Although Cao Cao gave Liu Ye a lot of trust and authority, it definitely did not include giving away any piece of land directly!
At this time, there was no deep concept of "territorial integrity". It was just like the Han Dynasty's treatment of the desert. When the country was strong, it spread out and built monuments, and when it weakened, it withdrew. Land that has no output and no strategic significance is worthless.
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However, Tuyin County has output and strategic value. More importantly, Tuyin County is still in the hinterland of Youzhou, Wei State, and was given to Chu State to garrison?
Even if it is just a navy, the impact is not small!
However, Liu Ye, as Wei's ace lobbyist, did not give up easily. When Chu's attitude was very firm, and Wei... had nothing to threaten Chu, Liu Ye began to test the opponent's bottom line.
During this negotiation, in addition to the chief official who didn't speak much, the two lieutenants of the Chu State were very young. One was Bu Zhi from the Ministry of Husbandry, and the other was Deng Zhi from the Ministry of Rites - both passed the imperial examination last year.
Bu Zhi, who works in the Commercial Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, is responsible for seeking profits, while Deng Zhi, who works in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites, is responsible for guarding the "bottom line."
Liu Ye even had some doubts, was Chu State looking down on him?
Why are two young people "confronting" themselves?
In the end, Liu Ye discovered that, to be precise, Chu State did not want the entire Tuyin County, but was really only interested in the coastal area.
Deng Zhi initially showed that he was determined to win Tuyin City. However, after Liu Ye saw Bu Zhao's wavering and firmly regarded Tuyin City as his bottom line, the opponent subsequently gave way...
The "bottom line" of the Chu State was pressed against the hundreds of miles of Tuyin County's coastline, and the length was also pressed down to fifty miles - that is, the Chu State really only occupied one port, and it had to be built by the Chu State itself.
The number of troops stationed in the agreement was also reduced to two thousand, and they could not cross the coastline more than fifty miles.
The most important thing is that Liu Ye fought hard to obtain the power of a tax-free trade port - for all Chu goods entering Tuyin Port, Chu State must refund the full tax for the caravan!
For example, the five-to-one tax on food was no longer enough to satisfy Liu Ye.
Of course, because Tuyin Port is controlled by the Chu State, it means that only the goods that the Ministry of Rites agrees to trade can flow in from here - such as grain, salt, pickled seafood, and luxury sugar, colored glaze, and Jiangdong
Brocade...
In addition, there is the most important thing, which is also Liu Ye’s main purpose-sea ships!
Liu Ye asked the Ministry of Rites to include the main ships currently in service in the Ganning Navy as tradable, and to trade at least one of them to Wei within two years...
In the end, I got my wish!
Therefore, when Liu Ye left the official office of the Ministry of Rites, his face still looked a little angry, but he felt a little proud in his heart.
I just thought that the people "confronting" me this time were two young people from Chu State...
Liu Ye couldn't help but feel a little sad - although the Wei State was full of talents, the King of Wei cherished and cherished talents since Chenliu started his army. Even during this period, due to ideological reasons and the immaturity of the King of Wei, he had some misunderstandings with talents from aristocratic families.
, but in general, no one can say that Wei does not value talents, but...
Compared with the vitality of Chu State, Wei State was obviously lagging behind.
Moreover, the establishment of the imperial examination system will enable Chu State to continuously replenish its "vitality" in the future!
Even if Wei wanted to imitate someone else, he had to face pressure from aristocratic families first - Liu Ye was from a clan of the Han Dynasty, and he didn't have much prejudice against the imperial examination, nor was he optimistic about it. After all, the Later Han Dynasty itself established
On the basis of the cooperation between the families.
But now Liu Ye feels that he should move closer to the ideas of his own king and support the imperial examination more actively.
Of course, we should also pay attention to the communication with Chen Qun, the representative of the aristocratic family in Wei Guozhong, and there is no need to offend them.
What makes Liu Ye most anxious is that the most criticized "weakness" of the Chu State is nothing more than the naivety of the King of Chu, including both policy naivety and strategic naivety - just like Chu Jia and Chu Nu.
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If the Wei State had such a technological advantage in ordnance, it would definitely turn this technological advantage into a real strategic advantage at any cost, and even use war to support a wave of troops, try to destroy the Fu Han, and unify
The world, create a new dynasty!
As for the casualties that fighting to support war will bring to the enemy and ourselves?
If there are no casualties, how can there be a new era? Only great chaos can lead to great governance!
That’s why it is said that the King of Chu was very naive, which greatly hindered the development of Chu State and even made Chu State not afraid. He was like a boxer who didn’t know boxing skills and just wanted to make himself fat...
However, now Liu Ye is a little wary of being fooled, as if the Chu State is going to "eat" him into a giant first. What will happen if he doesn't know how to box at that time?
At the same time, Deng Zhi and Bu Zhi also breathed a sigh of relief...
"Liu Ye is worthy of being the great leader of the Wei State. He can't be dealt with like that." Deng Zhi sighed.
"That's right, Liu Ye should also have some lobbying skills. Thanks to Brother Bomiao for helping me cover it up, I wouldn't be able to see through it." Bu Zhi said with some embarrassment.
"What Zishan said is obvious. We were admitted in the same period, so we should get close and work together for Dachu." Deng Zhi said without taking any credit.
Liu Ye thought that his strategy was working in the negotiations, but he didn't know... that he was also being influenced!
