Probably because of the situation, the envoy from Luozhong came very quickly, and when he came up, he simply agreed to Gongsun Xun's request to exempt Dongjun from paying taxes for one year!

However, the center's arrangement for the East County Front, whether it is the next step or the most important reward, is all unexpected.

The destination was very simple, the Son of Heaven passed through Shangshutai to Huangmenjian and issued a formal will, asking Gongsun Xun to quickly lead troops to Yingchuan Changshe, unite with Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, and break the 100,000 army of Yingchuan Bocai.

In all fairness, from the perspective of multiple cavalry and soldiers, Gongsun Xun and his army were obviously more suitable to fight in Hebei.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, the Hebei side is fighting smoothly and does not need Gongsun Xun's support at all.

Lu Zhi led the elite of the 40,000 Northern Army, and the troops of Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang were defeated in successive battles, such as today's General Gong and General Rengong have been defeated all the way to Guangzong, the border town of Julu County, Anping State, and Qinghe State, and they also took the initiative to give up the occupied area of Qinghe State, and comprehensively gathered and shrunk the troops, fronts, and materials.

The same is true further north, Guo Xun, the assassin of Youzhou, led the soldiers and horses of various counties in Youzhou, with the captain of Wuhuan as his deputy, cautious, and spread the net on all sides, which also forced Zhang Bao, the general of the local government, to abandon the large area occupied by Anping State, and concentrated his troops and materials in Xiafuyang City, the northernmost important town of Julu.

On the other hand, the situation in the south is not good.

Originally, Bocai's army was the closest to Luoyang and the most threatening (they all hit Yuyuan Pass), so the center forced Zhu Jun to send troops quickly...... However, after Zhu Gongwei came out of the customs, he didn't know whether it was because he underestimated the enemy or because the pressure from the center was too great, so he actually wanted to recapture Zhiyang Zhai City in Yingchuan County!

As a result, not to mention the difficulty of fortifying the city, 100,000 Yellow Turban troops surrounded them, and they almost didn't explain Zhu Jun's entire army there. In the end, the small 20,000 people on this way retreated to the Changshe in the northeast corner of Yingchuan to stabilize their foothold, but they were surrounded by 100,000 troops led by Bocai. In early May, the imperial court saw that the situation was not good, and directly asked Huangfu Song to urgently lead 20,000 reinforcements to Changshe, and the two sides combined 40,000 troops, but they still did not move for several days, as if these 20,000 reinforcements were also besieged.

In such a situation, coupled with the fact that Gongsun Xun was in Dongjun County, which was not far from Changshe, the somewhat flustered imperial court naturally thought of asking him to lead troops to help there.

As for the reward.

To tell the truth, there were not many people in the army from top to bottom who expected much from this. This is mainly because those who have a way and a background don't care...... It's like Gongsun Yue and Trial, this blink of an eye is directly a thousand stone Sima, and the court and the army all take it for granted! A Hebei celebrity, a son of the Gongsun clan, should have been a thousand stone Sima as soon as he came out! There is also Cao Cao, as soon as he jumps out, it will be two thousand stones, and when this battle is over, it must be a Taishou or the minister of the country waiting for him, and everyone thinks that it should be like this!

And for those who have no way, especially those heroes who came from Youzhou with a bad background, they were actually very satisfied as early as when Gongsun Xun was reorganizing the army in Hanoi, and they generally felt that the appointment at that time was enough as a reward.

It's like Liu Bei, who just got up in front of him recently, worked hard in Hebei for a whole year in history to fight the yellow scarf, and finally gave a county lieutenant, what is the county lieutenant, the rank is 200 stones...... I also have to be bribed by a rank of 100 stone governors! But now? Thanks to the protection of Gongsun Xun, he was only a white body in Zhuo County a few months ago, but in the blink of an eye, he became a serious Qu Junhou, with a rank of 600 stones!

Don't underestimate the six hundred stones, the Han family system, six hundred stones began to be the official of the imperial court, and the county orders in charge of more than 10,000 households started with 600 stones, and then it was only a thousand stones, two thousand stones, two thousand stones, and the two big classes, so they became officials! In other words, it is more difficult to cross each of these three thresholds, and the vast majority of people will find it difficult to cross the next level in their lifetime.

