After the banquet, Liu Xuande politely offered to take Liu Jin and the others around, but Liu Jin and the others were disrespectful.

A group of people walked around the barracks nearby. The first impression that the Julu Army camp gave to Liu Jin and the three outsiders was that the Julu Army camp was very neat and clean. The ground was trimmed and flat, and it was cleaned thoroughly.

There are no weeds at all. This level of cleanliness is comparable to that of a threshing field.

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In the barracks, Liu Jin and the other three saw that all the sergeants in the camp were wearing armor. It was estimated that there were thousands of soldiers in the camp. When they saw the formations of the Julu Army being drilled, they saw that the Julu Army was like a formation made of bricks with knives and knives.

The three outsiders looked at him with suspicion.

Imperial physician Liu Jin said with emotion, "With such a powerful army, it's no wonder that Duke Xuande was able to defeat Zhang Jiao."

Liu Bei smiled and said nothing.

After that, they left the barracks and went to the city to see. Liu Jin and the three outsiders didn't notice anything. They thought that Julu City was like this. Liu Bei left Julu a month ago. At that time, Julu City was still in a mess. When he came back a month later, it was full of chaos.

The city took on a new look. Liu Bei was curious and took people around. He walked into the houses to take a look from time to time. Liu Bei felt that the newly built houses in the city were very tall and the walls were much thicker than ordinary houses.

The tall and big house looks sturdy at first glance.

As long as the walls are strong, that's it. In ordinary rural areas, wealthy people are often willing to use materials to build their houses tall and solid. What makes everyone pay attention is that all the houses built have flat floors inside and flat floors outside in the yards.

The ground is also flat. If you kick it with your feet, the ground will not move at all. This is obviously because the porcelain has been compacted with stone rollers.

Liu Bei completely misunderstood. Julu didn't have that many rolling stones, nor that much free animal power, so it couldn't afford the luxury of flattening every yard. It could build a large area on the ruins of Julu City in two months.

High-quality private housing is due to the availability of a large amount of idle manpower and efficient organization. The manpower comes from civilians, and the efficient organization comes from long-term organization and training since the Yellow Turban War. And more importantly,

One point is an engineering and technological breakthrough.

The reason why all the buildings in Julu City can be smashed to the ground in every courtyard is due to the use of a pulley boom, a sliding arm, a long wooden tube with a fixed position, and a

Weighing several hundred kilograms, underneath is a spherical hammer. Such a boom is ten times more efficient than human labor. Without this thing, Julu City would not have been able to build tens of thousands of high rammed earth walls in a short period of time.

Because of this, with the tool of boom, it is easy to build a wall, but there is no way to build a roof.

As he walked, Liu Bei discovered that the houses in the back only had walls and no roofs. He smiled and asked Li Mengxi why they didn't have roofs.

"It's difficult to build a roof!" Li Mengxi counted with Liu Bei on his fingers, "It's easy to build a wall. All you need to do is dig some yellow mud, add some wheat straw, and smash it with rocks.

But if you want to build a roof, the best thing to do is thatch. If you want thatch, where can you get thatch?

If you think better, to make a mud roof, you need to burn tiles, build beams, get rafters, get firewood, and a lot of labor..."

In a word, poor, so poor that they don’t even have thatch to build the roof. Therefore, the walls of large houses have long been built, but there is no way to build the roof. They can only slowly collect materials and slowly build the roof.

build.

Going further down, Liu Bei was surprised to find that the houses in the city were neatly built, as if they were pulled out of threads. Between the houses, about every ten or twenty households, there was an open space. As he approached, there was an empty space.

Look, I found a very deep hole in the ground. To be precise, it was a well that had not yet been dug.

While walking around, there were too many water wells, too densely packed. This is not the most curious place. According to common sense, to dig a well, you have to find the water veins, and you have to dig the well on the water veins, because the water

The veins usually do not go straight, so the wells are often distributed in a messy manner from east to west. However, the positions of the water wells planned by Li Mengxi are neatly arranged, with one placed every other section.

Liu Bei went close to a well to take a look. It was dark and dark in the middle of winter. The well had been dug very deep, but there was no water at all in the well.

Liu Bei couldn't help but asked with a smile, "Xi'er, you dug so many wells, can you dig out water?"

Li Mengxi replied somewhat depressedly, "As long as you dig deep enough, you will definitely be able to find water."

The distribution of water wells in Julu City has been carefully considered. The density of water wells is one well for twenty households. This is to take into account the convenience of water for residents in the city and the convenience of handicraft production such as papermaking and wood industries. The more water wells, the better.

Life and production would be more convenient. Based on this consideration, wells were installed all over the city.

In the long run, there is no need to worry about the cost of opening a well. However, according to the actual construction, the method of digging a well all over the ground is indeed a large amount of work. So far, less than one-fifth of the wells in the city have been dug.

The deepest well has been dug ten feet underground and still no water has been found.

After looking around the city, Liu Bei arranged for the imperial physician Liu Jin, two Yulin scholars and their families to stay.

Soon after, it got dark.

At night, when there were no outsiders, Liu Guan, Zhang and Li Mengxi gathered together to discuss matters. First of all, there was the issue of arrangements for the imperial physician Liu Jin and two Yulin scholars. These three people came with their families, and the three of them had great influence on Liu Bei.

Kindness means being treated kindly based on emotion and reason.

After thinking for a while, Li Mengxi said, "Imperial physician Liu Jinhao said, since he is an imperial physician, he must have good medical skills, so he can go to the military medical camp.

On the other hand, how should the two Yu Linshi be arranged?" Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at Liu Bei, "If we arrange for them to go to the army, according to the rules of our army, outsiders should start from the beginning.

He has great kindness, but to confer it with a low-level official position seems to me to be unkind and unjust.

