Qi County is an important town in the south of Taiyuan. Located in Zhaoyu Zedong, it is an important passage between Taiyuan County and Shangdang County.

The Taiyuan strategy involves many problems, how to deal with Wang Rou, the current county guard of Taiyuan, and Jinyang, the Taiyuan county governor, is just one of the problems.

And how to prevent Gao Shun of Xihe County, Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Zhang Yang of Shangdang is also related to whether Taiyuan County can be successfully controlled.

In order to prevent Zhang Yang of the Shangdang, we must try to control Qi County.

Although Qiao Zhiyong is not a subordinate of Liu Mang, nor is he an officialdom, his business is as big as the Qiao family, and he is not only sensitive to business opportunities, but also sensitive to politics.

Qiao Zhiyong knew that Liu Mang was preparing to enter Taiyuan County, and took the initiative to say: "Mrs. Liu is not a talented person in the world, and he can sympathize with the suffering of the people, which is really the luck of Qiao, the luck of the state, and the luck of the people in the world." Although my Qiao family has ancestral training, they are not allowed to participate in politics. But what Liu Taishou did was a righteous act to rejuvenate the country and help the people, Taishou had orders, Qiao Zhong did not dare to do his best, and the ancestors of the Qiao family would also be pleased with the spirit of the heavens. ”

Qiao Zhiyong took the initiative to express his position, and Liu Mang was very pleased.

The march into Taiyuan is the highest military secret, and it can't be revealed too much to Qiao Zhiyong until the critical time. But the two are closer to each other, and they are a little more sure of successfully entering Taiyuan.

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Liu Mang returned to the Yin Pavilion, Li Yan just rushed back from Jinyang, and Su Dingfang also received an order to rush to the Yin Pavilion from Mayi.

The meeting was held in great secrecy, and the only participants were Liu Mang, Liu Bowen, Changsun Wuji, Li Yan, Su Dingfang, and Yang Yanzhao.

Gao Zhong personally led the team, holding a golden tiger head gun to hold the door, and no one was allowed to approach and disturb during the meeting. Even the attackers cleaned up the house and avoided going to other rooms.

Li Yan first reported on the situation in Jinyang.

In the northern part of Taiyuan, under the governance of Wang Rou, although it seems to be peaceful and peaceful, various unstable factors have begun to germinate.

Wang Rou has a good reputation as an elder, and she is indeed sympathetic to her subordinates and the people. This point is somewhat similar to Liu Yu in Youzhou.

However, unlike Liu Yu, Wang Rou is more cowardly.

Bingzhou and Youzhou are both the northern frontiers of the Han Dynasty, while Youzhou is more bordered by the north and has more contact with foreign peoples.

Although Liu Yu of Youzhou is not good at swordsmen, he can use gentle strategies to appease the alien races in the north, so there are few foreign raids in Youzhou.

And Wang Rou, although he is not the assassin of the state, is in charge of Taiyuan, the center of the state. Taiyuan is the rear of the outposts against the Xiongnu such as Yanmen County and Dingxiang County in the north, and as the county guard of Taiyuan, it is responsible to provide support to the northern counties against the Xiongnu.

However, when Yinguan was besieged by the Xiongnu, it was precisely because of Wang Rou's various prevarications and refusal to send troops to support Yanmen that Yanmen Pass was almost conquered by the Xiongnu, and the eastern part of the state was almost trampled by the Xiongnu.

Taiyuan County was not without an army. Taiyuan County is the seat of the state administration, and it is also the logistics base to resist the Xiongnu, and it also belongs to the border area. According to the Han military system, Taiyuan County can be stationed with 5,000 horse infantry border soldiers.

However, Wang Rou was not good at military affairs, and the actual number of Taiyuan border soldiers was less than 3,000. Moreover, due to the small population of the prefecture, in order to encourage farming, Wang Rou let nearly half of the local soldiers in all posts return to their hometowns to work in agriculture, called "raising soldiers with tun".

As a result, the border soldiers lacked training and their combat effectiveness was almost completely lost.

However, Taiyuan farming has not improved because of "raising soldiers with tun". Due to the frequent border troubles in the north, the people in the northern part of Taiyuan County are in fear all day long.

