I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 738: The Two Young Masters’ Governance
Afterwards, Liu Jian stationed troops in Nanyang County and began to train soldiers wholeheartedly. He left all the matters of continuation of the imperial new policy in Nanyang County and Yuzhou to Liu Ji and Yuan Chong.

When the noble families and noble families in Nanyang County, Yingchuan, and Runan County heard about Liu Jian's arrival, their first reaction was that the New Deal would definitely come to them. The person who wanted to personally preside over this matter should be Liu Jian and Liu Jian. The Prime Minister himself.

Prime Minister Liu is not an easy person to deal with, definitely not easy to deal with!
The major families began to communicate secretly to discuss how to deal with this matter.

But I never thought that the imperial court would issue a decree to hand over the matter of sorting out the government affairs of Nanyang County and Yuzhou to Liu Jian's eldest son Liu Ji and Yuan Chong!
For a moment, the entire Central Plains was about to explode!
The imperial court actually asked two young men to preside over the New Deal. Isn't this a joke?

Isn’t it a bit too disrespectful to these people?

Although Liu Ji and Yuan Chong, one is the eldest son of Liu Jian and the other is the orphan of Yuan Ji, and their status is very idle, they are too young after all.

As a result, many people began to take chances and felt that if these two children were really the masters of the matter, this matter would not be promoted!

However, these noble families still underestimated the blood of the Liu family and the Yuan family, and also underestimated Liu Jian's education of these two children.

After receiving the imperial edict from the imperial court, Liu Ji, as an envoy of the New Deal, issued an edict to the three major counties of Nanyang County, Yingchuan County, and Runan County!

Restart personnel appointments in government agencies at all levels.

Logically speaking, personnel appointments in government agencies at all levels cannot be attributed to Liu Ji and Yuan Chong. However, the appointment authority in the imperial edict is relatively vague, that is, as long as it concerns the implementation of the New Deal in the three counties, It's all in the hands of two people.

Everything Liu Ji and Yuan Chong did was under Liu Jian's supervision. He was very satisfied with the two children's actions.

The personnel behavior of Liu Ji and Yuan Chong caused a huge disturbance in the three counties. For those nobles, what these two young boys did was unacceptable to them!

Now, Liu Jian can pat his chest and say: A tiger father has no dog son!
He was not in a hurry to personally support his two children, but let them take care of the affairs of the three counties.

But now, the imperial court has given them an opportunity to climb up, an opportunity to redistribute the interests of the three counties. How could they not seize it?
As a result, through personnel appointments and the implementation of the New Deal in the three counties, the situation in the three counties became that of Liu Ji and Yuan Chong, who led the poor and middle-class powerful people to fight against the local nobles and noble families around the implementation of the New Deal...

Liu Jian, on the other hand, focused on arranging military affairs and various industries in the three counties.

For the two of them, it is impossible for them to be qualified to be appointed to such high positions as Nanyang County Sheriff, Runan Prefecture, and Yingchuan Prefecture, including official positions of more than 600 shi, which must be appointed by the court in accordance with the New Deal regulations. According to the imperial examination rankings, officials who passed the imperial examination and had certain political achievements in the local area were appointed and removed.

The gentry led by Yingchuan County learned that Liu Ji and Yuan Chong were going to implement various land administration and tax systems in the three counties, so they began to secretly connect with each other, trying to stumbling these two boys and preventing them from doing so. The New Deal was successfully implemented in the three counties.

Personnel appointments are helpful for the implementation of the New Deal, so the two of them took over this matter by the way.

Fortunately, these important positions such as governors and county magistrates sent by the imperial court to the local areas are all talents who have studied in state universities at all levels and passed the imperial examinations over the years. They are nominally the disciples of Liu Jian, the honorary principal, so It is said that they are disciples of the emperor to a certain extent, and the family power of these talents is not particularly strong in the north. Therefore, considering all aspects, they have a stronger sense of dependence on Liu Jian, so they can safely let them take up their posts in the three counties. Make the new policy smooth.

But the problem is, these nobles make things simple!

Of the list of nobles provided by Xun Yu and Xun You to Liu Jian, Liu Ji and Yuan Chong only appointed one-third, while the other two-thirds, Liu Ji and Yuan Chong, were drawn from the powerful families of the three armies.

