In the end, Jiangdong acted with ease, and as a last resort, Sun Quan finally signed the covenant and posted six counties and eighty-one counties in Jiangdong.
It's just that all the terms in it were modified by the great scholar Zhang Zhao, and the meaning is still the same, but the perception of the people in Jiangdong has completely changed.
Baqiu not only leased the port, but also deliberately emphasized two points. First, the lease period was five years, and Jiangdong would definitely be able to take it back after five years. Second, Jiangdong would collect taxes, emphasizing that the taxes would be used for people's livelihood, but the specific amount was
No more expressions.
Forty-three thousand shi of grain was "sold" by Zhang Zhao at a sky-high price. The Sichuan army paid a total of 500,000 guan, or 500 million yuan, which was more than ten times higher than the market price. The people of Jiangdong felt very proud when they saw this. Not only that, Jiangling also
A monument of thanks must be erected for Jiangdong.
The goods of Shu merchants, whether paper, porcelain, or others, are lower than those in other states and counties due to the continuous maturity of assembly lines and production technology. Zhang Zhao announced that in order to form an alliance with Jiangdong, Liu Zhang ordered the Sichuan army to sell merchants in Shu at low prices.
Jiangdong Cargo.
This was greatly welcomed by the people of Jiangdong. In this way, the goods sold to Jiangdong became a "concession" for the Sichuan Army. The people of Jiangdong had dignity and face, and they indeed received benefits.
Take books as an example. The price of books in Sichuan is a few tenths of that in other places. Not only the people can spend money to buy them, but also the noble families are willing to buy them. Not only the businessmen from Sichuan bring them to sell, but also some businessmen from other states and counties and enlightened people are willing to buy them.
The aristocratic families also went to Sichuan to purchase goods.
The goods in Shu made prices in Jiangdong drop, and the people were naturally happy and praised Sun Quan for his good governance.
As for announcing the break with Cao Cao, this was originally contrary to Jiangdong's policy of moderation, but there was no other way. It was also the case when Cao Cao was strong and Liu Zhang was weak. Sun Quan announced that he would never look back. Starting from his ancestor Sun Wu, he expressed Jiangdong Ning's unyielding determination.
Emotionally, he vowed to sworn to be sworn in with the national thief Cao Cao.
Sun Quan's loyalty to the Han Dynasty inspired the sun and the moon.
Neither Sun Quan nor Jiangdong Wenwu believed that Liu Zhang could defeat Cao Cao. He was inferior to Cao Cao in terms of population, land, and people's hearts. This was Jiangdong's weight to balance Cao Cao.
The only one who can unify the world is Cao Cao, not Liu Zhang. Under such circumstances, the biggest threat to the Jiangdong separatist regime is only Cao Cao.
After thinking this way, the Jiangdong clan was in balance. In their plan, they originally planned to unite the weak to resist the strong, and to check and balance the north and the south. It is estimated that only by uniting with Liu Zhang can they maintain a stable split situation. This is exactly what they want, why?
Happy but not doing it?
Although Lu Su felt that he saw hope in Chengdu, when he returned to Jiangdong, he heard the disdain of Jiangdong's civil and military forces towards the Sichuan Army. After thinking about it again, he immediately felt that the Sichuan Army could not threaten Jiangdong.
Even if there is hope again, it is a fact that Jingyi has been severely damaged now. The population and taxes are much smaller than those of Cao Cao in the north. How can it be possible to defeat Cao Cao in the competition of self-cultivation and rejuvenation?
Lu Su once again felt that uniting with Liu Zhang was in line with the overall strategy of maintaining Jiangdong's separatism.
As a result, the contract immediately changed. The people and noble families of Jiangdong felt that this was a huge victory for Jiangdong's diplomacy. Coupled with Liu Zhang's gifts to Jiangdong's civil and military officials and the Sichuan army's high-standard reception and farewell to Lu Su, they all felt that this was a great victory for Jiangdong's diplomacy.
This is confirmed.
Everyone in Jiangdong was happy and excited. The notice was posted in all counties and villages. The people listened to the scholar's explanation and looked proud.
Sun Quan put on a gorgeous brocade robe made of Shu brocade. Shu brocade immediately became popular in Jiangdong. The white porcelain brought back by the diplomatic hero Lu Su became the treasure of Jiangdong's "collectors".
The first batch of white porcelain from the Qu family and the first batch of brocade from the Yin family arrived in Jiangdong and were immediately robbed.
Everyone in Jiangdong celebrated, but Zhou Yu, who was recuperating in Chaisang, was so angry that he vomited blood and became even more seriously ill.
Just as Jiangdong was celebrating, the autumn harvests in Jingyi and Yizhou were completed and the four imperial examinations were successfully held.
