Cleaning up the disappointment of missing out with Cheng Yu, Yun didn't stop all the way, hurried eastward, and rushed to the first destination of the road, Qingzhou Gaomi, at the fastest speed. Outside Gaomi County, Yun asked the guards to wait outside the city, and only brought the three of them to visit Zheng Xuan.

Zheng Xuan has a high moral character and is admired by the world, and the Yellow Turban Army even gave up attacking Gaomi because of Zheng Xuan during the Yellow Turban Uprising. It is also because of Zheng Xuan that Gaomi City is very prosperous. When the group walked into Gaomi City, a strong cultural and educational atmosphere came to their faces. There were high-crowned Confucian uniforms everywhere, and even the peddlers' pawns were polite in their words and deeds. Several people were originally riding horses, but they were infected by the atmosphere of the city, and they also took the initiative to get off the horse and walk. Yun said to the left and right, "There are sages in one place, and all places have to be educated, and they all say that the place where Shun lives can form a city, I didn't believe it in the past, but now that I see Zheng Kangcheng's momentum in Gaomi, I know that this is true." Of course, this is also because of the war in the outside world, and people want to rely on Zheng Xuan's reputation for peace.

Zheng Xuan's disciples are thousands, every time he preaches the scriptures, it is huge, it just so happens that when the cloud arrives in the city, he sees people running to tell each other, saying that Master Zheng preaches the scriptures, no matter what he does, he leaves the things in his hand to listen to the lecture, and the cloud walks through a few streets, and it is empty.

Because there were too many people listening to the lecture, the place where Zheng Xuan lectured was placed in the wild, Zheng Xuan sat on a high platform, with thin eyebrows and long eyes, his expression was radiant, his beard was mixed with black and white, and his eyes were chaotic like an abyss, with the demeanor of a grandmaster. There are thousands of people who listen to the scriptures, and it is inevitable that there will be some sounds, and the voices of thousands of people will be put together, so that there is a busy city, but Zheng Xuan suddenly didn't hear it, and directly opened his mouth to preach the scriptures, he didn't see any force, but it was as if he was preaching the scriptures in everyone's ears, everyone could hear them clearly, and it was obviously a good cultivation. As soon as Zheng Xuan opened his mouth to speak, the audience was very quiet, and no one spoke up, listening to Zheng Xuan's lecture attentively.

On the cloud side, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei have been reading since childhood, and they both have good literary literacy, and they listen to it with relish. Dian Wei was born in a poor family, and he didn't know much of a word, let alone the scriptures, and he was drowsy. Yun also had no interest in scriptures, so he simply closed his eyes and rested. In the place where Zheng Xuan preached, even people who were not interested in the scriptures would pay attention to it or pretend to pay attention to it, and the cloud was unique.

Zheng Xuan explained the "Spring and Autumn Period", and there was a contemporary scholar named He Xiu, who wrote the book "Ram Spring and Autumn Interpretation" to express his views on the Spring and Autumn Three Legends. He Xiu thought that only the ram was invulnerable in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Zheng Xuan wrote three articles on his point of view, thinking that the three transmissions had their own advantages and disadvantages, He Xiu sighed with emotion: "Kang Cheng entered my room, my spear, and killed me!" Moreover, the contemporary celebrity, Mr. Xun Shuang, the sixth dragon of the Xun's Eight Dragons, once wanted to annotate the "Spring and Autumn" when he lived in seclusion in Hanbin, but halfway through the writing, he saw Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Spring and Autumn Period, and sighed to himself, giving up the idea of annotating the Spring and Autumn Period. It shows Zheng Xuan's knowledge.

After a scripture lecture, Zheng Xuan had left surrounded by disciples, and the people who listened to the scriptures were still reluctant to leave for a long time.

Yun approached Zhao Yun and told him to inform Zheng Xuan that he wanted to visit.

Not long after Zhao Yun went out, he returned with a young man, who saluted respectfully as soon as he saw Yun.

After talking to him, I learned that this young man was Zheng Xuan's son Zheng Yien. Yun is visiting Zheng Xuan in private, Zheng Xuan is an elder, Yun is a nobleman, Zheng Xuan took the initiative to greet Zheng Xuan, it was a little inappropriate, and he sent his own son, which did not appear to be inflammatory, nor did it appear rude.

Yun seemed to have heard Zheng Yien's name, but he couldn't remember it.

"Has Yi En ever been a leader?" ”

"No, but Yien was lucky to be favored by Kong Beihai, and he was shown to be filial piety in this county. ”

yes, Yun remembered this guy. Yun remembered that there was a big turmoil in the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou in the future, and Kong Rong was besieged, and it was this time that Liu Bei made a lot of political capital, and at the same time, Donglai Tai Shici also came to prominence. When Kong Rong was besieged, Zheng Yien, in order to repay Kong Rong for his kindness, recruited 100 villagers to rescue Kong Rong, but he hung up.

Thinking of this, Yun Youxin warned Zheng Yien a few words, but it was difficult to speak, after all, what he wanted to say was about the future, and he and Zheng Yien had only just met, so he really couldn't say it. It's a pity that this is everyone's life, and let this matter go.

Zheng Xuan and Yun talked indoors, and they talked very happily, and Zheng Xuan also agreed to introduce his disciples to Bingzhou for him, but unfortunately, Zheng Xuan refused the request to teach at Jinyang Academy.

At this time, one of the more famous among Zheng Xuan's students was Cui Lin's brother under Yun, and Cui Yan, the pillar of the family in the future. When Cui Yan and Cui Lin were young, one was slow to speak, the other was not good at learning, and they were both despised by the clan, and only these two valued each other. Cui Yan later studied hard, practiced fencing hard, and is now studying under Zheng Xuanmen. Yun has a letter from Cui Lin here, and it is not difficult to recruit him. In addition, there are also the main strategists of Liu Da'er in the early stage, Sun Qian, Cao Wei, Mingchen Guoyuan and others.

