Chapter Seventy-Five: Full Responsibility
"Your Majesty, this person is a partial branch of the Wang family, this family was killed for secretly storing grain and grass, this person wanted to enter the palace to assassinate, and after buying off the eunuch, he entered the palace to assassinate His Majesty."
After Min Gong reported the news of the poisoner to Lin Mu, he quietly waited for Lin Mu to speak.
"Those involved in this matter will be killed, but it is absolutely not allowed to implicate innocent people and frame and mutilate, I will let Xuande go with you."
Min Gong said yes and walked out.
Lin Mu looked at Min Gong's back and put down the bamboo slip in his hand.
Jia Xu is vicious, Liu Bei is benevolent, at the beginning the situation in the court was unstable, and the families in various places did not have the court in their hearts, and after being brutally slaughtered a large number of them, these families have also learned to be obedient.
In the past, Lin Mu could only rely on Jia Xu to do his own business, but now that Liu Bei is here, Jia Xu is far away in Xiliang.
This can allow Liu Bei to improve his reputation a little, and also have a check and balance on Jia Xu, so that Jia Xu can be a little more restrained.
And now Liu Bei's arrival has just allowed Lin Mu to make up for the missing piece.
Liu Bei is known for his benevolence, both for the family and for the people.
Later, when Liu Bei lived in Xinye, Cao Cao led an army to attack.
Liu Bei was so merciful that he crossed the river with the people of Xinye, so much so that he was almost caught up by Cao Cao's cavalry.
Jia Xu's viciousness, coupled with Liu Bei's benevolence, Lin Mu can now be completely benevolent.
Pick up the bamboo slip in his hand and watch, at this time, the wandering Yellow Turban Army has already arrived at the Tiger Prison.
This Yellow Turban Army was originally the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and originally wanted to take advantage of the confrontation between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan to go to Jizhou to grab some food.
But he didn't expect to be driven away by Yuan Shao, who had just finished fighting Gongsun Zhan.
Nowadays, there are a large number of Yellow Turban Army, and there are as many as one million Yellow Turban Army, so many Yellow Turban Army have flowed into Yanzhou, and Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, decided to personally recruit the Yellow Turban, and a small part of them are coming to Sizhou.
Lin Mu put down the bamboo slips in his hand with some sorrow, this Yellow Turban Army has about 130,000 soldiers and horses, although it looks like a lot, but in fact, most of them are some old and weak women and children.
This Yellow Turban Army is not so much the Yellow Turban Army, but rather some homeless people who can't survive, and these homeless people don't care if you are the emperor or not.
It doesn't matter if the emperor's surname is Liu or not, they just want to eat enough, what's wrong with them?
Lin Mu can kill those careerists bloodily, but he can't kill these people who have become the Yellow Turban Army because they can't eat enough.
Who can guarantee that after he comes to this era, he will not become a Yellow Turban Army because he has nothing to eat.
If you want to kill, you can only kill the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army.
But if you want to help these Yellow Turban Army, you can't do anything.
Now that the imperial court is on an expedition to Xiliang, after all, Xiliang must not be chaotic, once there is chaos, I am afraid that the entire Sanfu region will be attacked and disturbed by the chaotic army.
Therefore, now the imperial court really has no way to help these Yellow Turban Army.
If you don't have food, you must not go to the relief of the Yellow Turban Army, once you bring people back to the vicinity of Luoyang, and there is nothing to eat, they will really loot everywhere.
At that time, Luoyang, which had just recovered a little, was afraid that it would turn into a white land because of the looting of the Yellow Turban Army, which made Lin Mu a headache.
If you want to save but have no food, in this troubled world, food is more valuable than gold and silver, who will use food to help those ordinary old and weak women and children?
At this moment, a eunuch suddenly ran into the study and presented the bamboo slip in his hand to Lin Mu.
Lin Mu picked up the bamboo slip in his hand and looked at it, and found that it was a letter from Jia Xu to him.
As Jia Xu once said, the Qianghu army was defeated.
As soon as the army arrived at the boundary of Liangzhou, someone led the crowd to surrender.
One of them was named Pound, who was originally Ma Teng's subordinate.
But later Ma Teng was killed, Han Sui led the army to raid Ma Teng's camp, and Pang De led the crowd to kill it.
During this period, he hid until the news that Lin Mu had killed Han Sui spread back to Xiliang with the deserters.
In addition, as soon as the news that Jia Xu entered Liangzhou with the imperial army, Han Sui's remnants in Liangzhou immediately fled.
Lin Mu has the same reputation, they really don't dare to surrender, for fear that they will be branded.
Pound is not, Pound is Ma Teng's subordinate, it stands to reason that the imperial court is under the banner of revenge for Ma Teng, so it is reasonable to tolerate Pound.
Under the leadership of Pang De, Jia Xu fell everywhere he passed, and the most important thing was that the imperial court no longer needed to provide them with food and grass.
Seeing Lin Mu's mood, it changed a little.
Although the military rations of the 10,000 army are not much, the loss of them is more than half, and if the distance is longer, I am afraid that seventy percent is not enough to consume.
Therefore, it seems that it is saving 10,000 military rations, but in fact, this 10,000 military rations plus various wear and tear is enough to barely feed 50,000 people, but this Yellow Turban Army has more than 100,000 people.
Lin Mu thought about it and asked people to find Liu Bei.
"Your Majesty."
Lin Mu handed the bamboo slip in his hand to Liu Bei, and then said.
"Xuande Gong, if this Yellow Turban Army breaks it up into farmers, is it feasible?"
Liu Bei thought for a moment before speaking.
"Your Majesty, it is a cold winter at this time, and it will take two months for spring ploughing and nine months for autumn harvest, is there so much grain in the court?"
Lin Mu handed Liu Bei the grain and grass inventory and consumption of the imperial court.
"Your Majesty, even if Jia Zhongcheng doesn't need food and grass, it is only enough for 50,000 people, if this Yellow Turban Army is forcibly separated, I am afraid that there will be trouble."
People have always been like this, they do not suffer from widowhood but inequality, and they do not suffer from poverty but suffer from insecurity.
Why didn't you save me if you saved him? People are hungry, but they are irrational.
"I don't care about this, I just want you to use these grains and grass to settle down these Yellow Turban Army, and everything in Luoyang is at your disposal."
Liu Bei looked at the grain and grass on the account, looked at the forest again, gritted his teeth, and said.
"Your Majesty said everything?"
"Everything!"
"Including the army?"
"Including."
Lin Mu nodded.
"Your Majesty can first ask the defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass to put this yellow scarf into the pass, and the grain and grass will arrive later."
Lin Mu was really impressed by Liu Bei at this time, and he really wanted to know where Liu Bei went to get so much grain and grass.
After Lin Mu gave Liu Bei an edict, Liu Bei took the edict and left in a hurry.
On the morning of the third day, Min Gong came to Lin Mu and said that Liu Bei was mobilizing the army, and Lin Mu said that this was what he meant.
On the morning of the fifth day, Min Gong came to say that Liu Bei had transferred the grain and grass stored in Luoyang, and Lin Mu also said that this was what he meant.
On the eighth day, Min Gong came to Liu Bei to take Guan Zhang and his 10,000 troops north.
Lin Mu still didn't care, Min Gong wanted to remind Lin Mu that Liu Bei might have run away, but looking at Lin Mu's confident appearance, he couldn't speak.
After waiting for a month, Liu Bei returned to Luoyang with his army, and the first thing he did when he entered Luoyang was to return the holy decree in his hand to Lin Mu.