Chapter 9 Discerning voices and knowing people's hearts

"General."

In the evening, in Yingyang City, Yan Zhong walked into the county temple where incense was burning with an extremely exquisite Shu brocade. "Come and see ......"

"What?" Huangfu Song, who was sitting quietly in the hall and was almost asleep from the incense, looked up at the sound and then couldn't help laughing. "Oh, what brocade!"

"Not bad." Yan Zhong said with a smile as he walked. "This is a serious Shu brocade, not Chu brocade, not Wu brocade, not to mention the new Liaodong brocade common in the Hebei market. General, you see, the pattern is unique, bright and moving, really like gold and silver born on silk...... This is the surrendered local yellow turban thief Xiaoshuai specially taken out and dedicated to Captain Wang, and although Captain Wang's home is in Luoyang and he is used to seeing treasures, he also thinks that this thing is exceptional, so he doesn't dare to enjoy it, and instead let me bring it to the general! ”

"You guys!" Huangfu Song smiled bitterly and shook his head. "This thing is a good treasure, but I'm a fifty-year-old man, what do you want it to do?! Even if you make two sets of robes, you don't have the face to wear them out, right? ”

"yes." Yan Zhong hugged Shu Jin and sat behind a few cases below Huangfu Song, and said with a smile. "The general is highly respected, or rather, since the death of General Ran Ming (Zhang Huan, one of the three Mings in Liangzhou) three years ago, the general is where our Liangzhou virtue is located...... Where can we lay people compare? ”

"Then this Shu Jin Shude is kept." Huangfu Song still didn't care.

After all, Dong Zhuo and Gongsun Xun can both know that they will give all their wealth to their subordinates, and Emperor Fu Song will really not be unable to do it.

"That's not right." Yan Zhong casually put Shu Jin on a few cases, but shook his head again. "Treasures are resided by virtuous people, such treasures, if the general doesn't want them, how dare I take them? Even if the general doesn't use it himself, he might as well take it home and keep it for a few sons......"

"It's not a tool!" Huangfu Song shook his head and sighed. "It is best to wear such a brocade cloth made of Shu brocade with a purple ribbon gold seal, but where are they qualified to do that in their lives?"

"Actually, what if you did it?" Yan Zhong suddenly shook his head and smiled. "Liangzhou is a poor and despicable place, what if you become a general? Doesn't the court still regard us as a marginal contempt? ”

Huangfu Song squinted slightly, but did not react.

In fact, since the Han Shizu Liu Xiu ascended the throne and became emperor, the Later Han Dynasty has gone through more than 160 years, and social problems have existed everywhere, as evidenced by the Yellow Turban Rebellion that affected seven or eight prefectures and twenty or thirty counties.

However, if you have to evaluate the most serious place, it can only be Liangzhou, which is now exceptionally peaceful.

The problems in other places were at least hidden under the authority of the Han family before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but in Liangzhou, they were exposed from the beginning, and it was the most direct and bloody violent war.

In fact, if the wars during the founding period are not counted, then from the year of Emperor Guangwu's breath (57 AD), the four major chaos in Liangzhou before and after basically means that it has not stopped:

The first burning rebellion lasted intermittently from 57 A.D. to 101 A.D., lasting more than 40 years;

The Second Xian Zero Rebellion took place in the seventh year after the end of the Burning Rebellion, that is, in 108 A.D., and lasted for eleven years...... Although the time was very short this time, the price paid by the Han family was extremely heavy, and the military expenditure on the surface alone amounted to 24 billion, and directly caused the decline of the population of Liangzhou and Bingzhou and the centrifugal departure of the people, and the saying of "abandoning Liang" was also born;

The third rebellion was actually a suppressive action by the central court, and the main general was Ma Xian, a famous general at the time and a captain of the Qiang Protector, who carried out a bloody suppression of the Qiang people in Liangzhou for nearly 30 years with his excellent military level and brutal suppression methods;

The fourth time was the complete suppression of the Qiang people by Sanming in Liangzhou during the reign of Emperor Huan...... Huangfu Song's uncle Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan, who Dong Zhuo once followed, and Duan Xi, who later took refuge in the eunuch, all became famous because of this.

