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After hearing this, Yu Fan smiled with a bit of complacency.

"Thirteen chapters of the Art of War are useful. If Your Majesty wants to use troops against the Western Regions, it is imperative to prepare for the establishment of a spy department. However, your Majesty, there is no need to worry. There are reasons, interiors, countermeasures, death, and life. Causes come first. , precisely because it is easy to carry out. Messengers can be classified into this category, as is Jiang Gan.”

Liu Xie smiled. "It seems that the sacrificial wine has already been arranged?"

"Since your majesty entrusted me to preside over the lecture hall, I naturally think more about it. However, I did not initiate this matter at first. When Jia Wenhe presided over the lecture hall, he was already preparing for this matter, but it was not too late. Execute on a large scale.”

Liu Xie thought about it, and couldn't help laughing twice.

Jia Xu is very scheming, and indeed started preparing for this matter very early.It's just that the martial arts hall was first established at that time, and many conditions were not met, so his focus was on training scouts in the army.

In the courses of the Martial Arts Hall, there are special training skills such as reconnaissance and capture of prisoners, which can also be regarded as a kind of intelligence gathering technology.

"How many people are available now?"

"Most of the current students are still in the army, and there are no special espionage officers. There are good seedlings, but it will take some time."

With a flicker of eyes, Liu Xie looked at Lu Yi who was not far away.

This is indeed a very suitable person to be a spy chief.Quick-witted, clever, and more importantly, patient.

"Is it him?" Liu Xie turned to look at Yu Fan. "Isn't it such a pity?"

Yu Fan smiled and shook his head. "Your Majesty, Yi Zhi is in Xia, and Lu Ya is in Yin. It is only the superior wisdom. If Your Majesty wants to destroy a country in the Western Regions, there is no need for such talents. But the goal of Your Majesty's Western Expedition is Rome." A big country is not something that ordinary scouts can do, it must be someone who is extremely smart."

Liu Xie felt that Yu Fan was right.

To deal with Rome, one cannot take it lightly, the more prepared the better.

A good spy is worth a hundred thousand troops.

"When will it be available?"

Yu Fan thought about it. "Give me another year, Your Majesty."

"Okay." Liu Xie agreed, and then asked: "How about Hu Zong?"

"Although Hu Zong is talented, he is not good enough to preside over the overall situation, but can be used as an assistant. If His Majesty is eager to inquire about information, you can let him go first. Jiang Gan is good at kissing the lips, and Shen You is both civil and military, but he is not very good at conspiracy. , Hu Zong can help them."

Yu Fan smacked his lips, and then said: "It's just that this person is good at drinking, so he can only go inside, not outside, otherwise it will definitely cause trouble."

"Hu Zong good wine?" Liu Xie was a little surprised.

"Yes. The reason why your majesty is not clear is because your majesty is thrifty. Although you can't forbid drinking, you don't advocate drinking banquets, so your majesty has no chance to see you." Yu Fan smiled and said: "Your majesty knows that Sun Quan is also fond of wine Is it?"

Liu Xie couldn't help laughing. "It seems that you lost a lot of fun because of me." He turned to look at Yu Fan. "I don't know that Hu Zong and Sun Quan are good at wine, but I know that Jijiu is an alcoholic."

Yu Fan wiped his nose awkwardly. "Ashamed, ashamed. This so-called understanding of others is ignorant of oneself."

Liu Xie laughed out loud.

He himself is not good at drinking, and he is not interested in the so-called wine culture, and even feels a little disgusted.But the Han people are fond of alcohol, and they like to drink heavily, and there are not a few people who drink heavily.

Just because of him, drinking alcohol has become a self-evident taboo, making countless alcoholics lose the joy of life.Only wild and unrestrained people will openly drink alcohol every now and then.

Liu Xie knew that Yu Fan was good at drinking because of this, not because of a prophet or someone who informed him.

Hearing Yu Fan say that Hu Zong is good at wine, he also thinks that Hu Zong is not suitable for field work.

After all, there are only a few people who can drink without being messy, and the majority who get drunk when they get drunk are the majority.

Including Yu Fan in front of him.

There are people who are good at drinking and not messing around, but they are too few.

After discussing the relevant arrangements with Yu Fan, he asked Yu Fan to call Hu Zong first to see what he thought, and Liu Xie turned around and left.

Lu Yi and Sun Shangxiang returned to Yu Fan.

Sun Shangxiang glanced at Liu Xie's back, and asked softly: "Sir, how is the emperor's martial arts?"

Yu Fan glanced at her. "If you have a chance, you can ask your Erlang."

Sun Shangxiang pouted. "I asked, but Erlang refused to tell."

