"Liu Xuande is elegant and faithful, and today Xuzhou welcomes him. He is sincere and lives up to expectations." [Xian Di Chun Qiu]
"After entering Xuzhou, I want to be kind to the powerful people in the territory and appease the people... I plan to declare Chen Deng as the prefect of Guangling and Mi Fang as the prime minister of Xiapi, how about that?" Liu Bei asked.
"Fujun Ruijian." Chen Qun greatly agreed, and all of them said with admiration: "Chen Yuanlong has extraordinary talents, can raise the elderly and raise orphans, and treats the people as if they are injured. With him in charge of Guangling, he can appease one party and provide for others."
The Lord of Fu is on guard against the troops in the east of the Yangtze River. As for Ruo Mifang... This person has a certain reputation, and his brother is highly valued in the court. Winning him over can prove that the Lord of Fu is open-minded."
There is one more thing he hasn't said yet. The Mi family has a long history of selling goods and is a rich family in Xuzhou. This kind of powerful person with insufficient background has only financial resources but no reputation, so he has always been criticized by the world's two thousand stones.
The veteran noble family, the Chen family of Xiapi, was despised. Although the relationship between the two was not a fire and water, they did not have any good feelings for each other. Liu Bei let Mi Fang serve as the prime minister of Xiapi. It was probably because of this that he made a fool of himself.
Weigh the means.
Jian Yong, Liu Yan and others understood his meaning briefly and echoed with a few words of praise.
"Besides showing kindness, brother, you must not forget to establish your authority!" Zhang Fei suddenly said from the side. Although he was strong and a solid military commander, what he said this time was shocking: "Tao Gong of Xuzhou
There is a villain named Cao Hong next to him. He makes slanderous remarks all day long and kills countless good people. If the elder brother can catch them and question them in public, and then kill them, it will not only be enough to alert Xiaoxiao, but also make Xuzhou scholars
People are virtuous.”
Chen Qun was greatly surprised. In the six months since he had been with Liu Bei and others, he only knew that Liu Bei's subordinates, Jian Yong and others, were deficient in intelligence and strategy. His generals also had their own personalities and shortcomings in ability. He did not expect that they seemed rude.
Zhang Fei can still tell such a level of interests.
This was the rare time he made a mistake.
"That's the truth." Liu Bei nodded in agreement and said solemnly: "You don't need to tell me, I will also punish these villains who cause trouble in the territory."
The discussion continued until late at night, when each other smoothed things out and understood it, and both felt that there were no mistakes. When I came back to my senses, I realized that I had forgotten the time, and the sky was getting dark, so everyone took their leave one after another.
Before leaving, Jian Yong deliberately stayed alone until the end. He took Liu Bei's hand and said, "Chen Changwen is fickle. Since he appointed ministers for the prince, he has often traveled abroad and made friends with scholars, but he has never been treated personally. I think
This person is just hindered by his father's destiny, so he may not be completely surrendered. The prince must be more careful. If you cherish this person's intelligence, you must find a way to truly subdue this person."
He had also noticed just now that Chen Qun not only did not elaborate on some matters, such as the attitude of the Yingchuan scholars and Pingdong General Cao Cao, but also avoided talking about it.
Liu Bei smiled warmly and said unhurriedly: "Lao Xianhe reminds me, go back and rest early."
Jian Yong stopped as soon as he called, and without saying much, he bowed to Liu Bei and left quietly.
Liu Bei was still standing by the door, watching the backs of Jian Yong and others disappear outside the courtyard gate. Then he withdrew his gaze, looked around aimlessly, and finally focused on the big tree in the courtyard.
The original big tree here was cut down by Yellow Turban thieves for firewood a long time ago. The current tree was newly planted in recent years. Although it grows straight and tall, the branches and leaves are sparse and weak.
And what it looks like when it grows up.
Liu Bei stared at the tree, but his mind was wandering. For a long time, he murmured: "The roots are shallow, how long will it take to grow lush?"
The next day Chen Deng came to urge the trip, and Liu Bei led Zhang Fei, Xiahou Bo and other generals, together with the troops and horses Chen Deng brought when he arrived, a total of seven or eight thousand people, and set off generously.
