Shi Xun felt that even shrewd people like Guan Jing and Xiao Ji, because of the limitations of the times and education, seemed to have been brainwashed by Zhu Jianping. The problem related to Kong Rong has actually been the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, but he can only sigh that he racked his brains, thinking that he would be done if he was taken away, who would have expected him to run back?

But if you think about it, it's self-inflicted. should have calculated a long time ago that taking away Kong Rong can only save the trouble for a while, but not for a safe life, why is he like an ostrich, Kong Rong will celebrate as soon as he leaves, bury his head in the sand from then on, and never think about this matter again? If you had planned in advance, why would you be so helpless now?

Fortunately, there is still a discussion about Jing and Xiao Ji, especially when Xiao Ji said: "Or its solution, is what Jianping said......" Shi Xun couldn't help but lean forward slightly, and asked urgently: "What is it?" Meta diagram taught me. ”

So Xiao Ji said: "The lord is the in-law of the Cao family, that is, crying sacrifices and burying Kong Rong, it is expected that the king of Wei may not be guilty, and Anke is comparable to Zhu Bohou and Cai Bojiao?" Only because of his reign and the order to cut the hole, he had to admonish, and he would be angry. If it weren't for the inability to admonish, then Shilin slandered An? "What if you weren't unwilling to dissuade Cao Cao from killing Kong Rong, but you were just powerless and incompetent? I don't think my reputation will be tarnished because of this.

Is Xun still not understanding: "Since I am in power, why don't I have the ability to advise?" Do you have to persuade me to go to the position? "You want me to simply resign, then as a white body, I don't have the ability to give Cao Cao a letter, and it is reasonable that I can't save Kong Rong. Is that what it means?

Xiao Ji shook his head: "The lord is the in-law of the Cao family, even if he is not in the throne, he can also be written before the king of Wei." Why not? "Your origins and reputation are here. Even if there is no official or position. can also directly write to Cao Cao, just resign and take care of eggs? Then the mystery was revealed: "Hongnong and Nanyang have an epidemic, if you feel it and lie down, you don't hear it, you don't say anything, you can't write with your hands, and you can't admonish it." ”

It dawned on him that yes, pretending to be sick is indeed a clever plan. At that time, I couldn't get up from the couch at all. How much anti-human thinking does it have to be to complain that a seriously ill person doesn't save Kong Wenju? Maybe future generations will make such an evaluation: "Yes Xun is Kong Rong's former official, and he is sick and stiff from time to time, but he can't be saved." If you make it a good idea, or can Kong Rong be immortal? Is this providential? ”

Just as he was about to pat his palms and admire, Guan Jing raised an objection: "Although the plan is wonderful, it is difficult to choose the time." If he has been ill for a long time, or if he has fallen ill from time to time, will no one doubt it? "It's a good idea to pretend to be sick, but unfortunately it's hard to grasp the timing if you get sick early. Then he dragged it and refused to heal, until Cao Cao killed Kong Rong. Or temporary news, just on the eve of Cao Cao's killing of Kong Rong, he suddenly fell ill, you are stupid when everyone else, can't you see that you are pretending to be sick?

Unless the time is very accurate, for example, if you have been ill for seven or eight days, when the illness is heavy, Cao Cao suddenly kills Kong Rong, and then after Kong Rong's death for another seven or eight days, the body is cold, and everyone else has buried him, your illness has improved, and it may not be easy to arouse suspicion. However, can you be sure when Cao Cao killed Kong Rong?

And—"If the king of Wei orders and sends it to Xudu, it will take three or five days; The imperial history obeyed the order, the court made a plan, and it took another three or five days; Or if they don't allow the capital to correct the law, and be imprisoned in Anyi, it will take another six or seven days...... During this period, there was a period of half a month, and the lord was always lying stiff, and it was difficult to hear about it. "Kong Rong is the minister of the court after all, also known all over the world, even if he wants to kill him, he doesn't send an envoy to go, and he will open the knife when he arrives at the place, from Cao Cao's order to finally cut off his head, and it will be a good day, what are you seriously ill, you have not been well?

Of course, with the medical technology of these years, there are really diseases that will not be cured for months or even years, but unless you are always asleep, you don't believe that no one will tell you about such a big thing, and you don't have the strength to write a letter to Cao Cao, or even dictate it to someone to record. But you really have to sleep for ten days and a half months, what a serious illness this is, "the illness is like a mountain, the illness is like a thread", you will say goodbye to the political arena directly within this year.

Guan Jing raised his doubts, but Xiao Ji couldn't help laughing: "If you plan deeply, you will plan late, and if you calculate the secret, you will not succeed." But the general plan, temporary machine change can also. "Unless you can come up with a better way, we can only do this, and the specific details can be taken one step at a time.

Guan Jing still shook his head: "Let's think about it again." "Is there really no better way? Let's think about it a little more.

As he was saying this, suddenly there was a call from outside the door. Shixun was upset, and couldn't help but slap the table: "I'm busy, what's bothering?" "Didn't you see me find two senior staff members to come over and talk secretly behind closed doors, what do you have to come over here to disturb me?

Yu He lowered his voice and replied: "Send ...... from the courtyard outside the city Come...... Big things, must play the master! ”

Shi Xun didn't hear clearly who or what he sent over, what was the big deal, and he was about to be reprimanded, but Guan Jing said: "He has been with the lord for a long time, and if he doesn't know the severity, he can be summoned immediately." It's Xun who snorted at this time, and called in. As soon as he entered the door, he asked eagerly, "What did the other courtyard send?" "Tell me something, don't delay.

