Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 84
To the north of Macheng, Daijun, Youzhou.

The sunset in the frontier is nothing to see, because this place has always been a place of chilling, who has the heart to see it?

However, there was a middle-aged man, riding a horse, getting closer and closer to the extremely desolate land, staring in a daze at the sun that was about to sink.

The rider seemed to have thought of something, and ran all the way. Under his horse's hooves, he could vaguely see the old wall that was not mottled in the weeds.

If the horse hadn't stopped here, the Great Wall would have continued to sleep.

And this horse rider has been staring blankly at the rivers and mountains beyond the high wall since he stopped his horse. His eyes are sharp, looking straight through the mountains and mountains.

He stared for a long time, as if he wanted to penetrate everything, and directly saw the vast grassland and the wild horse team behind the mountains.He knew that in those camps that were moving around, men and women were trying to cross the barrier and go deep into the hinterland of China.

It's not that they didn't succeed. If not, the emperor wouldn't have sent him here. Even people with no information could smell the danger in the Northland.The eunuchs are now scrambling to cleanse the Taiyuan gentry under the remote control of the emperor, so how can they care about the frontier?Wouldn't ransacking homes, arresting people, and robbing treasures be more enjoyable than going to the frontier to suffer?

"Lord Lu."

Following the sound of a few clear horseshoes catching up, several young men in official uniforms came up from the crowd.

"You're too fast. After chasing you all the way, you were a step too slow."

Lu Zhi looked back at them, his brows were tightly frowned. In his saddlebag, there was also the imperial edict written on silk. The beautiful Hanli looks so soft now:

"The edict said:
In ancient times, the sages were in charge, and the ministers went everywhere, patrolling the herds on behalf of the heavens, and keeping the outside and the inside safe, so Haiyan and Heqing.Since I ascended the throne, although there are waves in the four seas, they are powerful but restrained, and peace has come to this.Or heard that flying horses entered the capital and reported to the northern frontier urgently, causing chaos and hurting the people, and several counties collapsed.I have heard that the country is in danger and think of good generals, and today is also the case.Lu Zhi, the capital of Zhongdu, is loyal, pure and highly talented, and he always has ingenious thoughts when dealing with affairs. He is specially promoted to protect the Xianbei Zhonglang general, supervise all the troops and horses in Bing and You, and all military affairs are temperate. protect the country. "

Lu Zhi glanced at the document with the jade seal, and became more and more bored. He secretly said in his heart: These big moths, who have harmed the country and the people, are about to break the embankment, so they think of resisting the flood.

He walked quietly along the way, without disturbing the local officials, just to see what it was like in Bingyou Prefecture, which had been plundered by Xianbei several times but could not do anything about it. This sight was shocking.

From the official to ask:

"My lord, I'm waiting for this road, passing through the big counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Xihe. The more it looks, the more ugly it becomes. The rest of the place is probably the same. Do you still want to see it?"

Lu Zhi stared angrily, gritted his teeth and said:

"Look, how can you not look at it?"

What are you looking at?Seeing grass-eating husks everywhere?See the people change their sons to eat each other?There is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the whole country is silent. This is what he expected, but he didn't expect it to be more terrifying than imagined.

The officials and officials protect each other, and the military discipline is abolished. The common people not only have to seek food everywhere, but also avoid exploitation by the officers and soldiers.

But just like this, the group of high-ranking scholars who sit and talk about Taoism in the court still intrigue and fight each other.

He was not ignorant of the lists prepared by the emperor and his attendants, and the Taiyuan and Shangdang areas were about to be shed with blood.There and here, which is more bloody?Is there a piece of pure land in this Chinese land?
Lu Zhi was depressed and determined, could he be such an executioner?

Alas, as a minister of the Han Dynasty, if you can't fight wars and seek happiness for the people, do you still want to be a villain who plays power and schemes?

He gritted his teeth, and decided to use his seven-foot body to return the great Han to the north.

Squeeze out my colleagues, divide up the stolen money, I don't even bother to do it!He smiled wryly, and when he answered firmly "Lu Zhi takes orders" and received the edict and seal, the eyes of the officials were not encouragement but surprise.

You must know that Fan Yang's Lu family can be regarded as a famous family, and Lu Zhi, who was born in it, is a disciple of Ma Rong, and he can also be regarded as the leader of Confucian classics in the North, belonging to the elite of the gentry.