And at this time, not only Liu Bei, but also Zhang Fei, Zhao Zhao, Yang Kai and others all changed from white to official officials of the 600 stone court in just a few months, and Chu Yan also changed from a 200 stone county lieutenant to a 600 stone Qu Chang, so what else do you want?

In fact, there was a general speculation in the army that the greatest reward was likely to come from Guan Yu Guan Yunchang, and his fake Sima should be able to become a real Sima and thus enter the ranks of a thousand stones.

Therefore, after the reward really came down, the army was dumbfounded!

It turned out that Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gao Shun, Cheng Lian, all four of them turned into military horses of Qianshi!

And if you think about it carefully, it really makes sense, among them, Guan Yu killed Cheng Yuanzhi, the deputy marshal of the Guangyang Yellow Turban, Zhang Fei killed Deng Mao, the deputy marshal of the Guangyang Yellow Turban, Gao Shun led a thousand soldiers to block the 20,000 thief army, and Cheng Lian slaughtered Zhang Bo, the deputy marshal of the Yellow Turban of Dongjun.

is reasonable, so that everyone in the army has nothing to say.

Not to mention, these four Simas looked extremely bleak in front of another person's reward - Sima Cheng Pucheng Demou of the original other department, promoted to the rank of captain, and became a two-thousand-stone master in one fell swoop!

That seems to make sense.

First of all, Cheng Demou has very high qualifications, he served as a state and county official when he was young, and then joined the army in Yanmen as the Marquis of Qu Army, transferred to the fake Sima, moved to another department Sima, step by step, and walked very steadily.

Secondly, in this war, although the state army came very late, it made outstanding achievements...... After all, according to the tribal system of the Han Dynasty, Gao Shun and Cheng Lian are theoretically only Cheng Pu's subordinates, and their credit must also be counted on Cheng Pu's head.

But the most important point is that everyone in the whole army knows that Cheng Demou is the township party and former official of the Gongsun clan! Obviously, this is an alternative way of praise that the imperial court and the center chose to reward a political figure of Gongsun Xun's level because of the delay of the war!

Among them, there must be Gongsun Xun's active hints...... Or in other words, to praise and make work.

Correspondingly, Gongsun Xun didn't even mention the title of one and a half levels this time, so why don't you have any rewards and praises...... Even if it is a political figure of his level, the reward needs to be properly arranged after the war, that is not the right way?

Where his credit went, needless to say.

As a result, from Cheng Pu and below, there were four new Simas, who immediately went to Gongsun Xun to thank Gongsun Xun after receiving the order...... However, he was stopped by Han Dang on the spot and persuaded to go back, because this middleman with the facial features of the festival was meeting guests, and he was a very important guest.

"Brother Ziyuan is hard." Under the shade of the trees in the backyard of the official temple, Gongsun Xun was sitting on the ground and entertaining an old man with a smile. "When the imperial envoy came quickly, I thought that you would also come, but I didn't expect it to ......be so fast."

"Hard work is hard work." Xu You rubbed his buttocks and carefully sat on the cushion reserved for him, but immediately lifted it up, as if it was too hot, so he finally sat on the ground in a strange position. "But Wenqi is hot now, I don't dare to come uninvited!"

Gongsun Xun smiled and said nothing.

"There are a total of five soldiers and horses, two roads are held against each other, and two roads are trapped, but Wen Qi is the only one who mentions 10,000 soldiers, and crosses the big river four times in ten days to level Dong County, and 40,000 thieves are wiped out...... Therefore, while the people in the court are amazed, they also pay more attention to and look forward to you. Seeing this, Xu Yu immediately said. Wen Qi is a smart person, and you and I are also close friends, I said it straight, this time Yuan Benchu sent me to find Wen Qi, just to test Wen Qi's mind......"

