Ji County, Youzhou Prefecture
Dongfang Jian looked at the pitter-patter of rain outside the house, feeling extremely frustrated. He was worried about the rain.
It had been a month since he returned to Ji County from Zhuo County. After returning to Ji County, he had issued several orders. The first was the recruitment order. Anyone with a skill would be employed regardless of their background or character. Xun You was in charge of this. He had also recruited a great talent, Ma Jun. The second was to order the people to actively reclaim the wasteland. For the first three years of the reclaimed wasteland, the people would pay 50% of the grain, and after five years, they would pay 30%. After ten years, the land would belong to the reclaimed land, and they would pay a certain amount of grain every year. After this policy was introduced, the temptation of land caused the commoners to go and reclaim the wasteland. This angered the great clans of Youzhou and they all rose up against Dongfang Jian. However, Dongfang Jian relied on bloody means to kill a group of people before he pushed this matter forward. However, the Youzhou officials knew that this was only a temporary suppression. Once there was a change, they would quickly raise their heads. Although the great clans of Youzhou objected, the people were very happy. After all, having a piece of land was their lifelong pursuit. For this reason, Dongfang Jian's position in their hearts was comparable to that of a god. The third was to reorganize the armaments. After Dongfang Jian announced the order in Zhuo County, all the troops in Youzhou, except for Gongsun Zan's 20,000 troops in Youbei, had been handed over to Gao Shun and Zhang Fei. They were in charge of training the troops, cleaning up the military discipline, eliminating the old and weak, and eliminating the weak to retain the strong. In this way, Youzhou's army had taken on a new look. Although nearly half of the soldiers had been reduced, they looked much stronger than before in battle. However, as Gao Shun said, although the soldiers were trained, they still lacked killing intent. Dongfang Jian knew that soldiers who had never been to the battlefield and had never seen blood were a group of rabble. It was said that Youzhou often fought with foreign tribes at the border. Due to the incompetence of the Han Dynasty, the border troops often ran away after seeing foreign tribes. Therefore, there were very few people who had truly gone through the battlefield to kill. In order to solve these problems, Dongfang Jian had sent Zhang Fei and the others to lead these soldiers to wipe out the bandits. In less than a month, the bandits around Ji County had mostly been wiped out, and the rest had either fled or surrendered. Because of this, Zhang Fei always shouted that it was too easy to suppress the bandits and wanted to lead troops to fight the foreign races. However, he was always reprimanded by Dongfang Jian. Because the Youzhou army was equipped with very few warhorses, most of them were infantrymen. When fighting with the people on the grasslands, they could not use infantrymen to touch their cavalry. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to a massacre on the grasslands. These people all understood this principle, but they still kept complaining about this and that. They even complained to Dongfang Jian when their weapons were not handy.
Dongfang Jian looked at the weather outside and shouted,""Dian Wei."
This was a man with an unusually burly and muscular body. His face was dark, and his eyes were like copper bells. However, the light in his eyes was restrained, and a powerful battle prowess assaulted him. This person was General Dian Wei, Cao Cao's personal bodyguard who died in Wan City during the Three Kingdoms. Xun You was the first to explain why Dian Wei came to Youzhou. Xun You had returned to Yingchuan to recruit people under Dongfang Jian's orders, but the people of Yingchuan Academy were unwilling to come to Youzhou, even though these people still approved of Dongfang Jian. No matter what Xun You said, few people were willing to come. But Xun? He said he wanted to take a look. He also went to find Guo Jia and the others who were usually close to him. They all said the same thing, saying that they were just taking a look and advised him not to be an official so early. In the end, he only managed to convince Xi Zhicai to go up north alone to observe the situation. Actually, Xun You knew that Dongfang Jian's reputation had already spread throughout the Great Han Dynasty. In the hearts of the people, he was the role model of the Great Han Dynasty. The reason why they were willing to be officials was to see Dongfang Jian's true intentions.
Xun You stayed in Yingchuan for nearly a month before he returned to Youzhou with Xi Zhicai. On his way back to Youzhou, Xi Zhicai said that there was a hero named Dian Wei in Chenliu, who was a talented general. Xun You was so happy that he found Dian Wei under the lead of Xi Zhicai and used his glib tongue to trick Dian Wei into coming to Youzhou. Dongfang Jian did not express his dissatisfaction with Xun You. Instead, he expressed his gratitude to him happily. Others did not know the abilities of Xi Zhicai and Dian Wei, but Dongfang Jian knew. He immediately appointed Xi Zhicai as the Right Military Commander of the Army. Dian Wei, Zhang Fei, and the others were not satisfied with the appointment. Therefore, whenever they had the time, they would challenge Dian Wei to a duel, but they always lost. Later, Zhang Fei asked Lu Bu to find Dian Wei for a competition. Lu Bu was also a combative person. When he heard that there was someone whose martial arts skills were not inferior to his, he would not go. After Lu Bu found Dian Wei, he immediately went up to fight him. The two of them could be said to be evenly matched. The two of them fought for hundreds of rounds before Dian Wei lost by half a move. However, this half a move difference also made Zhang Fei and the others marvel. This was the first time they had seen someone who could only lose by half a move after fighting with Lu Bu for hundreds of rounds. From then on, Zhang Fei and the others would drink with Dian Wei every day and exchange pointers on martial arts.
