Lord Yuan

Chapter 2 Journalists of the Old Era

The official roads of the Han Dynasty were always complicated and winding, like spider webs linking the entire territory of the Han Dynasty.

The dusty car was driving on the official road. Two well-equipped guards were leading the way. Beside them were the butler Fu Bo and two or three servants who asked about their welfare. Behind them, four tall and powerful members of the Yuan family were holding weapons and looking around.

There were very few pedestrians on the official road, so Yuan Shao's driver was naturally leading the way, attracting attention. The pedestrians he met along the way also fled in a hurry, staying aside and not daring to say anything. They only dared to get out after the driver gradually moved away. , looking at the disappearing carriage with envy and hatred.

Regarding this scene, Yuan Shao's heart had already been tempered by this old society and he was as calm as water.

"This evil old society."

It is less than ten miles away from Runan County. It is obvious that the closer to the boundary of Runan, the more prosperous it becomes, and there are more and more pedestrians on the road.

In this era, people who could ride in carriages often had noble status and a unique symbol of aristocratic families. Pedestrians passing by still hid aside and let Yuan Shao's carriage pass first.

Flying dust filled the sky, which temporarily obscured the view. Pedestrians stopped and cursed softly with ugly faces, especially an old man standing behind them.

Although the housekeeper, Uncle Fu, was already old, he had an extremely good ear. Naturally, he couldn't bear to hear those ordinary people with flat heads who did not know how to live or die dared to comment on his own son.

When he stopped the carriage, he had to lead two or three guards forward. Although Yuan Shao didn't know why, he saw that Uncle Fu, who was already angry, had some understanding in his heart. He waved his hand and said: "Uncle Fu, wait a moment."

Wearing a white robe and plain clothes, Yuan Shao stepped out of the carriage and softly called over the terrified pedestrians.

The trembling old man was hobbling with a cane. When he saw the noble young man in the carriage actually getting out of the carriage, he threw away the cane and knelt down to worship. The context was tragic.

Uncle Fu looked unhappy, "How dare you insult the officials of the government?"

When the old man heard this, he was so panicked that he didn't know what to do. He could only hunched his body and folded his hands, and couldn't stop apologizing.

Yuan Shao staggered away from Uncle Fu and stepped forward.

There are obviously two old men of about the same age in front of them, but at this moment, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground. They work from nine to five with fine clothes and fine food, but at the same time they are not eating enough for fear that they will not survive the next day.

Yuan Shao couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward to help the frightened old man, "My nephew has offended many people, so I hope you won't be blamed."

He conveniently took some gifts from the car. These were small folk items that he had forced into his hands from the people in Puyang County who passed them along the street.

There is pepper and cypress wine brewed by Chengdong Xiaowa. The pepper wine is also called pepper pulp, and cypress wine is cypress leaf wine. This wine is sweet in nature and is obtained from concentrated pepper liquid, ginger powder, and pomegranate juice. It can be drunk cold in summer. Winter can warm you up, and the little baby imitates the adult's tone and language.

There were also many people holding candied dates in their hands, which were obtained from winter dates after they were dried. Yuan Shao ate a lot of them along the way. Fortunately, there were still many more given by the people.

As for the other three or three, Yuan Shao could only politely decline on the grounds that the chariot could not fit them.

During these days and nights together, Yuan Shao also discovered that these ordinary people did not want much.

Even if you ride on their heads and show off your power, as long as you can make the people have enough to eat, they will not be starved into refugees with nowhere to hide, and you will not be forced by the biting cold wind in winter, and you will have two acres of fertile land. Driven by this, the family's food rations are secure, and even a few more layers of taxes will not turn them into the Yellow Turban Army that kicked off the endless wars in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Seeing the old man in front of him, as if he was seeing the people of Puyang County, Yuan Shao ignored the dissuasion of Uncle Fu beside him.

Uncle Fu didn't understand, he didn't understand what kind of help the reputation of troubled times that this turmoil was about to bring would bring, and he didn't understand what a dazzling and gorgeous masterpiece of the times these ordinary people would achieve in the future.

The blue sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand.

This picture seems to be lingering in front of my eyes. Zhang Jiao, dressed in Taiping Taoist robes and holding a peach tree in his hand, stands on the top of the mountain, spitting out lotus flowers and calling for thousands of thunders.

A line from a great virtuous teacher invites a great man to die.

Yuan Shao's current status is still a bit too low. Faced with the current career that relies on reputation and the corpses of countless people to climb, he has no good way to improve for the time being, even if there is a towering tree standing behind him, a tree that is almost The big tree covered half of the man.

Far away in the capital city of Luocheng, the emperor Xiaohuan came to the throne because of the eunuchs, and it was because of a special act of getting close to the eunuchs that Emperor Xiaohuan was able to firmly sit on the throne of the emperor.

