Yi Wei Yan thought about it for a while, and compared his heart to his heart, if he was the one who went to seek an official, the top leader would not be in front for more than half a month, and the heads of other departments would not have the right to arrange for him, and he would be cold if he kept hanging himself.

Wang Cang saw that Wei Yan was in thought, thinking that he was worried about his wife and daughter at home and wanted to return home in a hurry, and he couldn't be too disobedient as a subordinate, so he smiled and said: "Lord, you just need to meet with them, make a guarantee with them, let them feel at ease, and then take the time to meet with them one by one in detail." ”

Wei Yan did not find any geniuses among these talents, and found that they were all mediocre talents, but a country or an army is more often known by mediocre talents, after all, it is impossible for a few elite talents to govern the country and the army!

Even so, he still spoke passionately, and they were all excited, and they were willing to die for Wei Yan!

Wei Yan excavated talents by himself, he could see the advantages and disadvantages of talents, see the defects of talents' morality, and ensure the loyalty of talents, but his personal energy was always limited, and the imperial examination system did not dare to launch, and now it still relies on the recommendation system!

Since it is recommended, it is inevitable that some corrupt and selfish people will be recommended for their own purposes, and some unqualified talents or morally corrupt people will be recommended.

In order to curb this bad system that flooded the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Three Kingdoms and led to the chaos of China, Wei Yan specially set up a system, the recommended person must be accompanied by the recommender, meet the boss, and the recommender must also make a letter of guarantee before the recommended person can take office!

His system is not new, but follows the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty recommended joint and several liability system to restrict, stipulating that there is a legal relationship between the recommender and the recommendee, and once the recommender commits corruption, fornication with foreign enemies and other crimes, the recommender must also bear joint and several liability.

When the Qin Dynasty established a unified political system, it restricted officials from using human rights.

Sima Qian's Records of History? In the biography of Fan Sui Cai Zelie, it is said: "The law of Qin, those who appoint others and do not do well, each will be guilty of his crimes." To put it simply, it is "whoever recommends is responsible", whoever you advocate for promotion must be responsible for him to the end, his good is your good, and his fault is also your fault.

Fan Sui, the prime minister of the Qin Zhao Dynasty, put forward the strategy of distant friendship and close attack, and was a great contributor to the unification of the world by the Qin State. He is a person who "the virtue of a meal must be repaid, and the grievances of the eyes must be repaid", and after he was developed, he recommended Wang Ji to King Qin Zhao as the Taishou of Hedong and Zheng Anping as the general. Later, Zheng Anping surrendered to Zhao in the war, and Wang Ji was killed for colluding with the princes. According to the Qin law, Fan Sui, as the recommender, must bear the same responsibility, and even the three clans. King Qin Zhao made it clear that he wanted to protect Fan Sui, forbade domestic discussions about Zheng Anping and others, and rewarded Fan Sui to express his support. But Fan Sui was still under the strong pressure of public opinion, slumped and ended up on the stage.

This principle was further clarified in the Han Dynasty, when the "Two-Year Law Decree - Law of Placing Officials" in the early Han Dynasty stipulated in detail the responsibilities of recommending the master: "If a person is regarded as an official, he will be appointed and dismissed if he is not honest or incompetent." If the recommended person is not honest or incompetent for the job, not only the recommended person will be recalled, but the recommender will also be jointly and severally liable to be recalled, which is the "recommendation joint system", which binds the political fate of both the recommender and the recommendee.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Bo, the Marquis of Fuping, recommended Chen Tang, who was convicted of false elections, in addition to cutting off 200 outdoor fiefdoms, and was also called "Miao" after his death.

The strict recommendation system will inevitably be resisted and counterattacked by the bureaucratic forces of the family!

They want to control the real power of employing people, but they are not willing to bear the joint pressure, so they point out that some of the recommended people are duplicitous and deceive the recommenders, or some people are clean and spotless when they are promoted, and once they are in power, they will be corrupt and degenerate, so should the recommenders also be responsible? Or, the recommended person is capable and capable, but there is a problem with personal morality, is the recommender also responsible?

Under the accumulated attacks of the bureaucrats of the family, the system of recommendation and promotion was loosened during the reign of Wang Mang in the late Western Han Dynasty, and it was stipulated that "no small flaws should be used to hinder great talents" when recommending.

But what kind of shortcomings or mistakes are considered "minor flaws", and how can they meet the standard of "great talents"? This in fact loosened the joint and several system, reduced the responsibility of the recommender, and sure enough, indiscriminate things began to happen.

Yuan An, the originator of the Yuan clan in Runan, and other shameless generations took advantage of the loosening of the joint system to recommend officials and cultivate cronies, and other families did the same, and over time, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the family could not be lost and became a tumor on the body of the Han Dynasty.

The decline of the Han Dynasty is not unrelated to the loosening of the recommendation system.