"My Lord," Dian Wei said.
"Go to the weapon workshop and see if the method I told them works. Can they make refined iron?" Dongfang Jian asked.”
Dian Wei nodded and walked out.
The place that Dongfang Jian had sent Dian Wei to was the place that Dongfang Jian had set up after arriving in Ji County to forge weapons. Ever since Ma Jun had come, his forging standards had improved significantly, but he had never been able to forge a good weapon. Dian Wei and the others had been nagging him every day, saying that Lu Bu had a good weapon but he didn't, that he had suffered a loss in terms of weapons and that he couldn't beat them. In the end, Dongfang Jian had no choice but to find Ma Jun and tell him some of the iron-making methods he knew in the future, hoping that he could make a good weapon.
Just as Dongfang Jian was deep in thought, Lu Zhen and Zhen Jiang walked in from outside the door with food in their hands. Dongfang Jian looked at the two girls." Why are you bringing me food again? What time is it now?"”
"I heard that you haven't eaten for a day. I know you're busy, but you have to eat even if you're busy."”
Zhen Jiang said,"Sister Zhen 'er is right. You keep forgetting to eat like this. How can we be at ease?"”As he spoke, tears began to flow. Dongfang Jian was afraid that women would cry, so he immediately panicked when he saw Zhen Jiang crying."Alright, alright, I'll eat, alright?”
After saying that, he picked up the bowl and wolfed it down. Seeing Dongfang Jian eating, the two women broke into laughter. They exchanged glances with each other and revealed crafty looks.
Dongfang Jian was chatting with the two girls after dinner when he heard Zhang Fei's loud voice,""Big brother, the weather has cleared up. Let's go out for a walk.”After saying that, he walked into the house and saw the two girls smiling."Greetings, sisters-in-law."
The two women's faces instantly flushed red. The two girls looked at Zhang Fei and Zhen Jiang and said shyly,""You guys can talk first. My sister and I will go in first.”After saying that, he bowed to the two of them and walked out.
Dongfang Jian looked at the Heavenly Axiom outside." It's really sunny now. It seems that the heavens have been treating us well." Let's go out and take a look."
Accompanied by Zhang Fei, Dongfang Jian was about to leave when Dian Wei walked in. Dongfang Jian was just about to ask when he saw Dian Wei's hesitant expression and knew that he had failed again. Dongfang Jian said,"Did you fail?"”
Dian Wei nodded." Lord Ma said that the lord's method is very good, but it just can't be done well. I don't know why, but he said that he's thinking of a way."”
Dongfang Jian nodded and said nothing. He knew that it was impossible to achieve the scale of the future with the current technology, but he did not expect it to be so difficult. What exactly was wrong? After thinking about it, she still couldn't figure it out. Seeing Zhang Fei at the side, she remembered to go out with Zhang Fei. He then shook his head and stopped thinking about this matter. Accompanied by Zhang Fei and Dian Wei, they walked out together.
Dongfang Jian looked at the leisurely figures on the streets that were fresh after the rain and could not help but sigh."It's better to be an ordinary person. Work at sunrise and rest at sunset.”
Zhang Fei wanted to know why Dongfang Jian would say such a thing."Big brother, that's not right. Without big brother, how could they live such a life?”
Dian Wei continued," My lord, why do I feel that this place gives people a very peaceful and peaceful feeling? It's not as noisy as other places.”，As he said this, a serious and wise expression appeared on Dian Wei's rough face.
Dongfang Jian and Zhang Fei looked at each other and could not help but chuckle. Dian Wei turned his head to look at Dongfang Jian, his eyes full of confusion. He did not know why his lord was laughing. A large hand scratched the back of his head. That look was really interesting. The wise expression on his face had long disappeared.
"Old Dian, big brother loves the people like his own children. He does his best to take care of the refugees who come to seek refuge. He also punishes lawless people and exterminate the bandits in the territory so that the people in the county can live and work in peace.”，Zhang Fei briefly introduced Youzhou Province to Dian Wei in a very respectful tone.
Dian Wei immediately showed a grateful expression. He cupped his fists at Dongfang Jian and said,"My lord is really a talent for saving the world!"
Dongfang Jian smiled and did not say anything, but his heart was a little smug. It was no wonder he was secretly happy to be able to obtain the heartfelt admiration of two famous generals.
