Cai Yan helped Shen Xian sort out and improve her strange talent selection system, and brought it up during the afternoon discussion.

Shen Xian was actually very nervous when she spoke, but she put on a casual look on her face, as if the idea of running a academy was just a flash of inspiration for her and then she thought it was good, so she played with it casually, and didn't dare to reveal that it was actually planned for a long time just to suppress the family's too inflated power.

After Shen Xian finished speaking, Gan Ning and Zhang Xiu couldn't understand, Jia Xu didn't say anything, Guo Jia glanced at Shen Xian quickly and then looked away, only Xun You and Xun Yu kept their heads down and thought seriously.

After thinking carefully for a long time, Xun Yu nodded slowly: "Special period...... I think this law can be implemented. ”

"It just so happens that the children in the family are at the age when they should study, and it is their honor to listen to Mr. Cai's teachings." Xun You smiled and said, "Thank you so much." ”

Shen Xian smiled and said, "I just want to cultivate a few more talents, don't you always feel that there are not enough people?" ”

"Cultivating talents is a long-term plan, but far water can't quench the thirst of the near." Xun Yu thought for a while and looked at Shen Xian inquiringly: "Lord, I can recommend a few people to you, although they are not very old, they are all famous for their ability and political integrity. ”

"Okay." Shen Xian blinked: "We are short of manpower here, if you have a suitable candidate, just say it." ”

"I'm going to write to them first, asking for their opinions." Xun Yu seemed to be relieved, this small action was not captured by Shen Xian, only Guo Jia, who was leaning next to him, glanced at him quietly: "Then let's do specific communication." ”

Shen Xian completely put the initiative in the hands of Xun Yu: "Wen Ruo, you just decide." ”

Wen's matter was solved, Shen Xian thought about it, and felt that the matter of martial arts was also brought forward today, so she said that she wanted to open a martial arts gym.

This time, Gan Ning and Zhang Xiu were instantly energetic, and the two expressed great interest. After all, there are many institutions that teach culture, such as Taixue in the central government, county schools in the localities, etc., and even those families who have opened some places similar to academies and private schools in order to let the children in their families receive a good education, and invite famous and talented people from their families or localities to teach here.

But martial arts is not necessarily, there are very few people who simply learn martial arts, and most of the rich and powerful people in the family go to Taixue to study, and finally become officials, and the children of the common people will go to military service. There is no future or opportunity to train as a soldier, especially in peacetime, and even promotion is difficult. Although the world is chaotic now, joining the army is good for earning military merits, but this is an act of gambling with one's life for the future, and only after experiencing danger again and again, and surviving safely after thousands of tempers, can it finally get ahead, which is much more difficult than studying literature.

Of course, there are also disciples of the family who don't like to learn literature and learn martial arts, but the people are powerful and have good conditions, martial arts from elementary school, there is a good teacher to teach, and there is a great possibility of becoming a talent, even if they enter the army in the future www.biquge.info they are much higher than others, and they have no reference value at all.

Most of the people who came up from the conscription were just ordinary people, and sometimes they were pulled to the battlefield after hasty training, and the outcome of such people on the battlefield can be imagined, and many people can die in a war. Shen Xian doesn't know what about other states and counties, but she really can't afford to consume so many troops, the population of Yizhou is almost 5 million, leaving aside the ethnic minorities in remote areas that Shen Xian can't control for the time being, there are more than 3 million people left, with the current economic level of Yizhou, if you want the people to develop agriculture and commerce well, and gradually live a stable and prosperous life, they still have the ability to support the army, and the strength of the entire territory of Yizhou cannot exceed 200,000 at most, and there will be a large amount of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the people. It has become very difficult for them to even survive.

Each of these 200,000 people is precious, and Shen Xian doesn't want to drag any of them out to make senseless sacrifices, so she has to find a way to make these 200,000 people have the best chance of surviving on the battlefield, opening a martial arts hall to teach those who want to join the army is one of the options, and those who have already joined the army must strengthen their training and prepare for future wars.

