Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 60 Zhou Budo

Of course, Shen Chen didn't know that Liu Biao had already seen through his secret arrangement.

Now it is 196 AD, and it has not yet reached the time when Liu Biao got Alzheimer's disease 12 years later.

As a man who single-handedly dared to pacify the entire Jingzhou, how could Liu Biao be easy to deal with?

In fact, he noticed all the little tricks Shen Chen made in secret, but he didn't point them out.

Because what he did did no harm to Liu Biao, and even most of the benefits fell into Liu Biao's pocket.

It's a pie in the sky, and it's still [-]%.Shen Chen worked hard to get [-]%.

Liu Biao didn't do anything, and he got [-]% of the money, and he would be happy to change it to anyone.

So he is also willing to turn a blind eye and close one eye. At certain times, he will also help out. Why not do things that are convenient?

Xinye County has recently changed its magistrate.

The original county magistrate, Wang Yi, was transferred by Zhang Xiu to be the magistrate of Nanyang County because of his outstanding political achievements, and was responsible for helping him manage the surrounding cities.

The new county magistrate is Deng Mao, head of the Deng clan of Huangmenting.

Logically speaking, Deng Mao himself is in Xinye, so he should have violated the Three Mutual Laws, and locals cannot be local officials.

But the problem is that Deng Mao is not a local.

He is from Xuzhou.

The place of household registration in the Han Dynasty does not mean that you are a person from where you live, but that you are a person from where you were born.

Take the Gan Ning family as an example.

It is recorded in "Historical Records" that Gan Mao, the ancestor of Gan Ning, was from Xiacai in Huainan. Gan Mao's descendants moved to Nanyang, and after several generations they became Nanyang people.

According to the records in "Three Kingdoms", the Gan Ning family did not know which ancestor moved to the Berkshire of Yizhou. After a few generations, they became Berkshire people again, and Nanyang became the ancestral land of the Gan family.

When Gan Ning went to Soochow, after several generations of reproduction, after the generation of Gan Ning's great-grandson Gan Zhuo, the "Book of Jin" introduced him as a native of Danyang, Jiangdong, and his ancestral land became Berkshire.

Therefore, the Huangmenting, Deng and Shen families can only be counted as immigrants at present. It will take decades and two or three generations before the household registration can be transferred.

Just like when they migrated from their ancestral homeland of Nanyang to Xuzhou, after two or three generations, they became Xuzhou Xiangben people for a reason.

So this has become an extremely rare BUG.

That is, the local people recognized by the local people, in fact, the spirit of the non-local people, the local people have become local county magistrates.

Sounds tongue-in-cheek, but that's what it is.

Now the Deng family moved to Xuzhou more than 70 years ago, and their household registration has become Xuzhou people. After returning, they were appointed officials in Xinye, and they are inextricably linked with the local Deng family in Xinye.

Then Deng Mao became the county magistrate, and joined forces with the local Deng clan members Deng Qi and others to control the power of the entire county.

However, the people of Xinye definitely have no dislike for the rise of the Huangmenting Deng family.

Because in the past two years, the Huangmenting Deng family has recruited refugees, built canals, reclaimed fields, planted mulberry forests, and dug ponds, turning the original barren land into a paradise.

They also used blast furnaces and cave dwellings to make ironware and porcelain, and sold them to Jingzhou, Jiangdong, and Yizhou through big merchants in Xiangyang and Zhou Lin. Now even in the north, there are colorful porcelains from Huangmenting, making a lot of money.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be good for yourself, and if you are rich, you will benefit the world.

After having money and food, the Deng family of Huangmenting began to help the people in the surrounding villages and pavilions a lot, helping them avoid military disasters, reclaiming farmland, building canals and ponds, etc.

Although Deng Hong himself held an official position in the state capital, he often went to various places in Nanyang to handle government affairs under Liu Biao's orders.

He patrolled the soil and fields everywhere, benefited from digging irrigation, and had abundant japonica rice. In places like Xinye, Huyang, etc., he often came back to teach farming and mulberry, and occasionally invented some new farm tools to help the people develop.

All these have made the Deng family of Huangmenting a good reputation around Xinye.

When Zhang Xiu attacked Nanyang and a large number of yellow scarves gathered in Nanyang, countless people in Huyang, Chaoyang and Xinye fled to Huangmenting Deng's manor with their families.

Although it was just two false alarms, tens of thousands of people were able to gather in the Deng's manor in a short period of time, which shows the current appeal of the Deng's.

When there is another war in Nanyang in the future, I am afraid that more people will come to rely on them.

This is called fame.

Now Huangmen Pavilion has incorporated the surrounding [-] square kilometers of land into its own territory, built a city-like manor, and dug densely packed tunnels, forts and fortifications in the hills behind.

They even found a craftsman in Jingzhou who used to be a subordinate of the master craftsman who could make siege and defense equipment. They dug a lot of money and built a lot of equipment.

The population of Huangmenting has also been greatly developed. When it first moved here, there were only about 1000 people. Later, it recruited refugees and increased to more than [-] people.

Now, half a year later, a large number of yellow scarves who came down the mountain were used for personal gain and placed in Huangmenting. The registered population has already exceeded [-].

It owns more than [-] mu of land, and at the same time employs a large number of farm slaves and apprentices from the surrounding counties and counties.

The current permanent population of Huangmenting has exceeded [-]. In a few years, I am afraid that it will be able to forge a city and become a county.

And although Liu Biao knew what they were doing, Liu Biao chose to turn a blind eye.

There is no accountability even for contraband items such as Deng's equipment, weapons, bows and arrows.

The reason is that it is true that Huang Menting benefited, but he got more benefits.

