Lu Yi ordered Chen Deng and Zhuge Liang to do their work, and stayed in the government office for a while before taking Nangong Yan and Shi Huan back to the Lu family.
The three of them rode horses and walked on the road. They saw people greeting them from time to time.
Lu Yi kept nodding and smiling in response.
Seeing some children chasing each other in groups, Lu Yi felt in a trance for a moment.
I feel like I'm back in my childhood.
The only difference is that the people around him are all wearing ancient costumes.
Lu Yi couldn't help but sigh: "It's really nice to have such a peaceful and prosperous age."
Nangong Yan smiled and said, "This is all your fault, Brother Lu."
"Since Brother Lu took over Jiangdong and destroyed the Sun family, Wu County has not experienced war again."
"Especially in the past two years, taxes have been reduced, people have been encouraged to reclaim land, and civilian and military villages have been established, which has really made the clothes in Jiangdong prosperous."
"My father came here before and told me that even our Nangong family's water transport business has improved a lot."
Shi Huan also smiled and said: "It would be really good if there could be no war and the people in Jiangdong states and counties could live a stable life."
After a pause, Shi Huan seemed to be lost in memories and said: "Imagine that when I was a child, I was fighting everywhere and the people were not hungry."
"And now, let alone having enough food and clothing, at least we can no longer live without a meal for three days."
"The businesses of the major families are also booming."
"My wife is already this old and she gave birth to a child for me."
"Even my brother-in-law Zhu Zhi has given birth to children in the past two years because he has settled down."
"Think about it before. He had no intention of doing this at all. He didn't even have an heir, so he had to let Ran'er adopt him as his son."
Nangong Yan nodded in agreement and said, "This is the reason why people's lives are better."
Lu Yi also nodded.
The three of them returned to the Lu family.
Nangong Yan and Shi Huan also returned to their homes.
Lu Yi returned to his yard.
It's mid-morning now.
The warm sun shines on the earth, giving the yard a golden glow.
Under the sun, Da Qiao was patiently teaching Lu Hao how to read and write.
As the eldest son of a concubine, Lu Hao is now four years old and can run around.
Xiao Qiao and Lu Qiling sat together, talking and laughing, while rocking the cradle.
In the cradle, Lu Yi's son and daughter were sleeping soundly.
Zhuge Ruoxue is doing embroidery.
Although Lu Yi is now the lord of Jiangdong, and the Lu family is the first family in Jiangdong, with business spread across all states and counties, and is as rich as the country, Zhuge Ruoxue still insists on weaving and embroidery.
Especially Lu Yi's children, almost all the clothes they wear are made by her.
Huang Yueying and Cao Jie were writing and drawing on the wood.
Now, Huang Yueying and Cao Jie's bellies are swollen.
They were all determined to be pregnant by doctors.
Among them, Huang Yueying has been five months old.
Cao Jie is only a little over four months old.
Although they were pregnant, the two women did not settle down to raise the baby, but were still busy every day.
They were thinking of ways to make a wooden cow and a flowing horse.
Before, someone told Lu Yi that when harvesting grain, the people often had to work hard to carry the grain because of the long distance.
Some old people even died of exhaustion on the field ridge.
Therefore, Lu Yi proposed the concepts of handcarts and wooden cows and flowing horses to Huang Yueying, Cao Jie, Ma Jun, Liu Ye and others.
Today, Ma Jun and others are making handcarts.
Huang Yueying and Cao Jie are in charge of Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse.
A member of the Bu Zha tribe, Bu Lianshi, a little girl who once vowed to marry Lu Yi when she grew up in Shu County, Lujiang, has become more graceful and graceful in recent years.
On weekdays, Lianshi Bu also studies at the Lu family.
Whenever she was free, she came to Lu Yi and watched Huang Yueying and Cao Jie making various small objects.
Trainer Bu is particularly good at playing billiards.
It has swept across the entire Lu family and is invincible.
Even Lu Yi is no match for her.
