This man with a majestic figure and an elegant face is the most powerful minister of Wu State today, Xu Wen's righteous son, Xu Zhihe. The boy next to him is still unknown, but in many years' time, he will be famous. Because his surname is Lin, his name is Lin Renzhao.

Xu Zhihe got into the carriage again, and the three of them embarked on the journey again. For Xu Zhihe, this trip deliberately made a detour to Youzhou, and then passed through Youzhou without entering, which is quite a bit of a snowy night to visit Dai. However, standing outside Youzhou City in the wind and snow, only one or two hundred steps away from the gate of Youzhou, the reason is really as Xu Zhihe said, the so-called "a city without a future, don't enter"?

Sitting back in the carriage, Xu Zhihe sat upright and asked the young man in front of him, who was also sitting upright, "Renzhao, what have you learned from this envoy to the Khitan?" ”

The young man thought for a while and said: "I have seen and learned a lot on this trip, and I have felt a lot, and I can't say all about it for a while. ”

"You say yes." Xu Zhihe said.

Lin Renzhao's immature eyes flashed with a fiery color that did not match his age, and he said: "This time I went to the Khitan, and the servant learned a lot, but the most important of them are two words. ”

"Oh?" Xu Zhihe raised his eyebrows slightly.

Lin Renzhao said seriously: "These two words are the world." ”

Xu Zhihe was silent, groaned slightly, and said with a smile: "Then tell me, what is the world?" ”

This stumped Lin Renzhao, he lowered his head and thought for a long time, and finally, he pointed to the north, and then pointed to the direction of Youzhou City, and said: "Khitan, Youzhou, is the world!" ”

Xu Zhihe smiled, "Khitan and Youzhou are the world, so what is the Wu Kingdom?" ”

Lin Renzhao didn't think about it this time, and blurted out: "Wu Guo is the place where the world will eventually converge into one point." ”

Xu Zhihe's face finally changed slightly, he was stunned, nodded and praised: "Ambitious!" ”

Lin Renzhao showed a shy smile, although Xu Zhihe only praised it slightly, he already looked a little embarrassed.

Xu Zhihe opened the curtains with his hands, and let the wind and snow outside the window pour in, his gray face finally had a tendency to gradually turn black, and the light around him gradually dimmed, and Xu Zhihe's eyes penetrated the wind curtain and snow twilight, and he didn't know where to fall. Looking out of the window for a long time, Xu Zhihe said slowly: "The world is big, the ten countries are strong, and the troubled times are frequent. However, there are many heroes in troubled times, if you want to sail in such a torrent, if you are not careful, you will be crushed and your bones will be gone. Compete for the world, focus on the competition, and only those who follow the trend can win the world. However, throughout the ages, there have been countless princes and generals, life since ancient times, amorous and heroic, and the world has been broken by many contrarians, and the cycle has been repeated. In this land, generations of heroes have made outstanding achievements. But now, the princes and generals, passing by in a hurry, have long disappeared, only thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, standing still. The vicissitudes of the sea show the true character of the hero, in one sentence. ”

Lin Renzhao's eyes widened, his eyes were full of doubts, although he knew the meaning of every word of Xu Zhihe's words, but when they were connected, he found that he couldn't understand them at all.

Noticing Lin Renzhao's blank eyes, Xu Zhihe's always upright face rarely showed a gentle smile, he stroked Lin Renzhao's head, and moved the topic to the actual situation at hand.

"Uniting the Khitan and balancing the Central Plains is the inherent national policy of the Wu State. And the reason why there is such a national policy, in the final analysis, is that the Central Plains is strong and the Wu State is weak. When Zhu Wen was there, he wanted to send troops to Huainan and seize the land of my Wu country, when Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, was still there, so he raised troops to the north to meet him, and experienced several major battles in Shouzhou, and finally defeated Zhu Wen and let him return with a feather. Since then, the Liang Dynasty has no longer been able to look south, and the Wu State has relied on it. Although Wu can achieve temporary stability at present, it is unknown how long this stability can last, and in order to maintain this stability, Wu Guobei formed a Khitan alliance and formed a north-south attack on the Central Plains, which is not only a wise move, but a last resort. Xu Zhihe said, and asked Lin Renzhao again, "Do you know why?" ”

Lin Renzhao shook his head and couldn't answer.

