Chapter Thirteen: Don't Think of the Old Days in the Clouds
To be fair, anyone placed in the position of Dong Zhuo or Huangfu Song would probably feel aggrieved.
After the Huangfu-Song Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was the Chariot and Cavalry General and the Jizhou Mu, even if both were discounted, they were still the Chariot and Cavalry General and the Jizhou Mu, right?
Then what? Then in order to make room for him, in order to take back the seal of the Chariot and Cavalry General, Luoyang kicked him away. From a Chariot and Cavalry General to a person who lives at home, a county of 8,000 households became a township of 2,000 households.
Hou. Now that he is needed, who can bear it in his heart to take an old man out of his home with an imperial edict and continue to work hard... but he has to be ranked with the people he looked down on in the past and become a subordinate of his former colleagues?
Dong Zhuo felt even more aggrieved.
Because as he himself said, since Huangfu Song was deposed that day, almost all the Liangzhou war has been turned around by him alone!
Huangfu Song was dismissed, and he was left to defend Fufeng alone;
Zhang Wen conquered the west, and it was he who fought with all his strength that led to a great victory and drove Han Sui away;
Zhang Wen returned with a great defeat and the whole army retreated. He was the only one who returned with the whole army and saved the army;
Later, Zhang Wen, the defeated general, returned to Luoyang and continued to serve as his high official. It was Dong Zhuo who led 20,000 soldiers here alone, regardless of hardship, and defended the rebels for many years...
But now, the war has resumed, but you can't be a head coach. Why?!
Of course, Dong Zhuo actually knew why in his heart, and he also said it... Because he didn't study, and because he was a martial artist in Liangzhou, so in the eyes of the princes in Luoyang, he, Dong Zhongying, was a former general and had a title.
A rural lord has already finished leading 20,000 troops. Unless something big goes wrong in the future, it is impossible to give him higher authority!
Huangfu Song was also from Liangzhou, but he studied classics, so he was one level higher than Dong Zhuo in the eyes of the big men in Luozhong; Gongsun Xun was actually a borderline, but he not only studied, but also ran schools and taught, and he also punished officials, and he was Liu
He was widely recognized as the political heir, so in the eyes of the central government, his upper limit was vaguely higher, so the emperor even confiscated his seal in the first place!
And now, through his personal relationship with the general, he was involved in the dispute in Luozhong, so he was looked at highly again.
Dong Zhuo knew all of this, and the information sent by his brother more closely verified it all. But the more this happened, the more indignant Dong Zhongying became!
Why isn't he allowed to take the next step?
Why stop here?
I obviously deserve the credit and hard work!
"If my son was still alive, my heart would not be at peace, so why would I do this?" That night, before going to bed, Dong Zhuo said to his two sons-in-law.
At this moment, Li Ru and Niu Fu rarely understood their father-in-law's state of mind at the same time.
After experiencing severe cold and snow in November, the entire December in Guanzhong seemed sunny and pleasant.
Therefore, shortly after Gongsun Xun arrived in Chang'an, he took a short rest and then set off from Chang'an to the Lishui camp where Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song were located.
The journey this time was only a mere two hundred miles, and the Guanzhong Plain was smooth all the way along the Wei River. Therefore, Gongsun Xun's tens of thousands of forbidden troops marched westward for only three days. On the morning of the fourth day, they could already see Yongzhou in the distance.
Yong County, where it was named after, was located, and even Han army rangers under Dong and Huangfu appeared within the army's field of vision, and the two sides immediately established contact and interaction.
Half a day later, under the clear winter blue sky, the former army had arrived at the reserved position and immediately set up camp. At the same time, in the two camps on the left and right, former General Dong Zhuo and Left General Huangfu Song had already led their respective army lieutenant generals.
Come here to greet me.
At this time, the army commander Gongsun Xun also stopped a few miles in front of the camp, and then led the army lieutenant general to dismount and rest by the roadside while he tidied up his appearance.
At the same time, he also summoned the commander of the army, Ma Jiaxu, and took the initiative to seek advice.