"Let's not talk about the opening of the martial arts hall, as soon as the lord mentions it, I think about it, we should indeed recruit soldiers." Gan Ning and Zhang Xiu glanced at each other, and when they saw the latter nodding, he said: "Now there are about 80,000 troops in the entire Yizhou, of which nearly 20,000 are guarding the Hanzhong Defense Division and Jingzhou, 10,000 are guarding Kuimen, 10,000 are guarding Yangping, 20,000 are scattered in other checkpoints, and the remaining 20,000 are in the hands of me and Weiyou, which are not far from Chengdu, that is to say, the only people we can flexibly mobilize are 20,000. ”

The current world is completely different from the previous coalition army to conquer Dong Zhuo or Liu Yan sent troops to Chang'an, at that time the world was all against Dong Zhuo, although there were disagreements between the powerful and powerful, but they would not start fighting for a while, so unless it was necessary for the defenders of the checkpoint, the rest of the people were all confidently and boldly transferred to Hanzhong by Liu Yan.

However, if there was a war now, Shen Xian would never dare to mobilize the 60,000 border troops at will. Not to mention that forces like Lu Bu of Sili and Liu Biao of Jingzhou who did not deal with them in Yizhou were very likely to stab Shen Xian in the back when he fought fiercely with others, even Ma Teng of Xiliang, a former ally Shen Xian, could not fully trust him.

"Conscription......" Shen Xian said as she looked at Xun Yu.

"Conscription can be conscripted," Xun Yu thought for a while and said: "But because of the previous civil strife in Guanzhong and the just pacified, there were a total of two years, and the consumption of Yizhou was a bit much, so we can't fight outside for at least one year." ”

"Can't fight......" Shen Xian was not very happy, she wanted to kill Liu Biao, the person who secretly made her bad. There is a saying that the side of the couch is not allowed to snore, if Liu Biao is 108,000 miles away from Shen Xian, it will be forgotten, but Jingzhou and Yizhou are close together, there is not even a buffer zone of war, everyone is aggrieved by each other in the fight, either you rush into my house or I break into your house, the loss is huge and foreseeable by the naked eye.

So in Shen Xian's thoughts, the sooner Jingzhou was taken, the better, so that she could resist Xiangyang and choke the southward passage of the northerners, and then slowly encroach on the area south of the Yangtze River, gradually expanding her territory. If there is more land, there will be more people, and if the economy develops well, there will naturally be more soldiers and horses.

But now Xun Yu said that there could be no war within a year...... In this era of rapid change, the shape of a year ago and a year later has changed a lot, and when Liu Biao has completely gained a foothold in Jingzhou, it will be difficult for Shen Xian to send troops again. Not to mention, what if there are other forces in the north who want to take advantage of the opportunity to attack Jingzhou? When the time comes, Hu will be robbed, and he will be really stuffed.

If you can't fight, you can't fight, and if you continue to fight, you will be reckless, Shen Xian is not Gongsun Zhan, she can't do anything to oppress the people and expand everywhere. The so-called outside must first be settled inside...... Let's put all the bad things in Yizhou out first.

"Okay, let's recruit soldiers first, and then let's talk about the war for a while." Shen Xian nodded, and then she changed her words: "Just because we can't fight doesn't mean we have to sit and wait like this, right?" ”

"Let's open the academy and martial arts hall that the lord said first." Xun You pondered for a moment and said: "As for the rest, it is nothing more than stockpiling grain, repairing the city, and saving money...... Make some trouble for the people around you. ”

As soon as he heard that he was looking for trouble, Guo Jia, who was wilting, suddenly became energetic, and he raised his hand: "It is said that Xiliang has not been peaceful recently. ”

"Han Wenyue recently had a lot of correspondence with Guo Yaduo, who had already surrendered to the imperial court, and also sent a lot of gifts to each other, and then the imperial court promoted Han Wenyue to a knighthood within two days. Lu Fengxian was very dissatisfied with this, and Ma Shoucheng estimated that he was not feeling well. Cai Yan blinked: "Although even if we don't care, this fire will still burn, but wouldn't it be better to add some firewood to make it burn more vigorously?" ”

Xiliang and Si Li were in a mess, Shen Xian had at least two less big threats, and she only needed to concentrate on dealing with Liu Biao, which was also in line with Shen Xian's thoughts.

As for how to do it......

"The lord can give a letter to the court." Jia Xu raised his eyelids and said lightly: "Cousin Ma Shou became a Liangzhou pastor." ”

Since Dong Zhuo's death, the position of Liangzhou pastor has not been held, it is estimated that Ma Teng and Han Sui both want to let themselves occupy the majority of Liangzhou, but since they have already married and the brotherhood is there, it is not good to tear up the skin for the position of a state pastor on the surface, but it is still possible to operate secretly.

So Han Sui caught up with Guo Yan, who is also from Liangzhou and now has a lot of power in Chang'an City; In order to get more support in the confrontation with Lu Bu, Guo Yan also gladly accepted the olive branch handed by Han Sui, and the two hit it off.

