Liu Bei was really not a scornful person who liked the new and disliked the old, but he never expected that he and Guo Jia were so in tune with each other.
When thinking about how to win over Mr. Guo to endorse his law school, Liu Bei thought of Guo Jia and this talented man whom he had always paid attention to but had not taken action.
Replacing the cooperation of the Guo family with Guo Jia would be a great thing for Liu Bei to win twice. How could he not do it immediately?
So Liu Bei told Guo Hong that he would choose an outstanding son from the Guo family to be his general, a close minister.
Being able to become Liu Bei's general is definitely a dream for young and inexperienced scholars in the world. Everyone knows that Liu Bei is very trusting and caring about his own people. As long as his ability is in place, he will never be stingy with wealth.
and status.
One-third of the first group of generals who followed Liu Bei have been sent out to serve as county magistrates, governors, state ministers and other positions.
The best ones have even reached the level of governor of a state or secretary of state. Others are also in Liu Bei's talent pool and may be released to take up positions at any time.
Based on the promotion process of Man Chong and others, the world quickly figured out Liu Bei's employment process - first trained in the general's palace, then transferred to the outside to take charge of the government, and finally recalled to the central government to take up positions and assume important responsibilities.
I don’t know if other big guys are that helpful, but Liu Bei is really giving. He really cares about those who follow him and work hard.
Everyone does not like a leader who is willing to support and care for his subordinates, and no one wants to follow such a leader. The Guo family's status is not high enough, so it is wonderful to have a clan member who can directly follow Liu Bei and can book a future.
So Guo Jia came to Liu Bei, met and talked with Liu Bei.
As a result, what Liu Bei didn't expect was that the first thing Guo Jia said after seeing Liu Bei was "The Han Dynasty has reached the time when it has to reform. I wonder if the general realizes that a big disaster is about to happen to the Han Dynasty."
It can be said that this sentence established Guo Jia's position in Liu Bei's heart.
When they met, Guo Jia was twenty-three years old and a standard adult, but he looked like a teenage boy, full of vigor. When he saw Liu Bei, he began to denounce the current shortcomings and describe what he had observed over the years.
He told Liu Bei one after another about the bad policies he encountered.
The first is the maladministration of bureaucrats, the malpractices in the official selection system, the promotion system, the insufficient crackdown on official corruption, and the insufficient crackdown on officials using their tribesmen to grab local interests.
There was also dissatisfaction with the slave restriction order - Guo Jia was the first to point out to Liu Bei that the slave restriction order was superficial and did not fundamentally limit the increase in the number of slaves.
He believed that if the slave restriction order was only targeted at ordinary wealthy people, it would not be fully effective, nor would it solve the problem of the large number of slaves.
Standing in front of Liu Bei, Guo Jia talked eloquently about the slave restriction order.
"The slave restriction order is superficial. It only restricts the slaves of some wealthy powerful people with small family fortunes and cracks down on them. If they do not comply with the imperial decree, the real action will be taken. However, they are never the ones who own the most slaves.
The general who was able to implement the slave restriction order obviously saw how harmful too many slaves would be to the Han people. In this case, he must also be able to see who owned the most slaves.
If the general just attacks some insignificant villains, he will never be able to truly solve the problem, and the results brought by the slave restriction order will be exhausted within ten years. Ten years later, everything will remain the same."
After Liu Bei heard this, he looked at Guo Jia with a smile.
"Then do you know that the real problem you are talking about also includes the Guo family you are from? The entire famous family in the world is your so-called problem. Do you think it is appropriate to say this?"
Guo Jia was not surprised when he heard this.
"If the general wants to take action against the Guo family and implement the slave restriction order, Jia will never have any complaints!"
"oh?"
Liu Bei looked at Guo Jia curiously: "Don't you care about the survival of your family?"
"As long as you abide by the slave restriction order, the family will naturally not suffer any blows, and the general is not a person who confuses right and wrong."
Guo Jia smiled and said: "Jia never thought that people in the family needed so many slaves. Three for one person is too many, and three for a family is about the same. What they do is just personal luxury and face.
It makes absolutely no sense.
The more people like this, it will only make the world of the Han Dynasty worse and worse. Jia believes that in the past few years, the situation of the Han Dynasty has been extremely bad. If there were no generals to turn the tide and use force to frighten the disloyal people in the world, the world today would probably be in a state of ruin.
Collapse!"
"interesting."
Liu Bei asked with a smile: "Not to mention your views on the people in the family, why do you think it is me who can turn the tide? Could it be that without me, the world would really collapse?"
"The general may think that Jia is young and his words are not strong enough."
Guo Jia said solemnly: "But in the past few years, Jia observed the world and really believed that the world had reached the edge of disintegration. The disputes between the modern literary school and the ancient literary school in the DPRK became more and more intense, and the battles between scholars and eunuchs did not
See any signs of easing.
The emperor was very partial to the eunuchs and very harsh on the scholars. The resentment of the scholars had accumulated to a terrible level. In those years, at the gatherings of scholars, some people even brought up the matter of "transmitting the country and changing surnames" before the ZTE.
It can be seen that there is a counter-intention in the heart.
Among the people, land annexation is becoming more and more intense. Even in Yingchuan, which has always been wealthy, Jia also saw a large number of common people who lost their land due to bankruptcy. They were either exiled, became slaves, or even became bandits. Even Yingchuan was like this.
Not to mention other places?
There are so many bad things in Yingchuan, how bad should the whole world be? Earlier, the Yellow Turban Rebellion swept the world, which already made people in the world have a strange feeling of remorse, but the imperial court did not
There have been no policy changes.
The imperial court was chaotic, mediocre, and did not make any changes. The powerful scholars were dissatisfied with the imperial court and were very greedy. The common people lost their land in large numbers and were displaced. Their resentment towards the imperial court was growing day by day!
Jia believes that the Han Dynasty in the sixth year of Zhongping is on the verge of falling apart! As long as a major opportunity appears, it will inevitably trigger a rebellion all over the world and make the Han Dynasty collapse!"
Liu Bei looked at Guo Jia with bright eyes.
"continue."
"only!"
Guo Jia said slowly: "But Jia didn't expect that someone could really break this situation. Back then, although you were famous all over the world, most people, including Jia, thought that you had a shallow foundation and could not be Yuan Wei.
There are no other opponents for He Jin.
The fourth and third sons of the Yuan family have disciples and old officials all over the world. They have a deep foundation and are extremely difficult to eradicate. Although He Jin has no talent, he is also a relative of the emperor. If the two of them join forces, you have almost no chance of confrontation.
But they rebelled, and you succeeded. You first solved the chaos in the court, stabilized the Luoyang court, and then destroyed the Yuan family, showed force, and frightened the disobedient. In the process, you had some rebellious intentions.
People were frightened and did not dare to cause trouble.
Later, you made a northern expedition to Youzhou and defeated Xianbei, and captured more than 700,000 people, which shocked the world. From then on, no one in the world dared to be your enemy. Only then did the Han Dynasty have the possibility of real stability!
"
Guo Jia's eyes shone brightly, and he looked at Liu Bei with expectation and admiration.
"So, without you and your army, the Han Dynasty will definitely fall apart!"
Young Guo Jia showed off his talents in front of Liu Bei and told Liu Bei everything he thought.