At this moment, she was rolling up her sleeves, holding a file, and under Huang Yueying's instructions, she was cutting off strips of sawdust on a piece of wood.
Lu Yi looked at the busy figures of these people with a smile on his face.
At this point in life, life has been complete.
This journey has been well worth it.
If it were before time travel, even if he worked hard to death, he would not be able to have such a big family.
Moreover, all the wives are beauties.
When the girls saw Lu Yi coming back, they all said hello.
Lu Yi stopped next to Zhuge Ruoxue and asked with a smile: "Where did Feng'er go?"
The eldest son of Lu Yi and Zhuge Ruoxue was named Lu Feng.
Now, he is also two years old.
Zhuge Ruoxue smiled sweetly and said: "My third brother took me to play. It seems that my third brother doesn't have to go to school today and is very free."
Having said this, Zhuge Ruoxue frowned slightly and said, "Third brother is very worrying."
"I asked Mr. Gao yesterday. Mr. Gao said that my third brother's grades are not outstanding, but very mediocre."
"What do you think he will do when he grows up?"
Mr. Gao refers to Gao Dai, a famous scholar from Jiangdong.
He was one of the first two celebrities to be admitted into the Lu family by Lu Yi.
Another famous figure is Sheng Xian, who served as the governor of Wu County during the Ling Emperor period and was later killed by Sun Ce.
After Gao Dai joined the Lu family, he served as a teacher in the Lu family and taught reading to the children of the Lu family and some other families.
At this moment, Lu Yi couldn't help laughing when she heard Zhuge Ruoxue complaining about her third brother Zhuge Jun.
This really corresponds to the evaluation of the three Zhuge Liang brothers in the original history book: dragon, tiger, and dog.
This dragon refers to Zhuge Liang.
This tiger refers to Zhuge Jin.
This dog refers to Zhuge Dan.
To be precise, Zhuge Dan was not the brother of Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin.
But Zhuge Jun is not even as good as Zhuge Dan.
When Zhuge Ruoxue saw that Lu Yi was still laughing instead of comforting her, she said angrily: "Husband, you are still laughing!"
Lu Yi then said: "Xue'er, you are too worried."
"My first brother-in-law and second brother-in-law are both smart people and talented people."
"My third brother-in-law is mediocre. Isn't that normal?"
"How is it possible that everyone in the family is talented?"
"Besides, what's wrong with being mediocre? Being mediocre is good."
"There are still a lot of mediocre people in this world."
"Our family also has money, so it will not be a problem to support him."
"No matter how mediocre he is, he can live a lifetime of food and clothing."
"As long as he's happy."
Zhuge Ruoxue muttered: "Not good."
Lu Yi laughed.
At this moment, Zhuge Jun came back with Lu Feng in his arms.
The two sat on the swing, and Zhuge Jun hugged Lu Feng and started swinging.
While Zhuge Ruoxue continued to embroider, she glanced at Lu Yi and stopped talking.
Lu Yi said: "If you have anything to say, just say it."
Zhuge Ruoxue said: "Yesterday, Mr. Sun Shao came over."
Sun Shao, a native of Beihai, Qingzhou, followed Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, in his early years.
After Liu Yao was defeated by Sun Ce, Sun Shao became Sun Ce's confidant.
After Sun Ce died, Sun Shao followed Lu Yi.
After Sun Ce's death, Sun Shao and Cheng Pu persuaded Mrs. Wu to give up her position as the master of the Sun family in Jiangdong and support Lu Yi as the master.
Mrs. Wu agreed for the first time and asked Sun Quan to go to Lu Yi with the seal and push Lu Yi to the position of Lord of Jiangdong.
However, later, driven by the Sun family members Sun Jing, Sun He, Sun Fu and others, Mrs. Wu went back on her word and wanted to rebel, but was suppressed by Lu Yi.
In this rebellion, Sun Shao no longer sided with Mrs. Wu.
