Lu Bu’s Life Simulator

The court meeting has ended, but the impact of the court meeting that many people have been looking forward to for a long time is far from over.

Taiwei's resignation was approved, Da Si Nong's resignation was approved, Shangshu Pushe's resignation was approved, Yushi Zhongcheng's resignation was approved, Tingwei's resignation was approved, and nineteen people were allowed to resign at the level of ministers alone. People, the biggest is Taiwei Zhou Zhong.

Then Jing Zhaoyin and other dozens of officials were allowed to resign one after another, and they were quickly replaced by others. Obviously, the move of resignation could not threaten Lu Bu.

Unlike Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu had already made full preparations, and he didn't know how to draw the nobles from Xiliang to his side. After these nobles came to power, they could clearly feel the efficiency of the government offices in Chang'an City. The child has improved a lot.

"This Lv Bu is too crazy!" Zhou Chang sat in Zhou Zhong's position and complained angrily.

Because his own remarks implicated his elder brother and forced him to resign, it is reasonable for Lu Bu to accept it. After all, the disputes in the court are like this. It won't be long before the court lacks people and he will have to invite his elder brother back.

After all, those people are the only ones who are qualified to take the position of the Three Dukes.

But then nearly one-third of the courtiers resigned, and Lu Bu actually agreed. This is a kind of deterrent to Lu Bu from the officials, but you should at least try to keep them instead of replacing them directly, right?

Many times in the past, hundreds of officials have jointly resigned from office, whether it is the emperor or the powerful ministers, who didn't come out to appease him immediately? It's all right now, and Lu Bu took the opportunity to replace him. Zhou Chang suspected that Lu Bu had prepared this move from the very beginning, so he was confident.

"Alas~" Zhou Zhong glanced at his younger brother and shook his head: "Now that Lu Bu is in power, you don't have to contend with him anymore."

In the past few months after Lu Bu took over the imperial court, all the officials in the court were in vain. In the process of disaster relief and flood control, those people brought by Lu Bu from Xiliang quickly divided away the rights that should have belonged to the officials, and even many of them belonged to the officials. The land of the hundred officials was also distributed to these people by Lu Bu.

To the officials, Lu Bu is undoubtedly a more formidable opponent than Dong Zhuo. No matter how noisy Dong Zhuo is, he still wants the officials to do things for him, but Lu Bu has already found someone who can do things for him and will not join forces with the officials. people together.

The Xiliang gentry entered Guanzhong to compete for various resources of the Guanzhong gentry. The moment they entered Guanzhong, their purpose was to pull down these big families in Guanzhong and go up by themselves. can tolerate.

So from the very beginning, Lv Bu and Dong Zhuo were different. Dong Zhuo asked for all officials. In terms of governance and economy, Dong Zhuo both asked for officials. However, Lv Bu solved this problem as soon as he came up. The relationship between supply and demand was reversed. The pattern is that it doesn't matter if Lu Bu has all the officials, but if the officials want to maintain their own privileges, they need to ask Lu Bu.

Once this demand relationship becomes one-way, the party in need can only be plundered by the party in demand in various senses. Unless you want to give up the privileges in your hands, you can only look at the face of the other party.

They used this method to drive Dong Zhuo crazy before, but now it was their turn to be driven.

It doesn't matter if Zhou Zhong loses the Taiwei, but what he is worried about is that the Zhou family will become Lu Bu's main target. Therefore, Zhou Zhong doesn't want Zhou Chang to provoke Lu Bu again at this time.

It is obviously not wise to confront Lv Bu head-on when Lv Bu is at his strongest. Just like this time, the resignation of all the officials was to put pressure on Lv Bu. Who would have thought that Lv Bu would be kicked out of the court without any loss to Lv Bu, on the contrary? Let them lose a lot of power in the court at once.

"Brother, do you just watch Lu Bu bully His Majesty like this? Do something wrong? Your Majesty is young, so he is more likely to be bewitched by him; and if Lu Bu is not restrained, I am afraid that he will go wrong even more." Zhou Chang said in a deep voice.

"How do you restrain him?" Zhou Zhong raised his head and glanced at Zhou Chang.

Now in this Guanzhong land, the only one who can restrain Lu Bu is probably Lu Bu himself.

"Brother!" Zhou Chang looked outside the door, got up and closed the door, and then leaned close to Zhou Zhong and said in a low voice: "Brother, although Lu Bu is powerful now, he is not truly ruled by no one. Contact the princes of the Guandong to come to rescue, then if Lu Bu does not have the Son of Heaven in his hands, just because of the many evil deeds he committed in this pass, he will die a bad death in the future!"

Zhou Zhong's complexion changed when he heard the words, he frowned and looked at Zhou Chang and said, "You mean... Yuan Shi?"

Among the lords of the Central Plains, brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are the most powerful. If the two brothers are willing to send troops, they may really be able to defeat Lu Bu.

Although the heroes at Hulao Pass were not able to get a bargain from Lu Bu at the beginning, firstly, the princes' hearts were not in harmony, and their strength could not be used in one place; , There is indeed a lot of difference in combat power between the two sides.

But now a year has passed, and the princes of the Central Plains have grown up in the mutual conquest and annexation. If there is another crusade by the princes at this time, it will be unpredictable who will win and who will lose in the end.

