Volume 15: Four directions

Cao Heizi and Liu Da'erduo were plotting against Zhao Xing in Kaifeng City. However, it took time to plan and implement the conspiracy. Zhao Xing would not notice anything for the time being. He is busy meeting several foreign talents who came one after another.

According to the agreement reached a while ago, Sun Jian sent someone to escort Lu Xun and Lu Meng to Wohu City, and Liu Biao also sent someone to escort Ma Kang and Ma Su from the Ma clan of Jingzhou to Shangdang. Although Ma Kang and Ma Su were a little weaker than Lu Xun and Lu Meng, it was a big gain for Zhao Xing, who had always lacked civil servants.

What's more, in Zhao Xing's view, we cannot measure the quality of talents based on our memory of history alone. Ordinary people like Li Tiezhu, Wang Lu, and Zhao Hu have never appeared in history at all. Now they have become indispensable and important talents?

If you say what is the biggest disadvantage of introducing talents from the outside, loyalty must be at the forefront. You have worked hard to promote and reuse talents, and then he will give you a slap in the inside or twist your elbow out, and you will have no place to argue. Zhao Xing also has this kind of fear in his heart, such as Ma Kang, Ma Su, Lu Meng and Lu Xun who have come to Wohu City one after another.

However, as a "old human trafficker", Zhao Xing did not give up the idea of ​​using four people because of this concern. In this era of people's words, it is not a glorious thing to turn your back on the master and scatter outside. Moreover, scholars from aristocratic families also like to pay attention to the idea of ​​each being their own master. Often, brothers and several brothers choose one force to surrender and will not put eggs into a basket.

Therefore, Zhao Xing was preparing to take action himself and conquered Ma Kang, Ma Su, Lu Meng and Lu Xun no matter what.

Zhao Xing first met Ma Liang's second brother Ma Kang. Zhao Xing did not have much memory or impression of this second common among the five permanent members of the Ma family, but when he thought about the Ma family in history, Ma Liang, a conscientious and good official, and Ma Su, a combat adviser who made Zhuge Wuhou cry, must have been very successful in his family, and Ma Kang would not be much weaker.

Through a conversation with Ma Kang, Zhao Xing had basically confirmed that Liu Biao did not dare to deceive himself this time. Although Ma Kang was over thirty years old and his reputation could not be compared with his third brother Ma Liang, he was still capable. Ma Kang was indifferent to fame and fortune by nature. He turned out to be filial to his parents and raise his children at home. This time, Liu Biao was moved to come to the north to see the great mountains and rivers, and at the same time, he had close contact with Zhao Guochang, the King of Pingxi who was terrified by the Xianbei people.

Since he is a scholar who is indifferent to fame and fortune by nature, Zhao Xing is not worried that Ma Kang will have too much interaction with Liu Biao. According to Zhao Xing's analysis, scholars like Ma Kang are the kind of honest and honest people. As long as you give him a job, they will complete it steadily and will not make too many requests in normal times. Such people are stable in their internal affairs, and are especially suitable for maintaining success.

Zhao Xing then appointed Ma Kang as the employed person of Li Tingfang, the prefect of Shangdang County, and in the future, he assisted Li Tingfang in handling county affairs.

It's also a miracle. Li Tingfang is now in his 80s. He is in a strong body, not blurred eyes, and not deaf ears. He has not resigned from his position as the prefect of Shangdang. On several occasions, Zhao Xing wanted to persuade his grandfather to be unemployed and retire, but he was swallowed back when he was at the mouth. He understood the old man's thoughts, and Li Tingfang was showing an attitude to outsiders that Shangdang was the territory of his grandson, and he had to let the Zhao family help him watch, otherwise he would be worried.

Since the old man was so energetic and so enthusiastic about politics, Zhao Xing had to secretly tell Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji that they would often check the elderly's health and prescribe a few more prescriptions to nourish qi and nourish the years to ensure that Li Ting's prescription's health is not in good condition.

If Li Ting could live in his 90s or even 100 years old, it would be a "human auspicious person" in the Han Dynasty, which was also a blessing for Zhao Xing. If Zhao Xing's territory more and more elderly people appeared in his territory, it would fully prove that his internal political theory was very popular and that the people would live and work in peace and contentment.

It is most appropriate to let someone like Ma Kang assist Li Tingfang. To put it too much, Shangdang County is right under Zhao Xing's nose. Even if Ma Kang has any problems, he can definitely observe it clearly with the Shadow Headquarters, the Crouching Tiger Security Department and the Jin State Security Bureau.

After meeting Ma Kang, Zhao Xing met Ma Su with curiosity and trepidation.

The reason why Zhao Xing was curious about Ma Su was because he really wanted to see what fatal flaws the "Three Kingdoms version of Zhao Kuo" who only knew how to talk about war on paper was, which led to his life ending in tragedy. The reason why Zhao Xing was nervous was because he was really worried that Ma Su would be as recorded in history, and would only talk big, as the bamboo shoots in the mountains had "sharp heads, thin skins, and hollow belly". If Ma Su was really like this, Zhao Xing would better put them on the shelf as soon as possible, so as not to cause immeasurable losses to himself in the future.

After meeting Ma Su, Zhao Xing found that the young man was younger than he expected from the past year. He is only about fifteen years old, but he is indeed talented, with a generous manner, and has a great style. After a conversation, Zhao Xing saw that Ma Su was obviously outgoing and very talkative. Perhaps because he had read poetry and books since he was a child, the first three emperors, the latter five emperors, the astronomy and geography, Ma Su could talk to Zhao Xing, and he had his own opinions.

Zhao Xing secretly replied in his heart: If you want Zhuge Kongming to add a lot of eyes, you have to read a lot of books, be handsome and elegant, and have to be eloquent, because Zhuge himself is such a great man, he definitely doesn't like his personal secretary, who is humble and vulgar. According to Zhao Xing's analysis, the important reason why Ma Su eventually died due to his defeat was that Ma Su lacked experience in training at the grassroots level, and came to Zhuge from the beginning and became a trustworthy celebrity around his leader.

In history, Ma Su naturally didn't have to say much about his loyalty to Shu Kingdom, but because he had not been involved in "earth" for a long time, he did not start from ordinary generals at the grassroots level. When he was commanding the general in Shu, Zhuge had to let him serve as the vanguard general. He had a long time to follow the "chief" and had no experience in leading a single army to lead troops and fight wars, and had the power to tie a chicken to command the troops. This was an inevitable failure from the beginning.

At this time, Ma Su was not yet truly established and was at the age of receiving experience and tempering his mind in life. If he could provide correct guidance and training, he would not be able to overcome the problem of his excessive words.

In the end, Zhao Xing decided to give Ma Su a chance and a platform, but he did not intend to let Ma Su get in touch with leading troops to fight, but instead learned how to manage internal affairs with peace of mind, which would cut off Ma Su's fate of being defeated and beheaded from the beginning.

Zhao Xing arranged for Ma Su to study at Taihang Academy for three years. When he was eighteen years old, he would be placed by Zhang Ji, a talented official, and would be used as an internal affairs official in the future.


Chapter completed!