Chapter 34: The Snow Falls in the Court (Part II)

"In that case, why don't you raise the people of the Central Plains to surrender to Yecheng?" In the middle of the banquet, Liu Bei, who was sitting at the same table, suddenly asked coldly. "In this way, not only can you get together with the old people, but you can also see the peace of the world early, right?"

Cao Cao turned his head and stared at his righteous brother Xuande, and when he saw that the other party's eyes were clear and his expression was calm, he also shook his head slowly: "It's just unwilling!" Moreover, our Cao family is subject to Hann, and you let me learn from Wenqi...... Where will the Han family be placed in the future? Didn't Yang Wenxian say it this morning? General Wei's heart is known to passers-by! And Xuande, you said it yourself, isn't it also the righteousness of reviving the Han Dynasty? You and I are here today, and we have nothing to say...... You say that his grandson Wenqi may be able to be a Ming monarch for a dynasty, but his descendants will really not be Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling? I'm for Hanchen and keep the Han Festival, can't I? Isn't it wrong? ”

"I think so." Liu Bei was suddenly moved and smiled. "Actually, I'm not reconciled, I also want to revive the Han Dynasty!"

Unexpectedly, hearing this, Cao Cao not only did not mean solemnly, but laughed loudly: "My revival of the Han family is the real revival of the Han family, you Han clan relatives revive the Han family, I am afraid that you want to revive the position of the Son of Heaven under your ass, right?" Whether it's Liu Yan or Liu Biao, there is another Liu Bei today...... The so-called 'Zixia Xihe doubts the words of the saint'! ”

Zhang Fei and the others next to him were all stunned, but they continued to bow their heads and drink below, just listening attentively.

"Not necessarily." Liu Bei replied slowly. "But there are some theories about the name of the Han family...... Does Brother Meng De know? Over the years, I have been sitting in Huainan, separating the state and county, in fact, I am often uneasy in my heart, and I always feel that everyone in the world can fight with my brother Sun Wenqi in the name of the Han family, and I alone cannot fight with it, because the so-called righteousness of the Han family is actually private for me, and if I talk about it privately, what qualification do I have to fight with my brother for personal gain? The first brocade robe and the first mount in my life were all sent to me by Han Yigong, according to reason, he wanted my life, and I, as a younger brother, should die for it. ”

"But you're still unwilling!" Cao Cao still sneered at the case. "Right?"

"When I was a teenager, I saw a mulberry tree like an umbrella in front of my house, and I ridiculed the Liu clan, so I had the ambition to do the world's affairs early, and of course I was unwilling...... But when I started to tie myself up, I met my brother Sun Wenqi again, who was bound by the kindness of others, and struggled for many years, but it was always difficult to let go......"

"What does Xuande want to say, like a woman, to find a close friend in the boudoir here to express his affection?"

"I just want to ask Brother Meng De, what can I do to justifiably let me ride 100,000 steps to fight against my brother on the battlefield, and I am unwilling?"

"There's no way." Cao Cao shook his head abruptly. "You can only be the brother of General Wei for the rest of your life......"

"That's a good point." Liu Bei replied calmly. "I have been the brother of General Wei all my life, but Brother Meng De, it is precisely because of this that I gradually realized that if I can show my ambition for my brother, I may be able to be calm......

"What? His ambition is not ...... Does passers-by know about it? ”

"If so, you will underestimate him."

"You mean the New Deal?" Cao Cao lifted the bottle and drank again.

"I tie my hair with my brother, there is a lot of infiltration, I believe that he really wants to find a way out for this world, I really think that his words are reasonable, the Han family is decadent, the first is the powerful to annex the land, the family monopolizes the official position, and then the powerful are degenerate and shameless...... I've seen it all with my own eyes...... I heard that Brother Meng De was frustrated in Yanyu Dutian and the imperial examination? ”

"Yes, yes."

"Can you continue to do it?"

