Just as people in Yizhou don't like people from Dongzhou, people in Jingzhou don't like people from Yizhou.
This is a matter of self-interest, and some things cannot be compromised.
Nowadays, the world is in chaos. During the war, some noble families from the North will go south to escape the chaos. This kind of thing is inevitable. For the sake of everyone being educated, noble families from all over the world will show grace and accept these exiled families.
Of course, the biggest advantage is that you can hide the population and annex land as much as you like.
But if these exiled aristocratic families want to choose to serve as local officials and compete with locals for official positions, the local aristocratic families will naturally not be able to bear it.
Liu Biao is better off, because he started his career from a local aristocratic family, and he does not dare to go too far in this regard. Therefore, although there are many foreign aristocratic families in Jingzhou, Jingzhou's upward path is basically controlled by local aristocratic families.
But Liu Yan came to Yizhou, and the people of Yizhou didn't want to see this foreign pastor at all. Liu Yan couldn't secure his position as a pastor in Yizhou without the help of the people of Dongzhou.
This caused the conflict between Dongzhou and Yizhou people within Yizhou, and this matter became a historical issue, and even promoted Liu Bei's entry into Sichuan to a certain extent.
People from Jingzhou who live next door have been seeing this situation for decades, how can they still not understand it? !
Therefore, when Zhang Xi wanted Li Qiu and Zhang Yi to serve as the county magistrate and Sima of Nanjun, Ma Liang and Yi Ji naturally could not agree.
The Jun Cheng is the deputy of a county. If Zhang Xi encounters any special circumstances, such as going out to fight or being unable to manage due to illness, all decisions of the county will be in the hands of the Jun Cheng.
Not to mention Sima, who was usually responsible for inspecting and supervising military affairs. Once there was a war, if the county governor did not lead the troops himself, then Sima would be the first choice to lead the troops.
How could Jingzhou people allow such an important official position to be occupied by outsiders?
Furthermore, most of the middle and low-level officials in Nanjun are from Jingzhou aristocratic families. Can these people allow two outsiders to give orders over their heads? !
The problem in this matter was bigger than the shortage of officials in Jingzhou, so Ma Liang and Yi Ji had no choice but to persuade them.
There is nothing these two can do, they themselves are from Jingzhou.
If there are internal conflicts among Jingzhou aristocratic families, they can discuss or fight as much as they want. Most of the aristocratic families have broken bones and tendons. As long as they have a meal behind closed doors, the conflicts may be resolved.
But outsiders come to the local area to grab profits and official positions. This kind of thing is absolutely intolerable.
If these two people allow Yizhou people to assume high positions without discouraging them, if the local aristocratic family finds out, their popularity within the Jingzhou aristocratic family will be completely gone.
Ma Liang and Yi Ji naturally tried hard to persuade Zhang Xi to withdraw his appointment.
Zhang Xi almost laughed angrily.
Co-author: Your Jingzhou family is unwilling to use talents to fill the official vacancies, so you came to me to complain. I only appointed two Yizhou people as officials, and you think it's not okay? !
"If so, what should we do?!" Zhang Xi looked at Ma Liang and Yi Ji with a half-smile, and asked.
Ma Liang was suddenly speechless, and Yi Ji didn't know how to answer.
There are some words that don’t need to be spelled out clearly, everyone understands them.
But Zhang Xi not only wanted them to understand, but also wanted them to come up with a solution.
Therefore, Zhang Xi thought for a while and said, "Mr. Ji Chang, Xi once heard rumors in Jingzhou that the Ma family had five permanent members, all of whom were great talents. Now that there are not enough officials in Jingzhou, at this critical moment, please ask Mr. Ji to persuade the clan members My brother, my nephew, became an official for the lord, which solves this urgent need."
Ma Liang suddenly sat up.
It is true that the Ma family has the Wuchang, but to be honest, although the Ma family is optimistic about Liu Bei, and the best talents in the family have become officials in Liu Bei, the Ma family does not pin all their hopes on Liu Bei.
Ma Liang and Ma Di were Liu Bei's officials, and the second and third sons of the Ma family went to Cao Jun in Xiangyang.
These days, the Ma family is not the only one making bets from aristocratic families.
But now Zhang Xi actually put this on the record and asked Ma Liang to mobilize his second and third brothers to serve as officials. Where can he mobilize them? ! Xiangyang? !
Ma Liang couldn't answer these words, so he could only bow and retreat.
After Ma Liang left, Yi Ji took a look at the situation and found that Zhang Xi was not really angry, so he persuaded Zhang Xi, "Yuan Zhang, why do you need to squeeze the Jichang family like this? Yuan Zhang doesn't know it."
Zhang Xi wanted to give Yi Ji, the veteran who had been helping Liu Bei, some face. He sighed and said, "Mr. Boji, Fei Xi is rude, but does Jingzhou really lack more than 30 "Yu" and "History" talents now? !”
Yi Ji also sighed, let's just deal with it. With the virtues of a noble family, what can you do? !
To be honest, it is because there are too few capable people in the Yiji family, otherwise the Yiji family would probably bet on both ends and would not settle on Liu Bei alone.
