The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 758 Question 757
In the hall of King Yan's Mansion, after Zhang Yan sent away the Jinyiwei Commander Xu Sheng, he frowned, sighed softly, and said slowly: "It's really a wave of unrest and another wave. Yizhou has just been pacified. , something happened in Nanzhong again, I really don't know when the world will be truly peaceful!"

Zhuge Liang, who was sitting next to Zhang Yan, listened to Zhang Yan's emotion, and hurriedly comforted him: "Your Highness, don't worry, the general situation of the world is fixed now, and under the rule of Your Highness, I have gradually come out of the troubled times. , the common people live and work in peace and contentment, and the soldiers are also brave and good at fighting. After all, the land of Nanzhong is only a small piece of territory, how can it resist the might of my big man?"

"Having said that, this is war after all. As long as there is war, there will be death. Now the Han Dynasty has experienced years of wars and the population has dropped sharply. , it was only [-]% of that of Emperor Han Ling. The recovery after the war was slow, and it was impossible to recover to such a large population without ten or eight years. How to make this dynasty flourish has always been a headache." Zhang Yandao.

Zhuge Liang said: "As the saying goes, those who gain the way will be helped more than those who have lost the way. What His Highness is doing now is reasonable and conforms to the people's will. As long as the successors continue to follow in His Highness's footsteps, if they want a long-term prosperity A declining dynasty is not impossible."

Zhang Yan felt empathy for Zhuge Liang's words, but he didn't show it. He changed the subject and asked suddenly, "Do you have any suggestions for pacifying Nanzhong?"

Zhuge Liang thought for a moment, and then replied: "I think that Nanzhong is a place where Yi and Han live together, and its remoteness. If the big Han relaxes the supervision of Nanzhong a little bit, there may be troubles in the local area. In fact, the barbarians also Well, no matter the Han people, they are all the people of the big Han. As long as the big Han can treat them equally, there is no distinction between Han and barbarians, or a series of local laws and regulations that are in line with the local area are targeted to restrain them. will live in peace for a long time.”

Zhang Yan nodded, expressing his agreement with Zhuge Liang's statement, and then asked: "If you were the commander in chief to calm down the Nanzhong army this time, what would you do?"

"Eight words, attacking the heart is the top, and attacking the city is the bottom. As long as you have people's hearts, you don't have to worry about not having a city. Conversely, even if you have a city, if people don't follow you, then sooner or later there will be chaos. Once a large-scale Rebellion, if there is no city, there will be no more." Zhuge Liang said clearly.

After listening to Zhuge Liang's answer, Zhang Yan expressed his appreciation for Zhuge Liang's suggestion, and then he had someone chase Xu Sheng back on a fast horse, and then wrote a letter in his own hand, asking Xu Sheng to send someone to Zhang Liao.

After this matter was dealt with, a huge rock in Zhang Yan's heart was finally removed. He let out a long breath, and then said to Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, how are you doing about moving the capital?"

This is the final reason why Zhang Yan left Zhuge Liang for dinner. Although he has read Zhuge Liang's written report, it is too general, and there are some implicit meanings in the language, and the description of some things is not detailed enough. , so he wanted to ask Zhuge Liang about moving the capital face to face.

Zhuge Liang is also a smart person. For more than a month, he has been investigating the matter of moving the capital. With the support of Yan Wang Zhang Yan, no one dared to have any hostility towards Zhuge Liang, and the matter of moving the capital was also a secret matter. All the courtiers knew well that without Zhang Yan's strict order not to allow officials and wealthy gentry to sell any of Pengcheng's properties, Pengcheng would have already been in chaos.

Until now, Pengcheng is still a pool of calm lake on the surface, but in fact, under this calm lake, there are still many unknown undercurrents hidden.

Even Zhang Yan may not be aware of these surging undercurrents, because Xu Sheng, the commander of Jinyiwei whom he trusts, is also one of these surging undercurrents, and some things have been concealed by him.Now Zhang Yan is like a blind or deaf man who can neither see nor hear.

But Zhang Yan is not an idiot, he can feel these strange atmospheres, the territory of Pengcheng is too quiet now, even the report of Jin Yiwei sent by him can easily make people relax their vigilance.An atmosphere that is too peaceful is not a good phenomenon for Zhang Yan. For him, it seems to be the darkness before the dawn. His eyes are covered by the darkness. If he wants to see clearly, he must This darkness must first be broken.

"Regarding the move of the capital, the ministers have already written it in the memorial, and His Highness can read it one by one." Zhuge Liang said.

Zhang Yandao: "I have read your memorial, but it is not detailed enough. It can also be said that that memorial is a form of perfunctory for me..."

As soon as these words came out, Zhuge Liang broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly knelt down on the ground, lowered his head and said, "I don't dare!"

