Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Battle of Han and Wei (7)

Kong Ming and I sat opposite each other for half an hour, and no one spoke.

"Hmmm......"

"Oh......"

"Your Majesty, please speak first."

"Sir, the word 'Your Majesty' should be dispensed with first. My father said that after repelling Cao Pi, he would summon the world, and at this time I still declared that I would be in charge of the country as the crown prince. Now that Ji Han is in danger, my father has handed over the world to Mr. and me, I don't know what Mr. plans to do next? ”

"Yide and I went to Weinan to see if we could surprise Cao Pi. His Majesty stayed in Chang'an, took care of the emperor, strengthened the city, pacified the people, and harvested grain and grass. Ma Chao led 5,000 Liangzhou iron horsemen to follow His Highness, and he also responded from all sides. Li Yan and His Majesty guarded Chang'an together. After I leave, Wanjun's burden will be on His Majesty's shoulders, and everything must be careful. The affairs of the emperor were hidden from everyone, and they could not be concealed from Shangshutai and Yushitai. Liu Ba and Li Yan, Your Majesty wants to appease them, although they may not necessarily tell them about the succession, but Your Majesty's illness is to tell them. ”

"Well, I understand. Although Cao Pi's intelligence is far inferior to that of Mr., his subordinates are multiplied, and the soldiers and horses are all elite, so Mr. must be cautious in everything. If you can fight the enemy, you will be the enemy, and if you can't resist it, you will return to Chang'an, and I will fight side by side with my husband. ”

"If I lose Weinan, I will also lose it there." Kong Ming said. He got up and walked slowly.

Looking at his clear back, I suddenly shouted, "Sir! Kong Ming stopped. Weinan can not be wanted, and Chang'an can also be noted, but I want my husband to be safe and sound, and I want my husband to come back safely. Kong Ming paused for a moment and strode out.

I stood up, summoned the Hecypriots, and began to arrange the affairs of Chang'an City. My father's illness was the first thing to hide, so I had to live in the East Palace as usual, come to the palace early every day to "see my father", and then handle errands according to "my father's order", meet with ministers, distribute affairs, and provide front-line support with food, grass, camps, weapons, and clothing, so busy that I didn't even have time to eat. Fortunately, with Xingcai, she will arrange for someone to bring me meals every day, but among the newlyweds, it is rare for me to get together with her. Marrying me for a month is like marrying an empty house - but, who made her my Liu Chan's wife?

Accompanied by Ma Mengqi, I met with Li Yan and informed him of the matter - of course, it was only that my father was seriously ill and that I was in charge of the country, and the matter should not be spread to the outside world. At this time, Li Yan was not the Li Yan who was ordered to assist the government after the war of Wu and was bent on seizing power. He was exceptionally promoted to the rank of the Three Princes. In terms of talent, foundation, and strength, but he himself knows that he is far inferior to Kong Ming, the prime minister, not to mention that the positions of Ma Chao and Zhang Fei, the two generals, are still above the three princes. I can tell him clearly about this, and I already have absolute trust in him. Li Yan immediately decided to cooperate with me to do a good job in this play, hide it from everyone, and ensure the normal operation of Chang'an. Under the Ji Han system, there were mainly three sets of teams, namely Shangshutai, Prime Minister's Mansion and Yushitai. Shang Shutai was directly responsible to the emperor and was in charge of all government decrees. It consists of five Cao Shangshu, including the Ministry of Officials, Zuomin, Kecao, Five Soldiers, and Du Zhi. The Ministry of Officials, also known as the Ministry of Election, is in charge of the selection of officials; Zuo Min is in charge of the renovation work and the salt pond garden; Hacao is in charge of ethnic minorities and foreign affairs; The five soldiers are in charge of the middle soldiers, foreign soldiers, cavalry, other soldiers, and all soldiers; Duzhi is in charge of military spending. Among them, the official department is the most important. The Prime Minister's Office is responsible for the various government affairs of the country, and the functions correspond to the Shangshutai, which is to formulate the plan goals, and the Prime Minister's Office is responsible for refining these goals, studying the specific rules and carrying out practical operations. The Imperial Historical Observatory is a supervisory and restraint body, which assesses the integrity and political style of officials across the country, investigates and reports on the implementation of various policies, and has the right to impeach all officials, including the prime minister. Li Yan's cooperation reduced my pressure by a small half. In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mr. left me Dongcao Peng Guo Youzhi to assist me, he is very capable, and the major affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion are in charge of Kong Ming on the front line, and he can handle small things. And because Shangshutai was not there, I took it over and took care of it myself.

