The conversation was divided into two parts. Zhao Yun took Xia Houlan to his mansion, and then Zhao Yun asked: "Has there been any change in my hometown over the years?"
Zhao Yun has not seen his hometown for nearly 20 years since he took refuge with Liu Bei. After Jizhou was occupied by Dagan, Zhao Yun even lost contact with his relatives!
Xia Houlan replied: "Of course it is getting better and better. Our ability to govern the world is more than ten times better than that of the emperor of the Han Dynasty. In recent years, relatives in my hometown, under the leadership of the local prefect and county magistrate, have reclaimed wasteland and built orchards. , built a brewery, and now every house is full of food, and even because there is too much food, everyone can’t eat it all. Under the leadership of technicians, everyone began to raise chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, as well as cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock. You can eat meat every once in a while. This kind of life is not comparable to that of the Han Dynasty. If you go back to Zhending County, you will find that every household now has a ruling longevity tablet!"
Zhao Yun nodded happily and said, "If that's true, I'll be relieved!"
Xia Houlan looked at Zhao Yundao and said: "Zilong, you are more than 10 times stronger than me. Why don't you join me this time and do something big? With your ability, you will definitely be put into use by the government!"
But Zhao Yun shook his head and said: "The general did not treat Yun badly. Yun cannot do such a disloyal and unjust thing!"
For Zhao Yun, this is the darkest thing for Liu Bei, and he cannot leave at this time!
Xia Houlan shook his head and said: "Zilong, you are so stubborn. Now that Liu Bei is a grasshopper after the fall, why are you following him? Your ideal at the beginning was to follow a wise master to pacify the world. It is obvious that you can pacify the world. We are the ones in power!”
Zhao Yun smiled bitterly and said: "Thunder Lord! It was Yun who made a mistake!"
But in that year Lei Gong rebelled in Wei County, Zhao Yun, who was already a small official in Changshan, of course knew Lei Gong, but at that time Zhao Yunbing was not optimistic about the Yellow Turban Army and thieves like Lei Gong. Even though Lei Gong built Mayi well later, because of Lei Gong The reason why Zhao Yun brutally suppressed the noble clans was that he was not optimistic that Lei Gong could become the one to unify the world. After all, the most powerful people in the world were the noble clans.
But he never expected that Thunder Lord would really be a powerful man from heaven. He led the people of the world to suppress the entire Han clan. Not to mention that Zhao Yun was wrong about this. Even the powerful clansmen in the world would not have thought that Thunder Lord had With such a powerful ability, the people of the world will be organized into such a powerful fighting force! The entire Han Dynasty's noble families are so vulnerable to this force.
So by the time Lei Gong showed his strength, Zhao Yun had already defected to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's political philosophy was the same as Zhao Yun's. He had never thought of leaving Liu Bei, even now!
But not long after, Zhao Yun said firmly: "Now that Lei Gong is about to unify the world, a warrior like Yun will not have much work to do if he goes to Daqian. On the contrary, it is the general who needs Yun to conquer the world!"
Xia Houlan thought about it and realized that the ruler of his family didn't have much favorable impressions of the generals who had been demoted. Under normal circumstances, they would not give them official positions. The only exceptions were Zhang He and the others, but this was also their future earned by eating sand in the Western Regions. If Zhao Yun surrendered and took power, he might have to be stationed in the desert or a deserted island in the future. Thinking about this, he felt that it would be best for Zhao Yun to follow Liu Bei.
Of course, the premise is that Liu Bei has the self-knowledge to surrender Jiaozhou. If Liu Bei refuses to negotiate for peace, Xia Houlan will definitely persuade Zhao Yun to leave Jiaozhou with him. After all, he cannot watch Zhao Yun seek death.
The next day, when Xia Houlan came to the conference room again, Liu Bei finally agreed to Daqian's peace negotiation conditions and was willing to lead the army to leave Jiaozhou. However, he put forward a condition that for every county he retreated from Jiaozhou, Daqian would have to pay 1 million. In exchange for Shi's grain and 5,000 sets of armored swords. Every time a batch of grain and armor came into Liu Bei's hands, he would withdraw from a county.
And now Liu Bei has occupied seven of the nine counties in Jiaozhou (Zhuya and Dan'er were occupied by Daqian's navy in advance!) Daqian will have to pay 7 million shi of food and 35,000 sets of armor and swords.
Naturally, Xia Houlan could not make the final decision on such a large figure. He said he would ask his superiors for instructions, but the general framework for the future had been agreed upon.
