The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Supplement for May 13th.

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Xun Zhen sent Yin Xiu, Zhu Chang, and county officials into the carriage.

Zhong Yao didn't get into the car immediately, but stood under the car, held Xun Zhen's hand, and said with a very close smile: "Zhenzhi, the lord of the government is currently in Chunjun County, except for Yangzhai, the lord of your town is here. The first township in Xixiang. The ruler of the government places great importance on you, and is very surprised by your many deeds in Xixiang. "Poetry" says: 'Let the farmers at the time, sow the hundred grains'. This is the spring ploughing season, you must Do things with your heart, and don't let the government down.

Xun Zhen didn't pat her chest to promise anything, and didn't encourage her to rejoice, she just answered the promise calmly.

After the officials got into the carriage, the scholars said their goodbyes one after another and got into the carriage. Xun Yue, Xun Yu, Chen Qun, Xin A, and others who were related to Xun Zhen talked to him more. Hua Xin, Bing Yuan, and Guan Ning also followed Chen Qun to chat with him. Xun Zhen asked him when the three of them would leave, and they said that the return date was undecided. Xun Zhen smiled and said, "If you have time, you might as well come back to my hometown. I will definitely meet you."

Xun You boarded the car, summoned his hand to signal him to come forward, leaned over and laughed in a low voice: "Zhenzhi, today all the children from all counties have come to Ru Township, and I have seen Tian Meiren in your township with my own eyes, and I have seen with my own eyes many people under your door. Warrior, I have heard a lot about your governance in the county. It won't take long before you think about it, your name, Xun Zhenzhi, will be spread throughout the county, and you will know everything about your clothes. Propaganda. Haha."

- All kinds of things about Xun Zhen's governance of the township, such as "The Spring and Autumn Period", "not punishing the crime and receiving the pavilion", etc., the reason why it can be spread so quickly is mainly because Xun You spared no effort to spread the credit.

The relationship between the two of them is extraordinary, and there is no need to thank them for it. Xun Zhen smiled and said, "Gongda is a real person, but unfortunately I have nothing to repay him." Zhong Yao said that the lord of the government was 'very strange' about my actions in Xixiang, and told me not to let the government down Jun's respect. What do you mean by this? Is it implying that the lord of the government intends to bring me into the county?"

The prefect is the head of a county, and the dismissal and dismissal of subordinate officials in the county are all decided by him. Zhong Yao's three words "extremely strange" reminded Xun Zhen of a story from Emperor Zhang's reign.

At that time, the famous minister Wu Lun served as the prefect of Kuaiji. He went to a certain township in spring and summoned Zheng Hong, the husband of the village, and asked about the matter. . Among the county officials, the post of the county governor is only second to the county magistrate. The status of the arrest and questioning is much higher than that of Xiang Qiangfu, and just because of the word "extremely strange", Zheng Hong jumped from Xiang Qiangfu to this right post.

Although she remembered this story, Xun Zhen didn't think her family could compare with Zheng Hong. Zheng Hong has excellent knowledge, and later served as the Shangshutai, which was in charge of secret matters, and served as the Shangshu Pushe. Xun Zhen felt that her own family was also a talented person from China. Although she had studied hard since crossing the road, she was limited by her talent, and what she had learned was only enough.

In fact, his knowledge is indeed ordinary, but there is one thing no one can match him, and that is his "knowledge". He knows the direction of historical development, so he has naturally grasped the "general trend". Knowing the "general trend", all his actions will naturally be targeted, and his "targeted" will fall in the eyes of others, and some of them will become "odd".

If nothing else, take him buying mulberry seedlings from the people in Fanyangting with his own pockets, and making friends with young chivalrous men. In troubled times, what is money? Therefore, he is able to pour out everything and regard money as dung. In the eyes of others, this is a "strange".

Xun Zhen pondered for a while, but did not take this matter too seriously.

