Chapter 191: Serious Involution
Luoyang.
At five o'clock in the morning, Guo Hao couldn't sleep for the first time and wandered around Luoyang City. As a result, the bright lights at the Government Affairs Hall attracted his attention.
You have to know that there is a curfew in Luoyang at night. In the middle of the night, there is no one on the street, not even a candle. The whole street is illuminated by moonlight.
Then he ran to the Government Affairs Hall and saw that it was packed with people.
Not to mention Lu Su and Xun Yu, the two overworked people, but also Di Renjie, Bao Zheng, Yang Shiqi and others are included. What surprised Guo Hao the most was that Jia Xu was also among them. Jia Xu was the lazy guy who was ranked behind Chen Xi.
In the frenetic working atmosphere of the Government Affairs Office, even Jia Xu was driven inward and started working overtime.
Then he could see with his own eyes that the number of documents on his desk that needed to be processed increased. He was so scared that he thought something earth-shattering had happened, so he quickly ran to the desk and opened the documents on it.
The first letter is "On the necessity of digging the Grand Canal!"
Guo Hao opened it and took a look. He found that the initiator was actually Yang Lin. Only then did Guo Hao notice that Zhao Yun and Yang Lin were also in the hall.
Yang Lin’s suggestion was very simple, which was to dig the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, with Luoyang as the center, reaching Zhuojun, Hebei in the north and Yuhang, Zhejiang in the south, directly connecting the north and the south, and at the same time greatly alleviating the problem of transportation between the north and the south.
It is undeniable that the Grand Canal was definitely a good move. Half of the credit for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty can be attributed to the Grand Canal. Therefore, later generations have a saying that "the Sui Dynasty opened the canal, and the Tang and Song dynasties benefited from it." It is basically a spectacular building like the Great Wall.
Guo Hao flipped through the general content and found that the whole article had two meanings: "transferring people and transferring money."
Guo Hao thought for a moment, then stamped the document and threw it on Chen Xi's desk.
He had no reason to stop such a major project that would benefit the present generation. As for how the money was spent, that was Chen Xi's job and he didn't care.
Then the second letter was "On the policy issues towards the Hu people in the northern grasslands", and several documents followed it, all discussing this issue.
When I opened it, I saw that it was indeed the Iron-Blooded Faction and the Educational Faction that were fighting each other, and the examples they cited were Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu of Youzhou.
The problem of the northern grasslands was completely brought to the table after Chen Xi proposed the animal husbandry plan. Only then did Guo Hao realize how serious the problem was. The Confucian scholars of the Han Dynasty had not yet completely decayed, and the blood of fighting was still flowing in their bones.
The first person to show up was Chen Lin, who boasted about how well Gongsun Zan did in Youzhou and how much responsibility he had for the Xu Bian Rebellion. He also mentioned Guo Hao and Lu Bu as well. In short, it could be summed up in three words: "kill the Hu people."
Although it is a bit of an exaggeration, the title of Gongsun Zan, the White Horse General, is really useful in Youzhou. Similarly, the title of Lu Bu, the Flying General, is also useful in Bingzhou.
After Chen Lin started the group, the first person who jumped out to oppose was Liu Yu. What a joke! Liu Yu isn't dead yet. What do you want to do, Chen Lin? You openly flatter his rival Gongsun Zan.
Liu Yu did not take action himself, but went directly to find Kong Rong, the Prime Minister of Beihai. Both of them were members of the education faction who advocated education, and they had a lot of common topics.
Before Kong Rong could say anything, Ni Heng, the number one troll in the Three Kingdoms, jumped out to challenge Chen Lin.
As a result, the two sides started fighting directly. It was obvious that this was an effect that Chen Xi deliberately wanted to achieve, so that the Confucians would have something to do and would not disrupt the library construction work.
It is obvious that the effect is outstanding, even beyond Chen Xi's expectations. It is no longer a question of who is right or wrong, but has completely turned into a life-and-death party struggle.
On one side were the iron-blooded faction including Chen Lin, Zang Hong, Chen Gong, and Huangfu Song, and on the other side were the educational faction including Liu Yu, Hu Zhao, Kong Rong, and Lu Zhi. In fact, if Kong Rong had not personally come on stage to debate, the fighting strength of both sides would have been basically the same.
After all, once a descendant of Kong Rong comes to an end, things will be out of control. There will be no way to end it unless it is a fight to the death.
Anyway, both sides used Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu as examples, one side supported them and the other side criticized them, and in the end both sides could not suppress their anger.
The debate developed directly into actual combat. Some people who advocated practical work directly sold their property and then set out for Youzhou and Bingzhou, intending to find a place to conduct actual combat and then let the facts speak for themselves.
