"It's a pity that the current Yingchuan is not what it used to be at all, I'm afraid I have to use the word dilapidation to describe it!"

It's no wonder that Lu Ren will sigh like this now. In the years of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Yingchuan was able to directly get the protection of the central army of the Han court to avoid the war, and it made Yingchuan the best refuge in the hearts of the scholars in Qing, Xu, Hebei, Yang and other prefectures, and the result was that a large number of talents poured into Yingchuan. One is to take refuge, and the other is that these scholars also hope to find opportunities to enter the court while taking refuge. With the concentration of a large number of talents, Yingchuan has brought a lot of wealth, which makes Yingchuan have a very short period of heyday...... Perhaps the phrase "the stars gather in Yingfen, and there will be many wise men in its land" is derived from this, right?

It's just that the heyday of Yingchuan was really too short, because a few years after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was the Dong Zhuo Rebellion that really allowed the Eastern Han Dynasty to enter the name and death. Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang to the ruins of desolate ruins and moved the capital to Chang'an, which directly caused Yingchuan to lose the protection of the Hanting Central Army, which could have come from Luoyang. Due to the destruction of Luoyang, all parties and Dong Zhuo were unwilling to put their troops in a militarily sensitive area to cause trouble, which made Yingchuan a military vacuum. In addition, Yingchuan is far richer than other regions for various reasons, so it has naturally become an area frequented by many bandits, and the damage is very amazing.

But after seeing Lu Ren sigh, the activation chip began to compare the map of the modern Yingchuan area with the current point of Yingchuan, and in the carriage beside Lu Ren, a slender hand gently lifted the curtain, and Cai Yan's words also reached Lu Ren's ears: "Yihao, as far as I know, before the Dong thief hijacked the Son of Heaven and went to Chang'an, he sent Li Ji and others to loot and return to Yingchuan and Chenliu. There are almost no chickens and dogs left where the violent master passed, and most of the villagers killed him, so Yingchuan became a deserted land. Now Yingchuan is in such a situation, why do you insist on coming to Yingchuan? ”

Lu Ren turned his head to look at Cai Yan in the car, and a smile reluctantly squeezed out of his face. Cai Yan will follow Lu Ren's side now, and Lu Ren is actually quite helpless. It is said that he came out to "run business", what does it mean to take Cai Yan with him? But when he was busy building the city wall of Xudu before, he once threw Cai Yan away for a short time......

In fact, the so-called no matter what, that is, it only shoots back to the Hunter Essence House every two or three days, which is a very common thing when you are busy with work, but as soon as you go back and take a look at Cai Yan, you will find that Cai Yan will fall into a very mental state. After that, I was afraid that Cai Yan would make trouble, and it would be difficult for me to explain here, so I had to take Cai Yan with me when I traveled.

Now seeing Cai Yan poking his head out to ask, Lu Ren just smiled at Cai Yan very reluctantly, but did not answer Cai Yan's question. In fact, this is related to government affairs, how did Lu Ren tell Cai Yan? So after thinking about it, Lu Ren found another word to respond: "Yingchuan is Xun Wenruo Xun Gong's hometown, when Dong Zhuo caused trouble in Luoyang, Xun Gong saw that the land of Yingchuan would be killed, and after abandoning the official and returning home, he moved to Jizhou with the children of a clan for refuge, and it has been many years now. Xun Gong cherishes his homeland, but because he has a heavy responsibility, he can only let me come to Yingchuan to help him take a look. If I can still find the Xun clan people who survived, I will help Xun Gong to collect it, and Xun Gong can return to the clan so that they can be merged. ”

Cai Yan suddenly felt a moment: "I see! ”

Lu Ren continued: "Actually, I myself am a little selfish. At that time, Yingchuan Academy was a place where all scholars in the world longed for to study, but it was a pity that I was just a beggar begging for a living in the market at that time, and I had no chance to study in the hospital. But if I can stand in the academy and think about the scene of myself studying hard in the academy and talking about the scriptures and the scriptures with a group of classmates, it can be regarded as a little comfort. ”

It's not like Lu Ren is sighing indiscriminately. This kind of mentality is a bit like the Qianqian students in modern society, who fail to get into the ideal university in their minds after several efforts, and always imagine in their hearts what it will be like when they study in the ideal university.

In this regard, Cai Yan could only smile noncommittally. She knew that Lu Ren was just a little beggar who "wandered all over the world and begged for a living" when he was young, and if he said the wrong thing on such an occasion, it would only embarrass Lu Ren.

Lu Ren saw that Cai Yan lowered the curtain and didn't speak again, so he didn't talk to Cai Yan again. is idle with Cai Yan, and Lu Ren's own plan is of course not so simple.

Now Lu Ren is only responsible for the construction of the city wall and palace of Xu Ducheng for the time being, and it seems that there is no other task entrusted to him, but Lu Ren will definitely not be able to run the matter of coming to Chuntuntian, so the construction is on the right track, and he only needs to supervise and inspect it occasionally, and then he begins to focus on the preparation of Tuntian.

And the people of Xuchang and Puyang can be said to be very different, Puyang is basically only Haoqiang but no scholars, to put it simply and bluntly, although there is power, but can only be regarded as a "grass king with a gun", there is no "pen" public opinion influence. And when necessary, Lu Ren can use unrestrained or even barbaric methods to deal with the Haoqiang in the Puyang area.

But that's not the case here. First of all, when Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty moved the capital to Xuchang, he brought a group of Han court officials, and these officials were all very powerful, and most of them had a high reputation. The ability of such a group of people to create public opinion is really not a joke.

