Chapter 5: The King is willing to report a new color
At the end of the Meiyu season, Guo Jia and Wang Lang came to Xuzhou as two people with a few entourages. But when the Meiyu season ended and the golden autumn came in July, they left as four people with a few entourages.
Wang Lang had taken a leave of absence from General Shi Lufan before he came. He had not been to his hometown in Donghai County for a long time and really wanted to go back and have a look. In addition, Zang Ba was successfully transferred by Guan Yu this time.
When the entire county of Langya, a key area in the north of Xuzhou, surrendered to Hebei, Wang Jingxing inevitably had the idea of moving his family from the East China Sea to Langya.
As for the people who went north with Guo Jia, who was holding the staff on his behalf, they were the two envoys sent by Liu Bei after he actually captured most of the rest of Xuzhou. Their envoys were Lu Su and Lu Zijing. They were from the east city of Guangling, Xuzhou, and their deputy envoys were Lu Su.
Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong were from Xiapi, Xuzhou.
In addition, a close friend of Chen Deng, named Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi, also accompanied him, but Guo Jia turned a deaf ear to it.
In fact, after Chen Deng surrendered to Liu Bei along with the whole family, and coupled with his performance at critical moments, it is understandable that he got this important appointment to avoid risks when Liu Bei was about to clean up Xuzhou. As for Xu Shu, he thanked Zhang in person.
After the gift of a horse, he publicly rejected the invitation to serve as an official, and decided to continue traveling around the world to increase his knowledge and polish his knowledge, but he could not say anything about him.
Lu Zi was the only one who respected him. After several exchanges, Guo Jia felt that this person was a scholar on the outside but a showman on the inside. He was not a simple person, so he couldn't help but pay special attention to him.
By the way, there are some interesting stories and fate between Lu Su and Liu Bei.
You must know that Lu Su was born in Lujiang, but moved to the east city of Guangling in Xuzhou during the early Huainan turmoil. That place is where Guangling County extends into Jiujiang in the Huainan area. Logically speaking, it should not be under Liu Bei's rule. However, it is interesting.
What's interesting is that when Liu Bei relied on Tao Qian to gain a foothold in Penan, there was an episode... Penan was bounded by Suishui River, and there were actually eight counties. Liu Bei, the governor of Yuzhou, only took six counties as his refuge.
Land, why?
The reason is very simple. Tao Qian was still young at the time and was in good health, so his character was naturally as bad as ever. The disgusting things he did during that time were not just sending Zhang Zhao to prison... In fact, he felt that Liu Bei was
It was thanks to him that he was able to gain a foothold, so he simply took away two of the eight counties in Panan next to Xiapi State as reward!
And he took it for granted and was extremely domineering.
However, when Liu Xuande got Zhang Zhao's advice, three thousand ragged soldiers marched south to the Huaihe River and swept through Huainan. After the troops were well-prepared, they did not return the two counties. Instead, they accepted Tao Qian's invitation to Guangling.
After dealing with the harassment of Xue Li, the former Prime Minister of Pengcheng, he took the opportunity to swallow up Dongcheng.
It can only be said that Liu Bei is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
In fact, the Central Plains was really in chaos at that time, and the so-called Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Tao Qian and others were unable to truly grasp all the strategic space:
For example, there are Yellow Turban bandits in Runan and small warlords like Li Tong who effectively separatist power in Langling; there are frustrated people like Xue Li in Guangling who occupy the edges of rivers and seas and harass everywhere; there are tens of thousands of lake bandits and water thieves in Jiujiang and Lujiang.
; Peibei, Liang State has a large number of forts, not to mention the so-called clan thieves, bandits and the like...
And it's not just these, such as the short stories between Liu Bei and Tao Qian, Sun Jian and Cao Cao, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Liu Bei and Sun Jian, there are many similar episodes at the same time... It's like why Sun Jian invited Liu Bei to help him
He rebelled against Runan and wanted to hand over the east of Yingshui River to Liu Bei? One of the reasons he was embarrassed to say was that he was afraid that Runan's rebellion would become bigger. Liu Xuande took advantage of Sun Jian's inability to escape in Nanyang and directly appointed him as the governor of Yuzhou.
