In the winter of the first year of Zhongping and the early spring of the second year of Zhongping, the pattern of the whole world is generally relatively stable.

Even Jizhou, which is most likely to have chaos, did not have the irreparable chaos that Lu Zhi feared.

At the end of the day, Liu Bei made a lot of effort in it.

Jizhou has not had a crisis, because of the shortage of grain and soaring food prices, a small-scale civil uprising has broken out in Jizhou, but it was suppressed by Lu Zhi in time, and he immediately sent someone to contact Liu Bei to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Bei's countermeasure was simple.

Zhen.

Zhen Yan dispatched to contact the Zhen family and a group of local Haoqiang who had a good relationship with the Zhen family, and got a more accurate grain storage figure from them, and then contacted Lu Zhi, who came forward to use public funds to buy grain from these local Haoqiang at a relatively favorable price.

With Liu Bei and Zhen's central strategy, both parties in this transaction were relatively happy, and Zhen also took the initiative to contribute to the transfer of this batch of grain, and bear a considerable part of the transportation cost.

Lu Zhi had a lot of food to use, and the local Haoqiang also made a small profit.

Because of this batch of food, Lu Zhi successfully pacified a large number of people who were displaced by the Yellow Turban Rebellion and lacked food and clothing, successfully controlled their grievances, and resolved the popular uprising that had not yet occurred.

This crisis was finally eliminated, Lu Zhi lasted until the spring ploughing season, and then actively persuaded farmers to plough, and finally calmed down the situation in Jizhou.

He succeeded in avoiding a possible large-scale second peasant uprising, and successfully avoided the mass death of people due to famine and severe cold.

For this reason, Lu Zhi was very happy, and specially sent a table to the court, mentioning Liu Bei's merits in this matter, and asking the court to reward him as appropriate.

After Zhang Rang learned about it, he praised Liu Bei's merits, which made Liu Hong even happier after learning about this incident, and praised Liu Bei again and again as a person who seeks the country and is a practical talent who can do things.

Then Liu Hong took the opportunity to promote Liu Bei to be the official Shangshu servant, acting as the duty of Shangshu Ling, and trusted Liu Bei even more, as if he had the posture of entrusting more government affairs to Liu Bei to deal with.

In this way, Liu Bei became Liu Hong's "Prime Minister in the Mountains" in the real sense.

No matter what government affairs there are, no matter what Yuan Kui and Yang Ci think, but whatever is given to Liu Hong's side, Liu Hong will transfer it to Liu Bei to deal with, and then use Liu Bei's opinion to give it to the three dukes, and let the three dukes toss.

Liu Bei is like Liu Hong's external brain, handling everything that may make him feel embarrassed for him, so that he can spend a relaxed, happy and comfortable life, and let him enjoy the glory of the Son of Heaven.

How wonderful?

At the same time, at the beginning of the first month of the second year of Zhongping, Liu Hong openly sold his official beard in the West Garden on the grounds that the imperial court was difficult, and made several good big deals.

But it's not without a business that makes him feel unpleasant.

It was the business of Cui Lie, a famous man in Jizhou, to buy the position of Sikong.

The predecessor Sikong Zhang Wen was unlucky to leave his post because of the dispute between Yuan Kui and Yang Ci, and the position of Sikong has been vacant, everyone originally thought that this was Lu Zhi's reserved position, but it turned out that Liu Hong actually sold it, or sold it to Cui Lie, a famous man who has always had a good reputation.

However, Liu Hong was very dissatisfied with this business, and in private, Liu Hong complained to Liu Bei, saying that the human relations really annoyed him, so that the position that could have been sold for 100 million yuan was taken by Cui Lie for 5 million yuan, which was really a big loss.

Then Liu Bei learned that Cui Lie had gone the way of Liu Hong's nurse, Mrs. Cheng.

Mrs. Cheng said on her behalf, so she said that she was soft and hard to grind, and she ran several times for this matter, and she couldn't help it, and finally sold her position to Cui Lie for five million yuan.

This incident made Liu Hong angry.

