Chapter 47: Means
The soldiers on the school ground were training enthusiastically, and Yuan Mai sat cross-legged in the coach's tent and closed his eyes and pondered, thinking about a way to bring Zhao Yun under his command.
During this period, first-class talents have been almost divided up by various princes, and there are very few top generals that Yuan Mai can recruit.
Apart from Zhao Yun, other top-ranking military generals who have not yet surrendered to their final lords, there are Zhang Liao, who was under Lu Bu, Gao Shun who was chopped by Cao Cao; Huang Zhong, Wei Yan from Jingzhou, Ma Chao from Xiliang, Pang De and others... As for the others, Yuan Mai couldn't remember them.
But Lu Bu's power is still strong at present, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun are both loyal and righteous people, and there are Cao Cao's power to block it. It is difficult to recruit these two people.
As for Huang Zhong from Jingzhou, he is probably now the subordinate of Han Xuan, the prefect of Changsha. From Jizhou to Jingnan, thousands of miles away, through forces such as Cao Cao, Zhang Xiu, Liu Biao, etc., it is a dream to extend his tentacles to Changsha to recruit people. Moreover, what qualifications do you have to let others serve you?
Ma Teng was powerful in the Yongliang area, and the Qiang people were very afraid of him. It was impossible for Ma Teng to be immortal and to recruit two powerful generals, Ma Chao and Pang De.
Besides, Ma Chao wanted to be a person who dominated the country at heart. If he hadn't been desperate, he would not surrender to Liu Bei. After the Battle of Hanzhong, Ma Chao never showed up again. This shows that Liu Bei also noticed Ma Chao's thoughts and put him on the shelf, neither offending nor using it.
"After this analysis, in addition to Zhang He, the top level I am most likely to recruit is the military general, Zhao Zilong of Changshan. We must not let him leave Youzhou! If we cannot take it for ourselves, then let Zilong disappear from the world! Anyway, we can't afford it to Liu Bei, so as not to suffer from the tiger's troubles in the future..."
Yuan Mai slowly stood up, paced back and forth in the camp, muttering to himself. There was a breath of decisiveness in his eyes. What an archery athlete lacked the most is decisiveness. When it was time to take action, he would shoot the crossbow arrow in his hand without hesitation!
When I thought of the five words "Zhao Zilong, Changshan", Yuan Mai's eyes suddenly lit up: Isn't "Changshan" in the jurisdiction of Jizhou? Why don't I make a fuss about Zhao Yun's family?
After making up his mind, Yuan Mai shouted outside the tent: "Fan Hu, where is Fan Bao?"
"As for the order!" The Fan brothers, who were like iron towers, entered the camp uniformly and bowed to each other.
"You two will go and order the fifty elite soldiers, bring dry food, and go to Changshan Kingdom with me." Yuan Mai conveyed his orders while tidying up his clothes.
"promise!"
The two military waiters received the order and turned around. The soldiers took obedience as their duty, and they did not dare to ask too much, but just carried out the order.
Yuan Mai packed his bags and didn't bother to say goodbye to Qu Yi and Tian Feng, so as not to say more and more troublesome words. He just greeted Hao Zhao, Wang Shuang, and asked them to train the army well and visit a friend by themselves. He returned in a few days. The three of them were busy with official duties, and they said "Take a good boy, take care of themselves", and sent Yuan Mai and his party out of the camp, and each went to work on their own.
Changshan County is about 300 miles north of Yecheng, and can reach it in one and a half days.
Since Yuan Shao completely took control of Jizhou, he vigorously eliminated the remaining troops of Zhang Yan, the black bandits, and implemented the means of attacking and winning over. While recruiting surrender, he sent elite troops to severely attack the black bandits entrenched in various places. Although Zhang Yan failed to surrender, he did not dare to build a store in Jizhou anymore. His main activities were limited to the junction of Jizhou and Bingzhou, and even ran to the places where Bingzhou and Youzhou were bounded by robbery.
Therefore, Jizhou has become much more peaceful than when the princes were in power ten years ago. Yuan Mai was not worried about robbers who would encounter black mountain bandits. Besides, he was all light cavalry. If he accidentally met the bandits who were robbed by the robbers, he would rush over with a quick horse.
