Chapter 109: The Origin of the Divine Bird
As a representative of the Xuzhou scholars, Chen Qi is there both in terms of age and prestige, so many times, when Tao Qian makes major decisions, he will ask Chen Qi's opinion.
Although Chen Qi is old, he is not a person who follows the rules, otherwise when Tao Qian took office, he would not have led the crowd to welcome him, although he also has the idea of preserving the family, but he knows how to cater to the general environment.
In his view, the family is obviously closely related to the fate of the country, in a turbulent era, if a wealthy family wants to preserve, it must first occupy the righteousness, followed by relying on a strong strength, and then have a force of its own.
If these three points are violated, then death is not far away. Righteousness is to be loyal to the imperial court, in the past, the Chen family was dependent on Tao Qian, the history of Xuzhou, including now Chen Qi has not completely violated this principle, but because of Tao Qian's growth in age, as well as some of the governing ideas he has shown, there are contradictions with Chen Qi, so Chen Qi gradually began to support a new representative.
And Han Lie's appearance is obviously to echo his request, support and attachment are not in conflict with Chen Qi, and now Han Lie is obviously not worthy of his own attachment, then support is the best choice, if Han Lie grows up in the future, then support can also be transformed into dependence.
Chen Qi did not think about establishing a force of his own, but the main thing was that he found that among the children of the family, there was no one who had the heroic commander of the commander, since he lacked such talents, but still reluctantly established such an army, the result would only arouse the suspicion of others, and it would also attract the peeps of others, which in Chen Jue's opinion was obviously more than worth the loss.
In the face of Tao Qian's inquiry, Chen Jue raised his head slightly, sat on the ground, straightened his waist, and said with his tired hands: "I have no opinion, the stability of Xuzhou is related to the peace of millions of Xuzhou people, since Han Ziyang is an unstable factor, it is not impossible to weaken it appropriately." ”
"Well, this matter will be done like this, immediately send someone to Kaiyang, promise benefits, and let Zang Ba send troops to intercept it." Tao Qian's ears are well-known, although he has a gentle temperament, but he has always valued the famous and the Han clan, since he was an official in Xuzhou, the reuse of the family Wangmen disciples have seen the general.
As for the children of the Han family, no matter how talented you are, it is difficult to get ahead, in the hall of looking at him, the children of the Cao family and the Wang family are all dignitaries, especially the Cao Bao brothers, all of whom are faint and incompetent, but they all occupy important positions.
Wang Lang, the first civil official under the rule of Kan, although this person is a master of scripture and is quite famous, but in addition to quoting scriptures and classics, this person is not in line with his reputation in terms of strategy and political talent.
More importantly, although Tao Qian reused Wang Lang, Wang Lang's heart was loyal to the Han family, and he was an official under Tao Qian's seat, just as a step into his life, and his ambition was not to be a staff member, but to be in the court, or to take charge of a state and county.
And against Han Lie, it is not his selfishness, as a master of scripture, Wang Lang still has knowledge, in his opinion, what Han Lie did is undoubtedly greater than the former Zang Ba and other Taishan gangsters.
Gather the people, collect the hearts of the people, build a strong city, and train elite soldiers, such a person will become a hero in time. As an iron fan of the Han family, he naturally didn't want to see a figure like Han Lie rise, so taking advantage of his rise to suppress him was obviously the best choice.
After Tao Qian made a decision, the meeting of the Assassin History Department also ended. After leaving, Mi Zhu hesitated again and again, and was still unable to make a decision, whether to send someone to inform Han Lie that Tao Qian had made a decision to sanction him.
When she returned to the mansion, Mi Fang saw that her eldest brother was worried, so she followed him into the study and asked, "Eldest brother, why are you so bored?" ”
"Han Ziyang is in trouble." For his younger brother, Mi Zhu didn't hide it.
"How's that for good? We have thousands of gold business dealings with him now, and now the focus of their caravan is to go back and forth in Licheng, and the little sister is still in Licheng, if something happens to Han Ziyang? We're going to be affected. When Mi Fang heard this, her face also changed greatly.
"Zifang, in your opinion, should we inform him?" Under Mi Zhu's deep groan, there was a faint decision in his heart, but there was still a little hesitation on his lips.
"But where Han Ziyang is now, we don't know, how to inform him?" Mi Fang hesitated.
"Captain Xu, who stayed behind in Licheng, must have kept in touch with Han Ziyang, as long as we send the news over, he should be able to arrange it, if something really goes wrong, then we can't do anything." Mi Zhu firmly said.
