Chapter 2672: Fame, wealth, love and hatred are all reasons
Among Sichuan and Sichuan.
Various strange incidents that occurred during road construction were immediately reported to Sichuan Central.
If there is a problem, of course it must be solved.
Solve the problem itself, not the person who asked it.
As Xu Shu is an important decision-maker for backup support, he naturally has to solve problems for Xu Huang on the front line, even if it is a new problem that Xu Shu has never encountered before.
Xu Shu came to Ma Heng.
A branch of the Sichuan-Sichuan Youwen Department, the person in charge is Ma Heng.
Ma Heng has been traveling around in the past few years. He was first in Hanzhong, and later in Longyou. After returning to Chang'an to report on his duties, he was sent to Sichuan and Sichuan to establish a branch of the Youwen Division in central Sichuan.
Because the Youwen Department has both bright and dark lines, it is easy to say on the surface that it is just some clerical work, delivering documents and collecting files, so it is easy to recruit and place them. Xu Shu assigned some clerical staff to Ma Heng, and Ma Heng found them himself.
Some people also built it.
But covert personnel are generally not easy to find.
Ma Heng has been busy with this matter for a while.
"Greetings to the envoy..." Ma Heng bowed his hands to Xu Shu in greeting, "Heng is late, but I hope the envoy will forgive me."
Xu Shu smiled and said, extending his hand to invite, "No need to be polite, please sit down."
Xu Shu glanced at the dust on Ma Heng's face and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Zhong Chang. Can you gain anything in Guanghan County?"
Before Ma Heng came to see Xu Shu, he established the framework of the Youwen Division in Guanghan County. On the one hand, he visited the countryside and on the other hand, he looked for talents in the secret service. After receiving Xu Shu's order, he came from Guanghan County.
"My subordinates have found Wang Luoyang's descendants in Li County..." Ma Heng smiled, "He is a virtuous person, and I will continue to give him the job. I can see the consequences..."
"After Wang Luoyang? "You are so virtuous, you are the king of our county"?" Xu Shu asked.
Ma Heng said with a smile, "Exactly." Then he added, "Wang Luoyang is incorruptible. He does not take people's wealth or accept offerings. As a result, his family is poor, has no land, and is almost hungry and thirsty. Even so, he still cannot study at home.
It is really rare to stop working hard and work hard..."
Xu Shu also nodded and said: "I once heard that for three years after Wang Luoyang was in office, the civil affairs were completely clean. There were no officials to ask for money, and no officials were greedy for money. It is a pity that Wang Luoyang died because of the middle way. After Wang Luoyang died, some people
They paid tribute on the way, lamenting the injustice of heaven for accepting this virtuous man, and lamenting that in the three years since Luoyang, no officials had looted the market, and the virtuous man died, and evil deeds reappeared..."
Ma Heng also sighed.
Xu Shu waved his hand, "Since she is a virtuous queen, if she can be used, she should be treated kindly. Okay, I'll call Zhongchang here today. We really have something important to discuss..."
"Your Majesty, please speak." Ma Heng said, cupping his hands.
"Does Zhong Chang know about the labor service in Nanzhong?" Xu Shu asked.
Ma Heng frowned slightly, "Your Majesty, are you talking about... the labor epidemic?"
Xu Shu nodded slowly.
"Your Majesty's intention is..." Ma Heng asked in a low voice.
Xu Shu stroked his beard and said, "After General Xu heard the news, he quickly attacked to avert the disaster. However, I always feel that this matter is a little fishy, and I hope Zhongchang will investigate in many ways and find out..."
Ma Heng bowed his head and accepted the order, "This is a matter that belongs to me."
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What are the best places to spy?
Perhaps future generations will say, driver, bodyguard, secretary...
But in the Han Dynasty, there was only one person who had access to important information and whose position was not critical.
Book left.
Shuzuo is the official in charge of documents. It is also called Shuzuo under the door, Weibo, Shixia.
Not only is there a Shuzuo in the central court, there are also Shuzuo in all prefectures and counties, which are removed by the prefectural and county chiefs. Sometimes there are inner and outer Shuzuo, and the inner Shuzuo is a close relative of the prefecture and county chief.