Moreover, although these four major rebellions are all nominally Qiang chaos, for the powerful people in the middle and lower classes of Liangzhou, frequent wars are there, and the destructiveness of military turmoil is there, and appeasing them with simple national contradictions is tantamount to covering their ears and stealing the bell! Not to mention that in the middle and late Han Dynasty, the Qiang and Han ethnic groups were seriously mixed, and the ethnic gap at the bottom was actually getting smaller and smaller, and most of the officials from other places were corrupt, brutal and incompetent.

In short, it can be said that the middle and lower classes in Liangzhou may not have a lower dislike for the imperial court than for foreign races...... Because massacres and wars are so frequent!

In this case, the center's treatment of Liangzhou is a general exclusion and discriminatory attitude, not to mention the appeasement compensation that should be given, and it is already to give you face if you are not bullied.

Therefore, Liangzhou's dislike for the Han family and the center is basically in a state of depression and spread, and now even the scholars of Liangzhou are extremely dissatisfied with the Han family and the center.

And although the Huangfu Song family is famous for relying on the military suppression of the Qiang rebellion, and belongs to the local representative of the loyal Han faction, since he was born and raised in Liangzhou, how could he not know this sentiment of the people? Moreover, his uncles Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan, as border generals who read scriptures and moved closer to scholars, Ben and Duan Xi, border generals who did not read scriptures and took refuge in eunuchs, themselves had an opposing posture of suppression.

Therefore, even if he knew this emotion, Huangfu Yizhen had no good way, and the only way to deal with it was to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Yan Zhong looked at Huangfu Song, as if he had expected this, but he didn't say anything more, and took the opportunity to mention another thing: "General, how do you look at the combat strength of the Fifth Colonel of the Northern Army and the Knights of the Three Rivers?" ”

"Almost!" When Huangfu Song heard this, he cheered up slightly. "After all, it has been peaceful for a long time, but after all, the system is there, and there is the sophisticated equipment of the Luoyang arsenal, as well as the war horses in the West Garden Corridor...... It should be enough to deal with the Yellow Turban Thief. ”

"It's nature." Yan Zhong said slowly. "Cangting-Dongwuyang was destroyed in the first battle of Dongjun Yellow Turban, and the day before yesterday, the Changshe was destroyed in the first battle of Yingchuan Yellow Turban, after these two battles, I think no one in the world will think that the Yellow Turban thieves can succeed again, and it is only a matter of time before they are exterminated."

"I can't say that." Huangfu Song sighed. "It's also problematic if it's too long...... I read the military newspaper in the Changshe before, and the three brothers of Zhangjiao in Hebei Province shrank all the yellow turban thieves in Julu, Anping, Qinghe, Wei County, Hejian and other places to Julu County, relying on the two big cities of Guangzong and Xiaquyang in the north and south, each gathering more than 100,000 people, holding the grain that could not be eaten for several years, and the wealth and equipment collected by several counties and countries were ready to resist stubbornly...... Shude, you said that if this is a year or two, isn't it an ordinary thing? At that time, the world may be in chaos! ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Yan Zhong laughed. "But that's not what I'm going to say today...... General, I saw that Hebei in the Central Plains is so rich, even this kind of treasure can be found at will in a county, and the Yellow Turban Thief is just a moth thief after all, so why only let the children of the Central Committee of the Three Rivers and the Five Schools who are already rich in the family make a fortune? You look at the five senses of the Lang general, people came out to fight, not only took care of the hometown, but also took care of the old department of Bingzhou, only a few days, there is already a captain who has accumulated merit to 2,000 stones, four thousand stone Sima...... and yesterday's Liu Bei, as if he was about to be the fifth! And for our children in Liangzhou, it is difficult to be an official and make a fortune...... Bitter! ”

Huangfu Song was silent for a moment, but slowly shook his head: "I know what Shude means, but ...... You also know the situation in Liangzhou, let those soldiers and soldiers from remote places come to the interior, it is said that they are wild and difficult to control, and it is another thing that the imperial court is wary. Therefore, I only recommended famous families such as Nanrong that day. ”

"yes!" Yan Zhong sneered and stood up and said. "I have nothing to say about Fu Nanrong's talents, but how many talents in Liangzhou are like Fu Nanrong who are also educated and are famous families?" At this point, without waiting for Huangfu Yizhen to respond, Yan Shude replied and pointed to the brocade on several cases and said. "The general really doesn't want this top-grade Shu brocade? This is a piece of the heart of the people below. ”

Huangfu Song had no choice but to laugh dryly: "Since it is everyone's heart, I will stay." ”

Yan Zhong smiled slowly and left.

