I didn't open it in another world, I'm sure

However, in the face of the Qin army's tricks like ghosts and gods, no matter how unwilling the aristocratic family and celebrities are, it becomes meaningless.

Especially Qin Jun is not easy to kill, but Qin Jun will capture anyone who resists, and then escort them to do sanitation work or something.

For ordinary people, this is just hard labor, which is nothing, but for the aristocratic families and celebrities who value face, it is more uncomfortable than killing them directly.

Because of this, after several big families in Yangzhou were collectively sent to do the so-called sanitation work, that is, to clean up the city, the Yangzhou family members and Confucian celebrities collectively shut up.

As for why not send it to road construction and mining?

Daqin's infrastructure team has long been mechanized, and there is no need for these manpower at all, so it can only be like this.

What's even more dumbfounding is that Qin Jun's hard labor is relatively easy, with only four hours a day. After the work is over, there is no shortage of food, drink, clothing, housing and medical services. There is a small amount of wages as remuneration. Apart from being forced to work during the day and an hour of ideological lessons every night, it seems that there is only one thing that is not glamorous, which is quite embarrassing.

At least this is embarrassing for those aristocratic families.

It's not that the family members who were punished hadn't thought about resisting and escaping. However, they couldn't resist and escaped. It's not even okay to play tricks rather than surrender, because Qin Jun will use certain mechanisms that can manipulate the human body to make people sweep the streets uncontrollably.

What's even more outrageous is that even suicide is not allowed.

Because Qin Jun has the art of bringing the dead back to life and reviving dead bones, he couldn't die even if he wanted to.

After such a toss, the people of the aristocratic family can be regarded as completely resigned to their fate, obediently obey the arrangement, so as not to waste energy on futile things.

As a matter of course, with this set of repeated eliminations and beatings, the people of the aristocratic families were quickly governed into obedience.

Besides, Cai Yong, after learning about the so-called reform through labor, couldn't help complaining, what kind of hard labor is this, it's easier than the handyman in Xungui's family.

Of course, it is a torture more painful than death for a famous family who used to be aloof.

In this regard, Cai Yong can be regarded as convinced by the methods of the Qin people.

In modern terms, this method does not hurt much, but it is extremely insulting.

However, seeing the strict military discipline of the Qin army, the clear administration of officials, and the standard system of external kings, internal sages and virtual monarchs, Cai Yong and some celebrities who were persuaded by Cai Yong couldn't help but feel hot.

No way, under the influence of the Gongyang and Guliang factions, Han Confucianism has actually adhered to the characteristics of the two factions. After all, the two factions are Confucianism. As long as they do not enter the dynasty, the two factions can still get along relatively harmoniously among the people. .

And this has led to the fact that Han Confucianism itself tends to despise the monarch and value the people, and it is a special existence that takes the world as its own responsibility and implements the concept of self-cultivation, family governance, state governance and world peace.

Similarly, the greatest "ambition" of Han Confucianism, or wish, was to hope that the imperial court would return to the state of "governing with the arch" in the early Western Han Dynasty.

To put it simply, the emperor should not intervene in the government, just watch it, and govern the country and the world, it is enough for the courtiers to do it.

This also led to the fact that the biggest threat to the imperial power in the Han Dynasty was not only the aristocratic family, but also the scholars who were born in the aristocratic family and longed for the false emperor to realize their ambitions.

To put it bluntly, it is the struggle between imperial power and phase power.

This 'prime minister' does not necessarily require the position of prime minister, it can be one of the three princes, a minister, or even a general. Intuitively speaking, it is a battle for the power ratio between courtiers and emperors, collectively referred to as imperial power and prime minister power dispute.

And the struggle between imperial power and ministerial power has a long history, and it has been going on for a long time. It can be said that this kind of struggle has never stopped from the pre-Qin period to the Republic of China.

This is also one of the fundamental reasons why the two emperors, Huan and Ling, each engaged in a "party ban".

The logic is that, for the imperial power, the virtual monarch and the real reality are the substantive overhead of the imperial power, which is something that any representative of the ancient imperial power would find it difficult to accept. After all, not everyone can have the mind of Emperor Hanwen.

However, after Cai Yong and others had a deep understanding of Qin's upper-level structure, they couldn't help but exclaim, or be surprised.

Because according to the upper-level structure of the Qin State, the cabinet is a variant of the prime minister system, and its power is the highest under the imperial power. In other words, this is basically the most ideal national structure of Han Confucianism.

