For a long time, except in Xiangyang, Sun Ce never easily killed people, and was more willing to build momentum step by step to force the aristocratic family to submit with the situation.

In order to make the Yuzhou family accept the new policy, he operated it for five or six years, repeating it three or four times until he defeated Yuan Shao and his son, and completely cleared the Yuzhou family. The same was true when he first entered Jiangdong. As long as he did not tear his face and resisted, he usually would not kill him and would rather exchange his interests.

So many people have forgotten that Sun Ce can kill people, but he just doesn't draw his sword easily.

Why did Sun Ce design a position as prime minister? Naturally, it is because Sun Ce knows that industry and commerce involve a lot of interests and will sooner or later cause conflicts, so Sun Ce has to appoint a Jingxiang, who is responsible for coordinating the balance of industry and commerce. In terms of strength, the Jiangdong people cannot be compared with the Central Plains people. If they compete fairly, it is inevitable to suffer losses, so Sun Ce appointed him as the first Jingxiang to make it convenient for him to fight for the Jiangdong people.

Over the years, whenever Jiangdong people and the people of Central Plains and Hebei people have disputes over interest, he will deal with small matters directly, while Sun Ce himself will coordinate the major matters and spare no effort to protect the interests of the people of Jiangdong. In addition, the progressive tax system has curbed the unlimited expansion of merchants, which has ensured the steady development of industry and commerce, and has also allowed Jiangdong to take advantage of the situation and its strength to rise sharply, increasing by two or three times in ten years, and the gap with the people of Central Plains has quickly narrowed.

However, the Jiangdong people forgot this. They were eager to be on par with the people of the Central Plains and Hebei, and even made the method of contacting Shanyue to kill people and threatening them with force, which undoubtedly touched Sun Ce's bottom line. If Sun Ce did not punish him, it would inevitably trigger a counterattack from the people of the Central Plains and Hebei people, and the previous events might be revealed together.

Yu Xiang's face was pale and his cold sweat was covered in cold sweat.

Guo Jia gently placed the cup on the table and made a crisp sound. "The matter of adding counties is more important. Just concentrate on your job. This matter involves the detailed work of Shu Kingdom, so don't worry about it. The Military Information Department takes over."

Yu Fan was still hesitating, Guo Jia raised his eyelids and his eyes were sharp. "Zhongxiang, take the initiative and don't let the king wait too long."

Yu Fan felt nervous and did not dare to hesitate anymore. He bowed to thank him, stood up and left in a hurry.

Guo Jia turned around, looked at the map on the wall, and patted his forehead.

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Yu found the Military Information Bureau's villa, slowed down, and looked at the hall where Sun Ce handled his official duties normally.

He knew that Sun Ce was not in the hall. Today, Empress Dowager Wu held a family banquet, and Sun Ce would definitely be there, and maybe he would have to have a drink with Sun Quan. For this younger brother, Sun Ce spent too much effort and finally avoided the tragedy of brothers fighting each other. As for what will happen in the future, no one can guarantee it, but Sun Ce's efforts and patience were seen by everyone. Anyone with a little brain can understand Sun Ce's good intentions.

It’s a pity that some Jiangdong people are just brainless. They are not yet adapted to this era and think that they are in remote places and are out of reach, but they don’t think about how could Sun Ce vigorously develop Jiangdong if he doesn’t have the ability to control it.

Was it a gift for them?

Yu Fan then thought that Sun Ce repeatedly mentioned going to sea, and also devoted a lot of effort to go to sea to build sea ships, study navigation and positioning of sea navigation, and even set up capital Jianye, all of which were all for going to sea. As a land near the sea, how could Kuaiji be separated from Sun Ce's attention? Promoting tea cultivation may be Sun Ce's preparations for the future and wants to go to sea as a base for going to sea.

If this is true, how could Sun Ce make Kuaiji a place beyond the law?

Yu Fan was ashamed and felt a little ashamed. As a plan, as Sun Ceyi's confidant with important tasks, he was blinded by a little bit of local interests and forgot the overall situation.

"There is no rudeness in this situation!" The attendant following behind him shouted, interrupting Yu Fan's thoughts. Yu Fan looked up and saw a cold-eyed Confucian scholar standing a few steps in front of him. It was the crazy student Ni Heng.

Yu Fan was in a bad mood and didn't want to pay attention to Ni Heng. He waved his hand and signaled his servant to let Ni Heng go. The servant took a step back vigilantly, still blocking Yu Feng, pressing the handle of the knife to prevent Ni Heng from colliding with Yu Feng. Everyone in the Forbidden Garden knew that this crazy student had developed a serious illness in the past two days, and did not avoid the ministers and was unwilling to let him influence Yu Feng.

Ni Heng was not far away, staring at Yu Fan for a moment, and then rolled his eyes. "Yu Zhongxiang, I heard that you claim to be the treasure of the King of Wu and are well versed in the third realm of scholars?"

Yu looked at Ni Heng without saying a word. Although he didn't want to provoke Ni Heng, he would not avoid Ni Heng when Ni Heng came to him.

"I'll ask you a question."

Yu Fan still didn't say anything, but there was a little more sarcastic look in his eyes. This man was arrogant and looked down upon. He didn't even take Xun Yu seriously, but was forced to go crazy by the three questions of King Wu. What he wanted to ask at this moment was probably one of these three questions. Although he didn't know what these three questions were, he felt that there was no question that he couldn't answer.