"What's there to tempt here?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help laughing. "Ziyuan, didn't Brother Ben think that I, the person who killed Wang Fu, would actually collude with Beigong in the end after going around in a circle? Or do you think I'll be deceived like Zhang Huan? Ziyuan, I and today's general are poor friends. ”

"What Wen Qi said is extremely true." Xu You smiled slowly. "But don't be harsh on the original. Don't hide it from Wenqi, now the situation in Luozhong is extremely tense, not only I came to look for you, but also Cao Mengde's place, which originally sent He Hao to test it, and even the trapped Huangfu Song had someone to ...... He is also afraid that he will lose everything if he is not careful! ”

He Hao, a famous man in Nanyang, has long been famous for avenging his friends, and he is even more famous in the world after becoming a wanted criminal as a party member during the second party term, and like Xu You, he has always been Yuan Shao's 'running friend', and he is one of the core figures of this party group headed by Yuan Benchu.

However, the reason why this Uncle He asked Mr. He to become famous in the history books in the future was not because he was Yuan Shao's cronies, but because of his evaluation of the two people:

One is Cao Cao, He Hao said to Cao Mengde, who had a good relationship with him, in a certain period, 'The Han family is about to die, and those who settle the world will be this person';

Cao Cao and Xun Yu were almost the top and most outstanding people in the late Han Dynasty, but they were broken by this person, and they were very accurate! I don't know if this He Hao He Boqiu really looks like a god, or if he likes to talk big when he sees everyone, and then the blind cat meets the dead mouse.

"Has Luozhong really reached this point?" Of course, Gongsun Xun didn't have time to think about He Hao's level, because after he heard this, he immediately became nervous.

He was really nervous, because if the party and the eunuch really had the intention of using a sword now, considering that the son was still alive today, how should he, the commander of the five senses who led the troops, act?

"It's not as Wen Qi thinks." Xu You immediately shook his head, and then said earnestly. "But the battle between the court and the court has become white-hot, and both sides are just in case."

"What the hell is going on?" Gongsun Xun frowned and asked.

"After Wen Qi leaves." Xu Youshu sneered. "The Son of Heaven saw the recital of Yang Gong and Liu Gong on Taiping Dao that day in Nangong, on the one hand, he gave Yang Gong and our Liu Gong a wait, in order to show praise and reassure people's hearts; On the other hand, Yang Gong was also allowed to take charge of Shangshutai. ”

"That's a good thing!" Gongsun Xun replied.

"Better things are yet to come." Xu You continued to sneer. "No one expected that after Yang Gonglu Shangshu took charge of the government, his whole personality changed greatly, like a wood carving, and he didn't say a word in everything...... The 100,000-strong army is quelling the rebellion outside, the states and counties have fallen, and the Son of Heaven has begun to seriously deal with the government, how can he bear it? So in less than seven or eight days, the Son of Heaven exempted Yang Gong from recording Shangshu, the former Shangshu, the important minister of the clan, and also Wenqi, your old boss Liu Tao Liu Gong was the Shangshu Order! ”

Gongsun Xun suddenly realized.

In other words, now that the party has been unraveled, party members from all over the country have begun to carry out activities, many people have now been requisitioned, and their strength has risen sharply for a while, and the eunuchs have been hit hard because they are not clear about the Taiping...... Under the elimination of one and the other, there will definitely be a political struggle in the court, otherwise Gongsun Xun would not have understood the meaning of the word 'temptation' in Xu You's mouth as soon as he came up.

However, the newly appointed Shangshu Ling Liu Tao will undoubtedly greatly intensify this political struggle at the central level.

After all, Gongsun Xun knows his old boss too well, although he is a clan, he is a person with a strong party color, and his position and attitude towards eunuchs have always been radical to the extreme!

With him in Shangshutai in charge of the government, and Zhao Zhong as the chief Changqiu, two such narrow-minded people collided together, and it would be strange if Luoyang didn't make trouble...... It is almost conceivable that the center will soon be killed.

"No wonder." Gongsun Xun couldn't help sighing.

"That Wenqi ......," Xu Yu asked further. Can you do something to take a stand? ”

"Of course!" Gongsun Xun didn't blink his eyelids. "Brother Ziyuan, don't worry, I will do it as soon as possible."