In the name of counterinsurgency, they occupied that place and then refused to return it!
When the time comes, will Sun Wentai fall out or give in? You can't say, please ask Liu Xiandi, the governor of Yuzhou, to return to me the counties in Runan County of Yuzhou that you rule?
The complicated situation at that time can be seen from another small detail when Sun Jian promised the territory east of Yingshui. Runan actually had eight counties east of Yingshui. Why only seven were returned because Chengfu County was located in Cao Cao
In hand!
Although Chengfu belongs to Runan, it is actually on the lower reaches of the Whirlpool River, not far from the place where Cao Cao and Gongsun took a bath. Before Cao Cao raised his troops, Cao Ren led thousands of gangsters to occupy that place. It was Cao Cao's original territory.
, Cao's influence in Guoshui was too great, and Sun Jian's strength was not enough.
To put it bluntly, these things are just the external manifestations of fighting and fighting between these relatively high-level warlords, and they also have to take care of the overall situation... Generally speaking, the overall situation is the overall situation, but privately they still have to fight for territory and grab the population.
of.
Use struggle to promote peace, use struggle to win respect!
Returning to Lu Su, Liu Bei arrived at Guangling and defeated Xue Li easily. Then he occupied the east city by hunting rabbits and immediately went to find Lu Su because Lu Su was from a wealthy family in Lujiang and his reputation was very great in Huainan.
Liu Ye and other local talents in Huainan were good friends with each other, and Liu Bei had heard of him a long time ago.
However, when we arrived in Dongcheng, we found out that Lu Su had run away again!
This guy saw the chaos in Guangling in Dongcheng, so he went home, back to Juchao... Liu Bei returned to Huainan, and sent people to Juchao to conquer Pi Lusu, only to find out that this guy actually ran away again, and was in trouble.
The idea of becoming an official, this time was to go to Jingzhou to defect to Liu Biao!
So Liu Bei hurriedly chased him. He chased him to the river and changed into a boat to chase him, but he couldn't catch him.
However, when he returned to Shouchun, his base camp in Huainan, he was so frustrated that he was surprised to find that Lu Su was waiting for him right here!
It turned out that when Lu Zijing was running around, he also felt that he was a bit unreliable, so before leaving, he came to Shouchun to discuss with his friend Liu Ye, which almost made Liu Ziyang laugh.
If you don’t vote, why are you running around?
Lu Su argued that Liu Bei was from Yan, and we didn't know him, but once a man committed his life, he had to obey him life and death. Could he defect to him so easily?
Liu Ye was too lazy to say more, and how could Liu Ziyang be such an economical person? This murderer who had been killing people since he was young simply locked up Lu Su by force with a wave of his hand, and would not let him out until Liu Bei came back.
But when Lu Zijing met Liu Bei and learned that he almost chased him all the way to Jiangxia, he burst into tears of gratitude, bowed his head and worshiped him, becoming Liu Bei's confidant from then on.
To be fair, whether it is Cao Cao, Liu Bei, or Sun Jian, they are by no means smooth sailing in the Central Plains and Huainan. But now that the world is in troubled times, who doesn't have a few stories? And if Liu Bei or Cao Cao can't be determined in the future.
Who in the world cares about these stories?
Back in front of us, Lu Zijing and Guo Fengxiao took Chen Deng and Xu Shu to the north, passing by Langya. They originally wanted to pay a visit to Zhendong General Guan Yu who was recruiting Zang Ba's tribe in Langya, but they did not want to become a leader of Zang Ba's subordinates because of the Taishan bandit Yu Du.
En Suo took advantage of the chaos and fled southward across the sea. Guan Yunchang was furious at this moment... Guo Jia, who knew Guan Yu's temper, couldn't wait long, so he hurriedly left a letter to express his gratitude, and then set off northward again.
