Chapter 19: I am afraid

It was Xun Zhen who was glad that he had compiled "Shuo Wen Che Rhyme", which was easy to retrieve and could be directly used as a code book. For an ordinary reader like Jiang Ziyi, who has not received special spy training, if you really give him another book, even if it is the "Spring and Autumn" and "Analects" that he is very familiar with, it is not easy to find the right words from them.

It is even more impossible to directly go to "Saying Wen Jie Zi", it is inconvenient to retrieve it, and there are too many deficiencies and falsehoods in it. For example, in the first sentence of this letter, the words "dry (dry)" and "to" are not easy to find, because "gan" is originally "榦", and "to" is according to the right side of the seal script such as "θ€œ" but the upper left part is not sealed, which belongs to the "ε·³" part - this is inexplicably weird, how should you check?

For example, the commonly used word "worship", Mr. Xu Shen actually confiscated it......

More importantly, the legend of Lishu was created by Cheng Miao, a prison official in the Qin Dynasty, and it was widely popular in the Western Han Dynasty. Of course, there are always some pretentious old guys, who are proud of writing seals, and think that official scripts are vulgar, and even betray traditional culture - just like the controversy between traditional and simplified Chinese in later generations. But if you come out with Xu Shen, or some other scripture scholar - Ma Rong, Zheng Xuan - or be proficient in seal script, like Xun, Xi Xian and the like, the seal script in the "Shuowen" can write a three-percent commonly used word even if it is the top of the sky, ordinary scholars, have not learned the seal for a long time. After all, Jiang Ziyi is just a columnist, not a scholar, you let him hold the old version of "Shuowen Jie Zi" to find seal characters, you have to make him tired and vomit blood.

And the code letter was written, and Zhuge Liang, Shixun and others decoded it. It's another chore......

With "Saying Wen Cut Rhyme", it's much simpler. Jiang Gan is a scholar, and he has a dictionary by his side, which is a very logical thing. No one can say anything. After writing the code letter, he sent someone to send Anyi, and if he really wanted Lu Bu to come out, no one in Liangzhou could read it. Jiang Gan also made it easy to get rid of: This is just a word that I practice every day, so I can write whatever words I think of, and it is not a sentence at all. What, let people take it away? Probably pick up my paper and wrap it in dry food...... I don't love honorific paper. Damnation will be upon this man!

Pull back and say that it was Xun who finished translating Jiang Gan's secret letter and threw away the meaningless greetings at the end of the day. The content is actually very simple, it means that Lu Bu has already prepared troops and horses, and will go north to Dunhuang in a few days, and then go out of Yumen to take the Western Regions. He had all the excuses he could make. A batch of peach wine recently paid tribute by the queen of the car has expired. Not only is the taste sour and astringent, but he also has a stomach upset after drinking it - this must be intentionally murdering Ben Lianggong is also, he must personally lead the army to go, and congratulate the heavens!

From Dunhuang County to the west, the so-called Silk Road branched off into three roads in the Western Regions: south, north and middle. The north road goes straight to the Tianshan Mountains, from Yiwu to Wutu Valley, along the way there are the transfer branches, Pu class, and Mi and other departments, in recent years, all of them have been annexed by the Cheshi Houwang Department; The middle road goes straight to Beishan and Qinhai. There are Wei Xu, Wei Li, etc., and the largest country is Yanqi; The direction of the South Road is the so-called "South Road of the Western Regions". Separated from the middle road by a large desert, the largest country is Shanshan.

In the second year of Emperor Xuandi of the Western Han Dynasty (60 B.C.), the capital of the Western Regions was initially set up, and the station was Wulei City, which was in the territory of Qiuci, not far from the Luntai of the Tun set up in the era of Emperor Wu. In the first year of Emperor Yuan (48 B.C.), he set up Wuji Captain in Gaochang Wall in front of the Cheshi, and built valleys in Tuntian to prepare for military use. The Eastern Han Dynasty was in the 17th year of Emperor Yongping of the Ming Dynasty (74 AD) to formally restore the Western Regions Protectorate, stationed in the west of Wulei It Qiancheng, successive Western Regions have protected Chen Mu, Ban Chao, Ren Shang and Duan Xi. However, in the early period of Emperor An, the Western Regions were in turmoil, and Duan Xi was returned, and since then he has no longer set up the capital protection, until the second year of Yanguang (123 AD), he ordered Ban Chao Shaozi Ban Yong to be the long history of the Western Regions and restore the Western Regions.

