Three Kingdoms

Worrying things are like peanuts planted in the ground. You want to pull them out, but what you pull out often is not one, but a big bunch, and all of them are full.

A headache.

Just like right now, Fei Qian frowned deeply as he looked at the latest military report sent by Jia Qu.

"Go and invite Dong Cao..."

Fei Qian ordered, then put the military newspaper on the desk, reached out to pick up the pen, and dipped some ink. When he picked it up, he suddenly found that his hand was trembling slightly. He couldn't help but take a deep breath. After he stabilized himself, he wrote seven words on the wooden slip: "He who has no strong will but no wisdom". He stopped and looked at it, staring at these words in a trance.

These words may seem like Confucian words to encourage people to improve, but in fact they are not, but Mohist words. Cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world are not just Confucian things. Strictly speaking, many of them belong to other people, but Confucianism just uses them.

"Those who are not strong in ambition are short of wisdom." This is what Mozi said in an article about self-cultivation.

Fei Qian didn't know how those so-called Long Aotian-level time travelers solved their own ideological problems, nor did he know how these guys who saw people and killed people, saw gods and gods, and saw ghosts and ghosts, saw demons and demons built up psychologically. , but Fei Qian himself knew very well that without a tough mind, it was completely impossible to stay awake in the subsequent Three Kingdoms.

Just like this sudden situation, what should you choose next?

Every step you take is like a minefield in later generations. You don't know if there are any mines about to explode where you land. More importantly, these problems are that they will not explode immediately after stepping on them, but will detonate with a delay. When it explodes, it's often a mess.

The experience and knowledge in history can be provided to Fei Qian for reference and reference less and less, and there will be more and more emergencies of various types. When the so-called advantage of predicting the enemy's opportunities does not exist, , how to face the future, just like a traveler groping alone in thick fog and dark night, Fei Qian needs a stronger heart and stronger will in order to continue to move forward alone on his chosen path.

These seven words were written by Fei Qian to himself. They can be regarded as a kind of self-reminder...

"Lord." Since the political affairs hall was not far away, Xun Chen came quickly and bowed his hands in front of the hall.

"Oh, here we come..." Fei Qian put down his pen and said, "Come in and sit down."

Fei Qian pressed the wooden tablet with the writing on it, and did not immediately mention the matter about Jia Qu's military report. He first asked: "Guan Ruo is very busy with political affairs. Someone has made a new tea, and I would like to invite you to taste it." Two...come here, brew some new tea!"

The more important the matter, the less urgent it is. This is the saying that urgent matters should be dealt with slowly. Slowing down does not mean procrastinating, but means handling it after careful consideration. Eagerly raise the issue, and then rush to deal with it. If the treatment direction is wrong, it may lead to the problem becoming worse.

Fei Qian himself was very anxious, but he couldn't show it. Instead, he needed to be calm and calm, as if everything was planned. Otherwise, on the one hand, he would be looked down upon by his subordinates, and on the other hand, it would be easy for even his subordinates to become anxious. Lose your cool and make errors in judgment.

So Fei Qian chose a seemingly completely irrelevant topic as his entry point.

"Brewing?" Xun Chen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows after hearing this word. Fei Qian often did this action, and Xun Chen learned it without knowing it.

Before the Tang Dynasty, there was no special method for making tea. Even the tea bricks were just picking fresh tea leaves, pressing them and drying them. In the tea producing areas, most people in the Han Dynasty directly picked the leaves of tea trees for cooking. For making soup, the only way to make soup is to break tea bricks in places far away from the place of production. Some people have an extra step of heating and roasting the broken tea to remove the musty smell. However, most people tend to directly add green onions, ginger, dates, Make soup with orange peel, dogwood, mint, etc. After boiling, boil the soup to remove the heat, skim off the foam, and serve it for drinking.

This habit continued into the Tang Dynasty. Starting from the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the art of making tea became popular on a large scale from north to south. There were even detailed regulations on how many times of moxibustion, grinding, and rubbing were required. Wait to form fine tea powder, and then according to the degree of boiling of the water, put it into the teapot to cook and drink separately. This complete tea-drinking mode that was popular in the Tang Dynasty, including preparing utensils, selecting water, making fire, preparing soup, roasting tea, tencha, Luocha, sencha, and drinking tea, was learned by the overseas students at that time, and was continued to be used in later generations.

Tea fighting began in the Song Dynasty, also called tea tea. Brewing tea was only available in the Ming Dynasty, thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang. Because Zhu Yuanzhang knew the sufferings of the people, he stopped paying tribute to group cake tea and only allowed loose tea to be paid. As a result, leaf tea and herbal tea became the only ones, and the tea style also changed. Loose tea replaced dragon cakes and phoenix cakes, fried tea technology gradually became popular, and six types of tea began to be gradually established. The tea brewing methods of later generations are mostly a continuation of the Ming Dynasty tea brewing method.

