I, Liu Bian, the hero

Chapter 99: Six Years of Zhongping!

A few days later, Emperor Ling issued an order to reward the heroes who escorted Wang Fen's rebellion.

The first six people are awarded, namely Cao Cao, Liu Yu, Gongsun Zan, Huan Dian, Cui Jun, and Dong Zhong.

In addition to Cao Cao, who had already been granted the title of marquis when he was in Hejian, Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, was enshrined as Marquis of Tan, with [-] households of food; Huan Dian and Cui Jun were both enfeoffed as township lords, with two thousand households in Shiyi.

The last is Dong Zhong, bestowed the title of Marquis of Zhongshui, with [-] households in the city of food, at the same level as Liu Yu.

Hearing the news, there was an uproar in the court, and General He Jin led a group of people to protest against it. After all, Liu Yu had the merits of challenging Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in the past, so why did Dong Zhong get such a title this time?
Just because he was shot by Liu Ya while escorting him?

But it is a pity that as long as Queen Mother Dong is still alive, Dong Zhong is destined to receive special care.

In addition to the above few people, Dong Cheng and Cao Chun were also commended and each was named a school lieutenant.

Regardless of Dong Cheng for the time being, Cao Chun worshiped as a school lieutenant at a mere age, which made many people envious, including Xia Houyuan and Zhang He, who had just joined Liu Bian.

By the way, although Zhang He was involved in Wang Fen's rebellion, although the plot was relatively minor, and he belonged to the group of people who were deceived by Wang Fen, even so, he was still not allowed to enter the palace to become Liu Bian's bodyguard, so Liu Bian sent him to the palace. He was recommended to serve as Sima under the command of his second uncle He Miao. Similarly, Ju Shou, who had a more serious plot, was also recommended by Liu Bian to serve as a governor in He Miao's house.

Speaking of Jushou, Liu Bian did not break his promise. After bringing Jushou to Luoyang, he arranged for Jushou to meet Lu Zhi, Yang Xu, Yang Biao and others.

Unsurprisingly, Lu Zhi, Yang Xu, and Yang Biao severely criticized Wang Fen, saying that Wang Fen, as Liu Bian said, committed misdeeds in the name of justice. After returning home, he tried to commit suicide by taking medicine. Fortunately, Liu Bian had expected it, and summoned Jushou's younger brother Juzong to watch his brother, and then rescued Jushou in time.

Afterwards, Liu Bian had no choice but to ask Lu Zhi and Yang Xu to come forward again and severely criticized Jushou. Only then did Jushou dispel the idea of ​​committing suicide, and honestly acted as the governor of any Miao and served the country to atone for his sin.

His younger brother, Juzong, was also appointed by He Miao as the governor, but this guy's performance was average in history, so Liu Bian didn't pay much attention to it, mainly because he let Juzong look at Jushou, after all, he was a talent he worked hard to keep , I don't want to be happy for nothing.

Needless to say, Jushou's ability is of course not inferior to Xun Yu in terms of military tactics, and no inferior to Xun Yu in terms of internal affairs. Since he came out of any mansion, the whole mansion is well organized, which surprised He Miao.

He Miao was also surprised by Zhang He.

Originally, He Miao didn't have many civil servants and military generals who could use them. The three Liu Bei brothers went to Hanyang, and Dong Min, the captain of Fengche, was expelled from the mansion for questioning He Miao. Regardless of whether it is a drill or a drill, Zhang Yun's ability, needless to say, perfectly fills Dong Min's vacancy.

Now He Miaowen has Jushou and Wu has Zhang Yun, but he gradually becomes free, and visits Empress He in the palace from time to time—in fact, the main reason is to meet his nephew Liu Bian.

Like this until November, as the sequelae of Wang Fen's execution gradually loomed, scholars from all over the place were dissatisfied with the court's execution of Wang Fen and the intentional weakening of the scholar's reputation. When talking about Wang Fen, words such as "one of the eight chefs" and "scholar leader" are emphasized.

Among them, Yingchuan County attracted the court's attention the most.