Yu Fan laughed. "Do you know why Erlang refused to tell?"

"do not know."

"That's because he will never reach the realm of the Son of Heaven." Yu Fan patted Sun Shangxiang's head and said earnestly: "There are not many people with talents, and even fewer people can bring their talents to the extreme. Do you know why? ?”

"why?"

"Lazy." Yu Fan moved forward slowly with his hands behind his back. "Because of high talent, you can surpass many people with a little bit of effort. It doesn't have to be so hard. So most people with high talent are lazy. Their biggest enemy is not their opponents, but themselves."

Sun Shangxiang let out a half-comprehension sound.

Lu Yi thought for a while silently, and said, "Sir, is it because the Son of Heaven works so hard because of his lofty ambitions?"

"What do you think?"

"I think so." Lu Yi said unhurriedly: "The current situation is not the same as before. The emperor is busy with government affairs, so there is no need to start immediately. Unless in his opinion, the immediate revival is not worth mentioning , there are more powerful opponents waiting for him to defeat, and he must overcome, there is no way to avoid it."

"Then can you guess who this opponent will be?"

"Rome?"

Yu Fan was silent for a moment, nodded, then shook his head again. "Rome is indeed a formidable opponent, but I also feel that Rome may not be the real opponent in the eyes of the emperor."

Sun Shangxiang asked puzzledly: "Who could that be? Is there any barbarian stronger than Rome?"

Yu Fan smiled and said nothing.

Lu Yi was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed. "I understand."

Yu Fan looked at Lu Yi with relief. "What do you understand?"

Lu Yi smiled and said: "Actually, sir, I have just said that for a person with high talent, the real opponent is never an enemy, but himself. The emperor's talent is very high, so although Rome is strong, it is not his greatest. His opponent is himself."

"His own?" Sun Shangxiang rolled his eyes, unable to understand.

Yu Fan nodded and sighed softly. "Self-restraint and return to courtesy is benevolence. For a hero like the Son of Heaven, restraining one's desires and not abusing one's power is the most difficult thing."

Chapter 1010 Don't Ask About Motives

Unknowingly, the six years of Jian'an came to an end.

With the arrival of planners from various counties one after another, Situ Mansion entered the busiest season, and Handan City became lively.

In addition to official duties, the top planners wandered inside and outside Handan City.While enjoying Zhao's food and watching Zhao's songs and dances, Zhuge Liang's various measures to govern Handan were also heard from different channels and in different ways.

While lamenting Zhuge Liang's brilliance, they also realized a problem.

What Zhuge Liang can do, most of them can do too.Even though not every county has a solid foundation like Handan, there are no difficulties that cannot be overcome if we rise to a higher level from the existing foundation.

It is self-evident that Dutian helps to stabilize people's hearts, and it is also indispensable to economic development.

Only when people are full and have solved the problem of survival can they think of development.

Few people think about the future when there is a last meal but no next meal.

As a result, the number of counties and states applying for Dutian suddenly increased.

Those who come in person from the sheriff or the prime minister will apply directly to Situ Mansion.If the county guard or the prime minister did not come, the chief strategist either made an agreement in advance and made an application on his own, or sent someone back urgently to ask for instructions.

The above plan is not yet over. After rough statistics, the Situ Mansion found that excluding Yizhou and Jiaozhou, which have not yet resumed direct control by the imperial court, nearly [-]% of the prefectures and states applied for land, and the remaining [-]% also held an ambiguous attitude, that is, they did not apply. , do not object, resign to fate.

There are also counties and states that insist on opposing Dutian, but there are only a handful of them.For a model like Bohai, most people keep a rare clarity and stay away from it.

The status quo of Biyi Bohai's one-year implementation of benevolent government is in front of everyone.

The scholar-bureaucrats may support Zhang Zhao's benevolent government, but ordinary people don't buy it at all. They would rather leave their hometowns and move to the county of Dutian.

The attraction of land was too great for them.

This directly led to a serious shortage of household registration in Bohai, and the loss was even more tragic than after several wars.

After all, there are too few scholar-bureaucrats who are willing to sacrifice their interests for the sake of virtue.

Between righteousness and benefit, more people choose the real benefit and give up the ideal righteousness.

This caused controversy within Situ Mansion.

Some people believe that applications from all counties and states should not be accepted.Obviously, some people apply for Dutian not for the common people at all, but for their own political achievements.It is not advisable to let them implement Dutian when it is not yet conclusive whether Dutian is more beneficial.

For their own political achievements, these people will forcefully advance regardless of their care.It is hard to say whether there will be benefits after one year, but the short-term harm is real.

