On this day, Qu Yi left Jinyang City with a gloomy look and embarked on the road back to Juyang.
At this time, he was sitting in a chariot, accompanied by eight armored horseback guards, each of whom was an old soldier from Xiping who had followed him for many years. Not only was he loyal and impeccable, but he was also brave enough to equal ten. Moreover, he also had a reputation as a shotgun.
The majestic red crow flag opened the way for him, and Qu Yi used it to walk through the cities, without encountering any accidents in more than ten years.
What he was thinking carefully about now was the results of his trip to Jinyang. After failing to seek mercy from Fazheng, he went to Liu Bao and Jian Yong the next day, hoping that they could help. Liu Bao was a humble man, and Jian Yong
Yong had a free and easy temperament. Although he felt a little embarrassed, he finally agreed to Qu Yi and said that he would try to talk to him in the next two days and let him wait for the news in Juyang. Qu Yi was relatively satisfied. After all, Liu Bao was Liu Bei.
Jian Yong is Liu Bei's wife and nephew, and Liu Bei must not be indifferent.
But after this circle, Qu Yi knew that he had declined Chen Chong and his relationship with Fa Zheng had deteriorated, which could be said to have offended both of them. How would his future be planned? This made him think deeply, but he couldn't think about it.
After coming up with a reason, I finally had to admit secretly in my heart that maybe my wealth in the Western Dynasty would stop here.
At this time, Qu Yi couldn't help but look past the information from the Eastern Dynasty that he had received in Jinyang this time. As the Grand Sima, although he could rarely directly intervene in military affairs and strategies, the Bafu would still inform him of the latest mobilizations and intelligence.
For him, the letter in his hand said that there had been few wars in the Eastern Dynasty in the past two years. Apart from the suppression of bandits in Qingzhou and the friction with Gongsun Du of Liaodong, the main focus was on managing the affairs of the country. After the Xindu coup, the Marshal's Office of Cao Cao completely took control of the power of the Eastern Dynasty. However, with the decline of the Youzhou Party and the continuous expansion and restructuring of the Western Dynasty, how to stabilize people's hearts and enrich the treasury as soon as possible has become a new problem for the Marshal's Office.
So Cao Cao carried out a large-scale restructuring in the past two years. Different from Chen Chong, Cao Cao vigorously promoted the farming system. He moved more than 100,000 households from Hebei to Qing and Xuzhou to cultivate, and set up 50 people in one farm to set up Sima.
The top officials, including Diannong Duwei, Diannong Xiaowei and Diannong Zhonglangjiang, are not affiliated with counties or counties. The harvest from farming will be divided with the state: those who use official cattle will be divided six times between the officials and the people; those who use private cattle will be divided equally between the officials and the people.
, it is said that it was very effective, and the harvest of grain and wheat increased by one million hu of dendrobium that year.
Then Cao Cao started from the law and set up the "Eight Discussions" system, stipulating that those who rebel against the law should discuss relatives, discuss the past, discuss the worthy, discuss the ability, discuss the merits, discuss the nobility, discuss the diligence, and discuss the guests. This means that as long as the emperor
Relatives, patriots, virtuous people, talented people, meritorious officials, nobles, hard-working people, and foreign guests who break the law shall not be punished according to the law. Instead, they must be reported to the Chancellor and the Marshal's Office for discussion. Generally speaking, the following eight categories of crimes can be punished:
The person is deemed innocent, and other crimes will be reduced to one level as usual.
In addition, Cao Cao learned that after Guan Yu's victory in the Western Campaign, he gained a lot of gold and silver, so he followed Dong Zhuo Yuzhi's example and appointed the post of General Qiu Zhonglang and the gold-touching school captain to dig up graves and dig up gold in the territory under his jurisdiction.
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As a result, the tombs of all the vassal kings were all damaged, and the old bones were exposed in the wilderness. It is believed that there were reports in the capital that one year old could not count the amount of money, but there were loads of jewelry and carts, just like rice. So Cao Cao went on a rampage in the territory.
Expand the army, build armor and stomach, and train troops with the sound of gold and iron going on day after day.
Qu Yi looked through what Cao Cao had done and believed that the most important measure was the "Eight Discussions" system. Now that both the Eastern and Western dynasties have established new laws, it is fair to compare the two. The result is self-evident, and it is natural that Kansai's usage is severe.
, and Guandong is loose. Qu Yi thought that from now on, Cao Cao will definitely win over the efforts of the people in Guandong, and the original disputes between the various parties in the Eastern Dynasty will probably disappear.
At this time, a thought suddenly occurred to him, thinking: "If I go to the east again, will I be reused?" This thought was originally just a random thought, and he was shocked, but as the car bumped,
and silence, this thought gradually gained warmth, as if it was so hot that it was imprinted in my mind.
Qu Yi silently analyzed the pros and cons: As the Grand Sima of the Western Dynasty, and located in Juyang, a strategic location in Bingzhou, once he defected to the Eastern Dynasty, both political and military considerations would be enough to change the confrontation between the two dynasties.
.If he and Cao Cao reach an agreement to start the war, his merits will definitely be no less than the assassination of Yuan Shao in the sixth year of Yanxing, and the wealth and title he will receive will definitely be greater than those in the Western Dynasty. The only thing that makes Qu Yi entangled is to kill Yuan Shao himself.
After all, Cao Cao's old Yuan family members are like clouds. If they return to the Eastern Dynasty, they will definitely be incompatible with them. If he gets rich in the future, there is no guarantee that he will not end up like Zhou Yafu...
This idea made it difficult for Qu Yi to make a decision, and while he was hesitating, the car suddenly made a clang and stopped slowly. Qu Yi woke up from his meditation, turned his head and looked out the car window, only to see that the two sides were still upright.
