Chapter 569 A Secret Letter From Hou Cheng! [Ask for Monthly Votes]

Not long after, an electric commuter car drove over. There were two helpless middle-aged people sitting in the car. Behind the car was a red-faced man riding a horse. It was Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang who were sworn friends with Sun Ce.

Guo Jia said with a smile:

"Chang Wen, get off your horse quickly. Since we received your news, we have been waiting day and night for you, and finally you are here... These two are your father and mother, right? Come and drink some hot soup to warm yourself up after a long journey. Thank you for the hard work everyone.”

Guo Jia greeted him warmly and even used the intercom to ask Cheng Lian, the person in charge of the recruiting center, to come over quickly.

Wei Yan got off his horse, raised his hands and asked:

"This kid is new here, he doesn't know where to start..."

"I am Guo Jia from the Secrecy Bureau. Have you heard of me?"

Upon hearing this name, Wei Yan saluted again without saying a word:

"I heard the generals mentioned Mr. Fengxiao on the way. I don't want to see such a young man as a vulgar warrior with no sense of etiquette. Please forgive me, Mr. Fengxiao."

"That's it, let's go out. Let's go for a walk. Let's go in and eat."

Guo Jia's name has spread throughout the military. This intelligence leader who claims to be able to pry open the mouth of a stone has no bottom line in order to obtain information.

For a good person, after Guo Jia's interrogation, it is very likely that a bunch of odds and ends will be left, or only a bunch of odds and ends will be left.

Anyway, as long as you are targeted by him, the best way is to confess quickly and never try to deny it, because the more you deny it, the more energetic Guo Fengxiao will be. He can even bring evil ghosts from the underworld to participate in the interrogation.

Wei Yan heard too many similar rumors along the way and thought of hiding from the Secrecy Bureau when he arrived in Chang'an. However, as soon as he arrived in Chang'an, he was named by Guo Jia.

"Waiter, three big bowls of mutton soup, five pounds of cooked mutton, ten sesame seed cakes, and a refreshing cold dish."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll be here soon!"

Ma Chao carried the teapot and poured hot milk tea for Wei Yan and the others. Seeing that Wei Yan's parents were a little restrained, he specially arranged them to a small private room next to them to let the couple calm down first.

Ma Dai observed the family of three and made inferences based on their clothes, accents, etc., and felt that the Wei family should be a wealthy family in Yiyang. They had hundreds of acres of land and a group of servants. They were incomparable to ordinary gentry, but in He was considered a prominent figure in the village, so he could cultivate a proud general like Wei Yan.

Soon, the cooked mutton was brought over, and the waiter very cleverly sent some mutton, side dishes, snacks and other food to the private room so that Wei Yan's parents could eat and drink well.

Wei Yan took a sip of milk tea, and Deng Zhi smiled and greeted him:

"I am Deng Zhi, the legitimate son of the Deng family in Xinye, with the courtesy name Bon Miao. I would like to welcome Chang Wen to Chang'an. There are many people from Nanyang here. Zhang Ji, Zhang Zhongjing, the dean of the Medical College and Tai Hospital, Huang Zhong, Huang Hansheng, Li Yan and Li Zhengfang, generals against the captives, …”

With his fellow villagers around, Wei Yan obviously relaxed a lot. When he heard that Zhuge Xuan gave up Feng Yi County and chose to serve as the prefect of Yunzhong County, he quickly stood up and saluted:

"It is my great fortune that Governor Zhuge took the initiative to guard the border. If there is an opportunity in the future, Yan Yuanzhi will hold the whip and stirrup and serve as a pawn on the border under the command of the Governor!"

Zhuge Xuan laughed:

"Chang Wen, what you said is wrong. The current Yunzhong County may be a border pass, but in two years, it will be the hinterland of our Han Dynasty. The real border pass needs to be moved three thousand miles north."

So many people gathered in the Jiuyuan and Yunzhong areas not just to fight crickets and play poker. If they don't take back their homeland thousands of miles away, they will not be able to support the imperial court.

His words made Wei Yan like it even more:

"Wherever the border is, I will help the court guard it!"

This is not Wei Yan's big talk, he is really capable, otherwise Liu Bei would not have been appointed as the prefect of Hanzhong and served as the bridgehead to attack Cao Wei.

Zhuge Xuan also liked Wei Yan very much:

"When you graduate from college, if you still want to go to Yunzhong, I will directly recruit you as a county commander... But by then it will be time to start the Western Expedition. You may have a better choice."

When the time comes, the Han Dynasty will expand everywhere, need talents everywhere, and gain military exploits everywhere. There is a high probability that people like Wei Yan will not be willing to be a guard general.

