Chapter 224: Zhong Xuan's ability

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As the number one God of Wealth under Liu Yu, Huang Song doesn't know how Liu Yu solved this problem, but as a courtier, he won't ask too much about the Lord. Huang Song is happy to see this kind of thing to reduce pressure for himself.

The problem of financial tension has been continuously alleviated, which has relieved all the subordinates of Zhao Wangfu, who are extremely nervous.

Zhong Xuan arrived in Chang'an with Liu Yu's orders and took over the position of Fu Zhi. Fu Zhu didn't expect Liu Yu to give Zhong Xuan such a big right. Fu Zhu was not very relieved, so he deliberately stayed in Chang'an for a while, ready to observe Zhong Xuan. The importance of Guanzhong makes it impossible for Fu Zhu to do so. After the two communicated for a period of time, he felt that Zhong Xuan was indeed a talented person, and he was relieved to hand over Guanzhong to him.

Liu Yu left Hou Cheng and Hao Meng to Zhong Xuan, and asked Hou Cheng and Hao Meng to obey Zhong Xuan's orders and give Zhong Xuan the greatest rights, which can be said to attach great importance to Zhong Xuan. Many people are very worried that if Zhong Xuan is an ambitious figure, the entire Guanzhong will become Zhong Xuan's private territory. Chen Gong, who guarded the annexation of the state, also sent an envoy to Liu Yu to express his concerns.

Liu Yu understood that Zhong Xuan, who had just joined his camp, would get such a big position and power, which would inevitably cause suspicion and isolation among others. Liu Yu convened a meeting of the people, solemnly expressed his trust in Zhong Xuan to them, and publicly stated that as long as he had talent, anyone could be promoted under his command.

With Liu Yu's support, the complaints of his officials have also been reduced a lot. But now they are all staring at Guanzhong to see if Zhong Miao is really a great talent as Liu Yu said.

Faced with such a situation, Zhong Xuan showed great ability. Guanzhong is dilapidated, the people live very hard, and Guanzhong is close to Xiliang, the people here are fierce, and many people because they can't survive or live unsatisfactory, they begin to fall into the grass or bully the weak. Some squires and wealthy families even bullied men and women, and took advantage of them. The whole Guanzhong became a miasma. In view of this situation, Zhong Miao strengthened the management of public security and implemented a very strict curfew system, as long as anyone was found to be hanging out at night, no matter who they were or what kind of background they had, they would all be taken to prison. After being held for a period of time, they were sent to various places to do hard labor, without any emotion. All of a sudden, the people in Guanzhong became much more honest. Zhong Xuan also arrested several squires with a very bad reputation and beheaded them in public, alleviating the complaints of the people and alerting others. As for the problem of thieves, Zhong Miao asked Hou Cheng and Hao Meng to lead the cavalry to constantly patrol the entire Guanzhong area, and constantly eradicate large and small bandits and grass bandits. After a period of governance, stability was restored throughout Guanzhong, and the people began to live and work in peace and contentment.

Liu Yu affirmed Zhong Xuan's governance ability and issued a public commendation for Zhong Xuan. Other officials who paid attention to Guanzhong also began to recognize Zhong Xuan's ability.

And what surprised Liu Yu the most was that Zhong Yu was able to let Zhang Lu give a lot of grain and grass for free.

Zhong Miao knew that what Liu Yu lacked most at the moment was grain and grass, so he turned his mind to the closed Hanzhong and sent an envoy to talk to Zhang Lu. Zhong Xuan was not such a literati who did not know how to be flexible, and he adopted a softer attitude towards Zhang Lu at the beginning, hoping that Zhang Lu could throw himself into Liu Yu and use high-ranking officials as a lure. Of course, Zhang Lu would not agree and drove Zhong Xuan's envoy out of Hanzhong. If it's soft, Zhong Xuan will be hard. Zhong Xuan ordered Hou Cheng and Hao Meng to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses each, and the soldiers marched to Hanzhong in two ways. Zhang Lu was scared, the reason why he drove Zhong Xuan's envoy out of Hanzhong was because he felt that Zhong Xuan was a weak and bullying literati, and wanted to use his tough attitude to make Zhong Xuan give more benefits. Unexpectedly, Zhong Xuan disagreed, and sent troops to attack without any formal order. Zhang Lu seized Hanzhong, and the terrain was dangerous, but he didn't have too many soldiers and horses on hand. Because Liu Yu occupied Guanzhong and the people were stable, the current Hanzhong did not get too much population, so Zhang Lu's source of troops was very limited. Zhong Miao is bullying Zhang Lubing for less than that.

In the face of the scorching Zhong Xuan, Zhang Lu chose to compromise. Zhang Lu sent an envoy to Chang'an, expressing his loyalty to the imperial court, willing to pay a tribute of 100,000 stones, grain and grass, and hoping that Zhong Xuan could withdraw his troops.

Zhong Miao was embarrassed and said that he couldn't make a decision, and he needed to ask Liu Yu to ask the messenger to go back and wait.

After Zhang Lu got the news, he really started to panic. The armies of Hou Cheng and Hao Meng have already reached Yangping Pass, and they can attack at any time. Zhang Lu sent envoys again and doubled his attack, and if Zhong Xuan still objected, it would be a war.

Zhong Xuan also accepted it when he saw it, and his biggest purpose was to get grain and grass for Liu Yu, and he also accepted Zhang Lu's tribute. Hou Cheng and Hao Meng's army instantly turned into a grain and grass receiving brigade, directly receiving 200,000 stone of grain and grass in front of Yangping Pass.

After this battle, Zhang Lu went crazy to expand the army and build Yangping Pass, he didn't want to have such a tragic encounter again.

Zhong Miao left half of the 200,000 stone grain and grass, and transported the rest of the 100,000 stone grain and grass to Luoyang to Liu Yu.

Looking at the mountains of grain and grass, Liu Yu smiled from ear to ear. And Liu Yu's subordinates are now truly convinced by Zhong Xuan, and the subordinates who can solve the problem for the lord are good subordinates, no wonder Liu Yu believes in Zhong Xuan so much.

Ma Teng and Han Sui are now constantly fighting and making the entire Liangzhou famous, and many people are beginning to escape to Guanzhong. Zhong Xuan was happy to see this situation continue, and ordered the checkpoint near Liangzhou to be open to the people of Liangzhou, and let the displaced people of Liangzhou enter the pass.

As for Ma Teng and Han Sui, Zhong Xuan now felt that there was no need to care about them, and none of them were capable of threatening Guanzhong now.

Due to the heavy casualties of Liu Yu's army last time, the troops were insufficient to continue the external attack. Zhong Xuan selected the best from the people to supplement the army, and after training for a period of time, he replaced the veterans stationed in various places and let the veterans return to the army, which greatly alleviated Liu Yu's dilemma in terms of troops.

Zhong Xuan stabilized Guanzhong, and his reputation spread all over the world. All the princes knew that Liu Yu had a talent who was both civil and military, and they were all jealous of Liu Yu's good luck. At the same time, the princes also began to plot against Liu Yu, Guanzhong has stabilized, and Liu Yu can use troops abroad. Instead of letting Liu Yu take the lead in attacking, it is better to calculate Liu Yu now and let him take care of one and lose the other.

A certain great prince has already begun to carry out a big conspiracy against Liu Yu.