The Nameless of the Common Clans

The Bu family is a big family in Huaiyin. During the period when Yuan Shu was in charge of Jianghuai, they fled to Jiangdong to avoid disaster. In the fifth year of Jian'an, a talented Bu Yi from the Bu family served under Sun Ce. After Sun Ce's death, Bu Yi was promoted to the position of the prefect of Danyang County, and the Bu family also moved to Jiangdong with the whole family at that time.

It is quite interesting to talk about how Chen Jin married the Bu family. Until now, Chen Mo still finds it funny when he thinks about it.

Time goes back to two years ago.

When Chen Jin first arrived in Chengde, Chengde was in a mess. It had just been plundered by Jiangdong not long ago. No one in the court was willing to take up the post here. Most of the capable people in the county moved to other places, either to Jiangdong or to places north of Shouchun to make a living. Han Qiong established a defense line in the Shouchun area to prevent the invasion of the Jiangdong army. Chengde belonged to the outer perimeter of the defense line.

After Chen Jin arrived in Chengde with Xu Zhi, Dian Man, Guo Huai and others, he began to actively seek the people's sentiments and visit the local nobles who had not left yet, hoping that they would stay.

However, given the situation in Chengde at that time, the wealthy families had either fled or built forts to protect themselves, and the rest secretly defected to Jiangdong.

Chen Jin had just arrived in Chengde when he was embarrassed by the local gentry. Several government orders were issued, but the county officials pretended to obey them, and naturally he encountered many setbacks when visiting the gentry.

He learned from Chen Mo to pretend to be a peddler and wandered around the countryside. Because he had rich rural experience in Juyi Township, Chen Jin easily sorted out the problems facing Chengde County from the villagers.

The population loss was serious, and the six gentry families who stayed in the area had secretly defected to Jiangdong, and at the same time basically controlled the entire Chengde. The land in Chengde was basically promised to these six families. As for why the six families did not defect, this was naturally not something that ordinary people could know.

After integrating the information, Chen Jin returned to Chengde County and visited the six gentry again, hinting that he had also defected to Jiangdong, and this time he came to try to help Jiangdong break through Han Qiong's defense line.

Originally, Chen Jin just made up a reason, but he didn't expect that the six families responded and accepted Chen Jin in the first time.

Although there was no evidence, such a flawed reason was accepted by the other party, which made Chen Jin suspicious, but Chengde's initiative must be taken over immediately, otherwise there would be changes. Chen Jin immediately hosted a banquet to entertain the six family heads.

At that time, Chen Jin only had Dian Man, Guo Huai, Xu Zhi and twenty followers. In addition, the yamen was full of people from the six family heads. The six family heads did not suspect him and came to the banquet together. However, Chen Jin captured and killed the six family heads in one fell swoop when he was drunk.

Although the twenty followers were not many, they were all selected by Chen Mo himself. Each of them had superb martial arts and tacit cooperation. They were not comparable to those private soldiers of the wealthy families. Four of the six family heads were killed on the spot, and the remaining two were captured alive. Chen Jin also took the opportunity to kill the officials in the yamen to seize power.

Then he assembled the county guards, blocked the city gates, appointed Guo Huai as the county lieutenant, and Xu Zhi as the thief Cao to be responsible for the security of the city. In just one day, he successfully seized power, appeased the people in the city, and searched the houses of six people.

After interrogating the two captured family heads, Chen Jin unexpectedly learned that Jiangdong really planned to use the six family heads to secretly investigate Han Qiong's strengths and weaknesses, and wait for an opportunity to break through the defense line established by Han Qiong. Jiangdong was also about to send someone to coordinate everything. Chen Jin's casually made up words just responded to Jiangdong's strategy, making these people regard Chen Jin as a spy sent by Jiangdong.

After learning the news, Chen Jin immediately sent someone to inform Han Qiong, wanting to take advantage of the situation and pit Jiangdong against him. After blocking Chengde County, he used his family members as hostages to force the two families to cooperate with him. He, Guo Huai, Dian Man, and Xu Zhi pretended to be the head of a family and spread the news to the outside world. Xinxian and his followers were all killed and their bodies were thrown into the wild. At the same time, he secretly sent people to Hefei to urge Jiangdong to take over Chengde.

Jiangdong didn't know it was a trick, so it sent 2,000 people to take over. Chen Jin and Han Qiong trapped them in the city and surrounded them in one fell swoop.

The loss of 2,000 soldiers and horses at once was not much, but Jiangdong's troops in Hefei were only more than 10,000, and they had to control various key places to confront the Han army. The loss of these 2,000 people was not a small amount for Hefei. The plan was discovered, and Jiangdong naturally gave up the idea of ​​breaking Han Qiong.

In this battle, Chen Jin planned and acted decisively. He did not hesitate when he should be ruthless, and he completely established a firm foothold in Chengde.

In the following year or so, he actively built fortifications, built water conservancy projects in Chengde, set up forts, and after obtaining permission from the court, began to train soldiers in Chengde. They worked in the fields during the busy farming season and trained during the slack season. Once Jiangdong invaded, they used the forts as strongholds and beacons as signals to support each other. At the same time, they strengthened the defense of Chengde to ensure that after Chengde was attacked, the nearest garrison could be informed immediately and the garrison could be held until the garrison arrived.