"Hmph, those who are not of my race must have different hearts. Kill, kill, kill. Only dead Hu people are good Hu people." Chen Gong sneered as he packed up all his belongings and set off towards Lu Bu's camp. He could not display his talents in Youzhou with Liu Yu around, and there was no obstacle from the education faction in Bingzhou, so he wanted to go there and show his skills.
"Hmph, Chinese become barbarians among the barbarians, and barbarians become Chinese among the Chinese. The kingly way is to turn all these Hu people into our own people. This reckless man knows nothing!" Hu Zhao also sneered and ran towards Youzhou. With Liu Yu restraining Gongsun Zan, he personally took charge of educating the Hu people.
Hu Zhao, whose courtesy name was Kongming, was Sima Yi's teacher. His ideal was to educate the world and he was a down-to-earth and practical man. He had previously found a place to teach the people to the best of his ability. Now that he was involved in a dispute over ideas, it was natural for him to go north to Youzhou to get the work done.
These two people are among the top strategists in the world. Even these two people have personally taken part in the battle, let alone other levels of scholars.
The happiest person was Lu Bu. He felt so happy that a large group of scholars came to help him govern Bingzhou. He was good at fighting, but he was really at a loss when it came to governing Bingzhou. He felt guilty and had planned to go deep into the grassland directly, but was delayed by the people's livelihood in Bingzhou.
After Guo Hao finished reading the document with a headache, he put it aside. This thing is not enough to convince people with empty words. Let's talk about it after we destroy the Northern Huns.
The Hu people and the Qiang people are also human beings. As long as they are assimilated ideologically and made to identify with the Chinese people from the bottom of their hearts, within a few generations, there will be no distinction between the Qiang people and the Hu people. They will all be Chinese.
The third letter was titled "On the Necessity of Opening up Maritime Transport". When I saw the signature, oh my god, it was Zheng He.
Guo Hao didn't even know when the famous eunuch Sanbao had sneaked into the Government Affairs Department, but he understood the importance of maritime transportation. There had never been anyone good at this, so it had been shelved for a long time.
Now that even Zheng He, who made seven voyages to the West, has shown up, he naturally agrees a lot. He stamps his seal and throws it on Chen Xi's desk.
Then came a series of strange memorials. Some suggested that the princess find a consort as soon as possible, some suggested that the general get married and have children as soon as possible, and some even impeached Chen Xi for being a whore every day...
By the time Guo Hao finished reading the first pile of documents, it was almost noon, and Chen Xi had skipped work as expected.
But Guo Hao didn't have much to say. Recently, as various states began to truly obey Luoyang's orders, Chen Xi began to be backfired by the country and felt drowsy every day.
Guo Hao looked around and found that the number of people in the Government Affairs Office had not decreased but increased. The fanatical working atmosphere made Guo Hao feel embarrassed to leave.
Don’t you see that people like Jia Xu and Guo Jia, who are lazy, are working honestly?
Guo Hao was too lazy to read the documents. After reading them for a whole morning, he basically understood what the documents were about. They were either about mega-projects, such as the Grand Canal, the Sky Gardens, or the Nine Cauldrons, or about various party struggles, and then there were all kinds of documents urging people to get married.
It can be said that approving and not approving are exactly the same. Anyway, it is a roll, and every counselor in the entire hall is abnormal.
They keep making big plans, as if anyone who doesn't make a big plan will fall behind others.
Yang Lin planned a Grand Canal plan, Zheng He planned a Grand Navigation Plan, Xun Yu directly started a Grand Steelmaking Plan, Jia Xu joined in the fun and planned a Grand Ranch Plan, and even Zhao Yun was drawn into it and came up with a Grand Military Farming Plan.
It can be said that each plan is useful, and then the question becomes who comes first and who comes later, and whose is more useful, and no one can convince others.
Then he started working overtime. Anyway, Chen Xi and Guo Hao generally followed the principle of whoever produced results first would get the first place.
In addition to those with big plans, there are also those with tit-for-tat plans.
Bao Zheng revised a basic code of law, and then Di Renjie took the opportunity to criticize him and took out the code he had compiled. Bao Zheng was not convinced and found loopholes in Di Renjie's code and criticized him too, and then the two of them tore up the manuscripts and started to rewrite them.
What Guo Hao has seen so far is the eighteenth draft of the two people, and it is still being constantly upgraded and updated.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Guo Hao was extremely hungry, so these workaholics ate some pastries each and then continued to work overtime.
Guo Hao was intimidated by the fanatical fighting spirit, but he was too embarrassed to just skip work and run away.
"My lord! There are brave generals, there are brave generals on the recruiting platform!"
"Come on! E'lai, quickly follow me to meet the mighty general!"
Following the anxious shouts of his personal guards, Guo Hao made a prompt decision, slammed the table and ran away. He really couldn't stay in this government affairs office any longer. The things he had to deal with every day were outrageous.