"Okay, I'll let someone notify my little sister by secret message and let her arrange it." Mi Fang nodded, he had never doubted the eldest brother's decision, from childhood to adulthood, Mi Zhu had never made a major decision on a business trip, this time Mi Fang believed that since the eldest brother chose Han Lie, it would obviously not be an impulse.
Also in the courtyard of Chen Qi in Tancheng, the first thing Chen Qi did when he returned to the mansion was to return to the study, wrote a superstitious letter to his son Chen Deng, and asked Kuaima to send it to Huaiyin overnight, and Chen Deng had already taken up the post of Huaiyin County Commander at this time.
The content of Chen Jue's secret letter is also a leaked letter, and the reason why it was given to his son Chen Deng is naturally because Chen Jue doesn't want people to know about the decision he made.
Huaiyin City is only one night's journey away from Licheng, and Chen Deng, who received the secret letter, immediately sent his henchmen to send the secret letter to Licheng, so that the decision made in the Xuzhou Assassin's Mansion was sent to Xu Rong who stayed in Licheng in only two days.
Xu Rong, who received the news, immediately summoned Dian Wei Duwei Guoyuan, and the three of the county Cheng Wang Bao to discuss countermeasures. Previously, Xu Rong passed on this top-secret document through a sparrowhawk sent by Han Lie a few days ago.
In just one day, Han Lie, who had just left Langya County, received a document from Sparrowhawk, and learned that Tao Qian was still jealous of himself, and intended to urge Zang Ba and other Taishan groups to compete with him, Han Lie sighed lightly and said to himself with a wry smile: "It is said that Tao Qian is a good old man, but who knows, when this old boy is not in a desperate situation, he is also a hero, okay?" ”
"Lord, this sparrowhawk is a good baby, hundreds of miles away, just one day, the news will be delivered, if it is passed by manpower, it will not be delivered at all in three days, and it will be avoided along the way. When Zhang Yao surrendered, he brought the five sparrowhawks they had trained with them, and Han Lie realized the preciousness of these strange birds, so he sent someone to send one to Xu Rong as a messenger.
This sparrowhawk's body is the size of a fist, the whole body hair is grayish-brown, the mouth is sharp, the flight is fast, can fly thousands of miles in a day, can keenly distinguish the direction of back and forth, the claws are sharp, can prey on wild mice, field chickens and small snakes, like to eat meat, don't look at their weight is less than two catties, but a meal can eat more than the weight of meat, and at the same time can keep a day and a night can continue to fly without eating any food.
This sparrowhawk Han Lie has not seen it in later generations, but judging from its body and food, it should belong to the eagle family, a bit like the eagle falcon in later generations.
But these little guys are quite wise, except for the six female warriors under Zhang Yao's tent and Zhang Yao himself, others can't command them at all, and they don't feed them.
In Zhang Yao's statement, these five sparrowhawks, a few of them spent a full year and a half feeding and training, in order to catch these young birds in Taihang Mountain, their sisters died a total of more than 30 people, once caught more than 20 young birds, but it was these five birds that really survived.
The reason why Zhang Yao and the others chose to domesticate sparrowhawks is also because according to the ancient scroll of "Taiping Requirements" left by his father, it is said that there are sacred birds in Nuwa Mountain, which can fly thousands of miles a day, can distinguish directions, and understand people's speech......
At the beginning, Zhang Yao also realized the value of this sparrowhawk, and just when Zhang Jiao died of illness in the defeat of Julu, Zhang Yao took a team of yellow turban wrestlers and female assassins to take refuge in the Taihang Mountains.
Looking at the backs of Zhang Yao and Diao Chan leaving the big tent with the sparrowhawk, Xu Huang exclaimed in surprise. And Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Tai Shici and others in the big tent also had a different color, and they were all seeing such a magical bird for the first time.
Even Guo Jia praised with a dazzling eye: "With this divine bird, it is better than 100,000 male soldiers." ”
Although Guo Jia's words are a bit exaggerated, they are not without any basis, you must know that in ancient times, the biggest difficulty in marching and fighting was often the inability to pass on the military information as quickly as possible, and even sometimes the two armies collided head-on, and the enemy arrived in front of them.
Not to mention in ancient times, even in later generations, first-hand information is of immeasurable value, whether in military or commercial terms.
Just like now, after Tao Qian made a decision, the envoy sent had not yet arrived in Kaiyang, but Han Lie, who was far away in Langya, had already received the news, which was equivalent to seizing the opportunity, and then he naturally had enough time to deal with this matter. On the contrary, if there was no Sparrowhawk to transmit the message, I was afraid that by the time Han Lie knew the news, Zang Ba and the other Taishan Gang troops had already killed him and took the initiative to prepare for the attack, which would undoubtedly be more than twice as good as the chance of passively facing the enemy.