Of course Shen Chen didn't know that Liu Biao had already seen through the plot he had secretly laid out.
It is now 196 AD, and it has not yet reached the time when Liu Biao suffered from Alzheimer's disease twelve years later.
As a man who dared to pacify the entire Jingzhou single-handedly, how could Liu Biao be like Yi Yu?
The little tricks Shen Chen did secretly were actually seen by him, but he just didn't point them out.
Because what he did did no harm to Liu Biao, and even most of the benefits fell into Liu Biao's pocket.
It was a pie in the sky, and it was still 91%. Shen Chen worked hard to get 10%.
Liu Biao did nothing and got 90%, and anyone would be happy to replace him.
So he is willing to turn a blind eye, and at certain times, he will also help. Why not do something convenient?
Xinye County recently changed its county magistrate.
The original county magistrate Wang Yi was transferred by Zhang Xiu to the post of Nanyang County Magistrate due to his outstanding political performance, responsible for helping him manage the surrounding cities.
The new county magistrate is Deng Mao, the head of the Deng clan in Huangmenting.
Logically speaking, Deng Mao himself was in Xinye, so he should have violated the Three Mutual Laws, and locals could not be local officials.
But the problem is that Deng Mao is not a local.
He is from Xuzhou.
The household registration place in the Han Dynasty did not mean where you lived, but where you were born.
Take the Ganning family as an example.
It is recorded in "Historical Records" that Gan Ning's ancestor Gan Mao was from Xiacai, Huainan. Gan Mao's descendants moved to Nanyang, and after a few generations they became Nanyang people.
According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the ancestors of the Ganning family migrated to Bajun, Yizhou. After a few generations, they became Bajun people again, and Nanyang became the ancestral home of the Gan family.
After Gan Ning went to Soochow, and after several generations of reproduction, Gan Ning's great-grandson Gan Zhuo was introduced to him in the "Book of Jin" as a native of Danyang, Jiangdong, and his ancestral land became Bajun.
Therefore, the two Huangmenting families, Deng and Shen, can only be considered foreign residents at present. It will take several decades and two or three generations before their household registration can be transferred here.
Just like when they migrated from their ancestral land in Nanyang to Xuzhou, it is the same reason that after two or three generations, they became Xuzhou Xiangben people.
So this became an extremely rare BUG.
That is the local people recognized by the local people. In fact, the spiritual local people who are not local people have become the local county magistrate.
It sounds convoluted, but that's what it is.
Now the Deng family moved to Xuzhou more than 70 years ago, and their household registration became Xuzhou people. After returning, they were appointed officials in Xinye, and they are inextricably linked to the local Deng family in Xinye.
Then Deng Mao became the county magistrate and joined forces with Deng Qi, a local member of the Deng clan, to control the power of the entire county. It could be said that he had the power to block the sky with one hand, making the Huangmenting Deng family become a powerful person in the new field overnight.
However, the people of Xinye certainly have no objection to the rise of the Deng family in Huangmenting.
Because in the past two years, Deng's family in Huangmenting has welcomed the refugees, built canals everywhere, cultivated fields, planted mulberry forests, dug ponds, and built the original wasteland into a paradise.
They also used blast furnaces and caves to make ironware and porcelain, and sold them to Jingzhou, Jiangdong and Yizhou through the big merchants in Xiangyang and Zhou Lin. Now the colorful porcelain of Huangmenting is spread even in the north, making a lot of money.
As the saying goes, if you are poor, you can benefit yourself; if you are prosperous, you can help the world.
After having money and food, the Deng family in Huangmenting began to help the people in surrounding villages and towns in large quantities, helping them avoid war disasters, reclaim farmland, build canals and ponds, etc.
Although Deng Hong himself held an official position in the state capital, he often went to various places in Nanyang to handle government affairs under Liu Biao's orders.
He traveled around to inspect the soil and fields, and due to the benefits of digging and irrigation, there was an abundance of japonica rice in places like Xinye Huyang. He often came back to teach farming and mulberry farming, and occasionally invented some new agricultural tools to help the people develop.
All of this gave Huangmenting Deng's family a good reputation around Xinye.
When Zhang Xiu attacked Nanyang and a large number of Yellow Turbans gathered in Nanyang, countless people in Huyang, Chaoyang, and Xinye fled with their families to the Deng family's manor in Huangmenting.
Although it was only a false alarm, in a short period of time, tens of thousands of people gathered in Deng's manor, which shows how powerful Deng's appeal is now.
When war breaks out again in Nanyang in the future, I'm afraid more people will come to rely on us.
This is called fame.
Now Huangmenting has incorporated the surrounding twenty square kilometers of land into its own territory, built a manor like a city, and dug dense tunnels, fortresses and fortifications in the hills behind it.
They even found a craftsman in Jingzhou who was once a subordinate of a master craftsman who could make siege and defense equipment. They dug a lot of money and built many equipment.
Huangmenting has also experienced great development in terms of population. When it first moved here, there were only about 1,000 people. Later, the number increased to more than 2,000 due to the large number of refugees.
Now half a year later, a large number of Yellow Turbans who came down from the mountain were used for personal gain and placed in Huangmen Pavilion. The registered population has already exceeded 8,000.
He also owned more than 50,000 acres of land, and also hired a large number of field slaves from surrounding counties and counties.
The current permanent population of Huangmenting has exceeded 10,000. In a few years, I am afraid that it will be able to build a city and become a lower county.
And although Liu Biao knew what they were doing, Liu Biao chose to turn a blind eye.
There is no accountability even for contraband items such as weapons, bows and arrows made by Deng.
The reason is that it is true that Huang Menting benefited from it, but he received even more benefits.
Just the amount of grain, grass, baggage and Dingkou alone is an astronomical figure.
