"I will even be directly mentioned by the will of the Son of Heaven...... Can you become a Danyang county at the age of seventeen? However, the eldest brother twenty-two have all achieved Danyang Taishou and Pingyue Zhonglang General. Sure enough, as long as there are soldiers and territory in troubled times, the canonization of the imperial court is almost a decoration......"

After following Liu Bei back to Guangling Mansion and listening to Liu Xie's will brought back by Sun Wei, Zhuge Liang couldn't calm down in his heart for a long time, thinking nonsense.

Although he still maintained the number of courtesies to receive the decree and thanked him, the young man's three views were inevitably impacted to a considerable extent.

Fortunately, Liu Bei was also present and seemed to be able to understand his heart very well, so he helped round the field, and also instructed Ke Cao to immediately set up a banquet to wash the dust for Sun Wei.

At the banquet, Liu Bei took the opportunity of a tour to toast, walked in front of Zhuge Liang, and whispered while drinking:

"In today's world, there are countless young people who have won office, not to mention that Mr. does have the ability to govern the country and the country, why should he stick to secular views?

Don't you see that Sun Ce gained power by rebelling against him the year before last, and last year he instructed Zhu Zhi, the puppet Taishou of Wu County, to promote his second brother Sun Quan to be filial piety, and was named the commander of Yangxian County, and this year he was promoted to Fengyi Lieutenant - what virtue can Sun Quan's son have? At the age of fifteen, he became a county commander, and at the age of sixteen, he became a school captain?

I remember that Brother Ling is only one year younger than Sun Ce, right? Mr. should be one year older than Sun Quan. In this comparison, Brother Ling 21 is the lieutenant, and Mr. 17 is the county leader, which is really too deserved. Now on the temple, the rotten wood is the official, can it not tolerate the people who are truly talented and learn, and who sincerely serve the country? ”

Zhuge Liang was originally a little uneasy, but he was enlightened by Liu Bei's comparison, and the only bit of inhibition was completely relieved.

With his IQ, of course he can figure out these truths, but after all, he is still too young and mentally prepared, so he needs others to help him with psychological construction.

"An unknown person like Sun Quan deserves to be a lieutenant at the age of sixteen, how can I not be a county officer?! Thank you for your advice! Zhuge Liang solemnly bowed his hand.

He left the mountain ten years ahead of schedule, and his relationship with Liu Bei seems to be becoming more and more difficult to summarize.

Although Liu Bei still has a lot of professional questions to consult him, Zhuge Liang also has much more life experience and psychological construction problems than parallel time and space, which needs Liu Bei's attention.

……

After getting the official will, Zhuge Liang inevitably went to the Song Mansion again that night and told Song Xin and the Song family the good news by the way.

"Aunt Song, I am now the Danyang County Cheng canonized by the Son of Heaven, and the eldest brother is Danyang Taishou and Pingyue Zhonglang General. I remember that when my father was alive, he was also a county governor of Taishan, and now I have finally reached the official position of my father. ”

Zhuge Liang said all this with a respectful attitude and a steady tone.

Rao is Song family knew that his son had recently come out, and when he heard the news at first glance, he was still a little incredulous, and he was stunned for a long time before he hugged Zhuge Liang and cried.

"Isn't it because of the ground? Nor is it from General Zhengnan's table? Is it the edict of the Son of Heaven? After crying for a long time, Song remembered to confirm and wiped his tears.

"Of course there is, the will was brought back by Sun Beijia from Xudu, and it has been handed over to me, I will take it to Yuzhang and transfer it to my uncle and eldest brother." Zhuge Liang said, carefully took out the will from the vermilion lacquer bamboo tube, and held it for the Song family to see.

Song's hands trembled, his ten fingers curled up and wanted to grasp, but he didn't dare, so he read the will with both hands in a volley, and then the whole person seemed to have been drained of strength, and fell soft.

