Subsequently, Liu Jian stationed troops in Nanyang County, began to train soldiers wholeheartedly, and handed over all the matters of Nanyang County and Yuzhou to Liu Ji and Yuan Chong.

After hearing that Liu Jian had arrived, the first reaction of the Wang and Shi clans of Nanyang County, Yingchuan, and Runan County was that they felt that the new deal would definitely come to them, and the person who wanted to preside over this matter in person should be Liu Jian and Prime Minister Liu Cheng himself.

Prime Minister Liu is not an easy person to deal with, definitely not easy to deal with!

The major families began to secretly collude to discuss how to deal with this matter.

But I never thought that the imperial court made a decree and handed over the matter of sorting out the affairs of Nanyang County and Yuzhou to Liu Jian's eldest son Liu Ji and Yuan Pet!

All of a sudden, the entire Central Plains was about to explode!

The imperial court actually let two children preside over the new policy, isn't it a joke?

Isn't it a little too dismissive of these people?

Although Liu Ji and Yuan Chong, one is Liu Jian's eldest son, and the other is Yuan Ji's orphan back then, their identities are not the same, but they are too young after all.

As a result, many people began to take chances, thinking that if these two children were really in charge, this matter would not be able to be promoted!

However, after all, these scholars still underestimated the bloodline of the Liu family and the Yuan family, and also underestimated Liu Jian's education of these two children.

After Liu Ji received the holy decree from the imperial court, he made an order to Nanyang County, Yingchuan, and the three major counties of Runan as a new political envoy!

Personnel appointments at all levels of government offices have been restarted.

It stands to reason that the personnel appointments of officials at all levels cannot be attributed to Liu Ji and Yuan Chong, but the appointment authority in the imperial decree is relatively vague, that is, as long as the implementation of the new policy in the three counties is concerned, it will be all handed over to two people.

And the personnel appointment is conducive to the implementation of the new policy, so the two of them also took this matter by the way.

For the two of them, such high positions as Nanyang County Shou, Runan Taishou, and Yingchuan Taishou, it is impossible for the two of them to be qualified to appoint, including official positions of more than 600 stones, and they must be appointed and dismissed according to the new policy regulations and the imperial court according to the ranking of the imperial examination, and the officials who have passed the imperial examination and have already made certain achievements in the local government.

But fortunately, these important positions such as Taishou and Juncheng sent by the imperial court to the local government are all talents who have studied at all levels of state universities over the years and passed the imperial examination, and they are nominally the disciples of Liu Jian, the honorary president, so to a certain extent, they are the protégés of the Son of Heaven, and the family power of these talents is not particularly strong in the north, so after comprehensive consideration in many aspects, they have a stronger sense of attachment to Liu Jian, so they can rest assured that they will be able to take up their posts in the three counties, which will definitely make the new policy unimpeded.

At least these people are on the side of Liu Jian and the imperial court, so that Liu Ji and Yuan Chong will not feel constrained.

Liu Ji and Yuan Chong immediately selected some people from the list submitted by Xun Yu and Xun Yu to appoint them in the local area, but then, according to the information provided to them by Jia Xu, they began to contact the local Hanmen and Haoqiang, and began to reuse the people in their clan.

Xun Yu and Xun You provided Liu Jian with the list of scholars, Liu Ji and Yuan Pet only appointed one-third, and the other two-thirds, Liu Ji and Yuan Pet were drawn from the three armies.

In addition, Xu You of Nanyang County, Liu Ji and Yuan Pet also paid a special visit, and I don't know what they talked about, in short, after this conversation, Xu You was respectful to these two young Langjun, and also did his best to support the two young Langjun in the three counties.

And the personnel behavior of Liu Ji and Yuan Pet has caused a huge storm in the land of the three counties, and for those scholars, what these two hairy boys have done is unacceptable to them!

For the nobles in these three counties, this is simply a slap in the face!

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Chong and Liu Ji began to promulgate the land of Dutian and the tax reform in the land of the three counties.

Those scholars led by Yingchuan County, after learning that Liu Ji and Yuan Pet were going to start implementing various field policies and tax systems in the three counties, began to secretly connect with each other, wanting to stumble on these two boys and prevent their new policies from being implemented smoothly in the three counties.

But the problem is that these nobles have made things simple!

Since most of the grassroots officials in the three counties are drawn from the poor and ordinary powerful groups, Liu Ji and Yuan Pet naturally made friends with the hearts of the poor according to Liu Jian's words, and the cold men of the three counties have watched these scholars block their heads for many years, and they have already developed resentment in their hearts, and they have accumulated antagonistic emotions against each other.

And now, the imperial court has given them a chance to climb up, an opportunity to redistribute the chain of interests of the three counties, how can they not seize it?