Moreover, the aristocratic and wealthy families at that time were like this, and everything was based on the interests of the family first.
While Deng Hong was seeking benefits for Jingzhou, it was not a big problem to seek a little benefit for his own family.
If Qingfeng Qingfeng only thinks about Jingzhou, Liu Biao may have to suspect that he has other agendas.
In fact, to some extent, Liu Biao also supported Deng Hong in doing this.
Because the reason why Huangmenting is able to develop by leaps and bounds now has nothing to do with the efforts of the village elders to create wealth.
It was entirely because Deng Hong was an official in the state government and was seeking his own benefit in this case between Zhang Xiu and the Yellow Turban.
If Deng Hong had not made great contributions, he would not have been fully responsible for the population resettlement work.
If he had not suggested to Liu Biao the plan to annex the remaining Yellow Turbans around Nanyang, Nanyang would not have had such a large population suddenly appear.
Therefore, in the final analysis, whether you can make a fortune by building blast furnace caves or use retting technology to increase grain production, they can only be said to be incidental.
Real development must rely on power. Only with power can we mobilize a large amount of external resources to fill it.
Otherwise, how much porcelain, ironware, and grain can be produced with just a thousand people in Huangmenting, even with blast furnace caves and retting technology?
So where does Deng Hong's power come from?
Isn't it Liu Biao?
Therefore, Deng Hong's expansion of his clan was entirely within Liu Biao's tacit approval.
At least in Liu Biao's opinion.
There is nothing wrong with him eating meat and Deng drinking some soup.
In May, the bustling Nanyang Rebellion came to an end, and Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao benefited. Even the Yellow Turban Army, most people were willing to come down the mountain.
The turmoil was not very loud, but the harvest was full, which made Cao Cao, who was far away in Yingchuan, regretful that he could not get any benefits.
After Shen Chen took charge of all this behind the scenes, he hid his merit and fame and returned to Xiangyang to continue his studies.
In addition to going to the academy, he also occasionally went to Yuliangzhou to consult with Pang Degong.
His knowledge increased day by day, and his reputation as a child prodigy spread throughout Jingzhou.
But what made him a little regretful was that he never saw Pang Tong from beginning to end, because last year Pang Tong went to Yingchuan to study with Sima Hui, and he didn't know when he would come back.
On May 12, Shen Chen went to Yuliangzhou to ask Pang Degong for advice on an academic question the day before yesterday. He went to Longzhong to discuss knowledge with Zhuge Liang yesterday. After staying in Longzhong for one night, he planned to return to the academy today.
The sky is clear and clear, it is midsummer, cicadas are singing, and the blazing sun is shining on the earth. The path leading to the academy is mottled with shades of trees, with towering trees on both sides, and their branches are thick and luxuriant.
The carriage drove slowly on the trail. Because the road was relatively flat, Shen Chen read a book in the carriage. At that time, the carriage compartment was not closed, but open on all sides with an umbrella.
Suddenly he heard someone calling him from behind: "Is it Shen Chen?"
Shen Chen turned around and saw that at some point there was a carriage behind him. There were people in it, one big and one small. He knew the older one. He was Liu Biao's driver, Mr. Liu. He was the one who brought the old man from Huangmenting Township with him. I went to Xinye and introduced Wang Yi to them.
Last year, Liu Xian was still in Xiangyang and was quite friendly with Deng Hong. However, in the second half of the year, something happened at home in Lingling, so he asked Liu Biao for leave. Now, we haven't seen him for more than half a year.
Seeing that it was him, Shen Chen asked the driver to stop, got off the car and stood by the roadside to wait.
After a while, Liu Xian's carriage also stopped on the side of the road. Shen Chen raised his hands to him and said, "It turns out to be Mr. Shizong. I haven't seen you for a long time. My uncle misses him often."
Liu Xian said: "My brother-in-law died of illness, and my sister and nephew were left alone. They had to go back to Lingling to deal with family matters. They just came back a few days ago. Your uncle wrote to me yesterday, asking me to go to Yin County to help. He is dealing with farm matters, so I happened to meet you here today."
Shen Chen noticed that there was a child of about four or five years old in Liu Xian's carriage looking at him curiously, so he raised his hands and said, "Yes, my uncle misses Mr. Shizong too much. He has been away for half a year. My great-uncle is also often out of town."
"hehe."
Liu Xian said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, there is always time to meet when we come back. Ah Chen, this is my nephew, his name is Zhou Buyi. It turns out that I wanted him to study with Liu Ba in Lingling, but he didn't want to I am willing to accept him. You have been in the academy for a long time and your knowledge is very good. I just want to entrust him to you."
Shen Chen actually didn't know Zhou Buyi, and he was not like many people in later generations who specialized in studying history and memorized "Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han" backwards and forwards.
I just watched the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" before, plus various Three Kingdoms games, and some Three Kingdoms jokes and videos on the Internet, and I have a rough understanding of the important figures of the Three Kingdoms and the general historical development.
He knew all the early princes, the Five Tiger Generals, the Five Good Generals, Cao Cao's Five Great Advisors, the Crouching Dragon, the Phoenix, the Young Linzhong Tiger.
But if you ask him to tell you who were the main officials in the late Wei, Shu, and Wu Three Kingdoms, except for Jiang Wei, Ma Dai, Wei Yan, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, and other senior generals in the late Shu Kingdom, he has no idea at all.
So he didn't know that this child was a famous child prodigy in the Three Kingdoms. He just saw that the child was handsome, smart and cute, and he immediately liked him very much. He smiled and said: "Sir, don't worry, there is no doubt that there will be no one in the academy."
Dare to bully him."
Except me.
He added another sentence in his mind.
Liu Xian smiled and said: "Then I'll be relieved."