"The Eastern Wu surrendered, the Eastern Wu surrendered!" In the fifth year of Yanxi, in the winter, such a message began to spread throughout the cities of the Han Dynasty. Yueyang and Huang Mansion, heard Huang Rong shouting excitedly and rushing in from afar.

"Cough cough~" Huang Zhong, who was lying on the sickbed, coughed violently a few times, and his face began to turn red.

"What a big deal, why are you excited!" Liu Yi reached out to support Huang Zhong and helped him to calm his anger. He stared at Huang Rong who was rushing in with anger and said, "You are not young anymore, why are you still whining?"

Huang Rong quickly lowered his head. He was stationed in the Western Regions for many years. After pacifying the Wei Dynasty, Liu Yi went to Yueyang to prepare for the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge. Seeing that Huang Zhong's spirit was not as good as before, he specially ordered someone to ask the court to ask Huang Rong to come back, and to take care of Huang Zhong, and to start a family and a career.

"Tribute, don't blame him." Huang Zhong patted Liu Yi's hand and smiled: "I don't want to see my great man recovering in my lifetime, and I have no regrets in this life."

"What's Wuqing? I haven't arrived yet. The road is still long in the future. The great man still has room for development!" Liu Yi shook his head and smiled, "The world is reunified, it's just the beginning. I'll talk about Wuqing after another ten or twenty years. Let's see how prosperous my great man will be. Wouldn't it be?"

"Yes, what the Taifu said is very much." Huang Rong nodded repeatedly.

"Has Sun Quan surrendered?" Huang Zhong waved his hand and looked at his son and said.

"No, Sun Quan brought many families and populations of Eastern Wu to travel abroad. I heard that he had gone to Yizhou and surrendered to Lu Xun. After Sun Quan left, he surrendered to Brother Zixin and has now gone to Chang'an." Huang Rong shook his head and said.

"It's good, and it saves a lot of trouble." Liu Yi groped his chin and said, "Yizhou is too late for later generations, and it is considered a treasure land. However, the Han Dynasty is now in an internal stage of development and is not suitable for expansion. The infrastructure of the Central Plains and Jiangdong has not been completed, and the long-distance naval army is not very mature. It has not been forced into a desperate situation like Sun Quan. There is no need to go to Yizhou when the navigation technology is not mature. Let Sun Quan develop it first. After the Han Dynasty has a naval army that can cross the sea, it will not be too late to have the idea of ​​Yizhou again.

"But if Zixin was ordered to destroy Wu this time, only Lu Xun would have made no contribution." Huang Zhong sighed.

"A general's success has resulted in thousands of bones. What's wrong with it? How can he not fight and resolve it peacefully?" Liu Yi shook his head: "I have to cause trouble to the living beings?"

"It's still the righteousness of the Grand Tutor." Huang Zhong said with a smile.

"The old general has said that, I just don't want my incompetent son to make too much contribution at a young age. This may not be a good thing for him." Although Liu Yi said so, the expression on his face was quite proud.

"Hey~ If my son has half of his ability, he will make me live for twenty years, and I will be willing." Huang Zhong glared at Huang Rong and said with regret.

"Dad, I'm not bad either." Huang Rong said speechlessly: "Besides, if you shorten your life for twenty years, you may not have it!"

"Get out, how do you say?" Liu Yi glared at Huang Rong.

"Teacher, I'm spoiled by this child since I was a child. It's not that I'm unfilial, but my father and son always speak so rudely." Huang Zhong quickly grabbed Liu Yi and shook his head and said.

"When I was a child, I said that it was childlike. Now, I said that it was ignorance. My great man ruled the world with filial piety, and filial piety was the first in all things. Just this sentence, if it was spread out, the career of the officialdom would be ruined by you! When things happened here, go to the academy for another three years!" Liu Yi frowned and looked at Huang Rong and said, although it was difficult for a clean official to make a decision on family affairs, let alone the current environment is as Liu Yi said, even if you say it privately, it would feel a little harsh. Is this how my son talks to me?

When he turned his head to look at Huang Zhong, he saw that Huang Zhong was already asleep.

Alas ~

Liu Yi sighed, and after working with Huang Rong to help Huang Zhong lie down, he covered himself with a quilt before retreating from the room.

"What do doctors say?" After leaving the room, Liu Yi pulled Huang Rong and asked.

"Tao Fu, the doctor said that my father was in the five declines of heaven and man. Logically speaking, he was covered in secret and was not alive. Now, he has come to an end." Huang Rong, who had a heartless face before, had a hint of crying voice at this moment.

"You just talk to your father like this on weekdays?" Liu Yi sighed and then glared.

"That's what it usually says." Huang Rong nodded.

"Change, let the old general feel more at ease in his last days." Liu Yi was a little glad that he had come, otherwise he would not have seen Huang Zhong's last time.

"Here." Huang Rong wiped his tears and nodded.

"This is not a military member, and I am not an order!" Liu Yi sighed and patted Huang Rong on the shoulder and said, "Don't cry, look at it upset. I'll stay here in the past few days."

