Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1167 Big household

   What do poor people have?

  People who have nothing, even people whose lives are not their own, what else can they have?

  Thus, these people's requirements are very low, and even they only need to be able to eat a whole meal, and they can be considered satisfied and can brag for several days.

  The higher you go, the more wealth you have, but the more difficult it is to be satisfied.

  If you want more and want to keep more, you will find it harder to be satisfied, just like Xiahou Dun in Puyang City.

  Xiahou Dun's face sank like water.

  Now two cities can only defend one city!

   Either Puyang, or Juancheng.

  Cao Cao took away most of the soldiers, leaving only about a thousand soldiers for Xiahou Dun, and the same is true for Juancheng.

  On weekdays, these troops would be enough, but now, like a drop in the bucket, it is useless in Yanzhou, where rebellions are everywhere.

   Xun Yu sent a text, saying that Juancheng was in danger, and asked Xiahou Dun to quickly dispatch troops to support him, but if Puyang soldiers were transferred away, it would almost mean that Puyang would be handed over to others...

   "Come here, invite Mrs. Tian..."

  The Tian family is a big family in Puyang, and the place is powerful and right, with deep roots in Puyang.

   Mrs. Tian came after a while, bowed her hands with low eyebrows and greeted Xiahou Dun.

   "Sit!" Xia Houdun pointed to the table beside him and said.

   "Thanks General..."

  Xiahou Dun watched Tian sit down, was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "There is a change in the present, and I want to lead the army to help... If there are bandits, I don't know what Tian Weng wants to do?"

   "Ah?" Tian's eyes widened, his face was serious, and he said solemnly, "General...this...someone will restrain the villagers, stabilize Lifang, and wait for the general to return in triumph..."

  The corners of Xiahou Dun's mouth curled up slightly, and he said, "Tian Weng, there is no need to be like this... If the bandits arrive, you can welcome them..."

   "How dare a villain...how dare..." Tian's face twitched, and he waved his hands again and again, but in the middle of speaking, Xiahou Dun's face didn't look like he was joking, so he changed his mouth and said, "Could it be the general's intention..."

  Xiahou Dun nodded, and said: "Tian Weng is loyal and sensitive, and he should know something... The military situation is urgent, so there is no delay. This is the Puyang Seal Shou, Tian Weng keep it..."

   After finishing speaking, he took the wooden plate with Puyang seal and ribbon on the table and asked the guards to put it in front of Tian.

   "Oh, general, how can you make it... a villain, how can you make it..." Tian waved his hands repeatedly, but couldn't help but stare at Yin Shou.

   "Hahaha..." Xia Houdun stood up, striding towards the outside of the hall, and said loudly, "Come here, send an order! Let the troops set off! Tian Weng, there will be a period later!"

"Ah? General, general!" Tian quickly stood up, subconsciously followed Xiahou Dun for a step or two, but stopped, and when she turned around and held the wooden plate and went out of the hall again, she only saw Xiahou Dun's back was far away. go.

"This seal... this..." Tian was holding the wooden tray in a daze, and at some point, his eyes had fallen from Xiahou Dun's figure to the Puyang seal ribbon, looking at the copper seal with turtle buttons, and at the colorful ribbon on the black background , a look of intoxication could not help showing on his face, "This... so beautiful..."

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"Report to Wenhou!" A scout rode up, skillfully controlled the horse when it was approaching, and slowed down the horse's speed to the minimum just before Lu Bu, "I found the whereabouts of the enemy soldiers ahead, and they seemed to be heading east! There are many footprints, the number should be more than a thousand people!"

   "To the east?" Lu Bu frowned and said, "How long have you been walking?"

   While controlling the horse, the scout replied, "It's been at least a day, and the footprints are a little blurry. If it wasn't for the carefulness of the brothers, most of them would have missed it..."

   "Good! Remember your credit!" Lu Bu nodded and said, "Explore again!"

   "Going east?" Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong and said, "The east is Juancheng... So, going to Juancheng to protect Cao's family?"

  Chen Gong stroked his beard and said, "It should be so."

   "It's good to go..." Lu Bu laughed and patted his horse forward, "Cao Bing goes east, Puyang will definitely be empty, and take Puyang, and then make a decision..."

  Chen Gong frowned, thought for a while, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong, but he couldn't think of it for a while, so he stroked his beard and walked forward with the large army...

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   "Is this the seal of Puyang?"

  Lü Bu sat upright on his horse, swung his halberd, and some of his own soldiers stepped forward to take the wooden tray and brought it to him.

   "That's right, that's right..." Tian said, arching her hands and bending her waist.

  Lu Bu reached out and grabbed the copper seal and ribbon in his hand, looked at it, put it in his arms, and said: "Well, you have made meritorious deeds to the city... Well, a certain ordered that the soldiers entering the city must not disturb the place..."

   "Thank you Wenhou for your sympathy! I also prepared some ox wine. It is not a respect, but I hope Wenhou will accept it with a smile..." Tian hurriedly thanked him, bowed his head, and said respectfully.

   "Good!"

  Lü Bu laughed loudly, then looked up at the simple and unsophisticated small seal character "Puyang" on the city ground, raised his painting halberd vigorously, and shouted: "Enter the city!"

