Han Xuan knew Ling Tong's suffering, and the enemy who killed his father was right in front of him, but he couldn't take revenge. Han Xuan empathized with this, Li Dao killed Dong Wan and killed Dong Wan, but Han Xuan, in order to take care of the overall situation, did not turn his face with Liu Du for the time being, so that Li Dao was still at large.

Han Xuan persuaded Ling Tong to take care of the overall situation, and gave him another example. Han Xuan's left and right envoy Gu Li, originally a native of Shanyue, a general of the scholar clan in Jiangdong led the army to conquer Shanyue, killed Gu Li's family, and captured Gu Li at home as a slave. Later, Han Xuan went to the house of the Nashi general as a guest, and found Gu Li, so he took it under his account to do things.

Gu Li always thought about revenge, but in order to take care of the relationship between Han Xuan and the Shi clan, he could only bury the hatred in his heart and not let it control him. Later, because of his prudence and uprightness, Gu Li became Han Xuan's close supervisor. Gu Li has a loyal and decisive personality, is honest and strong, and his speech is never so-so or perfunctory, and Han Xuan loves and trusts him very much.

Under Han Xuan's patient persuasion, Ling Tong gradually let go of his killing thoughts about Gan Ning. Han Xuan asked Ling Tong to obey orders under his account, and the battle with Cao's army was protracted, and Jiangdong was the time to employ people.

A few days later, the former army came to report that Cao Cao sent Zhang Liao and Yu Ban to lead troops to challenge, and Han Xuan sent Lü Meng and Ling Tong to meet them. Ling Tong took the lead in the light boat, killed many Cao troops, and also beheaded a captain of the Cao army. Lü Meng supervised the ship to advance, defeated Cao's army, and returned to the camp victoriously.

Han Xuan was overjoyed, worshipping Ling Tong as the Sima of the other department, and breaking the thief and captain.

After that, the Cao army attacked several times, but they were all repelled by the Jiangdong army, and the Cao army's warships could not enter the river along the river. The two armies held each other until the second year, the spring rain gradually increased, and the river water rose, which also meant that the Jiangdong Army's building ships could be launched to participate in the war!

The two armies held each other for a long time, and Han Xuan didn't want to fight again, so he wrote to Cao Cao and said: "Spring water is born, and the public should go quickly." ”

In order to show his respect for Cao Cao, Han Xuan attached another note, which read: "If you don't die, you can't be alone." ”

Cao Cao took Han Xuan's letter and said with a smile to his generals: "Han Xuan doesn't bully orphans!" ”

Cao Cao took the initiative to withdraw his troops and returned to Xuchang to return to Emperor Liu Xie, and at the same time pay tribute to Xun Yu. Liu Xie saw that Cao Cao's prestige in the court was unattainable, and the old ministers loyal to the Han family were dead, and now even Xun Yu, a key figure, was dead, and Liu Xie was discouraged, and he knew that it was impossible for him to regain real power.

Liu Xie then convened hundreds of civil and military officials to discuss the matter of appointing Cao Cao as the "Duke of Wei", and Xun You, Dong Zhao, Wang Lang, Lu Qian and other civil and military officials unanimously agreed, persuading Cao Cao to call him the Duke of Wei and add nine tin.

Cao Cao then returned to Yecheng, held the festival and was awarded the title of duke, the feudal country was named "Wei", and gave Jiuxi and other things that symbolized authority, and took the ten counties of Hedong, Hanoi, Wei County, Zhao State, Zhongshan, Changshan, Julu, Anping, Ganling, and Pingyuan in Jizhou as the feudal territory of the Duke of Wei, placed hundreds of officials of the principality, and built the capital in Yecheng of Wei County.

Cao Cao's southern expedition to Han Xuan failed, and Zhang Liao, Li Dian, and Le Jin were left with more than 7,000 people to defend Hefei. Han Xuan saw Cao Cao's withdrawal, and also led his army Xu back to Jianye.

After Han Xuan returned to Jianye, he renamed Jianye as "Jianye" to remind the people of Jiangdong not to forget the enterprising heart, and to enter the Central Plains as soon as possible to establish a great cause!

When the news of Cao Cao's claim to Duke Wei came, Han Xuan couldn't sit still, but the situation has gradually become clearer today. Who is the opponent of the heroes of the world? Cao, Liu!

In comprehensive comparison, Han Xuan and Liu Du's strength is not as good as Cao Cao's, and Cao Cao's command can really be described as a strategist like a cloud and a fierce general like rain. Although Han Xuan sat in the nine counties of Jiangnan and the land of Liaodong and Yizhou, with the death of Huang Zhong, Xu Rong and other generals, Jiangdong faced the cruel reality of withering talents.

And the land south of the Yangtze River hides a large number of people from all over the country in the late Han Dynasty, and there has never been a shortage of literati, so we have to reflect on why there is a lack of talents? First of all, there are institutional shortcomings.

Han Xuan expected that Cao Cao would not go south again in the short term, and Liu Du's rise in Xichuan would inevitably contain Cao Cao's large number of troops. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Han Xuan decided to give it a go and make a great change!

