Volume 31 The Means of the Elders

PS: The world needs great good people

Fu Hongzhi heard that Chen Song and Guo Xu were taken away by someone from the Assassin's Mansion, and he didn't care about going to the Weibei military camp at all, so he immediately wrote an order by hand, asking the flying cavalry and hussars to form an army, and not to delay for a while, and immediately retreat to the south bank of the Wei River; The infantry battalion under his command immediately departed and marched northwest to meet the cavalry; After the infantry and cavalry rendezvous, they drove to the suburbs of Xianyang and set up camp, with deep ditches and high bases, and sent scouts to wait for the next order. He prepared something for himself, brought a dozen or so personal soldiers, two horses each, and drove straight to Chang'an.

Wang Zhenwei was killed, he was a little guilty, because although he did not have the murderous intent like Shen Tianzi, he was jealous of Wang Zhenevil's world-famous martial arts, and Dekong also slandered Liu Yu. The dispute between Wang and Shen finally turned into a bloody infighting, and the result was that the two famous generals died together, and the Beifu Building broke two pillars. If he rolled a little deeper, it was hard to guarantee that he would not be crushed by this cruel dumping. When the wind and waves subsided, and then looked at Guanzhong, the best of the peers withered and withered, if there was a big war, it would be difficult to find even a comrade-in-arms with a tacit understanding, and I couldn't help but regret that I shouldn't have connived at Shen Tianzi intentionally or unintentionally.

Wang Xiu was killed, and he was only shocked. Wang Xiu is not a military officer, but a pen and a manager of money and food, with him, the generals never have to worry about the lack of logistics when they fight. Although this person was born as a scholar, he has been immersed in Liu Yu for many years, and he is a scholar, a good one, vigorous and resolute, and upright in law enforcement. Such a person. There is no self-respecting capital to support the army, and there is no good intrigue. Liu Yu was specially selected to assist his son, why did he kill him with a thunderbolt? There are old friends in the army. News came that it seemed that Wang Xiu had written a secret letter to Liu Yu, saying all kinds of bad situations in Guanzhong, which offended Yizhen Assassin Shi and the people around him. Fu Hongzhi originally wanted to write a letter to question Chang'an, but when he heard that there was such a hidden secret, he had to extinguish the fire in his heart. I woke up in the middle of the night, thinking about the situation in Guanzhong, counting the talents who were getting thinner and thinner, and I was deeply worried about the future.

When I heard that even the juniors Chen Song and Guo Xu could not be spared, I couldn't sit still anymore. Chen Song's name for being good at fighting. He had already heard about it, and when he arrived at the Battle of Yaoguan, he saw with his own eyes the appearance of this young man in his early twenties on the battlefield, and he liked it very much. Soldiers are inevitably jealous, but they are often jealous of people who are similar in age to themselves and have a huge disparity in status, and they will not be jealous of the descendants of their subordinates. He has already regarded Chen Song as the pillar of the next generation of Beifu soldiers, and his plan is not only to reward cultivation, but also to attract his heart. In this way, when the latter presides over the overall situation in the future, he will have to ask him to cover his children and grandchildren. As for Guo Xu, he has been brilliant in the past year, and he is particularly dazzling among the young Zhuang faction. When it came to the Battle of Chiyang, Fu Hongzhi sent him to lure the enemy to the preset battlefield, but he was actually worried that he would not be able to return. But his people not only succeeded in luring the enemy, but also cut the generals and held the flag. It greatly boosted the morale of the Jin army, the kind of spirit that although millions of people have gone to me. reminds Fu Hongzhi of his young self. This kid is brave in battle, honest and honest, and he is really the kind of good general seedling that all those who lead soldiers like. To be precise, it is no longer enough to describe him as a seedling, although he has not yet reached the sky, he is already a tall tree in the army.

