As early as when Xun Chen went north to Wuyuan and Liu Chuang first decided to Liaodong, Zhuge Liang offered a 24-character policy: Advance westward and You, join Cao Cao in the south, join Ma Teng in the west, resist the Xiongnu in the north, and establish himself in Hebei and seek the Central Plains.

The most critical thing in these 24-character policy is to erode Yuan Shao's jurisdiction before Cao Cao destroyed Yuan Shao. Only in this way can Liu Chuang compete with Cao Cao and defeat Cao Cao. However, these 24-character words are easy to say, and it is not easy to do. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the land of Youzhou. Due to the restrictions of the special location in Liaodong, it is very difficult to quickly occupy Youzhou.

In addition to the four counties in Liaodong, Youzhou still has six counties.

Liaodong is located at the easternmost point of Youzhou and needs to be promoted step by step before you can capture Youzhou.

Liu Chuang’s most important task now is to gain the support of local tyrants and gentry in Youzhou.

Without the recognition of the Youzhou gentry, if you want to quickly capture the six counties of Youzhou, it would never be as simple as capturing the four counties of Liaodong.

"If you march into Youzhou, you must first take Youbeiping."

Xu Shu said: "And you must not attack Youbeiping, otherwise even if you attack, the emperor's uncle will be greatly damaged.

Shu heard that Xian Yufu, the prefect of Youbeiping, was loyal to the Han Dynasty. When he served Liu Yu, he received a lot of attention from Liu Yu. When the emperor was conquering Liaodong, Xian Yufu was in charge of Youbeiping, and did not cause any trouble to the emperor, and even stopped Wuhuan reinforcements for the emperor.

From this we can see that Xian Yufu has a good impression of the emperor and is still loyal to the Han Dynasty.

The emperor's uncle can make a person who can speak and speak to Youbeiping and persuade Xianyufu to surrender... If Xianyufu can surrender, the gates of Youzhou will be wide open. Xianyufu has always been famous in Youzhou. It will definitely help the emperor's uncle occupy Youzhou. If Xianyufu surrenders, it will be better than a hundred thousand strong soldiers."

Liu Chuang couldn't help but look at Xu Shu differently.

He always felt that Xu Shu was not as good as Zhuge Liang in terms of ability.

Because there are not many records of Xu Shu's achievements in the Three Kingdoms, and they are far less prominent than Zhuge Liang.

The reason why Xu Shu was famous in later generations was because of his identity as the Four Friends of Zhuge and the flattery of Luo Guanzhong in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", such as Mr. Shan Fu, such as the Great Destroy of Cao Ren's Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation, etc., but these are mostly fictional stories.

It is precisely for this reason that Liu Chuang believes that Xu Shu has the ability, but he should be inferior to Zhuge Liang.

But now it seems that he is thinking wrong!

Xu Shu's talent was definitely not as simple as he imagined. Just looking at his response, Liu Chuang felt that it was quite a bit like Xun You.

"Now Yuanzhi thought. Who can go and lobby?"

Xu Shu thought about it and replied: "Mi Zhu, Mi Zizhong, is the emperor's uncle's wife and brother-in-law. He has a good relationship with Tian Yu, the chief of Youbeiping. He can be an envoy. But Mr. Mi's eloquence is probably difficult to talk about Xian Yufu. Even if Xian Yufu is loyal to the Han Dynasty, now that Yuan Shao is powerful, it is not easy for him to make a decision. People like Su Qin and Zhang Yi need to go to make him moved, and Xu Shu doesn't know."

I don't know who is the best person under your account.

When Liu Chuang heard this, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Silai, it seems that there is indeed such a problem.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it says that Zhuge Liang is unparalleled in eloquence and arguing with scholars... But that is a fictional story after all.

Liu Chuang generally knew Zhuge Liang's eloquence. It is good to be clear-cut and extremely smart, but if you say that you are unparalleled in eloquence, you are a bit exaggerated.

