The first snow in winter just finished, and the naughty boys in Jizhou City were playing with snow poles carefree, playing and playing. The people in Jizhou City were also sweeping away the snow in front of their doors. Their faces
Also full of happy smiles.
This year we can have a good New Year. Lord Liu is really a good official. I really hope this will be the case every year. Every people think so.
The farmers in Youzhou would think this way because they enjoyed the preferential treatment of Liu Mingnong without taxes. After the autumn harvest, they not only stayed for the food and consumption for the year, but also sold the remaining grain to the government, and received a large sum of money.
Cash, and now in the slack season, the government has begun to recruit laborers to build cities and roads. Every day, I can lose a lot of wages, so every farmer pays it, and of course they will laugh so hard that they can't stop talking.
Of course, they will thank Liu Ming from the bottom of their hearts and be loyal to Liu Ming.
The businessmen in Youzhou would think this way, because when the people have money, people will naturally come to buy things and consume. The daily income of merchants has increased greatly, which can be counted with their eyes closed.
Of course, all the businessmen would laugh from the beginning. Of course, they would also be grateful and loyal to Liu Ming, who was so affordable to them.
The craftsmen and workshop workers in Youzhou would think this way. That's because the chamber of commerce in Youzhou is too developed, and every product they produce will be sold everywhere. The products they make are in short supply, and their daily wages
That's also awesome. They can rest assured that they can settle down and start a career. They will naturally laugh and will naturally give infinite gratitude and loyalty to the manager of Youzhou Liu Ming.
Even millions of slaves in Youzhou were laughing. Because these slaves were not as hard as they imagined, they were not allowed to act independently, wander freely, and choose their jobs independently,
All living benefits are actually no different from those of the common people in Youzhou. This is much better than working as a long-term worker for wealthy families in other places.
Moreover, the slave life of these slaves is not without end. As long as these slaves can obtain more than five times their own wealth for their masters, or they can greatly help their masters, they can escape from the slaves.
Become a civilian.
And these beautiful hopes are definitely not the beautiful fantasies of these slaves, but the ironclad facts. Not to mention that the departments that manage slave household registration have strict monitoring. Just because Liu Ming has been in charge of Youzhou for so many years, Youzhou has been the first time since Liu Ming took charge of Youzhou for so many years.
Most of the slaves criticized have been separated from slavery. After they have left their slavery, they often work for their original masters and become employees of their original masters after they have left their slavery.
These former slaves who performed outstandingly and had good work often gained great trust from their masters. Therefore, these people who were promoted to civilians often held positions such as foreman and supervisor in their masters. These living examples,
It greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of slaves. On weekdays, their biggest topic is to talk about how much they are missing to get rid of slaves. They are working hard for themselves and for their next generation.
Thank you from the bottom of your heart Liu Ming for giving them a way out and hope.
However, Liu Ming, who brought hope and laughter to everyone, was not very happy at this time.
According to the political policy formulated by Liu Ming, Liu Ming is now developing internal affairs, developing diplomacy, and dismantling the enemy from within the enemy and weakening the enemy.
However, although most of the messengers sent by Liu Ming had not returned, the messenger who came back first did not bring Liu Ming the expected good news.
Tuoba Ying came back from Han Sui. However, the diplomatic action carried out by Tuoba Ying failed. However, this is not a mistake for Tuoba Ying, nor anyone else. Because rather than a failure for Tuoba Ying's diplomacy, it is better to say that Liu Ming
The action of sending Tuoba Ying was one step slower.
After all, Liu Ming and his friends were preparing to join forces with Han Sui's diplomatic plan, which was taken after Ma Chao and Cao Cao's battle. Li Ru's calculation of Han Sui was taken after Ma Chao fell into the trap. This time was short of
It's too far away. Moreover, Li Ru's work is more ruthless and neat.
Before Li Ru's action, he first suppressed and supported Ma Teng and Han Sui through the Southern Xiongnu's suppression and support of the Qiang people. Then Li Ru transferred a large army to oppress the four counties of Xiliang and sent a letter to Han Sui to surrender.
Those who have always supported Ma Teng in the past and got Qiang people. When Ma Teng and Han Sui and others were defeated one after another and could not bring them any benefits, they neither wanted to turn against the Southern Xiongnu, nor were they worried that they would continue to do so.
If they support Ma Teng and Han Sui, they will not be able to defeat Dong Zhuo and the Southern Xiongnu's coalition attack. Therefore, all the Qiang tribes took an indifferent attitude towards this.
