Chapter 337: Huangfu Song asked for Liu Xian's request
Not to mention that he has a little friendship with Liu Xian, even if he has no friendship, so that Huang Fu Song poisoned Liu Xian for no reason, Huang Fu Song really can't do it.
The emperor's holy decree, although this is true, but anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that it was definitely those eunuchs who deceived the emperor and let the emperor make such a holy decree.
This, in fact, doesn't matter whether it is the meaning of the emperor himself, but as some loyal and strong courtiers, they will subconsciously or even force themselves to think about it like that. This is also a bit like self-hypnosis, after all, a person must have a little miss and a little faith to adhere to.
If even the people they are loyal to really force them to do things that make them feel that they are against their hearts and conscience. So what is the point of what they are loyal to and what they insist on? In this way, they would rather believe what they fantasize about, wishful thinking: The emperor is good and right, but the emperor mistakenly believed in the traitorous ministers and was confused by the traitors, so he was so confused to make some holy decrees that should not be given, and did some things that should not be done.
What's more, the emperor is not wrong, what is wrong is only the traitors around the emperor.
Actually, there have been a lot of things like this. Sometimes, there will be a holy decree for the emperor Fu Song, or some other courtiers or generals, to let them do something shady. However, they know that the person they want to deal with is innocent, and they really can't do it, at this time, they will generally arrange some henchmen, first to report to that person, let the family avoid and hide, and then when they go to enforce the law, they can't find anyone, so that he can also have a messenger, and the court will not ask them to be guilty.
For example, Cai Yong has been ordered by the imperial court many times, or secretly ordered by some military generals to be secretly executed. But now Cai Yong is still alive, and among them, it is actually the relationship between someone and giving him a message. In addition, there are many people who have escaped the scourge of those eunuchs and traitors.
Liu Xian's situation is a little different, Liu Xian's reputation is a bit big now, and Liu Xian himself has his own industry. Huangfu Song considered that if Liu Xian was allowed to hide, it might be a little inappropriate to be incognito in the future, and he didn't know if Liu Xian was willing or not.
Now, Liu Xian led the people of Yangshi County and Liulin Village to defeat the tens of thousands of Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army, which was a real military achievement. With such military exploits, no matter what the imperial court says, it has to consider the consequences of secretly executing Liu Xian.
In particular, Liu Xian's prestige in Yangshi County and even the surrounding areas is extremely high, and if the imperial court still wants to kill Liu Xian, then it must also consider whether it will cause a backlash from the people in Yangshi County and other places. If the people rebelled, it would be an unnecessary incident.
He waved it on the spot, wrote a memora with enthusiasm, and immediately let the fast horse send it to the capital.
The main reason is to report to the imperial court on the current situation in Jizhou, focusing on the harmfulness of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro. Then he wrote that Liu Xian and the Yang County Government, without the support of the military horses sent by the imperial court, could defeat tens of thousands of Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army with the strength of one county, in which Liu Xian played an important role. If there was no Liu Xian, Yang's County would have been broken by the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, and the impact would have been great. This will definitely cause shock to the entire Jizhou, making it possible for Jizhou, which has just been pacified, to fall into chaos again. Based on the importance of Liu Xian's defeat of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro this time, and his contributions, it is hoped that the imperial court can reconsider the issue of dealing with Liu Xian.
Huangfu Song did not ask the court for credit for Liu Xian, after all, Liu Xian was not an official of the government, nor was he a member of the military. Although his men and horses also have the name of a legitimate Liu Fu caravan. But if you ask the court for credit, what kind of official or military position can the court canonize Liu Xian?
As for other rewards, Huangfu Song would not expect the imperial court to give them, if Liu Xian could be rewarded, Liu Xian had relieved tens of thousands of people in Yang's County earlier, and the reward he should have already had. But isn't it nothing?
Now that the imperial court still wants to secretly dispose of Liu Xian, it is already very good to be able to make the imperial court give up dealing with Liu Xian.
Huangfu Song's daily affairs are too annoying, and now he has put down this matter and sent a twist to the court, just wait for the echo of the court, so there is no action, and he did not send people to Liulin Village.
