On the surface, Liu Yi's attitude is indeed quite upright, it is Xun who asked him to report to the door, he does not call himself "the last official", but "cow and horse go" - although both are humble words, but the former is only used for subordinates to meet Shangguan, and the latter can be applied to ordinary people, and "cattle and horses" means to rush, and "go" is "servant", which means that I am your subordinate or even a guest and servant.

And he did not directly call the official position of "Tai Lieutenant" of Shi Xun, but called "Shi Gong", which has the meaning of treating the king as a minister.

As soon as Liu Zi entered the door, he immediately bowed and bowed, and then kneeled in front of Shixun. Shi Xun glanced at him, didn't give him a seat, and asked directly: "Are you guilty?" ”

Liu Yi's body trembled slightly, and he quickly replied: "Yi knows his guilt." ”

Not long ago, when Goguryeo invaded Liaodong and besieged Xi'an Pingcheng, Liu Yi did not deceive Dong Meng, and sure enough, he personally led the army south, straight into the land of Sanhan, and killed until the bank of the Luodong River in later generations. But then he heard that the joint troops of Youzhou and Ping came to the rescue, and the Goguryeo army withdrew to the country, and Liu Yi had no choice but to withdraw from the army. Although he had a secret pact with the Goguryeo Imperial Palace, everyone knew that such a thing as a political covenant might only work until it was torn up...... Goguryeo didn't get much in Liaodong, so if he went to his own territory to loot again, it would be great.

Besides, he didn't save Xi'anping, he was deeply hated by Dong Meng, and he was afraid that Dong Meng would take the opportunity to incite Xiahou Lanjun to cross the river and copy his own back road.

So hurry back to North Korea and be ready for battle. But then he got the news that Shixun was ordered to lead an army to defeat Goguryeo, and he wanted to go to meet with him himself. Liu Yi panicked on the spot, and wanted to talk about the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. He was not afraid of anyone to send. The only one who is afraid is Hoon. One is that he once dealt with Shixun. Theoretically, I can cite it as a benefactor, if someone wants to bully me, the benefactor can always reach out to help, and this benefactor will clean himself up, then no one will be willing to speak for himself anymore.

Besides, Liu Yi knows a little about Xun's past, that is to say. Knowing that his master is hiding subtle things, this is originally a taboo, if the attitude is not deferential enough, Shi Xun may pinch him at any time. And think about it, from a country corporal (he doesn't know Ah Fei's true origin), he has become an important minister of the court in troubled times, can this person be repaid? How can I be qualified to fight him?

So when he heard that Shi Xun came to Liaodong, Liu Yi couldn't help but be very frightened, but then he received Shi Xun's paperwork, and gradually settled down. Yes Hoon really wanted to pinch him. I won't ask him to pay homage again, since I want to see him. That may be a bit of a delay. The key is that you must have a correct attitude, and say to Shixun, keeping me in Lelang will be of great use to you.

So Liu Yi hurriedly ran over, but because he still had some urgent matters to deal with, he couldn't rush to Xiangping, and finally met Shixun in Xi'an Pingcheng. As soon as they met Shixun, he asked him if he was guilty, and Liu Yi quickly replied: "Yi knows guilt." ”

Since you know the sin, then you can tell me, where is the sin? Liu Yi replied honestly: "The minister is not a prince, and he asks less in a voice, and he is guilty of not being able to send an envoy to pay tribute." wants to plot for Sanhan, and forces the Guryeo to compromise, so that the palace has no worries, and dares to invade Liaodong, and its second crime is also. Dong Gongdao sent an envoy to Yi Fang to conquer the three Koreas, and he had no time to look back, so he didn't save it, and the third crime was also. Please also be punished. ”

He set himself three charges, but in addition to the first one, the last two also set out reasons - I have a hard time, you let me annex Samhan, and I can't fight on two fronts, so I was forced to fight with Goguryeo......

Shi Xun sneered: "If you can't make Juli and recover, you can't merge the three Hans, and you are also a great sin!" "If you really annex all the land of Sanhan, then I can forgive the matter of Goguryeo in the north, but after so many years, how much progress you have made? Can it not make me angry?

Liu Yi hurriedly kowtowed: "Yi Zi is dull, and he is really unworthy of this heavy responsibility, but ...... Although Samhan has not been annexed, its people have been subdued. The minister will take his quality to see that it is the public. ”

The so-called "Samhan" refers to the tribal groups in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, all of which are called "Han", mainly including Mahan, Jinhan, and Benhan, hence the name "Samhan".

At this time, Samhan roughly developed to the stage of slave city-states, of which Mahan had 54 states, which were later unified into Baekje; Jinhan had 12 states, which were later unified into the kingdom of Silla; Benhan had 12 states, which later developed into the Gaya Alliance, some of which were incorporated into Silla after the defeat of the war, and some of which were conquered by Japan and became colonies of the Yamato Kingdom......

Previously, Liu Yi pushed the border south to the Han River Valley, and had already annexed more than ten Mahan states, and this time he went south to start a big war with the coalition forces of Mahan and Chenhan, and annexed six or seven smaller states. The original plan was to take the opportunity to completely defeat Ma Han, conquer Chenhan, and deter Benhan, but because of the hasty return to the teacher, the dream temporarily came to naught.

However, all the states of Sanhan were indeed killed by the Lelang army, and they expressed their willingness to accept the subject. That's why Liu Yi stayed in North Korea for a few more days, and when he had gathered enough hostages, he dared to hurry north to see Shixun. reported at the moment, saying that there were more than 30 hostages of Sanhan outside the door, and there were also tributes from various states to the Son of Heaven.

