Lu's relatives

Chapter 158

Qingzhou has dispatched troops as promised!
When the news came back to Xuzhou, Tao Qian, who hadn't slept well for several nights, felt relaxed all over.Although there was an additional requirement, Zhao Yu and his two "friends" were required to teach at the reopened Jixia Academy in Qingzhou for a year.Although I don't understand how Lu Bu would offer such a weird condition, it was still a good deal for Tao Qian.

Although Zhao Yu was a famous scholar in Xuzhou, his talent was limited to Xuzhou. Moreover, his family members were all in Guangling, and Zhao Yu was known as a dutiful son. Tao Qian was not worried that Zhao Yu would transfer to serve Lu Bu.As for Zhao Yu's friends mentioned by the person who came back and the person who delivered the report, Tao Qian knew without thinking that it was Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong who had always been friends with Zhao Yu.These two people are really tasteless to Tao Qian. Although they are famous, they are always unable to be recruited. Zhang Zhao used to be quite contemptuous of himself in his words before. There are plans to go to prison for questioning in the future.Go to Qingzhou this time, go to Qingzhou, out of sight, out of mind!From Tao Qian's point of view, Zhang Zhao's temper and Lu Bu's character had no chance of being effective.It's only been a year, and the actions of these two people have helped him a lot this time, so Tao Qian is "magnanimous" and no longer cares about it!
In fact, Tao Qian didn't have the same bad feeling towards Lv Bu as his power. Strictly speaking, there was no intersection between the two, let alone enmity.Even if there was some discord with Qingzhou before, that was before Lu Bu took over Qingzhou. Since Gongsun retreated, Yuan Shao subdued, and Cao Cao begged for peace, Tao Qian was very self-aware and did not intend to continue to tease Lu Bu, even if it was his own family. Mi Zhu was suspected of having liaison with Qingzhou, and his younger brother Mi Fang worked in Qingzhou. Tao Qian pretended not to know and didn't ask any more questions, and chose to turn a blind eye.

Do not mix!Do not offend!
This is Tao Qian's philosophy of doing things.

Tao Qian is a sensible person, the older he gets, the more he understands the current situation.After the Yellow Turban Rebellion that year, the eight states of the Han Dynasty were rebels, and the world was shaken. Although they were quickly wiped out, there were still lingering chaos; Killed by a group of eunuchs; after that, Dong Zhuo went to Beijing to intimidate officials, changed the emperor, and moved the capital to Chang'an. Until now, Chang'an is occupied by two thieves, Li Jue and Guo Si.The chaos in this world has already happened, and it is definitely not possible to reverse it with human power. What is the talk of turning the tide with one hand, it is better to accumulate strength and protect yourself.

Therefore, from the beginning when he was promoted to Xuzhou Mu, Tao Qian made a plan to defend Xuzhou and pass on this three-acre land to his children and grandchildren.While vigorously rectifying people's livelihood and promoting farmland, except for the chaos in the state, they generally don't use weapons lightly. In the past few years, Xuzhou has been quite prosperous. Although there are also Yellow Turban activities in the territory, they are all small troubles and do not hurt vitality. On the one hand, with the idea that no one will be offended, even the Kwantung princes' alliance, which was so mighty before, attacked Dong Zhuo, and even Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha, who was thousands of miles away, drove away. Xuzhou is so close , Tao Qian excused his illness and didn't join in the fun.Until seeing the anticlimactic end of this alliance, the eighteen princes fell apart and killed each other, Tao Qian was even more firm in his previous idea of ​​not getting involved.

What Tao Qian has been avoiding is to cause trouble, and Lu Bu is a big trouble.With a bad reputation and enemies on all sides, although the combat power is strong, which one of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Gongsun Zan on the edge of Qingzhou is easy to provoke?
Even this Kanxuan uprising, if it hadn't been for the elbow and armpit, the chaos started from Xiapi, the Xuzhou government, and tens of thousands of Xuzhou yellow scarves came to help. In just a few days, except for Xiapi City, Pengcheng and Xiaopei were all attacked. ; there is only one lonely city of Xiapi left. Although the city is strong, it is located in the plains and there is no danger to defend.The situation was urgent, if not, Tao Qian would definitely not have gambled and asked for help from Lu Bu, who was the closest to Xuzhou, and the Yellow Turban did not dare to block his way. The reason for the relationship is that, fortunately, Lu Bu readily agreed.

"My lord! Please see me, my lord!" Just as Tao Qian was finally relieved by the news of Lu Bu's dispatch of troops, he heard the report from the family in the future.

"This scoundrel, Xiapi city is in chaos right now, but he hasn't been seen all day, what a shame!" Tao Qian heard that it was his eldest son, Tao Shang, who was asking to see him, and a flash of anger flashed across his face.Tao Qian was old enough to have sons, and he only had such two sons in his 40s, so it was inevitable that he would be a little arrogant towards these two brothers in his daily life.The second child, Tao Ying, is quite up-to-date. Although he looks a bit feminine on weekdays, he can still be regarded as talented in Xuzhou.But this potter, apart from hanging out with the Yellow Turban general Zhang Kai every day, doesn't do any serious business.Before, I kept reporting how many Yellow Turbans were wiped out here today, and how many Yellow Turbans were expelled tomorrow, but now?Outside Xiapi City, Pengcheng, Donghai, Xiaopei and other places have obtained food storage, and there are at least [-] to [-] Yellow Turban bandits with high morale!Could it be that this Xuzhou has become a den of thieves like that Qingzhou?So many yellow scarves making trouble?What about cheating ghosts?
"Father! Why did you suddenly order not to distribute the full amount of military rations to the sergeants under the boy?" Before Tao Qian could order, the pottery merchant rushed in, ignoring the presence of the general, and opened his throat carelessly, saying yes Tao Qian yelled, "My brothers are all starving!"