After all, Yingchuan County has outstanding people, and there are many talented and virtuous people. The four elders in Yingchuan, namely the Xun, Zhong, Chen, and Han clans, although not as good as the Yuan clan, are all famous noble clans in the world.

The four gentry jointly named Li Min, the prefect of Yingchuan, and wrote to the court.

Even the head of the Xun family in Yingchuan, the former Sikong Xun Shuang, personally went to Luoyang to speak to the general He Jin, and was later appointed by He Jin as a Zhonglang.

You know, the previous five prefectures—that is, the generals, Taifu, Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong—had all recruited Xun Shuang, including Yuan Kui, who was in charge of Jinwu at the time, but Xun Shuang never obeyed his orders, but now he ran away on his own initiative. When he arrived in Luoyang, he was appointed by the great general He Jin, which makes people daydream.

Within a few days, General He Jin went up to Emperor Ling and asked to revise the historical records of the current dynasty. In the records about Wang Fen in the historical records, words such as eight chefs and famous scholars should be erased.

In fact, since the evidence of Wang Fen's rebellion and rebellion was conclusive, scholars such as Lu Zhi, Zheng Tai, Yang Xu, Yuan Kai and others in the court all drew a clear line with Wang Fen, and Zheng Tai even advocated the recovery of Wang Fen's eight chefs. However, in order to weaken the influence of the scholars, Emperor Ling continued to call Wang Fen one of the eight chefs and the leader of the scholars, whether it was publicized to the outside world or recorded in the historical records of the dynasty.

By the way, not only He Yong, Zheng Tai, Wang Yun and others on the side of General He Jin wanted to change, but even Lu Zhi, Yang Xu and even Cai Yong begged Liu Bian in private, hoping that Liu Bian could come forward, but unfortunately Liu Bian Bian and Lingdi were on the same mind, making up their minds to beat scholars within a certain range, Gu Zuo said to him, and let Lu Zhi and Yang Xu retreat with a sigh.

This is not just to disgust the scholars, but to seize the opportunity of the scholars. In the future, when the scholars persuade the Emperor Ling that this is not good or that, the Emperor Ling can reply: "The leader of your scholars is still rebelling, you Dare to tell me?"

The same is true for Liu Bian who is destined to take the position of Emperor Ling in the future.

It was also because of this that Lu Zhi and Yang Xu hated Wang Fen so much, and hated Wang Fen for tarnishing the reputation of all scholars.

But now the general He Jin was entrusted by Xun Shuang, and Emperor Ling wanted to revise the historical records of the current dynasty and change Wang Fen's title, which was naturally tabooed by Emperor Ling.

However, Emperor Ling didn't want to show up by himself, so Zhang Rang once again got into a fight with the scholars headed by the general, and asked Zhao Yan, the school captain of the city gate, to arrest dozens of Tai students who complained about Wang Fen.

Although through the relationship between Liu Bian and Zhang Rang, Zhao Yan and others, although Lu Zhi and Yang Xu failed to rescue the dozens of Tai students, they at least ensured the safety of these students, so that they would not be as inexplicable as they were in the dark period. He died in prison, but it is undeniable that the battle between scholars and eunuchs has become fierce again.

In this matter, General He Jin's performance or attitude undoubtedly disappointed Emperor Ling: You are a foreign relative, you should stand with the royal family, how can you fall against the scholars?
Perhaps, this is also the reason why Emperor Ling rewarded Dong Zhong so much before. At least Dong Zhong was very competent as a foreign relative, and he always put the interests of the royal family first, so why not?But he actually helped the scholars deal with the royal family.

One day, when Emperor Ling and Liu Bian were playing chess in the Greenhouse Hall, Emperor Ling mentioned this matter intentionally or unintentionally: "...the general Qi Zou revises the record about Wang Fen, what do you think?"

Liu Bian replied very calmly: "Of course it is not allowed. How can you let go of the handle you have finally caught?"

"cough."

Lingdi coughed twice, and glanced at his son reproachfully: This son is good at everything, but sometimes his words are too straightforward, and he doesn't know how to embellish at all.