"Yes!" Huang Rong said worriedly: "Don't delay the great affairs of the Grand Tutor."

"The bridge cannot be completed in one day. If you have horses watching there, I don't worry." Liu Yi shook his head. After leaving the Huang Mansion, he silently returned to his residence in Yueyang. Although he had not been back for many years, the home here will be regularly sent by the Yueyang Yaya Office to clean up, and he can live there. However, the huge courtyard is empty, and living here alone is a bit scary.

For Liu Yi, the biggest advantage of the unification of the world is that he can put aside all things in the court and start to develop infrastructure with peace of mind, establish academies, develop people's livelihood, and promote the development of agriculture, handicrafts and commerce.

The Yangtze River Bridge is located between Jiangxia and Changsha, but this work has a high technical content and cannot be done by recruiting people. Fortunately, Ma Jun, a person like Ma Jun, gave himself many ideas. If you rely solely on yourself, you can't design such a bridge across the Yangtze River.

But first of all, the steamboat has to be done. Liu Yi has come to Yueyang now, not just to see Huang Zhong. The first steamboat is preparing to cast in Yueyang. He has designed the design drawings with Ma Jun, and now the construction has officially started.

In the following days, except for running the port once a day, Liu Yi stayed in Huang Zhong's mansion most of the time until the end of the year was almost the end of the year.

"How dare you bother the Grand Tutor to help me?" Huang Zhong sat down in the pavilion in the courtyard with Liu Yi's support. Looking at the withered plants all over the garden, Huang Zhong sighed.

"I am a high-ranking person and have no incompleteness, why can't I help me?" Liu Yi sat opposite Huang Zhong, drinking tea, and smiled: "You have to see wherever you want, tell me, I'll find a way for you, go wherever you want!"

"No, I've gone all the way to go. I've been running away for most of my life and I'm tired now." Huang Zhong shook his head and looked at the courtyard and smiled: "Tao Fu, remember when you built this city, there were not many people in Yueyang. Looking at it now, the huge Yueyang has become a hub for traveling from south to north. Can Sikong know how much those people bid in my courtyard?"

"According to the current market price, it will cost at least 50 million, right?" Liu Yi said with a smile.

"What's enough?" Huang Zhong smiled like a wealthy fan at this moment: "This was built by the Taifu himself. Although it was not big, the veteran had inquired about it. Others did not have elevators or underground granaries at home, which were designed by the Taifu himself. Now, as long as the name of the Taifu is placed in the house, it would not be enough to lose billions of dollars!"

"You sold it?" Liu Yi looked at Huang Zhong and said.

"That's not possible. Although my Huang family has no money, this courtyard is the first one given to me by the Grand Tutor. Although the Grand Tutor has prepared me a house in Chengdu, Xiangyang, Jiangling, Hanzhong, Chang'an, and Luoyang, and it is all bigger than here. But this place is the happiest time for the veterans to live, and can be sold anywhere, but here can't. From now on, it's my Huang family's ancestral home!" Huang Zhong smiled and shook his head, then looked at Liu Yi and said, "There are more Grand Tutors, no matter where they go, I have never forgotten me, the old general. To be honest, I was just surrendered to the general at the beginning. Sikong did not bother me and recommended me to the late emperor. This kind of kindness can be remembered by the old people in the future."

"Don't always say these unlucky words, what's the longest time?" Liu Yi shook his head and said, "Live until he is 100 years old!"

"The veteran also thinks, but if we are unified today, the Taifu has not let the veteran go to the battlefield before. However, the world is peaceful, and I can't use my old bones in this world. My bad boy is fortunate to be given guidance from Sikong. Now there is a person like him. I... I have no regrets in this life." Huang Zhong said with a smile.

"Sometimes, I'm wondering if I hadn't become an official, would it be easier now? At least I don't have to watch my old friends die." Liu Yi sighed and didn't say anything false.

"That won't work. There is no self in the world. But if there is no Sikong, there will be less excitement, and the great man may not be as prosperous as today." Huang Zhong shook his head and smiled.

"No, there is no one in this world, and life has shined like a shadow, everything is empty." Liu Yi looked at the place where the sunset was set, "Let's go, go to the highest place to see. At that time, I remember that my wife and I were here. The sunset of Dongting Lake was very beautiful. In a blink of an eye, thirty years have passed, and I have seen the lonely smoke outside the border, the surging Yellow River, and the majestic sea, but after walking around, I found that I still like the evening scene of Dongting the most."

"The veteran dared not obey!" Huang Zhong stood up tremblingly and saluted Liu Yi. Although he was hunched, his back was always straight.

Liu Yi recruited a frame and took Huang Zhong to the wall of Yueyang City. Looking at the sunset, Bo Guangxunxun’s Dongting Lake, in the shipyard in the distance, a steel ship had been formed. On the dock, there were no hesitations from pedestrians coming and going. On Dongting Lake, boats spread on the lake, making people feel peaceful.

Huang Zhong stood beside Liu Yi, and saw the beautiful sunset scene of the mansion, grinning and said, "For so many years in Yueyang, the veterans realized today the beauty of Dongting!"
Chapter completed!