Emperor Xiaohuan's opportunity to sit on the throne of emperor depended on Emperor Han Zhi, who coined the word domineering.

The horror of relatives interfering in politics is vivid in my mind. With just one domineering sentence, the general could attract the general's relatives. Liang Ji used poison to kill the emperor, but he was able to continue unharmed. It is conceivable to what extent the power of the relatives at that time had reached.

In fact, if we look at the list of emperors of the entire Han Dynasty, except for the fifth generation of great ancestors at the beginning of the founding of the country, who were among the top political strategists, the rest of the emperors have almost plummeted. There are not many opportunities to display their political skills and the emperor's mental skills. As time went on, the age of the emperor became younger and younger, so that the time when powerful ministers were in power almost covered the end of the Han Dynasty.

The relatives' unique political advantages meant that they were always compared in this position. In the past, Huo Guang imitated Yi Yin and Duke Zhou and assisted him wholeheartedly, while in the later period, Liang Ji tyrannized and killed the young emperor.

So much so that Emperor Huan was cautious when he came to the throne, fearing to cause the slightest dissatisfaction from the general Liang Ji.

Once upon a time, the emperor actually committed himself to his subordinates.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty swore that if anyone could get rid of this powerful official on your behalf, half of the Han Dynasty would do it with you.

Under this direct temptation, which is even more direct than that of a feudal lord, some people have already begun to feel moved.

Yes, who else in the palace can be closer to the emperor than the eunuchs and can listen to the emperor's voice?

The Arm-Bite Alliance came into being.

As a result, Liang Ji, who was too domineering, came to an end.

But this is just the beginning. After driving away the wolves, tigers come again, tigers that want to eat people.

There are rumors among the people.

One general dies and five generals emerge.

Since then, the eunuchs have completely stood on the political stage and become the chess players.

Officials began to rush to attach themselves to the eunuchs, hoping to gain their appreciation first, so as to get greater returns for themselves.

The powers of the scholar-bureaucrats were divided again and again, and the eunuchs put on trousers as if they were different people, the leaders in the world.

In addition to being unable to reproduce, perhaps even they themselves did not expect that one day they would be able to stand at such a height and look down on those who claim to be healthy.

It is impossible to realize the slightest political ideal in such a smoky and chaotic court where officials and officials are sold out and their ambitions will only be wiped out by the endless demands of the eunuchs again and again.

Yuan Shao was no exception. At this period, after all, he had not grown to the stage to compete with Dong Zhuo, who was causing trouble in Luoyang and tyrannizing the harem.

The dragon-slaying boy has not yet grown up.

In the court, eunuchs controlled the passage for officials to ascend.In Ruyang County, there is no doubt that aristocratic families monopolize the officialdom here.

Regardless of whether they were sent by the imperial court or officials from other places who were airborne to promote filial piety and integrity.

As long as the local aristocratic families use a little bit of tricks, the officials who come here will go to the Yuan Mansion to submit their requests for help, hoping to open the door of the Yuan family.

You must know that at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Chaju system had long existed in name only, leaving only a skeleton.

The aristocratic families relied on the so-called classics of classics, such as great Confucian scholars such as Zheng Xuan and Ma Rong, or Meng Shiyi passed down by the Yuan family.

Recruiting disciples and recruiting disciples based on ancestral classics. Yuan's disciples all over the world are the product of this inspection system.

The emergence of the Three Mutual Laws was to restrict the mutual protection of officials hidden in the inspection system. At the beginning, this new system had some new atmosphere, but there were policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

When the disciples and former officials of high-ranking officials spread all over the world, the three mutual laws have ceased to exist in name only, and have no effect except to fool the common people who have no idea how it works.

The disciples of the old officials have inherited the legacy of their late masters, and under the operation of the imperial examination system, if they come from a high-ranking official, a noble family, and become a member of a top-notch family, they can be promoted to a position in a short time, and then pass through After several years of ups and downs in officialdom, he reached the sky in one step when he entered the Luoyang court, the center of power.

And Yuan Shao was promoted to the position of Langguan after being crowned as a minor, and his work was free. At that time, the Third Secretary was once regarded as a reserve talent for officials and ministers, and he had a special status.

When he was a little older, he became an official under the operation of his family and went to Puyang County, East County, Yanzhou, where he served as county magistrate for three years.

In the Ruyang area, in addition to the inspection system monopolized by aristocratic families, there are also a pair of news media people from the old era.

They were the two brothers Xu Jing and Xu Xing who founded Yuedan Commentary.

Xu Zhen had gained a lot of fame when he was young. He was upright and liked to meet many famous people at home and abroad. He was first promoted by the prefect of the same county as a filial and honest person and became a meritorious official. Everyone in the prefecture learned that Xu Zhen was a meritorious official, and they were afraid that he would be criticized by this person who was good at it. Xu Na, who is a good judge of people, found that one after another he put away his lazy and wasteful attitude and worked full-time.

