Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1629 Q&A

When I was young, I liked to ask adults why, why this, why that, and I wanted to find a final answer to everything, but sometimes I would come across the answer of "no why", so I couldn't understand why there was a "no why". Why" thing?

  For questions like this, you will not understand the whys contained in the "why" until you really encounter the why.

  Because of these "no why", it is not that there are no reasons, but these reasons cannot be said.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, red was the most important thing, so formal occasions were rarely as resplendent as later generations. Instead, they were mainly red and black, mixed with a little simple gold-painted patterns, whether it was screens, table cases, or pillars. In this way, it looks very solemn and atmospheric.

But there is also a bad thing that once the atmosphere during the period becomes dignified, it will interact with the red and black surroundings to produce a strong sense of oppression, which makes everyone present very nervous. uncomfortable…

   Like the present moment.

Liu Xie leaned forward and glared at Xun Yu, as if he was about to shoot up at the next moment, "Xun! Love! Qing! I will receive the foreign envoys! Do I have to get Sikong's approval?!" Liu Xie's voice echoed in the hall. It reverberated, excited, and the voice was full of anger.

  This question is difficult to answer, no matter whether the answer is necessary or not, it is actually wrong, so all the officials, including Xun Yu, are silent.

   No wonder Liu Xie was angry.

  Yang Xiu has been in Xu County with his envoy for several days, but he has been living in a temporary post house and has not been received by Liu Xie. It's not that Liu Xie didn't want to see him, but Liu Xie wanted to see him, but was stopped.

  In the beginning, Liu Xie was a little patient, but then he became more and more urgent...

  There is no other reason. Cao Cao first defeated Yuan Shao's partial army in Heluo, and then sent troops to attack Yuan Shao's grain road.

   Strictly speaking, this is a good thing for Liu Xie, but the benefits are limited. If Liu Xie fell into Yuan Shao's hands, the great general of the imperial court who planned to establish a new king from the beginning might actually implement it. Even if Yuan Shao didn't do this, Liu Xie might not be much better than Cao Cao.

  So, from this perspective, Cao Cao's victory is a good thing.

But at the same time, everyone wants to live a better life, better than the past, better than the present, and better and better. This is human nature. When Liu Xie realized that if Cao Cao came back with a victorious posture, then When the space inside is likely to be further compressed, Liu Xie naturally wants to find new vents.

  The door is closed, always open a window...

  So, the so-called foreign envoys sent by Hussar General Fei Qian are a window that Liu Xie found. Although it is not very big, it can at least allow him to breathe more smoothly.

  However, Liu Xie did not expect that such a move to open a small window would be blocked.

Why?

At the beginning, Liu Xie listened to some foreign envoys coming, so he should not be rash, and there were many things that needed to be prepared, and then for the reasons of Barabara, etc., he still endured it more or less, but as time went by, this set of rhetoric also became more and more difficult. Gradually pale up.

  What takes so long to prepare?

  Can something be substituted for what is not there?

   Liu Xie kept urging, but what he encountered was repeated delays. Even the clay figurines were angry. What's more, Liu Xie originally wanted to take this opportunity to gain his reputation, so why was he willing to wait calmly like this?

Xun Yu was silent for a long time before he said: "Your Majesty doesn't know something... Envoys from foreign countries bring very rich gifts... There are one jade pan, two jade horses, four coral trees, thirty-six big pearls, forty-nine small pearls, and variegated gemstones. Nine plates, six jade bowls, eight gold plates, twelve silver plates, twelve pairs of gold-inlaid elephant chopsticks, twenty-four gold-painted copper basins, twelve boxes of gold, jade, pearl and emerald ornaments, ten mink skins, bear skins, and tiger skins each Two, eight mink hats, twelve leather robes, twenty-four pairs of leather boots... In addition, there are also twelve good horses presented by Hussar Generals, twenty-four pieces of silver thread clothes, thirty-six pieces of silk, and eight gold-painted fans. Ten, and some gold, silver and copper coins..."

   Xun Yu's voice was calm, but every time he said something, the rest of the people, including Liu Xie, who were not very clear about the specific situation, couldn't help taking a breath, and even became a little numb afterward.

  Xun Yu kowtowed on the ground, and continued, "There are so many things, the total price may be estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars... Also, many envoys from other countries have said in front of people that the great Han is a country of etiquette, so you should know that etiquette is always reciprocal...But now, the treasury, the treasury..."

   Liu Xie was dumbfounded, but after a while, bursts of sadness rose in his heart.

