Chen Mu arrived in Linzi on the third day after setting off from Jinan.
On the distant horizon, Mount Tai rises one after another, towering and tall, and at the foot of the mountain, a lonely city stands.
There are many roads on both sides of the road. It is already late autumn and October, and wheat planting is about to begin.
Sumai is winter wheat.
Some people say that winter wheat is not grown in winter, and there was no winter wheat in the Han Dynasty.
However, "Book of Han: Chronicles of Emperor Wu": "The messengers advised flood-stricken counties to plant wheat in the valley." An ancient note by Yan Shi said: "Plant it in autumn and winter, and it will mature over time, so it is wheat in the cloud."
"Hanshu·Gu Yongzhuan": "We lose crops every year, and when the time passes, there is no wheat." An ancient note by Yan Shi: "Bi means frequency."
So let alone the Eastern Han Dynasty, even in the Western Han Dynasty more than 200 years ago, the planting industry in the north was already based on the methods of growing summer millet and winter wheat.
This is why Jizhou, Yuzhou, Henan and Hebei have a prosperous population.
Because while the Jiangnan area was still cultivating rice once a year, Henan, Hebei, and Guanzhong and Liaodong regions had already started growing summer millet and winter wheat twice a year, which could feed a larger population.
Chen Mu walked slowly on the fields with his heavy black armor. The weather in autumn and winter was gloomy, the wind was howling, but there were busy farmers in the fields on both sides.
Along the way, I saw this large group of cavalry passing by. Many farmers in the fields just glanced at it and continued with their farm work.
In these war-torn times, it was common for soldiers and horses to come and go, and they knew very well that this was definitely not the enemy.
Because Linzi of the State of Qi is the hinterland of Qingzhou and the seat of Qingzhou's governance, many people have adult men in their families who have been drafted into the army. They know that Liu Shijun is fighting with Jizhou in the north and has stationed a large number of soldiers and horses on the border.
There are so many soldiers and horses to protect us, and there is the towering Taishan Mountains to the west, cutting off the two states of Qingxu. If there are still enemies coming to Linzi, it is obviously an impossible thing.
Chen Mu was sitting on his horse and saw from a distance dozens of people standing in a pavilion two miles west of Linzi City. Some people were already waiting for him.
When we got closer about half a mile, we looked again and saw that the leaders were none other than Dian Wei and Jian Yong.
Dian Wei currently does not go to the northern battlefield to confront Jizhou soldiers and horses in Pingyuan Kingdom, but serves as a general and stays in Linzi.
Firstly, he served as Liu Bei's bodyguard, and secondly, after Tao Qian suddenly attacked Yanzhou, Liu Bei also felt that Tao Qian's attitude was unclear, so he took precautions.
"Liangbi, Xianhe!"
Chen Mu waved on his horse, and when he got outside the pavilion, he stopped his horse's hooves, turned over and dismounted.
"The son returns."
Dian Wei and Jian Yong came forward, hugged Chen Mu and laughed.
The three of them hugged each other, it was indeed a long time since they had seen each other.
Shiyi Sun Shao was an old official of Chen Mu, but their status was not as high as that of Dian Wei Jianyong, so they never dared to go up and talk, and could only accompany him with a smile.
After they finished reminiscing about old times, Shiyi smiled and said: "Four generals, Duke Ming is still waiting for you in the mansion."
"Um."
Of course Chen Mu knew that his eldest brother must maintain his dignity and could not take the initiative to go out of the city to greet him, so he looked at Shiyi Sun Shao and nodded and said: "Ziyu, Changxu, you have done a good job, continue to work hard and encourage him."
Of."
"Thank you, General Xie, for complimenting me on something trivial."
Both of them are very humble.
Chen Mu smiled: "After I go to meet my eldest brother, I will call you over to discuss some things."
"only!"
The two nodded.
Chen Mu's words before were superficially praising them.
In fact, he was talking about the Military Intelligence Department.
As the organization grew, the Military Intelligence Department also developed from its original secretiveness and gradually turned into a semi-dark and semi-dark organization.
However, this agency is not a special intelligence department on the surface, but is claimed to be Liu Bei's bodyguard, and its leader is Sima Dianwei, the Military Intelligence Secretary.
