Chapter 57: Nine-grade Zhongzheng system

In my previous life, the northwest had always been a heart disease of the Qing emperor. But unexpectedly, the northwest has now become a heart disease of the Shu Han.

A Dou thought about it. During Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition in history, Cao Zhen ordered Qiang King Cheriji to lead troops to help, so Cheriji led 150,000 Qiang soldiers to support the Wei army. However, he was finally defeated by Zhuge Liang. Now the national strength of Shu is stronger than during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition in history, so there should be no problem in defeating Cheriji.

However, Zhuge Liang wasted a lot of time because of the potential of this group of Qiang soldiers, and Guo Huai also used this period to organize a defense line. In the end, Ma Su lost the strategic location of Jieting, and Zhuge Liang had to retreat to Sichuan.

The big trouble of Western Qiang, which was dragging the back, must be solved. At this time, Adou began to recall the methods used by later kings to deal with ethnic minority issues.

The Qing Dynasty rulers were ethnic minorities themselves, so there was no need to consider this; the Ming Dynasty was so beaten by the Oirat that it could not be raised, and later it was destroyed by the Jurchens; not to mention the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty fought against the Liao Kingdom for so many years, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were still in the hands of others, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, they could only hide in the south of the Yangtze River. In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin became a bull and became a "Tian Khan", but later the Hu Er and An Lushan rebelled, and the Tang Dynasty declined from then on. The Northern Dynasties of the Southern and Northern Dynasties were the court established by the Xianbei people. In the former Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were almost destroyed by the Former Qin Fu Jian of the Di tribe. It seems that China has been more than a thousand years, but the Han emperors really have no good way to deal with ethnic minorities.

A good idea that emperors of all dynasties could not have been thought of. A Dou, a man from a knight, could not imagine it? A Dou coughed dryly and said, "Father, the troubles of the Western Qiang cannot be solved overnight. However, the attack on Wei is inevitable. It has been less than a year since Cao Pi ascended the throne, and his ministers have not returned to his heart. This is a great opportunity to attack Wei! Moreover, I always feel that there must be hidden information in Cao Cao's death. We can use this to make a big fuss to alienate Cao Pi and his ministers!"

Liu Bei nodded, and after a long time, he spoke, "Let me think about this matter again..."

Not long after Adou left, Chen Dao took Jian Yong in.

Jian Yong was Liu Bei's old minister. When Liu Bei was still in Zhuo County, Jian Yong made good friends with Liu Bei. Speaking of qualifications, Liu Bei's subordinates had Jian Yong except Guan and Zhang.

After the rituals of the king and his subjects, Liu Bei waved his hand and said, "Xianhe, sit down!"

Jian Yong sat down casually, not as upright as ordinary ministers, and Liu Bei seemed to be used to it and did not blame him.

Jian Yong is a voluntary person, crazy and unreasonable person, often acts casually, does not care much about the so-called etiquette and rules, nor does he pay attention to his personal image, but only wants to live a leisurely and comfortable life. Liu Bei and Jian Yong have old friends, and they know their personalities very well, and think that Jian Yong is so harmless, so they don’t blame him. However, Zhuge Liang is different. Zhuge Liang is strict with him, so Zhuge Liang doesn’t like Jian Yong very much. It is precisely because of this that Jian Yong did not serve in the Left General’s Mansion.

Jian Yong was very talented and used to be a mission among the princes. Jian Yong followed Liu Bei for nearly forty years. Even when Liu Bei was at his worst, Jian Yong always followed Liu Bei, so Liu Bei trusted Jian Yong very much. Liu Bei also knew that Zhuge Liang did not like Jian Yong, so he arranged another job for Jian Yong.

Liu Bei sent many spies to the Eastern Wu and Cao Wei, some of which had penetrated into the middle and high-level members of the Cao Wei and the Eastern Wu, and Jian Yong is now responsible for contacting these spies. So Jian Yong knew a lot of things that even Zhuge Liang didn't know.

"Xianhe, is there any news over Xu Du?"

"Lord, I just received a letter from Mr. Qiu Xudu today. Xu Yi, the son of Xu Chu, is dead!" Jian Yong said.

"How did you die?"

"It is said that Xu Yi accidentally fell off the horse while hunting, and fell to her head. After returning to Xudu, he was not saved!"

"Falling down from the horse?" Liu Bei asked incrediblely. Xu Yi is Xu Chu's son after all. Needless to say, how could he fall from the horse?

"Mr. Qiu asked, it was the horse that was suddenly frightened and turned Xu Yi off the horse."

"Well, what else does Mr. Qiu say?" Liu Bei asked.

"Mr. Qiu also said in his letter that Xu Yi died strangely. The horses that Xu Yi rode were old horses that had been on the battlefield for a long time. After Xu Yi fell off the horse, the guard immediately sent Xu Yi to Xu Du, but the guard of Xu Du City Gate hesitated for an hour before opening the city gate, so hesitated for a while, so he delayed the treatment time. Mr. Qiu suspected that Xu Yi was silenced." Jian Yong replied.

