Chapter 8: Undercurrents

After hearing that the left servant of the Eastern Wei Dynasty prisoner of war shot Sima Ziru, the real master behind Sima Ziru was the unborn talent Su Xuan, Yuwentai was extremely excited, at this time Yuwentai sat quietly in the middle hall of the conference hall and waited for his master Lu Bian, at this time the scholar Lu Wei entered the conference hall and bowed and said: "Lord, why are you so happy!" ”

Yuwentai said excitedly: "The great cause can be expected... Great business can be expected。。。。。 ”

Lu Wei asked suspiciously: "What great cause can be expected, lord?" ”

Yu Wentai breathed a long sigh of relief, and then said: "Today in prison, Sima Ziru said that the real master behind the scenes is Su Xuan!" ”

Lu Wei said in surprise: "Su Xuan? Lord, are you sure you heard it right, it's Su Sui? ”

Yu Wentai looked at Lu Wei inexplicably and said: "If it's Su Sui, then congratulations to the lord!" The minister knows this person, this person knows astronomy, geography, and is unparalleled in the world, dozens of times stronger than me! I'm afraid that I won't lose to Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms, and Wang Meng, a former Qin strategist! ”

Yu Wentai then said in surprise: "This person can be dozens of times stronger than you?" ”

Lu Wei said slowly: "Lord! The foundation of the great cause is the talent, and the talent is doubled, and the great cause can be expected! However, this person is arrogant, and if the lord wants to get his assistance, he needs to take out Liu Xuande's Chicheng three times to visit the thatched house! If you can get the help of this person, the lord can realize his ambition! ”

Yu Wentai pondered: "If this person is really another Kong Ming, I am willing to take care of the thatched house, and I will ask him to come out of the mountain to assist!" ”

Lu Wei said again: "His cousin Su Rang is serving as General Wei under the lord!" The lord may consult his cousin! ”

Yuwentai was surprised: "Su Rang? It's true? Hurry up and recruit Su to let the general come to see you! Seeing this, Cai You, the guard behind him, hurriedly ran out of the council hall with a knife.

At this time, Su Rang served as the general of Wei and the assassin of Nanfen Prefecture in the Western Wei Dynasty, and after a while, Su Rang entered the conference hall, nervously saluted and knelt down on one knee and said: "Subordinate, meet the prime minister!" ”

Yuwentai got up and hurried to Su Rang, helped him up, and patted Su Rang's shoulder and said, "General Su is exempt, General Su seems to be very nervous!" Although you and I are comrades, we have never spoken, General Su does not need to be nervous, you can call me lord like everyone else in the future! ”

Su Rang was puzzled by the second monk who was enthusiastic at this time, because the Yuwentai he usually saw was very serious in front of the army, so he hurriedly wanted to bow again, and Yuwentai said while helping: "Just said, still salute!" ”

I saw that Su Rang's sweat beads appeared a lot, and he hurriedly said: "Prime Minister Xie, oh no, lord!" ”

Yu Wentai smiled and then said to Su Rang: "General Su, don't be nervous, you and I are comrades, but we have rarely been close in the past, and we will come and go often in the future, do you have a cousin named Su Sui?" ”

Su Rang quickly wiped the sweat beads off his face and said suspiciously: "Yes!" How does the prime minister know, Ling Xuan is my brother! Su Rang obviously understood that Yu Wentai had the intention of recruiting his younger brother, so he resolved the previous tension and hurriedly replied: "My brother Ling Xuan traveled the world in his early years to increase his knowledge, if the war continues today, I don't know where it is now!" ”

Yu Wentai said unhurriedly: "Be a guest under Sima Ziru in the Eastern Wei Dynasty!" ”

Su Rang replied as if he had some understanding: "The prime minister recruited me here, are you looking for my brother to assist the prime minister?" ”

Yu Wentai said in surprise: "How do you know that I want your brother to assist me?"

