"I have trapped myself in the barbarians, and have experienced hardships. My skin has been scratched and my blood and tears have filled my pool." Ji Wenwu Baoan
Pei Mao looked at this burly man with extraordinary heroic demeanor, as if he had completely forgotten the rudeness of the other person's previous intrusion.
After a long time, Pei Maocai suddenly laughed and said: "I have heard about the reputation of General White Horse for a long time. Even the emperor lamented that he could not see the general's style."
Gongsun Zan said humbly: "I dare not take this ridiculous compliment. I am guarding the country's border. I have been unable to perform Hajj all these years. I feel guilty. How can I let the emperor care about me?"
Pei Mao smiled and said nothing, and only heard Liu Yu say from the side: "Why don't the angels ask General Fenwu why it's so late?"
Before Pei Mao could answer, Gongsun Zan immediately changed his expression and said coldly: "Then why doesn't Liu Youzhou first tell you what he did?"
Pei Mao just gave Gongsun Zan a blow, which seemed to give Liu Yu great confidence.
Liu Yu calmed down in the initial panic and quickly calmed down. With the angel Pei Mao present, he was not afraid of Gongsun Zan at all, and said tit-for-tat: "I don't understand, please let the general clarify."
Gongsun Zan's forehead veins jumped. He would not be stupid enough to talk about Liu Yu's plan to use food and grass this time, so he changed his words: "Your Majesty neglected the soldiers and failed to provide enough food. As a result, now that the autumn frost has fallen, all military departments
We still have no food and grass for the winter. Isn’t this a fault of yours?”
"I have already allocated all the people under the general's command, so how can I fail to provide enough food?" Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan looked at each other and said calmly: "If the general had not repeatedly violated my order, used weapons and soldiers privately, how could he have been so defeated?
Lack of food and grass?"
Gongsun Zan was still dissatisfied and retorted: "If I hadn't raised troops to conquer, drove Wuhuan to the outside of Seibiao, and wiped out the Yellow Turbans in Mengjin, how could you sit here peacefully! How could this be my fault?"
Pei Mao couldn't stand it, so he tried to smooth things over and said: "Ji Hou's words are serious! Both of you are ministers of the country and work with each other, why should it be like this?"
He planned to show his righteousness and use his status as an angel to further negotiate peace. Finally, he took out the imperial edict and asked each of them to become officials and knights, and that would be the end of the matter.
Unexpectedly, it was a good thing that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu, the two enemies, had not met each other. Now that they finally met, the long-simmering resentment in each other's hearts immediately broke out.
"Wuhuan has not invaded the fortress for many years, and the people in the territory have been happy and settled for many years. Why is there a need for violence and indiscriminate warfare?" Liu Yu thought he was reasonable and refused to follow Pei Mao's words and made up his mind.
We must take advantage of the situation and capture Gongsun Zan.
He punished every sentence with a gun and a stick: "But you indulged your tribe, plundered the people, and robbed the rewards I gave Wuhuan without permission. The state government repeatedly warned you, but you couldn't stop it. Who are you?
Intentions?"
Speaking of Wuhuan, Gongsun Zan became angry. As early as the fifth year of Zhongping, Zhang Chun and Qiu Li lived in various places in Chaoluo. He marched all the way and won the title of Cavalry Commander for their military exploits. Finally, he pursued the rebels in the vassal country.
In the battle of Shimen, Zhang Chun was beaten to the point where he abandoned his wife and children and fled far away from the Great Wall.
I wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue the pursuit, but ended up going too deep into the country and unable to sustain food and grass. As a result, I was surrounded by Qiu Liju and others in Guanzi City in western Liaoning. They ran out of food to feed the horses and cooked the crossbows. The soldiers suffered heavy casualties. If it hadn't been rainy at times.
Xue, the rebels are also hungry and sleepy and unwilling to fight any more. Gongsun Zan may be trapped there.
In terms of deep hatred for Wu Huan, almost no one in the civil and military circles of Youzhou could compare with him. He wished he could completely defeat Wu Huan, but his boss was Liu Yu, who was very gentle and did not like to talk about military affairs.
