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After these official positions were determined, most of the families were very happy, first, they found out the attitude of the imperial court, and they were not very hostile to their local families, and second, the imperial court gave them official positions, not only to give them official positions for men in their families, but also to give them official positions for women in their families.

Looking at the attitude of those auxiliary ministers of the imperial court, especially Jin Liang, as long as they are loyal to the imperial court and close to Jin Liang, then their brothers and nephews will either be high-ranking officials of the imperial court, local officials or wealthy businessmen, and their daughters will also have the opportunity to enter the palace as female officials and enjoy the treatment of high-ranking officials in the outer court, so they will not have to worry about the prosperity of their families.

If they are not loyal to the imperial court, hook up with Dong Zhuo Wang Yun's side, and are hostile to Jin Liang, then sooner or later they will get Jin Liang-style revenge, brothers and nephews are castrated and sent to dig coal and then cut off children and grandchildren, and wives and concubines and daughters are sent to the red powder camp to be camp prostitutes or sent to Qinglou to be bitches.

Seeing that the cumbersome and complicated process of seeking officials and paying homage to officials had passed, Liu Wei, the Son of Heaven, happily announced: "The banquet is over!" It's served! It's time for wine! ”

Empress Dowager He Lian glanced at Liu Wei: "Distinguish, is this what you, the Son of Heaven, should say?!" ”

Liu Wei smiled bitterly: "But I'm really hungry." ”

One by one, the cooks, dressed in crisp white chefs' uniforms, walked in tremblingly with their plates and put the food on the table. Jin Liang sat at the head of the generals, only a few steps away from Liu Wei, the son of heaven. Jin Liang picked up the wine bottle and was about to say something. Suddenly, I felt a chilling chill spread around me. With more than 10 years of experience in the field. He knew that someone was full of murderous aura, Jin Liang observed intently, and saw a man who looked like a cook holding a plate and walked quickly in the direction of Liu Wei, the son of heaven.

Jin Liang felt that the man was a little strange, and the other cooks were all trembling and nervous because they saw so many big people here, but this man had brisk steps and a stiff body. Tense but definitely not a sign of nervousness, because his expression was very calm, calm to the point of ignoring the other creatures There was only one Liu Wei in his eyes, Jin Liang looked at his eyes carefully, there was no curiosity and nervous communication in his eyes, his eyes were very calm, and a little cold.

The assistant chef was originally holding the plate with both hands, but when he walked in front of Liu Wei, he changed to holding the plate with one hand, but the other hand quietly touched the white cloth covering the plate. Show one’s true colors in the end. Jin Liang suddenly had this idiom in his mind, and smashed the wine bottle hard at the hand that helped the cook touch the plate. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "There are assassins! Escort! ”

The pure gold bottle was like a golden lightning bolt, and it struck the assassin's wrist, and the assassin screamed, and his right wrist was broken, and it hung loosely there. Seeing that he could not take out a dagger and stab Liu Bian, the assassin picked up the plate with his left hand and smashed it at Liu Bian's head. Wang Yue, who was escorting Liu Wei, had already had an insight into the strangeness of this man who looked like a cook, and at the moment when the Jinliang wine bottle flew over, Wang Yue also took a step forward and put Liu Wei behind him, when the assassin's plate was about to be smashed down in mid-air, he found that his left wrist was slashed by a sharp cyan sword, and his left wrist fell off on the spot, and the plate smashed directly on his head, but the small plate could not smash him unconscious.

Seeing this, the Assassin tried to bite his tongue and kill himself, but Dian Wei, who rushed to the front of him, grabbed his chin, removed his chin, and then tied up the assassin by dividing it by two.

Jin Liang saw that the helpers were still about to come in with plates, so he hurriedly ordered loudly: "Wu Chong, you take someone to seal the gate of this hall, and the wine and food sent by those helpers are only allowed to be sent to Sergeant Yulin. ”

Guo Jia's secret department quickly followed up, and together with Wang Yue's Tiger Army, he searched all the cooks and helpers to check the assassins who had mixed in, and finally found that there were thirteen assassins who had mixed in.

