Just when Liu Bei designed to break Zhang He's army in Yongqiu and take advantage of the situation to enter the river, the situation in the Central Plains changed subtly, and almost all the princes moved their eyes to Jizhou, the news that suddenly came out of Guanzhong was like a storm, and under Li Ru's strategy of sending books for free, it quickly swept the Central Plains.

The book was written by Li Ru himself, including the Huns wanted to use a plan to capture the Yongwang Liu Wei to blackmail the Han Dynasty, and then Ye Zhao how to see through the enemy's tricks wisely, not only to annihilate the enemy, but also to plan the plan, before the Huns attacked, they sent troops to secretly infiltrate the Hetao, taking advantage of the Huns to focus on Chang'an, raided the big walled city, and then broke the Huns until the chicken deer village, Guan Yu cut a single Yu.

In short, a book is to praise the greatest achievements in foreign warfare since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are many details that embellish and beautify the Han army, saying that the Huns are hateful, and not killing is not enough to anger the people, in the book, the evil deeds of the Huns are exaggerated a hundred times, and even if the final result is that Ye Zhao's troops slaughtered nearly 300,000 Huns, the people of the Central Plains can only applaud, and few people accuse Ye Zhao of killing too much.

But no matter how it is embellished and beautified, the slaughter and even the killing of 300,000 Huns under Ye Zhao's butcher's knife in this battle is still quite shocking for many people.

Although Ye Zhao is known as the world's famous general, it is also a situation where he has been killed all the way, but whether it is the battle of the Yellow Turban in the past or the factional dispute in Luoyang later, the princes fighting for Dong, even if it is to occupy Shuzhong and naturalize the Southern Barbarians, although there are a lot of killings, but it is only on the battlefield, and this kind of thing is slaughtered, Ye Zhao has almost never done it.

The Southern Xiongnu recuperated in the Hetao for a hundred years, with a population of nearly 500,000, but after this battle, there were only about 200,000 left in the Hetao, and all of them were women and children.

Of course, there is an explanation in the book, the Hu people have a repetitive temperament, if they can't fight and fall out, they will inevitably rebel in the future, and continue to cause harm to our Han Dynasty, which also mentions some of the arguments of the Hu people's threat theory, which are well received by the people of the north, but the people can accept it, it does not mean that others can accept it, among them, the most fierce reaction is still the scholars, in the next half a year, the entire Central Plains scholar class, Ye Zhao is almost in a state of being criticized and written.

Killing the Huns, in fact, the scholars don't care, it's not my race, their hearts must be different, Ye Zhaokeng killed not the Han people, in fact, there is no need to be so angry, what really touched the scholars was Li Ru's book.

There is no problem with the book itself, with Ye Zhao's current status, it is completely reasonable to publish a book to beautify himself, but what frightens the scholars is the circulation of this book.

Because it is given away for free, most literate people will want a copy, and its Chinese pen, almost all of which is vernacular, in the eyes of most well-educated people, it is vulgar and has no connotation at all, but it is such a book, the people read it with relish, and it is also this book, so that Ye Zhao's name really enters thousands of households.

Although Ye Zhao is famous, most of his reputation spreads in the circle of scholars, and the farthest away is only the county Cheng, and the official with the highest head is at most the county order, running around for a livelihood all day long, and many people can't even tell which way they belong to the princes, let alone Ye Zhao, who is far away in Guanzhong.

And the scholars, now they are obviously on the opposite side of Ye Zhao, how can they help Ye Zhao open their eyes, public opinion has always been in the hands of the scholar class, and this is also the era when the scholars control the tongue of the world.

But now, Ye Zhao's book has reversed this situation, although many scholars have realized it and banned books from Guanzhong in regular bookstores in various places, but sometimes, the more you do this, the more curious the people are.

Therefore, Ye Zhao began to set up a special one, compiling some myths and legends into a book, and selling them to Guanzhong in this vernacular way, the price is not expensive, and compared to those books that take a lot of brains and require many people to study all their lives, these books have no connotation, but they are just refreshing to watch, and at the same time, some of the ecology of Guanzhong is invisibly flowing into Kanto little by little.

Some shrewd scholars quickly discovered these problems, and many places directly listed the books from Guanzhong as forbidden books and forbidden to sell, but Rao was enough.

"What a Ye Zhao!" In a wine shop in the Xun family in Yanzhou, Xuchang, a young man was flipping through a book and laughing.

"Feng Xiao is still in the mood to praise him?" On the opposite side of the youth, it is now the actual controller of Yanzhou, Xun Yu, Cao Cao led the army to the expedition, and the rear of the governor of Xun Yu, coincided with his friend Guo Jia's return to his hometown and came to visit, Xun Yu invited Guo Jia to drink, and also showed this book to Guo Jia.

Last year, Yuan Shao wanted to compete with Cao Cao and Liu Bei at the same time, intending to rely on his strong strength and fight on two fronts, Guo Jia spoke to stop it, and fought on two fronts, which was a taboo for soldiers, especially Liu Bei and Cao Cao were attacked on both sides.