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

Although the development of the three counties in Yuan Shao's hands over the years has been far less than that of Hebei, after all, it was once the cultural and economic center of the Han Dynasty, and its foundation is still very strong. In particular, Nanyang County's smelting industry and handicraft industry are nationally famous.

Therefore, Liu Jian sent people to notify Chang'an's Commerce Department and Technology Department to start reforming schools in Nanyang County and other three counties, establishing Jingzhou State University and Yuzhou State University, and integrating smelting, weapons, planting, and farming in the north. The systematic subjects are incorporated into the study subjects in Yuzhou and other places. On the one hand, it will expand the technical talent pool, and on the other hand, it will also enable Nanyang County's technology to be exchanged with the north, in order to achieve the fastest progress.

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

Since most of the grassroots officials in the three counties were drawn from poor families and ordinary powerful groups, Liu Ji and Yuan Chong naturally followed Liu Jian's words and made friends with the poor families. And the poor families in the three counties have been watching for many years. These nobles were blocking their heads, and they had already felt resentment in their hearts, and their antagonism towards each other was accumulating.

In addition, Xu You, Liu Ji and Yuan Chong from Nanyang County also paid a special visit. I don’t know what they talked about. In short, after this conversation, Xu You showed great respect to these two young masters, and even gave them all his heart. I fully support the two young men in governing the three counties.

Liu Ji and Yuan Chong immediately selected some people from the list submitted by Xun Yu and Xun You for local appointment. But then, based on the information provided to them by Jia Xu, they began to contact the local poor and powerful. And began to reuse people from their clan.

In addition, Liu Jian did not rush to bring his troops back to Guanzhong or Hebei, but instead ordered his soldiers to be stationed in Nanyang County.

At least these people were on the side of Liu Jian and the court, so Liu Ji and Yuan Chong would not feel constrained.

The advantage of him doing this is that, on the one hand, it can frighten the local nobles and noble families, and help Liu Ji and Yuan Chong implement the new policy in the three counties from the side, and on the other hand, it can also frighten Yuan Shao.

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

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When he learned what Liu Jian asked Liu Ji and Yuan Chong to do in Nanyang County, Yuan Shao's condition became a little more serious.

Nothing else.

That Yuan Chong actually became an official?
According to Yuan Shao's idea, Liu Jian raised Yuan Chong just to be able to deal with the Yuan family in Runan. He had no real feelings for Yuan Chong. On the surface, he was raising Yuan Chong, his brother Yuan Ji's orphan, but in fact he was just raising him for himself. only interests.

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

Liu Jian really raised Yuan Chong as his own son!
Moreover, what does it mean to let Yuan Ji's son implement the New Deal in Runan County?
This makes it clear that they want to tear down the Yuan family in Runan.

It can be said that the reputation of the Yuan family in Runan has been brought to the bottom by Liu Jian over the years.

But it's still not enough for him. He still needs to dig out the roots of the Yuan family in Runan!
After learning the news, Yuan Shao coughed violently, vomited a mouthful of blood, and fainted on the spot, leaving his subordinates in a panic for a while.

After finally waking up, Yuan Shao was unable to stand up from the hospital bed, unable to handle government affairs, and his condition did not improve. After many famous doctors came to treat him, Yuan Shao's body improved slightly.

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

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

"Thief Liu finally showed his true face. He has been targeting the Yuan family in Runan for many years! For the sake of the Yuan family's foundation, how can Yuan not attack him?!" Yuan Shao dragged his sick body and angrily held a military meeting.

Having said that, the civil servants and generals present at the meeting looked at me and I looked at you. Everyone knows that this is unrealistic.

Although they were as surprised as Yuan Shao that Liu Jian asked Yuan Chong to take charge of Yuzhou's new policy, after the surprise, it was not anger, but many other different emotions.

Most people don't feel sorry for the future of the Yuan family in Runan. Most of them have other ideas.

Perhaps, the Runan Yuan family is finished, and there is no possibility of a political comeback for the Yuan family.

Even Yuan Ji's son went to work as a vanguard for Liu Jian. What would be the future of the Yuan family?
Falling from the top of the world's great clan to the altar is the future that the Yuan family in Runan can see at a glance.

For the nobles and noble families in Nanjun and Jingnan, not to mention that they have seen that Jingzhou has no strength for the Northern Expedition. Even if they have this ability, they cannot 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. Together with Kuai Liang, they advised Yuan Shao that they would not support the Northern Expedition.

