In the seventh year of Jian'an, after some turmoil in the world, when the New Year was about to pass, in addition to the frequent wars in Jingzhou in the south, the Central Plains, with the tacit understanding between Lu Bu and Cao Cao, returned to peace. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

For the world, this is a year of change, the unexpected result of the battle of Guandu, Lu Bu's sudden rise to strength, for the Central Plains princes and even the family, is an unexpected change, but also makes the situation in the world unpredictable, the biggest variable is naturally Lu Bu, Yongliang and barren, even if Lu Bu later laid down the Hetao, the Western Regions, and even the annexation of the state, for the Central Plains princes, these places may not be as rich as a Jizhou, so even if Lu Bu occupied a huge area at that time, In the eyes of the princes and families of the Central Plains, Lu Bu was still just a broken prince.

But the battle of Jizhou completely reversed this pattern, although Lu Bu only got the six counties of Jizhou, but the population under Lu Bu skyrocketed, and at the same time, geographically, Lu Bu was equivalent to directly cutting off the princes of the Central Plains from the grassland, which does not sound serious, and can even be said to be a good thing, the grassland has always been the heart of the Central Plains.

But everything has two sides, without the grassland, they still have to face the threat of Lu Bu, but they have lost the connection with the grassland, and the source of high-quality horses is equivalent to being directly monopolized by Lu Bu, as long as Lu Bu is willing, cut off the output of war horses, and on the battlefield in the future, at least before Lu Bu unified the north, Lu Bu has an absolute advantage in the army.

However, what really worries Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other princes and some people of insight is not this, if Lu Bu is desperate at this time and actively prepares for war, Cao Cao and other princes will not be too worried, too rigid and easy to break, if Lu Bu continues to fight, it will only attract the joint attack of the princes of the world, and secondly, it is also a huge pressure on himself.

Lu Bu is not the kind of small princes who wandered around the Central Plains in the past, with only hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses around him, but the great princes who dominated the north, to put it mildly, the next war is equivalent to a contest between several countries, to this level, it is not just a country's army, the strength of the army is only a level, it is a weapon, the two countries clash, the weapon is important, but its own strength is equally important.

At this time, what is fighting is the population, that is, the economy, that is, the logistics, and the fight is the comprehensive national strength of a country rather than a single force, it is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to govern the world, and this point, even if Lu Bu occupies half of Jizhou, compared with the princes of the Central Plains, Lu Bu is congenitally at a disadvantage in both economy and population.

The six counties of Jizhou have relieved a lot of population pressure on Lu Bu, but after all, it is only half of Jizhou, and other places are still vast and sparsely populated, and Jizhou is newly settled, what is needed now is to appease the people, although the policy of the Juntian system has helped Lu Bu a lot, but if Lu Bu continues to use military force and transfer a large number of people to fight, no matter how good the Juntian system is, for the people, there is nothing.

In terms of economy, the opening of the Silk Road only gave Lu Bu a channel to make money, not equal to how much money was directly given to Lu Bu, and for a new force, no amount of money was enough to spend.

On the other hand, the princes of the Central Plains, at least at this time, have an absolute advantage over Lu Bu, they have the support of families from all over the world, don't look at the poverty of the people in this era, that is because the resources of the whole world are in the hands of a few people in the family, it is no exaggeration to say that the financial resources of a family are enough to create princes all the way, like Cao Cao took out the family wealth in the early days, so that he had his foundation.

Whether it is Liu Biao or Cao Cao or Jiangdong Sun or Yizhou Liu Zhang, if it is just more than money, any one of them can completely destroy Lu Bu in terms of financial resources.

Of course, Lu Bu also has his own advantages, he has a financial route, the Silk Road, and the horse source of the entire north, and the people's livelihood technology that the Ministry of Industry continues to make, as long as Lu Bu is given a certain amount of time to precipitate, Lu Bu's financial growth rate will definitely blow the total financial growth rate of the Central Plains princes!

Cao Cao can see this clearly, so if Lu Bu continues to actively prepare for war at the moment, preparing for a big fight in the coming year, and delusionally thinking about dominating the world, he will be very happy, because then he will not only completely put himself on the opposite side of the princes of the world, but even destroy himself from the inside, if Lu Bu is finished, then the biggest beneficiary is naturally him, with Cao Cao's current power, he can easily pocket all Lu Bu's previous efforts.

However, it backfired, after Lu Bu retreated to Chang'an, he ordered Gao Shun to guard Heluo, and Zhang Liao also began to strengthen the defense line in Jizhou and make a defensive posture, and the news from Chang'an also made Cao Cao very uneasy.

During this time, Lu Bu spent most of his time running between the academy and the Ministry of Engineering, except for staying in the barracks for two hours a day, and now the one who helped Lu Bu take charge of the academy turned out to be Zheng Xuan, a famous Confucian in the sea.

Of course, the most important thing is not this, like Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian, even if Lu Bu tied him up, as long as he was unwilling, Lu Bu couldn't force it, but from the analysis of the news that came back, Zheng Xuan did not reject the identity of this dean, and he was still in Chang'an Academy, so he had a debate with Lu Bu's Fa Yan, Fa Zheng and other Legalist apprentices under Lu Bu on the rule of law or by virtue.

