The buildings in Xuchang are more grand than those in Xiapi, especially in the inner city. Most of the people coming and going are scholars, mixed with some wealthy businessmen. At first glance, they are full of nobility, but there is less of the pyrotechnic atmosphere in Xiapi.
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When walking on the street, the nobles who met Lu Bu occasionally just nodded to him slightly, and did not even say hello. Unlike in Xuzhou, when the people rushed to say hello.
Compared to the inner city, it would be better for Lu Bu to go to the outer city for a walk, so that it would be difficult for the officials in the government office to find him.
After Chu Nan left, Lu Bu and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty entered a stalemate. Lu Bu basically didn't care what they did, and even went to the court a few times and stopped going.
Although he didn't understand much, after spending so long with Chen Gong and Chu Nan, his thinking habits had also changed. He had a vague feeling that these people wanted to force him to hand over some power to the court.
After all, many positions of real power in Xuchang are now occupied by Lu Bu's people. Now, apart from speaking impassioned words about the country and the people at court meetings, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty have no rights, but they basically have to look at Lu Bu's face.
After finally driving Cao Cao away, I thought Lu Bu would be an easy master to deal with, but he was forced to panic and couldn't speak out, so he went on strike. Every day he was either in his hussar general's palace or wandering around somewhere else.
He ignored the captured officials and generals, and spent three days fishing and two days drying nets when dealing with official duties. When someone discovered him in the inner city, he would go to the outer city to supervise work.
When Chu Nan left, he decided to work for relief. This was a method used by Cao Cao. Chu Nan thought it was good. This year there was a severe drought in the Central Plains and a locust plague, so there were many refugees.
Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of Chu Nan and Chen Gong in Xuzhou in the past two years, Xuzhou has enough wealth, and grassroots officials such as county magistrates can be fully covered, so that they will not be strangled by the nobles, so that Lu Bu has sufficient food and grass.
Implement relief-for-work.
So now Lu Bu only has two things to do. One is to implement the New Deal. No one has come to tell Lu Bu about the shortcomings of the New Deal and analyzed with him what harm the New Deal will bring. If you give up the New Deal, you can gain the support of the scholars, and also
It's better than now where both sides suffer.
But Lu Bu basically just turned a deaf ear to the work-for-relief issue. Chu Nan gave him a set of algorithms. Lu Bu was very interested in this. He gathered the refugees together and managed them like an army.
Lu Bu personally took care of food, grass, and wages, so that he could clearly know where his money was spent. Sometimes he would watch the outer city being perfected little by little under his supervision, and taking shape little by little according to the pattern Chu Nan told him.
, the satisfaction is as good as fighting a hearty battle.
And compared to the high-minded scholars in the inner city, Lu Bu also enjoyed the awe of the people in the outer city when they saw him. Every time he was paid, the feeling of being admired was addictive.
Of course, another point is that Lu Bu doesn't like to deal with official documents. The cultivated land and population of many counties around Xuchang have basically been measured, and various data have been sent here.
According to past practice, after the review here is correct, the file will be archived and sealed, and a copy will be kept locally and a copy here for future verification.
But the workload was heavy and boring. Lu Bu persisted for a few days, and after filing the files for a whole county, he couldn't stand it anymore.
He asked the officials to sort the files into categories first, and wait until Chu Nan and Chen Gong arrived to discuss the rest.
This kind of thing... is not my own at all.
The expansion of Xuchang City does not require too much manpower. The most important thing is water conservancy. There is a severe drought in the Central Plains. If water conservancy can be dredged, the drought can be solved.
Of course it cannot be completely solved, but at least the impact of the drought can be alleviated.
You know, one of Lu Bu's previous messages to attack Cao Cao was that Cao Cao was unkind and was punished by heaven, so he punished him with drought. Now that Lu Bu has taken over Cao Cao's position, this drought is naturally an important problem that Lu Bu has to face.
Mobilizing grain and grass from Xuzhou and Jianghuai to save the people is on the one hand, but more importantly, it is to dredge water conservancy. Now Lu Bu has made a list, asking the world in the name of the imperial court for people who are good at water conservancy to save the people from floods and fires.
It's a pity that although water conservancy is not a mainstream academic field, the conditions for learning this are not low. Those who can master water conservancy must be from a wealthy family. To put it bluntly, such talents can only be found among the nobles. Lu Bu is now posting a list, and what he has gained is only scholars.
They snickered, waiting for Lu Bu to lower his head and ask for someone from them.
Will Lu Bu bow his head?
Of course not. He is not even as anxious as these people imagined. Posting the list just suddenly reminded him of this matter, so he posted the list to see if he can recruit similar talents. If there is, it will be best. If not... the son-in-law will do it.
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So the scholars were waiting for Lu Bu to bow his head and beg them, but Lu Bu was running around the city every day, and there was no sign that he was anxious at all.
"To be able to defeat Cao Cao, he really has some skills. He must have seen through our plan and is unmoved." Zhao Yan, the councilor of Situ Mansion, couldn't help but said when Zhao Wen didn't say anything.
"What's the use of Boyan's talk?" Zhao Wen sighed and said, "I'm old and weak, and I don't want to get involved in the affairs of the court, so why should I listen to it?"
"Master Zirou!" Zhao Yan frowned and stood up after hearing this: "Cao Cao is dead, Lu Bu is a reckless man, his cruelty is even worse than Dong Zhuo, but his foundation is not yet stable, he is the hope of the world, famous all over the world, he only needs to be high.
As soon as you call, there are Yuan Shao in the north, the Sun family in Jiangdong in the south, and Liu Biao in Jingzhou, who is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, they will definitely respond, so why worry about the big thing failing!?"