The front-line battle report changes three times a day, and my heart is also shocked three times a day. It's hard to tell the real situation in black and white, and after the battle formation, I know which things can hide the false in the truth, and what things hide the storm in the calm, on the battlefield, winning or losing is only in an instant, and there is no sloppiness. I can't let the soldiers on the front line be defeated because they don't have swords and guns, and I can't let the soldiers die of disease instead of dying at the hands of the enemy. Chang'an City was urgently mobilized, and the shed started to build weapons day and night, and it was impossible to continue to rebuild the time-consuming and laborious weapon of Zhuge crossbow, focusing on spears, halberds, rings, swords and arrows; Every family is rushing to make winter clothes for the arrival of the cold, even the Queen Mother Wu and Xingcai are no exception.

The enemy's meticulous work and squads have penetrated deep into the vicinity of Chang'an, assassinating, sabotaging, arson, poisoning, and all kinds of means emerge in an endless stream, and even a group of people sneaked into the city to assassinate Ma Chao, but were chopped into meat by Ma Chao's Xiqiang warriors. The Li brothers seem to have a natural sensitivity to this kind of assassination activities, in Jincheng they found Yan Xie, and in Chang'an, they led soldiers and horses, and swept more than ten Cao Jun's squads one after another, killing and wounding more than 300 people.

On September 15, Shang Shu ordered Liu Ba to return. At the beginning of Liu Ba's character, a native of Lingling Huangyang, Jingzhou, he was known for his talent when he was young, and he had learned from Liu Biao, Cao Cao, Liu Zhang and his father. His father was very good to him, and once said, "The beginning of the son is extremely talented, such as lonely, he can be appointed, and it is difficult for those who are not lonely." Even Kong Ming said, "Strategizing is in the middle of the curtain, I might as well be far away!" Although it is a compliment, it is a bit exaggerated, but his skills cannot be questioned. After our army captured Yizhou, the treasury was empty, and Liu Bei was very worried. Ask Yu Ba. Liu Ba said: "This is easy to do: first, the copper plate worth 100 coins is passed; 2. Harmonize national prices; 3. Implement a public sale system. "In a matter of months, the treasury was full.

However, Liu Ba has always been at odds with his father. And his father's search for talents has never been as laborious as Liu Ba. Even far more than Kong Ming. However, he and his father are the most fateful, and he has traveled to most of China, and he has not escaped from his father's hands.

Liu Ba became famous as a young man, and when he was eighteen years old, he served as the chief bookkeeper of the county office in Jingzhou. At that time, my father happened to come to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao. His father called Liu Biao's nephew Zhou Budo to study with him, and when Liu Ba heard that Liu Bei introduced him, he desperately refused. On the eve of the Battle of Chibi, his father was beaten by Cao Cao and began to flee, and the scholars in Jingzhou followed Liu Bei, only Liu Ba went north alone to find Cao Cao, and Kong Ming couldn't stay. Cao Cao was surprised and delighted by his defection, and appointed him as Peng (assistant subordinate of the prime minister), and later Cao Cao asked him to appease Changsha, Lingling and other places, which was entrusted with a great responsibility. Liu Ba said, "I'm not going." "Cao Cao is very strange, I want to reuse you, but you don't want to? Liu Ba said with a stinky face: "Liu Bei is in Jingzhou, I don't want to go!" Cao Cao said, "Don't worry! In case you meet Liu Bei, I will send the Sixth Army to protect you! With this guarantee, Liu Ba hit the road. There were times when Cao Cao's promises could not be fulfilled, and he encountered one of the biggest fiascos, Chibi. After that, my father became the master of Lingling, and I was very happy to hear that Liu Ba was also here. Immediately, he was very enthusiastic about going to Liu Ba to catch up with the old days, only to find that Liu Ba had fled, and he had fled far away, to Cochin (later Vietnam). It was not enough to flee so far, and he was afraid that his father would find him through channels, so Liu Ba also changed his name and surname.

It seems that God intended to mess with Liu Ba, and fled to Liu Ba, who changed his surname to Zhang in Jiaozhi, and worked under the Taishou Shixie of Jiaozhi, who was a pro-Wu faction and one of the few leaders who was not involved in the struggle during the Three Kingdoms era. Maybe the advice Liu Ba gave him didn't match his style, and the two didn't get along well, so Liu Ba left. When passing through the road, he was detained by the Yizhou county guard and almost killed. (This Yizhou County, which has nothing to do with Yizhou, is in Yunnan). Fortunately, the master of Taishou felt that Liu Ba seemed to be a not simple character, so he sent him to meet Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou. Liu Zhang had heard of his name before, and he was overjoyed, and immediately asked him what good opinions he had about himself? Liu Ba only gave him one opinion: "Don't accept Liu Bei." Liu Zhang didn't listen, and Yizhou became his father's. Liu Ba wanted to run away again, but this time his father wouldn't let him. Kong Ming wrote to Liu Ba and said, "You can't hide! This is providence, resign yourself to your fate. Liu Ba had no choice this time, he accepted his fate and surrendered to his father, but he still continued to dislike his father. But his father didn't blame him, and let him be his own Shangshu Ling (the original Fa Zheng held this position), directly responsible for his father, in charge of all government decrees and edicts. Liu Ba's encounter often reminds me of Xu Shu, who was in Cao Ying and Han at this time. Life is truly an amazing thing.