"That being the case, I am also relieved, Liang'er, you can go and accompany your eldest brother to do great things with peace of mind, in this troubled time, you should benefit the people. I don't need to worry about it here, seeing that you have today, the affairs of the Zhuge family, what else do I have to worry about, I won't ask in the future - by the way, I will take care of it in one sentence, can you agree on behalf of your eldest brother? ”

Zhuge Liang respectfully bowed his hand: "Please ask Aunt Song to command." ”

Song: "I'm not worried about Jin'er and your marriage, anyway, even if I marry a noble and famous lady, I will still be able to take a concubine in the future." But Zhi'er and Lan'er, I don't want your brothers to sacrifice their happiness for the sake of marriage.

The Zhuge family already has its current status, and its fame and wealth are no longer enough, if you want to get it, you can rely on your true skills. Zhi'er and Lan'er's marriage, as long as they find someone who is good for them and has good character. Even if the husband's family is poorer or has a slightly lower status, it doesn't matter, we don't expect their husband's family to help! ”

Zhuge Liang: "This is nature!" The eldest brother has long said that he only looks at his appearance when he marries his sister, not his status. ”

Song nodded: "Then I can rest assured, you brothers, everything will be convenient in the future, and you don't have to think about me anymore." In a few days, if Gan Mei came to ask for help again, I took the errand and helped her teach her daughter. I am a woman, and I can be regarded as doing something, but I hope to live up to my mission. ”

……

Hangou water control has been initially on the right track, and Zhuge Yimen has also been further canonized by the imperial court.

According to Liu Bei's original plan, at this time, it was time for Zhuge Jin to cooperate with Guan Yu, Gan Ning, and Tai Shici to work together to swallow the six counties in the south of Danyang and get Zulang done.

Zhuge Liang can be regarded as temporarily completing the task of coming to Liu Bei to make an envoy here, and he hopes to go back with his will in person, so that his eldest brother and uncle will also be happy, and by the way, he will solve Zulang as soon as possible.

Although Liu Bei was reluctant to get along for these two months, he also knew that in theory, Zhuge Liang should not be forced to stay now, it was better to relax one by one, and then slightly stocked for a while.

Anyway, as long as the situation in Danyang County is reversed, even if he hasn't taken back Moling City (Nanjing) in Sun Ce's hands, then he should be able to be promoted to Yangzhou Mu.

At that time, as the pastor of Yangzhou, he will definitely not put the shogunate of the southern general in Guangling, but will find a way to move to Danyang. Then you can recruit Danyang Taishou Zhuge Jin and Danyang County Cheng Zhuge Liang together and discuss matters every day.

On April 25, Liu Bei saw off Zhuge Liang and his entourage, shedding tears and saying goodbye.

He and Zhang Fei, Mizhu and Chen Qun continued to train and farm in Guangling, and there were many things that could be done. In the next few months, we can make full use of the results of water control, recruit displaced people to settle for reclamation, and expand production. Liberate the labor force of the cao workers and use these surplus manpower for the production of workers and peasants.

Even if there is no war, the follow-up development potential of Guangling County is very huge.

Once Yuan Shu became emperor, the people in other areas of the two Huai were struggling to make a living, and there was a large-scale migration.

And after sending Zhuge Liang away, Liu Bei also did one thing, that is, to temporarily send Jian Yong, who said he was going to be sent to Hebei last year.

The Mi Zhu family's sea boats have been improved to resist waves and turbulence, and they have also used the technology of beating hemp. Tian Yu and the others no longer stopped Liu Bei from going to Youzhou to pick up his family, and this task was handed over to Jian Yong, who was relatively familiar with Hebei, and Liu Bei also took care of him no matter what method he used, to get Zhao Yun back.

It's a pity that Jian Yong is not a traverser, and he doesn't know how many potential talents there are in the land of seclusion that have not yet emerged, so other measures to poach people cannot be counted on for the time being.

It is impossible for Zhuge Jin to predict this kind of thing in advance and write a dossier to Jian Yong, which will arouse suspicion. Therefore, if you want to tap more Hebei talents, you can only wait for the opportunity next time, and it has to be a situation where the Zhuge brothers can directly intervene in the deployment, and this time it can only target Zhao Yun.

