Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the second year of Xingping (195) has passed.

With the bonus of infrastructure madness attributes, Xuchang City finally took shape.

After several expansions, Xuchang City is now mainly divided into two parts: inner city and outer city.

The outer city is about 7.5 kilometers around, and its walls are winding and undulating, like a hill. It is an expansion made outward from the original Xu County location, mainly accommodates residences and markets for the people and ordinary officials. The expansion actually started when Cao Hong entered Xu County, and it never stopped after Li Dian took over.

As for the inner city, which is today's imperial city, it is located in the southeast corner of the outer city, and is square in shape, covering an area of ​​about two square kilometers. The inner city is clearly outlined, like a mound, about three meters above the ground.

The inner city plans mainly include Xuchang Palace, Jingfu Palace, Chengguang Palace, Yongshitai, Yuxiu Platform, etc.

Xuchang Palace is the place where Emperor Xian of Han ruled the dynasty and the concubines in the harem temporarily lived.

Xuchang Imperial Palace actually has three walls, namely Guocheng, inner city and palace city, which is the same as the standards of ancient capitals such as Chang'an and Luoyang.

However, the palace is still in the construction stage, so the emperor's concubines can only temporarily live in the county government offices in the outer city.

Yuxiutai is the place where the emperor worships. Although the palace has not been completed, this does not prevent the emperor from worshiping the late emperor.

At the beginning of the new year, the emperor changed the reign of Xingping to Jian'an, and formally issued an edict to the world to move the capital to Xuchang, Yingchuan!

As soon as the imperial edict was issued, the world was shocked!

The princes turned their attention to Xuchang, and those who had ideas from all over the Han Dynasty also turned their attention to Xuchang and the emperor.

In the General's Mansion,

Because there were a lot of things happening two days ago, Lu Yan, as the General of the Cavalry, came to Xuchang very rarely.

After learning from Xun Yu that Xun You was in Jingzhou, Lu Yan once again instigated Cao Cao to write a letter himself and even recruit Xun You in the name of the emperor.

"Mr. Lu, I remember when I first met the emperor, you asked Xun You about whereabouts." Speaking of this, Cao Cao couldn't help but tease, "Who is Xun You? It can make you worry about for a long time!"

Who is Xun You? Lu Yan doesn’t know how to describe it, so he can’t tell the achievements in the official history.

After thinking about it, Lu Yan finally concluded: "Xun You acted carefully and low-key, had many strategies, and his strategy was not inferior to Aichi and Fengxiao."

Cao Cao was excited when he heard this, "There are so many wise men in the world! I will write a letter to Xun You, hoping that he can come to Xuchang for the sake of the emperor."

Lu Yan nodded, he felt that this time it should be fine.

Although Xun You looked down on Cao Cao in the past, now with the emperor and the huge reputation brought by the promotion of new paper, Xun You will definitely respond to the recruitment.

Cao Cao took out the highest-end, and the only one that needed to be bought according to the number of pieces, and wrote: "Today, the chaos is in chaos, and the wise man is exhausted. But Gu Guan has become Shu Han for a long time..."

Lu Yan saw this sentence in a hurry, and as for the other content, he didn't care.

Cao Cao's strategist group includes Xun Yu, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Xun You are about to join. Lu Yan suppressed his feelings in his heart: "Boss Cao's strategist group has taken shape, and now the top brother Xun You, who is full of wisdom, is here. With them, I don't need to worry about Boss Cao at all times. Alas... I'm so fucked for Boss Cao!"

Lu Yan can finally have a pleasant fishing trip again!

In fact, except for the occasional trip to Lu Yan when there are major events, he spends most of the rest of the time...

Don't mention this,

Let’s talk about a major event that has happened in Chenliu County recently.

After returning from Xuchang, Lu Yan and Guo Jia were busy promoting new paper.

So, as if mushrooms were springing after a rain, there were suddenly many bookstores with official backgrounds in Chenliu City.