  After speaking, he took the lead and rushed into the Puyang city gate along the suspension bridge.

   Tian arched his hands, stepped back, lowered his eyebrows, and looked at his empty hands...

  Chen Gong followed behind, suddenly remembered something, hurriedly patted his horse to catch up with Lu Bu, and said: "Wen Hou! Now that Puyang is under, we should send troops to Juancheng!"

   "Hmm..." Lu Bu frowned, but still turned his head and asked, "Why?"

"We have never had any contact with Guo Yuzhou, and this covenant has not been bloody, so although Guo Yuzhou is leading the army, he is unavoidably suspicious..." Chen Gong said, and his thoughts became clearer, "...if you see Puyang Cao When the soldiers arrive at Juancheng, they may suspect that we have not gone to Puyang... His army is deep, and we don't see our allies, so it is inevitable that he will have other ideas... In addition, Juancheng is high and deep, and Cao's family lives in it, so we must stick to it! If so , Guo Yuzhou will probably retreat!"

   Lu Bu frowned suddenly, pulled the reins, and stopped. The red rabbit horse couldn't run smoothly, and was very dissatisfied, scratching its hooves and snorting.

   "Why didn't the public platform speak up earlier!"

  Chen Gong said: "Someone also remembered..."

   Lu Bu looked back and said, "Tomorrow, no, leave for Juancheng the day after tomorrow!"

   "The day after tomorrow?!"

  Chen Gong wanted to say something, but was stopped by Lu Bu.

   "It's getting late today, the whole army will be repaired tomorrow, and we will set off on the day after tomorrow!" After Lu Bu finished speaking, he shook the reins, and the Chitu horse immediately spread its four hooves, and went forward like the wind...

   "Warm waiting, warm waiting!"

  Chen Gong stretched out his arms, urging the horse to go forward and wanted to say something, but Chituma couldn't catch up with him, so he could only watch Lu Bu go away.

"Ugh…"

  Chen Gong lowered his arms, then frowned again, as if there was another matter, what is it?

  I can’t remember for a while...

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  From the city of Nanzheng, looking north, you can see camps one after another, like fierce beasts, squatting on the ground, ready to jump up and devour life at any time!

   "Zheng Tian Zun!"

   Zhang Lu habitually addressed him by his honorific title, and took a deep breath.

The climate is gradually becoming warmer, the cool breeze in early summer is blowing, the stars are shining overhead, and the moon is bright and bright. If it is usual, it should be the most comfortable period of time. Watching the green grass growing in the fields should not be a fight. season…

  But this **** General Zhengxi led the troops just like that!

In Zhang Lu's eyes, this series of camps is dug into ditches, erected as fences, with fluttering flags and terrified weapons. Hard bow within reach. Only the turpentine torches on the upper floor of Yingpan Diaodouwang were burning flickeringly, illuminating the surrounding scene.

  The army has always asked to be quiet when staying overnight, because the camp roar has always been the most taboo thing in the cold weapon era. Therefore, although there are many camps, at night, only the sound of the time-telling bangs sounded from time to time, and the night guards marched around the camps in an orderly manner holding torches...

   "Why are there so many people?! Why are there so many people?! Why can they drive straight to this place?" Zhang Lu's head was filled with many unsolvable questions, which made his brain ache.

  If it is calculated according to one camp and one army, that is, one or two songs, it is counted according to one song, so there are at least five or six thousand people in more than ten camps!

No matter what in the world, once it has become a scale, there is always a kind of shocking power. Now these camps, from the bottom of Nanzheng City, seem to be boundless, stretching to the end of the line of sight. Looking at the barracks of soldiers from Zhengxi that looked like ferocious beasts, Zhang Lu had difficulty breathing.

   "Zheng Yi Tian Zun is above!"

  Zhang Lu looked up at the sky, and murmured in a low voice, "Heavenly Venerable, don't tell me we've run out of energy in the way of alliance power..."

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  The sky is gradually rising, and it is shining brightly on the top of the mountain. One moment, the sun was still dawdling on the top of the mountain, only showing a small head, and the next moment, it jumped out unceremoniously, shaking its head, and spreading its brilliance all over the earth.

  The soldiers guarding the outside of the camp at night returned to the camp one after another, and the soldiers in their own camp also greeted these soldiers who had been busy all night.

  The non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level don’t need any special explanations. They are already neatly dressed, standing on their respective sites, ordering loudly, changing guards, and assigning tasks.

  In this era, there are only two meals, so it is not possible to avoid this meal like many cultivators who do not eat breakfast in later generations. Early preserved food can be said to be an important energy supplement to support the activities of the whole day, so soldiers are already busy early. Drawing water, lighting a fire, and with the rising smoke, the entire army camp suddenly fell back to the human world from the cold and chilling war equipment, and it became a little more popular.

   But in Feiqian's Chinese army camp, it was even more lively.

As the soldiers who came to report and return gradually left one by one, Fei Qian, who had finished handling the matter, finally walked out from the tent of the Chinese army, and headed towards a group of E Guanbo who had been waiting for a long time in the open space beside him. The son of the gentry clasped his hands and said: "The military is busy, and I have been tired for a long time, so I am rude..."