"Yes!" Cao Cao was categorical. "If you can't, then how can you talk about Kuang Fu Han Room?! Will Kuang help back to the Han room of the former Huan Ling?! ”

"I think so...... In fact, if Brother Wenqi, you, and I are parallel to the new policy, who can resist at this time when the world is in turmoil? ”

"That's what you mean?" Cao Cao stared at Liu Bei, who was still moody, and suddenly realized. "Do you think that if you can make the world implement a new policy, then it will be okay to fight against Gongsun Wenqi on the battlefield? Because no matter who wins or loses, can the government of others last for a long time? ”

"Brother Meng De is half right!" Liu Bei finally laughed. "Even so, I don't have the shame to deal with it...... But if that's the case, I may be able to help Brother Meng De and my Brother Wenqi in the rear, and if I win, I will fight to the death with Brother Meng De! Please rest assured, Brother Meng De, although the relationship between you and me is not as close as between me and my brother Sun Wenqi, after all, we have entrusted my wife...... When you die, your wife will be ready to support herself! ”

Cao Cao was stunned for a long time, but he was laughing with Liu Bei, the tears of laughter burst out, the wine in the hands of the laughing man spilled out of the wine bottle, poured on the hot pot, and green smoke came out, and the three people next to the laughing were stunned, but they were speechless.

"I don't know, Brother Xuande Xian looks up to me or looks down on me." Cao Cao laughed for a long time before he stopped the trend of disambiguation, and shook his head again and again. "You have been here for a long time, allowing Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Yang Biao and others to quarrel there, and you are still unwilling to make a final decision, is this your decision?"

"However, I spent a long time carefully observing the princes of the Central Plains, but when I looked at it, I realized that only Brother Meng De could do this!" Liu Bei put away his smile and was right. "So today I finally made up my mind!"

"The princes of the Central Plains are all the choice of the moment, how can they look down on me Cao Cao alone?"

"Because you have to be a real hero to do it......" Liu Bei replied calmly. Reform the new policy, dominate the Central Plains, and finally win the battlefield with my brother Sun Wenqi...... How can a non-true hero take on this role? ”

"Tao Xuzhou, isn't your cousin a hero?" Cao Cao also suddenly restrained his smile, but took out a pickled plum from the wine bottle and chewed it continuously.

"If my wife's uncle is ten years younger, he can also be called a half-hero, but he is dying of old age, his ambition is gradually declining, and his heroic breath is short, he is no longer a hero!" Liu Bei's face was normal, and he replied slowly.

"What about Sun Ce's kid?" Cao Cao continued to ask. "Didn't you say that he was singing on the river, quite like Brother Wentai's legacy?"

"Why is Brother Meng De joking, don't say that Ace is a boy, it is our Wentai brother who is resurrected, he just uses force, he doesn't know how to do politics, and he is just a half-hero." Liu Bei replied simply.

Cao Cao poured wine and asked again: "Liu Jingsheng sits on the six counties, although he has been frustrated for a while, he is still the most powerful, he is in Jingzhou, and he is a famous man in the world, known as the Eight Jun, both civil and military, is he not a hero here?" ”

Liu Bei took the wine and replied: "I recently carefully observed in person, although he is called the choice of the moment, but he is only the talent of the three princes in the ordinary world, and he is just a dog in troubled times, how can he talk about heroes?" ”

"Speaking of the use of force in troubled times, there is a person in this city, who just beat me to the ground with 5,000 new soldiers, isn't he a hero?" Cao Cao casually pointed out.

"Lu Bu is also the hero of the horse, it can't be called a man who enters the house, I wait to stay there, it's just An Liu Jingzhou's heart, how can I talk about heroes?" Liu Bei simply showed disdain. And under this overall situation, he didn't think about anything else, but just asked for his father-in-law's family with Yang Wenxian all day long, which is ridiculous! If you want me to say, I will make peace with him and see if he can afford his father-in-law with the land of three counties! ”

"Then such as Liu Yan, Shi Xie, Zhu Jun, Er Yuan, Yang Biao, not to mention?"