Officials are called Shu Zuo under the door, while Shu Zuo, who deals with ordinary documents, has two less characters, so it is called Shu Zuo.
Zhang Gong is such a scholar.
He has been in Sichuan and Shu for a long time. As early as the time of Liu Zhang, he had already served as a minor official in Guanghan County. Later he was transferred to Mianyang. He recently arrived in Chengdu and served as Chengdu Shuzuo.
Mr. Zhang was wearing a scribe's robe, which was originally dark blue, but it was slightly faded and white after being rinsed many times. He hung a cloth bag around his waist, which probably contained some things, and slowly left the residence.
, go to the market.
"Zhang Shuzuo, are you busy?" Fang Ding saw Mr. Zhang and said hello.
Mr. Zhang nodded, smiled, and said nothing, let alone explained why he appeared here and what he was going to do...
Is Mr. Zhang a fool? Obviously not. So unless he needs the help of this shopkeeper to do something, or wants this shopkeeper to reveal some information, a normal person will not explain himself in detail to an acquaintance.
What should I do next?
Mr. Zhang is very careful.
Be careful and you will live longer.
Chengdu is very prosperous now, with people coming and going on the streets.
The people like and enjoy this kind of prosperity, and Zhang Gong also likes it, but there is a problem, that is, to enjoy the prosperity properly, a lot of money is needed.
Only with money can you enjoy prosperity. Otherwise, these prosperity belong to others and have nothing to do with Mr. Zhang, right?
Zhang Gong walked around the street and then arrived at the market.
In the market, there are more people coming and going, and there are more interesting goods, such as mellow wine, fine mutton, and if you have more money, there are even horses from Xiliang and Hu women from the Western Regions.
Everything is possible...
what book?
No, Mr. Zhang is not interested in books.
For Mr. Zhang, books are just a tool for him to climb higher, so he has no interest in further research on this tool.
It's just that he is still a scholar now, and he has just been transferred to Chengdu. He must be careful about everything, so he walked into the bookstore, rummaged around, found the cheapest anthology, and paid for it.
He took the money in his hand and walked out.
Turning another corner, Mr. Zhang walked into a small restaurant and ordered some food and tea. Then he ordered a small pot of good wine and a small plate of lamb shank. He ate and drank slowly while looking through the collection of essays.
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As society becomes increasingly rich in supplies, the rule of two meals a day gradually loses its original binding power.
In fact, in the ancient times, in the tribal era, because the productive forces were underdeveloped, people were not bound by any ideological system and had no worldly concepts, so they basically ate when they had something, when they were hungry, and when they were not hungry, they did not eat.
The term "eating at a fixed time and at a fixed time" was not until the Shang and Zhou dynasties, with the birth and improvement of the etiquette system, that people began to eat at a fixed time and at a fixed time, and slowly began to form a system of two meals a day.
Since there were no electric lights in ancient times, candles were too expensive, so except for special days such as the Lantern Festival where you could go out to play at night, most ancient people did not have nightlife.
The last day has passed, which is why ancient people only ate two meals a day. After all, there was not so much time for activities.
But this is just for ordinary situations. In fact, during the Han Dynasty, the relatively wealthy nobles, especially the emperors, had already started the "four meals a day" model. These four meals were "dinning food" and "day food"
, "Evening food" and "Evening food" are respectively breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper.
For example, in the current restaurants in Chengdu, basically due to the needs of merchants, sometimes some people eat early, and sometimes some people eat late because they have something to do. In the end, the stove is lit most of the day, cooking and eating whenever they come.
.The cheaper ones include large pots of porridge and soup, the better ones include side dishes, and the better ones are like the wine-braised pork that Zhang Gong ate...
No matter how good it is, then you have to go to a big restaurant.
Zhang Gong never goes to big restaurants, he only comes to such relatively inconspicuous small restaurants.
"Brother, this book is good..." I don't know what happened, but there was a middle-aged businessman next to Mr. Zhang, who seemed to be looking for something to say.
After hearing this, Mr. Zhang put down the collection of essays and said, "It's really good... Well, do you want to take a look?"
The middle-aged man who looked like a businessman smiled and said, "I have my wish, but I dare not invite you."
Mr. Zhang handed over the collected works, then lowered his head and continued to eat and drink. He took a small mouthful of wheat rice, some vegetables, then drank a sip of wine and ate a small piece of meat. He ate very slowly and attentively.