Of course, the fact that Qin's military power and part of the financial power are not in the cabinet is a small flaw.

However, Cai Yong and others understand that only in this way can the long-term stability of the empire's center be guaranteed, and Cai Yong and others couldn't help but applaud the fact that the authority is clearly stated.

After all, power is the most dangerous thing, it can change almost everything.

Under normal circumstances, if you dare to give, the cabinet will dare to make your founding emperor a mascot in the true sense, or even replace him.Even if you don't give it, the courtiers will find a way to get it. This is the almost unavoidable struggle between imperial power and prime minister power.

On the contrary, like the Qin State, after the ownership of military power was clearly stipulated, the imperial power and prime minister power were relatively stable and performed their duties.

After in-depth understanding of the structure of the Qin State, Cai Yong and others also fully understood that although this Qin State came from "outside the sky" and has strong "organ skills", it is even more like ghosts and gods. In terms of regulations and so on, they are actually not beyond their cognition, and they can also see strong traces of China.

In addition, the Emperor Taichu himself was an advocate of the variant of Legalism, so, in a certain way, he could really be said to be the inheritor of the philosophy of winning the Qin Dynasty.

With these ideas in mind, Cai Yong and others quickly acted, using their influence in the Han court to mobilize public opinion and try to establish that the new Qin is the successor of the Qin Dynasty, at least in the Han Dynasty. Realize this perception.

Because in this way, it is the resurgence of the former dynasty in the true sense, and this has become a dispute over Chinese orthodoxy in the Han Dynasty, rather than a simple foreign invasion, which can greatly reduce the resistance of the Han people.

There is no way, there is a generation of Han, the sense of superiority of the Han people is extremely overwhelming, and the attitude towards the outside world is also extremely repulsive and tough, even if the Three Kingdoms have been fighting for many years, when the national strength is exhausted, the Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Ji Han, and Dong Wu also ran to fight from time to time. The foreign races in the surrounding area have never stopped their external expansion, and they have been subdued by the foreign races in the surrounding areas, and then they dragged a group of younger brothers back to the Central Plains to fight for orthodoxy.

Therefore, the Han people who have not been in Wu~random~hua can psychologically accept the mountain of blood and blood of their own people to inherit the orthodoxy, but they absolutely cannot accept foreign rule.

Now that Cai Yong and others have downplayed the characteristics of the outsiders from Qin from the public opinion, it can also greatly reduce the social barriers to the transfer of Han soil.

Its effect is also very remarkable. Ten days after Yangzhou was captured, the Qin army captured Jingzhou one day later, and the resistance of Jingzhou aristocratic families and scholars was very weak, and it was almost negligible.

Chapter 1089 Reaction

Of course, when Jingzhou was captured, Sun Jian, then the prefect of Changsha, made a fuss, but there were no casualties. Oh, the "casualties" here refer to Sun Jian and his subordinates. There were casualties in the central capital, so Nangong Xiao would definitely be a "benevolent father" for a while, and have a good time with the generals in the army.

As a result, Sun Jian and his subordinates were dispatched to Sun Jian's hometown, Wujun, Yangzhou, to sweep the streets.

Not to mention how furious, ashamed, aggrieved and helpless Sun Jian was, after the Qin army captured Jingzhou, the Han court finally got the information of the Qin army's "invasion".

There is no way, the transmission of information in ancient times was slow, and the matter of Yangzhou can be confirmed to be true or false in about ten days and then sent to the court of Luoyang, which is already super efficient.

As a matter of course, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty and all the courtiers were instantly confused after receiving the information from Yangzhou.

Qin?Hundreds of thousands of Qin troops?A mechanism technique that allows people to fly into the sky and escape from the ground?The huge Yangzhou will fall in one day?

What is it?

After repeated confirmations by the intelligence networks of the Emperor Hanting and the aristocratic family, after confirming that everything was true, the emperor Liu Hong and the courtiers were dumbfounded.

At the same time, I really don't know what to do.

Not to mention the mechanism technique that can fly into the sky and escape from the ground, the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops alone are enough to make the Han court helpless at this time.

After all, it wasn't long before the Liangzhou and Youzhou rebellions were put down, and the Han court is now in an extremely weak stage, and it can't withstand bigger waves at all.

