Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 41 Incognito, first entry into the official career (11)
Sima Fang's face was slightly motionless, but thoughts were rising and falling in his chest: This Yi'er, how could he know that—I, the Sima family, have worked hard in Hanoi County for so many years, and have already built an overwhelming eyeliner network!On the territory of Hanoi County, if a tree in the yard of a family was blown off a leaf by the wind, I, Sima Fang, can also know it clearly in the fastest time!Ever since you, Yi'er, participated in the affairs of garrisoning the fields and reassuring the people, my father and I have brought all your situation and all the situations in the county mansion into my eyes and ears.baby!Where and when you need something, your father will definitely lay down all the necessary conditions for you invisible and silently...

Holding the roll of silk pictures, Sima Yi couldn't help but praise deeply: "Father, you are so intelligent and insightful! My child admires you very much." He thought to himself: Father is really amazing - even Wei He collected all the pillow talk heard by the prefect's concubine without any omissions, really amazing!

"Only by being knowledgeable and well-informed, can one be sure to make every plan and succeed." Sima Fang took over his words, and slowly extended, "This is the key to success as a great sage, Yi'er You must keep it in mind and not ignore it!"

"Yes. My child must remember it in my heart." Sima Yi lifted his spirits and nodded vigorously.After a while, he suddenly frowned again, and asked hesitantly, "However, my lord father! The child still has a little worry. If Du Chuan and the Yuan brothers find out that this silk painting has been stolen, will it be possible?" Under all kinds of speculation, the suspicion came to the head of our Sima family?"

Hearing his sharp question, Sima Fang didn't think he was disobedient, instead he smiled slightly, stroked the long silver beard on his chest with his right palm, and said indifferently: "For my father, I asked someone to follow that Yuan family messenger all the way in." The silk picture was stolen only in Jizhou. Even if Du Chuan and the Yuan brothers tried their best, they still couldn't guess who did it. What's more, you have nothing unusual recently, how could they be suspicious? ?Even if they were determined to blame our Sima family, they would never have imagined that our Sima family had such latent forces. Yier, don’t be too sensitive. Let everything be natural and act calmly, so as not to I exposed myself!"

"Yes. My son understands." Hearing what Sima Fang said, Sima Yi couldn't help but deeply admire his father's careful thinking and decisiveness.He secretly sighed: "Father has been floating in the officialdom for decades, and his cultivation is really extraordinary!"It seems that in the future, I will have to ask his old man a lot of advice on the art of strategy...

"Yi'er, according to the secret report from the insider stationed in the Du mansion for my father: the secret of you being a member of the Sima family in Hanoi has been leaked." Sima Fang's eyes flashed brightly again, and he stared deeply at Sima Yi , "How to deftly dispel and dissolve Du Chuan and the others' suspicion of you is a difficult problem! You have to play it by ear and solve it smoothly!"

tell the truth

In the past few days, Du Chuan was very depressed.

First, a few days ago, the messenger of the Yuan family fled back from Jizhou in a hurry, saying that his luggage was stolen by snitches on the way. The secret letter jointly written by the Yuan brothers to Yuan Shao and the map of the military fortresses in Hanoi County drawn by Du Chuan All lost.This unexpected incident shocked Du Chuan and the Yuan brothers: If these two things fell into the hands of the court people in Xudu, what would happen?They dispatched all the servants and searched along the messenger's previous route, but still had no clue.All indications show that in this year of war and chaos, it is not a particularly unexpected thing for the rogues and thieves to take the courier to steal the baggage unpreparedly—because the hundred and ten servants they sent out were also on the way to search. People have stolen property in shops and post houses.

During the period, Du Chuan once suspected that someone else might have done it deliberately, but after racking his brains to think about various situations, he still couldn't guess any clues.Of course, Ma Yi, the trickster, was also within his suspicion.Now, he already knew that this Ma Yi was Sima Yi, the second son of the former Jingzhao Yin Sima Fang and the younger brother of Sima Lang, the head of the Sikong Mansion, and he was indeed a member of the Sima family in Wen County.This made Du Chuan deeply suspicious. This Sima Yi is really mysterious. He not only has such a noble and prominent background and background, but also deliberately pretends to be an inferior child from a humble family, restraining his sharpness and mixing with his group in a humble manner. What is the intention of this?Could it be that he wants to find out our details, and take the opportunity to take the head of us to claim credit from Cao Sikong and receive a reward? ...So, since he knew Sima Yi's true identity, he sent special eyeliners to monitor all the actions of him, Niu Jin and other related personnel.The eyeliner came back and reported to him: Sima Yi and Niu Jin showed no signs of abnormality during the Yuan family messenger's delivery to Jizhou.Moreover, even now, Du Chuan and his eyeliner have not found anything suspicious about Sima Yi.

There was no other way, so Du Chuan had no choice but to redraw a map of Hanoi's military-style fortresses, and asked the Yuan brothers to rewrite a secret letter for help to Yuan Shao.This time, they decided that Yuan Hun would go out in person, and with 25 servants, they would go straight to Jizhou with [-] servants under strict guard along the way to escort the picture and letter.

