Sun Qian didn't know Zhuge Jin's past, but he knew that Liu Bei must be very interested in it.
So taking advantage of these two days to completely complete the matter of persuading farmers to grow winter mustard, Sun Qian wanted to take the opportunity to report the results and mention this matter incidentally.
Liu Bei was very pleased to learn that the persuasion to farmers had finally worked and the winter farming season this year had not been delayed.
After asking for specific figures, I learned that the final statistics of farmers involved in growing winter mustard in Guangling and Huaiyin counties were about 7,000 to 8,000 households, more than 30,000 people, and an area of hundreds of thousands of acres.
Liu Bei was very satisfied with the result. When these extra vegetables mature, they can at least be equivalent to tens of thousands of stones of dry food to satisfy their hunger. They can also be used with meals, allowing the soldiers to eat fresh vegetables in early spring. It will also be a boost to morale. Extra boost.
In addition, Sun Qian also conveyed the intention of the elders of the local clans such as Bulong and Wei Hui to further join the army: these powerful clans were willing to squeeze out more money and food to support the ruler's rule, but they hoped to share more of the capable people and strangers under his command. Tinkered production tools.
To put it bluntly, even these private forces have also taken a fancy to the "gillnet" method of fishing. They are jealous of the fact that the government is keeping it secret for their own use. They want to get a share of the pie. At the same time, they are willing to give the government a certain "contracting fee" or give it in other fields. Money and food support.
Of course Liu Bei was happy to see this kind of statement come to fruition, but he also considered taking it step by step and eating it one bite at a time. Sun Qian was asked to reply, saying that after the winter mustard harvest this season, we would see the performance of each tribe before discussing specific technical support.
After Liu Bei finished approving his opinions, Sun Qian appropriately recounted what he learned about Zhuge Jin's past resume when negotiating with Bu Long.
"What? In the past year or so, Tzuyu had two classmates in Guangling, Yan Zhen and Bu Zhi? How could they be as famous as Tzuyu?" As expected, Liu Bei jumped up from the couch,
"Then what are you waiting for! Hurry around and search for them! This must be a great sage! With one Tzuyu, our army's situation will improve to this point. If we get two more, why not worry about not being able to help the court!"
Zhuge Jin didn't know that he had tricked Yan Jinbu Zhao and made them suffer unreasonable praise.
However, these two guys are far inferior to his second brother Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang has also been wildly praised, but he has a strong foundation, can withstand the praise, and will not be a gangster, but it is hard to say about these two.
More than a year before Zhuge Jin traveled through time, these two people were indeed his classmates, and they originally planned to flee south together. This was the case in history. It's just that Zhuge Jin happened to be captured and passed through on the way to escape south. From then on, his trajectory changed and they parted ways.
Fortunately, these two people cannot be found for the time being. Sun Qian had already done some homework before coming:
"My lord, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get hold of these two people for a while. That Bu Zhao now lives in Haiyan County, Wu County, and makes a living by farming melons. I learned about it from his uncle. When he replied to his uncle yesterday, he also said Mentioned the appointment with Tzuyu.
As for Yan Zhen, he was from Pengcheng County and had fled south when Cao Cao massacred Pengcheng County. He had lived in Guangling for more than a year. Because his clan is not in Guangling, he has no fixed residence. No one knows where he is now, and he is probably on his way south to escape the chaos. "
When Liu Bei heard this, he sighed with regret: "What a pity that the wise man has returned to Sun Ce! I remember the day I first met Tzuyu, he originally wanted to take his family to the south to escape the war, right?"
Fortunately, Yun Chang closed the north gate of Huaiyin that day and Ziyu did not leave. Otherwise, he would have been at Sun Ce's place by now. Today, there are many exiles from the Central Plains in Wuhui, Jingchu and Chu. It can be seen that it is still necessary to quell the war in order to attract talents. "
Liu Bei was very moved and became more determined to protect the country and the people.
Only peace can gain the support of talented people.
Sun Qian waited for Liu Bei to finish his emotion, and then asked for instructions: "I also got a private letter from Bu Zhi. It was Bu Zhi asking him to find Mr. Ziyu. He had some words to entrust him. Why don't you take it to him now? I got it. Later, I never took it apart."
When Liu Bei heard that there was a letter from Bu Zhi to Zhuge Jin, he was also interested. He immediately expressed that Sun Qian had done the right thing and that he really shouldn't open other people's letters privately.
But Liu Bei was curious, and after thinking about it, he prepared to take the letter personally to Zhuge Jin's house to deliver it to him.
As long as Zhuge Jin opened the letter and read it in person, and shamelessly sat there for a while, he would definitely be able to find out the inside story.
Maybe they can also ask Ziyu to reply and persuade Bu Zhao to come back, telling him that Guangling is no longer fighting.