Because of my father's sentence "Zichu is extremely talented, such as lonely, he can be appointed, and it is difficult for those who are not lonely" to be alone, I am not sure at all whether I can control Liu Ba, this person who is in the Han camp and has a heart in Cao, and is extremely smart, will he come up with any tricks when Cao Wei comes to attack? Even, even if it is just like Xu Yu did to Cao Cao, just one piece of news can cause our army to be defeated. But the money and food are still in his hands.

I thought about it, instead of being so suspenseful, it is better to explain the words directly. At that moment, I invited him to the palace, and Liu Ba hung two faint eyebrows, looking down on me. But I knew he wasn't targeting me, he looked at anyone with this expression, but I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in my heart.

"Where is Your Majesty?" Before I could speak, Liu Ba had already asked, "Although His Royal Highness is the crown prince, the prince is the prince, and he can't care about Shangshutai." ”

I gave him my father's edict to prison my kingdom. He opened it and looked at it slowly, the wrinkles on his face did not move at all, and he carefully examined the seal before holding it back to me: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister Liu Ba was ordered to inspect Hanzhong and return to the order, and this trip inspected a total of nine counties in Hanzhong, and brought back 213,500 stones of grain and grass. ”

That's about half of Hanzhong's annual income this year. "Lord Liu has worked hard. What is the situation in Hanzhong? ”

"Fortunately, although Xu Huang is attacking the city very urgently, our army is still defending the city. The people's will is acceptable. Hanzhong Taishou Dong Yun is assembling and requisitioning troops, ready to meet Shangyong at any time, and Bazhong is also making the same preparations. His subordinates are not familiar with military affairs, but the fierceness and strength of Cao's offensive this time are indeed unique in recent years. ”

"Lord Liu thinks that in this battle, our army can win or not?"

Liu Ba was stunned for a moment, looked up at me, and stiffly pushed back: "Can you win or not, there are prime ministers, there are princesses, there are generals, the prince should not ask me." ”

I choked and almost rolled my eyes. This stinky stone!

"So, Shang Shuling hopes that Cao Jun wins? Or do you hope that Ji Hansheng wins? "I stopped going around in circles, I lifted all the curtains and touched them to their hearts. Since you want to know if he will have nostalgia for Cao Wei, it is better to face the gong and drum in front of him to see what his reaction is.

"What?!" Liu Ba almost jumped to his feet, his beard straight. He ignored the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, and pointed his finger at me, "Liu Adou, what do you mean by this?" Do you suspect that the old man's heart is in Cao Ying, and he intends to fornicate with him? ! Okay, well, in that case, what else to ask, pull the old man out and cut off my head! ”

I looked at him, neither spoke, nor retorted, nor was he angry, but only allowed him to vent his dissatisfaction.

Liu Ba was still unrelieved of his hatred, a pair of blood-red eyes stared at me, suddenly took off his hat, threw it on me, turned around and walked out.

I took the hat with both hands. When he walked to the entrance of the hall, he sighed: "Anyway, my father is seriously ill, Ji Han is in danger, if Lord Liu's heart is in Cao Ying, Adou will send his father-in-law forward, what can he do?" I only hope that the public will rise all the way and become rich and rich. ”

Hearing this, Liu Ba suddenly stopped and slowly turned around: "Your Majesty is seriously ill? Kong Ming has gone to the front line again, so who else is there in Chang'an City? ”

I pointed my finger at Liu Ba, and then at myself: "The one who can be used, only the public - with me." ”

Liu Ba slammed his feet and shouted: "Where is Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty." ”

"What did you do to see your father?"

"You are young and ignorant, vain about the minister, self-destruct the Great Wall, Ji Han rivers and mountains, and An can be buried in your hands!" Liu Ba roared like thunder.

My heart was pounding, and I bowed to him deeply: "Shang Shuling, please forgive Liu Chan for the sin of being young and ignorant. But if I don't do this, An Neng can try to make Shang Shuling a loyal heart to Ji Han. ”