Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 694
Hua Xiong grinned, showing his white teeth.

On this day, no one knows what happened in Washington, except that in the evening, a carriage was slowly driven out of Luoyang, and when the city gate soldiers were interrogating, three young men were lying inside. , with a bruised nose and swollen face, already in a coma, I don’t know who committed the crime, the soldier was about to ask a few more questions, but the driver kept saying that they were injured by the fall and wanted to go back to the house to heal their injuries, the soldier looked at their passing documents again, and then let them go leave.

Since then, there has been one more person in Washington.

Liu Xi was sitting in Houde Hall, and the case in front of him had Hua Xiong's affairs on it, Liu Xi just smiled, it seemed that he still had to write a book by himself, to "persuade peace", and put the documents on the table. Standing aside, he picked up various memorials about the Wa Kingdom. Since the Wa Kingdom became a subsidiary of the Han Dynasty during the Xiping period, the Wa Kingdom has undergone tremendous changes. The temple divided the Wa Kingdom into two and set up two The princes and kings are governed by the same prime minister.

In these years, Xun You, as the Prime Minister of the Wa Kingdom, has been governing Nuo Da Wa Island. He is worthy of being an old minister who followed Yeye back then. Liu Xi sighed. In the year of Jianning, there was no mediocrity. This Xun Gong , after rushing to Wa Island, for nearly 20 years, he put all his energy on the local education. He did not develop the local farming, mulberry, and roads, but he kept on engaging in government studies and literature. enlightenment.

Xun You's behavior made his merits insignificant, and he was unknown among the many prefects. The prefects in various places were doing their best to make the local area develop rapidly. There were countless cultivated lands. The situation on the island is almost the same as it was 20 years ago. The cultivated land has not increased, but the population continues to migrate towards Ningzhou. Migration, which makes the population not increase but decrease.

In 20 years, it failed to change a small country. The officials had long been dissatisfied with Xun You, especially in the year of Yankang. Business is thriving, especially cotton planting, which has become an important production area of ​​the Han Dynasty. In the south, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou, also under the governance of capable ministers, have become rich.

Even the states like He Xinning, due to the blessing of the road, have active commerce and trade. Compared with the past, there have been earth-shaking changes. Only Wa Island has not changed at all. Naturally, all the officials want to succeed Xun You. If Wa Island can be ruled , It is bound to be able to get the attention of the emperor, just like Jushou, Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Guoyuan, etc., the emperor wrote letters to them, and became his confidant and beloved minister.

However, these impeachment papers, unfortunately, fell into the hands of Xun Yu. Xun Yu wanted to help the emperor review these. Ahem, Xun Yu directly discarded these memorials without even handing them over to the emperor. Come and watch, now that Xun Yu is not here, the content of these impeachments has just been seen by the emperor, Liu Xi is a little puzzled, logically speaking, Xun Yu doesn't seem like someone who would hide his crimes for his family, could it be that I read it wrong he? ?

Liu Xi frowned, continued to read, and watched the impeachment of the ministers together with Wa Dao's annual memorials. He was surprised to find that these ministers were not talking nonsense, but what they said were all facts. Xun You has been in Wodao for so many years, and Wadao has hardly any development in economy or other fields. Of course, it is not useless.

In every county town of Wa Island, Xun You set up official schools, and spent a lot of money to invite many scholars to give lectures to these Wa people, and kept opening libraries so that everyone could afford to read books. After the emergence of the technique, Wajima's book printing volume was second only to Luoyang's. You must know that Luoyang's printing was in charge of the government academy, a temple institution, and its scale and investment were completely incomparable.

At the same time, Xun You obtained a large amount of aid from the temple, and the aid was not money or food, but books and the like.

Liu Xi was a little puzzled, what exactly was this Duke Xun doing? ?Is he going to turn Washima into a place of Confucianism for the great Han?Looking at the mountain of ministers playing the table, Liu Xi didn't know how to treat this old minister. He thought for a long time before he called out: "Qi Yue!!" Qi Yue immediately walked in and walked towards Liu Xi. After bowing, Liu Xi said: "Call Pang Tong to me!"

Qi Yue hurried out of the temple and sent out the yellow gate to invite Pang Tong into the palace.

Pang Tong was studying Han law in his mansion. Lu Su did not wait for Lu Su who made an appointment to meet, but a group of Huangmen came. When Huangmen expressed their intention, Pang Tong was still a little dazed. Where did Pet this guy sue himself to the emperor? ?Huangmen didn't give him a chance to think, and dragged him to the palace. Pang Tong was taken to the palace before he had time to tidy up.

After entering Houde Hall, Pang Tong was still thinking about how to answer the emperor's question later.