"Your Majesty is also aware of your urgency..." Xun Yu's voice was still steady, but there was some helplessness, "But now the country is in dire straits, and the warehouse is empty, how can we return the gift? The minister has ordered to find the goods, and it will be difficult for a while. Prepare everything...Your Majesty, please rest assured, I will not let the Han family lose their prestige..."

  Liu Xie took a deep breath and said, "Can't you reduce it a little?"

Such wealth and goods might still be there when Liu Xie was young, or during the period of Emperor Han Ling, but these years, they are simply poor and useless. Even the clothes Liu Xie wears, regardless of the glamorous outer robes, the middle clothes and small clothes are mended past...

  In order to maintain the huge expenses and prevent himself from following the old path of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Cao Cao could only find another way.

Cao Cao's original background was not as good as Yuan Shao's and Yuan Shu's. In addition, Cao Cao's basic base was Yanzhou, which was also not as good as Jizhou and Yuzhou. When Cao Cao took most of Yuzhou from Yuan Shu, Yuzhou was almost corrupted by Yuan Shu. Now, it is necessary to support the expenses of the army, and to pay salaries to the officials of the court, especially Cao Cao has no way to do business with the south and the north to make money like Fei Qian, so he can only focus on the tomb …

   You must know that the Han Dynasty was the most filial piety, so there were the most funerary objects, so digging a grave can naturally reap a lot of money. Although Cao Cao is so sneaky that people can do it, there is no impenetrable wall in the world, but the children of the gentry in Yanzhou, Yuzhou can only cover their eyes and pretend not to see. It is better to spend the money of the dead than the money of the living. As long as the grave dug is not their family's, it's fine.

   Even so, the huge military expenditure is enough to make Xun Yu breathless, not to mention that he did it all of a sudden, it is indeed Alexander...

Xun Yu showed a wry smile, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, it's about the national system..." It's not that Xun Yu didn't think about cutting corners, or shoddy the so-called "solutions", but if he did this, it would be Liu who benefited. Xie Xie, and then he is the one who is responsible. When something happens, he will even ransack his family and exterminate his family!

  Of course, it’s not completely impossible, and it’s not that the entire Cao Cao political group is in dire straits to the point of being unsustainable. The family background of the Yingchuan family is not that weak, but this is different from military needs...

  Soldiers need coarse grains and cloth, they can have enough food and clothing, and they don’t need the treasures collected by these families, so Xun Yu lobbied and exchanged some benefits, and it took him a year to deal with it.

  However, this time, if you really want to take out the corresponding gold and jade artifacts, you have to turn over the coffin books of these families...

  Even if you can take it out, you may not be willing to take it out.

Of course, if you forcibly order to search for old backgrounds and take some of the coffins of those old men, it is almost enough, but the problem is that these old men are not willing to give up years of meticulous collection for the sake of Liu Xie's face. It's not worth completely froze the relationship for the sake of Liu Xie's so-called face, so it's stuck here for a while.

   Of course, there is another very important reason...

   Liu Xie stared, speechless for a while.

  The troubles of the rich often have a lot of new tricks, and there are unheard of things, but the troubles of the poor are generally one word, poor.

  Liu Xie is very poor, and has reached a new level of poverty. In fact, his father, Emperor Hanling was not rich, so he tried his best to collect money when he became the emperor. However, Liu Xie did not have his father's thick skin, and secondly, he did not have his father's capital, so now he has nothing to do, the royal family Even mice can't stay in the private vault...

  Some people say that if you are poor, you only have your bones left, and you can’t lose all your bones, but some people say that you are so poor that you only have your bones left, so what’s the use of having bones?

  So, when a person is so poor, do he still have a backbone?

  Do you want skin?

  Liu Xie was unable to answer. He couldn't get rid of his skin, and he couldn't let go of his remaining backbone, so the Dachaohui ended in such fruitless questions and answers.

  ...Here is the dividing line for poor ghosts...

  Liu Xie's problem is actually not worth mentioning to people who don't value face very much.

  For example, Guo Jia.

When Guo Jia heard about this, he couldn't help but sneered, and then said: "Haha, haha, what's so difficult about this matter? Let the ministers of the court and the central government copy and write the Six Classics, and your Majesty can write some words casually, and it's over. ...Gold and jade are all vulgar things, and articles are eternal things..."

   Xun Yu couldn't help but rolled his eyelids.

  Of course, it has always been difficult to make a standard measurement and conversion of spiritual and material values. Guo Jia’s approach is actually a way to deal with it, but the problem is that Liu Xie can’t do it.