Of course.

The eunuchs and the party members made it like this, everyone had to stand in line, and as early as when Gongsun Xun came to Luozhong to study when he was young, he already understood that he could only choose the party members, because the party members were scholars...... Scholars and eunuchs representing the imperial power choose one of the two, do you need to say? Unless you cut your eggs and enter the North Palace, are you crazy to be a eunuch?

But then again, hundreds of thousands of troops outside are fighting chaotically, implicating dozens of armies in seven or eight states, and tens of thousands of casualties, but the DPRK and China can't wait to start a full-scale political struggle, and they also force the generals who are leading the troops outside to express their positions, which is more and more ridiculous!

Xu You received an affirmative answer, and a stone fell to the ground.

At this point, the meeting has actually begun and ended. However, Gongsun Xun did not mean to end the meeting, but looked at Xu Yu meaningfully for a long time without speaking.

Xu Youdeng understood, but he couldn't help scratching his ears and cheeks: "Wen Qi still has something?" ”

"Brother Ziyuan, do you know how much I gained by defeating the enemy of Dongjun this time?" Gongsun Xun asked crisply.

"How much?" When Xu Yu heard this, even though he felt weak, he unconsciously climbed to the ground and leaned forward.

"Three hundred pounds of gold, five hundred pounds of silver, one hundred horses of brocade, ten thousand horses of cloth, and money...... Thirty thousand! Gongsun Xun seemed to be smiling.

Xu You was dumbfounded, he was really dumbfounded, his eyes were straight, but he couldn't say a word.

"It's a pity!" Gongsun Xun became more and more amused when he saw this. "With so much money, I have already promised to reward all the soldiers of the army......

Xu You's heart was like a knife when he heard this, as if the money was his, but he also sobered up: "Wen Qi must have something to ask me, right?!" ”

"yes." Gongsun Xun said frankly. "There are many promotions among the generals in the army, so I am not prepared to reward them with too much gold and silver...... Maybe you can make up a hundred pounds of gold! ”

Xu You's eyes widened, and his beard trembled: "Wen Qi Mo wants to tease me for fun...... How can I have anything worth so much gold? ”

"Just one question." Gongsun Xun lowered his voice and stared at the other party and asked. "Ziyuan, you tell me the truth, what does Yuan Benchu think of me?"

Xu You didn't care about the pain in his buttocks, and immediately sat up straight and twisted his beard, and was silent for a while.

Gongsun Xun sighed and immediately got up: "Brother Ziyuan doesn't want to say it!" ”

Xu You didn't want to think about it, so he quickly stretched out his hands and grabbed the other party's robe, and then said earnestly: "It's not that I don't want to say it, but I'm afraid that I won't answer well, and I can't live up to Wen Qi's hundred catties of gold...... I'm seriously thinking about my original attitude towards Wenqi! Stop! ”

Gongsun Xun sat down again and waited for the other party.

"It's okay if you don't ask today, it's really strange when you think about it." After thinking for a long time, Xu Youfang frowned and replied. Yuan Benchu was actually very concerned about Wen Qi, and he repeatedly tried to win over him at the festival, but he had some sense of respectful and distancing...... It seems that Wen Qi has a lot of scruples here, and it seems that he wants to deliberately maintain his demeanor and image! W- Why is that? ”

Gongsun Xun's face was expressionless, but there were some waves in his heart, in fact, this was also where he doubted.

A long time ago, he noticed this, he and Yuan Shao obviously have no conflict in political positions, and they are both young people who like to make friends, and they are also typical figures of the younger generation, but the two always respect each other and stay away.

From his point of view, it is naturally because of Yuan Feng's death that he is inevitably a little weak-hearted, but what about Yuan Shao, why is Yuan Shao like this to him?

"Wen Qi." Xu You thought about it again and again, but he also had a headache and helplessness, so he had to plead hard. "I really don't know for a while, so I might as well send this hundred catties of gold and wait for me to return to Benchu to investigate for you...... How? ”

"That's it." Gongsun Xun immediately responded, there is no way, with the unraveling of the party, Yuan Benchu became the protagonist of the political struggle in Luozhong, and he really wanted to figure out this problem. "I sent someone to send a hundred catties of gold to my brother Sun Fan, when will you get the letter, when will I ...... with you?"