Right now, his mind is all in his hometown. He has just established an unparalleled prestige. He has just ordered Guo Jiang Qin, Chen Bao and others to vigorously recruit heroes from the four townships. It can be said that his "career" is on a new level. At the critical moment, it was Yin Xiu who wanted to promote him. If it wasn't for a prominent or important position, he might as well stay in Xixiang and be a "little official" with real power and ability to do things.

After sending the convoy of Yin Xiu and Zhu Chang to the village boundary, Xun Zhen led the village officials back to the official temple.

The people from Gao, Xie, Fei, Liu, and Feng's family did not leave, but accompanied him to send a car and ride out of the country. At this time, they left, and Fei Tong and the Xie family's parents handed in their goodbyes. Liu Weng, the parent of the Liu family, also came to say goodbye. Unlike Fei Tong and Xie's parents, he thanked Xun Zhen very much: "Thanks to Xun Jun's beautiful words, this old man has the honor to meet the ruler of the government and the county."

"Liu Weng, you are too polite. You are an elder in the village, and you are loved by the villagers because you were summoned by the government. What do you have to do with me?"

"Xun Jun first saved the old man's life last year, and he spoke kindly to the old man in front of Yufu Jun today. The old man is deeply grateful for his kindness. It's just that the old man is like a rotten tree. There are not many days to come, and he was robbed last year, and all his sons and nephews died. , and Xunjun is a son of a high school, and has a successful career, your kindness, our Liu family will not be able to repay. The old man can only say that if there is a place for the old man to be used in the future, please feel free to speak."

What Liu Weng said was very bleak.

Xun Zhen understood him quite well. An old man in his 50s and 60s, who owns fields and land, is also a wealthy family in the village. He lived a peaceful and beautiful life, but suddenly his sons and nephews died. The white-haired man gave the black-haired man. It's frustrating to have an heir. He warmly comforted him and said: "Weng is kind and generous in the village, and the villagers are more generous with Weng, so there will be good fortune in return. Although the son and nephew unfortunately died in the thieves, they can adopt a fake son and inherit the lineage. Why feel sad? "

"Fake son, fake son, after all, it's fake. . When the time came, there were doormen with him, and there was a car in rush. He said goodbye to Xun Zhen and boarded the car to leave.

Xun Zhen watched him go away and sighed. The head of the Gao family and the head of the Feng family, Feng Wen, also came over to have a few words with Xun Zhen, and then said goodbye. Gao Su and Feng Gong stayed behind and moved to his side. Feng Gong smiled and said: "Zhenzhi, I was just in front of the official temple. When you sent the ruler of the government and the ruler of the county to the car, the commander of the county held your hand and seemed to say a few words to you. You were stunned at the time. what did you say?"

Xun Zhen didn't hide it: "Zhong Jun said that Fu Jun was 'very strange' about some of the things I did in Xixiang."

"'Extremely strange'? Oh, so to speak, Zhenzhi, you are looking forward to your ascension!"

Xun Zhen smiled, but didn't answer, changed the subject and said, "Fu-Jun 'stranges' me, and I'm also 'strange' Liu Deng."

Liu Deng was the young man who said to Yin Xiu at the gate of the official temple: "My generation learns the sword, and the sword is the sword of murder. My husband carries a seven-foot sword and lives happily. How can we be like a monkey in front of a busker." . Gao Su did not know him, but Feng Gong knew him and said, "I have known Liu Deng for a long time. In his early years, he served Xu Zhong, and after Xu Zhong died, he was often around Jiang Qin, and he was famous for being bold and straightforward. ..., although I knew he was daring, I didn't expect him to be so daring, to have the courage to say such a thing in front of the mansion!"

Feng Gong was surprised that Liu Deng dared to speak boldly in front of the prefect, and Gao Su envied that Xun Zhen had such a warrior under his command.

He said enviously, "Zhenzhi, how did you recruit so many warriors? Jiang Xian, Le Jin, and Jiang Qin are all capable of one against ten. The Gao brothers are good at crossbow shooting and halberds. You can't be. Big and small Su Jun is admired, and the young and middle-aged among them are willing to run for them. Now there are people like Liu Deng, who are bold and bold. Compared with your people, those guests under my door are really like chickens and dogs. , not worth mentioning."

