Chapter 28 Back to Xuzhou

"Wei Yan?" In the Runan Taishou's mansion, Zhao Feng, the new Taishou, looked at the strong man in front of him, who was about the same age as himself and had a jujube red face. If it is matched with a long beard, it is more like Guan Yu's son than Guan Ping.

"Wei Yan, a young general, was originally a lieutenant in Shanyang County, Nanyang County, under Liu Biao's account in Jingzhou. I heard my good friend Li Yan and Li Zhengfang mention that General Guan and General Zhao were sitting in Runan and recruited talents, so they came to serve. Wei Yan looked at the white-looking young man and replied respectfully. He didn't say anything. Li Yan once told him that Guan Yu was quite arrogant, but Zhao Feng's surname was much more easy-going, so it was better not to go directly to Guan Yu, but to Zhao Feng.

Of course, Li Yan absolutely didn't expect that Zhao Feng would reuse him as soon as he heard that he was Wei Yan.

"What can you do?" Zhao Feng asked directly. As soon as Wei Yan heard that Zhao Feng's tone was not bad, he quickly replied, "Someone has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he is proficient in martial arts." Zhao Feng was not surprised when he heard this, so he took him to the school to meet Guan Yu. Although Second Master Guan is now a herdsman in Yuzhou, Jian Yong is basically engaged in civil affairs, and Guan Yu is still more in the training ground.

"Good martial arts!" Seeing that Wei Yan danced his 28-pound knife lightly and had the upper hand one-on-one with Guan Ping, Guan Yu also nodded repeatedly. Next, he asked Wei Yan some military tactics, and the latter also answered fluently. Perhaps looking at Wei Yan's red face was very suitable for his appetite, Guan Yu immediately appointed Wei Yan as a lieutenant and took charge of the two recruits.

"General Xie Guan was promoted!" Wei Yan was overjoyed that he was just a county lieutenant, and now he was promoted several levels in a row. Guan Yu smiled, and then asked doubtfully, "Wen Chang is so talented, why is his official career in Jingzhou so bad?" The same is true of the previous square. Wei Yan sighed, and then said to Guan Yu and Zhao Feng. It turns out that there are many big families in Jingzhou. In addition to the Cai family and the Kai family, there are still many small-scale rich people. Although Liubiao is a herdsman in Jingzhou, if he wants to sit firmly in this position, he must get the support of these families. Therefore, the important official positions in Jingzhou are occupied by the children of these families. Wei Yan and Li Yan are both from poor families, so their careers are not smooth.

"So that's it!" Zhao Feng also suddenly knew that although he knew that the family was very powerful at this time, he did not expect it to be so exaggerated that people like Wei Yan and Li Yan were suppressed to be small sesame officials. In fact, Zhao Feng can't be blamed for this. Before, whether it was in Xuzhou or Yuzhou, although there were large families, most of the four major families in Xuzhou were not prosperous. For example, the Mi family finally had two brothers, and the other three were bare brothers. Their families were only dozens of people at best, and each family was an official in Xuzhou. There are only five or six people, some of whom are just minor officials; not to mention in Yuzhou, the Yellow Turban has been noisy for so long, either the slightly larger family will either leave here early, or be leveled by Liu Pi and others, so Zhao Feng has never had an intuitive understanding of their influence.

Wei Yan's defection was just the beginning. In the next month, many young officials who were not ambitious in Jingzhou gave up their official positions one after another and came to Yuzhou to seek their future. Jian Yong and Guan Yu also accepted them one by one. However, when Zhao Feng, the governor of Runan, was very interesting, an uninvited guest suddenly came to Yuzhou.

"Second General, when are you so angry?" On this day, Zhao Feng was urgently called to the state pastoral government by Guan Yu for discussion. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Guan Yu sitting in the main seat angrily, but everyone in the hall did not dare to come out.

"Botao, someone won't let you be an official!" Guan Yu hated it, and then handed a letter in his hand to Zhao Feng. Zhao Feng saw that it turned out to be a letter written by Liu Biao from Jingzhou to Guan Yu. The letter said that Jingzhou General Wen Ping was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Runan and was about to take office. He hoped Guan Yu would contact him. Mr. Liu's old man bullied people so much that he actually took care of my affairs in Yuzhou. Guan Yu's anger has not subsided.

