Xu County.
In the blink of an eye, the celebration has arrived.
When the celebration in Xu County was underway, Liu Xie, the protagonist of the celebration, was not in the main hall at this moment, but in a quiet room in the palace.
Emperor Liu Xie wore a crown garment and a crown garment on his head. The crown garment was seven inches wide and one foot or two inches long, round in front and square in the back, wrapped in vermilion satin, with black color on it, jade beads were connected in a curtain shape, hanging from the front and back of the crown, hanging four inches in front and three inches behind. The jade beads in front and back must be a total of twelve tassels of white jade. On the crown garment, gold and silver threads were embroidered with patterns representing the sun, moon, stars, etc. The crown garment was black on the top and red on the bottom, with colorful ribbons, and cloud boots under the feet. Even the surface of the boots represented auspicious patterns.
It is actually quite difficult to wear such a set of crown clothes. There are more than a dozen people serving in front and back, so they can't move more after wearing them. They can only sit quietly. After all, the clothes in the Han Dynasty were tied with belts, without buttons or other fixing methods. Therefore, if they move too much, the clothes will not only be uneven and wrinkled, but will also loosen and collapse, which will naturally lose its dignity.
As the emperor, Liu Xie not only could not watch the opening songs, dances, juggling and other lively before the celebration, but also had to sit alone in this small quiet room, boring and lonely, waiting for the arrival of auspicious times.
Fortunately, Liu Xie was a little used to boredom and loneliness, so he closed his eyes and sat alone in the quiet room.
In the quiet room, agarwood burns quietly in the incense burner, the fragrance lingers faintly, and everything seems to be silent.
The noise is outside.
Inside silence.
Just like a celebration or a celebration, the excitement has nothing to do with the tranquility here.
The eunuchs in the yellow gate who stood outside the quiet room would occasionally take a secret look at Liu Xie.
As the attendant of the royal family, or a vassal of the imperial power, the life and death of the eunuchs in the Yellow Sect are all dependent on Liu Xie, or the Emperor of Han...
Of course, as vassals, they can also choose other emperors to serve, but for most emperors, they will basically cultivate their own team. As the people left behind by the previous generation of emperors, the end of the end is not very good, so for them, the only hope is Liu Xie. The power of the eunuchs comes from the emperor. The emperor is strong, so these eunuchs are naturally strong, but the question is whether the emperor is now, the imperial power is not strong.
On the corridor, a small yellow gate came quickly. When he got closer, he was stared at the eunuch at the door of the quiet room and immediately slowed down. He walked to the eunuch lightly and whispered a few words.
In fact, Liu Xie was awakened by the sound of footsteps, and his eyelids moved slightly and slowly opened his eyes, "Auspicious time has come?"
The eunuch at the door quickly replied, "Report to Your Majesty, the auspicious time is coming. Please ask Your Majesty to get up."
Liu Xie nodded, "Good. Living in a quiet room, it's difficult to calm down."
The eunuch hurried forward and helped Liu Xie stand up, "Your Majesty, now the river is clear and the sea is peaceful, and all the princes and the people are all in celebration. Your Majesty is upright and youthful, just like the rebirth of the morning sun, the revival of the Han Dynasty, and the diligence of the spring and autumn are all within your control. Why should you worry too much?"
Although the eunuch's words to comfort him may not be expressed very accurately or very well, Liu Xie still smiled and did not care too much. He also patted the eunuch's shoulder, "The family business left by his ancestors cannot be broken into my hands after all... I know you want to comfort me, but how can I feel at ease with this situation today when I get together?
Liu Xie has really had a lot of worries these days.
As the emperor, Liu Xie wanted to control the overall situation at all times.
Liu Xie was not saying that he had no hatred for powerful ministers like Cao Cao or Fei Qian, but this authority fell apart for a day, and as an emperor, he naturally had an irreconcilable natural contradiction with such powerful ministers.
