I, Liu Bian, the hero

Chapter 80 Cui Lie, Cui Jun, Cui Jun
No one would have thought that General He Jin recommended Wang Yun of the Fu, and Hussar General Dong Zhong recommended his younger brother Dong Cheng. As a result, neither of them got the position of Huben Zhonglang, but Cui Jun, the son of Situ Cui Lie, got it. The ending can be said to have exceeded most people's expectations.

"Who recommended Cui Jun before His Majesty?"

After learning about this, He Jin asked his left and right confidants.

After inquiring about him, his confidantes told He Jin, "It's Shihou."

"Shihou?"

He Jin was startled, and the resentment in his heart for losing the position of Huben Zhonglang subsided a bit, but he was still confused, and asked with a frown: "For no reason, why would Shi Hou recommend Cui Jun?"

An insider told He Jindao: "Perhaps it was the Taiwei Cao Song who did it. During this period of time, Cao Song and Cui Lie have gotten quite close."

"Oh……"

He Jin was slightly taken aback, and was not surprised why Cao Song and Cui Lie came together.

At the beginning, Cao Song was rejected by the scholars in the court because of buying an official. No one thought that this shameless guy would take advantage of the eunuch and join Shihou's side, which made it difficult for He Jin to let the scholars go. Continue to attack and squeeze out Cao Song.

The same goes for Cui Lie. After the "Eunuch" incident, Cui Lie, who bought the position of Situ for 500 million yuan at the beginning, was also squeezed out by the scholars in the court like Cao Song. Hou, Cui Lie approached Cao Song, hoping that the latter would give him a hand, which is not incomprehensible.

The problem is, now that Emperor Ling has awarded the position of Huben Zhonglang to Cui Lie's son Cui Jun, what should we do?
Ask Your Majesty to take back the order and grant Wang Yun the position of General Huben Zhonglang?

Regardless of His Majesty's attitude, this move is tantamount to offending Shihou and Cui Lie at the same time—of course, offending Cui Lie is nothing, the problem is Shihou...

Thinking of his young but extremely stubborn nephew, He Jin also felt quite a headache. He didn't want to have another "Dong Zhuo Guan Yu Incident".

He privately asked his staff He Yong, and He Yong said solemnly: "The most urgent task is to find out whether Cui Lie has taken refuge in Shihou."

He Jinshen thought so, so he sent someone to invite Taiwei Cao Song to inquire about the situation.

Cao Song, who was invited, admitted with a smile: "This is indeed the case. A few days ago, Cui Situ took the initiative to show his favor to me and asked me to convey his loyalty to Shihou on his behalf. I recommended him in front of Shihou and arranged He met Shihou."

Cao Song deliberately said the opposite. In fact, it was not Cui Lie who showed his favor to him, but he was ordered by a certain Shihou to make friends with Cui Lie on purpose.

The reason is very simple, there is no suitable person in Liu Bian's camp to replace Yuan Shu as the general of Huben Zhonglang—yes, Liu Bian had guessed in advance that the Yuan family would probably sacrifice Yuan Shu, so he had been in the position of General of Huben Zhonglang for a long time. Candidates for career considerations.

At present, Liu Bian's camp is mainly composed of two parties. One is eunuchs headed by Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, and Guo Sheng. Zhi, Yangxu, and Cao Song are three ministers of the court, but it is a pity that these three are important positions and cannot concurrently serve as Huben Zhonglang. Moreover, Lu Zhi's disciples Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, Yang Xu's sons Yangmi, Yangqin, Yangdan, and Cao Song's sons, Cao Cao and Cao Zhang, are not yet qualified to serve as generals of Huben Zhonglang—Cao Cao is barely qualified, but Liu Bian is somewhat wary of this hero's actions in history. What's more, Cao Cao is Yuan Shao's best friend.

Therefore, Liu Bian thought of Cui Jun, the prefect of Xihe County, who was the son of Situ Cui Lie, who had shown his merits and demerits when Ding Yuan was the governor of Bingzhou.

