Henan Yin, Luoyang City.

In the past few months, Yan Xing in Luoyang can be said to be very busy with "one bath and three grips, one meal and three spit feeding", the elevated Luoyang court is like an empty shell being set aside, and the real power hegemony with Yan Xing as the core is running rapidly.

Personnel expenses, rituals, laws, punishments, money, silk, grain and grass, and projects will be done, plus the military affairs with the heaviest powers and responsibilities, and the schedule of various important military and political affairs will be full, which makes the burden on Yan Xing's shoulders in the center of power much heavier.

Fortunately, the overlord under his command was formed by the combination of the original general shogunate and the Hedong county government, and most of the officials who served as Cao Peng's departments were old people in the shogunate and county government, including Pei Hui, Jia Kui, Sun Zi and other capable officials, and there were senior officials such as Yan Zhi, Pei Qian, and Chang Lin in the locality.

With the joint efforts of the monarch and the ministers, this is finally through the overlord of both military and political management, and the military and political affairs from the Luoyang court to the Sanhe county are managed in an orderly manner.

However, as the person in power, Yan Xing, although he has the Cao Peng history of the overlord to assist, he still has to do some things himself.

For example, to meet with the world's celebrities and local talents who applied for recruitment and came to Luoyang to pay respects to the Hussar General's Mansion.

Pei Hui of Xi Cao Peng is responsible for the recruitment and assessment of the officials in the palace, ordinary scholars come to pay respects, and Yan Xing, who is busy with all things, will generally let Pei Hui meet him on his behalf and choose talents, but when celebrities like Xun You come to pay respects, Yan Xing must put aside the important military and political matters in his hand and take the time to meet in person.

When today's chaos, heroes take advantage of the situation, heroes are scattered in the four fields, Mingjun wants to choose virtuous ministers, virtuous ministers also choose Mingjun, and Jizhou and Jingzhou are undoubtedly the places where the most talented people in the world gather, followed by Yangzhou, Liaodong, and Shu.

At present, Yan Xing welcomed the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, shouted the slogan of "return to the old capital, rejuvenate the Han Dynasty", and used the name of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty to issue an edict to recruit celebrities and talents who lived in the four fields of the world to enter Beijing.

Slowly, it also made the city in the world form a situation where talents from all over the world gathered.

Although there were also scholars like Zhao Yan, Fanqin, and Du Xi who were imprisoned in Jingzhou, they thought that Yan Xing was holding the Son of Heaven hostage and acting as a prestige, which was no different from Dong Zhuo and Li Dao, and refused to be conscripted into the court, and even shamed to accept the official position of the Luoyang court.

However, there are still many talented people who live in Jingzhou, because they have not been reused by Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao for a long time, so they decided to choose another master, left the land of Jingxiang, enlisted for the edict, and came to Luoyang.

Yan Xing took over Jingzhao Duji and Hanoi Sima Zhi, who had similar experiences, personally inspected and took a fancy to their talents, and successively opened them into the palace and served as the history and zuo of the hussar general Cao Zhongpeng.

And Xun You is the latest among the talents who live in Jingzhou.

Xun You was previously awarded the Taishou of Shu County by the Chang'an Imperial Court, and wanted to go to Shuzhong to take up his post, but the road to Shu was difficult and dangerous, and there were five rice thieves who were isolated from chaos, so Xun You had to stay in the land of Jingxiang.

Although Xun You is late now, Yan Xing is still very happy, personally met and interviewed him, broke the corporal, and humbly asked this famous man in the world who was not confused.

Xun You's resourcefulness and courage were outstanding, and he was able to discern treachery at the age of thirteen. When he was in Chang'an, after conspiring with Zheng Tai and He Hao, who were also famous people in the world, to punish Dong Zhuo, Zheng Tai fled in a hurry, He Hao was afraid of committing suicide, only Xun You regarded death as home, and still ate and drink freely in prison, and finally survived alive and witnessed the fall of Dong Zhuo.

But Xun You is also a deep and intelligent character, in the conversation with Xun You, Yan Xing vaguely noticed Xun You's deep secret, but this strengthened Yan Xing's plan to keep this hidden talent by his side.

After an interview, Yan Xing immediately decided to sacrifice wine for the military advisor and counsel the military affairs of the hussar general.

For this appointment, Yan Xing also specially asked the opinion of the military advisor to sacrifice wine and play Zhicai.

Xi Zhicai planned the military strategy, and the credit of the counselor military aircraft was something that the history of the former shogunate and the Hedong county government all knew. It can be said that he deserved to be awarded the official position of military advisor sacrificial wine, and the history of Pengzhong in the house is also convinced.

But Xun You is different, although he has the reputation of a famous man at home, but after all, he has not shown his true talent under Yan Xing's command, and Xun You is clumsy and unknown, so Yan Xing must smooth out the fluctuations caused by the expulsion of Xun You into the palace.

Xi Zhicai is one of the key figures.

Only Xi Zhi gladly accepted Xun Yu to be with him, and the other old people in the mansion would not have much resentment and resistance. On the contrary, if Xi Zhicai took the lead in secretly suppressing Xun You, a newcomer who suddenly rose to a high position in the mansion, it would also bring a series of negative effects to the hussar general's mansion.

As a result, when Yan Xing asked Xi Zhicai, Xi Zhicai smiled and said directly:

"Wisdom is within reach, but foolishness is unattainable. Xun Gongda, very human, unyielding, Ming Gong made it a military sacrificial wine, which is appropriate! ”

In Xi Zhicai's heart, he also knew that with the expansion of Yan Xing's scope of troops, it would be difficult for him to continue to follow Yan Xing to fight in the south and the north and draw the army. And Xun You's arrival just happened to be able to fill the vacancy left by himself to a certain extent, which is also the reason why Yan Xing entrusted Xun You with a heavy responsibility after the first meeting.