Turn to Taishan County, pass through Jibei, go to Dongjun, cross the river from Cangting, and then go east to Weijun... From this perspective, the Central Plains of Hebei seems to be separated by just one water, which is far less than imagined.
The barriers are clear.
After entering Wei County, Xu Shu took the initiative to say goodbye and traveled on his own. Although Chen Deng was reluctant to leave, he had nothing to say. The experience in Xiapi had almost the same impact on both of them, so Xu Shu decided to walk more and see more.
Look, what else can Chen Yuanlong do?
A few days later, at noon in late July, a group of people entered the extremely prosperous Yecheng. They had just stayed in the posthouse inside the east gate. Before they had time to sigh and play, they learned that General Wei Gongsun was going to summon them. At this time, Gongsun was
They inspected the construction site of Tongquetai in the southwest outside the city, but when they heard that Lu Zijing and Chen Yuanlong were the envoys, they did not want to wait for a moment and summoned them directly.
Lu and Chen did not dare to neglect, so they immediately took the gifts prepared by Liu Bei and hurried out of the city to the Tongque Terrace by the Zhang River in the southwest of Ye City.
Due to the promotion and development of rammed earth technology, the table-top architecture of the Han Dynasty has actually reached a very mature stage. The rammed earth general platforms in military camps, the rammed earth periphery of military fortresses, and the rammed earth foundations of governments, schools, and sacrificial buildings are all very important.
Universal. As for Tongquetai as a majestic building for a ruling group, its scale is unquestionable.
Not to mention anything else, even if there are not many buildings erected on the platform at this time, a single ten-foot-high platform still looks shocking.
It was already evening. Lu Su climbed up the steps and went to the stage to see Gongsun. Before he reached the stage, he heard a voice above his head and asked:
"People say that with a sharp knife in hand, murderous intention arises. When you climb high and look far, heroism arises... What do you think of this place when you respect the heroes of Huainan?"
Lu Su and Chen Deng beside him hurriedly raised their heads, only to see a tall man with a beard but no beard. He was smiling and standing on the steps with his hands behind his back, asking condescendingly.
Lu and Chen saw that his appearance was quite upright, his speech was clear and he looked young. He seemed to be only thirty-two or thirteen years old. In addition, he didn't even have a seal or ribbon on his body, so they thought he was an important official in Yecheng.
The disciples heard that the Huainan envoy came here specifically to find trouble!
But the next moment, almost at the same time, Lu Su and Chen Deng both caught a glimpse of a strangely styled sword with a very long handle on this man's waist. However, they each panicked, and followed Guo Jia beside them, bowing and saluting, saying "General Wei".
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"If it's not an official reception, why bother to be polite? Langya bought it and the trip was successful. Fengxiao should have been allowed to rest first, but I heard that Lu Zizi was so respectful that he didn't dare to neglect, but he worked hard for Fengxiao." Gongsun went down.
Half a step later, he helped Guo Jia up first and praised him for a while.
"How dare you call it hard work when it's your duty?" Guo Jia, who was helped to the stage, quickly leaned over and said his duty.
"Since you're here, come with me on stage. Zhicai is also here, so you don't have to go find him to report to him again!" Gongsun nodded slightly, but then let him go and let him go to find the actor himself.
, and then looked at Lu Su underneath him again. "Zijing, you haven't responded to what I just said, right?"
"Foreign Minister..."
"Why talk about foreign ministers? Aren't you a minister of the Han Dynasty?" Gongsun smiled and said, "Besides, when you come to my place, even Xuande will not call himself a foreign minister, but will call himself a younger brother."
"Uh, my subordinate... I think that the Tongque Tower is majestic. Although the tall building has not yet been completed, it still has a lot of atmosphere!" Lu Su had no choice but to change his mind.
"What can you see when you are in the audience?" Gongsun laughed again and reached out to help him onto the stage. "Come up and have a look!"
Lu Su had no choice but to let the other party support him on the stage with one arm, while Chen Yuanlong was behind him, and he couldn't help but be envious.