Su Rang hurriedly replied: "All the generals of the Western Wei Army know that the prime minister wants to enrich the country and strengthen the army!" ”

Yuwentai looked at Su Rang appreciatively, and said, "General Su is clear and transparent, I intend to invite your brother to come and assist!" I don't know if General Su can fulfill Thailand's wish! ”

Su Rang was embarrassed and said: "Prime Minister, oh no, the lord, although Ling Xuan is my brother, I haven't seen him for five years, everyone has their own ambitions, I don't dare to guarantee it, I'm afraid that the lord guild will be disappointed!" ”

Yu Wentai said slowly: "You are a lobbyist, whether you succeed or not depends on the will of God!" ”

At this time, the left servant shot Zhou Huida into the study in a hurry, held his hand and saluted: "Lord, Longyou Dao, there is a drought in Wuwei County, Liangzhou!" ”

Yu Wentai immediately frowned and said, "Have you investigated the disaster situation, but there are people starving to death?" ”

Zhou Huida said as he handed the pleats to Yuwentai and said: "The drought pleats in Wuwei County have arrived in Shangshutai, this is an excerpt!" ”

I saw that Yu Wentai quickly opened the fold, looked at it for a while, closed the fold and thought for a moment, and sighed: "After years of military disasters, ten rooms and nine emptiness, the people are already overwhelmed, and now there are natural disasters again!" To add insult to injury! ”

Zuo Servant Zhou Huida looked at the anxious Yu Wentai and hurriedly comforted: "The lord is benevolent, the matter has come to this point, how to deal with it is the key!" ”

Yuwentai said to Zhou Huida: "In this way, you immediately gather relevant people and others now, and go to Longyou with me to investigate the disaster!" ”

The left servant shot Zhou Huida and saluted: "No! Lord! With that, he hurried out of the chamber.

Yu Wentai said to the main bookkeeper Lu Wei: "The master book, how much more is there to check the Chang'an granary immediately?" Adjust the food and release it now! Lu Wei didn't salute Yuwentai, and left in a hurry.

Yu Wentai bowed to Su Rang at this time and said, "General Su, please!" ”

Su Rang saw that Cheng was saluting him, and he panicked immediately, and quickly knelt down and said: "Lord, the minister doesn't dare, the minister will do his best to repay the lord!" ”

Seeing this, Yuwentai hurriedly helped Su Rang, Su Rang then left in a hurry, and then he hurriedly trotted out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, untied the horse rope on the stone bench and quickly stepped on the war horse and walked away, the guards Cai You and the two scribes around Zhou Huida also followed, at this time, there was a beggar in tattered clothes opposite the Prime Minister's Mansion who had been staring at the Prime Minister's Mansion, and after seeing Yuwentai and his entourage go, he quickly got up and walked in the opposite direction.

Besides, since the eldest princess Feng Yi got married, she has been thinking about how to choose between Yuwentai and the imperial brother Emperor Xiaowu, at this time sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard, I saw Yuwentai hurriedly running out of the door of the prime minister's mansion, and after a while, I saw a little eunuch hurrying towards the pavilion, and the eunuch knelt down and said anxiously: "Eldest princess, Your Majesty invites you to enter the palace to talk about family life!" ”

The eldest princess Feng Yi then said: "This palace will go later!" Go back! ”

The eunuch replied: "No! The eunuch got up and hurried away.

At this time, the eldest princess Feng Yi, accompanied by her maid Bi'er, left the Prime Minister's Mansion and sat in a sedan chair and walked towards Weiyang Palace.

I saw that Emperor Wei's ingots torch was pacing back and forth in the inner palace of Weiyang Palace, and seemed to be in a hurry, Princess Feng Yi and maid Bi'er passed through Weiyang Palace and came to the inner palace, Princess Feng Yi said to her maid Bi'er: "You wait at the door!" No one is allowed in! Bi'er hurriedly "promised", and then stopped at the gate of the inner palace, Princess Feng Yi walked into the inner palace, saw Emperor Wei's ingot torch walking around, came to Emperor Wei's ingot torch and prepared to salute, Emperor Wei's ingot torch hurriedly helped and said: "Imperial aunt, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

The eldest princess Feng Yi looked at Emperor Wei's Yuan Bao Torch and said, "Your Majesty, what's the matter?" So urgent? ”

Emperor Wei Yuan Bao Ju sat down on the left side of the central hall while holding the eldest princess Feng Yi and said: "Imperial aunt, I have been a great Wei Chengguo for more than 100 years, and I have inherited the mandate of heaven for 2 years. Emperor Wei Yuanbao Ju said as he walked to the middle hall and sat down, shedding tears as he spoke.

