Chapter 72 Recruitment
Ao Lie ordered people to build three houses for Zhuge Liang and his siblings in the suburbs of Nanyang. Before the house was built, Zhuge Liang and his siblings temporarily lived in the prefect's mansion.
After spending more than ten days in the prefect's mansion, Ao Lie and Zhuge Liang gradually developed admiration for each other through a deeper understanding. Ao Lie realized that he underestimated Zhuge Liang. Even without being taught by Pang Degong, Zhuge Liang's talents can be called extraordinary. There is a kind of person who is born a monster who can learn without a teacher in a certain field, and then reaches a point where others can't reach. Obviously, Zhuge Liang is such a person. He has wisdom far beyond ordinary people in the fields of governing the country, the army, and even the formation. In fact, strictly speaking, Ao Lie himself can also be classified as this type of person. His talent in martial arts is even more evil than a monster.
What Zhuge Liang admired Ao Lie was not only Ao Lie's principle of dealing with people and his character of caring for the people, but also was impressed by Ao Lie's vast talent as the sea. A random sentence may be full of profound meaning. The starting point of looking at problems is often novel, and the final solution to the problem is often unexpected but can achieve good results.
In just over a dozen days, the tacit understanding between the two men grew rapidly, and their friendship reached the critical point that they could reach at present. They talked almost everything, and even talked about the late night with candles at night, and then they slept on the same bed.
More than ten days later, a letter from Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, came. The letter stated that he was willing to recommend Zhuge Liang to study under Pang Degong. After preliminary inquiry, Pang Degong also agreed to this matter.
After receiving Liu Biao's letter, Zhuge Liang was reluctant to leave and said in his heart. Now he was really reluctant to leave Ao Lie, not only because his sister and younger brother were by Ao Lie's side, but more importantly, Zhuge Liang now regarded Ao Lie as a good teacher and friend and was reluctant to leave.
Ao Lie was naturally very reluctant to leave, but Ao Lie, who had always had an outstanding overall view, still reluctantly helped Zhuge Liang pack his bags, and then personally sent Zhuge Liang away from Wancheng and to the border of Nanyang County. Then he said goodbye to Zhuge Liang. Ao Lie understood that Zhuge Liang's main task at present was to study. If he did not let him study, but kept him by his side, it would be like killing a chicken to get eggs. Ao Lie could not do such a stupid thing.
Shortly after Zhuge Liang left, the houses in the suburbs were also built, and Zhuge Ling and Zhuge both moved to the suburbs to live. Ao Lie always had to go over and see every three or five days. If he found out that the siblings and siblings had anything needed, he would send them to him the next day. The care for Zhuge Ling and siblings was almost meticulous, which made both siblings very grateful.
In his spare time, Ao Lie once again devoted himself to exploring talents. However, unexpectedly, the first capable person to seek refuge with him was not found by himself, but sent him to his door and recommended him.
At that time, Ao Lie was watching the soldiers' training in the military academy. A man wearing ordinary soldiers' armor walked up to Ao Lie and asked to join Ao Lie's command. This soldier made Ao Lie very curious. After asking, he realized that this person was Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang, the famous Wei Yan in history!
In history, it is rumored that Wei Yan had a rebellious bone behind his head and would rebel in the future no matter who he served. However, Ao Lie, who had carefully studied the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Three Kingdoms, knew that it was not the same thing. Wei Yan's bravery was the number one general in the late Three Kingdoms, and his character was extremely proud and often said he was bluntly offended, which made people who used him full of doubts and secretly clamp him. In addition, Zhuge Liang's cautious military use technique in the later period, he could not show his bold military use style, so he often complained in private, which eventually led to his disgrace.
