Chapter 422 Recruiting celebrities
The information recorded on the silk book sent by Quan Cong is not secret. The content is about Liu Feng and Liu Bei’s vigorous selection of elites and expansion of the army, which aroused Jingzhou’s vigilance. reaction.
Fortunately, while Liu Feng expanded his army, he also dispersed it. Among them, the main forces of the navy are located in Jiangbei and Danyang, while the main forces of the army are located in Shouchun, Kuaiji and Yuzhang respectively.
This gave Liu Biao and everyone in Jingzhou the illusion that the focus of Liu Bei and his son was still on suppressing the rebellion in the north and within. This is obviously the same as when Liu Xun defected to Jingzhou more than half a year ago, Liu Bei and his son swallowed their anger and made concessions, forming a closed loop.
In this way, both Liu Biao and the common people in Jingzhou felt that it was unlikely that a war would break out between Liu Bei and his son and Jingzhou.
Therefore, Liu Biao's reaction was also very restrained. Even if he expanded his army, it would not only be directed at Liu Bei and his son, but also because of the increasing pressure from the north.
Calculating carefully, Huang Zucai, who is next to Liu Bei and his son, expanded his army by 5,000 people, while Xiangyang, which is next to Cao Cao, actually expanded his army by 15,000 land and water troops.
After reading the information, Liu Feng relaxed his brows.
Among Liu Biao's reactions, the item of army expansion was indeed somewhat beyond Liu Feng's expectations.
But fortunately, this is above the bottom line and is acceptable.
Then, Liu Feng opened the second silk book.
The above record is good news. Zheng Xuan and Wang Xiu accepted their own conquest.
Zheng Xuan was appointed by Liu Bei as the Chief of the Hussars General Office, while Zheng Yi and Wang Xiu were appointed by Liu Feng.
At this time, the appearance of Liu Feng greatly increased Liu Bei's strength, which in turn affected Yuan Tan's fear of taking Beihai by force. Zheng Yi, who died in Yuan Tan's invasion of Beihai and besieged Kong Rong, also survived.
Zheng Yi is the only son of Zheng Xuan and the father of Zheng Xiaotong, the future famous minister of Cao Wei. He was recommended by Kong Rong as Xiaolian. Therefore, when Yuan Tan attacked Kong Rong, although he knew that he would die, he still led his family. The tenants came to the rescue.
Zheng Xuan and Zheng Yi lived in Xuzhou all year round because of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. Zheng Xuan was very optimistic about Liu Bei and said a lot of good things to Liu Bei.
Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi are senior brothers, and Liu Bei can be regarded as Lu Zhi's registered disciple. Therefore, Zheng Xuan can be regarded as Liu Bei's senior uncle.
However, Zheng Xuan has never been good at being an official. He likes to stay at home, citing scriptures and commenting on them.
Liu Bei asked him to serve as an official many times, but he was always declined.
However, although Zheng Xuan did not leave the mountain, he still helped Liu Bei a lot during his years in Xuzhou.
Especially because of Liu Feng's appearance, Zheng Xuan did not return to Qingzhou Beihai in the second year of Jian'an as historically happened, but stayed in Tancheng as a guest.
In this way, Liu Bei's influence on Xuzhou Shilin has also been greatly expanded.
After all, Zheng Xuan is a great celebrity in the world. Even Chen Deng’s father, Chen Gui, has to perform the disciple ceremony in front of Zheng Xuan.
Now Liu Bei finally impressed Zheng Xuan and asked him to serve as the chief historian in the shogunate of the Hussars. It can be expected that Liu Bei's reputation will be greatly increased in this way.
At the same time, Zheng Yi and Wang Xiu also accepted Liu Feng's conquest.
After Zheng Yi survived by accident, he followed Zheng Xuan to settle in Xuzhou.
Now Liu Feng used the Ministry of Official Affairs to conquer Zheng Yi, and at the same time used the Ministry of Rites Cao Yu to conquer Xun Yu's brother, Xun You's uncle Xun Yue, and used the Ministry of Punishment to conquer Wang Xiu.
Wang Xiu resigned from office and went into seclusion because of the villain's instigation. He had been invited by Liu Bei and his son once before, and now Liu Feng came to conquer again. Maybe it was because he could not refuse the warm invitation, or because he was Thanks to the praise of Liu Feng and his son, Wang Xiu agreed to Liu Feng's conquest this time and has now arrived in Tancheng.
After reading the information recorded in the two silk letters, Liu Feng turned around and handed them directly into Mi Zhu's hands.
Mi Zhu was a little surprised, but after seeing Liu Feng's expression, she immediately felt relieved and started flipping through the silk book in her hand.
Mi Fang was very curious and went directly to Mi Zhu to check.
After they finished reading, Liu Feng told Mi Zhu: "Brother Zizhong, I will ask my uncle for Qu County."
Mi Zhu nodded and replied: "Zi Zhong Don't worry, my father will take good care of you."