Soon the news was passed to Yang Feng, the scribe from Feige, but he did not dare to agree to such conditions, so he sent it to Xu Wei, the capital of Jidu!
When Xu Wei saw Liu Bei's conditions, he smiled and said: "The most important thing for me is food and armored swords. If I only pay this price to get Jiaozhou, this business can be done!"
If an ordinary feudal country could not afford such conditions, it would be easy to get food and stockpile it for a few more years. However, there are really not many feudal countries that can afford tens of thousands of sets of armor. Even the Song Dynasty, which was famous for its wealth, But this amount of supplies can only be regarded as a year's output for Daqian, which has entered semi-industrialization, and the food can only be produced in Nan County.
The senior officials of Daqian have not adapted to the change in their status, and their family has not multiplied to an extremely large level, and they do not occupy many resources. The original noble family was severely damaged by Xu Wei, and there is no noble family to intercept the interests of the entire world. It can be said that the resources now controlled by Daqian exceed those of previous dynasties. Even the Qin Dynasty with its war machine is not as good as the current Daqian. After all, there were still nobles in the Qin Dynasty who occupied the world's resources, but the current Daqian has been for thousands of years. Come, the period when the upper layer occupies the least resources.
But Niu Gui disagreed and said: "In power, although this resource is not much for our Dagang, it is still quite a lot. These add up to more than one billion yuan in supplies. This is enough for our Dagang internal use." To build hundreds of miles of elevated water canals, hundreds of miles of concrete roads and dozens of miles of railways, the entire Daqian is now short of money. Why should we give Liu Bei more than one billion in supplies? His defeated soldiers are not worthy of us. Spend these billions!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Now Niu Gui is the great steward of the entire Daqian court. The entire Daqian court asks him for money from top to bottom. Now Niu Gui has developed into a stingy person. He is used to having to personally review the movements of millions of funds, let alone more than a billion in funds. How much can he do if he stays in Daqian? Now it has been given to Liu Bei, an enemy, in vain. How could he accept it?
Xu Wei laughed dumbly and said: "If you don't agree with Liu Bei's peace terms, then we can only continue to fight. The navy will mobilize hundreds of warships and send more than 50,000 soldiers to Jiaozhou. Such a war will eventually At least several billions of military expenditures will be spent. This does not include the money we spend on re-regulating the states affected by the war. If we add this money, our expenditure on this war will exceed tens of billions!"
When the cannon goes off, gold is worth ten thousand taels. War has always been a luxury, especially for an army with adequate security like the Da Gan Army. If you want to reduce the number of casualties, you have to spend more money!
Niu Gui thought about it and said, "Even if we agree to Liu Bei's request, we can't just agree to whatever conditions they say. At the very least, we have to make a counteroffer!"
Then Niu Gui issued an order to Yang Feng in the name of the Daqian court. How much Yang Feng could cut off the more than one billion peace negotiation expenses? He would keep the cut funds in Jingzhou as Jingzhou's construction expenses!
As expected, Yang Feng's mobility greatly increased. He found some of the best bargainers in his army and went to Jiaozhou to negotiate. The final price was reduced to the price of one county in exchange for 300,000 shi of grain and a thousand sets of armored sabers.
Da Qian gave out 300,000 shi of grain and 1,000 sets of armored sabers, and Liu Bei gave up a county. When Dagan completely delivered 2.1 million shi of grain and 7,000 sets of armored sabers, Liu Bei led his men to completely withdraw from Jiaozhou!
After the agreement was signed, Yang Fengsong said: "Liu Bei's problem has finally been solved. Now we only have to deal with the wealthy noble families in Jingzhou! After cleaning them up, Jingzhou can get back on track!"
Yang Feng was used to not seeing a big family on the territory. When he saw the forts and the powerful families on the map of Jingzhou, they were extremely annoying. However, Liu Bei had not completely wiped out the powerful families in Jingzhou in the past ten years. The martial virtues are abundant, and the strong and weak people here in Jingzhou. The price to be paid for forcibly encircling these families is extremely high, so the noble families in Jingzhou have occupied Jingzhou in Daqian for 2 years and have not been cleared out. Now Yang Feng can devote his main energy to It was spent dealing with the powerful noble families in Jingzhou.
Yang Feng said to his men: "Send people to inform the families in Jingzhou that they will be invited to Jiangling City to discuss the development of Jingzhou! The time is set at the end of this month!"
Means cupped his fists and saluted: "No!"
Xiangyang, Longzhong Township, Shuijing Academy!
A group of young scholars were looking at the collective graphics on the blackboard very seriously.