Letting these guards carry out Dutian will hurt Dutian's reputation even more.

Others believe that all applications should be accepted and let them do fieldwork.

The reason is also very simple: so far, Dutian is not a mandatory policy, but encourages the county to decide on its own.Since they want to spend the field, let them spend the field, and they will be responsible for the final result.

It is an imperial decree to encourage land saving, and the Situ Mansion has no power to prohibit land saving.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, it is an undoubted fact that saving land is conducive to the recovery of people's livelihood.Whether in theory or in practice, saving land is more conducive to increasing the enthusiasm of the people for production and reducing the possibility of people causing chaos due to poverty.

The two opinions were in dispute, and finally reached Liu Xie's ears.

Liu Xie sent people to invite Yang Biao, including some main officials of Situ Mansion, and after listening to the arguments of both parties, he gave a clear answer.

All the counties and countries that apply for the field can be awarded the field.The Situ Mansion can't ban it, but it can strengthen supervision to see if anyone took advantage of the opportunity to benefit from private interests during the process of saving the land, and reversed the operation to give the land of the common people to the big clan. The amount of land is not real, the figures are concealed, and the people are allowed to bear more taxes with insufficient land.

Not only should Situ Mansion be responsible for this issue, but Sikong Mansion should be deeply involved and assume the responsibility of supervision.In order to be able to effectively supervise the counties and states, it is necessary to select a group of young scholars from the local area to assist in the work.

As a reward, young scholars who are dedicated to their duties can be candidates for county supervisors.

Yang Biao and Zhou Zhong accepted the will and followed it.

Finally, Liu Xie said to Yang Biao, don't worry about whether the guardians who apply for land saving are out of personal interests, but whether the process of their land saving meets the requirements and whether the result is beneficial to the court and the people.

Motivation can be used as a bonus or deduction item for future rewards or punishments, and should not be the basis for judging whether it is feasible.Whether it is feasible depends on the actual situation.

Is it possible to require all officials to be impartial and have no selfishness at all?

It's enough to be selfish and not to harm the public.

Unrealistically high standards and strict requirements will only force people to conceal their true intentions and create a group of hypocrites.

Yang Biao nodded slightly and nodded in agreement.

Zhou Zhong was expressionless.

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Before the new year came, Liu Xie announced two more things.

One is to strip the function of recording daily life notes from Lantai, and return to Taishi, under Taichang.

Taichang is nominally under the jurisdiction of Situ.Liu Xie's move is tantamount to handing over the responsibility of recording daily life notes to the Situ Mansion, fulfilling the promise of returning the government to the three princes.

After being stripped of this function, Lantai can focus on academic research, disengage from actual government affairs, and become a purely academic institution, providing advisors and consulting support for the emperor.

This is not a change, but a restoration of Lantai's true colors.

In this regard, Lantai and Jiangwutang became the brains and advisers of the emperor, one on the left and one on the right, one article and one military.

Considering that both Lantai and Jiaowutang have a large number of documents, Liu Xie decided to build another printing workshop affiliated to Shaofu to provide services for Lantai and Jiaowutang to engrave books.

The scale of this printing workshop is not large, but the craftsmanship and technical requirements are relatively high, so as to ensure that the printed books are high-quality, pleasing to the eye, and valuable for collection.

This task was naturally given to Zhen Mi.

Correspondingly, Zhen Mi was also brought into the harem and became a nobleman.

The Jizhou Yinfang she presided over was handed over to Xing Yong's wife Zhang.

When the news came out, neither Situ nor Sikong reacted violently.

The Son of Heaven attaches great importance to culture and education, and it is common for noble people to hold the printing workshop. It is well known that Xun Wenqian is in charge of the Tongwenguan printing workshop, and Song Du and Dong Wan are in charge of the Taixue printing workshop. not good.

Anyway, it's all a private matter of the inner dynasty, they don't bother to take care of it.

As for Zhen Mi being a noble person, they felt it was more natural.

Not only natural, but long overdue.

Jizhou people have always been brooding about the imperial court's intentional or unintentional suppression.The son of heaven obviously had both his parents from Jizhou, but he exiled half of the Jizhou scholar-bureaucrats overseas on the grounds of Shenpei, Tian Feng and others' rebellion.

Although the imperial court actively recruited Jizhou scholars to join the army, doubts have always been there.

Now accepting Zhen Mi as a nobleman, it can be regarded as the end of the suppression of Jizhou, turning to the direction of wooing, which is conducive to the return of Jizhou's scholar-bureaucrats.

As expected, as soon as the news of Zhen Mi's entry into the palace came out, the whole Jizhou erupted.

Countless people rushed to tell and congratulate each other.