A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 398: The country is ruined and the family is ruined. I run away alone. I have to hold many positions to ask for help.

March
The allied forces of the Cao, Liu, and Sun families attacked Yuan Shu's capital Shouchun. Yuan Shu's people rebelled and deserted, and the generals who defended the city opened the city to ask for surrender. Yuan Shu had no choice but to take the gold, silver, and the jade seal passed down to him and went to Lushan to join his former tribesmen Lei Bo and Chen Lan, but they were killed by Lei. Bo waited for rejection.

He was planning to go north to join Yuan Shao. After all, there couldn't be two Yuans in one sentence. Although the two families did not come from the same county, they at least came from the same lineage.

And to be precise, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were both on the same journey, but Yuan Shu obtained the imperial seal, while Yuan Shao had not yet conquered the north.

So he wrote to Yuan Shao:
"It has been a long time since the destiny of the Han Dynasty left the Han Dynasty. It relied on the support of the people of the world and the political power came from selfish sources. Heroes and heroes fought and chased each other and divided the territory.

This is no different from the Seven Kingdoms at the end of the Zhou Dynasty, only the stronger one annexed the others. The Yuan family was destined to rule the world. Although the Runan family failed, the Bohai Yuan family should take over this destiny.

Now you own the four prefectures of Ji, Qing, Bing, and You, with a household registration of one million people. No one can compete with you in terms of power, and no one can be higher than you in terms of status.

Although Cao Cao wanted to support the weakened court and Liu Bei tried to steal the throne, how could they reconnect the broken destiny and revive the destroyed Han Dynasty?

I respectfully send you my destiny in the hope that you will revive it. "

Yuan Shao was already very satisfied with the land in Hebei, and now Yuan Shu is offering the imperial seal. There is no reason to disagree.

In his opinion, Yuan Shu was killed after proclaiming himself emperor because his power was too small and he could not hold on to the throne without elite soldiers and generals.

Not only did he occupy the land in Hebei, but he also had a large number of generals such as Qu Yi, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Yuan Zhao, and Bai Gong. He was also assisted by Xianbei, Hu, and Huns, and his counselors Tian Feng, Jushou, Xu You, and Feng Ji, Xun Chen and other literary stars are shining brightly.

It is simply Tianhu's card. Now he only needs an opportunity to claim the throne. In order to gain the recognition of the Bai family, he constantly sends envoys to the Bai Kingdom, hoping to get the Bai Kingdom to surrender to him.

If the Bai Kingdom also surrendered to him, and his territory was the same as that of Emperor Guangwu, how could he not be able to accomplish the great deeds of Emperor Guangwu?
It's a pity that for some unknown reason, the Bai Kingdom is unwilling to surrender to itself. It keeps saying that the fate of the Han Dynasty is not yet over, and the Bai Kingdom should be a vassal of the Han Dynasty.

Could it be that the current King Bai is too old and his brain is no longer bright? Can't see the situation clearly? But regardless of whether the Bai family helped him openly or not, in Yuan Shao's own opinion, he did have the appearance of an emperor.

Now Yuan Shu wants to dedicate the imperial seal to himself. With this jade seal, he will be able to compete with the Xudu court in Henan with the land of Hebei.

So I wrote a letter agreeing to accept Yuan Shu.

August
Yuan Shu, who had been hiding in the mountains and fields for several months, finally received a reply from Yuan Shao.

After being happy, Yuan Shu prepared to quietly go north from Xiapi to Qingzhou Plain Country, where there were reinforcements stationed by Yuan Tan, the governor of Qingzhou.

The entire battle against Yuan Shu lasted for more than a year, and it had only been three years since Yuan Shu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. From the second year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, to the fourth year of Jian'an, he was attacked and destroyed by the three families of Cao, Liu, and Sun.

It has only been more than a year since Cao Cao sent troops in the third year of Jian'an to the time when Yuan Shu's final foundation, Shouchun City, was broken.

In the end, Cao Cao occupied Yuan Shu's Runan County, Yingchuan County, Chen State, and Liang State in Yuzhou, Liu Bei occupied Pei State in Yuzhou, and Sun Ce took over Danyang County and Lujiang County.

