Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 207 External Confucianism and Internal Law (Subscribe for the third watch)

Chapter 211

There was a blush on Meng Jia's fair face.

Huan Wen is a little too self-important now, how can Wei Guo be fooled?
Don't tell others, it's just Ran Ming, it's very difficult!
Meng Jia said: "Things are difficult, but we can't live up to the kindness of the General!"

"We are absolutely at a disadvantage now." Sun Sheng shook his head and sighed: "What is our bottom line? If we only use the Yuzhou border as the boundary, we may have no hope of success! This is like chasing ducks to the shelves!"

Meng Jia quietly looked outside the car, and he said in a low voice: "When the general left, he made it clear that if the Wei State was still not satisfied with the status quo, he intended to go south. Let Jia dissuade Wei State, we can go to Jiyang, Xinye, Ye County, The four counties of Wuyang will be used as trading places, and we will use the food that Wei State urgently needs, as well as Wei State army horses and weapons!"

Sun Sheng said: "How should we talk about it?"

"This base price is more beneficial to us. Wei Guo is short of food and grass now!" Meng Jia said leisurely: "If Wei Guo does not agree, we only need to move to fortify the wall and clear the country, and Wei Guo will not be able to go south!"

Hearing this, Sun Sheng's ugly face finally eased a little!Sun Sheng pondered for a while, and said: "That's right, this way, we won't appear timid, otherwise Wei people may see our flaws."

Meng Jia arrived in Luoyang on behalf of Huan Wen.

Of course, it was for the peace talks between Xifu Army and Wei Army.

In terms of status, Ran Ming was the highest, and he wanted to take on the task of negotiating with Meng Jia without hesitation.

But when Ran Ming tidied up his clothes and was about to meet Huan Wen's envoy, suddenly Ran Ming's new guard and book boy Hu Bin came to report: "There is an old friend visiting outside the palace!"

"Old friend?" Ran Ming was very surprised.Although he merged Ran Ming's original memory, the original Ran Ming didn't have any friends. Even if he had a few good friends in the army, they were all far away in Yecheng!Ran Ming had a puzzled expression.Ran Ming's defensive measures in Luoyang are now quite in place, and his unicorn guards are also maturing day by day.Ran Ming didn't have to worry about safety issues, and immediately said, "Please come in, my lonely old friend!"

Hu Bin said: "What about meeting Huan Wen's envoy?..."

"It's okay for Liangliang and the others!" Ran Ming said, "Let them understand that a weak country has no reason for diplomacy! Now it's Huan Wen asking for peace and avoiding war, not alone!"

Hu Bin bowed and left.

After a while, a young man followed behind Hu Bin. This young man looked dusty.

Wearing a white-washed Confucian shirt and a blue soft gauze scarf on his head, he has a slender body and a face like a crown jade. He walks gracefully, smiles before saying a word, and has an elegant and noble temperament. Although the clothes are shabby, his body exudes Exude an aura that makes people know at a glance that this person is definitely not an ordinary person!

When Ran Ming saw the face of the visitor, he was overjoyed all of a sudden.

"Jing Lue, why are you here?"

The people who came were none other than the two most outstanding prime ministers in the history of "the common people in the world look forward to Xie An, and the only prime minister in Guanzhong is Wang Meng".

Wang Meng, Wang Jinglue!

Ever since Ran Ming was proclaimed King of Chu, Wang Meng has been Prime Minister of Chu.

Although Ran Min did not give Ran Ming a fiefdom, Ran Min did not intervene in Qingzhou that was conquered. He just appointed Lu Yan, the fourth son of the original Zhongshuling Lu Chen, as the governor of Qingzhou and general Pingdong!
When Ran Ming left Qingzhou, he had a long talk with Wang Meng. Ran Ming came up with his ideas one by one. He wanted to implement land tax reform in Qingzhou. It has become a population that the government can control, so that it can curb the intensified land annexation and let the peasants get rid of the control of the aristocratic family. Ran Ming also wants to abolish the gentry's shady household system. From the governor below, all taxpayers, only the military households in service are exempt from tax.

In order to increase financial revenue and support the Beifu army he was planning to build.Ran Ming adopted open source and throttling.Open source is to develop a circular economy, using the vast natural pastures in Qingzhou to encourage people to raise horses, cattle, sheep, reuse the excrement produced by animals, and raise pigs.Pig manure to raise fish again.The pond mud is used to fertilize the fields.In this way, the same land produces different values.

The people have increased their income, and the government has also obtained a large amount of tax revenue.Moreover, Ran Ming encourages trade, and adopts government support, preferential policies, and shared risk policies for businessmen to increase Qingzhou's fiscal revenue.

At the same time, Ran Ming also improved the steelmaking process, promoted the use of coal, and reduced environmental pollution.

Wang Meng is worthy of being a famous prime minister in history, and he thoroughly implemented Ran Ming's spirit.With the improvement of Qingzhou's political system, the people of Qingzhou completely support Ran Ming's rule!

Wang Meng also saw the benefits and long-term benefits of these policies, but at the same time, he saw that these policies would have a fierce conflict with the interests of the traditional gentry, which would definitely arouse strong dissatisfaction and resistance from the gentry!As a result, Ran Ming was firm, and Wang Meng had no choice but to carry it out!
Seeing Wang Meng appearing here suddenly, Ran Ming was shocked: "Sir, why are you here? Could it be that something major happened in Qingzhou?"

Although Ran Ming formed the intelligence organization Tianyan, the strength in Ran Ming's hands is still too weak, and there are only hundreds of immature spy apprentices in the Tianyan area, which cannot cover all areas of the world.

