Liu Bei's reason for visiting Ma Riyan is simple.

In order to fully spread Liangzhou fine salt in the right Fufeng and the next spread to the left Feng Yi and Jing Zhaoyin, Liu Bei wanted to have some negotiations with the Fufeng Ma family, which had a relatively large influence in the land of Sanfu.

Youfufeng has Meng Tuo's own social relations, and it is relatively difficult to fully roll out the fine salt business, although there are some capable people in the local area who have mastered the benefits of salt and iron, but under the pressure of Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs, he believes that these people dare not mess around.

Not to mention that some of them themselves were people from great eunuchs such as Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.

In this way, it is very simple to spread the fine salt in the right fufeng.

If there is any obstacle in it, there is only one family.

Fufeng Maoling Ma's.

There are not a few families of some forces in the Sanfu region, but compared to the Kanto region, it is already very few, and after the Eastern Han Dynasty shifted the political focus to Luoyang, the political influence and economic production capacity of the entire Guanzhong region have weakened a lot.

Whether it is the power or the background, most of the families in the land of the three auxiliaries cannot be compared with the power of the eunuchs.

And those who can bring some trouble to the eunuchs, and really belong to the wealthy families, there are only three - Fufeng Pingling Jia Clan, Fufeng Maoling Ma Clan, and Fufeng Maoling Kong Clan.

These three are all on the right, and they all belong to the sphere of influence of the ancient literature school, and they are the bigwigs of the ancient literature school.

However, among these three, only Ma's is involved in the interests of salt.

The other two are not in business, and their main interest is in the land, which has nothing to do with the sale of salt.

Only Fufeng Maoling Ma Shi ran a business, ran the salt industry, and obtained a huge amount of wealth, and Lu Zhi's teacher Ma Rong was known for liking a luxurious and fine life.

And now, Ma Riyan, the son of the Ma family, can be regarded as the No. 1 important figure in the ancient literature school, and the relationship with Lu Zhi, Liu Bei and others is not bad, so in the process of promoting fine salt in Liangzhou, the main thing that can bring them trouble in the land of Sanfu is the Fufeng Maoling Ma family.

For this nail, Zhang Rang and the others originally wanted to ignore it, thinking that they didn't have to worry about it, and they could just run it over.

However, Liu Bei took into account some personal relationships, and decided to personally visit Ma Riyan and talk about cooperation with the Ma family behind Ma Riyan to strive for win-win cooperation.

Who is going to have trouble with money?

As long as Ma can cooperate, everyone's cooperation must be very pleasant, and the ancient literature school, understand everything, have a flexible moral and political bottom line, once you find something that violates the principle, then simply adjust the principle, take the initiative to adapt, hello, I am hello, everyone.

This spirit runs through the establishment of the ancient literary school, and is the core factor of the ancient literary school to curry favor with the rulers and eventually replace the modern literary school.

So when Liu Bei visited Ma Riyan and mentioned this matter, Ma Riyan was shocked, but he didn't have much disgust.

"Xuande, this matter involves a lot of things, and ...... You actually chose to be with Your Majesty? ”

"This kind of thing, this money, how can I earn it alone? If I don't cooperate with everyone, I will earn this money in Liangzhou at most. ”

Liu Bei sighed and said slowly: "Liangzhou is poor, I want to govern Liangzhou well, I need money, but the court won't give me much money, I can only find money to earn by myself, I found it, there is no strong backstage, this money does not belong to me, or two words."

Although this behavior is slightly inappropriate, but for the sake of the people of Liangzhou, I have no choice, and this thing is really done, everyone is very happy, they can eat good salt, and they can also use this to get holy favors, so why not? ”

Ma Riyan grew up in a big family, and he was used to this kind of thing, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with Liu Bei.

On the contrary, if there was a chance, he would do it more thoroughly than Liu Bei.

After acquiring power, in addition to satisfying spiritual needs, we must also find ways to obtain some practical benefits, otherwise we will not be blind to this power?

At the moment, he has only one small concern.

"What would Zigan think if he knew about this? Xuande, aren't you worried about this matter? He is a jealous and hateful person, and this kind of thing is very involved and can be easily misunderstood. ”

Liu Bei thought about Lu Zhi's changes over the years, pursed his lips, and forcibly held back the corners of his mouth that were about to be hooked.

"The teacher is jealous and hateful, but he is also for the country and the people, and he must be able to understand my heart of thinking for the people of Liangzhou, as long as my heart has not changed, what the means are, it doesn't matter, for the official term, for the benefit of one party, I just want to make Liangzhou better, as for the rest, I don't want to think too much."

Ma Riyan didn't speak, lowered his head and thought for a while, and nodded slowly.