   "The general is very fortunate! Military affairs are the most important thing. We are lucky to be summoned by the general. How can we complain?"

   "I used to hear about the general's reputation in the past, but now I see you, it's even better!"

   "The sea is turbulent, the sea is moving everywhere, and the nine states are singing! The general is so graceful, I really envy us!"

   All of a sudden, flattery and flattery flew together, and flattery and flattery were the same.

   Fei Qian chuckled and didn't answer the conversation, but just raised his hand to invite these people to pay.

In fact, these people who came here may not all be characters who only know how to flatter, and they may not have any long-standing affection for Fei Qian as said in the words, but most of these people are seeing Fei Qian for the first time, and at the same time I don't know what Fei Qian's thoughts are about this piece of land in Hanzhong, so at the first sight, there is no harm in saying a few more words of flattery, after all, it is always a way to reach out and not hit the smiling face, isn't it?

   Everyone was sitting in the tent of the Chinese Army, Fei Qian didn't speak first, and the rest of the people didn't dare to open their mouths rashly. Everyone was speculating in their hearts, and then their eyes basically turned to Zhang Ze.

The Zhang family is the surname of Nanzheng, and there have been several eunuchs in their ancestors, and some of them have waited for the court and served as Jiuqing, so they are considered to be one of the best figures in Nanzheng. At present, Zhang Ze is firmly seated at the top of the guest seat, but he pretends not to see it Everyone's eyes were the same, they just stared at their own beard carefully, as if there was a flower on it...

   After a while, Fei Qian coughed lightly, and said: "Everyone, the army is simple, and there is no entertainment. I really neglected you... After the traitor Zhang Gongqi is defeated, I will have a drink with you!"

   Feiqian opened his mouth, and the atmosphere naturally became lively, and suddenly everyone was flattering again, throwing out money without money.

   Waiting for everyone to pause for a while, Zhang Ze, who was sitting at the top, suddenly asked softly: "I don't know what the general said about traitors... but the emperor meant it?"

  Everyone quieted down immediately, and stared back and forth between Fei Qian and Zhang Ze with piercing eyes.

   This question is very important.

"The bandits Zhang blocked the post roads, burned the plank roads, slaughtered the court envoys, refused to be dispatched by the emperor, embraced their own self-respect, proclaimed themselves heavenly masters, and tampered with Hanning. How is this behavior different from the yellow scarf rioters back then?" Fei Qian patted the table. , Said in a deep voice, "When the Son of Heaven was hunting in the north, he once said that the way of heaven is permanent and cannot be disobeyed, but if there are evil deeds, thunder will be sent down! Thief Zhang is perverted, ignoring the rules and regulations of the court. This is not a thief, what is a thief?"

In fact, Zhang Lu didn’t do anything bad when he said it, and compared to those fish and meat prefects before, he was pretty good. Although he said that the so-called “sacrificial wine” was used to manage local government affairs, he also taught the people that they need integrity Do not cheat, and allow those who are at fault to repent and confess their faults; for those who commit crimes, they are given leniency, for three times, and if they commit another crime, they will be punished; if it is a minor fault, they should build a hundred steps to make atonement ; At the same time, in accordance with the "Moon Order", slaughtering and drinking are prohibited in spring and summer when all things grow; Too much, you will offend ghosts and gods and get sick...

In general, if Zhang Lu's administration can be implemented, it is actually not bad, and in terms of recuperation, Huang Lao Taoism has always been the strength of Huang Lao Taoism. Therefore, in terms of the restoration and protection of people's livelihood, the achievements of Wu Dou Mi Dao cannot be denied .

   It's just that Zhang Lu touched the cheese of the big family in Hanzhong!

   Zhang Lu's "sacrificial wine" is used as a civil affairs official, so where are these big Hanzhong families going? Either resign and go home, or change his body, regardless of the damage to his reputation, and follow the gods and gods to believe in "Zhengtian Zun"?

Therefore, when Feiqian set up his chariots and horses and came under the banner of the imperial court to suppress the rebellion in Hanzhong, one of these big Hanzhong households counted as one. The private soldiers and slaves who came to share the work of transportation and labor.

  In the current Feiqian camp, most of them are laborers sent by various families along the way, and the real soldiers are only those near the Nanzheng city.

Seeing that Fei Qian confirmed the matter again, the voice fell, and the crowd in the tent was full of enthusiasm. Everyone said that Zhang Lu had committed a heinous crime. The greatest villain in the world is generally...

  Amidst the words of everyone denouncing Zhang Lu, Zhang Ze turned to look at Fei Qian and smiled slightly.

   Fei Qian also looked at Zhang Ze with a smile...

"Everyone! Since General Zhengxi is following the emperor's edict to suppress Zhang's thieves, we will naturally follow suit!" Zhang Ze nodded at Fei Qian, then turned his head and said loudly, "...we will know that the brave men in the city will meet tomorrow. At Zishi, open the east gate of Nanzheng, welcome General Xi to enter the city to put down the rebellion!"

  (end of this chapter)