After that, the Han Dynasty did not have the protection of the Western Regions, and the highest official position in the Western Regions was the chief of the Western Regions, because of the shrinking influence, it was impossible to run far away from Wulei or it was dry, and was forced to retreat to Liuzhong in the southeast of Gaochangbi - still in the front jurisdiction of the Cheshi.

The location of Liuzhong City is exactly in the middle of the two roads in the north and middle of the Silk Road, but the problem is that at this time, the front of the division has decayed and has been reduced to a vassal of the rear of the division. So Lu Fengxian's heart is very big, so he simply took the north road to cut down the rear of the Che Division, and when the time comes, do you dare to obediently let Liu Zhongcheng out to Lao Tzu's troops?

First take the willow, and then go to Wulei, and the final destination is it dry. As for the pacification of the Western Regions, where the capital will be, let's talk about it when the time comes, it is very likely that Wulei and its cadres will choose one of the two places to build a city - this is called the restoration of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, the capital protection is equivalent to the inner county governor, more than 2,000 stones, used to reward his subordinates, than the Western Regions Changshi and Wuji Captain is much more noble - it sounds glorious!

It is said that several athletes under Lu Bu have booked this position, including Zhang Liao, Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng, and it is conceivable that a fierce competition will be staged between the four generals.

Jiang Gan wrote the news that LΓΌ Bu planned to lead his army out of Liangzhou and enter the Western Regions into a coded letter, and sent Jia Xu to send the Liangzhou doorman lent to him to Anyi. After Zhuge Liang followed the letter, he immediately checked the "Saying Wen Cut Rhyme", translated it into clear code, and then reported to Cao Cao through Xun Youyu. Then he sealed Jiang Ganyuan's letter, wrote a new letter himself, and sent someone to Xu Dulai to report the situation to Shixun.

Although Zhuge Liang has made everything very clear in the letter, for the sake of safety, Shi Xun still translated the code again by himself, and carefully checked it to confirm that there was no misreading - it is estimated that Kong Ming also knew that this was a big deal, and his own teacher must be cautious, so he deliberately attached Jiang Ganyuan's letter to him, and this person's thoughtfulness can be seen from this.

After reading the letter, Shi Xun secretly pinched his fingers and calculated the schedule, it is estimated that Lu Bu has arrived in Dunhuang at this time, and he will stop the army and prepare for ten days and a half at most, and then he will go out of the jade gate and point out to the rear king of the chariot division. With Lu Bu leaving, the Cao family may be able to take over the entire Liangzhou without using troops - at least take down the two counties of Longxi and Hanyang, which are close to Yizhou, - and it will be difficult for Liu Bei to support himself at that time, and it will be difficult to threaten the Central Plains regime. The time is ripe, Cao Cao can usurp the Han and stand on his own!

Shi Xun has been urged by Xi Yu to have a little earache these days, and he finally survived to this day, and he couldn't help but let out a long breath. So I made two more days of preparation. finally applied for an audience with Liu Xie, the son of heaven.

Liu Xie has been absolutely depressed all these years, and staying in the palace is not much different from staying in a prison cell. I didn't want to be idle, so I had nothing to do. I want to be able to go to the court from time to time, put on the emperor's majesty, or summon a few important ministers to talk about politics and politics; However, since Cao Cao was named the Duke of Wei and left him to run to Anyi, the courtiers have become increasingly scarce, and the shortage has not been made up for a long time. Seeing that the court meeting was sparse, it was too embarrassing, and it was simply a New Year's holiday. Easy is not a court. And he doesn't have any courtiers to talk to, those loyal to Yan Liu are either forced to tell the old man or are slaughtered by Cao Cao; The wall-riding faction tried to stay away from the Son of Heaven as much as possible, so as not to be misunderstood by Cao Cao; As for Hua Xin, Xi Xian, and Shi Xun. He didn't want to see him at all.

So the only thing Liu Xie has been able to do in the past few years. It is to nest in the palace and create man. In the original history, Cao Cao dedicated three daughters - Cao Xian, Cao Jie, and Cao Hua - to Liu Xie, but in this timeline, because it was dedicated early, only Cao Xian became an adult and was able to enter the palace, and then became the queen. Cao Xian is not very jealous, the problem is that she is Cao Cao's daughter after all. Sitting in the middle palace, Liu Xie did not dare to leave it out in the cold. But don't go and search for beauty. Therefore, there are not many concubines of the Son of Heaven, and he still sleeps in Cao Xian's palace most of the time.