As for the Braid Dynasty, they only know how to eat and drink while lying on the bones of the Ming Dynasty. In this aspect, they have no contribution.

There is no serious tea in Bingbei, but Fei Qian knew that there was a kind of tea in Shanxi in later generations, tartary buckwheat tea, so Fei Qian sent people to look for it. Unexpectedly, there were quite a lot of these tartary buckwheat in the Taihang Mountains. …

Not long after, tartary buckwheat tea was served.

Fei Qian shook the tea bowl and looked at the slightly yellow tea soup. He picked it up and smelled it. Well, it was okay. There was only a little burnt smell, not very obvious. Most of it was the pure fragrance of buckwheat. Very pleasant.

Xun Chen did the same. He smelled it, nodded slightly, took a sip, nodded again, and then took another sip, "The aroma of wheat is fragrant and slightly sweet, which is not bad..."

"Not only that, this thing can be digested just like ordinary tea cakes..." Fei Qian knocked on the tea bowl and said.

Xun Chen held the tea bowl, his eyes wandered for a moment, and he almost reacted immediately: "Oh? I wonder where this product is produced, how much does it cost? How much is the output?"

"This product is a specialty of Montenegro...the output is quite large..." Fei Qian also took a sip, then put it down and said, "As for the cost...haha..."

Perhaps one area of ​​water and soil supports one person. Many people in Montenegro have planted this kind of tartary buckwheat in the nooks and crannies of the mountains, which does not require very fertile land. And it is precisely because of this that this kind of tartary buckwheat has less seeds than Ordinary buckwheat is smaller and does not taste good if eaten directly. However, after frying the seeds and leaves together and then brewing it, it has a different kind of wheat flavor.

Because tartary buckwheat has the effect of strengthening the stomach and digesting food, if you are hungry, you will inevitably become hungrier the more you eat. However, this side effect is undoubtedly good news to the Hu people on the grassland...

Although the profit from buying tea bricks from the south is good, how can anyone control a tea source and make money from scratch, making it even more pornographic and violent?

What's more, these tea sources do not need to occupy the original cultivated land at all. They only need the Montenegrin people settled in Huguan Dangtaiyuan to continue planting and production. The cost is quite low.

With this alone, Fei Qian's trade profits with the Hu people can increase by at least 30 to 40%!

After hearing Fei Qian's words, Xun Chen looked at the tea soup, his eyes almost shining, he shook his head and said: "... Congratulations, lord! This is really... really..."

Xun Chen looked at the tea soup in his hand and couldn't find any words to describe it. Maybe "a fortune" is not an exaggeration. Although he was surprised, he also knew that Fei Qian definitely didn't call him here just to show off a new source of wealth. , but there is something else.

Sure enough, after adding another cup of tea soup, Fei Qian waved his hand for the attendants to retreat, and then said: "Liang Dao came to report that the Black Mountain people picking tartary buckwheat discovered Yuan's soldiers and horses in the mountains..."

"What?!" Even Xun Chen, who has always been calm, couldn't help but shake his hands when he heard the news, and the tea soup almost spilled out.

Fei Qian nodded, confirming that Xun Chen heard correctly, and then said: "... It is probably because of the inconvenience in transporting food and grass between mountain roads. These Yuan soldiers stopped to fish and hunt to replenish their supplies, while waiting for the follow-up food and grass..."

Xun Chen picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

Fei Qian could see that Xun Chen's hands seemed to be shaking.

For the moment, Yuan Shao is a behemoth, completely different from the Yang family who is strong on the outside and capable on the inside. In fact, the Yang family is a representative of the Shanxi gentry who transformed Shandong into a gentry. Although it is a bit difficult to say, the actual situation is like this. Although they are nominally equal to the Yuan family, a local gentry in Shandong, the gap in strength is very large.

Not much else to say, just from the Liu Xiu era, the various preferential policies and political tilt towards Jizhou and Yuzhou that have continued to the present, and the resulting disciples and old officials all over the world, are already difficult for the Yang family. It's hopeless.

Yuan Shao fell and Cao Cao became fat.

The death of Yuan Shu gave Sun Ce an advantage.

The foundation of the two Yuan Dynasties, which has gone through many twists and turns in history, can still support a Wei State and a Wu State, which is enough to prove how tyrannical the Yuan family is now.

Although I know that Yuan Shao will not be very good in the future, he can only stand on the shoulders of historical giants and speak without backache. And if Fei Qian and Yuan Shao go to war now, how many people can achieve the goal of "a person who is not strong in ambition is not wise"?