Chen and Guo Meng, he Fu Hongzhi must not sit idly by, after all, this is an axe cut on his own branches. Without these two young tiger generals, who is up to the task in the next fierce battle?

So when he encountered an obstacle at the door of the Thorn Mansion, he didn't have the usual good temper, and his anger poured into his arms, pulling all the people out of reach and throwing them back to the ground, and he cried all the way to the inner hall and was about to go in, and when he was about to enter, he bumped into Mao Xiuzhi head-on. The latter was just about to greet with a smiling face, but Fu Hongzhi did not care about his title of Sima, and scolded at this nominal top boss:

"Lao Mao, whether you are a donkey or a dog, you have no heart! Chen Song and Guo Xu are my subordinates, you dare to be caught secretly, did you be a Sima for two days, and you felt that there was green smoke on your grave, and your children and grandchildren wanted to pee on Lao Tzu's head? Don't open your dog's eyes and see, Da Xia Helian is eyeing the north, and the army will be pressed at any time, and you still have the spirit to engage in infighting! You love to kill people so much, you have the courage to even cut off Lao Tzu's head. If you have the ability to repel the Pingguan of Daxia Town with one hand, Lao Tzu would rather be killed by you as a free ghost, I'm afraid that you don't have the ability! Come on, Lao Tzu is here with his head, you chop, chop! ”

Saying that, he stretched his neck, as if he wanted to let Mao Xiuzhi cut, but in fact, he secretly exerted force against the latter's chest, Mao Xiuzhi didn't prevent him from coming to this move, his feet were unstable, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks. Fu Hongzhi is even more energetic:

"See, there is no foundation, your ass is sitting on the ground, you cut off the roots of the Beifu soldiers, the three armies are discouraged, who the hell will come to protect you, Sima!"

Mao Xiuzhi stood up with a snort, and subconsciously wanted to reach out and draw his sword. Fu Hongzhiyuan glared at him, and pressed his hand with his gaze.

At this time, Liu Yizhen had already come out, although he was a stabbing history, he still couldn't help but bow to Fu Hongzhi, who was an elder:

"General Fu worked hard, he came from afar, and he didn't tell me in advance, Yizhen missed the distance, please forgive the general!"

Fu Hongzhi knelt down on one knee and returned the salute, passing the scene with the etiquette of seeing his superiors after walking down, so as not to fall into the mouth of despising his superiors, but as soon as he stood up, he immediately brought out the shelf of the elders:

"On official positions, you are a thorn in history, my superior, I shouldn't have made irresponsible remarks about you, but these are all false, and they are all for outsiders to see. In terms of affection, your father is my brother, and you are my nephew, how can anyone who is an uncle stand by when he sees his nephew Hu Lai? You love to make trouble in the threshold of your assassin's mansion, although I don't bother to care when I hear rumors, but since you have put your hand into the barracks and want to take my men, I can't help but stand up and ask for justice. You say, which one did Chen Song and Guo Xu commit, and you want to arrest them by deception? ”

Even if Liu Yizhen was on tiptoe, he could only barely reach Fu Hongzhi's chin, coupled with his weak heart, he looked even more short and thin, peeking up at that majestic face, and the fear of a boy arose. When he was a child, he often rode on Fu Hongzhi's neck to play. was held by him and rode a horse, and was like a family. Grow up a little. More than once, I heard my father say how fierce Fu Hongzhi was on the battlefield, and how ruthless he was in enforcing military discipline. These two impressions combined. is an uncle who can practice the law on behalf of his father, a general who is not angry and mighty, Liu Yizhen always feels that he doesn't agree with a word, and this person will take off his pants and slap him; And that slap is so big, I'm afraid that it can wipe out the entire ass at once. I was afraid, and my voice trembled a little:

"General, you wronged me, I didn't order them to be arrested, and I only later learned that they were arrested in Chang'an."

Fu Hong was stunned, and immediately turned his head to stare at Mao Xiuzhi;

"So it's a good thing you did by pretending to pass on Sima's orders?"