Xu Zhihe was not disappointed, he continued: "There are many princes in the world, and it is a matter of course for the weak and weak to unite against the powerful countries, so it is a wise move to unite with the Khitan. Speaking of a helpless move, it is because if Wu is strong enough to resist the Central Plains with his own strength, or even the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, why should he join forces with his foreign barbarians and lower his value? ”

Lin Renzhao seemed to understand and nodded. Xu Zhihe didn't care how much Lin Renzhao could understand at this time, his eyes went straight forward in the wind and snow, and the destination to be reached was very clear, he continued: "You just said that Khitan and Youzhou are the world, which is good, but it is not all right. The state of Wu is first and foremost a part of the world, and it must be integrated into the world, and then it may be a place where the world is one. ”

Lowering the curtains, Xu Zhihe said: "The Khitan had conquered Youzhou before, but they were all defeated by Li Yazi, which made the Khitan have to temporarily change their troops and map the grassland first. But Yelu Abaoji never gave up the idea of sending troops to the Central Plains, and the reason why he has been attacking the grassland departments non-stop over the years is that he hopes to be able to step on the Central Plains with strength after unifying the north. This time, Yelu Abaoji said very clearly, he wants to conquer the Bohai Kingdom in the coming year, if he can really destroy the Bohai Kingdom, he will wave his army to the south, drink the Yellow River, and be ashamed. Now Li Yazi is addicted to pleasure, governing the country is like child's play, rewarding evil and punishing good, and suspicious of meritorious heroes, causing hundreds of officials to deviate from morality and soldiers to feel cold. If he can really destroy the Bohai State at that time, it will be almost impossible for Li Yazi to stop him when he leads the whole country's troops to the Central Plains in the south. When it is, the Central Plains will surely rise again! ”

As soon as the four words "Beacon smoke rises again" came out, Xu Zhihe and Lin Renzhao, one big and one young, were almost at the same time.

After the unconsciously revealed edge in his eyes disappeared, Xu Zhihe continued: "Over the years, due to the frequent wars in the Central Plains, and the general tranquility of the Wu State, there are many scholars and people who have moved south in the Central Plains, and the cultivated land of the Wu State has also increased exponentially. In the past, the king of Wu, Yang Xing, was able to defeat the Chinese who were as powerful as Zhongtian, and now the state of Wu can also fight with the Central Plains. Once the Central Plains is in turmoil, Wu will be able to send troops to the Northern Expedition and compete with the masses! At that time, it is still unknown to which family the world will belong to! ”

Lin Renzhao clenched his small fists and said firmly: "The unification of the world will definitely belong to my Great Wu Kingdom!" ”

Xu Zhihe smiled slightly.

There was silence in the carriage, and the two people, one big and one young, seemed to be thinking about their own thoughts.

Xu Zhihe opened the curtains again, looked out the window, and muttered: "Take the Khitan as a chess piece, borrow a knife to kill, shake the Central Plains, and when it and the Central Plains are both defeated, the troops will go out of Luoyang, take the Shendu directly, and win the world." I hope that this plan can be successfully realized. I also hope that these people such as me can also leave a good reputation in history and praise them for future generations. ”

"The world, return to Wu!"

……

Warm wine on a snowy night, poetic and picturesque.

Li Congjing cooked wine in the incinerator in the house, and sat opposite Wang Pu by the window to drink. The two of them live in the pavilion, looking out the window, you can see that the whole Youzhou City is brilliantly lit, although there are no stars in the sky, there is a sea of stars underground, such a scene is enough to make people with feelings swim in their eyes.

The snow stopped for a while, the wind did not stop, rolled in through the wide open window, and hit Congjing and Wang Pu in the faces, but the two of them did not flinch at all, but looked comfortable. The cold wind is cold, but for some people, it is like a spring breeze.

The wine pot kept steaming out, the fragrance was overflowing, Li Congjing poured a glass for himself and Wang Pu, took a sip, put down the wine glass, and said: "Since last year, I went north to Youzhou, and now it has been a year. When I first came to Youzhou, I was ambitious, to 'change the sky of clouds', to make Youzhou can get '100,000 young people and 100,000 troops'. Wenbo, do you have a plan for me? ”

"The military marshal has governed Youzhou for only one year, and the granary has three years of surplus grain, the treasury has hundreds of millions of money and silk, and the army is strong and strong. Wang Pu kept drinking the wine in the cup one by one and said with a smile.

Li Congjing smiled dumbly, and said angrily: "Don't talk to me about these useless things, do you have a plan for me to better govern Youzhou?" ”

Wang Pu put down the wine glass, sighed leisurely, and looked at Li Congjing with resentment, "Military marshal, cooking wine on a snowy night is a beautiful thing, poetic and picturesque, but at the right time, why don't you talk about Fengyue, don't talk about poetry and books, but talk about chores, isn't this a big scenery?" ”

Li Congjing expressed dissatisfaction, he said: "There are good things in the world, there are those who are greater than the stability of the country? The poetry of the world, is there more than the person who directs the country? ”

Wang Pu's face was embarrassed, babbling for a while, but he couldn't say anything useful.

