"Enter when you hear the sound of drums, retreat when you hear the sound of gold." [Xunzi·Yi Bing]
Huang Wan was walking along the verandah, followed on the left and right by Lai Min, the Huangmen's minister, and Fei Boren, two of his in-laws. He glanced sideways at the flowers and plants in the courtyard that were yellowed by the sun, and said softly: "
Uncle Ma Weng was so sensible back then, but now he is confused by the power. Where are all his righteousness in trying to save Cai Bojie now?"
Lai Min has been somewhat complacent recently, and he is highly valued by the emperor. He can't help but be a little frivolous in his words and deeds: "Although Ma Gong is a great scholar in the world and has a great reputation, he only has the talent of collating books and is of no use to the state affairs. For example,
With Cai Gong and Zheng Gong in charge of the central government and recording ministerial affairs, can the world prosper? Ming Gong has the appearance of rectifying chaos, and his political achievements are the best in the world. Now he is in the wilderness, and there are no capable people in the temple. As a result, the country has no ambitions, but the government has failed.
It is indeed a pity that we are still poor.”
Huang Wan smiled and said: "The country's heroes and wise men are a blessing to the country. However, except for Xun Gongda, Jia Wenhe, Zhao Zirou and others, there are no ministers who serve the country. Although the Yang family has enough prestige, after all, his family is prominent and the country's heart is
It's difficult to use it if you have scruples. Uncle Ma Weng has a stubborn temperament... He is old after all."
As he said that, the smile on his face suddenly faded away. The emperor was determined to innovate and was determined to revitalize the Han Dynasty. However, his subordinates had some outdated ideas. The slow veterans could not keep up with the emperor's steps for a while. Now that he has conquered the western border,
With the rear stabilized, the imperial court's next move will be to Kanto sooner or later. By then, can the current central team, which is more than conservative but not aggressive enough, be able to shoulder the great responsibility of helping the world?
It turned out that Huang Wan did not adjust his position in time when he was in the court, which caused him to miss the good opportunity like Zhao Wen to become the emperor's confidant. If the emperor was willing to commit crimes but also to protect him, how could he?
Will he spend a year here? He recalled that he and Chen Fan, Wang Chang and other ministers upheld the government's affairs, saved the declining country, and agreed with each other and encouraged each other. It was a time worth remembering.
Now that all his old friends have passed away and his ambitions have not been fulfilled, how can Huang Wan be willing to stay here for the rest of his life? He originally thought that the emperor was young and energetic, and the reforms he implemented would cause many mistakes and negative impacts. However, as time went by, Huang Wan not only failed to
Seeing the negative points, he saw the infinite future from various measures. Unknowingly, Huang Wan began to change his stance. He was not a rigid person. Once he changed his way of thinking, he made intensive plans.
How to return to the court and contribute.
Fei Boren had just arrived, and he was Liu Yan's wife. After all, there was a layer of distance between him and Huang Wan. After hearing Huang Wan's emotion, he just smiled lightly and said nothing.
After Huang Wan sighed, he also noticed him and asked: "All the children in your clan have been settled now? Are they still used to living in Taixue?"
Fei Boren immediately replied: "Thanks to the imperial court and the care of Huang Gong, both Shedi Guan and Cong Ziyi have entered Meng Xue. Meng Xue Si Ye Lu Wenwei studied under Cai Gong and has profound knowledge. His disciples can study under his disciples.
, it’s really a blessing.”
Since the surrender of Yizhou, the imperial court sent dozens of buses southward, almost wiped out all the famous scholars in Shu, and recruited them to serve as ministers in the court and obey orders. As a result, for a long period of time,
, the huge Yizhou has no powerful people who can affect the situation in the state. The scholars and the Handan merchants who have just arrived in Yizhou have also saved a lot of time in dealing with local powerful people. Not only are their constraints greatly reduced, but they also do not have to interact with powerful people frequently
, which invisibly increased the imperial court’s authority over local areas.
Fei Boren and other outsiders who took refuge in Yizhou were not spared. Not only was he appointed as a doctor by Guang Luxun, but his younger brother Fei Guan and nephew Fei Yi also entered Mengxue, which was affiliated with Taixue and specialized in recruiting soldiers.
Orphans of lieutenant generals and civilian orphans were admitted to school. Once these orphans grew up, they could directly enter the Imperial College based on their grades when they were fifteen years old. The emperor was particularly concerned about this. He visited the Imperial College several times publicly and semi-publicly, and all went to Mengxue.
Guan Meng School only has a size of over 300 people. Fei Guan and others come from a wealthy family and are not bad in all aspects. Sooner or later they will stand out among them.
Huang Wan sighed softly and said: "The purpose of Mengxue is to take care of orphans in the army who have lost their parents, and civilian orphans. It is a part of the imperial court's sympathies. There should not be children from rich families enrolling in school, so I try to pay them some money."