Yu he bowed down and said: "Send Zeng Ergou to ......" Shixun couldn't react for a while, and said that Zeng Ergou is a shrimp thing again, can you eat it? Then he woke up: "What is he coming from?" "Inquire carefully, and then you know that something really happened!

It turned out that this Zeng Ergou was originally a common man in Beiqu County, Hedong County, and was forced to go into exile in Linfen due to the invasion of the Huns, and made a living by mining coal in the county. When Shi Xun was serving as the county warden of Hedong, he met this man by chance, and heard him say that his hometown Hukou Mountain was rich in mineral deposits, so he funded him and sent him back to Beiqu to open a large (of course, according to the scale of the year) coal company—it was also on Zeng Ergou's mine that Shi Xun discovered Puyu Jia Qu Jia Liang Dao.

Seriously speaking, this company is not Xun Holdings, the early investment includes capital and manpower, the funds mainly come from the Hedong treasury, and a small amount is Xun's own subsidy, and the first batch of manpower is the Han people repatriated by the Southern Xiongnu. However, manual coal digging is already very hard, and there is no concept of safe production in these years, Zeng Ergou even used these official slaves as tools. As a result, within a few months, the coolies were almost dead. Fortunately, at that time, it was Xun who had basically calmed down the Southern Xiongnu. A large number of Xiongnu were captured. and all of them were filled into this purgatory.

Coal is an epoch-making energy source, but the problem is that the mining technology in this era is low, the supporting processing technology is not complete, the output is low, and the quality of the product is also very poor. If you burn the wrought iron with coal, because the sulfur content in it is too large, it will lead to the finished product being brittle and easy to break. Therefore, it is mainly used to exercise iron agricultural tools, and the yield cannot be high; If coal is used as fuel for heating, the Hukou Coal Mine is not anthracite, and the soot is too large, the rich dare not use it more, and the poor still do not need it. Therefore, Shi Xun opened this company at that time, just to solve the urgent need and enrich the treasury, and it is impossible to make a fortune from coal mines.

So he didn't care about the property, and when he left his job, he handed it over directly to the next county guard. Through his governance. The Xiongnu have been decided, and the east of the river is coarse. With the development of productive forces, no one can look down on the little income from the coal mine, so the new county warden did not spend much effort to rectify and manage.

It's just that looking at Shi Xun's face, he gave Zeng Ergou the title of a hundred stone officials, and the annual tax is rated, as long as you pay it on time and in the right amount, the county government will let it go completely. And following the precedent of Shixun, the captive Hu people were often sent to the mines, and even the torturers in prison were simply sent to the mines to die.

Zeng Ergou developed in this way, and also used the reputation of Shixun to connect with Tuoba and other departments, exporting a small amount of coal and inferior weapons, in exchange for the Xianbei of other tribes captured by Tuoba in the war of conquest, as well as Karasuma, Xiongnu and other laborers. Without the constraints of the official family, this black-hearted coal boss began to act wantonly, and gradually became a tyrant in Beiqu, Pishi and other counties, in order to pursue production, he even used those hard labor to the death - anyway, if there are fewer people, he can still go to the Tuoba Department to ask for it.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance. When Shi Xun was still there, there were hundreds of county soldiers guarding the mine, and there were no major problems. By this time, the Han people were almost dead, and occasionally there were a few left, all of whom were outlaws brought in by the county government, and a large number of Hu people were brutally exploited and oppressed, so they secretly connected and plotted to make trouble.

Although Zeng Ergou was ruthless, his brain was not very good, and seeing that the county government gradually transferred the town guards, he recruited a group of hooligans from the surrounding counties to form a private mine protection team. Problem: Although these hooligans are arrogant and domineering, they are only accustomed to oppressing the good, and their courage and courage are completely incomparable with the Hu people who live on the grasslands by herding, hunting, and even looting.

So in the end, under the leadership of a Han hard laborer, the Hu people once moved, and the mine protection team was scattered in an instant. Zeng Ergou was not in the Hukoushan mine at the time, but was invited to a nearby family to eat wine, and when he heard the news in a hurry, he didn't dare to go back to pick up his wife and children, so he fled - his family members were abused and killed by the traitor.

At the beginning, he fled to Pishi, sent people to inquire about the news of the mine, and planned to report to the Hedong County Shou Du Ji and send troops to kill him, but what did he hear, those thieves took the workers of the whole mine to the north, and all the villages they passed were slaughtered, probably trying to kill a bloody way to return to the grassland. This is no longer an ordinary local labor dispute, but has become a rebellion, Zeng Ergou knew that even the county guard could not shelter him, so he had to hurriedly abscond to Anyi and beg Shixun to call the shots for him.

It was Xun who was shocked when he heard the report, and he smashed the water cup on the table on the spot: "This thief still dares to come to see me?!" "What do you mean? Want to pull things out of me and let me shelter you from the wind and rain? When I left Hedong, how could I warn you not to use the workers to death, beware of chaos, you are completely unhearted! I don't see him, I'll be beaten out with a stick!"

"Wait." Guan Jing hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it. He said to Shi Xun, this Zeng Ergou was discovered by you, and you recommended it to the county government, and now that such a big thing has happened, even if he doesn't come to the door to ask for help, you won't be able to get out of it after all. Fortunately, he arrived earlier than the county's report, so that we can find out the situation and plan a countermeasure - how can we bombard him at this time? Hurry up and call in and ask everything about the whole story.

It was Xun Qiang who pressed the anger in his chest and snorted coldly: "Order him to enter on his knees." (To be continued......)