Secondly, next to Xuchang is Yingchuan, the place where academic public opinion flourished in the early days, and the scholars can really catch a lot of them with a single grasp, and most of these scholars have close ties with the officials of the Han court. Cao Cao had to give up three points to such a big gang of people in the early and middle stages, and if Lu Ren didn't take these factors into account when doing things, he would probably not even know how he died.

In this case, the most convenient way may be to "pull a family" to support yourself, or at least have a reasonable public opinion system to support your work. And at this time, the helper that Lu Ren can pull seems to be only Xun Yu.

Xun Yu arrived in Xuchang only a few days ago. Originally, he should have rushed over a long time ago, but because Cao Cao's previous military, political and economic center was placed in Juancheng, and now he was moving south to Xuchang, there was naturally a lot of relocation work to be done, so Xun Yu came a little late. After Xun Yu arrived in Xuchang, Lu Ren hurriedly went to Xun Yu to ask about Xuchang and some things around Xuchang, and wanted to make some preparations for his Xuchang Tuntian according to the actual situation. From Xun Yu's words, Lu Ren learned that there are many wealthy families in Xuchang and Yingchuan, and the Xun family has just become the representative of this region because of its great reputation.

However, the Xun clan is indeed a big family, and what Xun Yu brought to Jizhou for refuge at the beginning was just a larger number of direct clans. In addition, there is a smaller team led by Xun You, who is the Taishou of Shu County, who originally wanted to move into Shu and start a new branch, but because the road was impassable, he stayed in Jingzhou.

Not long ago, Xun Yu received a reply from Xun You, saying that Xun Yu had led his tribe back to Yingchuan for temporary residence, and asked Xun Yu if he could properly settle these people...... After Lu Ren heard Xun Yu say this, he didn't think about it, so he asked Xun Yu to write a letter and hand it to him, and he went to Yingchuan and then handed it to Xun You.

(PS: According to the romance, Xun Yu is Cao Cao who defected at the same time as Xun Yu.) But according to the official history, Xun You was recruited after Cao Cao moved the capital to Xuchang with Emperor Xian, and according to the current time period of this book, Xun You should be in the north of Jingzhou. There is a slight change in this book, that is, Xun You has led the people back to Yingchuan)

In fact, where can Lu Ren's little bit of brains be hidden from Xun Yu? As soon as Lu Ren said this, Xun Yu deduced that Lu Ren wanted to use Xun's fame and support to help Mumin Tuntian go smoothly. However, from the long-term perspective of the Xun clan, Xun Yu is also happy to pretend to be stupid and then push the boat. After all, the current Yingchuan Xun clan has long lost its former glory, and has become a down-and-out family with only an empty reputation but no family power to speak of. In this case, of course Xun Yu wanted to make the Xun clan glorious again, and the importance that people in that era attached to whether the family could prosper was not something that modern people like Lu Ren could really understand.

Lu Ren wanted to borrow the fame and support of the Xun clan to complete the Mumin Tuntian, and in turn, Xun Yu also wanted to borrow the tuntian to make the Xun clan prosper again. Of course, Xun Yu also told Lu Ren very vaguely, hoping that Lu Ren could take care of the Xun clan as much as possible without violating the law when he was in Tuntian.

If Lu Ren couldn't understand this extraneous sound, then he might as well commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. Anyway, it's not difficult to really do this thing, Lu Ren has already had a belly case. Because there is a lot of land under the name of Xun, Lu Ren can use the method of "borrowing land to tuntian, and paying 20% of the land loan after the autumn", and this is done even in Cao Cao, Lu Ren also has a saying:

"If the people are uneasy, it will be difficult to move in the fields. In the past, the Xun clan had a very high reputation in the words of Xu and Ying, and the people could first make Mu people cultivate the fields of the Xun clan loan officials. It seems that there are three things: borrowing the fame of the Xun family to calm the hearts of the people who should be admired at the beginning, and the hearts of the people who should be admired at the beginning are at peace, and then the people who should be admired will be at ease, and then the people who should be admired will flock to it.

"Borrowing acres of tuntian, in the autumn, although the treasury will lose two out of ten (the land lent will get two percent, and the government and the people of tuntian will share the other eighty percent equally, and the calculation is that the income of the government will be less than 20 percent), but as long as the law is strictly ordered, so that the officials, scholars, and the people do not encroach on or lose it, then all three parties will be happy, and it can also make the faith of the Ming and the public and the strict law and the letter stand in the hearts of the people.

"Those who are happy in all three directions: the Ying and Xu clans have been war-torn for a long time, and the number of people has been sharply reduced, although there is a wide range of land, but no one can make them cultivate. If he does the act of forcibly merging the land and the people, the people will not be satisfied. If you are not satisfied, you will have chaos, and if you are chaotic, you will bring disaster upon yourself. Now the government has sent the people to lend the land and cultivate, and he can get two out of ten without spending the effort of the people and the funds to support the people, and also make the acres of land not barren, which is the joy of the clan;

"Since the Han Dynasty has been in turmoil so far, the people are mostly oppressed by the big clans, although they plough all year but often get nothing, now there is a Ming Gong to strictly restrain the strong and powerful, so that the people do not work in vain, so that they can get what they can get by ploughing, and they will not worry about being plundered by the strong again, and the people will be happy in their hearts. This is the joy of the people......"

"The clan is happy, the people are happy, they will all be diligent in farming and sang, and they will be in the township, but they will also have the resources to do it in case of military transfer. Although the government has lost the clan's land loan, in the long run, the benefits it can gain are far greater than two of the ten losses. Moreover, the clan has its own limits, how can it be like the wasteland that the Ming Gong has completely opened up? The government can not only reassure the people, but also fill the treasury, which is the joy of the official family......"