Thinking of this, Liu Bei was very proud. Regardless of the fact that it was getting late, he personally took it to Zhuge Jin to deliver the message.
…
Zhuge Jin didn't know how much social trouble the original owner of the body had caused him.
After all, it had only been twenty days since he traveled through time, and many hidden dangers had not yet had time to break out.
Zhuge Jin has recently helped Liu Bei accomplish several things, and Zhuge Jin has gained an irresistible reputation in the local area, and he can no longer hide it.
And people who originally knew his details would of course be surprised by his amazing progress, and there was nothing that could be done about it.
Fortunately, Zhuge Jin didn't care about this, and he didn't expect this level in the first place.
During these days of retreat, he mainly stayed at home to deal with two things.
The first thing is to settle the stepmother and uncle.
Three days ago, Song and Song Xin were finally safely brought to Guangling County from Haixi County.
Liu Bei knew that Zhuge Jin's family was coming to live in Guangling, so he specially sent someone to repair a mansion that he had taken from Liu Xun, and then gave it to the Zhuge family.
Anyway, Zhuge Jin wanted to politely refuse, but Liu Bei said it was for the wife, so Zhuge Jin could only accept it out of filial piety.
After everything was settled with his mother and uncle, Zhuge Jin focused his main energy on writing at home in the next few days.
With his current status, of course he doesn't need to write to deal with official matters, so what he has to write is "teaching aid materials" prepared for his second brother Zhuge Liang——
Tang Guang, the messenger he sent to Yuzhang and Xiangyang to inquire about his uncle and brother, will soon set sail with the fleet.
Zhuge Jin planned to ask the other party to bring some teaching materials to Zhuge Liang this time in order to accelerate Zhuge Liang's growth. This is also an important matter that should not be underestimated.
With the current development situation, Zhuge Liang will be contributing to the family within a year and a half at most.
At the beginning, you may be able to go to Yuzhang to contribute, but given time, when Yuan Shu becomes emperor and Liu Bei's forces fully go to war with Yuan Shu, Guangling and Yuzhang will definitely have overall coordination, and Liu Bei will definitely recruit the Zhuge brothers and meet Zhuge Liang in person. .
In order to cover up his "mutation", Zhuge Jin used his second brother as a shield at the beginning. This was already blown out. By then, people must not think that his second brother is not worthy of his name - even if it is not ten times better.
Zhuge Liang is only sixteen and a half years old now, and he has passed his seventeenth year. Therefore, he had nine years less time to grow than when he came out of the parallel time and space.
Zhuge Jin must ensure that in the next year or so, his brother's study and growth will be done with half the effort. No matter what, it will take one and a half years to complete the journey of three to five years.
Because time was short, Zhuge Jin felt that other knowledge that already existed in this world, such as the art of war and various schools of thought, did not need to be written in books to teach his younger brother. Zhuge Liang could also find learning materials and famous teachers in Jingzhou.
What he needs to personally inspire are nothing more than some methods of thinking such as philosophical logic, mathematical tools, other astronomical and geographical principles and common sense phenomena that broaden his horizons, experimental methods for observing the world, etc.
Finally, there are some of his recent gains, experiences, research results and ideas.
In just four or five days, Zhuge Jin concentrated on writing every day.
Thanks also to the fact that he was a gold medal mathematics lecturer at New Oriental before time travel. He is very experienced in writing lesson plans, and he also knows how to guide newcomers step by step from the shallower to the deeper.
In fact, he had just thrown away these old skills for less than a month, and he picked them up very quickly.
Since the world of the 21st century does not allow him to use his talents and participate in K12 education and training, he will return to the late Han Dynasty and serve as a one-on-one tutor for the young Zhuge Liang.
Because he thinks very smoothly, the main time bottleneck every day is writing. His brain speed can keep up with it, but his hand speed cannot.
Zhuge Jin wrote with an ordinary pen on the first day, but on the second day he switched to a hairpin pen with a particularly thin and short tip, because the thinner and shorter the tip of the tip, the lower the requirement for strength control when writing, and it would be better to use a heavier hand. No problem.
His pen-holding posture gradually became less standard. He no longer hung his wrist to write, but rested his arm directly on the paper to save effort and forget about the ugly handwriting.
There would be time to invent quills and pencils later, or slowly develop a confidant scribe to help him record what he dictated.
In this way, I was able to write thousands of words by hand every day. Finally, I left a manuscript of more than 20,000 words to my second brother, with dozens of simple diagrams and a long letter home introducing my learning experience and correct attitude towards learning. .
Anyway, as long as he can establish contact with his second brother, he can correspond every few months in the future, so the teaching materials given this time do not need to be too long, just enough for Zhuge Jin to go on a tour and perform diplomatic missions. It only takes one month.
