Chapter 21: Fireside Chat
It was getting late, and there was the occasional whining of wild wolves, and Sun Yang was riding a black horse, walking on the trail, and he got lost. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info by a clear creek with three thatched huts and courtyard walls.
"Is anyone home?" Sun Yang shouted outside.
The door opened inside, and an elderly woman peered through the crack in the door of the door and found a man in armor standing, and hurried back into the house.
"Nobody's home, uh, no, there's no man at home." The elderly woman's voice said in a panic, is it that he is catching a strong man again, how to live if he takes the old man away.
"Auntie, I'm not here to find a man." Sun Yang's face was full of black lines.
"It's not okay to find a woman, I'm old, little brother, you can be merciful." The old woman was even more alarmed.
"Auntie, don't worry, I'm not looking for an elderly woman, I'm not that kind of person." Sun Yang secretly said what happened to this family, how could they be afraid of this.
"You don't want to be old, how do you know that there is a young one in my family, the old man will take Huilan to run, and I will take it." The old woman was completely disheveled, and stood nervously behind the door with a stick.
"Auntie, the bolt of your door is not inserted, then I will come in directly." The family was miserable by the scourge, and the vigilance was too heavy, and Sun Yang knew that it was useless to say anything.
Hearing Sun Yang's words, the old woman's intestines were all repentant, and it was convenient to go out just now, so she forgot to insert it.
There was a panicked sound in the house, it seemed that something had been knocked down, and there was the sound of someone climbing over the courtyard wall, after entering the door, Sun Yang grabbed the knife in his hand, and looked around vigilantly, if he was knocked down by the old lady, it would be a big shame.
The elderly woman cowered and walked out of the corner, and when she saw Sun Yang wearing armor, she was even more frightened, mainly because the old lady was too short, and said in a trembling voice: "Official, I have no sons to recruit, and only me, my daughter-in-law and my little grandson are left in the family." ”
"It was your daughter-in-law and husband who jumped over the wall just now, don't be afraid, you really misunderstood." Sun Yang directly threw the saber to the ground as a sign of sincerity.
"It's my wife and daughter-in-law." The old woman said subconsciously, and after finishing speaking, she looked at Sun Yang regretfully, worried that he would arrest people, the person who came to arrest his son as a strong man last time was also kind and pleasant at first.
"I'm lost, can you rest here for one night, tomorrow morning, I'll leave, this is a gold leaf, you take it, it's my accommodation fee." Sun Yang took out a gold leaf from his bosom and handed it to the old woman. Learning from the lesson of the last time, Sun Yang carried money with him.
The old woman waved her hand again and again, she wanted to refuse Sun Yang's stay here, but she was even more afraid that the person in front of her would turn her face, and she took the gold leaf with trepidation.
The old woman shouted to the back of the house, and in a moment an old man and a young woman returned, still holding a child of three or four years old.
Sun Yang took a look at the hall, and the family was really a family with four walls. So he pointed to the hut on the left and asked, "Who lives here?" Can I stay? ”
"It's my son who lives, no one lives in it now, it's a little dirty inside, I'll go and help the official clean it up." The old man hurriedly replied.
Sun Yang stopped: "Don't bother, I'll come by myself." Where is your son? ”
"I was taken to the county by Sifu and said that I was going to beat the dog thief Sun Yang." The old man said in frustration.
Sun Yang coughed dryly and said: "Uncle, as far as I know, Liu Yuanjun has always loved the people like a son, why are you so afraid when you meet an errand boy." ”
"Liu What"
"Liu Zhijun"
"What-kun?"
"Forget it, uncle, you better go back and rest."
"Okay."
Sun Yang walked into the hut, there was only a wooden bed with a dilapidated straw mat on it, and it was estimated that her son would not be able to come back, so she simply stopped cleaning up the house.
Shake off the dust, put the knife on the side of the bed, lay on the bed, I was so tired today, and it didn't take long for the room to snore.
Sleeping until midnight, Sun Yang woke up, jumped out of bed, lay on the ground and listened, there were many horses' hooves, at least four or five hundred cavalry, this hand heard the number of voices or Gao Shun taught him.
It's his own people, or Liu Bei's.
"Lord......" "Lord......", the voice came from a distance, hundreds of people held torches, and wild wolves patrolled in the distance and did not dare to approach.
Everyone found that there was a family here, and they came to check it out, and Sun Yang walked out when he heard the sound.
"Sun Yang, it's okay if you're fine, what about that demon?" Lu Lingqi took a closer look to see if Sun Yang had broken his hands and feet, but fortunately he was fine.
"I'm okay, that demon was killed by me, just a demon, how can you hurt me." Sun Yang looked at several generals, Zhang Liao was fine, but he hung his arms with a cloth, and the others basically had colors on their heads.
Everyone saw that Sun Yang only had a little skin on his forehead, and the dark lord was the lord, but they saw with their own eyes that the lord's mount was smashed into pulp.
"Uncle, what's your son's name?" Sun Yang remembered the family's affairs.
