Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 105 I don't want you to die, I want you all to live!

In the western suburbs of Luoyang, Yulin Temple.

Liu Yu and Xun Yu sat kneeling on both sides of a table, and there was an edict in front of them, which was drafted by Shang Shutai and stamped with the emperor's seal.

The content of the imperial edict is to confer on Xun Yu the title of "Post Supervisor" of Hedong County.

Normally, the "supervisor post" is a subordinate official of the county guard, who is in charge of supervising the local county town, is an official recruited by the local prefect, and the salary is also distributed by the local government.

However, today's Hedong County has not sent a prefect.

In other words, Xun Yu, the emperor's postal supervisor, is not subject to anyone.

Speaking of the profession of "post supervisor", there is one in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Because he asked for a bribe but failed, he joined the village to frame Liu Bei, but was tied up by Zhang Fei and whipped violently.

So far, "Zhang Yide angrily whips Duyou" has been handed down to this day, and "Duyou" has become synonymous with corruption and perverting the law.

In fact, the postmaster was wronged enough.

In historical facts, the real situation is that after the Yellow Turban Army was put down, the emperor rewarded those who made meritoriously and awarded them official titles, which caused huge financial difficulties for a while.

Therefore, Emperor Ling ordered "official layoffs". If there is no way to increase revenue, then simply cut expenditure.

Liu Bei was lucky enough to appear on the "list of layoffs", and then the "supervisor" came to Anxi County to act according to the regulations, and Liu Bei was abolished from the post of county magistrate. Liu Bei went to see him and wanted to bribe him a little. As a result, he was avoided by the supervisor.

Liu Bei's "little temper" came up all at once, and directly tied Duyou to a tree, raised his whip and whipped Duyou.

It was Zhang Fei who felt that the eldest brother had gone too far, and quickly persuaded him, which spared the life of Du You.

It is a nicer way to say that he was dismissed from office and left later.

How many people know that Liu Bei will be laid off whether or not he is dismissed from office.

The postal supervisor acts according to the rules, and has never violated the law in the slightest.

On the contrary, Liu Bei paid bribes to protect his official position, and even beat the postmaster in a rage.

even…

After some artistic processing, Liu Bei turned into a heroic image, causing this gentleman's governor to be hacked for hundreds of years.

It can be seen from this that the profession of "postal supervisor" in the late Han Dynasty was an extremely dangerous profession.

"Wen Ruo, once you become this 'supervisor', it can be regarded as a real step on the mountain of swords."

Liu Yu sighed.

Xun Yu laughed and said, "It's a pity that I didn't get any official position for my virtuous brother."

"It's okay." Liu Yu was not surprised at all. "My purpose is to attract the attention of the emperor. It doesn't matter whether I am in the officialdom."

"Brother, you judged well in the past. The one who met me in the past and came to Yulin to see it was not Liu Chong, the lord of the Chen Kingdom, but His Majesty. His Majesty has been paying attention to you since very early."

"This is the best." Liu Yu smiled slightly. "This way we will be safe, and our every move will be reported to His Majesty. The emperor can't see other than Sili, so let's put the finishing touches on him."

"But... why does my brother want me to invite the 'supervisor' of Hedong County?" Xun Yu added another question. "Is it just because there are Hulu in Xieliang County?"

"No." Liu Yu waved her hand. "It's for a few people. Wen Ruo doesn't know each other now, but I'm sure that after you get to know each other, you will become close friends."

"Another person whom the virtuous brother values? Including, the black man outside the door?" Xun Yu cast his eyes outside the door with great interest.

At this moment, Zhang Fei was drawing while he was bored.

"Xun Yu met him?"

"We met once, and he said that he was Zhang Fei from Zhuojun County. He asked me for a pen and paper. He said he was irritable and wanted to paint. He is an interesting person." Xun Yu said with emotion.

Liu Yu smiled slightly.

"There is a red face on the other side of the river. He is more interesting. His expression will not change for several months. However, he is in a very dangerous situation now. He will be executed in the street on the seventh day of April!"

"On the seventh day of April, there are still more than ten days left, but it's still too late." Xun Yu sighed with emotion.

Seeing Liu Yu's mood hardened suddenly, he simply changed the subject.

"When are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow morning, Zhang Fei and I will go first." Liu Yu had already made arrangements. "It's not too late for you to wait for the seal to come down. This is the advantage of my lack of an official title. If the text is in the open, I am in the dark. Let's act according to the camera."

"it is good!"

Xun Yu held up a bowl of tea.

Liu Yu also raised a bowl, which seemed to be a special way for men to express their determination.

Replace wine with tea and drink it up in one gulp.

Xun Yu wanted to get up and say goodbye, but he still had something on his mind. If he didn't understand it, he might not be able to sleep well.

"Brother."

