Even if I have long thought that the world is full of helplessness and self-deception, the so-called history is also a lie and a truth, and behind the words of benevolence, righteousness and morality, respect and humility, it is often the sadness of the situation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but Li Sheng, who always thought that the world would be defeated with a knife and a gun, never thought that he would be like the legendary Liu Bei.

Listening to the words of "declaring benevolence" and "educating the king" in the previous paragraphs, although Li Sheng's face tried his best to put on a solemn and pious and kind appearance, and honestly played the role of a state pastor who only led the military but not government affairs and was full of trust in all officials, but in his heart he was already extremely tired of everything that happened today.

"What. Will anyone believe in such a performance? I don't believe that this room full of officials are stupid, and none of them can see that Lai Gong and I are actually singing double reeds and performing a bad show together. actually made this tearful and smiling appearance one by one. If it's a beauty, it's more or less pleasing to the eye, but it's a group of forty or fifty-year-old men. It's really ...... to do this" Li Sheng, who only felt that he was as weak as a puppet manipulated by silk threads today, maintained his demeanor on his face, and scolded everything in front of him with a bad taste.

Although after discussing this pretentiousness with Lai Gong yesterday, he asked Kong Ming a little unwillingly: "Isn't this a self-deception?" As long as anyone with some brains should be able to see that Lai Gong's humility is just for the sake of the situation. And Kong Ming also said: "This is also a helpless move." Those who understand can see the trickiness in it, but for those who don't understand, those who listen to the wind and rain, the sky above their heads has changed, and they really have to give a reasonable explanation, even if this explanation is the legendary ghosts and gods. The play is to be performed, but the real audience is not the officials facing you in front of you, but the people of Jiaozhou and the imperial court thousands of miles away. The people need a reason, the court needs an explanation, that's all. He nodded his head, but Li Sheng still found it unbearable to do so.

I was a puppet in the morning, and it was almost noon that I got the ceremony of "letting the state pastor". Li Sheng shook his obviously stiff body very uncomfortably, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief. Although he has been an official for many years, but it is generally because of the head of one party, Li Sheng has not been tossed much by the hypocrisy of officialdom, even if he has occasionally heard people talk about this kind of triviality, but he also thinks that it is just a false assumption, and he is extremely unbelievable in his heart, and he never wants such a fatal thing to happen.

"It's so verbose that just a state affair is so verbose, what if it is the king and the emperor after the past? Then you can't exhaust people to death? Thinking of this terrifying variety, Li Sheng couldn't help but shudder. For the first time, he wondered if the decision he had made to dominate the world was so correct.

After being busy for so long, everyone was also hungry, and seeing that the day was gradually getting into the sky, someone naturally proposed to have a good meal. This is also true. After all, in the afternoon, we have to discuss some real things, and if you can't fill your belly at noon, where will you have the heart to do this. The emperor is not bad soldiers, not to mention that these people are not soldiers, but officials.

After experiencing the most important thing in the hearts of all the people in the world, Li Sheng, who had become the pastor of Jiaozhou, and his subordinates, who were still laughing and chatting at the banquet just now, returned to the spacious main hall and sat down as neatly as in the morning, and then began the afternoon topic: "How to deal with Shixie in the south?" ”

"Can any of you briefly introduce Shixie's situation?" Although Li Shengjun's intelligence agency "Reconnaissance Department" had already sorted out the information about Shi Xie for Li Sheng and Kong Ming to study for a long time, Li Sheng was not so strange to Shi Xie, but as the new owner here, he still wanted to hear the reports of these people who had been fighting against Shi Xie for a long time.

"Shixie's word is Weiyan, and Cangwu Guangxin is also a person. His ancestors were from Wenyang, Lu State, to Wang Mang's rebellion, and avoided the land and handed over the state. …… The Shi family is a big family in the land of Jiaozhou. Xie himself has only been a Jiaozhi Taishou for only six years, but his clan has been deeply rooted in the land of Jiaozhou, but it has been several generations, and his eldest brother, second brother, and friends have all received Jiaozhou counties and counties, and Xie. If it is said that the Beijiao Prefecture that we now control is able to be annexed to the Han Dynasty because of the large number of displaced people who come to play and the support of the lord, then Nanjiao Prefecture is completely an independent land of the Shi family, and its orders and names are different from ours. Wu Ju stood up and said such a piece of information that both Li Sheng and Zhuge Liang knew.

