Jiujiang was the only county occupied by Cao Cao in Yangzhou, and Sun Ce's army invaded, and Tanma did not dare to delay, and immediately sent the news to Dingtao.

When the army was newly defeated and the situation was weak, since Yuan Shao gave the state to Pang Zhen, Guo Jia broke it, and Cao Ying knew that the original army wanted to take advantage of the weakness to go south, and there was as much fear as possible.

Kong Rong loved his name, and after being edicted, he honestly came to serve in the court, and Cao Cao first got tens of thousands of Beihai soldiers for use. The number of people who were sent to various places to recruit soldiers, as few as four or five hundred, and as many as 1,000 people, also began to return one after another, and the number of recruits should be about 20,000.

In the previous expedition to Henan, the armor, bows and arrows, and swords in the Yanzhou treasury were exhausted, and it was too late to make up for a while, and the 20,000 recruits had not yet been trained and experienced. However, many horses have been added, or they can also block the beginning, and the hearts of the people up and down have to settle down a little, just waiting for more than a month, and they don't hear any movement from Yuan Jun.

Seeing that Yuan Shao did not immediately invade the south, everyone was fortunate, and some people began to suspect that Guo Jia had misjudged him, and Cao Cao firmly believed that Yuan Shao would inevitably invade the south.

At this time, when he suddenly heard that Sun Ce's army had taken Jiujiang, Cao Cao was even more at a loss, and he did not hide the retribution, and announced it to the public, hoping to solve this dilemma.

The chamber exploded again.

Yuan Shao invaded in the south, Sun Ce invaded in the north, and Deng Ji was still eyeing him on the side, is this the building about to fall?

Does the Cao family, which is dependent on his family, have a future?

For a while, all kinds of discussions and panic were hard to express, Du Guo Jia stood up in front of Cao Cao, who was gray-faced, and shouted to everyone: "Sun Ce is not afraid!" It is common for the public to do their jobs, and it is common for them to sacrifice their lives and break their families. How can such a woman be so many? ”

Wait for a while. Guo Jiacai spoke again: "Sun Bo Fu's army of the northern offenders is called 30,000. This scam also! The land of Jiangdong, the land is vast and the people are sparse, the Ding mouth is only a million, it will be a few years of chaos, the people who fled south of the Yangtze River are numerous, and then the four surnames of Gu Zhang, Lu and Zhu have to help, and they have 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, which is extremely large! And Sun and Liu Biao are enemies. Although the rivers and lakes are far away, there is no warning of the army, Changsha and Yuzhang have been fighting for several times so far, and it is still necessary to prevent the Jiangxia Huangzu Naval Division from attacking Danyang, and it is necessary to leave 30,000 or 40,000 troops to guard against Liu Biao; From the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, the mountains and the Yue were all unruly and untamable, and there were rebellions from time to time, how could the Sun family be an exception? The counties cannot be garrisoned without 120,000 troops! In this way, Sun Ce's army going north is only more than 10,000! ”

What Guo Jia said is very reasonable. After listening to his careful analysis, several people looked ashamed. The discussion was finally inaudible, and Cao Cao came back to his senses.

Guo Jia said again: "For the sake of Cao Gong, today's enemy is the original and not Sun Lang!" Sun's army is small, it is better to abandon Huainan, Sun Bofu will get it, and it is still necessary to divide the troops to defend it, and there will be no more strength to go north within the year! Cao Gong can gather up and down the three states and fight to the death with Benchu first! ”

Cheng Yu interface: "The original separation between Pang Zhen and Deng Ji will make Sizhou unhappy, and we still need to send an envoy to Luoyang to show weakness to Deng Mu'an, so we must not resolve the revenge, and do not let them help Hebei!" ”

After Guo Jia and Cheng Yu spoke, Cao Cao and the others were calculating the feasibility of this matter in their minds, and someone in the audience suddenly said loudly: "Gather the crowd to discuss matters, Guo Fengxiao is independent of the lord, looking forward to the left and right, and scolding the monarchs, is this not arrogant?" As a military advisor, how can he set an example for civil and military affairs if he misbehaves in a disorderly manner? ”

Everyone looked back, only to see that it was Chen Qun and Chen Changwen, who were under the command of the original Liu Bei, who spoke.

