The elite did not migrate south

Chapter 650 Farming
“Zhong Hui!!”

When a roar was heard outside the door, the pen in Zhong Hui's hand trembled violently, and a large ink mark appeared on the paper in front of him.

Zhong Hui gritted his teeth, feeling extremely distressed.

However, Zhong Yu pushed open the door of the study and rushed in.

Seeing Zhong Hui sitting at the desk, Zhong Yu's face was filled with anger. "You brat! Wasn't it enough for you to provoke the county governors and the nine ministers before? Now you even dare to provoke the three most powerful officials?"

"Brother, this is a memorial I wrote to His Majesty regarding the governance of the Wu Kingdom. Your shouting has caused great harm to the people of Wu Kingdom~~"

Zhong Yu walked up with a stern face, pushed Zhong Hui away, and sat in his seat. Zhong Hui sat aside helplessly.

"Brother, Wang Chang is in a hurry to see His Majesty. I guess it's just to arrange for Chen Tai to go to Jianye. This is not important at all. My business is more important. I will go in to see His Majesty first. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Oh, your business is the most important. Why did you go to His Majesty? To persuade His Majesty? Or to express your dissatisfaction?"

Zhong Hui smiled and said, "I am here to draw up a strategy for governing the State of Wu for Your Majesty."

Zhong Yu didn't believe his nonsense at all.

He said again, "Zhong Hui, don't provoke these old ministers anymore. Don't think that just because you have talent and His Majesty's favor, you can do whatever you want!"

He wanted to scold a few more times, but suddenly fell silent.

Zhong Hui looked at his brother and asked, why did he only say one sentence today?
Zhong Yu added, "I am already very old and cannot always look after you. You must gradually correct these shortcomings. If you continue to act like this, no matter how talented you are, you will never be able to achieve your ambitions."

Zhong Hui laughed and said, "Brother, don't worry, and don't bother yourself too much about my affairs. I can handle these things!"

Zhong Yu glanced at him and said, "Oh, if it weren't for me, you would have been in the prison of the Ministry of Justice long ago!"

"He has to be brave enough to catch it!"

Zhong Yu continued, "Don't dwell on this. I'm here to tell you that governing Wu is no easy task. If you're appointing officials, don't just consider their talents; consider other factors as well."

"Their relatives, their origins, their marriages"

Hearing these words, Zhong Hui frowned.

He hated these the most.

He said unhappily, "Brother, His Majesty trusts me and has just let me take charge of Wu's affairs. Why are you doing this?"

"The powerful clans collude with each other and appoint people based on personal connections. It's because there are too many people like you that the world has been unable to unify for a long time!"

"You bastard! What do you know?!"

Zhong Yu was very angry. "I really should have let you do it alone and let you taste the bitter fruit of failure!"

"You always do things like this, and you really don't think about anything! You can't just do things straightforwardly; you have to think about more. If you were to assign Chen Tai a deputy, and that person was a member of the Chen family's marriage alliance, wouldn't you care? If most of the officials you assigned came from the same place, wouldn't you be afraid that they would collude? Aren't you afraid that the famous officials from other places would be dissatisfied?"

"When doing things, don't just consider the surface things, but also consider other factors! Otherwise, how can you achieve great things?"

Zhong Hui raised his head and said, "You don't need to tell me these things. I know them all."

"Besides, governing the Wu Kingdom isn't just about arranging officials. Regarding the division of local counties, the measurement of cultivated land, and policies for the great families and the common people, who else but me can accomplish these tasks in such a short period of time?"

"Brother, if you want to see me fulfill my ambition as soon as possible, then return to the mansion and wait for my good news! Don't delay my important matters any longer!"

When two brothers meet, they always quarrel more often than they are calm.

Zhong Yu left here angrily.

Liu Yuan looked at Zhong Yu as he left, then at his teacher, and couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, isn't it inappropriate for you to treat your brother like this?"

Zhong Hui said unhappily, "I'm not being disrespectful to my brother. It's just that he's not as good as me in government affairs. That's why I'm like this. Even though we're family and elders, we can't talk about personal feelings when discussing important matters, otherwise it will ruin the whole thing!"

Liu Yuan nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

The emperor's edict reached the south, requiring Hu Zun, Guanqiu Jian, and Wen Qin to take Sun Hao, clan members, and many ministers to Luoyang.

As for the defense of the south, it was handed over to Wang Ji.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the reason Wang Ji was left behind was because his contributions were insufficient and he had not yet reached the point where he would be summoned and rewarded by His Majesty.

This made Wang Ji's soldiers even more dissatisfied, but they were powerless to do anything.

General Hu Zun was the happiest. When he received the imperial edict, he was still having a banquet with the ministers of Wu.

The ministers were still willing to attend Lao Hu's banquets, at least he didn't kill people.