After discussing with Chen Wu, Han Xuan summoned Xu Shu, Shi Guangyuan, Chen Qun, Zhong Xuan, Gu Yong and others to Jianye.

Han Xuangao sat on the main seat and said to everyone: "

Since the Yellow Turban started the army, I have used talents without sticking to one pattern, and the generals of the hundred officials and generals may have started from the poor family, or from the scholars ...... all of you."

Han Xuan's impassioned statement made everyone in the hall excited, and a group of young generals such as Han Xing, Huang Xu, and Chen Xiu were also below, looking at Han Xuan, Chen Wu and others with admiration.

Han Xuan suddenly changed his words, and then said: "I, Jiangdong, have expanded my territory overseas, and unified more than 20 counties and 97 states!" However, there are many officials and generals in various counties, and the root cause of this is the malpractice of selecting and employing people. I want to set up schools in all counties and county capitals, whether they are from poor families or scholars, they can be enrolled! In the past, I had set up several schools in Lujiang, Linhai and other counties, at that time, because my Jiangdong was vast and sparsely populated, and because of the important relationship, so it was delayed again and again, and today I Jiangdong urgently needs to recruit talents! For Jiangdong, for the world! For the sake of the people of the Han Dynasty!! I, Han Xuan, will not give up!! ”

Han Xuan ordered all counties to post notices, so that Jiangdong and even the world knew that Han Xuan was going to make an earth-shaking change, and this change might even change the class division of the entire society.

Han Xuan took the lead in donating money to fund the establishment of the school, and also encouraged Xu Shu, Shi Guangyuan, Gu Yong and others to donate generously, but the result was beyond Han Xuan's expectations. When it was really implemented, Zhang Zhao, Qin Song, Chen Duan and other Jiangdong scholars secretly obstructed in every way, first symbolically donating a small amount of money, and then persuading the children of the poor families who had already enrolled in the school, and arranging their own clan children and protégés to the newly established schools.

And Han Xuan couldn't catch the handle of the scholar clan for a while, so he couldn't do anything about them for a while, and Han Xuan was very distressed about this. Han Xuan thought of Shi Guangyuan and Xu Shu, who were good at internal affairs, since the reform had to be carried out to the end, and these two people were originally from poor families, so they were the best candidates to take the lead in implementation.

Han Xuan secretly summoned Xu Shu, Shi Guangyuan, and Chen Wu to discuss, and told him about his distress.

"Chu Hou, although Chu Hou vigorously advocates the opening of the school now, if it is really implemented, it will be a big deal...... and after a few people sat down, Xu Shu in the hall said very calmly.

Shi Tao also sighed: "The Marquis of Chu was grateful for the matter of bringing the Hanmen, but today, the scholars mostly rely on the inspection to commit themselves to the official career, and if the Guangkai Mansion is opened, there will be a conflict with the inspection." ”

Han Xuan explained: "Running a school, you can accept a large number of students to enroll, you can cultivate cultural and martial arts from an early age, such as ghost valley, leading soldiers, archery, equestrianism, etc., you can also learn scriptures and ancient books, and it doesn't hurt to be clever and skillful, and after ten years, this batch of students will definitely be the core talents of our army in the future, this matter is related to our army's talent reserve, and I must resolutely implement it!" ”

An army, a country, needs the support of reserve forces, just like the Shu State in history, the emptiness of the treasury is secondary, and the withering of talents is also one of the reasons for the decline.

Therefore, Han Xuan will never follow in the footsteps of the former. Besides, Han Xuan and the others have improved papermaking and invented movable type printing, and they already have the conditions to vigorously develop education. In the Han Dynasty, a country with a peritarate illiteracy rate of 99 percent, it was necessary to resolutely reform.

"The inspection system is the beginning of Emperor Wu, based on the hereditary lineage of the official Lu, and the hereditary ones are now mostly the authority of the gate lords of the scholar clan, if the inspection system is abolished, the right of the scholar clan to rely on is gone. Only by transferring the power of the scholars to the hands of the people themselves will the establishment of the school be justified, and the interests of the school will become the foundation of the world. Xu Shu analyzed at this time.

"That'...... If that's the case, the scholars won't agree...... This is like stabbing a knife in the face of the Shi clan, the stakes are too important......" At this time, before Han Xuan could speak, Shi Tao was the first to object.

Indeed, as the other side said, the opening of the school is the starting point of reform. The reform went straight to the crux of the Jiangdong Shi clan and touched their vested interests, so they naturally had to stand up and oppose it. In this regard, even Han Xuan had to pay attention to it.

Han Xuan hesitated again and again, and finally made that decision. Han Xuan took the case and said: "The two of you are worthy of being Yingchuan Qishi, and what you say is to the point. Since the probation system no longer meets the needs of our Jiangdong reform, then abolish it! ”

"What! Chu Hou! Did I hear me right? Xu Shu and Shi Guangyuan stood up almost at the same time and asked in surprise.

Han Xuan nodded heavily, but Chen Wu, who was also a traverser, exclaimed, "Could it be that you want to ......?"

"That's right! I thought about it day and night, and finally came up with a method that could replace the probation system! Han Xuan said confidently.