"It's true that Duke Dong and Duke Huangfu are deplorable, and I respect them as veteran generals in the army, but this time the enemy is in front of us and the military is in danger, so we can't care much about it." Gongsun Xun stood by the road, while he was talking about Yicong.
With the help of others, he put on his armor and girded his head and got straight to the point. "Wenhe, I have always believed in Yan Shude's words. Since we met in Mengjin that day, I have regarded you as a good and ordinary person. Please tell me today, what should I do?
How can we unify military power?"
Jia Xu was silent for a moment, and then looked at the dozen or so officials from Guanzhong who had come from Chang'an beside the road... He didn't believe that Gongsun Xun didn't have plans and preparations in his heart, nor did he believe that he had studied Legalism in Yingchuan for many years.
The Xi Zhong did not give his lord a thorough analysis of the situation, but since the other party was an officer and asked this question again, Jia Xu could only answer it again.
"General." Jia Xu thought for a moment and then bowed slightly. "There is no clever plan for the current plan, because there are only three ways to go..."
"Tell me."
"The first ones are the generals who have come with integrity and Luoyang's clear decree. Dong Gong and Huangfu Gong are your lieutenants... This is a great righteousness, and it's just a matter of course!"
"good."
"Secondly, the former general and Zuo general both have old friends with the princes, and their ranks are as high as those of the three generals. They won't have a face-to-face conflict, right? We might as well talk about friendship, friendship, and military affairs..."
"Is it because you treat each other with courtesy and are soft?" Gongsun Xun smiled at him.
"Exactly." Jia Xu also lowered his head slightly.
"anything else?"
"What's more, I have no choice but to use my power to overwhelm the two of them." As he spoke, Jia Xu once again looked at the dozen or so two thousand stones accompanying the Chinese army, and then faced each other seriously. "After all, it is a military state.
It's a big event...but I think when things come to pass, with the conduct of Duke Huangfu and Duke Dong, no one will misjudge the situation."
In the three counties of Guanzhong, three prefects and three captains, except for one Gai Xun who stayed in Chang'an to take charge of the rear, the rest are all here. In addition to the original three school captains, one cavalry captain, and a nominal
It was six hundred stones, but in fact, the rank was equivalent to two thousand stones, and even the Northern Army's Lieutenant Commander Liu Biao, who had a slightly higher rank, had a total of ten people. Now they all follow Gongsun Xun's central army here... This is Gongsun Xun.
Four days ago in Chang'an, it was obtained in exchange for the heads of the eunuch's son, Chang'an County Magistrate Yang Dang, and the heads of the Gao family, a local wealthy family in Chang'an, who were related to the eunuchs close to the emperor's eldest son Liu Bian.
The purpose of this move is self-evident, which is to use these people as flower vases, so as to set off the majesty of Gongsun Xun, the general of the Wei, and perhaps to use this to dismount and establish his authority.
And Jia Xu's meaning is very clear...don't do such emotionally hurtful things.
Gongsun Xun had already finished dressing, as if he didn't see the other party's gaze, he just continued to ask with interest: "Is this the meaning of courtesy first and then fighting?"
"That's right." Jia Xu came back to his senses and continued. "The rebels only have one Liangzhou, and they are short of supplies, and they are uneasy about attacking Sili as rebels... Now they are blocked in Chencang, and they are anxious
It shouldn't be us, we are really not in a hurry."
Gongsun Xun was neither happy nor angry, and did not comment. He just nodded slightly.
Immediately, several people suddenly came up and presented a fine lined brocade robe, and they were about to put it on for Jia Xu. However, Jia Wenhe was obviously not comfortable with it, and actually dodged several times in a row... So
Suddenly, Gongsun Xun took a step forward and actually took the initiative to put on a brocade robe for the other party.
People around him looked sideways, but Jia Wenhe calmed down... He understood what Gongsun Xun meant. The other party didn't expect to use this little trick to conquer him, Jia Xu, but if he didn't do such a thing, how could he simply do it?
Can he directly express that he really regards Jia Wenhe as a figure like Zhang Liang or Chen Ping?
After everyone tidied up their gear, they remounted their horses and rushed to the camp ahead.
Although the camp there was still under emergency construction, because Qingqi had already informed Gongsun Xun of his arrival, and at the same time a new camp plan was drawn up between the two military camps, so no matter how wrong Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song were, they would still be there.
