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After a pause, Kuai Yue continued: "As for the families and scholars in the Western Jin Dynasty, they have long been subdued and killed by Li Li, as long as Li Li does not force them to a dead end, they will not dare to rebel." It is the Western Jin Dynasty that the implementation of the imperial examination should be very smooth, can win the support of the majority of the people, and there will be no rebellion within its borders, let alone chaos.

This is the humble opinion of the ministers, and if you listen to it, how to decide depends on your majesty's decision. Kuai Yue knows very well that Liu Biao has prejudices against him, but he is such a temper, what he thinks of and what he says, and he doesn't listen to what he says, I'm afraid that he can't change it in this life.

Just because he was upright and didn't listen to what he said, Liu Biao would choose Kuai Liang as the prime minister after he became the emperor, rather than him Kuai Yue.

Not only that, Liu Biao also has prejudices against Kuai Yue, thinking that although he has a strategy and talent is still above his brother Kuai Liang, he is not tough enough, likes to cling to the strong, and has no blood.

In addition, Kuai Yue and Cai Mao have a close relationship and have a lot of friendship, which makes Liu Biao have to be cautious.

If Kuai Yue is appointed as the prime minister and Cai Mao is appointed as the general, then once the two of them join forces, where will they put him Liu Biao?

Liu Biao was born in an imperial family, how could he not know the first balance of the way to control?

So the position of Shoufu fell on Kuai Liang's head, and Kuai Yue only got an official position as a counselor, which was actually just a more formal staff.

Don't look at Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue as brothers, but their temperaments and temperaments are completely different. Kuai Liang has extraordinary insight and is loyal and pure, and he will definitely do what he believes; And Kuai Yue is also extraordinary. However, there is a suspicion of becoming stronger and more powerful, and his position is not firm. This is what Cousin Liu thinks of their brother. This determined how he used the Kuai brothers. As for whether this is the right thing to do, in fact, Liu Biao has no bottom in his heart. I don't know if I'll look away.

After Kuai Yue finished speaking, he sat down, Liu Biao leaned on the soft chair and squinted his eyes, his right hand fell on the edge of the table, his ring finger lightly tapped on the table, and he was silent thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that what the doctor said is reasonable, and his insights are unique, which can be described as three points." Just as Liu Biao closed his eyes and pondered, Pang Tong spoke. He first affirmed that Kuaiyue's analysis was very reasonable. Then he continued: "In fact, before the advent of the imperial examination, we all believed that the only way to promote officials was to promote filial piety and honesty, and my Han Dynasty used this method to select officials for more than 400 years. However, once the method of selecting scholars through the imperial examination came out, it is not difficult for us to see that it has irreplaceable superiority and tenacious vitality, and it has become an inevitable trend to replace the system of recommending scholars through the imperial examination, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the trend of the times. ”

When Pang Tong said this, Liu Biao suddenly opened his eyes. The sharp gaze stared directly at Pang Tong, and the sharp and cold eyes were as sharp as a sword, as if they wanted to pass through Pang Tong's eyes and go straight to his heart to see what was going on in his head. When is this all the time, why are you still helping Li Li of the Western Jin Dynasty to speak.

Obviously, what Liu Biao wants to hear most at this moment is not how powerful and wise Li Li of the Western Jin Dynasty is, but wants to hear that there are mistakes and flaws in the Western Jin Dynasty. How did he seize these flaws and give Li Li of the Western Jin Dynasty a hard blow, and dealt a heavy blow to Li Li's arrogance.

This is Liu Biao's most direct and urgent thought. So he called them one by one. Let Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue express their opinions one after another, but unfortunately what the Kuai brothers said did not speak to Liu Biao's heart. He was very dissatisfied. Originally, he thought that Pang Tong would be able to guess his mind after listening to the words of the Kuai brothers, so that he could say a few words along his own lines, at least he would feel better, and he didn't admit that what Pang Tong said was the same as that of the Kuai brothers. For a moment, Liu Biao was disappointed, his expression was gloomy, his eyes stopped on Pang Tong's extremely ordinary face for a moment, and then he tilted his head and withdrew his gaze, squinting his eyes and contemplating while listening to Pang Tong's explanation.

Pang Tong clearly saw the look of disappointment on Liu Biao's face, but he continued unmoved: "At present, the Western Jin Dynasty has fully implemented the imperial examination, and it is foreseeable that this move will definitely attract many Confucian scribes and reckless martial artists from poor backgrounds to rush to Chang'an to take the examination, and then select a large number of civil and military talents. In this way, in terms of attracting talents and recruiting military generals, the Western Jin Dynasty is undoubtedly once again ahead of us and others, seizing the opportunity, and a large number of civil and military elites in the territory of the Southern Han Kingdom and the Northern Wei Dynasty will frantically pour into the Western Jin Dynasty, and soon the Western Jin Dynasty will become more and more talented and powerful. ”

Pang Tong's words were equivalent to adding fuel to the fire, and Liu Biao's brows jumped when he heard it, and he felt harsh, and the horizontal lines on his forehead were stacked, and he was already on the verge of anger. Fortunately, Liu Biao is very well-cultivated and experienced, and the city government is even more unfathomable, so he forcibly endured the anger that had reached his throat, held back, and waited patiently for Pang Tong to finish speaking.

