Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 976 Desiring ZTE’s ZTE Sword

  Fei Qian really didn't expect that after meeting Jia Xu in Diaoyin, what Jia Xu was interested in was not the changes in Guanzhong's form, nor his own arrangements in the future, but Fei Qian's sword.

  The ZTE sword given to Fei Qian by Han Emperor Liu Xie.

  Jia Xu seemed to ignore Huang Xu's vigilant gaze behind Fei Qian, and sat on the table to himself, holding the ZTE sword up and down...

   Fei Qian looked at the soft-shelled turtle with some interest, um, Jia Xu, I think Jia Xu who looks like this has really never seen it before.

Whether it is from memory or when Jia Xu was captured by Zhang Liao some time ago, Jia Xu seemed to have a calm expression, neither indignant nor wronged, showing a face like this It's really the first time I've seen the look of nostalgia.

  Jia Xu lightly brushed the spine of the sword with his fingers. After a long time, he sighed slightly, then put the long sword back into its sheath, and offered both hands to Feiqian's personal guards beside him.

  Huang Xu, who was hiding behind Fei, loosened the handle of a saber slightly at this moment, and took a half step back slightly.

   "Do you know what kind of sword this is?" Jia Xu asked slowly after pondering for a while.

   Feiqian nodded, and said: "Zhongxing, Jianning three years ago, cast four swords at the same time, with the same inscriptions. This is one of the four swords."

When he just got this long sword, Fei Qian didn't know it very well, but when he came back this way, he met Xu Shu and Xun Chen. Although these two people are not encyclopedias, some basic knowledge of the Han Dynasty is obviously better. Fei Qian's half bucket of water is better, so he naturally knows a little bit.

  Jia Xu nodded, and continued: "So, one of the four swords has been lost for no reason... Did you know about this?"

  Fei Qian nodded slowly, and said uncertainly: "I heard it a little bit." After Han Lingdi cast the Zhongxing Sword, these four swords have been placed in the palace, but then one was missing for no reason.

   Xun Chen also briefly mentioned this matter, but he only mentioned it, and did not explain it in detail, so Fei Qian only knew that there was such a thing.

  But now that Jia Xu talked about it, Fei Qian began to mutter in his heart. "...The meaning of Wenhe, could it be that this sword...is...the lost sword?"

  Jia Xu laughed dumbly, and said, "Your Majesty, don't be joking, how is this possible?"

   Fei Qian fell silent for a moment.

  Dead turtle, are you kidding me?

  Come here, boil water and prepare soft-shelled turtle soup...

   Fei Qian muttered a few words in his heart silently, and then endured it. This is the case with information asymmetry. It is very annoying to be paralyzed. Such a situation is unavoidable even in later generations. On the one hand, those who have information will subconsciously prevent the information from being enlarged; on the other hand, those who lack information, Maybe it's because I don't have a channel, maybe I'm not in the mood, maybe I'm lazy, and then I didn't continue to dig...

   Emperor Ling of Han forged four ZTE swords, and then lost one.

Oh, Fei Qian knows about this matter now, and most people are just like Fei Qian. So far, they don’t go into the details. Looking at Jia Xu's appearance, it is obvious that there are still some gossips...

   "Please be honest and straightforward." Fei Qian said.

Jia Xu obviously wanted to shake his head, of course, this is what it should be, otherwise how could Fei Qian feel that Jia Xu is a useful talent, and then return to the prison with heavy shackles, such a Jia Xu really didn't want to experience life a second time.

  But Jia Xu glanced at Huang Xu behind Fei Qian, and Huang Xu immediately glared back at Jia Xu.

   Fei Qian understood, thought for a while, but curiosity still prevailed, so he ordered Huang Xu to guard the outside of the hall, and then signaled Jia Xu to speak.

   Jia Xu stroked his beard and said, "This sword is the root of troubled times..."

   "Huh?" Fei Qian's eyes widened.

   What do these mean?

  How did the ZTE sword cast by Emperor Ling of Han become the foundation of troubled times?

  Meow meow, this Jia Xu didn’t get angry, uh, did he have a fever?

  In history, whenever discussing the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it must be said that Huan and Ling used their titles to sell officials and favored eunuchs, which led to chaos in the world, the rise of yellow scarves, and the collapse of the Han Dynasty, etc.

   But in fact, is it true?

