Since the birth of his child, Liu Zhang has rarely taken a vacation for himself.
He stays with his two children and two wives every day, trying his best to enjoy the hard-won warmth.
For a whole month, Liu Zhang did not leave the house, did not hear about any major world affairs, and stayed with his family wholeheartedly.
The warm and romantic time is always short-lived. One month has passed in the blink of an eye. Liu Zhang can't stay in the backyard all the time. He still has many big things to do.
In the meeting hall of the Prefectural Mufu Mansion, Liu Zhang was sitting on the main seat, looking at the fewer and fewer talents below, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Yang Hong, Wang Lei, Fei Shi, Zhang Yi, Qin Mi and others were all sent to Nanzhong by Liu Zhang to assist Lu Su. In addition, generals such as Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and Zhang Ren also pacified the barbarians in Nanzhong.
The entire chamber seemed limited and lacking in talent.
"Everyone, I recently got a son and a daughter. I should have been extremely excited, but today I feel a little disappointed..."
He Zong, the former magistrate of Pixian County and the current government official, stood up.
"The birth of a son by my lord caused a strange phenomenon in the heaven and earth. A real dragon was born accompanied by colorful auspicious clouds. This is a great joy for Yizhou. I wonder what worries my lord has?"
Since He Zong studied with Ren An, he has become more and more concerned about these strange things.
The vision over Chengdu was widely touted and spread by He Zong, and now everyone in Yizhou knew about it.
"Yan Ying doesn't know something. In the past, this state council chamber was full of talented people! But today... ah..."
There are less than ten people scattered in the room now, and there is indeed a big psychological gap.
It can only be said that he was greedy and swallowed the elephant. When there were only Jia Xu and Xun You in the dynasty, Liu Zhang was very happy!
"Everyone, since ancient times, whether it is the monarch who founded the country, the monarch who restored the country, or the person who achieved great things, has anyone accomplished it by himself? Absolutely not!"
"No matter how strong a person is, after all, his energy is limited, so what he can do is limited."
"For example, Xun You, the prefect of Bajun who defeated the Jingzhou army before, could defeat the 50,000 Jingzhou navy by sitting in Yufu, but could he take care of Hanzhong?"
"Another example is my general. People all over the world have praised me countless times, but who knows that without Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci, and Dian Wei, I might have died in the first battle with the Yellow Turbans!"
Jia Xu and Liu Ye nodded slightly. Judging from Liu Zhang's eager expression, they knew what Liu Zhang was thinking.
"My Lord, you want to recruit some talented people?"
"That's right! But it's not about recruiting, it's about recruiting talents from all over the world!"
Liu Zhang knew that there were still many talents in Yizhou, but these were not enough. What he wanted was to look at the world!
"In the past, when the Qin State was weak, Qin Xiaogong issued an order seeking talents to recruit Shang Yang into his army, thus making the Qin State prosperous and powerful. Today's Yizhou may not be as good as the Qin State back then. What capital do we have not to seek talents from all over the world?
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"Today, there must be people like Jiang Shang who are wearing coarse linen clothes but have the talent to save the world, fishing by the Wei River, and there must be people like Chen Ping who are criticized for stealing money from their wives and are not recommended!"
"Therefore, I will follow the example of Qin Xiaogong today and issue an order to seek talents in the world! No matter whether he has both virtue and talent, he is virtuous, or he is talented, even if he is talented but not virtuous, as long as he can help this general to clear up the troubled times and revive the Han Dynasty
If they are in the room, I will use them!"
Liu Zhang had already made plans for the order to seek talents, but because Yizhou had not been completely pacified before, he was afraid that the order to seek talents would cause turmoil again, so he had to postpone it again and again.
Now that Yizhou is completely calm and all counties are under control, Liu Zhang no longer has any worries.
Yizhou is a remote place, far away from the Central Plains, Hebei, Yangzhou and other places. It is difficult for talents from aristocratic families to leave their homes and careers to come here.
Liu Zhang could only pray for some strangers or common people to come.
However, the journey is long and there will definitely be many people who are helpless.
Therefore, Liu Zhang still held the idea that everything depends on people and Heaven depends on him.
He could only inform the world of the order seeking talents before Cao Cao, otherwise when Cao Cao's order came out, Liu Zhang would definitely not be able to compete with him.
"My lord, there is nothing wrong with asking for orders from a wise man. It's just that this talented but ungrateful man should think about it again?"
He Zong was a student of the great Confucian Ren An. From childhood to adulthood, his living environment and Ren An's educational ideas have always been that he was talented and virtuous, even virtuous but not talented.
Virtue is the most important, talent is secondary.
If Yizhou is full of talented but unvirtuous people who are unfaithful, unjust, benevolent and unfilial, wouldn’t it be a mess?
What He Zong said was reasonable, but Liu Zhang also had his own ideas.
"What Yanying said is absolutely true, but in troubled times, you have to be eclectic in doing things. Whether you are virtuous or not is almost always judged by others, which is inevitably biased."
"Perhaps this talented person is not ungrateful, but is forced to be ungrateful. In troubled times, survival is not guaranteed, how can one ensure his virtue?"
"When I met Dian Wei, he furiously killed Li Yong, a powerful member of the Li family, and had no choice but to flee into the mountains. He even almost killed me and Tai Shici. Can this be said to be unvirtuous? Maybe he is unvirtuous in the eyes of the Li family.
Performance, but standing on the side of the people, Dian Wei is a heroic act."
"Therefore, we can listen to what others say if we are talented or not, but if we are virtuous or not, we cannot rely solely on other people's words to make a final conclusion. We have to make our own judgments."
Liu Zhang always believed that as long as he had talent, he would be able to help him, even if he lacked virtue!
The right people must be placed in the right place. Liu Zhang has the world in mind, how can he not tolerate one or two people with slightly inferior morals?
Liu Zhang's remarks were immediately recognized by Jia Xu, who was also deeply affected by the word "virtue".
Jia Xu's talent is well known to all. Even if he is not the best in the world, he can definitely be regarded as the best in the world. Who dares to say that he can surpass Jia Xu in terms of intelligence?
But Jia Xu spent half his life without any merit and could only stay in his hometown of Wuwei doing nothing.
If it weren't for Liu Zhang's brilliant eye, how could there be today's Yizhou Biejia Jia Wenhe?
"What my lord said is absolutely true. There are countless talented people in the world. If we can bring them all under our command, then reviving the Han Dynasty and restoring Guangwu will definitely not be empty talk!"
Jia Xu's thinking is very clear. Although Yizhou's current strength is tyrannical, it is far from the combat power that can sweep the world.
Not only did Jia Xu have this idea, Liu Zhang also had the same idea. Otherwise, why would he have to sit in Chengdu for several years waiting for Lu Su's results?
At present, everything Liu Zhang and Jia Xu are doing is accumulating strength.
Everyone knows the principle of accumulation, but how deep the accumulation is and when it will explode is a difficult problem.
Talent is the most important thing in this!
If Liu Zhang's subordinates were all top talents like Jia Xu and Xun You, then Liu Zhang would have no worries at all.
No matter how big a hole someone dug, someone would fill it in.
This is what it meant when Yizhou was attacked by various parties during the Spring Festival last year.
Without Liu Ye's advance planning, Yizhou might have been in chaos!
Even if many rebels are finally wiped out, their strength will still be greatly reduced.
Not to mention heading north, even the pacification of Nanzhong will take longer.