On the way to Xiangben County, I happened to meet my old friend Tian Yu. It turned out that Tian Kai's army was small and there were few generals. Even with Tian Yu's help, it was difficult for him to defeat Qu Yi, Gao Lan and other Jizhou's strong soldiers. And because of the road to the north,
However, Lu Bu in the east was not willing to accept him, so Tian Yu had no choice but to lead hundreds of people to escort Tian Kai south to join Liu Bei. However, Tian Kai fell ill and died on the way not long after leaving, so Tian Yu had no choice but to continue southward with Bu Qu alone to meet Liu Bei.
Waiting for someone to meet.
Liu Bei was worried about the lack of talented people around him to help him. Although Chen Qun was good at planning and making decisions, his mind was changeable. Even if Chen Ji was involved, Liu Bei did not dare to fully believe it. After all, it was not as good as
Tian Yu, an old friend of Youyan's, came to be affectionate.
So Liu Bei appointed Tian Yu as the Cavalry Captain, and rushed to Tancheng with him. First, he solemnly offered sacrifices to Tao Qian, and then with the support of everyone, he officially became the new Mu of Xuzhou. Immediately, he issued a series of appointments one after another.
According to the established plan, Chen Deng was recommended, Mi Fang took charge of the place, allocated property to Zang Ba and others, sent Zhang Fei to lead the army to guard Xiapi, and then conquered Sun Qian for the first time, who had been highly recommended by Zheng Xuan.
A native of Qingzhou, he is engaged in the governance of Xuzhou himself.
Recruiting such subordinates has always been done by state and county chiefs. When Liu Bei recruited Chen Qun of Yingchuan County as Prime Minister of Pei, Liu Yan of Lu State was forced to serve as a subordinate. If it were not for Chen Ji
, Zheng Xuan's connections and reputation, this is simply impossible. Not to mention this time, Liu Bei directly selected people from other states to work, as if he was strongly declaring his position.
Not only did Sun Qian, a foreigner, take up the job, Liu Bei originally planned to ask Chen Qun to be his chariot, but Chen Qun refused, on the grounds that he wanted to enter the court with his father Chen Ji.
"Chang Wen really doesn't want to stay and help me?" Liu Bei tried to persuade him to stay.
Chen Qun was determined to leave and looked back at the car Chen Ji was riding in. He didn't notice any movement and just said: "My master is old and the journey is long. After entering the capital, someone must always be there to take care of him. As the son of a man,
You must be filial no matter what."
"Hey, I know I can't force you to stay." Liu Bei loosened his grip on the bridle of Chen Qun's mount, hid his fists in his sleeves, sighed heavily, and said with great pity: "If I don't have long
Wen, who will contact the court on my behalf in the future and try to find a way out?"
Chen Qun smiled easily and said: "Didn't the envoy write down a petition to apologize? I can take Xianhe with me. As long as we enter Chang'an, Chen said that in order to stabilize the people of Xuzhou and eliminate the troubles, the envoy had no choice but to
The reason for temporarily staying in the state as a pastor, and also asking the court to select talents early. There is no need to be so urgent about this matter..." He paused, raised his eyes and looked behind Liu Bei, and glanced at the man standing behind Liu Bei.
A young man in his twenties with the unique heroic spirit of a Yanzhao man in his brows, his eyes fixed for a moment, and then he said: "Besides, there is someone around you who is worthy of entrusting you with this task, so it doesn't have to be me."
"Hey, that's fine." Liu Bei knew that Chen Qun would be strangers when they saw each other again, and he couldn't help but feel a little pity. He resisted not to look at him, and walked straight to Chen Ji's car, respectfully to Chen Ji who was sitting inside.
He bowed and said, "May Mr. Chen go well and everything goes well."
The copper bells hanging on the four corners of the carriage rang in the wind, and there was no echo from the carriage for a long time. Suddenly, it seemed as if someone inside sighed leisurely, and said in an extremely helpless tone: "After all, the world belongs to you young people.
Xuande, please just take care of yourself."
After the old man said this wordlessly, he said no more.
Liu Bei was silent and saluted the driver again. Chen Qun looked a little embarrassed and quickly got on his horse and urged the team to leave.
After Chen Ji left, Liu Bei's plan to take root in Xuzhou was still proceeding in an orderly manner. In addition to treating celebrities such as Chen Gui, he also sent people to hunt down Cao Hong and several other villains who were personally appointed by Tao Qian during his lifetime. Except for Cao Hong, he did not know who was hiding.
At the same time, the rest of the people were killed one by one by Liu Bei. After this series of dazzling methods, the people of Xuzhou, although their originally impetuous hearts were still worried, they were no longer as panicked as before.