Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 27 Ways to gain a foothold in Jingzhou
True.

Among the princes from all walks of life in the south, Yuan Shu is indeed the most powerful.

Cao Cao and Lu Bu fought fiercely, and the combined strength of the two was only one-third of Yuan Shu's.

Needless to say, Liu Bei is the least powerful, with no more than [-] soldiers and horses. Compared with Yuan Shu, he is like ants and elephants.

But having more soldiers and horses does not mean that you are stronger. Yuan Shu does have 17 soldiers now, but there are more soldiers in success, and more soldiers in defeat.

This year Huainan is still in good weather, and Yuan Shu's granary is rich enough to support his troops.

But in history, in the second year of Xingping, that is, next year, there was a severe drought in Henan, which spread to Huainan, and the grain production was greatly reduced.

It doesn't matter if Yuan Shu has fewer soldiers, but the daily consumption of more than [-] troops is comparable to a huge amount, which caused him to have insufficient food, so he went to Lu Jiang, the prefect of Lujiang, to ask for it.

Lu Kang had a good relationship with him this year, and he brought his son Lu Ji to visit, but Yuan Shu fell out with him in the second year, which shows that he is capricious.

After Lu Kang rejected his unreasonable request, Yuan Shu sent people to break through the Lujiang River, killing the Lu family almost exterminated, and only half of them escaped.

Then in the year of Jian'an, Huainan was always in the midst of natural disasters. Yuan Shu didn't care about the life and death of the people, and lived luxuriously in order to proclaim himself emperor, while the army and the people were in dire straits.

After proclaiming himself emperor, everyone betrayed his relatives, and in the end he put himself to death. With such great strength, he couldn't do anything. Yuan Shu was indeed worthy of being the Skeleton King.

It can only be said that this year is Yuan Shu's last glory, with sufficient food, a large number of troops, and a large territory.But next year it began to decline, and finally ended up vomiting blood and dying.

So Shen Chen knew very well that following Yuan Shu had no future at all.

Right now he is sitting in a tall building to entertain guests, looking at the scenery.But next year, the house will collapse in the blink of an eye, and following him will lead to a dead end.

After Yuan Shuna came out, Deng Hong once again called his clansmen to head south and rushed to Yuzhang without stopping.

It is close from Xuzhou to Huainan, but the detour from Huainan to Jingzhou is very long.

More than 1000 Huangmenting villagers migrated with difficulty. After going south from Shouchun, they passed Hefei and entered Lujiang. Lujiang has not been disturbed by Yuan Shu yet, and the people are relatively stable.

The migrating villagers on the road were full of travel and dust, and along the way, village elders and county magistrates from all over the country would come to ask about the situation, and Deng Hong also answered them one by one.

When Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, learned that Mrs. Deng was passing by, he sent someone to express his condolences, and also gave some food, grass and salt as gifts.

Deng Hong reciprocated and wrote back a letter, privately telling him to be more careful with Yuan Shu.

When passing through Shu County, Shen Chen thought of Zhou Yu, but he was a well-known family in Shu County, and they were just bereaved dogs who had left their hometown. They had no qualifications or reason to visit, so they gave up.

In this way, until the end of August, the team finally entered Yuzhang County, and traveled more than 26 kilometers from Shouchun to Nanchang on August 500.

At this time, Zhuge Xuandu had been the prefect of Yuzhang for more than a month.

At this time, the prefect's mansion of Nanchang City in Yuzhang.

It was heard that a rich family from Xuzhou took Yuan Shu's seal and token to ask for an audience. Since Zhuge Xuan was recommended by Yuan Shu as the prefect of Yuzhang, this kindness must be repaid, so he was immediately let in.

It was still Deng Hong and Shen Chen who came. As soon as they entered the central hall, Shen Chen felt that Zhuge Xuan looked familiar.

In fact, he already knew that Zhuge Xuan was the prefect of Yuzhang now, and Zhuge Liang must be in Yuzhang now, but he didn't think that he seemed to have seen him somewhere.

After the two parties met, Zhuge Xuan noticed that Shen Chen had been staring at him, and asked curiously, "Is there something wrong with my face?"