After Mr. Shui Jing and Sima Jing finished drawing the graphics, he said with great seriousness: "In this imperial examination, mathematics is the main subject. In addition, the government attaches great importance to mathematics, so it must account for a very important part. You must learn cognitively. I believe you also know With the current situation of his own family, Lei Gong doesn't like us families of nobles at all. We have no share in the imperial examination, and this enrollment in the Mechanical University is your only chance to enter the upper echelons of the cadres, because this examination is not Restricted by origin.”
While Xu Wei and Yang Feng, the top leaders of Daqian, were concerned about negotiating with Liu Bei, all the people in Daqian who were originally from noble families were making a stir about the upcoming establishment of the University of Mechanical Engineering.
This is because admissions to this university are not restricted by origin, and anyone from Daqian can participate. This is nothing to ordinary Daqian people. They have to go through such an exam almost every year. For them, it is the most difficult one. Instead, it is any official who passes the imperial examination and becomes a senior official.
But for the noble families who have always wanted to take part in the imperial examination but were unable to join because of their background, the establishment of the University of Mechanical Engineering is like a ray of sunshine in a dark sky! It allows the remaining noble families in Daqian to see a glimmer of family rejuvenation. hope!
After getting this news, the entire Daqian clan began to collect content about these mechanical college exams. After learning that most of the content was about advanced mathematics, physics and Chinese, these three books were sold like crazy.
Jingzhou has the most complete preservation of the power of the noble clans, and they are also the richest. After knowing the news, they not only printed these three books themselves, but also summoned the most powerful teachers in Jingzhou, Mr. Shui Jing and Pang Shigong, to give them to themselves My children are making up extra classes! I want to get the top spot in the exam in June!
So the already defeated Shui Jing Academy was once again crowded with students. They were all genuine young masters and children of powerful families. They also knew that their family's current situation was extremely dangerous, and they wanted to improve their family's destiny through this exam.
It's a pity that these young men and nobles have read the Six Classics for half their lives, and can recite the Analects of Confucius backwards and forwards. But for geometric figures like PA=pb, pb=PC, many people are dizzy when they see these symbols and want to get angry. Even the strong are powerless. Many people realize the limits of their IQ for the first time, and it turns out that they are just ordinary people.
After several exams, only a few people passed the exam, which made them extremely ashamed and made their family anxious. The enrollment quota was only 1,000 people. If they couldn't squeeze into the 1,000 places, their family might be in danger. He was completely abandoned in the new dynasty.
Mr. Shui Jing was very anxious when he saw these results of his students, but even a famous teacher like him was helpless in the face of this situation, because he couldn't understand many of these questions. Even he, the teacher, couldn't understand them, and the students would naturally learn them. Not so good anymore.
Of course, the overall academic performance of the children of the powerful clan is not good, but there are also geniuses among them. Zhuge Liang, the class leader of Shui Jing Class, is a genius with extraordinary talents. While others are still working hard to pass, he can easily Get perfect scores in the exam.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! So much so that he, the class monitor, became half of the students’ teacher. Many students came to Zhuge Liang to answer questions they couldn’t understand.
Zhuge Liang's insights in physics are even greater than that of Mr. Shui Jing. Sometimes he will lead his students to do some small physics experiments to let everyone deepen their impression of physics. Because of Zhuge Liang's selfless dedication, the students They are all extremely grateful to him.
When Mr. Shui Jing saw that everyone was puzzled, he could only sigh helplessly: "Kong Ming comes up to answer this question!"
Zhuge Liang explained the steps to solve the problem on the blackboard in detail.
This made the students below full of admiration. In such detailed steps, they finally understood the question clearly.
"Kong Ming is so amazing, he can solve such difficult math problems!"
"This is his good luck. Although his family was defeated, no one forced him to read the Six Classics of Confucianism. He had no teacher to teach him and read miscellaneous books at will, which laid a solid foundation for him!" Pang Tong said unconvinced.
Because of the defeat of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Xuan took Zhuge Liang and the others running around. There was no time to teach Zhuge Liang and his family, so they had to teach themselves. Zhuge Liang was involved in extensive knowledge, and the most accessible book for him at that time was Xu Xu. Wei compiled various mathematics, Chinese, and physics books, which laid a good foundation for him.
The pig head business at home has been booming recently. I get up at five in the morning and go home at four in the afternoon. I am so tired that I can’t even get out of bed. Many times I don’t finish writing until 10:30. It may be difficult to maintain the current amount of writing.
, I apologize in advance here. Now I can only try to keep two chapters at 4,000 words. Keeping it at 6,000 is an unexpected surprise!