Chapter 211 - Discussing official business (2) (2/2)
“Milord This way of recruiting will make the nobles hate us overnment officials!” Liu Kai immediately opposed
“Yes! This h he was the only one left in the Chen noble fah merits, even he would be able to start a new noble fa opposed to this idea
“N?!” Liu Mang did not expect so ive Lu Bu advice was Chen Gong The others that could give opinions are Chen Deng, Liu Mang, Liu Kai and Yan Hong Now out of the other 4 people, 3 already opposed to this idea Although Chen Gong did not speak, his expression showed disapproval as well
“What are you afraid of!” Liu Mang did not understand Didn’t Cao Cao do the sa for recruits while Liu Mang wasdid not know that Cao Cao only did this in the future On top of that, the process of change took several years Cao Cao’s recruiter, recruited a lot of poor and hu to this method was also the poor and huuys became officials and nobles, they wanted to preserve their own privilege and started to object to this system They were not so obvious in their actions when Cao Cao was around However, after Cao Cao’s death, they all started to object openly Cao Cao’s son Cao Pi, did not have such a benevolent government He knew he needed to appease the hearts of these nobles as he requires their support to remain on the throne
Therefore, he used the Nine-rank system The system was polished with the help of Chen Qun The syste theh ranked nobles while the top scorers of the normal-class citizens would beco stood at a side thinking about the proposal He did not speak as he observed the two sides
“If we do not give the order, then I ask elder brother Who is the one that is going to ad to do it?” Liu Mang said as he looked at Liu Kai Huang Zhong and Gan Ning could not say anything
“If we send out this order, ill offend all the nobles in the world!” Liu Kai earnestly persuaded Liu Mang The recruitment order would really offend the nobles as the nobles always relied on the fae to become and official and a free party What would the nobles think if this order was given out? If their privilege is gone, how could they be nobles?
They were only called nobles because all of their family members can beco those who extort from the co did not give up He who has killed al would definitely not rely on them
Lu Bu felt a little bit aard He understood this even if he was an idiot If he used Liu Mang’s proposal, he would earn the hearts of all the poor citizens in the land but would lose all the support of the nobles There would not bebecause there were not many nobles left However, when they expand to other states, it would no longer be athe support of the nobles The nobles will definitely use underhandedinfluence They e, but they ownedthat they would even scheainst the emperors who dared to offend theue of every story… and my brain cells)
Lu Bu also lost Xuzhou because the Chen faainst him
However, if he listened to Liu Kai, at the end of the day, there would be no progress and Lujiang would still lack government officials
“There can be a co finally spoke out as he analyzed Liu Kai and Liu Mang’s reasoning “We can use the recruith capable people, ill re’s co first, and then deal with the after to become a nuisance anyway so they could deal with that problem later
“Let’s do it this way!” Lu Bu pointed at Liu Mang “Hanyang Since this is your proposal, you will be in charge of it!”
“Understood!” Liu Mang bowed his head and could only agree to the compromise
“The issue of talent is resolved The next issue would be how Milord wants to expand the territory!” Chen Gong raised the third question Most of the overnor The rest is how to expand their territory
“Expand the territory?!” All the warriors’ eyes shi+ned Expanding the territory means more battles which mean more merits
“Territory!?” Now Lu Bu was surrounded by Cao Cao, Sun Ce and Liu Biao According to Chen Gong’s plan, they should wait for Sun Ce to act first This is because if they were to attack Sun Ce, it would be helping Liu Biao If they were to enter the fight between Sun Ce and Liu Biao, they would harm themselves more compared to the benefits earned
After that, there is Cao Cao! They were just chased out by Cao Cao so it would be difficult to send troops back Although Lu Bu had the idea, he knows that there is an even more powerful person at Hebei Yuan Shao! Yuan Shao has already occupied 4 provinces It would be a huge joke if he was defeated by Cao Cao Yuan Shao would be a big headache Besides that, it is impossible to rely on the Central Plains as there arethe place because of it is rich in resources Although Cao Cao was defeated at Chibi and lost 800,000 soldiers, his foundation was barely disturbed as the Central Plains was rich in resources If it was not because the Shu had mountains and the Wu had rivers, they would not have survived
Since these neighbours cannot be attacked, where would Lu Bu expand his territory to?