Huangfu Song saw the other party go out, sighed, and in a blink of an eye, he squinted in the incense and fell asleep...... There was no way, he was already very old, and yesterday's night's banquet made him pay special attention to this fact. Facing the young Gongsun Xun, Cao Mengde, and many young heroes present at the time, he was really a little envious and helpless.

"Brother Zhicai."

Turning back to Yangzhai City, the sun was about to set, and in an empty and dilapidated mansion, Lou Gui, who was extremely depressed, finally couldn't bear it anymore. "Whether it succeeds or not, can you please give me a word?"

"Let me ask Mr. Zibo." Xi Zhong is in his Chinese New Year's Eve this year, his thin eyes are white, judging from his clothes and his unwell-groomed beard, and from the deep sunken eye sockets, his life does look down. "All the wealth, the treasures, and the car are mine?"

"Yes!"

"Even if I don't go, according to etiquette, these gifts don't have to be repaid?" Xi Zhicai continued to ask curiously.

"Not bad!" Lou Gui nodded helplessly. "Therefore, Brother Zhicai, please don't look at it anymore, and please speak up if you are not allowed."

"Don't tell Mr. Zibo, I'm ...... I don't know. Xi Zhong spread his hands and smiled.

"I don't know what it means?" Lou Gui only felt that his forehead was beating with blue tendons, didn't he say that these two people are hardworking and complaining, and the other is enlightened? Then one should be like Wang Xiu and the other like Lu Fan, how did it become what it is today?

"To not know means not to know." Xi Zhong touched the golden road on the tray in front of him. "Mr. Zibo, I have been poor for almost thirty years, and I am always prodigal on weekdays, although I have the recommendation of Brother Yuan Chang, but that Zhonglang with facial features is willing to send someone to invite me in such a hurry with such a generous gift just by one side, I am still very surprised and quite moved...... In all fairness, people are not plants and trees, and it would be strange if they were not moved by this situation. ”

"That ......"

"However, as the saying goes, good birds choose trees to perch, and virtuous ministers choose their masters." Xi Zhong turned around with his hands in his hands and said slowly to the low west wall that was crawling all over his house to see the lively neighborhood. "I've been loyal to chaos for 30 years, and I don't even dare to marry a wife...... Of course, no one wants to marry...... Isn't it just that you want someone who can really entrust your ambition to show your talents? Then if your general is a splendid person who is in the midst of a splendid outcome, and is defeated in it, am I not a person entrusted to me? ”

Lou Gui stopped talking behind the other party.

"Mr. Zibo, being a private person is like marrying a wife." Xi Zhicai turned around and smiled. "You say, if the bride passes through the door and finds that her husband is a gambler and a good drinker like me, won't she lose the youth of the bride? And I'm ...... If your general is a waste, will you want me to be a betrayer of the Lord at that time? Do you think I'm that kind of person?! ”

Lou Gui finally folded his hands and sighed and said, "Brother Zhicai's words are quite a bit of a Legalist technique...... Then you mean, do you have to wait for my general to come to Yangzhai and you will see him with your own eyes before making a decision? ”

"Then you don't have to." Xi Zhicai shook his head and said. "Your general is a general with the five senses, and he has just abolished 100,000 yellow turban thieves in Changshe, and he will be mighty at that time, leading tens of thousands of victorious divisions to Yangzhai City, and there are countless Hu Shiliang generals under him, I will only sweat and mess up when I think about it."

"And what do you want?" Lou Gui was almost impatient again.

"Mr. Zibo, don't worry." Xi Zhicai smiled slowly. "I think you're the confidant of the general in the five senses?"