The middle-aged man looked through it for a while and said with a smile: "It's really good. I'll return the original book. Thank you very much... Uh, let me ask, was this book bought in a bookstore? Is it still available in the bookstore?"
Mr. Zhang raised his head, took the collection with a smile, and nodded, "Of course I bought it from the bookstore, not far away. When I went to buy it, there were still a few..."
The two people seemed to be very interested in the contents of the collection and began to discuss it.
Mr. Zhang seemed to have flipped through the collection to verify the sentences and paragraphs in the collection, and then more smiles appeared on his face...
After a while, the middle-aged businessman left first.
Zhang Gong collected the collected works and continued to eat.
He ate faster.
After a while, he finished eating, called the shopkeeper to settle the bill, and then walked home leisurely.
When he arrived at home, he closed the courtyard door, then entered the house, and closed the door again. Then Mr. Zhang took a breath, and took out the collection of essays from his arms with some urgency, holding it with both hands, and then took it out from the collection.
He picked up a piece of flying money, threw the collection of essays away, and then put his face on the flying money. He took a breath of intoxication and laughed foolishly. His face was a little flushed, as if he had drunk a jar.
The most delicious drink.
After a while, Mr. Zhang took a long breath, then walked to the corner of the room, moved a cabinet slightly aside, then moved the blue bricks under the original cabinet, and took it out from under the blue bricks.
I got a paint box wrapped in oil paper.
Inside the paint box, there is still oil paper wrapped, and some insect-proof and anti-corrosion lime powder.
In the center of the box is a cloth bag.
Mr. Zhang carefully took out the bag and took out a bunch of flying coins from the bag, and then he happily counted them. Although Mr. Zhang knew the number of flying coins in his heart and counted them countless times, he was still very careful.
He counted it again, put the newly obtained flying money on it, put the bag back into the lacquer box with satisfaction, and then reversed what he had just done and did it again...
Mr. Zhang stood up, then patted the cabinet, just like patting a guard guarding money. Then he picked up the collection again, then opened it, took out another slip of paper, and looked at it twice.
Then he frowned, "Why is this?"
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Ma Heng was a little worried.
He is in charge of the Youwen Department of Sichuan and Sichuan, not because he is good at countering spies, but because Ma Heng is relatively senior and loyal enough.
As for being calm in doing things, they are actually relatively minor conditions. After all, there are actually many people who are calm in doing things. If this is the primary condition, then wouldn't Dong He be the most suitable?
Dong He is very stable in his work. He is clean and calm, is that the most suitable? In fact, it is not suitable, because no matter how calm Dong He is, he came from Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, so Dong He can serve as the prefect, even
You can serve as governor or something, but you cannot serve as Youwen Secretary.
Because the power controlled by Youwensi is far greater and more terrifying than what is seen on the surface. If it is controlled by someone with different intentions, the consequences will be disastrous.
If Ma Heng had come to Sichuan earlier, it might have been better when facing the current situation, at least the personnel deployment would not have been so stretched.
There are too many control points and too few manpower. In any case, each person has twelve hours. If it is used to focus on this aspect, it is impossible to keep an eye on another person in another place at the same time.
And if the matter is entrusted to ordinary soldiers, or patrol inspectors, the information may be leaked accidentally, alerting the enemy, and even being discovered by spies...
Xu Shu felt that there were some spies in Sichuan and Shu. After all, they were all in Chang'an. There was no reason to say that Sichuan and Shu would be pure soil. So this time after Xu Huang arrived in central Sichuan, an epidemic broke out in the labor camp. Perhaps
It's not man-made, maybe someone sabotaged it secretly.
What Ma Heng has to do now is to form the Sichuan-Sichuan News Department, not only to screen the officials in Sichuan and Shu, do a complete survey, and establish a complete file, but also to cooperate with Xu Shu and Xu Huang on the current situation.
The investigation of emergencies is carried out. As a result, the construction time of the Youwen Division organization is short, and the problem of insufficient manpower becomes more obvious.
At the same time, Ma Heng will not only plan in Sichuan and Sichuan in the future, but also need to extend his tentacles. Therefore, although Ma Heng responded readily, he was actually troubled.
