Later that day, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xiahou and other subordinates had dinner and wine together, and then went to the wounded barracks to personally deliver food to Dong Huang, greeting him and conveying his concern as the most warm-hearted man in the Han Dynasty.
After finishing the work of delivering warmth and returning to the military tent to rest, the soldiers suddenly came to report that Gai Xun, the prefect of Hanyang County, had come to visit.
Liu Bei was stunned and remembered that he and Zhang Wen had met Gai Xun during the day, but the two of them didn't have much communication, it was just pleasantries.
Now Gai Xun came to visit him personally, why?
Liu Bei didn't know, but thinking about his future plans and the prestige of Gai Xun and his family in Hanyang County and Dunhuang County, he felt that it was meaningful to have a good relationship with Gai Xun.
So he received Gai Xun warmly.
Gai Xun came to visit Liu Bei with a jar of fine wine. When they met, he praised Liu Bei enthusiastically, saying that he admired Liu Bei's achievements and knowledge very much. He thought that Liu Bei could achieve such achievements at such a young age, which really impressed him.
Liu Bei was also unambiguous. He was trying to describe Gai Xun as the most loyal and good man in Liangzhou, the only loyal and brave man who could relieve the court from troubles.
The two exchanged cups and cups, going back and forth, complimenting each other, and those who didn't know thought they were old friends for many years.
After three rounds of drinking, Gai Xun finally spoke out his true thoughts with the help of a little bit of alcohol.
It turned out that he came here to ask Liu Bei a question.
He believed that given Liu Bei's status in Luoyang and his teacher-student relationship, his answer to this question was representative.
"In Xuande's opinion, are there any scholars in the Luoyang court who can really come up with good strategies for governing Liangzhou?"
This question is actually quite relevant.
On the surface, he is asking if there is anyone capable in the court who can restore the court's proper governance of Liangzhou, but in fact, he is asking whether the court still cares about Liangzhou.
Did the imperial court still treat Liangzhou as a state of the Han Dynasty?
Are the people from Liangzhou still from the Han Dynasty?
When Liu Bei heard this question, he realized what Gai Xun meant in the next moment, and gained some interesting insight into it. In an instant, his thoughts were spinning thousands of times.
Of course, there are local separatist forces in Liangzhou, but it is not necessarily true that Liangzhou does not have centralist forces. For example, Huangfu Song is a typical centralist.
Based on past experience, Gai Xun is also a centrist, and he is really willing to make some considerations for Liangzhou and pay something that others are not willing to pay.
Different from the local separatist forces, the central faction has more or less ways to go to the central government to serve as officials, but the local separatists do not. Most of them can only hang around Liangzhou their whole life and cannot go to Luoyang or other places. Be a local official.
This is not surprising, every state in the Han Dynasty has this situation.
However, in Liangzhou, due to decades of regional discrimination, there are very few central factions and many local separatists. Furthermore, the central factions are unable to obtain core and important positions in Luoyang and are unable to promote the policies of the Luoyang court. Allocate resources to Liangzhou.
The remaining states, especially officials from places like Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Jizhou, can often promote court policies to tilt resources toward their hometowns, so that their hometowns can receive better treatment and tax benefits.
But officials from Liangzhou do not have this ability.
You can't get good things in Liangzhou, but Liangzhou is the first place to get bad things.
Few Liangzhou people can serve as local officials in the prefectures and counties in the core areas of the Central Plains. They can only serve as local officials in remote areas, such as Youzhou, Bingzhou, Yangzhou and other places. It is difficult to serve as prefects in economically prosperous areas. position.
However, officials from the Central Plains region can easily serve in Liangzhou and act arrogantly and domineeringly, and the people of Liangzhou have to kneel down and lick them with shame.
This second-class citizen treatment has lasted so long that not only the Luoyang court did not want Liangzhou, but Liangzhou almost no longer wanted the nationality of the Han Empire.
And fundamentally, the Eastern Han Empire's failed governance strategy for Liangzhou and the inhumane behavior of foreign officials sent to Liangzhou were also important driving forces that caused Liangzhou people to increasingly turn away from the Luoyang court.
The people of Liangzhou themselves were not willing to betray the Luoyang court from the beginning, and even most of the Qiang and Hu tribes were not willing to blatantly go against the central government of the empire.
Even in this full-scale rebellion, only the Xianling Qiang tribe was deeply involved. Most of the other Qiang tribes stayed away and watched the situation, not wanting to be involved in such a thing for fear of being settled by the Han army.
From some of the actions of Song Xiao, who previously served as the governor of Liangzhou, we can see the arrogance and ignorance of the Kwantung gentry officials towards Liangzhou that are deeply engraved in their bones.
They don't understand Liangzhou at all, and they don't want to understand Liangzhou. They have extremely shocking ignorance and misjudgment of Liangzhou, and they are unwilling to understand it deeply because of their deep arrogance.
They have formed an unshakable stereotype of Liangzhou, and preconceptionally believe that this place is a hopeless chaotic zone, so they implement a free-range attitude towards the place, and then do their best to reap benefits and leave without caring about anything.
Liangzhou can only get worse and worse, with no hope of improvement. The vicious cycle continues all the time until it reaches its final outbreak.
With a loud noise, Luoyang collapsed.
This kind of thing will be widespread in every era to come.
Even in the information age, the deep arrogance and ignorance of economically developed regions towards less developed regions is still an important reason that hinders development and exchanges.
The arrogance and ignorance of some people are completely engraved in their bones. They regard the dividends brought by the times as the dividends brought by their own blood, and use this to be arrogant and arrogant.
If this is the case in the information age, how can the classical Eastern Han Empire during the Qin and Han First Empire be exempt from the convention?
A high-level intellectual educated by elites could misjudge Liangzhou's form to a ridiculous degree, which shows what kind of perception the entire Han Empire had towards Liangzhou.
It can be said that except for Liangzhou people who understand Liangzhou people, people in most areas of the Han Empire do not understand Liangzhou and are not willing to understand it.
In this case, where can anyone come up with any good advice?
Liu Bei understood Gai Xun's desperate mood, so he put down his wine glass and sighed deeply.
"There are some high scholars, but they neither understand Liangzhou nor want to understand Liangzhou, so they don't have any good strategies for Liangzhou. In their eyes, Liangzhou is the court's bad debts and arrears, and they try their best to It would be ridiculous to get rid of Liangzhou."
When Gai Xun heard this, he felt despair at first, and then suddenly felt something was wrong. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Bei.
"Xuande, what do you mean?"
Liu Bei smiled.
"It's very simple, Lord Gai. There are scholars in the Luoyang court, but they also have deep arrogance and disgust towards Liangzhou and Liangzhou people. This emotion makes them disdain to understand Liangzhou at all. , To improve Liangzhou, their idea is very simple, just let Liangzhou fend for itself and don’t interfere with them.”
Gai Xun took a deep breath.
"Xuande, if you say this, can I think that you are different from those high-ranking scholars in the Luoyang court?"
"I am indeed different from them. It may have something to do with the fact that I come from Youzhou. Youzhou is also a border area."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "But in the final analysis, my views are different from others. I don't think Liangzhou is a place of evil. I don't believe that the territory that heroes such as Emperor Xiaowu and Wei Qing and Huo Qubing worked so hard to develop is meaningless. ."
Gai Xun's eyes suddenly looked completely different when he looked at Liu Bei.
"Xuande, do you know Liangzhou?"
(End of chapter)