"Silence?" Liu Bei was stunned.

"Your Majesty remembers that Mr. Qiu had heard news that Xu Chu was not burned to death by fire, but was killed by someone. Then Xu Yi asked Cao Pi to investigate thoroughly, but at this time Wu Wan invaded, and the thorough investigation of the cause of Xu Chu's death was delayed. Now Wu Wan has been calm, and Xu Yi has written to Cao Pi and asked to investigate the cause of Xu Chu's death again."

"It seems that some people don't want the truth about Xu Chu's death to be revealed!" Liu Bei sighed.

Xu Chu was killed by someone, so Xu Yi was naturally the victim. If the victim died, then Xu Chu's death would not be investigated.

At this time, Liu Bei couldn't help but remember what Adou said just now. The cause of Cao Cao's death was too strange. Maybe there was a hidden truth. Even if there was no hidden truth, he could use this matter to make a big fuss.

Xu Du.

Hua Tuo knelt in the hall, and Cao Pi looked at Hua Tuo with satisfaction.

"Doctor Hua's medical skills are indeed well-known. Not only can heal people, but he can also cure that beast! It seems that the next thing we have to rely on the help of Dr. Hua!" Cao Pi said happily.

A month ago, Xu Yi wrote to Cao Pi, asking to interrogate witnesses of the Cao Mansion fire that day to investigate the cause of Xu Chu's death.

Cao Pi was guilty of being a thief and naturally did not want the truth of this matter to be revealed, so Cao Pi decided to kill Xu Yi.

Cao Pi originally wanted to choose Xu Yi to be outdated and kill Xu Yi. However, although Xu Yi attacked Xu Chu's title, it was not big when it came to official positions. This official position was small, the power was small, the power was small, and the responsibility was small. If the responsibility was small, it would not be easy to make mistakes. Moreover, even if this small official made a mistake, it would be a mistake that would not end in death. Therefore, if he wanted to choose Xu Yi's fault, he would not be able to kill Xu Yi.

If the public is not good, he can only come to privately. Cao Pi also thought of sending people to assassinate Xu Yi. However, the assassins Cao Pi could use were trained by Xu Chu back then, and he was considered an old subordinate of Xu Chu. It was obviously an unwise move to send them to assassinate Xu Yi. Moreover, Xu Yi's martial arts skills are not weak, and although they are not as good as Xu Chu, they are brave and good at fighting. The chance of assassinating Xu Yi is also very low.

Finally, Cao Pi decided to let Xu Yi die unexpectedly.

Cao Pi found Hua Tuo and asked Hua Tuo to make a medicine. After taking it, the horse would go crazy. At the same time, he also tried whether Hua Tuo was really doing things for himself.

Hua Tuo did give it a poison and gave it to the horse. After a few hours, he would fall into an excited state. When the medicine was effective to the extreme, the horse would look like crazy.

According to Cao Pi's plan, the horse went crazy and only needed to hurt Xu Yi. At that time, Cao Pi would send an imperial physician to treat Xu Yi, and then use some tricks in the medicine to make Xu Yi die without realizing it. However, Xu Yi's luck was so bad that he actually injured his head when he fell off the horse. The officials guarding the city gate had long received Cao Pi's care and deliberately made excuses to not open the city gate, which aggravated Xu Yi's injuries. After entering the city, they were no longer saved.

After solving Xu Yi, Cao Pi also solved one thing. At least no one will chase him to investigate the cause of Xu Chu's death in the future.

At this time, Cao Cao had been dead for more than a year. In more than a year, the division of new forces within Cao Wei had basically ended. Some officials who were good friends with Cao Pi were promoted, and some were disliked by Cao Pi and demoted. The governors and some county magistrates of the local states also changed people.

At this moment, the Secretary of Shangshu Chen Qun submitted a statement, suggesting that Cao Cao's official system be the ninth rank Zhongzheng system.

In the first year of Yankang, Chen Qun once suggested to Cao Pi to reform the administration. At that time, Cao Pi was very interested in the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system proposed by Chen Qun, and ordered Chen Qun to write a detailed charter.

Of course, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system proposed by Chen Qun is only the original nine-grade Zhongzheng system, which is incomparable to the nine-grade Zhongzheng system that has developed and sound in later generations. The nine-grade Zhongzheng system proposed by Chen Qun is divided into nine-grade, and a rough division is divided into top and lower grades. The top grade is the officials of the first three ranks, and the next six ranks are the lower grades. Although the nine-grade Zhongzheng system was very advanced in the Three Kingdoms era, because the system of selecting talents was not the imperial examination system, and talent selection was still reliable, and those who were not good at family affairs could not have the opportunity to be recommended. Therefore, a situation of "there are no poor men at the top grade, and no common people at the lowest grade" was gradually formed.

