Grain prices in Luoyang fell rapidly, and it didn't take long for them to begin to fall in all counties of Henan County.

The timely drop in grain prices not only relieved Liu Xiuchang, but also made Li Tong secretly relieved.

If food prices are not controlled and continue to rise, he, the chief official, will have an unshirkable responsibility.

On this day, Liu Xiu was in the office, Zhang Kun held a roll of bamboo slips in both hands, walked into the hall quickly from the outside, came to Liu Xiu in small steps, handed the bamboo slips out respectfully, and said: "Your Majesty, Youzhou is a book!" ”

Liu Xiu put down the pen in his hand, took the bamboo slip, and unfolded it to take a closer look.

The more he looked at it, the more gloomy Liu Xiu's face became, and when he saw the end, Liu Xiu couldn't help but slam the bamboo slip to the ground, and said angrily: "How can this be reasonable!" Die to shame! ”

The content of the bamboo slip is very simple, the Goguryeo soldiers invaded Lelang County again, and abducted hundreds of Han Chinese people in the Tixi area of Lelang County.

Liu Xiu stood up and paced back and forth in the main hall.

The king of Goguryeo said that he would come to Luoyang to meet him, and at the same time sent troops to invade Lelang County, which was extremely brazen.

Obviously, the king of Goguryeo did not come to meet with him, but to negotiate with him, and the purpose of repeatedly violating the border was to increase his ability to negotiate with him.

Liu Xiu suddenly stopped and said to Zhang Kun: "Draft the will, declare the sacrifice to enter Beijing!" ”

紜肜 (rong) is the cousin of the priest, who has served as a waiter of the Yellow Gate and a county magistrate of Yanshi County.

Because of his good performance in Yanshi, he ranked first in the national county official assessment (yes, during the Han Dynasty, China already had a complete and systematic official performance evaluation system), and was promoted to Xiangben County as a county magistrate.

Xiangben is a large county in Donghai County, Xuzhou, next to the county seat Tan County.

After the sacrifice arrived in Xiangben, he did a very good job and was often rewarded by Liu Xiu.

Now the disaster caused by Goguryeo has made Liu Xiu very angry, and he is determined to punish him, and after thinking about it, he feels that it is most appropriate to sacrifice to Wei.

A few days later, the priest entered Beijing and met Liu Xiu.

The sacrifice is the first grandson of the word, and the sacrifice is the second grandson of the word.

Sai Zun can be regarded as one of Liu Xiu's favorite ministers, and because of this, after Sai Zun died of illness, Liu Xiu was distressed, and Liu Xiu participated in the whole funeral of Sai Zun, which is extremely rare.

Liu Xiu was very happy to see the sacrifice, and asked for warmth, which made the sacrifice feel deeply flattered.

After the greetings, Liu Xiu said with a smile: "During the second grandson's tenure in Xiangben, there were no thieves in the county, the county government was honest, and the orders were appropriate, and he was deeply respected by the local people!" ”

Liu Xiu didn't go to Xiangben County, but the imperial envoy went to inspect and truthfully reported the situation on Xiangben's side to Liu Xiu.

When the priest heard this, he was a little frightened, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The people respect not Weichen, not the county government, but Your Majesty, the court!" ”

Liu Xiu looked up and smiled, the character of the priest is very similar to the sacrifice, the number of rituals and the sense of proportion, but he is too cautious.

He turned his head to look at Zhang Kun.

The latter immediately stepped forward, picked up the bamboo slips on the table, held them in front of the priest, and said, "Please take a look at the county order!" ”

Sai Wei first glanced at Liu Xiu, and when he saw Liu Xiu nodding, he leaned over and took the bamboo slip, unfolded it, and looked at it carefully.

After seeing it, the priest frowned, and said: "Your Majesty, Goguryeo relies on the mountains and high ground to be far away, and has repeatedly violated the border and injured my border people. ”

Liu Xiu said: "I have also considered sending the Jingshi army to Xuansu and Lelang to level the thieves, but the distance is far away and the loss is huge, and the current money and grain of the imperial court are really unaffordable."

