Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 463

Will Tuyin County be handed over to Chu State?

Although Cao Cao gave Liu Ye a lot of trust and authority, it definitely did not include giving away any piece of land directly!
At this time, there was no deep concept of "territorial integrity". It was just like the Han Dynasty's treatment of the desert. When the country was strong, it spread out and erected monuments, and when it weakened, it withdrew it. Land that has no output and no strategic significance is worthless. .

However, Tuyin County has output and strategic value, and more importantly, Tuyin is still in the hinterland of Youzhou, Wei State, and was given to Chu State to garrison?
Even if it is just a navy, the impact is not small!
However, Liu Ye, as the ace lobbyist of Wei State, did not give up easily. When Chu State's attitude was very firm, and Wei State... had nothing to threaten Chu State, Liu Ye began to test the opponent's bottom line.

In this negotiation, except for the chief official who rarely spoke, the two lieutenants of Chu State were very young. One was Bu Zhi from the Ministry of Husbandry, and the other was Deng Zhi from the Ministry of Rites - both passed the imperial examination last year.

Bu Zhi, who works in the Commercial Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, is responsible for seeking profits, while Deng Zhi, who works in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites, is responsible for guarding the "bottom line."

Liu Ye even had some doubts, was Chu State looking down on him?

Why are two young people "confronting" me?
In the end, Liu Ye discovered that, to be precise, Chu State did not want the entire Tuyin County, but was really only interested in the coastal area.

Deng Zhi initially showed that he was determined to win Tuyin City. However, after Liu Ye saw Bu Zhao's wavering and firmly regarded Tuyin City as his bottom line, the opponent then gave way...

The "bottom line" of the Chu State was pressed against the hundreds of miles of Tuyin County's coastline, and the vertical length was also pressed to fifty miles - that is, the Chu State really only occupied one port, and it had to be built by the Chu State itself.

The number of troops stationed in the agreement was also reduced to 2000, and they could not cross the coastline more than [-] miles away.

The most important thing is that Liu Ye fought hard to obtain the power of a tax-free trade port-for all Chu goods entering Tuyin Port, Chu State must refund the full tax for the caravan!
For example, the five-to-one tax on food was no longer enough to satisfy Liu Ye.

Of course, because Tuyin Port is controlled by the Chu State, it means that only the goods that can flow in from here must be the goods that the Ministry of Rites agrees to trade - such as grain, salt, pickled seafood, as well as luxury sugar, colored glaze, Jiangdong Brocade...

In addition, there is the most important thing, which is also Liu Ye's main purpose-sea ships!
Liu Ye asked the Ministry of Rites to include the main ships currently in service in the Ganning Navy as tradable, and to trade at least one of them to Wei within two years...

In the end, I got my wish!

Therefore, when Liu Ye left the official office of the Ministry of Rites, his face still looked a little angry, but he felt a little proud in his heart.

I just thought that the people "confronting" me this time were two young people from Chu State...

Liu Ye couldn't help but feel a little sad - although the Wei State was full of talents, the King of Wei cherished talents since Chenliu started his army. Even during this period, due to ideological reasons and the immaturity of the King of Wei, he had some misunderstandings with talents from aristocratic families. , but in general, no one can say that Wei does not value talents, but...

Compared with the vitality of Chu State, Wei State was obviously lagging behind.

Moreover, the establishment of the imperial examination system will enable Chu State to continuously replenish its "vitality" in the future!
Even if the Wei State wanted to imitate someone else, they had to face the pressure from aristocratic families first - Liu Ye was from a clan of the Han Dynasty, and he didn't have much prejudice against the imperial examination, nor was he optimistic about it. After all, the Later Han Dynasty itself established On the basis of the cooperation between the families.

But now Liu Ye feels that he should move closer to his own king's ideas and support the imperial examination more actively.

Of course, we should also pay attention to the communication with Chen Qun, the representative of the aristocratic family in Wei Guozhong, and there is no need to offend them.

What makes Liu Ye most anxious is that the most criticized "weakness" of the Chu State is nothing more than the naivety of the King of Chu, including both policy naivety and strategic naivety - just like Chu Jia and Chu Nu. ...

If the Wei State had such a technological advantage in ordnance, it would definitely turn this technological advantage into a real strategic advantage at any cost, and even use war to support a wave of battles, try to destroy the Fu Han, and unify The world, create a new dynasty!
As for the casualties that fighting to support war will bring to the enemy and ourselves?

Without casualties, how can there be a new era?Only great chaos can lead to great governance!

That’s why it is said that the King of Chu was very naive, which greatly hindered the development of Chu State and even made Chu State not afraid. He was like a boxer who didn’t know how to box and just wanted to make himself fat...

However, now Liu Ye is a little wary, as if the Chu State is going to "eat" him into a giant first. What will happen if he doesn't know how to box?
At the same time, Deng Zhi and Bu Zhi also breathed a sigh of relief...

"Liu Ye is worthy of being the great leader of the Wei State. He shouldn't be dealt with like that." Deng Zhi sighed.

"That's right, Liu Ye should also have some lobbying skills. Thanks to Brother Bomiao for helping me cover it up, I wouldn't be able to see through it." Bu Zhi said with some embarrassment.

"What Zishan said is obvious. We were admitted in the same period, so we should get close and work together for Da Chu." Deng Zhi said without taking credit.

Liu Ye thought that his tricks played a role in the negotiation, but he didn't know...he was also being influenced!