"Heaven is superior and low, how can the earth respect heaven?"

"..." Yu Fan opened his mouth but did not make a sound, but instead opened his eyes wide. What the hell is this? Etiquette is always done according to people. How can the earth respect the heavens?

Seeing that Yu Fan didn't say anything, Ni Heng snorted from his nostrils and said, "Three generations of different etiquettes, how can it be consistent?"

Yu Fan was speechless again. He couldn't explain the etiquette of the three generations clearly, let alone the integration.

Yu Fan was curious. "Are these three questions that the king tested for you? What is another one?"

"Ha! Haha! Haha!" Ni Heng laughed to the sky, shook his sleeves, and left.

Yu Qiang rolled his eyes so much that he wanted to use his light body technique to catch up with Ni Heng and beat him up. After all, you can't walk again after saying that, what do these three loud laughs mean? Because I couldn't answer the first two questions, I didn't even have the qualification to listen to the third question?

Seeing that Yu turned his face wrong, the servant quickly advised: "It's getting late, and the King's family banquet may have ended."

Yu Qian nodded. At the critical moment, he didn't want Sun Ce to see him and Ni Heng conflict. Ni Heng was a crazy person and had no official position. However, he was a plan, which was related to the face of the Great Wu court. He turned around and hurriedly walked towards his own villa. The matter of dividing the counties should be done as soon as possible. If he could pass before the King of Wu ascended the throne, he could arrange many officials, which would be conducive to gathering people's hearts.

Back to the villa and spread the map of Yangzhou, Yu Fan concentrated and pondered. But for some reason, his mind was always filled with the two questions of Ni Heng and three loud laughs. He was almost certain that these two questions should be Sun Ce's question of Ni Heng. Since that's the case, Sun Ce must know the answer. He didn't know, which means that he had already distanced himself from Sun Ce and was no longer the master who could claim to be well versed in front of everyone.

What is the third question?

Yu Fan thought about it for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a question raised by Sun Ce. There are often two extremes in the questions raised by Sun Ce, either extremely small or extremely large. This is exactly the case with these two questions Ni Heng mentioned. One is the specific etiquette, but no one has ever thought about it. The other is the core of the etiquette that integrates the three generations, which someone has thought about, but no one has figured it out.

Yu Fan was ecstatic, and Kan Ze walked in side by side. Yu Fan and Kan Ze were very familiar with each other and did not get up. They signaled him to take the seat. There was wine and tea on the table, and they could take it by themselves. Kan Ze was not polite. After taking the seat, he picked up the pot, added tea to Yu Fan first, and poured himself a cup.

"Planning, the year is approaching, I am ordered to come to the Observatory for next year's budget." Kan Ze said, pulling out a roll of paper from his sleeve and pushing it to Yu Feng. Yu Feng didn't move and glanced at Kan Ze. "How many more has it increased?"

Que Ze smiled and raised a finger.

Yu Fan breathed a sigh of relief. "You know what you are interested in, it's okay, you should be able to get it..."

"Not 10%, twice."

Yu Fan was stunned, then jumped up, his eyes widening. "Double? Do you really dare to say that the observatory is almost completed, and the cost is still increasing. Is it going to double?"

Kan Ze stood up, walked behind Yu Feng, pressed his shoulder, and signaled him to be calm. "Planning, I'll ask you a question."

"You have a problem, too?"

Kan Ze was puzzled. "Why, there are still other people's problems?"

Yu Fan was so amused that he knew that Kan Ze spent most of his time on the observatory and did not ask about common things, so he told the two questions that Ni Heng had just asked. Kan Ze pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Maybe I can help you with the help of the plan."

"Is that true?"

"Well, think about it. Since the king does not believe in destiny, why should he spare no expense to build an observatory?"

Yu Feng narrowed his eyes and his eyes flashed. After a moment, a smile bloomed from the corner of his mouth, and then turned into a hearty laugh. He smiled and said, "I understand, I understand, it turns out that this is the respect for heaven and earth in the king's heart. Alas, at first I was entangled in practice, and I haven't listened to Master Xu's discussion on the way of heaven for too long, and I became vulgar before I knew it."

"Without a pragmatic approach, how can we be calm and careless? This is the budget for next year..."

Yu Bao smiled and glanced at Kan Ze sideways, took the paper on the case, and said while looking: "Even so, the observatory cannot be completely uncontrollable. As you spend money, whether this budget can be passed will be reviewed by the three governments."

"That's natural." Kan Ze smiled and said again: "The king asked three questions. I just heard two of them. What's the other one?"

"Ni Heng didn't say it, I don't know what it is." Yu Fan said, suddenly stunned, his eyes flashed. "Derun, why don't you guess?"

"This is hard to guess."

"It's actually not difficult to guess." Yu Fan curled his lips and chuckled: "If Ni Heng doesn't say it, it's probably not that the question is difficult to answer, but that there is another reason. The king has always emphasized the combination of reality and reality, and because of his personal questions, this one is likely to be targeted at Ni Heng himself. I think it might be a question like knowledge and action."

Kan Ze thought for a moment, nodded, agreeing with Yu Fan's opinion. He then looked at Yu Fan. Yu Fan also reacted, his face was a little uneasy, and he snorted, shaking the budget plan in his hand. Kan Ze understood, laughed, got up and left the seat, bowed his hand, and said goodbye.

Yu Fan laughed twice with a joke, shook his head, and sighed softly.
Chapter completed!