Therefore, although Sun Shao assisted Sun Ce and was Sun Ce's confidant, he also held important positions in Jiangdong like Zhang Hong.
Lu Yi asked curiously: "What did he say?"
Zhuge Ruoxue whispered: "He said that Feng'er is already two years old. If you are sure to make him the heir apparent, you should arrange a special teacher for him so that he can receive the best education. According to Mr. Sun Shao's words, He should have come forward on his own initiative and was willing to do this."
Lu Yi's eyes fell on Lu Feng.
At this moment, he was sitting on Zhuge Jun's lap, looking very happy as the swing started swinging.
Zhuge Ruoxue's expression changed slightly when she saw that Lu Yi didn't agree immediately.
In the past, my husband had always been very determined to make his eldest son the heir apparent!
Zhuge Ruoxue suddenly felt a little nervous and said, "Husband? You, you have other plans?"
Only then did Lu Yi come back to his senses, looked at Zhuge Ruoxue and said, "I know what you are thinking. Normally, Feng'er is definitely the heir apparent, and I can keep my word."
"You were the first to follow me, and you have worked hard over the years. You are a very good wife."
Zhuge Ruoxue's face turned pale.
These words mean that you really regretted it?
Zhuge Ruoxue lowered her head and tried to continue embroidering while pretending to be calm and said: "It doesn't matter. Husband, you have other considerations about this matter. I am a woman, so it is inconvenient for me to participate."
The other women listened to the conversation between Zhuge Ruoxue and Lu Yi and looked over.
After all, this matter involves the issue of the throne of the Crown Prince.
Seeing that everyone was curious, Lu Yi waved and said, "Come here, something happened today, I must explain it clearly."
Only then did all the girls gather together and stand beside Lu Yi.
Lu Yi glanced at all his women and said, "From the very beginning, I had only one idea, and that was the eldest son Xueer gave birth to for me. If he is not a fool, even if he is mediocre, I will make him the heir apparent."
"It was like this before, and it will be like this in the future."
All the girls felt a little disappointed.
A trace of expectation had just risen, but I didn't want to be ruthlessly broken.
Zhuge Ruoxue looked at Lu Yi blankly at this time.
Since she thought this way, she didn't understand why Lu Yi didn't agree just now.
Lu Yi stood up, walked past his women one by one, took their little hands and said: "I have only one purpose for arranging this, and that is to hope that you will not fight among yourself because of power."
"There is only one position for the crown prince. If everyone fights for it, it will be a bloodshed situation."
"You are all my women, and the children you give birth to are all my children and my flesh and blood. I don't want to see anyone die tragically because of this."
“Rather than letting you get your hopes up, it’s better to give up from the beginning.”
Lu Yi finally looked at Zhuge Ruoxue.
Zhuge Ruoxue was about to respond.
Lu Yi raised his hand to signal her to stop talking and said, "And today, something happened that gave me another idea."
"That is, I just received information that Cao Cao has abandoned the Central Plains, and the Central Plains is now empty."
"The Emperor is still in Xudu."
"However, he has no ability to guard the Central Plains."
"Moreover, the emperor did something extremely stupid-"
"He recruited soldiers from all the counties in the Central Plains to prevent Yuan Shao and me from Jiangdong."
"Yuan Shao is extremely powerful. I joined forces with Cao Cao before just to fight against him."
"Now that Cao Cao has withdrawn from the Central Plains and the Central Plains is empty, how could Yuan Shao miss such an opportunity?"
"Yuan Shao's army is about to move south."
"Without Cao Cao guarding the Central Plains as a barrier, we in Jiangdong will soon encounter an attack by Yuan Shao's army."
"We only started to recuperate and recuperate two years ago. I also promised to give the people of Jiangdong three to five years to recuperate and recuperate."
"The most important thing is that the people in Jiangdong's prefectures and counties are indeed not recuperating and recuperating."
"Although everyone is no longer as miserable as before, exchanging children for food, but the problem of food and clothing has not yet been solved."
