The Quartet of Shouchun City, in the camp of Liu Xiu and Cao Cao

Almost at the same time, an urgent letter of 800 miles suddenly arrived

When Liu Xiu heard that it was a Jingnan war report, he didn't delay, and after dividing the fox fur by two batches, he went to see the soldier who delivered the letter

"What's so important at home that the letter was delivered at this time?!" Although Liu Xiu guessed in his heart that it was the matter he had discussed with Liu Bowen earlier, he still asked the soldier with a serious face.

"Enlightened Lord! Guiyang Fang Xuanling has an urgent delivery! ”

"Bring it up!" Liu Xiu quickly took the secret letter, and looked at it carefully, and his face gradually became gloomy from the beginning

Liu Xiu handed the letter to Liu Bowen and the others, and said angrily: "The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, but I hate those clans who are just small families who dare to join forces to join forces!" ”

It turned out that what the letter said was not only that the Jiaozhou Shi family was ready to move, but also that even under the rule of Jingnan and other places, some inconspicuous families with small surnames, as well as some middle-class families, also secretly united, trained private soldiers, and were ready to seize the county seat and rebel against Liu Xiu at any time!

After reading the letter, Liu Bowen analyzed: "After the lord unified Jingnan and other places, Lord Fang and Lord Zhao ruled the government for the lord, so the rule became more and more clear, however, the more clear the politics became, the more the interests of these small and medium-sized families were damaged, especially the corrupt grassroots officials who have been suppressed and cleaned up recently, most of these people are the children of these small and medium-sized families!" Therefore, these clans will secretly gather forces and prepare to rebel against the lord! ”

"However, the lord has heavy troops in each county, so there is no need to worry about these private soldiers who are not even as good as the county soldiers!" After Liu Bowen finished speaking, he suggested.

"This is natural, General Ben doesn't even pay attention to the regular army in Jiaozhou, why not be afraid of such unpopular private soldiers!" Liu Xiu said loudly: "Two years ago, when Zhang Xian was in charge of Jingnan, he had many tricks and robberies against the clans, and this general exterminated Zhang Xian for them, these clans were not grateful, but betrayed me, which is really infuriating!" ”

"The lord doesn't need to be so angry, this may not be an opportunity!" Liu Bowen comforted Liu Xiu and said: "Most of these small families must be just pawns of those big families, using the chess pieces of the previous to test the lord, the lord can take this opportunity to eradicate a group of extremely bad behavior, and beat the rest of the clan!" And most of those big surnames have a long heritage, presumably they will pay more attention to their own reputation and long-term development, and will never conflict with the lord because of those small profits! In this way, the lord can have time to slowly deal with the troubles of these clans, otherwise once the lord turns against those people at this time, I am afraid that most of the grassroots governments in various places under the lord's rule will be paralyzed! ”

"Berwyn has a point!" Liu Xiu came from the later generations, so he naturally knew the threat of the world, but he would not be too eager for quick success, so he very much agreed with what Liu Bowen said!

However, when he thought that these people dared to gather a crowd to rebel, Liu Xiu said with hatred: "If these families are not eliminated, sooner or later there will be endless disasters!" ”

"What the lord said is very true!" Liu Bowen echoed.

"It's just that now that I have not really started to reform and govern under my rule, these ills have to be released first!" Liu Xiu thought about it and sighed again.

"The lord wants to revolutionize politics?" When Liu Bowen heard this, he asked curiously.

"It's just a preliminary plan, and it's not really formed yet!" Liu Xiu stared at the map inside the big tent and said with a smile: "The system used by the imperial court today has many drawbacks, and it needs to be improved; But now I don't have much land, so there is no need for drastic innovation; After I conquer Jiaozhou and expand my territory, I will need a complete system at that time! ”

"What's more, we can't say that we will have to hide for a period of time to strengthen the foundation, strengthen the foundation, and reform politics, after all, in recent years, our expansion has been too fast, and the foundation is still not solid enough!"

Liu Xiu slowly told Liu Bowen and the others about the considerations in his heart these days

"If the lord delays it for too long, aren't you afraid that the rest of the princes in the Central Plains and other places will develop too strong by then, and it will be difficult to deal with in the future?" Xue Rengui asked suspiciously, for most princes and generals, the most important thing is to chase the Central Plains.

When Liu Xiu heard this, he smiled indifferently, and said confidently: "For today's princes, most of them believe in 'those who win the Central Plains win the world', or they conquer cities and territories at any cost, and they don't care about the lives of the people; Besides, as long as there are enough Han people and people under my rule, rich enough, and strong enough, why worry about not becoming a country! Why can't you take the Central Plains! Therefore, the population of the people is what I value the most, as for the city, as long as the country is strong, when is it not desirable?! ”

Liu Xiu's remarks about cherishing the people and cherishing the city were a little shocked and speechless, even for Liu Bowen, Xue Rengui and others, fighting the world is almost equivalent to conquering the city, and as for cherishing the people, it is also ranked after conquering the city

"Lord benevolence! It will be the people! It is a blessing to the people! After all, Liu Bowen had a better brain, and he was the first to react

"Let's not talk about that, Berwyn, can I still stay as I originally thought?!" Liu Xiu took the letter again, looked at it and asked Liu Bowen.

"Exactly!" Liu Bowen also immediately retracted his thoughts and replied: "Now that all counties under the rule of the lord are heavily guarded, even if Jiaozhou comes to attack and the family rebels, the county is enough to deal with, and the lord can wait for the actions of the rest of the princes!" ”

"At that time, if there are only the princes on the lord's side, it will be easier to attack Shouchun! I won't be tied down like this! ”

"That's true! If it weren't for the fact that all parties couldn't work together, otherwise it would be just two days to say that they would have entered Shouchun! When Liu Xiu heard this, he also said with emotion

At the same time, in the camp of Cao Cao

Cao Cao also got up in the middle of the night and convened all the civil and military affairs

And from Cao Cao's angry appearance, it can be seen that what he said in the letter must not be as simple as what they discussed before, and it must be much more complicated and difficult to understand

After the lights in Cao Cao's big tent were bright for more than half an hour, he saw that the general's orders were issued frequently, and within a few hours, the huge Cao camp was already empty

As for Sun Ce's camp, there was no movement

It turned out that Sun Ce had received a letter from Jiangdong long before nightfall, and the things mentioned in the letter were roughly the same as what they had discussed before

After all, within Sun Ce's Jiangdong, what threatens is the danger of Baiyue; As for the family, most of them are friends with the Sun family

ps: cherishing the people and developing the population will be the most important policy for the protagonist!