"Who is Jian Yong?" Sun Ce was obviously not very familiar with this person, or completely unfamiliar with it.

"Jian Yong was Liu Bei's childhood friend, and he was a childhood sweetheart. Liu Bei started his career, and Jian Yong was just a scholar and a military advisor. He also ran errands everywhere to help Liu Bei lobby others..." Zhu Xin recalled a little.

He didn't talk about Jian Yong's gender, after all, he didn't know whether Jian Yong in this world is a man or a woman.

Many people think that Sun Gan is Liu Bei's diplomatic talent, but in fact Jian Yong's diplomatic ability is also very high.

Unlike Sun Gan's systematic diplomatic ability, Jian Yong was completely self-taught.

The latter is from the bottom of the family, so he is more aware of the principle of exchange of interests.

But from another perspective, if the other party is the mastermind behind the scenes, then Jian Yong wanders between the masterminds and with the help of the masterminds, diplomacy is always good, which is also possible.

"The other party is close to Liu Bei, and he also has the power of a military advisor in the army. Jian Yong came forward to propose and also took the Emperor of Han as the orthodox. Liu Bei personally regarded the Han clan as the Han clan, and of course he could only join Cao Cao." Zhu Xin shook his head.

"So that's the case. If Guan Yu comes forward, he will be suspected of sowing discord. Unless she has confessed to Liu Bei privately, why didn't she confess?" Sun Ce couldn't understand.

"She is also hesitating now whether Liu Bei and Zhang Fei are from there." Zhu Xin sighed. Especially when Liu Bei's defeat this time, she probably doubted the possibility even more. "I originally planned to wait for them to come and give them a special dish to see what the situation is. Now they are not here, so who knows what the situation is."

"Then what will happen to us next?" Sun Ce asked.

"It doesn't need to be anything. If Cao Cao sent troops to attack Lu Bu, then we will first defeat Guangling County. Instead of dividing Xuzhou, on the other hand, find a way to go west from Yuzhang to open up the passage of the four southern counties, and it is best to capture Jiangxia." Zhu Xin thought for a while, mainly in Jiangxia, there was a great talent who fought in the water, under Huang Zu's command, that is Gan Ning.

With Jiang Qin's cooperation with Gan Ning, the Yangtze River will be as solid as a golden soup.

Even along the Han River, we went north and arrived directly at the city of Xiangyang. There were four counties in Jingbei, but three counties were at your fingertips!

So Liu Biao deliberately moved the capital of Jingzhou to Xiangyang in order not to be controlled by the powerful.

Xiangyang changed water on three sides and surrounded by mountains on the other side, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

However, it was precisely because of the mountain that there were several heavy trenchers on the mountain that the entire city was within the attack range.

In the past, I probably thought that the environment was convenient and that even if others surrounded me, I could not defeat it. The main reason was that I lacked the harsh beating of technology.

Not to mention anything else, build a few medium-sized river ships, and then use a catapult on the bow and smash them slowly. If you don’t believe it, you can’t break the city wall!

Liu Biao has only been in office for a few years. Xiangyang was not originally the governor of Nanjun County. Is the city wall very high?

Even if the city walls in Chang'an are only six meters long, can the city walls in Xiangyang be even higher?!

Xuzhou is in a dead end, and Cao Cao will soon face Yuan Shao, and then he will take Xuzhou down.

It can even be said that even Guangling did not need it. The main purpose of capturing Guangling was to be able to guide Lu Bu to move south smoothly.

A strong man like Lu Bu is a waste not to be included in the trap. Especially after several contacts, it was not only Zhu Xin who saw it, but also Sun Ce and Zhou Yu who saw that this cute little guy is very suitable for cuteness and has no ambitions.

The only one who is truly ambitious is probably Chen Gong, who is under her command.

"Then we will mainly target Jiangxia next year!" Sun Ce immediately made a decision, "Why would you defeat the Nansi County as well?"

"Yes, it's a matter of time anyway!" Zhu Xin thought for a while and nodded, "In addition, talent selection also requires it. It is best to select five examiners every year and a group of scholars.

It can be a white person, a poor family, or a wealthy family. Instead, everyone will take the exam together. If they pass the exam, they will be arranged to be officials in each county according to their scores. Those who fail the exam can take the exam again every three years, so that talents can be continuously selected."

In fact, it is the imperial examination, but it cannot be said to be the imperial examination. After all, I remember that Liu Hong once recruited a group of Confucian scholars to take their talents and learn from them, and then he stayed to become a man.

It is hard to say whether this is the initial imperial examination, but this must be the prototype of the palace examination.

The more Sun Ce's territory, the bigger the gap for the officials, but there are a fewer scholars in Jiangdong than in other places.

Many scholars even fled Jiangbei, such as Bu Zhi and Wei Sheng.

After conquering the four counties in Jingnan, it would be nice to do this again. After all, the news will be passed on to Jingbei, and there are many scholars gathering there.

However, if you want to say that there are many scholars, it is still the Central Plains or Guanzhong.

Cao Cao was very comfortable in this regard. His talents were in the Central Plains, and his brave and good combat soldiers were in Liangzhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou, and Jizhou also had high-quality military sources. These are the capitals where Cao Cao could firmly sit in the world, even fight two.

However, as time goes by, Sun Wu's talents continue to decrease. The second generation has continued to produce powerful ministers, and even the Sun family itself has also produced powerful ministers. It is too late to make trouble for themselves and is completely paralyzed to the outside world.

"I haven't considered this issue, why would you talk to Zibu?" Sun Ce had a headache. Why did the topic suddenly become this?

"The population in Jiangnan is not that large, and there are still many Yue people in the mountains and forests. The living conditions of many people here are much worse than those in the Central Plains. First of all, the education level is in terms of your level. If you don't pay attention to it now, after twenty or thirty years, the original ministers will gradually grow old and new ones will not appear, how can you maintain a larger and larger territory?" Zhu Xin persuaded.

"But professionals have a lifespan of nearly two hundred years..." Sun Ce was a little confused.

"The problem is that officials at all levels cannot be all professionals, right?" Zhu Xin asked back. Basically, they are professionals at the top and middle and lower levels are non-professionals. However, to be honest, these professionals who have been in high school for a long time have also killed the young non-professionals' path to promotion.

But the actual life span is only two hundred years. Even if you feel tired of being an official and plan to retire, it will happen after the age of 150.

According to the twenty-year-old generation, that is about six or seven generations.

Suddenly I felt that there were few professionals, as if they were arranged on purpose. I felt that someone patted his butt and insisted on creating the professional thing. Then I found that the professional's life span was quite long, especially the adolescence was quite long.

In order to make up for this problem, the proportion of professionals can only be reduced.

At the same time, I am worried that there are too many male professionals and that there will be too many professionals in the descendants.

In the end, we deliberately make women's professions more so that men are not so easy to become professionals.

As a result, in this world, the status of professionals in females is similar to that of men.

Many female generals and officials began to appear... Because historical figures must be professionals, and they were worried that Sun Ce and other overlords would give birth to many descendants of professionals, they simply designed them as women...
Chapter completed!