Those who know others are wise, those who know themselves are wise, and they are as wise as Xi Zhicai, and in the face of his personal position and the interests of his own camp, he made the right choice in his heart.

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Duan Xuan also made the most correct choice in his heart, and he sent Jia Xu to Luoyang City.

He believed that with Jia Xu's talent, he would not only be able to gain Yan Xing's favor, but also be able to live up to his mission and help him reach an agreement with Yan Xing.

Jia Xu is precisely able to do this.

Knowing that Jia Xu had come to pay respects, Yan Xing personally greeted him and invited Jia Xu into the room to discuss.

Looking at Jia Xu, who still had a goatee and his face had not changed much, Yan Xing secretly sighed that Jia Xu had a good appearance, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but recall the scene when the two first met.

At that time, Yan Xing was just a small Sima, and Jia Xu was the history of Peng in Dong Zhuo's mansion, and the two were ordered to send an envoy to Guanzhong to recruit Huangfu Song, who had a heavy army, into the court.

Yan Xing, as Li Ru's henchman, accompanied the envoys, on the one hand, to protect Jia Xu, and on the other hand, according to Li Ru's orders, he secretly monitored the resourceful Jia Xu, and asked him to be the Li Shiqi who said that he would surrender the Qi State, instead of being the Fan Yang Youshi Kuaitong who instigated Han Xin to oppose the Han Dynasty.

So in Huangfu Song's military camp, Yan Xing also visited Jia Xu at night, not only out of Li Ru's instructions, but also mixed with his own selfishness, to test Jia Xu, who had been hidden and clumsy on the road, and finally led to the first half of the world's strategy.

"With Hedong and Yiluo as the front rejection, the west collects the essence of Longyou and Hexi, gathers Shu County and Hanzhong corn in the south, and guards the land of the three Qins in Guanzhong, advances and retreats freely, attacks and defends in me, and becomes a strong Qin, so that the righteousness of the Son of Heaven is supported, and the rebellion of the Guandong is leveled in the east, just like Qin sweeping the six countries and the seven kings of Hanping. Let's ask like this, what Xiangguo Bingfeng pointed to, who is not convinced, and what city is not acceptable. ”

This is a clear strategy, and the fact that he was able to put forward such a high opinion as early as the time when the county of Kanto Prefecture was discussing Dong shows that Jia Xu's vision is long-term and outstanding.

Yan Xing didn't know if Jia Xu mentioned his world policy to Dong Zhuo again, but from the experience of Jia Xu, who later returned from meritorious service, served as the governor of Pingjin and was squeezed out of the Xiangguo Mansion by the jealous Li Ru, Dong Zhuo slowly alienated Jia Xu.

On the contrary, Yan Xing, who was greatly shaken in his heart at that time, firmly remembered Jia Xu's world policy, and began to gradually combine it with his original intention of waiting for time and taking advantage of the momentum through practice.

From the original secession of Hedong to the current plot to conquer Guanzhong, what Yan Xing has always insisted on is actually Jia Xu's world policy.

This is also why today, Yan Xing, who is in the high position of a hussar general, still treats Jia Xu with respect, just like in the past.

Jia Xu also felt the respect that Yan Xing, who was in his prime and in a high position, treated him, and couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart.

It's just that he didn't forget his identity as the envoy of Hongnong when he came this time, Jia Xu explained Duan Xuan's intentions in detail, and Zhongyun pointed out the important relationship between the two families of Hedong and Hongnong.

Yan Xing naturally smiled at this, before in the attitude towards Hongnong Duan Xuan, his staff actually had a disagreement, Zhou Liang thought that Duan Xuan was cunning and cunning, rather than raising tigers to make trouble, it was better to plan as soon as possible, and use the edict of the Son of Heaven to recruit him into the court, if Hongnong shirked, then use this as a reason to send troops on three sides to completely annex Hongnong.

However, Xi Zhicai suggested that Yan Xing could slow down, and that he could disintegrate the forces that Hongnong could resist step by step by transferring Duan Xuan out of Hongnong, collecting military power, and recruiting him into the court, and finally implement the goal of merging Hongnong County into the land of Three Rivers.

After thinking about it again and again, Yan Xing decided to choose Xi Zhicai's suggestion, but while taking a slow plan, Yan Xing did not relax his vigilance, he still retained the iron-fisted method of attacking from three sides and annexing in one fell swoop.

Now that Duan Xuan also understands his situation, and has made a choice that is happy for both families, it is naturally the best.

Seeing that the mission was accomplished, the atmosphere of conversation in the room became more and more harmonious. When the old people met, the white heads were as good as new, and the two talked happily.

It's just that after Yan Xing sent a solicitation to Jia Xu and expressed his intention to get rid of Jia Xu as the chief of the march, the atmosphere in the room changed sharply, and he instantly became a little nervous.

ps: Some book friends raised questions about Yongzhou, and once again, the Yongzhou set up by the court at the end of the Han Dynasty is not the same as the Yongzhou set up by Cao Wei. According to the record of "Zizhi Tongjian: Han Ji Fifty-three", "(in the first year of Xingping), the four counties of Hexi went to Liangzhou to govern the distance, separated by Hekou, and wrote to ask for another state. In June, Bingzi, the edict was to Chen Liu, Handan Shang as the Yongzhou Thorn History, and ruled it. In other words, Yongzhou in the late Han Dynasty was actually set up by dividing the four counties of Hexi in Liangzhou. In this book, Yongzhou was set up in the fourth year of the first peace.