The final Jiujiang County was divided between the Cao and Liu families. Cao Cao occupied Xiacai, Shouchun, Chengde, Hefei, and Junqiu in the west of Jiujiang.

Liu Bei gave up his all-out attack on Shouchun and instead occupied most of the eastern part: Yicheng, Dangtu, Ping'a, Xiquyang, Yinling, Zhongli, Dongcheng, Quanjiao, Fuling, and Liyang.

Liu Bei stationed troops to defend Cao Cao in Xiquyang, opposite Sun Ce's Danyang across the Yangtze River. Cao Cao stationed troops in Hefei to defend Sun Ce in Lujiang, and stationed troops in Shouchun to defend Liu Bei in Xiquyang.

Because the army rations were exhausted, the three of them led the army to retreat after issuing a notice to arrest Yuan Shu, leaving only a certain amount of troops to confront each other in Jiujiang.

Cao Cao appointed Yu Jin as the prefect of Jiujiang, stationed in Shouchun to guard against Liu Sun; Liu Bei left Zhonglang general Zhang Liao to garrison in Quyang in the west, and appointed Zhang Fei as the prefect of Guangling to garrison in Guangling to guard against Cao Sun.

Sun Ce left his uncle Sun Bi as the governor of Lujiang, his uncle Wu Jing as the governor of Danyang, and his father's former subordinate Zhu Zhi as the governor of Wu County to defend Cao Liu.

When Liu Bei led Lu Bu and Zhang Fei to attack Yuan Shu and capture Pei and Jiujiang, Guan Yu, who was appointed by Liu Bei as the governor of Qingzhou, led Zang Ba, Bai Xing, and Bai Dian to successfully pacify the Yellow Turban bandits in Qingzhou. .

The leader of the thieves, Guan Cheng, was beheaded by the formation. The Yellow Turban generals Guan Hai, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao and others led hundreds of thousands of people in the mountains to surrender. Based on Bai Dian's suggestion, Guan Yu imitated Cao Cao's farming and divided the hundreds of thousands of people into ten tribes. Set up a Diannong school captain and several civil servants, and start farming in Taishan County.

In order to manage these ten field camps, Guan Yu reported to Liu Bei, hoping to appoint a Dian Nong Zhonglang general to manage them uniformly.

After receiving Guan Yu's report, Liu Bei appointed Bai Dian as Diannong Zhonglang General to manage the ten Yellow Turban remnants. Not only that, Guan Yu also selected 50,000 strong men from the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban surrender troops to form the Qingzhou Army. He said to his left and right:
"I heard that Cao Cao had Qingzhou soldiers, and I always regarded them as a strong support, but they did not occupy any prefecture or county in Qingzhou. However, my Qingzhou army collected all the people of Qingzhou and occupied the counties and counties in Qingzhou for training. It can be seen that Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers are not worthy of their name. My Qingzhou Army is the real Qingzhou Army."

In order to train the 50,000 Qingzhou troops, Guan Yu specially trained them himself, serving as a military judge himself. He also borrowed Gao Shun from Liu Bei, who was good at military training, as his deputy general. He also used the Yellow Turban generals Zhou Cang and Guan Hai as his assistant generals, and Bai Xing as the commander-in-chief of another department. , Bai Dian also served as military food officer.

He was determined to train an elite army for Liu Bei.

After Liu Bei heard about it, he strongly supported Guan Yu's actions and wrote a letter: "Second brother, although I will train with all my strength, when the army is ready, I will come to the military parade in person!"

With Liu Bei's support, Guan Yu devoted his whole body and mind to the training of the 50,000 Qingzhou Army, and handed over all military and government affairs in Qingzhou to Qingzhou Biejia Baidian.

This made Bai Dian very resentful. Originally, he was very free in Donglai County and did not need to worry about matters outside the county. As for the matters in Donglai County, he could handle them in a few quarters of minutes. Every day he was either hunting or drinking tea and reading. , so leisurely and contented.

