"The style is better than before?" Wang Can smiled bitterly and shook his head, sighing: "I have been living in Xiangyang for nine years. These nine years can be described as 'wasting time and accomplishing nothing'. How can a person who is down and out talk about style?"
I think that when he was fifteen years old, he became a close friend of the great scholar Cai Yong and became famous all over the world. At the age of seventeen, he was called the Emperor of Huangmen as the Minister of Huangmen, which was unparalleled in the world.
For example, at the age of twenty-six this year, I have all the talents to help the world, but I have no place to use them. I can only devote myself to Liu Biao's shogunate and use my words to flatter people. The heart is sour and depressed, and it is not enough for outsiders to understand.
Liu Jing stroked his back and said: "Zhongxuan is talented and knowledgeable. He is unique in Hannan. He is the talent of Wang Zuo. Liu Jingzhou treats him as a scholar. How unwise. He loves talents but does not use them. His country is in danger and he has no help.
This may be the reason for Liu Shijun's final defeat."
Wang Can and Liu Xian were both Liu Biao's old officials, and Liu Jing himself was considered Liu Biao's subordinate, so it was not easy to criticize them too much and only pointed them out.
"Just now, there are riots in the world. There are more than a thousand scholars from Guanzhong, Yan, and Yu who have fled to Jingzhou. They are all handsome in the world, and Zhongxuan is the best among them."
Liu Jing added: "Now that I want to report to the country and protect the common people, I need the help of this generation. Zhongxuan has always known how to know people. I want to use Zhongxuan as Dong Cao's governor to select virtuous people to serve as shogunate for me. I don't know Zhongxuan."
How about Xuan Yi?"
Dong Cao was originally an official subordinate to the prime minister. Since this dynasty, he has been appointed by the three princes and even generals with important titles. He has a rank of four hundred shi and is in charge of the promotion of two thousand shi chief officials. He also coordinates the appointment and dismissal of military officials. He has great power.
Logically speaking, Liu Jingyi was a general with no qualifications and was not qualified to set up Dong Cao.
However, he has occupied Jing and handed over the land to the two states. As the saying goes: "When the officials leave the border, they can stabilize the country and save the people. It is possible to specialize in it." Now that the world is in chaos and the system is in ruins, there is no need to stick to the rules in everything.
Just write to the emperor and report it.
Cao Cao's Dong Cao Yu was Mao Jie, an important minister who proposed "serving the emperor's orders and not being a minister". Sun Quan's Dong Cao Yu was Gu Hui, Zhang Wen, and others who came from Wu County with four surnames: Gu, Lu, Zhu and Zhang.
Liu Biao also used the famous scholar Fu Xun for Dong Cao, which shows its importance.
"Dare to disobey orders."
Wang Can was overjoyed. From a civil servant who was not taken seriously because of his writing skills, he suddenly became one of the most powerful people in Jingjiao and Jiaozhou. What does it mean to rise to the top in one step? This is it.
Wang Can bowed deeply and said, "The general has treated me as a soldier of the country, and I will definitely repay him as a soldier of the country."
"Zhongxuan doesn't need to be polite." Liu Jing held up Wang Can and felt a lot for a moment. Wang Can wrote to him a few months ago and called him "Zhongda". Now he also calls him "general".
Only his elder brothers Liu Zong, Liu Xiu and a few others could call him by his cousin's name.
Liu Xian looked on and admired Wang Can in his heart. Everyone knew Wang Can's talent. Needless to say, Wang Can was not only from the same hometown as Liu Biao, but his grandfather Wang Chang was Liu Biao's teacher. The relationship between the two was so close that Liu Biao still couldn't reuse him.
As soon as Liu Jingfu saw Wang Can, he worshiped Dong Cao and entrusted him with important tasks. This shows their attitude towards talents.
Liu Jing then met with several representatives of Xiangyang noble families and state officials, and then invited Wang Can, Liu Xian and their entourage to Liqiu.
Being in the village temple hall, looking at the ministers under Liu Jing, except for Han Ji and Xiang Lang who had recently defected, the others such as Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wan, Deng Zhi, Li Yan, etc. were all young people in their twenties. Liu Jing
I couldn't help but be deeply touched at first.