Guo Yan and Han Sui hooked up, Lu Bu and Ma Teng were naturally very unhappy, especially Ma Teng, he watched Han Sui, who was originally of the same grade as him, be promoted all the way, and after being promoted, he didn't know how to bring his brother along, and the sour feeling was probably only understood by himself.

If Shen Xian intervened at this time to ask for an official for Ma Teng, according to the friendship they formed when they fought Chang'an, Ma Teng would not suspect that Shen Xian was here to muddy the waters, he would only think that Shen Xian was really interesting, and he didn't forget to seek some benefits for his allies when he became the pastor of Yizhou, compared to some people.

After understanding what Jia Xu meant, Shen Xian admired this skill of provoking other people's relationships with her immovable expression, thinking that Jia Xu alone could mix the mud in the muddy waters of Chang'an City, and finally retreat cleanly, probably relying on this ability.

Solve Xiliang and Si Li, and then take a look at the damn Liu Biao. Shen Xian was still thinking about how to add some blockage to Liu Biao, but Guo Jia said with a smile: "The lord of Jingzhou doesn't have to worry, Liu Jingsheng won't trouble us again in a short time." ”

"Why?" The words "crow's mouth" suddenly flashed in Shen Xian's heart.

"Liu Jingsheng is a serious person, this time he provoked our relationship with Liu Jiyu, this qiē was carried out in secret, we can't even touch the evidence on the surface, we can only guess his behavior based on the analysis of other clues." Guo Jia said as he glanced at Gan Ning.

Gan Ning was depressed when he mentioned this, Jud and Jia Long committed suicide in prison while he was not paying attention, and he couldn't pry open the mouths of these two people until he died, proving that they had a private relationship with Liu Biao. Of course, this is not that Gan Ning is incompetent, but that Jia Long and Jia De are too tough, coercing and luring the torture in turn, and these two people are as silent as gourds without mouths. Shen Xian hadn't found out that Jia Long and Jia De were this kind of people before, and she could only sigh deeply that she couldn't use them for herself, which was really a pity.

Guo Jia continued: "Since Liu Jingsheng didn't leave us any evidence, it shows that he doesn't want to turn his face with us for the time being, otherwise he doesn't need to hide it. ”

Liu Biao didn't just need to deal with Shen Xian alone, you must know that since he formed an alliance with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu seemed to recognize Liu Biao and beat him to death. In the past, there was a Jiangdong tiger Sun Jian who beat him all the way to the door of the house, and then finally Sun Jian died, Yuan Shu saw that he could not eliminate Liu Biao in a short period of time, and in line with the behavior that even if he couldn't kill Liu Biao, he couldn't make him feel better, and sent people to harass him for three days, regardless of the cold or heat. It's not a large-scale attack, it's just that after the two sides encountered, Yuan Shu's men turned around and ran, and Liu Biao's men chased after him, until they couldn't see it or were close to the opponent's territory.

Although this kind of harassment has not caused any real damage, it is very annoying and disgusting! Every time he was harassed, Liu Biao's subordinates had to attack, because who knows if Yuan Shu was joking or real this time? What if the army rumbles over and invades?

It is precisely because of this uncertainty that Liu Biao's head is big.

Therefore, Guo Jia meant that Shen Xian only had to inform Zhang Lu to order troops and horses in Fanglingtun to prevent Liu Biao from invading from Hanshui, and then let the defenders of Kuimen strengthen their vigilance and hold the two passages from Jingzhou to Yizhou. In the stage of cultivation and recuperation, as long as Liu Biao does not take the initiative to invade Yizhou, Shen Xian must not make the first move, it is very important for the teacher to be famous, and once Liu Biao crosses the border, Shen Xian will directly copy the guy and do him, and use this as a reason to invade Jingzhou openly.

After Guo Jia finished speaking, Shen Xian felt that it was very reasonable, and it was also a lot more pleasing to the eye when she looked at Guo Jia, the reason was very simple, everyone including Cai Yan opposed Shen Xian's attack on Jingzhou first, and only Guo Jia supported Shen Xian's idea.

Shen Xian, who was coaxed by Guo Jia to rub her joy in her heart, did not turn the corner - according to Guo Jia's statement, Shen Xian could not send troops first, because she had to "be famous in the division", for example, your soldiers stole our soldiers' chickens, or you crossed the line and stepped on our food, etc., no matter how much you want, as long as you pretend to be upright. However, Liu Biao has been harassed by Sun Jian and Yuan Shu for so long, and he must also cultivate and recuperate, so that he will not be stupid to provoke Shen Xian first. So who knew that Shen Xian would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey to fight Jingzhou.