"I wonder who will lead the army?" Xun Chen was obviously aware of this, but soon he recovered from the initial shock and asked in a deep voice.

Fei Qian glanced at the wooden slip and said: "There are two recognition flags, one should be Yuan and the other Gao...the men and horses, they are not too close, and the Black Mountain people don't know how to count...but it is estimated to be at least three thousand." ..."Although the people in Montenegro don't know how to read, don't underestimate the wisdom of the grassroots people. Although he didn't know how to read, he could still draw patterns like a cat or a tiger, but it was difficult for these Black Mountain people to count. He could only make a rough estimate based on his description.

This can be regarded as an additional benefit for the Black Mountain people to be settled nearby...

"Yuan, Gao?"

"High cadre and high Yuancai..." Fei Qian nodded.

A general who is neither good nor bad. In history, Gao Gan managed to hold off Cao Cao's offensive for more than half a year. He was much better than Yuan Shao's sons. Of course, he can't be said to be a second-rate top player, just average. For him to lead the army shows that Yuan Shao attaches great importance to the Shangdang Taiyuan area in Bingzhou, but not too much. After all, Yuan Shao's main direction now is to kill Gongsun Zan and digest the territory of Youzhou.

"General Yuan..." Fei Qian shook his head and said, "Could it be that the general has settled in Youzhou? He wants to expand and merge the state? There seems to be something fishy..."

It is not that war cannot be fought, but once this war begins, it will not end in a month, two months, or a year or two. He was confronting Yuan Shao so quickly. During this period of time, he was running around here and there. He had to exercise strenuously before the food he ate was fully digested. It would be strange if he did not suffer from appendicitis...

Xun Chen pinched his beard, pondered for a moment, and said thoughtfully: "What the lord said is true. In my opinion, the general may not want to fight with the lord!"

"Oh?" Fei Qian looked at Xun Chen and asked, "Youruo, please tell me."

Xun Chen stroked his beard and said: "In terms of soldiers, the number of three thousand is neither too small nor too many. If the general wants to seize the north, he will definitely not send this number. This is his number." First; Second, we did not march along the Hanoi road, and it was difficult to transport grain and grass directly, and the rugged mountain road was what we were doing? We could only fight for time! Therefore, a certain person boldly speculated that the Lord’s return to Pingyang... The general has not yet Know it..."

Xun Chen spoke slowly at first, but then gradually sped up, "...Therefore, the general is marching this time not to fight, but to gain..."

"Oh..." Fei Qian understood what he was saying, thought about it for a moment, and felt that what Xun Chen said was quite reasonable, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

This is the benefit of being a counselor. Before, Fei Qian only considered that if he and Yuan Shao had an affair, there would be big trouble. After all, the Yuan family far surpassed Fei Qian in terms of economy and population in Hedong, and now Fei Qian The spread of the stall is too big. If Yuan Shao comes up with some dirty tricks, Fei Qian's backyard will start to churn. Therefore, it is best not to fight for the time being. We will delay it for a few years. By then, Fei Qian's territory will be stabilized. came down, and the two Yuans started fighting again. With one rising and the other falling, it was naturally better than falling out now.

"Good!" Fei Qian nodded and said, "But...well, I understand..."

Fei Qian didn't ask the question, he just looked at Xun Chen's eyes and knew the answer. Although he was somewhat reluctant to leave Pingyang now, after all, it was a big deal at the moment, and he couldn't tolerate too much love between his children, so he changed his mind. He said: "I won't bother you two masters anymore. Youruo, please go down and assemble a thousand cavalry. They will go out to join the party tomorrow! Let Zhang Xiu and Zhang Bojin accompany the army and lead the vanguard! Within Pingyang... I will leave it to Youruo..."

"Wei! Don't you dare not do your best for your lord!" Xun Chen left the table and bowed, accepted the order and left.

If, as Xun Chen said, Yuan Shao sent this army, it is very likely that he heard that Fei Qian was dead and came to seize the territory...

After all, the Yuan family's flag is flying high. If Bingbei is really without an owner, then it is reasonable to send a senior official or something to bring some partial troops to plant the flag. If you want to grab territory, you have to grab some time, so you would rather take the mountain road with higher risks than the official road that requires a long detour and takes more time.

According to this idea, there is only one way to solve this problem.

If Fei Qian goes there in person and lets the army sent by Yuan Shao, whether it is led by a high-ranking cadre or a team led by a descendant of the Yuan family, see with his own eyes Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west, then what he has done before The news that General Zhengxi died is naturally just a rumor.

Then Yuan Shao is very likely to give up his desire to continue the attack. After all, fighting for territory with generals and war in unowned land are two completely different concepts.

Of course, this is also an ideal state, but no one dares to guarantee how it will develop in the future. What if Yuan Shao gets confused...