Just as Du Chuan was so busy with this matter, an urgent letter from Xudu's court minister suddenly arrived: five days later, Yang Jun, the servant of the Huangmen and the supervisory censor, will arrive in Hanoi County to inspect Tuntian Anmin For affairs, the Hanoi County Government Office promptly greeted them.This time, Du Chuan's hands and feet were in a mess again, and he was almost out of breath.

When he was struggling to think of a countermeasure, he suddenly heard a knock on the wooden door of his prefect's office, and said impatiently, "Come in!"

The hall door opened, and Ma Yi stepped in with a respectful face.

Thinking of Ma Yi, that is, Sima Yi's background, Du Chuan couldn't help feeling a little vigilant, and hurriedly smiled, holding the emergency letter from Shangshutai, shaking Sima Yi a few times, saying: "Ma Jun Come on, come on, Du Mou is anxious about Mr. Yang Jun coming to inspect the affairs of the village and the people in this county. Since Ma Jun is here today, I have a good brother who will share this responsibility, and we can discuss it together That's settled..."

When Sima Yi heard this, he thought to himself: This Du Chuan is worthy of being a smooth old official. As soon as he opened his mouth, he first labeled himself a "good brother who shares this responsibility" and dragged himself into this place. Let's talk about the muddy water!The smile on his face flashed and disappeared, but his demeanor became more respectful: "Du Juncheng's words are too polite! I just rushed here when I heard that Mr. Yang Jun came to the county to inspect the village and the people's affairs, and I listened carefully. Du Juncheng's instruction."

Du Chuan saw that Sima Yi's expression was calm and undisturbed, and he was as humble to himself as before, but it was not easy to use any tricky words on him—besides, Yang Jun's field inspection was coming soon, and he himself would not Maybe just make this matter a big one, so as not to be difficult to end at that time.stop!stop!stop!Regardless of what Sima Yi's intentions are, let's work together with him to deal with Yang Jun's on-site inspection!
He was certain, so he also said to Sima Yi solemnly: "As for the situation of farming and reassuring the people in this county, Ma Jun, you are actually very clear: there are not many official farmlands and customers in all counties in this county. Where are you?" Can you stand up to Mr. Yang Jun's on-site inspection? If you don't want to come out and deal with it, I'm afraid Mr. Yang Jun will take off the official hats on you and me as soon as he arrives at the scene! My boss is useless. Lost——You Ma Jun is young and promising, it is really not worthwhile to delay your future because of such a trivial matter!"

Sima Yi heard that his speech was quite different from the previous ones, and he was full of threats. He was secretly annoyed, so he put on a contemplative expression on the outside, and slowly followed his previous plan and said: "Cheng Du has always Yuan Rong is prudent, why are you so anxious today? It is true that there are not many official farms and clients in this county, but there are six or seven hundred private farms and tenants under the names of the two masters in this county—if Mr. Yang Jun really wants to come to inspect on the spot, so we have no choice but to take advantage of it, report the private fields and tenants under the names of the two masters Yuan as official lands and customers of the county government, and then seal the word of these tenants tightly, and select a few If you go out to deal with it cleverly, you will naturally be able to deceive Lord Yang Jun. What does Du Juncheng think of this plan?"

What Du Chuan was waiting for was that Sima Yi took the initiative to speak out this strategy of stealing the beam and changing the post. Now that he heard him say it casually, he was secretly happy: Sima Yi, Sima Yi!This trick of cheating and cheating Yang Jun was thrown out by you on your own initiative!If Yang Jun finds out in the future, it can be regarded as your fault, but I, Du Chuan, slipped away!At that time, don't blame me, Du Chuan, for not being able to "share this responsibility" with you!

He pretended to stare and ponder for a while, then nodded and replied: "Mr. Ma's idea is of course a good one, but Du has been busy sorting out the charts and books in the government office recently, so I'm afraid I can't go to Yuan's mansion with you. Coordinate this."

Of course Sima Yi knew that he was withdrawing from the hurdle, clearing the ties, and reserving a field for himself to stay out of the matter in the future, but he didn't expose it. He just smiled lightly: "Du Juncheng is certainly very busy these days, I'm afraid there is still work to be done at the Yuan Mansion." You and Ma Mou go to take care of it? Ma Mou goes alone, and the two Yuan masters may not agree."

"No, no need." Du Chuan grinned, waved his hands and said, "The two masters of the Yuan Manor and Mr. Ma are familiar with each other, and they will understand that this is what I mean when they see you. I will also cooperate with you, Mr. Ma, to perform this play well. Mr. Ma has always done things smoothly, so once you step out, how can there be any problems that cannot be easily solved?"

Sima Yi also stopped lingering with him, pretending not to mind, frowned slightly, cupped his hands and said, "Forget it! Forget it! Now that the situation is urgent, Ma has no choice but to show his face! This afternoon Ma will arrive The Yuan Mansion is going to coordinate and deal with this matter... Oh, right! Du Juncheng, Mr. Yang Jun is doing an on-site inspection this time. If he sees that the affairs of the village and the people in our county have been completed successfully, I am afraid that he will immediately respond when he is happy. Submit a letter of recommendation to the Sikong Mansion and Shangshutai of the imperial court, and promote you, Du Juncheng, to the Ministry of Households as Du Zhishilang."

(End of this chapter)