Hearing that Liu Bei planned to recruit Chen Qun to be Maocai, Chen Ji paused slightly and said, "This, I'm afraid it's not in accordance with the rules." ”

In the Han Dynasty, the county recommended filial piety, and the state recommended Maocai. Maocai is generally recommended by the history of thorns, and there is nothing wrong with this. The problem is that Chen Qun is not from Qingzhou, how can he let Qingzhou Thorn Shi recommend it.

Liu Bei said with a smile: "I am the general of Zhengdong, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou can all be recommended, and Changwen can be recommended as Maocai, why not?" ”

Does General Zhengdong have so much power, why don't I know, Chen Ji looked confused.

Liu Bei thought to himself, this is Chen Qun, he can't let it go.

Liu Bei and Chen Qun in history also have a relationship, when Liu Bei was the assassin of Yuzhou, he took Chen Qun as a different driver.

At that time, Tao Qian died of illness, Xuzhou to raise the state to welcome Liu Bei to lead, Liu Bei was about to go, Chen Qun said to Liu Bei: "Yuan Shu is still strong, now go east, he will definitely fight with the general." If Lu Bu secretly attacked the general at this time, then although the general won Xuzhou, the big thing would definitely not be successful. ”

Liu Bei didn't listen, so he went east to Xuzhou and fought with Yuan Shu. As a result, Lu Bu really attacked Xiapi, and sent troops to help Yuan Shu, and finally broke Liu Bei's army, at this time Liu Beifang regretted that he didn't use Chen Qun's words as a warning at that time.

If Liu Bei listened to Chen Qun's words, how would history develop, thinking of this, Liu Bei shook his head, and said in his heart that there is really nothing to assume.

So Liu Bei said to Chen Qun: "Jinan Licheng still lacks a county order, I don't know if the long text can be bent?" ”

Chen Ji pondered for a moment, thinking that maybe this was Liu Bei's overture to himself, so Chen Ji said: "In that case, Changwen, I don't want to thank you for it." ”

Chen Qun came forward to thank him, Liu Bei was overjoyed, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.

Sure enough, Chen Ji did not change any of Liu Bei's policies and decrees, and he either read books every day, or went to teach the children in school with Cai Yong, which was quite a bit hidden in the city.

In March, the spring ploughing has passed, and the ancient soldiers were mostly used after March, just in order not to delay the agricultural time, like the Kwantung princes, who recruited troops on a large scale from the first month, Liu Bei has already seen the end of their food exhaustion and scattering.

After the spring ploughing, Liu Bei began to recruit government soldiers, this time the scale is not too large, Liu Bei now has 15,000 full-time government soldiers, including 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry. Now he plans to recruit another 15,000 infantry, gather 30,000 people, and then go to the big household of sour dates.

Sun Tzu's Art of War does not say that the wise general will eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one hour, and be me for twenty minutes; Avoid one stone, when I have twenty stones. Now the enemy can't eat, but can you eat the ally?

If they finish their grain a day earlier, they can end the war earlier, Liu Bei is all for the sake of world peace, so he went to eat sour dates to the big households, which is really noble.

When the government soldiers were recruited, Liu Bei sent a thousand veterans as middle and lower-level officers at all levels of the new government soldiers, but compared with the old government soldiers, Liu Bei always had the feeling of a group of rabble.

This is a matter of course, the old government soldiers are all fifth-level government soldiers, and everyone has a family of Yellow Turban Army prisoners as serfs, so they can be trained off-the-job, and these newly recruited government soldiers are just farmers who have just put down their hoes, which is naturally not very inferior.

It's just that serfs can't be given indiscriminately, these Yellow Turban Army prisoners are also Liu Bei's most important source of wealth, besides, just give it out, so that those old soldiers who exchanged their war exploits for serfs can only step up training.

Liu Bei summoned the government soldiers, and when he was about to leave, another distinguished guest came.

"Teacher, you old man, why did you come?"

Facing the comer, Liu Bei said.

The distinguished guest ushered in by Liu Bei was the great Confucian Lu Zhi, who was known as "the hope of people in the sea".

At the beginning, Lu Zhi Dong Zhuo was dismissed, and Liu Bei wrote to Lu Zhi several times, inviting him to come to Qingzhou, but he didn't expect that half a year later, Lu Zhi came to Qingzhou.

In fact, there is not much teacher-student affection between Liu Bei and Lu Zhi, but Liu Bei knows that Lu Zhi is a "golden signboard", so he is extremely respectful to Lu Zhi. Not to mention the rest, at least it can make Liu Bei have a good reputation of "respecting teachers and respecting the way".