Jia Xu was silent for a while, then said: "In the first year of Yongkang, Dou's family came to the court to inquire about politics, and they had power over the world. The three of you, Hu, participated in the recording of the Shangshu..."

   Fei Qian nodded in confusion. These are all known things, but what exactly is Jia Xu going to say, and what does it have to do with this Zhongxing Sword?

  Jia Xu glanced at Fei Qian, and knew what state Fei Qian was in, so he explained a little bit, and said, "Do you know who welcomed the first emperor into the court?"

   Fei Qian blinked and said, "Could it be General Dou?"

"No." Jia Xu shook his head and said, "It was Guanglu doctor Liu Shu and Fengche Duwei Cao Jie who came to Hejian to meet him...then Dou and Chen were in power, and they conspired to get rid of the eunuch. The coup of 1911..."

  Although Jia Xu didn't make it very clear, Fei Qian can generally infer it.

However, it is obvious that after Emperor Han Ling ascended the throne, all the people who ate meat and drank alcohol were the generals Dou Wu and Tai Fu Chen Fan, and they did not share the eunuchs. On the one hand, the eunuchs were dissatisfied, and there might be more slander in Han Lingdi's ears, and some small tricks or something. Such things further deepened the relationship between the two parties to a freezing point, and eventually they met in battle.

  The coup of 1911, um, it seems that at this time of 1911, it seems that things are not very peaceful...

Of course, in this incident, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was either partial to the **** who greeted him, or maybe he also wanted to use the eunuch's hand to get rid of the growing Dou family group. As for the situation, now I don't know, but I know that what happened later was that Dou Wu was too careless, and then Cao Jie and others counterattacked for a while, and then went to rest on the spot.

Jia Xu continued to preach in his slow tone: "...in the third year of Jianning, the four swords of Zhongxing were forged, and they were placed in the four directions of the palace. The world...is in chaos..."

In ancient times, if you want to make a sword, especially like the royal family, if you want to make a sword with symbolic meaning, you don't just light a fire and hit it with a hammer a few times. It must be extremely cumbersome. According to various The process may require worshiping ancestors and the like, so the ZTE sword cast in the third year of Jianning is estimated to have to start at least in the second year of Jianning, or even the first year, so that is It is said that Emperor Han Ling began to do this at the beginning of his ascension to the throne.

Although I don't know how old Han Lingdi was when he was in Yuanfu, but he was about twelve or thirteen years old, so no matter who he is, he should be at the age of middle two. Therefore, it is not surprising that the ZTE sword was born. Perhaps at that time, Emperor Han Ling once believed that he was the master of ZTE...

   Well, all emperors thought so at first.

  Wait, Queen Song, Mrs. Song, and Fei Qian suddenly remembered, what is Cao Cao?

Jia Xu showed a slightly mocking smile on his face, and said: "...Although the late emperor had great plans, he had no means. Except for Dou's family, he fell into the middle of the world, and Song's family was also incompetent. The government of the world was in the hands of the eunuchs. chaos?"

In fact, among the eunuchs in the past dynasties, there are also people with clear politics, and ordinary officials may not necessarily be very good, but because the eunuchs are not knowledgeable enough, most of them are not good enough to make up for the pot, and the second is that the eunuchs are cruel enough to themselves. , so once it is used viciously, it is inevitable that there will be no rules, and there will be no bottom line. This has naturally become the most scorching criticism of the vast majority of ancient intellectuals...

  According to Jia Xu's intention, there is nothing wrong with using eunuchs to get rid of Dou Wu, but the eunuchs released did not have a noose, which is the master's fault.

"...During the Jianning period, there were many gangsters. In the prefectures and counties, there were countless hookers. Chen and Li Zhiliu dared not speak. In the palace, all the people are recruited by the prefectures and counties, and some of them are appointed as governors and prefects, or entered as ministers and servants, and there are those who are granted titles as marquises. It is true that they flourished for a time... Eventually, the big clans everywhere couldn't bear it, and the sword of Zhongxing was lost because of this..."

The Hongdu Academy is a product of the eunuchs' faction to cultivate and support their own power, and to compete with the Taixue, which is occupied by the gentry forces. The school opened in the name of the Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty will naturally invade the foundation of the gentry forces, but Fei Qian didn't expect that this matter was also related to Zhongxingjian.

