Because he brought the Son of Heaven and many ministers in the imperial court, the speed of the army's return was not fast, and it was more than twice as slow as the daily march of more than 100 miles when the army was dispatched. When the army passed through Tongguan and had not yet reached Chang'an, news had already come from Guandong that Sun Jian had defeated Yuan Shao's general Zhou Ang in Yuzhou.

Hearing the news, Chen Cheng couldn't help but sigh: "In today's world, in terms of the ability to lead troops to fight, it is probably only Huangfu Song and Cao Cao who can compete with Sun Wentai!" ”

Dong Zhao's talent is outstanding, and more importantly, he has an appetite for Chen Cheng when he speaks and acts, so he quickly gained his trust and became one of the decision-makers of the Xiliang Army. At this time, he heard Chen Cheng's emotion on the side, and said with a smile: "Although Yuan Shao is ambitious and talented, his ally Cao Cao is a hero in the world. But if you talk about the ability to lead troops to fight, Ming Gong is not under Cao Mengde. Why should you grow the morale of others so long and destroy your own prestige? Now Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao's brothers are opposed, Yuan Shu has Sun Jian under his command, and Cao Cao under Yuan Shao, we just have to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! ”

Chen Cheng smiled and didn't say anything else.

When the army returned to Chang'an, many things were pressed together. After Yan Zhong came to Chang'an with officials from three provinces and six ministries, he quickly took over all the rights in Guanzhong. This practice naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the heroes and scholars in Guanzhong, but Lu Bu had already cleaned Guanzhong before, and those hard bones had been slaughtered, and the remaining people could only create some public opinion.

Yan Zhong is uninhibited, but the government is extremely harsh, in the period when Chen Cheng led the army east out of Tongguan, Yan Bodao has exiled more than a dozen scholars to the Western Regions. This high-pressure approach to governance has provoked more opposition. It's just that Zhao Yun and Yang Qiu, who have the power of the army, are on Yan Zhong's side, so the scholars and heroes in Guanzhong can only endure it temporarily, and when Chen Cheng has returned to Chang'an, the previous contradictions will immediately erupt.

Among the people in Guanzhong, Meng Tuo, the father of Meng Da, has the highest official position, and Meng Tuo's good friend Fa Zheng is the most loved by Chen Cheng, so these two people carried the expectations of Guanzhong's father and came to complain to Chen Cheng.

Although Fa Zheng is young, he has always been arrogant and dares to speak out, even in front of Chen Cheng, he spoke very directly, "My lord, Guan Zhongfang is calm, it is the time when you need to cultivate and recuperate, it is not appropriate to punish the law harshly, but to relax the constraints!" ”

It was not a formal meeting, and there were no military generals involved, but Chen Cheng called a few of his ministers to his mansion in Chang'an to discuss the recent more important issues. Contradictions will always exist, but the time and energy of those in power are limited, and it is impossible to cover all aspects, so we can only solve the main contradictions first.

The main contradiction at present is the open and covert struggle between the Liangzhou faction and the Guanzhong faction, as well as the ensuing differences in the concept of governance. Now there are obvious factions under Chen Cheng's command. When he was in Liangzhou, although there was also a difference between the Yuancong faction and the Liangzhou faction, because Yan Zhong was also Yuancong and a Liangzhou person, the division between the factions was not so obvious.

And at that time, Chen Cheng had fewer ministers, and he couldn't even fill the positions of the three provinces and six departments, and it was too late for everyone to be busy working, so how could they have so much time to fight each other? But after Chen Cheng defeated Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo and captured Sanfu, factional problems soon emerged.

Although Guanzhong is no longer the political, military, economic and cultural center of the country as it was hundreds of years ago, compared with Xiliang, it can be regarded as a gathering of humanities. It is not a problem for the scholars here to fill the positions of the government, but in addition to retaining officials at all levels, Chen Cheng only promoted a few people such as Meng Tuo, Du Yi, and Bao Chu. On the contrary, it was a reward to the Liangzhou People's Congress.

Yan Zhong, Xu Chao, Yang Qiu, Zhao Yun, Cheng Yi, Han Li, Xu Wen, etc., each had their own rewards and occupied various official positions in Guanzhong, not to mention, those who came out of the military academy and army primary school also occupied various low-level positions in the government, or were promoted to low-level officers.

In the eyes of the scholars and Haoqiang in Guanzhong, this kind of differential treatment is obviously using Liangzhou people to suppress Guanzhong people. But in the eyes of the people of Liangzhou, this is what they deserve after following Chen Cheng's saddle, how can it be that when the war is bloody, the work and sweat are without you, and when the overall situation is decided, you want to jump out and pick peaches? There is no such good thing in the world!

Sitting in the hall, in addition to Fa Zheng, there were Yan Zhong, Jia Xu, Xu Chao, Meng Tuo, Cai Yong, Dong Zhao and others. Cai Yong and Dong Zhaocai joined Chen Cheng's command, one of them is not good at handling government affairs, and the other is extremely smart, and now they are just sitting there, just listening and not talking.

