Lu Jun's appearance made up for the Lvbu's Army's lack of support from the local celebrities. You must know that if you want to get the support of the people, you must get the support of the local celebrities. This was because when the people saw the local celebrities working for the Marquis, they would naturally have a sense of belonging to the Marquis. It was just like Qiao Mao's attitude towards Sun Ce. Qiao Mao was a famous scholar and also a great scholar. His attitude of supporting Sun Ce on the surface would allow Sun Ce to gain a lot of people's hearts.
Liu Kai volunteered to recruit Lu Jun. Their Liu family and Lu family's relationship was very deep. When Lu Kang was the governor, the Lu family and the Liu family were very close. Later, when Lu Kang died, the Lu family declined. However, the Liu family still secretly helped the Lu family. This allowed the Lu family to survive. Sun Ce and the Lu family had deep hatred. Nearly half of the Lu family died in the hands of Sun Ce. The Lvbu's Army repelled Sun Cejun and made Sun Ce suffer. The enemy of an enemy is a friend, right? Previously, when Wan Cheng was in the hands of Sun Ce, the Lu family could only swallow their anger and keep a low profile. Now, it was different. Wan Cheng was now in the hands of the Lvbu's Army!
Now, if they were to invite Lu Jun to become an official, they believed that Lu Jun would agree. When Liu Kai retreated to the side, Liu Mang told Liu Kai to call him when he went to Lu Jun's house. He wanted to see Lu Xun and Lu Ji. According to their age, they were still in their teens!
"Milord, the problem of the famous scholar has been solved. However, we are still far from being able to quench our thirst!" With Lu Jun around, he might be able to recruit the nobles to Lujiang to become officials. However, most of the nobles in Lujiang were already dead. Even if the nobles from the other provinces wanted to become officials in Lujiang, they would need time! But now, Lujiang had just gone through a war, and it urgently needed to pacify the people and develop. It needed someone to manage it.
"Huh?!" Lü Bu's brows wrinkled, while Chen Deng stood on the side. If this was Xu Province, then Chen Deng could rely on his father and Chen family's reputation to help Lü Bu recruit talents. But this was Wan Cheng, and Guangling was very far from here. Even if it was near here, Cao Cao wouldn't let Chen Deng go.
"Where did the others come from?" This became a problem. Although Lujiang was now in the hands of Lü Bu, Lü Bu was not a local. He didn't know what kind of people could govern this place!
"Is there a need to be so troublesome?!" Liu Mang couldn't figure it out. Lü Bu didn't have any officials under him? They were officials! In China's official system, how could there be no one to be an official? "Father-in-law, why do we need to look for talents? We can just let them come to us! "
"Come to us?!" Chen Gong and Lü Bu both looked at Liu Mang. What does it mean to let the talents come to us? Is it to let the nobles take the initiative to seek refuge under Lü Bu? Let's stop joking! Lü Bu's reputation is so bad. How many nobles are willing to become officials?
"Why do we need to find those nobles?!" Liu Mang stood up and said, "Not all the talents in this world are nobles! We can also find them in the wilderness! "
"In the wilderness? Poor children?! "Chen Gong probably understood, but then he shook his head," Those people in the wilderness have no virtue! "
"No virtue?!" Liu Mang really laughed. Saying that those people in the wilderness have no virtue, when did the nobles have virtue?! " Take the nobles in Wan Cheng for example. For their own family's benefit, they directly rebelled against Lü Bu and almost massacred the entire Wan Cheng. Such people have virtue! All the nobles present, for example, Chen Deng's father gave Lu Bu one thing on the surface and another behind his back. Does this kind of person have any virtue? Liu Kai and his son are also attached to Lu Bu's war chariot because of their family's benefit. However, Liu Mang did not say these things out loud. After all, they were now on the same side.
"Right now, the world is not stable yet. How can there be so many talents with both virtue and ability? What we need now is to be able to do it, not to let Military Advisor nitpick! Moreover, Military Advisor, most of the people in front of you are from the wilderness! "Liu Mang choked old man Chen Gong. Who told this old man to always intentionally or unintentionally want to see Liu Mang make a fool of himself? Now, in this hall, except for Chen Deng, the other generals were basically from the wilderness. The old generals like Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun were people who joined the army together with Lü Bu in Bing Province. If they were nobles with power, why would they need to be soldiers? Only Zang Ba was from a small noble family. However, he was also unruly and unruly. The new generals like Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng, and Gan Ning were all from the wilderness. Gan Ning was even a pirate. However, these people from the wilderness were able to support Lü Bu's power!
Liu Mang's words made everyone feel very comfortable. After all, it was not their fault that they were born in the wilderness. They had strength and ability. Naturally, they could make a career in this world.
