Rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 106

In fact, Lu Zhi didn't have much prejudice against Liu He. With the elimination of misunderstandings and the gift of distilled wine, all negotiations went smoothly.

At Liu He's request, Lu Zhi named the wine Yaoguang, which meant that the wine was clear, like the waves of a fairyland.

In addition, regarding the matter of recommending talents, Lu Zhi was also straightforward and readily agreed, but there was a condition, one person per liter of wine, which made Liu He dumbfounded. Unexpectedly, he was still an interesting old man.

You are almost an old man, how dare you be a son-in-law without your wine?

In the following time, all parts of Zhuo County were still busy building roads and building houses, and the market at Dukang Pavilion began to take shape. The workshops were mainly wine shops, carpentry, and iron shops. Build farm tools, vehicles, etc. to prepare for spring plowing in the coming year.

Distilled wine still needs further improvement, so Liu He only built [-] wine retorts for distillation, and the main part is still above the wine cellar and wine pool.

Distillation technology cannot be kept secret for a long time, it will be leaked sooner or later, and others can imitate it, but the wine cellar and distiller's yeast are different, this is the real core resource.

A thousand-year-old cellar has been bad for thousands of years. Good wine needs an old cellar. It is the key to have a batch of cellars for continuous fermentation and uninterrupted use. In addition, we are constantly developing other grain brewing methods. Only by making continuous progress can we not be afraid of being surpassed .

However, Liu He doesn't understand the specific principles. He is just a layman, and he still needs special people to practice and study. After Zhen Yao comes back, he immediately summons brewers from all over the world to start research and development.

Occasionally, Liu He invited Lu Zhi to watch the military training in the barracks, and asked him to guide Guan Yu and others in time. Their military training methods were all figured out by themselves, and everyone benefited from the guidance of an orthodox general like Lu Zhi. Very shallow, very fast progress.

An old house where a treasure!
This statement was indeed true. Lu Zhi communicated unreservedly with everyone no matter in terms of politics or military management, but he answered questions carefully, and Zhuge Jin and Liu Ping also joined the ranks of the discussion.

After getting along with each other for a period of time, Lu Zhi also found that all of these people had outstanding talents. Wu had the courage of ten thousand men, and Wen had the talent for governing the country. He was surprised that Liu He could absorb these talents in this remote place of Youzhou. .

The news of Liu He's engagement with the Lu family has spread in Youzhou, and Zhen Yao hastened to return from Shanggu, but this matter was decided by Liu Yu and Lu Zhi in Luoyang, and it cannot be changed. If the Zhen family wants to get married, they can only For the second time, Zhen Yao didn't dare to make a decision, so he went home to report and discuss.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the end of the year, and the imperial court issued an edict to change Yuan Zhongping and amnesty the world on Jisi day.

Half a month later, Zuo Feng came to Zhuo County again with a group of officials, but this time he did not come empty-handed. Five hundred soldiers drove eight carriages with great momentum.

Liu He, Zhuge Gui and others greeted the driver and greeted the imperial decree. It turned out that it was Emperor Ling's reward for Liu He's conquest of Xianbei. This time, there was no reward for promotion, but several carts of books, more than [-] volumes in total.

This was specially requested by Liu He when he listed his military achievements. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the imperial court was already empty, and he was promoted quickly enough. If he was not satisfied, it would easily arouse the suspicion of others.

Then he wrote to the imperial court, saying that the Hu people refused to obey the king, and the border people rebelled violently because they did not know the etiquette of the Han Dynasty.

I thought it would be nice to send a few scriptures, but I didn't expect that Emperor Ling was so generous that he sent seven or eight carts, which was beyond Liu He's expectation. It was probably because Liu He didn't want a reward, so he sent more books.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was not only promiscuous, but also a man who loved money like his life. Because his family was poor since he was a child, he tried every means to collect property for the emperor. He opened the West Garden to sell officials a long time ago. It is privately owned, and even bought land at a low price, fearing that the money will be exhausted.

Therefore, for Emperor Ling, everything is negotiable regardless of money, and it is not surprising that he gave Liu He so many rewards.

After personally entertaining Zuo Feng and his party, Liu He understood the intention of this guy coming in person, and sent another batch of property and money before leaving, even the accompanying soldiers each gave a thousand coins, and the right was to be paid for the hard work along the way, the messenger Delighted.

Zhuge Gui was puzzled and said: "Eunuchs are in power, and everyone hates them. Why are the princes so close, and even give gifts and bribes, wouldn't they be ridiculed by the world?"

Liu He said with a smile: "I have no choice but to do this. If I don't give some benefits, I will repeat the mistakes of Lu Shangshu. I will be slandered by this villain and bring disaster to Zhuojun and the people. Wouldn't the gain not be worth the loss?"

Zhuge Gui sighed softly, but he was helpless: "It's just that eunuchs are greedy, like tigers and wolves, and not satisfied. If everyone is like this, wouldn't it encourage their evil and bring disaster to the world?"

Liu He sneered and said, "Sir, don't worry, they eat too much, and they will be stuffed to death sooner or later."

Now that the matter has come to this point, Zhuge Gui is also helpless, and sighed: "Young master has obtained these many classics, which are more precious than those thousands of gold, so you must cherish it."

Liu He said with a smile: "I have some use for these classics. In the future, I will attract talents, all thanks to these classics."

Those royal collections are treasures handed down from generation to generation in the eyes of the aristocratic family, and a few volumes may be able to raise a family, but in the eyes of Emperor Ling, they are worthless, and giving them to Liu He is also considered his own family, so there is no what concerns.

He ordered people to transport the vehicles to his home and lay them out. These classics may have been burned by Dong Zhuo in history. What can be saved now is a little, and if there is an opportunity in the future, he can continue to ask for it from Emperor Ling.

Although Cai Lun had invented papermaking in the Western Han Dynasty, the paper in this period could not write on it, and was only used to wrap things. The paper that could write on it was more expensive than cloth and silk, and it had not yet become popular.

Liu He has long had the idea of ​​improving papermaking, but now there is a lot of waste to be done, insufficient money and food, and no spare time to do these things, so he can only shelve them later.

Improve the quality of paper, develop movable type printing, and distribute a large number of books to popularize education, cultivate talents, and completely break the monopoly of the aristocratic family.

The end of the year was coming soon, and the process of the three media and six certificates was going very fast, but Lu Zhi had one condition, gold, silver and jewelry were not allowed to be used as the dowry gift, and it had to be ingenious and satisfy his old man.

This made Liu He embarrassed. Lu Zhi was a person who had reached the pinnacle of his life, and he had seen a world bigger than himself. Liu Yu was clean and honest all his life, and he couldn't show anything of value.

If I had known this before, I wouldn't have given him wine. If I gave distilled wine at this time, I would guarantee Lu Zhi's satisfaction. Unfortunately, he drank it every day, so it would be worthless to give it now.

Seeing that the day of his next appointment was approaching, Liu He was at a loss as to what to do. After much deliberation, there was nothing a literati likes more in their free time than poetry, wine, qin and songs.

Thinking of this, Liu He felt somewhat guilty, but it was also a helpless thing, who made himself from a junior to a senior?

Just relying on my own memory to choose a poem that can impress Lu Zhi, it seems that it is not easy!

(End of this chapter)