"There is nothing wrong with Shi Jun's face." Shen Chen replied.

Zhuge Xuan smiled and said: "In this case, why does the child keep staring at me?"

Shen Chen then said: "I don't know why, Fu Jun looks very familiar, I don't know where I saw it."

"You are from Xuzhou."

Zhuge Xuan thought for a while and said, "I went south from Xuzhou in April and arrived in Jiujiang in June. I may have seen it somewhere in between."

"Niqiu Mountain!"

Shen Chen suddenly opened his eyes wide, and said in surprise: "When Cao Jun came, our family took refuge in Niqiu Mountain. Later, we heard that Cao Jun might have retreated, and the clan wanted to go back to inquire. We saw Fujun's chariots and horses on the road."

At that time, it was just a chance encounter. Shen Chen did see a convoy of officials heading south at that time, but he didn't know that it was Zhuge's family's relocation troop, so he missed it perfectly.

Zhuge Xuanju's family moved south much earlier than Huangmenting Township's elders. They had already set off in April. In addition, the Huangmenting clan moved slowly and there were too many messy things. Therefore, although the two sides met in Xuzhou, But Zhuge's family arrived in Huainan nearly two months earlier than Huangmentingxiang.

In just two months, Zhuge Xuan was not only recommended by Yuan Shu to become the prefect of Yuzhang, but now he has also placed his clan in Yuzhang County. He obviously did not expect that there would be another branch of the army following behind him. peloton.

Hearing Shen Chen's words, Zhuge Xuan also immediately remembered that when passing Niqiu Mountain, more than a dozen horses came out from the mountain, and there was a commotion among the people who moved because of this, fearing that they were looting bandits.

But the two sides just passed by each other without greeting or talking, so the impression was not very deep. Who would have thought that everyone had met before?

Thinking of this, Zhuge Xuan suddenly laughed: "It turns out that we have already met at that time, and it is really destined."

"When I met Fujun's motorcade, I also met an extremely handsome elder brother."

Shen Chen thought of the twelve or thirteen-year-old boy he saw in the car, and instantly looked at Zhuge Xuan with anticipation in his heart.

Sure enough, Zhuge Xuan smiled and said: "That's my nephew Zhuge Liang, how old should he be before you, General Zuo asked me to help you take the boat back to Jingzhou, it will take time to raise the boat, if you want to play with him, you can come here at these times My mansion."

"Thank you, Mr. Fu."

Shen Chen was overjoyed, he didn't expect to get in touch with Zhuge Liang so soon.

In fact, he wanted to hang out with Zhuge Liang not only because he was Zhuge Liang, but also because of Zhuge Liang's status in Jingzhou.

He doesn't remember the specific history very clearly, but he knows that Zhuge Liang has relatives everywhere in Jingzhou.

After traveling to the end of the Han Dynasty, he understood the importance of family power.

In the eyes of high-level people, people at the bottom are no different from mediocrity.

Only those who come from a famous family are considered human beings.

These aristocratic families possessed knowledge, mastered most of the means of social production and productivity, and even had private soldiers who could participate in the current situation.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the princes who separated their regimes everywhere, except for a very few, were basically family members.

Even Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan with the worst backgrounds, one has the title of clan, the other father-in-law is the prefect of the county, the teacher is the great scholar Lu Zhi, and Guang Luxun Liu Kuan.

Ordinary people do not have the ticket of family background, so it is very difficult to enter the upper circle.

Just like Tao Qian wanted to invite him to be an official, but it was only because Shen Chen was indeed talented.But I didn't see him forcing him to become an official as he did to Zhang Zhao and Zhao Yu.

It is because Shen Chen is not a son of a wealthy family, Tao Qian especially likes to use a descendant of a wealthy family as an official in Xuzhou, Shen Chen is nothing, he appreciates it, but he will not force him to follow him.

So Shen Chen had thought about it.

After going to Jingzhou, how should I gain a foothold in Jingzhou.

There are three ways.

One is to marry the Jingzhou family, just like the Zhuge family.

There are wealthy families in Jingzhou, including Cai, Kuai, Pang, Huang, Ma, Xiang, Yang, and Xiba. Zhuge Liang has connections with almost all of them.