Zhuge Liang's talent lies not in his eloquence, but in his planning and control of the overall situation.

In addition to Zhuge Liang, there are also Chen Qun and Chen Jiao, who are also eloquent people, but Liu Chuang always feels that these people are not suitable for going there.

"Brother, why not let me go?"

Zhuge Jun suddenly spoke, which scared Liu Chuang.

"Ziheng, don't make trouble..."

"Brother, I'm not making trouble. I'm willing to follow the Mi Changshi to Tuyin and lobby for Xianyufu.

Over the past year, I have studied with Master Zheng in the academy while learning about Youzhou... Xianyufu, I have studied this person carefully. This person is a scheming person. If he wants to surrender, he must suppress him from a righteous way, otherwise it is impossible to surrender.

I know that my brother thinks I am young and worried something happens to me.

But Ganluo was able to become a prime minister at the age of twelve. I am now eighteen. I have been with my brother for many years but have not made any achievements. I feel really guilty. When my second brother was eighteen, he followed his brother to fight south and north. Why can't I still be able to share my worries for my brother at the age of 18? Could it be that my brother thought Ziheng was useless?"

Zhuge Jun looked at Liu Chuang and his words were extremely sincere.

Liu Chuang frowned slightly, and looked at Zhuge Jun, and felt a little confused.

Speaking of which, he did underestimate Zhuge Jun. Although he knew that none of the three brothers in Zhuge were ordinary people, due to Zhuge Liang's existence, Liu Chuang would inevitably be a little negligent about Zhuge Jun without knowing it. He liked to take Zhuge Liang everywhere and let Zhuge Liang participate in political affairs. But now, every time he took Zhuge Liang away, Zhuge Jun always looked at him with an extremely expectant look. That look was like Zhuge Jun looked at him now, with some begging.

In terms of age, Zhuge Jun is younger than Zhuge Liang and needs more care and care from others.

But at this point, Liu Chuang was indeed a little negligent...

"Ziheng, are you really sure?"

"If you say that surrendering cannot be done to Yufu, Ziheng is willing to offer his head."

Zhuge Jun's answer was firm, which made Liu Chuang's heart tremble.

He walked forward, put his palm on Zhuge Jun's shoulder, and sighed softly after a while, "Four years have passed. When I first saw Ziheng, Ziheng was still hiding behind Er Niang and dared not look directly at me. For the past four years, I have always regarded Ziheng as a child. I am indeed a little negligent with you. I am really sorry."

Zhuge Jun's body trembled and his eyes suddenly turned red.

Liu Chuang said this and his nose felt a little sore.

If we talk about the relationship with Liu Chuang, Zhuge Jun might be far better than Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang initially had some questions about Liu Chuang, and then slowly accepted Liu Chuang. However, Zhuge Jun was different. When he first met Liu Chuang, Liu Chuang killed the assassin sent by Xiao Jian to protect his family's safety, Zhuge Jun became dependent on Liu Chuang.

However, he is young and not as brave as Zhuge Liang.

At that time, I didn't know how to thank Liu Chuang, so I had to hide behind Zhuge Ling.

After following Liu Chuang for four years, from Qingzhou to Liaodong... Zhuge Jun saw his second brother becoming Liu Chuang's right-hand man step by step, and he felt inferior. It was precisely because of this that he worked harder and studied more carefully. What he hoped was that one day he could help Liu Chuang like his second brother and become Liu Chuang's right-hand man... Now, Liu Chuang's words made his heart's not strong resentment disappear. He took a breath to avoid tears.

"Brother. Ziheng has grown up. I want to share my worries with my brother."

Liu Chuang looked at Zhuge Jun's still childish face. After a while, he suddenly smiled, "Since that's the case, I'll ask Ziheng, you can wait for me to go."

"Brother..."

"But you have to follow Zi Zhong's instructions when you go to Youbeiping.