After all, in the original work, he even proposed the adventurous plan to attack Ziwu Valley more than once.

Wei Yan was the kind of person who was naturally adventurous and believed in finding wealth through danger, so when his life was bleak, he bet on Liu Bei who was fleeing everywhere, and then he was reused.

If the strategy of surprise attack on Ziwu Valley is really successful, Wei Yan's historical status will be greatly improved, and there is a high probability that he will enter the Martial Temple to enjoy the incense.

A few people chatted while eating. By the time Cheng Lian arrived, everyone was already familiar with each other.

Cheng Lian once visited Wei Yan's home, but unfortunately Wei Yan had already left at that time, and he only saw Wei Yan's parents. When he saw the couple again, Cheng Lian specially brought a gift.

After saying hello, Cheng Lian took a sesame seed cake and stuffed it with a few slices of cooked mutton and a chopstick of fried mustard shreds with oily sharp peppers. He took a big bite with great pleasure. He was about to ask about the situation in Jiangdong and look at Zhao Xian. If the museum could win over a few more people, Wei Yan took out a letter from his arms:

"General Hou Cheng asked me to send a letter to Cheng Jijiu. Please read it."

"Oh? That guy Hou Cheng doesn't know a few Chinese characters, but he can still write letters? Can't they all be in Pinyin?"

After mocking his good brother, Cheng Lian tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper inside, and looked at it carefully while eating sesame seed cakes.

The letter was very simple. It was that Hou Cheng wanted to recruit all the heroes in Jiangdong and prepare Cheng Lian to change his name to brother.

"I just knew there was nothing serious to say."

Cheng Lian stuffed the letter into the envelope and put it back in his arms, then asked for a bowl of mutton blood tofu soup and ate with everyone.

After eating and drinking, he drove an electric tricycle to take Wei Yan's family to the Zhaoxian Hall, and asked Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others to get close to Wei Yan. Then, he rode an electric car to the Weiyang Palace on the pretext of reporting to the emperor.

After scanning his face at the palace gate, Cheng Lian came to the palace and met Liu Xie:

"Your Majesty, Hou Cheng has sent a letter."

"Take it out and have a look."

Cheng Lian agreed, took out Hou Cheng's letter, unfolded it, and pressed it on the table with the back facing up.

Then he picked up the small spray bottle and sprayed some liquid on the back of the letter paper. Soon, some words gradually appeared on the back of the letter paper:

"Set up a relay station in Xunyang County and three sets on Tianzhu Mountain. If Sun Bofu has any second thoughts, you can report it to the court immediately."

After reading it, Liu Xie said:

"There are several sets of high-power relay station antennas in the B&B warehouse. If Cheng Jijiu has time, you might as well go and set them up under the banner of visiting the heroes of Jiangdong... Let the people of the Security Bureau assist you. Don't make this matter public for the time being."

"I will prepare my luggage now."

Cheng Lian just wanted to go to Jiangdong to have a look. It was a rare opportunity to travel at public expense, so he naturally couldn't miss it.

After he left the palace, Liu Xie came to the Taoist temple next to Weiyang Palace.

Soon, there were some unpacked solar panels and a complete set of relay station equipment in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, as well as several four-wheeled transport carriages with shock absorption functions, which could easily transport these materials away.

Zhang Lu and several Taoists loaded the supplies onto the carriage, covered it with tarpaulins, and pasted the Tai Chi diagram, Bagua diagram and other Five Pecks of Rice Sect decorations.

When Cheng Lian led a team of 100 people to arrive, all the carriages were ready.

The Five Pecks of Rice Sect was responsible for covering up their whereabouts, and the people of the Secret Service were responsible for operation. A secret contact station that could transmit intelligence had its prototype.

When the group arrived at the city gate, the gatekeeper greeted them curiously and asked:

"Cheng Jijiu, are you going out on business?"

"Yes, I'm going to visit several talents in Jiangdong. The national teacher wants to find a mountain in the south to build a Taoist temple. We will go together so that we can take care of each other."

In this way, everyone left Chang'an and headed towards Jiangxia County.

In the real world, Li Yu went for a run after getting up, and after breakfast, he drove to the seafood market and got a piece of tuna that he had ordered.

To make dumplings, you need some different fillings.

In addition to tuna, he also bought a few kilograms of premium black tiger shrimp, peeled the shrimp and mixed it into the meat filling, which must have a unique flavor.

On the way back, Li Yu called Lin Xu:

"Are there any precautions for making dumplings with tuna?"