"At this time, in the event of a large-scale war, we in Jiangdong are in danger of overthrowing."
"Now the war has begun in Xuzhou."
"The most we can do is start the war from Hefei to Shouchun."
"The two wars have reached my limit in Jiangdong."
"Under such extreme circumstances, it is impossible for us to recruit troops from all over the country, and we can only use the Lujiang Army to fight."
"This is a battle related to Jiangdong's life and death."
"Therefore, I must go to Hefei in person to supervise the battle."
"Otherwise, once the Lujiang Army cannot resist and the war spreads across the river and burns to all parts of Wu County, we will be finished."
All the girls were a little worried.
Cao Jie asked hurriedly: "Where has my father gone?"
Lu Yi said: "Your father took away all the soldiers from the Central Plains and went to Guanzhong. He should be preparing to conquer Liangzhou, then invade Hanzhong, and then go south to Yizhou."
Cao Jie bit his lip, breathed a sigh of relief, and said a little guiltily: "Husband, I'm sorry, my father will leave suddenly and Jiangdong -"
Lu Yi smiled and said: "Although I am very depressed, this is human nature. Why do you have to apologize? Even if your father stands in front of me in person, I will only admire you and not blame you."
"It's amazing that he can hide it from the eyes of so many people in my tent."
"but--"
Lu Yi's face darkened, he glanced at all the women and said, "This time is extremely dangerous. Even I am not sure of victory."
"However, no matter what the cost, I will not let Yuan Shao's army cross the river."
"But there is always a chance."
"If I cross it, I will have no choice but to die on the battlefield."
All the women looked at Lu Yi nervously.
Lu Yi made a quiet gesture and said, "Listen to me first."
The women suppressed their worries and continued to listen to Lu Yi.
Lu Yi looked at Zhuge Ruoxue and said, "What I mean is that if I die in battle, if I make Feng'er my crown prince, Xue'er, do you think you can control the situation?"
"All states and counties in Jiangdong have mutual interests."
"Once a two-year-old child sits in my position, Jiangdong will immediately fall apart."
"You won't end well either."
"Although they seem to be surrendering to me one by one now, it is all because the interests are combined, and I just gave them all the benefits they wanted."
"But if I am gone, these people will show their fangs one by one."
"You will not be their opponent."
"Sun Ce's previous ending is a precedent."
"So, on the way back just now, I thought about it."
"If I really die in battle during this expedition, the prince will cease to exist."
Looking at all the women, Lu Yi said: "None of you, including the children, are allowed to mention the title of Lord of Jiangdong again."
"From now on, you can take care of yourself in the Lu family and have enough food and clothing."
"Whoever wants to take the position of Lord of Jiangdong——"
Lu Yi said solemnly: "Others can drive her and the children she gave birth to out of the Lu family and no longer have anything to do with you."
All the girls lowered their heads.
Lu Yi looked at Zhuge Ruoxue and said, "As the master of the backyard, you must especially take responsibility."
"I will write two letters today."
"You take it."
"If I really die in battle, one of these letters will be the appointment of the next head of the Lu family."
"When the time comes, ask Nangong Yan to take the letter to Chaisang, call Brother Xun back, and ask him to take over the Lu family."
Zhuge Ruoxue almost cried.
Lu Yi said in a deep voice: "Don't cry, listen to me."
Zhuge Ruoxue held back tears and nodded.
Lu Yi continued: "You give the second letter to your second brother Zhuge Liang."
"If I die in battle, ask your second brother Zhuge Liang to immediately take this letter to find Chen Deng, Gu Yong, Liu Ye, Yan Xiang, Zhang Hong, Cheng Pu and Taishi Ci."
"At that time, your second brother Zhuge Liang will take over the position of Lord of Jiangdong."
"Tomorrow's morning meeting, I will also inform these seven people and ask them to push your second brother Zhuge Liang to take over."
(End of chapter)