"Naturally."

"So......" Cao Cao smiled again and pointed to himself. The so-called heroes of the world ......"

"The so-called heroes of today, the first to recommend a Liaoxi puppet, sitting in Hebei with a broken blade of the overlord, building a new government, using both civil and military, and becoming a system of its own!" Liu Bei interrupted the other party, pointed to the north with a bottle in his hand, but poured the wine on the snow in front of the case as a respect, and then threw the wine bottle, turned his head and pointed at Cao Cao and himself in front of him. "Under his people, there are two horses in the Central Plains, one in the south and one in the north, who are not self-sufficient, and want to fight for their own selfishness for the world's affairs, but they can barely be called heroes!"

Cao Cao was stunned and speechless for a long time, but he raised his head and laughed again, and after laughing, he said proudly: "To be able to be ranked with Xuande under the Liaoxi Pifu, it is worth this life!" Tomorrow, I will convene the princes and ask Xuande to push Cao as the leader of the alliance, but the strength is weak, and you must borrow the power of your husband to dare to compete with the northern Liaoxi horseman! ”

After saying that, the two laughed together, but there was no estrangement, and they immediately agreed...... Returned to Jiangxia to Liu Biao; the land of the three counties of Xu Lubu as a buffer; Zhun Yuan Shu was placed under house arrest in Xinye and was not allowed to leave the city; Let Yang Biaoxi return to Chang'an and contact Liu Yu and others; warned Sun Ce not to take the land of Zhu Haoyuzhang...... After a few words, he decided on the overall situation of the Central Plains, which was difficult to resolve for several months, and then drank again until the evening before returning to his heart's content.

The sky was getting dark, and in the backyard of General Yechengwei's Mansion, Gongsun Xun, who was also drinking and enjoying himself, was wearing a white ermine, one in one hand, leading his eldest daughter Gongsun Li and his second daughter Gongsun Zhen to pace on the snow, and there was a black General Wei's Mansion Chief Shi accompanying him.

Pang De led Jia Kui, Meng Da, Yang Xiu and other righteous followers, but he could only follow him from a distance.

"Ziheng seems to have a lot of words to say today, but I suddenly proposed to drink, so I stopped there?" Gongsun Xun asked casually with three points of drunkenness.

"I can't hide it from my lord......"

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Xun simply asked. "It can make you avoid talking about the Nanyang alliance, and it may be a big deal to think about it."

"It may not be trivial to say that it is not trivial, but it cannot be said to be a trivial matter...... It's a hidden danger, and it seems to be inevitable. "So far, Lu Fan has no intention of hiding it.

"Come on." Gongsun Xun is also extremely simple.

At this time, the two had already come to the backyard door, and when they saw their father talking to Lu Fan, Gongsun Li stepped forward to open the back door for the two. However, after he opened the door, he saw that in the evening, the snow outside the door was white and shiny, but he didn't care that he just sent people here with his father, and directly turned around and grabbed his sister, jumped out of the back door and trampled in the snow...... Behind him, several people immediately rushed out of the door, and together with the righteous servants on duty in the small castle on the wall outside the door, they surrounded these two former sons and daughters in the real sense of the world.

Seeing this, Lu Fan's heart moved, and he continued to pace forward, saying as he spoke: "Don't hide it from the lord, this matter was actually noticed by Guangyang Zao Taishou first, and then played through Youzhou...... but of servitude. ”

Gongsun Xun's face was as usual, and he walked out of the backyard slowly with the others, and then walked in the direction of Lu Fan's house, as for Gongsun Li and Gongsun Zhen sisters, seeing this, they also turned back.

Of course, the two sisters, one twelve, and the other ten, inevitably had a childlike heart, and repeatedly wandered left and right on the snow, which can only be regarded as accompanying them in the end.