I was very professional and asked someone to help me get some antlers and the like.
When Gongsun Xun led his troops to arrive here, the two of them came out of the camp to greet them in person. The three of them chatted and laughed at Yan Yan for a while, but they only talked about the past, and did not even show the slightest bit of unhappiness. After a while, they heard that the servants in front of them were coming.
He reported that he had found a sunny high ground in the camp, and had set up chairs. He asked General Wei to rest, put up his staff, and raised his flag... Gongsun Xun even held arms with the two of them.
Let's go straight to that place.
Just as Jia Xu said - even if the dissatisfaction between these three people is obvious, even the subordinates of Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song, who arrived first, have begun to have friction in private, but at the highest level,
There is still some superficial effort.
Otherwise? Let people like Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song spit at each other face to face every day?
Spitting should also be done according to the rules.
When everyone arrived at the high ground, they saw the scepter set up and the flag erected... They were supposed to come forward to pay homage to the new commander-in-chief, General Wei Gongsun Xun, according to their respective ranks. However, at this time, most of the people who followed Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song came.
The subordinates were shocked to find that there was no place for them to stay on this mesa.
It's not that he deliberately made things difficult, but there were too many senior officials who came with Gongsun Xun, nine of them totaling two thousand stones, plus a lieutenant of the Northern Army. They surrounded Gongsun Xun like stars holding the moon. Therefore, there was no one with less than a thousand stones in the army.
People like Li Jue, Guo Si, Huangfu Li and others who were not qualified to step forward had nothing to say even if they reluctantly went up... The gap between two thousand stones and the officials below is really as big as a chasm.
Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, who were holding hands with Gongsun Xun, also noticed this scene. Although the two of them could not be said to have changed their expressions, they couldn't help but put away their smiles and looked a little serious.
Sure enough, when they arrived at Taichung, Gongsun Xun spread his hands and stood majestically in the center, while most of the officers who had followed Huangfu and Dong could not help but bow down together with the ten officials headed by Liu Biao.
But Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, who were standing not far away from Gongsun Xun, looked at each other and stood up straight with a straight face... They neither accepted this courtesy nor could they salute Gongsun Xun!
They are shameless!
But at this moment, Gongsun Xun, who was in the middle above, suddenly gave an order:
"My lords, in the past, Duke Huangfu destroyed Zhangjiao and saved the country from collapse, which was a great achievement. However, his removal due to natural disaster was actually the work of an eunuch and was supported by lies. Therefore, the mere general Zuo is really not enough to demonstrate his virtue...
…The imperial court may withhold the reward, but we cannot turn a deaf ear… Since it is rare for you, gentlemen, to follow me here, you might as well pay homage to Duke Huangfu again!”
Before Huangfu Song could react, he saw ten senior officials, led by party member Bajun Liu Biao, all bowing towards him to pay homage again. They could not help but force themselves to support him, and then laughed in embarrassment.
After this bow, Huangfu Song was relieved by 30%, but Dong Zhuo instinctively looked at Gongsun Xun.
Sure enough, Gongsun Xun said condescendingly: "My lords, in the past few years, Duke Dong has supported everything in Liangzhou, and it has also been Duke Dong who has worked hard to maintain the peace of Guanzhong and Luozhong... This war is about to start, and the imperial court will not act in any way.
Appointing him is a real disservice to Duke Dong, and you must not fail to pay homage to him if you receive his favor!"
After saying that, the ten military officials and local officials in Guanzhong also bowed their heads to each other obediently again and formally bowed to Dong Zhuo.
Unlike Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo sneered when he heard this, but held his head high and accepted the bow calmly.
Under the stage, Jia Xu, who had just raised his head, saw this scene. The good mood he had gained from Gongsun Xun adopting his theory of courtesy first and then fighting disappeared in an instant... He was sensitively aware that although Dong Gong, a fellow countryman, looked as usual,
But I was afraid that I had already gone over the edge.
PS: Sorry... I've been busy these past few days... I've lost my mind... On the last day of this year, there will definitely be a serious plot chapter to pay off the debt.
