My younger brother Zhuge Liang

Chapter 30 Second Brother's Development Plan (New book, please vote, collect, and comment)
Sun Qian didn't know Zhuge Jin's past, but he knew that Liu Bei would definitely be very interested in it.

So taking advantage of the opportunity to thoroughly complete the task of persuading farmers to grow winter mustard in the next two days, Sun Qian wanted to mention this matter while reporting on his achievements.

Liu Bei was very pleased to learn that his persuasion to farm had finally worked and did not delay this year's winter farming season.

After asking about the specific numbers, I learned that the final statistics of farmers participating in the cultivation of winter mustard in Guangling and Huaiyin counties were about 7,000 to 8,000 households, more than 30,000 people, and the area was hundreds of thousands of acres.

Liu Bei was very satisfied with the result. When these extra vegetables matured, they would be enough to satisfy the hunger of at least tens of thousands of shi of dry food. They could also be paired with meals so that the soldiers could eat fresh vegetables in early spring, which would be an additional boost to morale.

In addition, Sun Qian also conveyed the intention of local elders such as Bu Long and Wei Hui to further surrender: saying that these big clans are willing to squeeze out more money and grain to support the governor's rule, but hope to share more production tools tinkered by the talented people under the governor's command.

To put it simply, these civil forces have also taken a fancy to the "drift net" fishing method, and are jealous that the government is keeping it secret for its own use, so they want to get a piece of the pie. At the same time, they are willing to pay the government a certain "contract fee" or provide financial support in other areas.

Liu Bei was of course happy to see this statement, but he also considered that progress must be gradual and that food must be eaten bite by bite. So he asked Sun Qian to reply, saying that after the winter mustard harvest this season, they would see the performance of each tribe and then discuss specific technical support.

After Liu Bei approved his opinion, Sun Qian appropriately recounted the details of Zhuge Jin's past that he had learned from his negotiations with Bu Long.

"What? Ziyu had two classmates in Guangling, Yan Jun and Bu Zhi? How could they be as famous as Ziyu?" Liu Bei really jumped up from the couch.
"What are you waiting for? Look for him quickly! He must be a great sage! With one Ziyu, our military situation has improved to this point. If we can get two more, we will be able to support the court!"

Zhuge Jin didn't know that he had betrayed Yan Jun and Bu Zhi, causing them to suffer undeserved flattery.

But these two guys are far inferior to his second brother Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang was also highly praised, but he had a solid foundation and could withstand the praise without being exposed, but it is hard to say about these two.

In the year before Zhuge Jin traveled through time, these two people were indeed his classmates, and they were originally planning to flee south together, which was the case in history. It was just that Zhuge Jin happened to be possessed and traveled through time on the way to escape south, and from then on, their paths changed and they went their separate ways.

Fortunately, these two people could not be found for the time being. Sun Qian had done his homework before coming:

"My Lord, I'm afraid it's difficult to get these two people right now. Bu Zhi currently lives in Haiyan County, Wu Commandery, and makes a living by farming and growing melons. I learned about this from his uncle. When he wrote back to his uncle yesterday, he also mentioned his appointment with Zi Yu.

As for Yan Jun, he was from Pengcheng County and had fled south when Cao Cao massacred the people of Pengcheng County. Since he had no fixed place to live, he was probably on his way south to avoid the chaos."

After hearing this, Liu Bei sighed with regret: "What a pity that the wise man has been given to Sun Ce! I remember that when I first met Ziyu, he also wanted to take his family and flee south to escape the war, right?
Fortunately, Yunchang closed the north gate of Huaiyin that day, so Ziyu did not leave, otherwise he would have been in Sun Ce's place now. In today's world, Wuhui and Jingchu have many exiled people from the Central Plains, which shows that we still need to quell the war to attract talents. "

Liu Bei was deeply moved and became more determined to protect the country and the people.

Only peace can attract talented people.

After Liu Bei finished expressing his feelings, Sun Qian asked again, "I also received a private letter from Lord Bu. It was Bu Zhi who asked him to look for Mr. Ziyu and to tell him something. Why don't you take it to him now? I didn't even open it after receiving it."

When Liu Bei heard that there was a letter from Bu Zhi to Zhuge Jin, he also became interested and immediately said that Sun Qian was right and that he should not open other people's letters privately.

But Liu Bei was curious, and after much thought, he decided to take the letter personally to Zhuge Jin's house to hand it over.

As long as Zhuge Jin opened the letter and read it in front of him, he would be able to find out the truth if he stayed there for a while longer without any shame.

Maybe he could ask Ziyu to write back and persuade Bu Zhi to come back, telling him that Guangling was no longer fighting.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei was very proud. Regardless of the lateness of the day, he personally took the letter to Zhuge Jin to deliver it.