"Put up a recruitment order!" Liu Mang continued. "In the entire Wan Cheng, the entire Lujiang, no, it should be the entire Han Dynasty. We need to send people to put up recruitment orders. We need to tell the world that our Lujiang Lvbu's Army is based on talent. No matter what your birth is, we are waiting for you. We are not afraid of high requirements, but we are afraid that you do not have the ability!"
"Recruitment order?" Chen Gong was really stunned. He could imagine the consequences of this recruitment order.
"My lord, you can't!" The first person to stand up and oppose was the head of the Liu family, Liu Kai. He did not want to offend Liu Mang. However, Liu Mang's idea was too bad for Liu Kai. Recruitment order? Regardless of birth? As long as you have the ability, you can become an official?
One had to know that this official position was usually filled by the children of landowning clans. There were very few children from poor families, unless they were very talented. Why was this so? This was because the selection of officials in the Han Dynasty was based on filial piety and honesty. Only those who were filial piety and honesty could become officials. In reality, the path to becoming an official was in the hands of the nobles. It was easy to get things done if there were people in the family. The bigger the family, the easier it was to become an official. The starting point of becoming an official was also higher. For example, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu. Cao Cao was from Qiao County of Pei State. Compared to the modern world, a branch director of the capital's Public Security Bureau was at least a department level cadre. At the local level, he might be the director of the provincial Public Security Bureau. How old was he? 20 years old! This was because Cao Cao was also the child of a noble family. He was born in an official family and was the descendant of the Han Prime Minister Cao Cao. Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was the adopted son of Cao Teng. When Emperor Ling of Han was Emperor Ling of Han, he was a military captain and served four generations of emperors. He had a certain reputation and was conferred the title of Marquis Fei Ting during Emperor Huan of Han.
With such a big family, it was difficult for Cao Cao not to become an official.
There was no need to talk about Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. These two families had four generations of three dukes. It could be said that they were the biggest family in the world outside of the imperial family. Just like the Morgan family in America, Yuan Shu was promoted to the position of Henan's Governor. Yuan Shao was not bad either. At a young age, he was promoted to the position of one of the eight military officers of the West Garden.
However, Liu Mang's father-in-law was not so lucky. Without a family or power to help him, he could only climb up step by step. The road to climb up was full of dangers. If he was not careful, he could die. If Lü Bu had a family like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Lü Bu would not have to bear the reputation of being a slave of three surnames.
But now, Liu Mang wanted to recruit people from poor families to become officials. What was he trying to do? He wanted to abolish the privilege of the nobles! The reason why the nobles could be passed down for so long was because they could be officials for generations. The only thing that could eliminate the nobles was the nobles themselves. Otherwise, if they were officials for generations, their sons and nephews would be able to get an official position no matter what. No matter who was in charge of the country, they could starve those officials to death!
If Liu Mang abolished Ju Xiao Lian, then the decline of the nobles will not be certain. Who knows when the next generation will not be an official, then the nobles will be abandoned.
"My lord, once this recruitment order is out, the nobles will despise us even more! This way, the nobles of Lujiang and the world will not be willing to become officials in my Lujiang! "Liu Kai immediately opposed.
"Yes, my lord, this cannot be done!" Chen Deng also stood up to speak. Although he was the only one left in the Chen family, don't forget that if they followed Lü Bu and achieved something, then they would become a new group of nobles. At that time, this would be their immediate benefit.
Not only Chen Deng, Liu Kai, Liu Neng, and Yang Hong also stood up to oppose.
"Huh?!" Liu Mang did not expect that so many people would oppose him. The only people who could give advice to Lü Bu were Chen Gong, the official strategist, Liu Mang, Chen Deng, Liu Kai, and Yang Hong, the three part-time strategists. Now, out of the four people, two and a half were against it. Although Chen Gong did not speak, his expression showed that he did not agree with Liu Mang.
"What are you afraid of?!" Liu Mang did not understand. In history, didn't Cao Cao also issue a recruitment order? How is it that Cao Cao managed to recruit a bunch of poor talents, but when Liu Mang proposed it, these few people joined hands to oppose it?
In fact, Liu Mang did not know that after Cao Cao issued the recruitment order, it was only a few years later. Cao Cao's recruitment order attracted a lot of commoners and made them proud. But at the same time, the people who opposed the recruitment order were also these commoners. This was because they became officials and established their own families. After becoming nobles, they naturally wanted the privilege of being an official for generations. Cao Cao's recruitment order attracted commoners but hurt the nobles. Those nobles began to oppose Cao Cao. When Cao Cao was still alive, they did not dare to be too obvious. But when Cao Cao died, they immediately jumped out. Cao Pi was Cao Cao's son, but he did not have Cao Cao's kingly way. Therefore, in order to appease these nobles, Cao Pi also wanted to rope them in. This was because he knew that only the nobles could help him stabilize the world. Only by obtaining the support of the nobles could he stabilize his position.