"Allow food in full?" Tao Qian looked at his eldest son, whom he had placed high hopes on due to his false achievements in exterminating the Yellow Turbans, with a half-smile, and said with a sneer, "You bastard, first fill up the vacancy of your subordinates before saying no." Late!"

"Father, who did you listen to? Isn't this framing me?" The pottery merchant's expression changed when he heard Tao Qian's sudden words, panic flashed in his eyes, but seeing Tao Qian's expression With the evidence in hand, he didn't know how much Tao Qian knew about him, so he argued, "Father, can't you even trust your own son? Father, tell me who is arranging it for me. I'll find it." He goes to theory!"

"Evil son! You are so confused!" Tao Qian really didn't know what to say about his eldest son.Now is this time, [-] to [-] Yellow Turban bandits who have received Xuzhou's military food supplies are besieging the city, and the pottery merchants who have been bragging about their achievements in exterminating the Yellow Turbans have turned a blind eye and only want to eat empty quota.Tao Qian really wanted to open Young Master Tao's head to see what had grown in it.In the current world, the states and counties in the world are doing their own thing, and there are faint signs of the Warring States period. Although Tao Qian is not a native of Xuzhou, he has firmly held Xuzhou Mu in the hands of the Tao family by virtue of his marriage with the Xuzhou family. , the potter is the eldest son, isn't the Xuzhou foundation owned by your potter in the future?Why do you stick to Xuzhou, don't think about taking over the family business, but always think about these crooked ways?

"Father, I told you that because you didn't allocate enough rations for the army, my son's brothers had nothing to eat, so they went out of the city to find it by themselves!" The pottery merchant didn't pay any attention to Tao Qian's thoughts at all, Sitting cross-legged on top of a few desks, he said impatiently.

"You...You bastard, didn't you always brag about your subordinates who made the Yellow Turban tremble? Did they leave the city because they had nothing to eat? Now that the Yellow Turban bandits are attacking their doorsteps, you just happened to call me." Look?" Tao Qian's hands were trembling because of the potter's appearance, and he smiled angrily, pointing to the sky outside the door and shouted: "I want to see, the combat power of your potter's master Tao! It's not really as powerful as you reported!"

"Hmph, just look! Father, don't believe me! Besides, what my son reported earlier was to expel the Yellow Turbans, not to kill them. Who knows where these Yellow Turbans came from? A few days ago, Zhang Kai, the general under his command, I have already killed a group of Yellow Turban bandits from Peiguo in Yuzhou who wanted to borrow from me in Xuzhou, and they have seized several carts of gold, silver and coins! Originally, my son wanted to share some filial piety with you, but I didn't expect that my father would only believe it. An outsider!" Tao Shang saw that his father Tao Qian was really angry, and that the extermination of the Yellow Turbans performed by Zhang Kai before for Tao Qian might have been leaked, so he started to play a rogue at the moment, forcing Top said.

"What? Zhang Kai has gone out of the city? He also seized several carts of gold and silver coins?" Tao Qian heard the words of the pottery merchant, a trace of uneasy doubts suddenly appeared in his heart, and he hurriedly asked: "Don't deceive me, Yuzhou Yellow Turban The ravages are the worst, those yellow scarf bandits are all poor haha, how can there be a lot of money and goods to get through the Xuzhou incident, tell me honestly, what is going on? Are you waiting to kill the good and take the credit?"

"This..." Seeing that because I was having fun for a while, I didn't notice that there was such a big loophole in it, Tao Qian grabbed the loophole and asked such questions, and suddenly hesitated and couldn't speak.In the end, he had no choice but to wrinkle his face and nod reluctantly, which seemed to agree with Tao Qian's guess.

"You...you scoundrel! How can the dignified son of Xuzhou Shepherd behave like those yellow scarf bandits? If this gets out, your father and I will lose all of our fame!" Tao Qian thought Tao The chamber of commerce quibbled a few words, even if it was to make up a few lies like before, but it didn't expect that my son would be honest this time, and suddenly his heart was filled with gloom, and he asked angrily with a gloomy face for a long time : "Is what you did clean? Are those people alive? Do you know who they are?"

"Ha, dad, don't worry! That Zhang Kai is an expert in doing these things, and he is absolutely clean! It's just..." Seeing that the old man who has always been a "gentleman" in his eyes asked this question for the sake of fame , The pottery merchant's tense expression disappeared suddenly, and he almost patted his chest to promise Tao Qian. After many years, he finally had a common language with his father.But as soon as the words were spoken, the pottery merchant suddenly remembered something, took out a letter from his arms, and said to Tao Qian: "It's just that Zhang Kai didn't pay attention this time, and it seems that the old man who was the leader was missing when he finally destroyed the corpse." Yes, but the old man was stabbed by Zhang Kai before, so even if he escaped in the cold and the Yellow Turbans in Xuzhou, he probably wouldn’t be able to survive. Where did the old man’s carriage find this letter from? Yes, it was put together with a bunch of rare gold and silver, like a letter from home, Zhang Kai couldn’t read, so he gave it to his son, if daddy didn’t mention it, his son would have almost forgotten it.”

"Bring it to me!" Tao Qian took the letter with a gloomy face after listening to the potter's words, and read it carefully from the beginning. It was just some words from his son missing his father, but some of them were like "Yanzhou has been settled, and Qingzhou has something to do." There is nothing surprising about the vagueness of the words, but when Tao Qian saw the signature, his eyes suddenly widened, and he lost his footing and fell to the ground.

"Hundred respects, son Mengde!..."

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