A few people arranged to get in, which is considered to be seeking personal gain."
Fei Boren knew Huang Wan's difficulties. If it weren't for the great prospects of entering the Mongolian Society, Huang Wan would never bother so much: "Fortunately, in just one or two years, they can enter the Taipei Academy."
Neither the academy nor the Imperial College will embarrass Mr. Huang."
Lai Min, who had been left out for a long time, finally found an opportunity and interjected: "Ming Gong, now Ma Gong is impeaching Liu Fan and others and must pursue them to the end, and I made a promise in front of Liu Gong... This is a bit unfair.
It’s easy to handle.”
Lai Min was originally very interested in discussing the situation of the court with Huang Wan. After all, he was now a hot new figure. Unexpectedly, Huang Wan paid all his attention to Fei Boren, which made him feel a little unhappy.
Joy.
"Don't pay attention to what he said. In order to prevent me from having a chance to retaliate, he specifically picked this matter to discuss. But I don't think about it. Yizhou has only been annexed for a long time. The court has already known what happened to Liu Yan and others last time.
After making a decision, now come up with it and say, where should we put the country?" Huang Wan slowly turned his head and looked at Lai Min: "What's more, he said he was going after Liu Yan's relatives, but who is not his relatives and old friends? Discuss
Lang Pangxi, Wu family, Fei family, Huang family, Lai family... there are also many powerful people in Shu, so it is not us who should be anxious, but Zhao Zirou."
Ma Rixi's claim was that Liu Yan had a disloyal heart at the time, and a group of scholars and relatives around him were suspected of being members of the Afu party. Not only that, Liu Yan's relatives in the court may not have secretly communicated with Liu Yan.
In order to implicate Huang Wan, Ma Rixi did not hesitate to expand the scope, but in doing so, he offended Zhao Wen, who is now the representative of Yizhou scholars.
"In other words, there is no need for me to come forward in this matter. Zhao Sikong will refute Mr. Ma?" Lai Min quickly turned around.
"Although Your Majesty followed Uncle Ma Weng's wish and killed Liu Fan and Liu Dan, he still saved his life, and Liu Zhang is still serving under General Wei." Huang Wan led the two of them into a small pavilion near the water.
Everyone sat down and then said: "It can be seen that Your Majesty has no intention of severe punishment. One is to show off and deal with Uncle Ma Weng; the other is to wake me up and urge me to do something as soon as possible. You see, even Uncle Ma Weng
It’s urgent, are you still in a hurry?”
Fei Boren sat down at the bottom and returned to his original taciturn appearance. Lai Min diligently poured a cup of tea for Huang Wan and said, "What are you going to do, Ming Gong?"
Huang Wan took a sip of tea and said slowly: "In a few days, take out Hou Wen first."
"Hou Wen?" Lai Min was surprised at first, and then thought that Huang Wan asked Chang'an order Wang Ling to temporarily protect Hou Wen, firstly to reduce the obstacles to arresting merchants, and secondly to contact the censor Zhongcheng Huandian and the Yang family again.
, looking at Huang Wan's look, as if he had reserved his thoughts to kill Hou Wen later, Lai Min couldn't help but asked: "This person has a lot of involvement, why don't you say hello to Duke Huan and others?"
"If we don't suffer a loss first, how can Your Majesty be confident in dealing with Uncle Ma Weng?" Huang Wan slowly lowered the tea bowl and suddenly sighed: "Shang Shuling's health has never been better since he suffered a heat stroke. You and I will be together tomorrow.
I’ll go visit with you.”
Jing Zhaoyin, Changmen Pavilion.
Changmen Pavilion is located on the bank of the Chanshui River, on the Balingyuan. The land is criss-crossed with criss-crossing roads and the land is vast. Looking around, you can see the vast Hechuan and the acres are deserted. There are no trees and grass far away from the ditch, and the fields are green.
The yellow seedlings trembled weakly and pitifully under the majestic wind. There was a buzzing sound in the air, and a dark cloud in the distance was dancing smartly near the ground, but countless swarms of insects were coming from the west.
A patch of green flies in.
The dark swarms of insects were constantly changing their shapes, looking like ghosts from a distance, and the air in the surrounding fields suddenly became extremely oppressive.
At this moment, a wolf howl suddenly came from nowhere. If you listen carefully, it sounds like a tune coming from the border. It is vast and far away, and the sound is high.
Immediately after the singing, hundreds of people jumped up from where they were lying on the ground, holding gongs, drums, bamboo tubes in their hands, bamboo whistles in their mouths, and various other miscellaneous things that can make noise.
They were shouting with their voices and holding clods of soil in their hands. These people were making noises one after another, forming a strange murmur. Although it was messy, it was so powerful that if someone who didn't understand heard it, they would think there was some kind of war going on.
