Chapter Twenty-Five: It's a bit extreme
"Your Majesty, don't think about it, you will not abandon your humble body, and you will come here with the respect of the Son of Heaven, and you are willing!"
Jia Xu stood up and bowed to the woods.
Jia Xu had already understood it in the night a few days ago, this Your Majesty, even if you say that he is a god of heaven, it is not an exaggeration.
Back then, Zhang Jiao said that he was accepted as an apprentice by Nanhua Laoxian and given him the Taiping Technique, and he relied on this statement to encourage millions of people.
If it weren't for Zhang Jiao's poor health and he went to serve his master early, it would be difficult to say whether the surname of the Han family would be Zhang now.
No one in Nanhua has ever seen it, but the killing of the trees in the forest that night was directly staged in front of Jia Xu.
Jia Xu was already worried that he would not be optimized by Lin Mu for the crime of treason, but now that Lin Mu came to surrender in person, how could he be disrespectful?
When Jia Xu was young, he was robbed by bandits, and in order to save his life, Jia Xu actually said that he was the grandson of Duan Cheng, the captain of the dynasty.
Ancestors can be changed at will, and changing a boss is simply no pressure for Jia Xu.
"Huh?"
Lin Mu looked at Jia Xu, but he didn't expect Jia Xu to be so simple and obedient.
Isn't that a little too smooth?
In fact, Lin Mu still underestimated his identity as emperor.
A modern person cannot imagine how important jurisprudence would have been in ancient times.
Lin Mu is now the emperor and the co-lord of the world, as long as Lin Mu is willing to recruit talents, some people come to submit to Lin Mu.
Of course, the premise is that the forest does not infringe on their interests, and is willing to defend their interests.
Lin Mu can't do this, and it's never these families that Lin Mu wants to maintain.
Jia Xu returned to the forest, no one would say anything about Jia Xu, and no one would accuse Jia Xu of anything.
Lin Mu didn't expect Jia Xu to be so easy, and he felt an inexplicable sense of loss in his heart, he had thought of a lot of rhetoric, but now he couldn't use it.
After a pause, Lin Mu tried to speak.
"Wen and his family are all in Xiliang, if they return to the imperial court now, will Wen and his family be?"
Jia Xu didn't care at all.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, just a family, what about Your Majesty?"
"Huh? Someone came and released Wen He, Wen He was indeed passing by the gate of the palace that day, and there was no rebellion. ”
A jailer hurriedly stepped forward to open the cell door and released Jia Xu.
After Jia Xu came out, he bowed to the forest again.
Lin Mu watched Jia Xu pay a big salute and hurriedly stepped forward to help Jia Xu up.
"Hahaha, I have Wen and Wen as Qin and Shangjun, and as Han Xin returns to Han, I don't have to worry about it."
"Huh?"
After Jia Xu got up, his face was a little strange, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he still didn't say anything.
Let Lin Mu pull his sleeve and walk towards the outside of the prison.
As soon as Lin Mu pulled Jia Xu out of the prison, an official ran out from the side.
"Your Majesty, this is not in line with etiquette!"
Lin Mu glanced back and found that this person was Taichang Wang Jiang.
Taichang is in charge of the priesthood and the state of the temple, but now the streets are full of corpses, and they are still being cleaned up until now, where are there any sacrifices.
In addition, most of the palace was burned down, and where is there any national gift.
In addition, Dong Zhuo was in power a few days ago, where does Dong Zhuo care about etiquette, Wang Jiang is of no use at all.
Now that the Son of Heaven is in the court, Wang Jiang feels that his role may be coming.
So Wang Jiang followed behind Lin Mu, wanting to show a little of his role.
Seeing that Lin Mu actually pulled Jia Xu's sleeve out of prison, Jia Xu's clothes were tattered, and he was a guilty person, how noble the Son of Heaven was, he actually walked with this person.
"Your Majesty, this is not in line with etiquette!"
But where would Lin Mu care about any rudeness, and the two walked out far away with their shoulders hooked up.
Let Wang Jiang shake his head behind him and sigh.
Since the day before yesterday, when the hundred officials saw the forest standing on the corpse mountain, they decisively handed over the power of the government to the forest.
The power of this court was originally held by Yuan Kui and Dong Zhuo, but now Yuan Kui was killed by Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was killed by Lin Mu.
Now the one who can provoke the beam in the court is Situ Wang Yun, one of the three dukes.
And Wang Yun didn't have any idea of competing for power with Lin Mu at all, and he didn't dare to have this idea.
In this way, the power of the imperial court returned to the hands of Lin Mu.
As soon as he took over this mess, Lin Mu found that the emperor was not good.
There was already a severe drought near Luoyang this year, coupled with the looting of the Xiliang soldiers, the people had no food in stock, and they were starving all over the wilderness.
There is also chaos among the hundred officials, some officials are sealed by Dong Zhuo, some officials are sealed by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and some officials are courtiers who rely on filial piety and honesty, and some are bought with money, and there are two or three in a Shaofu alone.
But now it's these people who have to take care of it first.
Lin Mu is an ordinary person, and he also knows that ordinary people have almost no ability to resist in the face of natural and man-made disasters.
Therefore, the first thing that Lin Mu had to solve when he first seized power was the food problem.
But how do you solve it?
So Lin Mu remembered Jia Xu.
"Your Majesty, now that the imperial court is in ruins, the situation is also in an eventful season, and the people's food is also insufficient, I am afraid that it will be ......"
Jia Xu, as Dong Zhuo's advisor, naturally knew how much grain there was in Luoyang City.
Is there any grain in the imperial court?
Naturally, there is.
Otherwise, Dong Zhuo would have taken something to resist the coalition of the princes of the Eighteenth Road.
But this grain is not in the hands of the people, but in the hands of the officials.
The reason why Dong Zhuo was able to cause trouble in the Central Plains was because of the official warehouse of the Han Dynasty.
The official warehouse of the Han Dynasty has a lot of food, but now the control ability of the imperial court is weak to a certain extent.
In the past, Dong Zhuo's officers and soldiers were in charge of the official warehouse, but now Dong Zhuo was killed, and the Xiliang soldiers fled.
When these Xiliang soldiers fled, although they took some food with them, it was impossible to take them all away.
As a result, the local wealthy families will naturally empty these unattended grains.
At that time, even if the court asks, these big families can be said to be moved by ordinary people, and they have nothing to do with them.
Moreover, the situation in the imperial court is extremely chaotic, and now it is difficult to get back the grain from those official warehouses.
After Jia Xu's explanation, Lin Mu understood Jia Xu's concerns.
These big families all have people who are officials in the court, and if these grains are forcibly requisitioned, there will definitely be people who are not satisfied.
At that time, there will definitely be people who say that my family's grain was not robbed when the Ten Standing Servants were in power, and it was not robbed when Dong Zhuo was in power.
If the Son is in power today, and my grain is taken away, how dark and cloudy is this world.
"Don't worry, give them three days and let them return the grain to the official warehouse, if they don't hand it over when the time comes, my axe will be even more profitable than Dong Zhuo's!"
Jia Xu glanced at the murderous aura on Lin Mu's face, and hurriedly said.
"Your Majesty, although Your Majesty is now the Son of Heaven, if you are so, you are afraid that you will be the enemy of the world."
Lin Mu's eyes showed a fierce light.
"The world is the enemy? Whose world is this world? I am the Son of Heaven, whoever dares not to obey will be beheaded! ”
Jia Xu was a little anxious, and the one he took refuge in seemed to be a bit extreme.
"But Your Majesty, how can killing people solve the problem?"
"If you kill a hundred, you will kill a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, a million, isn't it certain?"