Chapter 003
[……] The system froze for a moment.
It seemed to have heard something strange just now.
However, Qiao Yan did not seem to think that he had said anything shocking.
How to say it, as long as one shocking thing overshadows another, people tend not to care about the former thing, and the same is true now.
The Strategist System 068 was indeed a novice system just as Qiao Yan had guessed.
It racked its brains and finally picked out a sentence from its own memory to try to refute her.
[Although according to the position of a counselor, as long as he gives advice to one side, it will count, but...but the Yellow Turban bandits will definitely be pacified this year by Huangfu Song and other famous generals of the late Han Dynasty. He even built a Jingguan with 100,000 Yellow Turban heads under the city of Guangzong. 】
"I know." Qiao Yan said calmly.
The Jingguan built by 100,000 people was much more terrifying than the scene before her eyes.
Under the "watch" of the system, she walked to a corpse here.
Being mentally prepared for the appearance of people who died of starvation, and having also seen dead bodies in tombs, Qiao Yan took off the outer shirt of one of the corpses without batting an eyelid.
But even though it was called an outer shirt, it was just a piece of rag that was so tattered that people didn't even have the desire to snatch it.
Fortunately, this was enough time for Qiao Yan to buy himself a new coat.
As she put on the "new" dress and gathered her cuffs with a piece of cloth, she said, "Of course I know that not only will the great virtuous teacher Zhang Jue die this year, which will speed up the progress of the three armies of the imperial court in suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but I also know that the current Yellow Turban Army may seem powerful and vigorous, but it is not even as far-sighted as the later Yellow Turban bandits."
After the Zhongping period, the Yellow Turbans in Runan and Yingchuan even turned from blind confrontation and wandering to a way of maintaining their power by cultivating the land. This seems to be a more lasting force than their current way of forcing civilians to attack the city.
[Then why do you want to...] The system really doesn't understand her choice.
If it was not careful and was killed by the General who came to suppress the bandits, then it would not be able to live to the full twenty years, and it would have completely wasted the identity it had chosen.
But what it saw was only a pair of eyes clearly showing extreme calmness and determination under Qiao Yan's dusty and dirty face.
"First, the Yellow Turban Army is in chaos, so it will be easiest for me to conceal my identity. There will probably be many young children among the refugees nearby. Second, the group that just abandoned the corpse has not gone far. I cannot guarantee how long I can hold out in the wild after nightfall. Third, I need counselor points to obtain more resources."
When Qiao Yan mentioned the word resources, the system noticed that she touched the dagger in her arms.
The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and it was legal for private individuals to carry weapons. Otherwise, there would not be records in the "Juyan New Bamboo Slips" of garrison soldiers selling swords to civilians and people from the same village guaranteeing them.
This dagger was given to Qiao Yu by the moth thief when he met him and his wife and daughter on their way west to Luoyang.
Perhaps this was originally used as a tool for people in troubled times to end their lives, but now in her hands, it was just a handy weapon.
She really should be grateful. In these people's minds, she was dying of the epidemic. Not only did they not treat her as a backup food, they did not even search her body, and left her with this weapon.
This is not difficult to understand.
During the reign of Emperor Liu Hong, four major epidemics occurred in March of the fourth year of Jianning, January of the second year of Xiping, spring of the second year of Guanghe, and February of the fifth year of Guanghe. These epidemics have already formed a deep-rooted panic in the minds of these people.
No one can guarantee that a sign of an emergency will not develop to the point where it is difficult to contain.
In fact, these people are not overly cautious.
In the second year after the Yellow Turban Rebellion was quelled, that is, in the spring of the second year of Zhongping, another major epidemic broke out, which is less than a year ago.
Qiao Yan continued, "In troubled times, heroes and capable ministers emerge. Before the Han army marches into Yanzhou to quell the rebellion, I must first establish my own foothold."
Faced with her mobility and aggression, which seemed to be holding a dagger and ready to be drawn at any time, it was difficult for the system not to be speechless again, and finally only one sentence was choked out -
[But you are a descendant of a loyal and righteous person...]
Why do these words sound like one with deep sorrow?
In the system's view, Qiao Yan's choice was no different from making quick money.
When it thought about the fact that this host, who was clearly aiming to be the world's number one strategist, actually had to add a record of "following a thief" on his resume, it couldn't help but cause the system screen to go black.
After all, in this era of the late Han Dynasty, reputation is a very important thing.
However, just as it had prepared itself mentally, it heard its host mutter, "Dog-headed military advisor is also considered a military advisor, right?"
[……?] ? ? ? 】
Unfortunately, the system did not get a clear explanation from Qiao Yan.
Qiao Yan, who was well versed in the art of language, changed the subject quite smoothly.
It did get a reply from Qiao Yan, which was the reason why she added the initial attribute points to physique without hesitation.
"As you said before, the top strategists are judged on intelligence between 85 and 100. My improvement from 79 to 82 is not very meaningful. It is better for me to improve my weaknesses first."
"When Zhou Yu, the Grand Commander of Wu, died, he was only 35 years old. His successor, Lu Su, only lived to 45. The genius Guo Fengxiao died at the age of 37. If you ask me -"
"A strategist who laughs last will live longer than anyone else, such as Sima Yi. Don't you think this is true?" Qiao Yan asked.
[……]The system got stuck again.
I don't know why he felt that this statement was a bit unorthodox, but it also seemed to make sense.
