As the Northern Mang's army moved south, Liucheng, located on the border of Longjiao Prefecture, became an extremely eye-catching town. After the previous city pastor Tao died violently for no reason, the new city pastor who replaced the previous position in the temple of the Southern Dynasty was a rising tide. However, when he got the news in a hurry, he was still frightened, and rushed desperately out of the city with a few guards, but at the junction of an official road and a sheep intestine path, he was stopped very unceremoniously. When I went back, I didn't need to hurry, and from time to time I turned my head to look at the solemn horsemen, hey, it's our Beimang who claims to be the second scout who no one dares to call the first, the crow column! I heard that cultivating a crow column can be compared to the two heavy riders who are the only one in the Beiting Imperial Tent, and it is the fat man who is willing to smash this silver.

Since Dong Zhuo was promoted, he still wore armor when he went out, even if he went on a pilgrimage to meet His Majesty the Empress, he did not wear the illustrious official uniform of the king of the Southern Courtyard once, but this trip did not alarm the border troops in various places. He took Tao Qianzhi's daughter Tao Manwu's little hand, and walked to the old and new graves, the old grave has been some years, although the one lying in it has no relatives and no reason, but it will not be overgrown with weeds in the past, because the one lying in the new grave, when he is alive, will make people often pull weeds, and after stepping down from the position of General Chong to serve as the pastor of the city, he will often go to the grave, but unfortunately now he has become a neighbor with the old guy, and he is really weak to think about it. Dong Zhuo squatted down, put a pot of wine at his feet, first silently pulled out the yellowing weeds at the head of the old grave, and muttered: "Old Wu Chang, don't blame the fat man of Xiao Dong, I once swore that if I don't become a high-ranking official for a day, I won't have the face to come to your grave to toast for a day.

Dong Zhuo, who has brilliant achievements, is chasing and killing on the battlefield, or escaping, even if there is no war horse, it is faster than four legs on two legs, but at this time, it is particularly difficult to pull out the withered grass that can be easily understood by young children.

This general and the king of the Southern Courtyard, who like to call Her Majesty the Empress "sister" and prefer to paste Spring Festival couplets on other people's doors, were already in tears at this time, and then wiped his face with his hand, tears and snot were indistinct, "There is a saying in the Central Plains, called Yijin to return to his hometown, old Wu Chang, you can say with your conscience, is my Dong Zhuo enough 'Yijin' today? What is Lao Tzu wearing? It is a robe of the same rank as Xu Huainan, the king of the Northern Courtyard back then! Old Wu Chang, do you dare to believe it? Back then, the three legs of the Beiliang cavalry would be soft when he saw a small standard, and the little fat man who was scolded by you for being a bad breed was the biggest officer among all the soldiers you brought. ”

Dong Zhuo didn't turn his head, but just stretched out his hand and pointed to the new tomb, "Look at Tao Qianzhi, this bastard, is worse than you, he didn't die on the battlefield, he said he died." What the fuck is this not a deserter? Old Wu Commander, you can sleep peacefully with this kind of person as a neighbor? Anyway, I don't believe Dong Zhuo if he is killed. ”

Dong Zhuo suddenly turned his head and roared angrily at the new grave: "Tao Qianzhi, Lao Tzu is the one who scolds you! After the old captain leaves, among the brothers, you are the first to become the captain, the first to become the captain, and the first to become a general, this is great? Let your mother's fart! The biggest official in his life is a Chong Sho general, a little city breaker who left the city! My lord, you are an uncle!"

Dong Zhuo smiled miserably, "I know, you are embarrassed to be with me Dong Fatzi, so you don't want to come to Dong Jiajun to help me, others are just dying to save face and suffer crimes, look at you again, are you dead? You have the ability to climb out, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kick you back!"

Probably afraid of scaring the little girl kneeling in front of the new grave, Dong Zhuo took a gaffe, unscrewed the lid of the wine jug, took out three wine glasses from his arms, put one on the grave of the old Wu Chang, squeezed a smile, and said to Tao Manwu: "Little Manwu, give the cup to your father, just his alcohol addiction, lying for so long, I estimate that I am hungry enough." ”

The little girl took the wine glass with both hands, and after being poured a glass of wine by Uncle Dong, she gently sprinkled it in front of her father's grave.

