Seeing Wei Ba's slightly weird smile, Xiahou Xuan was very strange. "What's the bad idea you're thinking again?"

Wei Ba glared at him: "Don't think so about me, okay?" Is it so fulfilling to belittle your brother-in-law? ”

Xiahou Xuan snorted.

Wei Ba put on a smiling face and pulled Xiahou Xuan towards the carriage. "Taichu, there is something to trouble you."

"What's the matter?"

"Help me write a reply. Your writing is good, and the article is beautiful. Wei Ba smiled: "Of course, that's also to let you know what I really think, lest you worry every day, afraid that I will go to Guanzhong and go against your emperor Bixia." ”

Xiahou Xuan smiled awkwardly, he knew that Wei Ba knew his intentions, but he didn't break it, this was to give him face, but also to give Xiahou Hui face.

"There's one more thing." Wei Ba continued: "I want to open a school in Jiaozhou, and I want to invite those Confucian students to teach students. I can't talk to these Confucian scholars, I have to come forward with a celebrity like you. ”

Xiahou Xuan asked in surprise, "Who do you want to invite?" Can't Shi Kuang come forward? ”

"I can't leave everything to Shi Kuang, don't you say?" Wei Ba squeezed his eyes. Xiahou Xuan comprehended, but said with a smile: "I'm not your cronies, can you trust me?" ”

"I can trust Yuanrong." Wei Ba pointed to the sky. "I also believe in justice, justice is at ease in people's hearts, and ungrateful white-eyed wolves are rare after all. You say, don't you? ”

……

After understanding the situation in Guanzhong, Wei Ba adjusted his strategy. According to Zhuge Liang's strategic deployment. The battle of Guanzhong is bound to be a protracted battle, and the stalemate between the two sides may be the most prosperous situation, and it is more likely that Shu will suffer a setback, and he must maintain the ability to support Guanzhong at any time. In this case, he can no longer be entangled with Sun Quan, lest he will not be able to pull out when the time comes.

Wei Ba decided to take defense as an attack, seize the time to digest the newly acquired territory, and not go deep into the hinterland of Jingzhou for the time being. He ordered Jin Dongliu to guard the strict pass, and asked the husband to guard the Turtle Mountain and not to provoke easily. Maintain peace with Wu Jun. Then he began to make a strategy for Jiaozhou.

First of all, he asked Shi Kuang to convene the big clans in Cangwu, Hepu, Gaoliang, and Yulin counties to gather in Guangxin to discuss the development strategy of Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou has always been characterized by a vast area and sparsely populated population. But the people here are referring to the Han Chinese who wrote the book. Barbarians are not included. The barbarians are deep in the mountains. It was a symbolic payment of little things each year, and they were not responsible for paying taxes, at least in the official ranks, and their greatest burden was military service. Furthermore. There are many pearls in Jiaozhou, and pearl diving is also a heavy burden for the fishermen who rely on the sea, they have paid hard labor, but they can not get any benefits from it, and the benefits have been taken away by those officials.

The officials were foreigners, but the officials were large local clans, and they joined forces to exploit the people, which could easily provoke rebellion. WeishenmeCorruptionCorruption is easy to provoke the people to resist? The mountains here are high and dense, and no one can find them if you hide in the deep mountains.

But hiding in the mountains is not a good thing either. Life in the mountains is hard, transportation is inconvenient, and the vast majority of people are not willing to live in the mountains. No one wants to stay in the mountains if they don't have to live. If you want to attract people from the mountains, you need to make them feel safe and happy in their outside life, and on the one hand, we must relieve them of various burdens, and on the other hand, we must increase their income. Only in this way will they be willing to become a member of the household. Only when there are more people with a hukou can we provide a stable source of taxes and form a strong strength.

And to do this, Wei Ba first had to make a deal with the big clans in Jiaozhou. lest they oppress the common people in the name of the government and transfer the taxes they should pay to the common people.

On the one hand, the heavy taxes come from the exploitation of the government, and on the other hand, they also come from these local clans who collude with the government, who transfer their taxes to ordinary people. For the vast majority of the people, this actually does more harm than good. Those who could not afford to pay the taxes fled and became homeless people, and the fewer households they had, the fewer people they could transfer, and the heavier the burden on others. However, for the sake of their own interests, the big family drinks to quench their thirst, and no one refuses to take advantage of it, so it is easy to form a vicious circle.

Before attracting more mountain people out of the mountain, Wei Ba had to negotiate terms with these people, both to ensure that they would not shift their responsibilities and to avoid harming the vested interests of these large clans.

While negotiating, Wei Ba sent Xiahou Xuan to invite Liu Xi with gifts. When the Central Plains was in turmoil, Jiaozhou was a rare place of peace. Even though there were many people who went back after the situation in the Central Plains eased somewhat, there were still some people who stayed, including the great Confucian Liu Xi.

Liu Xi is a native of Beihai and is over seventy years old. During the Jian'an years, he avoided Jiaozhou, and then he never left, and stayed in Jiaozhou to do learning and teaching apprentices. I've been here for more than 30 years. He was proficient in primary school, had annotated "Mencius", had many students who were officials in Wu State, and had a good relationship with Shixie. Because of these relationships, he lives a very nourishing life, and generally no one will take the initiative to harass him.

Wei Ba sent Xiahou Xuan to invite Liu Xi, also to take care of Liu Xi's face. Scholars always want to save face. Although he is proficient in astronomy and geography, and the mechanical jishu is known as invincible in the world, he knows nothing about scriptures. If he communicates with Liu Xi, he probably won't be able to talk about going together. Xiahou Xuan has a good knowledge, so he must be more suitable than him.