"Get some cooked fat pork, cut it into rice-sized cubes and mix it in. The taste will become very different. This method is also applicable to various shrimp dumplings, which can increase the fragrance."

Back at the B&B, Mu Guiying asked:

"Can this meat be eaten raw?"

Li Yu nodded:

"Yes, but it's best not to eat it, as it is prone to parasites."

Mu Guiying opened the food documentary she watched last night and asked:

"It says that eating raw fish with white wine is fine, and white wine has a bactericidal effect."

Li Yu smiled and said:

"Don't listen to what the above says. If the parasites are really so weak, there won't be so many clinics and hospitals specializing in parasites in areas where raw fish is popular."

People in the southwest say that mushrooms are not poisonous, but hospitals even have professional fungal poisoning clinics. People in Sichuan and Chongqing say that eating spicy food will not cause internal heat, but the anorectal hospitals all over the streets still expose everything.

As for the Guangdong and Guangxi regions where raw fish is rampant, doctors are very good at treating various parasitic diseases, and the island country next door that likes to eat raw fish has more experience in treating parasitic diseases.

Mu Guiying searched for photos of various parasitic diseases and immediately gave up the idea of ​​eating raw fish.

She asked curiously:

"You are talking about the diseases that they are good at treating over there, so what are the doctors in the Central Plains good at treating?"

Li Yu thought for a moment and gave the answer:

"Esophageal cancer, the Central Plains like to eat very hot rice and porridge, and are also keen on drinking all kinds of strong liquor. The incidence of esophageal cancer is the highest in the country... Of course, the most common disease is poverty. If you have no money, you can only wait to die if you get a minor disease."

"Don't worry, my beloved concubine, if you get an incurable disease, I will definitely visit famous mountains for you to find elixirs..."

Seeing that Li Yu was in a bad mood, Mu Guiying quickly started a joke.

Diao Chan on the side asked speechlessly:

"Which god is so arrogant that he needs the apprentice of the queen to beg for help? If my husband is really sick, my mother-in-law can cure him by herself, and there is no need for other gods to help."

Li Yu: "..."

You two cursed me to be sick early in the morning. Do you want to be punished by the family law?

Well, I will find a way to educate the queen tonight to prevent her from provoking me all the time.

As for the baby cicada, you can arrange two sets of Olympiad test papers. If she is not respectful, I will download those super math problems and see if she dares to be naughty.

Li Yu mixed the dough first, and then began to prepare the fillings.

Diao Chan rarely had time to spare, so she quickly washed her hands and prepared to make dumplings together.

Mu Guiying took a honeydew and sat aside, chewing it:

"It's a pity that the Yunxiao brand automatic dumpling machine is not here, otherwise even if there are ten times more dumplings, it can be quickly wrapped."

Li Yu said:

"Don't just say it, just say whether you will make dumplings later?"

"Of course, we will make dumplings. We will hold a dumpling-making competition in Muke Village. As the noble queen, I have to enjoy the fun with the people. But Xiao Feiyang is clumsy and makes dumplings that are bigger than buns. I feel ashamed."

You two elder brothers don't laugh at the second brother, so don't say anything about each other... Li Yu prepared the stuffing, looked at the time and saw that it was still early, and prepared some cold dishes suitable for dumplings.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, a group of ancient people sat in the restaurant and started making dumplings under the leadership of Li Yu.

Everyone made dumplings in a lively manner and cooked them in the earthen pot used for stewing meat. As soon as they were served, Mu Guiying took away a small bowl.

Master, one plate, Sister Yunxiao, one plate, Xiao Feiyang, one plate... Forget it, Sister Yunxiao will give her a special plate. If there is less, there will not be enough for Qiongxiao, Bixiao and Zhao Gongming.

Tuna dumplings tasted really different and delicious, and the diced fat that Lin Xu suggested added added a bit of richness and the unique aroma of animal fat.

Zhou Ruotong, who came specially for lunch, nodded and said:

"It's really delicious, I can make more dumplings in the future."

While eating, Lu Bu came. Seeing that everyone was eating dumplings, he served a bowl without saying a word. He didn't have time to peel garlic, so he simply cut half an onion and held it in his hand. He ate a dumpling and a bite of onion, which was very refreshing.

"Is Tuoba Liwei's family all here?"

"They are all here, no one ran away. According to our plan, their family, plus several leaders of the Suotou group, each person has a bridge pile... If we use this method to drive live piles, how strong will the bridge be?"

Yuwen Chengdu suggested:

"Marquis Wen has learned the experience thoroughly this time, and will promote it in the future. When building bridges in Yizhou, Liangzhou, the Western Regions, Youzhou and other places, we can use the leaders of foreign races to drive live piles, and use their lives to lay the foundation for China's prosperity."