Shi Xun sneered: "Barbarian He De, and I can see me? "The difference in identities is so big that I don't bother to see them. But—"You can take a tribute." "I see what you mean, you want me to help you bring back to Luoyang the tribute that Sanhanjin dedicated to the Son of Heaven, then okay, I'll take a look, what did they pay tribute?

Liu Yi was already ready, and hurriedly took out a wooden slip from his sleeve to present it, and Shi Xun took it and took a look: "Twenty raw mouths, four cotton cloths, ......and eighteen pheasant tail feathers" couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and threw it on the ground casually: "He thinks Wei Tianzi is a beggar?!" "It's called Hanako!

Liu Yi panicked, and hurriedly explained: "The barbarians are poor, the country has no surplus capital, and China also has it, so ......" Shi Xun interrupted him: "The Son of Heaven is responsible for tribute and raises all the people, how can he be a vain name and throw away the real profit?" Wei Feizhou also blamed Chu Baomao. If the county is now, the income will be 10,000 times this-he wants to live?! ”

Liu Yi secretly trembled, and said in his heart, Is your old gentleman really a Confucian Wenkui? How is this tone the same as that of the bazaar merchants......

To say that the Hajj system of the Central Plains Dynasty in these years and months is actually "to seek false fame and throw away real profits", as long as the barbarian monarchs of the Quartet send envoys to the Hajj, no matter how much tribute they bring, the Son of Heaven is happy, and the reward is often a hundred times the tribute. It is recorded in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" that in June of the second year of Cao Wei Jingchu, the queen of the Wa Kingdom, Beimihu, sent the doctor Nanshengmi and others to Luoyang to make a pilgrimage to Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming, and the sacrifice was only "four boys, six girls, two horses and two zhangs of banbu", but Cao Rong was overjoyed, not only named Beimihu as "pro-Wei Wawang", gave the gold seal purple ribbon, but also rewarded "five horses of dragon brocade in Jiangdi, ten pieces of crepe in Jiangdi, fifty horses of Qianjiang, and fifty horses of blue blue". As for the envoys who are difficult to promote to rice, they are all given the posts of Zhonglang general, school captain, etc., and are given silver seals and green ribbons, as well as "three horses of brocade in the sentence of the earth, five pieces of fine class Huazong, fifty horses of white silk, eight taels of gold, two five-foot knives, 100 bronze mirrors, 50 catties of real pearls, and 50 catties of lead pills."

Not to mention anything else, just those gold seals and silver seals add up to more than offset the tribute of the Japanese state - besides, it is still according to the current price of China, for the Japanese state, "shengkou" is also a slave, which is really worthless......

This kind of face project became more and more excessive, foreign envoys entered China, and they did not need money for food and lodging, and even in the Ming Dynasty, because of too many rewards and useless tribute, which led to the impact on the treasury revenue and expenditure, and was forced to stipulate the number of tributes - you come every year, and my court really can't afford it.

The kingdom of China, the state of etiquette, in order to show the majesty and do some face engineering, this is understandable, the problem you can't go too far, is Xun in his previous life hated this kind of thing, this time I plan to take the opportunity to completely change this bad habit. He said that in the past, Zhou Chaoguang asked the Chu State to pay annual tribute to the bud grass of the wine, one was the sub-feudal system, the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Dynasty was limited, and the expenses were limited, even if the tribute of the countries surnamed Ji was not much-not to mention that it had to be used for the king's military service-the other was that the transportation was inconvenient at that time, and it was really too much tribute and it was not easy to transport. Now it is different from the ancient times, a huge imperial court, directly under the jurisdiction of thousands of miles, in need of money, transportation is more convenient than before - from your happy boat can go straight to Shandong, every year to go to a dozen boats of tribute, isn't it a piece of cake?

So now it's not like words to use these petty profits to fool the court. Besides, "What is the thing that you have to do with the three Hans?" ”

The tribute system of the Han and Wei dynasties was not the same as that of later generations, for remote areas such as Lelang, because of transportation problems - in the original history, there was no official way of sea transportation - did not require direct tribute to the capital, and Lelang's taxes could be paid to Youzhou. The same is true for the surrounding foreign counties, making them "belong to the county", that is, the tribute is given to the neighboring county. For example, Goguryeo originally belonged to Xuansu County, but later changed to Liaodong County; Sanhan originally belonged to Lelang County, and Cao Wei changed to the newly carved Obifang County.

You Liu Yi said that the states of Sanhan are poor, so they can't give much tribute, but no matter how poor the state is, there are thousands or even tens of thousands of households, and I don't believe it, so I can only take out these slaves and these little materials. Actually, the big head is handed over to you, right?

Liu Yi didn't dare to hide it, and said: "The ministers are dead, and the ...... is dead" The turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, coupled with the invasion of Goguryeo, many Lelang and even the people of Liaodong fled into Sanhan, and now I just ask them to return, which is counted as the tribute of the states of Sanhan.

Shixun smiled "hehe": "I thought it was Sanhan but I knew Zigang, but I didn't know the Son of Heaven." ”

Liu Yi was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground: "Don't dare!" Shi Xun asked, how many households have you claimed back over the years? Liu Yi replied that a total of more than 20,000 households were claimed from Sanhan and Haoqian - it was Xunxin who said that Dong Meng judged that there were only more than 60,000 households in Lelang County, which seems to be far more than that, and I don't know how much you have concealed. At the moment, he turned his face and said in a deep voice: "The crime of bullying the king should be revealed!" (To be continued......)