"Wen Ruo wants to ask about the ring this morning?"

"I know that the prince of the Southern Huns obeyed his virtuous brother, but Brother Yu couldn't figure it out anyway. Why did the Southern Huns obey his virtuous brother? Why did he follow his virtuous brother as his leader?"

this…

Liu Yu paused for a moment, but still confessed to Xun Yu.

"Wen Ruo, in fact, the Hu people are far less powerful than imagined. They have well-developed limbs and simple minds. They may be able to expel them and defeat them for a while with force, but if you want to control them forever and sanction them, on the basis of force, you still have to rely on force." Need to use some other methods and means!"

"This time is just my attempt to prove that the path of 'economic sanctions' and 'commercial sanctions' is completely feasible. The specific methods are not very glorious."

"You don't need honor to deal with Hulu!" Xun Yu said solemnly.

"In fact, to put it simply, it is because of a drug called Wushisan, an addictive drug. Before that, I instructed the Zhen family to exchange this kind of drug for the horses of the Southern Huns. Because of the addiction, the Southern Huns The leaders of all the tribes in the land cannot do without the five stone powder, and Huchuquan Shanyu also needs to control the leaders of the tribes through the distribution of the five stone powder to strengthen their rule.”,

Liu Yu explained in detail: "Under this premise, I only need to slightly lower the price of 'Wu Shi San', let alone let the Southern Huns play a show with me, even if they send troops to attack Xianbei, they will not Hesitate! This is 'addiction', of course, this is only a very small part of the economic sanctions I mentioned."

"Wen Ruo, have you ever thought about why the great Han conquered the Xiongnu for a hundred years, but these alien races are endless and endless? This is because... force has never been able to solve the problem fundamentally. Perhaps in this dynasty, we can use force to solve the problem. Let them surrender, but what about the next dynasty? What about the next dynasty? What can really make them fear is another kind of sanction...economic sanction! This is what can make them completely afraid and completely surrender."

hear here.

Xun Yu made a very surprised expression, but soon, he seemed to understand Liu Yu's words.

Economic sanctions!

Although he didn't quite understand it yet, he believed that with Liu Yu's calculations, the Southern Huns would definitely suffer a lot.

...

...

Outside the window, the night was as dark as a rock, and under the lamp, Liu Hong looked at the letter in his hand again and again.

This is a letter that Yu'er handed to him through Xun Yu's hand.

It was also all the methods Yu'er used to help Cao Cao manage Dunqiu in the past. He nodded slightly while watching, as if communicating with Yu'er through a letter.

The letter clearly stated that the contradictions in Dunqiu County in the past mainly came from the rich and the poor.

These are focused on the measurement and competition of land property. The rich take advantage of their power to oppress the common people, while the poor watch helplessly as they lose Susukida and go bankrupt.

Or the rich lease the hard-to-cultivate land to the poor, and when the poor turn the land into good land, the rich use the excuse of raising taxes to blackmail the poor.

In order to survive, many poor people can only sell themselves as slaves of rich people.

If the poor need to borrow money from the rich to repair their houses and get sick, the interest will increase thirty times a year. If they can’t pay back, they have to sell themselves as slaves. Cheap labor for the children and grandchildren of the rich.

In addition, survival is difficult, the natural environment is unpredictable, and poor people compete for irrigation water, water and grass on the banks of the Yellow River and Pu River, and other issues.

Fights with clans as units or Lilu as groups often occur.

And these are opportunities for local officials to rake in money.

shocking.

It can be said that Liu Hong's subconscious feeling for all that he saw was four words - shocking!
In his opinion, Dunqiu County was originally barren. After Cao Cao's governance, it can pay a lot of taxes every year...

But in fact, there are so many hidden contradictions and the scope of the problems, which have long been beyond Liu Hong's cognition.

Only after reading Yu'er's letter can Liu Hong intuitively feel that the so-called "bottom management" and "integration of knowledge and action" are not just empty talk.

Yu'er has been trying to change the status quo of this "lower class" since a long time ago, and Dunqiu County is a living example.

It's not that it can't be changed, but that it lacks a person who can execute with an iron fist.

"Is this why Yu'er chose to go to Jieliang County in Hedong?"

Liu Hong murmured.

He recalled again what Xun Yu mentioned. According to Yu'er, the problem of the big man is not with the court, but with the locality. People say "strong stems and weak branches". There is no problem with the main body of the big man, but he is the emperor The ruling power over the counties is too weak.

This is the key to causing local disorder, anomie, and imbalance.

The reason why Liu Yu mentioned this to Xun Yu.

It is because before the time travel, there will be a few "out of order, out of order, out of balance" places, and some incredible behaviors will be staged in these places.