Although he had never been on the battlefield, Chen Jin showed his excellent layout ability in this operation of Chengde. He almost responded to all possible attacks from Hefei. In the past year or so, he repelled the invasion of Jiangdong Army more than a dozen times with only Chengde's local militia. Under the harassment of Jiangdong Army, the people of Chengde gradually restored their livelihood and became a solid stronghold to resist Jiangdong.

Originally, these things had nothing to do with the Bu family, but Chengde, which was almost a city designated by Jiangdong, gradually became a solid barrier against the invasion of Jiangdong, which naturally attracted the attention of Zhou Yu who had been paying attention to this side.

"Lord, this man is a rare talent. If he can be persuaded to surrender, he will definitely help me Jiangdong in the future!" Zhou Yu dared to say this to Sun Quan. Naturally, he also carefully checked Chen Jin's background. A place near Luoyang couldn't be more ordinary. The son of Li Zheng in the countryside gradually served as Li Zheng and San Lao based on his own ability, and then was promoted to county magistrate because of the Central Plains system. These are all well-founded.

In order to avoid people doubting Chen Jin's origin, Chen Mo really created a hometown for his son. It was the village where Chen Mo took Chen Jin to experience the life of the common people when he was young. Everything can be traced, let alone Zhou Yu. , even if the ministers of the DPRK noticed Chen Jin, they could still find the source.

As for names, there are so many people with the surname Chen in the world, and having the same name is not uncommon.

Sun Quan frowned when he heard this and said: "But I think this person has quite a lot of opinions. Can Gong Jin convince him to vote?"

Chen Jin has proven his ability with facts, but his performance will also be valued by the Luoyang court. Sun Quan can't figure out how to convince this person?

"According to the Luoyang court, Chen Jin has made great achievements this time, and it will take at least ten years to be promoted to the prefecture!" Zhou Yu smiled when he heard this, and said with a smile: "I think this person's ability is as good as a prefecture. It’s more than enough, and apart from that, the Luoyang court can’t give it to me, but I can.”

"Oh?" Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu in confusion and said in surprise: "Although this person's background is not high, Chen Mo never pays attention to his background when hiring people."

"But how many outstanding people are there in the Central Plains? Even with such merits, the person's ability to be an official to the prefecture is his limit. If there are no major changes, it will be easy for him to be promoted to the prefecture, but it will be difficult to go further. If he cannot go further, he also wants to do a good job. As an official, it may be difficult for his son to truly integrate into the gentry." Zhou Yu sighed.

In recent years, the Central Plains can be said to have produced a large number of talents. On the other hand, although there are many talents in Jiangdong, there are not many who can really take on important responsibilities. In this case, the demand for foreign talents in Jiangdong and Jingzhou is far greater than that of Chen Mo. Much more urgent! This is also the reason why Zhou Yu has been actively running Hefei in the past two years. Judging from the current situation, the longer the delay, the more beneficial it is to Chen Mo. And Jiangdong wants to imitate Chen Mo's transformation. It was okay in the Sun Ce era, but it will be difficult for Sun Quan. .

Does origin matter?

Of course it is important. Even if you are as enlightened as Chen Mo, nowadays most of the selection of scholars is to expand the scope of selection to common people, poor families, and some children of meritorious soldiers. Without this background, it is difficult to become an official, and the Han Dynasty has been raised for four hundred years. The understanding of success is not something that Chen Mo can overturn in a few years or more. Someone has done this before, but failed and died miserably. Do you think birth is important?

It was precisely because of this that Zhou Yu felt confident in drawing Chen Jin to Jiangdong.

"Gong Jin is talking about...marriage?" Sun Quan asked.

"Yes, I see that Chen Jin is over 20 years old, but he is not married yet. I am afraid that is why, although he is quite talented, it is difficult to marry a match." Zhou Yu nodded with a smile.

In terms of family background, even if a wealthy family is willing to marry an upright son, Chen Jin himself may not look down on him. But if he wants to marry a real wealthy family, others will not look down on him. Zhou Yu thinks that based on this, Chen Jin can be Jin pulled him over. After all, even if Chen Jin really climbed to the position of prefect, It may take five years for the Luoyang court to make an exceptional promotion. If you can come to Jiangdong, you will be among the nobles immediately, saving the other party which may have to spend decades. The most important thing is that Chen Jin is just a county magistrate now. , if you really wait for him to climb higher, it will be difficult to win over this kind of person.

Zhou Yu was very optimistic about this young man, so he suggested that Sun Quan take action early.

"Does Gong Jin have a suitable candidate?" Sun Quan asked with a smile.

"Actually, Yu thinks that my little sister is not bad, even though she is three years older than Chen Jin, but..."

"Cough~" Sun Quan coughed lightly and looked at Zhou Yu with a dangerous look.

"Then what do you think, my lord, about the daughter of the Bu family?" Zhou Yu smiled awkwardly. It is true that Sun Xiaomei has passed the special age, but she has not been able to get married. Zhou Yu is a little anxious, but since Sun Quan is not willing, Zhou Yu can only find someone else. .

"Daughter of the Bu family?" Sun Quan thought for a while, nodded and said, "But this matter also requires Zishan's consent, right?"

"If your lord agrees, I will go to Danyang and talk to Zishan." Zhou Yu nodded.

"Gong Jin is going to Hefei?" Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu in surprise.

"I can't hide it from my lord. Yu really wants to meet this person in person." Zhou Yu did not shy away and nodded.