The turmoil in Yizhou was basically concentrated. Chengdu rebels attacked the city, Jiangzhou, Brazil, and Hanzhong were similar, and the rice fields were basically not destroyed.
But Jingzhou is different. Xiangyang is heavily guarded, and the rebels can only riot, rob and kill everywhere. Jingnan was already in decline, and it became even worse after the chaos, so that there was no harvest in Jingnan and Jingbei.
Not to mention Jiangling in the middle of Jingzhou, it’s all white.
Fortunately, after the rebellion was put down, before leaving office, Huang Yueying urgently planted a second crop of rice in Jingzhou where the water was rich but the rice was damaged. It is expected to be harvested in October. Together with the grain sent from Jiangdong, even with Jiangling's
Refugees should not need food support from Yizhou in winter.
The planting of double-cropping rice has a long history. It was first seen in ancient books in 300 BC. However, it is also said that it originated from the Three Kingdoms Soochow and the Song Dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was not common in the Han Dynasty. It was only when Liu Zhang and Huang Yueying discussed increasing grain production that they thought of it.
this way.
Originally, I wanted to study the planting time and methods in detail, but this rebellion caused Jingzhou to lose the first crop of rice in advance, which made it easier to plant the second crop of rice. Anyway, there was no harvest, so Huang Yueying simply stayed in Jiangling and other places.
I planted the second crop of rice and personally guided the farmers in planting.
I wonder if the Gangneung Plain became fertile after being soaked in water. The second season of rice planting is still good, and it seems that there will be a considerable harvest.
The Wuxi area also had a bumper harvest of grain, especially Wuxi. After Liu Zhang's personal guidance, they took two more measures than other tribes. One was to plant at a more scientific spacing, and the second was to cover the seedlings to protect them.
The harvest in Wuxi is larger than in other places.
Including the barbarians who moved out of Wuxi and around Fuling, they all had a good harvest, and these harvests were all their own. Looking at so much food, it was much more than the villages that had robbed Han people before.
Moreover, the busy farming period only lasted for two or three months during planting and harvesting. The remaining time did not require too many people to take care of them. It did not delay their hunting, and the harvest was greatly increased. Those barbarians who were still struggling at the beginning were envious when they saw other people's harvests.
I have made up my mind to open a paddy field for planting next year.
After the autumn harvest, the official examinations for the four civil servants were carried out smoothly. Due to the popularization of paper and books, and the temptation of becoming an official by being literate, many ordinary people and poor scholars who were originally literate, after a year of hard study, took countless sets of official document processing test papers.
, after familiarizing myself with Sun Tzu Han Fei.
They thought they were outstanding and all took the exam. Jingyi and Yizhou selected a large number of inexperienced literati. These people were barely able to complete most official duties. However, they were not skilled and their thinking was superficial.
In the past few months, these people would have been appointed to official positions, but now most of the official vacancies have been occupied by people who took the spring examination, and only a small number of people who took the autumn examination were admitted as officials.
The rest of those who passed the exam were rated as scholars who passed the township exam, those who passed the county exam were rated as juren, and those who passed the state exam were rated as jinshi. The top three were also rated as number one, number two, and third overall, along with other state exam candidates.
Basically he was released as an official.
Scholars, scholars, and scholars who are not officials all enjoy different levels of official salaries, and they have privileges such as not having to salute officials in the area, and are respected by people.
As more people take the exam, Huang Quan and Li Yan are thinking about separating the rural, county, and state examinations to spread out the time period, and the four-kettle official examination system has become more and more mature.
Something unexpected happened to Liu Zhang during the Jingzhou Four Civil Service Examinations.
…………
In the Mufu courtyard, Hao Sheng wields a sledgehammer and fights fiercely with Hu Che'er. Both of them are strength types, Hao Sheng has a lot more strength than Hu Che'er, and Hu Che'er has many more moves than Hao Sheng. In the past, it has always been
Evenly matched.
But recently Liu Zhang discovered that Hu Che'er was becoming less and less a formidable opponent. This time, the two had just arrived at the court, and the fight had not lasted more than a minute when they hit Hu Che'er with a powerful hammer.
The sledgehammer was knocked away all of a sudden, and he handed out another sledgehammer so powerfully that he pressed it against Hu Che'er's chest and pushed Hu Che'er far away.
If you weren't so powerful and just pushed it with a sledgehammer, if you hit it with one hammer, Hu Che'er would turn into a puddle of mud.
Liu Zhang was instructing Liu Xun to write an article. At this time, he was also surprised. He walked over calmly and calmly. The oxygen beauty Baoer hurriedly picked up the teacup and walked over.
"Good brother, you are so awesome, you are the most awesome person I have ever seen." Bao'er shouted happily, ignoring the frustrated Hu Che'er.