"It's called Tang Yan." The old man's face was beaming.
"Wen Yuan, you go to the prisoner camp to check and send the one named Tang Yan back."
"Yes." Zhang Liao replied, this is a trivial matter.
Sun Yang gave the family a bag of gold cakes and asked them not to expose their wealth.
Back in Daying, Sun Yang left Chen Gong alone.
The two of them sat around the fire, and this was the first time that Sun Yang looked at Chen Gong so seriously.
"Gongtai, I plan to appoint you as the acting minister of Xia Pi, and I will take up the post on the same day."
"The lord doesn't need me to be around for advice, there is something wrong with the palace." When ordinary people hear that they have obtained real power, they will pretend to resign, and finally accept it, Chen Gong is different, and he almost speaks to Sun Yang in a questioning tone, from this point, you can see Chen Gong's character, this is a person with character.
"Xiapi needs you more, in addition, you go to Mi's house in Qu County, talk to Mi Zhu, let him not hang himself on a tree, I can provide protection and support for his industry."
"Does the lord want to meddle in Mi Zhu's private salt and ordnance business?" Chen Gong fiddled with the coals in the furnace.
"No, you tell me how long Xuzhou has been in chaos?" Sun Yang shook his head and pulled his cloak up, this ghost weather is really cold.
"Since the fifth year of Zhongping, there has been no peace in the past seven years, with more than ten major wars and countless small wars." Chen Gong crossed his fingers and calculated, this is Chen Gong's strength, he is well-informed and knowledgeable.
"So there must be a lot of abandoned fields, right?" Sun Yang said his plan.
"Yes, in the past, there were more abandoned in Yan, Henan, and Qinghai Prefectures, and in the past year, the most serious desertion is Xuzhou, where many people fled to the beach to pick up shellfish for food or to fish for mussels in the river, and the lord also wanted to Tuntian." Chen Gong had already guessed Sun Yang's intentions.
"That's right, me." Sun Yang was ready to gush about his plan.
"My lord, Tao Yuanjun started Tuntian six years ago, and Chen Deng is the captain of the agricultural school." Chen Gong interrupted.
"Isn't he Guangling Taishou? Anyway. Sun Yang was stunned.
"At that time, Guangling Taishou was Zhao Yu, after Tao Yuanjun died, the captain of the Diannong school existed in name only, since Chen Deng had experience, it was better to hand over the affairs of Tuntian to him."
"This?" Sun Yang was a little hesitant and let the family Tuntian, in his opinion, be like a meat bun beating a dog.
"Don't always think so badly of the wealthy family, although they often exploit tenant farmers, although they always occupy high positions, although they are insatiable, ignore the laws of the country, and suppress the scholars from poor families, they still have merit." Chen Gong's resentment seemed to be very deep.
"Ahem, Gongtai, hearing you say this, the wealthy family deserves to die even more." Sun Yang teased.
"Well, lord, the palace doesn't mean that, the palace means, for the wealthy family, it is still mainly to win over, and throw out high-ranking officials." Chen Gong pretended to brush his beard.
"I have been pressing not to expand the army, just because Xuzhou is a place that can now support a maximum of 70,000 or 80,000 troops. I want you, Gao Xiang, and Mi Zhu to be in charge of Pi and Pengcheng. The three counties of the East China Sea are responsible for Tuntian. Guangling can't take care of it for the time being, and Langya is on the side of the couch of Yuan Tan and Taishan thieves in Qingzhou, and it is not a good place in Tuntian. Sun Yang said his plan.
"Agreed." Chen Gong saw that Sun Yang had made up his mind.
After finishing business, the two of them were silent for a while.
"Gongtai, what kind of person do you think my Sun Yang is?" This is Sun Yang's theme tonight.
"The lord seems to be cynical, but he has a heart that worries about the country and the people, which is very similar to the palace. Although he often speaks foul words in the market, this does not prevent the palace from respecting the lord. Chen Gong was blunt.
"I can't see it, when you praise others, you don't forget to bring yourself, are you still the Chen Gongtai I know?" Sun Yang automatically filtered the second half of Chen Gong's sentence.
"The Lord is serious." Chen Gong coughed dryly.
"Gongtai, can we have a heart-to-heart relationship?" Sun Yang looked at Chen Gong, his eyes full of affection, which made Chen Gong feel cold from the bottom of his heart.
Hearing this, Chen Gong looked at Sun Yang seriously, and sighed: "Having said so much, the lord still doesn't trust Gong. ”
"I want to know your bottom line, what are you following as a person, what do you want?" Sun Yang remembered that in history, Lu Bu was defeated and Chen Gong calmly died, which made him very emotional.
Chen Gong lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said: "Open peace for the troubled times, and continue to learn for the sages." ”
Sun Yang patted his thigh and said, "Gongtai's ideals are the same as mine, and we are good comrades with the same goals." ”
Chen Gong didn't expect the lord who couldn't read all the words to be so shameless, just open peace for the troubled times, if he continued to learn for the sages, the sages would definitely crawl out of the grave and strangle him.