Xun Zhen laughed and said in her heart, "Most of the people who are willing to be guests of big families are poor and down-to-earth people, how can they be compared with these young heroes in the countryside?" Thinking this in her heart, she couldn't say it on her lips, and she smiled, "How dare you be as brave as a man? Even if they are like Junqing, Wenqian, and Boqin, they are no more than ten enemies. The overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty was not good at reading when he was young, and he couldn't learn swords well. His quarter father Xiang Liang was furious and asked him what he wanted? He replied Dao: 'Sword, one enemy is not enough to learn. Learn ten thousand enemies'..., one enemy, ten enemies are nothing, ten thousand enemies are the heroes of the world."

The overlord of Western Chu was famous, and Gao Su knew it too. He asked, "How can we be enemies of all people?"

"Didn't I tell you to prepare and train guests before to prepare for spring thieves? If you train guests well, you won't be afraid of thieves stealing tens of thousands of people, and you will be the enemy of ten thousand people."

Xun Zhen asked Gao Su to train the guests earlier. Although Gao Su listened to it, she didn't pay much attention. There are a lot of guests under his family. If he trains well, he can become an assistant in the future. Therefore, Xun Zhen took this talk and brought the topic to Xiang Yu, hoping to stimulate Gao Su's enthusiasm.

Gao Su murmured: "'If you are not afraid of thieves and steal tens of thousands, you will be the enemy of 10,000." But, there is something unclear. He asked, "How to practice?"

Xun Zhen heard this question from him and knew that he really wanted to/train the guests this time, but he didn't ask a word when he told him about training the guests last time. Immediately replied: "There are two ways to practice. First, practice discipline. Second, practice courage. Both are indispensable. Only the former has form and no spirit. Only the latter is still the courage of a man."

"What is discipline?"

"If you want to be disciplined, you have to be orderly from top to bottom."

"Why order up and down?"

"Organize your guests into a troupe, set up a team with a team rate, and set up a team and a team, choose their own strengths, and lead them separately. This is the order from top to bottom. Only after order can we talk about discipline. In short, Discipline is to follow your orders."

"Although my guests eat at my house, they are still obedient at ordinary times. But this is only at ordinary times. If you encounter thieves, at the time of life and death, there will inevitably be cowards, and I am afraid that it is difficult to make them obey orders. ... How to do it? ?"

"In the early years of the former Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu had a prince named Mao Dun. To practice discipline, he made a Ming Dy. If the Ming Dy was shot, if his subordinates did not shoot, they would all be killed. After several years of practice, he drove the troops to be like arms and fingers."

Gao Su said embarrassedly, "All beheaded?" According to the laws of the Han and Han Dynasties, the master must first report to the official to kill slaves and servants, and he can kill them only after obtaining permission. Killing without reporting back is a crime. Killing slaves is still like this, not to mention guests? Xun Zhen smiled and said: "You are not training soldiers, you are just training guests to prevent spring thieves. You don't have to copy the method of training soldiers according to Mo Dun, you just need to learn the meaning of training soldiers."

"Then what is the meaning of training?"

"Forbidden."

"How can we do a ban?"

"If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and if you have done something wrong, you will be punished. Establish prestige to make them fear, and establish trust to make them believe. If prestige is established, it is forbidden to do so."

Gao Su thought for a while, nodded, and said, "I understand. ... You said that one should practice discipline, and the other should practice courage. How should courage be practiced?"

Xun Zhen looked into the distance and said leisurely, "There is only one best way to practice courage."

"what?"

"Kill thieves."

Gao Su was dumbfounded: "I can't run around with guests and take the initiative to find thieves?"