The eldest princess Feng Yi was also moved and said: "Your Majesty, the first emperor's brother Emperor Xiaowu held my hand before he died, and did not let me avenge him, for fear that I would be deeply involved and incur the disaster of death. ”

Emperor Wei said with tears in his eyes: "Imperial Aunt, Taizu Tuoba Jue overcame all obstacles to establish the Great Wei, Emperor Wen worked hard to reform and strengthen, but I didn't expect that in less than a hundred years, the world was in turmoil, and I wanted to give his ambition to kill the national thieves and restore the Great Wei!" ”

The eldest princess Feng Yi stood up, came to the side of the Yuan Bao Torch and said: "Your Majesty is just a young man, the imperial aunt thinks that you are in the current situation, you should keep your light in obscurity, and wait for the times to change, even if you kill the prime minister now, do you have the ability to unite the Western Wei court?" Against Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty? ”

Emperor Wei Yuanbao Ju said with tears: "Strangling the national thieves and collecting their subordinates, naturally can!"

The eldest princess Feng Yi saw Emperor Wei's ingots in tears, and she felt the same way, so she said sadly: "Your Majesty, your idea is too simplistic, even if you strangle it now, can you guarantee to submit its subordinates?" Once you can't surrender, another ruthless thief will come out, you and my aunt and nephew will die without a place to be buried, no one in the Great Wei clan has the ability to turn the tide, this is the fate of our Great Wei! ”

Emperor Wei Yuanbao Ju cried bitterly and lay on the desk and said: "Imperial aunt, I am afraid, I am very afraid, every night I can dream that Yuwentai rushed into the palace with a war knife and hacked me to death, can I only be coerced by Cao Cao all day long like Emperor Han Xian?" Imperial Aunt, you tell me, what should I do? ”

The eldest princess Feng Yi looked at the nephew in front of her in great pain, and comforted: "Since Emperor Xiaowen, the Great Wei clan has always been bullied, first there is Er Zhurong, then there is Gao Huan, and now there is Yuwentai, these are all heroes who have not been met in a hundred years, born with the tiger, this is unfortunate. The eldest princess Feng Yi pondered for a while and said, "This... Matter, the imperial aunt will find a way! ”

Emperor Wei Yuan Bao Ju subconsciously got up from the desk lying on his stomach and sat upright, looked at the determined Princess Feng Yi, wiped the tears in his eyes, and said, "Imperial Aunt, but there is a way?" ”

The eldest princess Feng Yi walked to the desk on the left side of the middle hall and sat down, and said calmly: "Your Majesty, one: you can choose a trusted eunuch in the palace to practice martial arts, and you can summon Yuwentai into the palace alone to kill him, and two: the imperial aunt can kill him when she sleeps late at night, and the two strategies will ensure success!" ”

Emperor Wei Yuanbao Ju was scared and said, "What if it fails?" ”

Eldest Princess Feng Yi said sharply: "In case of failure, the imperial aunt will protect you, Yuwentai loves me deeply, and he can't do anything to me!" After saying that, both of them fell into deep thought.

