverly supported the oath ceremony and explained clearly the discovery and opportunity of the jade seal.

Let the military and civilians know that Liu Bei's army "burned the imperial tomb excavated by Dong Zhuo, constrained the bodies of the people and the dead of the palace, and cured the post-disaster plague." This was why the destiny was blessed with kindness and obtained it in the process of collecting corpses and treating the epidemic.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who came to listen to the stories and watch the ceremony also received three days of porridge to satisfy their hunger, so that they could overcome the difficulties in front of them.

Anyway, there are still some food stored in the Xiang County, and there are Yang Yi left in the Luoyang official warehouse. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun could not take it away when they left. The rest belonged to Zhu Jun's pitiful soldiers and horses, and they could afford it even if they gave them a little porridge to the people.

It won't take long before these people fled to famine and exile, the deeds of Liu Bei's "nothing to do with the people and helping to collect the burials" when he went to Luoyang could spread farther and farther.

Even Zhao Yun, who was as cautious as he was led by Li Su before leaving, shouted a few simple and easy-to-understand slogans: "Don't tear the house when he froze to death, and do not plunder when he starved to death." It was widely sang. The refugees who took the porridge at the ceremony learned how to sing, and Sun Jian, who was sang because of food, was a little ashamed.

Although the truth is: Luoyang has nothing to rob, and the empty house is enough to live in, so it is not worthy of being a villain.

If you don’t have anything to take, you must always give full play to the publicity work of “leaving your name to the good things last night”, which is much more valuable than the jade seal.

After all this, it was about mid-March. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun set up their camps and returned to Shuzhong. When they arrived, they had 8,000 troops, and only more than 6,000 people were left on the way back. After so many tough battles, the losses must be quite large.

However, because they were fighting with the Xiliang army, there were many seized. When they came, only 3,000 people had horses. When they returned, more than 6,000 people had horses, and the armor was upgraded to a batch.

Everyone had horses and the itinerary was faster. After leaving Luoyang for three days, they returned to Luyang, the departure point of Nanyang County. Then they asked Yuan Shu for more than ten days of food and grass, and Yuan Shu had to pinch his nose and give it to him. In late March, the troops arrived in Xiangyang and began to separate the roads.

Guan Yu asked Xu Huang to take more than 3,000 troops from the Hanzhong Prefect, to walk onto the mediocre road, follow the Han River and return to the Nanzheng station. The reason for this arrangement was that Guan Yu brought the jade seal, and he had to go back to Chengdu to explain the situation to Liu Bei and listen to the instructions.

But his troops could not be as big as a circle, so they were handed over to Xu Huang. Zhou Tai and Gan Ning were both southern generals who were good at water wars. In the future, there might be some use of their skills in pacifying Nanzhong, so they followed them back to Chengdu first.

After Li Su's guidance, Shangyongdao set up loading and unloading points, ship locks, and sectional shipping on the military farm. Now it can be successfully opened to the river section above Wudang County (Shiyan in the later generations).

In the past two years, the Han River Guanjun has built two or three hundred ships of all sizes. The transportation cost and manpower consumption are relatively high. There are several places where a large number of civilians have to carry goods through a large gap and cannot pass the ship, so so many ships are needed.

When Xu Huang led his troops by, he saw that several swamp areas between Wudang County and Shangyong County, with a total area of ​​millions of Chinese acres, had turned into fertile taro fields after two years of renovation.

It looks like the taro fields piled up from the alluvial silt on Chongming Island in later generations. The silt fields are only a few inches higher than the water surface, and each square piece is about two or three acres in size. There are deep ditches between the silt fields, which can directly allow the Han River to flow slowly.

When farming, people traveled through the rivers among the fields on small wooden boats, and poured the Yaoshui River from the river to the taro seedlings with large wooden ladles as long as the oars. It was extremely convenient to irrigate.

It was the first time that Xu Huang passed by here against the current. He had seen people plant taro before, but they were all planted on the slopes, and irrigation was very difficult. There was no such thing as composting the swamps in the late Han Dynasty, so the harvest was simply incomparable.

The red taro yield per mu in later generations was about 3,000 kilograms, and the white taro that likes water and is only about 1,500 kilograms, which is a relatively traditional variety.