If there is no media exposure, how far will the problem be squeezed?
As for the big man, let alone the exposure, the emperor Liu Hong can't see these at all. What he can hear is the information that has been filtered over and over again by the aristocratic family. These problems will be ten times or a hundred times more serious.

"Union of knowledge and action, underlying governance."

"Union of knowledge and action, underlying governance."

Liu Hong kept murmuring these eight characters in his mouth, and his mind was full of imagination.

Can this be understood?The success of Cao Cao's governance in Dunqiu County is a point. What if this point can be extended to Jieliang County in Hedong?After some rectification by Yu'er and Xun Yu, this "out of order, out of order, out of balance" place was brought back on track.

Then...

Other counties and counties can also promote and follow suit, so as to solve the problem of bottom-level governance.

Just thought of this.

"His Majesty…"

Because he was too involved, Liu Hong didn't even realize that Jian Shuo had stepped into this study.

Liu Hong put down the letter paper, looking a little tired, but he still waved his hand and said, "Zu Shi."

Jian Shuo reported the truth: "Your Majesty asked the minister to investigate the matter, and it has been clearly investigated. Apart from the looting by Hulu in Jieliang County, Hedong, there is another incident."

"What's the matter?"

"Earlier, the eldest son of the emperor sent his senior sister Zhang Yulan to Wuji County, Zhongshan to deliver a letter. It was here in Hedong County that he was ambushed by Hulu, and all the guards around him died."

Well…

Hearing this, Liu Hong raised his eyes, pondered for a moment, and then sighed.

"I see."

"Your Majesty, this matter is strange." Jian Shuo continued: "Hu people usually go south to plunder in autumn to store food for the cold winter. Now it's just spring, which is the season when Hu horses are in heat, and it is also the time when Hu Lu's food is most scarce. It is strange to say that the Hu people will never take the risk of going south to plunder this season."

"Haha..." Liu Hong laughed. "Of course there is something strange. If there is no strange thing, how could Yu'er go? It seems that I am really blind. Other than Si Li, I don't know what has been done by this group of wealthy families."

When it came to the end, Liu Hong was already a little angry.

"Your Majesty... this trip is dangerous." Jian Shuo reminded.

"Send Xiyuan Army to secretly escort along the way." Liu Hong said in a cold tone.

But blurting out these words, Liu Hong still felt uneasy.

"Where is Wang Yue?"

"On duty in the West Garden."

"pass!"

Not long after, Wang Yue held the "Zhongxing Sword" bestowed by the emperor in both hands, stepped into the room, and clasped his hands. "The last general has not achieved an inch of merit, so he shouldn't have received this Zhongxing sword. I hope His Majesty will take back the sword."

Apparently, Wang Yue thought that His Majesty's meeting with the Holy Spirit this time was to get back the "Zhongxing Sword".

"Why should I take back the sword I gave away?" Liu Hong's eyes narrowed. "Captain Jian."

"The minister is here."

"Let Shang Shutai draw up a plan to designate Wang Yue as General Huben, receive a salary of a thousand stones, arrange a house for him in Kyoto, and bring his family and Xiaoyi along."

Liu Hong blurted out these words, Jian Shuo was taken aback.

From a Xiyuan school lieutenant to be promoted to General Huben in one fell swoop, this is a leap from a salary of two hundred shi to a salary of one thousand shi. This kid is lucky!

"Here, here..." After hesitating for a while, Jian Shuo still took the order.

"Your Majesty...this..." Wang Yue was flattered.

However, Liu Hong continued calmly: "General Wang, I named you General Huben today, your family and all your clan members will look up because of you, but I also want to give you an important task."

"The minister will not refuse to die."

"The master of Yulin Temple, Liu Yu, is about to go to the east of the river to relieve his illness. You are highly skilled in martial arts, and you will secretly guard him along the way. If Liu Yu makes a mistake, I want your head."

This…

Wang Yue paused.

It's not that he doesn't want to protect Liu Yu, but that he feels...

This thing is so weird.

Your Majesty will reward a Taoist with heavy rewards in order to protect him. Does this indicate something?
Seeing that Wang Yue was still daydreaming, Jian Shuo quickly reminded him.

"General Wang, don't thank me yet."

Only then did Wang Yue come to his senses, "Thank you, Your Majesty, I swear to defend Liu Yu to the death."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Hong patted Wang Yue on the shoulder.

——"I don't want you to die, I want you all to live."

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On the outskirts of Luoyang, the Yuan Family Manor.

In the dead of night, a few candles lit up the whole manor. There were boxes and cages in the courtyard. Yuan Feng was receiving Yan Liang who came from afar. Yan Liang had a humble attitude and handed Yuan Feng a gift list.

"Uncle Yuan, I hope Uncle Yuan will accept this gift box prepared for my father."

Yuan Feng and Yan Liang looked at each other, stroked their beards, and said with emotion: "It's not that time yet, is it?"