It turned out that Li Ru learned in Luoyang that Xiangyang was going to hold a feast for the Son of Heaven, so he sent a hundred assassins to infiltrate Xiangyang and wait for an opportunity to assassinate Liu Wei. The Assassins' ploy was simple: kill the people who had been selected as cooks outside the palace, and then choose people with similar faces from among the Assassins to blend in.

Jin Liang asked Wu Chong, the captain of Yulin who was in charge of inspecting these cooks and helpers: "What's the matter, so many assassins have mixed in and you haven't noticed it, you, if I hadn't found out in time, if the Son of Heaven was assassinated, do you know what would happen to this Jin Liang Imperial Court, and what would happen to our Central Army?" ”

Wu Chong said tremblingly: "Those cooks were all selected by the Zhen family, and the Zhen family is a relative of the lord, so the subordinates are careless." ”

Jin Liang contacted Zhang Liao about the loss of Jiguan, and found that his in-laws were indeed a weakness that was easily exploited by the enemy, so he said: "No matter who enters the palace in the future, it must be checked, including me, including the auxiliary ministers such as the Taifu, and even the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother. ”

Seeing Wu Chongwei nodding his head submissively, Jin Liang asked very calmly: "This time, you have to be punished in order to have a better memory, what kind of punishment do you want to get?" ”

Hearing Jin Liang's calm question, Wu Chong was even more frightened, he knew that his lord was more and more able to control his temper, and the calmer his voice, the more angry he might be, so he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The crimes of his subordinates deserve death, and they are punished by the lord." ”

Seeing Wu Chong's appearance, Jin Liang knew that he would have a wrong expression, so he said: "What about this matter, I am also responsible, it is that I did not first tell you that no matter who is on guard and defense, you must be vigilant, so let's do it, you will bear half of the responsibility this time, deduct half a year's military salary, and demote the rank of the Central Army to a captain." ”

Wu Chonggong thanked Jin Liang for his magnanimity, and then got up and continued to strengthen his vigilance.Not long after, Lu Chong's subordinates, who were patrolling outside the palace, sent people to report and captured 87 of the Assassins' comrades, who tried to pick up the Assassins who had infiltrated the palace, and tried to spread the news of the assassination of the Son of Heaven Liu Wei in Xiangyang. Jin Liang settled things in order in a quarter of an hour. Then lift the wine bottle. In front of the panicked guests at the scene. Lang Sheng laughed and said: "It is the assassin sent by Dong Zhuo's old thief, who has been captured by all my central officials and soldiers, and now there is order inside and outside the palace, everyone doesn't need to worry, please drink heartily." ”

Hearing Jin Liang say this, seeing Jin Liang's calm expression, these guests all calmed down, and they all got up and toasted to Jin Liang: "Thanks to General Jin's insight and courage." The Son of Heaven was spared, and General Jin was invited to drink this cup to show our admiration. ”

Jin Liang drank it all, and laughed heartily: "With my escort, no thief wants to offend the Son of Heaven." ”

Young Emperor Liu Wei woke up from the shock just now, and when he heard Jin Liang say this, he also stood up and said with a smile: "With General Jin here, I can always turn danger into disaster whenever I am in trouble." General Jin is really my blessed general, please General Jin drink this cup. "In front of so many people. It is inconvenient for him to call Master, let alone Shangfu, he can only call General.

Jin Liang drank another glass of wine, then bowed down and said humbly: "It is the duty of the ministers to protect the emperor. Wei Chen dared to say something, anyone who wants to hurt His Majesty must beat me Jin Liang to the end! Anyone who does not respect His Majesty is not respectful of Weichen; Anyone who wants to hurt His Majesty is to hurt Weichen, Weichen has this high-ranking official today, all of which are given by His Majesty and the Queen Mother, the royal family is generous, Jin Liang is unforgettable, and he must die with all his might. ”

While Jin Liang bowed down, he gave Tian Feng in the back row a look, and Tian Feng also echoed: "Wechen has such a high-ranking official today, all of which are given by His Majesty and the Queen Mother. ”

The other nine newly promoted high-ranking officials who belonged to Jin Liang's lineage, seeing Jin Liang and Tian Feng's expressions like that, understood what they meant, and all knelt down and kowtowed, expressing their allegiance to the Son of Heaven and the royal family. The other newly promoted ministers, seeing Jin Liang and others acting like this, did not dare not make a statement, and they all knelt down one after another to express their allegiance to the Son of Heaven Liu Wei.