He stuck his head out and looked out again, and saw what seemed to be deer antlers blocking the official road in the distance.
He asked the old soldier riding in front: "What's going on? Why did the car stop?"
An old soldier turned around and reported through the car curtain: "General, we thought we had arrived at Weixiu Pavilion, but someone seemed to have set up a checkpoint in front of us. General, please borrow the token. We will send people to negotiate with them and let them
Release."
"Set up a card?" Qu Yi recalled it and asked: "Wei Xiuting remembered that there was no card when I came here. How come there was an extra one a few days later?"
"Who knows?" The old soldier replied: "Everything about the country is good, but its control is too lenient. It's normal when there are many people stuck and when there are few people stuck."
Qu Yi said "Hmm", waved his hand and took out Da Sima's waist badge, handed it to the old soldier and said: "Go back quickly."
The old pawn took the waist badge with both hands, bowed to Qu Yi and said, then spurred his horse and walked forward quickly. Qu Yi watched his back gradually approaching the checkpoint, when suddenly a gust of cold wind blew by, and on both sides of the official road,
The pine forest was blown to a rustling sound, and blue pine needles fell like raindrops.
Looking at the trajectory of the pine needles falling to the ground, Qu Yi saw several haystacks erected in the level, and a thought flashed through his mind: There has been no major events in Jinyang recently, so why would the checkpoint be set up for no reason?
Thinking of this, Qu Yi's body trembled slightly, and a danger suddenly occurred in his heart - this was the life and death intuition he had honed over many years of fighting on the battlefield, and it was also the greatest guarantee of being invincible. At this moment, he felt as if he was in Huoshibu
On the floating bridge, he saw Cao Cao's strung-up crossbow slowly approaching. This made him react immediately: Someone is trying to harm me!
The Bafu soldiers in the Weixiu Pavilion did not know that the design had been seen through. After the leader Fa Ke saw the token, he naturally removed the antlers and greeted the old soldier with a smile: "There have been bandits here recently.
, that’s why I set up the card. I hope Da Sima will forgive me and don’t worry about it.”
The old soldier believed it to be true and said with a smile: "There are bandits around Jinyang, how brave they are!" He paused here, and then said proudly: "But if the great Sima is here, even if the bandits from all over the world gather together, it's just...
It’s just some military achievements.” After saying that, he quickly rode back to the convoy.
Seeing the stagnant convoy starting off again, gradually changing from slow to fast, and driving forward at a very fast speed. Seeing the front horse entering the checkpoint, Fa Ke suddenly shouted loudly: "Raso!"
A sudden change!
The two soldiers at the back separated to the left and right, and suddenly pulled out a rope from the ground, which was stuck in front of the horse's legs. Qu Yi's knight was caught off guard, and before he could rein in the horse, the horse knelt down on its front legs and was already stuck.
He fell to the ground. The knight on horseback was also thrown off the saddle, broke his leg bones, and groaned on the ground. And this man and horse just blocked the way of the convoy.
At the same time, the soldiers beside the card did not wait for the knights behind the car to retreat. Each of them took out the already loaded crossbow from the haystack on the side, turned around and fired. Because everything happened too fast, and the distance between the two sides was too close.
, the Bafu soldiers didn’t even need to aim, the crossbow’s bow easily pierced the armor and shot the knight to the ground. Almost in an instant, the eight veterans who had followed Qu Yi for many years were the only ones left in the blink of an eye.
Four people.
But these four people had no chance to show off their bravery. They just woke up and clenched the knives in their hands. Then they were shot to the ground by the remaining crossbows. The person in front of him broke his leg bone.
They were also hacked to death by the Bafu soldiers who rushed forward. The last remaining person was Qu Yijin Che who was surrounded by everyone.
The victory was already within his grasp, but Fa Ke didn't feel proud at all. He was still afraid of Qu Yi's martial name, just like he was afraid of the red crow flag fluttering at the front of the car. He took a few breaths, stepped forward and cut it off with his hand.
The flagpole of the chariot and the red crow flag also fell with a bang, and Fa Ke's courage suddenly increased. But what made him feel ominous was that the cry of the flag falling seemed to be the echo of the trumpet sound during war.
At this time, Fa Ke said to the vague figure in the car: "Da Sima, come out! Even if Da Sima can fight again, can he really defeat one against ten? If you come out, I can still give you a good time, but if not
It’s hard to say how knowledgeable you are!”
Unexpectedly, except for the restless horses, there was no response and silence in the car.
Fa Ke repeated what he had just said twice. Seeing that there was still no response from the car, he waved to the soldiers around him and asked them to shoot arrows into the car. The soldiers surrounded the car in a circle and fired twenty crossbows. The arrows missed.
It penetrated the car like hailstones.
The sound of gold and iron colliding could be heard from inside the car, but there was no human sound.
Fa Ke suddenly felt that something was wrong, and boldly went to open the curtain of the car, and then he was shocked to find out, where is the meaning of Qu Yi? The figure in the car was just an erect stomach!
Fa Ke luckily thought that perhaps Qu Yi could not escape far, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to go to the front to search and survey. However, after searching for a day, it was in vain. This forced him to assassinate
The news of the failure was reported to Fazheng. In this short period of time, Qu Yi had already taken a path around the checkpoint, bought an old horse from a farmer's house, and rushed to Juyang day and night.
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Fazheng knew that a big mistake had been made, so he immediately went to Liu Bei's house to plead guilty. Time was running out, and before Liu Bei had time to do anything about it, it was already the third day after the incident happened. Qu Yi raised his hand in Juyang.
They rebelled against the banner and attacked Fanzhi and Guoxian to the east, but were defeated.
An important road leading directly to Mayi, an important town in the Western Dynasty, opened to the Eastern Dynasty without any warning.