Mao Xiuzhi has already made up his mind to deduct all the basins on the heads of the madmen who have returned to the West. Shake your hands at once:

"No, no, no, this is none of my business, they didn't come from me."

Fu Hongzhi was angry and funny, thinking that these two people were denying it:

"Funny! Mao Kanzhi, the younger brother of Sima Mao Xiuzhi of the Assassin Mansion, took a cavalry to the army to arrest people, and the people were also brought to the Assassin Mansion, and Lord Assassin and Master Sima actually said that they had nothing to do with him, so I really can't understand it! ”

Mao Xiuzhi suddenly realized that this was done by Feng Zizhang, the governor of the Assassin's Mansion. Liu Yizhen woke up instantly, and immediately echoed:

"Yes, yes, yes. He should have done it, and I asked him to release him, and he said that the interrogation would progress immediately. ”

It was Fu Hongzhi's turn to be confused. He knew that the madman was Guo Xu's friend for many years, and he followed Guo Xu into Chang'an. was once rewarded by Liu Yushu, and was directly promoted from the team owner to the building owner, how could this person turn against his old boss and brother for many years?

"Then call him. I'd like to ask him where he got the guts to do all this! ”

Mao Xiuzhi said hesitantly that he couldn't come, he died. Fu Hong was surprised:

"How did you die?"

Mao Xiuzhi said that he had a fight with his wife. was killed by his wife with a hairpin.

Fu Hongzhi shook his head angrily:

"Yizhen, Yizhen, you see. Who are you around? Feng Zizhang is a person who can frame his brother, arrest people without concealing his superiors, and can still make trouble with his wife to this point, you actually let him go nonsense!"

Liu Yizhen lowered his head and made a final resistance, although he also knew that this resistance was meaningless, which just showed that he was still a child;

"The madman said that he had found evidence of Chen Song and Guo Xu's rebellion."

Fu Hongzhi stretched out his hand:

"Okay, there's evidence! If it can really prove that Chen Song and Guo Xu are rebelling, and if they don't stab Shi Dongdao, I will unscrew off the heads of these two traitors with my own hands! ”

Mao Xiuzhi had to admire Fu Hongzhi's acting skills, there was no proof that the madman died, and he was still pressing for evidence! Seeing that Liu Yi was really embarrassed and nervous, he felt that he couldn't help but support him at this time:

"General Fu, don't worry, here's how it happened: Wang Xiu wrote a secret letter to Duke Song, telling the truth of the assassination of history, this secret letter, it is said that Chen Song found someone to send it secretly, he did not take the channel of official correspondence, he started a small gang by himself, Feng Zizhang suspected that this small gang was not conducive to assassinating history, so he brought them for questioning."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Liu Yizhen digging at him fiercely, and suddenly realized that Liu Yizhen might not be willing to pull out Wang Xiu's matter. Now that the word is out, the horse is difficult to chase and Fu Hongzhi is faster than the horse, and immediately seized this fleeting opportunity;

"How can there be a secret letter? Didn't you say that Wang Xiu rebelled? Writing a letter to complain is considered a rebellion? Besides, since it's a secret letter, how can you know? ”

Mao Xiuzhi didn't dare to say more, and waited for Liu Yizhen to take over. Liu Yizhen glanced at the soldiers of the Assassin's Mansion and Fu Hongzhi, who were watching the excitement from a distance, and said that we have been standing outside for a long time, so let's go to the inner hall to talk.

Fu Hongzhi didn't move, untied his breastplate, took out a small cloth bag from his body, and shook out a ball of white cloth from it, and the ink could be seen before he opened it. It was not until it was unfolded and handed over to Liu Yizhen, who found out that it was a joint letter from the commander of Fu Hongzhi's army and above the rank and file, demanding the release of Chen Song and Guo Xu and allowing them to return to the army immediately to lead the troops. The letter was written in just two or three lines, to the effect that the two generals had made outstanding achievements, loved the soldiers like sons, won the hearts of the army, and were rare good generals. The signatures on the back were much longer than the letters, and some of them were obviously illiterate, so they pressed their fingerprints with ink and were signed by literate colleagues.

