Chapter 806: Report back to the West What a big joke
Early March of the first year of Jianxing of the Han Dynasty.
When Sun Quan's edict vowing to defend Jianye was being conveyed to the world, a report sent by Chai Sang to Chang'an also arrived outside Chang'an under the escort of Dong Zhang.
This memorial was written by Mi Yang himself.
After writing this memorial, Mi Yang handed it into Dong Yun's hands.
Dong Yun was well aware of Mi Yang's intentions, and with Mi Yang's encouragement, Dong Yun was even more determined to make Mi Yang fulfill his wish.
In order to ensure that everything was safe, Dong Yun asked his cousin Dong Zhang to be the messenger.
The reason why Dong Yun asked this elder to take action was after careful consideration.
Dong Zhang's talent is not high, but Dong Zhang has been following Dong Yun's father Dong He in his early years.
When it comes to understanding Dong He's personal connections during his lifetime, even Dong Yun is not as good as Dong Zhang.
And maybe Dong He died a little early, so his reputation is not that great in the world.
But if you understand Dong He's life, you can know that Dong He's status during his lifetime was almost comparable to that of Zhuge Liang.
Dong He was first promoted by Liu Zhang when he was still alive. During his tenure, Dong He advocated frugality and governing people by law, which once reversed the extravagant custom of Yizhou.
This gave Dong He a very high prestige among the common people, wealthy families, and even ethnic minorities in Shu.
Later, Liu Bei entered Shu, and after hearing about Dong He's deeds, he even put his emphasis on him.
"Zhenghe is in charge of the army, General Zhonglang, and together with General Zhuge Liang, the military advisor, he is in charge of the affairs of General Zuo, Grand Sima Mansion"
This record is enough to show that Dong He's power and position during his lifetime were between those of Zhuge Liang.
Of course, there were many ministers who were highly used by Liu Bei during Liu Bei's period, but Dong He had a replaceability that could not be matched by others.
Dong He's ancestors were from Bajun in central Sichuan. During the period of Dong He's grandfather, his family moved to Nanjun to settle down.
Later, when the Central Plains was in chaos, Dong He had the foresight to move his family back to Shu.
This special local relationship gave Dong He a very good reputation among scholars in Yizhou and Jingzhou.
In addition to valuing Dong He's talents, Liu Bei also valued Dong He's qualities.
Liu Bei wanted Dong He to become the link between Yizhou scholars and Jingzhou scholars, so that Dong He could stabilize these two powerful political forces under his command.
Judging from subsequent developments, Dong He completed the tasks assigned to him by Liu Bei very well.
Without Dong He's efforts, Liu Bei would not have been able to secure the throne of the Lord of Yizhou so easily.
And although Dong He died too early, people in the world pay attention to the discontinuity of life and death.
Dong He died only a few years ago, so his political influence among the ministers of the Yizhou and Jingzhou cliques will not decline much, and this political influence will naturally be inherited by Dong Yun.
If Mi Yang hadn't valued this, he wouldn't have been painting Dong Yun over and over again.
Since the news of Chaisang's victory had not yet spread, Dong Zhang's return did not attract much attention.
Dong Zhang first entered the city of Chang'an in a low-key manner. When he came to the outside of the Chancellery and handed the report in his hand to the doorman, Dong Zhang, who kept his mission in mind, had no time to return home, so he set off for a mansion.
This mansion looks simple on the outside, but quite elegant on the inside.
Rockeries, flowers and plants, garden lofts, and other buildings that represent the elegance of literati are all there.
It can be seen from this that the identity of the owner of this mansion should be unusual.
The person who owned this mansion was none other than Qiao Zhou, who was renowned as the leader among young people in Shu.
Before his death, Mi Yang's uncle Mi Zhu inflicted heavy losses on a group of Yizhou nobles with evil intentions with several boxes of ironclad evidence.
After that great change, many Yizhou nobles simply disappeared into the world.