These two people are both talents who can govern the country, but for Yun, they don't care if they defect to themselves or not, Yun doesn't care about what Zheng Xuan promised, and select a group of Zheng Xuan's disciples to join the state as officials. These people are the purpose of Yun's visit to Zheng Xuan, a separatist regime that is interested in the world, only the top talents at the top level will not work, a large number of middle-level talents in the middle are the cornerstone of the regime, and only with a rich reserve of middle-level talents can the stability of the regime be guaranteed. Otherwise, the talents in the late Shu Han period withered, Zhuge Liang was exhausted to death, and then tens of thousands of Wei horses destroyed the Shu State is proof.

There is no shortage of top talents such as Cui Lin, Guo Huai, Jia Kui and other top talents in the Yunzhou Army, but because they started as martial artists, the middle-level talents in the Bingzhou Army are not very rich, so Yuncai is so thirsty.

Zheng Xuan understood what Yun meant, and immediately asked Zheng Yien to gather the disciples over and gather together, these are only the disciples who can be taught by Zheng Xuan himself, and if they are more disciples, there will be more.

After talking to these people for a while, Yun was quite pleased, Cui Yan, Sun Qian, and Guo Yuan were all willing to work for Yun, and there were also twenty other disciples who were willing to defect. Yun Dangxi promised Cui Yan to be engaged in Zhonglang, and Sun Qianguo Yuan and the two were willing to govern the place, so they were temporarily not allowed to serve in the military, and they would not be allowed to serve in the military until they returned to the state in the future, and the rest of the disciples were all Ling Shi or Peng's subordinates. And Zheng Xuan, a disciple of the second generation, also selected hundreds of outstanding people to recommend like Yun.

Qingzhou and his entourage were satisfied, and the recruited talents were divided into fifty soldiers, headed by Dian Wei, to escort these people back to the state. The scholars of the Han Dynasty were both civil and military, but in fact, they didn't need to be escorted, for example, Cui Yan was a great master of fencing, but Yun was worried that hundreds of people would attract too much attention, so he ordered Dian Wei to protect him. and asked Cui Yan to restrain this group of people with the art of war all the way.

Before leaving Qingzhou and going to the next station, Yun instructed Bian Xi, who was accompanying him all the way, and said: "You do two things for me in Qingzhou, first, prepare a generous gift, go to visit Donglai Tai Shici's mother, Tai Shici is now in Liaodong, I want to recruit this person but can't get it, but this person is very filial to his mother, you go to visit Tai Shici's mother, and let her know my desire to seek talent." Second, you used to be the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, I know that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has not yet dissipated, you go to visit the Qingzhou Yellow Turban commanders, befriend them, and try to control some of them, I will be of great use in the future. ”

The first of these two tasks is nothing, but the second is the second, which means to put

Bian Xiyuan was put in Qingzhou. If it was before, Bian Xi would definitely betray, and Yun would definitely not trust Bian Xi. It's just that now Bian Xi has been under Yun for four or five years, and he has quite feelings, and Bian Xi also has a wife and children in Bingzhou, so he doesn't dare to betray.

arranged Qingzhou affairs, Yun Wuxin took care of other things, crossed Yanzhou, such as Yuzhou, and went to Yingchuan.

Yingchuan's scholars are the highlight of Yun's talent seeking plan, because of the particularity of Yingchuan scholars. Yingchuan was located at the turn of Han and Zhao during the Warring States Period, and it was the birthplace of Legalism at that time, and Legalist ideas have been circulating in Yingchuan since then. Yingchuan scholars were also deeply influenced by Legalist thought, and many people's thoughts were pure Legalism or a mixture of Legalism and Confucianism. And there are also many families who refine the law, such as the Yangzhai Guo family, who has been studying "Xiao Du Law" from generation to generation, and Yun's subordinate Xiahou Lan has studied the law in the Guo family. Yingchuan scholars are outside Confucianism and internal law, this is the reason why this group dominated the early stage of the Cao Wei regime, and this is also the reason why Yun is so eager to recruit Yingchuan people.

Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty put forward the idea of great unification, which was known as the outer Confucianism and the inner law. The essence of the idea of great unification is to centralize power, the power of the world is concentrated in the center, and the power of the center is concentrated in the Son of Heaven. Yun also urgently needs to consolidate power in the state, and only by fully grasping the right to merge the state can the cloud expand outward and develop its own power. At the beginning, in order to ascend to the throne as soon as possible, Yun Xiang family showed goodwill, and handed over a large amount of rights to the family in Bingzhou as the price of exchanging the family to assist him. This is powerful in helping the cloud quickly take over and merge states, but it is not conducive to cloud outward expansion.

Yun helplessly found that he was like Liu Biao, who had become a dog guarding the household, with more defense than enough to expand. The reason is that the family controls too much power, and the head of a state has become the spokesman for their interests. The family just has vested interests, you expand outward, they can't reap the benefits of spending a lot of money, and there will even be new competitors, how can they be willing to let you expand. There is no way, Yun was born as a martial artist, and in this era, martial artists can only be attached to scholars. And the only one who can lift the table and not play, and the scholars turn their faces and move the knife, is only the mighty Dong Xiangguo.

Therefore, if Yun wants to fight outside, he must first suppress the merger state faction under his command, but Yun found that almost all the political talents under his command are merge states, and most of the generals are merge states. If you can't suppress it directly, then introduce other forces, and the Yingchuan people who advocate the centralization of Legalism are the targets selected by Yun.