While urging his troops to rush, Yuan Mai secretly thought about the way to win over Zhao Yun: "Well, you must learn from Liu Da'er. In the Three Kingdoms, you must learn from Cao Aman and learn from Liu Da'er with a strong face. If you can combine the advantages of the two, and with my time travel golden fingers, it will be difficult not to achieve a career!"
In summary, Cao Cao mainly relies on family relations and recommended each other by his family. Cao Ren and Cao Hong brothers were his cousins and Xiahou brothers were his clan members. Then he reused the Xun clan, and later became famous, he recruited countless heroes by means of clear rewards and punishments.
Liu Bei, a guy with no brothers, did not have so many brothers. Although he deceived the identity of a "Han Emperor's Uncle", it is probably rare for the emperor who has fallen to the stage of selling mats and weaving shoes. But this guy is smart and seems loyal, but in fact he is no less sensible than anyone else. Otherwise, how could he achieve the career of the emperor?
To sum up in the words of later generations, Liu Bei's employment of people was to win over talents by "fire" and "making a foundation". As soon as he met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two fierce men, he prayed to heaven and earth, and to have a charity in Taoyuan. He would eat at the same table and sleep at the same bed. He would definitely be the king of charity!
Since then, Liu Bei tasted the sweetness and relied on these two killer moves to win people's hearts, and with the means of shedding tears and throwing children, it was simply unfavorable. Not to mention the powerful generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun were fooled and devoted. Even Zhuge Kongming, who was wise and almost demonic, was fooled and "devoted his whole life to himself until he died." He couldn't help but die in the Northern Expedition military camp, and even lost his children and grandchildren's lives!
In Yuan Mai's memory of his previous life, there were no fewer scenes of Liu Bei holding Zhao Yun's hand and crying. He then won over Zhao Yun with his brotherly affection. Zhao Zilong, who fooled him, developed a feeling of "a scholar who dies for his confidant", and Liu Da'er would not marry him!
So much so that after Gongsun Zan was destroyed, Zhao Zilong did not surrender Yuan Shao nor surrendered to Cao Cao, but ran thousands of miles to Runan to find the down-and-out Liu Bei. How profound should this be the trick that he deceived heroes to this extent?
"Oh... it's more than Zhao Yun, and why is Guan Wu Sheng the same?" Yuan Mai rode his horse and whipped it, mixed in the team and galloped northward, but he was thinking about Liu Bei's way of employing people.
Thinking about it, Cao Mengde was a hero of a generation and favored Guan Yu. He won over a small banquet every three days and a big banquet every five days, but he still failed to do so. In the end, Guan Lao Er still hung a seal and sealed gold, and rode alone thousands of miles away. Even if he lost Maicheng in the end and died under the sword of the Eastern Wu, he would not beg for mercy.
What a powerful trick to fool a generation of heroes so devotedly?
"If Liu Da'er was born in the twenty-one world, he would be the absolute pyramid scheme king!" Yuan Mai rode his horse and whipped in his heart, muttering to himself with some amusement.
After thinking about this, Yuan Mai made up his mind in his mind that in the future, he would learn from Liu Xuande, and he would snot and cry. At worst, I could wash the chrysanthemums and ask for a chrysanthemums. I could do what you Liu Da'er could do, but I don't believe that your chrysanthemums have a unique world?
Two days after traveling, a group of fifty people came to the city of Zhending, Changshan Kingdom.
After asking, I learned that this is a county town with 5,000 households. There are about 40,000 to 50,000 residents in the city, and more than 300 county soldiers are usually guarded by them. In recent years, with the consolidation of Yuan Shao's regime, it has been safe and sound in recent years.
Standing at the city of Zhending, Yuan Mai felt a little worried. He wondered if Zhao Yun's family was still there? Or had moved to Gongsun Zan's control. If that were the case, his trip would be in vain!
It was already evening, and farmers who went out to farm returned to the city one after another. Yuan Mai Fan Hu, Fan Bao and others sent him away, and led his horse to the city gate alone, stopped a farmer and asked, "Mr. Taotiao, can there be a Zhao Yun and General Zhao Zilong in the city?"
The farmer put down his hoe, looked at Yuan Mai, and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing when you look for General Zilong?"
Chapter completed!