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Not long after Gongsun Zan came back from Guanzi City in disgrace, Liu Yu came to Youzhou. He quickly used his reputation among the Wuhuan people to send a message to Qiu Liju, and asked Wuhuan to offer the heads of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju.
The rebellion was put down with little effort.
Afterwards, people only praised Liu Yu for his kindness and gentleness in this matter. How did they ever pay attention to Gongsun Zan's heavy damage to Wuhuan's vitality before?
Without him defeating the rebels first, how could Liu Yu make the profit-seeking aliens bow their heads with his fame alone?
Gongsun Zan had always been dissatisfied with Liu Yu. Now when he heard Liu Yu mention Wuhuan, he became very angry: "The tigers and wolves of Wuhuan are dormant for a while. That is because they are not as powerful as me and have been defeated by our soldiers many times. So
You don't know what you mean. You only show kindness and forget about fighting. You reward tens of thousands of people in bribes every year, and the people at the lower level lack food and clothing. Have you ever paid attention to it?"
Speaking of the reason for the gap, Liu Yu couldn't help but be moved and said: "Wuhuan has fallen into decline. This is a good opportunity to embrace the foreigners and nourish the people. Do we have to devote all the efforts of the whole state to let the people who have finally settled down again
Is it in line with the general's wishes to suffer severe corvee taxes just to support the general and go north to fight Wuhuan to the death?"
"Humph." Gongsun Zan said forcefully: "Your Majesty rewards you with gifts every year, and opens border markets to trade salt and iron. Little did you know that Wuhuan gradually recovered because of this. Raising tigers will eventually lead to great disasters. Don't you know it already?
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"In this case, why not report it to the imperial court, and why not report it to the state capital? Is this the reason why the general indulges his subordinates like bandits, plundering the people to strengthen his tribe? It is also the reason why the general robs the reward that I gave to Wuhuan on behalf of the imperial court?
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"When the imperial court is moved, how can I get a memorial? And why have you ever paid attention to me?" Gongsun Zan had always been suppressed by Liu Yu's prestige. At this time, he said angrily: "I have raised meat and tigers, and Wuhuan is about to become a man again.
There is a calamity in Youzhou. As a vigorous general who has been entrusted by the imperial court, I am obliged to recruit troops to prepare for the barbarians. However, the state capital is insufficient to distribute food and fodder, my troops are short of food and clothing, and the army is exhausted, so I have no choice but to take this approach!"
Liu Yu looked at Gongsun Zan and said calmly: "I have never deducted any food, clothing, and armor from the general's soldiers. All of this can be checked in the records. It's just that the troops you expanded without authorization are not owned by the imperial court, and I will never use them as public property."
Capital, the principle of raising a private soldier."
Seeing that the quarrel between the two parties was getting more and more intense, Pei Mao was afraid that things would get into trouble, so he hurriedly stopped and said: "Okay!"
Pei Mao knew that the grudge between the two was not just about political opinions. Gongsun Zan only complained that Liu Yu stepped on his shoulders at the last moment and took away the victory of suppressing the rebellion, but he never thought that Liu Yu would defeat the five in Zhongping.
As soon as he arrived in Youzhou in the first half of the year, he established a good reputation and set a reward for the leader of the rebels. He successfully won over King Wuhuan Qiao and divided the power of the Wuhuan tribe. That was why Gongsun Zan defeated Qiu Liju at the end of the year.
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The counterinsurgency that year was actually the result of the two people's unknowing cooperation with each other.
It's just that both sides insisted on their own opinions, and both believed that it was their own opinions that allowed them to put down the rebellion and express their opinions to each other. This was the reason why today's hatred was formed.
This is no longer something that can be settled with just one imperial edict. The problem must be solved completely after reasonable communication with both parties. Otherwise, the two sides will be unconvinced by just relying on the imperial edict to transfer.
Pei Mao forcibly interrupted the endless debate between the two parties, calmed down, and scolded both of them: "You are all ministers of the imperial court. What does it look like to accuse them in court?"
Although Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan had a fierce quarrel, they actually hoped to put pressure on Pei Mao. After all, Pei Mao was the final judge of who was right and wrong on behalf of the court on behalf of the court.
Seeing that Pei Mao had spoken, both of them were willing to give Pei Mao some face. They looked at each other coldly and never said a word again.
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