In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, I talked about Red Cliffs, and it would be fine if I brag about a bunch of radish heads. But when a famous scholar like Cui Zhouping heard it, he felt somewhat unrigorous.

It’s also Cui Zhouping is not the kind of stereotypical old scholar, otherwise, this matter would have been over today.

"You joke, if you tell them the battle of Chibi, they have to be willing to listen to it." Liu Yi welcomed Cui Zhouping into the study and looked at Cui Zhouping and smiled.

Let’s talk about the story next time, let’s talk about the Romance of the Gods, after all, it’s a long time.

Cui Zhouping laughed and scolded Liu Yi for saying something like misleading his children. He sat down opposite Liu Yi, looked at Cui Zhouping and smiled and said, "You are so busy, how can you come to my humble room?"

"Be entrusted by someone." Cui Zhouping took the teacup handed over by Deng, looked at Liu Yi with a smile, "But you are extremely comfortable when you come back this time. Why? Uncle Liu captured Yizhou and the two states in great power. You have not achieved success. You have assisted him, so why did you run back to Jingzhou instead?"

"I miss home." Liu Yi picked up the teacup and took a sip silently and said, "And it's not good to live like this freely?"

When Cui Zhouping heard this, he looked at Liu Yi carefully.

"What are you watching me like this?" Liu Yi felt a little uncomfortable when he saw it.

"The Marquis of Yuting is going to be a master craftsman, General Annan, and now he also serves as the prefect of Yueyang. With Bo Yuan's power, it is time to take a rest now." Cui Zhouping smiled.

Although most of these positions are empty positions and do not have much power, if you talk about honor and favor, Liu Yi's official titles are not much worse than Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, which is not a good thing for Liu Yi, a foreign minister.

"Originally, I was worried that you would not know how to advance or retreat, but now it seems that you are too worried." Cui Zhouping drank the tea soup and shook his head and sighed.

"Lord, it's not harmful to me." Liu Yi shook his head and smiled.

"Not now, it does not mean there is no future." Cui Zhouping sighed and said, "The emperor is old and the young master is young. After a hundred years, the young master will succeed to the throne. It is inevitable that you are worried about you important officials."

"The world is not decided... Maybe it's because you and I have been worried too much." Liu Yi said after a moment of silence. Such things are always difficult to accept.

"Then why are you coming back?" Cui Zhouping glanced at Liu Yi and said calmly: "Don't say that you miss homesickness. If you really want to, you can connect your wife and children to Chengdu."

Liu Yi was silent when he heard this. When he asked Pang Tong to determine the five elements of Yin and Yang and build a manor, he wanted to bring his wife and children into Shu. It was just a matter of rewarding that made Liu Yi feel alert, so he chose to come back just now.

"I won't talk about this anymore. You're here this time, not just to talk about this matter, right?" Liu Yi shook his head. He has returned. He has temporarily left Liu Bei's core circle and the crisis has been resolved. In fact, there is no need to continue to say this matter. What's the use? Show off his ability to retreat bravely?

"What? Can't you come here if you're fine?" Cui Zhouping said with a funny look.

"Of course, it's just that you're entrusted by someone?" Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping and asked.

Well……

"I'm indeed entrusted by someone. Then Zhao Xu asked me to come and ask you to show your strength." Cui Zhouping smiled.

"Who?" Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping blankly. Who is Zhao Xu? Why did he ask me to be proud of him?

"The former prefect of Yueyang." Cui Zhouping looked at Liu Yi's expression and suddenly laughed: "I knew that he was guilty of being a thief."

"The Prefect of Yueyang?" Cui Zhouping mentioned it, and Liu Yi remembered that there was indeed such a person. He had sent someone to urge him to take office before, but was sent by Liu Yi casually, asking Zhao Xu to be the governor of Yueyang County and continue to deal with his own affairs. Don't bother him if you have nothing to do.

"He wants to plot against me?" His eyes narrowed slightly. He was not a stupid person. He soon came back to his senses. It was probably because Zhao Xu had some bad idea, but he didn't get into a trap and trapped him: "How could you speak for this person?"

Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping with some confusion.

"This person has some ability to manage the local area, but he is quite selfish. During his reign, he made a lot of selfish interests." Cui Zhouping smiled and said, "You came back this time and served as the prefect of Yueyang. He was a little unwilling to do so. He should have tampered with the account book and household registration and wanted to give you a warning. Who knew that when you came back to Yueyang, you went straight back to the fishing town. He thought you had seen through his plan, so..."

Liu Yi didn't say anything, but just looked at Cui Zhouping silently. Such a person is really hard to like.

"I moved my team to Yueyang. This person has made great efforts. If my Cui family wants to gain a foothold in Yueyang, they must deal with the gentry of Jingxiang." Cui Zhouping said after being silent for a moment.

