Chapter 708 Search for talents(1/2)
Fan Yang in Youzhou is now the base camp of the entire Yuan family army. Yuan Xi, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan are all here. The three of them have bad expressions and seem to be arguing about something.
"Lord, lord!" There was a messenger over there who wanted to go up and call the Yuan brothers, but the three brothers of the Yuan family ignored him, which made the messenger very embarrassed. Finally, after calling several times, the three brothers of the Yuan family turned their heads over.
"What's the matter? I haven't seen us discussing important matters here!" Yuan Xi, a good-looking man, also began to get angry. "If today is not a big deal, military law will deal with it."
"Lord, lord!" This military law dealt amazes the messenger. In the past, the military disciplines of the Yuan brothers were not strict, but when Yuan Xi was in charge of the army, the entire military law was different. Yuan Xi also established a supervisory team. If anyone retreated, the supervisory team was killed directly. If there were soldiers in the city who offended the people and violated the military law, these supervisory teams would appear, and they would directly drag down the military law dealt with. So when he heard about the military law dealt with the military law, the messenger shivered.
"Lord, Yangzhou, Yangzhou is an envoy." The messenger said everything he wanted to say.
"Oh, come, pull it down..." Yuan Xi subconsciously wanted to drag the messenger down, but suddenly stopped. He looked at the messenger, "What did you say? Say it again."
"Lord, Yangzhou, the envoy of His Highness of the King of Shu in Yangzhou is here in Fanyang to see you!" The messenger repeated and said to Yuan Xi.
"Are you serious?" Yuan Shang next to him stepped forward and grabbed the messenger and asked.
"How dare you tell lies?" The messenger was startled. There was no joke in the army.
"Why didn't you say it earlier?" After learning that the messenger was telling the truth, the Yuan brothers complained, and the messenger died unjustly. He had said it earlier, but no one took care of him.
"Where is this envoy from Yangzhou now?" Yuan Xi asked in a key point.
"Just just entered the city, right in the Honglu Pavilion."
"Hurry up, bring the envoy here to see us." Yuan Tan was about to ask his subordinates to go and invite the envoy of the Yangzhou Army.
"Slow!" Yuan Xi stopped Yuan Tan.
"Second brother? This envoy from Yangzhou, aren't you seeing me?" Yuan Tan asked in confusion. You must know that this weapon, armor, and even food are sold to you by Liu Mang from Yangzhou. If the envoy is sent this time, there must be something important.
Could it be that Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang had smiles on their faces. That was because the envoys they sent had already cried and were poor. Could it be that the King of Shu Liu Mang of Yangzhou was merciful and was preparing to lower the price? If this was true, the brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang would be dying of laughter. That was why the two of them scrambled to see the envoy of Yangzhou. But now they were stopped by Yuan Xi.
"Brother, third brother! This Yangzhou envoy has just entered my Fanyang. The journey is exhausted and you have not yet rested. Just let others come to this place to discuss matters to see you. This is rude.
"Yes, yes, or the second brother is thoughtful. We should wait for the Yangzhou envoy to rest before summoning him!" Yuan Shang nodded and said.
"Hey!" Yuan Xi couldn't help but sigh as he heard his third brother's words. He was not waiting for him to rest before summoning him. You should know what the envoy of Liu Mang, the king of Shu in Yangzhou, came to Youzhou thousands of miles away. It must not be for a trip, but there must be something important to discuss. And you are begging others, and you are still thinking about summoning others. You should be going to see them yourself.
"Brother. Third brother, let's go and go with me to meet the envoys from Yangzhou!" Yuan Xi pointed out directly and said to his elder brother and third brother.
The three of them nodded and agreed, and went straight toward the Honglu Temple.
"This is Youzhou!" A familiar voice sounded.
"Have you ever been to Youzhou?" asked an Youzhou official who was accompanying him.
"Yes, I have been in the Central Plains in the South since I was born, and Beifang has never been here." The young man replied.
"Then you should take a good look. Only in the north can you have the aura of a man and the feeling of being arrogant." The Youzhou official who was accompanying him said proudly to the young man.
"Yes!" the young man asked back, "The north is in the cold and the land is not as fertile as the Central Plains and the south, so the people who can survive in the north are basically strong and tall. Because you want fat to resist the cold."
However, the south is not bad at all. Because it is located in the forest and has a vast water area, southerners pay more attention to flexibility.
The southerners may not be able to adapt to the coldness of his life when they go to the north, and their combat effectiveness is greatly reduced. However, if the northerners go to the south, it is basically more difficult to fight, so one place has its own characteristics and no absolute advantage.
"The Honglu Temple is ahead of you." An official from Youzhou pointed to a tall mansion over there and said. In fact, this is not the Honglu Temple at all, because the Honglu Temple in Fanyang has been broken for a long time and has been almost ruined if it is not used for many years. And the Honglu Temple is now re-licensed from the house of a wealthy family. You can't let the envoys from Yangzhou chirp.