After thinking for a while, he said to Liu Bian: "If your uncle makes a fuss, I can't guarantee that I won't punish him. I'm afraid that my son and your mother will misunderstand, and your mother will come to me and cry."

Liu Bian couldn't help smiling, and said to Emperor Ling with a smile: "Father, you might as well invite your second uncle to discuss this matter. The second uncle is calm and prudent. He is not close or far from the scholars in the court. He gets along well. When the second uncle persuades the empress, the empress herself I will not come to bother my father."

"Well."

Emperor Ling nodded, and afterwards he invited He Miao into the palace to discuss the matter.

He Miao is also a qualified foreign relative. He knows where the foundation of his family is. Although He Jin, who has been dazzled by fame, cannot be pulled back, he himself still stands on the side of the royal family, sister and nephew, and obeys the Ling Emperor's order. Order to persuade Queen He.

Empress He was skeptical, and once suspected that it was a trick of Empress Dowager Dong, but in view of Emperor Ling's promise to strengthen He Miao's power while weakening He Jin, Empress He finally agreed, and even followed Emperor Ling's instructions to ask his mother, Lord Wuyang Come forward to persuade He Jin.

It's a pity that Lord Wuyang is not He Jin's biological mother, and no one knows if He Jin really listened to what his stepmother said, although He Jin was obedient in person.

Just looking at him, he still led Yuan Wei, Yuan Shao and others to attack Zhang Rang and other eunuchs in the court, which proves that he didn't listen at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was the sixth year of Zhongping, which was the year when Emperor Ling died.

I don't know if it's fate, but Lingdi's body does have some problems, his head is dizzy, his limbs are weak, and he sometimes feels dizzy.

Zhang Rang urgently recruited his adopted son, and the imperial physician ordered Zhang Feng to diagnose Lingdi.

Zhang Feng did not dare to be negligent, and carefully diagnosed Lingdi, and finally diagnosed it as being caused by wind and cold.

Wind-cold is actually not a serious illness. A healthy person can overcome it even without taking medicine. The real cause is that Lingdi has been indulging in alcohol for a long time, resulting in the deficiency of kidney qi and depletion of heart qi. Not getting better.

When Liu Bian went to visit Emperor Ling, he felt quite uncomfortable when he saw Emperor Ling lying on the couch in a daze.

If he remembered correctly, at this time Lingdi only had four or five months to live.

It has to be said that he was very disdainful of this stupid king at first, but it is undeniable that during the past two years of getting along with him, Emperor Ling really treated him well, let alone through getting along, Liu Bian also gradually realized that this stupid king is actually not a good person. It's not too ignorant, except for lust and other personal moral issues, the main thing is that I have been constrained too much, so I have gradually changed it.

Now that he suddenly realized that Emperor Ling only had four or five months to live, Liu Bian felt a sense of reluctance in his heart, and even his eyes were a little moist.

This surprised Zhang Rang and other eunuchs present. After all, Liu Bian had never shed tears since he entered the palace.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Zhang Rang called out to Lingdi softly, obviously hoping that Lingdi could see it, but Liu Bian stopped him.

After a while, Liu Bian stepped out of Yutang Hall, looked at Bai Ai in the palace, and slowly exhaled to calm down his complicated mood.

There was a time when he even hoped that Emperor Ling would die sooner and be succeeded by him sooner.

But now that he saw Lingdi sick with his own eyes, he was a little bit reluctant, and even hoped that Lingdi would live for a few more years, after all, he wanted to revitalize the Han Dynasty, and he could actually do it as a prince. Anyway, no one can take away his position.

But it's a pity that due to fate, Lingdi probably won't be able to survive the fateful calamity in history.

And this also means that he, Liu Bian, will be forced to gradually stand in front of the stage and fight face-to-face with the general He Jin who is trying to control the government. Do little tricks.

"It will be sooner or later..."

After murmuring something that neither Zhao Chun nor Xia Houyuan understood, Liu Bian walked down the steps.

No one knows that a cub that hides its secrets is about to reveal its minions.

(End of this chapter)