In early September, Luoyang City.

The secret battle of autumn harvest in Youzhou has been over half a month old.

The "Theory of Refuting Disasters" jointly signed by Cai Yong and Li Su has also been on the market for 20 days.

Of course, it was listed in Youzhou and Jizhou for 20 days.

Considering the logistics speed of merchants, the Sili area near Luoyang is divided into three volumes, upper, middle and lower, with a total of more than 10,000 words, and has just been on the market for seven or eight days.

In addition, considering that this set of books was a great cause of deceiving the Hu people in diplomacy and purgeing Zhang Ju's rebellion, the signatures of the Youzhou version and the national version were slightly different - the Youzhou version was only signed by Cai Yong to improve its credibility among the Hu people. The national version was the first author of Cai Yong, and Li Su attached it to him.

Moreover, this set of books will be sold in other parts of the country for a total price of 800 yuan, but in Youzhou, it will only sell for 200 yuan, which is only one-quarter of the national version, which is only twice the price of new white paper, and the content is almost for free.

This is also to allow more poor scholars in Youzhou to help spread the theory and build a foundation for public opinion.

Fortunately, Li Su completely entrusted the printing business to the Zhen family, and this time he had no intention of making money with such books. The profits were mainly based on the Zhen family, so the Zhen family worked very hard to help him control the supply channels and prevent the goods from being sent.

It not only prevents the cheap goods from Youzhou from flowing into other markets, but also reduces overall profits. It also prevents the national version of books signed by Li Su from flowing into Youzhou.

I believe that with the speed of information dissemination in the late Han Dynasty, when Li Su's mission of persuading surrender was finally completed, scholars in Youzhou would not necessarily know that Li Su's signature should have been signed in this set of books. Even if they know next year, it would be too late.

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Luoyang has always been the best and fastest-selling area in the world. Even if it was listed locally for only seven or eight days, "Theory of Disasters and Disasters" still sold tens of thousands of sets!

Zhang Liang, the manager of the Zhen family in Luoyang, once again experienced the hot-selling annual books after half a year. The last time he encountered such a grand occasion, it was when the woodblock printing book just appeared, and helped Li Suyin "Xiaoyi Lu" and "The Analects of Confucius" and "Er Ya".

And this time, the students of Tai seemed to be manipulated by the invisible hand again, and most of them were willing to buy a set of money.

Officials and other scholars in Beijing were also led by the trend of Tai students. Even though I heard that this book has many negative reviews, I still insisted on buying it and reading it.

Many people were scolding and buying, and criticizing Li Su and Cai Yong for their own wise men and great scholars, and criticizing Dong Zhongshu.

Behind this, Zhang Liang vaguely felt that it was Taichangqing Liu Yan, who was secretly helping him, and leveraging his ability to sell goods by the top leader of the "education department" to promote this grand occasion.

But Zhang Liang didn't know how Liu Yan took action and why he took action.

Every evening when closing the store to settle accounts, Zhang Liang would be moved by the sales figures and revenues that were refreshed again:

"It's only eight days, and this set of books has accumulated sales of 10 million yuan. "The Spring and Autumn Dew" written by Dong Zhongshu has been printed in June and has not sold so much."

Of course, comparing Cai Yong/Li Su with Dong Zhongshu is a bit bullying Dong Zhongshu. Because local scholars in Luoyang City have long had handwritten copies of basic books such as "The Analects of Confucius", "Spring and Autumn", and "Spring and Autumn Fanlu", and there is no need to buy them again after they have printed versions.

But no matter what, the books written by living people are not as high as those of Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Fanlu", and Li Su is the first one.

...

As a bookseller, Zhang Liang was puzzled by why "why did he do his best to help Li Su like a big man like Liu Yan?"

At the Taichangqing Mansion, Liu Yan himself was also busy working on the things he explained to "Brother Bo'an".

Liu Yan is now the second most powerful figure among the Han clans. How could he contribute to Li Su's face? Of course, only Liu Yu is the only one who can motivate him.

A few days ago, Liu Yu's urgent secret letter was delivered to him, and the letter also said that at most seven or eight days after the letter arrived in Beijing, Liu Yu's memorial to the emperor would also arrive.

During this period of time, Liu Yu needed Liu Yan to help him build momentum in the capital so that when the memorial was in the hands of the emperor, the emperor would be mentally prepared to know how to interpret the memorial, and thus answer some requests in the memorial.

Of course, Liu Yu did not ask Liu Yanbai to help. He asked the secret envoy to bring Liu Yan a heavy gift - a heavy gift worth tens of millions of yuan! As the fund for Liu Yan's helping activities.

This property was too huge, so it was not transported from Youzhou, but was taken from Liu Yu himself in the Befu in Luoyang with tokens. Liu Yu had been a master of the government office for many years and was always kept in Luoyang's mansion. He also had a family to take care of it. He hid a lot of money to make friends with the powerful and wealthy at any time, just like the Beijing office.

"Boan is sure of my intention to 'abolize history and establish Mu'. Alas, in order to release it as soon as possible, I have to help him mediate to the end."