Qin Cha Yu Ming led hundreds of forbidden troops to escort Ma Guiren from Liwu County.
The counties, villages, and towns he passed through along the way were slashing oil and water, openly soliciting bribes from local officials and local landlords.
In the Plains Mansion of Liwu County, he still maintains a certain respect for Ma Guiren, and his actions are a little restrained, but now Ma Guiren is equal to his hands, so he doesn't have to worry too much about Ma Guiren, and when he asks for benefits from others, he will naturally not be soft.
These, in fact, are all unwritten rules or a style of work of today's Han people.
But all the eunuchs who came out of the palace. When they go outside, they have only one purpose, which is to collect the benefits of filial piety and enrich their own pockets.
These are all unspoken rules.
Almost the entire Eastern Han Dynasty local government officials, as well as those local landlords and wealthy people, and even those family scholars, everyone knows that those eunuchs who come out of the palace can't afford to mess with them. Because they are real villains, if they are not satisfied, they will return to the palace in the capital, and they will definitely run the train with their mouths full of mouths, and all kinds of small shoes will fly all over the sky. If one is not good, it will be ruined, and the family will be destroyed.
Not to mention anything else, even when the war was tense, Lu Zhi, as the commander of a large army, was directly framed and imprisoned because he did not give the benefits to the servants sent by the palace to supervise the war, and almost lost his life. From this, what else do they dare not do? What's the bad thing you can't do?
It is not too far to go from Liwu County to Yangshi County and Liulin Village, but it was made by Yu Ming all the way to the officials and rich households complaining, and everyone complained and trembled. In almost every place, you have to prepare enough filial piety to wait, hoping to send this plague god away smoothly.
Here, in fact, we also have to talk about it. Under normal circumstances, those eunuchs and servants in the palace basically don't have much opportunity to go out of the palace in normal times, except for guys like the ten permanent servants who control the palace, they can naturally enter and leave the palace freely. But the eunuchs in other palaces don't have many opportunities to enter and leave the palace freely. Not to mention leaving the capital to go somewhere else.
In this way, every time the palace attendants have the opportunity to leave the capital to go out on errands, they especially cherish these opportunities, and they will try their best to collect money as much as possible.
For them, leaving the capital to run errands elsewhere may only be done once in a lifetime, and if they don't loot one at a time, they really won't have a chance in the future.
Of course, they are not afraid of not being able to loot, nor are they afraid of some local officials, or even those noble families.
Because it is too simple for them to take revenge on those who do not give them filial piety and do not satisfy them.
Ordinary local officials, let's not talk about this, because the removal of their official positions is really a matter of their words.
Ordinary rich households, rich but not powerful, if they don't give enough filial piety, to suppress them, they don't even need to return to the capital to make a move, you can directly let the local government do it.
If it's a real family in some places, it's a bit troublesome. Because the energy of the family is also relatively large. But those eunuchs are not afraid, they can be frightened, they can't be scared, after they return to the palace in the capital, they will give their masters a speech, let their masters speak to the emperor again, a holy decree is enough to make some families and scholars ruined.
This kind of operation has been tried and tested repeatedly, and it is because of this that ordinary people really dare not provoke those palace attendants.
Yu Ming is because he has no fear, so he is not afraid of Liu Xian in his heart, the reason why he wants to bypass Yangshi County and Liulin Village to go to the Plains Palace, this is indeed because he doesn't want to cause more trouble.
Speaking of which, Yu Ming's heart is actually a little unhappy, this unhappiness, on the one hand, the reward given by the Ma nobles of the Plains Mansion is not much, and the Ma nobles do not bring all the money and wealth with them. The other was not very pleasant, after meeting Huang Fu Song, because Huang Fu Song didn't even give him a little filial piety. If it weren't for Huangfu Song being the pastor of Jizhou and holding military power, when Yu Ming was in Yecheng, I am afraid he would really have a good talk to Huangfu Song. But that's the case, Yu Ming also plans to wait until he returns to the palace in the capital, and he will definitely have to give some small shoes to Huang Fu Song to wear.
In this way, the journey was slow, and it took three days to reach Liulin Village, which could have been reached in one or two days.
