Go back to the Three Kingdoms to grow vegetables

Chapter 633 Confucianism Politics
The beacon smoke from Xufu Mountain was lit, and then one beacon tower after another rose up to Lucheng. People who watched the beacon in Lucheng hurriedly rang the golden gong.

The sound of the golden gong immediately alarmed the entire county government. After hearing the news, the mayor of Lu City summoned Cheng He, the county magistrate, Dai Ling, the master Bo, and Liu Cao to discuss the matter.

Mayor Lu saw that everyone was here, and asked, "Now that there is a beacon fire on Mount Xufu, why do you teach me?"

Dai Ling, the county captain, stood up abruptly, clasped his fists and shouted: "My lord, why are there hundreds of bandits in Xufu Mountain? In the past, he hid in the deep mountains, but someone took him and didn't withdraw. Now he came out of the mountain. It's really courting death. Please send 1000 troops With a certain one, a certain one will wipe out all the bandits in Xufu Mountain."

Hearing the words, the county magistrate Cheng hurriedly said: "No, no, now that the autumn harvest is approaching, don't use weapons rashly. If you miss the autumn harvest, how can you report to the prefect?"

This year, Liu Bei is going to settle in Xiliang, and he is going to recruit exiles in Henan and Dongjun to enrich the strength of the Central Plains theater. All these need food and grass, let alone the Xianbei Rebellion that is close at hand. Food is needed to stabilize hearts.

As the magistrate of the county, Cheng He is also a humble scholar who came out of Longmen Academy, so he naturally knows the importance of food and grass to the present.

Cheng He belonged to the poor family supported by Liu Bei, Dai Ling was born in Yingchuan, and he was leaning on the huge Yingchuan family behind him. He wanted to look down on the humble scholars who kept searching, but now seeing Cheng He and blocking his achievements, he said angrily: " The autumn harvest is important, so isn’t it important to suppress the bandits? What if the bandits in Xufu Mountain set fire to the wheat fields and the people had no food to eat, wouldn’t they rebel? Taiyuan County, you and I have committed a serious crime!"

Cheng He naturally understood that Dai Ling was putting a big hat on himself, but the enemy is not currently in a factional struggle, so he said with a smile: "Lieutenant Dai misunderstood, I didn't say that I would not suppress the bandits, the key is how to suppress them? How? In order to complete the suppression of bandits without affecting the autumn harvest."

Dai Ling sneered: "Hmph! Chengxian Cheng is really a good planner, but someone can't do it, why don't Chengxian Cheng become the county lieutenant!"

"The county lieutenant, don't be excited, don't be excited, and it's not too late to discuss after hearing what the county magistrate has said."

Mayor Lu was killed several times by the bandits in Xufu Mountain. This mayor of Lu City was a local gentry in Lu City. He was the City Mayor of Lu City. I'm sorry, so many things can only be settled between the two of them.

As Liu Bei occupied more and more territory, there were more and more factions under his command. Not to mention the military, the civil servants were dominated by the Yingchuan faction, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You, Chen Ji, Zhong Yao, Han Yu, etc. are all Liu Bei's confidant advisers, and outsiders such as Jia Xu, Gu Yong, etc. cannot compare with the huge Yingchuan faction.

It has to be said that Liu Bei was well prepared. From Lucheng College, Longmen Academy, and then to the Guozijian established by Liu Bei in Chang'an, three school levels have been formed: county school, county school, and national school. Of course, this also provides Liu Bei with many low-level officials. Most of the class officials are poor scholars, and they start from the lowest official village chiefs and pavilion chiefs, so they are also called the poor families of the academy.

There are not many figures in the upper echelons of the Academy's poor family, but more than [-]% of the entire grassroots government is from the academy's poor family. Representatives such as Jia Kui, Li Li, Sun Zi, Liu Fang, etc., although their official positions are not big, they all hold important positions. real power.