"Haha. You don't have to be in a hurry to practice courage. The foundation of courage is discipline. As long as you can practice discipline well first, you will have order in the ranks and orderly progress. Use it as if you are using one person. If you advance without hesitating to die, if you put the money and valley in the front, you will retreat without looking back. If you can practice like this, even if you are not an enemy of ten thousand people, you will be an enemy of a thousand people."

"Those villagers you trained in Fanyang are still practicing today. I don't know how far you have practiced? Thousands of enemies? Tens of thousands of enemies?"

"Practicing doesn't happen overnight, and the villagers in Fanyang Pavilion are different from your guests. Most of them don't know swords or archery, and they are not my customers. It's very difficult to practice. After learning swordsmanship and archery, I started to practice discipline."

Feng Gong has the right to speak in this regard. He said: "I said why recently I see the villagers who have been trained, either advancing or retreating to the sound of the drums, or standing still for half a day. It turns out that they have begun to practice discipline!" He remembered something. , said with a smile, "Two days ago, I invited Du Mai and A Bao to have a drink. Old Du raised his robes and let me see his legs, saying they were almost swollen."

Xun Zhen had only read some military books, and had not studied the art of war systematically. Even though he was right about Gao Su, in fact, he didn't know how to improve the discipline and organization of his subordinates. In desperation, he had no choice but to bring the knowledge of his previous life and resorted to the two weapons of "walking in line and standing in a military posture". For this reason, he made a special trip to Fanyang some time ago to "teach Du Mai and Chen Bao face-to-face opportunities", and taught them the "standing military posture" that he had learned during military training in his previous life. , turn left, turn right, turn backward, stand still, take a breather, lie down, crawl forward, etc., everything that can be remembered, has also been taught to them, combined with the villagers have learned to gather, roll names, Report numbers, cross-country running, a complete set is done, and it looks like it at first glance.

As for the effect, God knows.

In addition, he chose a few useful ones from the books he read, such as going forward when you hear the drum, coordinating long and short weapons to fight, etc., and taught them both. And all these items are listed into a subject table, which clearly stipulates the sequence of drills and the length of each training time, and they are required to practice people in this way. And tell them: You must lead by example.

Everything else is good. After a few months of Cuju, the villagers of UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com have greatly exercised their physique, not to mention running. As for the coordination of long and short weapons, they have also been familiar with the use of weapons under the guidance of Jiang Qin and others. Only "standing in the military posture", everyone, including Du Mai, was trained to complain. Every time I stand for half an hour, I can't move, not only is it boring, but also very tiring. If it weren't for Xun Zhen's generous rewards as always, he might have been scattered long ago.

Xun Zhen smiled and said, "Practicing the standing posture is to train the perseverance of the villagers. If you can stand still for half an hour or even an hour, you have perseverance and you can use it."

Feng Gong said: "Xun Jun said 'enemy of ten thousand people' just now, and I was very moved when I heard it. Can my disciples and slaves follow Lao Du and Ah Bao to practice?"

The Feng family had seventeen or eight apprentices, five or six slaves, and excluding old and weak women, there were ten or so people, enough to make up a whole. Xun Zhen couldn't ask for the power of one more person and one more point, so he readily replied: "Of course it is possible."

Feng Gong was overjoyed: "A word is a decision."

Everyone talked and talked, crossed the field, and returned to the village pavilion.

Gao Su invited Xun Zhen and Feng Gong to his house for a drink. Xun Zhen couldn't refuse, so he could only agree, but he didn't want to go alone, so he ordered Xu Zhong, his entourage, to call Le Jin and Liu Deng, who were staying at the Guansi, and brought fashion with him. .

Fashion saw the prefect, the county magistrate, and more importantly, many talents in the county today. He was very excited. He wanted to talk to Xun Zhen all night and talk about his excitement, but now he can't. He pressed the excitement and said in his heart, "Zhong, Chen, and Xin are all famous clans in my county. I see that Zhong Yao, Chen Qun, and Xin Ai are familiar with Lord Xun. If there is a chance in the future, I should ask Lord Xun to bring him I'll visit them."