One of the two sisters married Kuai Qi, a son of the Kuai family, and the other married Pang Shanmin, the son of Lord Pang De.

His wife is Huang Chengyan's daughter, and Huang Chengyan's wife is the sister of Liu Biao's wife, Mrs. Cai, and they are brothers-in-law.

Zhuge Liang married Huang Yueying, and he wanted to be called Uncle Liu Biao, Mrs. Cai's aunt, and Uncle Cai Mao.

At the same time, he has a very good relationship with the Ma family, Xiang family, Yang family, Xi family and other younger generations. Ma Liang even calls Zhuge Liang brothers and brothers, which shows the relationship.

The second is to apprentice, just like Xu Shu.

Liu Biao encouraged education in Jingzhou, established classics and established schools, and attracted a large number of Confucian scholars to set up schools in the south.

For example, the great Confucian Song Zhong, the great Confucian Qi Wukai (qi.wu.kai), and celebrities such as Huang Chengyan, Pang Degong, Sima Hui, etc., all started teaching in Jingzhou.

If you can worship under the names of these people and be appreciated by them because of your studies, you will be able to enter the circle of celebrities.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the easiest way to make a person famous was to spread it among celebrities.

They themselves were part of the people who were praised by the world at that time. If they could get their praise, they would soon be valued by the upper class and become officials.

It's just that this requires a certain degree of sophistication, and the teacher-student relationship is the most important part.Otherwise, no matter how talented you are, it has nothing to do with others, why should they help you make a name for yourself?
The third way is to hold the thigh.

There is no doubt that Zhuge's family is a big leg. Now that Zhuge Liang has not gone to Jingzhou, the network of relationships has not yet been spread out, and his status is not much higher than that of Shen Chen.

If Zhuge Liang’s relationship with Zhuge Liang was established before Zhuge’s family became prosperous, and Zhuge Xuan moved to Jingzhou, used his connections in Jingzhou to marry Zhuge Liang’s two older sisters, and then waited for Zhuge Liang to marry Huang Yueying, Zhuge’s family would be destroyed overnight. Fly up the branch and become a phoenix.

Shen Chen has a good relationship with Zhuge Liang, and they ascended to heaven alone.At that time, with the help of Zhuge Liang, we will soon be able to open up the situation in Jingzhou, and the Deng and Shen Er clan will naturally be able to gain a foothold in Jingzhou.

Therefore, it can be said that wanting to meet the Marquis Wu who has been passed down through the ages is on the one hand, and on the other hand, Shen Chen also has his own little plans.

of course.

In fact, there is still another way to gain a foothold in Jingzhou, and that is to fight it yourself.

The Deng and Shen families moved to Nanyang, which was the ancestral land of the Deng family, and Liu Biao's forces only covered Nanyang, but there were not many troops left there.

If Shen Chen can find a way in Nanyang and create a foundation, before Zhang Xiu comes, he will gain a foothold in Nanyang.

After having soldiers and horses, Liu Biao would naturally look up to him.

But this method is too difficult. If you have no money, no food, no weapons and equipment, ghosts will follow you to fight the world.

Second, it is also difficult to integrate into the core circle of Jingzhou.

Zhang Xiu took over the army after the death of his uncle Zhang Ji, and was recruited by Liu Biao. He is Liu Biao's subordinate in name, but has he integrated into the inner circle of Jingzhou?

So this path is almost impossible to go through.

The simplest and most effective way is actually one, Shen Chen married the daughter of a famous family in Jingzhou, then worshiped a famous person as his teacher, and then hugged the Zhuge family's thigh tightly.

With three prongs, it is guaranteed that within five years, Shen Chen will be able to occupy a place in Jingzhou.

but..

Looking at his small arms and legs, it was really difficult for him to marry a wife at the age of eight.

Even if you think about it in your mind, your body won't allow it.

Shen Chen looked at the sixth uncle beside him...

He remembered that the sixth uncle had gone on a study tour in the early years, and only returned to his hometown in recent years, so he never married a wife.

Judging by his appearance, he looks good, and he is still from the Deng family in Xinye, maybe...

(End of this chapter)