The three of them stepped onto the stage, and saw that in addition to hundreds of guards in iron armor and cloaks, there were dozens of towering people with high crowns, some tall or short, some white or black, roughly divided into two piles, one pile except
Except for a very small number of young people like Guo Jia, most of them are middle-aged or old people, and almost all of them have green ribbons and silver seals. They seem to be important ministers, famous generals, and great Confucian figures here in Yecheng. On the other side, there are many
They are young people in their 120s, 20s, 30s, all of them are handsome and powerful, and most of them have bronze seals with thousand-stone or six-hundred-stone ribbons. Some of them have no seals and ribbons, and there are even four or five young men with tied hair and no crowns.
They were new talents or children of local nobles, and except for one of them, Jiang Gan of Jiujiang, who was an acquaintance, Lu Su did not know the rest.
But Gongsun and Lu Su walked arm in arm, but he was not in a hurry to introduce him. Instead, he came directly to the edge of the stage and leaned on the railing to look west... It was evening at this time, the so-called Zhang River is long, the sunset is gorgeous, the platform is ten feet high, and it is thousands of miles away.
Yanbo, calls himself weather.
"How?" After watching for a while, Gongsun suddenly asked again.
"really……"
"Is there any poetry?"
"I'm... stupid." Lu Zijing looked quite embarrassed. "I don't know how to write or write."
"I think so," Gongsun looked at Lu Su who was being dragged by him and shook his head and sighed. "Huainan is a place between the Central Plains and Jiangnan. On the one hand, it can be exposed to the culture of the Central Plains, but on the other hand, the people are fierce and there are many barbaric things.
, so the heroes there are good at planning, military, and killing, but they are not good at scriptures, and they don't care about poetry and poetry... This kind of habit is difficult to strive for in ordinary times, but it is arrogance in troubled times.
Capital of the world!"
Lu Su didn't know whether he should refute or not. He didn't even know whether the other party was praising him or scolding him. This feeling soon became stronger with Gongsun's words.
"Gentlemen," Gongsun finally turned around and looked at his group of subordinates, but he pointed at Lu Su and said with a smile. "This is one of the three heroes of Huainan I told you... Lu Zijing was famous for his work when he was young.
Selling land and houses, dividing wealth and making friends, can be said to be very ambitious and ambitious. He sees the overall situation like a fire in a cave. He has long had the ambition to divide the world and dominate the world with a wise master. The only thing he is not good at is civil administration.
His talents are still limited, not comparable to Xiao He, but slightly comparable to Deng Yu who was before Guangwu!"
All the ministers in Ye stared at Lu Su and looked him up and down, as if they were looking at the elephant that Shi Xie sent by sea. Even Chen Deng was dumbfounded and looked at Lu Su in confusion.
Lu Zijing himself was also quite embarrassed, but he was a hero after all, so he simply gritted his teeth and asked: "If you talk about it like General Wei, a wealthy man in Huainan can be called ambitious, and can be compared with Deng Yu, then who are the other two heroes?"
figure?"
"Does this need to be said?" Gongsun didn't take it seriously. "Liu Ye and Liu Ziyang are clever and good at making decisions. They are better at killing people than Zijing...not as good as Zhang Liang, but slightly better than Chen Ping."
Lu Su was actually irrefutable.
"There is another person named Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin. Compared with Han Xin, his military skills are slightly behind, but he is personable and can be called a Confucian general. More importantly, this person is like Zijing. Once he becomes a minister, he will not be shaken.
...In general, I feel that he is no worse than Han Xin!" Gongsun sighed. "Does Zijing know? Last year, I knew that the three of you were all under the Xuande curtain. Although I also understood that the land of Huainan belongs to him, the three of you
I couldn't escape from him, but I still couldn't help but issue an edict to let the three of you enter the court as officials... Unfortunately, after receiving the letter, Xuande not only pretended not to know, but directly returned me a box of ashes. And today he sent me a box of ashes.
