A.D. 198, end of August. After a difficult journey of two months, the Shi family's fleet reached Nanhai County.

Along the way, they all walked close to the coast. As soon as there is a strong wind or heavy rain, they will be stationed on the shore. Even with such caution, two ships were lost.

The leader of the team was Shiwu, and he returned to Nanhai County. Xun You handed over Nanhai County to him. But now Xun You is the pastor of Jiaozhou, and he is just in charge of him.

Gongsun Kang happily met with the representatives of the Shi family, with a smile on his face from beginning to end. Everyone thought that he was happy to take Jiaozhou without spending a single soldier. In fact, Gongsun Kang was happy: with the surrender of Jiaozhou, the population under his rule exceeded 10 million!

If the total population exceeds 10 million, the system can be upgraded to level six.

Gongsun Kang warmly entertained the representatives of the scholars, including some great Confucians. For example: Yuan Hui and Liu Ba.

Gongsun Kang systematically expounded his own concept of governance, and now this set of theories is very complete. When it was just a prototype, Zhao Yun was so fooled that he couldn't find the north; Now that the complete theory is elaborated, even the wealthy families have nothing to say. After all, it was they who did not do it properly, endless land annexation, and uncontrolled greed, which eventually led to the displacement of the people, the rebellion of the people one after another, and the local warlords taking the opportunity to divide and attack each other. At the root of it all is land annexation!

After listening to Gongsun Kang's theory, and then comparing the policies of Liaodong, and the current life of the people in Liaodong living in peace and prosperity, Yuan Hui and Liu Ba were convinced. has always been a high-minded appearance, and Yuan Hui, who was reluctant to come out to be an official, also took the initiative to say: I want to follow the side of the champion Hou and listen to the teachings at any time.

Gongsun Kang nodded with a smile in agreement, and he said, "Hui and Zichu, you two gentlemen can go back to Liaodong with me to see the new look there." ”

Liu Ba, the beginning of the word. He is a famous scholar in the Central Plains, representing Shilin Qingliu, and he has a kind of contempt for a low-level martial arts group like Liu Bei all his life, and looks down on Liu Bei. Call it the "head of the army". The original words at that time were: "The husband is in the world, and he should be a hero from all over the world, and he can't talk with the soldiers." ”

So who is the hero of the four seas? Historically, Liu Ba worshipped Cao Cao, and now Liu Ba worships Gongsun Kang, and the common point between Cao Cao and Gongsun Kang is: you can defeat the enemy when you get on the horse, and you can write poems when you get off the horse. The most important thing is: they are all apprentices of the great Confucian Cai Yong, and they are also Confucian students, and they are their own people!

This is really an unexpected surprise, Gongsun Kang worshipped a teacher in order to marry Cai Wenji, and was considered his own person by Confucianism, and could accept his rule and "rule the world with scholars".

Now that Gongsun Kang invited them to Liaodong, they really felt that they should take it for granted, instead of feeling: the soldiers are insulting me.

Yuan Hui and Liu Ba bowed down together: "No! I am willing to serve the Lord! In this way, Gongsun Kang can be regarded as recruiting two talents again.

Liu Ba is a person, even Zhuge Liang admires him, Zhuge Liang once said: "Strategizing is in the curtain, I am not as far away as Zichu." (See Pei Songzhi's note in "Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu, Liu Ba Biography").

Liu Ba was the only person who knew a little about economics and finance during the Three Kingdoms era.

His greatest contribution was shortly after he joined Liu Bei. According to history, after Liu Bei captured Yizhou, the treasury was empty, and Liu Bei was very worried. Liu Ba said: "One small thing, three actions can be done: first, the copper plate worth 100 yuan is passed; 2. Harmonize national prices; 3. Implement a public sale system. (Ba said: "Yi Er, but when you cast a hundred coins, level all things, and make the officials the official market.") Liu Bei followed, and within a few months, the treasury was full.

