Mi Han

Chapter 218
Liu Bei's Wang Ling soon arrived in the west city.

And the person who served as Liu Bei's emissary to announce the king's order was Dong Yun, the servant.

Dong Yun, courtesy name Xiuzhao, was born in Zhijiang, Nanjun, and was the son of Dong He, a general in charge of the army.

Dong Yun's father, Dong He, was named Youzai. The ancestors of the Dong family were originally from Jiangzhou, Bajun. Because of this origin, when the world was in chaos, Dong He led the family to move westward.

After Dong He entered Shu, because of his reputation, he was successively appointed by Yizhou Mu Liuzhang as Niu Bian, Jiangyuan County Magistrate and Chengdu County Magistrate.

At that time, Shu was rich in products, and luxury prevailed.

A family of merchants dresses like a prince, eats jade liquid and fine wine, and when it comes to weddings and funerals, they almost spend all their wealth on extravagance.

Dong He set an example for everyone with his frugal behavior.

He was a vegetarian and followed the rules of etiquette everywhere, which greatly changed the local extravagance. Everyone was afraid of him and did not dare to offend him.

Some tyrants in the county were afraid of Dong He's sternness, so they encouraged Liu Zhang to transfer Dong He as the capital of Badong.

But unexpectedly, there were thousands of officials and common people in Chengdu County supporting the old and the young to keep Dong He. Liu Zhang had to let Dong He stay in office for two years, and then he was promoted to be the prefect of Shu County.

Dong He was still as clean and frugal as he was in the past when he was the prefect.

Moreover, Dong He is good at dealing with Nanzhong aliens, so he is very much loved by Nanzhong aliens.

Later, after Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, he recruited Dong He as the general in charge of the army, and jointly presided over the affairs of General Zuo and Da Sima's mansion with Zhuge Liang, the military adviser general.

Dong He and Zhuge Liang made suggestions together, and they worked together happily and had a deep friendship.

Because of Dong He's relationship, Zhuge Liang looked at Dong He's son Dong Yun differently.

As the son of Dong He, Dong Yun was born in a famous family, and his reputation spread in Sichuan when he was young.

At that time, people often compared Dong Yun with Fei Yi, another Shuzhong hero.

Dong Yun was recruited by Liu Bei not long ago as a servant. A servant is a kind of attendant, who mostly undertakes the duty of conveying orders for the monarch.

Seeing that it was Dong Yun who came to deliver the Wang Ling, Mi Yang took Liu Bei's Wang Ling respectfully with an incense table, then welcomed Dong Yun to another room and asked about the current situation in Chengdu.

Although Dong Yun's ancestors were from Yizhou, Junzi Zhize was killed in the fifth generation, and Dong's family is now considered an authentic Nanjun gentry.

Therefore, if Dong Yun is to be divided into sects, then Dong He, Dong Yun and his son can be regarded as members of the Jingzhou faction.

Mi Yang has a special status. In addition to being difficult to deal with scholars in Central Shu, because of Zhuge Liang's relationship, he has always had a good relationship with scholars from Jingzhou.

What's more, Mi Yang's sister-in-law is regarded as Dong He's elder sister according to the relationship, so Mi Yang and Dong He are considered half relatives.

Dong Yun has an upright personality and can distinguish right from wrong. With such a personality, he has a preference for people with good character.

Mi Yang held a high position at a young age, but he did not take the credit for pride. Instead, he was always humble towards his peers or elders.

More importantly, Dong Yun has heard from Dong He many times that Zhuge Liang praised Mi Yang's words of benevolence, filial piety and intelligence, and Dong Yun trusted Zhuge Liang's vision.

So although Dong Yun and Mi Yang didn't have a deep friendship in the past, he has a good sense of Mi Yang.

After Mi Yang asked about Dong Yun's recent situation in Chengdu, Dong Yun also knew everything, and mainly told Mi Yang two things.

