Chapter 22: The Banquet (4)
Ma Teng, who was about to say something for Zhang Lang, was shocked when he heard this, and then secretly scolded him for not knowing what to do, how could he be willing to fight for his will, and he ruined the big thing. Originally, Zhang Lang openly appeared under the lobby, which made his road to Hongnong more thrilling and unpredictable, and now he has taken over this arduous task like "hot potato", isn't he pushing himself into the fire pit?
In fact, Zhang Lang also thought deeply about this level, and the minimum goal of this trip to Hongnong has been completed. Looking at the fierce dispute between Yuan Shao and Cao Ying for the emperor, if he intervenes sideways, it will be a good thing in the end. Moreover, his power in the court is far less than that of the two of them, and the soldiers and horses can support him in time, so the hope of welcoming the Son of Heaven to Jiangnan has become even more slim. What I have to do now is how to choose a good way out first and return to Jiangdong safely, this is the top priority, maybe Hu Cai and Li Le will be a good cover.
And Zhang Lang suddenly changed his mind and openly met with Emperor Liu Xie, which also had his own intentions. After he arrived in Hongnong, he met with so many envoys of the princes, and he was afraid that the news would leak out sooner or later, at best, it was only a matter of time. On the other hand, although he has a well-known name in the Jiangdong area, he is far away from the Central Plains, and most of the bureaucrats and envoys from various places in the DPRK and China do not know much about him, and it is impossible to avoid dealing with them in the future. Instead of acting secretly like this, it is better to come openly and honestly and create an image of a heroic and courageous land-cutting prince. In this chaotic ancient times, as long as you can retreat from the wolves and tigers, you will definitely push your reputation to a new height, so that the Central Plains will choose for you. Then the crux of the matter is how to retreat after he openly appears, which has become the key point again, otherwise the hero will not become a bear and make people a laughing stock.
Therefore, when Xun You and others tried to conspire to harm themselves, Zhang Lang not only did not retreat, but chose the benefits from it, took advantage of the opportunity, and retreated, which must be described as ingenious and unexpected.
Xun You obviously didn't expect Zhang Lang to be so straightforward, and agreed without thinking about it, and shirked everything he imagined, and acted left and right, which was unexpected. However, Xun You's eyes flashed, and he sneered a few times, and he had a plan in his heart, and he didn't say anything.
However, he was full of favorites who were out of the limelight tonight, and he was still in the limelight, and he hid a knife in his smile and said: "General Zhang really has the wisdom bead in his hand, so let him throw himself to the ground in the lower five bodies." I don't know what the clever plan is, can I let the lower officials open the hut. ”
Zhang Lang said twice, without giving full face at all, and said politely: "It's not that the lower officials don't want to say it, but the matter is very important, and the less people know, the safer." Once you say it, and the plan fails, I'm afraid that you can't afford it. This statement clearly refers to Man Hong's leakage of secrets.
Looking at Zhang Lang's hippie smiling face, he looked worried, and he couldn't help but scold the old fox in his heart. With such a big hat buttoned down, it was not easy for Meng Lang to act, and he barely squeezed out a smile on his face and said: "Since this is the case, it is not easy for the lower officials to ask." Where it is abrupt, I hope to forgive my sins. ”
Zhang Lang nodded arrogantly, as an answer, and then ignored the unnatural expression that Man Zhong began to change, and once again calmly said to Emperor Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Shouyang Mountain to lobby Bai Boyu thieves and make him go to war with Li and Guo. ”
Liu Xie's face was relieved, but more worried, and said, "General Zhang, have you really decided to do this?" ”
After receiving Zhang Lang's affirmative answer, Liu Xie seemed to be infected by his strong self-confidence, and said with a much relaxed expression: "Since this is the case, I have decided to let General Zhang be the envoy, and after the matter is completed, I will add your official position to seal your food." ”
Zhang Lang first smiled indifferently, and then thanked him, and dealt with the matter of offering the emperor and adding officials.