On the way, Guo Hao met the leisurely Chen Xi and gave Chen Xi a Gift of the Sun. This was discovered by the two of them by chance. It seemed that because of the country's destiny, the Gift of the Sun could help Chen Xi reduce the consumption of mental energy.
"Zichuan, I heard that a powerful general has come to the Recruiting Talents Platform. Do you want to go with me to take a look?" Guo Hao invited.
"No, Xun Wenruo said there are many important things waiting for me to deal with." Chen Xi shook his head. If Xun Yu hadn't specifically asked someone to inform him, he would not have gotten up. It would be so comfortable to sleep at home.
"Take care!" Guo Hao looked at Chen Xi with pity, then ran away without looking back.
When Guo Hao arrived, there was a fight going on on the Recruiting Talents Platform. The fighters were Xu Chu and an equally sturdy man.
"General, the person on the stage is Meng Huo from Jiaozhou. He heard that the court had issued an order to recruit talents, so he came here specially for surrender." Bai Shuang, the commander of the Sun Cavalry who was responsible for maintaining order, clasped his fists and said loudly when he saw Guo Hao coming.
"I can fight with Zhong Kang, another fierce general with internal energy!" Guo Hao smiled happily. How could Meng Huo not know? These barbarians in the south were pacified just like that. He just picked up a bunch of capable soldiers for nothing. How could he not be happy?
It doesn’t matter whether Meng Huo can fight or not. What matters is that he is the king of the southern barbarians. As long as Meng Huo can be subdued, the southern barbarians will no longer be a problem.
Xu Chu on the stage saw Guo Hao coming and jumped away to stop.
"Greetings, General!" Xu Chu jumped to Guo Hao and bowed.
The generals stationed on the Zhaoxian Terrace take turns every day, and today it happens to be Xu Chu's turn to be on duty.
However, there are no civil officials stationed on the talent recruitment platform. The first three levels are all pre-set questions, and the stepping stone to the fourth level is spiritual talent.
"Greetings, General!"
Meng Huo followed suit and saluted Guo Hao like Xu Chu, but it looked weird no matter how he looked at it.
"Meng Huo, are you willing to serve the court?" After Guo Hao returned the gift, he went straight to the point. Meng Huo was a barbarian king, and if he spoke too tactfully, he was afraid that Meng Huo would not understand.
"Can you feed all my tribesmen?" Meng Huo asked naively.
"That depends on your efforts." Guo Hao patted Meng Huo, another big meat shield with an unnaturally tall stature.
"I'm a good fighter, and I also brought warriors from our tribe with me, they're all very good fighters!" Meng Huo was very anxious, because that was food that could feed all the tribe members.
Guo Hao was stunned. He originally thought that Meng Huo came alone, but he didn't expect that he brought his family with him.
"Interesting, call your tribesmen over, let me take a look." Guo Hao said casually, without holding out much hope. He had seen many people who could fight well, but could any of them be as good as the Yulin Army?
However, Meng Huo still somewhat surprised Guo Hao. Among the more than one hundred people in his group, all of them had the strength to form internal Qi. This strength was more than enough to be a captain of a thousand men in the army.
There was also a Shamoke, who looked inconspicuous but actually aroused Dian Wei's interest. He took the initiative to try him out a few times and found that he was another powerful general similar to Xu Chu, and three points stronger than Meng Huo.
Guo Hao was generous and first arranged a banquet for Meng Huo and his group, and then learned the general situation from the officials accompanying them from Jiaozhou.
Although Guo Hao wanted to transfer grain directly to Jiaozhou to educate the barbarians, unfortunately the roads had not been repaired, and it was too troublesome to use the grain.
Chen Xi, who was in charge of logistics, thought about it and decided to compile some improved agricultural varieties and advanced technologies into a book and let the envoys from Jiaozhou take it back.
He was powerless. Even if he was Chen Xi, he had to enforce the Basic Law. No matter where he got food from, it was not a good idea.
However, it also reminded Guo Hao that it was time to move some people out. It would be a waste to keep a loser like Liu Zhang in Yizhou. It would be better to transfer him to Luoyang. At that time, he could be given a Zongzheng, which would be much better than letting him mess up in Yizhou every day.
Moreover, he has people who can take over Yizhou. Liu Bei has such a suitable candidate that he can just send him to Yizhou to develop.
By then, we can connect Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, and the barbarian territories of Meng Huo and directly attack from the south.
If he remembered correctly, there were some small kingdoms in the south that would be suitable for Liu Bei to deal with.
Anyway, Yizhou was Liu Bei's destined hometown, so he could just take back Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Xing Daorong and other Yizhou generals who were captured from the coalition forces.
