To be a Baume & Mercier, you must first understand what a Baume & Mercier is.

Baume & Mercier is also known as "celebrity", simply put, it is a person who is very famous, but has not yet become an official, and also refers to a person with a reputation.

Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, celebrities were actually not popular, because the way to become an official was in the hands of the family gate valve and the ten permanent servants, and no matter how famous it was, it was useless.

But when the Yellow Turban was destroyed, the heroes rose together, and the princes competed for hegemony, the role of celebrities and scholars began to be highlighted.

As a prince on one side of the secession, whether there is a strategist or not is a completely different matter.

For example, in the early stage of the princes' struggle for hegemony, princes like Yuan Chao and Cao Cao who had soldiers and strategists were leveraged, while Liu Bei, who had soldiers but no strategists, was beaten like a scattered dog, running around all day long, often not even taking care of his wife.

It wasn't until later that Zhuge Liang was invited out of Sangu Thatched House, and there were people who gave advice, that Liu Bei turned around and gradually became the overlord of Shu State.

This shows how important a good advisor is to the princes.

Therefore, throughout the Three Kingdoms period, all the princes who have some ability attach great importance to the strategists, and every time there is a war, whether they have an idea or not, they must ask the strategists first to show their attention.

As for the strategist, he doesn't have to fight in battle, and he doesn't have to come up with ideas every time.

Shut up when you don't have an idea, make an idea when you have an idea, once the idea is adopted by the princes and plays a certain role in the victory of the battle, then the reward will soon come down, which can be described as low risk and high reward!

Of course, if you want to have such an iron rice bowl that guarantees income in drought and flood, ability is a must, but fame is also essential, and even more important!

If you don't have a famous person, can you still be called a person who is not famous? What prince would ask an unknown person to give him advice?

Then the main question arises - how can you become a Baume & Mercier?

According to the mainstream view of the current era, if you want to be a celebrity, you must first study, because the celebrities of the Eastern Han Dynasty are all scholars, so if you want to become a celebrity, you must first become a scholar.

And to become a reader, not to mention other books, the six books of "Poetry", "Book", "Rite", "Music", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn" must be read well, otherwise even the circle of readers cannot be integrated, so how can they be together?

However, it is not easy to familiarize yourself with so many books, not to mention how much time and energy it takes, it is not easy to find a teacher, it can be described as difficult.

Thinking of this, Xu Kang suddenly frowned, and then smashed his mouth.

"Tsk...... I'm not afraid of reading difficulties or anything, mainly because I don't like to be in groups with others, I like to work alone, huh...... So decided! ”

After deciding on it, Xu Kang began to think about the next question - how to work alone to achieve the road of celebrities?

Learn from Zhuge Liang to live in seclusion?

That's definitely not going to work!

Because Zhuge Liang is also in a group, he has a lot of celebrities and friends around him, even if he is in seclusion, some people sell him, otherwise Liu Bei has never even heard of his name of "Wolong", where else did he come from?

and Guo Jia, who was also recommended by Xun Yu to Cao Cao after Xi Zhicai's death, and as for many other strategists, this is basically the case.

In response to the old saying, "one fence has three piles, and one hero has three gangs", the benefits of Baume & Mercier are quite significant.

But this couldn't stop Xu Kang's determination to go it alone, so he began to think about it carefully.

"In terms of today's values, celebrities pay attention to both ability and political integrity, but I don't know the art of war, and I'm not good at politics and military, so I must have a brilliant reputation!"

In later generations, people with a good reputation will certainly be appreciated, but they cannot be used as capital to establish themselves, but this is not the case in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In this era, reputation is very important, and if it is corrupted, the future will be ruined, and the life will be difficult to protect!

Take Kong Rong, one of the "Seven Sons of Jian'an", as a descendant of Confucius, he was originally a casual prodigal, but because he said the wrong sentence, he was killed.

His exact words are like this-

"What is the relationship between the Father and the Son? As for its original meaning, it is really lustful. The son is also to the mother, and it is also ridiculed? For example, if the parasite is in the middle, it will be separated when it comes out."

The translated meaning is: between the father and the son, where is there any family affection? To investigate the root of it, it is just a product of lust and desire. What about the relationship between mother and son? It's like putting something in a crockpot, and after taking it out, the two have no relationship.

Such remarks will be offensive even in later generations, let alone in the Han Dynasty, which ruled the country with filial piety.

And Cao Cao was already unhappy with his mouth, so after he said this, he put him to death on the grounds of "unfilial piety" and "insulting the saint".

This is the classic misfortune that comes from the mouth.

And Liu Bei is just the opposite of Kong Rong, he knows how to manage his reputation very well.

It is precisely because of the reputation of benevolence and righteousness that he can attract capable people from all over the world to come to serve, and even the people are willing to follow him when he flees, which has laid a solid popular foundation for his later hegemony of Shu.

This shows how useful fame is in this period.

With Liu Bei's precedent, Xu Kang is equivalent to finding the weather vane, and he decided to keep up with Liu Bei and make "benevolence and righteousness" his label!

Thinking of this, Xu Kang immediately grinned.

"Hehe, since you want to flaunt benevolence, righteousness and morality, how can you do it without a loud word? Look at Cao Cao and Liu Bei, one is called Meng De, the other is called Xuande, I also have to take one with the word 'De'! ”

The table character is a name given in addition to the original name, indicating its virtue or the meaning of the original name.

Moreover, in this era, it is rude to call adult men and women by their first names, and it is convenient for others to call them by name.

After the crossing, Xu Kang is not an adult, so he doesn't have a word yet, but this does not prevent him from getting one for himself in advance.

After thinking about it for a while, he thought of a satisfactory expression.

"Yes, my favorite thing is to convince people with virtue, then my table is called virtue, Xu Kang's word is virtue...... Xu Yide, good, hehe! ”

After the words were taken, Xu Kang suddenly became a lot more energetic, and he simply opened the door and walked out, sitting on the high threshold at the door of the house, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and began to think hard.

"What am I going to do? What to do? In order to become a famous person who is looked up to? ”

These three questions were obviously much more difficult than before, so Xu Kang thought about it for a long time and didn't have any ideas, but leaned on the door frame and fell asleep in a daze.

Until a loud noise woke him up.

"Mother, don't stop me, that dog official is deliberately making things difficult, I have to let him know today!"

"Evil animal, you stop me, don't you even listen to your mother's words?"

"No, mother, listen to me......"

Hearing this noise, Xu Kang, who had just woken up, seemed to grasp something, and muttered with a frown.

"Dog officer...... Baume & Mercier...... Dog Officer ...... Officer? Be an official first? ”

Thinking of this, Xu Kang's eyes widened fiercely, and the problem that had plagued him for a while was instantly solved, which made his heart suddenly open.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hahahaha...... I'm so stupid, I've always wanted to be a celebrity first and then an official, but I don't know that being an official first is the best way, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to save fame when I become an official? Hahahaha......"