At the beginning of September, Luoyang City.

It has been more than half a month since the autumn harvest secret war in Youzhou ended.

Cai Yong and Li Su's co-signed "Refutation of Disaster and Different Theories" has also been on the market for 20 days.

Of course, it will be listed in Youzhou and Jizhou for 20 days.

Considering the speed of the merchants' logistics, the Sili area near Luoyang, this set of treatises, which is divided into three volumes and a total of more than 10,000 words, has only been on the market for seven or eight days.

In addition, considering the great cause of this series of books in diplomatically deceiving the Hu people and cleaning up the residual poison of Zhang Ju's rebellion, the signature of the Youzhou edition is slightly different from that of the national edition - the Youzhou edition is only signed by Cai Yong, so as to improve the credibility of the Hu people. The national version is the first author of Cai Yong, and Li Su is attached to it.

Moreover, this set of books is sold for a total of 800 yuan per set of three volumes in other parts of the country, but in Youzhou, it is only sold for 200 yuan per set, which is only a quarter of the national edition, which is only twice the price of the new white paper, and the content is almost free of charge.

This is also to allow more poor scholars in Youzhou to help spread theories and build a foundation for public opinion.

Fortunately, Li Su completely entrusted the printing business to the Zhen family, and this time he didn't plan to make money from this kind of book at all, and the profits were mainly made by the Zhen family, so the Zhen family worked very hard to help him control the supply channels and prevent cross-selling.

It not only prevents Youzhou's bargains from flowing into other markets, but also lowers overall profits. It also prevents the national version of the book with Li Su's signature from flowing into Youzhou.

It is believed that with the speed of information dissemination at the end of the Han Dynasty, when Li Su's persuasion task is finally completed, readers in Youzhou may not necessarily know that this set of books should have Li Su's signature. By the time they know next year, it'll be too late.

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Luoyang has always been the best and fastest selling area in the world, even if it has only been on the local market for seven or eight days, "Refutation of Disaster and Strange Theory" has still sold tens of thousands of copies!

Zhang Liang, the chief steward of the Zhen family's business in Luoyang, once again experienced a hot selling book of the year after half a year - the last time he encountered this kind of grand occasion, it was when the engraving and printing books first appeared, and he helped Li Su print "Filial Piety Record" and "Analects" and "Erya".

And this time, the students seem to have been manipulated by the invisible hand again, and most of them did not hesitate to buy a set.

Officials and other scholars in Beijing were also led astray by this trend of the students, and even though they heard that there were many bad reviews for this book, they still insisted on buying it and reading it.

Many people are scolding and buying at the same time, spraying Li Su and Cai Yong dare to question the sages and Confucianism and Hei Dong Zhongshu.

Behind this, Zhang Liang faintly felt: it was Taichangqing Liu Yan again, who spared no effort to push in secret, and gave full play to his ability to bring goods to the "education department", which contributed to this grand occasion.

But Zhang Liang didn't know how Liu Yan did it and why he did it.

Every evening when the store is closed to settle accounts, Zhang Liang will be moved by the sales figures and revenues that have been refreshed again:

"It's only been eight days, and this set of books has accumulated 10 million dollars in sales. Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Dew", engraved in June, has not sold so much. ”

Of course, comparing Cai Yong/Li Su with Dong Zhongshu is also a bit of a bully to Dong Zhongshu. Because the local readers in Luoyang City, most of them already have manuscripts for basic books such as "Analects", "Spring and Autumn", and "Spring and Autumn Dew", and there is no need to buy them again when they are printed.

But in any case, the books written by people alive today are at least not as popular as Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Dew", and Li Su is the first.

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Zhang Liang, as a bookseller, was puzzled by "why a big man like Liu Yan did his best to help Li Su so righteously".

In Taichangqing's mansion, Liu Yan himself was also in full swing for the things explained by "Brother Bo'an".

