The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

January passed by negligently, and when the epidemic spread in Manchuria, people were panicking, and February came.

Bad news one after another.

The epidemic situation in the county is getting worse day by day. According to rough statistics, more than 1,000 people have died from the disease in Handan county, of which refugees account for half of them.

Because the epidemic is too severe, everyone is in danger, officials and soldiers at all levels have no intention of doing business, and many people return home. Liu Heng had earlier ordered counties to strictly observe county boundaries, and the order to prohibit the movement of ordinary people and refugees gradually became useless.

In order to avoid the epidemic, the people and refugees from other counties fled into Zhao County one after another. Many of them have been infected with typhoid fever, which further exacerbated the epidemic in Zhao County. After they escaped into Zhao County, they had nowhere to live. Some continued to flee to the south and north, while others mixed into the settlements of refugees, which further exacerbated the unrest among the refugees.

There is also news that there are no more typhoid patients in the lieutenant's mansion and the barracks. This is all thanks to Handan Rong's asking the county doctor again to ask for a few sick doctors, and to get enough medicine to increase the number of patients in the lieutenant's mansion and the barracks. epidemic prevention.

Both bad news and good news are related to the epidemic until the fifth day of February.

On this day, Xun Zhen got a piece of news that had nothing to do with the epidemic.

Cheng Jia came to report: "Recently, Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan's messengers have been in frequent exchanges, which seems to be abnormal."

After the outbreak of the epidemic, Xun Zhen was most worried about two things. One was that he was worried about the livelihood of the people and displaced people in the county. Inquire about the intelligence of Huang Beard and Wang Dang.

It was Xi Zhicai who took charge of the intelligence inquiry, and Cheng Jia, Lu Guang and others were specifically responsible.

?According to common sense, Cheng Jia should report to Xi Zhicai about the abnormal increase in the number of messengers between Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan, and then Xi Zhicai should report to Xun Zhen, but Cheng Jia is obviously eager to make a contribution, and avoids it after learning about it. After Xi Zhicai, he went straight to meet Xun Zhen.

When Xi Zhicai heard the news, he glanced at Cheng Jia dissatisfiedly, and said to himself, "This son, who is my subordinate, actually bypasses me and reports this matter directly to the lieutenant. The power of slaughter has no self in his eyes, and it is too humiliating!" Huozi means short and ugly. Xi Zhicai has a proud personality and is a person who disdains to expose the shortcomings of others.

Earlier in the war in Yingchuan and from Huangfu Song, Xunzhen's tents were mainly from Yingchuan, and most of them were old friends who had known each other for many years. They all served under Xunzhen for a long time. After Zhaojun, one of them wanted to gain a firm foothold in Zhaojun as soon as possible, and the other followed the official practice of the Han Dynasty. Xun Zhen appointed and promoted a group of Zhaojun scholars. One side was old relatives and friends, and the other was Zhaojun's upstart. There would inevitably be disputes with each other. matter of rights.

This is also inevitable. He is famous all over the world and born as noble as Yuan Shao. After he occupied Jizhou, those Yuzhou scholars who followed him also fought for power and profits with local scholars in Jizhou, and they made a lot of trouble, what about Xunzhen? As long as the internal stability was not jeopardized, and as long as the troops firmly controlled their own hands, Xun Zhen also turned a blind eye to this, just pretended not to know.

Nowadays, the civil officials under his account have been divided into two major factions. One is the Yingchuan scholars, headed by Xi Zhicai and Xun You, and the next is Xuan Kang, Li Bo, and the newcomers Xuan Xian, Wang Cheng and others. On the other hand, they were the scholars of Zhao County, headed by Handan Rong, and below them were Cheng Jia, Lu Guang, and others. Speaking of this, I can't help but mention Cen Rong. Cen Rong is indeed a simple and honest person. Although he is a scholar of Zhao County, he is not far from Handan Rong and other people from his own county. Just Afu.

According to the degree of closeness to Xun Zhen, the scholars of Yingchuan are stronger than the scholars of Zhao County, but according to the assistance given to Xun Zhen at the current stage, the scholars of Zhao County are better than the scholars of Yingchuan. In any case, the scholars in Zhao County are local snakes. In the current world where the division of the region is extremely obvious, and scholars from all over the world are conscious of xenophobia, without their help, Xun Zhen would not have made further military achievements, I am afraid that even in Zhao County, it will stand firm. Feet are difficult.

This also caused the status of Handan Rong, Cheng Jia, and Lu Guang to rise and become stronger under Xun Zhen's account. Handan Rong has a strong and courageous temperament. With him behind him, it is not surprising that Cheng Jia did not respect Xi Zhicai very much.

Xi Zhicai hated and was angry, reluctantly suppressed his anger, and decided to look for opportunities to show this ugly dwarf in the future, and said to Xun Zhen: "Chu Feiyan and Wang Dang have long been linked, and now there is a big epidemic in the prefecture and county, and the people are panicked, for them , is an excellent opportunity for chaos, but until the epidemic is over, it is expected that they will not make any changes."

The epidemic is like a fire, and it is too late to avoid it. Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan are not fools, and they will not make trouble when the epidemic is raging and spreading. Their messenger exchanges have been frequent these days, and in all likelihood, they are discussing and colluding with each other after the epidemic is over.