There were not so many breeding options in the late Han Dynasty, and they were basically white taro, but others only planted two or three hundred kilograms per mu of harvest on the slope, or five hundred kilograms. Li Su used silt and forced irrigation to plant seven or eight hundred kilograms, which was equivalent to 1,55 kilograms of taro. Although the yield was still half lower than that of the later generations, it was already three times that of the slope taro of the same era!

"The "Essential Agricultural Sciences" actually have such a miraculous effect. If the lord takes over Jingzhou in the future, the former Yunmengze land around Nanjun will have a swamp that is ten times larger than here. If it can also control the silt fields, why worry about the people not being able to have enough food and military rations not being able to be spared."

Looking at the tall taro seedlings along the way and the Shangyong population that has grown significantly in the past two years, Xu Huang felt a lot of emotion. He thought to himself: If he really attacked Jingzhou in the future, even if he went straight down from Hanzhong and went straight to Xiangyang and Nanyang, he would not be afraid of insufficient military rations.

Of course, I just think about these things casually. Now, whether it is Liu Biao or Yuan Shu, they are all ally.

...

Xu Huang, who had left the base for a year, was so moved by the changes in the base. Guan Yu followed Zhao Yun and continued to go south to Yidu County and return to the Chengdu Plain. There were more surprises along the way.

After splitting in Xiangyang on March 20, they arrived in Yiling on the 26th, then boarded the ship in Yiling, and several water and land transfers in the middle. They arrived in Yong'an in early April (Baidi City has been renamed by Liu Bei), arrived in Jiangzhou in the middle, and returned to Chengdu at the end of the month.

When Guan Yu and Zhao Yun returned, the princes in the world were not idle, and the wind and clouds were surging violently.

After all, after Qiao Mao died in February, it was as if Pandora's magic box was opened all at once. Guan Yu and Sun Jian were still beating Dong, Zhang Miao, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan and other camps began to get fire as scheduled.

After all, Yuan Shao used Gongsun Zan to forfeit Han Fu's throne. How could Gongsun Zan endure such a violent temper? He kept waiting for the excuse of taking action.

Soon, Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Kansai, secretly pushed him and helped Gongsun Zan make excuses.

After Dong Zhuo learned that Luoyang was burned, but the jade seal was obtained by Guan Yu and Liu Bei, he was furious and vented his anger. He killed several palace maids to vent his anger. However, after venting, he was too lazy to confirm that "Luoyang is burned thoroughly". He didn't care about Zhu Ye's refusal to accept the broken Henan Yin Zixuan, just think that Zhu Ye helped him block the princes of Guandong.

However, Dong Zhuo was not idle at all for Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan to find an excuse to start a war, so he released Liu He, the son of Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou who was detained in the court, and asked Liu He to go back to contact Liu Yu, and entrusted Liu Yu to take charge of the "militaries of Qingji You and Yanxu's six prefectures."

It must be mentioned here, why can Dong Zhuo give Liu Yu such a great reward in the name of Emperor Xian of Han? This is because before Han Fu was instigated by Yuan Shao, Han Fu was pushed to the front desk and planned to "support Liu Yu as the emperor to avoid obeying Emperor Xian of Han who fell into Dong Zhuo's hands", but Liu Yu refused. This initiative was proposed in January this year, and Han Fu got out more than a month after he finished proposing it.

Not only did Liu Yu refuse, he also sent an envoy to Chang'an to express his feelings and said that he would never be an emperor. (In history, the envoys of the Liu Yu sect were Tian Chou and Xian Yufu. But now Tian Chou was poached by Li Su to Mi Zhu from Liaodong. Xian Yufu was killed because he colluded with Wuhuan when he was challenging Zhang Ju, so Liu Yu could only choose another envoy)

Therefore, it was very reasonable for Dong Zhuo to allow Liu Yu to command the six eastern states in the name of the emperor. It was a commendation for Liu Yu to be "loyal to the court" and also an excuse for Gongsun Zan, the main military general under Liu Yu, to go south to take over Yuan Shao's territory. It also charged Yuan Shao with the crime of "planning to establish another" so that Gongsun Zan could be renamed and attack Yuan Shao.

