Chapter 152: Jingyu’s plan is determined, Liu Bei uses his strategy to break the situation

Author: Shenwen Benshen

Chapter 152: Jingyu’s plan is determined, Liu Bei uses his strategy to break the situation

Of the seven counties in Jingzhou, Nanyang County is controlled by Yuan Shu, and Nanjun and Jingnan County are all controlled by local wealthy families.

Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, was supported by the Kuai family, Cai family, and Huang family, and his decrees could only be conveyed in Jiangxia County.

Although Liu Biao has the title of Eight Horsemen, for the powerful local clans in Jingzhou, they can superficially call him "Liu Shijun", but when it comes to clan interests, they will never recognize Liu Biao as the governor of Jingzhou.

Although Liu Biao used Kuai Yue's plan to trap and kill fifty-five clan traitors, he also laid the foundation for disaster.

Especially in the four counties of Jingnan, there are many powerful clans who oppose Liu Biao!

Liu Ming made it clear what Kuai Liang meant.

To educate the people, the most direct way is to establish education.

Liu Biao had long had the idea of ​​establishing an official school and recruiting Confucian scholars, but he suffered from insufficient book collection.

After all, Liu Biao's time in Xiangyang was too short, and it was not easy to get this book.

Even if the doctors were willing to let Liu Biao copy it, it would still take time.

But now, Liu Bei presented Zuo Bo with paper books equivalent to 15,000 volumes of bamboo slips. The contents include not only various classics collections, but also annotations by contemporary great scholars such as Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi, and Kong Rong.

If all this money is used to establish official schools, the scholars and people from the seven counties of Jingzhou will definitely come after hearing the news!

The main thing is that there are many books in one place!

In this era, books have always been a scarce resource.

And books annotated by great Confucians are even more scarce.

Even the powerful clans that opposed Liu Biao had to choose to make peace with Liu Biao in the face of such huge interests.

This is the rule of the times!

Mastering knowledge is equivalent to mastering the recipe for inheriting the family.

"I intend to use these fifteen hundred copies of Zuo Bo's paper books to establish a school of learning in Xiangyang and recruit students from the seven counties of Jingzhou."

"What do you think?"

Liu Biao was quite excited.

Suddenly, a school with the largest collection of books in Jingzhou appeared in Xiangyang. Most of these books were sages' scriptures and annotations by great Confucians. Which scholar could really refuse this temptation?

If you have a collection of books, you can attract doctors and scholars, and if you have doctors and scholars, you will have more talented people attached to you.

And the strength of these people is enough for the powerful clans in each county to weigh the pros and cons.

After all, the powerful scholars of the clan are the most numerous!

As long as we can achieve a win-win situation and respond to some of Liu Biao's decrees, that is acceptable.

Although there will definitely still be dissatisfied clan powerful men, as long as there are clan powerful men who support Liu Biao, then Liu Biao will be able to send his cronies to govern Nanjun and Jingnan counties.

"Your Majesty is wise." Kuai Liang praised: "But to the outside world, we can claim to have a collection of 30,000 volumes!"

Occasionally exaggerating a little can make scholars in various counties more curious.

Liu Biao stroked his short beard and looked at Zhuge Xuan: "Yinyi, I agree to Qingzhou's loan of money and food."

"But it's spring plowing now, and it's difficult to raise money in a short time. Please go back to Qingzhou. After the spring plowing, I will definitely send people to transport money and grain to Qingzhou!"

Zhuge Xuan also knew that raising money and food could not be accomplished in a day or two.

After a few polite words, Zhuge Xuan was ready to leave.

However, Liu Biao called Zhuge Xuandao: "Yinyi, how about you come back to Jingzhou to take up a post? If you come back, how about I let you serve as the literary director of the academy?"

Although literature does not have much authority, it can gain a very high reputation.

After all, students in the Academy, whether they are studying or graduating, are required to address Zhuge Xuan as "literature".

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"Brother Xuan died young, leaving behind several young nieces and nephews who still need Xuan to take care of him. He dare not stay in Jingzhou for too long."

"Please forgive me!"

Liu Biao sighed secretly and no longer tried to persuade him to stay. He invited: "In that case, Yinyi can stay in Jingzhou temporarily for a few days, and I can also have a few bottles of wine with Yinyi and reminisce about old friendships."

Seeing Liu Biao's kindness, Zhuge Xuan couldn't shirk anymore, so he temporarily stayed in Xiangyang.

And during this period.

Yuan Shu also sent Yang Hong to come.