Xun Zhen agreed and said, "Nevertheless, don't take it lightly." She wrote an order, and sent someone to call Xuankang and ordered him, "Give this order of my order to Xuande and Yulang, and order him. The two have stepped up patrols in the county and township."

Xuankang answered the order and went to deliver the order.

Cheng Jiaquan saw Xi Zhicai's dissatisfaction, but he didn't take it seriously. He lifted his sparse beard and said, "Those two thieves, Huangbeard and Wang, are lucky. There is an epidemic in the county. Wreaking havoc, they are safe and sound in the mountains."

According to the information that has come in these days, the small group of thieves have all died of typhoid fever, but the two big thieves Huang Yan and Wang Dang have no news of the outbreak of the disease.

The reason why this happened, Cheng Jia also inquired clearly, there are two reasons: the mountains and mountains in the west of Zhao County are high and high. In the past, these mountains were the cause of poverty and poverty in the mountains, but now they have become the cause of cutting off the spread of the epidemic. This is one of the natural barriers of the people; Wang Dang and Huang Yan are not good people. Although there is a lack of medicine in the mountains, in order to protect themselves, when there are typhoid patients in their subordinates, they are all thrown into the valley and left to their fate. , Although this move was ruthless, it also effectively avoided the epidemic.

Xun Zhen asked Xi Zhicai, "How has Huang Beard been recently?"

Xi Zhicai replied: "Recently, a lot of small bandits have joined him. It is estimated that he has thousands of people now."

"In this way, he is more 'reputable' in the mountains today than in the past."

Before Huang Yan was defeated by Xun Zhen, he had a thousand troops under his command. After being defeated by Xun Zhen once, the number of thieves under his command increased, and it became more than a thousand people. Looking at the momentum like a snowball, maybe After another month or so, it is not impossible to break through 2,000 people.

Cheng Jia said with a smile: "Isn't this the lieutenant's 'blessing'? If it wasn't for the lieutenant's reputation, those small groups of thieves were afraid that the lieutenant would send troops to attack, and they would not be able to support them. To Huangbeard's men."

After saying a few jokes, Xun Zhen thought for a moment and said to Xi Zhicai: "Zhicai, it's February, the sky will be getting warmer, and I think this epidemic is about to stop. The rabble crowd is not worth discussing, I strike it like a rotten wood, but Chu Feiyan is quite famous, and his close connection with Wang Dang should not be underestimated. Now that the camp is closed, step up the training of new soldiers, and strive to be able to form an army by the end of this month, which is worthy of a war."

Cheng Jia interjected and asked, "Does the lieutenant plan to raise troops into the mountains as soon as the epidemic stops?"

Early spring is the season when typhoid fever is prone to occur. When it comes to February and March, firstly because the weather is getting warmer, and secondly because the remaining uninfected people are mostly healthy and have strong immunity, and it is unlikely that they will contract the disease again. , so the epidemic usually ends gradually.

Xun Zhen nodded and said, "I originally planned to wait until Tiannuan to send troops to attack the thieves. Now that I know that Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan are going to have a change, of course I have to enter the mountain as soon as possible." Seeing Xi Zhicai sitting on the seat with a straight face, Knowing that he was angry for Cheng Jia's rude intervention, Xun Zhen didn't want the people in the house to be in turmoil, and said to Cheng Jia with a smile, "Jun Chang, this time you inquired about Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan. This matter is really a great achievement, you should go to the Gong Cao Academy now~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and let the officials of the Gong Cao Academy write it down for you in the reading book!"

The promotion and dismissal of officials in the government are all in charge of the Gong Cao, and the merits and faults are also recorded by the Gong Cao Yuan.

Cheng Jia bowed backwards and went out happily.

Only Xun Zhen and Xi Zhicai were left in the hall.

Xun Zhen smiled and said: "Zhicai, at the moment of hiring people, Junchang has a lot of contacts, and he knows a lot of thieves in the mountains. He needs to do his best to find out the information in the mountains. There are rude things, you don't have the same knowledge as him. "

When Cheng Jia first arrived in Fuzhong, he personally went into the mountains and recruited hundreds of thieves to give to Xun Zhen, and traveled hundreds of miles in the mountains, sneaked into Wang Dang's department, and found a lot of valuable information. Chu Feiyan's connection with Wang Dang was him. The first to learn about and report to Xun Zhen.

Xi Zhicai also knew that now was the time to use him, and it was because of this that he kept holding back his anger and did not attack. Hearing Xun Zhen's leniency, he said, "Cheng Jia, this guy! When he first entered the mansion, he would be respectful whenever he saw me, but now it's only been a few months, but he's relying on the power of Handan's chief clerk. Being arrogant and rude to me. Respectful in the front and arrogant in the back, a real villain."

"This is not Yingchuan. Zhicai, I, like Ruyu, have achieved a great career in Zhao County, and I have to rely on Zhao County scholars."

"You don't need to say it, I'll take care of it. Lieutenant, don't worry, I'll let him go for the time being."

"This is good, this is good!... It's almost evening, Zhicai, you have written the order to Junqing and Gongda, and after sending someone to send it to them, don't return to Cao's house today. After dinner, leave it in my house to eat. Wang Dang is a giant thief in this county, with more than 3,000 people, and colluded with Chu Feiyan, **** him, let's have a good discussion tonight. "

"No." (To be continued)