Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1080 Pros and cons of Marquis Dingyuan

  As soon as Liu Xie finished his questioning, there was a sudden silence inside and outside the hall.

Liu Xie didn't know why he suddenly asked such words, his heart was actually beating suddenly, he looked at Fei Qian, he understood what such a question meant, he was also afraid that if Fei Qian suddenly If he turned his face and lost his temper, what would he do?

  Do you want to admit your mistake?

  Do you want to retract the foreword?

  Do you want to be obedient and accompany the smiling face like Luoyang and Chang'an before?

  When it was changed to before, whether it was Dong Zhuo or Wang Yun, Liu Xie didn't dare to ask such a question at all, or there would be no good results if asked, but now he asked it inexplicably...

  In fact, most of the time, children's intuition is very keen, especially those who have lived under heavy pressure like Liu Xie, so they are naturally self-taught in the aspect of observing words and expressions. Children who are good at observing words and expressions, sometimes find that they will act coquettishly and shamelessly in front of some people, and even lose their temper at every turn, but it does not mean that they will express their emotions in front of everyone without restraint.

  It's like Liu Xie's current behavior. From another perspective, it's because Liu Xie regards Fei Qian as a relatively close person, so he relaxes himself and expresses his inner thoughts.

In the past two days, many officials, eunuchs, and guards from the imperial court came to Pingyang on fast horses from Guanzhong. The number of people around Liu Xie gradually increased. There are also some people who came to see Liu Xie. Among these people, it is inevitable that they will impose some other ways of thinking on Liu Xie.

   Defense cannot be prevented. As for Cao Cao's careful defense, isn't it a wave of moths?

  But now it seems that the speed at which Liu Xie grows...

   Feiqian was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty... on the way to Pingyang, I made some arrogant remarks. I wonder if Your Majesty will remember..."

  Liu Xie thought about it for a while, and asked with some hesitation: "Ai Qing said...that night..."

   Feiqian nodded and said: "Perhaps some people think that the great man already has a vast territory and fertile land... But I think that the world is so big and all things are abundant, and the great man is only a corner of the world..."

   Liu Xie was at a loss, and had no idea what Fei Qian said. In his opinion, the largest city in the past was the palace city of Luoyang, and it was already far enough to go to Chang'an. Now that he has come to Bingbei, he has seen many things that he had never seen before, and personally met the peasants. , Seeing the crops and seedlings, all this has made Liu Xie dizzy, no matter how big or far away...

   This, Liu Xie really can't imagine.

   "...The mountain of the Western Classic, the seventy-seven mountains, 17,517 miles..." Fei Qian said slowly, "I wonder if your majesty has read this book?"

   Liu Xie said hesitantly: "Isn't this book mostly written by witches, which is weird and absurd, but the nonsense of alchemists, can't you believe it?"

Fei Qian smiled and said: "Thousands of years ago, among the ancestors of China, there were some who stood in the north of the great river and lamented that the sky was impossible to cross; Flying sand can't pass... But if there are no pioneers, what will happen today? The Chinese ancestors are wise and brave, how can we rest on our laurels?"

   "So what Aiqing means is..." Liu Xie seemed to understand what Fei Qian said a little bit, and said, "...do you want to be like Ban Dingyuan, expand the Western Regions, open up empty roads, and make great achievements for all ages?"

"Your Majesty is holy," Fei Qian cupped his hands, and said loudly, "The ancients are holy, and today's people are also holy! If people today can't go beyond the past, they will get worse with each generation, and eventually they will be reduced to ashes, so insignificant! If today A man can overcome the ancients, and only then can he advance from generation to generation, and finally become the hegemony of the ages, and the heaven and the earth live together! Your Majesty, although I am not talented, I still want to learn from the past and expand the territory for the country!"

   Liu Xie looked at Fei Qian and said excitedly: "I am very excited to hear about Aiqing's ambitions! If Aiqing really has such a wish, I will definitely reward you and make her famous as a marquis and prime minister!"

   Fei Qian is naturally a big thank you for completing such a play that is suitable for monarchs and ministers.

  Leaving Liu Xie's temporary residence, Fei Qian's expression didn't have any happy color of the monarch and his ministers, but was somewhat gloomy.

  Today’s chapter may be a little impatient.

  Actually, even if Fei Qian responded inappropriately today, talked nonsense, or even walked away in a rage, Liu Xie couldn't do anything to Fei Qian.

  The etiquette between the emperor and his ministers in the Han Dynasty benefited from Mr. Liu Bang. There were not many rigid regulations when the country was founded.

   Liu Xie has no strength and can only be attached to Fei Qian at present, so no matter how rude Fei Qian is, Liu Xie will hold his nose and bear it, but it doesn't mean that Liu Xie can endure it forever.