It was such a group of young people who followed Liu Jing, who was also young, and fought with each other. They were invincible and killed the heroes of two states. They were frightened and surrendered.
Mr. Liu is only forty years old this year and is in his prime, but facing this group of young people, he actually feels old. Mr. Liu secretly shook his head, holding the Zhennan General seal ribbon in one hand and the Jingzhou Mu seal ribbon in the other.
Dedicated to Liu Jing.
Liu Jing took the seal ribbon and played with it in his hand, looking very calm.
General Zhennan was not only an important general, but was also awarded by the emperor to "supervise, promote, and benefit the military of the three states."
This power can be said to be so boundless that he can intervene in the affairs of Jiaozhou, Yangzhou (Jiangdong), and Yizhou at will.
Liu Biao relied on the power granted to him by the emperor to spy on Bashu in the west and invade Yuzhang in the east. It was not until Liu Jing rose to power in Jingnan that Liu Biao had to stop coveting benefits and making friends.
It is conceivable that Cao Cao would definitely not agree to Liu Jing taking over as General Zhennan, and there would be no room for compromise on this matter.
As for Jingzhou Shepherd, due to the avoidance principle of the "Three Mutual Laws" of this dynasty, Liu Jing, as a native of Jingzhou, was unable to serve as Jingzhou Shepherd.
In other words, General Zhennan and Jingzhou Mu will not be able to catch any of them.
"However, I got rid of Liu Biao, a serious enemy of Cao Cao, why should he show something?" Liu Jing said with a smile in his heart.
When Cao Cao heard that Yuan Shao had died of illness, he couldn't stand it any longer and had led his army northward not long ago, preparing to take advantage of this opportunity to defeat the Yuan family in one fell swoop and unify the north.
This is also the reason why Liu Jing captured Jingzhou without external interference. If Cao Cao was in Xuchang, he might not have watched him annex Jingzhou. After all, Liu Biao had surrendered to Cao Cao before, and he had enough excuses to send troops to intervene.
Historically, Cao Cao crossed the river and went north to fight fiercely with the brothers Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan. Although he fought consecutively, it was not enough to defeat the Yuan brothers.
Faced with an unfavorable situation, Yuan Shang ordered his maternal brother, Bingzhou Governor Gao Gan, and the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu to march south to Hedong to open up a second battlefield.
Cao Cao's troops were stretched thin and he was unable to rescue Hedong for a while. In the end, he relied on Ma Teng, Han Sui and other Kansai generals to barely defeat the coalition forces of Gao Gan and the Southern Xiongnu.
It's a pity that Liu Jingxin has settled in Jingzhou, but the prefectures and counties have not yet surrendered, so he can't free up his troops for the time being. Otherwise, if he leads his troops northward, joins forces with the Yuan family and high officials, and attacks Cao Cao in a flanking attack, it will definitely be enough for Cao Cao to drink.
Thinking of this, Liu Jing shook his head. Cao Cao was in a strong position and it was difficult to eliminate him. For the current plan, he still had to take advantage of the dispute between Cao Cao and the Yuan brothers to get rid of Sun Quan as soon as possible. If Sun Quan was not dead, he would not dare to go north without fear.
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In the evening, Liu Jing held a banquet in Liqiu Township Temple to entertain Xiangyang officials.
Liu Jing was not good at drinking, and he was going to Xiangyang tomorrow, so he didn't drink much.
On the night of the twelfth lunar month, people dispersed in the wine room, and the person who slept on the same bed as Liu Jing changed from Han Ji to Wang Can.
Wang Can was fond of drinking, and he had wasted many years before he succeeded, so he had to drink a few more drinks at the banquet. Now he was seventy or eighty percent drunk. He bared his chest and belly in front of Liu Jing and called him by his first name, which was quite rude.
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But Liu Jing didn't care. Instead of holding a candle and drinking tea, they talked about everything in the world.
When Wang Can heard that Liu Jing and Deng Yuan's second child was about to be born, he was moved and suggested: "In the past, my respected father and respected uncle got married at the fingertips, which became a legend. Now I have a son, who is three years old, smart and cute."
, how about if she is born as a girl and becomes the wife of my royal family?"