"If this matter is said by others, I may not be able to accept it, but since Xuande is concerned, even if someone does not accept it, I will let them accept it, Xuande, go and let that Meng Tuo talk to my family, I will repair a letter and send someone to bring it back, the Ma family is not a stubborn family."

"Ma Gong is righteous and very admirable."

Liu Bei complimented Ma Riyan a few words, but Ma Riyan just smiled and didn't say much.

Judging from the current momentum, Liu Bei's rise is beyond doubt, and there is no doubt that he will have greater power in the future.

People give face, willing to take Ma to earn this money, Ma can't give face shameless, it's better not to make any waves within the ancient literature school for the time being, otherwise it will definitely not be a good thing in the current weird situation.

And Ma Rong brought luxury to the Ma family back then, and now the Ma family regards pomp and circumstance more important than anything else, and they never get tired of eating and not getting tired of being fine, as if they all want to be on par with Confucius.

As a result, the Ma family's pomp and circumstance expenses have risen sharply, and the family's financial situation has been slightly problematic.

Ma Riyan doesn't like this kind of family style, but there is no better way to improve, and now that he has an opportunity to increase his income, he is of course willing to cooperate with Liu Bei to the satisfaction of both parties.

After Ma Riyan got it done, Liu Bei informed Zhang Rang of the news and asked Zhang Rang to prepare.

After the biggest scourge is eliminated, as long as the goods are in place, the use of official salt shops and some private salt shops will soon be able to crush the remaining guys, and then snatch their business, and everyone will share this delicious big cake together.

With common interests and common needs, in these places, Liu Bei, the tiger, did not need to face the siege of a group of hungry wolves alone, and he had other tigers and more hungry wolves by his side, which was enough to resist the negligible resistance of the locals.

Liu Bei made a slight prediction, feeling that once this wave of fine salt in Liangzhou is rolled out, at most three months, the salt industry pattern in Sanfu will undergo a fundamental change, and those big salt sellers and the protective umbrella behind them will lose the ability to resist and be forced to surrender and hand over their interests.

Don't hand it over?

Then go die!

In the matter of using special means to compete for interests, Meng Tuo was much more fierce than Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was more fierce when he attacked political opponents.

In the following days, people continued to come to visit Liu Bei, some of whom were of high birth, some of whom were senior officials in the court, and some of whom were from humble backgrounds.

The young scholars of the ancient literature school in Luoyang City came over one after another, and visited Liu Bei and Lu Zhi respectively, hoping to be appreciated by Lu Zhi and Liu Bei.

Liu Bei also wanted to be able to select some truly talented people from among these people to bring to Liangzhou to expand his talent pool, so he specially took time out of his group of ten to meet with these young scholars, ask them about them with government and military affairs, and judge their talents.

Regardless of whether he has this talent or not, Liu Bei knows a lot of people, and he also has a scale in his heart, knowing who has the value of cultivation and what people do not have the value of training.

He is like an HR who selects talents for his own company, and he tests the young job-seeking students opposite him with some difficult questions to determine whether they have the value of training, or whether they are complete and able to get started with things.

Among them, Liu Bei is more inclined to scholars from humble families in ordinary landlord families, rather than scholars from high-ranking families, because the needs of the latter type of people are obviously greater than those of the former type.

His power is already relatively strong, and the interest groups under his command are gradually taking shape, and it is also necessary to share the benefits of the other party by continuing to include the support of the family with great strength, which will inevitably cause some internal disputes.

The situation in the world is undecided, and Liu Bei doesn't want to spend too much energy on internal issues, so at present, maintaining internal stability is the first element, and the others can be lined up in the back.

After about three days of interviews, he selected more than 20 smart, astute and promising people from this group of Luoyang scholars to join his team for training.

And he also said that although he will not be able to arrange them with a formal job for a while, he will let them receive training and internships, and after the internship, they will be assigned jobs.

In short, I do the allocation, but you have to be professional and obedient, do you do it?

Do you want to do it?

This question is meaningless to the scholars.

They came here because of the lack of advancement, and now Liu Bei is willing to take them away and give them the opportunity to be officials, can they still do it?

Without saying a word, one or two immediately expressed their loyalty, and they were willing to follow Liu Bei to the soup and fire, and they did not hesitate to go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire!

As long as you pack the assignment, what is professional obedience?

On the fourth day, Liu Bei refused everyone's door-to-door, packed up and prepared at home, and used this last day to accompany his family, his mother, his wife and children, eat with them, and talk.

A little later, Xun Shuang came to the door with Xun You.

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PS: I didn't eat well for breakfast today, and I wasn't satisfied, so I didn't add more.

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