"If I can hold on a little longer, this position can be sold for at least 10 million yuan, this Cui Lie is really hateful, he actually asked my nurse to persuade me, she came to intercede, I really can't help it, alas! It's a big loss! ”

Liu Hong sighed for a long time, in order to make five million less money, he couldn't even eat, and drank vigorously, as if he wanted to borrow wine to drown his sorrows.

Looking at his appearance, Liu Bei could only sigh in addition to sighing.

The one who can't be supported is not his own unlucky son Adou in history, the one who really can't be supported is Liu Hong in front of him.

Of course, Liu Bei never intended to help Liu Hong sincerely.

Liu Bei didn't care about this matter, and then Cui Lie's reputation dropped greatly, so he was restless day and night, and then he wanted to beat his son to vent his anger, but he didn't care about the things that his son sprayed speechlessly.

What he cares about is Liangzhou.

Thanks to Lu Zhi's ability and Zhen's contribution, there was no accident in Jizhou, and Hebei was still stable, so when the news of the resurgence of the Liangzhou army and the inability of the Liangzhou officials and troops to resist came to Luoyang, the Manchu civil and military forces would not be in a dilemma.

On the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the second year of Zhongping, Yang Yong, the assassin of Liangzhou, couldn't hold back anymore, regardless of it, he went to the table and cried blood for help.

He said that there were 70,000 or 80,000 rebels in Liangzhou, and the scale was huge, and there were still people joining the rebels and joining the rebels, and the official army was defeated one after another, unable to contain it, and the rebels were approaching the land of Sanfu step by step, and asked the imperial court to take precautions as soon as possible, otherwise, it would be over.

Things came to this point, and the Manchu civil and military finally realized that the chaos in Liangzhou was difficult to control, and it had reached the point where Liangzhou would be completely lost if troops were not sent.

Faced with such a situation, Liu Hong was helpless and annoyed and stuck his head out of Wenrou Township and convened a military meeting to discuss the matter in an all-round way.

At the meeting, the new Sikong Cui Lie seemed to be in order to show his own pattern, or to save his deteriorating reputation, so he suggested to the imperial court to completely abandon Liangzhou and move Han people inward, so as to get out of Liangzhou and save the court money.

This is the second time that the voice of abandoning Liangzhou has officially appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that this line of thinking did not lack supporters in the Luoyang court after the Hanqiang War.

The hundred-year Hanqiang War really consumed too much money, killed too many people, and changed too many things by the Hanqiang War, so the Kwantung people were extremely disgusted with Liangzhou, and they all thought that Liangzhou was the bloodletting trough of the imperial court, which could only increase difficulties, but not income.

What are you doing with such a broken place?

It's better to just give up and save a lot of trouble.

Anyway, when the Han Dynasty was just established, Liangzhou did not belong to the Han Dynasty and was not considered the land of the ancestors.

Decades ago, this kind of voice was very loud in the imperial court, but it was not adopted after all.

Today, the voice is loud again, and this time, it seems that it has really gained more fans, because everyone can no longer accept a Hundred Years War.

Hearing such a statement, especially such a statement, there are still a lot of supporters, this situation makes Liu Bei very angry.

This kind of thing started from this moment, and for thousands of years to come, there would always be times when the dynasty was in crisis, and at this time, there were always officials who wanted to give up the war-torn territory in exchange for peace out of their own interests.

But can concessions and compromises bring peace?

I can't change it.

Only by resolutely fighting, even if we cannot win, will we be able to usher in peace.

Seeing that no one in the Manchu Dynasty stood up to refute Cui Lie's remarks, Liu Bei couldn't help it.

Under Cao Cao's surprised gaze beside him, Liu Bei stood up.

"I have read historical records, I heard that the ancients once said, to the land of Qin, such as holding the salary to fight the fire, the salary is not exhausted, the fire is not extinguished, now the crisis in Liangzhou, how is it like the Qin soldiers pressing the border? Giving up Liangzhou, how can it be like doing things in Qin? Isn't this a situation of putting out fires with salaries? ”

(End of chapter)