Just as Liu Bei designed to defeat Zhang He's army in Yongqiu and pursued the situation in Hejian, the situation in the Central Plains changed subtly, and almost all the princes turned their attention to Jizhou, the sudden news from Guanzhong was like a storm. Under Li Ru's strategy of sending books for free, it quickly swept across the Central Plains.

The book was written by Li Ru himself, including the Huns who wanted to use tricks to capture King Yong Liu Bian to threaten the Han Dynasty. Then Ye Zhao wisely saw through the enemy's tricks, not only annihilated all the invading enemies, but also used the tricks. Before the Huns attacked, they sent troops to sneak into Hetao secretly. Taking advantage of the time when the Huns were putting their energy in Chang'an, they raided the Dachengzhai, and then defeated the Huns to Jiluzhai, and Guan Yu killed Shanyu.

In short, a book is to praise the greatest achievements in foreign wars since the Eastern Han Dynasty. The details also embellish and beautify the Han army. The Huns said the faces of the Huns are abominable, and not killing them is not enough to calm the anger. In the book, the evil deeds of the Huns were exaggerated a hundred times, which also made even the final result that Ye Zhao's troops massacred nearly 300,000 Huns, but the people in the Central Plains had no choice but to applaud Ye Zhao for having too much killing.

But no matter how you modify and beautify it, Ye Zhao slaughtered and even killed 300,000 Huns under the butcher knife in this battle, which was quite shocking for many people.

Although Ye Zhao was known as a famous general in the world, he also had a situation of fighting all the way, whether it was the Battle of the Yellow Turbans in the past or the factional disputes in Luoyang later, the princes attacked Dong, even if they occupied Shu and naturalized the Southern Barbarians, although they killed a lot, it was only on the battlefield, and Ye Zhao had almost never done such a thing as a massacre.

The Southern Xiongnu reconciled in Hetao for a hundred years, with a population of nearly 500,000. However, after this battle, there were only about 200,000 left in Hetao, and they were all women and children. Who would have thought that Ye Zhao, who surrendered to the army for the sake of the Yellow Turbans, would have been so cruel and ruthless this time.

Of course, there is an explanation in the book that the Hu people are repeatedly in a row. If they cannot fight and end up afterwards, they will inevitably surrender and rebel again in the future, which will continue to harm our Han Dynasty. Some of the arguments about the Hu people's threat are well received by the people in the north, but the people's ability to accept it does not mean that others can accept it. Among them, the one who reacted the most intensely was the scholars. For half a year later, Ye Zhao was almost in a state of being criticized by the entire Central Plains scholar class.

In fact, scholars don’t care about killing the Huns. They are not of our race, but their hearts must be different. Ye Zhao killed not the Han people. In fact, there is no need to get so angry. What really touched the scholars is Li Ru’s book.

There is no problem with the book itself. With Ye Zhao's current status, it is completely reasonable to publish a book to beautify himself, but what scares scholars are the popularity of this book.

Because it is a free gift, most people who know literacy will ask for one, and the writing style is almost all in vernacular. In the eyes of most well-educated people, it is just vulgar and has no connotation at all. But it is just such a book that the people read with relish. It is this book that has made Ye Zhao's name truly enter thousands of households.

Although Ye Zhao is famous, most of his reputation is spread in the circle of scholars. He is promoted to fight against the common people. The farthest person is the county magistrate. The most important official is the county magistrate. He is busy making a living all day long. Many people can't even explain where they go, let alone Ye Zhao who is far away in Guanzhong.

And scholars are obviously standing opposite to Ye Zhao now, so how could they help Ye Zhao open their eyes? Public opinion has always been in the hands of the scholar class. This is also an era when scholars control the world's verbal conversation.

But now, Ye Zhao's book has reversed this situation. Although many scholars later realized that they have banned books from Guanzhong in regular bookstores in various places, sometimes, the more you do this, the more curious the people are.

Therefore, Ye Zhao began to set up a book to compile some myths and legends into books and sell them to Guanzhong in this vernacular way. The price is not expensive. Compared with those books that require many people to study throughout their lives, these books have no meaning, but they just make people feel happy to read. At the same time, they also invisibly flow some Guanzhong ecology into Guandong little by little.

Some savvy scholars quickly discovered these problems. Many places directly listed the books from Guanzhong as banned books and prohibited sales, but even so, it was enough.

"What a Ye Zhao!" In a wine shop in Xuchang, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, a young man smiled while browsing a book.

"Is there still the mood to praise him?" Opposite the youth, there was the actual controller of Yanzhou now. Xun Yu and Cao Cao led their army to the expedition. Xun Yu was in the rear of Governor Xun Yu. When his friend Guo Jia abandoned his official position and returned home, he came to visit him. Xun Yu invited Guo Jia to drink and also showed the book to Guo Jia.

Last year, Yuan Shao wanted to fight with Cao Cao and Liu Bei at the same time, with his strong strength and fighting on both sides, and Guo Jia made a statement to stop him. Fighting on both sides is a taboo, especially Liu Bei. Cao Cao attacked on both sides. Once one side is wrong, it will definitely be difficult to deal with the front and end. According to Guo Jia's suggestion, Youzhou has been fighting for years and the people's livelihood is exhausted. You can make peace with Liu Bei first and give Liu Bei time to rest.

