The autumn rain in Yecheng had been falling intermittently for several days. Fortunately, on Zhao Yun's wedding day, the weather cleared up.
Yuan Xi vacated his mansion and gave it to Zhao Yun, and he and Lu Lingqi went to Zhen's house to live.
The space that can be freed up in Zhen Mansion is naturally the small building that Zhen Mi used to live in. Since Zhen Mi got married, it has been almost emptied out. Now after a little cleaning, the two of them moved in.
It was still drizzling outside the window, which caused Yuan Xi and Lu Lingqi's wedding to be postponed for a few days. This made Yuan Xi a little absent-minded. Thinking of many things in Youzhou that were still waiting for him to do, the hand on Lu Lingqi's arms felt heavier.
The strength.
Lu Lingqi was lying on the window, her face was red, and there was a hint of flattery in the corners of her eyes. Now she suddenly felt pain, she couldn't help but became furious, and hit Yuan Xi in the chest with her backhand elbow.
Yuan Xi groaned and fell back, which startled Lu Lingqi. She grabbed Yuan Xi's belt with her backhand, but found that the other party's hand in her arms had not let go. Instead, she laughed angrily and pushed her elbow back fiercely.
He beat him so hard that Yuan Xi repeatedly begged for mercy.
Yuan Xifu sat upright again. Lu Lingqi knew what he was thinking and said, "If you are in a hurry to go back, you can go to Youzhou to do it."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "There are only a few days left, let alone an explanation to Marquis Wen."
"But looking at the weather, the harvest next year may not be very good. Although Mr. Han Yu is in charge of farming in Youzhou, the climate is getting colder, which makes people a little worried."
"What I'm more worried about is that after the Black Mountain Pass is opened, there will be contact between Youzhou and the Southern Xiongnu."
"The hundreds of thousands of southern Xiongnu are not the same as the Montenegrin army. After all, they have had a complicated relationship with the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years. If the northern and southern Xiongnu collude again, the world situation will be in trouble."
"However, there are so many people in the Southern Xiongnu that we cannot kill them all at once. Some of them are raiders, and some are honest people. Many of them live together with the Han and Qiang people in the border areas, and it has long been difficult to tell them apart."
"What's more, most of the people here are on the Han's household registration. Strictly speaking, they belong to the orthodox Han people, which is different from the Northern Huns outside the Great Wall."
"And it was originally used to deal with the Northern Huns because of the restraint policy. However, in the past hundred years, the Han court did not give them some things they deserved, which caused the two sides to become alienated. How to treat them in the future is also a troublesome matter."
"I heard that you grew up with Marquis Wen in Wuyuan, Bingzhou. There are many Southern Huns there, right?"
Lu Lingqi recalled it carefully and said, "It's indeed quite a lot."
"Strictly speaking, the Lu family are not considered common people in the local area. Although they have been reduced to poverty, they have their own fields, houses and courtyards, so they can be considered to be from a good family."
"According to my father, although he had to farm when he was a child, the family did not lack the expenses for his martial arts training. After all, the people in the northern frontier fortress are fierce, and if the children do not practice martial arts, they will not be able to keep the family property."
"Hu and Han people live together in Bingzhou, and the customs are actually quite barbaric. Fighting with each other is commonplace. When I was a child, I often saw my father come back with a bruised nose and a swollen face."
Yuan Xi didn't expect that Lu Bu would be defeated, so he couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Who is so brave and dares to attack Marquis Wen?"
Lu Lingqi couldn't stop laughing, "At that time, when the fields were watered and the fields and houses were marked, they often had to be prioritized. According to the rules in the North, whoever stood last would water first, so dozens or hundreds of people were fighting together, wrestling and fistfighting.
, do whatever you can to it.”
"Although my father is powerful, he can't stand against a large number of people, and everyone knows that he is strong, so everyone comes together to deal with him."
Yuan Xi was surprised and said: "This is too unfair. Marquis Wen doesn't ask anyone to reason with him?"