Liu Yan is now the second most powerful person in the Han family, how could he contribute for Li Su's face? Of course, the only one who can summon him is Liu Yu.

A few days ago, Liu Yu's urgent secret letter to him was delivered, and the letter also said that at most seven or eight days after the letter arrived in Beijing, Liu Yu's report to the emperor would also arrive.

During this period of time, Liu Yu needed Liu Yan to help him build momentum in the capital, so that when the piece arrived in the emperor's hands, the emperor could be mentally prepared and know how to interpret the piece, so as to agree to some of the requests in the piece.

Of course, Liu Yu didn't let Liu Yanbai help, he asked the secret envoy to bring Liu Yan a heavy gift with the letter - a heavy gift worth tens of millions of dollars! As Liu Yan's funds to help activities.

This property is too huge, so it was not transported from Youzhou, but was withdrawn from Liu Yu himself in Beppu in Luoyang with tokens - Liu Yu has been a great ruler for many years, and his mansion in Luoyang has always been kept, and his family has taken care of it, and he has hidden a large amount of money so that he can make friends with the powerful at any time to operate and take care of it, just like the Beijing Office.

"Bo'an has grasped my original intention of 'abolishing Shi Limu', alas, in order to release him as soon as possible, I have to help him mediate to the end."

After listening to the report of his subordinates, Liu Yan knew that the work of warming up for "Refuting Disasters and Different Theories" in the past few days had been almost completed, so he sighed in his heart and decided to enter the palace tomorrow as planned.

Why did he have to help Liu Yu? It's very simple, because Liu Yu is the first and only state pastor released so far after Liu Yan suggested abolishing Shi Limu, which is equivalent to a "pilot state pastor".

If Liu Yu's political achievements are not obvious and the counterinsurgency efficiency is not improved, how can Liu Yan prove the superiority of the state pastoral system? How could he ask the emperor to release him as a pastor of Yizhou without suspicion?

In order to transfer himself from Taichangqing to Yizhou Mu as soon as possible, he must let the emperor see that Liu Yu is doing a good job and the state pastor pilot is curative!

On this issue, Liu Yan and Liu Yu have common interests for the time being. So even if he sticks up his own money, he has to be enthusiastic to help, and helping Liu Yu is helping himself.

However, this solidarity will not last long.

As long as Liu Yan gets the appointment of Yizhou Mu, his apparent brother with Liu Yu will be over.

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Early the next morning, Liu Yan went out of the city to face the saint.

This is not the day of the court meeting, so if you want to see the emperor, you have to go to Bi Guiyuan, and Bi Guiyuan is not in Luoyang City, but in the countryside more than ten miles outside the city.

In order to ensure that he could see the emperor this time, and also to ensure that the emperor was in a good mood before the meeting, Liu Yan first spent hundreds of thousands of small dollars to make a little bit of the staff on duty in the ten permanent attendants.

"The minister is often Liu Yan, knock to see Your Majesty, and congratulate Your Majesty."

In a pavilion in the middle of the lake surrounded by cranes and koi carp, Liu Yan saw the emperor Liu Hong and immediately saluted, and the details did not need to be mentioned.

No one here knows that in another 20 months, these koi fish raised in Bi Guiyuan will be used by Dong Zhuo to cook soup, and the cranes will be barbecued.

"It's Junlang, what's the interesting thing lately?" Liu Hong was also heartless enough, and when he met the minister who came to Bi Guiyuan to ask for a meeting, he still thought it was a matter of fun to find him.

Liu Yan took a deep breath, and said in a wrong but emotional voice: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is here to congratulate Your Majesty." The ministers have been serving for several years, and they are often afraid that culture and education will not prosper, and their political achievements are not as good as those of their predecessors.