……

Zhuge Jin had no idea how much social trouble the original owner of his physical body had caused him before he took over his body.

After all, he had only been here for more than twenty days, and many hidden dangers had not yet had time to erupt.

Zhuge Jin had recently helped Liu Bei accomplish a few things, and he had inevitably gained some fame in the local area, which could no longer be concealed.

People who already knew his background would of course be surprised at his amazing progress, but there was nothing that could be done about it.

Fortunately, Zhuge Jin didn't care about these things and had never thought about this.

During the few days of seclusion, he mainly stayed at home and dealt with two things.

The first thing is to settle my stepmother and uncle.

Three days ago, Song and Song Xin were finally safely brought from Haixi County to Guangling County.

When Liu Bei knew that Zhuge Jin's family was coming to live in Guangling, he specially sent people to renovate a mansion that was originally taken from Liu Xun and then gave it to Zhuge's family.

Anyway, Zhuge Jin wanted to decline politely, and Liu Bei said that it was a gift to his lady, so Zhuge Jin had no choice but to accept it out of filial piety.

After everything was settled with his mother and uncle, Zhuge Jin focused his main energy on writing at home for the next few days.

With his current status and position, he certainly didn't need to write anything to deal with official business, so what he had to write were all "teaching materials" prepared for his second brother Zhuge Liang -

Tang Guang, the messenger he sent to Yuzhang and Xiangyang to inquire about his uncle and brother, would soon set sail with his fleet.

Zhuge Jin planned to ask the other party to bring some teaching materials to Zhuge Liang this time in order to accelerate Zhuge Liang's growth. This was also an important matter that should not be underestimated.

Given the current development situation, Zhuge Liang will have to contribute to the family within a year or two at most.

At the beginning, he might be able to go to Yuzhang to contribute, but as time goes by, when Yuan Shu proclaims himself emperor and Liu Bei's forces go to war with Yuan Shu, Guangling and Yuzhang will definitely have to coordinate the overall situation, and Liu Bei will definitely formally recruit the Zhuge brothers and meet Zhuge Liang in person.

In order to cover up his "mutation", Zhuge Jin used his second brother as a shield at the beginning. The boast has already been made, and he cannot let people think that his second brother does not live up to the reputation - even if he cannot do ten times as much.

Zhuge Liang is only sixteen and a half years old now, and will be seventeen after the Chinese New Year. So he has nine years less time to grow up than when he came out of the mountain in the parallel time and space.

Zhuge Jin had to ensure that his brother's learning and growth would be twice as effective in the next year or so. He had to complete a three- to five-year journey in one and a half years at the very least. Because time was short, Zhuge Jin felt that other knowledge that existed in this world, such as the Art of War and the Hundred Schools of Thought, did not need to be written into books by him to teach his brother. Zhuge Liang could find learning materials and famous teachers in Jingzhou.

What he needed to inspire personally were nothing more than some philosophical and logical ways of thinking, as well as mathematical tools, other astronomical and geographical principles and common sense phenomena that broadened his horizons, experimental methods of observing the world, and so on.

Finally, there are some of his recent gains, experiences, research results and ideas.

In just four or five days, Zhuge Jin buried his head in writing every day.

It was also thanks to the fact that he was a gold medal mathematics lecturer at New Oriental before he traveled through time. He was very experienced in writing lesson plans and knew how to guide newcomers from the basics to the complex and step by step.

In fact, he had only abandoned these old skills for less than a month, and he picked them up again very quickly.

Since the world in the 21st century does not allow him to use his strengths and participate in K12 education and training, he will return to the end of the Han Dynasty and serve as a one-on-one tutor for the young Zhuge Liang.

Because his thinking is very smooth, the main time bottleneck every day is writing. His brain can definitely keep up with the speed, but his hands can't.

Zhuge Jin used an ordinary pen to write on the first day, but on the second day he changed to a hairpin brush with a particularly thin and short nib. This is because the thinner and shorter the nib is, the less strength needs to be controlled when writing, so it doesn't matter if you write with a heavier hand.

His pen-holding posture gradually became less standard. He no longer wrote with his wrist suspended in the air, but placed his arm directly on the paper to save effort, even if his handwriting was a little ugly.

He could invent the quill pen and pencil when he had time, or slowly train a trusted secretary to help him record his oral dictation.

In this way, I was finally able to write thousands of words by hand every day. In the end, I left my second brother a manuscript of more than 20,000 words, with dozens of simple diagrams and a long letter home introducing my learning experience and correcting my learning attitude.

Anyway, as long as he can establish contact with his second brother, they can communicate every few months in the future, so the teaching materials given this time do not need to be too long, just enough for Zhuge Jin to go out on tours and perform diplomatic tasks for one or two months.