Longyou, since the Han Dynasty is the Silk Road must pass through, since the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the chaos is everywhere, the Silk Road is interrupted, to Yuwentai to stay in Chang'an to establish the Western Wei Dynasty, has been entrenched by various forces, natural disasters and man-made disasters are rampant, many difficult and difficult people can not bear all kinds of complicated taxes, so help the old and young to leave to seek life elsewhere, the fields are barren, after the establishment of the Western Wei Dynasty in Yuwentai, persuade the class to farm, many people heard that they hurriedly returned to their hometowns, but after all, the time is too short, the barren land will not give a force, At this time, Yu Wentai led the horse and led a group of scribes in the market to inspect the disaster, looking at the people begging and raging on the street, and said with tears: "I have no virtue, why is God like this?" ”

Zhou Huida, the left servant beside him, comforted: "Lord, don't blame yourself, help the victims, the grain transferred from the granary of Chang'an has bottomed out, and if it goes on like this, the army will face the danger of running out of food, in case of war, Chang'an will be in danger, we still have to think of a way to deal with it quickly!" ”

At this time, Yuwentai faced the mourning victims, wiped his tears, pondered for a while, and suddenly turned around and said to Zhou Huida, the left servant behind him: "Huida, you stay in Longyou to build the shogunate, deal with the disaster here, build more porridge sheds, food is not enough, you can transfer from Chang'an, I will go back to Chang'an to gather the ministers to think of a countermeasure, there is something to discuss with Li Hu, the metropolitan governor!" ”

The left servant shot Zhou Huida and replied: "No, lord! ”

Yuwentai then stepped on the war horse, and the servants around him also hurriedly got on the horse and followed, Yuwentai whipped the war horse with a horse whip to move forward, while watching the rags and rags around the victims help the old and the young to go to the porridge shed of the soup kitchen, and couldn't help but have mixed tastes and Chen surged into his heart, and he walked out of the gate of Wuwei County, all the way to Chang'an City in the southeast.

Wuwei County Thorn History Mansion, not a small courtyard is located, this is the Metropolitan Governor Li Hu and the left servant Zhou Huida in order to deal with the drought in Longyou Road to build a temporary shogunate, the house is all replaced by the Metropolitan Governor Li Hu's personal soldiers, at this time Li Hu is in the Assassin Mansion, lying in the middle hall of the council hall to deal with official business, from time to time to look at the folds, busy and happy, only to see the left servant Zhou Huida sweating in, sitting on the chair, mouth said to himself: "It's hot, it's hot....." Li Hu saw this and put down the fold in his hand, got up and picked up the teapot while pouring tea for Zhou Huida, looking at the empty courtyard from time to time, and blurted out: "Huida, didn't the lord come back with you?" After pouring the water, he put the tea kettle on the table next to Zhou Huida.

Zhou Huida picked up the teacup and drank it violently, and when he heard the question, he hurriedly replied: "After the lord checked the disaster, he hurried back to Chang'an, and went back to discuss the countermeasures. ”

Li Hu subconsciously said: "Zuo servant shooting, you and I are close to the lord, the lord came in a hurry, let the lord rest for a while, I have prepared the meal, after eating and resting for a few hours, it is not too late to go, now the disaster is rising, there are many displaced people, the hidden stones will take the opportunity to make trouble, the lord only brings the guard Cai You alone, in case of accidents along the way, you and I can't afford to wait!" ”

Hearing Li Hu's words, Zhou Huida put down the teacup in his hand in a panic, got up and said apologetically: "The governor is very worried, I only think about how to deal with the drought, but I leave the safety of the lord behind, blame me for not thinking well!" ”

Li Hu blurted out, "How long has the lord left?" ”

Zhou Huida hurriedly replied: "About 2 hours!" ”

Li Hu walked around and thought for a while, so he hurriedly said: "Zuo Servant can stay in the Assassin's Mansion, and I will escort the lord to Beijing!" As he spoke, he went to the table in the middle hall and put on his helmet.

Seeing this, Zhou Huida hurriedly said: "Most of the governors have no worries, there is me here!" ”

Li Hu then hurriedly ran to the courtyard and ordered the soldiers guarding the courtyard: "You all follow me!" ”

The soldiers in the courtyard hurriedly followed the Metropolitan Governor Li Hu out of the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, mounted a war horse and galloped away.

Zhou Huida walked to the door of the Council Hall of the Assassin's Mansion and stopped, looked at the disappearing figures of Li Hu and his own soldiers, and said to himself: "I hope it's okay!" ”

At this time, Yu Wentai didn't even notice that the undercurrent in the middle of the court was approaching him.