"A gentleman's word!" Xu You couldn't wait to get up and spread out a palm.

"It's hard to chase a horse!" Gongsun Xun grabbed the other party's hand expressionlessly, and dragged the other party up. "Go far away...... There's something else going on here. ”

Xu You immediately covered his ass and left with doubts.

After seeing Xu You leave, Gongsun Xun directly asked people to call Lu Fan and Lou Gui.

"How?" Facing the two henchmen, Gongsun Xun got straight to the point. "What did Zhao Changshou do when he sent his henchmen to find me?"

"It's funny." Lou Zibo twisted his beard and smiled. "He's here to ask for a bribe."

"The two of us talked to him for a long time, and he only said that Zhao Changshou heard that his niece and son-in-law 'gained a lot', and his nephew Zhao Ping was recently transferred to Yongle Shaofu and needed some money, so he came to ask for some before." Lu Fan couldn't help laughing. "I asked him how much he wanted, but he couldn't come up with a reason."

Gongsun Xun stood in the courtyard of the backyard of the official temple with his hands in his hands, listening to the cicadas above his head, but he couldn't stop sneering under the tree.

Where did Zhao Zhong come to ask for money?

From Xu You's representative Yuan Shao, he knew that Zhao Zhong also saw the uncertain situation in Luozhong and the resurgence of the dispute between the party and the eunuchs, so he was somewhat frightened in his heart, so he specially sent someone to test his 'niece and son-in-law' who had soldiers in hand.

Or else?

Gongsun Xun himself only knew that he had seized so much money after the chapter was sent to Luozhong, how did he, Zhao Zhong, know that he had gained a lot of money from dozens of miles away? Even if you guessed it, you have to have a number of bribes, right? Just come over in such a daze?

However, he understood in his heart that he understood in his heart, thinking about what he saw and heard after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Gongsun Xun couldn't help but feel ridiculous and even sad - these days, he has seen more or less the duality and complexity of the Yellow Turban Thief, Haoqiang, and the clan, and realized some deep-seated problems.

However, these people have problems, so are the eunuchs and the Son of Heaven behind them right?

A son of heaven who only knows how to hold money, a leader of a political group who even uses the method of asking for bribes to make political temptations, I'm afraid that even getting angry makes people lazy to get angry, right?

The sky is long, and no one is innocent! However, the eunuchs are simply black, and their moral level makes people not even feel pity, and they don't have to feel sad.

Of course, Gongsun Xun, who bribed Xu You, doesn't seem to be a good thing, but he himself unconsciously filtered himself out.

In short, I don't think about who is right and who is wrong, the general trend of the world is here, how can Gongsun Xun get on their broken ship?!

In fact, this is also the reason why Lu Fan and Lou Gui laughed...... So what did Zhao Zhong think, did he really think that Gongsun Xun would change his political stance for the sake of his relatives?! What are you kidding, don't talk about Gongsun Xun, the five-way commander who came out to lead the troops this time, I'm afraid that no one will lose his sincerity to the eunuchs, otherwise he will wait for the corporal of the world to scold and divide it!

"It's just a pity." Lu Fan also couldn't help but shake his head. "The political dispute between the party and the eunuchs in the DPRK and China is fierce, and I am afraid that this kind of thing will no longer work with Zhao Changshi, and I need to be vigilant in the future."

"That's another story." Lou Gui also interjected. "Now that the army is in hand, none of us are afraid, that is, in the future, we will return to the dynasty victoriously, with military merits in hand, and after the chaos of the Yellow Turban, the Son of Heaven will also be graceful to the generals who are good at fighting, not to mention the great generals?"

"That's just as well." Lu Fan nodded in agreement. "Then let's not talk about the future, Wen Qi, how should this Zhao Changshi's family be dispatched?"

"How many people came?" Gongsun Xun finally turned around and asked.