The comparison of troops formed by Li Ru's army's downfall also put great psychological pressure on Han Sui. After Ma Teng and Han Sui suffered a crushing defeat to Dong Zhuo's crazy chariot last time, Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops were replenished and
It was not very smooth. After all, the four counties of Xiliang occupied by Ma Teng and Han Sui were still relatively desolate. And the elite troops collected by Ma Teng and Han Sui were given to Ma Chao. Now Han Sui has only tens of thousands of soldiers under him.
What to fight against Li Ru?
Moreover, Li Ru's letter of persuasion also lists in detail the incompetence of Ma Teng and Ma Chao's family, as well as the fact that the Ma family has now been destroyed by Cao Cao. He also praised Han Sui, saying that Han Sui was originally the capable person of Dong Zhuo.
Gan Jiang was implicated by Ma Teng just for the sake of Gu Quan and Ma Teng's brotherly friendship, and rebelled against Dong Zhuo. Now the Ma clan has been destroyed by Cao Cao. Now Dong Zhuo hopes that Han Sui can assist him again. Dong Zhuo can treat Han.
Sui's previous behavior was not blamed and Han Sui was given a high-ranking official position and generous salary.
This letter was very attractive to Han Sui. Although Dong Zhuo was cruel and unkind, Dong Zhuo had a good reputation among the tribes in Liangzhou. Dong Zhuo was just cruel to those people who were powerless, but Dong Zhuo treated him
But those subordinates were all very good. Dong Zhuo was very famous among the leaders of various tribes. Now Dong Zhuo suppressed the Qiang tribes through the Southern Xiongnu and sent him a letter of persuasion to surrender. Han Sui
I believe Dong Zhuo will not go back on his word. Moreover, Han Sui has never had any resistance to surrendering to the powerful. Han Sui has surrendered to powerful forces, so there are so many more, but in the end, it was not all cheaper, and Han Sui asked Han Sui to borrow.
The chicken lays eggs stronger.
Therefore, Han Sui did not think too much and immediately surrendered to Dong Zhuo.
However, Han Sui, who is familiar with surrender, never expected that the reason why he was so smooth before was not because Han Sui had too high skills, but because the powerful people in Liangzhou had never had so many evil intentions, and those powerful people were
When he was taking over Han Sui, no one was worried and guarded against Han Sui. But now Han Sui surrendered to Dong Zhuo is different. The Li Ru under Dong Zhuo was not a decoration, and Li Ru had never believed in Han Sui.
For Li Ru, if Han Sui was a person who valued loyalty, then when Han Sui learned that Ma Teng and Ma Chao were actually in his hands, Han Sui would definitely have to rebel. But if Han Sui was not a person with the same weight, he would definitely have to rebel.
For a loyal person, there is no need to trust Han Sui.
Therefore, after Han Sui surrendered, Li Ru quickly sent troops to take over the four counties of Xiliang, and dispersed Han Sui's subordinates and incorporated them. By the time Han Sui realized, Han Sui had become a slaughter.
The commander with no soldiers was barely in power.
It was too late for Han Sui to regret it. At this time, Tuoba Ying, sent by Liu Ming, came to Xiliang and saw Han Sui.
After Han Sui told Tuoba Ying that he had passed by, he thanked Liu Ming for his kindness and promised that Tuoba Ying would secretly help Liu Ming within his ability. Han Sui was helpless.
After Tuoba Ying came back, Liu Ming had no other choice but to be unhappy. Fortunately, Liu Ming did not focus on Han Sui at the beginning. Liu Ming just hoped that his other envoys could complete the task as expected.
And at this moment, Yang Jun came to Liu Ming with a letter.
Liu Ming took the letter and saw that it turned out to be a sponsor letter. Recently, there are many talented people coming to Liu Ming's recruitment hall, so Liu Ming didn't care too much, but after Liu Ming opened the letter and read it, Liu Ming was shocked.
It turned out that this letter was a letter of recommendation from Beihai Prefect Kong Rong to Liu Ming. The object of recommendation from Kong Rong was Ni Heng.
After Ni Heng beat the drums and scolded Cao Cao, Cao Cao wanted to kill Ni Heng, but Cao Cao also realized that although Ni Heng was useless, this guy's eloquence was really good. His civil and military dynasty was full of civil and military affairs.
, None of the many verbal debaters could talk about him, and no one could be ridiculed by Ni Heng.
Although Cao Cao finally felt that people like Ni Heng were just a verbal person, and they were an annoying and disgusting person. However, Cao Cao also believed that since Ni Heng and Kong Rong were good friends, they were friends forgot about age.