Seeing that this matter had come to an end, Taiwei Yang Biao felt a lot more solid in his heart, and the stone that had been pressing on his heart suddenly disappeared without a trace.
He was in a good mood at the moment, and said with a rare smile on his face: "General Zhang is really heroic and courageous, which is really admirable, Yang Biao is here to give a glass, and I wish General Zhang success." ”
Zhang Lang hurriedly picked up the wine glass from the table and said with a smile: "Then I can trust this adult's Chrysostom, hoping to put down the rebellion as soon as possible." ”
After saying that, I drank it all.
Yang Biao was also very pleased to look at Zhang Lang's heroic movements, and drank his glass.
Just when the officials thought that things were going to be reasonable in the evening, Zhang Lang put down his wine glass and launched an offensive again: "Your Majesty, since Zhang Jiao led the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Guanzhong and Hebei have suffered from war, and all parts of the Central Plains have been fighting for many years. ”
Liu Xie said with a smile: "If General Zhang has any ideas, just say it and listen to it." ”
Zhang Lang said: "Yes." Then he glanced at Xun You out of the corner of his eye, and the latter suddenly felt a bad premonition.
Sure enough, Zhang Lang looked respectful, and said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty thinks that Yangzhou Shouchun is rich and outstanding, the people live in peace, and the household registration is 100,000, plus Yuan Shu goes, it is even more thriving, the displaced people return, and the business is prosperous, and this place is connected to the Central Plains, the Yangtze River in Nanping, and the Bashu in Jingzhou in the west. ”
As soon as these words came out, the hall buzzed like an exploding pot, and no one expected that Zhang Lang would also want to blackmail the princes of the Son of Heaven.
Guo Tu, who was leisurely pouring wine and drinking himself, was furious when he heard this, and rushed in front of the messenger who had opinions, and roared and said: "Guo Tu still sued you in front of the Holy Lord for killing the court officials, and killed Yuan Highway and General Yuan for personal gain, do you dare to mention it?" ”
Zhang Lang smiled coldly, his voice was sharp, and he was aggressive: "Yuan Shu retreated from Chen Liu, ran to Jiujiang, killed Yangzhou and assassinated Shi Chen Wen, and led Qizhou; Later, Li Wei entered Chang'an, and the technique was used as the aid, and the technique was the left general; And Yuan Shuguan looked at the chaos in the world, so he had different ambitions, extravagant silver, excessive expropriation, and great ambition, every time he secretly thought about being the emperor, built a palace in Taiwan, for silver music, and made the people unable to live, and complained bitterly. Not to mention that there are wise men in Yangzhou, even three-year-old children know that Yuan Shu is vicious. After the humble Tao Gong led Xuzhou, he wrote several times to admonish him, but he did not obey, and still did his own thing, and in desperation, in order to save the people from fire and water, the teacher of benevolence and righteousness went south to cut it down, and then broke in Huainan. Let's ask such a court official, should he be killed? In the end, Zhang Lang's eyes were also wide with anger.
Guo Tu didn't give up an inch of land: "This is all a strong resignation, Yuan Highway IV and Sanfu, loyal to the court, how can you slander him like this." ”
At this time, Liu Xie suddenly snorted coldly, there was obviously a look of displeasure on his childish face, and his voice said coldly: "Guo Aiqing, Mrs. Ma knows a lot about this matter, and it is very consistent with what General Zhang said. ”
Guo Tu was shocked in his heart, and suddenly remembered that Taifu Ma Yuechan was saved by Zhang Lang in Shouchun, and immediately held his back in a cold sweat, and said in a panic: "The lower official should die, the saint please calm his anger, Ma Taifu is loyal and upright, if he is so sure, there must be something wrong, and the lower official is really guilty and deserves death." ”
Liu Xie snorted coldly again, and his majesty was first revealed, and in the silence of everyone, he did it.