After the assassination of the Son of Heaven Liu Bian, Jin Liang was deeply touched, the Son of Heaven Liu Biao was tied to him Jin Liang, if Liu Biao had three long and two short, how should he Jin Liang explain to the people of the world, how to fight against Liu Xie's Luoyang puppet court; If those children of the family are not loyal to the Xiangyang Liu Biao court, how can he, the founder of the Xiangyang court, get people's loyalty.

Therefore, Jin Liang felt that he could not learn from Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao, at least at this stage, he must show complete loyalty to Liu Wei. Only when he, a powerful minister with a heavy army, respects Liu Bian, can those children of the family really respect Liu Bian, otherwise with Liu Bian's current performance and the strength of the royal family, there is indeed not much that can be respected.

Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and the reason why he was a little embarrassed was that he Cao Cao did not have much respect for Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty at all, so that his ministers were as contemptuous of Emperor Han Xian as he was, so that all the princes in the world knew that you Cao Cao was treating Liu Xie as a puppet, and if you used any edict of the puppet to mess with me, of course I would not accept it, so in the middle and late stages, the edict of the Son of Heaven in Cao Cao's hand was no different from a blank piece of paper.

In the Xiangyang court, where Jin Liang will be completely in charge, Jin Liang is naturally the same, but on the surface, he must give Liu Wei enough respect, so that Liu Wei does not look like a puppet on the surface, but Liu Wei can't control the army and is playful by nature, such a monarch can actually only be a puppet, just like the emperor of the Wa Kingdom, Jin Liang will not usurp the throne in the future, but at the beginning, you can't let the princes of the world see at a glance that you are treating the Son of Heaven as a puppet like Dong Zhuo Cao Cao, then this coercion of the Son of Heaven will make the princes unable to command other princes and those families at all.

Although Liu Wei was dull and ignorant, he could also feel the sincerity and loyalty shown by Jin Liang, so he drank three bottles of wine with Jin Liang in a row to show that Jin Liang gave him the majesty of the emperor in public.

The Empress Dowager He Lian also raised her glass, her lips opened lightly, and she smiled: "Aiqing, thank you for your desperate escort three times and twice, this palace toasts you!" As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows mischievously and blinked his eyes slightly, meaning come to me tonight.

Jin Liang shook his head gently, he had already promised Diao Chan that he would accompany her when he returned to the mansion from the banquet of the Son of Heaven tonight.

Empress Dowager He's face was gloomy for a moment, and then returned to normal: "Aiqing, please take a seat." ”

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Shang Shu Ling Huang Wan got the instruction of Jin Liang and Lu Zhi, stood up and said loudly: "Heads of the family, children of the family, I see that many people are sad because they were not selected this time. There are even some people who are worried about the selection of the yamen in the next few days. Don't worry. Even if you can't be a man of the three princes and nine kings. Even if you can't be selected for the yamen, there is actually a place to go, and the future is very great. When Huang Wan said this, he stopped talking and looked at everyone with a smile.

"Lord Huang, please tell us, what kind of place is that?!" Those family heads, especially those whose children did not have any of the family members who were selected, asked one after another.

Huang Wan saw that everyone's appetite was satisfied. Fang Cai said with satisfaction: "Everyone also saw just now that the Son of Heaven was almost murdered by the assassins sent by Dong Thief, what does this mean, it shows that the Yulin Army is understaffed, so that the thieves have a gap." For the sake of today, it is to restore the previous system, select the children of good families from the Sili area, make up for Yulin Lang, and enrich the Yulin Army. Both the Son of Heaven and the Cabinet Ministers are interested in selecting several Yu Lin Lang from your various families, because Yu Lin Lang protects the Son of Heaven. Therefore, the military rank is higher, which is equivalent to one or two commanders of the Central Army outside. I don't know what you think? ”

Because Jin Liang just showed respect for the Son of Heaven Liu Bian. Let those heads of the family think that sooner or later Liu Wei will be able to take power, if the children of their own family can be selected into Yulin Lang and follow the side of Liu Bian, the son of heaven, in case they are promoted and reused by Liu Wei that day, then their own family can also be a person who can ascend to heaven. There is not everything in the Yulin Army, each family must have a biological son of the head of the family to be selected, otherwise the other children of the family will not be considered.