As a result, through personnel appointments and the implementation of the new policy in the three counties, the situation in the three counties was divided into Liu Ji and Yuan Chong, leading the Hanmen and the middle Haoqiang to confront the local scholars and nobles around the implementation of the new policy......

Everything Liu Ji and Yuan Pet did was under Liu Jian's supervision, and he was very satisfied with the actions of the two children.

Now, Liu Jian can pat his chest and say: Tiger father has no dog!

He was not in a hurry to personally come forward to support the two children, but let them take care of the affairs of the three counties.

And Liu Jian is dedicated to arranging military and various industries in the three counties.

Although the three counties have been in the hands of Yuan Shao in recent years, the development is far less than that of Hebei, but after all, this was once the cultural center and economic center of the Han Dynasty, and the foundation is still very strong, especially the smelting industry and handicraft industry in Nanyang County can be said to be famous throughout the country.

Therefore, Liu Jian sent people to inform the Commerce Department and the Technology Department of Chang'an to begin to reform schools in Nanyang County and other three counties, set up Jingzhou State University and Yuzhou State University, and include smelting, ordnance, planting, farming, etc., which have become systematic subjects in the north, into the study subjects in Yuzhou and other places, one is to expand the technical talent pool, and the other is to enable Nanyang County's technology to exchange with the north, in order to achieve the fastest rate of progress.

In addition, Liu Jian did not rush to bring the soldiers and horses back to Guanzhong or Hebei, but ordered his soldiers to be stationed in Nanyang County on the spot.

The advantage of him doing this is that first, he can form a deterrent to the local scholars and wang clans, help Liu Ji and Yuan Chong to implement new policies in the three counties from the side, and second, to deter Yuan Shao.

After all, Yuan Shao is still quite weak now, and Liu Jian feels that taking advantage of his illness to kill him is the best choice for him at the moment.

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When he learned about the things that Liu Jian asked Liu Ji and Yuan Pet to do in Nanyang County, Yuan Shao's condition directly became a little more serious.

Nothing else.

That Yuan pet, actually came out of office?

According to Yuan Shao's assumption, Liu Jian raised Yuan Pet, after all, just to be able to deal with the Runan Yuan family, he had no real feelings for Yuan Pet, on the surface he was raising the orphan of his brother Yuan Ji, but in fact it was just for his own interests.

But looking at this situation now, Yuan Shao found that he seemed to be thinking wrong!

Liu Jian, this is really raising Yuan Pet as his own son!

Moreover, what does it mean to let Yuan Ji's son implement a new policy in Runan County?

This clearly shows that it is to dismantle the platform of the Yuan clan in Runan.

Runan Yuan's face can be said to have brought Liu Jian to the bottom over the years.

But he is still not enough, he still has to dig the roots of the Runan Yuan clan!

After learning the news, Yuan Shao coughed violently, spit out a mouthful of blood, and fainted on the spot, making his subordinates scramble for a while.

finally woke up, but Yuan Shao couldn't get up from the hospital bed, couldn't handle government affairs, and his condition didn't improve.

Yuan Shao was very angry for a while, and angrily slapped the table and said that he would fight Liu Jian to the death, and he would immediately send troops to the Northern Expedition.

But when his anger was not echoed by anyone, it was a bit embarrassing.

"Liu Thief has finally revealed his true colors, and he has been punishing my Runan Yuan clan for many years! For the sake of the Yuan family's foundation, how can Yuan not cut it down?! ”

Yuan Shao dragged the sick body and angrily convened a military meeting.

Having said that, the civil and military generals attending the meeting, you look at me, I look at you, everyone knows that this is very unrealistic.

Although they were as surprised as Yuan Shao about Liu Jian's letting Yuan Pet have a new deal in Yuzhou, they were not angry after the surprise, but many different feelings.

Most people didn't feel sorry for the future of the Runan Yuan clan, they mostly had a different idea.

Perhaps, the Runan Yuan clan is finished, and the Yuan clan has no possibility of turning the tables politically.

Even Yuan Ji's son went to Liu Jian to be a pioneer, what can the future of the Yuan family be?

Falling from the top of the world's great clans to the altar is the future of the Yuan clan in Runan at a glance.

For these scholars and wang clans in Nanjun and Jingnan, not to mention that they have already seen that Jingzhou has no power for the Northern Expedition, even if they have this ability, it is impossible for them to easily support Yuan Shao's Northern Expedition.

This meeting was very important, Cai Mao, Huang Zu and others also rushed over and attended the meeting, and they and Kuai Liang admonished Yuan Shao together and resolutely did not support the Northern Expedition.

This is not to say that they just have two hearts, they are people who have their hearts towards Liu Jian, but they analyze it according to the current situation in Jingzhou.

Yuan Shao has lost his cool because of continuous failures.

The decision made now is problematic, and everyone naturally has to try their best to persuade each other.