Or to put it another way, no matter how the **** tossed about before, the gentry turned a blind eye and endured it, but when the **** began to touch the foundation of the gentry, the power of the gentry could no longer tolerate it, and this Fei Qian naturally I can understand, but is there any inevitable connection between this and the theft of ZTE Sword?

  Jia Xu smiled slightly, and then said: "...a certain Taishi, um, I had to read the documents of the Taiku when I was in Beijing... After the theft, I searched it in the palace for many days, and I had to write the word 'no reason'..."

   "Without reason", these two words are extremely ironic. If things are lost, what about the people on patrol? What about the cleaners? What about the person who oversees the inventory? There is neither any punishment written nor any other records, just two simple words "no reason", so forget it if you lose it?

   What a joke.

This was cast by the emperor himself, and it also has a certain symbolic meaning. It is placed in the palace according to the directions of the four sides. It is obviously the spiritual sustenance of the Han Ling Emperor for himself and the Han Dynasty. What happens after it is lost? Will it be easy? How could the case be closed with just "no reason"?

  So, this "no reason" means that something unexplainable happened at that time.

"...Xiping lost his sword in the seventh year, and the first emperor changed Yuan Guanghe. In the second year, Yang Wenxian, then Yin of Jingzhao, together with Weiyang Fangzheng of Sili School, exposed Zhongchang servant Wang Fu, blackmailed Zhongliang and amassed countless wealth, and was imprisoned in the name of 70 million yuan. , died under the stick, the corpse..." Jia Xu continued, as if talking about two other unrelated topics.

   Fei Qian frowned, listening to Jia Xu's words, thinking.

  Change the reign name to Guanghe?

  Light and light, and light, and light and dust?

   You must know that the ancient year name is not like Cao Jiri, who just said it casually with a chicken bone, and it must have a little meaning.

   "Fruit its sharpness, resolve its confusion, harmonize its light, and harmonize its dust; this is called Xuantong."

  What does this year name represent the state of mind of Emperor Han Ling at that time?

  Furthermore, Zhongchang attendant Wang Fu?

  Yang Wenxian? Yang Fangzheng?

  Extortion, the crime of accumulating money without calculation?

  Under this seemingly aboveboard reason, what seems to be covering this up?

  You must know that long before Guanghe, Emperor Ling of Han had begun to instruct his eunuchs to buy and sell officials in Xiyuan wantonly, not to mention 70 million yuan, hehe, this is only the price of two or three high-ranking officials...

At that time, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty clearly marked the price, and he was not deceitful. Officials in the court, those with a thousand stones, had to pay tens of millions of dollars, and the title was calculated separately, while local officials were double that. In this way, 70 million yuan seems to be a large amount, but it is really not that much. You must know that the Han Dynasty was not considered an official in the court. There were hundreds of thousands of people in various counties, large and small Come on, anyway, it's only worth two or three county guard positions.

What's more, this Zhongchang servant Wang Fu had a lot of power before. Under his instruction, not to mention the big and small officials in the government and the opposition, but also killed a clan prince, even the Song Empress of the Hanling Emperor, was actually this Wang Fu was in the way. Such a great **** who was extremely favored by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty took a turn for the worse. Because of the crime of embezzlement and bribery, he was directly executed in prison. City, this is the relief...

  How much hatred does it take to make Emperor Han Ling like this?

  Is it just because of the 70 million yuan?

  Fei Qian touched the soft beard hair on his chin, frowned and said: "...Wenhe means, the theft of Zhongxing Sword has something to do with Zhongchang Attendant Wang Fu?"

  Jia Xu smiled, but did not answer this question.

  This question has no answer.

However, judging from these incidents, one by one speculation, it is not necessary for Zhongchang Shi Wang Fu to steal the Zhongxing Sword, and there is a high possibility that he was wronged. However, there may be a lot of evidence after the Zhongxing Sword was stolen. They all pointed to him, and this became a knot in Emperor Han Ling's heart. Although the sentence was not pronounced immediately when the theft was stolen, it may have been ordered by Emperor Han Ling in the end, or Yang Biao and others followed suit and sent the Zhongchang servant Wang Fu It was cleaned up.

"...Houyang Fang is going to Shangshu. It is said that Taixue and Dongguan are enough to spread enlightenment and enlightenment. Please stop choosing Hongdu to eliminate the slander of the world...Houyangdu will be abolished..." Jia Xu continued slowly, "...but this matter It's not over yet..."

  (end of this chapter)