"Hey! There is someone in front." The young man looked at the direction of the Honglu Temple over there, and teams of soldiers were standing in two rows. The three men in general's armor seemed to be waiting for someone. Among the three, they looked quite imaginative.
"Lord, eldest son, commander?" The Youzhou official also looked in the direction the young man pointed at. It turned out that the three people wearing general armor were the three giants of Youzhou, Yuan Xi, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang.
"Let's go!" The young man walked up directly without fear, got off his war horse and clasped his fists at the three men wearing general armor over there, saying, "The chief envoy under His Highness Shu King of Great Han has seen the general, the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the governor of Youzhou."
"Are you the envoy of His Highness the King of Shu?" The Yuan brothers did not expect that no one would introduce him to him. The young man immediately knew the identities of the three of them. The envoy sent by His Highness the King of Shu was too young.
"That's right, Yang Chen!" That's right, this person is Yang Chen. After Lu Su came back from Jiangdong, he continued to be his Minister of Personnel. Is there any help from Zhuge Jin, a good helper? The Ministry of Personnel is in order.
Yang Chen also came back to Yangzhou with Lu Su. Originally, Liu Mang planned to throw Yang Chen to the Ministry of Personnel and asked him to continue to follow Lu Su, but Lu Su refused. Because Lu Su's words mean that Yang Chen is good at moving, and the Ministry of Personnel is quiet, so movement and stillness are incompatible.
This is not that Lu Su doesn't want Yang Chen to be promoted, but that Lu Su is good for Yang Chen.
If Yang Chen was allowed to join the Ministry of Personnel, his future military achievements would have nothing to do with Yang Chen. Lu Su and Zhuge Jin were both scholars. They were originally scholars and learned governance, but Yang Chen was different. He was learning how to deal with others and talk about human relationships. What did he do in the Ministry of Personnel? The least thing the Ministry of Personnel needed is to talk about human relationships, and what he needed was fairness. It would be better to let him go and let him be free.
Originally, Liu Mang planned to throw Yang Chen to Yang Hong by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but Yang Chen didn't want to be under his father's wings, so the last place left was the Ministry of Commerce, which is also a place to deal with people.
Liu Mang asked Mi Zhu to send an envoy to discuss business with the Yuan brothers. Yang Chen is naturally the one who knows both diplomacy and business.
"Brother Yang Chen, you are really young and promising." Yuan Xi did not have any prejudice against Yang Chen because of Yang Chen's youth. Instead, he smiled and called him brother to Yang Chen.
"The Governor is over-reputable." Yang Chen said modestly.
"Come on, Brother Yang Chen must be tired. Let's go to the Honglu Temple first, and let's discuss other things." Yuan Xi was the main force in the army, but Yuan Shang was the main force outside, because Yuan Shang had a position as a general.
The four of them entered the Honglu Temple together. Yang Chen took a shower and changed his clothes. After the maid, he attended the dinner of the three brothers of the Yuan family under the leadership of his maid.
After drinking and eating, Yuan Shang clapped his hands and went all out.
Yuan Shang finally got to the point, "Brother Yang Chen. I don't know what happened when His Highness the King of Shu sent his brother to come here this time." Yuan Shang asked Yang Chen over there.
Yang Chen also put down the wine bottle and smiled, "General, General, General of the Carriage, Lord Governor, my Lord sent me to Youzhou must have come for those armor and weapons."
After Yang Chen said this, the eyes of the three of them lit up.
Yuan Shang was the first to be patient and could not help but "Brother Yang Chen, but His Highness the King of Shu is willing to lower the price and sell those sword armor to me at a cheap price?" Yuan Tan also looked at Yang Chen, hoping to get a word from Yang Chen's mouth.
But it was a pity that they were destined to be disappointed. Yang Chen shook his head, "General, General, General, General, Governor, it's not that my lord is unwilling to lower the price, but that this magical weapon is so powerful that he naturally does not cost any price. Every battle knife needs to go through thousands of processes, choose the best fine iron, and then pour it with the spring water of the Tianshan Mountain. Everything else is easy to say. This fine iron and the spring water of the sky are rare."
Anyway, the three brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang didn't know how to build weapons and armor, so Yang Chen naturally said how difficult it was. In fact, just mine the iron ore and put it in the boiler and then cast it into the iron and mold it.
"That's it, that's it!" The three brothers of the Yuan family didn't understand, but the weapon and armor were indeed powerful, so they nodded, but there was a look of disappointment in their eyes. There was also a kind of absent-mindedness.
Because if you don’t bargain, why are you here? I just bought it from Gongsun Du, and I still need you.