Just food, grass, luggage and Dingkou is an astronomical figure.

And at that time, the aristocratic and powerful families were like this, and everything was based on the interests of the family.

It is not a big problem for Deng Hong to benefit his own family while benefiting Jingzhou.

If he has a clean sleeve and only thinks about Jingzhou's sake, Liu Biao may have to suspect that he has other plans.

In fact, to some extent, Liu Biao also supported Deng Hong in doing so.

Because the reason why Huangmenting can develop by leaps and bounds now has nothing to do with the efforts of the villagers to create wealth.

It is entirely because Deng Hong is an official in the state capital, and he is seeking benefits for himself in this Zhangxiu and Huangjin.

If Deng Hong did not make great contributions, he would not be fully responsible for the population resettlement work.

If he hadn't proposed to Liu Biao to annex the remnants of the Yellow Turbans around Nanyang, Nanyang wouldn't have such a large population suddenly.

Therefore, in the final analysis, what engages in blast furnace cave dwellings to make a fortune, and what engages in retting technology to increase grain production can only be regarded as incidentals.

Real development depends on power, and only with power can a large amount of external resources be mobilized to fill it.

Otherwise, with the 1000 people in Huangmenting alone, how much porcelain, iron and grain can be produced even with blast furnace cave dwellings and retting technology?

So where did Deng Hong's power come from?

Isn't it Liu Biao?

Therefore, Deng Hong's expansion of his clan was entirely within the acquiescence of Liu Biao.

At least according to Liu Biao.

He eats meat, and Mrs. Deng drinks some soup, there is nothing wrong with it.

In May, the bustling Nanyang Rebellion came to an end, and Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao benefited. Even if it was the Yellow Turban Army, most people were willing to come down the mountain.

The turmoil was not a big one, but the harvest was full, and Cao Cao, who was far away in Yingchuan, regretted that he could not get any benefits.

After Shen Chen led all this behind the scenes, he hid his merit and fame and returned to Xiangyang to continue his studies.

In addition to going to the academy, he would occasionally go to Yuliangzhou to ask Mr. Pang De for advice.

His knowledge grew day by day, and the name of the child prodigy spread throughout Jingzhou.

But what made him a little regretful was that he never saw Pang Tong, because last year Pang Tong went to Yingchuan to study with Sima Hui, and he didn't know when he would come back.

On May [-]th, the day before yesterday, Shen Chen went to Yuliangzhou to ask Mr. Pang De for an academic question. Yesterday he went to Longzhong to discuss knowledge with Zhuge Liang. After staying in Longzhong for one night, he planned to return to the academy today.

It was the clear sky, midsummer, and the blazing sun shone on the earth. The trail leading to the academy was mottled with shade, with towering trees on both sides, with dense branches drooping down.

The carriage drove slowly on the path, and because the road was fairly smooth, Shen Chen was reading a book in the car.At that time, the carriage compartment was not closed, but an umbrella was opened on all sides.

Suddenly he heard someone calling him from behind: "Is it Shen Chen?"

Shen Chen turned his head and saw that there was an extra carriage behind him at some point. The people in the carriage were one big and one small. He knew the older ones. It was Liu Biao's driver. Go to Xinye and introduce Wang Yi for them.

Last year Liu Xian was still in Xiangyang, and he was quite friendly with Deng Hong, but in the second half of the year, when something happened at Lingling's family, he asked Liu Biao for leave, but now he hasn't seen each other for more than half a year.

Seeing that it was him, Shen Chen asked the driver to stop, got off the station and waited by the side of the road.

After a while, Liu Xian's carriage also stopped by the side of the road, Shen Chen cupped his hands and said to him, "So it's Mr. Shizong, long time no see, my uncle often misses Mr."

Liu Xian said: "My brother-in-law died of illness, and my sister and nephew were lonely and helpless. I had to go back to Lingling to deal with family affairs. I just came back a few days ago. Your uncle wrote to me yesterday, asking me to go to Yin County to help He is dealing with farming matters, so I happen to meet you here today."

Shen Chen noticed that there was a child about four or five years old in Liu Xian's carriage looking at him curiously, so he cupped his hands and said, "Yes, my uncle misses Mr. Shizong too much, Mr. has been away for half a year. My uncle is often out of town too."

"Ha ha."

Liu Xian said with a smile: "It's no problem, we will meet again when we come back now. Ah Chen, this is my nephew, named Zhou Buyi. I originally wanted him to learn from Liu Ba in Lingling, but he didn't want to. Willing to accept, you have been in the academy for a long time, and your knowledge is also very good, I just want to entrust him to you."

Shen Chen actually didn't know about Zhou Buyi, and unlike many people in later generations who specialized in studying history, he memorized "Three Kingdoms" and "Hou Han Shu" backwards.

I just watched the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" before, plus various games of the Three Kingdoms, some jokes and videos of the Three Kingdoms on the Internet, and I have a preliminary understanding of the important figures of the Three Kingdoms, and probably their historical development.

Like the early princes and the five tiger generals, the five good generals, the five great counselors of Cao Cao, the crouching dragon, the phoenix, the young Lin Zhonghu, he all knows.

But if you want him to tell you who were the main officials in the later period of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, besides Jiang Wei, Ma Dai, Wei Yanguan, Xing Zhangbao, and other senior generals in the later period of the Shu Kingdom, he has no idea at all.

So he didn't know that this was a well-known prodigy in the Three Kingdoms, but he saw that the child was sculpted, clever and cute, and he immediately liked it very much, so he smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir, there must be no one in the academy." Dare to bully him."

Except me.

He added another sentence in his mind.

Liu Xian said with a smile: "Then I can rest assured."

(End of this chapter)