Dong Zhuo spilled a glass of wine in front of the old grave, and drank a glass with his head up, and after pouring a glass for himself, he drank it all in one gulp, and found that Xiao Manwu was holding the wine glass in both hands and handed it over, Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "Uncle won't give your father to drink, just let him lie there and stare dryly." ”

The little girl filled her eyes with tears, but she couldn't hold back her crying, aggrieved and sad.

Dong Zhuo hurriedly poured her a glass of wine, watching the child solemnly spill another glass of wine, Dong Zhuo's eyes became sour, tilted his head to look at the new tomb, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, Xiao Manwu is more than my own daughter, as long as I defeat Beiliang, if I can still live when the time comes, I dare not say that I will give the entire Central Plains to our Xiao Manwu as a dowry in the future, and half of it will never be able to escape." ”

Dong Zhuo turned his head to look at the old tomb, "Old Wu Chang, do you want to say that I, Dong Xiaofat, are bragging? This time, you really don't look down on people, now that I fart in the court, there are a lot of people who say that it is fragrant." Hong Jingyan and Murong Baoding, these bastards who look at the majesty, have to obediently give me a hand. Isn't the Beiliang Iron Cavalry a male in the world? Old Commander, you have the audacity to open up and say that you want them to die tens of thousands of people this winter? If one of them dies one less, I will dig a pit next to you and bury myself directly, and come to be your neighbors! If you really can't speak, give me a dream. ”

Tao Manwu asked Uncle Dong for another glass of wine, and after spilling the third glass of wine, he put down the wine glass and knelt in front of the grave without saying a word.

Dong Zhuo didn't let her get up, nor did he comfort her, he sat on the ground, poured the remaining pot of wine into the soil, and said softly: "Back then, the old Wu Commander, you brought us a few soldiers, and I, Dong Zhuo, now have 100,000 troops in the Dong family! There are also the best crow fences in Beimang, and the best foot soldiers in Beimang! The 300,000 border troops in more than 20 military towns in the two prefectures of Gusailongjiao in the southernmost part are under my control. Hong Jingyan's Rouran Iron Cavalry, and the hundreds of thousands of private troops of Liu Qi and Yang Yuanzan, these generals, are still under my control. A little further north, half of the talismans in the hands of the two festival holders, 200,000 horses, also obediently pinched their noses and sent them to me. When His Majesty cleans up all the grasslands in the north, except for Tuoba Bodhisattva, as long as everyone else arrives at the border of the Southern Dynasties, they will all be under my control! How big a land is in Beiliang, so many people, so many war horses, and peeing, I can let Beiliang have a flood. There will be a big fight before the beginning of spring, and at most one of the next autumn hunt, Beiliang will be completely finished. ”

Dong Zhuo said with a gloomy smile: "Bei Liang must have thought that he would have to fight for three years and five years, I, Dong Zhuo, have been a fox for more than ten years, and this time I will be a wolf, and I will never stop if I don't eat meat in one go!"

Dong Zhuo stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of soil, threw it away, stood up, and said: "Old Wu Chang, old Tao, I will take this empty wine pot with me, and one day I will lead the troops all the way to Liyang South Xinjiang, and I will bring you back with a pot of soil there, so that you two hillbillies who have never even been to Beiliang can see what kind of fertile soil can grow rice." ”

After Dong Zhuo got up, he looked at Xiao Manwu, who was still kneeling, bent down and rubbed her little head, and said softly, "It's time for us to go." ”

The little girl stood up, silently raised her arm and wiped her tears.

Dong Zhuo thought for a while, looked down at the luxurious robe he was wearing, took it off, folded it and put it between the two tombs, and said indifferently: "Return to your hometown, no one will see it." What are you wearing for?"

Dong Zhuo put Xiao Manwu on his shoulder, strode away, and said with a smile: "Xiao Manwu, didn't my uncle give you a foal, and you will soon be able to cross the river on ice with our million-strong army." ”

The Iron Horse Glacier flows into the Central Plains.

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When the news spread throughout the capital.

There was no uproar in Tai'an City, but everyone was silent everywhere.

It is not easy to live in the capital, but the right sacrifice of the wine Jin Lanting of the Guozijian who has risen to prominence in the capital in just a few years, listed the ten major crimes, and the impeachment is none other than the founder of the entire auspicious spring of the Liyang Dynasty, the first assistant Zhang Julu.

