Chapter seven hundred and eighty sixth noble deceitful
Kou Xun almost laughed. Hou Ba impeached Zhu Fu and went to Emperor Shu to suggest that Zhu Fu should be killed. His Majesty, instead of killing him, he asked Zhu Fu to serve as King Wu.
Although after the restructuring, Zhi Jinwu's real power was greatly weakened, and he basically dropped out of the Nine Qing Dynasty. But if he no longer has real power, he is still Zhi Jinwu, who is much more prominent than Youzhou Mu.
He pondered for a moment and said: "His Majesty's decision to let the civil servant be Kingo must have been carefully considered."
When Liu Xiu heard this, he laughed loudly and praised: "Ziyi still knows my heart well."
Zhijinwu is responsible for the security of the capital and is the last line of defense to protect the capital. If trouble occurs in this line of defense, it will directly threaten the palace.
Therefore, the person who appoints King Wu must first of all be the person Liu Xiu trusts the most. Secondly, it is best not to be a brave and skilled general. After many choices, in Liu Xiu's mind, there is no one more suitable than Zhu Fu.
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No matter what Zhu Fu was like as a person and how many shortcomings he had, he was really loyal to Liu Xiu. In addition, Zhu Fu himself was also a very capable person. He made suggestions for Liu Xiu and participated in the formulation of many national policies.
Kou Xun said with a smile: "Your Majesty is far-sighted and far-sighted. I am ashamed of myself."
Liu Xiu smiled and said, "Ziyi is too self-effacing."
On the way south, Liu Xiu was not idle, and received some important memorials from time to time.
He had just appointed Hou Ba, but as soon as the latter took office, he impeached Zhu Fu. This made Liu Xiu very unhappy, and he was also considering whether to remove Hou Ba from his official position.
After Kou Xun said this, Liu Xiu gave up the idea and decided to continue to retain Hou Ba, but he would not punish Zhu Fu. Instead, he transferred Zhu Fu back to the capital from Youzhou to serve as the governor.
The next day, Liu Xiu issued an order to appoint Kou Xun as the prefect of Runan, and Hou Ying took over the post of prefect of Yingchuan.
In addition, Kou Xun's original title of Marquis of Chengyi was changed to Marquis of Yongnu. Chengyi is a small county with only a thousand households, but Yongnu is a truly large county with a population of tens of thousands of households.
Liu Xiu changed the title of Kou Xun to the title of Yongnuhou, making Kou Xun one of the Ten Thousand House Marquises of the Luoyang court, on par with Deng Yu. Through Liu Xiu's awards, we can also see his appreciation and reliance on Kou Xun.
Liu Xiu only stayed in Yangzhai for two days. On the third day, Liu Xiu set off and continued southward towards Nanyang.
To make a long story short, not long after, Liu Xiu and his party crossed Yingchuan and entered the border of Nanyang.
Nanyang now is very different from before.
When the Han army marched southward to Nanyang, Nanyang was devastated and the people in every county were displaced. Now, if we look at the counties in Nanyang, they are all prosperous, chaotic and overcrowded.
Not long after Liu Xiu and others entered Nanyang, going further, they reached Ye County.
Ye County is located near the junction of Nanyang and Yingchuan. It is a large county. In the past, the population of Ye County exceeded 10,000 people. Now, it is estimated that there are as many as 40,000 to 50,000 people in Yecheng City.
Even the villages around Ye County were overcrowded. As soon as the emperor's guard of honor entered Ye County, the county magistrate came with county officials to greet him. The greeting place was at least twenty miles away from Ye City.
The name of County Magistrate Ye is Li Jian, a middle-aged man in his early forties. When he saw the emperor's ceremonial guard approaching from a distance, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed forward. The county officials behind him also knelt down one after another.
Kowtow together.
When the honor guard came closer, they stopped. Li Jian took a peek and saw a young man wearing a black crown coming out of a carriage. He hurriedly said loudly: "Weijun Ye County Magistrate Li Jian,
Meet your Majesty!"
The young man who came out of the carriage was none other than Liu Xiu. He walked up to Li Jian, stood still, waved his hand and said, "Please get up, Magistrate Li! Everyone, please get up too!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The county officials headed by Li Jian stood up one after another, hunching their necks, raising their shoulders, and bowing their waists, not daring to take a breath.
Liu Xiuxiao asked: "County Magistrate Li!"