One thing is that Mi Yang arbitrarily arrested Liehou Shendan before, which aroused criticism.

However, with Mi Yang having a firm ally, although there was a lot of public opinion about this incident, it actually did not have a bad impact on Mi Yang.

At that time, Dong Yun was also one of the members who defended Mi Yang.

The second thing is that the officials in Chengdu City persuaded them to come in.

In Dong Yun's narration, Mi Yang had a general understanding of what happened in Guangde Hall that day.

And all this was not as Mi Yang expected.

Although Mi Yang also has a lot of news channels in Chengdu, but listening to it will show that knowing the current situation in Chengdu from different populations is conducive to Mi Yang's analysis of the situation.

Although Mi Yang is now the same as he was in Gongan before, he is the chief general of the place.

But at the beginning, the public security was besieged by the [-] Wu army regiments, like an island hanging overseas.

Hanxing County is different from the public security. The adjacent side and rear of Hanxing County are the locations of our own camps, and the traffic is smooth.

And Mi Yang has officially entered the eyes of the world now, so under such circumstances, it is very important to keep abreast of major events in Chengdu.

In ancient times, politics was above everything else.

After answering Mi Yang's question, Dong Yun already intended to leave.

Seeing that it was getting late, Mi Yang intended to keep Dong Yun, but although Dong Yun had a good sense of Mi Yang, he was still a business-oriented person.

Liu Bei's words of rejecting the advice of the officials have already spread throughout the city of Chengdu.

Regarding whether Mi Yang received it, Liu Bei asked him to seriously investigate Liu Xie's safety, and the ministers in Chengdu were also very concerned.

Under such circumstances, Dong Yun thought about returning to Chengdu to report the matter as soon as possible.

Mi Yang knew the reason why Dong Yun was in such a hurry to leave, so he didn't try to persuade him to stay.

Mi Yang personally sent Dong Yun to the ship. In the cabin, Mi Yang took out a letter from his arms and asked Dong Yun to pass it to Liu Bei.

And specifically stated that this letter is a secret performance.

The secret memorial was not an original creation of some dynasties in later generations. As early as the Han Dynasty, there were precedents for some ministers to present private memorials to the monarch.

The reason why they are called secret memorials is that most of these memorials are not sent to Shangshutai, but are directly sent to the monarch through special channels.

One of the special channels is to give it to the servants next to the monarch for them to forward.

Originally, what Mi Yang wanted was to send this sealed memorial to Chengdu, and let his uncle Mi Zhu pass it on to Liu Bei.

But now that Dong Yun is here, Dong Yun's character is still trustworthy.

It is important for all the ministers to report to Lord Chen, so Dong Yun accepted Mi Yang's letter very seriously.

Then, under the gift of Mi Yang, the boat carrying Dong Yun slowly left the west city.

Dong Yun walked out of the cabin while the ship was gradually moving away from the West City.

He looked at the hundreds of dried heads on the top of the city, and the people and soldiers who were busy building houses outside the west city, and his eyes were thoughtful.

I hope that next time he comes to West City, he can see a different look.

After Dong Yun left, Mi Yang returned to the west city.

From Dong Yun's narration just now, he probably understands the current situation of persuasion in Chengdu.

In his letter, he not only stated the fact that Cao Pi usurped the Han, he also pointed out that the news of Liu Xie's murder was circulating in the north.

In fact, this point was not reflected in Lu Yi's initial report to him. This point was added by Mi Yang himself.

The purpose of Mi Yang's doing this is to promote Liu Bei to proclaim himself emperor early.

Mi Yang is a time traveler, he understands the process of Liu Bei proclaiming himself emperor in history.

In history, after Cao Pi usurped Han and became independent in October of this year, Liu Bei officially proclaimed himself emperor in April of the following year.

The communication between Central Shu and the outside world has improved a lot since Zhuge Liang took charge of Yizhou.