But Ao Lie has no such concerns. First of all, Ao Lie has traveled through time in later generations, and the concept of equality among everyone has always been hidden in Ao Lie's heart. He will not resent Wei Yan's verbal complaints and do not use him; secondly, Ao Lie is confident, and the best way to convince Wei Yan to do things for himself and impress the proud is to surpass him in the field he is best at. Whether in terms of martial arts or leading troops to fight, Ao Lie is above Wei Yan, which makes Wei Yan convinced; again, Wei Yan is a reputation for being a good man.
A person with a strong heart is a bit similar to his uncle Wang Yue. To put it bluntly, he is an official fan. Ao Lie is a general of cavalry, champion Hou, and the power of Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and can freely appoint and remove officials under his command. This is very tempting for Wei Yan. Moreover, the rule of Ao Lie's appointment is that no matter his background, it depends on his ability and how much ability you have, he will give you the greatest official position. Wei Yan was awarded the position of General Yamen as soon as he surrendered to Ao Lie, which also made Wei Yan overjoyed and respected Ao Lie even more.
After Wei Yan, another person was also sent to his door to serve. This person was recommended by Ao Lie's father-in-law Cai Yong. Cai Yong was afraid that Ao Lie would be alone in Nanyang, so he recommended one of his former students over. This person was Gu Yong, whose courtesy name was Yuantan, and was from Wujun. He studied under Cai Yong for ten years in his early years and fell in love with Cai Yong as father and son. After receiving Cai Yong's recommendation letter, Gu Yong did not hesitate at all, so he ran to Wancheng to surrender to Ao Lie. Ao Lie naturally knew Gu Yong's name. He was a pillar of the country in the late Middle and late Eastern Wu period in history. He served as prime minister for 19 years and was a very outstanding political and internal affairs talent.
After Ao Lie was extremely happy when he saw Gu Yong, he immediately granted him a position to manage all the major and small political affairs in Nanyang County.
What made Ao Lie even more overjoyed was that after Gu Yong arrived, he wrote a letter to his friend Lu Su, asking Lu Su to come to Nanyang to see. At that time, Lu Su was a powerful man in Linhuai County. After receiving Gu Yong's letter, he came to Nanyang for a few days and secretly understood the people's sentiments. Seeing that Ao Lie was deeply loved by the people, he was a wise ruler who could entrust his life to his life. So he returned to Linhuai to disperse his family's wealth, exchanged all his weapons and food, and filled thirty cars to join Ao Lie.
After a long talk with Lu Su, Ao Lie and Lu Su immediately appointed Lu Su as Mu Gu, responsible for coordinating the dispatch between civil and military officials.
In the next six months, Ao Lie only proposed a general policy of governing Nanyang, and then completely delegated power to Gu Yong and Lu Su. With the two of them thoroughly verified and supplemented Ao Lie's policy, and then with the help of Wu Qiong and others, Ao Lie's policy was implemented perfectly.
With the efforts of everyone, Wancheng restored its original prosperity, and the people in the city lived and worked in peace and contentment, becoming one of the few paradises in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
After half a year of governance, Ao Lie's reputation in Nanyang grew day by day, and many people came to join him. Among the three civil officials who left their names in history were Deng Zhi, Deng Bomiao, Dong, Dong Youzai, Jiang Wan and Jiang Gongyan, as well as Li Yan and Li Zhengfang, who were both civil and military. These people were recorded in later historical books, and were all famous and talented. After Ao Lie arranged them in suitable positions according to the records of historical books and their personal tests, so that they could show their strengths in the fields they were good at.
It was the annual meeting again. Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, convened officials from all over the country to Xiangyang for a gathering. Ao Lie used to attend such occasions. After all, he was the prefect of Youbeiping. How could he be missing the annual meeting at the end of the year? However, this year's annual meeting is different from the past. In the past, Ao Lie attended the annual meeting in Youzhou. The governor of Youzhou was his father Liu Yu, but this year he was going to attend in Jingzhou. The host was Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou.
To this end, Ao Lie specially selected a jade pendant from the secret treasure of Guangwu. This jade pendant has the effect of prolonging life and long-term wear can slow down the aging of the human body.