As they entered the main street, the commoners kept bowing to Dongfang Jian and his group. Most of these people were refugees, and Dongfang Jian was like a savior to them. These simple people were deeply grateful to Dongfang Jian, so they expressed their gratitude in the simplest and most direct way.
Dian Wei had never seen such a scene before. He was very excited when he saw the people bowing to him. He could not help but sigh in his heart,'My lord is really amazing!' In Chen Liu, everyone is afraid of me, Dian Wei! But no one has ever respected me, Dian Wei, so much!
When the three of them arrived near the inn, they saw a large circle of people surrounding the inn. The figures in the circle were shaking and dust was flying. There were also continuous roars. It was obvious that someone was fighting there.
Dongfang Jian frowned. Who exactly was causing trouble here? What infuriated Dongfang Jian even more was that no bailiffs came to stop him!
"Let's go over and take a look. I want to see just who dares to cause trouble here!”Dongfang Jian's tone was clearly filled with anger.
The three of them quickly walked forward, and Dian Wei pushed aside the onlookers.
Dongfang Jian and the other two could not help but be shocked when they saw what was inside the circle. It turned out that one of the two groups of people fighting was actually the yamen runners of Youzhou. What shocked the two of them even more was that the bailiffs were all beaten down, and there was only one person on the other side.
Dongfang Jian quickly shifted his gaze to that person. He was nine feet tall, with red phoenix eyes and silkworm-like eyebrows. His face was like a heavy jujube, his nose was straight, his mouth was square, and his ears were very big. There were five long strands of beard under his cheeks, which were more than two feet long. He was very muscular and had sharp eyebrows that reached his temples. He looked unusually heroic and extraordinary. Moreover, this person had an arrogant look on his face.
At this moment, this arrogant young man crossed his arms and said to the bailiffs lying on the ground in a very disdainful tone,"You bunch of trash actually dare to bare your fangs and brandish your claws in front of me! I'm in a good mood today, so I'll spare you this time!”
Dongfang Jian did not look at the person in front of him. She looked so familiar. Where had she seen her before? Suddenly, she thought to herself, Could it be him?
Just as Dongfang Jian was wondering who this person was, a thunderous voice suddenly rang out,""Where did this man come from? How f * cking arrogant! Come, come, come, let's fight 300 rounds!”
Dongfang Jian could not help but smile. Who else could have said such words other than his third brother?
Zhang Fei, who had a slightly dark skin and was as strong as a bear, immediately attracted the attention of the arrogant young man.
The arrogant young man's eyes lit up, and his eyes clearly revealed excitement. "You seem to be pretty good. You should be stronger than this group of trash! I'll play with you today!" His tone was very arrogant, and it was obvious that he did not take Zhang Fei seriously.
Since Dongfang Jian had already guessed who this person was, he would not let him escape. He stood at the side and quietly watched the battle between the two. Seeing that the fight was about to start, Dongfang Jian hurriedly ordered people to carry out the dozen or so government laborers who were lying on the ground and groaning. He also had people send him to a nearby medical center.
Zhang Fei didn't rush up and beat up his opponent like he usually did. Instead, he stood a dozen steps away and stared at his opponent with a pair of bull's eyes. Zhang Fei seemed a little nervous. The arrogant young man also looked nervous.
Compared to Dongfang Jian, who knew nothing about martial arts, Dian Wei was able to see through his skills. His current expression was actually the same as Zhang Fei's, somewhat solemn. The two of them did not speak or move. After a while, Zhang Fei roared and charged at his opponent like a heavy tank. Zhang Fei and that person were fighting. In an instant, a strong wind whistled and dust flew. Their auras were extremely terrifying.
The surrounding commoners were all shocked. They had never seen such a scene where wild beasts fought. This was completely beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Many people were so scared that their faces turned pale and their legs trembled. Some of them even sat on the ground.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of rounds had passed. Zhang Fei's expression became more and more solemn, and bean-sized beads of sweat could be seen on his forehead. And his opponent, the red-faced young man, actually looked the same. Dian Wei was also shocked. He had competed with Zhang Fei before, so he was very clear about Zhang Fei's ability, so he had a deeper feeling than everyone else.
Zhang Feiyue, who was fighting in the arena, was even more shocked. He did not expect that there would be someone who was not inferior to him. After a hundred moves, both sides were clearly on the verge of collapse. Seeing that they could not determine the winner for a while, Dongfang Jian gave Dian Wei a look. Dian Wei understood. At this moment, Dian Wei suddenly shouted and jumped out to join the battle. The two of them were separated. Although they were separated, their Qi still shook Dian Wei.
"Alright, stop fighting.”
Dongfang Jian's loud shout drew the attention of everyone present. --
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