But in fact, Dian Wei didn't even know the overall structure of the Military Intelligence Department. He only knew that he had the title of Army Sima on his head, and he only had hundreds of Liu Bei's personal guards under him. He had no idea that there was an underground organization.
This is to push Dianwei out as a shield.
no way.
As the Military Intelligence Department moves around, it needs more and more power. If it remains in the dark, it will be difficult to obtain greater official assistance.
For example, a military intelligence officer lurked in Wang Fen's mansion in Jizhou, found out about the military situation, and ran back to the Pingyuan border. He was arrested by border defense soldiers because neither the soldiers nor the officers knew about the existence of the military intelligence department and did not listen to the officer's excuse.
, if you suspect that this person is a spy, it will be difficult to pass on the information faster.
Therefore, the Military Intelligence Department had to surface and at least let everyone in Qingzhou know about the existence of this organization. After all, with the title of Liu Bei's personal guard, many things would be much more convenient.
Currently, Shiyi and Sun Shao are both middle-level directors of the Military Intelligence Department, second only to Chen Mu, the commander, and the four senior officials: Ling Shi, Cao Shi, Chief Secretary, and Cao Yu. In Jushou's absence, they are responsible for the affairs of Qi State.
Some foreign intelligence activities.
Chen Mu came to them because he actually wanted to ask about the development of Xuzhou's Military Intelligence Department and the spying on Xuzhou's military intelligence.
After communicating with them, surrounded by everyone, the group marched into the city.
After returning to Linzi City, it will naturally be safe.
Hu Ping, Hu Yong, these black armored heavy cavalry should also take a vacation and go back to see Lao Hutou.
Now Hu Tou is over 50 years old and does not have long to live. As the eldest son, Hu Ping is ready to retire from the army and officially return home to work in farming to support Old Hu Tou in his old age.
Chen Mu dismissed the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry and asked them to go home, but he did not go back. Chenjia Village has moved outside Linzi City, and the whole village has come over. However, state affairs are more important, so he should go to Big Brother first.
Surrounded by a group of people from Dian Wei Jian Yong's Yi Sun Shao, Chen Mu rode Ziying slowly to the gate of the Prefectural Mufu Mansion, got off his horse and walked inside.
At this time, he was thinking about people like Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, and Wang Fen.
Suddenly, someone called him.
"The son returns."
"Um?"
When Chen Mu heard Dian Wei's voice, he turned his head and looked over in confusion.
However, in his field of vision, he only saw a big furry hand reaching towards him, trying to grab his collar directly.
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Chen Mu vaguely saw Dian Wei's evil smile in his peripheral vision, and was suddenly shocked.
Dian Wei is making trouble, is he doing this again?
However, he was not worried about his own safety and did not resist. He knew that resisting was useless. After the initial shock, he quickly calmed down and said, "Liangbi, what are you doing?"
Dian Wei took his neck and lifted him up like a chicken, innocently saying: "This is the order of Duke Ming."
Big brother?
Chen Mu was shocked.
Why did the elder brother catch me for no reason?
Could it be...
Has the affair between Liu Bian and Liu Xie been exposed?
Chen Mu's face changed slightly.
In fact, if you think about the problem from the perspective of a conspirator, the best way to solve the problem of Liu Bian and Liu Xie is to kill them, and you can also kill them with a borrowed knife.
For example, Liu Xie could borrow Dong Zhuo's hand.
Dong Zhuo originally wanted to kill Liu Xie, and even issued an order for Li Ru to do it, so there would be no flaws in Liu Xie's death.
But Liu Bian's death was different, because after people like Li Jue and Guo Si calmed down, they no longer wanted to kill Liu Bian. Instead, they began to collect rare goods and continued to stay in Luoyang, Guanzhong as his puppet emperor.
Therefore, it is almost impossible for Liu Bian to die without anyone noticing. It must go through the hands of Yan Zhong, Taishi Cihouxu and others to achieve this.
Therefore, the fact that Liu Xie, Liu Bian and others were spared their lives was not to show how pitiful I was about them, but to leave a way out for Yan Zhong, Taishi Cihouxu and others.