"That's right." Lu Fan continued to explain. "When the military tun and the people were not disbanded before, the freedom of the tun people was restricted, and the so-called conscription naturally didn't have to think much about it, just call the people to do everything. But now that Youzhou Tuntian is disbanded, Juntian is to the household, and there is no change in the conscription in our new policy, so relying on the laws and regulations of the Qin and Han dynasties, the conscription will naturally come back...... This is fine, but since there is a paving of land to prevent the merger of the powerful and the powerful from evading the calculation of the mouth, what about this same population-based conscription? ”

Gongsun Xun's face was still as usual.

"The prince already knows about this?" Lu Fan smiled bitterly for a while.

"Naturally, Zao is only a talent that I value very much, but he is diligent and diligent, and he doesn't know how to drill camps, so I have to protect him, so I will authorize him to be like a two-rank state pastor and general, and he will be folded in duplicate, one will go to you and Zhengnan, Lou Zibo and others, and one will go directly to my hands." Gongsun Xun said calmly. "Not only did I already know about it, but I also discussed it with my mother...... Ziheng, in fact, this is where the difficulty of innovation lies...... You think that you have reformed and established a new deal, but in fact, in the future, the new deal will always encounter new problems, and at this time it is nothing more than continuing to change forward, completely reforming, or abandoning the new deal and retreating! Otherwise, can it still be settled? ”

Lu Fan also shook his head: "In other words, the lord has made up his mind to share the conscription into the mu?" ”

"Not bad!"

"But there are still hidden worries in this way, and the prince should know about it."

"Nature." Gongsun Xun sighed. "Oral arithmetic has always been copper money, a person a dozen dollars a year, calculated into the acres of land is just the replacement between the two basic common things of money and grain, so I don't realize it at all. And conscription is much more complicated...... Rice, city building, grazing, farming and weaving, if you want to spread the land into the mu, in fact, there is a process of returning miscellaneous things to money! Once the money paid increases, it is a big problem who will be responsible for the replacement of grain, sundries and coins...... Attributed to the people, I am afraid that in the end it will become a means for the powerful to control the people with usury, attributed to the low-level officials, and it is also a little too powerful, and the establishment of separate officials will also increase the burden on the people! Jujube can only find out about this, and my mother praises him as a real practical and good official, and I quite think so! ”

"But it's always to be done...... You can't get away from it. Lu Fan said. Has the result ever been discussed between the lord and the old lady? ”

"It's nothing more than two." Gongsun Xun frowned. "One is to reform the currency system, taking the food stamps and cloth stamps that Amway used in the army as an example and promoting them to the civilian ...... But in this matter, even my mother is a little weak-hearted, for fear that it will not be good. Moreover, it is rectified, and there is also a dilemma on the side of Amway, first, if it is accepted as a direct subordinate of the Shaofu, it is inevitable that it will directly intervene in the future, and arbitrarily issue coupons and coins arbitrarily for a while, causing chaos in the currency administration; Second, if it is not directly under the central government, but it is worried that its tail will not fall off, and it will be self-reliant in this matter, and it will be out of control in the future! ”

"What about the other way?" Lu Fan thought about it for a long time, but it was not good to intervene in the Amway matter related to the relationship between Gongsun Xun's mother and son, so he could only avoid talking about it.

"Another way is a strategy that can't be said to be a delaying strategy or a real eradication strategy." Gongsun Xun spread his hands and said. "Logically speaking, as long as the gold, silver and copper in the world are sufficient, and the flow of five baht coins and gold and silver is extensive, then there is no need to think too much about miscellaneous goods and food to exchange for money, and ......you can exchange them at will."

"But can there always be enough gold, silver, and bronze?" Lu Fan was puzzled. "Once it's peaceful, won't it be buried and cast?"

"So my mother said that I would look for minerals, and there would be four large islands in just 400 miles from Sanhan to the east...... It is said that there is gold, silver and copper that can be easily mined on the island, and one of them is called 'Iwami', where silver ore can be seen visually, and there is an island with a volcano in the middle of it, and there is no end of sulfur on the side......