Cui Lie didn’t have much notoriety in history. Apart from spending 500 million yuan to buy a Situ, the only thing worthy of criticism was that he suggested that the imperial court abandon Liangzhou during the Liangzhou rebellion, but was scolded by Fu Xie. , but people are still loyal to the Han Dynasty. In history, Li Jue and Guo Si led the army to attack Chang'an. Cui Lie, who was then the captain of the city gate, died in a fierce battle.

In view of this, Liu Bian instructed Cao Song to contact Cui Lie.

But the current Cui Lie, to put it bluntly, is a scum in the middle of the court, vacillating between He Jin and Dong Zhong, especially after the "eunuch incident", Cui Lie was squeezed out by the court officials, and it was naturally unavoidable He was gradually drawn over by Dong Zhong, so that last year when the imperial court discussed the rebels in Liangzhou, Cui Lie still spoke on Dong Zhong's side, but when he learned that Cao Song was ordered by a certain Shihou to contact him, Cui Lie He voted for Liu Bian without hesitation—this is the future prince, so why hesitate?
So the two sides hit it off, and Situ Cui Lie transformed into a courtier supporting Shi Hou, and Liu Bian also recommended his son Cui Jun as Huben Zhonglang General to replace Yuan Shu.

Cao Song didn't need to tell He Jin about this, just as he knew that a certain Shihou didn't like the Yuan family.

After hearing the ins and outs of the whole incident, He Jin also let go of his suspicions. In his opinion, as long as the position of Huben Zhonglang is not taken by Dong Zhong, it doesn't matter whether Wang Yun takes the position or he relies on his nephew Liu Bian. Cui Jun, the son of Situ Cui Lie, took up the post, but in fact, the difference is not too big.

So after Cao Song left, he ordered someone to call Wang Yun to comfort him, and made some promises to appease the disappointed Wang Yun.

Compared to He Jin, Hussar General Dong Zhong was very annoyed when he learned of this incident. After all, he and Liu Bian were not uncles and nephews, so naturally they would not settle down because of this, and immediately summoned Sun Zhang and Qu Mu to discuss countermeasures.

Shang Shu's regular attendant, Qu Mu, laughed at Dong Zhong secretly, and at the same time pretended to be considerate to persuade him, "Hu Qi, in our family's opinion, it's not a big deal for Hu Ben Zhong Lang to be given to Cui Jun, the son of Cui Lie." bad thing……"

"Isn't it a bad thing?" Dong Zhong questioned: "You can know that Cui Lie has taken refuge with Liu Bian!"

"So what?" Qu Mu spread out his hands, and said calmly: "Although Cui Lie is a celebrity, his foundation in the court is not deep, and he doesn't have much support. That Shihou sent someone to win him over. He is naturally happy." Do you want Cui Lie to sternly refuse to offend that Marquis Shi? Hussar thinks highly of Situ Cui... On the other hand, if Cui Lie doesn't want to offend that Marquis Shi, is he willing to offend Huu? Riding? Our family can guarantee that even if Cui Lie took refuge in Shihou, he would not dare to offend Huqi. Wouldn't this situation be far better than getting the position of Huben Zhonglang again by He Jin's people?"

"Really?" Dong Zhong was a little moved by the words.

Qu Mu said confidently: "Hussars try it and you'll know?"

Of course he was full of confidence, as if he had no burden to 'sell Shi Hou', after all, this matter itself was ordered by that Shi Hou.

With the intelligence of that Shi Hou, I believe Cui Lie has been instructed a long time ago.

Therefore, Dong Zhong, who was skeptical, sent his clan brother Dong Cheng to contact Cui Lie.

After meeting Dong Cheng, Cui Lie first explained that he had no choice but to take refuge in a certain Shihou, and then promised that he would never harm Dong Zhong's interests. No matter what Dong Zhong wanted to do in the Huben Army in the future, he would call his son Cui Lie. Open one eye and close one eye.

With such a cooperative attitude, even Dong Zhong couldn't expect more.

So a strange scene appeared in the court. Originally, He Jin and Dong Zhong quarreled over the ownership of the position of Huben Zhonglang. Unexpectedly, they kept silent.