Unfortunately, although Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan started working in the end, the process was not as Dong Zhuo and Li Ru had imagined that Liu He could not return to Youzhou at all. As soon as he walked out of Henan Yin, he was discovered and detained by Yuan Shu at the junction of Nanyang and Yuzhou.

Yuan Shu directly asked Liu He to join forces with him to deal with Yuan Shao, and also listed the charges of Yuan Shao exchanging positions with him for territorial positions such as the governor of Yuzhou, saying that Yuan Shao was destroying Dong Daye and causing internal strife. Although Yuan Shu was narrow-minded, his lawsuit was still correct.

Because since the original Yuzhou Governor Kong Yichang (also attacked Dong Zhuhou) passed away last year, there has been no Yuzhou in the past few months. However, most of the prefects who are qualified to compete for the position of a governor are Yuan Shu.

Including this time, the Yingchuan Prefect Li Min, who was killed in Bi Guiyuan by supporting Sun Jian to attack Dong, attracting Hua Xiong, Hu Zhen, and Lu Bu's firepower, Yuan Shujun still produced several righteous men who sacrificed their lives to fight Dong Daye, but Yuan Shao took so far.

Yuan Shao was indeed even more inauthentic when he gave up the sacrificed charity to his own people. No wonder Sun Jian, who cooperated with Li Min to fight against Dong, heard that Yuan Shao intervened in Yingchuan and other people in the Yuzhou counties, was very indignant. Instead of the sacrificed Li Min, he sought justice and attacked Zhou Xin, the governor of Yuzhou who was in trouble.

Liu Yu's son Liu He didn't know much. He might think, "Since the emperor asked my father to take charge of the affairs of the six states, then Yuan Shao in Jizhou should be under his control. If Yuan Shao does something wrong, he should be attacked." In short, Liu He accidentally brought Liu Yu an order that was unfavorable to Yuan Shao.

The order was originally only one or two points, but when it came to Gongsun Zan, it was overjoyed. One or two points had to be done with ten points. Gongsun Zan first sent his younger brother Gongsun Yue to the battlefield in Yuzhou to help Sun Jian fight Zhou Xin together.

This time, Gongsun Yue was not shot to death by a low-probability event as in history, but since Gongsun Zan wanted to take advantage of the situation, it was not important whether his younger brother died or not. He quickly launched an attack on Yuan Shao's Jizhou.

Although Liu Dai's killing of Qiao Mao was also an internal strife, it was still a form of official struggle. Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan's furious union finally opened a hot war within the princes of Dong.

However, Gongsun Zan in this world did not get enough benefits when he first pacified Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and at least 10,000 or 20,000 elite soldiers were separated by Liu Bei. Moreover, Liu Guan and Zhang himself are not now helping with the war under Gongsun Zan's account, and Gongsun Zan lacks a powerful "Sima of other troops" like Liu Bei. Therefore, Gongsun Zan's offensive against Yuan Shao was not very sharp, and Yuan Shao didn't even need Tuo Yi to barely withstand it.

Because of Liu Bei's lack, the warlords on the Kanto battlefield who should have been helped by Liu Bei in history, such as Gongsun Zan, who are now in the future, are obviously beginning to be backfired by this unfavorable butterfly effect. Their strength period will inevitably be shorter, and their decline will probably accelerate.

...

"Big brother! Third brother!"

"Second brother!"

"Second brother! I miss me to death!"

As Guan Yu returned to Chengdu, to be precise, he brought the jade seal and the news of the external princes fighting each other, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei felt very kind to him when he returned to Chengdu.

Guan Yu solemnly bowed: "Brother, this is the imperial seal obtained from Nangong, Luoyang. Zilong and I have an oath with Zhu Gongwei, Sun Wentai, and Liu Jingsheng. You will keep it on your behalf. When the emperor is not held hostage by the thief, he will return it to the court. Please forgive me for my urgent obligations and agree to the oath on your behalf..."

Liu Bei patted Guan Yu on the shoulder: "What do you mean? If I were here personally, I would have promised this. Yun Chang really knows my heart!"
Chapter completed!