Yan Xiang had met Qiao Rui and found out the latest situation, and was full of confidence.

He only stayed in Lantian for one night, and the next day, September 29th, he continued to set off north. He arrived in Huayin on the second day of the October 20th, passed Tongguan, and arrived in Hongnong County on the fourth day of the day. He then submitted a letter of worship. The court attached great importance to Yuan Shu's envoys to pay tribute, so he arranged for the official reception on the sixth day of the October 20th day of the October 20th day of the State Council.

Although Yan Xiang scoffed at these poor and etiquette, he did not violate it. Just wait. At worst, let’s make friends with Hongnong court and see which people are in the court today.

Huang Chengyan, who came with him, was originally frowning all the way and didn't want to be the sword in Yuan Shu's hand. But since he had arrived at Hongnong, he gradually came to peace. After all, in this kind of chaotic era, it would be fine to go to the court to see the world and see the situation.

Anyway, Huang Chengyan adheres to the principle of "no other issues except astronomical and technical issues", that is, he will not be regarded as a foul of Yuan Shu's party.

There were also some entourages who came with Huang Chengyan, including two seemingly disciples, plus five or six servants. Yan Xiang did not interfere with his freedom, did not interrogate his entourage, and fully respected the privacy of a famous scholar.

But in fact, Huang Chengyan’s two “disciples” are not real disciples. One is his daughter A Chou, and the other is Sima Hui’s disciple Shan Fu, who was named Xu Shu who changed his name to exile after killing others.

The reason why Huang A Chou was able to bring it out was because Huang Chengyan felt that he was threatened by Yuan Shu this time and wanted to see if there was any other way out. If the opportunity was good, he would immigrate.

It was normal for family migration in the late Han Dynasty, especially the population migration between Nanyang and Chang'an, which reached one million in history.

The main reason is that in history, Li Jue and Guo Si ruled Chang'an for too long, and it was too terrifying to the inside, forcing millions of people to scatter, and hundreds of thousands of people starved to death along the way. Jingzhou was too attractive to Sili and Sanfushi people because Liu Biao had not fought for more than ten years.

But the situation is different now. Li Jue has been killed by Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's reputation is much better than Li Jue. In addition, a large family like Du Ji, who jumped left and right from side to side in Jingzhao and Nanyang, had done the first wave of testing the waters before and found that the environment in Guanzhong was quite good.

Although Liu Bei strictly investigated disaster relief fraud and subsidy, and merged land, the law enforcement was still fair in general. Economic strictness was to treat everyone equally, so the property of the law-abiding family was very safe. In contrast, Yuan Shu had temporary levies and miscellaneous taxes and wanted to make a name for a clever name, and the property of the Nanyang clan was not so safe.

Since he was forced to pass by Chang'an and take a look, Huang Chengyan took a few family members to explore the way. As for whether it would be inconvenient to show up with his daughter in public, Huang Chengyan was not worried at all. Anyway, he knew that his daughter was only eleven or eleven years old, and her yellow hair was black, like a Hu person, and would not be targeted by bandits and bandits.

Xu Shu followed him to see the world, and his thoughts were similar to Huang Chengyan. He was just fed alone and his whole family was not hungry, and he didn't dare to go back to his hometown. He traveled around and found a place to settle down before he could go home to pick up his mother. So he took the opportunity to pretend that Huang Chengyan's disciple was Sima Hui who greeted him.

In history, Xu Shusheng was unknown, but at least nearly ten years older than Zhuge Liang. He killed people and wandered around the world when Dong Zhuo entered Beijing. Now he has been in trouble and has been in the world for five years. This year, he is twenty-four years old. If he had not been incognito and no one would recommend him, he would have been able to seek official career three or four years ago or at least find an official job as an official.

...

On the fifth day of the September 1st, the day of rest. Yan Xiang took advantage of the rest day before waiting for the meeting and took a walk around Hongnong, found out the latest situation of the ministers and secretly observed how the emperor is now supported by scholars all over the world.

The information behind was asked by Yuan Shu to secretly investigate. The main reason was that after the emperor fled to Hongnong, Yuan Shu had not sent anyone to witness the emperor's current situation. He did not know how serious the dispersion of the human hearts caused by the emperor's deviance was.

This information will affect Yuan Shu's subsequent decisions, whether Yuan Shu dares to float or not, and when will it float? Of course, it is very important.

After nightfall, Yan Xiang returned to the inn, full of alcohol. He obviously drank around with other ministers and made many friends.

Huang Chengyan and Xu Shu also wanted to find out the news, so they temporarily pretended to care about Yan Xiang. Huang Chengyan was just right, and made a sober soup for Yan Xiang. Seeing that the famous scholars were concerned about him, Yan Xiang was quite proud and said too much, so he was not wary.

"The Lord Yan has a happy banquet today, so there must be friends?" Huang Chengyan asked indirectly.

Yan Xiang's intention to drink was not over yet, so he couldn't help but speak more casually. He didn't have a door-to-door hand, regardless of whether he was ruthless or not, and he only heard him sneer and teasing:

"I took General Wei's gift today, and I had two meals at noon and evening, and met eight ministers! They all drank with me! It can be seen that the lord's face is so great that he is indeed the world's most eager to make friends. As a chief clerk, I can even pretend to be powerful.

But it’s true. When I came, I thought that the Nine Ministers were absent, and at most three or four people were in Hongnong. If the others were not vacant or worked in Liu Bei, I didn’t expect that there were six Nine Ministers living in Hongnong City for a long time, and two of them were just here in the past two months. No wonder when we were in Nanyang, we had not received any information.