Even if you are troubled, you still have to eat.
As the sun gradually set, Ma Heng returned home.
Due to the continued political instability in Jingzhou and Cao Cao's blood-drawing strategy for Jingzhou, the Ma family, like the Pang family and the Huang family, began to move to Guanzhong and other relatively stable areas.
Some of the Ma family went to Chang'an, some went to Sichuan and Sichuan, and of course some stayed in Jingzhou.
Most noble families are like this. They never put all their eggs in one basket.
As the founder of the Sichuan-Sichuan Youwen Division, Ma Heng would basically stay in Sichuan-Sichuan for a long time if there were no unexpected circumstances, so he settled in Chengdu.
At the same time, in addition to Ma Heng's own family records, there was also his fourth brother.
Ma Heng's eldest brother stayed in Jingzhou, his third brother went to Chang'an, and his fourth brother came to Sichuan.
It can be regarded as a regular configuration for aristocratic families.
The eldest son inherits the family business in his hometown, and the other children are scattered like seeds. They may wither or grow into trees that are taller and more majestic than before. When the time comes, the tree that represents the family will not only be the one in his hometown.
Got it...
There is a school in Chengdu, and Ma Heng's fourth brother also went to school in the school, and he came back earlier than Ma Heng.
During the meal, Ma Heng's fourth brother seemed to notice that something was wrong with Ma Heng's expression, but he did not say anything directly. Instead, he waited until after the meal and asked Ma Heng what happened.
Ma Heng waved his hand, "Fourth brother, just study with peace of mind. There is no need to worry about these matters. By the way, in fact, I have always wanted to ask you, why don't you go to Chang'an? The academy in Chang'an is definitely better than that in Chengdu."
On the one hand, Ma Heng wanted to keep it secret, and on the other hand, he didn't want to distract Ma Liang from his studies.
Ma Liang smiled, "But there are many people in Chang'an... and there will be more and more..."
"What do you mean?" Ma Heng frowned and said, "Isn't it bad to have too many people in the academy? Ask each other for help and promote together."
Ma Liang nodded, "No, there won't be any mutual favors soon... They all have to take exams, which is not the old way of promoting filial piety and integrity. Reputation is no longer useful, so... Haha, I heard
It is said that students who get admitted to Chang'an basically go to Longyou... So even if I go to Chang'an, I can't stay there, so I might as well come to Sichuan."
"That's it..." Ma Heng thought for a moment and nodded, "So, you are planning to serve as an official in Sichuan and Sichuan? Why? Longyou is actually okay..."
"No," Ma Liang shook his head and said, "Longyou will have problems sooner or later... Sichuan and Shu are better, and judging from the layout of the Hussars, Sichuan and Shu are key areas, with Jingzhou to the east and Jiaozhou to the south.
, can be traded, can be herded, can be cultivated, can be defended, can be fought, no matter what I do in the future, I will have a chance...a greater chance than in Chang'an..."
Ma Heng thought for a while, nodded, and then asked: "What do you mean when you say that Longyou will have problems sooner or later? Now that Longyou has been enthroned in the Beigong, what problems can there be?"
"Beigong is dead, and there are Nangong, West Palace and so on..." Ma Liang smiled and said, "After all, the Western Qiang is different from the Eastern Qiang. To make raw wheat rice mature, it always needs to be cooked for a period of time...
There will definitely be Qiang people who don't like it, or are not used to Han rules, so...just like the Southern Xiongnu...Okay, second brother, since you don't want to say what the trouble is, it must be a secret matter, so I will
I won’t ask any more questions, but I have some suggestions. Would you like to hear them?」
"Tell me about it..." Ma Heng nodded.
"The most important thing about government affairs is nothing more than human affairs. And among human affairs, when people do something, they must have a plan." Ma Liang said slowly, "Fame, wealth, love and hatred are nothing more than this. Things are not determined at the right time, and they seek their consequences based on their causes.
Often we don’t get what we want, but if the matter is determined, it is easy to deduce the cause from the effect. Do you think so, second brother?”
After hearing this, Ma Heng frowned and thought for a moment, nodded, and then said with a smile: "Now I have learned a lesson! Haha... Fame, wealth, love and hatred, it is true, it is true..."