The two roads were dispatched separately, and Guangling once again entered a cautious state of farming and self-defense, and there was nothing to repeat about daily affairs.

Zhuge Liang sailed upstream, sailing for only seven or eight days, and then arrived in the area of Chungu County - to his surprise, he originally thought that he would have to sail all the way to Pengze County in order to reach the eldest brother's sphere of influence.

But unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in Chungu County, which is nearly 200 miles away from Pengze County, he found that some places in Chungu County had already built new cities, and the banner of the Zhuge family was planted.

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but be curious: Has the eldest brother already done it? This is already a county that has been laid down in Zulang? What did Big Brother do when I wasn't there?

……

The words are divided into two ends, on the side of Yuzhang County, since Zhuge Liang left at the end of February, Zhuge Jin has certainly not been idle.

On the one hand, he was busy with the post-war security and governance work, so that the people of Yuzhang could return to the rhythm of daily livelihood and industry as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he asked Guan Yu to train troops and reform the surrendered army and prisoners of war.

At the same time, Zhuge Jin did not forget to make some small innovations in the field of technology and engineering to accelerate the progress of farming construction.

By the way, you can also find some excuses for the follow-up to force Zulang into a thief and directly occupy the six counties of Zulang - you officials who have opened the eyes of heaven may know that when Sun Wei went to Xudu as an envoy in Yangzhou, among the will to get it back, there was an order to authorize the Zhuge family to assist Yangzhou Mu Liu Miao to crusade against the traitor Zulang.

But in fact, when Sun Wei went to Xu Du to ask for his life, the "Zu Lang is not a minister" mentioned was still fabricated at that time, and Zu Lang did not do those bad things at all.

It's just that Zu Lang's IQ is too low, and Zhuge Jin has already thought about how to plant it, oh not how to fish, he is sure that he can say something first, say what bad things Zu Lang has done, and Zu Lang will definitely do it obediently in the future.

So, a little bit of a two-month time difference, that's reasonable.

Sending the watch seal to Xudu, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth. Cao Cao will not find the flaw, because by the time Cao Cao came to investigate, Zu Lang had already really done it, and he was also destroyed.

……

These words are a bit twisty and brain-burning, but if you look at the actual operation, it is easy to understand.

On the second day of the first month of March, it was only about ten days after Zhuge Liang left for Guangling last time. In the direction of Jingzhou, there were several merchant ships that went down the Yangtze River to Chaisang and visited Zhuge Jin.

These merchant ships were in charge of Tang Guang, the messenger sent by Zhuge Jin, and the guests on the ships were naturally Jingzhou scholars who were willing to come to Yuzhang to visit and ask for officials after reading Zhuge Liang's solicitation letter before.

Zhuge Jin attached great importance to it, put down the internal affairs at hand at that time, and personally went to the Yangtze River Wharf in the north of Chaisang City to greet him.

There were three groups of guests on the three boats, and they were all with their families, so the family needed to take a boat.

On the largest boat at the head, Huang Chengyan and Huang Yueying came down - but Huang Chengyan didn't come to seek officials, his status was relatively detached, and he was connected with Liu Biao, how could he come to Yuzhang to be a county minister.

So Huang Chengyan just said that he would come to Yuzhang to travel and live temporarily and take his daughter to see the world.

Zhuge Jin naturally tried his best to be polite to Huang Chengyan, he knew that the Huang family had taken a fancy to his younger brother and wanted to marry Ah Liang, although this has not yet been spoken, and he will have to wait for Ah Liang to come back next time, but everyone knows it.

Zhuge Jin was outside Chaisang City, picked a farm and gave it to Huang Chengyan, with the village and the land, and also bought a mansion for the Huang family in the city.

Huang Chengyan was a little humble and embarrassed when he saw Zhuge Jin's shot so heavy, but in the end, he was still moved by Zhuge Jin's enthusiasm and accepted it.