Putting the jade pendant in an exquisite box, Ao Lie took Zhao Yun and twenty elite blood killing camps and set off. Going south, Ao Lie and his group rushed to the east, and after a few days of itinerary, they entered the Xiangyang territory.
As soon as you enter Xiangyang, you can feel the breath of the year-end meeting. There are small vendors selling all kinds of things everywhere on the streets, and the crowds are like the Yangtze River that will never stop flowing, flowing on the streets.
Slowing down the horse speed, Ao Lie and others were curiously watching the various items sold by the vendors, while slowly moving forward. Suddenly, a group of people ran from the other side at a very fast speed, regardless of the crowded crowd on the street. The leader looked fierce, wearing brocade clothes, raised his chin, and looked at people from the corner of his eyes, giving people a feeling of being arrogant.
After seeing this person, Ao Lie couldn't help but feel displeased. Speaking of which, it could make Ao Lie take the initiative to hate someone for no reason. Apart from the Yuan family, Yuan Shu, who was almost idiot, was the first person in front of him.
Suddenly, a child passed through the street with an innocent smile. She seemed to be looking at the doll in her hand, and did not notice the galloping horse running towards her at high speed not far away. Ao Lie in the distance naturally saw the tragedy about to happen and hurriedly shouted: "The knight on the opposite side should stop!"
The group of people galloping across the street seemed to have not heard Ao Lie's shouts at all, and they were still running wildly, rushing straight towards the little girl.
Seeing that the little girl was about to die under the horse's hooves, at this critical moment, a sharp arrow flew over and shot through the head of the leader. The sharp arrow, which had not yet disappeared, pierced through the horse's head with extremely powerful force, pierced into the horse's head and then pierced into the head of another horse.
This is a technique of killing two birds with one stone! Ao Lie immediately analyzed that the shooting technique of the archer is already one of the most peak people in the world.
The horses were shot through the heads of two horses one after another by sharp arrows. The horses in the gallop immediately became in chaos. When they were frightened, the horses raised their front hooves and stood up. Some knights who were almost riding were immediately overturned and fell to the ground.
A man in his fifties flashed out of the street corner and quickly came to the street. He picked up the little girl in a state of shock and retreated to a safe distance.
Ao Lie was observing the man secretly. His age was about fifty years old and his temples and beard turned gray, but his eyes were still as sharp as a hesitant young man. He was carrying a large strong bow on his back, which looked very majestic.
The leader who had previously rode on the horse climbed up on the ground, his eyes scattered fiercely, staring at the big man holding the little girl, and said in a deep voice: "I am the prefect of Jiangxia Huang Zu. Who are you? How dare you shoot arrows at me? Could it be that I want to assassinate me?"
In just one sentence, the rescue man was charged with assassinating the prefect.
The big man put down the girl in his arms and bowed to Huang Zu and said, "I am Huang Zhong, the general under the command of Han Xuan of Changsha. I don't know that he is a general, and he offended him much, but the general shouldn't be galloping like this in the downtown city, and it is inappropriate to hurt the innocent."
Huang Zu's eyes flashed with a shiny light and he said disdainfully: "It's just a small general, who dares to teach me a lesson? The person who comes will be taken down by me!"
More than 20 people standing behind Huang Zu immediately pulled out their weapons and were about to come forward to capture Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong did not expect that Huang Zu would be so unreasonable. No matter what, the two of them were both officials of the court, but Huang Zu actually wanted to capture him in broad daylight because of his selfish desires, which put Huang Zhong in a dilemma. Resistance is easy to lose the demographic, and he confirmed his crime of assassinating Huang Zu's prefect; if he doesn't resist, Huang Zhong is really unwilling to be captured by a group of wine bags, and he is even more unwilling to be humiliated.
Huang Zhong was hesitant and clenched his iron fists and loosened them. After loosening them, he clenched them again, showing Huang Zhong's contradictory mood at this moment.
Chapter completed!