Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Fate of Troubled Times

Blood flowed out of the sect, Xu Chu raised his feet and stepped into the sect with Le Jin.

It was a mess, and the things used to worship the ancestors were scattered all over the place. Huang Shao sat panting on the ground, panting heavily. Seeing Xu Chu coming in, he raised his eyelids and grinned without speaking. Then he tilted his head to the side, and following his gaze, he could see a man nailed to the wall with a spear, which should be He Beard.

Huang Shao didn't know what to say, and so did Xu Chu.

The scene was dull for a while, and Le Jin pondered for a moment, then turned his head and went out.

Next to Huang Shao, there are some surviving old brothers, Xu Chu roughly counts, there are about twenty people.

Only one of the ten remains.

There are those who died at the hands of Xi Zhong, Gao Gan and others, and there are those who died when they were with He Huo.

Speechless, Huang Shao glanced at the tiger guard holding the Mo knife beside Xu Chu, he had seen the training of the tiger guard, this kind of refined long knife was used with all its waist strength, and the tree more than ten meters high broke in response.

In the end, Xu Chu spoke first, "I thought that with your prestige among the people in the Yellow Turban, things would not develop to this point." ”

Huang Shao sneered, closing his eyes and not knowing what he was thinking.

"That's all about the old calendar." Huang Shao was right, he was one of the leaders of the 36 Yellow Turban Directions, and his prestige spread far and wide, and everyone in Ying, Ru and Yu knew it. However, after the conquest of famous generals such as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun in the late Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban gradually declined, and because of his great momentum at that time, he became the main target of the Han court generals.

The inability to control He Yi's old department is unexpected and reasonable.

Xu Chu frowned, took out a short knife and put it on the ground.

Huang Shao didn't know what he meant, and the coolness in his eyes was highlighted.

"Live...... By my side. Xu Chu walked towards Huang Shao and whispered a few words softly.

......, Hu Wei followed Xu Chu out of the door, Huang Shao looked at the short knife on the ground in a daze, and was stunned for a long time, Fang Chang sighed. He picked up the short knife and slashed it at his head, and the twenty brothers shouted at the same time: "Qu Shuai! ”

It was too late, blood flowed down from Huang Shao's face, and his brothers came to grab the short knife, only to see that Huang Shao's face had seven or eight more knife marks.

If you live, you can always see hope.

I don't know if it was Xu Chu's original intention, Huang Shao saw a glimmer of opportunity from this short knife.

Reborn, makeover.

Most of the brothers who have been killed with him over the years were poor people who did not have enough to eat. No ordinary person is willing to rebel when he can live in peace. 'The heavens are dead, but the yellow heavens should stand', the teachings of the great sages and good teachers are placed in the era of peace, and how can thousands of people give up their lives to follow.

The twenty surviving old brothers did the same, and no one snorted the slightest sound under the pain of the skin, and they were all iron-beaten men.

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Outside the sect, Xu Chu quietly waited for Xi Zhong and others to arrive, and after a while, Xi Zhong and Gao Gan, who found a strange situation all the way, came with people.

"Lord, what's the situation?" Xi Zhong asked.

"There was infighting among the thieves, and when Wen Qian and I arrived, only about 20 people survived. Now, they should have killed themselves. Xu Chu said lightly.

"That's good." Xi Zhong nodded, and said to Gao Gan, "Gao Jun, the matter is over here, please go back to the county government to notify the county government of the Gao County Order, and the endgame will be handed over to the people in the county to clean up." There were no casualties along the way, and the corpses could not be disposed of as soon as possible...... I led people to bury all the dead inside and outside the county to prevent the outbreak of epidemics. ”

Gao Gan said embarrassedly: "This is very good, I will go back to the county office immediately." Xu Jun, Xi Jun, everyone, farewell! "The thief rebellion occurred in Yu County, but it was quelled by passing soldiers from other counties, and the strong contrast between Gao Zhang's timidity and Xu Chu made Gao Gan very worried. As soon as this matter is over, Gao Zhang's position as the county commander will definitely not be guaranteed, even if Gao Gan has a certain influence in Yuan Shao, Chen Liutai will not be able to pass Zhao Qian's pass first. After Zhao Qian's famous family, he has a strong personality, how can he allow a mediocre official to be in the county?

And Xi Zhong's dirty work of disposing of corpses made Gao Gan even more embarrassed. It is now summer, the weather is getting hotter, and if the corpses are not disposed of in time, it is easy to develop epidemics. In the troubled times, the most terrible soldiers are not the soldiers and thieves, but the epidemics caused by the corpses left on the roadside in the field after the chaos are not dealt with in time. During this period, there was almost no cure for the disease, and the rest of the time after infection was just death.

On the premise of not knowing that Xi Zhong intended to leave the impression of 'single-minded work', Gao Gan looked up to Xu Chu a few times, although this person was from a low background and acted recklessly, he still did things for the world and the people.

When you hate a person, his shortcomings will be magnified, and conversely, when you start appreciating a person, his strengths will also be magnified.

Gao Gan remembered the rumored Xu Chu Tuntian, forbidden to collect more mouths and other things, and secretly nodded and thought: After returning to Luoyang, I need to say to Yuan Sili that this 'two thousand stones' who became a monk halfway may be worth a little thought.