   "General Hussars is so..." Xun Yu seemed to ask himself, and also seemed to ask Guo Jia, "What is the intention?"

  Although some of the so-called gifts brought by foreign envoys are indeed completely different from the patterns and carvings in the Central Plains, but it is impossible to say that all these things were transported by the envoys of the Great Qin Body Poison all the way...

   After all, no matter where these goods are placed, they will be breathtaking. How could it be possible without a loyal and powerful guard? And it is obvious that neither the envoy of Daqin nor the person who claims to be born in a poisonous family has such a guard, so the answer is ready to come out.

  Then Hussar General suddenly gave so much money, what exactly did he want to express?

   "Ha... don't say you can't figure it out..." Guo Jia glanced at Xun Yu.

   "Someone just thought of two..." Xun Yu said.

  Guo Jia said: "Then tell me, let's see what we think is different..."

   Xun Yu sighed, and said: "First, if there is no benefit, how can clams and cranes fight?"

  Guo Jia nodded, "Exactly..."

  This is a very simple question, and it is easy to get the answer after thinking about it. Just like the three thousand men and horses Fei Qian gave, it was also a bait to destroy the already precarious relationship between Liu Xie and Cao Cao.

Everyone thought that the hussar general sent out 3,000 elite cavalry, but in fact it was not. Among them, there were only about 500 cavalry veterans, and the rest were barely transferred from infantry to cavalry after a short period of training. novice. Of course, war horses are unscrupulous war horses, so it cannot be said that these are not cavalry, but they cannot be regarded as the elite of the hussars.

  Of course, as Cao Cao, both internally and externally, he said that these are the elite hussars, soldiers of a hundred battles...

  Then so are these goods.

   Foreign countries offer gifts, so are these goods considered your Majesty's or the treasury's? Is it included in the Shaofu, or under the Dasinong?

  If Liu Xie doesn't answer this question, who can answer it?

   "Secondly, Hushi's move is a demonstration..." Guo Jia raised his head and said, then sighed.

   Xun Yu was silent.

  Before when the Shandong gentry looked at the Yongliang area in Guanzhong, they always felt that there was no one inhabited there, it was a remote place, and it was a place where people drank their blood. It was like a chain of regional contempt in later generations.

  The bottom of the regional contempt chain during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods was the Song Dynasty. The pre-Qin philosophers contended with a hundred schools of thought on academic and political opinions, but they shared a tacit understanding when it came to ridiculing the people of the Song Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the people of the Song Dynasty were the targets of map cannons. In the stories, they were described as stupid, with a stupidity that did not conform to common sense, and they could be regarded as dedicating their lives to educating future generations.

  The state-owned farmer, who often wears clothes, refers to the people of the Song Dynasty. Those who Zizhangfu is suitable for Zhuyue are also from Song Dynasty. The one who lost his wealth and doubted his neighbors was also a Song Dynasty...

  Of course, Zheng Guo, who is next door to Song State, is similar to Song State, and is at the bottom of the chain of contempt. The stories of Zheng people buying shoes, buying baskets and returning pearls, and divination of wives for trousers are all Zheng people...

  In the early Western Han Dynasty, it was the Guanzhong people who despised the people outside the Guanzhong. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was two hundred years in the middle of the Guanzhong and two hundred years outside the Guanzhong.

   Now, Fei Qian is showing his military strength on the one hand, and financial resources on the other. Heard that there is going to be a big talk about the Qinglong Temple, he is simply gaining the upper hand in all aspects. Competing in military strength, needless to say, comparing financial resources, look at these things, give it away as soon as you say it, even the top level of culture that Shandong people are proud of, now they have to mix it up...

  Xun Yu pondered for a long time, then suddenly said softly: "It's fine if there are only these two aspects... I'm just worried about hussars and have other intentions..."

  Guo Jia was taken aback for a moment, then sat up straighter, "You mean..."

  Xun Yu took a look at Guo Jia and said, "When the hussars were still in their infancy, the bet with you in Yingchuan...can you forget it?"

  Guo Jia was shocked. In Guo Jia's thinking, it is true that he subconsciously avoided this question. After Xun Yu woke up, he couldn't help but change his face, rolled his eyes a few times, pointed out his finger in surprise, and said hesitantly: "You That is to say, the third aspect of General Hussar's intention falls here?"

  Xun Yu took a long breath, "I hope it's someone who thinks too much... If that's the case, what will happen?"

  Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed, not knowing how to answer...

  (end of this chapter)