Knowing that Lu Zhi came to Jinan, Liu Bei led the state and county officials out of the city to greet him, and when he saw Lu Zhi, Liu Bei bowed and said to Lu Zhi: "Teacher, your old man is finally here." Don't leave when you come, stay in Qingzhou, so that students can have a chance to honor your old people. ”

Liu Bei said as he looked at Lu Zhi carefully, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the last time he said goodbye to Luoyang, in less than half a year, Lu Zhi seemed to be ten years old. Lu Zhi is only in his fifties this year, and he looks like he is already sixty or seventy years old.

Lu Zhi was originally 1.9 meters tall, but he looked a little hunchback at this time. It seems that he was hit hard by Dong Zhuo's abolition of the Son of Heaven.

It's a pity that Liu Bei's acting skills are not up to par, so he squeezed his eyes hard, but no tears flowed down, and finally he had to say: "Teacher, your old man has suffered for half a year." ”

Lu Zhi was very happy when he saw Liu Bei's "true feelings", laughed, and said: "Xuande, I heard that after you returned to Qingzhou, you have done a lot of things to pacify the yellow scarves, appease the people, and I am also very happy. I heard the rumors of Qingzhou's fathers and elders: 'You don't need to seal the marquis of ten thousand households in life, but I hope to know Liu Qingzhou.' 'You have achieved what you have today, and I, as a teacher, am also honored. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he looked embarrassed and said, "For one term as an official, it will benefit one party." The student just did something within his limit, but he was so valued by the Qingzhou fathers, he was really ashamed. ”

It's impossible to be ashamed, this sentence was originally sent by Liu Bei, and it was naturally an imitation of Li Bai's famous sentence "You don't need to seal the marquis of ten thousand households in life, but I hope to know Han Jingzhou." ”

Didn't the rabbit eat the chicken and say, "A good newspaper is worth an army of 100,000." "What? It can be seen the importance of publicity, Liu Bei doesn't have a good newspaper, and it's no problem to spread a few nursery rhymes.

Lu Zhi said: "For one term as an official, for the benefit of one party." It is well said, if the world is an official, everyone has this thought, so why worry that the world is not peaceful. ”

Liu Bei invited Lu to implant in the mansion and ordered people to set up a banquet to entertain him. He also introduced his civil and military officials to Lu Zhi, and everyone was very respectful. Although Lu Zhi was already white at this time, Lu Zhi was a great Confucian in the world and respected at home, and Liu Bei was a teacher, so no one dared to be rude.

The banquet was prepared, and Liu Bei picked up the wind and washed the dust for Lu Zhi.

During the banquet, Lu Zhi's mind did not belong, and he couldn't swallow the wine.

Lu Zhi drinks a lot, and he is famous for being able to drink, and it has been recorded in the history books that he can drink a stone.

Seeing Lu Zhi like this, Liu Bei asked, "Teacher, I see that you are depressed, but there is something on your mind that you can't do." ”

This is just an introduction, Dong Zhuo abolished the Son of Heaven, and now the Kanto region is all opposed, the world is in chaos, how can a person like Lu Zhi who is worried about the country and the people have nothing to worry about.

Sure enough, after listening to Liu Bei's words, Lu Zhi nodded and said, "If there is an uproar today, Kyushu is boiling, how can I sit and drink?" ”

Liu Bei said to Lu Zhi: "Teacher, please rest assured, now that the spring ploughing has passed, I have gathered soldiers and horses, and I am ready to rush to the sour dates, and join forces with all the princes to go west, and I will definitely be able to rescue the Son of Heaven and return to the old capital." ”

Lu Zhi sighed when he heard this. After the banquet was over, Lu Zhi was already old, ran all the way, and drank a lot of wine, so Liu Bei invited Lu Zhi to rest.

The next day, Liu Bei spoke with Lu Zhi again, and Lu Zhi said to Liu Bei: "Xuande, I have a confidant and want to discuss with you." ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he secretly wondered, and said in his heart: Didn't Lu Zhi come to urge me to send troops to fight Dong. Then he said to Lu Zhi: "If the teacher has anything, just tell it, how can the student not obey it." ”

Then he waved his hand and ordered the unrelated people to retreat, and when there were only two people, Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, Lu Zhi said: "Xuande, do you know that the division is now the military division under the Yuan Che riding tent." ”

"Ahh

Liu Bei was taken aback when he heard this.