"Yes!" Lou Zibo said proudly. "Why else would you send me here?"

"How long has that gentleman been following your general?" Xi Zhicai continued to ask.

Lou Gui opened his mouth to speak, but he suddenly felt lost, and only after a while did he respond: "It's actually eight or nine years...... It's been almost ten years! The concubines that the old lady gave me gave me three children. ”

"I see." Xi Zhicai is also in full swing. "In this way, Mr. Zibo and your general have a one-and-two-one?"

"Perhaps!" Lou Gui said with emotion. "I know what you mean, you want to test me, so as to get a glimpse of my family's majesty, right?"

"Not bad." Xi Zhicai nodded.

"But my mind is mostly on the military." Lou Gui shook his head. "If it is about people's hearts, Dong Gongren must come here; If it is about analyzing the facts, then Lu Ziheng must ...... here"

"It doesn't matter." Xi Zhicai shook his head and said. "Seeing the big from the small does not necessarily mean talking about the general trend of the world or the great hearts of the people...... Is all this gold and silver and wealth mine? ”

"Yes!" Lou Gui was a little impatient again.

"Does Mr. Zibo play animal cards?" Xi Zhicai smiled again. "Let's call a good gambler from this onlooker, and I will divide the gold in these treasures into three, and give each of you a share, how about we gamble? If you lose it all, you need nothing but keep the gold and go away. And if I lose it all, I will be disposed of by Mr. Zibo! ”

Lou Zibo twisted his beard for a while, and sneered.

The sky was dark, Gongsun Xun turned back to the military tent, and from Cao Cao, Cheng Pu, and Gongsun Yue, except for Yang Kai and Zhaozhao, who had already taken the lead in taking the Lun clan and Yangcheng, most of the generals in the army had gathered here...... It turned out that most of the corpses were burned in one day, and the army became a little impetuous, and then they couldn't wait to discuss the matter of the whole army moving to Yangzhai.

"There's no need to wait too long." Cao Cao said with a yawn. "The battle was decided in one day, Bocai has been awarded the head, Yang Zhai is also in the hands of our army, and the matter of the sweep in the south of the county has been taken away by the two lieutenant generals...... In my opinion, although there are still some corpses left, they are scattered everywhere, which is not enough for the labor army, and it can be entrusted to local officials such as Changshe, Yangzhai, and Yingyin, so that they can mobilize local people to do it. Let's go to Yangzhai to rest and recuperate! ”

The rest of the people also spoke one after another, but most of them agreed with Cao Cao's words.

Even Guan Yu, who has never been in line with the mainstream, also said bluntly, saying that the weather was too hot, and after a big fight, the sergeants and soldiers were quite tired...... The same may be true.

However, although Gongsun Xun, the only one who can call the shots, also hates this place and wants to go to Yangzhai to rest as soon as possible, he can't help but hesitate and worry. His concern was not that the locals would be lazy...... After all, it is a matter of life and death, and no one slacks off...... But how long will it take for these locals to gather? And do they really have that 'scientific' sense of precaution?

The weather is so hot, the corpse will rot in two or three days, his grandson Xun is here to watch, let the sergeants and prisoners cover their mouths and noses, and are not allowed to pick up the clothes of the carrion, I am afraid that everyone will not dare not listen, right? But what if he's not there?

At this thought, Gongsun Xun gritted his teeth, and then made a solo husband - according to his military order, the wounded and most of the heavily burdened and exhausted cavalry and their horses could go to Yangzhai first, but most of the foot soldiers, a small number of cavalry, and all able-bodied prisoners were to stay here, continue to search for the corpses, and then incinerate them on the spot.

Gongsun Xun's prestige in this army is better than day by day, since he officially issued a military order, although everyone is dissatisfied, no one dares to complain in public, but immediately accept it.

And this is the end of the military discussion.

However, that night, there was a sudden commotion in the army.