He is an old man of nearly seventy years old, and the ruthless years have left marks on his forehead, wave after wave of wind and waves have wrinkled his cheeks, and more than ten years of chaotic conquests have tempered his mind and emotions all the time. Today, he has long lost the anger of a young man, the temper of thunder and anger at every turn, and the anger of shouting and killing; What it has is tenacity after weathering, tenacity and perseverance after a long baptism of war, and wisdom and experience precipitated over half a century.

For the elderly, the most precious thing is not the glory and wealth, but the open-mindedness cultivated after the vicissitudes of life, and the wisdom of life accumulated over decades. If there is no harvest, then it can only be wasted time, even if it is a long life of 100 years is in vain, there is no essential difference between a life span of 30 years and a longevity of 100 years.

Liu Biao's expression did not affect Pang Tong's exposition of his opinions, but after seeing that he praised Li Li of the Western Jin Dynasty, his words changed sharply, and he was quite a bit of a twist and turn: "At present, the Western Jin Dynasty is in full swing to prepare for the imperial examination, and Li Li's subordinates and martial artists almost turned their eyes and minds to Chang'an, staring at the upcoming first scientific examination. This is an unavoidable opportunity for our Southern Han Kingdom, a favorable opportunity to recapture Nanyang County in one fell swoop, and a major opportunity to change the pattern of the world again. Therefore, Weichen dared to admonish, waiting for the day of the Chang'an imperial examination, it will be the time when my Southern Han army will capture Nanyang County! ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the side hall, and there was no sound. The six people present could clearly hear their own breathing, heavy and rapid, surprised and a little excited, and excited and a little worried, suffering from gains and losses.

At this moment, Liu Biao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, suddenly opened his eyes, smiled with his eyebrows, and the wrinkles on his forehead seemed to have become lighter, as if he was ten years younger in an instant. At this time, Liu Biao's eyes looking at Pang Tong became more and more gentle, shining on his body like the warm sun outside the window, which made Pang Tong feel warm and comfortable.

Pang Tongyi's exposition of Fanfeng turned around, so that Liu Biao deeply felt that the young man in front of him who was not good-looking or even had a hateful face was indeed unusual, although his appearance was not good-looking, and he was not pleasing to women, but his strategy and wisdom were enough to make up for it, a hundred times his appearance, and he could be called a handsome man who had not met in a century.

For Liu Biao, judging people by their appearance was his style ten years ago. At that time, most of the young people he could look at were dignified and talented, but it turned out that their appearance and talent were not equal, and even counterproductive. Among the young people he single-handedly selected, there are only a handful of people who can really be useful, and the young people with dignified appearance often think very highly of themselves, but they have low eyes, and their talents do not match their appearance at all, so that the people available to Liu Biao for more than ten years are still the people who originally followed Jingzhou in Pingding.

It wasn't until he clearly realized that the fall of the Han Dynasty was imminent, and he finally made up his mind to change the consistent criteria for selecting talents. So Xiangyang Gong Cao Pang Tong naturally entered his sight, and after a deep conversation, he promoted the ugly-looking "phoenix chick" Pang Shiyuan. This is the first time in Liu Biao's life to recruit a young man with such a mediocre appearance, but unexpectedly, although Pang Tong is not amazing, and even a little scary, he is a real young "talent".

After Pang Tong came out, he presented Liu Biao with a "letter of surrender", claiming that he could surrender 100,000 Jiangdong troops without a single soldier. As soon as these words came out, the civil and military forces of Jingzhou, including Liu Biao, scoffed at him, and unanimously believed that he was making a big statement and talking exaggeratedly, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was not ashamed to say it. didn't believe that Pang Tong could do what he said, doubts and ridicule were clearly presented on everyone's faces, and finally Liu Biao adopted Pang Tong's strategy with a comforting heart of "let's give it a try". After all, it is always good for young people to dare to think and dare to do, dare to fight, and it is worth encouraging, plus you might as well give it a try if you have nothing to do, once you can't do anything and hit a nail, you can stop immediately, and there is not much loss anyway.

It was with the mentality of "being able to drum up but not venting" that Liu Biao ordered that without mobilizing the army, all the civil and military forces in Jingzhou fully supported Pang Tong's strategy of "planning Jiangdong". No one thought that Pang Tongqiao made a big fuss about the assassination of Jiangdong Sun Ce, and with the full support of Liu Biao behind him, he only used more than 1,000 assassins and tens of thousands of Jingzhou naval troops to bluff, forcing Jiangdong civil and military forces to bow down and become vassals, and then belong to Liu Biao.

Pang Tongyi made a great achievement, and naturally sat in the position of chief military adviser, and was relied on by Liu Biao. For this reason, Liu Biao was secretly proud for a while, and he was so excited that he played extraordinarily for two consecutive days, showing his strength on the couch, making Cai's gentle like water, and the almost crazy scream almost made Liu Biao's bones crispy, and finally tasted the beauty of fish and water for the first time in Cai's body.

Since then, Liu Biao's reliance on Pang Tong has been undisguised, and he has been promoted from a small official to a military general, and after the establishment of the Southern Dynasties, he was the same as Jiuqing, and truly became one of the core decision-making levels.

After a lapse of three years, Pang Tong once again proved to Liu Biao that he did not live up to Liu Biao's trust, and his plans and thoughts were completely in line with Liu Biao, and unswervingly supported Liu Biao's use of troops in the Western Jin Dynasty.

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