In the end, Yuan Shao still resisted the impulse in his heart and did not continue to discuss the matter of the Northern Expedition, in fact, he just vented the anger in his heart.

He also knew subconsciously that he was not capable of the Northern Expedition at all.

As long as he can arrange defenses along the Han River and block the footsteps of Liu Jian's army moving south, this will be considered a win for him.

However, even if the Han River was strictly guarded, and now the morale of the Jingzhou army was low, Yuan Shao did not feel that he could stop Liu Jian's footsteps.

But in this case, he has nothing to do, so what can he do?

In this case, Yuan Shao can only pin his good brother Yuan Zhi.

Although Yuan Yi's army had fought a defeat in Guanzhong before, the degree of loss of soldiers and horses was far from being as great as Yuan Shao's, and Yuan Shao felt that at this time, let Yuan Yi send troops to the north and send troops from Hanzhong to Guanzhong to contain Liu Jian's energy, which was the most important thing.

But in this case, will Yuan Yi send troops again?

Although they are brothers of the same clan, who knows what Yuan Yi has in mind now?

And it was at this time that on the Jiangdong side, Cao Cao sent an envoy to meet Yuan Shao.

The envoy was Cao Cao's descendant Lu Fan.

He proposed to Yuan Shao that Yuan Cao form an alliance, instead of being his vassal, as he had done back then.

In this way, the two sides are each other's lips and teeth, and only by resisting Liu Jian can they form a strong momentum in the world.

Moreover, he hoped that Yuan Shao would be able to cede Jiangxia County and Changsha to Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao could share the pressure on Yuan Shao on the Han River, which would be beneficial to both sides.

After listening to Lu Fan's words, Yuan Shao almost fainted to death without being angry.

He drank angrily, almost spurting out a mouthful of old blood.

"Who is Cao Mengde, who dares to say that he wants to form an alliance with me? Back then, he was just a little follower who followed my ass in Luoyang, and now he wants to be on an equal footing with me. ”

"You go back and tell Cao Cao that it's okay for him to be a vassal for me, but it's impossible to form an equal alliance with me. , let Cao Mengde pat his conscience and think about himself, who can he rely on to get to where he is today? And who do you rely on? ”

Listening to Yuan Shao's angry shouting, Lu Fan was not afraid, he just said naturally: "How can you generalize about the affairs of the world?" ”

"Although Yuan Gong is a wealthy family in the world, famous all over the world, the ancestors were not in their heyday in the past, but there are talents in the country, and Cao Gong was a vassal of Yuan Gong in the past, all because of current affairs, and now he can form an alliance with Yuan Gong, also because of the times."

"And Liu Deran was able to occupy the north, control the imperial court, and achieve today's hegemony, also because of the current situation, Yuan Gong, if we don't act according to the times, then the result will inevitably be destruction and rout."

"Before I came here, I had heard that Yuan Shiji's son was now commanded by Liu Jian to go to Runan to implement the new policies of the imperial court."

"Imagine how ridiculous it is that the children of the Yuan clan have now gone to Runan to shake the foundation of the Yuan clan, Duke Yuan, do you still have to hold on to it now?"

"The roots of the Yuan family have been passive, if Yuan Gong insists on going his own way again, it will inevitably lead to evil consequences, please think twice."

When Yuan Shao heard this, the green tendons on his forehead jumped angrily, and he couldn't wait to send someone to hack Lu Fan to death.

Xun Chen saw it on the side, and hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him: "Yuan Gong is angry, although Lu Ziheng's words are a bit arrogant, but they are also sincere. ”

"Please also ask Duke Yuan to send Lu Ziheng to the post house to rest, and then we will discuss this matter in detail?"

Yuan Shao turned his head and glared at Xun Chen angrily, and shouted, "What else is there to discuss in this matter?" ”

Xun Chen said: "No matter what, let Lu Ziheng go to the pavilion to rest first." ”

When Xun Chen said this, his expression was extremely sincere, and he secretly kept glancing at Yuan Shao.

Although Yuan Shao was resentful in his heart, seeing that Xun Chen was behaving like this at the moment, he knew that he must have some opinion, and it was a very important opinion.

So Yuan Shao forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked Lu Fan to be led down and sent to the pavilion to rest.

After Lu Fan went down, Yuan Shao immediately asked Xun Chen, "Why is this so?" “

Xun Chen said: "Duke Yuan, although Lu Ziheng's words are not to be heard, for the current situation, it is still necessary to form an alliance with Cao Cao. “

"At the moment, we can't care about the identity and the gains and losses of a city and a pool, when we work together with it to resist Liu Jian's pace of going south, if the last official is estimated well, I am afraid that it will not be long before Liu Jian rectifies it, and it will be a large-scale invasion of the south, Cao Cao and we are both about to be defeated, and at that time what vassals and alliances will be divided, please think twice!"

(End of chapter)