And Yuan Hui was a fan of Xu Jing, and immediately began to recommend Xu Jing again, admiring Xu Jing's virtue and governing ability.

Gongsun Kang pushed the boat and wrote a letter to Xu Jing in his own handwriting, inviting him to go to Liaodong to seek a great cause, and to do something for the people of the world together, and make a little effort.

These great Confucians, their value, is reflected in the appeal to the Shilin class in the Central Plains, not in the education of the natives in Jiaozhou. In Jiaozhou, there are 10,000 Liaodong soldiers, armed with swords to educate, which is better than the thousands of words of the Confucians.

And the Confucians went to the Central Plains and boasted for Gongsun Kang that they were better than 100,000 soldiers with swords. This is the difference between the educated people of the Central Plains and the members of the tribes of the Barbarian Lands.

In this era, if you want to come out to do things in Yeshilin, buyers are generally required to meet three conditions: first, a good family background; the second is to have its own territory; The third is related to Shilin. Gongsun Kang now fully meets these three conditions, so Shilin is eager to rush to it.

In the early Liu Bei, these three conditions were completely absent. Few people in the Shilin were willing to follow such a wandering low-level martial arts group, because it would lower their value.

Everyone is playing in Shilin, and what kind of boss to mess with is related to their own dignity and future, and they must not be sloppy at all.

When the bustle dispersed in the dead of night, Gongsun Kang began to communicate with Xiao Jia in the big tent alone, asking for a system upgrade.

Gongsun Kang said: "Brother A, I have a population of 10 million now, right? ”

Xiao Jia understood what Gongsun Kang meant, and he said without a trace of emotion: "Your current territory is very vast, and the total population has exceeded 10 million, but you can't be promoted to the sixth level yet. ”

"Why?" Gongsun Kang was dissatisfied: "You can't change the rules without authorization!" ”

"There is no modification of the rules" Xiao Jia patiently explained: "Liaodong is jointly ruled by Gongsun Du and Gongsun Kang father and son. Therefore, it needs to have a population of 20 million to be able to share half and be promoted to level six. ”

But Gongsun Kang said: The total population at the end of the Han Dynasty in history was less than 10 million. Is this a rhythm that can never be upgraded?

So if you want to negotiate, the population has already exceeded 10 million, and you should always share half of the sixth-level power, right?

"Xiao Jia, it's not easy for our two brothers to depend on each other in this ancient era where there is no TV, no mobile phone, and no Internet." Gongsun Kang is ready to move people with emotion, oh, with emotion system.

"Phew, why didn't you think of me when you were happy holding a beautiful woman?" Xiao Jia also learned to complain.

"Brothers and wives can't be bullied, Xiaojia, do you want to share beautiful women with me? Hey, Xiao Jia, you've learned badly. No, Xiao Jia, you were a confidant sister when you first appeared. I understand, Xiao Jia, you're jealous. Gongsun Kang suddenly realized why Xiao Jia was in a mood.

"The system is genderless!" Xiao Jia returned to his coldness and refused to say more. But as a brother for many years, Xiao Jia is still very reliable. Now he has begun to look up the rules of the system and wants to help Gongsun Kang.

Xiao Jia inquired for a long time and replied: "According to the rules, I didn't say yes; But it didn't say no. There is just no prohibition. ”

Gongsun Kang was very excited, he said: "What the law does not prohibit can be implemented." Come on, my dear little armor. Give me half of the sixth-level power. ”

As a result, Gongsun Kang created a five-level half-armor soldier system.

In fact, it is an enhanced version of the five-level system, with no new features, but it can summon a weakened version of various talents that can only be found at the sixth level. It's the youth version or the old version of talents, anyway, it's not the peak time.

The population required to summon talents is only half of that of level six, and a population of 500,000 can summon a talent.

In this way, if young talents are summoned, Gongsun Kang will earn them, because in a few years, the talents themselves will grow to his peak stage. On the contrary, Gongsun Kang can use the population needed at the sixth level to summon twice as many talents.

(End of chapter)