Three months after the release of the recruitment order, many middle-aged talents came to Liaodong one after another. Wang Lie, Bing Yuan, and Guo Jia served as interviewers. The amount of talent is used, and these talents are arranged with official positions and things. The grassroots level of the three counties in eastern Liaoning has been enriched.

But there are not many high-level talents who come to Liaodong, to be exact, only two people came: Xun Yue and Cheng Yu.

After Xun Yue met Gongsun Du, Gongsun Kang took Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai to host a banquet to entertain him.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Gongsun Kang joked to Xun Yue: "Last time I went to Yingchuan, I asked Zhong Yu for a strategy for foreign races, and Zhong Yu said that he wanted to spread benevolence, righteousness and morality. Now my policy towards the aliens is: either submit to the Han and assimilate into the Han people; Or kill. Is Zhongyu disappointed? ”

Xun Yue smiled unhurriedly and said: "The purpose of spreading benevolence, righteousness and morality is to influence foreign races, so that foreign races can recognize Han people, and it is also to assimilate foreign races. Although General Gongsun's methods were more intense, the effect was more direct. The two have the same goal. What's more, I heard that Gongsun Gongzi worshiped Cai Bojiao as a teacher, and Bojie gave Gongzi a name for benevolence. This shows that the hero sees the same thing. ”

Gongsun Kang was teased by Xun Yue instead, but he was not angry, and said with a smile: "Zhongyu's eloquence is really good, I salute you." ”

Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai and Xun Yue are all from Yingchuan, and they are all old acquaintances, and the two sides began to catch up. Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai asked about the changes in Yingchuan and the current situation of relatives and friends, and there was a feeling that things were wrong.

When the wine was drunk to Tian, Xi Zhicai pretended to be drunk and asked: "Zhongyu Gong came to Liaodong, is it the meaning of the Xun family?" Or did Zhong Yugong mean it himself? ”

Xun Yue was very indifferent and said, "Who does it mean, what's the difference?" There are different voices in each family, and my political advocacy is against land annexation, which is very much in line with Liaodong's policy. ”

Gongsun Kang, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai all understood what he meant: although the family diversified its investments, different princes sent people to assist; But it also depends on the wishes of each person, at least like-minded. So Gongsun Kang has one more like-minded comrade-in-arms.

Knowing this, Gongsun Kang's attitude became solemn, and he raised his glass and said: "Zhongyu came to Liaodong, and we are like a tiger. Drink to win! ”

According to Gongsun Kang's suggestion, Gongsun Du appointed Xun Yue to be in charge of the laws and education of Liaodong. It's a person who makes the best use of his talents.

Cheng Yu (yù), whose name is Zhongde, was a native of Dong'e, Dong'e County, Yanzhou (now Dong'a, Shandong). Cheng Yu's arrival surprised Gongsun Kang, because Cheng Yu was Cao Cao's good friend, and when Cao Cao was in the most difficult time, he also helped Cao Cao carry the black pot of eating human flesh.

Think about it in 192, after Liu Dai was killed by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao's soldiers came to Yanzhou (Zhichangyi, now southeast of Juye County, Heze) and summoned Cheng Yu, and Cheng Yu served as Cao Cao's Shouzhang County Commander.

And now it is 191, Cheng Yu and Cao Cao have not met, and Gongsun Kang is relieved.

Is Cheng Yu a talent? Yes, definitely! And it's a great talent!

Now Cheng Yu is already very famous, and during the Yellow Turban Incident, Cheng Yu led the people to defend Dong'e County. The story goes like this:

During the Yellow Turban Uprising, Wang Du of Dong'e County responded and burned down the county's warehouse. The county ordered the city to flee, and the officials fled east to Quqiu Mountain with the old and the young. Cheng Yu, who was in his hometown at this time, ordered someone to spy on Wang Du and found that Wang Du and others could not hold on to the empty city, so they went out of the city five or six miles west of the city to stop at Tun.

Cheng Yu then said to Xue Fang and others, a big household in the county: "Now Wang Du and others can't live in the city if they get it, and their potential can be predicted. He just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to plunder his property, and he did not have the will to attack and defend with strong armor. Why don't we go back to the city one after another to defend it? And the city is high and thick, and there is a lot of grain, and now if you return to the city to find the county order, and hold it together, Wang Du will not be able to stay for a long time, and then attack him, and Wang Du will be broken. ”

Xue Fang and the others thought so, but the officials refused to obey, and Cheng Yu had to say helplessly: "Foolish people can't make big things." So the secret dispatch rode on the east mountain and held high the flag, so that Xue Fang and others could see it, and then shouted: "The thieves have attacked!" Then he went down the mountain to take the city, and when the officials saw the situation, they followed them, and finally found the county order and defended the city together. Later, Wang Du and others came to attack the city, but they couldn't break it, and they were about to retreat. At this time, Cheng Yu led the people to open the city gate to pursue, and Wang Du was defeated. Dong'a was thus complete.

It can be seen from this story that Cheng Yu is brave and strategic, and can make big decisions.

Gongsun Kang and Cheng Yu met and had a very happy conversation. Both of them are wise and brave people, who regard human life as a mustard. In this sense: Gongsun Kang, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu are all the same kind of people, the kind of people who don't care about "one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither".

Gongsun Kang said to Cheng Yu sincerely: "Zhongde, you are a great talent, you can give me advice and fight in all directions." ”

Cheng Yu bowed down and said, "If you do what you want, you dare to disobey your fate." ”

So Gongsun Kang also appointed Cheng Yu as a military advisor, and his status was the same as Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai.

Thinking carefully about the talents under Gongsun Kang, except for Tai Shici and Zhao Yun, the rest are all talents under Cao Cao in history. Why did Gongsun Kang dig up all the talents that should have belonged to Cao Cao? It's because of geography.

Now the talents belong to many princes, after a lot of battles and battles, the heroes are annihilated, the three kingdoms are established, for Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the surviving talents belong to these three parties.

Among them, Sun Quan's subordinates are all talents near Jiangdong and Jiangnan, and Gongsun Kang is in Liaodong, and the whip is beyond his reach; In the same way, Liu Bei's subordinates are all from Jingzhou and Sichuan, and Gongsun Kang can't reach them.

Because of this era, transportation is extremely underdeveloped, so Gongsun Kang can recruit only people from the north who are willing to defect to Gongsun Kang. Even Tai Shici and Zhao Yun are also northerners.