At this time, Liu Xian also knew the situation, and he had already sent people to keep an eye on his group along the way.
Liu Xian was in Yangshi County and had already taken care of the post-war affairs.
The people of Yangshi County and Liulin Village also returned to normal production and life order at this time. At this time, it is the spring plowing period, and the farm work cannot be left behind.
But these internal affairs don't really need Liu Xian to ask about them. Now that he has Cai Yong, a great Confucian, by his side, it is not difficult for him to do the internal affairs of a county at all, not to mention the assistance of Wen Shen, Liang Ji and others? Even Shan Yong doesn't have to participate in the work of these affairs, he mainly deals with some outward development affairs and some affairs of the Liu Mansion caravan on behalf of Liu Xian.
Liu Xian was mainly busy with the 20,000 or so Yellow Turban captives. These Yellow Turban captives must be converted into servitude as soon as possible, and then into their own forces later.
Now, the identity and origin of each of them must be clarified, and the great traitors among them must also be distinguished. Individual sins that are unforgivable must be cleared away. Yellow Turban soldiers who are too bad, they are not even qualified to join the Hidden Camp Crime Army.
The fact that the imperial court suddenly sent a messenger to send a holy decree to summon Ma Guiren into Beijing did surprise Liu Xian. But thinking about it, Liu Xian also felt that it was reasonable.
The current emperor is indeed a little too much in dealing with the children of the Han family in the line of the first emperor, so the current plain palace is indeed a little sensitive.
The first emperor had no children, two younger brothers, one was killed early, and even a descendant was left, and the other was forced to die in prison, and more than 100 children were also killed. No matter what you say, this should not be, no matter what the emperor says, how he whitewashes himself, this can't be whitewashed.
But everything has already been done, so naturally we have to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and it is impossible to let the Plains Mansion have another queen.
Liu Xian knew that the imperial court would definitely react to Ma Guiren's acceptance of him as a righteous son. But now the reaction is too fast.
The emperor summoned Ma Guiren to Beijing, but in the holy decree to Ma Guiren, he did not even mention himself. I don't know how the imperial court will deal with itself?
Liu Xian really didn't know that the imperial court had another secret decree to Huangfu Song.
But Liu Xian felt that it didn't matter, Liu Xian was in this Three Kingdoms era, and he already had a certain ability to protect himself. It's not the time to be defenseless. As long as the court does not explicitly condemn itself, then there is nothing to worry about. After all, Liu Xian would not give the court any tricks to catch him, so that the court would have a blatant excuse to deal with him.
Of course, what if it is a decree to condemn the crime? Liu Xian didn't think about what he wanted to follow. It's a big deal, it's the other way around, it's not a big deal. However, if it is not a last resort, Liu Xian also knows that it is indeed not appropriate to stand on the opposite side of the Han Dynasty immediately. Because in a few years, he will be able to openly raise troops, and he doesn't need to get an anti-thief hat now.
However, should this allow Ma Guiren to be summoned to Beijing?
Liu Xian really had a headache when he thought of his relationship with Ma Guiren. Especially Liu Xian knew that after the imperial court summoned Ma Guiren to Beijing this time, she estimated that it would be difficult for her to come back.
In Liu Xian's heart, he naturally didn't want Ma Guiren to enter Beijing, because her life and death would be uncontrollable after entering Beijing.
Liu Xiandu even considered whether to pretend to be a Yellow Turban Liukou and kill those Qin messengers and intercept Ma Guiren. But this thought of destroying those Qincha forbidden troops may cause a big trouble, especially if it is difficult to settle Ma Guiren in the future.
But this direct matter is not in a hurry, if it is not necessary, Liu Xian does not need to be so extreme. Everything is still to see Ma Guiren first, and see what Ma Guiren has opinions.
Liu Xian took Huang Zhong's father and daughter, led 300 cavalry, and waited for Ma Guiren ten miles north of Yangshi County.
Liu Xian deliberately gave those Qincha forbidden troops a dismount.
When Yu Ming led the forbidden army to escort Ma Guiren's carriage from a corner of the official road, they were really startled, and more than 300 cavalry in front of them were waiting in battle, making them think that they had encountered robbers blocking the road and robbing them.