Liu Feng smiled with satisfaction, and then he Then he reminded me of another thing: "Brother Zizhong, we need to worry about you in Pengcheng. Any technology that helps improve production can be rewarded and commended, whether it is wealth or reputation. Stingy.”
Mi Zhu was a little surprised, obviously not expecting Liu Feng to make such a request.
However, Mi Zhu didn't mean to object, especially when he saw Liu Feng being so serious and solemn, he realized that the other party really valued him, and his thoughts secretly changed.
At the same time, Mi Zhu responded: "Here! Zhu Sheng will do his best to fulfill Zi Sheng's words."
Liu Feng then asked Quan Cong: "Wang Shuzhi has already Where? "
Wang Shuzhi is Wang Xiu, also known as Shuzhi.
Quan Cong quickly replied: "We have arrived in Dongguan and are going down the river. We will reach Tancheng in three to five days."
Liu Feng showed a satisfied smile and praised Quan Cong a few words.
Later, accompanied by the Mi Zhu brothers, Liu Feng visited the final sesame oil workshop.
The entire sesame oil workshop has hundreds of people, and even the pressing area has several brand-new courtyards to house the pressing machinery.
After discussing the betrothal matters with the Mi family and inspecting various properties in Qu County, Liu Feng began to return home and returned to Tancheng.
Before leaving, Liu Feng made a special trip to visit Mi Zeng.
That night, Mi Zeng held a banquet to entertain Liu Feng.
Because Mi Zeng was in business, he had more advanced thinking in terms of technology and business, and was more able to cater to Liu Feng's ideas.
Liu Feng also took out the soap production technology and gave it to Mi Zeng to test on his behalf.
The reason why soap technology was brought out at this time was actually not because Liu Feng didn’t remember it earlier, or because he didn’t like it, but because soap technology required a lot of things.
First of all, a large-scale pig herd is required, especially since the fat content of pigs this year is not high, which increases the required number.
Secondly, after having pigs, there must be a market for the pig parts that are not needed in the process of digesting soap. Otherwise, these parts will be wasted, and at least the cost will not be recovered.
Finally, a lot of shells and plant ash are needed.
The same applies to perfume. The best material is distilled alcohol, which is actually much more troublesome than snow salt, frosting sugar, and sesame oil.
When Liu Feng first came, Liu Bei and his soldiers were almost out of food. Xuzhou was full of waste and there was no room left to raise pigs and make wine.
But now that there are economic conditions, Liu Feng is also thinking about buying more luxury goods to raise funds.
Mi Zeng was also very interested in this, and the two parties hit it off. For a while, the host and guest were all happy, and Liu Feng was so happy that he drank too much.
Just when I was drunk and confused, I felt that a beautiful and charming girl was taking care of me, bringing me tea and water, and wiping my face with a warm towel. Neck.
When I woke up, the lover was gone, leaving only the pleasant scent of jasmine, which made people feel lost.
After waking up, Liu Feng said goodbye to Mi Zeng and led the team back to Tancheng.
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After Liu Feng arrived in Tancheng, he returned to his hometown to meet Liu Bei and reported everything in Qu County.
Liu Bei was very satisfied after hearing this, and immediately discussed with Liu Feng: "As for the Mi family, I plan to ask Yuanlong to take action. Yuanlong and Zizhong have the same love and have known each other for more than ten years. They will never be together. Refuse my invitation. "
What Liu Bei is talking about is the matchmaker. Although Liu Feng almost decided on these two families, as his father, Liu Bei must entrust the matchmaker to come to the house to make the betrothal.
Liu Feng's move can only be regarded as a statement of his own. It is also an in-depth negotiation with the Mi family and Cao family to lay the foundation first.
Now that the negotiation is over and there is no problem, Liu Bei will naturally choose a matchmaker.
Liu Feng had no objection to the choice of Chen Deng. Chen Deng and Mi Zhu were both Xuzhou scholars, although they belonged to the two counties of Donghai and Xiapi, and their family status was not equivalent.
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But who let the times be troubled?
Chen Deng used to be a performer for Tao Qian, and he served as a tenant farmer and farmed in Xuzhou for Tao Qian.
This job is quite complicated and the threshold is extremely high.
Not only does the person in charge need to have real talent and knowledge, and the ability to lead a project alone, but they also need to have a high reputation and skills within Xuzhou, otherwise why would the local gentry give you face? ?
The most important thing is that if you want to farm, money, food, and materials are absolutely indispensable.
There must be money to gather manpower, food to feed farmers, seeds to cultivate, farm tools and cattle to assist. These things are almost indispensable, especially food, which can be said to be the foundation of everything.
When Chen Deng became the tenant farmer captain, not only did the Chen family put in a lot of effort, but so did the Mi family.
Mi Zhu brought a large amount of grain, cattle and farm tools to Chen Deng from home, and also spent a lot of money to help Chen Deng gather the refugees.
It was Mi Zhu's strong assistance that allowed Chen Deng to succeed in farming. He achieved a bumper harvest that year, which brought Tao Qian an increase in grain production and income of hundreds of thousands of stones.
