Hedong, Anyi.

After turning over and dismounting in front of the courtyard, throwing the reins to Hu Chier, lifting up the cloak, and just about to enter the door, he saw Dong Yue and his party rushing from a distance, so he stopped. Dong Yue and others rushed to the door and tied their mounts. Seeing Niu Fu standing in front of the door, he couldn't help laughing and said, "I'm here early."

Niu Fu touched his messy beard and smiled. "You have arrived from the sluice. Wouldn't you be too negligent? How about it? What's going on in Luoyang recently?"

Dong Yue turned over and dismounted, walked quickly to Niu Fu, and entered the door with Niu Fu. "There is nothing to do in Luoyang. The Taiwei is in the farmland and preparing for a martial arts competition. It's quite lively. If it weren't for Liangzhou, I really wanted to join in the fun and see what heroes there are in Guandong."

Niu Fu sneered, echoed a few words, and then asked Dong Yue about his intentions. Dong Yue showed a hint of embarrassment and scratched his head. "When talking about this, it is also related to the martial arts competition. Zhu Taiwei said that there are many people coming from Luoyang, and the food is tight, and the quota given to me was cut. I told him a few times but it was useless. I wanted to rob him. There are quite a lot of soldiers in Luoyang. If I really want to tear my face, I may not be able to take advantage of it. There is no way, so I have to come to Wenhe to discuss. What's wrong with you, what's wrong with coming from Jinyang?"

Niu Fu smiled strangely. "You will know the big thing later."

"And, I'm pretending to be mysterious and stinky, are they taught by those people in Bingzhou?"

Dong Yue laughed and scolded a few times. The two walked into the door together. There were many people waiting in the vestibule. They gathered together in groups of three or five to talk. When they saw Niu Fu and Dong Yue coming in, they closed their mouths and looked over, with a look of disgust and fear in their eyes. Niu and Dong Dong didn't care. They were used to this kind of eyes and walked into the atrium as if no one was around. The officials they met along the way were all on the side. Some pretended not to see it, while others forced to smile and greet him.

The two came to the atrium and saw Jia Xu sitting in the hall, with a group of people kneeling in front of them, some of whom were replying, some were pressed in the corridor, stripped their pants, and were tortured, but no one dared to scream. Niu Fu and Dong Yue looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time. The two went to the hall and coughed. Jia Xu raised his head, a little surprised.

"Why did you meet each other?"

"This is called "It's better to be a coincidence than to be able to get there." I happened to meet at the door, and it's also fate. Wenhe, you, the prefect of Hedong, are doing a very similar thing."

"Oh, don't mention it, I'm so annoying." Jia Xu smiled bitterly, stood up and gave a few instructions, asking Wei Ji to continue handling the matter, and he led Niu Dong and the others to the side courtyard. The three of them hadn't met for a while, and were very happy, especially Niu Fu, who kept praising Jia Xu as the prefect, yelling to transfer Jia Xu to Taiyuan as the prefect, governing with him in the same city, and helping him handle the official affairs of the Bingzhou governor.

Dong Yue also felt the same way. For them, fighting is simple and managing civil affairs is too difficult. The piles of account books are dizzy and not looking at them. Who knows what those wardens are doing? He was obviously going to come from Luoyang, but in a blink of an eye, the things are gone, and I don’t know where they use them.

Listening to the two complaining, Jia Xu also sympathized with them. He knew that their abilities were not something they could handle, and it was not possible to hand them over to others. It was never new to deceive superiors and hide subordinates.

"I was about to tell you about this." Jia Xu invited the two of them to take their seats. "Mr. Wenyou traveled to Nanyang and opened his eyes and said that we can learn from some practices. For example, the martial arts lecture hall..."

Niu Fu shook his head repeatedly. "What martial arts are you talking about? The scholars of Kanto need these, we don't need them."

"We don't need a martial arts hall, but we can do the opposite and build a literary hall."

"Lecture Hall?" Niu Fu and Dong Yue were confused and stared at Jia Xu with four big eyes.

Jia Xu said his thoughts. Guandong became prime minister and Guanxi became generals, so Sun Ce wanted to build a martial arts lecture hall and train lower-level officers. Most people in Liangzhou were accustomed to fighting formations and did not need a martial arts lecture hall, but they lacked knowledge and were not good at governing government. They were afraid of being deceived by the Guandong people. So Jia Xu came up with an idea, selecting hundreds of young and clever people from the army, asking them to abandon martial arts and learn literature, and after they could handle government affairs, they would send them to their subordinate counties as commanders, or arrange them to serve as staff for each battalion. These people are from Liangzhou, who are trustworthy and can fight. Once they become county magistrates and county magistrates, they can become their minions, help them control their territory, and no longer have to worry about being deceived by outsiders.

Niu Fu slapped his thigh. "Yes, this idea is good, why didn't I expect it? The eight counties and 98 cities in Bingzhou are only more than 100 people, plus the governor's mansion and the prefect's mansion, there are only 200 people at most. If the people of Guandong don't listen to us, we will use our own people and feel at ease."

Dong Yue was a little worried. "Is it too late? Reading is not easy. It's okay to let them cut people with a knife, but let them write with a pen..." Dong Yue smacked his lips repeatedly, feeling that this matter was not that easy.

"Precisely because of the difficulties, we have to do it even more, otherwise we will always be played with by the Kanto people. Why do the Kanto people look down on us? It is because they think we cannot live without them. If we cultivate talents ourselves, their county magistrate and county magistrate can't be able to do it, will they still be so arrogant?"

"But it's not easy to study. It's hard to become a talent without a few years of hard study."

"We are not training doctoral students, so why do we need so much knowledge? It's enough to understand official documents and settle accounts. I guess it will be almost done in a year or two. If someone learns well, it's okay to read more scriptures."

Dong Yue thought about it and still felt it was unreliable. "Wenhe, although he only transferred two or three hundred people, he should not be too old and smart at the age of studying. These are all elites from each battalion. If so many people are drawn at once, his combat power will be affected."

"Don't worry, there will be no big war within two or three years. After two or three years, these people will be trained and some of them will be returned to the army. The combat power of each battalion will only increase and will not decrease."

Niu Fu was puzzled. "Why wouldn't there be a big battle within two or three years?"

Jia Xu twisted his beard and laughed, and said lightly: "If you are Yuan Shao, are you willing to attack Bingzhou or Yuzhou?"

Niu Fu and Dong Yue suddenly realized, exchanged a clear look, and laughed. Niu Fu rubbed his hands. "Wenhe, it's still your smartness that made me worry for so long."

Jia Xu put away his smile and his eyes became solemn. Seeing this, Niu Fu and Dong Yue subconsciously put away their smile and pricked up their ears. Jia Xu's eyes swept across their faces. "These two or three years are also our last chance. No matter who is the winner in the end, they will take Bingzhou as their target. So we must not be careless. We must balance it when necessary so that they don't decide the winner so quickly."

Niu Fu nodded repeatedly. "According to the situation in front of him, Sun Ce is probably not a match for Yuan Shao. Should we go out to Taihang and stab Yuan Shao?"

"No, we can't not only stab Yuan Shao, but also show kindness to him." Jia Xu stroked his beard and smiled slightly. "Only by allowing Yuan Shao to go out with peace of mind, we have a chance to benefit from it. If he doesn't fight south, Bingzhou and Hedong will be in danger."
Chapter completed!