"I heard that Shi Xie is a generous and modest corporal, and there are hundreds of Chinese scholars who have taken refuge. It is very popular in the land of Nanjiao. Li Sheng pointed out a point that never seemed to be mentioned in Wu Ju's words - the reputation of the Shi family in the entire Jiaozhou was not bad.

"That's just hypocrisy. A small favor can only deceive a few people, and adults don't have to take it to heart. Regarding Li Sheng's words, Lai Gong made such a helpless reply. It is a fact that the Shijia does have a very good reputation in Jiaozhou. especially

After Shi Xie received the family affairs, he was even more vivid. The so-called "generous and modest corporal" is the world's evaluation of him, and his generous treatment of the soldiers who took refuge in Jiaozhou from the Central Plains has beaten his reputation far away

Even Cao Cao, who is in charge of the world, knows that there is such a person as Shi Xie in the remote place of Jiaozhou, which shows that his reputation is high. Although Lai Gong himself is very reluctant to admit that Shixie is a person who wins people's hearts, this is the case.

That being said, hypocrisy has indeed deceived many people. Fighting Shixie without solving this problem will undoubtedly lose the hearts and minds of our people. Li Sheng only frowned and said.

Li Sheng directly said it so clearly, and the officials in the hall were silent. They were not unclear about the consequences of fighting soul winners. Even if the other party only wins the hearts of the people of a few counties, even if there are ten thousand people, there is still one in ten thousand

Heart, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of people here.

"Trouble." They thought wryly. In fact, it is precisely because they clearly know that Shixie is a soul-winning person, so they feel embarrassed to be constrained.

As far as the big thing is concerned, although Lai Gong is the Taishou of Jiaozhou, this Taishou of Jiaozhou was appointed by Liu Biao, which seems to be a little worse than Cao Cao, who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes and had the name of orthodoxy. And in a small way: Shixie was organized by the local people of his hometown

The people who came, as well as the local forces of his family in Jiaozhou, had stronger cohesion than the team formed by Lai Gong and Wu Ju in Cangwu. Therefore, everyone was worried that if their side launched an attack on Shixie like this, they would be handed over to the local people of Jiaozhou

They all rose up to support Shixie.

"Is there a solution to this problem?" Lai Gong asked nervously. He invited Li Sheng to come here, and was willing to hand over the position of the head of Jiaozhou to Li Sheng, the main purpose of which was to eliminate the Shi family's power in Jiaozhou. It can be said that his goal is only to unify the entire Jiaozhou Shixie, and he has no idea of fighting against hundreds of thousands of natives in Jiaozhou.

"The so-called winning souls is actually winning the hearts and minds of the people. As long as the people's hearts are in me, Na Shixie is just a lone husband. Li Sheng said with a smile.

"We understand this, but we don't have a solution to it." The wrinkle on Lai Gong's forehead did not stretch with Li Sheng's smile: "Can the lord know the three evils of Jiaozhou?" ”

"Three evils in Jiaozhou? I haven't heard of this, so I'd like to ask Lord Changshi to try it. Li Sheng made a gesture of please, and consulted Yu Lai Gong without shame.

"The three evils of Jiaozhou are the three things that cause us the most headaches: one is the harm of the barbarians of Jiaozhou and the Han people of Jiaozhou, the barbarians are the people of Jiaozhou, who have lived in the mountains for a long time, built a village and survived, and were brave and light on etiquette, although they are harmless to people on weekdays, but when the famine comes or someone provokes them, they tend to unite into one place, and there are often sieges and slaughters; Some of the Han people in Jiaozhou have lived here for several generations, and they have a permanent production between the townships, which are the native people, and now the Central Plains is in civil strife, the beacon smoke is not stopped, and there are many people from the Central Plains who live here, which is called the guest people. If the guest people want to live here, they must need land and assets, and these are often owned by the local people, and the two sides often quarrel over some things, and there are also situations of fighting, which is the second harm of Jiaozhou; As for the third, it is a dispute between the wealthy families of Jiaozhou and foreign officials such as us. The wealthy clans of Jiaozhou often have great influence in the local area, and if outsiders such as us have no foundation, if we want to live here, we will inevitably be better with these wealthy clans, otherwise we will be elbowed by many parties like Shixie. Before we became Jiaozhou officials, the situation in Jiaozhou was probably like this. However, the benefits that foreign officials agreed to give were only a few after all, and with the further expansion of the power of these Jiaozhou wealthy families, they gradually became not satisfied with the original ownership, but wanted to take Jiaozhou into their own hands alone, which led to the hostility of Shixie to us today. Lai Gong bowed his hand to Li Sheng, and put the problems faced by Jiaozhou in front of Li Sheng in detail.