Wei Yan thought that the corrupt governance of officials in a certain period of that life had a lot to do with the system of no recommendation, and after some corrupt officials were found out, those upper leaders who had ensured that they had benefited from them before that were safe and sound!

How can such a top-down system of vertical recommendation and appointment without restraint not produce corruption?

Of course, if this system is implemented, it seems that Wei Yan will be the most affected, and there are many recommended talents, who are far inferior to Wei Yan, these generals under Wei Yan, except for Zhao Yun and a few other people with more perfect personalities, other generals have many flaws in private morality, if they are held by political enemies, Wei Yan may not be able to face the world in the future, and will not be able to gain a foothold in the court, and those big families may be able to call him the second Dong Zhuo.

But Wei Yan is not afraid, he has a seed artifact elf, help him keep an eye on the movements of these recommended people at any time, pay attention to their loyalty, pay attention to their integrity, if there is any problem, before it happens, deal with it first, and never give those family figures any chance to criticize.

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At this time, Liu Biao organized an army of 100,000 to bypass Yiyang New City and go straight to Luoyang.

Their wishful thinking is to fight with Yuan Shao in the north and south and eliminate Wei Yan together!

The reason for attacking Luoyang was to block Wei Yan's army north of the Yellow River and divide Wei Yan's forces in two sections!

They even think that Luoyang is Wei Yan's seven inches!

Liu Biao didn't know the details of Wei Yan, and got wrong information from the fine work he had planted in Luoyang, thinking that Wei Yan only had 20,000 soldiers and horses that could be dispatched in Luoyang City, but he didn't know that Wei Yan's more than 100,000 men and horses had already laid a big net and waited for Liu Biao to come in.

Liu Biao's striker, Liu Pandu, supervised 20,000 horses, and rushed to kill, with a fierce momentum, as if unstoppable.

Chen Zhi, who was stationed in Luyang, resisted a little, and in accordance with Wei Yan's wishes, abandoned the city overnight, and all the cities along the line were abandoned.

Liu Pan, who was full of ambition, made a little rectification in Luyang, and then followed Chen to the direction of retreat and came to Guangcheng Pass in Luoyang Baguan.

Guangchengguan, located in the south of Guangchengyuan placed by Han Guangwu, hence the name, there are Changworm Mountain, Niangniang Mountain, Monk Mountain, Baiyun Mountain, Panlong Mountain in the northeast, there are Dama Mountain, Dahuling in the southwest, near Guangchengguan, there is Guangchengze, around 400 miles, the water flows out of the Langgao Mountain, flows into Rushui in the southeast, goes north to Jingluo from Jingxiang, here is the place that must pass.

Guangcheng Pass will be guarded by Ma Zhong, since Ma Zhong defected to Wei Yan, he rarely had the opportunity to be alone, so his reputation is not loud, but Wei Yan knew Ma Zhong's talent, and gave him 4,000 crossbowmen, so that he could hold Guangcheng Pass, and be sure to hold on until Liu Biao's brigade also arrived at Guangcheng Pass.

Ma Zhong is good at shooting with ape arms and is also good at commanding crossbowmen, especially after communicating with Hao Zhao for a few days, Ma Zhong has more experience in the defense of passes.

Under the precise command of Ma Zhong, the 4,000 Wei army archers and crossbowmen firmly blocked Liu Pan's 20,000 horses.

Liu Pan could have passed through Guangchengze and bypassed Guangchengguan, but Guangchengze was 400 miles in a radius of water, and Liu Pan did not prepare a boat when he came, and the boats of the fishermen around Guangchengze had already been temporarily confiscated by Ma Zhong!

Liu Pan couldn't pass through Guangchengze, so he had to fight with Ma Zhong at Guangchengguan.

Liu Pan fought under Guangcheng Pass for ten days, and more than 5,000 corpses were thrown under the city, but he couldn't cross Guangcheng Pass by half a step.

Ten days later, Liu Biao's army of 60,000 horses came to Guangcheng Pass to meet with Liu Pan's forwards, Xiangyang to Guangcheng Pass is more than 500 miles away, Liu Biao's men and horses trekked so far, people are sleepy and horses are tired, on the first day of coming to Guangcheng Pass, Liu Biao only ordered to set up camp, and did not attack Guangcheng Pass in one go.

Ma Zhong on Guangcheng Pass has been supporting for ten days, and there are less than 3,000 crossbowmen left from the 4,000 crossbows, and he is extremely tired!

Finally persevered until Liu Biao's brigade arrived, Ma Zhong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and according to Wei Yan's previous instructions, taking advantage of the night, he put scarecrows on the pass, and the scarecrows were all wearing the robes of the Wei army.

The night was dark, and Liu Biaojun looked at the city from afar and did not find anything strange.