"That's right!" Zhou Chang nodded fiercely and said, "What is Lu Bu's background? What kind of virtue does he have to be in charge of the government? The four generations and three princes of the Yuan family are a hundred or a thousand times stronger than that Lu Bu, no matter their reputation or virtue. If you are in charge of the government, why worry about the uncertainty of the world? Why are you afraid of Lu Bu?"

Zhou Zhong made a gesture of silence, hesitated for a long time and said: "This matter is a big one, and it needs to be discussed in a long-term way. Don't tell outsiders."

Before doing such a big event, the fewer people who know about it, the better, otherwise it will be easy for news to leak out, especially now that Lu Bu is powerful, Zhou Zhong believes that among the gentry in Guanzhong, the gentry in Xiliang came to compete with them for resources It is not surprising that some people have already begun to secretly fall for Lu Bu in their hearts.

Zhou Jiagen is in Lujiang, so naturally he will not be as afraid of Lu Bu as the Guanzhong gentry, but to do this, first of all, it needs to be kept secret.

"Brother, don't worry, my younger brother will naturally know about this!" Zhou Chang nodded affirmatively.

...

The Zhou brothers did not know about the plot against Lv Bu. After the court meeting, as Lv Bu's Xiliang officials began to step into the court, Lv Bu's control over Guanzhong was further strengthened, and the efficiency of the court's affairs also improved a lot.

These Xiliang scholars are indeed not as good as those in Guanzhong in terms of top talents, but now there is no need to find top talents for most of the things in Guanzhong, or most of the non-decision-making things do not require the ability of the rulers to be so high, just about the same ability up.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible for the Guanzhong family to evade Lu Buna by exporting talents like evacuating Dong Zhuo.

"My lord, this is from the Zhong family, do you really want to keep it?" Ma Chao played with a pair of jade horses and looked at Lu Bu in surprise.

Isn't it time to draw a clear line with those aristocratic families?

"Why not accept it?" Lu Bu asked back: "They want to give it away, but I didn't force it."

"But..." Ma Chao put down the jade horse, scratched his head and said, "Then what should they do if they want to come here to ask the lord to do something or ask for an official?"

"Business matters." Lu Bu replied casually while playing with an exquisite jade cup.

Ma Chao was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, and looked at Lu Bu in confusion.

"People don't expect to give these things away, so they can give whatever they want." Lu Bu glanced at Ma Chao, "In this world, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between enemies and friends... Forget it, you don't understand either!"

Seeing Ma Chao's bewildered expression, Lu Bu knew that what he said was nothing.

Now Lu Bu really doesn’t need to be afraid of all the officials, but as the Xiliang gentry got more and more, some people swelled up and didn’t know how high they were And change is not static.

Therefore, although Lv Bu has now secured Guanzhong through the Xiliang gentry, he also needs to guard against the Xiliang gentry becoming today's court officials.

Therefore, it is inevitable to select some scholars who can be used by oneself to form a check and balance.

However, who is used to suppress this is very particular. If it is a great scholar like Yang Biao, it seems to be feasible, but in fact, if it is done like this, with Yang Biao's reputation of his generation, it is very likely that Xiliang scholars will be pulled over. go to him.

Therefore, Lu Bu still has to suppress these big families or famous people. Those who are really promoted will be those small families with little influence.

Lu Bu, a big family, can't get enough to feed. It is estimated that even if Lu Bu gives away all his power, people will not look at Lu Bu with high regard. Moreover, it is easy to form competition with the Xiliang gentry instead of directly annexing the other by attracting small families or wealthy families.

As for these gifts, they dared to accept them if they dared to give them to Lu Bu. The big family can still support their facade by keeping them. Although this facade is not necessary for Lu Bu today, it does not cost money...

Ma Chao's mind is destined to be impossible for him to understand these things. In fact, it is difficult for most people to get out of an inherent concept all their lives.

In Ma Chao's eyes, an enemy will always be an enemy. Since he is an enemy, what's the point of accepting his gift?

However, Ma Chao was a little annoyed by Lu Bu's evaluation, pointing to Dian Wei and saying, "I don't think he understands either!"

"?" Dian Wei turned his head and looked at Ma Chao silently.

This pony has been drifting a bit lately!

"There is one thing I need you to do." Lu Bu put down the wine glass in his hand, he remembered something, and his eyes fell on Ma Chao.

Ma Chao felt a little uncomfortable being watched by Lu Bu, and subconsciously clasped his fists and said, "I don't know what's going on?"

"Tomorrow you go to Gongzheng's place, and I will write a letter to him. When the time comes, you can do whatever he asks you to do, understand?" Lu Bu said while looking at Ma Chao.

Ma Chao's temperament cannot be tempered by himself, so he should be sent to Gao Shun to receive Gao Shun's training, otherwise it is not a good thing to be too jumpy.

"I..." Ma Chao has seen high numbers before, and he feels mediocre. He doesn't have Lu Bu's domineering sideways, nor Zhang Liao's bravery. Ma Chao is naturally unwilling to let himself go to such a person. , but seeing Lu Bu's gaze, Ma Chao trembled, cupped his hands and said: "The last general takes orders!"