Tian Yuanhao, a single name and a Feng character, is a native of Julu, Jizhou, and Zhang Jiao, a "great sage and good teacher", is a fellow villager. He is on the territory of Jizhou, but he has a lot of fame. In particular, this person's background in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty is not a more common example of "filial piety", but a more rare example of "Maocai".

The so-called "Maocai", also known as "Maocai", is another kind of inspection in the Han Dynasty. In the Western Han Dynasty, the original work was "Xiucai", and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was changed to Maocai because of the obscenity of Liu Xiu, the emperor of Guangwu.

Literally, "Mao" is beautiful. Those who are talented and talented are also the outstanding talents in the world, and they are not equal to the idle people.

Compared with the "Xiucai" commonly known as "shengyuan" in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the status of "Maocai" in the Han Dynasty was much higher.

The Han Dynasty's method of selecting talents to serve as officials was to promote. There are two important years of age, one is filial piety, and the other is Maocai. Compared with the two, Maocai undoubtedly has a higher status and is more valued by the world.

Not to mention anything else, just look at filial piety is mainly raised by the county, and Maocai is mainly raised by the state, and the difference can be seen.

Among the talents who were investigated, many were first promoted as filial piety and honesty, and then were inspected as Maocai. Because of Maocai's high position, the number of people is also small. In a large state like Jizhou, the filial piety of dozens of people can be lifted in a year. As for Maocai, according to the Han family system, a state can only raise one person a year.

Even if you add one of the generals of the Three Dukes, Guangluxun, Si Li, and Bigong each year, the total number of Maocai hired by the entire empire every year is only nearly twenty, which is less than one-tenth of the filial piety and honesty that are raised every year.

If a comparison is made between filial piety and Maocai, it is equivalent to the difference between the "city first" and "provincial champion" in the college entrance examination in later generations.

Due to the small number of people and high positions, in terms of appointment, Maocai is far more important than filial piety. Xiaolian was mostly worshiped as a Lang official, and later he may be exiled as a county commander and governor. And Maocai started as a county order, and individual Maocai even started with 2,000 stones.

Just like Tian Feng. After being inspected as Maocai, he was first recruited as a subordinate official by Taiwei, and then appointed by the Son of Heaven as a royal historian. If it weren't for Tian Feng's upright temperament, he couldn't see the eunuchs in power, and he resigned angrily a few years ago and returned to his hometown, maybe he would have been doing it until now. He may become an important minister of the court at the level of Jiuqing.

Since Tian Feng resigned and returned to his hometown a few years ago, Tian Feng has been living in seclusion at home, refusing the conquest of successive Taishou and Jizhou Assassins. It was only during the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" that he briefly went out of the mountain and gathered the heroes in the county to help the officers and soldiers pacify the Yellow Turban Army.

If it weren't for Yuan Shao's heroic aura of "killing eunuchs" this time, and as the dual identity of Yuan's sister-in-law and party leader, he might not be able to invite Tian Feng, a heavyweight.

Tian Feng was also deeply dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo, a martial artist who did not learn and did not know how to run the government. The responsibility to govern the country. No matter how important it is, even experienced Han ministers may not be able to do it well. Dong Zhuo Yijie, a martial artist who only knows how to kill, will he be able to handle those national affairs?

In this regard, even if he killed Tian Feng, he would never believe it.

However, it is a confirmed fact that Dong Zhuo is in charge of the government. Tian Feng's white body. Of course, there is nothing that can be done about it. If you want to avoid the Han Sheji, you will be weakened in the hands of Dong Zhuo, a martial artist. Someone must be able to confront Dong Zhuo and drive him away from the imperial court.

Looking around the world, there are people who are famous, capable, and have the strength to achieve such goals in the future, and the powerful heroes who can be seen by Tian Feng, only Yuan Shao is alone!

Like Tian Feng, someone like Tian Feng will not take refuge in the lord. But once there is a lord. For the sake of one's own great cause, it must be to go all out regardless of difficulties, at the expense of oneself. He was entrusted by the new lord Yuan Shao, and he did not shirk. Immediately set off to Yecheng, the seat of Jizhou governance.

Tian Feng is not familiar with the new Jizhou Mu Hanfu. However, he knows all about the celebrities in Jizhou today. Before meeting Han Fu, Tian Feng first visited several Jizhou celebrities who were currently trusted by Han Fu one by one.

For example, Liu Hui was engaged in the governance of Han Fu, Geng Wu and Min Chun, and Captain Fu Zhu of Qidu, all of whom were old acquaintances of Tian Feng. With Tian Feng's reputation in Jizhou, it is not difficult to convince these people. Even Guo Tu, a fellow villager brought by Han Fu from his hometown of Yingchuan, Tian Feng also sent a letter written by Chun Yuqiong, who was also a famous person in Yingchuan, to lobby him.

Therefore, when Tian Feng officially handed over the official document written by Yuan Shao to Han Fu, Han Fu had already fallen into Tian Feng's plan in secret, without knowing it. Whether it was Guo Tu, Liu Hui, or Fu Zhu and others, Arida Feng had visited him in advance, and he either agreed with the matter of raising troops, or at least did not oppose it.