Lu Lingqi said helplessly: "My father wants to save face. He doesn't bother to talk about such things, so he suffered a lot."
Yuan Xi sighed: "Marquis Wen is very upright when it comes to fighting, but think about it, this world is inherently unreasonable."
"It's just like the competition in the world now. Whoever takes the lead will be attacked by a group of people. No one will be fair to you."
"Marquis Wen realized this truth earlier than others."
Lu Lingqi said: "That's true, but at that time all the tribes in the border areas were willing to admit defeat. After all, no one dared to break the rules, otherwise they wouldn't even be qualified to water water next time."
"So at that time, there were many ethnic groups living in Wuyuan, including Huns, Xianbei and so on. It didn't matter to us Han people, but the Huns and Xianbei nobles often clashed because of their ancestral hatred."
Yuan Xi was stunned, "Just nobles?"
Lu Lingqi rolled her eyes at Yuan Xi, "What else?"
"Those nobles need face and legitimate reasons to maintain their status. Of course, they must strive to outdo each other."
"The common people below need to eat. Who would fight to the death over something that happened to their ancestors hundreds of years ago?"
Yuan Xi thoughtfully said, "I still take some things for granted. It seems that when I return to Youzhou this time, I will go along the Bingzhou border fortress to have a good look at the local customs with my own eyes, and think carefully before I decide what to do with Nan."
The practices of foreigners like the Xiongnu.”
"After all, if something can be fought for, but you push them to the opposite side and fight a meaningless battle, it will only be the people on both sides who suffer."
Lu Lingqi nodded and said: "Indeed, among the Southern Huns nobles I met when I was a child, there were some who were ruthless and arrogant, and some who were clear-headed. It cannot be generalized."
Yuan Xi thought deeply. Judging from the history of later generations, the current Shanyu Huchuquan was a man who had both sides. Whether he truly joined the imperial court or harbored evil intentions, he would still have to find a way to find out later.
However, Lu Lingqi really drank a lot of cow's milk and goat's milk when she was a child.
He was thinking fast and daydreaming, and when Lu Lingqi's breathing became heavier and heavier, there was a servant in the garden holding an umbrella and carrying a wooden tray, and hurriedly walked to a small room in the corner.
There was a bowl of rice and two dishes on the wooden plate. The servant walked to the house. Sun Li, the guard, saw it and stood up to open the door latch.
The servant opened the door, placed the wooden plate on the ground at the door, and quickly stepped out. Sun Li laughed and bolted the door again.
Lu Lingqi said softly: "Did we arrest the wrong person?"
"There have been several interrogations in the past few days. From Yang Feng's appearance, it seems that he has no idea that Yang Chou was involved in the Huaicheng rebellion and the pursuit of master."
"With her current situation, there is no need to lie."
Thinking of the meeting with Yang Feng the day before yesterday, Yuan Xi remained silent.
Yang Feng was quite stubborn at first and refused to drink the medicine Hua Tuo boiled. She just wanted to die.
In order to dig out the secrets of the Montenegrin Army from his mouth, Yuan Xi used Yang Feng to hold hundreds of sergeants hostage. Although Yang Feng was angry, he still drank the medicine and revealed some of the inside information of the Montenegrin Army.
Yuan Xi gradually understood that Yang Feng had a transcendent status in the Black Mountain Army and was on the same level as Zhang Yan. She also didn't care about human relationships, so she didn't know much about many things in Black Mountain.
After Yuan Xi understood this, he said sarcastically: "No wonder Zhang Yan regarded you as an abandoned son. Now that he has surrendered to the Han court, you have become a prisoner. It turns out that you are of no use to him, or even an obstacle."
"Do you feel stupid?"
"What, he surrendered to the Han court?" Yang Feng was a little disbelieving, "Don't try to lie to me!"
Yuan Xi took out the edict issued by the Han court to all states and said: "Open your eyes and take a closer look."
Yang Feng took it and took a look, squeezing it tightly with her fingers.
She naturally understood that the edict announced in this announcement was true, and Zhang Yan had really betrayed her!