It’s just a pity that Liu Xie had to rely on powerful ministers to deal with the situation in the world. Whether it was Cao Cao or Fei Qian, if these powerful ministers were not in charge, such as Dong Zhuo, the great man could not withstand the troubles...
This is true for Cao Cao, and the same is true for Fei Qian.
As the emperor, he increasingly felt that balancing the ministers was an important task, just like Xiao Wenjing suppressing the vassals. Liu Xie had already made this matter his top priority. Guanzhong was strong and he had to help Cao Cao suppress Fei Qian. If Cao Cao was domineering, he would need to restrain Cao Cao through Guanzhong in turn.
It is best to cultivate your own talents...
Liu Xie took a breath and exhale slightly.
This is the most difficult.
Liu Xie originally wanted to borrow Kong Rong's incident, but during the celebration, he faced everyone in front of the crowd to weaken the division. However, he didn't expect that before the celebration, Cao Cao had already dealt with it, making it impossible for the surrounding gentry children to leave no farts, which made Liu Xie difficult to deal with.
However, after so many years of hardships and hardships, Liu Xie has become somewhat scheming. He knows that if he is not sure and acts rashly, he will probably not know what chaos will happen. Therefore, it is better not to act rashly if something is immature.
Just as the old eunuch said, relying on his youth, he was still waiting.
After all, he was the Emperor of Han, and he was not a very stupid Emperor of Han.
He is me, a lonely man.
Others can be clichés, but they can’t get along with each other, they can’t get along with each other.
So he was finally worried about the world of the Han Dynasty. No matter what the future changes, his ultimate goal was to revive the Han Dynasty. For this goal, he could give up everything, including temporary tolerance and temporary dignity.
Now Liu Xie felt that he was obviously unable to handle various matters in specific places himself, and he still needed the assistance of the local princes and gentry. Therefore, he had to constantly identify and promote talents and let these gentry children take over the matter of governing the country from generation to generation.
As long as he is still the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
As long as this celebration, he will still be the protagonist...
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There is a river called Wushui, more than 100 miles east of Xu County.
This river is not as famous as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, but in fact it has a great background.
According to legend, Huangdi once established a tribe in the Wushui area, named Youxiong clan. At that time, this river was still unknown, and a subordinate of Huangdi suggested adding three points of water to the "Youxiong clan" to the "Youxiong clan". Huangdi agreed and decided the name of the first river in the world named by the emperor, Wushui.
After walking down the water, it was about a hundred miles away, and then it arrived in Xinji County.
This place was once prosperous and was an important county in Zheng State and South Korea in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was just that time passed and now it is a little old.
The Book of Songs says, "There is only a scattered and unrestrained. The scholar and the daughter are only a scattered and unrestrained."
Perhaps the boys and girls of the past thought that the water was a place of play with beautiful mountains and rivers, but now, there is only filth and aging left.
Chang Fang came to Xinji.
Chang Fang is the captain of Xu County Guanyi.
He and Chen Bin cover each other, but most of the tasks that require going out are done by him.
As an intelligence center in Xu County, Chen Bin received a request from the county town below, so he forwarded it to Changfang.
Originally, there was some trouble for Chang Fang to get out of Xu County. After all, Cao's people were often monitored around the post station. Fortunately, Xu Jue left a lot of attention, and Wang Chang and others also walked from time to time, which reduced the power used to monitor Chen Bin and Chang Fang a lot. In addition, the celebration was about to be held, and the most chaotic time inside and outside Xu County, Chang Fang easily left Xu County and rushed to Xinji.
In Xinji, a very important thing was reported.
At this moment, Chang Fang was wearing an ordinary coarse cloth robe, a straw hat, and a sweat towel around his neck, which was dusty, and was no big difference from other pedestrians who were rushing on their way.
His destination is a tavern in the east of Xinjicheng.
He had never been to Xinji before, but he knew that there were people stationed here.