Ran Ming wanted to find out the opponent's intentions as soon as possible and take timely countermeasures.Put all the limited intelligence power of Tianyan into the hostile country's area.Like Dai, Jin, Qin, Yan and Liang.

For the five states of Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Bing, Luo, and Henan currently ruled by Wei State, there is almost no input of intelligence points!
Seeing Wang Meng's wry smile, Ran Ming confirmed his guess!
Hu Bin who was beside Ran Mingchong said, "Binlang, go and inform the envoy of the West Mansion that the joint talks will be postponed for three days!"

Wang Meng pondered for a while and said: "Your Highness, Luoyang is only a hundred miles away from Yecheng, and His Highness is so exclusive, I'm afraid it will give opportunities to those who are interested!"

"Mr. mean"

"Your Majesty is the ruler of a country, so important matters of such a country should be decided by His Majesty. Although His Majesty is a prince, if he presides over the meeting, it will inevitably be suspected of being overstepped! What's more, His Majesty the Crown Prince of Yecheng is waiting to collect evidence of His Highness's transgression. !"

Ran Ming was silent, looking at each other speechlessly, his heart and soul shaking.

He suddenly thought of Li Shimin's difficulties at the beginning. The traditional gentry all adhere to the orderly seniority and the Confucianism.Just like the Hongnong Yang family, although the Yang family asked Yang Hui to assist him, Yang Hui's elder brothers and clan brothers, including Yang Ji himself, all switched to Prince Ran Zhi's family.

Now that Yang Ji has accepted the prince's conquest, Yang Ji has become a friend of the king of the East Palace!
This is a position similar to the function of the emperor's casual rider, as one of Ran Zhi's staff!Moreover, most of the children of the traditional noble families Cui, Lu, Wang, and Xue belonged to the prince's family. Now the prince Ran Zhi is full of wings following Wei's series of victories in foreign wars!

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Ran Ming asked someone to host a banquet for Wang Meng, but Wang Meng resolutely declined!Ran Ming saw that Wang Meng's attitude was clear, so he had to ask someone to prepare a few dishes in the study, a plate of braised pig's trotters, a plate of salted soybeans, a plate of Gan fish, and a plate of pickled cucumbers!

Cucumbers were originally foreign varieties brought by the Western Regions, not native products of China!It turns out that cucumbers are also called courgettes.Later Zhao Shile was from Jie people. After Later Zhao gained hegemony in the north, Shi Le felt that he had a humble background, so he listed the word Hu as a taboo.Once, he pointed to a plate of cucumbers and asked Fan Tan, the prefect of Xiangguo County, "What is it?"

Fan Tan knew that Shi Le was testing him. If he was called according to the name of this period, he would be called Hugua.Shi Le will definitely be punished severely!Fortunately, he was quick-witted and said: "Delicacy on the purple table, green tea in a silver cup, nectar in a golden bottle, cucumber on a jade plate"

Ran Ming drank several glasses of wine one after another, but Wang Meng didn't say a word. He was the same as Ran Ming, eating food and drinking wine, and gradually the two of them became drunk!
Ran Ming asked suddenly: "Sir, what happened? I'm so anxious and lonely!"

Wang Meng said with a smile: "Nowadays, there is an undercurrent in our country. Judging from the posture, it should be to kill His Highness in one fell swoop!"

Ran Ming didn't ask who was trying to deal with him.

However, like Wang Meng, he is as clear as a mirror to the enemies within Wei!

Ran Ming said: "So what?"

"There is a saying that it is easy to dodge an open spear, but hard to defend against a hidden arrow!" Wang Meng continued, "I'm afraid it will be difficult for Your Highness to do well this time!"

Wang Meng told the story of the 57 women who appeared in Yecheng and claimed that Ran Ming was cheating for sex and money.

Ran Ming said: "I'm not a stallion, but I want to pour dirty water on Gu? The truth can't be fake, and the fake can't be true. There will always be a day when things come to light!"

Wang Meng said: "Your Highness, don't be careless, although they can't use this strategy to deal with His Highness. However, if such a thing happens, I'm afraid those people who don't know the truth will misunderstand His Highness. It will bring a very serious side effect to His Highness's reputation."

Ran Ming nodded.

Out of anger, he poured down a large glass of distilled wine. This is not the rice wine or rice wine of this era, but the real white wine of later generations.

After taking a gulp of wine, Ran Baibai blushed, "I don't know why sir taught me?"

Facing Ran Ming's question, Wang Meng didn't answer immediately. He picked up four or five salted soybeans with his chopsticks, threw them into his mouth, and took another sip of white wine after a while.

Wang Meng didn't seem to hear Ran Ming's question, he drank all the wine in his glass, leaned back, and fell asleep with his eyes closed!

Faced with Wang Meng's "rude" behavior, Ran Ming was not angry.

He is just Wang Meng, a pragmatic person, on the contrary, he is definitely not the kind of arrogant and unrestrained madman.In parallel history, Wang Meng met Huan Wen during Huan Wen's first Northern Expedition.He caught lice and talked about the world, and became famous from then on.

Of course, Wang Meng is a veteran strategist who plans to make a country.That's why he didn't follow Huan Wen back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to make contributions.It's definitely not that Wang Meng saw Huan Wen's disobedience in "Book of Jin" and was unwilling to bear the infamy of carrying Jin.It's ridiculous to think about it. In order to realize his ambition, Wang Meng actually defected to Fu Jian from Di, and he is definitely not a person who cherishes feathers.

Ran Ming quietly waited for Wang Meng's answer.

(End of this chapter)