"What's the noise?" Gongsun Xun was simply inexplicable when he was woken up by Han Dang, and after walking out of the military tent, he even had some anger in the face of the generals and colonies who came in a hurry. "When the reward is less than thee, but let them stay for an extra day or two, how can it be noisy at night? Is there such a thing as the plague to be careless? ”

"Don't worry, prince." At this moment, Dong Zhao, who was short and fat, also rushed over with his clothes on his belly, and as soon as he opened his mouth from afar, he directly calmed down Gongsun Xun. "It's definitely not our own sergeant, if the prince raises soldiers like this, and the sergeant still wants to make chaos, then where is there no chaos in the world? In my opinion, there must have been rumors among the captives. ”

Not only Gongsun Xun, everyone woke up immediately.

And after leaning for a while, the protector Sima Gongsun Yue really found out the ins and outs of the matter, and came to report it in full clothes.

It turned out that, as Dong Zhao had guessed, it was rumors among the captives...... It is said that after the Japanese military meeting, the baggage and cavalry were packing their bags, and then the heavily armed infantry moved to the vicinity of the prisoner camp to take care of them, and the prisoners were at a loss and suspicious; Later, Wang Xiu sent people to pick out the wounded and weak among the captives in accordance with the military order, and prepared to set off with the cavalry and baggage tomorrow, and at this moment, the captives were even more panicked!

However, at that time, the Han army had just finished moving to the camp in full armor, and they didn't dare to talk out loud until nightfall, so they couldn't help but talk to each other, and after some discussion, they were extremely suspicious that they would be killed collectively tomorrow, and there was nowhere to escape! That's why they panicked, hugged their heads and cried, and even made noise and agitation!

"Don't worry, prince." After another moment, as there were more and more people beside Gongsun Xun, Cheng Pu finally came in full clothes. "I've put the camp on armed, and I've made arrangements...... More than 20,000 unarmed captives could not make waves. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.

"Prince." At this time, Wei Yue behind him suddenly interjected. "Such a thief, and there is such a mess, why bother to move to Yangzhai for resettlement? If you want me to say, you might as well really get into the trap to avoid future trouble! ”

Wei Yue Wei Zidu is a bastard from a border area, and he is well known in the army, so few people care about what he says, that is, Guan Yu squinted at him.

However, Gongsun Xun was just about to scold, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a person beside him, and then couldn't help but move in his heart, and directly turned to this person and asked, "What do you think, Brother Meng De, do you want to punish him a little?" ”

Cao Cao thought for a moment, but immediately shook his head: "After all, there is a reason for it, and it is too nonsense to kill it...... I mean, you can pick some people who provoke trouble and carry out joint executions according to the Shiwu that was made up for the captives before! ”

"What does Xuande think?" Gongsun Xunfu named another person.

"I ......" Liu Bei, who had been silent, thought for a moment, but did not give his opinion. I don't know what to do, please be clear. ”

Gongsun Xun bowed slightly when he heard this, but slowly shook his head.

The one who is the head is because his inner prediction and judgment of Cao Cao and Liu Bei are correct.

Among them, Cao Mengde has a Legalist style, but he is not cruel by nature, let alone a natural hero, how can a person think about slaughtering the city and killing prisoners as soon as he enters the battlefield? In fact, Cao Mengde, who 'would rather be responsible for the world than for the world' in his mother's mouth, is more like being raised by the troubled times. And Liu Bei is similar, in the face of the turbulent times that have just begun, he is still very young and clueless, and he doesn't even have his own opinions, so he can only remain silent and choose to learn and observe.

They all need experience...... Whether it's positive or negative...... But all are promising.

As for shaking his head, Gongsun Xun had already made a decision...... To tell the truth, if he is preparing to collect the newly surrendered soldiers for his own use, Gongsun Xun may come to a drama in the camp to attract people's hearts. However, more than 20,000 people are just captives who escaped because of the existence of remnants of soldiers everywhere in Yingchuan, is he crazy to play this play?

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!

"Watch carefully, intimidate severely, if there is a escape, there will be no mercy, if you don't make a mess, don't pay attention!" Gongsun Xun instructed Cheng Pu, and then turned around and went directly to the tent, as if he wanted to continue sleeping.

Everyone was at a loss for a moment.

