I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 588: Outstanding People from the Southeast
I have to say that Chen Gui is really the smartest old cunning guy among the Xuzhou clans.

In front of everyone, he read such a piece of advice to Liu Jian, expressed his loyalty, and became the first family among the Xuzhou clans to surrender to Liu Jian.

This greatly increased Liu Jian's confidence in stabilizing and developing Xuzhou.

For those families who had doubts in their hearts about whether Liu Jian would reform Xuzhou, or whether they would resist if Liu Jian wanted to reform Xuzhou, the Chen family's move was nothing short of a bolt from the blue.

After all, the leader among them turned against them, so where should the rest of them go?Everyone lost their backbone for a while.

Although Chen Gui expressed his surrender to Liu Jian, his advice was given to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was very surprised after hearing it.

While stroking his beard, he looked at Liu Jian next to him in surprise, with questioning eyes in his eyes.

Liu Jian didn't express anything, but he just smiled at Liu Bei without any trace.

The two brothers have known each other for many years, so Liu Bei naturally understands Liu Jian's behavior.

When he said this, Liu Bei stood up. He looked at Chen Gui with excitement and said:

"It is really a great blessing for Xuzhou and a great blessing for the country to have such a loyal man like Han Yugong in Xuzhou."

"Master Han Yu is indeed as good as his character. Han Yu, Han Yu is truly the beauty of the Han Dynasty!"

Chen Gui cupped his hands and bowed: "The general has made a false compliment, and Gui doesn't dare to take it seriously. Gui just remembers that he is a Han, a native of Xuzhou, and a citizen under the imperial court. He should be loyal to the Han Dynasty, not to mention giving up some benefits." , Even if I give up this old life, as long as I can rejuvenate the Han Dynasty, I will not hesitate."

"Well, Duke Yu of Han is indeed the most loyal minister of the Han Dynasty and a role model for our generation!"

Liu Bei immediately stood up from the table, strode to Chen Gui's side, then reached out and took the silk in Chen Gui's hand.

"Mr. Yu of Han is so loyal and loyal, I must accept your advice!"

……

After the discussion, Liu Bei left Chen Gui alone and wanted to discuss with him the future development of Xuzhou.

Liu Jian, Liu Bei, Chen Gui and others talked for a long time. The content of the conversation was not known to outsiders. However, after Chen Gui left the prefect's mansion, his son Chen Deng was recruited to the prefect's mansion the next day and took office. Under Liu Bei.

Obviously, the Liu family has reached an agreement with the Chen family. Chen Gui is getting older and will no longer be able to support the Chen family sooner or later. Now Chen Deng has naturally entered the center of the Xuzhou government office and has made a smooth transition. He will surely gradually become the backbone of the Chen family in the future.

Once this incident spread, it immediately caused a stir among many families in Xuzhou and among the officials in Xuzhou.

There are also gentry groups among the Xuzhou tribes. Some criticize Chen Gui, some envy Chen Gui, and some admire Chen Gui... Anyway, no matter what kind of emotion it is, it is useless, but Chen Gui has already taken the advantage.

Even if the remaining local wealthy people in Xuzhou want to imitate Chen Gui, they are just picking up people's wisdom, and it is impossible to get too many benefits from the Liu family.

However, there are still people who will find new ways to surrender to Liu Jian through other means.

For example, Wang Lang of Donghai and Zhao Yu of Langya used another method to surrender to Liu Jian and Liu Bei.

……

"Recommend talents?"

"Exactly."

Today Wang Lang and Zhao Yu came together to recommend talents to Liu Jian and Liu Bei.

"I wonder who the second gentleman recommends?"

Wang Lang immediately said: "Zhang Zhao from Pengcheng, named Zibu, is good at official calligraphy. He received Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals from Baihou Zian. He is well-read in many books. He is friendly with a certain person and Yuanda. In the past, he promoted talented people to Tao Gongzu, Zibu. No, Qian thought he was underestimating himself, and then he was restrained. Yuanda leaned forward to rescue him, and he was able to avoid it."

Liu Jian was very happy when he heard Zhang Zhao's name.

He immediately said to Liu Bei: "This Zhang Zibu is a loyal, upright, talented and righteous man. Please come out and help with Xuzhou's political affairs."

Liu Bei was not convinced of the recommendations of Wang Lang and Zhao Yu. Now that he heard what Liu Jian said, Liu Bei immediately said: "I should go and invite them in person!"

At this time, Pengcheng State was in chaos due to Sun Jian's attack. Zhang Zhao came to the East China Sea to seek refuge. Wang Lang and Zhao Yu led Liu Bei to invite Zhang Zhao.