When Mao Xiuyi saw this thing, he knew that no one, including Liu Yizhen, could keep Chen Guo and the others for another day. Lord Thorn Shi can not buy Fu Hongzhi's account. But if you go against what the officers and soldiers want, you will really be cutting yourself off from the three armed forces. I'm going to be alone. There was a garrison in the city of Chang'an, but it was the most sophisticated field army. Under Fu Hongzhi's hands, if this group of people is cold, Chang'an's hands and feet will be cold.

Liu Yizhen coughed dryly and wanted to hand the joint letter to Mao Xiuzhi, but was snatched by Fu Hongyi. The latter tucked the cloth and said with a smile This is to show the military center to Lord Thorn Shi, since Thorn Shi has seen it, I still keep the things, so as not to come out and arrest someone secretly according to the signature. I don't even know if I've hollowed out my corners.

Mao Xiuzhi secretly gritted his teeth, hating that this old fox could always take advantage of himself, but he had no power to fight back here.

Liu Yizhen pretended not to see the two of them fighting, and was busy beckoning Fu Hongzhi into the house. The latter saw Xiao Qiao as soon as he entered the door. At Guo Xu's wedding, he had seen Xiaoqiao, but he didn't expect to meet him here today, but he immediately understood that this woman should have come to intercede for her husband. It's just that although he has a request for others, he is dressed in gorgeous clothes and has a calm bearing. It's not like the family of the victims, but like Mrs. Chincha. If it was an ordinary woman, she would have been crying and crying at home for a long time, even if she had the courage to go to the official's house to ask for an explanation. will also be inferior and submissive, where will there be such a temperament that is neither humble nor arrogant, not sad or sad, not crying or making trouble! I heard that this woman was picked up by Guo Xu from the Xianbei military camp, and she was just a little beautiful. When I saw it today, I realized that although she was a woman. But he is worthy of Guo Xu, a tiger general! In addition to admiration, give a deep salute. Little Pretty is in the house. I had listened to the conversation outside for a while, and I was so grateful to Fu Hongzhi who fell from the sky that I couldn't express my gratitude, and now seeing that he respected himself so much, he hurriedly returned the woman's courtesy, and was about to open his mouth to say a few words of thanks, and tears fell first. In this situation, this scene, this person, Rao is Fu Hongzhi's three big and five thick, and his eyes are moist.

Fu Hongzhi said, Mrs. Guo, please go elsewhere to rest for a while, I still have something to say to Yizhen Assassin Shi. Liu Yizhen called his own soldiers, asked them to arrange fragrant tea, snacks and fruits, and invited Xiaoqiao to another room to rest. As soon as Xiaoqiao went out, Fu Hongzhi pointed at Mao Xiuzhi with his chin, and then pointed at the door, meaning that you also go out. Mao Xiuzhi glanced at Liu Yizhen and found that the latter had no intention of sheltering, and he couldn't compete with Fu Hongzhi who was angry, so he had to go out in disgrace.

After sitting down, Fu Hongzhi's tone relaxed:

"Yizhen, there are no outsiders now, tell me how you know that Wang Xiu wrote a secret letter."

Liu Yizhen bit his lip, hesitated for a moment, and said:

"Daddy passed the secret letter to me."