Zhao Wen glanced at him helplessly and said: "What Boyan said may make sense, but how do you know that Lu Bu will not endanger His Majesty in a hurry? If Lu Bu takes action, who in the court can stop him? If Boyan really does it now,
For your Majesty's sake, you should not offend Marquis Wen."
"But Lu Bu clearly doesn't want to be in charge of the government with us!" Zhao Yan frowned.
Now as long as Lu Bu opens his mouth, they will recommend talented people for Lu Bu's use. If nothing else, the person who can dredge water conservancy is ready. However, Lu Bu just does not open his mouth, making it clear that he will carry out his new policy to the end, that is,
He said that Lu Bu made it clear that he wanted to be an enemy of the nobles.
"It's not that he didn't want to, it's actually what happened to Dong Zhuo that made him wary of us." Zhao Wen sighed.
Dong Zhuo apparently died at the hands of Lu Bu, but as a participant, Lu Bu probably knew better than anyone how Dong Zhuo was gradually betrayed by the nobles, especially when Zhong Fu and others who were trusted by Dong Zhuo betrayed him one after another.
Calculate, Zhao Wen can probably understand that Lu Bu, who has seen this scene, is now unwilling to cooperate with the nobles.
Zhao Wen is now serving as Situ and does not want to blindly fight with Lu Bu. In his opinion, at this stage, it is a confrontation between Lu Bu and the court. What he is waiting for is whoever speaks first and bows his head. Lu Bu obviously does not want to bow his head, but this matter
It will eventually be solved, it can't continue like this.
Before Lu Bu made his move, Zhao Wen thought it would be better not to provoke Lu Bu. After all, the nobles everywhere had been killed by Lu Bu in fear. When the nobles around Xuchang were almost emptied, running against Lu Bu, wasn't he seeking death?
Of course, Zhao Wen absolutely did not support the New Deal, which almost completely broke the old structure. The interests of the gentry were suppressed to the extreme. It seemed effective in the short term, but without the gentry's assistance in governance, problems would definitely arise.
The biggest problem is corruption. Instead of targeting Lu Bu, it is better to focus on these local officials and scratch their sore feet. Then we will see how Lu Bu solves the problem. If he protects the officials under his rule, then the so-called New Deal will be a lie.
The joke, if dealt with according to law, will damage Lu Bu's popularity and chill the hearts of those who choose to rely on Lu Bu, thus weakening Lu Bu's power.
If the poor families and local wealthy families give up on Lu Bu, then Lu Bu will eventually retreat to their side and cooperate with them.
At that time, power will gradually be put into their hands, and Lu Bu will be sidelined step by step.
Now if you are fighting Lu Bu head-on, isn't it obvious that you are going to stick your head out and let him chop it off?
"Then the government should not be treated as a child's play. Look at the chaos in the imperial court now under its governance. The imperial court is almost useless. If things go on like this, where is the majesty of the imperial court!?" Zhao Yan frowned.
Since Lu Bu wants to follow Cao Cao's example of obeying the emperor's orders and disobeying them, the prestige of the imperial court cannot be weakened too much. Lu Bu's attitude of ignoring the imperial court is a lose-lose situation, isn't it?
Zhao Wen was silent when he heard this. How much of the imperial court's majesty... is now open to debate. Ever since Lu Bu invaded Xuchang, whether intentional or not, the imperial court's majesty has been severely damaged.
"Don't be too hasty in everything!" Seeing that Zhao Yan was not understanding, Zhao Wen didn't want to say anything more. He shook his head and said: "In short, it's not easy to get angry now, just wait and see what happens."
"But..." Chaoyang looked at Zhao Wen with a bit of disappointment in his eyes. It was good to wait and see what would happen, but even if the matter was resolved in the end, it would still be the luck of the Han family that was hurt!
Seeing that Zhao Wen didn't want to say anything, Zhao Yan had to stand up and said, "In that case, I'll take my leave first."
"Yeah." Zhao Wen nodded slowly, without any other sign.
Zhao Yan left Situ Mansion, but did not go home. Instead, he went directly to another mansion, the Wang Mansion.
"How is it?" Seeing Zhao Yan come in, Wang Zifu quickly welcomed him into the study and asked.
"Of all the princes in the court, no one is willing to sacrifice their life for Your Majesty!" Zhao Yan shook his head and sighed: "Just let us wait and see what happens, but if we continue to watch quietly like this, Lu Bu will become more and more powerful. By then, I want to do it again.
It will be even harder to fight with him!"
"Alas~" Wang Zifu sighed: "I have an idea! Maybe I can get some help."
"Oh?" Zhao Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at the prince and said, "What's the plan?"
"Many of Cao Cao's old troops are still in prison. We can ask Na Lu Bu for help. If these Cao Cao's old troops can be used by us, it will be a great help. In the future, they may help us kill the national traitors!" The prince said!
smiled.
Many of Cao Cao's old subordinates are still in prison, such as Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Liu Fu, Li Tong, etc. Taking advantage of the opportunity to persuade them to surrender, they secretly united these people together, and the soldiers provided considerable help.
Although the two sides were hostile before, now that Cao Cao is dead and Lu Bu has taken over the government, they have a common enemy. There are no eternal enemies in the world.
Moreover, these people have refused to surrender until now, so they must be loyal to Cao Cao. When the time comes to join forces, they will be more trustworthy!
Hearing this, Zhao Yan pondered for a moment and then nodded and said, "Good! I'll go find Lu Bu and ask for help!"
"This matter depends on Boyan." Wang Zifu nodded.
Zhao Yan did what he said, and even went to Lu Bu's mansion to look for him, but couldn't find him, so he ran to the city again. After running for a day, he didn't see Lu Bu's shadow. In the end, he could only drag his exhausted body back to meet the prince again.
Discuss, everything else doesn't matter, but we have to find the Lu Bu people first!
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