Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"It looks like now... I actually climbed up to him."

Suddenly, he reached out and stroked his beard. Tao Qian, who was still bragging with Kong Rong, suddenly became a little interested.

After the warmth brought by the hot water pool left, Tao Qian always felt a little cold in his hands and feet while sitting in the yard.

"Kong Beihai, we are old acquaintances, let me ask you a question..."

After a while, Tao Qian spoke again:

"Let me ask you, let's not talk about the cityscape and streets of Lujiang, the various resources of Lujiang, or even the sales of Lujiang's commercial firms, but the bathing pool..."

"You are also a prefect, so let me ask you, what can you see from this bathing place?"

Stretching out his finger, he pointed to the steaming room behind him. In that room, the bath water that Tao Qian had soaked in before was still hot.

……

"This……"

Not far from him, Kong Rong naturally knew what Tao Qian was referring to.

This is something that all prefects will face on their first day in office.

After pondering for a while, he said leisurely:

"This bathing place...is not just for high-ranking officials like us to enjoy life. To put it bluntly, let alone you and me, it is those petty officials who offer a hundred and eighty stones every year. A hot bath shouldn’t be difficult, right?”

"After all, this is clearly for the lowest class, the poorest, the poor who can't even afford food."

……

"Tao Gongzu, I don't know if you noticed when you came here. There are many people coming and going in the main hall of the bathing place... I probably heard a few words."

"It only costs a few pennies within two hours of coming in, and you can't even buy a bucket of rice, but you can make yourself comfortable and go home clean... Is there anything more pleasant than this?"

"It's not a question of whether it makes money or not, or even whether it's useful. In my opinion, the only function of this thing is to make the lives of the people in Wancheng of Lujiang River more comfortable and comfortable."

"The rest, whether it's for us, or for the aristocratic family, or even for those rich merchants and craftsmen, doesn't have much meaning."

"This is the will of the people, and it is only the will of the people."

……

"With all due respect, the fact that Prefect Zhang Yan can spare no effort to build this kind of thing now proves that the resources and energy in his hands are good enough for him to squander."

"Before the hearts of the people, it is like the hearts of aristocratic families, the hearts of tyrants, and the hearts of merchants and craftsmen. Doesn't he have them?"

"I don't think so."

"The reason why he was able to invest resources in these places shows that no matter whether the aristocratic families or merchants in Lujiang have been taken in by him, and he is willing to do things for him, he can set his sights on the lowest level. on the common people."

"Tao Gong, what does this mean?"

Slowly speaking to Tao Qian, Kong Rong seemed to be speaking to the other party at the moment, but also seemed to be speaking to himself.

After a while, he continued:

"Tao Gong, I have heard a saying."

"Since ancient times, the person who wins the hearts of the people of the world can be the Son of Heaven. The one who wins the hearts of the Son of Heaven can be a prince. The one who wins the hearts of princes can be a scholar-bureaucrat. The one who wins the heart of a scholar-bureaucrat can also be a minister."

"You and I are both the emperor's envoys. If you do things for the emperor, you can be regarded as the one who wins the emperor's heart."

"And what about Prefect Zhang Yan?"

"He is a vassal, so what is his heart?"

Every word seemed to hit Tao Qian's chest. After Kong Rong finished speaking, the two fell into a long silence.

They have been in politics for decades, and they are not fools, and they can also see from some behaviors what the essence of the perpetrator's mind is.

Like Zhang Yan's situation...

"Ahem, don't say it, don't say it."

"The governor of Yangzhou hasn't spoken yet, how can we two outsiders speak here!"

After softly scolding Kong Rong, Tao Qian suddenly took a deep breath, and then stood up from where he was.

"Kong Beihai, let's go."

"Prefect Zhang invited me to the banquet tonight, so don't be late because of personal matters!"

"If my guess is correct, then Zhang Yan invited me to come over, he definitely didn't just want to show off his strength to us. According to Mi Zhu, he is not such a boring guy."

"Just wait until tonight..."

"By tonight, everything will be known when I think about it."

Tao Qian said slowly.

PS: I will open a new book tomorrow, and the old books will be updated normally. I feel that the results have stabilized recently. If there is no reward, it is basically updated like this.

For the new book, I guess I will open an Ark Doujin, either because I want to write something, otherwise I feel that I am playing in vain.

If you open the book tomorrow, you can find it if you are interested. If you find it, there will be no rewards. It’s not on this account hhhh

Chapter 32 Painting and People

That night, a long-lost banquet was held at the Mansion of the Marquis of the Kingdom of Wan in Lujiang.

After thinking over and over again, Zhang Yan still did not choose to hold the banquet in those restaurants in Wancheng, but chose the location of the banquet at his home.