Not to mention that some people in the court couldn't understand it, even Cui Jun, the son of Cui Lie who came to Luoyang for more than ten days to take up his post, couldn't understand it either.

Speaking of the father and son, there are also historical allusions, and they are quite loving.

At that time, Cui Lie, who had already worshiped the third prince, asked Cui Jun, the son of Huben Zhonglang general: "Now that I live in the third prince, what do people in the world think of me?"

Cui Jun replied: "My lord father was famous when he was young, and he has been in charge of the throne. The world regards him as the third prince, but now you are on the throne, the world is very disappointed."

Cui Lie was puzzled: "Why?"

Cui Jun replied: "The commentators think you have copper stink."

Cui Lie was furious and wanted to hit his son with a handcuff. Cui Jun, who was the general of Huben Zhonglang at that time, fled in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Cui Lie chased after him and scolded him: "If a soldier dies, his father will run away after beating him. Is this a dutiful son?"

Cui Jun turned his head and said: "Shun's service to his father, the small stick accepts it, and the big stick runs away. It is not filial!"

So Cui Lie stopped in shame.

But this time, Cui Lie did not ask his son what people in the world think of him, because he has already climbed up to a certain Shihou with the same status as the prince, so naturally he no longer has to worry about his official career. Luo Yang was very surprised that he could have both sides. After entering Beijing, he asked his father, "Did Father join the General, or Dong Huanqi?"

Cui Lie was very proud, stroked his beard and said to his son: "You will know tomorrow."

Cui Jun was secretly amazed, and Cui Jun, the older brother who served as Yilang when he asked, smiled and said nothing.

Yes, Cui Liesheng had two sons. The eldest son was named Jun, styled Yuanping, who was then Yilang of Chaozhong;

The next day, Cui Lie led his second son Cui Jun into the palace to meet Shi Hou. When he saw Liu Bian, Cui Jun realized that he underestimated his father, and that his father climbed up to Shi Hou!
He hurriedly saluted Liu Bian: "Cui Jun, the former governor of Xihe in Bingzhou, pay homage to Marquis Shi!"

"You don't need to be too polite." Liu Bian smiled and helped Cui Jun up.

Perhaps it was because of the loving allusion of Cui's father and son that he had a good impression of Cui Jun, but it is undeniable that in history, Cui Lie and his eldest son Cui Jun were captured by Dong Zhuo precisely because Cui Jun responded to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's attack on Dong Zhuo. He was arrested and imprisoned. Fortunately, his father Cui Lie and his elder brother Cui Jun escaped the catastrophe, but unfortunately they died in the battle of Li Jue and Guo Si when they invaded Chang'an.

Since then, Cui Jun has traveled all over the world and no longer serves as an official.

By the way, in the novel, Liu Bei met Cui Zhouping when he visited the thatched cottage, that is, Cui Jun.

All in all, Cui Jun is not Yuan Shao's man, he just couldn't get used to Dong Zhuo's evil deeds in Luoyang, so he responded to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's rebellion, which got a lot of points in Liu Bian's heart, so Liu Bian didn't mind Holding Cui Jun's hand, he told the latter some secrets: "...Hu Ben and Yu Lin have always been banned by our Han Dynasty, but I don't know when, the two armies have become places for rich families to mix their seniority. After passing Huben Zhonglang, he is naturally aware of the evils accumulated in the army, and now I want to gradually revive the imperial army, and Wang Qing will spare no effort to gradually eliminate the accumulated evils of the imperial army for my Han family."

Seeing that this Shihou in front of him has such a grand goal despite his young age, Cui Jun was both surprised and happy, and under the urging of his father Cui Lie, he agreed solemnly: "I will do my best!"

After some exchanges, Cui Lie, Cui Jun and his son left happily, while Liu Bian returned to the hall, staring at the piece of paper laid flat on the table.

On that piece of paper, there were written words such as 'Chengmen Xiaowei', 'Weiwei', 'Zhijinwu', 'Hu Ben Zhonglang General', 'Habayashi Zhonglang General' and so on.

They are all official positions of the Luoyang Forbidden Army.

(End of this chapter)