Therefore, I plan to send a powerful Taishou to serve in the border county, and fight the barbarians on the border! ”

When he heard this, he couldn't help but murmur to himself, could it be that His Majesty was planning to send himself to Youzhou?

But he is only a county order, and His Majesty wants to send a Taishou, no matter how he arranges it, he can't rank it on his head! Just when the priest was silent, Liu Xiu smiled and asked, "Is the second grandson willing to take on this important responsibility?" ”

Sai Wei was stunned, looked at Liu Xiu blankly, and didn't come back to his senses for a while.

It is not an easy task to be promoted from a prefectural commander to a taishou.

In modern parlance, this is the equivalent of rising from mayor to governor.

I don't know how many people have been county magistrates, from young to old, and they can't be promoted to Taishou until they die, and now His Majesty has directly promoted himself to Taishou, which is also too incredible and unexpected.

Seeing that the priest had been in a daze, not moving, and not saying a word, Zhang Kun, who was standing aside, coughed in a low voice.

Sai Wei returned to his senses and subconsciously looked at Zhang Kun.

The latter reminded in a low voice: "Sacrifice the county order, Your Majesty is asking you!" ”

The priest finally reacted, he didn't say a word, he immediately knelt on his knees, kowtowed forward, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Xiule was happy and asked with a smile: "Second grandson, if you go to Youzhou, are you confident that you can deal with the Goguryeo people?" ”

Sai Wei didn't think about it, and said in a shocking voice: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty!" As long as there are micro-ministers, we will never let the Goguryeo people invade the Han land and rob our border people again! ”

"The second grandson is so determined?"

"Wechen has!"

"Good! The second grandson deserves to be the brother of the first grandson! ”

Liu Xiu stood up, looked at the priest with bright eyes, and after a while, he said loudly: "Zhang Kun, declare the decree!" ”

Zhang Kun bowed, walked quickly to the throne, picked up the pre-written holy decree from the table, and chanted loudly at the priest who knelt below.

Liu Xiu's holy decree was also carefully considered.

He directly promoted the priest to the Liaodong Taishou, and he, the Liaodong Taishou, had the right to recruit soldiers and horses in the four counties of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Xuansu, and Lelang, and also had the right to transfer and dispatch soldiers and horses from these four counties.

In addition, the Taishou of the sacrifice of Wei had to deal with not only Goguryeo, but also the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei and other aliens in the north.

After listening to the holy decree, instead of being timid, the priest was so excited that he burst into tears.

The priest has the mountain of worship, and for those who are not capable, he is naturally a solid backer, but for those who are capable, the shrine is actually a huge obstacle.

Sai Wei belongs to the latter, he is talented, full of economy, he wants to be literate and martial, but all along, he has lived under the aura of sacrifice and is not very valued.

Now that he has finally been reused by the Son of Heaven, how can he not be excited about the sacrifice that has been up and down in officialdom for many years?

In the eyes of others, it is a very difficult and dangerous task to go to Youzhou to deal with foreign races such as Goguryeo, Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc., but it is not a difficult task for the priest, and he is confident that he can do the errand assigned by the Son of Heaven.

Moreover, he is too guarded, he can mobilize the soldiers and horses of the four counties, and he can completely show his strength in the eastern part of Youzhou.

The priest bowed forward excitedly and said loudly: "Weichen obeys the order!" Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen! ”

After chanting the holy decree, Zhang Kun walked down the steps, walked to the front of the priest, rolled up the holy decree, put it in his hand, and stepped aside.

Liu Xiu walked up to the priest and stretched out his hand to help him up from the ground.