In that great upheaval, the head of the Qiao clan was imprisoned and executed, and the property of the Qiao clan was confiscated. As the heir of the Qiao clan at that time, Qiao Zhou's end was naturally not much better.
Sent to border garrison.
This was the punishment Zhuge Liang personally decided for Qiao Zhou.
Although Qiao Zhou was Zhuge Liang's vassal, Zhuge Liang acted impartially and did not show any favoritism because of his relationship with Qiao Zhou.
Of course, Zhuge Liang could have made other punishments to Qiao Zhou at that time, but after much thought, Zhuge Liang decided to make Qiao Zhou the most dangerous border criminal.
What Zhuge Liang thought was that if Qiao Zhou died because of this, he deserved it.
If Qiao Zhou could truly understand the meaning of the word "shi" through this ups and downs and personal experience, that would be a good thing.
I have to say that Qiao Zhou's luck is quite good.
The time when Qiao Zhou went to the border was exactly when Mi Yang was ravaging the Wei army at the border.
Even later, Mi Yang expanded the Han's borders to thousands of miles away in one fell swoop.
With the help of Mi Yang Wuxin, Qiao Zhou lived a very stable life during several years of guarding the border.
In the end, Liu Bei granted an amnesty to Mi Yang for his actions in regaining Chang'an, and Qiao Zhou finally got rid of his military life.
After being pardoned, Qiao Zhou wanted to return to Shu, but the Qiao family's property had long been confiscated.
In desperation, Qiao Zhou could only seek help from Dong Yun.
Facing Qiao Zhou's request, Dong Yun did not hesitate too much. To the best of his ability, Dong Yun helped Qiao Zhou settle down in Chang'an based on the friendship between his father's generation.
From this aspect, Dong Yun was kind to Qiao Zhou.
Therefore, when Qiao Zhou heard the news of Dong Zhang's arrival, he quickly went out to greet him respectfully.
After that, Qiao Zhou warmly welcomed Dong Zhang into the palace.
After the two of them bowed to each other and took their seats, Qiao Zhou looked at Dong Zhang's expression and knew that he must have something to do with his visit today, so Qiao Zhou asked:
"If Mr. Dong has any orders, just give them.
If Zhou can do it, he will definitely do his best."
After settling down in Chang'an, Qiao Zhou devoted himself to restoring the Qiao clan's former glory.
In order to realize this vision in his lifetime, Qiao Zhou had already made plans in his heart to become Dong's disciple.
Several years of military life have smoothed away a lot of Qiao Zhou's arrogance, and he has become more tactful and practical.
After hearing Qiao Zhou's inquiry, Dong Zhang did not give in. He opened his mouth and said to Qiao Zhou:
"Not long ago, Da Sima destroyed tens of thousands of Wu troops outside Chaisang City.
At this moment, Grand Sima is planning to march into Jianye and destroy Wu in one fell swoop!"
Even though Dong Zhang had known about this for a long time, Dong Zhang's tone was still filled with excitement, not to mention Qiao Zhou who didn't know this shocking news yet?
Dong Zhang's words shocked Qiao Zhou incomprehensibly. The wine glass he had just raised fell to the ground due to the force of his fingers.
"This...how is this possible?"
In the past few years, Qiao Zhou had long admired Mi Yang's military strategy skills.
No matter how much he admired him, what Dong Zhang brought to Qiao Zhou was the news that Mi Yang was going to destroy the country.
Soochow's national power is not considered weak.
Sun Quan was no ordinary mediocre leader.
Everyone in the world thought that the battle between the Han Dynasty and Soochow would be a long-lasting affair. This judgment is consistent with common sense.
But who would have thought that in an instant, Mi Yang would want to devour Soochow in one bite?
Doesn’t it mean that in the current war in Jingzhou, the Wu army is the attacking party?
No matter how hard they attacked, the Wu army almost lost its own capital.