In the past ten years, the people who want Lord Shoufu to lose his official position can barely be regarded as one stubble after another, and they will jump a few times every other day, but most of the time Lord Shoufu is too lazy to take a look, and these characters who are not self-sufficient are all noble bigwigs who can be shocked by stomping their feet in the capital, and they are deeply rooted, but who succeeds? What's more, they don't have much appetite, they just think about the blue-eyed people who take off their official robes, and they never dare to ask this first civil official of the Liyang Imperial Court to meet the first emperor.

Among the ten major crimes, the most convincing one is actually one, that is, the Han family of Jizhou who was full of loyal guards to the country. This is indeed a dynasty secret passed down from generation to generation by Weng Son-in-law's two first assistants, and the eight characters used by Jin Lanting "continuous lamps and lanterns, unlimited salaries" to describe Zhang Julu's political reform in this vein can be described as extremely accurate.

And what is worth playing is the collusion with the eunuch Han Shengxuan, who led the inner and outer courts to smoke and miasma. Now that the human cat Han Shengxuan is dead, how can Lord Shoufu defend himself?

But the most lethal one is also the most incredible.

is not a private raising of the two Liao border armies, but the last of the ten major crimes: for more than ten years in power, he has been transporting salt and iron and funding the northwest with all his might!

When this news quickly settled, it seemed that the mud cow quickly entered the sea silently, but more and more people chewed out the samadhi.

Although Lord Shoufu still participates in the court meeting every day, he must be on duty in Shangshu Province when he is on duty during the night ban, and he still handles various government affairs in an orderly manner.

But it's not surprising that the door of Shousuke's mansion is crowded, after all, Lord Shousuke has never liked to meet guests in private, but the high-gate mansion on the same street as Shousuke has also begun to be cold, which is very likely to make the audience reverie.

What's more, this time Zhang Julu did not strike as thunderously as he did last time against Zhao Muxungui, and he did not react to the ingratitude and mad dog bite of Jin Saburo, the right priest of the country.

At the same time, there is one thing that has to be mentioned, that is, Yin Maochun, who is known as a hidden appearance and is in charge of the local officials' evaluation this year, quietly returned to the capital ahead of schedule.

His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince visited Qi Yanglong's mansion together.

Huan Wen said that he was sick and did not participate in the big and small court meetings.

Immediately afterwards, a winter thunder sounded in Tai'an City.

Yang Shenxing, the disgraced general who was caught in the urn of the Western Chu rebels, secretly went to Tai'an City, proving that the first assistant Zhang Julu had secretly framed the Han family back then, which was indeed correct!

On the day of the beginning of winter, the fog was heavy in the early morning, and His Majesty the Emperor personally led a group of ministers in Tai'an City to welcome winter in the northern suburbs.

Among the dignitaries, except for Huan Wen, the provincial governor of Menxia, who still did not show up, none of the civil and military officials in the capital headed by Zhang Julu were missing.

Therefore, there is no early dynasty in the beginning of winter, but after the winter, there will be a grand court meeting, and the Son of Heaven will give hundreds of officials, which means that the courtiers are sympathetic to the winter cold.

On this day, in fact, Tantanon, who had gotten up early before dawn and sat alone in the study, stared at the sky outside the window in a daze for a long time.

As the sky grew brighter, the old man went to the bookshelf and took out a manuscript given by his teacher back then, polished the ink himself, and wrote a line on the title page of the manuscript tremblingly, intending to let the housekeeper send it to the Shoufu Mansion.

"It's getting cold in the winter, and old friends are getting dressed. ”

After writing, the old man began to be in a daze again.

Then an old housekeeper in the house stumbled into the study with a pale face, and said sadly as if the sky was falling: "Master, Lord Shoufu said at the court meeting that the two generations of the Xu family have been guarding the northwest for more than 20 years, and they are conscientious, and Xu Fengnian's son inherits his father's business, and his loyalty can be learned, and ......he should attack the Great Pillar Kingdom! Why did Shousuke-sama act like this...... The point is that His Majesty was not angry, although he did not agree to the Great Pillar Kingdom, but after being rejected from the Holy Decree, he once again rewarded the King of Xinliang with a Upper Pillar Kingdom......"

Huan Wen waved his hand expressionlessly, signaling the old steward to step aside.

The study was silent again.

Huan Wen gently closed the treasured manuscript that had been spread out, and muttered, "Old fellow, I can only burn it for you." ”