After all, Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and the population is so much, let alone one or two years, it is to give him ten or eight years, with the population of Youzhou and the Hu trouble of the side plug, Liu Bei is impossible to develop, and Yuan Shao used this time to make every effort to take Cao Cao down, Qingzhou and Jizhou two fronts, that is, Cao Cao cares about one and loses the other, as long as Cao Cao is swallowed, there is only one Liu Bei left, is it not to be captured?

It's a pity that after Yuan Shao hesitated, he finally inflated his self-confidence, so he chose to fight on both sides, what the result was, Guo Jia didn't want to see it anymore, but one thing is certain, Yuan Shao is by no means the master of success, even if he wins by luck this time, it will be a tragic victory, at most let him occupy Youzhou, but it is difficult to take Cao Cao.

Therefore, Guo Jia, under the cover of his uncle Guo Tu, abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown, passed through Xuchang, and came to visit.

"A character indeed!" Guo Jia put the book down and said with a smile: "Wen Ruo can't see the mystery of this book? ”

"Vulgar." Xun Yu said with a dark face.

"If you only talk about the book itself, it is really vulgar." Guo Jia said with a smile: "But since Wen Ruo asked me to read this book, I must also understand that this Ye Taiwei sent this book to Guanzhong, not for me and other scholars at all, this book was originally circulated to the people, although the books have flourished in recent years, there are more or less one or two books in the people's homes, and most of the people are literate, but you have to let them understand books such as I Ching and the Mean, which is difficult for some strong people." ”

Books such as the Book of Changes and the Mean, don't say that ordinary people who have just come into contact with words for a short time, even many celebrities can't read them thoroughly, and the people are busy with their livelihoods, how can they have the time to study those?

"But these books are different, easy to understand, and the stories are fascinating, which can capture people's hearts the most, and among them, there are some of the lives of Guanzhong today." Guo Jia looked at Xun Yu and said with a smile: "Wen Ruo, with all due respect, although I haven't been to Guanzhong, but only from this book, Guanzhong is almost a paradise for the people, and many concepts are quite novel." ”

Xun Yu fell silent when he heard this, putting aside his personal position, he could also see that Guanzhong was thriving now, but it was one thing to know that it was impossible for him to turn his heart to Guanzhong.

The prosperity of the people in Guanzhong was formed when Ye Zhao weakened the rights of the entire scholar class, and those scholars who followed Ye Zhao grew up under these concepts, and they were able to accept this concept, after all, they were down-and-out before this, even if the interests of the entire scholar class were constantly weakened, for them, it was also a glorious ancestor, plus Ye Zhao did have some means to win people's hearts, so that a large number of poor talents could be gathered together.

For example, if the rights of the family are one hundred, after Ye Zhao's continuous suppression and weakening, only ten remain, which is naturally unacceptable to the original scholars, but for the new scholar class under Ye Zhao, their original rights are all zero, and now they are gradually promoted to ten, and they have an identity and status, so they are naturally happy, and the remaining ninety are gradually sent to the hands of the people at the bottom by Ye Zhao's plan, so that the people will be rich, and they will naturally be supported by the people.

In this way, the people in Guanzhong are rich, the country is strong, and the people support it, but what is lost is the interests of the family.

Which is stronger and which is weak, this is a matter of opinion, but for Xun Yu, who is a top family of the Han Dynasty and a famous family, it is obviously unacceptable, he can give some of his hundred rights to the people to improve the family's popularity, but a hundred miles, take out a little, two, three points, the people are grateful enough, but to take out more than half of it, it is obviously unacceptable.

Originally, Ye Zhao was related to the middle of the country, and the family supported the princes to occupy Guandong, and everyone was safe, but now Ye Zhao's books have been introduced to Guandong, which will not only make a large number of people yearn for Guanzhong, but also represent a terrible signal, Ye Zhao is no longer satisfied with Guanzhong, Shuzhong and even Hetao and Xiliang, and has begun to arrange the world.

"Fengxiao is known as a ghost, can there be a way to deal with it?" Xun Yu looked at Guo Jia and said in a deep voice.

This time he invited Guo Jia, firstly, to recommend talents for Cao Cao, he has known Guo Jia for many years, and he is very aware of this friend's talent, and wants to recommend him to Cao Cao, and secondly, he also wants to think about Guo Jia's advice.

"It's not difficult, at least the method of banning books in various places doesn't work, the people have become obsessed with this thing, you want to ban it, it's difficult, it's better to block it, you might as well follow the example of Guanzhong to produce some such books, so that the people have more choices, and at the same time, you can also fabricate some filth in Guanzhong to slander the reputation of Taiwei, as for how to slander...... Don't tell me about it, right? ”

"Fengxiao really deserves the name of a ghost!" Xun Yu smiled: "That...... The ...... of the outstanding"

"No hurry!" Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Yuan Shao's matter still makes the little brother feel palpitations, so he will be a staff member here in Wen Ruo first, and as for the officer, he will be exempted, Jia can't stand it!" ”

"So...... That's good! Although there are some regrets, Xun Yu is very clear about the temper of his friend, since he can't say it, you just put a knife on his neck, he will never compromise, and nodded at the moment: "It's just that being my staff is a bit condescending." ”

"Unyielding is unyielding!" Guo Jia said with a smile: "You must have good wine, you must have beauties, and Jia's expenses are not low." ”

"You~" Xun Yu couldn't help but smile and shook his head when he heard this.