In the bookstore, all the books printed on ordinary quality new paper.

The Four Books and Five Classics are the most basic needs of scholars.

There are also some very interesting books in the bookstore, such as: "Journey to the West", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Jin Ping Mei"... Uh, this one is crossed out in the end.

At first, the people were still worried. After all, the books sold in the bookstore were all printed on paper!

In the impression of the people, books compiled with bamboo slips are so expensive, books compiled with paper that are even more expensive than bamboo slips... Then wouldn't you want to lose everything if you buy one?

But when a poor scholar wearing a torn cotton jacket brought out three books from the bookstore with tears in his eyes, all the people of Chenliu County finally became dry!

Guo Jia and Lu Yan were watching the bookstore from afar.

Seeing that the scholar came out with the book in hand, someone finally took the courage to go in and ask for the price. Guo Jia couldn't help but give Lu Yan a thumbs up: "Your trick is really amazing."

Lu Yan smiled slightly and did not answer, but said in his heart: "Tell me... that's all the tricks that have been played in later generations... I can't get on the table."

They have saved a lot of savings over the years, and the price of a book ranging from a hundred to a few hundred essays is simply too cheap for them!

"So cheap!"

"I bought five books and it was only a good deal!"

"Buy! Buy! Buy! My son can finally study!"

Five newly opened bookstores in Chenliu County were sold out in just one day.

Not only that, the people queuing at the entrance of the bookstore have even lined up from the entrance of the bookstore to the entrance of Chenliu City...

Since the sales of books far exceeded expectations, Lu Yan, who originally planned to open a bookstore to Yingchuan and other counties, could only slow down temporarily. Of course, his books should be given priority to supply Chenliu local areas.

Cao Hong, now the top leader of the United Chamber of Commerce.

He was surrounded by Vice President Zheng Jing and other officials from the Chamber of Commerce.

I arrived at the General Cavalry Mansion early this morning to wait.

Without it, they want books and they need to ship many books to other prefectures and counties to sell. Now, no matter what business it is, the sales volume is far inferior to selling books!

......

When Xuchang was building palaces and expanding the city, Chenliu County was selling books in full swing.

Gongsun Zan in the north also began to build a large-scale construction in Yijing.

Gongsun Zan, who used to be awesome in the north, lost consecutive battles under the joint confrontation between Liu Yu's generals and Yuan Shao.

Seeing that his soldiers were losing money and their strength was getting worse day by day, Gongsun Zan finally chose to lead his troops back to Yi County, turned offensive to defend, and began to imitate Cao Cao to start military farming.

Yanzhou's strategy of farming brought a lot of benefits to Cao Cao, which everyone can see, and there is no secret.

Liu Bei from Xuzhou, Yuan Shao from Jizhou, and Lu Bu from Qingzhou had long begun to imitate Cao Cao and started to farm farms. It was too late for Gongsun Zan.

As for the princes such as Liu Biao in the south, they did not lack food...

Gongsun Zan chose to build a military fortress on the banks of Yishui, called Yijinglou.

But unlike the turtle fortress built by Dong Zhuo, Yi Jinglou abandoned all magnificent and flashy buildings and only brought defense measures to the extreme.

Yijinglou has stockpiled nearly three million hu of grain and made a door with iron. Only Gongsun Zan and his wives and concubines live inside. Men over seven years old are not allowed to enter.

He planned to fight a protracted battle with Yuan Shao with Yi Jinglou's strong defense, and wanted to waste Yuan Shao to death.

Unfortunately, Gongsun Zan just built a tomb for himself.

In the south, Wang Lang, the prefect of Kuaiji, was attacked by Sun Ce in Guling.

Sun Ce made several battles across the river and returned home in failure. In the end, he adopted Sun Jing's plan and went around to the rear to steal Wang Lang's butt, which defeated Wang Lang.
Chapter completed!