However, if he is given important positions, his talents will not be adequate, which will harm the combat effectiveness of our army.

Therefore, I thought that the two Yu Linshis could be placed elsewhere."

Liu Bei thought for a while, nodded, and agreed with what Li Mengxi said.

Afterwards, after discussing for a while, the two Yu Linshi's places were arranged, and they were ready to be assigned to serve in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Among the thirteen military and political departments, apart from the Military Department, the most prestigious and powerful one is the Civil Service Department that regulates officials, which is worthy of the great contribution of the two Yulinshi.

After finishing the trivial matters, Liu Bei couldn't help but ask the question he had been hiding all day, "Xi'er, Yide," Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei, "You two, you have nothing to hide from me, right?"

Zhang Fei secretly glanced at Liu Bei and lowered his head guiltily.

Li Mengxi laughed on the spot and said calmly, "I wonder what Mr. Xuande asked about?"

It turned out that something was really going on. Liu Bei was refreshed and asked quickly, "When did Jian Xianhe go to Luoyang?"

"Mr. Jian Yong arrived in Luoyang half a month before Duke Xuande."

"...Why did Xianhe go?" Liu Bei looked suspicious.

"Xianhe is here to build momentum."

"Building momentum?"

"Yes!" Li Mengxi nodded. He recalled the arrangements at that time and said, "Xuan Degong went to Luoyang alone. I expected that there would be many crises there.

Therefore, I entrusted Mr. Jian Yong to go to Luoyang first to take care of the situation, so as to get some help, so as to prevent Mr. Xuande from being unable to support himself when he arrived in Luoyang.

When Xianhe arrived in Luoyang, he had several tasks. One of them was to visit officials and make good friends.

Secondly, after Xianhe and dozens of accompanying scholars entered Luoyang City, the Julu scholars took the opportunity to build momentum for Duke Xuande in the name of storytelling, so that the people of Luoyang would know that the righteous men who wanted to capture Zhang Jiao were coming.

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By the time Duke Xuande's message was heard by the people of Luoyang, even if the imperial court really wanted to kill Duke Xuande, it would not be concerned about the surging public sentiment and would have no choice but to resort to the rat weapon."

Speaking of this, Li Mengxi looked at Liu Bei curiously and asked, "When Duke Xuande entered the city, did the people of Luoyang cause a sensation in the city?"

Liu Bei's expression became complicated. He recalled that when he entered Luoyang City that day, the people lined the streets to welcome the huge crowds of people. He glanced at Li Mengxi and sighed with a wry smile, "Oh, when I entered the city that day, the people were watching like bees. I thought..."

"Haha! Does Mr. Xuande think that he is the master of the people's will for a while?" Li Mengxi joked with a smile.

Liu Bei looked embarrassed.

By now, Liu Bei realized later that where the people wanted to go, it was all arranged by the military advisor. Thinking of his high spirits and complacency that day, Liu Bei felt a little disappointed.

Then, Li Mengxi looked at Zhang Fei aside, touched Zhang Fei's shoulder with his hand, and said with a smile, "Come on, Third General, tell me your plan."

Liu Bei immediately looked at Zhang Fei.

After looking at each other with Liu Bei, Zhang Fei didn't have enough confidence to say anything, so he muttered, "Xi'er, you say it, you say it."

Zhang Fei was always a little timid in front of Liu Bei.

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Mengxi quietly explained the plan at that time.

"With Mr. Jian Yong's arrangements, although the public opinion in Luoyang is protecting him, if Emperor Ling is a mediocre person, if Emperor Ling dares to capture and kill Duke Xuande against the will of the people, Duke Xuande's life will also be in danger;

If the imperial court uses a delaying strategy and does not kill you at the right time, but wants to capture Mr. Xuande and imprison him until later, Mr. Xuande will also be in danger."

"Master Xuande, as soon as you enter Luoyang, you enter the dragon's pond and the tiger's den. Life and death are all in human hands.

I didn’t want Duke Xuande to die unexpectedly, and the three generals didn’t want it either, so the two of us made a plan to survive..."

The strategy of slaying the dragon is to use three thousand soldiers to imitate the method of the Yellow Turban uprising. The three thousand soldiers will turn into three thousand soldiers in the hinterland of Luoyang, sweeping hundreds of thousands of people in an instant, and threatening Luoyang with the power of thunder.

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The Yellow Turban Rebellion was located in a remote area and could not threaten Luoyang, but if the chaos spread to the hinterland of Luoyang, Luoyang would be in danger; Zhang Jiao, an incompetent person, could not overthrow the Han Dynasty, but the rebel army had excellent soldiers and strict planning. Zhang Jiao could not destroy the Han Dynasty, and Li

Someone can.

"That is how war forces peace.

According to our plan, once the news of Duke Xuande's fall in Luoyang is known, General Yide will immediately riot and sweep into a large force, threatening Luoyang with lightning speed.

When the three generals are in full strength, the imperial court will not dare to take risks, and only then will Duke Xuande be safe."

“However, at this point, it is still not a perfect solution.

Three generals surrounded Luoyang and Duke Xuande fell into the city. The court could respond either by compromising or by compromising. The knowledgeable people in the court may know that hundreds of thousands of people are being ensnared day and night. The food and grass will be in short supply and the people's hearts will be unstable.

If the imperial court relies on the fortification of the city and waits for me to be defeated without a fight, then holding on for a long time will be very detrimental to me, and it will be difficult for Mr. Xuande to escape."

“Therefore, if you seek to be absolutely perfect, you should use the method of preventing the imperial court from persisting for a long time. If the imperial court does not dare to persist for a long time, it will be disadvantageous for the imperial court.

There is only one way to change the offensive and defensive situation - training troops."
To be continued...