That's what he thought, but unfortunately it wasn't what he wanted. Xiahou Xuan went to invite Liu Xi, and the beginning was very good, and the two talked happily. It's a pity that when it comes to learning, the contradiction between the two immediately becomes apparent. The current popular learning in the Wei State is mainly based on ancient scriptures, while Liu Xi's learning is mainly based on modern scriptures. There has been a violent conflict between modern literature and ancient literature and classics that lasted for a hundred years, and there is a big jiashi who will be divided into winners and losers when they meet. Liu Xi saw Xiahou Xuan, it was like a long-lonely warrior who met an opponent who could match him, and his desire to fight suddenly skyrocketed, and he debated with Xiahou Xuan for two days, and Zuihou broke up unhappily.

Xiahou Xuan returned again. Facing Wei Ba's gaze, he was very embarrassed and explained two sentences. Wei Ba understood where their differences were, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. The current academic controversy is even more fierce than the controversy of academicians in later generations. Because these people really believe in their own learning. And not just a means of making a living.

"Then I'll go by myself, it seems that you can't count on it, and the more you help, the more chaotic it becomes." Wei Ba smiled bitterly.

Xiahou Xuan shrugged his shoulders and felt speechless.

After making some preparations, Wei Ba brought the gift and came to the grass house where Liu Xi was again. Seeing Xiahou Xuan, Liu Xi was still eager to try. Wei Ba hurriedly stepped forward and saluted and reported his identity.

"You are Wei Ba, the divine general who is passed on?" Liu Xi's eyes looked Wei Ba up and down. Although Liu Xi is proficient in modern literature and classics, he does not like internal studies such as Wei Wei. A set of pretending to be a ghost. He was very disgusted.

"The kid is none other than Wei Ba. God will not dare to do it, but it is just to boost morale. ”

Liu Xi snorted, his face softened, and he was very satisfied with Wei Ba's attitude. "And what are you doing today?"

Wei Ba said respectfully: "Although I am a martial artist. Shallow learning. but there is a heart to educate. I want to ask Mr. to go out of the mountain and serve as the big sacrificial wine of the Jiaozhou School to educate the people. Turning razing into a flower. ”

Liu Xi's eyes lit up and nodded. "I admire the general's kindness very much, but I am old and have limited energy, so I am afraid that I will not be able to teach a few students, but I will delay my studies. The general should ask for another master. ”

Wei Ba turned around, beckoned to a martial artist, took out a box, and held it in front of Liu Xi. Liu Xi glanced at him in some surprise, opened the box, and found that it was a thin book inside. He picked it up and looked at it, then frowned.

"This is the knowledge of Song Zhong in Jingzhou."

"Sir is really discerning." Wei Ba complimented: "This is the textbook that my family uses to enlighten young children, and it is very popular in Chengdu now. ”

"Mistaken son." Liu Xi said disdainfully: "Song Zhong is the most famous, but his knowledge is sloppy. It would be a great misfortune to use this kind of knowledge to teach schoolchildren. Liu Xi pondered for a moment, and then said, "You mean that this book is very popular in Chengdu?" ”

Wei Ba nodded: "Yes, almost everyone has one." ”

"One for everyone? How can it be? The book is lightweight, the transcription is clear and neat, and the price must be expensive. It's not a small cost to have one per person. ”

Wei Ba took the book, flipped through it, and laughed silently. "Sir, I misunderstood, although this book is not cheap, it is not too expensive. My Wei family bookstore can produce 300 copies a day, which is more than enough to supply the whole of Chengdu. I was about to do the same thing in Jiaozhou, and I heard that Mr. was very knowledgeable, so I dared to come to invite me. If the gentleman refuses to go out of the mountains, the boy will have to use this knowledge to educate the barbarians. It's just a pity that they are not blessed to learn the most haode knowledge. ”

Liu Xi hesitated. If it is true, as Wei Ba said, such books can be published three hundred times a day, then needless to say, Jiaozhou will be full of such books in a very short time. Many people's first contact with learning is this kind of learning, and the learning he insists on will soon decline, becoming the learning of a few, which is very detrimental to the dissemination of learning. But if he accepted Wei Ba's invitation and entered the Jiaozhou School to make a big sacrificial wine, he could spread his knowledge. It's a great opportunity. To give up this opportunity is to give up one's own responsibility.

Seeing Liu Xi's hesitation, Wei Ba said again: "Mr. has studied "Mencius", I wonder if he can solve my doubts?" ”

"Have you read Mencius too?"

Wei Ba shook his head: "The military is busy and there is very little study. However, I have heard that Mencius's thinking is people-oriented, which is very different from the thinking of Confucius and Xunzi, but I don't know where the difference lies. Nowadays, although my Han dynasty said that it was said that it was governed by Confucianism, I had never heard of governing the country with the ideas of Mencius. What is this for, is Mencius's thinking wrong, or is there something wrong? ”

Listening to Wei Ba's words, Liu Xi suddenly felt a little dazed. He pondered for a long time and said with a wry smile: "Where is Mencius's thinking wrong? To say that it is not right, it is only not to the appetite of those monarchs. In the eyes of the king, Mencius was the rebellion of the saints. ”

Wei Ba asked in surprise: "Where does this start, isn't Mencius a sage, how did he become a rebel?" ”

Liu Xi frowned. "Yasheng, which holy king gave Mencius the title?"

Wei Ba was embarrassed. In his mind, Mencius and Confucius are side by side, known as Confucius and Mencius, Confucius is the most holy teacher of Dacheng, and Mencius is the sub-sage, which is almost the same as common sense. He said it in passing. Unexpectedly, there is no such statement in this era, and it is a joke for a while, which is inevitably a little embarrassing. However, he then said calmly: "I thought that Confucius was the most holy, and Mencius was naturally the sub-sage. Putting the people first is the true truth of governing the country. ”…… (To be continued......)

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