After listening to the report of his subordinates, Liu Yan knew that the work of warming up the "Refuting Disasters and Disasters" in the past few days had almost been completed. He sighed in his heart and decided to enter the palace as planned tomorrow.

Why did he have to help Liu Yu? It’s very simple, because Liu Yu was the first and only state governor whom Liu Yan suggested to abolish history and establish the pastoral masters, and he has been released so far, which is equivalent to a “pilot state governor.”

If Liu Yu's political achievements were not obvious and the efficiency of suppressing rebellion was not improved, how could Liu Yan prove the superiority of the state and pastoral system? How could he ask the emperor to release him as the governor of Yizhou without any doubt?

In order to change from Taichangqing to Yizhou Governor as soon as possible, the emperor must see that Liu Yu did a good job and that the provincial governor’s pilot will be effective!

On this issue, Liu Yan and Liu Yu have common interests for the time being. So even if he pays money, he must be enthusiastic about helping Liu Yu. Helping Liu Yu is helping himself.

However, this kind of sharing of weal and woe will not last too long.

As soon as Liu Yan received the appointment of the Muslim in Yizhou, his superficial brotherhood and Liu Yu would end.

...

The next morning, Liu Yan left the city to meet the saint.

This was not the day of a court meeting, so if you want to see the emperor, you have to go to Biguiyuan, which is not in Luoyang City, but in the countryside more than ten miles outside the city.

In order to ensure that you can meet the emperor this time and to ensure that you are in a good mood when meeting the former emperor, Liu Yan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to handle the on-duty personnel of the Ten Generals.

"My grandfather Liu Yan, please bow to Your Majesty and congratulate Your Majesty."

In a pavilion in the middle of the lake surrounded by cranes and koi, Liu Yan saw Emperor Liu Hong and immediately praised him for his rituals, without mentioning the details.

No one knows here. In 20 months, the koi carp raised in Bi Guiyuan will be taken to make soup by Dong Zhuo, while the crane will be barbecued.

"It's Junlang. Is there anything interesting about it recently?" Liu Hong was also heartless. When he met the minister who came to Bi Guiyuan for a meeting, he still thought it was a fun thing to look for him.

Liu Yan took a deep breath, and said in a bad mood, "Report to Your Majesty, I am here to congratulate Your Majesty. I have been serving as a grandmother for several years, and I am always afraid that my cultural education will not be prosperous, and my political achievements will not be as good as those of my previous duties.

Fortunately, God blessed the Han Dynasty. In this troublesome autumn, a great scholar wrote "Theory of Refuting Disasters and Disasters", which strongly denounced Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Fanlu" that did not conform to the ancient meaning of Spring and Autumn. In addition, he also refuted Zhang Pu's rebellious statements about framed the court with recent disasters and disagreements, which made the northern border revival revival. As the Taichang, I feel deeply honored."

"Is there such a thing?" Liu Hong was still a little confused because the amount of information was too large and he didn't know how to react for a while.

Liu Hong was not interested in books and classical knowledge at all. Even if Liu Yan blows out the knowledge of a book, should Liu Hong doze off or doze off.

Those corrupt scholars’ studies are nothing good!

However, Liu Yan's rhetoric was very artistic. He finally mentioned that "this theory actually curbed the spread of thieves." This terrifying remark really captured the emperor's curiosity.

How could such a thing be possible in the world?

That's a thief who kills without blinking. He's useless to talk and learn!

Liu Hong said curiously: "Please give me a brief explanation. Who did this book work and why did it work?"

Liu Yan quickly used the tone of a novice as easy as possible to understand, and tried to explain it in vulgar language that the illiterate chief of Hu could understand. I believe the emperor could understand it too. (The lines were provided by Liu Yu in a secret letter to him, and Liu Yan burned it after reading it)

In a nutshell, it is like an editor from the UC shock department telling "the loopholes revealed in superstitious stories."

I have to say that Liu Yan's expression was very successful. Liu Hong just didn't want to study hard, but he still liked to listen to the story of "Superficial Revealing".

Soon, Liu Hong truly realized that it would be too cost-effective to cut off the causal relationship between disasters and misfortunes from heaven and the court's loss of virtue!

Since this article "Theory of Refuting Disasters" can barely compose the truth, why not use it?

"Jun Lang, you haven't said that this article was written by a great sage? Also, you just said that this article made the rebels in the northern border restrain, what exactly did it show?" Liu Hong was so surprised that he was ready to go.

After all, as an emperor, he doesn't want his country to live for a few more years. He is just lazy and not stupid, and he can still distinguish between good and bad.

Liu Yan: "This book was written by Cai Yong, who has been in the wild for ten years. He and his disciples in recent years, Li Su, a different leader in Youzhou, was to eliminate the moral attacks of various rebels against the court.

As for the specific manifestations of the rebels being ashamed and retreated... As far as I know, in July, when Zhang Ju just claimed that the pseudo-emperor rebelled, the rebels once attacked the border of Yuyang County, and it is said that the number of thieves from Youzhou also skyrocketed once.

