On that day, Lu Ren took away the Jiaozhou peace talks to make Gao Yan, and after a little preparation, he temporarily handed over the construction of Guangzhou City to Deng Ai to be responsible, and he took Minchan and some entourage to Zhuya, one was to meet with Lu Cheng and Lu Xin, and the other was to inspect the development of Zhuya. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Before, Lu Ren asked Gao Yan to bring a letter to Shi Xie and said some polite words. According to the internal situation of Jiaozhou revealed by Gao Yan, as well as the conclusions that Lu Ren got when he read books in the past, it can be shown that Shixie is a timid and fearful person. And such a person, after hearing that Lu Ren accepted the gift and had already retired from the army, would only rejoice in his heart that he had peace, and it would be impossible to cause trouble again.

In addition, Lu Ren also found some discoveries in his conversation with Gao Yan, that is, the scholars in Jiaozhou must not have been able to really get the support of the scholar class, which can be seen from the fact that although Gao Yan was an envoy of the peace talks, he did not go all out to defend the peace for the scholars.

Lu Ren didn't notice anything at the beginning of the crossing, but from the time he lived in seclusion in Xiangyang, he vaguely realized that although the boundary of Jiaozhou was remote, in fact, due to the relationship between avoiding the war, many people in the Central Plains avoided living in Jiaozhou. And because this kind of poor scholar does not have a prominent family background or fame, and he fled to Jiaozhou, he will naturally not attract the attention of the Jiaozhou scholar. In addition, all kinds of important positions in Jiaozhou are filled by the children of the scholars, and the poor scholars in Jiaozhou almost have no future at all. If you're lucky, you may be able to get a Jiaozhou curtain guest to get enough food and clothing, if it's a little worse...... I don't know where I'm still working on my own.

Then there are some of the wiser ones who moved to the east of Jiaozhou earlier, one can at least be "out of sight is clean", and the other may have other opportunities to enter. There is an excellent proof of this, that is, during the period when Lu Ren seized Guangzhou and then slowed down the eastern border of Jiaozhou, many of the talents recruited in Guangzhou were found in the eastern part of Jiaozhou.

Most of the talented and talented people want to get ahead, and the road to entry in the Jiaozhou area is basically blocked by the children of the scholars, these scholars will definitely be dissatisfied, but they dare not speak out. From Gao Yan's actions, it is not difficult to find that the scholar class in the Jiaozhou area actually hopes that someone will replace the scholar family to change the situation of having no way to enter, and now Lu Ren's appearance is undoubtedly an opportunity.

But Lu Ren knew about this, but he couldn't completely blame Shixie, because Jiaozhou at that time mainly included Guangxi, part of Yunnan, and part of the borders of Vietnam and Laos in later generations.

If the traditional scholar forces want to play the exclusive game on the territory of Jiaozhou, the chaotic minority clusters will not buy their accounts in the first place. And Shi Xie can stay in Jiaozhou for decades without any big trouble, how to say how to reconcile the relationship between all aspects of Jiaozhou should be a very set of people, and where will the traditional scholars play that set on the boundaries of Jiaozhou? If you really want to play that set, Jiaozhou may be messed up.

And Lu Ren's timely withdrawal of the Jiaozhou area also took this into account.

Lu Ren believes that there are many, many talents buried in this era, and according to the records of historical books, there have never been any recorded characters in the Jiaozhou area except for the people of the Shi family, which is really puzzling in Jiaozhou, where there has been a large-scale migration wave to escape the war.

Of course, Lu Ren also imagined that this was due to the remoteness of Jiaozhou and the low level of cultural education as a whole. But after slowly learning about the actual situation of Jiaozhou, Lu Ren wanted to dig up these buried usable talents one by one and then collect them for his own use, but he couldn't directly occupy Jiaozhou. The withdrawal of troops from Hepu, but the requirement that Shixie maintain the trade between Hepu and Guangzhou, in a way, Lu Ren was sending a signal to these poor scholars, hoping to use this smooth road and his own gradually expanding influence to attract those poor scholars to Yizhou.

Then again, Lu Ren really didn't have many available people at hand. Although there were a number of talents discovered and cultivated before, these talents are now only active at the grassroots and middle levels, and it will take some time to improve whether they can be improved.

Let's not talk about these things first, but just say that Lu Ren stayed in Zhuya for a few days, and then received a telegram from Deng Ai in Guangzhou, saying that Shi Xie had sent a reply, in which he praised Lu Ren's words about those scenes, as if he was in favor of Lu Ren's withdrawal from Hepu and the hope of establishing a trade route between Hepu and Guangzhou. And these are easy to say, the most important thing is that Shi Xie hopes to have a meeting between the leaders of the two sides at the junction of Hepu and Guangzhou.