Sure enough, Liu Xi didn't look very happy, frowning, unhappy, Pang Tong paid his respects to the Son of Heaven, then carefully sat in front of him, and asked: "Your Majesty, why do you need to call the minister so urgently? Could it be that some thief offended His Majesty??" Liu Xi glanced at him, and then said: "It's not offended either. Come on, take a look at these." Liu Xi handed a memorial to Pang Tong.

Trembling in his heart, Pang Tong took the playing table and looked at it seriously.

This is indeed the minister's impeachment, but the target is not him, but Xun You who is far away on Wa Island. Pang Tong has never met Xun You, but he also knows in his heart that this person is from the Xun family and seems to be a close relative of Xun Gong , Pang Tong looked at it seriously, the content of the impeachment was very simple, it was nothing more than inaction, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. Pang Tong looked at the emperor with some doubts and asked, "Your Majesty??"

"Hmph, look, I still have hundreds of articles about this kind of impeachment!!" Liu Xi said with some displeasure, then looked at Pang Tong, and said, "However, I don't know what's going on in Wa Island." I don't know, Xun Xiang is an old minister of Jianning, and I don't really believe that he will be so inactive. Therefore, I want to send a confidant to go to Wa Island on my behalf, so that I can see the situation there and see if there are any difficulties Or, is the content of this impeachment true?"

As the emperor said, Pang Tong nodded and asked, "Your Majesty wants me to go to Wa Island to inspect the local situation?"

Liu Xi said with a smile: "Shi Yuan is my confidant minister, so naturally you are the most suitable in Luoyang!"

Pang Tong was stunned, and said helplessly: "Your Majesty, don't dare to hide it. The subject is going to play after preparing. The subject and Lord Man, and Lord Lu are discussing the law. The subject recommends Luo Yang Ling Liu Yi, The Japanese king and his close relatives are even more close." Before Pang Tong finished speaking, Liu Xi interrupted him and said directly: "The matter of Wa Island has been delayed for countless years, and it is time to solve it. Other matters, When you come back, we can talk again!"

"Oh dear!"

"By the way, when you go to Wa Island this time, bring Liu Yi with you, as long as he's here, the King of Wa will not make things difficult for you if you want to investigate what's going on."

"Please!"

He watched Pang Tong leave with a smile. When Pang Tong walked out of the mansion, the smile on the emperor's face disappeared. He squinted his eyes and said in a low voice: "Great family. Haoqiang?"

When Pang Tong walked out of the palace, he felt that he was unlucky. Alas, this matter of compilation happened to be at a critical juncture, but he had to leave Luoyang and go to Wa Island. He was really unlucky. Pang Tong lamented in his heart. Suddenly, he stopped. He stepped back, turned his head thoughtfully, and looked at the resplendent palace behind him, he understood! !Pang Tong laughed, laughed all the way, and walked towards the mansion.

"Good means, really good means!"

When Pang Tong returned to the mansion, Lu Su was waiting for him. Seeing Pang Tong walking into the mansion with a smile, Lu Su was taken aback. Like Pang Tong, when he heard that Pang Tong was taken to Houde Hall, his first thought was It was Man Chong who played the Son of Heaven, Lu Su asked: "Shi Yuan is so happy, it seems that your majesty did not blame Shi Yuan?" Ask me to go to Wa Island as an envoy."

"Why?"

"Someone impeached Prime Minister Xun for his inaction."

"Oh," Lu Su sighed, and asked, "What about the new law? If Shi Yuan left, it would be impossible for me and Bo Ning to complete it." As Lu Su said, Pang Tong shook his head. , said indifferently: "It's okay, without me, maybe you two will do better." Lu Su hurriedly said: "It's a long road from Luoyang to Wa Island, maybe within this period of time , Shi Yuan can divide the work with Bo Ning and each complete their own part.”

"Okay, needless to say, I have important things to do, I'm afraid I can't take care of legal matters." Pang Tong said, packing up his belongings, looking at Lu Su in front of him, he lamented With a cry, he walked up to Lu Su and said, "Zi Jing, can you trust me?"

"Ah."

"The so-called king's law cannot only be used by the temple to govern the world. The king's law, the law of the son of heaven, the son of heaven, the son of heaven, is to protect the people of the world. Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are all the common people of the Han Dynasty. They should not favor one side and persecute the other. On the one hand, the people of the world should be consistent with the law of the king. I am not partial to the powerful and powerful families, and I want to speak for them, but I think that whether it is the people who are farming, or the merchants who go out, or those big families who are studying, Even princes and nobles, within the law of the king, should be equal!!"

Lu Su listened to Pang Tong's words and was silent for a long time before he asked, "Why did Shi Yuan tell me this?"

"Hahaha, when I leave, Zijing will understand!"

The next day, Liu Yi reluctantly left Luoyang with Pang Tong, and headed for Wa Island as an envoy of the emperor.

After they left, Houde Palace immediately dispatched the palace to invite Lu Su and Man Chong into the palace to discuss the new laws.

(End of this chapter)