Li Jian hurriedly bowed and saluted, and said respectfully: "Wei Chen is here!"
"How far is this place from Yecheng?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, this place is more than twenty miles away from Yecheng."
Liu Xiu was happy and said slowly: "Everyone else came ten miles away to welcome me, but only County Magistrate Li came out more than twenty miles away."
Li Jian secretly grinned. He couldn't tell whether the emperor was praising himself or scolding himself when he said this.
Liu Xiu raised his eyes and looked around. He was surrounded by crop fields as far as the eye could see. They were green and growing happily. When Liu Xiu saw this, he nodded with satisfaction and murmured: "It seems that there will be a good harvest this year!"
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Food is the most important thing for the people, and only when the harvest is good can the world be at peace. Liu Xiu, who was born at the bottom of society, knew this very well.
Li Jian nodded and bowed and said: "Your Majesty is the destined emperor, and you are under your care. Even God favors our Ye County and our country of Han!"
The tall hat he was wearing made Liu Xiu laugh loudly, raised his head and said: "County Magistrate Li, let's go to the city to talk!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Your Majesty, please!" Li Jian trotted to the carriage, lifted up the curtains, and did not dare to look inside. He lowered his head and waited for Liu Xiu to get on the carriage.
Liu Xiu sat back in the carriage and the team continued to move forward. Li Jian and other county officials followed behind the carriage and walked forward.
They had only gone five or six miles when a large group of people suddenly ran in front of them, blocking the team's way.
The faces of the Yulin guards who were clearing the way in front also darkened. One of the military commanders rushed forward and shouted angrily: "How brave! How dare you block the emperor's guard of honor? What crime do you deserve?!"
This group of people are all well-dressed, and you can tell at a glance that they are not refugees. The leader is a young man in his thirties, wearing a brocade robe and brocade boots. You can tell at a glance that he is a young man from a wealthy family.
The young man knelt down, kowtowed forward, and said, "The common people have been wronged!"
As soon as he knelt down, everyone behind him also knelt down. Most of these people were dressed as servants in Qingyi. Looking at it, there must be twenty or thirty people.
Seeing this, the Yulin guards all frowned and ran to the emperor's guard of honor to complain. How brave does this have to be?
Before the Yu Linwei could attack, Li Jian and other county officials ran over in a panic. Seeing the people kneeling and crying out for injustice, Li Jian and others felt a headache.
He was no stranger to this young man. The young man's surname was Wang Mingben. He was a well-known wealthy man in Ye County. He had a huge fortune, slaves and many customers. He was also considered powerful in Ye County.
Of course, the power of the Wang family was limited to Ye County. But in the eyes of the princes and nobles who came back from Luoyang, the wealthy Wang family was nothing.
Seeing clearly that it was Wang Ben who was blocking the Emperor's guard of honor, Li Jian's scalp went numb. He stepped forward quickly and reprimanded in a low voice: "Wang Ben, are you crazy? Take your people and leave quickly. You have disturbed His Majesty. Are you okay?"
Ten heads are not enough to chop off!"
Wang Ben, who was kneeling on the ground, glanced at Li Jian and said loudly: "County Magistrate Li cannot make decisions for the common people, and the common people can only come to ask your Majesty to make decisions for the common people! Your Majesty, the common people are wronged!"
Li Jian had one head and two heads. He grabbed Wang Ben's clothes and was about to forcefully pull him up and pull him aside. At this time, Xuying came over, glanced around the scene with lightning eyes, and asked in a deep voice
:"How is this going?"
Military Marquis Yu Lin hurriedly raised his hands and saluted, and said: "General Xuying, this person is here to kneel down and cry out for injustice!"
Hearing this, Xuying was also stunned, and turned to look at Wang Ben. Wang Ben seemed to have found his backbone, walking with his knees as his feet, kneeling forward a few times, crying and choking, and said: "General,
The common people are wronged!"
Xuying stared at Wang Ben and asked, "What's your name?"
"The king of grass people is running!" "Who are you going to sue?"
Wang Ben glanced at Xuying, took a deep breath, and said: "The common people want to sue the King of Surabaya!"
The King of Sishui was Liu She, who, like Liu Xiu, came from the lineage of Liu Fa, King Ding of Changsha. According to seniority, Liu She was Liu Xiu's clan father.
Liu Xiu had a particularly good relationship with Liu She's son Liu Zhong, and they had been playmates since childhood.