After learning about the emperor's grand plan from Xun Shuang, Lu Zhi was a little at a loss. He knew that this plan might benefit the country, but he also knew how many common people would die in this plan!
Does it have to be so?
That's all for your Majesty, after all, he is superior and thinks that the world belongs to him, so why are you Xun's great Confucians like this...?
Lu Zhi was very angry and painful at the time. After a long time of thinking, he finally compromised, because whether he participated or not, all this is a foregone conclusion, and all he can do is to try his best to keep a little more power for the big man , so he agreed to go to the northern frontier to defend Xianbei.

Lu Zhi could guess that when he was in the palace, as soon as he came out of the hall, all the courtiers would laugh:

"Sure enough, there are still such dementias in the world. Let's wait for a good time, but we have to go to the cold frontier to suffer. Yes, without these fools as a shield, we will be sad!"

He remembered the scene when he was studying scriptures with Master Ma Rong when he was young. He, Zheng Xuan and other disciples held bamboo slips respectfully, knelt in the porch, and listened to the teacher's lecture.

Master Ma Rong changed the atmosphere of talking about modern scriptures at that time, and advocated ancient scriptures.A group of young people at LANXESS read:

"A phase mouse has skin, but a human has no manners. A human has no manners, so why not die..."

Ma Rong interpreted for everyone:

"During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a great chaos in the state of Wei, and the monarch and his relatives caused chaos in the court. When Duke Wen of Wei rejuvenated, he paid more attention to etiquette, and some people sang this poem..."

Hmph, Lu Zhi thought of those dignitaries with fat stomachs and vegetarian meals in their corpses. They have skin like rats, but they have no manners. How are these people still alive?
Lu Zhi said to the officials:
"I wait for the emperor's salary and loyalty to the emperor. How can others not care about it. Since the emperors have come with me to this important place on the battlefield, they still hope to fight the rebellion as they did in the past. They will do their utmost to make contributions!"

Those people all respectfully replied:

"Follow your orders!"

He studied Confucian classics since he was a child, and upholds the idea of ​​being loyal to the emperor and serving the country. Although there are many differences in his behavior today, as a courtier, it is not convenient for him to speak out, and he is just doing loyalty.

Today's Xianbei is not the same as the Xiongnu in Emperor Wu's time.

Hehe, it's ironic to say that ever since Emperor Xiaowu drove the Xiongnu to the north and General Ouyang ran across the desert, the arrogance of those mediocre officials has been blown up, and they often ask "how is my celestial dynasty", why have they ever come to the frontier to see it?
Although the Han army made great achievements in the past, they failed to wipe out Xianbei in one fell swoop, which caused a catastrophe of letting the tiger go back to the mountain. Now, looking at the sandalwood locust wolf Gu Handi, looking down on the Cangyuan, how could it be done in a day?
He could faintly see the black tassels of the flags of the grassland tribes fluttering across the Yin Mountains, which looked like grinning animal faces in the fading sunset, and he could hear the sound of hunting in his ears.

He knew that this was not a strong wind for no reason, but an air wave caused by thousands of galloping horses. The wind was mixed with the arrogant howling of the beasts. Maybe they thought that the Central Plains had no opponents, and those officials were scared out of their wits. The people are lambs to be slaughtered.

"The army in the Northland is already withered. If it doesn't need to be reformed, it may be too late."

The officials are discussing.

Lu Zhi nodded and said:
"When we first arrived here, those officials might not be willing to obey orders. They had to write to the imperial court and get a real edict to act cheaply before they could open their hands and punish evil and promote good."

Lu Zhi did have great power. A small Zhonglang general could oversee all the military affairs of Bingzhou and Youzhou. delusional.

Therefore, in order to truly reshape the northern armaments, he must gain more power!
The officials nodded and said:
"Your Excellency has already thought of it. If it is useful, there is a place for me to wait, but please tell me."

Lu Zhi stroked his beard and murmured:
"Nowadays, several strong troops are urgently needed to reshape the border defense, recruit new troops, and renovate the military fortress. As for the expenditure of money and food..."

Not knowing what to think of, Lu Zhi suddenly ordered:
"Come here, get your pen and ink quickly!"

(End of this chapter)