Two months later, after returning from Cao Cao, he would give his second brother the second batch of materials.
…
It was already the afternoon of August 26th after I finished working on the one-to-one teaching materials for my second brother.
Zhuge Jin planned to ask Tang Guang and others to go to Yuzhang and Xiangyang tomorrow to search. Then he would rest for a long time and talk to Liu Bei to see if Liu Bei had settled the matter of Lu Bu returning home as envoy.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he sealed the thick scroll, an uninvited guest came outside the courtyard.
Song asked the messenger to check it out, and soon led Liu Bei and Sun Qian inside.
Zhuge Jin thought Liu Bei was here to urge him to take over the mission of sending Lu Bu as envoy. He didn't want the situation to be ugly, so he took the initiative to stir up the topic.
Of course, Liu Bei immediately said: Everything will be subject to his plan and he will be asked to take action, and the conditions can be completely as he said.
However, after dealing with it, Liu Bei quickly changed the subject: "We will talk more about the mission to Lu Bu tomorrow. Today, I have something else to tell you. Ziyu, I heard that you were in Guangling originally, but you have many classmates and friends. He is so talented and well-known, why don't you introduce him to me?"
Zhuge Jin was stunned, and Sun Qian beside him quickly reminded him in a low voice, indicating that the master was talking about Yan Zhen and Bu Zhi.
Zhuge Jin recalled for a while, and then noticed Liu Bei's eager expression, and then he suddenly realized.
Obviously, Liu Bei must have imagined his classmates as "unparalleled talents."
Zhuge Jin didn't want to "praise and kill" the two friends of the original owner of the body, so he answered indirectly: "I was busy with things a while ago, so I didn't think of it. But they should all be in Wu County, right? The general heard about this Are your two talents inferior to mine?"
Liu Bei nodded jokingly: "What? Is Ziyu still afraid that they will take away your glory?"
Zhuge Jin smiled: "How is that possible? Let me tell the truth. Although Zishan and Mancai were as famous as me when they were studying, they only studied classics, meanings, poetry, and other formal studies. However, what Jin studied was complicated, including astronomy, geography, medicine, and divination. Zishan rarely dabbles in astrology and other studies, and Mancai has no dabble in military strategies."
Zhuge Jin said that he was an old classmate who protected his body. He vaccinated Liu Bei in advance, saying that these people were only as famous as him in the knowledge of Confucian classics, but he knew a lot and knew a little about everything.
In terms of miscellaneous studies and practical studies, Yan Zhenbu Zhi was far less comprehensive than him.
After hearing this, Liu Bei finally gave up his expectations and was no longer as eager as he was at the beginning.
He seemed to have remembered something, and then he took out a sealed letter from his arms: "In that case, I would like to ask Ziyu to reply to them when she has time to tell them that there is no war in Guangling now, and they can return to their hometown to reunite with their clansmen. Enjoy your family in peace. This is a letter sent to you by someone from Buzishan. Please take a look and see what it is about."
Zhuge Jin took the letter and opened it in front of Liu Bei, and secretly saw that Liu Bei didn't mean to leave. He didn't hide his secrets and took the initiative to introduce it in a short story: "Zishan is just curious, why did I make an appointment with him to go?" Wu Jun, he has already set up his front line, but he has yet to see any movement from me.
The letter also asked whether the war in Guangling County had become more critical, and how his uncles and aunts were doing at home. He also said that if any of his uncles and aunts wanted to move to Wu County, I could watch them on the way. But now that the war in Guangling has ended, these things are no longer necessary. I will just reply to him directly. "
The idea of stepping is also normal, because the war is chaotic and we are moving, it must be safer to have more people to look after us on the way.
From the perspective of outsiders, the Battle of Guangling only broke out half a month ago. It is human nature for outsiders to be unable to predict the progress of the war and to worry about their weak relatives trapped in the war zone.
As Zhuge Jin said this, he was about to write a reply to Bu Zhao.
But Liu Bei had a higher emotional intelligence than him, and he keenly saw an opportunity to take care of other people's families.
He quickly signaled Zhuge Jin not to write in a hurry: "Wait a minute, does Bu Zishan's letter specifically mention the names and residences of the uncles and aunts he is worried about?"
Zhuge Jin was stunned for a moment and nodded: "Of course this was mentioned, otherwise how could you let me take care of you on the road?"
Liu Bei: "In that case, Gongyou, go and prepare some money, silk, rice, and sea bass. Ziyu, I think you should go there yourself and send some to the uncles and aunts mentioned in Zishan's letter. Haosheng comforted them with words and advised them to live peacefully in Guangling without worrying about their livelihood and war."
Zhuge Jin's heart moved. He was still in Wu County, and Liu Bei had already taken care of all the relatives he cared about. This method of making friends with people was really powerful.