It is this person who is used as a positive example, but there is something vaguely wrong with him.
It belatedly realized that its host, who accepted the current situation very quickly, had just turned its level 4 [Elocution] skill into level 5.
It was hard not to suspect that it had become the target of her testing of her skills.
As for whether this skill should be called [Eloquence] or [Bewitching], after searching through the system library again and failing to come up with a single rebuttal, Strategist System 068 fell silent.
It was not until Qiao Yan walked some distance along the traces left by the Yellow Turbans that the system realized it had found a loophole in Qiao Yan's actions. It suddenly raised its voice and said: [No! You are just a child of about ten years old now. As you said, even traveling long distances is a problem for you. How can you become a military advisor in the Yellow Turban Army and gain the trust of Bu Ji, the leader of the Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou? 】
Qiao Yan felt that having such a startled guy next to her ear was, in a sense, perhaps a good thing. For example, the hunger in her stomach was much dispelled.
She replied seriously: "But, have you ever heard that when Zheng Xuan was returning to Gaomi from Xuzhou, he encountered tens of thousands of Yellow Turban bandits on the road, and they all bowed to him when they saw him?"
[…Speaking human language]
Qiao Yan felt like laughing.
It's not a human system that makes her speak human language. No matter how she thinks about it, there's a kind of dry humor.
But she still gave an explanation, "You can understand that although the Yellow Turbans were rioters, they still valued people of culture."
She thought for a moment and added, "Besides, I don't plan to contact that Bu Jiqu Shuai."
Qiao Yan had other ideas.
This idea even received "friendly support" from the system.
To be precise, this support comes from the novice gift package in the system backpack.
There is no such thing as a novice set in it, only one item that may be very useful to strategists, called [Designated Character Locator].
In troubled times, the delay in information transmission makes it very easy for people to miss it.
At this time, Cao Cao was still under Huangfu Song's command and did not have his own troops.
Liu Bei fought on the battlefields of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but never gained the rank of Anxi County Lieutenant for his contribution in suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Sun Jian simply gathered together the young men who worked together in Xia Pi County and appointed them as military commanders under Zhu Jun.
If you want to find the exact location of these people, you may have to rely on some external tools.
But Qiao Yan had no intention of keeping this locator for later use.
Under the system's self-deprecating gaze, she entered a line of words on the target object of the locator -
Liang Zhongning, one of the thirty-six commanders of the Yellow Turban Army.
Just as she finished this step, a little fire appeared in her sight in the dim night of the Great Wilderness.
That was where the team that had left her behind at dusk was temporarily stationed.
Qiao Yan was extremely grateful that the body he was using had been weak for many years and he had taken lots of dietary supplements, so he did not have the night blindness that was common in ancient times.
With the help of the light of the stars and the moon, she stood on a mound not far from the camp and could clearly see the boundary between the Yellow Turban soldiers and the refugees.
Now is the time for her to blend in.
However, she was really so hungry that she could hardly walk.
Liang Zhongning, one of the three Yellow Turban leaders in Yanzhou whose location was locked by Qiao Yan, had already arrived in Puyang.
Puyang is the Puyang in Dongjun where the first battle of the battle for Yanzhou between Cao Cao and Lu Bu took place.
Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Zhang Jue held the "Taiping Jing" and used the Taiping Dao as a way of good to educate the world. He divided the believers into 36 groups. The large groups had more than 10,000 people, and the small groups had 6,000 to 7,000 people. Each group had a commander named "Qu Shuai".
After Ma Yuanyi's plan to build connections in the capital was exposed by his disciples, the thirty-six generals divided into eight states and started the rebellion in advance. Among them, there were three generals in Yanzhou, namely Bu Ji, Zhang Bo and Liang Zhongning.
Zhongning is not his name, but his courtesy name.
Liang Zhongning, whose real name should be Liang Jing, was in the Puyang government office that he had seized first, staring at the lights in front of him in a daze.
Most of the Yellow Turban leaders were disciples who had listened to the teachings of the Great Sage and Good Teacher in their early years and were quite trusted by Zhang Jue. They also distributed good medicines in accordance with the Great Physician's teachings, which attracted people who also believed in the Huang-Lao teachings to join them, and gradually gathered their own forces. Liang Zhongning was no exception.
However, the commanders of the eight states and thirty-six territories also had different ranks. Although he arrived in Puyang first, in terms of the subordination of the Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou, he should be regarded as Bu Ji's deputy.
To be honest, Liang Zhongning looked down on Bu Ji.
During the Han Dynasty, even the common people were given characters after they reached adulthood, but Bu Ji and Zhang Bo did not. When they were following the guidance of the Great Sage Teacher, they did not receive characters bestowed by General Tian Gong. However, because of the haste of the uprising, they temporarily obtained positions above him.
When Liang Zhongning thought that Bu Ji would lead the troops from Juye City and would soon surpass him, he felt less happy than when he captured Puyang.
Just when he was feeling depressed, he suddenly heard a report from his subordinates that the wealthy family of Puyang, Tian, had gathered the officials and civilians who had fled from all directions in the city, intending to retake Puyang City.
Liang Zhongning immediately slammed the table and stood up, "What dares the old thief Tian to challenge me?"
The subordinate replied tremblingly: "I heard that this man has recruited a new retainer from Chenliu. This man is extremely powerful and his name is..."
"What's your name?" He raised his brows, clearly trying to vent his unhappiness.
"His name is Dian Wei!"
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