Li Congjing glanced at him lightly, and said mockingly: "You Wang Wenbo, Hugh has to talk about him in front of me, you have traveled all over Lulong and Kyushu in the past few months, and explored the cultivated land, yards, fisheries, mines and other places, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight, and he almost died on the way." Now that you have finished Kyushu and returned to Youzhou for a long time, how can you not have half a plan in your chest? Don't think that Ben Shuai doesn't know, you're afraid that you're waiting for me to ask you about it, and you're already waiting for tea and dinner, right? ”

After Wang Pu returned to Youzhou with Li Congjing, Li Congjing did not give Wang Pu a confidential position for a while, and Wang Pu did not ask Li Congjing for his life. Wang Pu returned more than ten days ago, but he has been closed, and it is obvious that something is brewing. Therefore, Li Congjing said that Wang Pu had already made a plan and was waiting for him to ask for a plan.

Although Li Congjing has planned all major military and political affairs in Youzhou and has put them into practice, Li Congjing will not be so arrogant as to think that he will have some omissions and mistakes in governing such a large area. Therefore, Wang Pu, who has investigated on the spot, has a lot of right to speak.

Seeing that his disguise was pierced, Wang Pu was not embarrassed, and said with a smile: "The military commander knows, but all the treasures in the world are only sold to people who know the goods?" ”

Li Congjing waved his hand, "I'm the one who knows the goods!" ”

Wang Pu's face was strange, "Why didn't Park find out?" ”

"That's your sluggishness!" Li Congjing said as a matter of course.

Wang Pu lost his words again.

Li Congjing pointed to the wine jug and wine glass in front of him, and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the knowledge, how could Ben Shuai cook wine and serve talents today?" ”

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Wang Pu said that he was very helpless, "For this treasure in Pu's hands, the price of the military marshal is too bullying." ”

Li Congjing raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then are you selling or not selling?" ”

"Sell!" Wang Pu said decisively, stood up, straightened his clothes, took out a booklet from his arms, and handed it to Li Congjing seriously and respectfully, "Military marshal, this is what Pu obtained from this trip, and now all of them are written in the book, presenting the military marshal, named 'An Biance'!" ”

Li Congjing was overjoyed, took the booklet in Wang Pu's hand, and when he heard Wang Pu's words, his eyes were a little weird, "An Biance? ”

"Yes, it's 'Anbiance' indeed!" Wang Pu was reluctant to look at the booklet that was snatched by Li Congjing, and the sadness in his eyes was like watching his little daughter-in-law being taken captive, and he was pitiful.

Li Congjing didn't have time to pay attention to Wang Pu's expression at this time, and couldn't wait to open the book and look at it carefully.

In this book, Wang Pu, with his keen and delicate vision, made a thorough analysis of Li Congjing's current specific situation of various military and political affairs in Youzhou, and also made a sharp description of the military and political affairs in Youzhou that have not been changed by Li Congjing.

Whether it is Wang Pu's views on the current military and political situation in Youzhou, or the strategies he offered, they can be described as profound and unique, the former goes deep into the source, and the latter prescribes the right medicine. If Li Congjing improves them one by one according to Wang Pu's strategy, it will not take much time to make the appearance of Youzhou's military and political affairs improve by leaps and bounds.

As Wang Pu said at the end of the book: "If the monarch is virtuous and benevolent to the people, then the people will be attached, and the monarch will give virtue to the people, and the people will repay him with their lives." The line of benevolence and benevolence focuses on the officials, the first to govern the people, and the wise politicians of ancient and modern times all govern the Qingming Dynasty, so the first of the "Ten Policies" lies in the rectification of the rule of officials, the core of the "Ten Policies", in consolidating the border defense, and the destination of the "Ten Policies" lies in the hearts of all the people. If all the people return to their hearts, they can make the country not take the risk of mountains and streams, and the people of the domain will not be bounded by the borders of the territory, and the country, although the tigers and wolves are fed, cannot be damaged. This is true of governing a country, and it is also true of governing a place. ”

Li Congjing closed the book, stood up straight, straightened his clothes, and bowed deeply to Wang Pu, "Mr. is talented, Youzhou will rely on Mr. Yi'an." Now I want to worship Mr. for a long history, Mr. is willing? ”

"I don't dare to ask for ears!" Wang Pu returned the salute in return, and then showed a smile that was underwhelming, "If you can add meat and wine, it will be even better!" ”