Originally, the bloody matter was stunned. It was Yuwen Chengdu who made his blood boil. Lu Bu took a big bite of the onion:

"If you say so, we can't just kill Tadun when we find him later... He is active in Liaodong, so we can use him to drive piles when we build the Liaohe River Bridge. As for the leader of Goguryeo, we can use him to build the Yalu River Bridge."

During the Three Kingdoms period, Goguryeo had gradually developed in the Northeast, but it had never grown much. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Goguryeo started to improve, and then it was beaten back to its original form by a combination of punches from Li Shimin and Li Zhi, father and son.

It's interesting to say that the Xianbei, Wuhuan, Goguryeo, Khitan, Jurchen, and Houjin... These ethnic groups all developed from the Northeast, and for thousands of years, they have been harassing the Central Plains for a living.

When we go back to fight, we must occupy the Northeast to prevent it from becoming a hotbed for foreign races again.

Zhao Yun asked:

"If the people in the Northeast in the real world knew that we were fighting the three provinces in the Northeast, would they have any objections?"

Li Yu took a bite of dumplings and said:

"Now, 95% of the people in the Northeast are Han people who went to Guandong. In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, they fled to the Northeast from Hebei and Shandong to seek refuge... During the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus had always implemented high-pressure management on the Northeast and prohibited Han people from going to the Northeast. They came from that place and were afraid that another ethnic group would replace the Qing Dynasty."

Zhao Feng recalled the high school geography he had just learned, and then asked:

"I remember the book said that there are many ethnic minorities in the Northeast. Are they no longer considered Han people?"

"Just to enjoy ethnic policies. If the bonus policy is revoked in the future, many ethnic minorities will change back to Han people."

There are Manchus and Han in the Northeast, Mongolians and Han in the grasslands, Huis and Hans and Uyghurs in the Northwest, Tibetans and Hans in the plateaus, and Zhuangs, Yis and Hans, Miaos and Hans in the South. They are all Han people who joined the minority groups for various reasons.

As for the demarcation of ethnic minorities, it is not based on bloodline, but in the early days of the founding of the country, the leaders felt that Big Brother had more than 100 ethnic groups, so we should reduce them by half and make it 56.

Lu Bu chuckled:

"A few days ago, I saw on the news that some people in China went to Mecca for pilgrimage with great difficulty, but were driven out because of their appearance... People don't look at the household registration on your ID card, but look at your facial features. If you have a Han face and stick to someone's cold butt, I can laugh at this news for several years."

After talking about these, Li Yu asked about the business:

"Have you started the return journey?"

"It has started. Mr. Zhongde left 3,000 people, using the food looted from the Xianbei camp as supplies, and stationed in the eastern foothills of Yinshan to prepare for the next step northward."

Tens of thousands of captives marched to Jiuyuan in a mighty manner, but the speed was very slow. Fortunately, there were drones hovering all the time, and the cavalry was divided into several teams. Although there were several small-scale riots, after Cheng Yu's suppression, the Xianbei people are now as obedient as dogs.

Mu Guiying was very curious about Cheng Yu's methods, but Lu Bu was afraid that it would affect everyone's eating dumplings, so he didn't mention it, but changed the topic to talk about something else.

After eating the dumplings, Lu Bu poured half a basin of dumpling soup and drank it slowly. Seeing that there were still some dumplings left, he took it to the Three Kingdoms world to improve Cheng Yu's life.

Dian Wei rode over and reported to Lu Bu:

"The wolves behind ate those corpses, and they were obviously not full. They were still hanging behind the team. Should we shoot those wolves?"

The method of suppression that Lu Bu didn't say at the dinner table was to cut the troublemakers into pieces and throw them on the roadside to feed the wolves.

However, those wolves that had eaten human flesh could not be kept, otherwise they would develop the habit of eating human flesh and continue to attack humans in the future.

Lu Bu said:

"Don't shoot them first. The wolves following behind can make the captives feel urgent. When they are not tracking, shoot all the wolves and peel off the wolf skins to make leg wraps for the soldiers."

"Okay, I'll go now...Mr. Zhongde, what do your dumplings taste like?"

Cheng Yu smiled and handed him another serving of dumplings:

"Eat if you want to, why are you so shy?"

"I'm afraid of disturbing Mr. Zhongde's interest."

Cheng Yu smiled and said:

"I have never been interested in eating, but killing people is more exciting...Wen Hou, is His Majesty really going to let me serve as the governor of Yanmen? Then the foreign tribes around Yanmen will have a good life!"