"However, there must be a solution to this matter after all!" Yi Ji sighed and said to Zhang Xi, "The autumn harvest is coming soon. Even if we work harder, we will still need at least ten people to serve as "掾", " "Historical position, otherwise it will really delay the business, I hope Yuan Chang will think twice."
After saying this, Yi Ji also walked away, leaving Zhang Xi thinking alone.
Indeed, this kind of thing is really not a problem that can be solved by letting Li Qiu and Zhang Yi take office. No matter how powerful they are, they cannot be used as ten people.
Furthermore, it can be seen from the attitudes of Ma Liang and Yi Ji that the people of Jingzhou do not welcome Yizhou people as their superiors. Even if Li Qiu and Zhang Yi are appointed, the officials under them will probably work in secret. Good job.
As Yi Ji said, in the end we still have to solve the problem of shortage of manpower.
So for this matter, Zhang Xi really has to find a way to recruit some talents.
But recruitment these days really can't be solved by just putting up a sign and holding a job fair.
First of all, talents are precious these days, and if you do this, you are suspected of neglecting talents.
Secondly, the talents these days are concentrated within the wealthy families, and a small number are in poor families. If these people do not cooperate with you, even if you organize a job fair and they ignore you, there is nothing you can do.
So, to recruit people these days, you have to find an "agency headhunter."
For example, Sima Hui.
In fact, when looking for an "intermediary headhunter" in Jingzhou, the best candidate is not Sima Hui, but Mr. Pang De.
Pang Degong was from Xiangyang, and he was famous and knowledgeable.
When I was giving lectures in Xiangyang in my early years, nearly half of the Jingzhou aristocratic families went to listen to Pang Degong's lectures. It can be said that most of the Jingzhou aristocratic families were favored by Pang Degong.
Therefore, the Pang family in Jingzhou can be said to have a very transcendent status among the four major aristocratic families.
But unfortunately, Pang Degong passed away three years ago in Xiangyang.
Xiangyang was Cao Cao's territory, and the Pang family's headquarter was also in Xiangyang, so Pang Tong couldn't go back to bury his uncle, but only offered sacrifices from a distance.
And Sima Hui is still alive now, and he is in Nanjun, and his reputation is also not low.
Therefore, Zhang Xi asked people to prepare gifts and planned to visit Sima Hui personally, hoping that he would mobilize the Nanjun family and send some of his children to serve as officials to help Jingzhou stabilize the current situation.
Although Zhang Xi was just a child from a poor family, he was still the governor of a county. No matter how high Sima Hui's reputation was, he still had no official position.
Therefore, Zhang Xi doesn't have to worry about Sima Hui avoiding him. Sima Hui will still give Zhang Xi some face.
But it was just a one-time meeting. Sima Hui did not agree to Zhang Xi's request.
Sima Hui knew how excessive Zhang Xi's request was in the eyes of the aristocratic family, and he didn't have a special relationship with Zhang Xi. Why would he risk offending the Nanjun aristocratic family and use his own connections to help Zhang Xi do this? Where is your son? !
If it is done badly, people will complain, but if it is done well, there will be no benefit.
Sima Hui is not Pang Degong. He is not a native of Jingzhou. He is just famous and well-connected. He has no kindness to the Jingzhou family. The Jingzhou family respects him, but they will not listen to him easily. They all have to use their own favors. Replaced.
Sima Hui was really out of his mind by rashly agreeing to such a thing.
Zhang Xi also knew that Sima Hui would not agree to such a thing easily, but Zhang Xi was not helpless.
Zhang Xi first expressed his generosity to Sima Hui's polite refusal, then chatted with Sima Hui, and then inadvertently revealed the news - Zhang Xi planned to build an academy in Jingxiang, and hoped to invite Sima Hui to be the mountain chief. .
Zhang Xi had already thought of a name, so he decided to call it Yuelu Academy.
This time there is no need for Zhang Xi to name Wuwei. This is an academy that already existed in history, but Zhang Xi just brought it forward a few hundred years.
After hearing this, Sima Hui expressed hehe. The old man is already old. He no longer has such worldly desires such as being a mountain leader.
Although he said that, in fact, Sima Hui's idea was very simple. He did not believe that Zhang Xi could do it.
It wasn't that Sima Hui looked down on Zhang Xi, but with the few resources Zhang Xi had on hand, how could he possibly build an academy.
An academy, an academy, must first have books. You don’t even have any classics, how dare you start an academy? !
Don't you want Guan Yu to contribute the family classic "Zuo Zhuan" and use it as a treasure of the town? !
Such an academy is the most ridiculous thing in the world.
As for the subsequent problems, Sima Hui couldn't even think about it.
If you can't do the first step, it's useless to think about the next thing.
Therefore, Sima Hui was not optimistic about Zhang Xi's so-called idea of building an academy at all. He paid a few compliments, but Sima Hui pretended not to hear Zhang Xi's invitation and did not respond at all.
Of course Zhang Xi also knew what this person was thinking, but if he wasn't sure, how could Zhang Xi just find him like this? !
At that moment, Zhang Xi didn't care whether it was rude or not, he stood up and whispered in Sima Hui's ear.
Sima Hui didn't like Zhang Xi's lack of distance at first, but after hearing what Zhang Xi said, his expression suddenly changed and he looked at Zhang Xi in surprise.
"Seriously?"
(End of chapter)