At the time of the meeting, Huang Yueying had been hiding behind her father, and she was also quite afraid of seeing Ah Liang's eldest brother, afraid that his eldest brother would think that the Zhuge family was rising too fast now and looked down on the Huang family.

However, Zhuge Jin's frank courtesy still made Huang Yueying feel a little relieved, so she followed her father to live outside the city, and waited for Ah Liang to come back with peace of mind.

In addition to Huang Chengyan, the other two guests on the boat were Pang Tong and Meng Jian.

One of them is nineteen years old, the other is in his early twenties, and they have not yet become famous, and it was after receiving Zhuge Liang's invitation that they came to Yuzhang to seek a career.

Zhuge Jin was not polite to them, and directly let them start from the grassroots level:

"Brother Pang Xian, I will appoint Ling as the commander of Poyang County and Brother Meng Xian as the commander of Pengze County, and divide the two counties in the easternmost part of Yuzhang and bordering Danyang. Peng Ze is second only to Chaisang, guarding the mouth of the lake between Peng Lize and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and Poyang is the hub of Poshui and the key point to resist Zulang in Jing County. ”

Pang Tong and Meng Jianjian received the order: "Thank you Brother Zhuge for your trust." ”

Zhuge Jin asked again: "I don't know if Brother Pang Xian has a table?" ”

Pang Tong was only nineteen years old, and it was originally said that he had no words. But at this moment, Pang Tong replied: "Uncle heard that I was going to be a teacher, so he took the word 'Shiyuan' for me in advance." ”

Zhuge Jin nodded: "From then on, I will call you Brother Shiyuanxian." Your affairs are particularly important, and before you came, I had already managed Poshui in Poyang and built roads along the river against the current into the mountains, so I had a good plan. When you arrive in Poyang, you must cooperate well, and it is indispensable to levy and send people to serve as laborers, or to hire Shanyue guides and prepare food and supplies. ”

Pang Tong was still a little confused, he didn't expect to receive such a specific task just after he came. But he is also a person who likes to show his talents, and he vaguely feels a little excited.

……

A few days later, Huang Chengyan, Pang Tong, and Meng Jian settled down, and Pang Tong and Meng Jian also took office smoothly.

Zhuge Jin in Pengze County didn't have anything to care about, just briefly explained, and threw it to Meng Jian to try the water by himself.

Here in Poyang County, the matter is more important, Zhuge Jin himself also left Chaisang and came to Poyang in person to cook with Pang.

Pang Tong was new to the situation and was not familiar with the situation. As soon as I arrived in Poyang County, I went straight to the county government and briefly looked at the county register.

He found that the area of Poyang County was extremely large, although the county seat was at the mouth of the Poshui River, not far from Peng Lize. However, the entire Poshui Basin, all the way to the mountains upstream, bordering Danyang County and Huiji County, belongs to Poyang County.

(Note: Poyang County is equivalent to Jingdezhen and the northern area of Shangrao in later generations, a semi-prefecture-level city, Jiangxi was still very little developed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the area of the more remote counties is very large.) Fifteen years after Jian'an in history, Sun Quan pulled together Poyang County, Shangrao County, and Yuhan County to establish Poyang County)

However, the area is so large, and the population is relatively small.

The 80,000 people in the county, about 50,000 or 60,000, are gathered around the county, in the narrow valley plain in the lower reaches of Poshui, and along the banks of Penglize.

There are only more than 20,000 people living along the many mountain tributaries in the middle and upper reaches, more than 300 li long from east to west and more than 200 li wide from north to south.

If the Han people who fled to the closed villages in the ravines and were not found by the imperial court are also included, and the Shanyue people are also included, it is estimated that there will still be more than 100,000 mountain people.