The original intention of this rule is also good, so that the biological sons of these family heads will be more likely to be promoted to Yulin Supervisor than other children after becoming Yulin Lang, and even promoted to the servant, and the Son of Heaven is to take care of the vital interests of each family master and specially advise him. In fact, this is a ploy of Jin Liang, the domination of various families, who knows what these family heads are saying now, who knows if they will rebel in the future, and put their children, especially their sons, in the palace as Yu Lin Lang, the actual activity venue is on the periphery of the palace, and there are more military camps of the Yu Lin Army and the Tiger Ben Army around them to sandwich them inside, to put it bluntly, they are hostages.

Of course, at this time, these family heads couldn't see Jin Liang's deep plan.

Because this is the traditional rule of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, to supplement Yulin Lang from the children of the Liang family, so they did not hesitate, and hurriedly stuffed the children of the family who were unlikely to win the competition of civil officials and civil servants in the next few days into Yulin Lang, and in the end, each family had two to three, a total of five hundred people, and they were added to the Yulin Army, which was led by Wu Chong, the commander of Yulin.

Wu Chong knew Jin Liang's intentions, so he only took more care of the children of the families on the red and yellow lists inside, and appointed them as captains, two chiefs, and captains at all levels. As for the children of those gray and white list families, most of them are pawns in the Yulin army, and they will not have any room for improvement, and they will be deliberately monitored, once their family is dissatisfied with Jin Liang or even antipathetic, these children will be killed like cattle and sheep.

When the heads of the family were happy about the selection of Yu Lin Lang, Jin Liang stood up and said calmly: "The selection of Yu Lin Lang is not enough to express the kindness of the Son of Heaven and the cabinet ministers to you, I have an initiative, and I ask you to agree?" ”

"General Kim, please elaborate." The heads of the families who have established a strategic cooperative relationship with Jin Liang said one after another.

Jin Liang pointed to Luoyang in the southwest and said, "There are more than 100,000 Xiliang iron horsemen of Dong Zhuo's old thief, which always threaten the personal and property safety of our Xiangyang Imperial Court and your families. ”

Compared with Jin Liang, who is now trying his best to please his humble disciple, those families hate and hate Dong Zhuo, the Xiliang anti-thief who can't give him anything but threatens his benefactor at all times, and when he heard Jin Liang say this, they listened to the chopsticks and wine bottles, and listened to Jin Liang's speech intently, and some shrewd family heads had roughly heard what Jin Liang was about to say.

Jin Liang pointed to the rolling Taihang Mountains in the west of Xiangyang: "Although the bandits in this area have been ambushed and flooded by me one after another, there are still six or seven hundred thousand black mountain thieves on the mountain, threatening the Xiangyang Imperial Court and threatening your personal and property safety. ”

Jin Liang pointed to the southeast direction again: "Yanzhou and Qingzhou on the other side of the Yellow River are now active in more than one million Yellow Turban Remnants, and a few days ago they plundered the grain purchased by our army from Xuzhou. ”

The six or seven hundred thousand Black Mountain thieves and the more than one million Yanzhou Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were all remnants of Zhang Jiao's soldiers five years ago, and the heads of the families present shuddered when they remembered the tremendous "the sky should die, and the yellow sky should stand" five years ago, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who frantically attacked their own Wu Fort at that time.

Jin Liangyou pointed to the direction of Youzhou north of Jingzhou: "Shanyue, Wuhuan, Xianbei and other nomadic barbarians, the total number is about one or two million, they come to Jizhou every year, burning, killing and plundering, all kinds of evil, whistling and whistling, leaving us Han people only full of desolation, presumably all the families here have been robbed of their property by them to a greater or lesser extent. (To be continued.) )

PS: Tomorrow to continue