Under the gaze of everyone, Chen Qun rebuked Guo Jia again: "And the Yuan army went south, all of them were military advisors, and they have not seen their actions yet." If his army does not come, let Huainan and the Sun family in vain, won't Cao Gong be laughed at? ”

Guo Jia suggested giving up the south of Huaishui, to give up the two counties of Jiujiang and Guangling, these two counties are administratively Yangzhou and Xuzhou, but they are all strategic places, and they will be given to Sun Ce in a word, Cao Cao is also reluctant, so he has been frowning and calculating the gains and losses, and when he heard Chen Qun's words, he smiled first: "The long text is square, and Fengxiao is also unintentionally wrong, how to investigate its crime?" ”

Guo Jia is a celebrity, sometimes debauchery; Chen Qun is anxious and resourceful to make decisions that are not his forte, but the general history of the classics is also very useful, but as the son of the Chen clan of the big family, he is very strict and square to people and things, and everything is courteous.

Cao Cao reused Guo Jia, and he didn't want to snub the Chen family's son, so he didn't blame him for his words, but only exonerated Guo Jia every time.

was excited for a while, and forgot to respect and humility, and was reprimanded by Chen Qun, Guo Jia was also helpless, and under the eyes of everyone, he could only bow down to Cao Cao to apologize.

When Guo Jia returned to his seat, Cao Cao saw that Chen Qun seemed to have something to say, so he asked first: "Can Changwen solve today's situation?" ”

Chen Qunnai stepped forward and left the table, walked to the pavilion, bowed down and got up again: "Your Majesty is foolish, and you haven't got a clever plan to solve this crisis, so I'm really afraid!" Just think about the current princes and rise, the public will to calm the chaos and help the people, Kuang Fu Han family, Yuan Shao, Sun Ce or the situation is difficult to govern, but they are not the enemies of life and death! Wei Sizhou Deng Ji, with the policy of the fourth-class people, bewitched people's hearts, the soldiers of the fierce soldiers were brutal, and the foundation was deepening, so it was the trouble of the public's henchmen! Thinking about it, I hope to get rid of this fang, and finally get a method, or it can be used, and I want to be in front of the public! ”

The most feared thing is Deng Ji, hearing this, Xun Yu and the others immediately forgot about the threat of Yuan Shao and Sun Ce, and prepared to listen carefully, Cao Cao also looked uplifted, and said hurriedly: "Long text and words!" ”

Chen Qunfang said eloquently: "Deng Ji's fighter, the law is also!" Practicing its law, the soldiers of Sizhou are fierce, the small people are confused, and they serve their orders, so it is difficult for the princes to ask. However, meritorious families and families with surplus wealth are the pillars of the world, and they all suffer! In a foolish opinion, the public wants to be the enemy of Deng Ji, and the royal road is in the world, and it should also be the law, and the fundamentals are solid, and people abandon me to take it, and they are not allowed to use it in the family heroes of Sizhou. Or can be given in front of the Son of Heaven, where the meritorious, the official reward their households for the family, the family is rated as the upper, the middle, the upper and lower, the upper middle, the middle level, the lower and lower, the lower upper, the lower middle, the lower nine products, with the grade to pay the acres of land. In addition to the family, it should also be the same kind of person: the children of the family, who are rewarded for their merits and promoted to the level of their families; If there is no talent in the past ten years, or the most prominent official has a lower grade than the third grade of his family, the grade of his family will be reduced. The rest of the poor talents and the high-ranking people in the army will make them create their own families, and they will be rewarded with grades! With this method, gather the world's wise men and heroes, and dare to have those who do not follow the dead? Or you can compete with Sizhou! ”

After this tirade, everyone in the hall had already held their breath.

In the Cao Pi era in history, Chen Qun created the Nine Grades of Officials Law, or the Nine Grades of the Positive System, to the county and county officials to evaluate the characters, is a continuation of the inspection system, at the beginning of the establishment of more attention to people's morality, township evaluation, the family history is only a supplement to the evaluation, and the family is not in conflict with the meritocracy issued by Cao Cao first. It's just that after Sima Yi took power, in order to obtain the support of the family, he supplemented the establishment of the Dazhong Zhengguan, which was a high-ranking official who could only be appointed by the second grade, and the upper grade was just a fictitious position, no one could get it, and the second grade was all a high-ranking family.