He looked at the priest, patted him on the shoulder vigorously, and said meaningfully: "Second grandson, on this trip to Youzhou, you must not only do your best, but also be more careful, to glorify the sacrifice family, don't let the dead brother be ashamed!" ”

Sai Wei's nose was sour, he bowed down, and choked up: "Your Majesty's teachings, Wechen have all written them down." ”

Liu Xiu patted him on the shoulder again and said, "In the near future, the king of Goguryeo will come to the capital to meet him, and I hope that during this period, I can receive good news from my second grandson from Youzhou!" ”

The priest snorted, his face was straight, and he said: "If Weichen can't deal with the trouble of barbarianism, Weichen is willing to raise his head to see Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Xiu nodded heavily and said, "The sacrificial clan is all loyal to the Han family, go ahead!" ”

The priest lifted his robe, knelt on his knees again, kowtowed to Liu Xiu, and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen retires!" ”

Liu Xiu stretched out his hand and said, "This trip is far away, let the second grandson ...... Great work! ”

The priest choked up and said, "Your Majesty is tormenting the ministers! ”

Kowtowed to Liu Xiu again, and the priest stood up and exited the main hall.

When I arrived at the outside of the main hall, there were already several large boxes under the steps, which contained the rewards that Liu Xiu had given to the priests.

After seeing it, without saying a word, he turned around, and outside the main hall, he knelt down to Liu Xiu in the hall again and thanked him.

Liu Xiu sent a priest to Youzhou to serve as the Taishou of Liaodong, which was a miraculous move.

In recent years, there have been frequent changes of political power in the Central Plains, constant melee, wars, corpses everywhere, and the people are struggling to survive, which can give Goguryeo an opportunity to take advantage of.

The Goguryeo people are happy when they are jumping on the border, and they loot here today, and where they loot tomorrow, and the border people suffer deeply.

Now Goguryeo has finally jumped to the point where Liu Xiu is unbearable, and Liu Xiu has made up his mind to punish him severely.

Liu Xiu knows people and has always been very accurate.

He valued the sacrifice, and the sacrifice did not disappoint Liu Xiu.

After arriving in Liaodong, he carried out a drastic rectification of the county army, and at the same time recruited new soldiers and trained soldiers and horses.

Less than a month after he took office, he inflicted heavy losses on a 2,000-strong Goguryeo army in Lelang County.

That's an afterword.

On this day, news came from Hanyang that Gongsun Shu sent the general Zhao Kuang and others to lead more than 50,000 troops to reinforce Kui Chun.

Gongsun Shuken sent reinforcements again, which was somewhat unexpected, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually reasonable.

Shu and Longdi are each other's lips and teeth.

Whoever is wiped out is not good news for the other.

Kui Huan is dead, Kui Chun has just succeeded to the throne, his position has not been stable, the Han army has attacked again, the situation is precarious, if there is no foreign aid, Kui Chun's power will not last long.

Gongsun Shu is naturally very aware of this, if he still refuses to send reinforcements, when Kui Chun is killed, Longdi completely falls into the hands of the Han army, then next, Shu Di will have to face the Han army alone.

By then, will you really be able to compete?

Therefore, he needs someone to contain the Han army, and he can't let Kui Chun die in the hands of the Han army.

As a last resort, Gongsun Shu could only bite the bullet and send reinforcements again.

Even if he knew that Longdi had become a bottomless pit, no matter how many soldiers and horses he sent to the rescue, I am afraid it would be useless.

After the 50,000 Shu army led by Zhao Kuang entered Hanzhong County, they immediately encountered a Han army that came to meet them, which was the western expeditionary army led by Feng Yi.

The two sides started a big battle at the junction of Hanyang County and Longxi County.

After this battle, the Shu army was defeated by Feng Yi, losing more than 10,000 soldiers, and the remaining more than 30,000 people were defeated in a hurry.

The Western Expeditionary Army was unforgiving, and pursued it all the way to the outside of Yancheng City.

What Liu Xiu received was the battle report sent back by the Western Expeditionary Army.

Although it was a battle report of his own victory, Liu Xiu was not happy.

He didn't expect that Gongsun Shu would send troops to fill the big hole in Longdi, and now he can't judge how determined Gongsun Shu is to rescue Longdi, and whether he will send more soldiers and horses in the future.

If Gongsun Shuzhen made up his mind and sent the main force of the Shu army to Longdi, then the battle situation in Longdi would become unpredictable, and it would be far more difficult for his own soldiers and horses to win than imagined.