Lu Fan wanted to speak and stopped.

"I know, I know." Gongsun Xun nodded again and again. "After this matter came out, I was also weak-hearted, and so was my mother...... On the other hand, after this war, the population was greatly reduced, the tombs of dignitaries and nobles were excavated, and the storage of the rich and powerful was robbed, so there would be no shortage of money at this time. And this matter is the so-called destined to become a big problem, but maybe you and I are dead, and it may not be something that can be revealed, so there is inevitably some evasion. ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun Xun stood on the snow and sighed for a while: "In fact, in the final analysis, no one knows what will happen to the children and grandchildren in the future. In the winter, holding the child and drinking, by the way, write a letter to the old relatives to talk about today's snow, isn't it a beautiful thing? ”

Lu Fan also sighed for a while, and was about to speak: "Speaking of children......"

"Speaking of children...... What about Ah Li and Ah Zhen? Gongsun Xun suddenly woke up.

"Wait for you!" Jia Kui hurriedly stepped forward. "The two sons-in-law just passed by the back door of the university, and when they saw a large area of snow inside, they couldn't help but run in to play."

Gongsun Xun located the university behind Zhao Zhong's old mansion where he lived, and the back door of the two was diagonally opposite each other across the street, no more than a few hundred steps apart...... At this point, it has passed.

Hearing this, Gongsun Xun was also helpless, so he could only turn back quickly, but Lu Fan's mansion was across the street from the main entrance of the university, and he could also go back through the university, so no one cared.

The two entered the wide back door of the university, and soon found two girls who had already gone crazy, and hurriedly beckoned them to their side, but they were about to walk through the university and go to the front door.

Although it has sunset, but at this time the snow is shining, and the university is a rare and spacious place in Yecheng, the two girls are just naughty age, how have they ever seen such a scene? While following his father's side, he was also extremely excited, chattering and making trouble...... However, the two of them turned the corner with their father and came to a place, but they couldn't help but be silent.

It turned out that this was the library in the university, and the rules for many years, the library was silent and silent, and the fire prevention was day and night, and the two girls were familiar with this rule as early as Changping.

A group of people stepped on the snow, squirming, and soon they were about to cross the tall library, but when they were about to walk by, Lu Fan suddenly let out a suspicious voice.

Gongsun Xun followed the voice, but he was also stunned, it turned out that there was still one person in the lobby on the ground floor of the library! Looking closely, I saw that this person was actually holding a book, sitting sideways on the threshold, with his back facing outward, as if the lights were forbidden in the hall, but he was reluctant to leave, so he simply reflected the snow outside the hall and read by the light.

It's just that the weather is too cold, but I can't help but cringe, so I lean in the door like this.

Gongsun Xun and Lu Fan looked at each other...... The two knew that they had broken into this trip by mistake, so this person was by no means pretending, so they couldn't help but step forward slowly.

And when they came to the front, the two of them couldn't help laughing, because although this person looked like a young man with tied hair and reading from a distance, they found that his body had not yet grown up, but he was just born tall...... Judging by his age, he should only be thirteen or fourteen years old, and the hair tied on his head looks very reluctant.

Of course, after all, he is a studious person, and it is definitely a beautiful conversation, and since he has seen it, he must always be rewarded.

"I've seen General Wei!" As soon as he was about to speak, the young man had already noticed the coming, and then immediately got up, put away the printed "Pipe" in his hand, bowed and bowed, and his mouth was full of Qingxu accent.

"The kid has seen me?" Gongsun Xun was stunned for a moment.

"I've never seen General Wei's true face before." The boy then spoke. "Only General Wei's sword is too conspicuous, plus the surrounding righteous servants, then who else can be here and now?"