On the one hand, the people he invited this time were all prefects and governors from one city to one place, and the worst ones were people on the same level as him.If you have a banquet in the mansion, it can also appear relatively formal.

On the other hand, it was because of Zhang Yan's plan today.

He intends to talk to these elder brothers about things, and the content of the talk is obviously not convenient to say publicly in a restaurant.

But it's actually okay, because even if the banquet is held at his home, there is no inconvenience.

His Mansion of Marquis of the Kingdom of Wan is big enough, and the environment is not too bad. More importantly, the cooks in his mansion are basically trained from local restaurants——

No way, who made those restaurants and other places belong to his own family...

In this way, after the sky gradually became dark, the Mansion of the Marquis of the Kingdom of Wan, which had been quiet for a hundred days, became lively instead.

……

"Hey, isn't this Bao Guoxiang? Why are you here?"

……

"Look at what you said, I shouldn't come, or can't I come?"

……

"Just joking, joking, it's a good thing for you to come. We are poor in Qingxu, and we can only rely on selling you some food for some money, so that we can barely survive. If you don't come, we will have to worry about it today gone."

……

"Hehe, I only think of me when I need money...Tao Gongzu is solid enough. Tell me, how much grain can you give me this year? I'll go back to prepare it in a few days, and then I'll go to Xuzhou to get it!"

"But brother Gongzu, let me tell you the truth, don't just think about me. Look at those people over there...Brother Boye sits in Shanyang, and Yuanwei is even more powerful in the rich and prosperous East County. If you really want to talk about rich people, you have to find them two more."

"Compared with the two of them, my place in Jibei is not a good place."

……

In this way, when Sun Jian took his eldest son to pay a visit to Zhang Yan's mansion at night, what he saw was the above scene like a group of demons dancing wildly.

In Zhang Yan's mansion, not far in front of the hall used to receive guests, a group of officials at the lowest level, the prefect, were chatting together.

Looking around, Sun Jian could recognize Tao Qian, governor of Xuzhou, Yuan Yi, prefect of Shanyang, and Zhang Chao, prefect of Guangling, who Sun Jian could recognize at a glance.

As for the rest, Sun Jian made a wild guess based on what they were talking about.

"Good guy, this is Bao Xin, Prime Minister of Jibei? And Qiao Mao, Governor of Dongjun County? Why did the two of them appear here..."

At this moment, Sun Jian couldn't help being a little surprised in his heart.You know, Dongjun, Shanyang and other places are not within footsteps of Lujiang.Like the farthest Shanyang, it will soon be close to the boundary of Shanxi.

But when I turned around and thought about it, even myself, the prefect of Changsha, who had nothing to do with the Lujiang River, and was separated by the entire Dabie Mountains, could receive the invitation from the other party. It was like the prefects of Yanzhou and other places came here at the appointment, and Sun Jian was also I don't think it's too difficult to accept.

……

"Hey, it's strange...it's really strange. I thought that Zhang Yan invited me to attend the military parade because I had a lot of military achievements and could rival him... But looking at this picture, it seems that not everyone Are all people so good at fighting?"

His eyes fell on Kong Rong, the prefect of Beihai who was nodding and bowing with everyone not far from Tao Qian. Sun Jian's expression was a little puzzled for a moment.

But since it was all here, he didn't think too much about it.Instead, he just walked towards the crowd not far ahead, who were gathering together.

……

"Cer, come here quickly, stop looking around!"

"These are your uncles, come, say hello to them—"

……

He stretched out his hand to greet Sun Ce who was following behind him. Before Sun Jian reached the crowd, he saw that several people in the crowd had already found him.

"Forehead……"

The other party's face was also shocked, apparently he didn't expect that a "barbarian" who was located in the south of Jingzhou would appear here, and he forgot to talk to him for a while.

"Hehe, look, isn't this the famous Wu Chenghou!"

In the end, it was Tao Qian who was able to hold his breath. Not only did he not snub Sun Jian, but he took advantage of everyone's dazed effort to walk quickly to the side of Instant, held his hand with a smile, and began to say hello. :

"I said that it is impossible for Demao to only invite a few of us. Sure enough, powerful and powerful people are waiting behind?"

"This is the young master? I don't know how to call him?"

……

Pulling Sun Jian's sleeve with a friendly and enthusiastic face, Tao Qian dragged Sun Jian into the crowd like this, barely resolving the embarrassment just now.

And Sun Jian didn't think there was anything bad about it.

Even though there were five eunuchs among the few present, if these five were tied together, it might not be enough for him to fight alone.

Holding a heavy army in his hands and confident in his own strength, he naturally didn't feel slighted.

Who is belittling him?

Who dares to underestimate him?