Liu Jian had no doubts about whether Liu Bei could invite Zhang Zhao. Compared with Tao Qian, Liu Bei's personality charm was much stronger. No matter how aloof and aloof Zhang Zhao was, sooner or later he would be defeated by Liu Bei's emotional offensive. He must also be defeated.

However, Liu Bei went to invite Zhang Zhao, but Liu Jian did not go with him.

It wasn't that Liu Jian looked down on Zhang Zhao, but that there was another person in Linhuai who received more attention from him.

Liu Bei went to invite Zhang Zhao, while Liu Jian took Zhang Fei and went south to Linhuai in person to pick up the man.

...Xiapi, Dongcheng County, the hometown of the Lu family.

A tall and impressive young man was directing the servants to pack their belongings. This man was Lu Su, named Zijing, 22 years old, one of the Lu clan in Dongcheng.

His father had just passed away last year, and now the period of mourning has just expired.

When Lu Su was packing, a woman was in Lu Su's room. She asked hesitantly, "Zijing, are you really going to move your family north to the East China Sea because of a letter?"

The woman is Lu Su's mother.

Hearing this, Lu Su stopped his movements and showed a gentle smile to his mother: "Mother, please believe me, child."

Although Lu's mother believed in his son, she was still attached to her homeland.

She asked: "Is it just because of that letter?"

The letter that Lu's mother was talking about was delivered in person not long ago by a school sergeant who claimed to be from the Hebei School Affairs Bureau.

There were only a few sentences in the letter:
"Today, there are many heroes in the world, and my son's talents are as good as today." Xi Ma Yuan replied to Guangwu Yun, "In today's world, not only the king chooses his ministers, but the ministers also choose the king." We are fascinated by the strange things, and we are close to the virtuous and noble people. This is In the autumn when martyrs climb dragons and fly with phoenixes, I will arrive here and prepare gold bottles of wine in anticipation of your journey north."

There was no signature on the letter.

Thinking of the contents of the letter, Lu Su sighed with emotion: "Just a letter alone cannot make me do this."

"It's the content of the letter, the person who sent it, and what happened in Xuzhou today that made me think of someone."

"There is probably only one person in the world who can do such a strange thing!"

When talking about this, Lu Su seemed a little excited.

"Mother, looking at the world, who can be ranked at the top of heroes?"

Lu's mother sighed: "How can I, a woman, know this?"

Lu Su said: "In my child's opinion, General Fuyuan conquered the northern border and had a great reputation. He loved the people like a son and acted like wind and thunder. Judging from his actions, he was indeed a wise master. Now, there is such a bright master so close at hand. , I know it but don’t vote for it, why don’t I hesitate?”

According to Lu Su's meaning, the reason why he wanted to go north was because the Ming Lord was coming.

Regarding this point, Lu's mother was quite convinced of Lu Su's opinion.

When Yuan Shu occupied Shouchun, Lu Su's father discussed Yuan Shu with Lu Su, who had not yet reached the crown, and wanted to move his entire family to Shouchun to join Yuan. However, Lu Su told his father:
"Yuan Gongdao is arrogant and has no discipline. He is not the master of chaos. He only punishes the power in the name of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family. Although he dominates one side, it will not be long."

At that time, Yuan Shu also had many soldiers and generals, almost on the same level as Yuan Shao.

Who would have thought that Lu Su would have such a vision?

Lu Su's father was doubtful about his words.

But later it turned out that Yuan Shu's defeat was as fast as Lu Su expected, and his death was really sudden, which is sad.

The former lord of Yangzhou has now become someone else's subordinate.

After this incident, Father Lu and Mother Lu deeply believed that their son was definitely a far-sighted person.

However, Lu's mother was still hesitant about another point.

"My son, mother believes in your vision. Even so, you don't need to be so anxious, and there is no need to move your family north to the East China Sea."

No wonder, it only took three days for the school sergeant to write the letter, and it took almost two or three days for Lu Su to make a decision after receiving the letter.

Moreover, he made the decision to move his family north.

In this era, there were not many people who left their hometown thousands of miles to seek refuge, let alone those like Lu Su who wanted to abandon their family and career.

Because this means that the future of the entire family is bet on this Ming Lord.

Lu Su sighed and said: "Mother, the reason why the child is like this is, firstly, to join the hero Mingzhu and do something great, and secondly, to avoid family disaster!"

"A family disaster?"

"Mother, we can't stay here any longer. If we continue to stay like this, we will be forced by Cao Jun to move to Jiangdong sooner or later. By then, our Lu family will have no chance at all! In this critical moment, we must move quickly!"

(End of this chapter)