Two months later, after returning from Cao Cao, he will give his second brother the second batch of materials.

……

It was already the afternoon of August 26th when I finished preparing the one-on-one teaching materials for my second younger brother.

Zhuge Jin planned to let Tang Guang and others go to Yuzhang and Xiangyang to search tomorrow, and then he would rest for half a day and go to talk to Liu Bei to see if Liu Bei had settled the matter of sending Lu Bu as an envoy to return his family.

Unexpectedly, just as he sealed the thick scroll, an uninvited guest came outside the yard.

Song asked Song Xin to check it out, and soon he brought Liu Bei and Sun Qian in.

Zhuge Jin thought Liu Bei was here to urge him to accept the mission to Lü Bu. He didn't want to make things awkward, so he took the initiative to bring up the topic.

Of course, Liu Bei immediately said: Everything will be based on his plan, and he will be asked to take action, and the conditions can be exactly what he said.

However, after dealing with it, Liu Bei quickly changed the subject: "We will talk about the mission to Lu Bu tomorrow. I came here today to tell you something else. Ziyu, I heard that you were originally in Guangling, but you have many classmates and friends who are very talented. Why don't you introduce them to me?"

Zhuge Jin was stunned, and Sun Qian beside him quickly reminded him in a low voice that the lord was talking about Yan Jun and Bu Zhi.

Zhuge Jin recalled for a while, and then observed Liu Bei's eager expression, and then he suddenly realized.

It is obvious that Liu Bei must have imagined his classmates to be "rarely seen talents".

Zhuge Jin didn't want to "praise to death" the two friends of the original owner of the physical body, so he answered indirectly: "I was busy with many things recently and didn't think about them. But they should all be in Wu County, right? General, have you heard that these two people are as talented as me?"

Liu Bei nodded jokingly: "Why? Are you afraid that they will take away your glory?"

Zhuge Jin laughed, "How is that possible? I'll tell you the truth. Although Zishan and Mancai were as famous as me when they were studying, they only studied classical Chinese and poetry. But Jin's studies were extensive, including astronomy, geography, medicine, divination, and astrology. Zishan had little experience in these subjects, and Mancai had no experience in military tactics either."

Zhuge Jin's words could be regarded as protecting his old classmates in the physical body. He gave Liu Bei a shot of prevention in advance, saying that these people were only as famous as himself in the study of Confucian classics, but he knew a lot of things and had a basic understanding of everything.

In terms of miscellaneous and practical studies, Yan Jun and Buzhi were far less comprehensive than him.

After hearing this, Liu Bei reduced his expectations by 70% and was no longer as enthusiastic as at the beginning.

He seemed to have remembered something, and then he took out a sealed letter from his arms: "In this case, please write back to them when you have time, Ziyu, and tell them that there is no war in Guangling now, and they can return home to reunite with their families and enjoy a peaceful family life. This is the letter that Bu Zishan asked someone to pass on to you, and you can take a look at what it is about."

Zhuge Jin took the letter and unfolded it in front of Liu Bei. Seeing that Liu Bei had no intention of leaving, he did not hide anything and took the initiative to introduce himself: "Zishan is curious, why I made an appointment with him to go to Wujun, he has already made the first move, but he has not seen any movement from me.

The letter also asked if the war in Guangling County had become more critical, and if his uncles and aunts were doing well. He also said that if any of his uncles and aunts wanted to move to Wu County, I could visit them on the way. However, since the war in Guangling has ended, there is no need to worry about these things. I will just write him a letter directly. "

Bu Zhi's idea was also very normal, because if they had to migrate during the chaos of war, it would definitely be safer to have more people to take care of them on the road.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Battle of Guangling broke out only half a month ago. Outsiders could not predict the development of the war, and it was normal for them to worry about their weak relatives trapped in the war zone.

As Zhuge Jin spoke, he was about to pick up his pen to write a reply to Bu Zhi.

But Liu Bei had a higher emotional intelligence than him and keenly saw an opportunity to take care of other people's families.

He quickly signaled Zhuge Jin not to write any more. "Wait a minute. In Bu Zishan's letter, did he mention the names and addresses of the uncles and aunts he was worried about?"

Zhuge Jin was stunned, then nodded: "Of course I mentioned this, otherwise how could I let Yu Lu take care of it?"

Liu Bei: "In this case, Gongyou, go and prepare some money, food, and perch. Ziyu, I think you should go there in person and deliver some to the uncles and aunts mentioned in Zishan's letter, and persuade them to live in Guangling peacefully without worrying about their livelihood and the war."

Zhuge Jin's heart moved. Bu Zhi was still in Wujun, and Liu Bei had already taken care of all the relatives he cared about. This method of winning people's hearts was really powerful.

(End of this chapter)