So much so that in the official circles of Runan territory, only those who were rated by Xu Ma could be promoted or secretly demoted. Even those aristocratic families were trying to win over each other.

The two brothers Xu Xun and Xu Jing did not care about the discussion of the world. Instead, they immediately launched an upgraded version of "Taking a Taste of Persons and Discussing Taoism". At the beginning of each month, they would gather with three or five friends to discuss the court, scholars, aristocratic families, or Confucian classics. A discussion from start to finish.

This behavior often lasted one night or three or five days at most. The scholars were impassioned and talked about the fragrant and fragrant officials who were lying on their corpses, but never mentioned any dirty words.

Seeing this, the two Xu brothers took advantage of the situation and decided to comment on this event on the first day of the zodiac, because every first month, they discuss things that can be discussed in the world.

Naturally, the officials in Runan did not dare to say anything about this. Facing these celebrities at home and abroad, they could not do what Cao Cao did in the future, killing disobedient celebrities one after another for various reasons, such as the first spray Zi Mi Heng, relying on his talent and arrogance, destroyed the entire Three Kingdoms era, which was full of talents.

But now Yuan Shao suddenly heard the bad news of his mother's death, so he packed his bags, properly arranged the official seals and ribbons one by one, and returned to his hometown.

He was originally focused on clearing his name, and he knew the way the wheel of history moved forward. Naturally, he did not dare to neglect the two brothers Xu Su, for fear of being caught by them, so that the ten carriages that Fu Bo initially ordered The large fleet suddenly cut production and became Yuan Shao's only driver.

With Cao Cao's wise words behind him, Yuan Shao did not dare to cross this thunder pond at all, or he did not want to let his past efforts go to waste.

A traitor in peacetime, a hero in troubled times.

Although Yuan Shao's trial and error costs are high, even if the two brothers Xu Jing and Xu Jing use all their horsepower to judge Yuan Shao, the nominal eldest son of the Yuan family, they may not be able to cause too much harm. It is nothing more than the Yuan family continuing After some operation, Yuan Shao went out and continued to practice for a few years, plated gold and went through the procedures. After returning, he directly entered the Luoyang Center.

Yuan Shao knew very well that his reputation would cause great changes in the next few years, but before that, any damage to his reputation was not the result he wanted.

And now, the old man in front of him is his best microphone, a microphone that can promote his popularity among the people.

Saying goodbye to the old man who insulted him, Yuan Shao's motorcade continued towards Runan.

Uncle Fu, who was following him, was a little angry, but he gave up because the young master was open-minded and just looked at the motorcade to think.

"Sir, if we go back like this, we might be laughed at by others."

Yuan Shao calmly shook his head when he heard this, "Why did Uncle Fu say this?"

"The young master's reputation has been spread throughout Runan. No one knows the young master's abilities. What's more, in Puyang County, the young master forgets to sleep and eat, and does not think about food or tea just to make those people live a better life."

"Young master has achieved something that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve. Now is the time to return home in glory. Why do you want to be so mean to yourself?"

At this moment, the lump that was squeezed in his chest poured out. Uncle Fu just wanted his son to return to the Yuan Mansion in glory. He wished that the size of the motorcade would increase ten or twenty times along the way. Where? There would be a lonely carriage like this carrying some extremely ordinary objects.

Anyway, he couldn't understand why the young master valued so much these things that in his eyes had no use other than taking up space.

Yuan Shao waved his hands and laughed.

After all, Fu Bo was still too young.

"Uncle Fu, what is the purpose of our trip?"

"My eldest mother passed away and I returned home to pay my respects."

Yuan Shao asked again: "Since it is a funeral, why should I make a happy gesture? Returning home in fine clothes is just for outsiders' eyes."

"My eldest mother has passed away. I have to be sad about the separation of life and death. I don't have the mood to do all this mess."

Uncle Fu didn't know what his young master was talking about. He only knew that the young master's words were like a heavy hammer, and he suddenly woke up after being hit.

"Then what if the Third Young Master comes back?" But when Uncle Fu thought of him, his face suddenly dropped, and he was expressionless.

As if he could see Uncle Fu's worries, Yuan Shao said calmly: "It's better to come back by road. This kind of thing is about brothers working together so as not to lose face."

Forber was stunned.

This shouldn't be the case. His son has always been at odds with the third son. It's not uncommon for the two of them to get angry and angry. Although most of the time it is the third son who leaves in anger, but on this occasion, he is really afraid of the third son. He is acting recklessly without caring about the young master's face.

Of course Yuan Shao understood that if the Skeleton Emperor was not around, this group would be defeated, and if they dared to act recklessly, he would let Yuan Gongli know what cruelty is.

after all.

Now it is no longer a duel between the identity of a house slave and the second son.

The situation has changed.

(End of this chapter)