That means they appreciate each other, and Kong Rong should not hate Ni Heng, so Ni Heng still has great hope of persuading Kong Rong.
Moreover, Cao Cao also felt that Ni Heng was so annoying. Cao Cao really couldn't tolerate Ni Heng staying by his side anymore. But Cao Cao didn't want to be accused of killing a scholar because of his words, so as not to let the world think that he could not tolerate others.
.So Cao Cao wanted to send Ni Heng out quickly.
For Cao Cao now, even if he cannot get Kong Rong and cannot defeat Liu Ming in public opinion, it would be much better than if he was ridiculed by Ni Heng every day, but he could not take Ni Heng anyway. If he was treated like this every day, he would be much better than if he was ridiculed by Ni Heng every day.
Screaming in front of me means that no matter how capable you are, no one will look down on you.
Therefore, Cao Cao sent Ni Heng out like a plague god.
However, Kong Rong's performance after seeing Ni Heng was greatly beyond Cao Cao's expectations.
Then Kong Rong was indeed a loyal and righteous man as Cao Cao estimated. If Cao Cao persuaded Kong Rong to surrender in the name of the emperor before Kong Rong was captured by Guan Hai, Kong Rong would definitely surrender. Because Kong Rong had Kong Rong seized Beihai.
The Beihai is given by the court, and it is for today's son. Since the emperor is in Cao Cao, as the emperor, it is all right whether it is for the emperor or the appointed Cao Cao. It is originally the emperor's thing.
Of course you can deal with it at will.
But the problem is that when Kong Rong lost the Beihai, Cao Cao had not yet obtained the emperor. Now this Beihai was handed over to Kong Rong. For Kong Rong, if he was entrusted by others and loyal to others, the Beihai would have to do so.
If you return it, you can only return it to Liu Ming, and then Liu Ming will deal with the issue of ownership in Beihai.
Moreover, Kong Rong's loyalty and righteousness was also the orthodox loyalty of the Han Dynasty. For Kong Rong, the current emperor was just a puppet that Dong Zhuo secretly helped him up. It was not his absolute loyalty, and this puppet has been here until now.
It was not completely independent, and it was just a puppet of Cao Cao. In addition to these puppets, Liu Ming also existed as the orthodox heir of the Han Dynasty, and the great scholars who Kong Rong had always respected were also loyal to Liu Ming.
So Kong Rong had already promised Liu Ming to regain control of Beihai. Like Liu Ming's father-in-law Cai Yong, Kong Rong had long been looking forward to Liu Ming's unification of the world and reviving the Han Dynasty.
And they were like the wise ministers who assisted Emperor Guangwu, and were famous in history.
Therefore, Kong Rong ignored the will brought by Ni Heng at all, and directly classified it as a chaotic edict tampered by Cao Cao and ignored it.
However, Kong Rong was very entertaining to his younger brother Ni Heng who brought this will.
Ni Heng was not prepared to do something to Cao Cao sincerely, so of course he would not care much about it. Therefore, he was having a lot of food and drink and chatting with Kong Rong. During the meal, Ni Heng put himself at the banquet where Cao Cao invited all officials.
The feat of scolding Cao Cao was told to Kong Rong.
What kind of person is really a friend? Kong Rong not only does not think Ni Heng is reckless, hasty, and does things regardless of the overall situation. He also highly praised Ni Heng, praising Ni Heng for being honest and backbone. It is now
The most courageous talented man.
Ni Heng's backbone was even more straight, and he poured a cup of wine. He also scolded Cao Cao for not knowing how to use people, having eyes but not knowing talents. Although Wang Yun knew people, he had no backbone and did not dare to resist Cao Cao.
Kong Rong highly agreed with Ni Heng's words and praised his current lord Liu Ming's wise and powerful wise ruler, who was the orthodox Han Dynasty and was about to revive the Han Dynasty. He also invited Ni Heng to come to Liu Ming to serve as an official.
Originally, Ni Heng didn't catch a cold about Liu Ming. But after Kong Rong listed several contemporary great scholars under Liu Ming, Ni Heng was also a little stunned.
Although Ni Heng is unruly and admires himself, Ni Heng is not really not self-aware. The Zheng Jing, Cai Yong, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan and others listed by Kong Rong have all had amazing works in terms of the meaning of the scriptures and other aspects.
The contemporary great scholar is someone Ni Heng has to admire.
Therefore, Ni Heng came with Kong Rong's letter of introduction.
But what should Liu Ming do with this famous Ni Heng?