She smiled miserably and said: "Zhang Yan, do you still have the original ambition of the Yellow Turban Army in your eyes?"
"You abandoned me, you abandoned Huang Tian!"
Yuan Xi said coldly: "That's not a bad tone. Can you represent Huang Tian?"
Yang Feng glared fiercely, "You moths like you should have been buried with this rotten world!"
"Sooner or later, someone will inherit Huang Tian's ambition and wipe out the world!"
Yuan Xi sneered: "Is it possible that you are talking about Cao Cao and Cao Mengde?"
Yang Feng raised his head in surprise, "You also know?"
She then said disdainfully: "It's no wonder that under the guise of Taiping Dao, you are spreading rumors and trying to seize the real person's position. Only people like you who are disrespectful to Huang Tian can do such despicable things."
Yuan Xi sneered: "The Cao Mengde you like does the same thing as me."
"You can do it, but I can't?"
He has now determined that the person behind Yang Chou is most likely Cao Cao. Speaking of which, Cao Cao is quite capable. He can scare Yang Feng around and make wedding clothes for others without even knowing it.
Calculating this, the real culprit for Qu Yi's death in battle was Cao Cao. If he wanted to avenge him, it would be difficult, and he would not be able to do it in a short time.
It might be ten, twenty, or thirty years, or it might be that Cao Cao would be unable to do anything to him until he died of old age. Thinking of this, Yuan Xi felt extremely aggrieved.
He said coldly: "What are the real and fake people? Everyone is a liar. If the eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother, doesn't Zhang Jiao also deceive everyone in the world?"
"He wanted to save the world and brought it to pieces, but in the end he was used to pick the peaches. It's ridiculous."
After hearing this, Yang Feng roared and stood up to rush towards Yuan Xi. However, her body was already extremely weak. Lu Lingqi stood in front of her. With a slight block, Yang Feng fell back onto the straw pile.
Yang Feng sat up with difficulty, took a few breaths, and stared at Yuan Xi, "What do you know? You, a group of gentry who are nothing but common people, are worthy of talking about him!"
Yuan Xi didn't agree with what he said and said disdainfully: "The roots are with Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, so many nobles also participated in the Yellow Turban uprising."
"But the starting point was correct, but in the end he went astray. I can only say that Zhang Jue is a person who cares about killing and not burying people."
Yang Feng growled, "What do you know!"
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She reacted immediately and remained silent.
Yuan Xi sneered: "No wonder, you probably have a high status in the Yellow Turban Army."
"You keep saying it is Huang Tian's ambition. Over the years, the Black Mountain Army has been looting and poisoning the people. Is this also Huang Tian's ambition?"
"Don't worry, I won't let you die until I drain you dry."
Yang Feng stared at the wooden door that slammed shut in front of him, and punched the ground hard. This fierce tiger despised Huang Tianzhi so much that if he hadn't been threatened, he would have fought with him!
Now Yuan Xi and Lu Lingqi were talking about Yang Feng, and Lu Lingqi sighed: "Then after all, the real murderer who killed Master is Cao Cao?"
"Is this Yang Feng actually a tool being used?"
"It's quite sad to think about it."
Yuan Xi said calmly: "It's nothing tragic. He doesn't seek political power in his position, doesn't restrain the Black Mountain Army, and allows them to plunder and torture the people. How is that any different from the evil-doing nobles she said?"
"Those in power should be punished for their incompetence, and those in power should be punished for their evil deeds."
Lu Lingqi knew that Yuan Xi was referring to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, so she hid her mouth and said with a smile: "This is a treasonous statement. Aren't you afraid that the Han court will settle accounts with you?"
Yuan Xi said calmly: "At the beginning of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, it did save the people of the world, but the descendants were unfilial and repeatedly committed immoral things. They have already squandered the achievements of their ancestors."
"Since I'm sorry to the people of the world, I can't blame the people of the world for rebelling."
Just as Lu Lingqi was about to speak, she saw a maid coming up and saying, "Your Majesty, there is someone outside the door delivering a message."