Now he has surrendered to Liu Bei, managing hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants, managing the government affairs of a state, and worrying about the food and armaments of the 50,000 Qingzhou Army.

I just felt that I had no other skills, so I had to ask Liu Bei for help, asking him to send more clerks and officials to him, otherwise he might delay the business.

When Liu Bei saw Bai Dian's complaint, he slapped his forehead and blamed himself: "In the past, I paid more attention to military and political matters, but ignored the recruitment and invitation of talents. It is really wrong.

It seems that the past two years have been too smooth. Xuzhou was won, Bai's son came to Xu, Qingzhou was sent, and Peiguo and Jiujiang were won. It seemed that he was a little complacent. "

Then he said to the attendant on the side: "Let's go and summon all the civil and military officials in Xiapi. I want to discuss something. By the way, I'll invite Mr. Bailu here too. I want to hear his opinion."

Follow the attendant down to deliver the order. Soon, all the civil and military ministers in Xiapi came in one after another from the outside and sat in their own seats. Bai Lu did not refuse and came with his entourage to sit and listen.

Those who came here included Shi Chengong, the chief of the general's office, Mi Zhu, the biejia of Xuzhou, Chen Qun of the biejia, Bai Jin, the chief secretary Jian, Sun Qian, Zhuge Dan, the prime minister of Xiapi, and other civil servants.

There are also generals in the city such as Xuzhou Governor Lu Bu, Zhonglang General Zhao Yun, Zhonglang General Cheng Lian, Sima Cao Bao, Xiapi Duwei Tai Shici.

"Everyone, Baibiejia from Qingzhou has written a letter, saying that manpower is scarce and government orders are not being fulfilled, and he wants to ask me for some civil servants and officials.

But you all know that now there are vacancies in various government offices in Xiapi, and I don't have enough connections, so how can I support Qingzhou.

After thinking about it, I found that although I now occupy two states and two counties, with the help of the Qingzhou Army and the Bingzhou Cavalry of Marquis Wen, as well as the help of scribes such as Gongtai and Baidian, the people of these two states can temporarily escape the suffering of troubled times.

However, relying on my own conquests and your recommendations will ultimately be a drop in the bucket in these two states. Talents are the foundation of a country. Without them, the country cannot be governed and the states and counties cannot be stable.

But one person's plan is short, and everyone's plan is long. Therefore, I have summoned you all today to gather your thoughts and come up with a method that can stabilize the appointment of talented people? "

Everyone in the hall was silent and thinking. This is a big matter and cannot be determined in an instant.

At this time, Mi Zhu came out and said: "If a general wants to recruit virtuous people, he must first know where the virtuous people in the world come from.

Today's officials mostly come from the Confucian school, learn the six rites and the six classics, serve as emperors, and care for all the people. Before the Qin Dynasty, most of the scholars and scholars came from nobles and princes, and they were not common people and could not cultivate.

Since the Han Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties have studied at the Imperial Academy, and there are also the Bai Academy and the Bai Academy of the Bai Kingdom, which have resulted in most of the world's scholars coming from nobles and powerful men.

Since the time of Emperor Guangwu, there has been a continuous expansion of the cultural context and the cultivation of grammar, resulting in an increase in the number of books. Therefore, most of the scholars come from aristocratic families. However, even commoners, if they have the opportunity to study classics and practice virtue, they can hope to be filial and honest and serve as officials. Become an official.

Therefore, most of today's scholars come from aristocratic families, or from poor families. If the general wants the world's virtuous people to flow like rivers into the sea, he should find a way to get these scholars to leave their homes and join the officialdom.

If all the heirs of poetry and calligraphy in the world yearn to be under the general's command, will the general still be worried that there are no wise men and good ministers under his command? "

Liu Bei nodded and agreed with the statement that the main source of officials today is from wealthy families, but he was born as a commoner and knew that there are talents in poor families.

For example, he, Guan Yu, Lu Bu, Jian Yong, Sun Qian and others all came from poor families. Therefore, I agree that most scholars come from aristocratic families, but I do not agree that all scholars come from aristocratic families.

But now, although we know that there are many talents below, there is no way to recruit them, which is very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)