Although Yuan Shu's original words were "Don't mess with me", Yang Hong did not dare to really send this message to Liu Biao.

The situation was already tense, but with the words "Don't mess with me", Liu Biao had to fight even if he didn't want to.

In the past, Liu Bei presented a book, and in the later period, Yang Hong came to express his goodwill.

Liu Biao also had some concerns, so he summoned Dong Zhao and asked Dong Zhao to inspect the newly built academic hall and the collection of books presented by Liu Bei, but he did not mention the attack on Nanyang.

Dong Zhao was a shrewd man, and when he saw Liu Biao's attitude, he knew that this lobbying had failed.

The mission failed, and Dong Zhao felt that he was too embarrassed to go back to see Yuan Shao, so after staying in Xiangyang for a few days, he went to Chenliu and defected to his younger brother Dong Fan, who was in Zhang Miao's army.

Yang Hong returned to Luyang and reported Liu Bei's gift of letters to Liu Biao, and Liu Biao's promise to non-aggression with Nanyang County.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed: "That old fellow Liu Biao is quite sensible, otherwise I will attack his Xiangyang directly after retreating!"

Without any worries, Yuan Shu continued to increase his troops to Taigu Pass.

Chen Guo.

Taishi Ci and Liu Yan galloped all the way to Chen County and presented greeting cards.

However, people from Prince Chen's Mansion told Tai Shici and Liu Yan that Liu Chong had not returned from school for at least three to five days, and at most for half a month.

"If I can't see King Chen, won't I miss the envoy's important mission? If I can't persuade King Chen to send troops, how can I have the face to go back and see the envoy?" Liu Yan frowned.

As a disciple of Zheng Xuan, Liu Yan was extremely intelligent and arrogant.

So Liu Yan declined Zheng Xuan's recommendation, and only temporarily served as a lecturer beside Zheng Xuan at Linzi City Academy, where he preached, learned, and solved doubts.

It's not that Liu Yan doesn't want to go to Qingzhou, but that Liu Yan hopes to be personally invited by Liu Bei.

But it happened that during that time, Liu Bei assigned all government affairs, and then ran to follow the villagers to open up wasteland.

So much so that Liu Bei didn't even know that Liu Yan had come to Linzi City.

It was not until Zhao Yu recommended that Liu Bei come to the academy to invite Liu Yan.

There are few unemployed scholars in this world who can resist Liu Bei's sincere invitation!

After learning that Liu Yan's youngest son had just been born, Liu Bei also gave Liu Yan's youngest son a piece of warm jade to pray for blessings. Liu Yan was shocked by Liu Bei's sincerity.

Therefore, when Liu Bei proposed that Liu Yan could come to Chen to lobby Chen King Liu Chong to send troops, Liu Yan agreed without much thought.

There was no time to rest during this journey, and even Taishi Ci who was traveling with him was surprised by Liu Yan's endurance.

"Weishuo Gong, why not go to King Chen's school grounds?" Taishi Ci suggested: "Although it is a bit rude, it is not an option if we waste time here."

Liu Yan nodded.

After asking about the location of King Chen's school grounds, Liu Yan and Tai Shici went to King Chen's school grounds regardless of their hard work.

Liu Yan and Tai Shici were lucky. Because Chen Wang Liu Chong loved riding and shooting, he put up a notice outside the school to make friends with riding and shooting!

Any scholar or knight who is confident in mounted archery can enter the school grounds to demonstrate his riding and archery skills.

Upon seeing this notice, Taishi Ci felt relieved: "Mr. Wei Shuo, I have a way to meet King Chen."

Immediately, Taishi Ci left the name "Tai Shici of Donglai County" in the official office and successfully entered the school.

Liu Yan also entered as a follower of Tai Shi Ci.

In the school grounds.

King Chen and Liu Chong galloped forward and hit the target ten times out of ten.

Such superb archery skills made the sergeants and rangers present exclaim in surprise!

"King Chen's archery skills are unparalleled in the world."

"With King Chen in the State of Chen, the people can live in peace and stability."

"Looking at the Liang Kingdom next door, it is said that it has been occupied by a man named Zhou Zhe. Even the King of Liang had to grovel in front of Zhou Zhe."

"Haha, let him come to Chen Kingdom to try? Let's see if King Chen doesn't shoot a few holes in him!"

"We are so lucky to be able to follow King Chen!"

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Liu Chong seemed to enjoy this kind of worship, waving the bow in his hand and shouting loudly, causing several of Chen Wang's concubines on the high platform to scream in confusion.
To be continued...