I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 77, the ministers object!
After Lingdi saw the memorial, he immediately summoned the three princes and nine ministers and asked: "Now the court has no money, and the war can't go on. Fu Bian said that he wants to appease the yellow scarf bandits in Jizhou. What do you love about Fu Bian's memorial?"

Lieutenant Cui Lie immediately stood up and said: "I can't appease you, Zhang Yan and these yellow scarf thieves slaughtered the officials of the gentry, causing harm to the common people. Now they have reached the end of the road, so naturally escape and strangle these thieves!"

Cui Lie's hometown is Qinghe County in Jizhou. Although it was not the main battlefield, he fled early when Zhang Niujiao was encircling and suppressing the nobles, but all his family property was gone, and even the fields were not returned by Fu Bian, and his relatives also died. Many, it can be said that there is no official in the imperial court who has a greater hatred with the Yellow Turban Army than him, and he does not agree to appease the Yellow Turbans in public or private!

Other ministers also strongly opposed it, not because they had any deep hatred for the Yellow Turban Army, but because they felt the same way, Cui Lie is too miserable now.

What Zhang Niujiao and the others did at the beginning was too exaggerated, and hundreds of noble families in Jizhou were directly hit hard. You must know that Jizhou is one of the top three big Han clans.

Now it's all over. It's impossible for the nobles in Jizhou to recover without hundreds of years. This is really terrible for the nobles in other places, and there is no such thing as a change of dynasty.

Their class attributes make it impossible for them to accept that Zhang Yan and other yellow scarf thieves continue to live in this world, don't even think about recruiting them, Zhang Yan and these leaders will kill the nine clans one by one, and cut them to pieces!

It is necessary to let the thieves in other places know what happened to Zhang Yan and the others, and to know that the nobles and nobles are sacred and inviolable!

Cui Lie shouted loudly: "Fu Bian has cheated on the yellow turban bandits, and he will be arrested and tried. The imperial court will send generals to exterminate the yellow turban bandits in Jizhou!"

"Master Taiwei is right!"

"That's how it should be done!"

All the other officials agreed with Cui Lie's proposal!

Emperor Ling shouted loudly: "Shut up!"

The officials were all frightened, and they all looked at Lingdi silently!

Emperor Ling looked coldly at all the civil and military officials and said, "Know each one, kill, kill, kill!"

"What about the money?"

"It's only December now, and the national treasury is almost empty. Are you planning to let me eat dirt! Or are you planning to let the frontline soldiers eat dirt to wipe out the bandits! You can continue to fight if you want to, and find a way to get money out yourself! "

Situ Xu Xiangdao: "Even if the imperial court has no money, the yellow scarf thieves cannot be spared. If the thieves like Zhang Yan are recruited today, will the rest of the thieves in the world follow suit, so that the world can be stable!"

"There is no money in the national treasury, so the court just needs to increase taxes. Exterminating these thieves is also for the safety of the people. The people will understand the court!"

The Shangshu ordered Lu Zhi to come forward and said: "It must not be done. In recent years, the imperial court has raised taxes many times in order to suppress the rebellion in various places. If we want to increase the tax, I am afraid that the yellow turban thieves from all over the world will reappear. You must know that they were in Jizhou just now. Raise taxes, and Zhang Niujiao will start a riot, and everyone will not worry about another Zhang Niujiao appearing in the Central Plains!"

Lu Zhi's words really worried all civil and military officials. If Zhang Jiao was a well-behaved rebel, everyone really wouldn't be worried. Terrible, for these officials, this is almost the same as Zhu Jiuzu.

The general He Jin went out and said: "Your Majesty, it is better to recruit first. After Zhang Yan and other bandits give up their military power, it is not something that a few small officials can do. It doesn't need too much force."

He Jin's words moved Emperor Ling a little. He didn't care about Zhang Yan's massacre of the nobles in Jizhou. After all, he didn't have much affection for Lingdi!However, it is time to pull out Zhang Yan's poisonous thorn in the Central Plains. If the whole Jizhou can be settled down by appeasement, Emperor Ling is willing. As for the revenge of the court officials on Zhang Yan , Emperor Ling didn't care either!

But Lu Zhi stopped him and said: "The general's words are wrong! If your majesty appeases Zhang Yan, you must ensure his safety, otherwise the court and your majesty will break the trust of the world. Such a scheme will damage the majesty of the court and your majesty! "

Lingdi immediately realized that this was not using his own little majesty to help the nobles and nobles in Jizhou vent their anger. Was he familiar with the nobles and nobles in Jizhou?
He wished that all the nobles in the world would be massacred by the Yellow Turban Army, and no one could be cheaper than these nobles. He remembered that when Zhang Niujiao started the incident, all civil and military officials said in secret that I was making money, which made Zhang Niujiao and other bandits come again. Rebellious.

You can't do such a thing for a cheap and wealthy family!
So he said: "If Zhang Yan is recruited, Zhang Yan will be an official of the imperial court in the future, and everyone will not be able to say anything about revenge in the future!"

Cui Lie said angrily: "If the court really appeases a traitor like Zhang Yan, this old official will not do it!"

Emperor Ling knew that Cui Lie's family had suffered heavy losses, so he had a rare good temper and said: "Taiwei, the court has no money, and there is a Xiliang thief who wants to fight. The court can't help Zhang Yan at all, so what if they don't appease him!"

Cui Lie said: "Jizhou is the court's confidant, and Xiliang is just a frontier land, so it doesn't matter if you abandon it. It's rare for a big man to get a penny of taxes from Xiliang these years. Abandoning Xiliang is a big deal for the court. Abandoning a huge burden, 10 Xiliang elites entered the Central Plains, what yellow scarf thieves can't be defeated!"

Cui Lie's remarks about abandoning Xiliang shocked all civil and military officials. No one thought that Cui Lie would say such words for revenge. This is the land of abandoning their ancestors!
Tao Qian was furious after hearing Cui Lie's remarks, and immediately shouted loudly: "Situ Ke beheaded! Behead Situ, the world will be safe!"

This remark made all four people startled.

Cui Lie was furious and said: "You are just a defeated general, if it weren't for the magnanimity of the emperor, you are now in Zhao Prison, and now you dare to talk nonsense in the court!"

Tao Qian was a disciple of Cheqi General Zhang Wen. He followed Zhang Wen to Xiliang to quell the rebellion. It was just that he followed his teacher and returned after a defeat. Thanks to his teacher's relationship, he was not punished too much and became a Minister of the imperial court.

In order to save Situ Cui Lie's face, the civil and military officials had to write to the emperor, impeaching Tao Qian without words.

Tao Qian calmly replied: "Liangzhou is the center of my great man, the barrier of the country, the foundation established by our ancestors through untold hardships, how can we just say no to it? How will your majesty face it after a hundred years?" The previous emperors of the Great Han Dynasty!"

"Cui Lie, as the Sangong, was the prime minister of the court. He didn't try his best to find a way to eliminate the rebellion, but he opened his mouth and said that he would give up my great Han territory. If this kind of person is not killed, who should be killed? If the rebels occupy Xiliang, the power Expansion, after the increase in military strength, the invasion of Sanfu, Chang'an was shaken, is it true that the imperial court even gave up on Chang'an!"

(End of this chapter)