Because once the matter is exposed, he may not die due to brotherly feelings, but Liu Bei will definitely execute these related personnel without hesitation.
Now Liu Bian and Liu Xie are sent overseas through the ship owner he brought back at Xiaopingjin Ferry. When the Central Plains are unified in the future, Big Brother Huangpao will be added, and everything has settled, even if Liu Bian and Liu Xie's affairs are exposed, it will be of no use.
Because at that time things had become settled, and once Liu Bei sat in that position, it would be impossible for him to come down again.
But if a thunderstorm breaks out now...
For a moment, Chen Mu's face looked quite ugly, and his mind was filled with thoughts about how to make excuses... Oh no, explain...
Dian Wei carried Chen Mu, and the group entered the Prefectural Mufu Mansion and arrived outside the main hall.
There are people outside the palace. Officials of all sizes in Qingzhou, and even academic figures such as Taishan Academy Zheng Xuan, Guan Ning Bing and Wang Lie are also gathered here.
When they saw Dian Wei carrying Chen Mu in, they all had serious faces and looked at him seriously, with very strange eyes.
The hall was dark, with no lights on, and it was empty with no one else around. Only Liu Bei was sitting on the throne at the end of the hall, with a dark face, looking down at him.
From the perspective of camera lens language and psychology, this is called the trial perspective. For example, if a person shoots an interview lens from a particularly high position and looks at the interviewee from a bird's-eye view, the viewer will feel a sense of being
The interviewer feels like he is being interrogated.
In ancient times, this kind of perspective was often used when officials interrogated criminals. The officials sat on higher steps, and the criminals below had to kneel and look up at the officials. This would make the officials look taller, very authoritative, and intimidating.
So when Chen Mu saw this posture, he knew that the problem was serious, and he quickly went through the prepared quibbling lines in his mind, trying to keep himself calm and not appear too guilty.
If a person is too guilty, he will easily be defrauded of many things. As an excellent and highly intelligent person, he knows this very well.
"Ming Gong, Zigui has brought you here."
Dian Wei walked in and carried Chen Mu off the stage. It looked a bit like Liu Bei was interrogating him.
"Brother, what's going on?"
Chen Mu is still pretending to be innocent.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bei had a straight face and said solemnly: "You know why you ask questions."
"I really don't know."
"Still quibbling!"
When Liu Bei saw him like this, he became very angry. He pointed at him and said, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately denied it: "I definitely didn't hide anything."
"You still said no, and people are suing me!"
Liu Bei hated that iron could not become steel.
Chen Mu frowned, his psychological defense slightly loosened.
Didn't it mean that all the palace maids and eunuchs who accompanied Liu Bian were sent away together?
Could it be that Yan Zhonghou, Xu Taishi Ci and others did not do a good job and escaped some palace maids and eunuchs, and sued Liu Bei?
For a moment, Chen Mu started to sweat slightly on his forehead, and he didn't know how to answer.
"You."
Seeing him like that, Liu Bei shook his head, stood up suddenly, and sighed: "Fourth brother, even if it is for the sake of family and country affairs, you can't delay your marriage."
"ah?"
Chen Mu was stupid at that time.
Liu Bei walked down the steps of the throne room and said with a dark face: "If I hadn't gone out to inspect the city that day and the Qin clan members had explained the matter to me, I wouldn't have known that you had already delayed the Qin family's daughter for two years."
"That's right, Zigui. This is outrageous. The wedding scheduled for the spring of the following year was scheduled for the first year of Chuping. If you just break the appointment like this, won't you make the Qin family laugh at you, the Chen family?"
Dian Wei also chimed in and said: "There have been a lot of rumors in the city in the past two years. Many people said that the Qin family's Luo Fu couldn't get married because you disliked her. The Qin family members were also trying to persuade her to give up and simply move away from Qingzhou and return to Jizhou.
Forget it, it's the woman who doesn't want to do it. Even I can't stand you like this."
"In the third year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Ping ordered Liu Xin to make a wedding ceremony, which was called accepting, asking for names, accepting auspiciousness, accepting levies, asking for an appointment, and welcoming him in person. There is also a Book of Songs that says: When a great state has a son, he is the sister of Tiantian.