Fa Zheng is young and vigorous, and Yan Zhong is even more domineering. After moving from Yinchuan to Chang'an, Yan Zhong was full of joy, which was one step closer to the goal he was striving for, and his momentum also rose and became a little more sufficient. At this time, hearing Fa Zheng say such childish words, he couldn't help but sneer.

Then, Yan Zhong said: "Governing the country should be lenient and strict, in the past, the imperial court was strict with the small people, but it was too lenient for the powerful and the family, so that the wealthy family occupied a lot of land, but the poor did not even have a place to stand. Since the prince has entered Chang'an, he naturally has to do the opposite, and should take the small people as the foundation, and impose severe punishments and strict laws on the local heroes, so that Guanzhong can be governed! ”

He stood up, pointed out the country, and was full of spirit, "The way of government should be people-oriented!" But who is for the people? It is the people who can be used by me! Those who can pay taxes and grain to the government are the people! It is the people who can provide the government with soldiers! We need to protect such people and speak from their standpoint! Other than that, they're just thieves! ”

Yan Zhong spoke impassionedly, Yixing Feifei, and his momentum was compelling, although Fa Zheng was smart, he was still too young, sometimes he thought simply, and even very naïve, and was speechless by Yan Zhong, which was also a normal thing. He looked at the people in the hall with an approving look on his face unwillingly, and turned his head to Meng Tuo and said, "Jing Zhaoyin, don't you have anything to say?" ”

Meng Tuo has always been looked down upon by the scholars because he was a eunuch in the past, and now he is elected by the Guan sergeants, which is just a false story. He is not a young man like Fazheng, he only thinks about fooling things over, and he doesn't want to care about the life or death of the Guanzhong faction at all.

He himself was reused by Chen Yuanjun, although his son Meng Tuo was not as favored as Fazheng, but he was also very liked by Chen Yuanjun, seeing that the Meng family was just around the corner, why bother to wade into these troubled waters? But he was named by Fa Zheng, and as a representative of Sergeant Guan, he had to say a few words.

"There is some truth in what Xiaozhi said, Guanzhong is tired, and he needs to recuperate," Meng Tuo said slowly: "But now that there are enemies around, the lord needs more soldiers and horses, and he also needs more money and food, although recuperation can benefit the people, but there is no way to complete the ambition of the lord." ”

Fa Zheng said a little impatiently: "Then what do you mean?" ”

"What I mean is that whatever the lord says, we will do. The lord sees thousands of miles, and what he thinks and thinks must be far beyond us. We just need to do it seriously, so why bother thinking about anything else? ”

When everyone heard this, on the one hand, they admired his shamelessness, and on the other hand, they secretly scolded the sycophants in their stomachs.

Fa Zheng glanced at Meng Tuo with disdain, if it weren't for the fact that the other party was Meng Da's father, he would have made a sarcastic remark.

Chen Cheng just smiled at Meng Tuo's praise and asked the others, "Do you have any other opinions?" ”

Everyone either shook their heads or remained silent, and Fa Zheng was speechless, so he could only sulk secretly. So Chen Cheng said: "If the son comes to Chang'an today, some of the ministers of the imperial court will also come over. You can get in touch with the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee, and if you have practical ability, you can recommend them to join the system of three provinces and six ministries. For the rest of the people, just let them hang up an official position. ”

Yan Zhong once had an old relationship with Cai Yong, and said with a smile: "I know that Cai Yilang is talented and can be a secretary of the Ministry of Rites." ”

Chen Cheng nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Next, it was agreed to promote Jia Xu to the rank of servant, with Dong Zhao as the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and to stuff those courtiers who came with the Son of Heaven to one post after another. In this way, most of the six departments of the three provinces, which were originally understaffed, were immediately filled, and some of the remaining positions were ready to be assigned to the scholars and Haoqiang in Guanzhong, after they passed the exam.

Now in the territory under Chen Cheng's rule, there are two ways to select talents: recommendation and imperial examination. However, in either case, they will only be appointed after passing an examination to confirm that they have basic management skills and talents. Given that knowledge is now monopolized in the hands of wealthy families, this approach has not met with much opposition.

After the discussion, Yan Zhong said: "I was busy with disaster relief before, but now that Guanzhong has generally stabilized, do you want to re-measure the land and count the population?" ”

Dong Zhao, who was white and chubby, couldn't help but glance at Yan Zhong, and said in his heart: This kind of drastic policy will inevitably offend many people, that is, Yan Shangshu dared to put it forward.

Re-measuring the land and counting the population, this is what the rulers of all dynasties want to do, and few people can do it successfully, even with the eloquence of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, in the process of implementing this policy, it has also encountered a lot of resistance, and it took a long time before and after the implementation of this policy.

As long as the population and land inventory begins, some people will inevitably die. But don't you do it because you're going to die? Fighting also kills people, can you surrender to the enemy? This is obviously impossible. Chen Cheng has already taken Guanzhong by force, so he naturally wants to control all the resources in Guanzhong.

He didn't ask anyone else, and immediately clapped his hand and said: "This matter is in charge of Bo Dao, except for the trapping camp and the flying bear hussars, the county soldiers and tooth soldiers in various places can be mobilized at will." If the county guards less than 2,000 stones, you can cut it first and then play! ”

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