Now that there are more Deng Ji to disrupt the situation in this world, Chen Qun has been used as a reference for the Sizhou system, and in order to compete with Sizhou, the nine-product system has been proposed several years in advance, and the content has become unrecognizable.

Meritocracy has actually damaged the interests of the family to a certain extent, but compared to the Sizhou system, this degree is within the scope of the family's tolerance, and the opposition is small. Now, Chen Qun's method is not only greatly wooing the family, but also taking into account the children of the poor family, and also increasing the reward for military merits, which is indeed more suitable and more able to gather the hearts of the people than meritocracy.

If this method is implemented, it may really compete with Deng Ji, and he can't help but close his eyes for a long time before Cao Cao opens his eyes: "Long text and return first!" ”

Then he asked the people, "What do you think?" ”

This bombshell came down, and those who couldn't react were still weighing the gains and losses, Xun Yu and Cheng Yu opened their mouths to praise: "This law is great!" ”

Guo Jia also waved at Chen Qun: "This is not a plan of one city and one place, it can really set the foundation for a hundred years!" The talent of the long text, ten times the victory! ”

These three people praised it, and the rest of the civil and military gradually tasted it, and the family benefited from the family, and the poor family also had the opportunity, and it was also like Sizhou's heavy reward for military merits, which can be said to take into account all aspects, and they were all praised and appreciated, and they felt a little absurd, and they were also drowned in the crowd.

Seeing that there was no resistance under his command, Cao Cao also felt that it was feasible and asked Chen Qun: "What is the name of this method?" ”

Chen Qun hesitated, got up and replied: "Nine Grades Family Law!" ”

Cao Cao nodded: "Good!" Lao Zhugong and the long text are revised, pick up the omissions and fill in the omissions, and when it is written, please ask the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to implement! ”

It has to be discussed in a short period of time, the real dispute should be in the various ethnic groups on what to get, there is no one for a year and a half, the nine-product family law can not be implemented, and the current situation can not be solved, when this new law becomes a final conclusion, Cao Cao asked again: "Sun Ce committed a crime in the north, what should I do?" ”

Chen Qun proposed a new method, and everyone's attention in the hall was interrupted, and the mood was much more stable at this time.

After a while, Xin Bi said: "The military advisor expected to be correct, he was determined to go south in the morning and evening!" Although Sun Ce took advantage of the weakness to attack the north, it was difficult to check and balance, but the Jiangdong army was small, and it was an unexpected joy to get Jiujiang. With the theory of military divisions, it is the best policy to give up the land of Huainan, and then send an envoy to show weakness to Deng Ji, and gather strength to fight Yuan Shao first! It is not appropriate to take the land lightly, or it can make people spread the word to Sun Ce, and exchange the land of Jiujiang and Guangling for a number of armor and sword soldiers, weaken the strength of the other, and enrich our new army, how about it? ”

Guo Jia, Xun Yu, and Cheng Yu all nodded their heads and said good, and Cao Cao ordered it to be implemented accordingly.

A few days later, Cao Cao asked the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to announce the nine-grade family law to the world.

According to its law, those who behead the twenty-fourth level in every battle can be listed as a subordinate family, and many sergeants with enough merit can create a new family according to this.

Sun Ce waved his army before Shouchun, and Cao Cao's envoy had arrived. In fact, the Sun family has a shallow foundation in Jiangdong, and Gu Zhang and Zhu Lu are the four major families in Jiangdong, and they are all just accepting the current situation, and they are far from the level of full support, and Sun Ce is only 8,000 people who use to plot Jiujiang at this time.

Hearing the words of Cao Cao's envoy, the two counties of Jiujiang and Guangling in the south of Huaishui can be obtained without military effort, and the two families do not have to deal with each other to the extreme, and they can still stay to deal with Liu Biao, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are happy and immediately agree.

When Jiangdong transferred 4,000 armor clothes and 10,000 swords and guns, Cao Ren had already led the army to Shouchun, and the army took this material, and really retreated across the Huai River according to the agreement, and gave up the land of Huainan to Sun Ce. (To be continued.) )