"I just appreciate your inexperience."
He drank the tea in one gulp and said to Hu Che'er, "Are you coming yet?"
Hu Che'er was still hurting from the tiger's mouth and chest. He quickly waved his hands and said he was going to go to the courtyard to continue practicing with the sledgehammer in hand.
"Wait a minute." Liu Zhang stopped Haoqiu. In the past few months, Haoqiu had been practicing martial arts day and night. Whenever he had free time, he would dance like a tiger with two sledgehammers. Sometimes he accidentally hit something.
, can wake Liu Zhang up in the middle of the night.
Liu Zhang said: "Why are you working so hard? Your martial arts have improved very quickly recently. What kind of medicine have you taken?"
In fact, Liu Zhang was also a little jealous. Every morning, he and Hao Sheng practiced martial arts with Xiao Furong. In the past, even if he was lazy, he could practice sword better than Hao Sheng. Now, Hao Sheng counterattacked him, which is really unpleasant.
He took out the sweat-soaked hammer manual in his arms, which was given to him by Huang Yueying, and said to Liu Zhang: "I have memorized the above moves, and now I need to get familiar with them, but it's a pity..." It's so awesome.
He glanced at Hu Che'er and said, "No one can fight with me."
So awesome. In fact, I still have something to say. Ever since Liu Zhang was assassinated last time, when I think about how awesome I am, I feel very useless. I have been a personal guard of Liu Zhang from the beginning. How many times has Liu Zhang been assassinated by assassins? Every time it is because
Liu Zhang was in danger because he was not proficient in his moves.
But I didn't even wake up until I thought Liu Zhang was dead last time, and then I suddenly woke up. Now Liu Zhang finally came back to life. I vowed never to let that happen again, so I started practicing the hammering technique hard.
Within a few months, he made rapid progress and completely surpassed Hu Cheer.
Liu Zhang frowned and thought for a moment, then said to Hao Qiang: "Then let's do this. From now on, ask Huang Zhong to fight with you."
"Ah?" He was so shocked. Huang Zhong was the most powerful general in the Sichuan Army. He was undefeated against the four generals at the beginning, but he couldn't defeat any of those four generals. Now he has to fight Huang Zhong. He is so powerful that he can only feel the pain in his back.
cold.
"If you win, I will personally ask for a man from the Nanzhong tribe and marry the girl you like to you."
"Really?" He was so happy: "Master, this is what you said. You can't always regret it like before."
Liu Zhang sweated for a moment, then remembered that he really felt sorry for him, and he didn't know how many times he had broken his promise, so he said firmly: "Okay, this time it will definitely count."
Baoer on the side looked unhappy.
"But if you can't beat her, you must marry Miss Bao'er."
Bao'er was immediately overjoyed. She had heard that Huang Zhong defeated her father easily. She didn't believe that he was so powerful that he could defeat Huang Zhong.
"Hmph." He said so powerfully to Bao'er and went back to the field to practice martial arts.
At this moment, Huang Quan walked in: "My lord, this is the list of those who have passed the Jingzhou's four imperial examinations, as well as the assigned positions. Please take a look, my lord."
Liu Zhang took it over and was stunned as soon as he glanced at it.
"Who is this number one pick? Cai Ming?" Liu Zhang looked at a name in the first row in surprise: "Is it Cai Ming from the Cai family?"
Huang Quan nodded: "This Cai Ming is already literate and well versed in history books and various schools of thought. He is very experienced in politics and has a meticulous and dexterous mind. He won full marks in both the administrative ability test and the essay.
, is much higher than the second place, and is also the only one among our four imperial examination officials to have double perfect scores."
"Oh." Liu Zhang nodded, then saw that the position arrangement at the back was blank, and frowned: "Why didn't Fan Lixiang have an official position?"
"Maybe it's because Cai Ming is a woman and it's inconvenient." Huang Quan guessed.
"Nonsense. Fan Lixiang wishes for a woman to be an official."
Liu Zhang thought for a while and roughly guessed what Fan Lixiang meant, which was to make him an official for Cai Ming.
First of all, Cai Ming has a special status and needs to ask for his instructions.
Secondly, Cai Ming had a special relationship with him, so it was impossible for him to appoint officials without his approval, which would also make it easier for him to show favor to Cai Ming.
Thirdly, although there are no restrictions on men and women for the four civil service examinations, there are still very few women who take the exam, especially for the literary exam, there is no one at all. Fan Lixiang wants to make herself an official of Cai Ming. This way she can say it everywhere, look. We
The female number one scholar was personally appointed by the emperor's uncle.
The effect of inciting women to become officials is bound to be greatly increased.
Liu Zhang frowned and thought for a moment. Cai Ming did not follow the rebellion when the Cai family rebelled, and now he is participating in the Four Imperial Examinations. It is not easy.