You come here as if you are not afraid of me trying to win over you... What a pity!"
Lu Su's heart moved slightly, but he actually felt a bit grateful: "General Wei, why do you do this? Just as the general said, my family, Liu Yuzhou, has won Huainan, settled in Huainan, and treated the virtuous corporal with his people, not to mention Huainan's talents.
A dull person like me will repay him with all my heart; and General Wei is in charge of Hebei and Sanfu. Will the heroes of Hebei and Sanfu not follow General Wei? Why should the general care about the three of us so much... Let the general fall in love by mistake
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Gongsun Qing knew that the other party could not be shaken, so he laughed again and finally let go of his hand.
By the way, the three heroes of Huainan that Gongsun praised before were Deng Yu, Chen Ping, and even better than Han Xin. Many of the ministers around him were actually not angry for a long time. Only some of the important ministers and the elders had the city government.
, has never appeared, but among the young people on the other side, there are always those who can't help but be angry. When they saw Gongsun let go, they couldn't help but stepped forward to yell and ridicule.
There were three people who came up at the same time, but after looking at each other, the two uncrowned youths, one ugly and one handsome, immediately stopped for a moment. Only a young official with a seal took the lead and asked Lu Su:
"As the envoy said, Liu Yuzhou lived in Huainan, and the heroes of Huainan returned to Huainan. But is my General Wei just living in a mere place in Hebei? Since Dong Zhuo's chaos, General Wei has actually held the power of the world, and he is known as a talented person.
Compared with Deng Yu, I only feel the kindness of Liu Yuzhou for pacifying Huainan, why not feel the kindness of General Wei for pacifying the world?"
Lu Su didn't recognize this person, so he could only hand over his hands blankly, and then asked seriously: "Dare you ask me your name?"
"Last year, the seventh-grade official in Jizhou ranked first in the performance assessment and was appointed as the county magistrate. Wang Ling and Wang Yanyun of Taiyuan!" This person responded with his head held high.
"I'm sorry." Lu Su suddenly thought, and then continued to inquire sincerely. "What about the other two?"
"This is Sima Yi, who entered school last autumn and ranked first in economics in Ming Dynasty, Wen County, Hanoi!" Wang Ling pointed casually. "And this one is Wang Can of Shanyang, who ranked first in literature last year!"
Lu Zijing was feeling more and more emotional, but he first looked at Gongsun next to him, who was silent but smiling rather than smiling. Knowing that he could not escape this situation, he responded proudly: "I have seen three... In fact, what Wang Jun just said
This is very reasonable. Anyone who is grateful for his kindness should do it as a favor, which I also agree with. However, since the heroes of Huainan do not want to serve as generals of the guards and all follow Liu Yuzhou, it can only mean that Liu Yuzhou has kindness to Huainan.
, and Huainan has never seen the kindness of General Wei!"
Wang Ling was momentarily panicked and couldn't help but peek at Gongsun, only to find that the latter was just smiling.
I am the dividing line of smiling faces
"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yuzhou sent Lu Su to visit Taizu in Yecheng. Chen Deng accompanied him. They met at the Tongque Terrace. Taizu took care of Ye's ministers and outstanding people from the university. After the dinner, Su asked Deng:
"It's just the right person to cope with the rush, but the talent has not yet been exhausted. It doesn't matter who is crowned as an official. Among the young men, who is Yuan Long who is better?" Deng replied: "There are two young men on the stage who are outstanding in handling. The handsome one is called Sima Yi, and he has an ugly face."
The person said that Wang Can was a temporary choice. He shook his head solemnly and said, "Sima Zi's words are sharp and Wang's talent is impressive. However, just now I was debating with the ministers of Ye and made bold words, saying that General Wei has no kindness to the Central Plains."
, everyone changed their color, but a tall young boy stood on the side of the stage, unmoving, like a crane standing among chickens, just about to hear his name. "I asked privately about the history of the clan, it was Zhuge Liang of Langya!" "Shishuo Xinyu". Appreciation