The group of locusts on the opposite side seemed to be alarmed. The dark clouds shrank immediately and had the momentum to move to the left.
When the leader of the pavilion saw this, he immediately raised a small red flag.
Immediately there was the sound of drums behind them, and twenty or thirty people in the team immediately formed a left wing to intercept. One of the people in the team was tall and strong, with a tall nose and wide eyes. His body shape and body shape were different from others. He was holding a hand.
With the bow and arrow, he jumped and ran quickly on the ridges of the field, while raising his hand and bending the bow, he shot an arrow into the black insect swarm.
The arrow turned out to be a unique sounding arrow in the army. It shot into the locust swarm with a high-pitched sound, followed by three more sounding arrows. The locusts were in chaos, fell to the ground and jumped around. They were driven by the crowd and jumped to a dug hole.
in the pit.
The pit was about three feet deep. As soon as the locust fell in, it kept jumping on the vertical earth wall, as if it wanted to jump up again.
A fair-skinned young man ran over panting. When he saw most of the locusts falling into the pit, he immediately shouted: "Quick! Fill in the soil quickly!"
Everyone methodically picked up shovels, shovels and other farm tools and shoveled the soil nearby. They were all farmers organized nearby, including old and young, men and women. Almost the whole family went into battle. Soon, everyone dug into the soil.
It was filled in, and although many locusts took the opportunity to escape, they were trampled to death in time.
After a period of busy work, the exhausted people sat scattered on the ground. It was almost noon, and some women were organized to set up earthen stoves to cook on the spot. Smoke from cooking smoke curled up from the field ridges.
Su Ze grew up in a house, and had never run as vigorously as he did today. He felt as if his chest was about to explode. Even though he had already sat down, he was still panting. Everyone else knew his identity.
Extraordinary and fearful in his heart, even the chief of the Changmen Pavilion only dared to watch from a distance and did not dare to come near for a while.
At this time, Ma Chao came from the side, sat down on the ridge of the field, put down his bow and arrows to the side, and said to Su Ze with a steady breath: "My sounding arrows are still useful, otherwise just shouting out of thin air will be useless even if my voice becomes hoarse.
He glanced at the covetous villagers gathered around the stove not far away, and then said: "Fortunately, Aweng and I learned a lot of troop formation techniques in the army. Now I can use them on them."
I heard that the locust hunters in other villages were tired of running every day, and it took three days to catch locusts for less than five stones. You see, what we buried this time was only two or three stones. We will wait for these in the afternoon.
If you dig out the insect corpses, you can exchange them for a stone or two of millet seeds."
Su Zeguang was panting heavily and had no time to talk to the other party, but there was deep worry between his brows.
Due to my family background in the Su family of Fufeng, I was not assigned to the remote area of Youfufeng Sanguan and Yangcheng near Yongliang like Jia Kui and others during the allocation. Instead, I was assigned to a place that was better affected by the disaster. However, the Gyeonggi area was
The place with the best water conservancy in Guanzhong still has so many locusts, even in Gyeonggi Province, let alone other towns and counties.
Most of the local people are afraid of locusts, dare not kill them, and are not good at organizing. When he first came, these people only knew how to rush up in a swarm, and did not know how to outflank them, causing the locusts to jump around with little effect. Some even more
Seeing the black locusts, Su Ze knelt on the ground and begged for mercy before he could rush forward. If Ma Chao hadn't happened to be at the nearby village pavilion and came to help, Su Ze would never be as relaxed as he was now.
"Brother Su, I think you need to practice more on weekdays. Although this swordsmanship can strengthen your body, it is not durable. If you encounter a thief in the future, how will you escape with your current situation?" Ma Chao said with concern.
Ma Chao turned around and saw that Su Ze was sweating profusely and his face was red. Thin beads of sweat stuck to his fair cheeks and skin, forming a thin stream of water and sliding down his neck. He couldn't help but be stunned.
.
Su Ze didn't realize it, and just thought it was funny. The worst he could do in the future would be a county magistrate. How could he have the chance to meet a thief alone? However, the other party's concern was genuine, and he accepted the other party's intention, but he didn't
Willing to admit that he was weak, he changed the topic and said: "I think you will be suitable for leading troops in the future. Murderous intentions are everywhere on the battlefield. I'd better leave these words to you."
Ma Chao felt happy in his heart, he withdrew his gaze, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but squeeze out a few horizontal lines on his forehead. He suddenly sighed: "You also think that I am suitable for the battlefield. I rode a horse at the age of six, and I can shoot a bow at the age of eight.
When I was ten years old, I could wrestle in the Qianghu tent and defeat all the teenagers in their tribe... They all said that I was born to go to the battlefield to kill people. I was supposed to perform meritorious service on the battlefield, but now... I don't understand this either.