"In short, it's the dispute between Yi and Han, the dispute between the Turks and the problem of the wealthy family." Li Sheng briefly summarized the three points mentioned by Lai Gong and put forward his own views: "In fact, I think these three problems can actually be classified into two categories, one is caused by poor communication and understanding: such as the dispute between Yi and Han, while the Yi people on the mountain do not understand the Han people's southward migration and resist it, the Han people who move south look down on the Yi people on the mountain and discriminate against it. The expansion of conflict and discrimination has led to increasing dissatisfaction between the two sides, which is the so-called dispute between Yi and Han. In addition to the dispute between Yi and Han, there is the problem of uneven distribution of interests: such as the dispute between the Turks and the rich people, etc., all arise when there is a conflict of interests between each other. The natives are hostile to outsiders because they believe that they are affecting their own interests. The people of the wealthy clan want to have more while receiving the existing benefits, which makes the already unfair distribution of benefits more unfair, so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the powerful become more arrogant, and the weak become more and more powerless. ”

"That's true." Everyone nodded and agreed with Li Sheng's statement.

"Two types of problems, two different solutions." Seeing that everyone recognized his analysis, Li Sheng smiled slightly, nodded and continued to explain: "For disputes caused by insufficient understanding between each other, we should let the two sides enhance mutual understanding and eliminate discrimination after dealing with the problem itself fairly and not the person." Jiaozhou Zhuyi is also a hundred more and a step, and its residence in the Han region is also my Han people. We shall rule over the localities without discrimination, and shall not be discriminated against because of their poverty in the mountains. Although the contradictions between us have been entangled for hundreds of years, and it is extremely difficult to stop discrimination and improve understanding, in any case, as long as we do it seriously and correct some of the previous mistakes, it is not impossible for me to solve this problem. The people here are different from those murderous people in the north, they can work with us to open up this territory of Jiaozhou. If we really want to make this Jiaozhou land stable for a hundred years and thousands of years, then we can only do this. ”

Saying this, Li Sheng paused slightly, raising his eyes to observe the impact of everyone on what he said. Although he himself thought that what was being put forward at the moment was absolutely correct, many of them were different from what people were accustomed to knowing now, and he did not know whether these differences would arouse the disgust of the people, so he watched their reactions while breathing a sigh of relief.

"It's okay......" Seeing that most of the faces of everyone were not uneven, Li Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and continued his topic: "As for disputes arising from interests, we should treat them with two different attitudes and two different means: for those who do not recognize us as hostile to us, we must resolutely crack down on them, and completely confiscate their illegal assets. We must keep in mind that what is obtained by unfair means does not have the right to protection. Don't look at Shi Xie's current popularity, it seems that he is a perfect person and a benevolent person, in fact, where is a seamless egg in a Shi family like him? Even if he does it himself, I can't even do it to his nephews and brothers. There will definitely be that kind of arrogant and lawless people among them, as long as we hold them, stand a reason, and persecute them step by step, make them famous, and make them lose the hearts of the people. This is something other than the battlefield, and it may be regarded as a trick or something, but whether it is a trick or a conspiracy, or a righteous conspiracy. We must all keep in mind that those who disobey us will be discredited and then uprooted and stepped on so that they will never have a chance to turn over. As for those who obey us, including the Han people of the Tukka family and the big clans that support us, we must prohibit the existence of so-called injustice through various means, and at the same time we cannot completely deprive them of their existing benefits. Because they are behind us, we must protect them. While using relatively mild means to confiscate back their ill-gotten gains step by step, we should also give them new benefits in terms of reputation and interests. Although there is so much land in Jiaozhou, there are many industries that can generate benefits in addition to land in Jiaozhou, and we should develop these industries as much as possible, so that the people who follow us can get benefits, and only in this way can the people who follow us unite more closely around us and do our best for our goals. ”

Li Sheng's words fell, and the entire hall fell silent for a while, and then suddenly erupted: "My lord, I can't wait!" Everyone seemed to have rehearsed thousands of times, and they were prostrate and complimenting Li Sheng. Of course, this is not a pure compliment, after all, they also agree with what Li Sheng said. Although there were many "insidious" aspects of it, different from the kind of grandeur that they had received as Confucians, they had long been accustomed to this difference. For these veteran officials, who have been in the sea for decades, the so-called tactfulness and insidiousness have undoubtedly become a part of their manners, words and deeds. They won't stick to those Dali as straight as those hairy boys who have just come out of the house.