Therefore, the Nine Rank System appeared. With the help of Chen Qun, Cao Pi issued the Nine Rank System. This system completely gave the nobles the privileges to the highest level. In the end, it even reached the level where the upper class would not have a poor family, and the lower class would not have a noble family.
Chen Gong stood at the side and seemed to be thinking about something. He did not speak and just looked at the two sides arguing.
"If there is no recruitment order, then I ask Brother Ziqi, who will be the one to govern Lujiang?! Let the people govern themselves! "Liu Mang looked at Liu Kai and said. At the side, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, and the other generals could not interrupt.
"If we open this recruitment order, our Lujiang will really offend all the nobles in the world!" Liu Kai earnestly persuaded Liu Mang. The recruitment order was based on the talents. This would really be a blow to the nobles. The nobles originally relied on the protection of their ancestors to be able to become officials and live a carefree life. Once Liu Mang issued the recruitment order, what would the nobles think? If they did not even have the privilege of being an official, how could they still be called nobles?
Nobles were people whose children could become officials. Only when there were many nobles, would they be called nobles.
"If we offend them, then so be it! So what if I offend those nobles who plundered the common people's wealth and wealth?! "Liu Mang simply did not give up. He had killed almost all the nobles in Lujiang in Wancheng City. He did not care about those nobles.
Lü Bu was a bit embarrassed. If he used Liu Mang's idea to issue the recruitment order, even if Lü Bu was an idiot, he knew that although he would win the hearts of the poor, he would lose the hearts of the nobles. In Lujiang, he did not care because most of the nobles were dead. But once the Lvbu's Army expanded, Lü Bu would not be able to get the support of the other nobles. Without the help of the nobles, not to mention whether the nobles would confront him head-on, they would definitely trip him up! Those nobles had a lot of influence in the local area. They only had a few percent of the population, but they occupied 80 percent of the wealth. Even some emperors dared to offend the nobles, like Cao Pi and Zhao Kuangyin, who ruled the world with the nobles! There were still a lot of talents in the nobles. If those people were to plot against you from time to time, it would be very uncomfortable.
The reason why Lü Bu lost Xu Province was because of Chen Deng's Chen family's plot.
But if they listened to Liu Kai, then it would be a waste of time. There would be no result. Lujiang still lacked talents and could not be governed.
"We can compromise!" Chen Gong finally spoke. He walked out and looked at Liu Kai and Liu Mang. Both of their words were reasonable. "We can issue the recruitment order, but only once. When we find enough talents to govern Lujiang, we will take back the recruitment order!" Chen Gong's compromise was to set up the governance framework of Lujiang first. Anyway, the nobles in Lujiang were all dead. No one would be able to hinder the Lvbu's Army. As for the future, they would think about it when the territory was bigger.
"That's the only way!" Lü Bu nodded and pointed at Liu Mang. "Hanyang, since this recruitment order was proposed by you, you will be responsible for it!"
"Understood!" Liu Mang nodded. He could only compromise.
"The problem of talents has been solved. Then, my lord, should you expand your territory?" Chen Gong raised the third question. Lü Bu's position was the Governor of Xu Province, not the Governor of a County. Even so, he only had half of Lujiang in his hands. It was suitable for expansion.
"Expand the territory?" The eyes of all the battle generals present lit up. It had to be known that expansion meant that they were going to fight. Only by fighting could they obtain military merits!
"Territory?" Now, Lü Bu was surrounded by Sun Ce, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao. According to Chen Gong's plan, Sun Ce had to wait for Sun Ce to negotiate. Now, attacking Sun Ce was like giving Liu Biao a dowry. In Jingzhou, Liu Biao only had Jiang Xia near Wancheng City. Now, Jiang Xia was in a mess. Sun Cejun and Liu Biao's armies were fighting. Lü Bu's involvement would only bring harm.
There was also Cao Cao! After being chased out by Cao Cao, they sent troops to attack Cao Cao's Xudu! Although Lü Bu always had this idea, he also knew that compared to Cao Cao, there was a more difficult opponent in Hebei. Yuan Shao! Yuan Shao had already occupied You Zhou, Bing Zhou, Qing Zhou, and Ji Zhou. If Cao Cao was defeated by him, then it would be very funny. Then it would be fun. No matter how stupid Yuan Shao was or how muddle-headed he was, it was impossible for him to rely on the entire Central Plains to defeat the other vassals. He would be able to overwhelm his opponents with his troops! Because of the wealth of the Central Plains, the Three Kingdoms finally returned to Jin. Cao Cao lost 800,000 troops in the Battle of Red Cliffs. However, it did not hurt Cao Cao's foundation! This was the wealth of the Central Plains. Also, the population of the Central Plains was several times more than other places combined. Shu Country had mountains and rivers, Wu Country had the Yangtze River. Otherwise, they would have been destroyed long ago!
Now, these neighbors could not be attacked. Where could Lü Bu expand his territory?
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