Of course, before Shen Xian's own epiphany, no one would tell her "You were fooled by Guo Jia". The others wished that Shen Xian would not always bite Jingzhou, and Sun Ce, who was on the same front as Shen Xian, would ...... It is estimated that Zhou Yu will be dizzy.

Brother, you can do it. For the first time, Xun You silently made a gesture of admiration to Guo Jia behind his back.

Fooling the lord, you can't persuade from the front, you have to take a detour from the side, it's best to go back to the point where she can't see what your original purpose is, make a few more detours, even if she suddenly realizes it in the future, it has been a long time since then.

Guo Jia blinked triumphantly.

After solving the security problems of the surrounding territories, the next step is the people's livelihood problems, such as storing food and making money.

"There is so much land that no one has cultivated, find more people to reclaim it," Shen Xian thought for a while, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Otherwise...... Drive the army over to farm? Anyway, there is no war to fight now, and the army is idle, let them train in the morning and farm in the afternoon, or allocate the specific time to arrange it yourself, I can exempt the military cantonment from tax rent for the first three years, as long as they can be self-sufficient. ”

"That's a good idea." Cai Yan said with a smile: "It can not only solve the food problem of the army, but also reduce the burden on the people." ”

"Then should the tax rents of ordinary people be adjusted?" Xun Yu raised a question: "For example, Chengdu has been oppressed by officials for many years, and the people have to pay more than three times the prescribed taxes, and the families are barely fed and have little leftover. This is only the case in Chengdu, and I believe that this will happen in other regions. ”

Xun You frowned: "It's okay to reduce taxes, but we have to arrest and rectify those corrupt officials who abuse their private power and bend the law for bribes, otherwise even if the taxes are completely exempted, the people still won't get more food." ”

"That's nature." Thinking of a county magistrate who actually collected three times the tax rent privately, Shen Xian hated the root of her teeth, and she sneered: "How much you eat, double it for me and spit it out." ”

So for a whole afternoon, Shen Xian simply formulated the future development direction of Yizhou: first cultivate students to recuperate and make a fortune, and at the same time use diplomatic means and stratagems to sow discord between those around them and the people around them to ensure their own safety.

After assigning the task to the individual responsibility, Shen Xian announced the adjournment of the meeting. Before leaving, Xun You stopped Shen Xian, saying that he had something to talk about alone. looked at Cai Yan, who left directly without realizing it, and then looked at Xun Yu, who patted Xun You on the shoulder with an encouraging face, Shen Xian instantly understood what Xun You wanted to talk to her.

So Shen Xian dragged Xun You to the room with excitement on her face, and the festive energy seemed to be that she was about to get married, not Xun You. Walking into the study, Shen Xian found that Guo Jia, who was supposed to leave, was bending over to find something by the table, she immediately sank her face, and stepped forward to pull Guo Jia up: "Guo Fengxiao, what are you doing!" ”

"Lord, why are you back again!" Guo Jia jumped back two steps, but still couldn't escape Shen Xian's claws, he was caught, he blinked innocently while hiding his hand behind his sleeve: "I didn't do anything~"

Shen Xian smiled, and suddenly pulled out the wine jar that Guo Jia was hiding in his sleeve. Holding it in the palm of her hand and looking around, Shen Xian said angrily: "Why is the wine I put in the bedroom here for you!" ”

Guo Jia tried in vain to deny: "My lord, how do you know that this is your wine?" Maybe Akihime hid it? ”

"Because I numbered and numbered the wine!" Shen Xian raised the wine jar above her head and motioned to Guo Jia to look at the number "three" engraved on the ground of the jar: "Each jar has a number!" Just to prevent you from secretly drinking and not admitting it! ”

Belch...... Guo Jia stared at the numbers blankly, completely unexpectedly that Shen Xian would come up with such a shameless method.

Xun You stared at Shen Xian and Guo Jia expressionlessly and had a heated discussion on "where did this jar of wine come from", and he suddenly felt ...... It's a bit redundant on its own.

That's not quite the right pace, is it? Xun Yu thought sensitively, is this my delusion? No way?