"Huh." Under the compliments of everyone, Li Sheng's confident face involuntarily flashed a lot of brilliant smiles. Although Li Sheng knew that he didn't have to have a lot of people in front of him, he couldn't help but be happy when he heard them say this, as if he was really as great as they said.

Laughing happily for a while, Li Sheng asked everyone to straighten up again, and then began to arrange affairs: "Where is Governor Shi Laigong?" He solemnized, as if he were commanding a commander in the barracks, and called out the name of the officer under him quite majestically.

"The subordinates are here." Lai Gong flashed out from the side and bowed.

"Lai Changshi must send additional people to reconnoiter the various kinds of wealthy families in Jiaozhou within a month, including how many fields and properties they have swallowed over the years, how many mountains and forests they have, how many shops, how many people they have accepted, and how many families they have raised, all of which will be listed for me one by one. At the same time, I asked people to bring a message to Shixie in the south, saying that everyone in the north and south is from Jiaozhou, and even if there is any problem, I don't want to solve it by force, and let him withdraw the troops attacking Yulin first. If there is any dissatisfaction, please come to Cangwu two months later and sit down to talk. Li Sheng casually instructed Lai Gong.

"Yes!" Lai Gong nodded in agreement, although he didn't quite know why Li Sheng invited Shixie over, "Maybe it's to salute first and then soldier, right?" ”

"Where are the three counties of Cangwu, Yulin, and Nanhai?" After instructing Lai Gong, Li Sheng called the names of several other people.

"The subordinates are here!" Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju, Yulin Taishou Han Xuan, and Nanhai Taishou Chen Bingju stood up from their respective positions and bowed their hands towards Li Sheng.

"In the next two months, I also ask the three Taishou lords to cooperate with Lai Changshi to do a good job in the investigation work in various places, and write an example and send it to the cottages of the various Yi people in your territory: just say that I, Li Sheng, am willing to arrange for them to live on the flat land, and treat them completely according to the treatment of ordinary Han people, neither giving them too many benefits, nor discriminating against them, everything will be done according to the laws of my Han people." Li Sheng simply assigned the task of the three people, "In addition, you also have to inform those people in your city, that I, Li Sheng, will inspect these three counties for myself, and I will discuss important matters with them at that time, and ask them to stay at their homes for these two months, waiting for my reception." ”

"Yes......!" Listening to Li Sheng's words that looked very kind on the surface, but were actually extremely tough, the three of them glanced at each other suspiciously, and finally nodded in agreement.

"As for the military defense in various places. I want to transfer the teams of Nanhai and Cangwu to me first, and bring the team to change defenses, and unify them in this Cangwu city for training. I don't know how long this training will take, but it's certain that if we don't train all the soldiers in Jiaozhou, we won't be able to beat that guy at all. Li Sheng finally issued an order about the army, he wanted to control the defense of the entire Jiaozhou first, after all, he, the pastor of Jiaozhou, only had the right to manage the army at the moment.

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The meeting was over, and Li Sheng and Kong Ming returned to their residences. After a hasty dinner, the two of them, who had seen no one around, began to talk about the day. For Li Sheng, who rarely sits so dry after settling down, everything today can be described in a simple sentence, that is: "It's really a tiring thing." ”

"Stop complaining, no matter what, today is also a good day to get promoted and make a fortune, you should be happy." Seeing Li Sheng muttering and hanging his mouth, Zhuge Liang smiled gently and said calmly.

The so-called "promotion" refers to Li Sheng's promotion from Taishou to State Pastor, and Li Sheng's official position before today was that of Changsha Taishou, the general of Zhennan, and it was an official position of 2,000 stones. Although he can be regarded as a high-ranking official, it does not match Li Sheng's strength, after all, what he is currently leading is not a single Changsha County. Originally, after the Battle of Chibi, he could suspend the title of Jingzhou Mu, but after considering the complex form of Jingzhou and the relationship between the alliance of Sun, Liu, and Li, he still gave up and gave Jingzhou Mu to Liu Qi.