After Liu Xuan was killed, Liu She and Liu Zhong ran to Luoyang and defected to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu treated them both well. Liu She was named the King of Sishui and Liu Zhong was named the King of Zichuan.
Hearing that the person the other party wanted to sue turned out to be Liu She, Xuying couldn't help being startled and asked: "Why do you want to sue the King of Surabaya?"
When Wang Ben heard this, he burst into tears and said with snot and tears: "The common people have a hundred acres of fertile land in the north of Ye County. But when the King of Surabaya arrived in Ye County, he insisted that the hundred acres of fertile land belonged to him.
The common people have been wronged. General, please make the decision for the common people!"
Hearing this, Xuying frowned secretly. He was not familiar with Liu She, and he didn't know much about Liu She's personality.
He turned to look at Li Jian, who lowered his head and did not dare to say a word. Seeing this, Xu Ying understood that what Wang Ben sued was most likely true.
He said expressionlessly: "You come with me!"
As he spoke, he turned around and walked toward Liu Xiu's carriage.
Wang Ben looked happy and hurriedly got up from the ground, following closely behind Xu Ying. When he got close to the carriage, Wang Ben immediately knelt on his knees with his forehead on the ground, not daring to raise his head and look around.
Liu Xiu in the carriage lifted the curtains, looked outside, and asked, "Xuying, what's going on?"
Xuying said: "Reporting to your majesty, this man's name is Wang Ben. He blocked the holy driver on the road and sued the King of Surabaya for occupying people's fields!"
Liu Xiu frowned when he heard this. He knew about Liu She's return to Nanyang to buy land, but Liu Xiu didn't know about Liu She's occupation of people's farmland. He looked at Wang Ben who was kneeling on the ground and said
: "Let him come closer and speak!"
Xuying agreed, walked up to Wang Ben and said, "Your Majesty orders you to come over!"
Before he saw the emperor, Wang Ben could still yell and complain with passion. Now that he really saw the emperor, Wang Ben immediately withered. He didn't dare to get up at all, and crawled to the carriage on his knees.
, said in a trembling voice: "The grass people...the king of the grass people rushes to kowtow to His Majesty!"
"Get up and talk!"
"Thank... thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Ben stood up tremblingly and stood tremblingly beside the carriage.
Liu Xiu looked him over. Wang Ben looked pretty good, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, deep-set eye sockets, a high nose, and profound facial features. However, his eyes were always wandering, as if he did not dare to look at people, which gave people a sense of
It feels very obscene.
"You said it was the King of Surabaya who occupied your family's land?"
"Exactly!" Wang Ben bravely said: "Your Majesty, the King of Sishui has occupied the fields of ordinary people. The county government does not dare to take care of it, and the county government does not care about it. The ordinary people are really forced to have no choice, and they have no choice but to stop His Majesty's holy drive.
For disturbing His Majesty, the common people deserve to die!"
As he spoke, Wang Ben knelt down again and began to cry bitterly.
Liu She is a prince, nobleman, the emperor's clan father, and a small county magistrate. Naturally, he dare not interfere with Liu She's affairs. As for the Nanyang Prefect, as Wang Ben said, he will not interfere with this matter. Even if he does, he will only do so.
Prefer Liu She.
The person currently serving as the governor of Nanyang is Liu Shun. This is also Liu Xiu's brother. Liu Shun's father is Liu Qing, who was once named King of Yan by Liu Xuan. Later, in the battle with the Red Eyebrow Army, Liu Qing died in battle, and Liu Qing died.
Shunze fled to Luoyang and took refuge with Liu Xiu.
Although Liu Xiu did not make Liu Shun a king, he also made him a marquis. Moreover, the size of Liu Shun's fiefdom was even greater than that of Deng Yu, and was several times that of many of his clan members who were made marquises. Liu Xiu was indeed very generous, whether it was
To his subordinates, or to his fellow clansmen.
Liu She is Liu Xiu's clan father, and Liu Shun is Liu Xiu's clan brother. In terms of seniority, Liu She is naturally Liu Shun's clan father.
As the prefect of Nanyang, how could Liu Shun take care of Liu She? For private purposes, that was disrespectful to his elders. For Gong, he was just a marquis, and Liu She was the king. How could a marquis take charge of the king?
Therefore, Liu She occupied the land of Wang Ben's family, and no one cared about it, and no one asked about it. Wang Ben, who had no way to sue, had no choice but to take the risk and come to Liu Xiu to sue.