"Two." Lou Gui immediately responded. "Another one went to see Cao Mengde."

Gongsun Xun couldn't help but squint his eyes, but finally said slowly: "The military situation is like fire, and tomorrow the whole army will march towards Yingchuan." Before leaving, I paraded in the south of the city, tied up the Zhao Changzhi family who came to look for me and me in public, and whipped to death! Let Xu Ziyuan and He Boqiu come to see together! Let's take a look at it from all over the world! ”

Lu Lou and the others immediately changed color, but they hurriedly said yes.

Day and night passed in a blink of an eye, Gongsun Xun did what he said, and on the second day, the Zhao Changzhi family, who was said to be looking for Gongsun Xun to ask for a bribe of 100 million dollars, was gagged and tied to a pillar, and the new army Sima Zhang Fei personally did it, and died with a whip in front of tens of thousands of troops.

Immediately, Gongsun Xun ascended the stage, rewarded the officers in the army with the gold and silver brocade he obtained, and gave more than 10,000 pieces of cloth and more than 20,000 yuan to the elite of the Han army before the war.

As for the 17,800 Yellow Turban captives before, that is, the newly compiled 10,000 grain delivery men and thousands of foot soldiers, there is no more ...... It is impossible to give them either.

In short, under the scorching sun, the Han army shouted long live and was excited, and the morale of the whole army was high, so they directly pulled out the camp from the south of the city and set off to Yingchuan.

Cao Mengde, as the captain of the two thousand stone cavalry, was divided into four or five thousand new soldiers as the rear army this time, so he finally left, and before leaving, he couldn't help but take a few more glances at the corpse that was whipped to the point of not being human, as if he remembered the past in Luoyang in the past.

Summer is in full swing, and eventful autumn is not far away.

"Isn't He Gong leaving?" In the empty school field in the afternoon, seeing the army set off, Xu You, who had already mounted his horse, couldn't help but urge He Boqiu. "You and I have not failed in our mission this trip, what else is there to see about a corpse? Didn't Meng De also kill Uncle Jian Shuo back then? Matter! ”

He Hao turned his gaze from the corpse that was whipped to death, but he couldn't help but shake his head: "I'm not looking at the corpse, I'm looking at people!" ”

"Look at whom?" Xu You was a wise man after all, and immediately figured out the taste. "The facial features of the general? So what kind of character do you think Gongsun Wenqi is? ”

"Didn't you already say it?" He Hao turned his head and smiled. "It's similar to Cao Mengde...... None of them are the original people! ”

Xu Yu, who had something in his heart, smiled for a while, but he had a lot of thoughts.

In other words, at this moment, dozens of miles away from Puyang, there was a person who was galloping hard, and it was the person Zhao Zhong sent to Cao Cao but was blasted out of his residence...... On a hot summer day, he galloped on a single horse for several hours, and finally he was sweating profusely, and the heat was unbearable, so he dismounted and rested for a while, but he couldn't help but take out a sweat-soaked five-baht coin from his arms.

That's right, this money is the result of their trip to ask for bribes, last night a man named Han Dang broke into their residence, kidnapped his accomplice, but let him go overnight, and gave him a penny, saying that this money was the reply of the five senses Zhonglang to Zhao Changshi.

"This is an insult to your master, isn't it?" This person thought about it, and he could only understand it like this.

However, the matter between the big people is that even the insult is not something that they can put their beaks into...... When Zhao Zhong came, he had already made a detailed request, no matter how much money he gave, he had to check it in person, and a piece of money would also be sent to the master!

End of this volume.

——————I'm the dividing line worth a hundred pounds of gold——————

"Taizu broke Dongjun and got hundreds of millions of money. Zhao Zhong, the regular servant, heard about it, and since then, he has sent his family from his father's name to Dongjun and financial affairs. Shi Xu was in the army under Yuan Shao's orders, and he also asked for money. Taizu then sent a thousand gold and Xu Ziyuan, and reverted to a penny and a loyal family. Loyalty to the will of the Taizu is not a two-way street! —"The World Speaks New Words". Frugal

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