Such a sinister situation of "poor mountains and bad waters" couldn't help but make Pang Tong misunderstand, and took the initiative to ask:

"Brother Zhuge , you attach so much importance to the governance of Poyang County, and you have personally supervised here, don't you want to check the hidden households and arrest all the people in the ravine who do not pay taxes and do not serve in the ravine? Or do you want to forcibly conscript the Shanyue people into Danyang soldiers?

With all due respect, these two governance strategies are a little manipulative at the moment, these things, maybe it is better to wait for the situation to stabilize and then do it, now the Han people and Shanyue people are in a hurry, Yuzhang has Yuan Shu, Zu Lang, Sun Ce, if the internal regeneration of the internal response, I am afraid it will be difficult to clean up. ”

Zhuge Jin listened to Pang Tong's persuasion, and just laughed: "Shiyuan, then you think simply, I ask to focus on the governance of Poyang, it is not to directly look at the population, the population can be rectified at any time, there is no need to rush for a while."

According to my survey, there must be copper mines in the mountains in the upper reaches of Poshui, and the copper mines should not be far from the river. It's just that the natives don't know how to open mines, so they live in Baoshan and don't know it. ”

When Pang Tong heard this, this was the first time that a different color flashed in his eyes. Two days ago, he just felt that "Ah Liang's eldest brother is a good talker and treats people sincerely", but he didn't see that Zhuge Jin had any ability to defy the sky.

Now it seems that at least he has a unique skill and an idea.

Pang Tong finally came to a little bit of strength and analyzed: "Opening a mine to smelt copper, is this to mint money?" However, it will take some time to return to the original of this method, and how can you see where the copper mine is in the reckless mountains?

When the general trend is today, people with a little foresight can see that Yuan Shu and Cao Cao are becoming fire and water, and they are becoming more and more incompatible. In my opinion, Yuan Shu took a risk, and it was only a few months at most.

Why did Brother Zhuge make such a slow plan at the moment? Investing manpower and money in other things, even if it is stepping up military training and preparing for Yuan Shu, it will be faster than this. ”

Zhuge Jin Zhizhu shook his head in his hand: "It's not strange that you think so, but I have my own magic method to find the copper mine faster." Second, the copper mine is profitable, it doesn't have to wait until the copper smelting is successful, as long as there are indeed some clues and it seems to be successful, and then the wind is released, it will naturally be able to be exchanged for benefits immediately......"

Zhuge Jin talked about this, and he didn't elaborate on it, he also wanted to test Pang Tong's IQ.

This time, Pang Tong finally woke up: "The wealth is moving, and my brother hopes to release the rumor of finding copper and seduce the surrounding mountains to covet this place...... Could it be that he wants to trap Zu Lang for a traitor? As far as I know, Zu Lang originally only occupied Jing County and other six counties to defend himself, and did not serve any herdsmen, but he did not rebel overtly.

But if Zu Lang was greedy for money and took the initiative to attack the shepherd appointed by the imperial court, the situation would be very different...... It's just that, with Zulang's ambition, he can endure it, and he shouldn't do it immediately for the sake of a copper mine that catches the wind and shadows, right? ”

Zhuge Jin patted Pang Tong's shoulder: "Shiyuan, it seems that although you have a strategy, it is only like this for the time being, it may be that you don't know enough about Yuzhang's situation, and it will be fine in time."

You can't think of the question like this: Zu Lang may be able to endure it, but can all the chiefs of the Shanyue tribes under him endure it? Isn't there anyone who is particularly greedy and easy to take the bait?

And since Zu Lang is the co-leader of the six counties of Danyang and the Shanyue tribes in the northwest of Yuzhang, the actions of any of the following tribes must be counted on his head!

Unless a certain tribe provoked the imperial court, Zu Lang decisively broke his wrist, betrayed that tribe to the imperial court, beheaded its chieftain, and sent the people to the imperial court as Danyang soldiers.

But as long as he still wants to subdue the Shanyue tribes of the two counties, he will not do such a self-destructive and prestige thing, and will definitely choose to carry us to the end first, hoping to threaten us with force not to pursue it. When the time comes, he'll be completely finished. ”