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The fire of the yellow turban burns fast and goes out quickly. After Chen Liujunzhong got the news, Zhao Qian didn't dare to despise it, and together with the soldier Cao Zhao Pet, he personally brought the county soldiers to come. It took some time to point the troops and generals, and the preparations such as requisitioning and distributing grain and grass took some time, and when Zhao Qian and Zhao Chong arrived at Gaoyang Pavilion, they heard the news that the Yellow Turban Thieves had been exterminated.

Zhao Qian pinched his beard, sighed, and said, "I don't want to owe this favor to Chu." ”

Zhao Chongwu was born, and he didn't have an old grudge against Xu Chu like Guo Tu, but he had an inexplicable good impression, so he said: "Although Xu Yingchuan's name is not right, but since he is already the 'two thousand stones' county guard, the prince still takes care of the basic face." ”

Zhao Qian was also comfortable listening to this. Li Min didn't talk about it for a while, what disgusted Zhao Qian the most about Xu Chu was that he was suspected of blackmailing the court in the way he sat in the position of Taishou. A 2,000-stone official, according to the normal process, has a long way to go: the first is identity, must be a scholar, of course, the children of the powerful are not among them; and then the resume, this point can be seen by looking at Cao Cao's career trajectory to know the normalcy of the Eastern Han Dynasty officialdom.

Cao Cao was first promoted to filial piety (this article may be replaced by the more rare 'Maocai'), was promoted to the court as a lang, cultivated a certain political foundation, and then was transferred to the northern part of Luoyang, and then was transferred to Dunqiu as a 'thousand stones' county order, and then lived idle, two years later was conscripted as a councillor, and then the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao's official worship and riding the captain, under the command of Huangfu Song, crusaded against the Yellow Turban. This crusade against the Yellow Turban was not really a tough battle for Cao Cao, but gilded, and after this layer of military merit, Cao Cao was appointed as the minister of Jinan, which was equivalent to the Taishou of a county.

Raise filial piety and honesty - for Lang - for the order - reinstate for the Lang - make military merits, so that Cao Cao can get a national minister. This is still because Cao Cao has played with Yuan Shao and others since childhood, and his father Cao Song has extensive connections in the court.

Looking at Xu Chu again, Zhao Qian doesn't like him, but it is actually reasonable. That's right, after the Zhangjiao Yellow Turban Rebellion, the imperial court had many people for military exploits, including Liu Bei and Sun Jian. Sun Jian was not among the people who later recovered some of the meritorious people who had contributed to the pacification of the Yellow Turbans because of his outstanding military achievements, while Liu Bei was unable to sit even as a county lieutenant because of his outstanding achievements. In the eyes of Zhao Qian and other celebrities, Xu Chu's 'two thousand stones' should actually be recovered after Yingchuan is stabilized.

Who wants to be shocked in the middle of the court, the generals, eunuchs, and scholars are in a mess, Zhao Qian and others have the heart to play the court, but the time does not allow it, and now there is an edict from the general's palace ordering Xu Chu to send troops to the palace province to remove the eunuchs, which is even more inappropriate.

Thinking about this, Zhao Qian made a decision: as long as Xu Chu is interested, he will also turn a blind eye and not deliberately humiliate him.

"Can Gao Xuan have a letter from Yu County?" Zhao Qian thought of Gao Xuan at this time.

Zhao Pet replied: "Not for the time being." ”

"Humph!" Zhao Qian said unhappily, "This person is really disgraced to my clan, Zhao Peng, you go to write a letter immediately, let him write the matter into a song, and immediately pass it to the mansion!" ”

......., Gao Xuan received Zhao Qian's paperwork and sweated like rain. At this time, it was only an hour after he reluctantly led the county lieutenant to Dongxian under the strong lobbying of Gao Gan and cleaned up the remaining remnants of the yellow scarf. Glad that he had finally sent out the army, Gao Xuan said to Gao Gan: "The prince of the mansion is quite guilty, what do you say about the virtuous nephew?" ”

Gao Gan shook his head and said, "Zhao Jun is known for being strong, you better send a letter as soon as possible and tell Zhao Jun the truth." It's better than waiting for someone to ask someone face to face. ”

Gao Xuan was unwilling to give up, and tried to ask: "If Yuan Sili comes forward?" ”

"Yuan Sili is concerned about big things, how can he pay attention to this?" Gao Gan immediately went back.

Gao Xuan's face was like ashes, "It's okay." ”

After a while, Fugou Ling Gao Hui came with reinforcements. Fugou is the closest to Yu County, and it is very fast to come from Gaohui. On the way, I also heard that the Yellow Turban was pacified by Xu Chu, who was an old fritter in the officialdom, and Gao Hui, who knew Gao Xuan very well about his fellow clan, knew the current situation faced by Gao Zhang.

After some sighing, Gao Hui also said something similar to Gao Gan to Gao Can.

Gao Xuan was even more depressed, and when Gao Gan saw this, he hurriedly said: "Now Xu Chu is leading people to clean up the battlefield, and we can't sit here." ”

Gao Xuan woke up and went to Dongxian in person this time to command the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and take stock of the casualties after the war.