   It's like a question suddenly asked by Liu Xie today.

  The Son of Heaven is actually lonely.

  Perhaps all those who stand at the top are lonely.

   Otherwise, the saying that there will always be troublemakers who want to harm me in future generations would not be so popular.

  When you have nothing, you don’t need to lock the door, but when you have a lot of money, you can’t wait to add a security door, dig a cellar, and build a safe...

  The same is true for Liu Xie.

Although these so-called great generals, the titles of this and that general are completely empty names for Liu Xie's current situation and for the current court of the great man, but for Liu Xie, they can only be held in their hands. The thing in the hand, even if it is invisible and intangible, it still belongs to Liu Xie in name.

  Whose cheese is touched, naturally whoever feels distressed.

  So Liu Xie's sudden question may be Liu Xie's subconscious move to protect himself, a counterattack against harming his interests. It's just that Fei Qian understands this kind of thinking mode, but Liu Xie may not be able to understand it. But this also illustrates a problem from another aspect. Liu Xie is not a piece of wood, not a clay sculpture, or a puppet that can be manipulated however he wants.

  The question now is, how strong is Liu Xie's desire to control?

  This thing, there are really not many words in history that can reflect it.

  In history, Liu Xieyi was born almost at the mercy of others, from being crowned king to ascending the throne, from Luoyang Imperial City to Chang'an Imperial Palace, and then followed Cao Cao to Xuchang, and finally was driven to Shanyang...

  Although Liu Xie did not leave many heroic deeds in his life, many of them are connected with He plotting to overthrow Cao Cao. Perhaps it was because Dong Zhuo's impression of being killed by Wang Yun when he was young was too deep. Liu Xie's several plots were as simple as child's play, and Cao Cao noticed them almost without any effort, and suppressed them.

  So it is not realistic for Fei Qian to speculate on Liu Xie's current thoughts based on those simple words in history, or to describe a template for Liu Xie.

   After all, people change.

   But in Liu Xie, there are two things that are certain, one is fear of death, and the other is smart. In other words, most people who are afraid of death are still smart, because most reckless guys have already died on the road of charging...

Lets see.

   Fei Qian turned his head to look back, and then whispered to Huang Xu beside him: "Go back and make a list of the people who have visited His Majesty in the past few days, and give me a copy...don't alarm others..."

  ………………

Fude is Fushou's elder brother, which is equivalent to Liu Xie's brother-in-law. Therefore, Liu Xie feels relatively cordial to Fude, somewhat like a family member, so when Fude came to pay his respects At the time, Liu Xie might be a little excited, or maybe he needed to find someone to share with, so he and Fei Qian talked about the canonization of Shandong gentry before and after, and roughly talked to Fu De.

Regarding the strategy of canonizing Eryuan, Fude thought about it quietly and found that there was nothing wrong with it, and from the current point of view, it was indeed a good strategy that cost little and achieved good results. I was a little dissatisfied with being arbitrary, but I didn't do anything to oppose it for the sake of opposition...

  However, when Liu Xie said that Feiqian's ambition is to learn from Ban Dingyuan, Fude frowned, then pondered for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty... I have a word, I don't know whether to say it or not..."

  Liu Xie was obviously in a good mood, and said with a smile: "Why should Aiqing be so polite, but it's okay to speak..."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fude bowed, then straightened his body, and said slowly, "...General Zhengxi is dedicated to serving the country, and his feelings are naturally commendable, but what His Majesty just said...General Zhengxi wants to be Ban Dingyuan ...This... I am afraid there is no meaning in it..."

   Liu Xie said with some doubts: "Why do you say that?"

  To be honest, when Fei Qian said that he wanted to learn from Ban Dingyuan, Liu Xie was somewhat excited. After all, wouldn’t it mean that he was a talented ancestor of the Han family?

To expand the territory and let the family business of the ancestors flourish in their own hands is probably the dream of every emperor when he first sits on the throne, but in the following time, it may be wiped out or drift with the tide. Perhaps keeping a low profile and so on will be different.

  Liu Xie is now like a bird that has just escaped from the cage. Naturally, he has such a dream in his heart, thinking that one day he can rule the world and become an eternal emperor.

  Fude bowed again, and then said: "General Zhengxi said about Ban Dingyuan...But Ban Dingyuan and the Ban family are certainly meritorious, but they are also guilty...Your Majesty is wise, of course you know..."

   "Is the Dingyuan Ban family meritorious and guilty?" Liu Xie frowned and said.

  Fude glanced at Liu Xie, then lowered his eyes and said: "Exactly. In the fourth year of Yongyuan, General Dou rebelled, and Dingyuan Hou's family was among them..."