It was only six months ago that Bai Tu gradually discovered that the imperial examination seemed to have an unexpected effect - the awakening of strategy.
It has been more than eight months since the imperial examination. Especially among the top three scholars in each subject, one-third of them had official seals before, and the rest were arranged to be awakened at Chu Ji after taking the imperial examination.
But no matter what the situation is, six months after the imperial examination ended, these top three scholars gradually awakened to new strategies - and they were all related to the subjects they were ranked on!
For example, Fazheng has newly awakened three strategies, Zhuge Jin has two, and everyone else has at least one. Moreover, the newly awakened strategies must be related to his entrance into the imperial examination, and the proportion of strategies is exclusive to them.
Extremely high...
Bu Zhao, as the second in the household department, awakened to the idea of "extending more than you can afford" - instantly calculating the room for profitable growth.
In line with his performance in household subjects, when checking accounts, he can not only pick out problematic accounts, but also quickly calculate where there is room for improvement in the accounts, and then determine the possible efficiency problems behind the accounts, or the implementation of intentions.
The nature of the problem!
It can be regarded as an advanced and exclusive form of popular conspiracy "seeking profit"...
Deng Zhi, as the second person in Li Ke, has awakened to "empathize with me" - the other party's feelings during the negotiation, forcibly deflecting towards his own position. The greater the gap between positions, the worse the deflection effect.
Since ancient times, "putting yourself into the other side's perspective" has been an important means for strategists to persuade and advise. Strategies similar to "empathy" have emerged in endlessly. Although it is an exclusive strategy, different counselors have different effects after awakening "empathy".
But the general direction of action is similar.
Today, the most obvious owner of "empathy" is none other than Dahonglu Liu Ye of Wei State...
It can truly perceive the target's emotional tendencies, and then judge the other party's general attitude, so as to better reach the other party's persuasive points, and can be used to test the bottom line.
Historically, this was Liu Ye's advantage and also his flaw...
This "advantage" made Liu Ye successful when he represented Cao Cao's group as an envoy, but as a "flaw", it also caused Liu Ye's miserable life in his later years.
The reason is that Liu Ye in history made the mistake of being good at using "empathy" to figure out the intentions of Ming Emperor Cao Rui and other colleagues when he participated in government affairs.
He values his own "feathers" more than he cares about Wei's policies, and has no position of his own...
That is to say, he talks about people when he sees others, and talks about ghosts when he sees ghosts. He is also double-dealing between the king and his colleagues. When other colleagues disagree with Emperor Ming, Liu Ye will agree with his colleagues' ideas in private, and follow Cao Rui in front of Cao Rui. The meaning of Rui is to criticize the ideas of colleagues.
At the beginning, because Liu Ye's speaking skills were high enough, even if he denied the views of his colleagues in front of Emperor Ming, he would use sophistry in private to make people feel that Liu Ye supported him and refuted it just to better convince Emperor Ming.
However, what was fake could not be true. In the end, Liu Ye overturned and what he had done was exposed to Cao Rui.
In order to test Liu Ye, Cao Rui deliberately expressed opinions that he did not agree with during a private conversation with Liu Ye. As expected, he found that Liu Ye, who supported him every time, was not consistent with his three views, but was speculating. My own intentions, deliberately "rubbing" my own three views!
Of course, as Liu Ye was a veteran of three dynasties, this was not a clear accusation, so Cao Rui did not say anything explicitly, but just began to alienate Liu Ye. This also prevented Liu Ye from being reused in his later years, and finally became depressed and crazy...
It can only be said that he succeeds with his words and fails with his words. He failed to adapt to the transformation from an envoy to an important minister in the court. He has no integrity of his own and no intention to help the world and the people. He only wants to talk and persuade guests. He faced government affairs with a different attitude, but was eventually counterattacked by his own lobbyist attributes!
In Cheng Ji's world, Liu Ye's "empathy" strategy also has this tendency - it is very effective, but it can easily affect himself unintentionally.
Deng Zhi's "empathize with me" should be regarded as a variant of "empathize with others". The effect is exactly the opposite. It is to use one's own position to subtly assimilate the other party.
If "empathy" means considering issues and speaking from the other person's perspective, then "empathy" means subtly infecting the other person and making them "empathize" with you.
In terms of effect, "empathize with me" is undoubtedly more domineering, but it also has more restrictions. The greater the deviation, the more difficult it is.
If it weren't for Liu Ye's "empathy", he happened to sense Deng Zhi's position, and then... his own instinct to take over, I'm afraid with Liu Ye's mental strength, even if he was affected by "empathize with me", he would not Too obvious!
That's right, Liu Ye hadn't realized yet that the two young men had actually tricked him, and it could even be said that he jumped in half of them himself.
It is true that Liu Ye found out some of Chu's bottom lines, but at the same time, Bu Zhi and Deng Zhi were not lying flat and being played by Liu Ye.
When Liu Ye left, although the two of them looked shocked, in fact, they had basically met their expectations.
Of course, in addition to the two people's own abilities, the hard power of the Chu State also played a key role - when facing the Wei State itself, the Chu State was more confident, and this cannot be changed by words.
Although Chu and Wei have not reached a formal agreement on this, because Liu Ye wants to ask Cao Cao for instructions, even if it is only a small part of Tuyin County and a little bit along the coast, Liu Ye cannot make the final decision. However, Liu Ye feels that by fighting for it himself
Based on the conditions met, the king should probably agree...