This was, of course, a compromise that Li Sheng and his men were very unhappy with. They all believe that Li Sheng should have the title of state pastor no matter what, not only because of Li Sheng's existing strength, but more importantly, Li Sheng must have the right to appoint Taishou. Changsha Taishou cannot appoint Lingling Taishou, Wuling Taishou and the like, but the state pastor is different, the state pastor can appoint the Taishou and the Thorn History, even if it is the Taishou and Thorn History of other states and counties. Think about Liu Biaozhi in Jiaozhou, Cao Cao in Yangzhou, isn't this the case?

At present, Lai Gong and Wu Ju are willing to let Li Sheng be the state pastor, although he is just a state pastor who cannot manage specific things in the state, but it is enough to make Li Sheng's subordinates happy. For them, the most critical issue at the moment is undoubtedly the issue of the name of righteousness, as for the rest, it is easy to say, anyway, those rights and the like, don't they need considerable strength as a backing. In terms of strength, Li Sheng's side recognizes himself as the number one former in Jiaozhou - Kong Ming and they are very optimistic about it.

"What is there to be happy about, but to be promoted to a false rank and get a fortune for a meal. Kong Ming, as you know, the purpose of our coming here is not this. Li Sheng was still dissatisfied with this.

"That's not what I said. What you said about the false title is true to us, but for Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, I am afraid they will all die of jealousy. 'It is hateful that you will have to hand over the state without sitting on half an arrow!' I think they'll all be shouting like that. It's a good thing to make others jealous of us, and it's better to be content. Kong Ming learned from the legendary Cao Cao's tone when he heard that Liu Cheng had led Tao Qian to Xuzhou to Li Sheng, but Li Sheng laughed happily.

"And I have to celebrate?" Li Sheng looked at Kong Ming with a smile.

"I'm afraid it's still too early to celebrate, but we can be happy for a while, and then we can deal with the problem when we are in a good mood." Kong Ming chuckled lightly for a while, and then he turned grimacing and said, "The lord wants to do a lot of work in Jiaozhou so that it can become the foundation of our business?" ”

"How does Kong Ming know?" Li Sheng glanced at Zhuge Liang's eyes with a hint of approval, but he still refused to have a trace of air leakage on his mouth.

"At today's meeting, Liang only brought his eyes and ears, and did not participate in it. From the perspective of a bystander, the purpose of the policy implemented by the lord is clear at a glance. Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, and then continued under Li Sheng's indicative gaze: "The lord said so much today, but the key is to revolve around two issues, that is, the way to govern the people and the way to govern the household. Governing the people is the justice and equality that the Lord strives for. As for the governance of the household, the lord pursues the prosperity of those who follow me, and the death of those who oppose me, and adopts different treatment from different positions, which seems to minimize the influence of the big clans in Jiaozhou. ”

"That's true." Li Sheng echoed what Zhuge Liang said, and at the same time asked him: "Does Kong Ming know why I have to do this?" ”

"The people do not suffer from poverty, but from injustice. Although it is impossible to achieve absolute fairness with the actions of you and me, it is still possible to achieve relative fairness when it is possible. If we can further solve the people's food and clothing under such circumstances, I am afraid that there will be absolutely no problem in realizing the people's will. The way to govern the people is to persist, as long as you can persevere, there is no difficulty. Kong Ming smiled and calmly replied to Li Sheng's question: "The key to the two strategies is only to govern the household. The power of the big families is so great that even the popular will that even if we have the will of the people, it is very likely that it will be completely shattered by their counterattack. Therefore, we can't really fight against them, we can only divide them. On the one hand, we hit them with strength, and on the other hand, we gave them benefits through some compromises, so that their strength was consumed little by little under our soft knife, so that in the end they could not compete with us at all. This is probably the key to the policy of the lord and the household. ”

"Wolong is really Wolong. You're not wrong at all. That's how I intended it. Seeing that Kong Ming said it so clearly, Li Sheng immediately burst out laughing.

Li Sheng smiled, but Kong Ming didn't. Instead of laughing, he frowned tightly at the thought of something bad, and became a little sad. "Lord!" He bowed his hand to Li Sheng lightly and said: "This policy of governing the household is very good, and the proposed plan is also very feasible, but is the lord not afraid that the big households that have benefited from the compromise of the lord's policy today will gradually replace the status of the old big ones and threaten ourselves again?" ”

"To tell the truth......" Li Sheng put away the smile on his face when he heard this, made a serious appearance, and said in his mouth: "I'm not afraid!" ”