Unexpectedly, I didn't expect that such a devilish emperor would have so many famous men who came to serve him from afar. If you want to use the excuse of the celestial phenomena and disasters, let the emperor issue another decree to admit his devil, to attack his prestige and weaken his humerus, it would be harder than imagined. "

Yan Xiang said, hiccup.

Huang Chengyan shook his head secretly when he heard this, and Xu Shu felt even more disgusted. They also knew that if Yan Xiang had not been drunk too much, he would never dare to say such a ruthless thing when he was awake.

But he couldn't be unsatisfied and could not drink too much, because before Yan Xiang came, he never expected that the ministers would be so polite to him. As long as people were surprised, they would easily be unable to control the amount of alcohol they drank.

Huang Chengyan pretended not to mind and continued to follow the cliché: "Oh? I wonder if there are some righteous men who have joined the court recently? We are lazy and have not heard of the current situation of the court for a long time."

Yan Xiang stretched out two fingers and pointed to Jiangshan and said, "You always know who the three ministers of the current dynasty are? You don't need to say more, right? Yang Biao, the Grand Marshal, just returned to Hongnong last month, and now he lives in his old house and rarely attends court, but he is in the same city as the emperor. Sikong Cai Yong, in charge of civil affairs and finances, stayed in Chang'an on the pretext, and came occasionally when he had something to do. Situ Zhao Wen was already underestimated by Liu Bei, and was like a clay sculpture and wood carving in Hongnong.

Among the nine ministers, Liu Ai, Guangluxun Deng Quan, and Zhang Yi, who changed from Grand Secretary to Taifu, had nothing to say about these three people, who survived the Li Jue Rebellion. Later, there was a Taichang Qing Guan Ning, who was newly presented by Liu Bei, who was in charge of etiquette, law, culture and education, and counted national history. These were four.

Guan Ning was also considered the best among the famous scholars in Liaodong and Qingzhou at that time. He had not been in office for many years, but his reputation in the academic community was still enough. I drank a few drinks with Guan Ning today and found out in secret that it was the right general Li Su who suggested that Liu Bei be so arrogant and hold the Taichang line in his hands, and that all the people in charge of cultural and educational opinions in the world.

On the other hand, it is said that Li Su was paving the way for his disciple Zhuge Liang, because he was afraid that Taichang would have other old officials who were not as good as his boss and suppress Zhuge Liang. In addition to Taichang himself, there were several 600 stones, which were more than 1,000 stones from Taichang, and all the subordinates of Taichang were replaced by Liu Bei, Xi Lu and Cheng Bing were among them.

These were Zheng Xuan's disciples who were rescued by Liu Bei a few years ago when Liu Bei suppressed the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou. They all followed Liu Bei to take on the local education position for five or six years. Before Li Su left, he paved the way for Zhuge Liang like this. It seems that he had high expectations for Zhuge Liang. Did we look down on Zhuge Liang too much at the beginning..."

Huang Chengyan was not easy to follow the question, so he followed Yan Xiang's drunk words and then asked slowly: "Then that's the case, aren't there two nine ministers? Who are they?"

Yan Xiang calmed down and replied casually: "They were all prefects who were beaten by various princes and could not stay in the place. They had no place to be officials, so they fled back to serve in the emperor. It just so happened that the emperor had no one to support the scene, and they hit it off!

The first one is Pingyuan Huaxin and Hua Ziyu, the former prefect of Yuzhang. You also know that Huaxin was expressed by Li Jue last year to restrain our lord and other princes of Jiangdong, but he was unable to take office at all. He was directly supported by Liu Biao and used Zhuge Xuan, the prefect of Yuzhang, expressed by Liu Biao. However, Hua Xin was also considered honest. Yu Yang had never come back to come to Li Jue to report. It seems that he looked down on Li Jue and was involved in conspiracy.

However, after Liu Bei recovered Chang'an in May and killed Li Jue, the news reached Guandong in June. Hua Xin felt that it was not embarrassing to come back to join the emperor at this time. He set off in July. He arrived in Hongnong last month and was awarded the title of Tingwei last month. He was nominally in charge of justice, but in fact, Hongnong was not allowed to leave.

The second one is King Lang and King Jingxing of Donghai. Sun Ce is so cruel. Liu Bei killed Li Jue in May, and the news spread to Guandong in June. Even if Yangzhou is far away, it should have been known in July that the emperor is no longer hostage by the traitors. There is no excuse among the Han officials to accuse the other party of being a "Li Jue's party" and attacking each other for the city, right?

But Sun Ce pretended not to hear it. From June to August, he stepped up his attack on the city, regardless of casualties. In June, he defeated Kuaiji and Wang Lang fled to Dongou. Sun Ce also used a sea boat to pursue the sea. Within two months, he conquered the southern counties in Kuaiji. When he crossed the sea to pursue the city, he had no military rations and slaughtered Dongye to establish his authority.

Finally, he forced Wang Lang to completely destroy him. Sun Ce pretended to have received the emperor's revelation and submitted a letter to congratulate him and no longer attacked other Han officials. However, Sun Ce did not dare to kill Wang Lang, but he still let him go. Wang Lang went back to Beijing and defected to the emperor. The emperor felt his sincerity and also granted the position of Grand Master Lu to take charge of diplomatic affairs. He heard that Yang Xiu, the son of Grand Master Yang, was appointed as the Great Revolution and also worked under Wang Lang's disciple."
Chapter completed!