This does not mean that they have second thoughts and are people who are interested in Liu Jian, but they analyzed it based on the current situation in Jingzhou.

Yuan Shao had lost his cool due to his continuous failures.

The decision made now is problematic, so naturally everyone has to try their best to persuade them.

In the end, Yuan Shao endured the impulse in his heart and did not continue to discuss the Northern Expedition. In fact, he just wanted to vent his anger.

He also knew subconsciously that his side was simply unable to make the Northern Expedition now.

As long as he can arrange defenses along the Han River to stop Liu Jian's army from going south, it will be considered a win for him.

However, even if they strictly guard the Han River, the morale of the Jingzhou army is now low, and Yuan Shao does not feel that he can stop Liu Jian.

But in this case, he was at his wits end, so what could he do?
Under this situation, Yuan Shao could only rely on his good brother Yuan Yi.

Although Yuan Yi's army suffered a defeat in Guanzhong before, the loss of troops and horses was far from as great as that of Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao felt that at this time, Yuan Yi should send troops northward and send troops from Hanzhong to Guanzhong to contain Liu Jian. energy, this is the most important thing.

But in this case, will Yuan Yi send troops again?
Although they are brothers from the same clan, who knows what Yuan Yi has in mind now?
It was at this time that Cao Cao sent an envoy to see Yuan Shao from Jiangdong.

The envoy was Lu Fan, a direct descendant of Cao Cao.

He proposed to Yuan Shao that Yuan Cao form an alliance instead of being his vassal as before.

In this way, the two sides are mutually supportive and can jointly resist Liu Jian to form a tripartite power in the world.

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

After hearing what Lu Fan said, Yuan Shao almost fainted from anger.

He slapped the table and shouted angrily, almost spitting out a mouthful of blood.

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

"You go back and tell Cao Cao that he can be my vassal, but it is absolutely impossible for him to form an alliance of equals with me. Let Cao Mengde pat his conscience and think about it. He can be where he is today thanks to Who? Who do you rely on?"

After hearing Yuan Shao's angry shouting, Lu Fan was not afraid. He just said naturally: "How can we generalize all the affairs of the world?"

"Although Mr. Yuan is a wealthy family in the world and is famous all over the world, his ancestors were not in their heyday in the past. However, there are talents in the country. In the past, Mr. Cao was a vassal of Mr. Yuan. It was all due to current events. Now he can form a relationship with Mr. Yuan. The alliance between lips and teeth is also due to the current situation."

"And Liu Deran was able to occupy the north, control the court, and achieve his current hegemony because of the current situation. Mr. Yuan, if we don't act according to the current situation, the result will be destruction and defeat."

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

"Just imagine how ridiculous it is that the descendants of the Yuan family are now going to Runan to shake the foundation of the Yuan family. Mr. Yuan, do you still want to hold on until now?"

"The roots of the Yuan family have been passive. If Mr. Yuan continues to insist on his own way, it will inevitably lead to negative consequences. Please think again, Mr. Yuan."

When Yuan Shao heard this, he was so angry that the veins on his forehead jumped, and he wished he could just send someone to chop Lu Fan to death.

Xun Chen saw it from the side and hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him: "Mr. Yuan, calm down. Although Lu Ziheng's words are a bit presumptuous, they are also sincere."

"How about asking Mr. Yuan to send Lu Ziheng to the post house to rest first, and then we can discuss the matter in detail?"

Yuan Shao turned his head and glared at Xun Chen, shouting: "Is there anything else to discuss about this matter?"

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

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

Although Yuan Shao was resentful, seeing Xun Chen behaving like this at the moment, he knew that he must have some opinions, and they were very important.

So Yuan Shao suppressed the anger in his heart and had Lu Fan led away 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: "Mr. Yuan, although Lu Ziheng's words are not pleasing to the ear, in view of the current situation, it is still necessary to form an alliance with Cao Cao."

"At the moment, we can't care about our status and the gains and losses of a city and a pool. We should join hands with them to resist Liu Jian's march south. If the officials' estimates are correct, I'm afraid it won't be long before Liu Jian reorganizes and invades the south. , Cao Cao and we are both about to be defeated. At that time, we will be divided into vassals and allies. Please think twice, my lord!"

(End of this chapter)