Zhang Lang looked at Guo Tu's sample, and really let out a big sigh of evil, and said in a good mood: "In Your Majesty's Longwei, the scattered warlords and yellow turban thieves around Yangzhou have all been wiped out, but only the palace built by Yuan Shu at that time was left in Beppu, which was very gorgeous and majestic. Xia Guan was reluctant to burn it, so it has been kept intact, if the holy drive is willing to come, it is really good. ”
Liu Xiechang sighed, his beautiful eyes turned twice, and he pondered. Then, seemingly inadvertently, he asked the officials in the court: "What do you think?" It was as if he was asking for everyone's opinions, but everyone felt as if he was confident, and what he asked was just a routine matter.
Man Hong and Guo Tu were even more nervous, just because they had eaten a closed-door soup just now, and it was not good for them to speak at this time, so they looked at their companions quite a bit.
The first person to speak out was Zhang Yang, who was quite proud of the fact that he had just killed Zhang Lang's army, and immediately said with a sneer: "Xia Guan thinks that this matter does not need to be considered at all, Guanzhong and Hebei are both royal places, and Yangxu and Xu Prefectures are far away from the Central Plains, they are both wild places, and there are many foreign races, and they do not obey the king, how can they promote political establishment." So His Majesty thought that there was no need to think about this problem at all. ”
Zhang Lang was extremely cold to Zhang Yang's domineering momentum, and immediately pulled down his face, inserted bones and scraped his intestines: "The difference between Lord Zhang's words, the area where the four rivers of Huai, Si, Ru and Yun are intersected in Shouchun is the throat of north-south traffic, and it is also an important grain producing area in the Huaihe River Basin. When it was said that the king of Chu Kaoli moved the capital to Shouchun, making Shouchun become the political, economic and cultural center of Chu in a leap. In addition, the folk customs of Shouchun are simple, the national strength is strong, and the construction and development will never lose to the Guanzhong land, how can there be a barbaric saying. ”
Zhang Yang sneered, showed the ink in his chest, and said loudly: "Since Pangu opened the sky and Dayu divided the world into Kyushu, the first Xia Dynasty was built in Yangcheng; Tang extinguished the summer and built a business in Hao, because of a long period of civil strife, the capital moved repeatedly, and finally Pangeng moved to the beginning of the capital. Experienced Wuding Zhongxing, up and down 17 generations, 30 generations, more than 600 years. After that, King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang Dynasty and established the Western Zhou Dynasty, with the capital of Haojing after 400 years. Hou Dog Rong killed the King of You, and destroyed the Western Zhou. In the following year, Xuanjiu, the crown prince of Youwang, moved his capital to Luoyi (Luoyang) from Haojing, which was known as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in history. After that, the Zhou Chamber gradually declined, and began to enter the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and finally won the political unification of the Warring States Period, and the capital was Xianyang, commanding the world; Because of its tyranny, soon Gaozu beheaded the White Snake Uprising, and after the Chu-Han War, he finally unified China and set the capital of Chang'an. Throughout thousands of years, no matter what country or dynasty, the capital of the country is along the Yellow River Basin, not away from Guanzhong and Hebei, it can be seen that this is where the dragon vein is. And those who left here to build the capital have no precedent and are simply nonsense. ”
Zhang Lang was stunned, speechless for a while, and his brows began to wrinkle unconsciously. Suddenly realized what it means to use a book, and only then do you know little. Although he is a modern special forces, his understanding of ancient knowledge is really limited, and he can't help but feel very annoyed that he didn't study hard when he took history classes in the past.
But Zhang Lang is not a person who is easily knocked down, and he doesn't want to show weakness and admit defeat like this, so he stubbornly said: "If you didn't have it before, it doesn't mean that you won't have it in the future, there is always a precedent for anything." Han Gaozu also set the capital of Chang'an for the first time. ”
Zhang Yang seemed to see the shadow of victory, turned a blind eye to Zhang Lang's weak rebuttal, and even pointed to the key point, sneering loudly: "Yes, but General Zhang should not forget that Chang'an is the key place in Guanzhong." ”
Looking at Zhang Yang's eloquent and calm expression, Dou Da's sweat began to seep out of Zhang Lang's scalp. I secretly shouted in my heart: My mother, why is this flamboyant mouth so harmful.
