Chapter 24: Giving Away
Cai Yong and Cai Bojiao are famous, especially among scholars, who does not know Cai Yong's name? It can be said that he is one of the well-known Confucians today.
It's just that Cai Yong's life has not been easy recently, because of his fame, Dong Zhuo, who has held power and hopes to win the hearts of the people in the world, attaches special importance to him.
If you move to his post three times in three days, you can know how much this new minister attaches importance to Cai Yong!
However, this kind of attention is not a good thing, although Dong Zhuo has only only controlled the court and has not had time to do too many things, but which of the princes in the court is not a person-like figure? Who can't see what kind of character Dong Zhuo is: this is another careerist who vainly tries to grasp the power of the Han Dynasty, and he is even more unscrupulous than He Jin, in order to show his authority, he even abolished the emperor who had only been on the throne for only half a year, and supported King Liang to ascend the throne and become emperor.
Cai Yong is valued so much by Dong Zhuo, even if he is famous, he is passively labeled as Dong Zhuo's party, even if they see that Cai Yong is not voluntary, it does not mean that they can continue to treat this great Confucian as usual.
Therefore, even if everyone in the court knew that Cai Yong had a talented daughter, they would not recommend her to the emperor as a concubine - let alone the empress of the main palace?
Liu Xuan sat on it, looked at the prince's demeanor coldly, and sneered in his heart: "Since I want to choose a concubine, I naturally have to choose a pleasing ...... I really don't know what Cai Wenji looks like, but it's better than those passers-by who don't even have their names left, and they can be regarded as well-known historical figures!"
When everyone came back to their senses and turned their heads to look at Liu Xuan, who had just ascended the throne, then they remembered that they should say something, but Wang Yun found that Liu Xuan was not using questions, such as asking you what you think or what do you think?, but using an affirmative tone like 'can be the queen of the main palace', which is equivalent to directly deciding the matter.
"This new emperor is quite assertive!"
He Wang Yun saw things clearly, and when he secretly glanced at Dong Zhuo, he saw that the powerful Dong Taishi didn't seem to have any objection to Liu Xuan's remarks, and immediately understood that the general trend had been decided: he couldn't get along with the new emperor in this matter, not to mention Cai Yong, the daughter of Cai Bojiao, he also knew that if he really entered the palace, it would be better than those messy people who sent their daughters in, at least this is a virtuous woman who knows how to learn.
Thinking of this, before everyone could speak, Wang Yun immediately said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, Cai Shangshu's daughter is known for her talent, and she is indeed an excellent candidate. ”
As soon as he opened his mouth, the ministers who still wanted to say something had to swallow back the words in their mouths, and some people couldn't help but look at Wang Yun in wonder, wondering what this Wang Situ had in mind?
At this time, how could Wang Yun have the time to deal with them, just looked at Liu Xuan, wanting to see what the new emperor said?
Sure enough, as soon as Liu Xuan waved his hand, he directly settled the matter: "Even Wang Situ said so, so it's settled!
Cai Yong's eyes were full of tears, and he only felt that he didn't know what bad luck he had taken these days, and he couldn't help himself in everything. If all the words were said today, how could he dare to say nothing--but he was still discussing the matter of marriage with the Hedong Wei family, and this time he was afraid that he would put that matter away.
But think about it in another direction, now that he has been tied up by Dong Zhuo to his side, he is extremely unpopular in the court, if his daughter can enter the palace as the queen, at least he can ease the relationship with the emperor - this official is not an official under the emperor's command? If the emperor helps, even if there are any changes in the future, he will not let his family suffer a big disaster.
"Obey the order!"
Thinking about it this way, this is also an opportunity for his Cai family, and he obediently leads the order.
He was so comforted in his heart, Dong Zhuo over there also felt satisfied, Liu Xuan opened his mouth and was willing to accept Cai Yong's daughter as a concubine, and even intended to make her the queen, does that mean that the emperor is showing favor to himself? Although he has great power, but because he is too domineering and not justifiable enough, he always feels that he has no bottom in his heart, but now it seems that he has thought too much.
"Even the emperor doesn't dare to offend himself, and he wants to show friendship with himself? What am I afraid of in the future?"
Master Dong touched his beard and smiled happily: "I have heard that Cai Bojiao's daughter is very virtuous, and she is about to make a statement to Your Majesty, but I don't want Your Majesty to know, but it saves a lot of trouble!"
As soon as he opened his mouth, the ministers didn't dare to say anything more, of course, there were officials who were not angry with Dong Zhuo and looked at him angrily, but when Dong Zhuo turned his head to look, this group of people all bowed their heads and pretended to be their grandson - Liu Xuan saw it clearly, and secretly despised it.
The matter of the concubine queen has come to an end for the time being, since Liu Xuan has selected Cai Yong's daughter in the Deyang Palace, the edict will naturally start to be drafted, and Liu Xuan doesn't have to worry about those miscellaneous things, and the huge Han Dynasty naturally has special officials who are responsible for doing this.
Then Dong Zhuo said that he wanted to promote Hu Ben Zhonglang to Yuan Shu to the rear general - but this rear general was not present today, and when he heard that Dong Zhuo was about to be promoted to the rear general in order to win over the Yuan family, he simply packed up some things and ran away.
As for Yuan Shu's brother Yuan Shao, when Dong Zhuo wanted to abolish the emperor, he scolded Dong Zhuo for a while, but afterwards he was afraid of Dong Zhuo's revenge, so he ran out of the capital earlier than Yuan Shu.