"Kong Ming, I asked you to move the capital because I believe in you, but I don't want you to live up to my expectations of you. Some things, even if you don't say anything, I know. When I proposed moving the capital before, there were many The ministers all expressed strong objections, but now the situation is calm, I don’t know if you are too capable to convince these ministers one by one, or do you take me for a fool?” Zhang Yan said in a stern voice.

Hearing Zhang Yan's words, Zhuge Liang vaguely felt an ominous premonition, but he kept his head down, and had no other words except "I dare not."

At this moment, Zhang Yan stood up, took out a memorial from his pocket, threw it in front of Zhuge Liang, and said coldly, "Open it and have a look!"

Zhuge Liang hurriedly opened the memorial, and after skimming through it, his whole body became terrified and filled with anger.

This is a memorial to the impeachment of Zhuge Liang. During the period of presiding over the relocation of the capital, Zhuge Liang used his power to extort money from the wealthy gentry in Pengcheng, and also threatened and lured, and robbed women and other evil deeds.However, the signature at the signing place of this memorial was obliterated with ink, so that Zhuge Liang could not see who it was.

Zhuge Liang's scalp was numb for a while, he raised his head hastily, knelt down in front of Zhang Yan, and argued loudly: "Your Highness, this is a false accusation, a pure accusation, I, Zhuge Kongming, can swear to God, I have never done such a thing. Any of the things impeached in the memorial, if I have the slightest lie, I will die without a place to bury me."

Seeing that Zhuge Liang was so nervous, Zhang Yan said, "Don't be so nervous, this king also knows that you will not do such a thing, and the person who made the impeachment has already been dismissed by me. I tried my best to handle the matter of moving the capital. This king has seen it and knows your hard work. However, there are some people who don't want to see you continue to be so prosperous. That's why this impeachment memorial for false accusations came about. So I show you this memorial, in fact, I want you to know that your current smooth sailing is all supported by this king, if not for this king, you would have already been hacked into pieces."

"His Highness is so kind and virtuous, I will never forget it!"

"Didn't you find anything unusual in the past month or so?"

Zhuge Liang hesitated to speak, but finally did not speak.

Zhang Yandao: "It seems that you still have some grievances in your mind, otherwise, you would not dare to speak out. Say it, no matter what you say, this king will forgive you!"

Zhuge Liang frowned, and then he boldly said to Zhang Yan: "Actually, I have discovered many clues these days, but there is no way to find out, so I can only let it go."

"Tell me, what clues have you discovered?" Zhang Yan suddenly became interested, and these were the words he had been waiting for for a long time.

Zhuge Liang said: "Actually, since I took charge of moving the capital, until now, I have been unable to understand one thing. Those ministers who were strongly opposed to moving the capital in the past have not only turned to support, but also wantonly cooperated with Ivy. Investigation, not only that, these ministers even told how much of their family property, which made the minister feel puzzled, but the minister couldn't find any clues, so he had to let it go and let himself believe that it was the minister. We all figured it out. However, something happened yesterday, which caused me to be in trouble again, but I couldn't say it because there was no evidence."

Zhang Yan hurriedly asked: "What is it?"

"Yesterday at noon, when I went to the mansion of Chen Qun, Minister of the Ministry of Household Investigation, I went to the latrine because of some internal urgency, and I heard the conversation between the housekeeper of Chen's house and another person. It seems that all of Chen Qun's properties in Pengcheng , have been secretly sold to that person, not only Chen Qun's property, but even the property of many ministers in the court have been secretly sold to this person. I wrote down my appearance. Afterwards, I quietly left there, and ordered my subordinates to follow everyone who came out of the Chen Mansion, and finally caught fish with a big net, and finally let Weichen know the identity of this person..."

"Who is this person?" Hearing this, Zhang Yan asked impatiently before Zhuge Liang finished speaking.

Zhuge Liang hesitated for a while, but finally said it out, and said slowly: "This man is the steward of Mi Zhu, governor of Xuzhou..."

"Mi Zhu's housekeeper?" Zhang Yan frowned like a Sichuan word, "Are you sure it's him?"

"After many identifications, Weichen confirmed that the person is Mi Zhu's housekeeper, named Mi Feng."

Zhang Yan looked at Zhuge Liang with a livid face, and asked, "Who else have you told about this?"

"Only the king, other than that, I never mentioned it to anyone else." Zhuge Liang said.

"You go back first, remember, don't mention this matter to anyone anyway, otherwise, be careful of falling heads."

"Here! Weichen resigns!"

After Zhuge Liang left, Zhang Yan immediately ordered someone to summon Mi Zhu, governor of Xuzhou, to ask him what happened.

(End of this chapter)