"What do you care about these captives?" Lu Fan suddenly came to his senses and said with a smile. "Tomorrow they will naturally know that we are not going to trap them, and in a few days, when the will of the court comes, most of them will have nothing to do with us! Now that Demou has been arranged, then everyone should also go back to the camp to appease the sergeants of the headquarters! ”

Everyone woke up for a moment and returned to the camp speechless.

However, after a night of panic, everyone did not sleep too well, and when they woke up in the morning, they were also tired, but fortunately, the more than 20,000 captives gradually woke up and gave birth to peace, and after this incident, they became more and more diligent and honest, which made the work of collecting corpses a lot easier.

However, there are some exceptions, such as Gongsun Xun, who seemed to have slept very well yesterday, and only got up calmly at three o'clock in the sun, which is particularly enviable.

"Two pigs!" In Yangzhai City, Lou Zibo, who had not slept all night, had red eyes, but he calmly threw out three of the five wooden cards.

Xi Zhicai's eyes were red and he was also sweating profusely, he looked at the only wooden card in his hand, he was really helpless, and the neighbor next to him also shook his head again and again.

"Two more pigs!" Lou Zibofu threw two more cards from his hand.

Xi Zhicai even turned red this time.

"A cow." Lou Zibo smashed the last card in his hand, and then said calmly. "You two give me the money."

Xi Zhicai looked down at his last piece of gold, pursed his lips and said nothing, but after all, he gritted his teeth and pushed this gold out: "Admit the gamble and admit defeat." ”

Seeing this, the neighbor hurriedly threw out a piece of eridium, but hurried away with his remaining five or six pieces of gold.

Lou Zibo turned over and got down, opened the window, under the dazzling sunlight, he squinted his eyes suddenly, and then turned his head again, staring at the only person left on the couch. And the hairy drama Zhicai who was watched was forced to be calm and looked at each other proudly.

"I remember that Brother Zhicai doesn't have a wife?" Lou Gui suddenly twisted his beard and asked an inexplicable question.

"Yes, yes!"

"Looking at the situation in your family, I think it is also that my parents died early?" Lou Gui continued to twist his beard and asked.

"Everyone knows it." Xi Zhicai couldn't help sweating again on his forehead. "Why else would I have wandered here?"

"Before you...... You said yesterday that you are willing to gamble and lose, let me deal with it? As if he hadn't heard the other party's words, Lou Gui continued to twist his beard and ask, his eyes becoming more and more strange.

"Not bad!" Xi Zhicai replied reluctantly. "Big Husband ......"

"It's okay over there, someone!" Lou Zibo suddenly shouted. "Tie up this rotten gambler with me and put it in a big wooden box...... Now carry me from the street to the south of the county temple! ”

Xi Zhicai was dumbfounded, and then stopped talking.

"If it weren't for the unbearable heat now, you would be weak." Lou Zibo sneered. "Otherwise, you will be put in a wooden box and sent directly to my general...... Be content! ”

With that, he walked out with his hands in his hands.

And as several names swarmed in, the drama was ready to speak again.

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"In the past, Xun broke the yellow scarf and surrendered tens of thousands. In the evening, it was stationed in the Changshe, and suddenly the night was chaotic and the fire broke out, and the army was completely disturbed. Xun said left and right: 'Don't move. I treat the soldiers as brothers and sisters, and if I can oppose me, I will be demoted to rumors and disturbances, and there will be a little turmoil. 'Let all the units of the army sit down with their weapons, and be gathered under their tents, and be at peace. When things are peaceful, they know that they are moved to camp in the army, and they are afraid of surrendering troops, and rumors or pit killings are hugging and crying at night, so that they are noisy and uneasy, and they are arson to resist. Everyone is convinced. Shi Cao is a deputy general, and he can be punished by reducing the degree of disobedience. Xun was silent, but entered the barracks in his clothes and stayed in the middle tent. The generals were stunned, the guards were endless, until dawn, Xun calmly came out of the tent, and the troops all kowtowed, feeling their virtues. Everyone's benefit. β€”β€”"Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty". Wang Cang

PS: This chapter is for the night...... Because I have to go out at night to do some things, I stayed up late and came out, which was a bit rushed, so forgive me.

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