Fearing the southern invasion of the Xiongnu, many farmers did not dare to sow seeds on a large scale, but only chose crops with a short maturity period. The yield and nutrition of such crops are naturally much worse, and farmers have gradually formed the habit of only seeking to be fed and not to save grain.

As a result, the living standards of the people in Taiyuan County are declining day by day, and many people are so unbearable that they abandon their homes and go to other places to make a living.

The common people did not understand the affairs of the military state, Wang Rou had the name of compassion, the people respected his virtuous people, but also misled by his virtuous name, and most of the poverty in Taiyuan was attributed to the invasion of the Xiongnu, and did not understand that the southern invasion of the Xiongnu was unfavorable for border defense.

"I can't figure it out, how can a person like Wang Rou have a good name?" Liu Mang said angrily, "Is it true that if you go to the streets and countryside and chat with the people, but you don't do practical and serious things, you have a good name?" ”

"The Wang family, his father, and his ancestors all became officials with filial piety and honesty, and their virtuous names mostly originated from the name of filial piety."

Wang Rou has an octogenarian mother, and at every meal, Wang Rou must first try the hot and cold meals of the old mother, and in the morning, noon and evening, three times a day into the back hall to say hello.

In this era of filial piety, filial piety is indeed a good way to become famous.

Wang Rou has more than a dozen children and grandchildren, and his young grandson Hui'er has been smart since he was a child, and he has the style of Wang Rou.

When the child was young, Wang Rou often carried her grandson around the neighborhood. Now that the child is older, when Wang Rou goes to the streets and countryside to find people to chat, she often holds this grandson named Wang Hui by the hand.

Filial piety loves the young, so Wang Rou won the name of filial piety.

"That's it?" Liu Mang couldn't figure it out.

Wang Rou is indeed a good son at home, and he is better than a good grandfather. However, this filial piety and kindness, living at home, being an official depends on whether he can do practical things!

"Besides, there are so many people who are filial and loving, why is he so famous?"

"The young master doesn't know that Wang Rou's virtuous name also comes from the imperial court." The eldest grandson Wuji once worked in the Liu Yu shogunate in Youzhou, and he knew more about the affairs of officialdom.

Wang Rou's father and ancestors were both officials in Bingzhou, and the Wang family is considered an official family. has been an official for several generations, and her reputation is not bad, and Wang Rou is indeed kind-hearted and soft-hearted. And its reputation is far and wide, mainly because of the constant commendation of the imperial court.

"This is Dong Zhongying's strategy."

Is Dong Zhuo's heart eye again?

Lu Bu grabbed the state and didn't let go, and didn't let Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers enter the state. And Lu Bu's strength is not enough to control the entire state, Dong Zhuo is crazy about this, but he can't help but give Lu Bu some face.

In order to prevent other princes from getting involved in the annexation of the state, Dong Zhuo's aides suggested that the imperial court lavishly commend Wang Rouxian's name. Today's award certificate will be issued, and tomorrow'll give a certificate, and the top ten grassroots cadres will be evaluated every three or five times.

Wang Rouxian's fame is becoming more and more prosperous, and if various forces use troops against Taiyuan again, they will inevitably bear notoriety. In this way, Dong Zhuo achieved the goal of temporarily keeping Taiyuan County.

And if Dong Zhuo wants to enter Taiyuan by himself, he only needs to ask the emperor to give an order, get a high-ranking official to idle his position, transfer Wang Rou away, and then replace him with his own people, and he can control Taiyuan justifiably.

"A Taiyuan county guard was played by him with such tricks." Dong Zhuo used this method to win over and guard against himself, and Liu Mang was also drunk when he thought about it.

I feel more and more that the game of politics is too advanced, and there are so many things to learn. At the same time, I also have to take a look at Dong Zhuo's political skills.

Dong Zhuo in Liu Mang's impression is the image in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, a big fat man with wine bags and rice bags. Now it seems that this guy still has some brains, at least he has a group of brainy staff under him.

"This fat man." Liu Mang couldn't help muttering, seeing everyone's surprised eyes, Liu Mang hurriedly smiled and said: "Continue to continue, can the court's commendation blind everyone?" ”

"Not really." Li Yandao.

It's good that some people are dissatisfied with Wang Rou, the key to Taiyuan's strategy may lie in this!