The exact news that Cao Pi usurped Han and became emperor would reach Liu Bei's ears within a month at most, but why did it take him nearly half a year before he became emperor?
Because during that nearly half a year, Liu Bei may have been sending people to investigate the authenticity of a rumor.

In history, after Cao Pi usurped the throne, the rumors that Liu Xie was murdered by Cao Pi began to circulate in the north.

How true is this rumor?

"Wei Lue" records: "At the beginning, Ze (Su Ze) was in Jincheng. When he heard that Emperor Han was in Zen, he thought he had collapsed, so he mourned;

"Three Kingdoms Su Ze Biography" records: "At the beginning, when Ze (Su Ze) and Linsuhou Zhi (Cao Zhi) heard that the Wei family was in the Han Dynasty, they all mourned and cried. Emperor Wen heard that Zhi was like this, but he didn't hear it."

It was so true that even Cao Pi's minister Su Ze and his younger brother Cao Zhi thought that Liu Xie had died.

This is still recorded in the history books, and it is unknown how many are not recorded.

Some later generations think that the reason why Cao Zhi "sorrows and mourns" is that he cried for the death of the Han Dynasty, not the death of Liu Xie, but this is inconsistent with historical facts.

Because before and after Cao Pi became emperor, Cao Zhi wrote two articles, "Qing Shou Chan Biao" and "Weide Lun", to build momentum for Cao Pi.

This shows that Cao Zhi was in favor of Cao Pi's act of usurping the Han and becoming self-reliant, so his mourning was the same as that of Su Ze, thinking that Liu Xie had died.

This is enough to show how widespread and true the rumors of Liu Xie's death were.

And this kind of rumor spread to Shuzhong later, making Liu Bei and other monarchs suspicious.

Therefore, in order to find out the authenticity of this news, Liu Bei delayed until the second year to formally proclaim himself emperor.

And the result of Liu Bei's investigation in history should be that he knew the actions of Su Ze and Cao Zhi.

Now that Mi Yang released this rumor to Liu Bei's monarch and ministers one step ahead, then according to common sense, Liu Bei would of course ask Mi Yang to investigate the authenticity of the news.

As early as when Mi Yang's memorial was sent to Chengdu, he had already sent two teams of spies to the Northwest and the Central Plains to investigate the actions of Su Ze and Cao Zhi.

Once rewarded, Mi Yang can immediately report such news to Liu Bei.

In this way, the day when Liu Bei proclaims himself emperor will be greatly advanced.

As for whether the news will be detected, Mi Yang is not worried.

The behavior of these two people can be recorded by historians dozens of hundreds of years later, and it is impossible for them to be silent in this world.

All the developments of things now are developing according to Mi Yang's idea.

Although Mi Yang is not in Chengdu, he is secretly promoting the development of Liu Bei's proclaiming emperor by taking advantage of some foresight.

Seeing that there was no unexpected change in the situation in Chengdu, Mi Yang summoned Meng Da.

He needs to know how far Meng Da has reached in his "friendly communication" with Xia Houshang.

What a busy life!

A few days later, the envoys of Dong Yun and his party to Hanxing County returned to Chengdu.

After returning to Chengdu, the whereabouts of Dong Yun and his party were quickly discovered by various spies in Chengdu.

After learning of Dong Yun's return, the ministers in Chengdu sent people one after another to inquire about Dong Yun's business.

Many ministers sent people named Caring Dong Yun, but they were actually exploring whether Mi Yang had collected evidence proving Liu Xie's death.

Most of those who can send people to question Dong Yun are ministers who have good friends with the Dong family.

Those ministers who were natives of Sichuan also wanted to send someone to question Dong Yun, but they had just argued with Dong Yun about Mi Yang before, and they really couldn't bear this shame.

But even in the face of these friendly ministers, Dong Yun still smiled and declined all the visitors, never revealing a word.

Not long after, Dong Yun came to the palace to report to Liu Bei. When Dong Yun entered the gate of the palace, the people sent by many ministers could only look at Dong Yun's back and sigh involuntarily, and then stamped their feet and returned.

