"Zhong De Gong, you are right. My lord, please take a seat. Please tell me, my lord?" Guo Jia asked.
"Please speak clearly?" Yuan Shao said.
"Since my lord already has his own territory, why do you still want to stay in the whirlpool of Luoyang?”Guo Jia went straight to the point.
"Today, there are no outsiders. The person I want is the Mu of Ji Prefecture.”Yuan Shao did not hide anything.
"Good! My lord is indeed ambitious. The people of Jizhou have sufficient food and a population of more than five million. It is a place to start. Han Fu, the current herdsman of Jizhou, is just a person who likes to have a false reputation and is not worth worrying about. If we go from Jizhou to Huguan, we can reach Taiyuan. In the hall. From Hejian out of Fanyang, can capture Zhuo County, enter the whole Youzhou, from Pingyuan County attack Gaotang, cross the Yellow River, can capture Linzi.”Guo Jia spoke slowly.
"Fengxiao, the most important thing now is to help the lord obtain the position of Ji Prefecture Overseer?”Cheng Li held his long beard and interrupted Guo Jia.
"We have to adapt to the situation. My lord, can you tell us how many soldiers you have in Bohai Prefecture?”Guo Jiawei asked.
"Dian Wei, Zhongkang, you guys guard the gate. Anyone who comes within five meters of the gate will be killed without mercy!”Yuan Shao wasn't in a hurry to answer, but instead instructed Dian. The two of them.
"Yes!" Dian Wei. Xu Zhu cupped his fists and walked out.
"Fengxiao, I'm not satisfied with you either. There are a total of 80,000 people.”Seeing this, Yuan Shao stretched out his hand and made an eight gesture.
"Eighty thousand men! The lord is amazing. With just one county of Bohai, he can actually raise eighty thousand troops.”Cheng Li was shocked.
"I think my lord must have the support of some powerful merchants, right?”Guo Jia rolled his eyes and asked casually.
"Smart. I once saved the eldest daughter of the Eastern Sea's Mei family. As a token of gratitude, Xu Prefecture's don't drive Mi Zhu gave me ten thousand taels of gold. There are also the big horse merchants I met in Luoyang's horse market, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping. They are the ones who provide the horses for our army.”
"I see. It seemed that the lord had many good generals under his command.”Cheng Li sighed.
[Ding-dong. The host has completed Side Mission 4. The host has been rewarded with a sack of 25 potatoes.] [Current location: Host and Ruyang's home.]”
"What is it? Potato? Is this true?" Yuan Shao couldn't believe his ears. The origin of potatoes was in South America, and it had only been a short time since they were introduced to China. Potato had many characteristics, such as high yield, strong adaptability, high sugar content, and so on.
" Host, I have to repeat myself. The commander obtained from completing the side mission is random. I don't know what will be there. Just like the lucky draw game that the Host had played before, the unknown was what made people excited.”
"Alright then. Perhaps in this world, it's good to have you by my side!”
"Come on! Check Cheng Yu and Guo Jia's four-dimensional data for me.”Yuan Shao just remembered that he hadn't seen the four dimensions of the two.
"Ding dong! Searching, please wait…"
" Enquire completed. Guo Jia Commander 85, Martial Force 15, Intelligence 99, Political 84."
" Cheng Yu Commander 75, Martial Force 49, Intelligence 93, Political 80 "
Yuan Shao sucked in a breath of cold air. Even though he had overestimated his intelligence, he had not expected the genius to have such a high intelligence of 99 points. No wonder later generations commented that Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang were actually on par!
"Zhong De, there are many good generals, but none of them can withstand Fengxiao's plan. So…I need you, I need your help.”Yuan Shao took a step forward and opened his arms. His meaning was already very obvious.
"It's our honor!" Guo Jia and Cheng Li looked at each other at the same time, then went forward to hug Yuan Shao.