Like most Han Dynasty cities, Xinji County was a wealthy area in the north, a slum area in the south, and a place for ordinary people to live in the east and west. The so-called ordinary people generally have a standard, which is that families can give their children more time to play.
The poor children become a family early, not the poor children themselves are willing, but they don’t have food if they don’t work. In the face of survival, whether they play or not will naturally retreat to the secondary position.
In the east of Xinji City, you can still see children chasing and playing on the street, which means that if the people living here want to return to their living standards, the restaurant will have some business. If they are in a slum, most children will have to work with adults and do things within their ability. It is a luxury to have food and clothing every day, let alone have spare money to buy alcohol.
Cao Cao had banned alcohol before.
The ancients banned alcohol mainly for three considerations. First, save food. Whenever the year is bad, the rulers often take measures to ban alcohol; second, stabilize order. When more cases of causing trouble and disturbing social order in society due to excessive drinking, the court often considers banning alcohol; third, respect the heavens and eliminate disasters. When something disaster occurs, in order to show respect to the gods, the rulers often express vegetarian food and fasting, and will also suspend luxury enjoyment such as drinking, and pay tribute to the heavens in order to eliminate disasters.
But Cao Cao's ban on alcohol did not last long.
In order to avoid the limelight, the children of the gentry even added a secret code when drinking in private, using "sages" to call turbid wine with poor wine quality, and "sages" to call sake with good wine quality. "Wine is prohibited during the Taizu period, but people secretly drink it, so it is difficult to say that wine is used as a wise man and sake is a saint."
Anyway, alcoholics can come up with any way to drink.
Later, Cao Cao's economic situation improved a lot after the end of the Second Yuan War, and the prohibition of alcohol was gradually relaxed. What's more, this prohibition of alcohol was often prohibited by ordinary people, officials, or some related matters, and still drink continuously. Even during the implementation of Cao Cao's prohibition, for example, Xu Miao also "drinks privately and intoxicated", and others happened to have something to look for him, but the drunkard replied "Statistics"...
When Cao Cao found out, he was furious and wanted to punish him. Fortunately, others pleaded for mercy, so Xu Miao was spared from punishment. Later, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi ascended the throne and joked with Xu Miao about this matter, "Will you be a saint?"
So in fact, this alcohol ban is just that.
There are not many people in Xinji County, nor are there many people. According to what I learned before, Chang Fang found a nameless pond in the east of the city for a while.
No one knows what the pond is called.
Perhaps this pond once had a name, but the people around me were just concerned about whether the pond could be used to fetch water and wash. As for the name, it didn't matter at all.
The pond should be full of water, so it is not too dirty, but the surrounding environment is still not very good.
After all, no matter whether it is a cow or a horse, they drink water here, whether it is a clothes or a fragrance at night, they are washed here. There is also no wellbore at home, so they can only come here to fetch water and cook...
There are three locust trees by the pond.
Chang Fang looked at it and nodded secretly. That's right, it's here.
Walking under the locust tree, Chang Fang patrols the streets not far away.
Not far away, there is a wine shop.
The girl in the wine shop was standing by the counter and giving wine to the guests.
After Chang Fang waited for the wine-selling customer to leave, he slowly walked forward.
When the female mover saw Chang Fang, she showed a habitual smile, "What are you going to come to the guest? We have new corn wine, should we try it?"
Chang Fang looked at the girl, then stretched his head and looked into the store, "Where is your shopkeeper?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, but didn't say much, and shouted at the top of her throat, "Shopkeeper, I'm looking for a customer!"
Someone responded in the back hall of the restaurant. After a while, one of them walked out. Before the counter, he looked up and down at Chang Fang, "This brother...
"I want some Western Regions Poole Wine." Chang Fang said, "Not much, just come to twelve jars first." Chang Fang had never been here before, and no one knew each other, so it was impossible to take out the token as soon as they met, so they could only say the secret code first.