Fortunately, God blessed the Han Dynasty, and in this eventful autumn, there was a great Confucian work "Refuting Disasters and Different Theories", which strongly reprimanded Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Dew" that did not conform to the ancient meaning of the Spring and Autumn Period. At the same time, he vigorously refuted Zhang's rebellious remarks about framing the imperial court with disasters in recent years, which made the northern Xinjiang boiling and restored. As a minister, he is too constant, and he feels deeply honored. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Liu Hong was still a little confused, because the amount of information was too large, and he didn't know how to react for a while.

Liu Hong is not interested in books and scriptures at all, no matter how good Liu Yan blows out the knowledge of a book, Liu Hong should doze off or doze off.

Those rotten Confucianism have a good fart!

However, Liu Yan's rhetoric was very artistic, and he finally mentioned that "this volume of doctrine actually curbed the spread of the anti-thief offensive", which really captured the emperor's curiosity.

How can such a thing be possible in the world?

That's a thief who kills people without blinking, and he uses his tongue and knowledge to be a fart!

Liu Hong said curiously: "Please Jun Lang for me to be concise, who wrote this book, and why does it work?" ”

Liu Yan hurriedly used Xiaobai's tone to be as easy to understand as possible. Try not to use any academic jargon, and strive to describe it in vulgar language that can be understood by illiterate Hu chieftains, and I believe that the emperor should be able to understand it. (The lines were provided by Liu Yu in a secret letter to him, and Liu Yan had already burned them after reading them)

In a word, it's like a UC shock editor talking about "superstitious supernatural stories and vulnerabilities revealed".

I have to say that Liu Yan's expression is very successful, Liu Hong just doesn't want to die reading, but he still likes to listen to the story of "Superstition Revealed".

Soon, Liu Hong really realized that cutting off the causal relationship between the catastrophe from heaven and the immorality of the imperial court is really cost-effective for the Han Dynasty, which is now a catastrophe every year!

Since this "Refutation of Disaster and Alien Theory" can barely make up the truth, why not reuse it!

"Jun Lang, you haven't said which sage wrote this article? Also, you just said that this article has made the rebels in northern Xinjiang converge, what is the specific performance? Liu Hong was pleasantly surprised.

After all, as an emperor, how can he not want his country to sit for a few more years, he is just lazy, not stupid, and he can still distinguish between good and bad.

Liu Yan: "This book was written by Cai Yong, who has been in the opposition for ten years, and his disciple in recent years, Li Su, who is not in Youzhou, in order to break the moral attack on the court by all kinds of thieves.

As for the specific manifestation of the thief's shame and retreat because of this...... As far as the minister knows, when Zhang Ju just announced that the puppet emperor was rebelling in July, the rebels once invaded the border of Yuyang County, and it is said that the number of thieves in Youzhou also skyrocketed.

But after the appearance of this article, the number of thieves has been contained, and the rebels have been re-repulsed and shrunk to the right of Beiping. Many of the border people in western Liaoning have also been re-attached, and I heard that the people who had been bewitched into thieves before had many uprisings in the area where Zhang Wei was entrenched, and they were willing to flee back to Yuyang, which was controlled by the imperial court.

The ministers are just too often, and the side affairs are not very clear, but this time I just saw that "Refuting the Disaster and Different Theories" played such a major role in the counterinsurgency of the imperial court, and I was happy to report it. Regarding the thief, if Your Majesty wants to know more about it, you can ask Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou. ”

In Liu Yan's remarks, several concepts and causal relationships were secretly changed, but Liu Hong couldn't hear them.

For example, the people of western Liaoning fled back to Yuyang County in large numbers with food reserves such as "milling", of course, not because they understood the truth of "Refutation of Disasters and Differences", but because they fell for Li Su's desperate grain plan and preemptively harvested the unripe wheat to make it milled, so they were afraid of being retaliated and slaughtered by the rebels.

However, since these two credits are both done by Li Su, don't distinguish them too clearly.

It's like Li Su is a doctor, he gave the emperor two pills, the emperor took them, and his illness improved, at this time, he had to distinguish which medicine was the main curative effect, why bother.

