Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 101 Do me a favor on a business trip
"Zhang Shizhong, Situ sent you to comfort the Kanto envoy, would you like to go?" Liu Xie raised his head and looked around the court. He still doesn't know who this Zhang Zhong is.

"My minister Zhang Zhong is the state of the Han Dynasty, and I will go through fire and water without hesitation. The righteousness lies, and I will die nine times without regret!" A scribe in his 40s attended and bowed deeply to Liu Xie.

This was the third time Liu Xie faced such a situation, and he couldn't tell what kind of feeling it was.

It is lucky to know the history, but it is also sad to know the history. It is like seeing the waves of the huge sea coming, but you cannot escape, have nowhere to hide, and have nowhere to rely.You want to cry out for help, but no one will understand you. You want to build a castle, but you find that your strength is so weak.

Thinking of the fate of Zhang Zhong, the poor servant, Liu Xie couldn't help thinking of his imperial brother Liu He.That noble relative, who was also a servant, also traveled across mountains and mountains to the Kanto for the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty.He was lucky, after all, Liu Xie changed his original intention a bit, so that he did not fall into Yuan Shu's hands, but even so, these three or four months have passed, and Liu He's news has been completely cut off.

Liu Xie didn't know if his imperial brother was detained by Zhennan General and Jingzhou Shepherd Liu Biao.If this is the case, Liu Xie will have to add another force to the enemies he will deal with in the future.

"Okay, if that's the case, I represent you as General Du Liao, holding festivals and comforting the Guandong." Liu Xie stared at Zhang Zhong in a daze, but in the end he couldn't bear the meaningless death of such a living life, and then he added another sentence : "However, this time you don't want to enter Jizhou or Nanyang, you need to go to Youzhou first."

"Your Majesty, what's the reason?" Zhang Zhong didn't understand what he meant, and the other ministers also couldn't understand why Liu Xie was like this.Now the Yuan family is in the limelight, and Yuan Shu is unstoppable in shaking Jing and Henan states; while Yuan Shao captured Jizhou, defeated the Yellow Turban in Heishan, and rebelled in Ping, and was once the leader of the alliance against Dong. If one school takes the lead in responding to the imperial court, the world will be peaceful.

"At the beginning of the year, Gongsun Zan of Youzhou killed the Yellow Turban and rebelled in Dongguang. The Dong thief forced Gongsun Zan to be named General Fenwu." Liu Xie stopped talking and looked at Wang Yun in the court hall. .

Even though Wang Yun was scheming, but when he heard Liu Xie's words, the old face couldn't stop a trace of embarrassment.He didn't bring up the position of General Fenwu casually. He subconsciously wanted to target Yuan Shao's greatest enemy, Gongsun Zan.

Yuan Shao has indeed done a good job in Jizhou, but at present, it is the Fenwu General Gongsun Zan who really dominates Jizhou and Youzhou.Wang Yun's intention was naturally to use this message to tell Yuan Shao that the court would not recognize Gongsun Zan, so as to give Yuan Shao legal support.But such an approach, in the eyes of any discerning person, is really an act of deception.Once Zhang Zhong brings the news to Jizhou, it is conceivable that a person like Gongsun Zan who is very tall and self-willed can stir up a bloody storm with a flip of his hands.

Sure enough, when Liu Xie said this, someone jumped out and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Situ declared General Lu to be General Fenwu. If Gongsun Zan found out about it, he would be dissatisfied. Although he is a minister, he has a strong and reckless personality. If the imperial court handles it like this, the innocent people in Hebei and Youzhou will suffer from being overwhelmed. I think what your Majesty said is very true, and it is the best policy to let the envoys enter Youzhou first to reassure them."

The person who said this was Da Honglu Zhou Huan, who was also a celebrity and was promoted to this post after Han Rong failed in his mission to the Kanto.With the stories of his predecessors like Han Rong, he naturally didn't want the court envoys to end up never returning.

Wang Yun was very secretive, and thought too highly of himself. Liu Xie's vicious eyes caught this flaw, and he didn't bother to argue, so he had to agree with him: "Your Majesty is wise, this is due to the negligence and lack of thoughtfulness of the old minister. You can order Zhang Shizhong to go to Youzhou first to show Gongsun Zan's merits, so as to reassure him."

After all, although Wang Yun and Yuan Shao were both scholars, they hated Gongsun Zan and other frontier fighters.But after all, compared with the Sheji of the Han Dynasty, Wang Yun couldn't afford to support Yuan Shao at the cost of the turmoil in Ji and Youzhou.What's more, this matter was really just a whim of his, and it didn't affect the overall situation. Since the emperor didn't use this as an excuse to refute his proposal to represent Lu Bu as a general, he wouldn't make fun of Liu Xie.

"In this case, we can grant Gongsun Zan the post of General Protector and seal Yihou." General Protector and General Fenwu are both generals with miscellaneous names, but Liu Xie raised Gongsun Zan's title by one level to appease people's hearts. enough.