The shopkeeper's eyebrows twitched, "Celebrity, this Western Region Pujiao wine is very valuable, twelve jars are not a small amount. Is there really so much customer? "
"It's okay, I have a lot of alcohol. I drink one jar in one hour and finish it in one day." Chang Fang said with a smile, as if he was joking, "But it's better to have a little less. How many jars do you have?"
The shopkeeper whispered: "I'm sure you don't have a single jar here."
Chang Fang shook his hand, "You don't have this jar, why do you still open a wine shop?"
The shopkeeper reached out to invite him, "Please forgive me if the guest is really interested in purchasing, you might as well go inside to discuss it in detail..."
The Western Regions Pujiao wine is expensive. If it is in Xu County or in a relatively large county town, the restaurants may have some inventory, but how can a small restaurant like Xinji sell Pujiao wine?
But if you want to say no, these days, sometimes the transactions may not be settled in cash, and often they use the ordering and purchasing model, so if you say you want to book in the tavern first, there seems to be no problem.
Chang Fang nodded and followed the shopkeeper in.
When he entered the inner hall of the tavern, the shopkeeper stretched out his head and looked outside the door to see that there was no one in the corridor window, and then hesitated to ask Chang Fang: "Customer...you are..."
Only then did Chang Fang take out a token representing his identity from his arms.
When the shopkeeper saw it, he came to the light again, carefully checked the password on the token, then he took a breath, handed the token back to Chang Fang, and then said in a low voice: "I have seen the inspector..."
Chang Fang nodded, put away the token, and whispered: "You are Cheng Erlang? Is this a real name or a pseudonym?"
Cheng Erlang replied: "The young man has been in Xinji for many years and has always used this name... As for the real name, the young man has forgotten..."
Chang Fang was silent for a while, "Okay, I'll ask you, you reported that there was an abnormality in the north of the city and needed a good help to check it. What happened?"
Cheng Erlang nodded and said, "There is a family in Fu'anli, the north of the city. There seems to be no industry at home, but the expenses are quite large, and the food and clothing cost are the best..."
Chang Fang frowned a little when he heard this.
The north of the city is a wealthy area, so the food, clothing and consumption are both top-notch. What is the abnormality?
"These are not originally anything..." Cheng Erlang continued, "But once, the young man went to the north of the city to deliver wine, and happened to meet Xun Lingjun's son disguised himself and entered the mansion..."
Chang Fang frowned and said, "Do you recognize Xun Lingjun's son?"
Cheng Erlang's originally curved waist was straightened a little, "Not mentioning that he was the son of Xun Lingjun, and most of the gentry children in Yingchuan, I recognize him. Should the inspector compete in the exam?"
Chang Fang thought about it, waved his hand, "Continue."
Xinji is not too far from Xu County. As an intelligence officer who has been in Xinji for many years, it is indeed possible that he recognizes important figures in Yingchuan, including their children.
Of course, there are also people born with face-blindness, such as Dong Ge, who are not suitable for being intelligence personnel.
『In Yingchuan, the Xun family is very large, so it is normal for them to get married more or less...』 Cheng Erlang said slowly, "I didn't care either...but later, I happened to meet that husband, so I tried a few words. I originally wanted to see what it had to do with Xun, but I never thought... The husband not only denied that he had a relative with Xun, but also looked a little flustered... The younger one was suspicious...』
"Hmm?" Chang Fang frowned.
Generally speaking, if a small county town like Xinji in Yingchuan can have any connection with the Xun family in Yingchuan, it is more or less worthy of boasting about it. How could it be deliberately denied and still look panicked?
"The young man felt strange, and thought that maybe it was the young man who saw him. What he saw on that day was not the son of Xun Lingjun..." Cheng Erlang continued, "But just a few days ago, the young man saw the son of Lingjun again..."
This is a bit interesting.
Chang Fang understood.
Such a situation is indeed worth reporting.
Chapter completed!