However, after this article appeared, the number of thieves had been curbed, and the rebels were repelled and retreated to Youbeiping. Most of the people in western Liaoning also re-entered. I heard that the people who were deceived by the thieves had been in trouble in the area occupied by Zhang Ni, and they were willing to flee back to Yuyang, which was controlled by the imperial court.

I am just too old and I don’t know much about the border affairs. This time I just saw the "On the Refutation of Disasters and Disorders" that played such a major role in the court's suppression of rebellion. I am happy to report it. Regarding the thief, if you want to know more, you can ask Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou."

Liu Yan's remarks changed several concepts and causal relationships, but Liu Hong could not hear them.

For example, the people of Liaoxi fled back to Yuyang County with food reserves such as "Crushing" and fled back to Yuyang County, of course, not because they understood the principles of "Theory of Disasters and Disasters", but because they fell into Li Su's plan to cut off food and took the lead in harvesting the unripe wheat and made it into the Crushing, so they were afraid of being retaliated against and massacred by the rebels.

However, since these two contributions were made by Li Su, it is not clear that they are all made.

It’s like Li Su is a doctor. He gave the emperor two medicines. The emperor took them and his illness improved. At this time, it is necessary to distinguish whether it is the medicine that is the main effect. Why bother?

Just when Liu Hong was happy to think about it, Guo Sheng, the ten regular attendants on duty today, took the opportunity to report: "Your Majesty, Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, received a memorial for victory and a memorial for the selection of talents this morning. Do you want to take a look?"

"Oh, Uncle Bo'an's memorial has arrived too? That's a coincidence. Today is in a good mood, so you can read it." Liu Hong agreed while he pushed the boat.

If it was normal, of course he would not read whatever memorials the Ten Eunuchs gave him, so he would not be exhausted? 98% of the memorials would not reach the emperor at all.

But this memorial has arrived, and the timing is so clever, it obviously cost a price.

The beneficiary gave Guo Sheng an additional gift worth two million to this presentation behavior and opportunity.

Guo Sheng was also considered to be spending money to do business, and he studied very happily, mainly with the content of winning.

The general meaning is that the stalemate stage of the Youzhou front line against the rebels, and the profits were good. It seized a lot of food and grass in the rebels occupied areas, causing the rebels to shrink continuously.

On the other hand, the reason why the rebel Zhang Chun's troops, who had been stranded in Shanggu County, stayed in Shanggu and did not leave was that they wanted to seize the autumn harvest of Shanggu County to survive the winter.

But now the imperial government army has destroyed a small half of the autumn harvest of the rebels in Shanggu County - mainly the defeated thief-captain Zou Jing, and the cavalry under the command of the commander Liu Bei, led by Zhao Yun, went out of Badaling to rage Shanggu and rob grain, replicating the victory in Youbeiping.

Seeing that there was no more oil and water in Shanggu, Zhang Chun was afraid that the government troops would free up their hands to encircle him after the Western Front, so he escaped from Zhangjiakou's generation and moved eastward on the grassland to meet with Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju.

In this way, Shanggu County and half of Dai County were recovered.

The two main forces of the rebels, one east and one west, had been along Yanshan. The west completely gave up the base and went to the east, which was a small progress in suppressing the rebellion.

At the same time, the people of Shanggu who were scrapped off by the rebels and abandoned after the winter food were at least considered "inspired by the court to join the Han Dynasty."

No matter what, this is also a great achievement on the books.

"Okay, letting Bo'an be the governor of Youzhou is indeed my wise decision. The original thief chaos of this scale, if Bo'an had no such means of recruiting and suppressing, it would have been delayed for a long time. Now it seems that there is hope for destroying the thief this year. Then Cai Yong and Li Su should indeed be rewarded. Before Cai Yong was dismissed, he should be the Confessional Lord, and he should be recruited to return to the court."

After hearing this, Liu Hong made a statement in person and praised Lianlian.

Liu Yan was afraid that something might have ruined, so he quickly advised: "Your Majesty! Since you have to rely on Cai Yong's talent, knowledge and reputation to inspire the Hu people, it is not advisable to summon Cai Yong back to the court before the thief chaos is completely quelled! Otherwise, I am afraid that Hu Chief would suspect that Cai Yong had ulterior motives in writing this statement!"

Liu Hong was right when he thought about it: "Then let's take a break and wait until the Youzhou rebellion is completely quelled before he will slowly award Cai Yong an official position - by the way, is there any comments in Bo'an's memorial to ask for rewards to Li Su?"

Guo Sheng replied cautiously: "Liu Yu wanted to use this merit to promote Li Su as Maocai, but Youzhou has already selected Maocai this year, and it was Tao Qian who snatched the election before leaving office."

Liu Hong waved his hand: "It's okay, Bo'an has always been a good person. I have issued a special order to give him a grace once or twice. This time I will also make an exception for Li Su."

Liu Hong knew that Liu Yu would secretly double the number.
Chapter completed!