"Your Majesty is wise, and my minister Zhang Zhong takes orders." Zhang Zhong was not a fool, so he naturally saw through Wang Yun's tricks, so he praised Liu Xie on the surface, but actually satirized Wang Yun.

"Zhang Shizhong has entered Youzhou this time, and I have a private matter to ask." The emperor used the word "please" and said it in the court hall, which is a great favor to the courtier.Liu Xie waited for Zhang Zhong to straighten his waist, and then slowly said: "There is a righteous man in Gongsun Zan's tent, his surname is Zhao and his name is Zilong. After arriving in Youzhou, pay attention to the investigation and make sure to bring this person back."

About Zhao Yun, Liu Xie suddenly thought of it by chance and mentioned it by chance.But after he finished speaking, he felt some expectation in his heart.Now Liu Bei is just a small Pingyuan county magistrate under Gongsun Zan, and he may have had contacts with Zhao Yun.But the reason why Zhao Yun followed Liu Bei wholeheartedly was that Liu Bei always took Zhao Yun into his account under the banner of revitalizing the Han Dynasty and saving the common people and his extraordinary personal charm.

Now that Liu Bei is under Gongsun Zan's tent, he naturally wouldn't talk about "rejuvenating the Han Dynasty", and Zhao Yun is a fledgling patriotic young man. Although the two admire each other, they will never be so deep as to become sworn brothers in Taoyuan. In love.If Zhang Zhong can really rush to Youzhou and produce a book of enlistment representing the Han Dynasty, it is hard to guarantee that Zhao Yun will not follow Zhang Zhong.

After all, when Zhao Yun followed Liu Bei sincerely, it was already the time when the Han Dynasty was ruined by Li Jue and Guo Si and was powerless.Zhao Yun should have been somewhat helpless before he joined Liu Bei to save the country through this curve.

But Liu Xie didn't expect that just as he said these words, before Zhang Zhong could reply, Wang Yun frowned slightly and said, "Zhao Yun? Is this man a great Confucian who governs the country? Or is he a famous scholar with high moral character? I have been a scholar for a long time. Lin, why have you never heard of this person's name?"

"This man is a righteous man." Liu Xie was too lazy to explain to Wang Yunduo.

Unexpectedly, when Wang Yun heard this, he would disdain and said again: "It's just a person, the envoy comforting Guandong has a great relationship, why does your majesty want to ruin the plan because of one person?"

Liu Xie looked at Wang Yun very strangely. He really didn't know why Wang Yun hit the bullet like this, and said in a half-hearted way: "So, Lu Aiqing is just a man?"

"How can General Lu be compared with those people?" As soon as Lu Bu was mentioned, Wang Yun lost his composure, and his words seemed insincere: "General Lu's heart to serve the country can be shown every day. Yesterday, in the battle to kill Dong Bandit, Lu The general did not care about himself, and came out alone in pursuit, everyone knows the merit of protecting the sky, why did His Majesty humiliate and destroy the meritorious officials by filling in the pawns, wouldn't it chill the hearts of all the officials?"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Xie's heart relaxed instead. Yesterday he and Zhong Yao made a plan, which was to seize Wang Yun's weakness of entanglement in human behavior, and wanted to use psychological warfare to gradually break through Wang Yun's weakness. line of defense.Unexpectedly, Wang Yun was actually so hesitant and confused. Without Liu Xie's instigation, he lost his position.

Therefore, Liu Xie smiled slightly, and asked his Highness Lu Bu: "Lu Aiqing, I call you a frontier soldier, do you think I have humiliated you?"

Seeing Lu Bu coming out of the line with a gloomy face, Wang Yun felt bad in his heart.Although he has commanded the army, he is not a soldier after all, and he doesn't know the psychology of soldiers.For scholar-bureaucrats like them, fame and fame are the foundation of their lives, and the background of frontier soldiers is just a synonym for vulgarity.But for warriors like Lu Bu, defending the borders of the country and fighting against foreign races is their pride and honor. Although Lu Bu joined Wang Yun's family, he could not weaken the strength of the warriors anyway, otherwise the story of today's court will be passed on. How could he have the face to govern his subordinates?
"Your Majesty, my subject, Lu Bu, is a soldier on the sidelines. Not only my subject, but also my subordinates are all loyal and brave men who are loyal to the Han Dynasty and guarding the border for the country." Lu Bu didn't look at Wang Yun, and rubbed his hands like metal Zhi Zhi's voice was low and said: "I really want to meet that martyr Zhao Yun, and see if he is as brave and good at fighting as I am. He is worthy of His Majesty's concern."

"Okay." Liu Xie returned lightly without making any further comments.But even so, he had already seen Wang Yun's face trembling with embarrassment, and felt that the time was gradually ripening.

(End of this chapter)