The reason why Liu Bei vigorously promoted scholars from poor families was to break the monopoly of wealthy families, so that the family politics of hundreds of years after the Wei and Jin Dynasties would no longer appear, and instead enter the Confucianism politics in advance.

Confucian politics means that new scholars are constantly entering the gentry, so that the big wealthy families have to be broken into small poor families, and then the survival of the fittest is constantly maintained to maintain a steady stream of fresh blood to join the court.

Of course, Liu Bei still needs to rely heavily on the strength of the rich and noble families at present, because the theory and practice of governing the country are things passed down by the rich and powerful, and this is definitely not something that can be settled by reading a few books and watching a few cases.

The topic is far away.

Dai Ling saw Mayor Lu's friendly attitude again, and was very dissatisfied with him. He decided that after he put down the Xufu Mountain bandits this time, he would report to the prefect and dismiss him from the post of county magistrate.

Cheng He saw that City Chief Lu was not complacent when he favored him, instead he was more cautious, turned his head to the thief Cao Zheng and said, "I heard that your subordinates have sneaked into the bandits in Xufu Mountain secretly, is there such a thing?"

Take a look at Dai Ling, the county magistrate, who works as a thief Cao and belongs to the civil service system, but since he dispatched the first spy to Xufu Mountain, he has been under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate.

Seeing Dai Ling nodding his head, Cao Cao, the thief, said, "That's right, but he didn't mention in his letter that the bandits from Mount Xufu would leave the mountain at this time. According to his intelligence analysis, the bandits from Mount Xufu will wait until November and February , When encountering white calamity (heavy snow), go out to the mountains to loot."

Cheng He nodded: "In this way, the bandits in Xufu Mountain did not move, but where does this force that wiped out several villages belong to? Could it be..."

"Could it be from Xianbei? It's ridiculous."

Hearing Cheng He's doubts, Dai Ling shouted angrily: "Humph! I don't want a thousand soldiers, but only 200 soldiers from this county and Jin Yi will do it!"

Seeing that Dai Ling was furious, City Chief Lu hurriedly said, "Would this be a little less? Let's do it! How about all the villagers in front of us be dispatched by the county lieutenant?"

"Humph!"

Dai Ling snorted angrily, bowed to Mayor Lu and said, "Your Majesty, just wait for the news of a victorious return!"

After Dai Ling finished speaking, he walked away, ignoring Cheng He's shouts, and Cheng He could only watch Dai Ling leave in the end.

Cheng He sighed, and said to Mayor Lu: "Your Majesty, if the Xianbei cavalry is real, Dai County Chancellor must be in danger. You and I need to prepare more!"

City Chief Lu laughed and said: "The county magistrate, the Xianbei cavalry are still at the foot of Mount Heng (confronting General Zhang), how could they suddenly appear on Mount Xufu? Doesn't this make sense?"

The Lucheng Army also has stories about crossing Micang Mountain and Yinping Road. Since the Lucheng Army can do it, why can't the Xianbei people do it?

Cheng He wanted to persuade City Mayor Lu again, but City Chief Lu took Liu Cao to leave. Cheng He had no choice but to order people to grab grain within his authority, while calling the young and strong people from all villages to work together.

Dai Ling led two hundred armored cavalry into the city majesticly, but Xufu Mountain ushered in a distinguished guest today. This distinguished guest has not yet reached the crown, but the two masters of Xufu Mountain have already heard of his reputation——Sima Yi, Sima Hanoi Zhongda, his father Sima Fang, and his brother Sima Lang were all famous scholars in Hebei. He himself was also known as a child prodigy, and he worshiped under the famous scholar Hu Zhao.

The two masters of Xufu Mountain are also old friends of Lu Chengjun, Zhu Ao and Zhu Gongdao. Since their father Zhu Zhi died in the hands of Lu Chengjun, the two have been living on the run every day, and soon became anonymous in Xufu Mountain. The brothers became the leaders of Mount Xufu by virtue of their bravery and resourcefulness.

(End of this chapter)