The World, Only Gray 2/5 ()
When Liu Xuan arrived in Yizhou, the provincial governor, Xi Jian, came over in advance and personally showed Liu Xuan his might.
"Governor Liu, you have achieved success at a young age and are also a relative of the Han clan. In the future, you will need to rely on me!”
At the banquet, Xi Jian looked at Liu Xuan and smiled.
Liu Xuan's expression froze for a moment. He looked around at the surrounding officials in Hanzhong County and the gazes of his subordinates. His heart instantly became clear.
However, Liu Xuan pretended not to know and said generously,""We are both loyal to the country and serve the imperial court. Green Mountain still needs your help in the future.”
Humble, calm, and comfortable to listen to.
However, Xi Jian frowned. He couldn't figure out what Liu Xuan meant.
After the welcoming banquet, Xi Jian sent someone to give Liu Xuan some gifts so that he could quickly adapt to life.
Among them, there were quite a few servants and maidservants. Some of them were used daily, and of course, some of them were mixed with 'thoughts'.
Liu Xuan's reaction was that he would not reject servants and maidservants for their daily needs. However, he would accept their 'thoughts', and he would return them immediately.
At this point, Xi Jian seemed to have gotten the answer he wanted.
At the same time, it also allowed the other mayors to understand the personality of this new mayor.
Liu Xuan was telling them that he didn't recommend getting the benefits that should have belonged to him and merging into the same circle as everyone else.
However, there were some things that could not be crossed.
Doctrine of the mean, inaction, and neutrality. He was not much different from the Hanzhong prefect who had left.
This made some of the scholars who were looking forward to it feel disappointed.
They had originally hoped that Liu Xuan would be able to carry out a huge purge of Yizhou and bring a new atmosphere to Yizhou. However, who would have thought that the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
This disappointment quickly dealt a huge blow to Liu Xuan's reputation.
Many people began to think that Liu Xuan was just a person who had a title of a famous official, but he was a person who lived in vain.
As such, the title of the world's number one scholar gradually began to fade.
The fame and glory that he had accumulated in Luoyang gradually faded away with the passage of time.
This was what many people wanted to see, including Emperor Han Ling.
And this was what Liu Xuan wanted those people to see.
However, was everything really just like that?
Liu Xuan wanted to start over here? Start over? Using three years to compete with the nobles here?
Heh, Liu Xuan didn't have that much time.
On a night half a month after Liu Xuan became the prefect of Hanzhong County, after everything was arranged and everyone's eyes moved away from him, a person who was supposed to leave Hanzhong County returned.
"Xi Jian greets the lord!"
In the inner courtyard of the Hanzhong Prefecture, at the welcoming banquet half a month ago, the incompetent man who had become the governor of Yizhou by selling official positions and secretly using his connections.
The man who showed Liu Xuan his might, the man who made all the mayors of Yizhou Prefecture fear him.
At this moment, the man was standing respectfully in front of Liu Xuan, carefully waiting for his orders.
Xi Jian was once the descendant of a famous family in Luoyang.
However, Xi Jian was not a person who could take on a great responsibility. He had a noble title, but he could only eat and wait for death. He even had to sell his ancestor's property because he spent so much money.
Gradually, Xi Jian went from being a famous scholar to a middle-class noble. Even the middle-class nobles looked down on him.
When Liu Xuan first went to Luoyang, he happened to meet Xi Jian, who was at his wit's end.
Then, Liu Xuan helped him and successfully took him in as his little brother.
According to the situation at that time, Xi Jian was preparing to marry the daughter of a rich merchant in Luoyang.
That way, he could obtain the financial support of the woman's family and rely on the measures of selling official positions and titles by Emperor Ling of Han to quickly advance.
However, in this era, it was a humiliation for a noble to marry the daughter of a merchant. No one would do that unless they had no other choice.
Xi Jian was the kind of person who had no way out.
However, he became Liu Xuan's underling and was quickly turned into a diehard fan by Liu Xuan through various means.
After that, things would be easier.
With the help of Liu Xuan's financial resources, Xi Jian began his journey to the peak of his life.
Xi Jian was a descendant of a famous family. Although he was useless, he still had his connections and connections. With a little work, everything could be revived.
Liu Xuan made up for Xi Jian's lack of financial resources.
In addition, Xi Jian himself did not have much connection with the aristocratic families. When he sold his official position, he was favored by Emperor Ling of Han. With the accumulation of huge financial resources, he was able to rise to the top in one step and become the governor of Yizhou.
Although the provincial governors of this period had considerable authority, they were like a castle in the air. What was powerful was their ability to reach the Saint's ears.
To put it simply, the emperor sent people to check if there were any malicious intentions in the provinces and counties. Other than that, they did not have much real power.
The prefect was different. He had the real power of a county and could legally recruit soldiers to maintain public order. He was the real power.
Therefore, many times, although the provincial governor was nominally in charge of the prefect.
However, most of the provincial governors did not have anything special to do. They had to work for ten years, calculate their achievements, and examine their character before they could be entrusted with important tasks and become prefects to manage a region.
The governor standardized the behavior of the prefect, but the prefect controlled one side.
Therefore, the crux of the matter depended on how one looked at it.
And Liu Xuan was using the power of the provincial governor Xi Jian, which made the prefect afraid.
It was impossible for every prefect to be law-abiding and completely honest.
There was no absolute black and white in the world. There was only gray.
And this process was just a comparison of who was closer to white and who was closer to black.
Therefore, it was no surprise that as long as they investigated, there would be dirty things in the hands of every prefect.
Some of these things could be killed in one blow, while others needed to be done in secret.
What Liu Xuan wanted to do was to make use of Xi Jian, the biggest black in Yizhou, to dye the group of people who were approaching white the same color as him.
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