But it was impossible to do nothing and wait for death, so after several discussions between the emperor Liu Hong and his courtiers, he could only gather as many troops as possible to deal with this sudden national war.

Of course, as the general of the Han court, He Jin, who was nominally the highest officer of the Han court military, became the key figure in this national war, even the commander.

Regarding this, He Jin panicked in an instant, but he could only bite the bullet and go for it.

After all, this is not about suppressing rebellion and suppressing bandits, but a real national war. If he, the highest military officer, does not stand in front of the stage even at this time, he will really be unable to survive in the Han court.

Fortunately, Lu Zhi was in Luoyang, and Huangfusong, Zhu Jun and other senior generals also happened to return to Luoyang to report on their duties. In addition, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and other up-and-comers who were the eighth captains of Xiyuan at the time also reluctantly allowed He Jin to start the investigation smoothly. Soldiers will wait for corresponding work.

But within a few days, he heard that Jingzhou had fallen, and it was falling in one day. This made He Jin not panic, but a blank mind.

In fact, not only He Jin, the emperor Liu Hong, Lu Zhi and other senior generals were all a bit blank at the moment.

He was frightened by Qin Jun's speed, but also shrouded in despair.

This is not over yet, not long after the news of the fall of Jingzhou, Cai Yong's three secret letters were sent to the emperor Liu Hong.

One is Cai Yong's confession, the other is about the history and power of Qin State, and the last one is a private letter to the emperor Liu Hong, which explains all the conversations between Emperor Qin Taichu and Cai Yong, and Cai Yong's claim to be Han. Advice from criminals.

After Liu Hong read the three secret letters, he locked himself in the Taimiao for a day and a night before going to court, but he did not only publicize the secret letter explaining the origin and strength of Qin.

The courtiers were very excited when they first heard that the emperor said that it was a secret letter sent back by Cai Yong, who was trapped in the enemy camp, and that it was about the origin and strength of Qin.

However, when the courtiers listened to Zhang Rang tremblingly reading the secret letter, his face gradually became stiff from excitement, then turned black and blue, and finally turned pale.

And Cao Cao, one of the Dianjun school lieutenants of the Forbidden Army, is also among the ranks of military officers.

At this time, although he heard that Qin has a population of 17 million, millions of soldiers, etc., his face was pale, but the mention of Cai Yong reminded him of the strange young hero he accidentally met in Luoyang City a few days ago .

And the young hero was accompanied by a young girl who called herself "Cai Shi". The two claimed to be from Yangzhou, passing through Luoyang and wanting to play and so on.

At that time, the news of the Yangzhou Change had not reached Luoyang, so Cao Cao didn't have any doubts about the man and woman. Apart from the eclectic clothes and hair style, or a bit of profligacy, the man was handsome and talented. , Easy to get close to others, easy to get a good impression of others, so I did my best to be a landlord and get acquainted by the way.

Although he always felt that this young hero was teasing him when talking about it, he didn't pay much attention at that time, he just responded with pride.

But thinking about it now, Cao Cao couldn't help thinking about it.

Having been in the Han court for many years, coupled with his admiration for Cai Yong, Cao Cao knew Cai Yong's family very well.

He knew that Cai Yong had two daughters, the eldest daughter seemed to be married, she seemed to be married to the famous Yang family in Mount Tai, the second daughter was younger, although Cao Cao had never met Cai Yong's second daughter, but he knew her age, it seemed to be the same as that day's Chua' is about the same age.And he also knew that Cai Yong had lived in Yangzhou all these years.

The girl called herself 'Cai Shi', and some claimed to be from Yangzhou...

Could it be that she is really the second daughter of Master Cai?

If so, who is that talented young man?

Cao Cao was puzzled by many things, but he didn't have the time to think about it.

The main reason is that he, like other courtiers, is only scalp-numbed in the face of the current crisis in the Han court, so he doesn't have so many thoughts.

Not to mention how the emperor of the Han court and the courtiers reacted, at this time a certain young man and woman were visiting at the county captain's mansion in Anxi County, Zhongshan State, Jizhou.

At this time, the county captains of Anxi County were Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.

Just this year, Liu Bei participated in the suppression of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion. After the war and his military achievements in suppressing the Yellow Turban since the first year of Zhongping, he was named the county captain of Anxi County.

According to the original "historical" development, if there is no accident, that is, this year, Liu Bei or Zhang Fei (Liu Bei in the official history, Zhang Fei in the novel) whipped the governor, and then Liu, Guan and Zhang abandoned their positions and fled.