"The second general is angry. Do you really mean Liu Biao himself when you read this letter?" Zhao Feng advised, but he sneered in his heart: Cao Yan's move was used more than ten years earlier than history. At that time, it was Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu, but now it has been replaced by Wenpin.

"What do you mean, Bo Tao?" Guan Yu looked at Liu Biao's letter carefully and seemed to understand something. That's right. Liu Biao said that the imperial edict sent Wen to Yuzhou, and now your majesty is in Xuchang under Cao's rule. I'm afraid this appointment is Cao's intention. Although Zhao Feng knew it well, he still said in a conjecturative tone.

"So it is, but what should we do now?" Guan Yu had a headache: Don't agree. It's not good to violate the imperial edict. His eldest brother takes it as his responsibility to help the Han Dynasty at the price all day long. His violation will embarrass him. If Wen Ping is made to be the governor of Runan, not to mention that it is unfair to Zhao Feng, and let Liu Biao install such a person in his own hinterland, it is not pleasant to think about it. Ah.

"Since there is an imperial edict, just let Wenpin take office!" Zhao Feng smiled and said, without waiting for Guan Yu and everyone to speak again, Zhao Feng took the lead and asked directly, "Second General, what do you think of Liu Biao in Jingzhou?"

Guan Yu was stunned, but after a moment of deliberation, he still said, "I see this Liu Biao. Although he is known as Jingzhou Bajun, it is not wise to see him use people now. There are countless civil and military officials who have abandoned Jingzhou and come to Yuzhou these days. Why did Bo Tao ask this question?"

"Second General, Liu Biao is over 50 years old. Now the power of Jingzhou is in the hands of Cai and Kuai. Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi is cowardly, and his youngest son Liu Cong is young. After a hundred years, Jingzhou will be in chaos. However, Jingzhou is the belly of the world, which is the most important. If the lord wants to become a hegemony, Jingzhou is indispensable. Wen Ping is a general of Jingzhou. Now he comes to Yuzhou to serve. The second general may be caged or isolate him from Jingzhou. After that, Liu Biao will return to heaven. At that time, the lord will take the opportunity to seize Jingzhou, and there will be a lot of resistance!" Zhao Feng said linger. He found that he liked this feeling more and more. No wonder the leaders in the previous life liked to make reports and spoke to a group of people with a sense of accomplishment.

Everyone in the hall listened to Zhao Feng's words, and their reaction was slightly worse after a while before they came to their senses. They were all stunned: Zhao Feng was really far-sighted. Cao Yan only used Liu Biao to calculate Liu Bei and Guan Yu for a while, but he directly calculated what happened after Liu Biao's death.

"It's so good. I should write a letter to inform my brother and ask him to appoint Bo Tao for a new position." Guan Yu is not a fool. After listening to Zhao Feng's explanation, he immediately knew it. So Zhao Feng waited for Wen Yan to arrive in the next few days to go through the handover procedures. However, Liu Bei's reply arrived before Wenpin. After he asked Zhao Feng to handle the handover, he quickly returned to Xuzhou to be on standby.

However, the speed of Wenpin is not slow. One day after Liu Bei's reply arrived, Wenpin also arrived. After completing all the formalities, Zhao Feng left for Xuzhou. Guan Yu led the main officials of Yuzhou to hold a banquet to see him off. Jian Yong, Wei Yan and others were all there, and even the new Wenpin attended.

"General Zhao, take care and have a good trip!" Wen Ping also took the initiative to toast. It's been a few days since I came to Runan. Wenpin deeply realized what it means to be unfamiliar with the place. Few of the old troops came with them, and most of them were left in Jingzhou by Cai Mao. Moreover, it seems that Yuzhou is not particularly welcome to come to be an official. In addition to Jian Yong, he can still say a few words. The rest, such as Guan Yu and others are deliberately or unintentionally qualified, which is not compatible with him, and more or less dissatisfied with him to squeeze away Zhao Feng. Wenpin didn't want to be isolated all the time, so he took this opportunity to have a good relationship with the client Zhao Feng.