Fu Hong was startled, and immediately realized that he had accidentally stepped into a quagmire that he should not have set foot in. Based on his understanding of Wang Xiu, this person's intention in writing a secret letter should not be to be unfavorable to Liu Yizhen, but to be worried about Guan Zhongxing. Liu Yu sent the secret letter back, although he had the intention of warning his son, but I am afraid that he also had the intention of teaching him to beware of Wang Xiu. Song Gong's heart is unfathomable, and it is no longer as simple as brotherhood when they fought and killed together in the past. But now that the words have been said for this part, there is no room for withdrawal, so that it seems that he is a wall grass:

"Can MeSign show me? I wonder what Wang Xiu said. ”

Liu Yizhen said that the secret letter had been burned by Mao Xiuzhi, but I have read it many times and can almost memorize it.

When he finished reciting, Fu Hongzhi's expression was gloomy:

"Yizhen, tell me yourself, if you are not a loyal person who worries about the country and forgets himself, will you say this about your son in front of your father? Will there be the kind of courage that would rather be broken to pieces than to protect the great cause of Song Gong? ”

Liu Yizhen has actually been thinking about this a lot these days, and gradually realized that he thought of Wang Xiu too badly and did too viciously to him. To say that he didn't kill at first, but later, under the impetus of external forces, he actually attacked the ministers left by his father, and after calming down, he felt shocked. Thinking that Wang Xiu's severed head didn't even have a tongue, he couldn't help but shudder. But think about it again, I am a child, and it seems that many things have not been figured out, and I have been pushed by the people around me to do it. These people seemed to be leading him by the nose, using his energy to do what they wanted to do, walking like this, not feeling that there was anything wrong with every step, but finally they ended up in the mud puddle. He vaguely felt that Wang Xiu's death was something that these people around him were happy to see, but he didn't understand why his father also hinted that he was wary of Wang Xiu. At this point, I felt that Fu Hongzhi was heavy and reliable, and finally confided in him what I had been holding back for a long time:

"Daddy told me to beware of Wang Xiu."

Fu Hongzhi was taken aback, he didn't expect that the water behind this matter would be deep into Liu Yu's heart, but he calmed down a little. immediately felt that there were too many suspicions: Liu Yu was certainly scheming, and he was wary of veterans in the army. Wang Zhenwei and Shen Tianzi's fighting method is more or less the taste of him sitting on the fishing profits; But for a civil official like Wang Xiu, who has no military power in his hands and is extraordinarily capable. There won't be much wariness in severance. Besides, even if there is suspicion, he will secretly arrange it, and he will never tell his son openly, which is obviously not conducive to the next generation learning control skills. In other words, assuming that Liu Yu was wary of Wang Xiu, it was likely that Mao Xiuzhi was sent to check and balance him, and such an action only needs to be done, and his son will naturally understand when he grows up. It will even be used more skillfully, and you don't have to say it to such a young child.

"Is that what Song Gong said?"

Liu Yizhen shook his head and told him about the nail marks on the secret letter. Fu Hongzhi pondered for a long time and sighed heavily:

"Kid, you were tricked by that Feng Zizhang! Judging from the secret letter you just recited, Wang Xiu is not most dissatisfied with you, but with your left and right, he thinks that Feng Zizhang and these people have brought you badly and the atmosphere of the Northern Expeditionary Army. You get MeSign. It's good to know it in your heart, you shouldn't let the people around you see it, seeing it is equivalent to betraying Wang Xiu. 'Those who are not secrets lose their lives, and those who are not secrets lose their country'. You didn't understand this sentence! ”

Liu Yizhen has thought of this layer these days, and now he is broken in front of him, and his shame strikes. His face was flushed, and he lowered his head.