As Yuan Feng said.

Many clans would send filial piety every year in order to grasp the great mountain of the Yuan family, but often the filial piety would be sent in the second half of the year, and in the first half of the year, the Yan family was the only one.

"It's better to send it as soon as possible, so that Uncle Yuan can rest assured, and so can my father." Yan Liang changed from his previous arrogance and remained humble in front of Yuan Feng.

"Old man, I heard that you have pretended to be Hu Qi and robbed merchants recently?" Yuan Feng asked casually, seemingly on purpose.

"This…"

Yan Liang still wanted to explain.

Yuan Feng's face turned cold.

"How many times have I told your father to pretend to be a barbarian and rob merchants? If you don't do this kind of thing carefully, you will attract the attention of the superiors. It will take a lot of effort to suppress it, but your father still insists on going his own way. Alas... let the old man What do you say good about you?"

"Uncle Yuan..." Yan Liang showed bitterness. "The people in Jieliang, Hedong have been squeezed dry, and there is no oil to squeeze. If the merchants are not moved, then..."

At the end of the talk, Yan Liang glanced at the boxes in the courtyard from the corner of his eye.

The meaning couldn't be more clear, if you don't rob merchants, where do these come from?

Yuan Feng shook his head.

From the looks of outsiders, the four generations and three fathers of the Yuan family are glamorous, but in fact they are even more short of money.

"Be careful."

After a word of persuasion, Yuan Feng planned to enter the house.

Yan Liang quickly added. "Uncle Yuan, there is a small incident."

Well…

Yuan Feng paused, he thought of it, otherwise... the Yan family would not have sent filial piety so early.

"What's the trouble?"

"Yes... it was the previous 'Hulu' who planned to rob a woman, but a few meddling people rescued the woman. We found one of them and gave him to..."

Before Yan Liang could finish speaking.

"Alas..." Yuan Feng sighed helplessly. "Do it again!"

"Uncle Yuan, there is nothing we can do." Yan Liang continued to explain. "But besides the one we found, there is another man with a bad face, he's coming to Sili..."

"Black face?" Yuan Feng was startled, he thought of the big black face man next to Liu Yu, the master of Yulin temple, in the alley this afternoon.

Wouldn't it be so coincidental?

There was a trace of fright on his cheek, but soon, Yuan Feng regained his expression.

"Cough cough..."

He coughed lightly, "I will pay attention to this matter."

"Thank you Uncle Yuan, my nephew bids farewell."

Yan Liang bowed his hands to salute, and immediately walked out of Yuan Mansion.

At this moment, Yuan Kai who was in the room slowly walked out.

Yuan Feng looked up at Yuan Kai. "Ciyang (Yuan Kai) heard what Yan Liang said just now."

Yuan Kai nodded, "This is not good news!"

His eyes turned cold, "Just now there was news from the Shangshutai that His Majesty appointed Xun Yu as the governor of the post office in the east of the river to monitor the counties in the east of the river, and it happened to happen again. This is not a coincidence."

"What do you mean? The black-faced man Yan Liang said found Liu Yu?" Yuan Feng suddenly became vigilant. "Ciyang, do you think Liu Yu came here for us?"

"It's not like!" Yuan Kai waved his hand. "How did he know that the relationship between our Yuan family and the Yan family is just... we must guard against it."

"I'm going to tell Yan Liang right now." Yuan Feng hurriedly said: "Let him and his father restrain themselves in Hedong County, as well as the Qin family, and that Wen Chou, especially that pretending Hu Qi."

"Not enough." Yuan Wei's tone was cold. "Let him find a way to stop the mouths of the locals!"

"Aren't the locals stupid? The local people are well aware of the evil things they did, but they just didn't expose it. And this kind of thing is either not exposed, and once it is exposed, it is impossible to cover it up!"

call…

Yuan Feng exhaled heavily, suddenly aware of the heavy responsibility.

Just as he was about to take a step to chase Yan Liang, Yuan Kai called to him again, and said meaningfully: "Brother, if it's really a last resort, then give up what you have to do!"

"In my opinion, it may not be that far!" Yuan Feng turned around, "It's just a governor and a Taoist. Could it be possible that they can smash the sky in Hedong County?"

Leave this sentence...

Accompanied by the sound of "treading" footsteps, Yuan Feng disappeared in this courtyard.

Only Yuan Kui and Yidi's box and cage were left.

"Ugh!"

He let out a long sigh, and said with emotion while looking at the gold and silver in the cage.

"It's all about getting rid of the party!"

Yes…

The Yuan family needs money, and needs money to support a seemingly fierce, but actually weak "behemoth". He wants to use this "behemoth" to force the court to lift the party!
These…

Which of these can leave money?

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(End of this chapter)