It was only half a year ago that Bai Tu gradually discovered that the imperial examination seemed to have an unexpected effect - the awakening of intelligence.

It has been more than eight months since the imperial examination. Among the scholars who passed the examination, especially the top three in each subject, one-third had the official seal before, and the rest were arranged to be awakened at Chu Ji after the imperial examination.

But no matter what the situation was, six months after the imperial examination ended, the top three scholars gradually awakened to new strategies - and they were all related to the subjects for which they were ranked!

For example, Fazheng has newly awakened three strategies, Zhuge Jin has two, and everyone else has at least one. Moreover, the newly awakened strategies must have a proportion related to his own imperial examination and exclusive strategies. Extremely high...

Bu Zhi, as the second person in Huke, has awakened to the idea of ​​"extending more than he can afford" - instantly calculating the room for profitable growth.

In line with his topic of household science, when checking the accounts, he can not only pick out the problematic accounts, but also quickly calculate where the accounts have room for improvement, and then judge the possible efficiency problems behind the accounts, or the implementation of the intentional intention The nature of the problem!

It can be regarded as an advanced and exclusive form of popular conspiracy "seeking profit"...

Deng Zhi, as the second in the etiquette department, has awakened to "empathize with me" - the other party's feelings during the negotiation, and forcefully deviate to his own position. The greater the gap between positions, the worse the deflection effect.

Since ancient times, "substituting the other party's perspective" has been an important means of persuasion and persuasion by strategists. There are endless tricks similar to "empathy". Although as an exclusive strategy, different counselors have different effects after awakening to "empathy". But the general direction of action is similar.

Today, the most obvious owner of "empathy" is none other than Dahong Liu Ye of Wei State...

It can truly perceive the target's emotional tendencies, and then judge the other party's general attitude, so as to better reach the other party's persuasive points, and can be used to test the bottom line.

Historically, this was Liu Ye's advantage and also his flaw...

This "advantage" made Liu Ye unfavorable when he was on a mission on behalf of Cao Cao's group, but as a "flaw", it also caused Liu Ye's bleak later life.

The reason is that Liu Ye in history made the mistake of using "empathy" to figure out the intentions of Emperor Ming Cao Rui and other colleagues when he participated in government affairs.

He values ​​his own "feathers" more than he cares about Wei's policies, and has no position of his own...

That is to say, he talks nonsense to others and talks to ghosts, and he is also double-dealing between the king and his colleagues. When other colleagues disagree with Emperor Ming, Liu Ye will agree with his colleagues' ideas in private, and follow Cao Rui's advice in front of Cao Rui. Meaning, criticize colleagues' ideas.

At first, because Liu Ye's speaking skills were high enough, even if he denied the views of his colleagues in front of Emperor Ming, he would use sophistry in private, making people feel that Liu Ye supported him and refuted it just to better convince Emperor Ming.

However, what was false could not be true. In the end, Liu Ye overturned and what he had done was exposed to Cao Rui.

In order to test Liu Ye, Cao Rui deliberately expressed opinions that he did not agree with during a private conversation with Liu Ye. As expected, he found that Liu Ye, who supported him every time, was not consistent with his three views, but was speculating on himself. The intention is to deliberately "compromise" one's own three views!

Of course, Liu Ye, as the elder of the three dynasties, is not considered a clear crime, so Cao Rui didn't say anything, but started to alienate Liu Ye, which also made Liu Ye unable to reuse him in his later years, and finally became depressed...

It can only be said that his success and failure are his words. He failed to adapt to the transformation from an envoy to an important minister in the court. He has no ethics of his own and no intention to help the world and the people. He only wants to persuade guests by wagging his lips and talking loudly. He faced government affairs with his own attitude, but was eventually backfired by his lobbyist attributes!
In Cheng Ji's world, Liu Ye's "empathy" strategy also has this tendency - the effect is very good, but it is easy to affect himself unintentionally.

Deng Zhi's "empathize with me" should be regarded as a variant of "empathize with others". The effect is exactly the opposite. It is to use one's own position to subtly assimilate the other party.

If "empathy" means considering issues and speaking from the other person's perspective, then "empathy" means subtly infecting the other person and making them "empathize" with you.

In terms of effect, "empathize with me" is undoubtedly more domineering, but it also has more restrictions. The larger the deviation, the more difficult it is.

If it weren't for Liu Ye's "empathy", he happened to sense Deng Zhi's position, and then... his own instinct to take over, I'm afraid with Liu Ye's mental strength, even if he was affected by "empathize with me", he would not So obvious!
That's right, Liu Ye hadn't realized that the two young men had actually made him fall for it, and it could even be said that half of it was him who jumped in.

It is true that Liu Ye found out some of Chu's bottom lines, but at the same time, Bu Zhi and Deng Zhi were not lying flat and being played by Liu Ye.

When Liu Ye left, although the two of them looked shocked, in fact, they had basically met their expectations.

Of course, in addition to their own abilities, the hard power of Chu State also played a key role-when facing Wei State itself, Chu State has more confidence, and this cannot be changed by words.

Although Chu and Wei have not reached a formal agreement on this, because Liu Ye wants to ask Cao Cao for instructions, even if it is only a small part of Tuyin County or a little bit along the coast, Liu Ye cannot decide and agree, but Liu Ye feels that by fighting for it himself As far as the conditions are concerned, the king should probably agree to it...

(End of this chapter)