Gongsun Xun smiled dumbly, pushed back the two girls who were curiously poking their heads out from behind him, and then continued to ask: "How to read a book here?" I remember that all the college students who passed the exam had Lumi, and there were dormitories outside the city, and they could also borrow books and take them out of the library, right? ”

"Back to General Wei, the kid came late with his brother and missed the enrollment after the autumn." The boy raised his head and replied frankly and unhurriedly. "It's just that the teachers in the local library have always treated me and other book-rubbing teenagers preferentially, and deliberately came here every day after dinner to clean up the situation, so I couldn't help but stay here for a while."

"I see...... No wonder you are not dressed in simple clothes, but you are studying in the snow here. "Lu Fan is also very interested." It turned out that Wei Gong, who was afraid of delaying the management of books, did not dare to leave...... What about your brother? ”

"Hello to this nobleman." The boy was still unhurried. "My family is Langya people, four years ago my father died of illness in Mount Tai as a county prince, the result was the Qingxu Yellow Turban turmoil, cut off traffic, so I can only be buried in Taishan County, keep filial piety, and later have been in Mount Tai...... It wasn't until General Wei took Qingzhou and General Zhendong cleaned up the Taishan thieves after the autumn that he was able to get to this point. However, when I came here, I actually saw a few Huainan people after missing the enrollment, and heard the message of the clan uncle, saying that the little clan uncle could not take up the post of Yuzhang, so he asked Liu Jingzhou for leave and returned to Langya, as if after Hebei and the Central Plains were stable, he heard the news of his father, and came to find our five brothers and sisters...... My brother didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly settled us in a friend's house in the city, and went south alone to meet my uncle. ”

"Thank you for being so organized," Lu Fan praised more and more, but turned his head to look at Gongsun Xun again. "My lord, it seems that the future may not be too worrying......

Gongsun Xun laughed when he heard this, so he simply uncovered the white mink on his body and directly put it on the long young man: "In this way, I will give a salute first, so that I have booked it for the 'future'...... I have never heard the name of Yingxue's reading boy! ”

"Langya Zhuge Liang, brother Zhuge Jin!" The young man held the book in one hand, and hurriedly pressed the big one that was about to slip down with the other, but he hurriedly leaned over to sign up, and the embarrassment caused the two girls behind Gongsun Xun to snicker in unison.

"I see." Gongsun Xun couldn't help but laugh again. "Good name! And study hard, as Ziheng said, with a young man like you, the future may not be impossible for people in the future! ”

β€”β€”β€”β€” I am not necessarily the dividing lineβ€”β€”β€”β€”

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, the art was captured by Liu Bei, and the head of the box that he wanted to kill went to Chang'an, but the Central Plains Alliance, his son-in-law Lu Bu and brother-in-law Yang Biao were very affectionate, and they were bound to Lu Bu to be imprisoned. Cloth, Yuan Shu's son-in-law also, treat it well, but the cloth is narrow, only Xinye, Chaoyang, Deng three counties, both for Cao Cao, Liu Biao system, can not be civil, there is no redundancy in the city. After returning to Xinye, he asked the cook to get venison and only guinea. In the middle of winter, I heard that Cao Liu drank green plum wine, and wanted to get green plum wine, but there was none. Shu sat on the couch, sighed for a long time, and said: "Yuan Shu is like this!" "I almost want to die, but I stop by women. A few days later, the final guinea was eaten as usual. β€”"The World Speaks New Words". Angry

The poem says:

In his life, he was against the Han princes, and he was not free to win or lose.

The earth-splitting drum army is in a hurry, and the sky is full of flames.

Although there are countless swords for chopping and quenching, the alliance cannot be ended.

Who is the lord of the present dynasty, so that the monarch is in Youzhou.

The sunset green mountains are in the old grace, and the east of the big river does not flow.

If it is long in the middle of summer, when the upper floor looks at the old building.

After the battle, the jade dragon was three million, and they met to ask about the enmity.

It has been known that the book is chong, and the ancient wood and new vine are a hill.

Dajiangdong went to thousands of piles of snow, and the war in Huainan did not end.

Who is the opponent of the heroes of the world? Cao Liu!

After a lifetime of the future, why do you need to ask about romance when you have a child?

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