"General Wen's words are heavy! Runan is an important place, and General Wen needs to be more careful. Zhao Feng also made full of etiquette. On this day, everyone tried their best to get drunk. The next morning, Zhao Feng packed up and went to Xuzhou. On the way, passing through Qiao County, Liang Guo, Pei Guo, Lu and other places, Chen Jiao, Mi Fang, Guan Hai, Sun Guan and others all greeted him in person and warmly, which delayed Zhao Feng's trip for a few days.

However, no matter how slow the trip was, Zhao Feng finally returned to Xuzhou City. It's back again!" Zhao Feng looked at the familiar city wall of Xuzhou and sighed that he had been away from Xuzhou for three months. Since he rescued Xuzhou to settle down Xiaopei three years ago, he had never left for so long. First, go to the state pastoralist's office to report to Liu Bei, "Thank you for your hard work, Bo Tao!" Liu Bei was also very happy to see Zhao Feng's return.

"Brother, is Mr. Zhao back?" Zhao Feng was talking to Liu Bei, and a bold voice suddenly sounded behind him. The third general has been gone for a long time!" Zhao Feng turned around and saw that it was Zhang Fei who came with a smile.

"Hey hey, Mr. Zhao, it's better to come early than by chance. It just so happens that my Lao Zhang is about to get married. You can drink my wedding wine!" Zhang Fei patted Zhao Feng on the shoulder with a smile.

"Huh?" It's Zhao Feng's turn to be surprised this time, but Zhang Fei is now 30 years old, and few ancients have not formed a family at this age. I don't know which girl it is?" Zhao Feng asked tentatively, Ta, does he remember that in history, Zhang Fei robbed Xia Houyuan's niece as his wife.

Sure enough, Liu Bei smiled and said, "It's the girl of Xiaopei Xiahou's family, but it's Xiahouyuan's niece." Liu Bei was also quite helpless. His brother actually fell in love with Xia Houyuan's niece and directly robbed the little girl who went out to threwood. Unexpectedly, the little girl was not afraid of him. She actually promised to be his wife. These two confused people were also a match.

"Congratulations to the three generals!" Zhao Feng was also quite surprised. He didn't see that you, Zhang Laosan, were still a loli fan. At this time, Liu Bei turned to the topic and assigned Zhao Feng a new position. Because Zhao Feng served as the governor of Runan before, his position of Xuzhou Zhonglang General had been promoted by Zhang Liao, and Guan Yu's position of Bing Cao was also promoted by Zhang Fei. The rest of Zang Ba, Song Xian, Pei Yuanshao and Chang Xi were mixed with miscellaneous generals. Originally, Liu Bei couldn't find any suitable vacancy for him for a while. Later, he suggested not to take Chen Gong to separate the lower part of Pengcheng County as a separate county. Let Zhao Feng and Xu Sheng serve as Peng Cheng Taishou and Xia Pi Taishou respectively. Zhao Feng was appointed as the governor of Pengcheng, adjacent to Xuzhou, which is convenient to discuss with Liu Bei. This practice is not uncommon. Didn't Cao Yan designate several counties from Yingchuan County to set up Xiangcheng County? At that time, he didn't want to manage those counties because he didn't catch them. As a result, Hou Cheng made a Tai Shoudang for nothing.

"This is developing really fast." Zhao Feng looked at the army roster handed to him by Liu Bei. Now Xuzhou has a good momentum, and the recruitment and training of new recruits are in full swing, but Zhao Feng still wants to put forward some of his suggestions: "Master, now the Lord occupies the two states of Xuyu, and there is no shortage of military generals, but there seems to be not enough civil servants!"

Liu Bei listened to Zhao Feng's words, and his originally excited expression was also gloomy: "That's true. Although Fan Xianhe brought a group of civil servants to Yuzhou, there was still not enough manpower to govern the place. Many counties still have only one county magistrate."

Zhao Feng has been thinking about the solution to this problem on the way back, and now he has some preliminary ideas. At the moment, he said, "Actually, there is a way to solve the urgent need at the end of the world."

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