"What do you know?" Lan Tian asked.
Lan Yuan answered excitedly: "It turns out that my father transferred the 'Huai Si Lang' away to make the 'Jiangdong Sheep' fight among themselves? But will it take too long? We still have to go north to recover the Central Plains, and we don't have much time to spend on Watching a show in Jiangdong."
Lan Tian shook his head slightly after hearing this, "It seems you don't fully understand. What I just said is that without the natural selection of wolves, weak sheep will be protected by the family and survive. Weak sheep will be easily infected with diseases, and illness will hinder the successful sheep. flock, and then the flock dies.”
"Well, I understand, kid, but I'm even more confused..." Lan Yuan understood the relationship between sheep and wolves, but he was even more confused about the situation in Jiangdong.
"Tell me first, who is the wolf and who is the sheep in the story just now? What do we represent?" Lan Tian asked another question.
"Uh, are the Jiangdong nobles sheep? Huaisi, are we wolves?" Lan Yuan was not sure.
Lan Tian replied seriously: "First of all, we represent the people who eat sheep. My father is a Yangzhou shepherd and represents the imperial court. The sheep graze on the land of the Han Dynasty. Shouldn't we use sheep meat as taxes?"
"Then who is the wolf?" Lan Yuan asked.
"Of course it's Sun Quan and the Sun family, and Zhang Zibu is another sheep." Lan Tian raised his eyes.
"But the wolves have been driven away, and you have also driven away another group of sheep. Now you are watching the 'Jiangdong sheep' grow up." Lan Yuan smiled bitterly.
Lan Tian showed a confident smile: "If you don't move the Huaisi sheep away from the comfortable grassland, how can you tame the Huaisi wolf? Luling is the wolf I prepared for Jiangdong, and Tandingzhou will turn Yuzhang into Wolf, with all-round political, cultural, and economic support from Jiaozhou, plus those magical Champa rice, we can achieve outstanding results in less than a year."
"And then use Yangzhou News as propaganda to cause the internal divisions of 'Jiangdong Sheep'?" Lan Yuan had an idea.
"Boys can be taught." Lan Tian nodded lightly and continued: "Boyang, don't just look at the surface when looking at the problem. The Jiangdong gentry occupied important positions such as county guard, county magistrate, and six Cao chiefs. However, after the Guangzhou Li Cao examination, they were selected Talents have also flowed into these key yamen. Although their current positions are not high, big trees are grown from small saplings. Small saplings can be pulled up, but who can pull up big trees?"
"After listening to his father's words, the child suddenly realized that the reason why the 'Jiangdong Sheep' were gathered together was to make them conflict with each other. But how do you plan to end it in the end?"
"Both wolves and sheep are indispensable. If we want to grow the sheep to eat more meat, we need to expand the pasture. The sheep will have more grass, and the sheep will reproduce faster."
"So let's take back the north as soon as possible and make the whole world your majesty's pasture. But there are also sheep in other places." Lan Yuan was originally in a surging mood, but suddenly thought that there was still a loophole in this problem, because the grassland was always limited.
Lan Tian asked seriously: "If the pastures of the Han Dynasty are not enough, can't we go to other areas to develop it? If we can't develop it, can't we make the grass grow taller and faster? What is the use of Champa rice?"
"It turns out that the child understands." Lan Yuan suddenly realized, and his respect for Lan Tian increased even more.
The government affairs of Yangzhou were handled by Gu Yong and others. During Lantian's stay in Jiangdong, he relatively focused on the military. The one he recruited the most was Lu Xun. Lantian appointed him to be responsible for the governance of Yangzhou, and he held the highest military position among the original Jiangdong generals.
At the end of the war to destroy Wu, Lan Tian petitioned for merit for his meritorious service. Since Sun Quan's Wu Kingdom no longer existed, all the generals he had given him with important titles were reduced to miscellaneous titles. For example, Zhuge Jin was demoted from General Zuo to General Anguo, and was surrendered after the war. Later general He Qi was demoted to general Pingyue.
Zhu Huan, Zhu Ju, Quan Cong and other demoted generals maintained their original titles. Ding Feng was promoted from captain to partial general. Only Lu Xun was appointed to the heavy title of General Anton, second only to Lan Tian and Gan Ning in Yangzhou. Yu Xiu (Hu Ke), who contributed the most to the battle to destroy Wu, was appointed by Liu Bei as General Anwu and a Marquis of Guan Nei because he continued to hide his identity. He appointed Song Chen as General Hengye and a Marquis of Guan Nei.