Be more careful and don’t act recklessly. If Xianyufu refuses to surrender, it would be fine... It’s amazing that I’ll find another way, and Xianyufu may not be able to stop me."

"Um!"

Zhuge Jun nodded vigorously, but he made up his mind.

This time my brother asked me to go to Youbeiping. I must do something good to live up to my brother's trust!

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At this moment, Liu Chuang kept Xu Shu and the other two by his side and appointed Xu Shu as the chief clerk.

Shi Tao and Meng Jian were responsible for handling official documents for him. Afterwards, Liu Chuang called Mi Zhu and ordered him to take Zhuge Jun with him and go to Youbeiping together.

After dealing with this matter, Liu Chuang went to Guzhu City again.

Nanshan Academy was officially opened. As one of the founders of Nanshan Academy, Liu Chuang naturally had to attend.

The Siku Complete Book compiled by Zheng Xuan and others, and the Zibi Classics have come to an end.

Next, we will conduct transcription and rubbing... After three years of improvement, Zuo Bo's papermaking technology has become more perfect. However, Liu Chuang found that he seemed to have overlooked one thing. Later generations often said that China had four major inventions. Now papermaking has been perfected, but what about printing? In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, people still rely on simple means such as copying and rubbing to edit books.

This requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it also consumes extremely energy.

"Mr. Huang, I have an idea and want to ask Mr. for help."

Nanshan Academy was opened, and Huang Chengyan naturally had to come back to celebrate.

After Licheng, Liu Chuang pulled Huang Chengyan aside and explained in detail the idea of ​​movable type printing to him.

Originally, before the emergence of movable type printing, there were inventions and creations of woodblock printing. But now, since Liu Chuang can evolve into movable type printing in one step, why bother to design woodblock printing? Huang Chengyan was shocked when he heard Liu Chuang's idea.

"If Meng Yan's idea is realized, it will be a great merit for scholars all over the world."

Who is Huang Chengyan?

He was not the kind of corrupt scholars and poor scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty had a strong ability to accept new things and were more innovative. Huang Chengyan was already very obsessed with mechanism techniques. When he heard Liu Chuang’s idea, he immediately wanted to try it out. The principle of this movable type printing technique is not too complicated.

The principle is quite similar to the technique of rubbing, but how to improve its operation method is Huang Chengyan's business.

"If Meng Yan agrees, I will start to do it."

Huang Chengyan pondered for a moment and said, "At the end of the year, I will definitely solve this matter. But in this way, the dock may..."

Liu Chuang heard about it and had a headache.

If Huang Chengyan devotes all his energy to movable type printing, the dock will inevitably be affected.

"Can Ma Jun take on the heavy responsibility?"

Huang Chengyan smiled bitterly and said, "Ma Jun can be an assistant, but he must not be a person in charge."

He was stubborn, especially in some specific matters, and was very stubborn. Moreover, he was not good at speaking and could easily conflict with craftsmen. However, I would rather recommend someone, Cui Jun, Cui Zhouping. This person is a child of a prominent family. Although Kang Chenggong had been a member of Meng Yan for many years, he was a classmate with Meng Yan, which was enough to shock the workshop. He was good at accepting other people's opinions, and was gentle in character and knew how to communicate with others.

Although I don’t understand the work of this workshop, but with Ma Jun’s assistance, I can take on the heavy responsibility.”

Cui Zhouping!

Liu Chuang patted his forehead lightly and recognized Huang Chengyan's recommendation. To a certain extent, Cui Zhouping is indeed suitable for this position. However, Cui Zhouping is also from a wealthy family after all, is he willing to work in the workshop? Liu Chuang looked at Huang Chengyan and was a little hesitant.

"Cui Jun is willing to take on this matter?"

Huang Chengyan smiled and said, "I will tell him about this matter, and I believe he will not refuse."

"If so, please sir."
To be continued...