In particular, the famous man in the state pastoral mansion, Liu Hui, who was engaged in governance, said to Han Fu unceremoniously when Han Fu asked for advice, relying on his strong connections and old age:

"Today's soldiers are for the country, what is Yuan and Dong!"

――The army is for the country, how can the adults ask if they want to help Yuan Shao or Dong Zhuo? We will help whoever is good for the country!

Of course, no one would think that Dong Zhuo, a martial artist, was in charge of the imperial court, which was conducive to the stability of the Han Empire. Therefore, the hidden subtext in Liu Hui's sentence is naturally obviously inclined to raise troops with Yuan Shao and oppose Dong Zhuo's dictatorship.

It's just that Han Fu is an old courtier who has served in the court for many years, and he is still extremely concerned about the majesty of the central court. Even though his officials agreed to fight against Dong Zhuo, Han Fu politely rejected his subordinates' proposals. At this time, Liu Hui observed his words and saw that the time was almost up, so he officially put forward a seemingly compromise proposal:

"A soldier shall not be the first to do a murderous deed; Now it is advisable to look at other states, there are initiators, and then make peace with them. Jizhou is not weak in other states, and his merit is not on the right side of Jizhou. ”

-- War is a dangerous thing, and it is not easy to be a bird. Now it's time to look at the movements of other states, and there are those who are willing to launch first, and then we will respond. Jizhou is a strong state for other states, so even if others have merit, it is impossible to have one above Jizhou.

Regarding Liu Hui's statement, Han Fu was barely satisfied. So in his palindrome to Yuan Shao, Han Fu vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction with Dong Zhuo, implying that Yuan Shao could do things freely. And this statement is what Tian Feng really wants to get when he meets Han Fu this time.

As for wooing Han Fu to do things together?

That's not going to work.

If Han Fu comes, with his position among the former officials of the Yuan family, and the entire Jizhou as the backing, I am afraid that even Yuan Shao will have to succumb to Han Fu. If it weren't for Han Fu's inevitability to raise troops against the central court, Tian Feng would never have asked Liu Hui and others to persuade Han Fu like this.

This trick is called retreating as advancing.

After receiving the reply that Jizhou Mu Hanfu secretly agreed to raise troops, the men and horses on Yuan Shao's side could be regarded as not being constrained and operating with all their might.

Staying in the remote Bohai County, thousands of miles away from Jingshi, of course, it is impossible to play any role in the crusade against Dong Zhuo's great cause. Therefore, the first thing Yuan Shao did after officially announcing the raising of troops to defeat Dong Zhuo was to lead a small number of personal guard troops, one man and two horses, day and night, to rush to the Yanzhou area, so as to lead the local state and county officials to win the position of the leader of this incident.

Because Yuan Shao was running on light horses, his main force was still left in the distant Bohai County, led by Chun Yuqiong, with Yan Liang and Wen Chou as deputy generals. In other words, Yuan Shao's trip to discuss Dong this time was purely an empty shelf, and he completely planned to use other people's forces to complete this important matter.

In terms of Yuan's prestige in the world, Yuan Shao is second to none in terms of success. If the war is unfavorable, he can also pat his ass and return to Bohai County, and his strength will not be damaged. In the future, Dong Zhuo wanted to find trouble with him, and the Bohai Navy waited for work, and still had the strength to fight against Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou army.

For Yuan Shao's approach, although some people are secretly dissatisfied, they feel that he is enjoying his success like this. However, most of the state and county officials did not care about this. In their opinion, with the titles of "Yuan's son-in-law" and "party leader", Yuan Shao is naturally one of the leaders of the scholars. As long as Yuan Shao's people come, they will be better than thousands of troops.

As for the issue of troops, with the prestige of the Yuan clan, the banner was erected, and naturally some people were willing to come and take refuge. At that time, as long as the prefectures and counties are worried about too many people, they will never have to consider the problem of insufficient troops.

On the contrary, if Yuan Shao refused to participate in this uprising, or only expressed his opinions verbally, the state and county officials would really be dissatisfied with him.

Moreover, the speed of the army's movement is much slower than that of an individual. If you want to take tens of millions of troops from Bohai County, which is located in the easternmost part of Jizhou, to the vicinity of Sili Henan Yin, it will take at least two months to travel two or three thousand miles on this road.

By that time, maybe the war against Dong will be over. The Bohai Navy came all the way from all over to see the scenery?

Do you really think that the mobilization of the army does not cost money and food?

Although there are many wise and resourceful people in the world, there are really few people who expected that this civil war in the Han Dynasty would last for a long time. Most people believe that as long as all the princes of Kwantung put on a posture of asking Dong Zhuo to step down, Dong Zhuo will inevitably not be able to support it, and will obediently flee back to Liangzhou with his men and horses, waiting for the court to fall.

Of course, the bare-bones commander is not good-looking after all. Not to mention anything else, as the leader of the scholars who are expected by everyone in the world, even if he is just doing miscellaneous work, it will take two or three thousand people to be enough, right?

It was in view of this situation that when Yuan Shao set out from Bohai, he also sent fast horses to the state and county officials who responded to Dong's criticism everywhere, asking them to support the soldiers, horses, food and grass for Yuan Shao.

Otherwise, if Yuan Shao, the long-awaited leader of the alliance, was actually a bare-bones commander, it would not look good on face for all the anti-Dong princes.

Right? (To be continued......)