Just when Liu Hong was overjoyed, Guo Sheng, the tenth permanent attendant on duty today, took the opportunity to report: "Your Majesty, this morning Youzhou Mu Liu Yu has reported the success and sent the virtuous medal, Your Majesty can take the time to take a look?" ”

"Oh, Uncle Bo'an's recital has also arrived? That's really a coincidence, I'm in a good mood today, you miss it. Liu Hong pushed the boat down the river and agreed.

If it was an ordinary time, of course he wouldn't watch whatever the ten permanent servants gave him, so he wouldn't be tired to death? 98% of the recitals do not reach the emperor at all.

This piece of music has arrived, and the timing is so ingenious, it obviously took a cost.

The beneficiary additionally gave Guo Sheng a gift worth two million for the act and timing of the presentation.

Guo Sheng can also be regarded as taking money to do things, and he read it very vigorously, and the content is mainly to report success.

Roughly speaking, it is the stage of the Youzhou front against the rebels, and the benefits are good, and a lot of grain and grass in the rebel occupied areas have been robbed, so that the rebels continue to shrink.

On the other hand, the rebel Zhang Chunbu, who had been stranded in Shanggu County, stayed in Shanggu County and did not leave, because he wanted to snatch the autumn harvest of Shanggu County to survive the winter.

But now the imperial court officials and troops have also destroyed a small half of the rebel autumn harvest in Shanggu County - mainly Zou Jing, the captain of the thief, with the cavalry under the command of the commander Liu Bei, led by Zhao Yun, went out of Badaling to ravage Shanggu and grab grain, replicating the victory on the side of Youbeiping.

Zhang Chun saw that there was no more oil and water in Shanggu, and he was afraid that the official army would free up their hands to encircle and suppress him with all their might after the Western Front held each other, so he escaped from the Outer Great Wall from Zhangjiakou and moved east on the prairie to meet Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju.

In this way, it can be regarded as recovering Ueya County and half of Dai County.

Originally, the main forces of the two major rebel armies along the Yanshan line, one east and one west, completely abandoned the base area and defected to the east, which can be regarded as a small half of the progress of the counterinsurgency.

At the same time, the people of Shanggu, who were abandoned by the rebels after scraping off the oil, water and winter grain, could be regarded as "being inspired by the imperial court to rejoin the Han".

In any case, this is also a great achievement on the books.

"Okay, let Bo'an be the pastor of Youzhou, it is really my wise decision, the original scale of the thief's rebellion, if there is no Bo'an such a means of appeasement, I am afraid it will be delayed for a long time, now it seems that there is hope for the thief to be eliminated within the year. Then Cai Yong and Li Su should indeed be rewarded, Cai Yong was a councilor before he was deposed, and it was time to recruit him back to the court. ”

After Liu Hong listened, he expressed his position in person and praised him again and again.

Liu Yan was afraid of the big thing, so he hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty! Since it is necessary to rely on Cai Yong's fame to inspire the Hu people, it is not appropriate to summon Cai Yong back to the dynasty before the thieves are completely pacified! Otherwise, I'm afraid that Chief Hu will suspect that Cai Yong's writing has ulterior motives! ”

Liu Hong was right when he thought about it: "Then let's take note of it for the time being, and wait for the Youzhou Rebellion to completely subside before slowly conferring an official on Cai Yong - by the way, in Bo'an's recital, can you say that Li Su will be rewarded?" ”

Guo Sheng replied cautiously: "Liu Yu wants to use this merit to make Li Su Maocai, but Youzhou has already promoted Maocai this year, and it was Tao Qian who grabbed it before he left office. ”

Liu Hong waved his hand: "It's okay, Bo'an has always been a person who can do things, and I haven't given him a special decree once or twice." This time, I also purposed to make an exception for Li Su. ”

Liu Hong knew that Liu Yu would secretly double up.