After all, Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, with only so many people. Not to mention one or two years, even if you give him ten or eight years, Liu Bei will not develop with the population of Youzhou and the Hu disasters in the frontier. Yuan Shao used this period to take Cao Cao down, Qingzhou and Jizhou to make every effort. That is, Cao Cao lost all his attention. As long as he swallowed Cao Cao, there would be only one Liu Bei left. That would be enough to capture it?

Unfortunately, after hesitating, Yuan Shao finally had an inflated self-confidence, which made him choose to fight on both sides. Guo Jia no longer wanted to see what the result was, but one thing is certain that Yuan Shao was definitely not the leader of success. Even if he won by luck this time, it would be a tragic victory. At most, he would have occupied Youzhou, but it would be difficult to defeat Cao Cao.

Therefore, under the cover of Guo Tu, Guo Jia abandoned his official position and returned home, and passed through Xuchang to visit him.

"It's indeed a character!" Guo Jia put down the book and smiled and said, "Wen Ruo can't see the mystery of this book?"

"Vulgarity." Xun Yu said with a dark face.

"If you only talk about the book itself, it is indeed vulgar." Guo Jia smiled and said, "But if Wen asked me to read this book, I must have understood that the Taiwei Ye sent this book to Guanzhong, which was not for me and other scholars. This book was originally flowing to the people. Although books have flourished in recent years, there are more or less one or two books in the family, and most of the people are literate, but it is a bit difficult for them to understand books such as the Book of Changes and the Doctrine of the Mean."

The Book of Changes and the Doctrine of the Mean, let alone ordinary people who have just been exposed to writing, even many famous scholars cannot understand it thoroughly. If the people are busy making a living, how can they have the time to study it?

"But these books are different, easy to understand, and the stories are fascinating and can capture people's hearts best. Among them, there are some of the current life in Guanzhong." Guo Jia looked at Xun Yu and smiled: "Wen Ruo, I am blunt, although I have never been to Guanzhong, only from this book, Guanzhong is almost a paradise for the people, and many ideas are quite novel."

Xun Yu fell silent when he heard this. Putting aside his personal position, he could see that Guanzhong is thriving now, but he knew it was one thing, and it was impossible to ask him to care about Guanzhong.

The prosperity of the people in Guanzhong was formed by Ye Zhao's continuous weakening of the rights of the entire scholar class. Those scholars who followed Ye Zhao grew up under these ideas and were able to accept this idea. After all, they were in a down-and-out manner before that. Even if the interests of the entire scholar class were constantly weakened, for them, they were also glorious. In addition, Ye Zhao did have some means to win people's hearts, so that a large number of poor talents could gather together.

For example, if the rights of aristocratic families are 100, after Ye Zhao's continuous suppression and weakening, there are only ten left. This is naturally unacceptable for the original scholars, but for the new scholar class under Ye Zhao's command, their original rights were zero, but now they are gradually increasing to ten, and they have status and status, so they are naturally happy. The remaining ninety are gradually given to the lower class by Ye Zhao in a planned manner, so that the people are rich and will naturally be supported by the people.

In this way, the people of Guanzhong are rich, the country is strong, and the people support them, but what they lose is the interests of the aristocratic families.

It depends on one's opinion on who is stronger and who is weaker, but for Xun Yu, who is a top Han family and a prominent family, it is obviously unacceptable. He can give some of his 100 rights to the people to increase the popularity of the family. However, if one hundred miles is taken out, two points, and three points, the people will be grateful enough, but it is obviously unacceptable to take out most of them.

Originally, Ye Zhao's family supported the princes to occupy Guandong, and everyone was at peace. However, now that Ye Zhao's books were introduced to Guandong, it not only made a large number of people yearn for Guanzhong, but also represented a terrible signal. Ye Zhao was no longer satisfied with Guanzhong, Shuzhong, even Hetao, and Xiliang, and had already begun to deploy the world.

"Wu Xiaosu is known as a genius, can he have a solution to it?" Xun Yu looked at Guo Jia and said in a deep voice.

This time, he invited Guo Jia, firstly, to recommend talents to Cao Cao. He had known Guo Jia for many years and knew very well about the talent of this friend. He wanted to recommend him to Cao Cao, secondly, to think about Guo Jia asking for advice.

"It's not difficult. At least the method of banning books in various places does not work. People are already obsessed with this thing. It's difficult to ban it. It's better to lose it if you want to ban it. You might as well imitate some such books in Guanzhong, so that the people have more choices. At the same time, you can also fabricate some filth in Guanzhong to slander the reputation of the Taiwei. As for how to slander... don't need me to say?"

"Fengxiao is indeed worthy of being a genius!" Xun Yu smiled and said, "That... the matter of becoming an official..."

"No hurry!" Guo Jia shook his head and said, "The Yuan Shao incident still makes me feel scared. I will be an aide to Wen Ruo first. As for officialdom, I will be exempted. Jia cannot bear the constraints!"

"That's good... it's good!" Although he was a little regretful, Xun Yu knew very well about his friend's temper. Since he couldn't speak out, even if you put a knife on his neck, he would never compromise. He nodded and said, "It's a bit insignificant to be my aide."

"You are unyielding and you are unyielding!" Guo Jia laughed and said, "You need good wine, and you also need beauty. Jia's expenses are not low."
Chapter completed!