Of course, Liu Xuan didn't know that Yuan Shao had something to do with him when he ran away, so Yuan Shao, as a lieutenant of Si Li, also had a lot of say in the court, but he led the troops to storm the palace before, and then almost collided with Liu Xuan, which was a complete evil for the royal family.
Now that he has fallen out with Dong Zhuo again, Dong Zhuo wants to make Liu Xuan the emperor again, Yuan Shaosi thinks about it and feels that if he continues to stay in Luoyang, I am afraid that it will not end well, even if he is the fourth and third prince of the Yuan family, but he can't resist the Son of Heaven and the number one minister to look at you unpleasantly, if so, it is better to leave as soon as possible.
Therefore, after leaving the capital, he went directly to the east, and now the Yuan family in the court is left with Taifu Yuan Kui, who is Yuan Shao's uncle.
Today, Dong Zhuo's words are somewhat related to Yuan Shao: "I heard that there is a yellow scarf in Guandong, why don't you seal Yuan Benchu as the Taishou of Bohai, and pacify the thieves while governing the place!"
The words are inquiry, but the words seem to have settled the matter. When Liu Xuan heard this, he knew that it was just a formality when he was brought to him - Dong Zhuo had supported Liu Xuan to come to power for less than a day, and this face-to-face effort still had to be done.
Since they were all pretending, Liu Xuan didn't mind playing with Dong Zhuo, so he immediately nodded in agreement, and then issued an edict to appoint Yuan Shao as the Taishou of the Bohai Sea, and to clean up the remnants of the surrounding thieves.
"The Yulin Army is reorganized, and it seems that Meng De alone is too tired, why don't you make Duting Marquis Lu Bu a cavalry captain?"
Liu Xuan's eyelids jumped, and he immediately understood what Dong Zhuo was planning to fight today!
The Yulin Army is the only soldier and horse that Liu Xuan can master at present, and he named Cao Cao as the general of the Yulin Zhonglang, just to completely control this army and horses in his hands.
But if Lu Bu becomes a cavalry captain, then this army will be out of control - the cavalry lieutenant has the authority to supervise, supervise, and command the Yulin army.
Although the official position is under General Yulin Zhonglang, to put it bluntly, it is a constraint and monitoring of General Yulin Zhonglang, and at present, Liu Xuan has not yet reached the point where he needs to rely on mutual restraint to balance the forces of all parties, how can he ask Dong Zhuo to use such a trick to ruin his own affairs?
The expression on his face remained unchanged, but his mind turned in an unknown number of circles, wanting to find an excellent way to resolve this crisis.
I don't know if it's because of the strength of the original god? After thinking about it, it really made him think of a way.
"I heard that the Marquis of Duting is brave and incomparable, he is the first fierce general in the world, and it seems that he is too condescending to only ride the captain!" sorted out his head, and then said with a smile: "After Yuan Highway was promoted to general, and left Beijing to inspect the place, the post of Hu Ben Zhonglang was vacant, and it was better to use Du Tinghou to govern the Hu Ben army, so that he could also show his talents." ”
When the princes of the Manchu Dynasty heard this, they only felt that their backs were drenched in cold sweat, and they said secretly: "Why is the emperor so confused? How can there be a reason to take the initiative to give soldiers and horses to powerful ministers like Dong Zhuo?" After many people glanced at each other, they immediately wanted to open their mouths to interrupt Liu Xuan's words.
It's just that after a few glances at each other, no one was brave enough to speak at this time, but when Liu Xuan finished speaking, no one jumped out to object.
"Tiger Ben?"
Dong Zhuo didn't expect that Liu Xuan would be so generous, he just wanted to install a cronie to monitor the Yulin Army, and Liu Xuan simply sent the tiger to himself.
"It's much better to get a tiger than to contain Yulin!" After all, one is really in control of a group of soldiers and horses, and the other is just to contain Cao Cao and not let him go beyond his control. Moreover, Dong Zhuo found that Cao Cao was not hostile to him these days, maybe he could also draw him to his side, at that time, Tiger Ben and Yulin were under his control, and all the soldiers and horses in the capital were in his hands Dong Zhuo, what else was there to be afraid of?
"Your Majesty is clear!"
With a happy heart, Dong Zhuo naturally followed Liu Xuan's words and agreed, and Lu Bu was also happy to get such an important position, which was much stronger than when he was a master in Bingzhou.
Only Liu Xuan secretly laughed in his heart: "The tiger is not in my hands, and there is no loss in taking it out to give favors! ”
But how can it be regarded as a benefit to Dong Zhuo, Liu Xuan thought for a while, and immediately said: "Wen Huangfu is really idle at home, at this time, it is the extreme of the imperial court's employment, why don't you conquer it?"
As soon as these words came out, Dong Zhuo's face immediately darkened - he had a long-term suspicion with Huangfu Song, and now that he was in power, he was still thinking about finding trouble with Huangfu Song. But unexpectedly, the emperor wanted to re-use Huangfu Song, although he was in power, he was not afraid of that Huangfu Song, but he was always annoyed, wasn't it?
The key is that Liu Xuan just promised him the Tiger Benjun, and at this time, the two of them were still harmonious at least on the surface, and it was not good to say no directly.
"Well, let's see what this new emperor is going to do with Huangfu Song?"
Liu Xuan said directly: "The post of holding Jinwu is vacant, if you take Huangfu Song to appoint it, what does the Taishi think?"
"Zhijinwu?" Dong Zhuo didn't seem to expect it to be such an official position, thought about it, nodded in agreement, and said secretly in his heart: "But it's not a big deal to patrol the street fire pipe warehouse!"