Dong Yun is Liu Bei's servant, and his government affairs are directly assigned by Liu Bei, without going through Shangshutai.

In a side hall in the palace, Dong Yun met Liu Bei.

Seeing Dong Yun's return, Liu Bei just nodded to him without paying much attention.

But Dong Yun didn't get up after the salute. Dong Yun's performance made Liu Bei a little strange.

Then he realized that Dong Yun should have something important to report, so he pushed back the idlers in the side hall.

After only Liu Bei and Dong Yun were left in the side hall, Dong Yun just took out a complete wax-sealed letter from his bosom, and respectfully placed it on Liu Bei's desk.

After completing this move, Dong Yun bowed to Liu Bei and took the initiative to leave the side hall.

During the whole process, Dong Yun didn't say a single extra word, and he didn't pay attention to Mi Yang's melody.

After Dong Yun left, Liu Bei stared at Mi Yang's melody on the desk, his eyes fixed, then he unwrapped the wax seal and took Mi Yang's melody out of the envelope.

I saw that in the secret memorial, Mi Yang wrote:
"The minister bowed his head and bowed: there are bandits in the north, blocking Heluo, blocking the northern expedition of the king's division, Cao bandits usurped the throne by themselves, and glorified the north. Every time I think about this, I feel worried and forget to sleep.

Those who are ministers should conceive good strategies, so that the thieves can do it themselves.The Han Dynasty was brilliant, and the ministers grew up, but the ministers did nothing, and they were ashamed of Han En.

Your Majesty ordered his ministers to guard the northern frontier, but as a minister, how can you know that the town does not know the levy?
Today's ministers designed to make Mengda pretend to serve Xia Houshang, and secretly communicated the music to lure the enemy.

At the beginning of this year, it was effective, and I was obsessed with thinking, joy and fear mixed.The minister is afraid that this person will not be available, and if he is allowed to do so, he is afraid that he will not be credible, so he should take it easy and make it convenient at the time.

Since I was a child, I was raised by the king's kindness, and I always wanted to repay him. The previous police were powerful, which is really God's help.

Now that the northern bandits are stationed in Wudang, I want to contribute my meager strength to the merits of defeating the bandits.

I have exhausted my supervision and exhausted my wits. I know that there is no such thing as the astonishing wisdom of the ancients. In addition, I hastily implemented strategies.

The minister heard that Tang Yao asked God before he went, but God never violated it.Great King Shen Mo, the grace and power will definitely take care of the ministers, and the spiritual praise of the holy rules will be given by himself.

If you still send it yourself, then the ministers will enlist the six armies, and there will be no survivors of the captives.

It is hoped that the king will pay his ministers the task of hunting down thieves. If he does, it will be the first achievement of the Northern Expedition.If it doesn't work, I will protect the northern border and not worry the king.

I would like to bow my head to hear about it, and bow my head again! "

After Liu Bei watched Mi Yang's secret performance, his face became flushed, and his chest even heaved violently.

After Liu Bei read Mi Yang's watch, he picked it up and read it again after a while.

So repeated, three views of the king.

After reading it three times, Liu Bei couldn't help standing up and pacing back and forth in the side hall.

Since the news of Cao Pi's usurping the Han spread, most of the officials were thinking about how to persuade him to proclaim himself emperor so that they could go one step further.

Only Mi Yang, only he is thinking at this moment is to please the thief!
This made Liu Bei very excited, this is his good nephew, this is the famous general of the big man!
Although Mi Yang may not be successful this time, Liu Bei is very happy that he has such arrogance.

After pacing back and forth, he walked up to the candle and wanted to burn Mi Yang's upper watch for the purpose of keeping it secret, but in the end he was still reluctant.

Finally, Liu Bei put Mi Yang's secret performance in his belt, and at the same time he murmured:

"Good for it, good for it!"

(End of this chapter)