Lan Tian went back to his room and changed his clothes, and was about to go out to meet Lu Xun in the army to discuss cooperating with Gan Ning to launch an offensive in Huainan. Just after he walked out of the main hall, someone was talking at the door of the courtyard.
"Bo Yang, what's going on outside the door?" Lan Tian asked curiously.
Lan Yuan walked back quickly, clasped his fists and answered: "This man claims to be Sun Quan's doctor. He said he had something important to meet with his father, but the child asked him but refused to tell him."
"Oh? Let him come in and talk." Lan Tian waved to Lan Yuan. He met many Soochow officials in this small courtyard, but this was the first time in the past few months that he had encountered such a marginal and vacuous position as a doctor.
The visitor was well-dressed and looked slightly older than Lantian. Although his face was neat and smooth, his brows were full of sorrow. Lantian mistakenly thought that this person was unsuccessful in officialdom, so he plucked up the courage to come here and introduce himself.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the other party entered the small courtyard, he first bowed to Lan Tian, then threw himself on his knees on the ground, shouting: "Please have mercy, Mr. Fu."
Lan Tian was stunned and quickly told Lan Yuan: "Hurry up and help him up. What can't you talk about?"
The man wanted to kneel down and refuse to get up, but Lan Yuan's strength was so great that he had to stand up passively.
Lan Tian was very puzzled and said to himself, "I don't even know you. Why are you here talking nonsense? Do you want to pour water on me?" This trick may be useful in the future, but it was a joke during the Three Kingdoms era. Who is behind it?
"What's your name? What's your grievance?" Lan Tian couldn't help but frown after saying this. He felt that there was something wrong with this line. He seemed to have become a powerful and corrupt official?
The man bowed his hands in salute and replied: "Your Majesty Yuan Yao, I took the liberty to come to see you today. I want to ask you to let my little sister go."
"Mr. Yuan, have you gone to the wrong place? I don't even have a maid in the general's courtyard. What does your little sister have to do with me?" After scolding Lan Tian, he glanced at Lan Yuan and said to himself, don't listen to this guy's nonsense. , making it sound like he was bullying men and dominating women.
"Young Master has misunderstood. Miss Xiaguan is the wife of the former King of Wu." Yuan Yao swallowed.
When Lan Tian heard this, he suddenly recalled something and hurriedly asked: "Could it be that you are the son of Yuan Gongli?"
"I feel ashamed to be a lower-ranking official." Yuan Yao lowered his head. The Yuan family in Runan has become a thing of the past. Speaking out is like opening a scar.
Lantian immediately understood the other party's intention. The Sun family's settlement plan was recently approved by Liu Bei, and people have begun to move out of Yangzhou. Except for Sun Shao, who was allowed to stay in Jianye, Sun Bi, Sun Fu, Sun Jing and others The department was moved to Changsha and Guiyang for resettlement.
Among the women trapped in Jianye by Sun Quan, the higher-ranking ones are Mrs. Bu and Mrs. Yuan, as well as Sun Luxian who gave birth to his second daughter, and the maids and beauties of his second son Sun Liu. They are all planning to move to Lingling for resettlement.
Among Sun Quan's women, only Mrs. Yuan has no heirs. Yuan Yao may want to keep her in Jianye. Some of the prodigal sons of Jiangdong's wealthy families should want to take over the King of Wu's women.
"It is His Majesty's decree to move Sun Quan's family. Does Mr. Yuan want me to resist the decree?" Lan Tian asked meaningfully.
"I don't dare to lower my rank. It's just that my younger sister and Sun Quan have nothing to do. Can we just stay in Jiangdong and remarry someone else?" Yuan Yao begged in a low voice.
"This is going to be difficult. Does anyone want to accept Mrs. Yuan now?" Lan Tian asked.
Yuan Yao shook his head, "Not yet. If the master is in trouble, can you ask the subordinate to follow him so that he can take care of me when he gets to Lingling?"
Lantian suddenly understood that Yuan Yao was not doing it for Mrs. Yuan at all, but because he wanted to escape from Jianye's sad place. However, he did not belong to the Huaisi sect, so no one arranged his whereabouts.
(End of chapter)