This thing is a bit dirty to say, but that's it. Cui Zhouping moved his family to Jingzhou to develop, and Zhao Xu helped. At this time, Zhao Xu was in trouble, so he asked Cui Zhouping to help. If this favor is not returned, it would be difficult for the Cui family to open up the situation in Jingzhou and gain the recognition of the scholars in Jingzhou. After all, the circle is so big. If you, Cui Zhouping and Liu Yi, no one will say anything, but if you don't repay the favor, it will break the rules.

"Have the Cui family moved to Jingzhou?" Liu Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this and looked at Cuizhou Ping.

"It's just my team." Cui Zhouping shook his head. This is equivalent to establishing a self-employed person. Of course, it also shows that Cui Zhouping has a new view on the current situation in the world, and the Cui family no longer blindly supports Cao Cao. Of course, Cui Zhouping's attitude is also very important among them. If he doesn't want to, no one can force him.

"Okay, tell Zhao Xu to be his county magistrate well, no one will do this." Liu Yi nodded after thinking for a moment.

"I thought you would be selfless." Cui Zhouping looked at Liu Yi and smiled. If it were Zhuge Liang here, this matter would probably not be so easy to solve.

"The water is clear, there is no fish. There is no absolute cleanliness in this officialdom, either black or white... it is not suitable for the officialdom." Liu Yi sighed. There has never been absolute right or wrong in this world. Now the situation in Jingzhou is relatively complicated. It is necessary to face the pressure from Cao Cao and Jiangdong at the same time. The internal should also focus on comfort. As long as it is not angry or resentful, it is difficult to put too much pressure on him at this time. Even if he pursues the matter, what can he do? Zhao Xu can kill him, but his crime will not be executed.

What would the Zhao family think? If this incident made the Zhao family hold a grudge against him, not to secretly committing to Jiangdong or Cao Cao, even if he kept using his influence to stumbling on himself in Jingzhou, Liu Yi would not have thought of having a good life.

He is not Zhuge Liang, he does not have as great ability as Zhuge Liang, and his principles and bottom line are not here. As for Zhao Xu, Liu Yi will slowly collect evidence and keep it, which is also a handle. If Zhao Xu can be obedient in the future, these things will not appear again. But if Zhao Xu dares to use small tricks with him, it will not be a strange thing to settle the score in the future.

"Thank you." Cui Zhouping nodded silently. Just as Liu Yi said, he was in the world and couldn't help himself. Since he decided to set up his own business, he could not do many things by himself.

"Why do you need to do this? You are here just right now, and I have something to discuss with you." Liu Yi took a few thread-bound books from the bookshelf and handed them to Cui Zhouping and said, "I am going to open a college here. These things have been compiled by me. But I am definitely not enough for this academy. I want to invite a few high-level scholars to come and classify various knowledge. These high-level scholars teach together and choose suitable disciples to teach. What do you think?"

Liu Yi had already told Cui Zhouping before that Liu Yi had nothing to do recently, so he tinked out the hydraulic printing press and improved the paper. He was going to start from himself to promote the printing technology step by step. However, since Liu Bei was unable to make up his mind, Liu Yi could only do this by himself, but his own abilities were limited and he could not stand completely against the scholars. Liu Yi needed to find like-minded people and promote it with him.

From another perspective, if you can get the support of some scholars, it may be more helpful for promotion, but in this way, you cannot directly promote it all day long. Instead, you will start promoting it little by little, first promote it from students, and then like the entire Yueyang, Jingzhou, Bashu, and then promote it to the whole world. This time span will be very long, and people will slowly accept it. It may take decades or even hundreds of years, but it is the safest way.

"Do you know..." Cui Zhouping looked at several books and said with complicated eyes: "If it was just a college, I could help invite a few poor friends to teach. There are not many people willing to teach this publicly in Jingzhou."

Although there were also academies in this era, such as Yingchuan Academy and Lumen Academy, they were all private and used to maintain and consolidate connections. Generally, the subjects of teaching were basically from prominent families, and some poor families, such as Liu Yi, who recruited disciples without asking for background. Even if the famous scholars are good at this, they are rarely willing to teach disciples publicly.

This is also the reason why Liu Yi has established academies in Mocheng, Yueyang, Chengdu and Hanzhong, but has never been able to be built. Schools alone cannot be used, you have to have teachers. In this era, knowledge is something that only the best can learn. Most people do not have this qualification. How many scholars are willing to teach what they have learned to others?

So even Cui Zhouping could only find some old friends from poor families, but the famous scholars didn't even think about it. Even these poor families were mostly poor families who depended on the Cui family. Giving these people to Liu Yi was Cui Zhouping's efforts to do his best.

"Just as long as there are people." Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping and smiled: "All things are difficult at the beginning, so take your time in the future."

This kind of thing breaks the current concept and cannot be rushed.

"Is Brother Zhouping willing to come out to help?" Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping and asked with a smile.

"I'm afraid it won't work for the time being." Cui Zhouping shook his head. Now he is different from the past. Now he has brought all his people out of his own. Next, it's time to consider the survival of the family. Even if he is not ready to become an official for the time being, he still recommends his clan members to become an official to consolidate the Cui family's status: "But I can recruit more disciples for you."
Chapter completed!