Because of the lesson to the greedy Guo Jia and the insistence on asking how Guo Jia got the apricot blossom wine that he put on the bedroom table, Shen Xian tossed for a long time before suddenly remembering that there was a Xun You in the house, she smiled at Xun You awkwardly, and stuffed the wine jar back into Guo Jia's arms: "Gongda, I'm sorry, sit." ”

Xun You was the background board for a long time, and almost planned to turn around and leave directly, but thinking that Cai Yan was still living in the State Pastoral Mansion, he gritted his teeth and stayed, and after watching Shen Xian and Guo Jia bored but seemed to be full of some strange atmosphere, it was finally time for the lord to take care of himself.

Xun You got straight to the point and said: "Please help me keep a matchmaker." ”

"It's easy to say, it's been a long time since you spoke." Shen Xian's face showed that festive energy again: "Choose an auspicious day, I'll go with you!" ”

"Hey, wait," Shen Xian suddenly remembered something, and she asked Xun You very strictly, "You...... Did you chase Sister Akihime? ”

Xun You's face was full of question marks: "Lord, what is 'chasing'?" ”

"Uh......" Shen Xian, who had never been in love, couldn't explain this complicated issue for a while, she racked her brains and thought about it, and replied with an awkward face: "It's probably just shopping together, drinking, eating something and then going around, right?" Dating, dating, you know? ”

Xun You's face was expressionless: "I don't understand." ”

You said that the root has nothing to do with dating, okay!

Shen Xian glared at Xun You with a look of hatred: "How can you not understand, you wood!" Oh my God, you must have saved the world in your last life, and in this life, there will be a girl as good as Sister Akihime to marry you! ”

"Poof......" Guo Jia couldn't hold back, and slammed his chin on the wine jar to look at the bitter Xun You.

"I don't care, it's a matter of attitude! Don't be sloppy! Shen Xian stood up and circled around the room with her hands behind her back: "Do you know Gongda, this directly determines the status of Sister Zhaoji in your family in the future...... Hum! Anyway, I'm still very dissatisfied with that Wei Zhongdao and his mother! ”

Guo Jia tugged at the corner of Shen Xian's clothes and said tactfully: "Lord, you can't talk about others behind your back. ”

"Anyway, why don't you have to take Sister Akihime out for a while?" Shen Xian hugged her arms and looked at Xun You condescendingly: "It's so decided, it's just tomorrow that you will be off, you take her to the city, outside the city, to walk around, and enhance your relationship." I'll ask her out tomorrow, and then we'll pretend to meet by chance in the city, which shows that there is a fate between you! ”

Shen Xian began to plan for tomorrow, Xun You stared at her with the eyes of the mentally ill for a while, and suddenly realized that Shen Xian was here for real and not joking.

So Xun You began to panic - Lord, do you really want to match the two of us instead of breaking us up?

Shen Xian clapped her hands and looked interested: "...... Just do it, hear it out! Be sure to make Sister Akihime feel romantic and think that you are a person who can be trusted for life! ”

The dazed Xun You asked a fish-lip question: "...... Lord, what is romance? ”

"What do you call romance, that's not the point!" Shen Xian sighed helplessly: "You won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law like this, Gongda." ”

I think you would have married me a long time ago if you didn't get involved, Xun You thought depressedly.

"Then I'll go first, you remember to come tomorrow morning! Don't be late! Shen Xian said seriously: "Being late will leave a bad impression on the woman!" ”

Xun You nodded blankly: "Oh." ”

"I'm in a good mood today, this wine is yours, don't drink it all at once." Shen Xian told Guo Jia a few words, and in the background sound of Guo Jia obediently saying "Okay, good", Shen Xian left.

Guo Jia looked at Xun Yu with a sluggish face, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of him: "Gongda? ”

Xun You, who suddenly came back to his senses, pulled away Guo Jia's hand and asked, "Where is the lord?" ”

"Let's go." Guo Jia spread out his palms.

"Then she just ...... What did they say? ”

Xun You was horrified to find that he only remembered the "encounter of fate", as for the rest of the messy things that Shen Xian taught him, Xun You didn't listen to a word, he was all thinking nonsense, including where he was going to go tomorrow for that ghost encounter.

"Being late will leave a bad impression on the woman!"

Shen Xian's words before leaving echoed in Xun You's mind like a nightmare.

"But I remember what my lord said."

Guo Jia's voice dispelled Xun You's nightmare like a heavenly sound. Xun You looked at Guo Jia expectantly, only to see Guo Jia squinting his eyes and smiling like a fox with bad intentions: "You bring me with you tomorrow, won't you?" ”