Looking at the expressions of the three brothers of the Yuan family, a smile appeared on the corner of Yang Chen's mouth. "But!" Yang Chen suddenly made a big turn of 360 degrees.
"Huh?" The three brothers of the Yuan family immediately focused their attention again.
"Our lord also knows the difficulties of the General, General, Cavalry and Master Governor, and the governor, so our lord also said that for the sake of ours, the General, has no money, we can barter with things." Yang Chen said to the three brothers of the Yuan family.
"Barry with things?" The three brothers of the Yuan family looked at each other, and all three saw the other's doubts from their eyes.
How to exchange for barter with this method?
"Brother Yang Chen, I don't know what is in my Youzhou that the King of Shu is attracted to by His Highness. If His Highness wants it, I will take it without saying a word." Yuan Xi, the governor of Youzhou, said it very simply, but Yang Chen was sneering. This is just a nice saying. If Yang Chen really takes it, how could he take it away without paying the price?
"You need money! The general, the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the governor are not much. The food, the general and others are still buying and selling from my Yangzhou. Weapons and armor are even more sold in Yangzhou." Yang Chen didn't say a word, and the three brothers of the Yuan family were embarrassed. They now know how poor they were. They basically had nothing. The only thing they could count was some local specialties in Youzhou, and what were those valuable.
"Are you beautiful women? I don't lack it in Yangzhou. Even if I, Yang Chen, dare to take it back, my mistresses can't spare Yang Chen!" Yang Chen used a humorous tone to make the three brothers of the Yuan family laugh. Liu Mang, the King of Shu, was afraid that many people would know about his wife, otherwise there would be no matter to the Guo family.
The three brothers of the Yuan family smiled like this, and the awkward atmosphere immediately dissipated a lot.
"So what does Your Highness the King of Shu want?" Yuan Xi spoke. Yang Chen said so much but just wanted to lower the price. He said that you are not bad or bad, and it is difficult to say what he wants later. In this way, you will be led by him and even bought your baby at a low price. In the end, you can thank him in reverse. This is an art of doing business.
Yang Chen glanced at Yuan Xi for a long time. There was really someone who understood. If he followed Yang Chen's words, the Yuan brothers could even be fooled and sold by Yang Chen. Yuan Xi directly planned to pull himself up and got to the point.
"Our King of Shu only has one thing, and that's a human being!" Yang Chen knew that Yuan Xi was a sensible person, so he couldn't fool him anymore, so he directly said his low price.
"People?" Yuan Xi frowned. What kind of people are there? People are divided into thousands of people, including men and women. Who is his Royal Highness Shu wants?
"The General, General, General, Cavalry and Lord Governor. To be honest, our lord also has relatives with three relatives." Yang Chen played the emotional card and suppressed the price with the Russian relationship between relatives.
"Yes! Your Highness the King of Shu is still our brother-in-law! Now that I am in trouble, I believe my brother-in-law will definitely not ignore me!" Yang Chen played the emotional card, and Yuan Xi also used the emotional card. The two sides were in a similar state of confrontation. Yang Chen hoped to use the emotional card to suppress the price, but Yuan Xi used the emotional card to allow Yangzhou to support him for free.
"Our lord has a close friend, Pang Shanmin, the son of Pang Degong." Yang Chen looked at the three brothers and said, "Pang Shanmin may not know, but Pang Degong and the others do know that Lumen Academy can be regarded as a world full of students. Even among the Yuan family, there are officials from Lumen Academy.
"And Mr. Pang Shanmin came to ask our lord to ask my lord to come to the three generals to ask for one."
"Who!"
"Tian Feng, Tian Yuanhao." Yang Chen said the person he wanted.
"Tian Feng?" Yuan Tan's pupils suddenly shrank.
"Yes Tian Feng! I don't know who this Mr. Tian Feng is in the hands of the three generals." Yang Chen asked the three.
Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi didn't say anything because Tian Feng was not in their hands. Yuan Shang even asked, "Isn't this Tian Feng dead?"
Tian Feng was a Bie Jia of Jizhou and an important official around his father. Because Tian Feng was there, Yuan Shao was able to unify Hebei. However, this person offended his father later. Before the Battle of Guandu, Liu Bei attacked and killed Xuzhou Governor Che Zhou, occupied Pei County and betrayed Cao Cao. Cao Cao personally led his troops to fight against Liu Bei. Tian Feng said to Yuan Shao: "The one who competes for the world with you is Cao Cao. Cao Cao is now going to attack Liu Bei by the border. It is impossible for both sides to fight.
It's almost over. Now mobilize all troops to attack Cao Cao's rear and you can calm down once you go. The army will be dispatched according to the time, and it's time to build." Yuan Shao refused and said that his son was sick and Tian Feng's plan was not implemented. Tian Feng held a crutch and knocked on the ground and said, "Cough, the big thing is over! I finally caught up with such an opportunity, but I actually lost the opportunity because the child was sick. What a pity!" Yuan Shao was very angry after hearing this, and he alienated Tian Feng from then on.