Later, Liu Bei fled to Danyang County, Yangzhou, and met Wu Qiuyi, who was sent by He Jin, to recruit troops. After Liu Bei joined the army, he went to Xiapi, Xuzhou to beg for thieves. Probably one of the reasons why Liu Bei later rescued Kong Rong in Beihai), resigned soon after, and then successively served as the county captain and county magistrate of Gaotang County, Qingzhou Plain County, and Gaotang County was attacked by bandits soon after , which shows how chaotic the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was, Liu Bei voted for Gongsun Zan and was listed as the Sima of another tribe, and later he followed Qingzhou governor Tian Kai against Yuan Shao and so on. From the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the first year of Zhongping to his stay in Xuzhou Before that, Liu Bei's highest official position in the past eight years was the magistrate of a county.

This shows how difficult it was for people with no background in the officialdom at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Clan you say?

As long as there is no title, in general, there is not much difference between the clan status and the official career.

Because there were at least tens of thousands of Han family clan members during the Huanling period, so it was not a rare commodity at all.

Although Liu Bei is from the lineage of Emperor Han Jing, so is Liu Hong, but they are also the lineage of Emperor Han Jing, and they are also related. For example, Liu Hong, the lineage of Emperor Jing, originated from Liu Xiu. Yes, Liu Xiu is the lineage of Emperor Han Jing , while Liu Bei is much farther away, and at the same time, the number of clans that are also in the same line of Emperor Jing is also huge, at least one or two thousand, so it is not a rare commodity.

And the time when Liu Bei's clan status was really useful was after he entered Xuzhou.

In other words, except for those who inherited the title of the Eastern Han clan, the status of the clan can only be greatly increased if the achievements are high enough, otherwise the impact on official career will be minimal under normal circumstances.

Back to business.

At this time Liu Bei was a little confused.

He didn't understand what the young talent in front of him meant, and he seemed to be trying to figure him out between the lines.

Although he was fortunate enough to be a disciple of the great Confucian Lu Zhi when he was young, he is a typical ignorant person, so some classics are only half-understood, and the strategy of governing the people has also been explored by himself recently. He belongs to the standard wild way. mesa.

Because of this, when it comes to some esoteric issues, he is completely blind, and can only smile in embarrassment.

However, he soon discovered that the other party gradually led the question to some aspects that he could answer, such as the specific details of marching and fighting, some skills in county administration, etc., which seemed to deliberately reduce the difficulty of "clear talk" to cater to he.

After bumping and bumping, he was able to answer it, and he was not so embarrassed, but he was even more puzzled.

So during a free period, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Excuse me for being rude, but why did Your Excellency Nangong come to the door? Can you be blunt?"

The young man who sat across the table from Liu Bei——Nangong Xiao, said softly, "Xuande Monu, I'm just curious."

"Curious..." Liu Bei was stunned.

Chapter 1090

Nangong Xiao didn't care about Liu Bei's thoughts, but got up from the banquet.

Seeing this, Cai Yan also got up.

Liu Bei hurriedly got up and said, "Your Excellency, this is..."

"It's been a long time, and it's time to say goodbye." Nangong Xiao bowed and left the table.

Of course Cai Yan followed, and Liu Bei had no choice but to send him off personally.

Although he chatted with a stranger in a daze for a long time, Liu Bei always felt that the person in front of him was extraordinary, so he could only treat him well. Now that this person was leaving, he didn't intend to keep him, but he still made gestures.

Nangong Xiao also politely refused to persuade him to stay, and then took Cai Yan to leave the county captain's mansion.

After Nangong Xiao and Cai Yan left, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei came out from the other courtyard and stood around Liu Bei in front of the gate.

Guan Yu said, "Brother, what does this person mean?"

Liu Bei shook his head, "I don't know, but this person is very talented, and he will rise to the top of the clouds in the future. It is a good thing that we can form a good relationship."

"What brother said is true." Guan Yu thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

"Me too." Zhang Fei nodded in the same way.

The three brothers didn't say much about it, they just met a strange person today, and after chatting for a while, the three of them went to busy themselves with the county lieutenant's duties.

As for the clouds above Anxi County, under the invisible state, the gigantic form floated above Awei's head in the sky, and Nangong Xiao and Cai Yan were sitting there side by side.