   "This..." Liu Xie frowned, and said, "...Didn't the imperial edict condemn Jing and punish the chief official?"

  Fude smiled, and said slowly: "If it is really wronged, could it be that the crime was condemned and the jailer arrived?"

  At that time, after Ban Gu conquered the Xiongnu from Dou Xianbei, he entered the Dou Xian shogunate. The two families of Ban Dou originally had a family friendship. After Ban Gu entered the shogunate, he presided over the matter of writing and ink, and his relationship with Dou Xian became closer. He wrote "Ode to General Dou's Northern Expedition" and praised Dou Xian's Northern Expedition to the Huns...

And because Dou Xian, who made great contributions to the pacification of the Huns, had a great reputation, he alone decided the advancement and retreat of the court officials, which caused great dissatisfaction with the monarchy. Finally, in the fourth year of Yongyuan, Dou Xian was exposed and said that he wanted to Conspiring to rebel, then dismissed from his post, and forced to hide and seek after returning to the fief.

  Ban Gu had a close relationship with Dou Xian, so he was implicated and dismissed. At that time, Luoyang Ling Zhongjing had a long-standing grudge against Ban Gu, so he took the opportunity to fabricate charges and finally killed Ban Gu in prison. Ban Chao was somewhat implicated in this incident. Even though Ban Chao had made so many achievements in the Western Regions, he finally agreed to return to the capital when he was very old.

  Although it is said afterwards, after Ban Gu's death, Emperor Hanhe issued an edict to condemn the bad practice of repaying personal revenge with public vengeance, and executed the jailer who killed Ban Gu to make up for his crime. In other words, he killed a Marquis in private, and the officials in charge had nothing to do except verbal criticism, and let a temporary worker come out to take the blame...

   Liu Xie snorted.

Ban Gu may be guilty or innocent, but this is not important. The important thing is that the emperor at that time, Emperor Hanhe thought he was guilty, or Emperor Hanhe was tired of Dou Xian's domineering and thought it posed a threat, so he wanted to get rid of it. Dou Xian and his henchmen, so it doesn't matter whether they are guilty or not.

  Of course, to punish such a person, the crime of treason is the most appropriate.

   But in fact, did Dou Xian need to rebel?

   In other words, if Dou Xian rebels, can he get more benefits than at that time?

  At that time, Dou Xian had Geng Kui and Ren Shang as minions, Deng Die and Guo Huang as his confidantes, and Ban Gu and Fu Yi as the shogunate to control the government. The governors and order guards of most counties and counties in the world came from his sect.

  In Dou’s family, Dou Dute was appointed Weiwei, Dou Jing was Zhi Jinwu, Dou Gui was Guangluqing, and the brothers were in the dynasty. They were precious and prominent, and moved the capital. Dou Xian's uncle, Dou Ba, was the school captain of the city gate, Dou Bao was the master craftsman, and Dou Jia was the second lieutenant. There were more than ten people in Dou's family who served as servants, generals, doctors, and officials.

Then the Emperor Hanhe at that time just happened to learn about the conspiracy of the Dou family that should have been extremely secretive, and then when Dou Xian's class returned to the court, he asked Da Honglu to greet him in the suburbs and rewarded the army according to their ranks. Lieutenant generals, in peace of mind, after Dou Xian entered the city, he ordered the city gate to be closed, arrested Dou Xian's confidantes Deng Die, Deng Lei, Guo Ju, Guo Huang and others, and sent them to prison to be executed immediately, and sent people to take back Dou Xian Yinshou, the great general of the imperial court, was even named the Champion Marquis, and let him, Dou Du, Dou Jing, and Dou Gui all return to the fiefdom. After Dou Xian, Dou Du, and Dou Jing arrived in the fief, they were all ordered to commit suicide...

  Ban Gu was implicated in such an incident and eventually died.

Well, according to Fude, what Feiqian wants to express actually includes two aspects, one is about the merits of Ban Dingyuan and the Ban family, and this is naturally about writing books and writing books to expand the territory and win glory for the country. And another aspect is the so-called crime of the Ban family. Ban Gu died without reason, and Ban Chao was unable to return for a long time. The meaning revealed in it is tantamount to giving Liu Xie a hint...

   Or is it a warning?

   Liu Xie frowned, looked at Fude and said, "According to your intention... General Zhengxi's remarks are not about the merits of the Ban family, but the crimes of the Ban family?"

  Fude cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is wise. But this is just my private speculation. General Zhengxi may not have this intention..."

  Liu Xie nodded, shook his head again, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just raised his head, looked out of the hall, and sighed slowly...

  (end of this chapter)