Wen Ding Jue Xiang, personally welcome me to Wei. When my son comes back to you, you hold the wild goose to ask for your visit, but you don't personally welcome him. This is not polite."
"Although a man's ambition is to put an end to the chaos in the world, how can he observe the great etiquette if he doesn't respect small etiquette? Zi Gui, you are going too far. You have obviously chosen an auspicious day to get married, and you should use wild geese as a courtesy, but you refuse the engagement.
What should I do if I let other women do it?”
"Yes, most of the six rites have been completed. Why did the wedding stop at the end? I haven't been home for several years. Is there any husband like you? How decent is it?"
Zheng Xuanbing, former Guan Ning, Wang Lie, and other academic old masters all had faces full of hatred for iron, and they came up to poke him in the head and teach him that he shouldn't be rude.
Xun Yu, Jian, Yong, Hua, Xin, Sun, Qian, Yi, Sun, Shao, Zuoji, Liu Qian and other officials and staff all suppressed their laughter.
You must know that these academic old masters are not easy to mess with. They all have stubborn tempers and no one dares to provoke them.
Because many officials in Qingzhou came from their disciples, not to mention Chen Mu, even Liu Bei had to respectfully hold the disciple ceremony when he saw them.
Chen Mu should naturally know by now that it was not Liu Bian and Liu Xie's affairs that were exposed, but that when he returned to Qingzhou two years ago, he took Luo Fu to inspect the salt-drying method in Le'an, and took care of the wedding matter by the way. For a moment.
At that time, in accordance with the "Etiquette Shihun Rites" and the six wedding rites of the Han Dynasty made by Liu Xin ordered by Emperor Ping, the first five rites were completed. In layman's terms, they were actually equivalent to the engagement process before two people got married in later generations.
The last gift is to determine the wedding date and then go to marry the bride, which is equivalent to the wedding ceremony in later generations.
As a result, because of the incident in Chang'an, he rushed to the rescue of Big Brother with 20,000 people. As a result, the wedding as originally planned the next year, that is, the spring of the second year of Chuping, was not held.
Counting the days, the five rites were completed in the first year of Chuping, which was the second half of 190, and it is now the third year of Chuping, which is the end of 192.
It has indeed delayed Qin Luofu for two years.
Thinking of this, Chen Mu drooped his head and said squeakingly: "I was wrong about this matter. Whatever big brother says, I will do it."
Liu Bei looked around and looked at everyone, and saw that everyone was looking at him with a smile just like him.
The principals and ministers looked at each other and smiled. Liu Bei stood on the stage, raised his right hand and shouted loudly: "What else can we do? Let's get married!"
Following his high-pitched shout, more than ten maids came out from both sides of the palace and surrounded Chen Mu.
Zheng Xuan stood up and said: "The day after tomorrow will be the day of the month of Renshenzi, and the zodiac will be auspicious!"
"At the beginning of the ceremony, the fourth brother was newly married, and the city was celebrating. I ordered people to hang silk silk on the roads inside and outside the city. The wedding team went back and forth between Qinjiazhuang and Linzi City for two days in a row. They scattered money along the way and the officials took a rest. For three days, the whole city held a banquet and had fun with the people!"
Liu Bei waved his hand, and everyone cheered, and surrounded Chen Mu as he headed toward the backyard.
The previous five rites have actually been completed, and what needs to be done now is the last step of marriage in the Han Dynasty, the personal welcoming, which is also the wedding ceremony in later generations. However, since the auspicious day of the zodiac is the day after tomorrow, Chen Mu must stay at home during these two days. Burning incense and bathing, you cannot meet the bride.
In fact, Chen Mu and Luo Fu have not seen each other for almost two years. When they first met, Luo Fu was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but now he has waited for him until he was twenty-one. At this age in the Han Dynasty, She is already the mother of several children.
This infatuation really moved Chen Mu. He himself is already twenty-six years old this year. Although there is a shameless Zhang Fei above him who keeps delaying getting married, he really can't do it.
After all, Zhang Fei didn't even have a marriage partner, and he was already engaged, so now that he's back in Qingzhou, it's appropriate to complete the wedding.
Therefore, Chen Mu did not object and accepted that Big Brother had done everything for him and quietly waited for the wedding to take place.