More importantly, Chen Deng is different from ordinary scholars. He still has a lot of conscience and does not take Mi Zhu's help for granted because his family's reputation is higher than that of the Mi family.
Chen Deng made friends with Mi Zhu, and the two became good friends. What's more interesting is that the two had very similar political opinions. They later worked together to welcome Liu Bei into Xuzhou.
When Liu Bei entered Xuzhou, Tao Qian was the benefactor, Chen Deng was the chief hero, and Mi Zhu was the chief benefactor and the second hero. Inviting Chen Deng to propose marriage to the Mi family is extremely suitable in terms of reputation, prestige and status, and will also greatly enhance the Mi family's reputation.
Liu Feng was naturally very satisfied with this.
Then, Liu Bei said: "The Cao family has asked Tao Shang and Tao Ying to come forward. What do you think?"
Tao Shang and Tao Ying are Tao Qian's sons. , are also Cao Bao's old masters. For them to come forward to propose marriage to Liu Feng in person is the icing on the cake for Cao Bao's reputation. Cao Bao will definitely be very satisfied.
So Liu Feng prostrated himself with satisfaction and thanked Liu Bei: "My father has worked so hard for the child, and the child is very grateful."
Liu Bei showed a satisfied smile and waved his hand: "You and I, father and son, why should we do this?"
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A few days later, Xun Yue came from Yingchuan, and Liu Feng personally went out of the city ten miles to greet him.
Xun Yue is the grandson of Xun Shu, a famous scholar in Yingchuan, the nephew of Xun Shuang in Sikong, the son of Xun Jian, and the brother of Xun Yu. He is a famous celebrity, Confucian scholar, historian, political commentator and thinker.
His greatest advantage is that he resolutely opposes land annexation, and advocates that politicians should develop agriculture and mulberry trees to nourish their nature, examine their likes and dislikes to correct their customs, preach literature and education to regulate them, and establish military preparations to uphold them. Power, clear rewards and punishments to unify the law.
It can be said that his thoughts have a high degree of overlap with Liu Feng's thoughts, so Liu Feng recruited him to be in charge of the Ministry of Rites and asked him to set up a political banner for himself.
If Liu Feng hadn't been granted the title of General Zuo and led the Yangzhou Shepherd, and Liu Bei had become the General of Hussars and led the Yuzhou Shepherd, if he wanted to conquer Xun Yue, the probability of success would still be very low.
Liu Feng can now proudly announce that his family has entered the threshold of first-class princes and has become the target of diversified investment by first-class noble families in the Central Plains like the Xun family.
The Xun family now has two heavyweights in the Liu family's camp. Xun You assists Liu Bei, and Xun Yue assists Liu Feng. This is a treatment that only Yuan Shao and Cao Cao have.
It can be seen that the strength of Liu Feng and his son has been recognized by many people, and these people are almost all the smartest ones.
Before coming, Xun Yue actually hesitated.
As the Xun family in Yingchuan, Xun Yue and Xun Yu were not affected by the influence of the party. In fact, they had always been recruited by all parties.
But Xun Yue has been living in seclusion, just studying and learning at home.
On the contrary, all members of the Xun Yu lineage became officials. Xun Yan and Xun Chen became officials early, and even Xun Yu became an official in Yingchuan County at a young age.
Xun Yue had never been an official before, so he was naturally hesitant about Liu Feng's invitation.
But what surprised him was that Xun Yan, Xun Chen, Xun Yu, and Xun You all wrote to him.
Xun Yan and Xun Chen wrote letters to persuade him to use Xun You as an intermediary to serve Liu Feng, Liu Bei and his son.
Because Xun Yu was close and often corresponded with Xun Yue, after learning about Liu Feng's conquest, he urged Xun Yue to accept the conquest. The same goes for Xun You. After learning from Liu Bei that Liu Fengzheng had appointed Xun Yue, he immediately wrote a letter and rushed it to Yingchuan to persuade Xun Yue to come out.
It can be seen that the entire Xun family now attaches great importance to Liu Feng, Liu Bei and his son. They also feel that the Xun family's investment in Liu Feng, Liu Bei and their son is too weak, and they want to find opportunities to increase their influence.
Today, among the Xun family, Xun Yan and Xun Chen are leading most of their clansmen to Yuan Shao, while Xun Yu and Xun Pei are leading a small number of clansmen to serve Cao Cao. As for Liu Feng and Liu Bei and their sons, There is only one person named Xun You.
If it was before, there would be no problem.
But now the strength of Liu Feng, Liu Bei and his son has grown too fast, which has attracted the Xun family's great attention.
Xun Yue is just the beginning. If Xun Yue can be valued and even reused by the Liu family, then Xun Pei, Xun Yan and others will consider going south to join Liu.
This is actually a very real problem.
Although Xun Yan is the elder brother of Xun Yu and Xun Chen, his status with Yuan Shao is far inferior to that of his younger brother Xun Chen, and Xun Pei did not serve as an official with Cao Cao.
In this case, changing the door is also a very reasonable choice.
(End of this chapter)