Seeing that the scarecrow had successfully deceived Liu Biaojun's eyes, Ma Zhong led more than 2,000 remnants of more than 2,000 horses and quietly withdrew from Guangcheng Pass at night.

Because he was worried that Liu Biaojun's elite cavalry would chase and kill, Ma Zhong led the more than 2,700 crossbowmen to the mountains northeast of Guangcheng Pass.

Ma Zhong's men and horses withdrew safely to the mountain, and Liu Biao's men and horses were not even aware of it.

It wasn't until dawn that Liu Biao was about to launch a general attack on Guangcheng Pass that he found that Guangcheng Pass in front of him had become an empty pass.

Liu Biao learned from Liu Pan that the original garrison of this Guangcheng Pass was only 4,000 people, which corresponded to the information obtained from the detailed work place placed in Luoyang by Kuai Yue, and it was more determined that Wei Yan could dispatch no more than 20,000 men and horses in the Luoyang area, and the 4,000 guards on the Guangcheng Pass must have lost their troops after resisting Liu Pan's 20,000 horses for ten days, and they could no longer compete with their own 60,000 troops, so they withdrew overnight.

Without thinking, Liu Biao led the army into Guangcheng Pass, and rested in Guangcheng Pass for two days, waiting for Han Xuan's rear army.

After Han Xuan's 20,000 rear troops escorted the grain and grass baggage to Guangcheng Pass, Liu Biao had a little discussion with his advisers, and they rarely agreed that Wei Yan's generals could block Liu Pan's 20,000 horses with 4,000 men and horses for ten days, so there was no need for us to stay in Guangcheng Pass too many men and horses, we should concentrate all the horses and horses and attack directly in the direction of Luoyang.

Liu Biao clearly saw from the map, more than 100 miles through Guangcheng Pass to Dagu Pass, Dagu Pass is a gateway in front of Luoyang Capital, once the Dagu Pass is broken, you can drive straight into Luoyang City.

Liu Biao is nearly sixty years old, he has spent more than half of his years in Luoyang City, he has a Luoyang complex more than everyone else, and he can't wait to break Luoyang immediately.

Liu Biao's strategist, the boss of the Kuai brothers, Kuai Liang, is now sitting in the rear of Xiangyang City, if he is with the army, he may persuade him to be cautious and cautious, but Liu Biao is full of ambition and will not listen, Kuai Yue actively advises Liu Biao to march.

Liu Biao decided to leave Han Xuan to lead 6,000 men and horses to supervise the grain and grass in the rear at Guangcheng Pass.

Chen Zhi led more than 10,000 horses under his command to retreat to a small city of more than 20 miles north of Guangcheng Pass, and saw Liu Biao leading 90,000 horses to kill the imminent, Chen Zhi did not hesitate to withdraw his troops from Yangren Gathering, and withdrew all the way to Dagu Pass.

Daguguan is fifty miles south of Luoyang, is located in the canyon between Songshan Mountain and Longmen Mountain, that canyon is called Dagu, the valley is thirty miles deep, the ravines on both sides of the deep valley are vertical and horizontal, the stream is murmuring, the peaks are cut up, the shrubs are thick, there are Niuxin Mountain, Niuzui Mountain, Laoyangpo, Crooked Mouth Mountain, Dafeng Mountain and other peaks and peaks rise and fall nearby, the situation is natural.

Liu Biao led the troops into the big valley, looking at this steep deep valley, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Wei Yan must ambush heavy troops here, don't enter lightly!" ”

Although Liu Biao suspected that Wei Yan had ambushed heavy troops here, he had already led an army of 90,000 to arrive here, and there was no reason to withdraw his troops back.

Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu were originally local thieves in Jingzhou, and their power was once so great that they occupied Xiangyang City.

Because Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu were born in a reckless manner, they have never been trusted by Liu Biao, who has never paid attention to the family, and the two of them have been doing dirty work and tiring work in the Jingzhou army, and over time, the two of them will inevitably have resentment in their hearts, and this time they were pointed out to do this kind of work close to death, the two looked at each other, and the meaning in the eyes of the two who had cooperated for many years was: "Just fool the past, don't take your brother's life seriously." ”

Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu entered the valley, and after staying away from Liu Biao's sight, the two got together and made a little calculation, and came up with a way to protect themselves: "If Wei Yan hadn't set up an ambush here, everything would be fine; If Wei Yan set up an ambush here, it would definitely not be just to ambush our two thousand weak brigades, but to deal with Liu Biao's 90,000 army, if we stupidly discovered Wei Yan's ambush circle, Wei Yan was forced to launch an ambush, none of our 2,000 people would have died, but Liu Biao turned the danger into a disaster, with Liu Biao's usual meanness to us, why should we work so hard for him. Explain to the brothers below, don't climb more than 100 feet, even if you see the ambush soldiers on both sides, you must pretend not to see it. ”