Cao Cao was afraid that Yuan Shao would cross the Yellow River, so he stepped up his attack on Liu Bei and defeated Liu Bei within a month. Liu Bei defected to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao then advanced to attack Xu County. Tian Feng believed that since he had lost the opportunity before, it was not appropriate to send troops at the moment, so he dissuaded Yuan Shao and said, "Cao Cao has defeated Liu Bei, and Xu is no longer empty. Moreover, Cao Cao is good at using troops, and has a small number of people, so he should not be underestimated. Now he is better to stick to it for a long time. With the strength of the Yellow River in the mountains, the general has troops from four states, and unites heroes outside, and implements farming internally to prepare for war. Then he selects elite troops. Divide into surprise troops and take advantage of the enemy.
Kongxu took turns to fight to harass the south of the Yellow River. When the enemy rescued the right side, I attacked the left side; when the enemy rescued the left side, I attacked the right side. The enemy was exhausted and the people could not be content with their own business. We were not tired yet, but the other party was already tired. It took less than three years to sit down to defeat the enemy. Now we don’t need the strategy of winning in the temple to decide success or failure through a war. If we cannot get what we want, it will be too late to regret it.” Yuan Shao did not listen. Tian Feng tried his best to dissuade Yuan Shao and offended Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao thought that he had ruined the morale of the army, so he locked Tian Feng up. So he issued a manifesto first and went south in a large scale.
Later in the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao won and Yuan Shao lost, and Tian Feng lost his trace. Yuan Shang thought he was dead.
"Haha, if Mr. Tian Feng was already dead, Yang Chen would not have come to Youzhou." Yang Chen looked at everyone with a smile. You must know that although Yang Chen did not like to be under his father's wings, he still knew his father's abilities. On the father's information, if Tian Feng was not dead, he would really not die.
"What's the use of His Highness the King of Shu asking Tian Feng?" Yuan Tan asked.
"Didn't Yang Chen say it? Mr. Tian Feng and Mr. Pang Shanmin have old things..." Yang Chen's old friendship has not finished speaking. Yuan Tan shook his head over there, "Brother Yang Chen, no secret words are spoken. Even if His Highness of Shu helps Pang Shanmin for the sake of Pang Degong, he will not travel thousands of miles to Youzhou." Yuan Tan is not a fool. This favor is really big. He actually travels thousands of miles to Youzhou for only one person.
"Haha, okay! Since General Cheqi said so, then I, Yang Chen, will confess!" Yang Chen stood up with a smile, "General Cheqiqi, General Cheqi, and Lord Governor. Our lord likes Tian Toyota's talent and knows that this person is a capable person. So my lord sent me to come and invite Mr. Tian Feng to Yangzhou to assist my lord."
"Tian Feng's talent!" Yuan Tan suddenly became alert, because Tian Feng was really talented. Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi might not know, but Yuan Tan knew that Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi had not come to Jizhou yet, and this Jizhou was not the territory of his father Yuan Shao. It was Tian Feng who helped his father take over the entire Jizhou step by step. After a difficult time, he defeated Gongsun Zan. It can be said that Tian Feng was Yuan Tan's idol at the beginning. He felt that Mr. Tian Feng was omnipotent and knew everything.
So after Yuan Tan was arrested by his father, Cao Cao defeated his father Yuan Tan and sent someone to leave with Tian Feng. Yuan Tan originally wanted to ask Tian Feng to assist him, but Tian Feng was unwilling to do so because there was already a Guo Tu around Yuan Tan. What Tian Feng told Yuan Tan was that everything could be listened to Guo Tu's words, so that you could keep your side safe, but Guo Tu could not stop Yuan Tan. In order to get the position of the general, Yuan Tan also wanted to suppress his younger brother and defeat Yuan Shang once, which led to the two brothers losing Jizhou and Qingzhou.
Yuan Tan kept Tian Feng and thought that Tian Feng could change his mind so that he would not kill Tian Feng.
But unexpectedly, the news of Tian Feng's life was found out by Liu Mang, the King of Shu who was far away in Yangzhou.
"Don't doubt, Mr. Tian Feng would rather give it to our lords in the hands of the three!" Yang Chen said to the three of them, "Our lord is far away in the Central Plains and has no conflict of interest with the three of them. We have a common enemy, that is Cao Cao. Even if we are enemies, then Cao Cao will be destroyed. What era will be? Who knows?" Yang Chen dispelled these personal concerns. Once a person becomes a prince, he is selfish. Generally, talents he cannot get will not be given to others, otherwise he will be enemies with him sooner or later. For example, if Cao Cao himself cannot get Chen Gong and others, then there is only one way, that is, kill.
To be continued...