Sun Hao was also ordered to attend Hu Zun's banquet, but for some reason, he was very polite to Hu Zun and even smiled when he looked at him. In history, Sun Hao was particularly tough towards Sima Yan, perhaps even more courageous than Liu Chan. However, if you say he was very courageous, that is not necessarily the case. After all, he surrendered directly before Du Yu and Wang Jun even surrounded Jianye.

At least Liu Chan waited until Deng Ai arrived at the city before surrendering.

When facing Sima Yan, he was very principled. However, Sima Anshi was a man who would make anyone standing in front of him become very principled, because he was not easy to kill.

The surrender of Wu allowed Wei to gain a large number of talents, including many wise ministers who could govern the country, but not many generals.

There are only a few young people in the south who can show off their skills.

The most important one among them, of course, is Lu Kang.

Lu Kang was quite depressed during these days.

He was captured by Guanqiu Jian in a very shameless way, and then tied up. Someone was watching him all day to prevent him from committing suicide. In order to persuade him to go to Luoyang, Guanqiu Jian even asked Sun Hao to come and persuade him.

Sun Hao felt both ashamed and helpless about this.

Faced with his last loyal minister, Sun Hao could only painfully persuade him to surrender to the Wei Dynasty.

Even Lu Kang was silenced by Sun Hao at this moment.

When his own emperor took the lead in persuading Lu Kang to surrender, he didn't know how to refuse.

After Sun Hao left, Guanqiu Jian came to hint several times, roughly meaning that if Lu Kang did not cooperate with him and go to Jianye, Sun Hao would definitely be implicated because of his behavior. After all, Sun Hao was the only one who had contact with Lu Kang during these days.

Guanqiu Jian's image in Lu Kang's mind completely collapsed. How could he be a famous scholar?
This is simply a despicable villain!
Lu Kang was reluctantly put on the carriage, and then the army marched towards Luoyang in a mighty manner.

Hu Zun was quite emotional. The three of them were going to Luoyang to receive titles, and he didn't know what the rewards would be this time.

The ministers of Wu State seemed very calm, probably because of the precedent of Shu State, they felt that everything would be safe.

On the contrary, the situation in Wu State was very unstable.

When Hu Zun issued an order requiring all the major clans to disarm their private armed forces, the people of Jianye did so one after another, because their lives and property were completely in Hu Zun's hands. If they pretended to be ignorant, they would probably be happy to win the Three Clans Elimination Game.

But at the local level, not many people took Hu Zun's orders seriously.

Then, Guanqiu Jian began to lead the troops to suppress the rebellion of these people.

After several large clans were uprooted by Guanqiu Jian, panic broke out in Wu, and several counties again raised the banner of Sun Hao.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

This would only bring about an even more brutal attack from Guanqiu Jian.

Guanqiu Jian did this intentionally with the aim of weakening the power of the major families in the State of Wu.

Judging from the current situation, his actions are still necessary. Under such circumstances, they dared to rebel, which is enough to show how rampant they are.

However, under Guanqiu Jian's powerful army, the resistance of these big tribes was completely useless.

The strength of the big families comes from their network of relationships and their overt power, not from these private soldiers.

The reason why Cao Wei did not dare to touch the Hu family in Anding was not because the Hu family had many private soldiers, but because of Hu Zun!
After the big families of Wu State lost their official identities as protection, they became nothing.

Unless someone like Lu Kai fled to Wei in time and obtained a legitimate identity for himself in Wei, Guanqiu Jian would pay some attention to him and show mercy.

Many major families in the Wu State had made such preparations in advance. Lu Kai went to the Wei State for this day.

When that day finally arrived, he played his part.

As expected, Guanqiu Jian did not take action against the Lu family.

Those large families that failed to make timely arrangements were all killed by Guanqiu Jian this time.

The group set out from Jianye and headed for Luoyang by water. What humiliated the Wu people was that the large ships they were riding on were exactly the two iconic Wu ships that Sun Quan loved the most.

Wang Ji did not go with them. He was currently continuing Guanqiu Jian's follow-up work.

Unlike Guanqiu Jian, Wang Ji would not easily take action against the big families. He was famous for his leniency in governing the area. However, there was a prerequisite, which was that it must not affect General Wang's farming.

General Wang loved Wu very much. He thought he could shine here and farm well, but he soon found something wrong.

Why is there no farmland left in the State of Wu?

In order to achieve his goal of farming, General Wang made another memorial.

As a renowned general in charge of farming in Wei, Wang Ji attached great importance to farmland. His subordinates all said that General Wang, in order to protect the cities and farmland of Wu from being destroyed, did not even have the heart to attack them. When he saw the General of Chariots and Cavalry and his men attacking, he closed his eyes and turned away.
Putting aside these jokes, Wang Ji's memorial this time was about confiscating the farmland of the Jiangdong nobles and making it public land.
(End of this chapter)