Liu Xie sometimes comforts himself: Cao Cao Ru took away my world, it doesn't matter, my daughter, can also be regarded as revenge! As a result, in less than four years, two sons Liu Feng and Liu Yi were created one after another - and Liu Xi, who was born to a side concubine.

In the past few days, Liu Xie has been pondering, whether to canonize his eldest son Liu Feng as the crown prince? It was born to a serious Empress Cao, and it was Cao Cao's own grandson, so you must not object, right? But after thinking about it again, sooner or later, all of my world will fall into the hands of Cao thief, can Liu Feng, the crown prince, really have the day to ascend the throne as the emperor? Maybe one day he will be killed, and his father and son will be killed on the same day...... With Cao Cao's brutal personality, he may not be able to kill his grandson......

The more I thought about it, the more desolate I felt, and I couldn't help but cry and roll down.

Next to him, Empress Cao looked strange, drinking well, teasing her son, and enjoying the joy of family, why did you suddenly cry Your Majesty? Liu Xie sighed: "Because I think of my brother." "I think my brother Liu Wei was killed by the powerful minister Dong Zhuo back then, and now it's my turn to be the emperor, but it fell into the hands of Cao Cao again - it is estimated that our brothers and sons will have the same fate in the future!

Empress Cao was exquisite, and immediately understood what Liu Xie was referring to. She hurriedly comforted Liu Xie: "How can my father have the intention of abolishing the establishment? That is, the Xifu clan conspired against him, and he only involved his body, not His Majesty. Uncle and nephew, how can he be a relative? ”

Liu Xie glared at him, and said Queen, don't talk nonsense with your eyes open, what your father thinks in his heart, you can't be completely ignorant, so you don't need to clear it up for him, and you don't need to pretend to be a white lotus-"But on the day of abolition, I hope that the queen will remember the kindness of her husband and wife, and plead with King Wei, so that it is enough to spare the lives of my father and son, that is, to be a concubine, and avoid death." ”

Empress Cao made a face and said Your Majesty, you have asked for the wrong person, this concubine can't do it. Liu Xie was furious when he heard this, grabbed the placket of Empress Cao's clothes, and waited for the old fist, but he didn't dare, so he had to stare at his eyes and ask: "If you don't want me to die, can you marry again?" Empress Cao said that I didn't mean that, but my father had a big idea and never listened to the woman's words - "There are only two people in the world who can make my father change the picture?" ”

Liu Xie hurriedly asked, who are the two people you are talking about? Cao Hou said: "There was Xun Lingjun before, and now there is Lingjun, which can be said for His Majesty." Liu Xie pursed his lips and said that Xun Yu's bones had probably rotted a long time ago, as for Xun-"He is in the same party as his father, and he wants to take away my Liu family's world for a long time, An Kenwei said? ”

Empress Cao said that I didn't want my uncle to persuade my father not to usurp the throne, but it is possible for him to speak for you and save your life-"Since you are in Xudu, why don't Your Majesty ask for it?" ”

Liu Xie cried and said no with a sad face - "I'm afraid of Qing, and I don't want to see it." He originally had a good impression of Shi Xun, and even thought that Shi Xun could be used as a buffer for the contradictions between himself and Cao Cao, but when Dong Cheng made trouble, it was Xun who came to the palace to stare at him with his eyes, and his eyes revealed naked contempt and even contempt, which really scared the little emperor. After that, as long as he remembered Shixun's eyes, he couldn't even sleep well, and even when he fell asleep, he would "ghost crush" and be trapped for a long time.

Empress Cao didn't know the fear in Liu Xie's heart, because although she didn't meet many times, she had the impression that she was a gentle and elegant person, and she didn't have a face full of flesh like some generals under her father's command, so she didn't know what was terrible? So he reminded Liu Xie: "Your Majesty is not afraid of death?" Now only so that you can live Your Majesty, why be afraid? ”

At this time, the eunuch entered the palace to report: "Shang Shuling is Xun to ask for advice." ”

Liu Xie was trembling, and threw the wine glass in his hand on the spot...... (To be continued......)

PS: Ah, I suddenly found that a "lady of the Xie family" actually rewarded the book with 10,000 starting coins! It's been a long time since I've received such a heavy affection, and I'm so moved that I cry...... In fact, readers and friends, I am a very good person, as long as I give 11,000, I really don't expect too much. Finally, once again, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the "Xie Family Lady"!