Liu Zhang's impression of Cai Ming has always been dark, but at this time, no matter what Cai Ming thinks, he should be kind to her.
He said to Huang Quan: "The top scholar must appoint officials and encourage women to become officials. Let's go down and do something. Change the Wuxi Protector's Office into the Nanjiang Protector's Office and be responsible for the Nanzhong barbarians and Wuxi."
Regarding the migration and management of the barbarians, Cai Ming served as the guardian, but note that the direct authority of the Wuxi border army was stripped away, and the governor of Bajun, Li Hui, took charge."
"yes."
Unknowingly, many women appeared in the officialdom in Jing Yi. The first one, Fan Lixiang, when she appeared, had 20,000 troops and brought great achievements to join her. It was reasonable and reasonable. Later she experienced Pang Tong's criticism, and
The gathering of people's hearts.
Both civil and military officials and the people hold a positive attitude towards Fan Lixiang becoming an official. It can be said that Fan Lixiang gave women a good start in becoming an official in Jingyi.
After that, Huang Yueying, with the dissatisfaction of many people, killed Le Jin, defeated Cao Xian, and then flooded Jiangling, which shocked the world. Although she left office, she was still the military advisor in the hearts of the Sichuan soldiers, and she is still giving advice to Fan Lixiang behind the scenes.
, the position is unbreakable.
With these two people in front, it was natural to have female officials behind. It seemed that unconsciously, the thinking of the people in Jingyi changed from "women cannot be officials" to "women can be officials", without even them noticing.
to transformation.
And it is also in line with Jing Yi's internal situation for women to be officials. Jing Yi killed 90% of the talents by killing the nobles, and a large number of talents were needed to fill the gap. Women, in every era, have no shortage of outstanding people, but the times are different. They
It is difficult to stand out in a world where men are generally superior to women.
Since this fact has been established, Liu Zhang will not be rigid in appointing female officials. However, Cai Ming has a complicated mind and is really not sure about it, so he does not appoint military officers.
I believe that after Cai Ming is promoted to an official, those talented women who are unwilling to be left alone will become restless. Even if they are still affected by secularity and education, only a few dare to take the exam, but at least they can make up for the lack of talent.
Liu Zhang continued to look down. The scores of the people below were all pitifully low. Except for the first few who passed, the rest were below sixty points and were cut off at forty points.
The cultural quality is still not high enough, Liu Zhang shook his head.
At this moment, a soldier hurriedly came in and reported: "Reporting to my lord, Han Sui of Xiliang, under the guise of negotiation, asked the prefect of Wu Ban to negotiate with Tazhong. During the period, a large number of Qiang soldiers suddenly came out and seriously injured the prefect of Wu Ban. Now Hanzhong is leaderless.
, 30,000 cavalry from Xiliang, led by Ma Chao, son of Ma Teng, and 50,000 cavalry from the 13th Xiqiang tribe came to attack Yangping Pass."
Huang Quan frowned suddenly, and Liu Zhang looked solemn.
As expected, the Xiliang and Qiang soldiers came taking advantage of the crisp autumn weather, and they were really determined not to give up.
"My lord, the governor of Wu Ban is seriously injured. Hanzhong must be in chaos. The Xiliang army is pressing on the border. We need to come up with countermeasures as soon as possible."
"There is no countermeasure. In the current situation, I can only fight it myself."
Liu Zhang originally did not want to fight the Xiliang army, so he asked Wu Ban to defend Hanzhong with the help of dangerous passes. Even if Hanzhong was not peaceful, it could generally ensure Jing Yi's rest and recuperation.
But now that Wu Ban is dead, Hanzhong has just experienced a rebellion, and a large number of troops are pressing down on the border. The situation is very critical. If the brave Xiliang army succeeds in defeating the enemy, the consequences will be disastrous.
Moreover, if Wu Ban was seriously injured and he didn't even fart, such weakness would never bring Jing Yi any rest. Then barbarians, Qiang people, and Cao Cao wouldn't all come to take advantage from time to time?
It's just that Liu Zhang always felt something was wrong. First, Ling Qiang slandered Wu Ban and killed the Qingyi Qiang leader through negotiation. Then Wu Ban was ambushed and killed by Han Sui through negotiation, as if he was forced to conquer it himself.
After all, Han Sui was also a tycoon. From a white man to an army of 100,000, he survived the annexation by dozens of princes in Liangzhou. How could such a person do such a stupid thing?
"Immediately send an order. Yang Ren, the governor of Shangyong, is temporarily acting as the governor of Hanzhong. He must guard the passes. I will arrive in Hanzhong soon. In addition, I will immediately convene all the civil and military officials to discuss matters."
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