It was the Shangyuan Festival after the New Year, even if he excluded Lu Bu, but he rushed to Zheng Xuan's name, and many Yingchuan celebrities went to participate in it at that time, and Lu Bu did not reject it.

It was arguably the most brilliant debate in the last 100 years, with Dong Zhongshu's views on one side and the Shang Dynasty reform in the pre-Qin period as an example.

In the end, there was no result, but Zheng Xuan's opinion on Lu Bu's hundred schools of thought was supportive.

Because with the Han Dynasty's 400 years of exclusive respect for Confucianism, Zheng Xuan also found some signs, Confucianism began to be self-contained, if at the beginning, Confucianism still has the advantages of the head of a hundred schools, but with the 400 years of exclusive status, Confucianism began to gradually change a little.

As a master of Confucianism, Zheng Xuan naturally hopes that Confucianism is orthodox, but the law represented by Fa Yan's father and son proves that law is not useless here in Lu Bu, and there is a fundamental conflict between law and Confucianism, and it is precisely because of this inherently opposing conflict that Zheng Xuan has a sense of going further after this debate.

Confucianism needs opponents.

The process of this debate also quickly spread to Cao Cao, after all, there were many Yingchuan celebrities who participated, and even many celebrities willingly stayed in Chang'an Academy after that debate and studied with Zheng Xuan.

Cao Cao was not interested in this debate, as Guo Jia said before his death, it was impossible for Cao Cao to copy Lu Bu's set, for Lu Bu, it was good medicine, but for Cao Cao, it was a dose of poison.

He was more concerned with the meaning behind the debate.

Maybe Zheng Xuan opened this debate purely in the spirit of academics, but Cao Cao believed that without Lu Bu's support, Zheng Xuan would not have had so much power to make this debate so thorough, so that many famous people from the Central Plains went to participate, not that he was not famous enough, but in terms of financial resources, Zheng Xuan did not have such great ability.

This is Lu Bu announcing his academic status to the world, not Lu Bu himself, but Lu Bu's power, a hundred schools of thought, that is to say, in Lu Bu, in addition to Confucianism, other schools of Lu Bu can provide them with the soil for survival.

It was good news for other miscellaneous studies, but for the princes of the Central Plains, it meant that a large number of talents and even Confucianism itself would gather in Luoyang.

"Look, there's a trick to this matter!" Xuchang, in Cao's mansion, Cao Cao rubbed his temples and put down the information in his hand.

"The latter move has come out, and this three-character scripture is it." Xun Yu sighed and put down a three-character scripture in his hand, which was given to the famous people who came to participate for free from Chang'an Academy after the debate competition, and a disciple of the Xun family participated in the debate and brought back a three-character scripture.

"This book ......" Zhong Xuan looked at Xun Yu suspiciously, he also had a copy of this book, but he didn't see any problems, and said puzzledly: "The whole article is easy to understand, it's hard to imagine that it is from the hands of Zheng Dajia." ”

"This is for learning, for the enlightenment of young sons." Xun Yu shook his head and said, "I heard that Lu Bu is running a township school now, if Lu Bu can really promote it......"

Didn't say it anymore, Zhong Xuan is a smart person, Xun Yu a little, Zhong Xuan also woke up, from the time when Lu Bu founded Chang'an Academy, there were many people who ridiculed, and later founded the county school The same is true, and now the township school is now run again, these three character scriptures are indeed suitable for young children to learn, no need to be taught by Mr., as long as a few people who know how to read and write, children are bored on weekdays and memorize it a few times.

And the content inside, even if the adults who can't read, as long as they have life experience, they can understand, and the explanation is naturally not a problem, after a long time, Lu Bu may not be too many celebrities in a short period of time, but the literate people are growing in a blowout, not too long, ten years later, when these people grow up, with Lu Bu now based on the law to establish a set of mechanisms, the efficiency of the entire Lu Bu forces will be qualitatively improved, and then based on this, the people's livelihood and the Ministry of Industry will ......

Zhong Xuan suddenly didn't want to think about it, everyone in the world is literate, which also means that the family's monopoly on knowledge is gone, and this three-character scripture is not only under Lu Bu's rule, but is promoted all over the world, and it can't be stopped if you want to, after ten or twenty years, even if Lu Bu does not expand outward, his position as the overlord of the world is unshakable.

One of the most important things pursued by the ancient ruling class was that the foolish people were easy to control! So before Lu Bu, even with Cai Hou Paper, the ruling class did not think about promoting this thing, because it would shake their position, now the monopoly of knowledge has been broken by Lu Bu, and the people have knowledge, and there will naturally be more ideas, and with Lu Bu's Juntian system in front, after ten or twenty years, these policies will spread, how will the people choose?

Thinking of these things, Zhong Xuan, Xun You, and the surrounding ministers couldn't help but gasp, if the Juntian system is a weapon that Lu Bu took out to prepare to deal with the family, then this three-character scripture is that Lu Bu began to really move to the family, and as soon as he made a move, he was prieing the foundation of the family! (To be continued.) )