When Lu Ren heard such news, he was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, and said in his heart, Are you Shixie bold or is there water in your brain? You're not afraid that I'll arrest you directly, can't you? But after thinking about it, Lu Ren secretly laughed at himself. Many times you can't underestimate the IQ of the ancients, Shi Xie dared to make such a request, maybe he really saw what would have such courage. Then again, Lu Ren really doesn't want to do anything to Jiaozhou, and he also wants to maintain a good relationship with Shixie, so now is the time to have a good talk with Shixie. Now that Shi Xie has proposed it himself, what's the harm in going there?

So Lu Ren turned around from Zhuya and turned back to Guangzhou, as for the related chores, Deng Ai and Liu Ye would take care of it. So this time it was said that he was in a hurry, but it was better to say that Lu Ren was walking slowly forward in a leisurely manner. Anyway, judging from the itinerary of the journey, it will take some time for Shixie's messenger to rush back to the delivery address, and then it will take some time for Shixie to rush from the delivery address to Hepu when he is ready, and if Lu Ren arrives at Hepu in three or two clicks, won't he have to wait for a few days? Anyway, there won't be any major events in the short term, Lu Ren just thinks that this way is playing.

According to the report of Lu Cheng and Lu Xin of Zhuya, in the past few years, they have often come into contact with some foreign traveling merchants in the Zhuya area to trade with each other, mostly based on wild game, herbs, brocade, gold and silver utensils, and all kinds of gems in the mountains, and the costumes of these alien races are also similar to the costumes of some ethnic minorities living in Guangxi in later generations. It's just that these alien races don't seem to have a fixed genealogical title, and they are generally referred to as Nanban in the Han Dynasty. Then there are the things they trade back, which are generally grain, rice, cloth, and all kinds of production and daily necessities, and it is said that the life of these barbarians is still relatively backward and poor.

Now Lu Ren has also come into contact with a lot of these Nanban who may be the ancestors of the Zhuang people in later generations on the road, and after seeing the backwardness of these Nanban's lives, Lu Ren wants to stay and help, but he does not allow it in time, so he can only wait for the future according to the impact on Jiaozhou. Along the way, Lu Ren was still secretly thinking, which clan should this Southern Barbarian King Meng Huo be regarded as the ancestor of? Miao or Zhuang? But to be honest, Meng Huo's branch is a bit far away, because it is in the Yunnan area, maybe it is still brought by Xuandian, and there is still a considerable distance from Jiaozhou.

When there were still about two days away from Guangzhou, Deng Ai sent a messenger to inform Lu Ren that Shi Xie had arrived in Hepu, hoping that Lu Ren could rush to Hepu as soon as possible. In addition, Deng Ai also deliberately asked the messenger to inform Lu Ren that Shi Xie only brought a thousand personal soldiers to escort him, and everything else was normal, and it seemed that Shi Xie was sincere in negotiating.

Lu Ren calculated the time and said, "Why is it so fast!?" I was delayed on the road for a few days, but I roughly calculated that I should go to Hepu with Shixie. ”

Minchan said on the side: "It seems that as you expected, Shixie was frightened by you, so I wanted to express his earnest friendship to you." Yihao, let's hurry up here, don't make people wait too long. ”

Lu Ren smiled and ordered the sergeants behind him, "Speed up the march!" Strive to get to Guangzhou before nightfall tomorrow! ”

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Two days later in the morning.

After a day and night of rapid marching, Lu Ren and his group rushed to the city of Guangzhou. Because he was too tired and it was getting late, Lu Ren did not immediately meet and negotiate with Shi Xie, but had a good night's rest, and only in the early morning of the next day did he send someone to invite Shi Xie to the junction that he had agreed before.

But it was said that Shi Xie came to the ground, and after meeting Lu Ren, Lu Ren was startled at that time. This Shixie has all white hair, and his back is a little hunched, but his spirit is very good. If it weren't for the heavy literati aura on his body, he might have to fight with people like Huang Zhong who are getting older and stronger.

After meeting and saluting, and then sitting down, Lu Renleng took a long time before asking a sentence: "Kid is not talented, dare to ask here, how long is Shijiaozhou this year?" ”

After changing to Shi Xielen, he glanced at the people on the left and right, and was a little inexplicable. Lu Ren, as a candidate, is now negotiating again, but the first sentence seems to be too out of tune to ask this. After the recklessness, Shi Xie replied: "I am old and talented, and I have spent seventy-three springs and autumns in vain. ”

Lu Ren said in his heart: "Seventy, seventy-three years old? That's old enough! Hey, I seem to remember that the history books record that Shi Xie died in the fifth year of Huanglong in the Wu calendar, and he was ninety years old when he died......"

"Ahem—"

Whenever Lu Ren was a little out of shape, Minchan beside him would cough lightly, reminding Lu Ren to come back to his senses, and now this is the case. Lu Ren came back to his senses, shook his head slightly, smiled at Shi Xie and asked, "Shi Jiaozhou, I apologized to you for the previous incident of using troops to Hepu." But I want you to understand that I also have something I can't help but have. (To be continued.) )