Guo Tu smiled when he saw it, and said in a good mood: "Your Majesty's top priority is to unite the princes from all over the country to crusade against the traitors. On the contrary, if there is a dispute over the issue of moving the capital, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of Lord Yuan and his subordinates, and when the time comes, not to mention the delay in the time for the soldiers and horses to advance to Luoyang, and let Li and Guo take advantage of it, no one can afford this crime. ”
But the problem doesn't seem to be over yet, seeing Zhang Lang's predicament, Xun You stood up again, intending to beat Zhang Lang into the eighteenth layer of hell with one palladium, never to turn over. Although you fought with Guo Tu just now, once an outsider inserted it, the two families had a very tacit understanding with the outside world. I saw that he still said with that deep look: "What Zhang Taishou said is very true, if the Holy Lord really moves Shouchun, I am afraid that not only Lord Yuan, but also the officials under the list will feel cold." ”
Since Zhang Lang's debut, he has never been defeated like today in love or on the battlefield, and he can't be convinced.
Fortunately, Ma Teng, who had not said a word since the beginning of the banquet, finally stood up from the middle seat when Zhang Lang was in the most predicament, and began to help Zhang Lang: "Lord Guo, Lord Xun, this is your mistake." Where is the holy drive, Your Majesty has his own opinions, and the two adults seem to be suspected of using Li and Guo rebels to blackmail the saint, can you tell Ma Mou, does it contain any secrets? When Ma Teng said this, although he had a rough smile on his face, he hid a knife in his smile, and his eyes were extremely sharp and stared at Xun You.
Zhang Lang instantly understood Ma Teng's position. After much deliberation, he finally chose to take his side.
The depressed and unhappy feeling just now disappeared without a trace, and my heart became ecstatic.
At about the same time, Man Zhong and Zhang Yang looked at the thick black and majestic Ma Teng, his expression was not good, and he asked, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”
Xun You's mind flashed with inspiration, and when he recognized the other party, he was surprised: "The person who spoke was General Ma Teng?" ”
Ma Teng was also unaccustomed to the appearance of flamboyance, pride and conceit, and said coldly: "By the way, it is Ma someone." To tell you the truth, General Zhang had already secretly ordered his subordinates Tai Shici and Chen Wu to come out of Shouchun and come from Guanzhong; And Wu'er Ma Chao also led tens of thousands of iron horses out of Shicheng early, and he could rush to Tongguan in a few days. ”
Ma Teng's tone was iron-clad and frustrating, greatly inspiring the hearts of his loyal ministers, and slamming into the chest of the ambitious like a hammer.
Once Zhang Lang and Ma Teng, two powerful warlords, stood on the alliance front, no matter who they were, they would not dare to underestimate their strength and existence.
Xun You's face was like earth, he glanced at Jing Yue quickly, and shook his head calmly when he saw his face, which made him feel a little relieved.
Zhang Song lost no time in coming out again, first glanced at Man Zhong coldly, as if he wanted to pour out all his grievances, and said in a sharp voice: "Zhang Song, on behalf of Lord Liu in Sichuan, fully supports His Majesty's move to Shouchun and the new capital council." ”
The scene was suddenly silent, and the silence was terrifying, only Zhang Song's voice like a broken duck struck back and forth in the lobby.
Ma Teng stepped forward, and Zhang Song's words again added another layer to the understanding of Zhang Lang, no matter who was in the seat. Everyone feels that it is no longer a single fighter, but has such a strong ally as Xiliang Ma Teng and Yizhou Liu Zhang.
All the situations seem to be reversed with the attitudes of Ma Teng and Zhang Song, and the surname of comedy, everything is developing in a direction that is extremely favorable to Zhang Lang......
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