After a long time, Yuan Shao let go of them and turned to Xu Chu outside the door. Dian Wei said," Zhongkang, go and buy a carriage. Remember to make it big and the horses must be warhorses. Go and prepare some clothes to keep out the cold. Go quickly, go back early."”
"Yes!" Xu Chu cupped his fists and left.
"My lord, there's really no need for that." Guo Jia was really touched when he heard this and hurriedly waved his hand.
"No! Absolutely not! Fengxiao, your body is not in good condition. The weather outside is so cold. If you catch a cold, it will be my loss.”As he spoke, Yuan Shao took off the tiger-skinned Dayao he was wearing and personally put it on Guo Jia.
" My lord…" Guo Jia's hand tightly gripped the tiger skin, the feeling of being touched in his heart overflowing with words.
"Guo Fengxiao has obtained his master.”Cheng Li looked at this touching scene and could not help but sigh.
"Come, sit down."
"I often have some strange ideas. I often wonder why a dynasty only has a few hundred years from the beginning of its birth to the last moment of its demise. I kept thinking about it until today. What is your answer?”Yuan Shao wasn't afraid when he said these sarcastic words because he knew the personalities of these two people. Cheng Yu had once advised Cao Mengde to kill people and turn them into human flesh for the army to eat when they were short of food. His ruthless personality was obvious.
Needless to say, Guo Jia came from a poor family and was used to the dark side of society. She hated such a rotten regime.
"My lord, there is only one answer to what you have said. You should be close to virtuous officials and stay away from villains. You should reduce taxes and allow society to enter a relatively stable state.”Cheng Li stroked his long beard and gave the answer after thinking for a moment.
"What Zhongde said is right, but not entirely right? You have also left out the most important point, which is the gentry clan. Throughout the development of each dynasty, they never left the help and support of the gentry clans. The gentry clans were terrifying, and there was no end to them. Even if they were all killed, the officials who had grown up with the founding king would gradually become gentry clans. What do you think?" Guo Jia asked Yuan Shao.
"Of course, I am also a member of the gentry clan. Feng Xiao, continue!" Yuan Shao nodded without hesitation.
"That's not the only terrifying thing about the gentry. The only way to deal with the aristocrats was to divide them up, rope in one group, suppress the other, and finally kill the chicken to show the monkey. Not only that, if the lord wanted to curb the expansion of the gentry, it was best to use people from the Humble Class. It was not that the Humble Class did not have talents, but that talents did not have the opportunity to stand out. This will depend on my lord's confidence." Guo Jia expressed his thoughts frankly.
"…Just as Zhicai recommended you to me, there are still talents in the Humble Class. This should be a problem with the system.”Yuan Shao recalled the Darkhan Dynasty's selection system.
"Yes, in this era, if you want to be an official, you have to be recommended. This old man can say with certainty that if the Humble Class and the Nobles had equal opportunities, the Nobles might not be able to compete with the Humble Class.”
"Zhongde, Fengxiao, I suddenly have an idea. After I return to Jizhou, I will fund a school that will specially accept the children of the poor families. You scholars will be the teachers and teach them how to read and write. It doesn't need to be too high, even if it can sweep away all illiterates. I'll be the principal, so the fees are all free. What do you think?" Yuan Shao suddenly had the idea of building his own school and becoming the principal. At that time, the students would call him " principal."
"Good idea! I fully support you, Zhong De?" Guo Jiaju agreed with both hands.
"Good! I'll give up my life to accompany you."
"Alright, after we settle down, I will immediately make arrangements. I, Yuan Shao, do not hope that the future generations will treat me the same way they treated Confucius. Giving others a chance to study was giving himself a chance. You'll learn all your life. I believe that there are countless poor children who can't afford to study in private schools because of poverty, so I'll give them a chance to change their destiny. And I've also thought of the name of this school-Hope School.”As soon as Yuan Shao finished speaking, Guo Jia stood up.
"Good name. This is a school that brings hope to the children of the poor.”Guo Jia applauded.
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