"Feng Zizhang and Mao Xiuzhi. There are also some of their henchmen, who have a smooth career. They all pointed to making a fortune by relying on your promotion, and when they saw this letter, they knew that what they had done had been known by Song Gong, and it was strange that they didn't hate Wang Xiu. The pinch marks you just mentioned, in my opinion, were not broken by Song Gong. Although Song Gong also had scheming, it was all external enemies and dissidents, and he would never use conspiracy against Wang Xiu's public intentions. I really don't agree with him passing on the secret letter to you, but his original intention should be to let you see what the Assassin Mansion looks like in the minds of righteous men and gentlemen today, and there is no hint that you will be asked to deal with Wang Xiu. Besides, I have been with him for so many years, and I have received a lot of secret letters from him, but I have never seen him use such a woman's method, and I have never heard anyone talk about it. If you think about it again, is it true that there are pinching marks when the secret letter comes? ”

This cloud of confusion was finally blown away by a gust of wind by Fu Hongzhi. Under the situation that night, Liu Yizhen was shocked when he saw the pinch marks, and he had no time to think about it. Looking back on it afterwards, I wonder why I didn't find a pinch mark after watching it so many times before, but a madman can find it after reading it once? Now I think carefully about the way the madman took the letter and paced back and forth with his back to him, reciting the words, and finally realized that the madman probably did it at that time. This was a very low-level trick, but I fell into a trap, and once I figured it out, I couldn't help but be ashamed to the extreme, to the extreme, and to blame myself to the extreme. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore, and pulled out his sword to cut the table, but his strength was small after all, so he didn't cut off the corner of the case, but stuck the sword in the wood, pulled it out and didn't pull it out, kicked over the case, and scolded:

"Feng Zizhang! You brute, you dare to calculate the history of this assassination like this! I'm going to crush your bones and scatter ashes! ”

The soldiers outside the door heard the sound of the table falling to the ground, thinking that Fu Hongzhi had attacked Liu Yizhen, and they pulled out their weapons and poured in. Seeing this scene, he heard Lord Thorn Shi cursing at the dead Door Governor, and he was so frightened that he retreated.

Fu Hongyi looked at this situation and knew that Liu Yizhen had found the crux of the problem, and sighed in his heart, slandering Liu Yu for not making proper arrangements at the beginning, and guiding the three armies in Guanzhong to fight in the same room, and there were tragic cases of internal strife one after another. At the same time, I am glad that I came in time. The hidden feelings are so entangled, and the evil fire is so vigorous, if Mao Xiuzhi and others add another firewood, Chen Song and Guo Xu's future is unknown!

Liu Yizhen vented enough, sat with a calm face for a long time, and called the soldiers in;

"Immediately prepare new robes and armor, change them into Deputy Chen Jun and Deputy Guo Jun, return the weapons to them, and invite them to come here to talk."

The soldiers were just about to leave, but they were stopped by Fu Hongzhi. The latter said that in this situation, it is not that you call them here, but that you have to personally release them and apologize to them, saying that you are confused for a while, deceived left and right, and let them be wronged.

Liu Yizhen was very embarrassed.

Fu Hongzhi held back his temperament and lowered his voice and said You don't know what it feels like to be wronged, it's very painful. Chen Song and Guo Xu are both people with strong temperaments and would rather bend than bend, and if they are wronged like this, even if they don't say it, they must be extremely sad and angry in their hearts. Do you want them to do their jobs for you with this feeling? Putting down the shelf, you can't lose anything, but you can make them grateful, is it hard to do that?

Liu Yizhen's naughty nature and vanity are entangled together, and he knows in his heart that Fu Hongzhi is right, but he just can't take this step.

Fu Hongzhi was furious:

"Liu Jinu I is a hero, and he gave birth to such a promising son of a bitch! If you hesitate any longer, be careful that I will clean you up for you! ”

As he spoke, he was dumbfounded, looking around for something to take advantage of, and he was about to slap Master Shi's buttocks. Liu Yu's philosophy of not suffering immediate losses that he learned when he was a gambler broke out in the blood of his own son in an instant, and his rotation speed was much faster than that of his father's political affairs. Liu Yizhen stuck out his tongue, subconsciously protected his buttocks, and rushed out of the door, greeting as he walked:

"Show me the way, show me the way, I'm going to visit Deputy Chen Jun and Deputy Guo Jun!" (To be continued......)