The news that Cao Pi implemented the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system quickly spread to Shuzhong, and Liu Bei immediately summoned all the ministers to discuss.

In the Three Kingdoms era, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system was much more advanced than the previous official system. Although Cao Pi had just implemented it and had not been tested by practice, many officials had already realized the superiority of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.

There are many officials in Shu who are good at political affairs. For example, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang Song, Xu Jing, Dong Zhao, etc., the ministers discussed together for a long time, but did not discuss the reason. After all, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system has just been implemented, and the Shu Kingdom cannot have a specific implementation charter. Even Zhuge Liang cannot judge the practicality of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.

If the nine-grade Zhongzheng system is easy to use, Liu Bei will definitely follow suit, but this has not been tested and it is difficult for everyone to determine, so Liu Bei cannot decide whether to implement the new official system like Cao Pi.

However, for Adou, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system proposed by Chen Qun is very unfamiliar. Although the Qing officials were divided into nine-grade, in fact, the Military Affairs Office was in charge of national affairs, and the Six Divisions were used as auxiliary. There was not much similarity with the nine-grade Zhongzheng system proposed by Chen Qun.

It was precisely because Adou didn't understand Chen Qun's primary ninth-grade Zhongzheng system that Adou was not able to make a conclusion. He just watched the ministers in the hall discuss for a day, but no results were found.

"Gongsi, what do you think of this ninth grade Zhongzheng system?" Liu Bei asked.

A Dou thought for a while and replied, "Father, this official system reform cannot be achieved overnight. Sometimes it takes more than ten years or even decades to achieve results, so the sons dare not make a conclusion. However, Cao Pi's arbitrary reform of the official system will inevitably cause turmoil in the court, and the father can take this opportunity to attack Wei."

After hearing this, Liu Bei nodded without saying anything. Liu Bei was still hesitating about whether he wanted to attack Wei. According to Zhuge Liang's Longzhong match, he wanted to take Jingxiang and Bashu, and then use Bashu as the rear and use Jingxiang as the fulcrum to attack the surroundings. Over the years, Liu Bei has been following this strategic policy. If he attacked Yongzhou, Liu Bei's overall strategy would be changed.

A few days ago, A Dou proposed to attack Wei, but Liu Bei was already moved. The most important thing was that during the deduction of attacking Jingzhou, Liu Bei's entire army was wiped out. Now A Dou took this opportunity to bring up the matter of attacking Wei, and Liu Bei felt that he might as well take this matter out again and discuss it.

Liu Bei raised the matter of whether to attack Wei or Wu again. This time it was similar to last time. Zhang Song and other officials from Shu strongly advocated attacking Wei and attacking Yongzhou; while officials from Jingzhou, led by Guan Yu, felt that they should attack Sun Quan first and retake Jingzhou.

Everyone discussed for a long time, but the husband said that his mother was right and the mother said that he was right, but he didn't discuss it.

At this time, Adou had discovered that Guan Yu was now headed by Guan Yu, unlike others, Guan Yu's prestige was placed there. So Liu Bei had to listen to Guan Yu's opinions. Moreover, Guan Yu is a general now, Guan Yu has dominated the matter of sending troops.

If you want to send troops to attack Wei smoothly, the first thing you have to do is Guan Yu. Adou believes that as long as Guan Yu is willing to let go and no longer insist on attacking Wu, then attacking Yongzhou will be a natural result.

In the room, Adou was thinking about how to persuade Guan Yu to agree to send troops to attack Yongzhou.

Unlike Liu Bei, Guan Yu is not so easy to fool. Guan Yu is famous for being stubborn and always thinks that he is the best in the world and never likes to listen to other people's opinions. When Guan Yu was defeated in Jingzhou, he was trapped in Maicheng, and A Dou rescued thousands of miles away. At that time, Guan Yu had lost his inch of his defeat, so everything obeyed A Dou. However, this country is easy to change and his nature is hard to change. Since he escaped from danger, Guan Yu slowly calmed down and returned to the former arrogant Guan Yu.

It is really difficult to persuade Guan Yu. Guan Yu is not afraid of being soft or hard, and he is not afraid of being a good person. He is also a little bit reliant on his seniority. At the same time, he is also an elder of Adou. Adou has no confidence in persuasion.

I don’t know what happened. Perhaps it was because I was worshipping Guan Gong in my previous life. A Dou always felt an inexplicable sense of awe for Guan Yu. When facing Guan Yu directly, A Dou always felt a sense of powerlessness arise from his heart.

Thinking about Guan Yu's glorious history, it seems that only Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's words were said, and Guan Yu had followed them.

Guan Yu values ​​loyalty, so he naturally has to listen to the words of Liu Bei, the elder brother. As for Zhuge Liang, he used aggressive generals to impress Guan Yu.

Adou wondered if he should use the provocation method himself?
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