Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 283

Previously, Liu Bei came to Xudu as a prince. Although he was actually coerced by Cao Cao, he was nominally meeting the emperor, so there was a grand banquet.

At first, Liu Xie seemed very enthusiastic about the arrival of Liu Bei, who claimed to be a clan member of the royal family. Regardless of whether he "claimed himself" or not, he was a clan clan member at least.

After Liu Yu was killed by Gongsun Zan and Liu Yao did nothing due to the White Rabbit Effect, the only Liu clan members who held power in the local area were Liu Zhang, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei.

However, when Dong Cheng met him for the first time, not only did he not make friends with this "foreign aid", he even gossiped in a strange way during the meeting, as if Liu Bei did not immediately hand over the Xuzhou soldiers to him, did not obey His Majesty's command, and had evil intentions Same.

If it weren't for Liu Ai's reliability, and Liu Bei's own personality, he might be able to drive away this natural ally!

Fortunately, Liu Ai understood the truth. During the banquet, he immediately arranged the family tree with Liu Bei, and then wrote Liu Bei's name into the royal family's genealogy, and he was regarded as Liu Xie's uncle, to rectify his name.

As for Liu Bei's views, Dong Cheng and Liu Ai are polarized.

Dong Cheng felt that Liu Bei was the same as Cao Cao, the only difference was that he was not as strong as Cao Cao, and he was not trustworthy. Otherwise, how could he occupy Xuzhou, and after coming to Xudu, he didn't immediately express his heart?

Even when he visited him in private and mentioned the matter of rebelling against Cao and Ying Yuan, Liu Bei quickly changed his mind... and looked vaguely disgusted!
Liu Ai, on the other hand, tried to persuade Liu Xie not to listen to Dong Cheng's blind "beep beep", and gradually analyzed it for Liu Xie. Liu Xuzhou's current approach was the wisest!
Putting Liu Xuzhou in line rashly will only alert Cao Cao, and there is absolutely no problem with Liu Xuzhou's loyalty.

As for Dong Cheng's rebellion against Cao and Yuan, it was simply a stupid operation. It would be great if Liu Bei didn't undermine him...

As a result, Dong Cheng choked Liu Ai on the spot: "Do you feel that anyone with the surname Liu can be the emperor?"

However, it was this sentence that moved Liu Xie.

【Yes!For these clan members, it makes no difference whether I am the emperor or another clan is the emperor, but my uncle is absolutely loyal to me! 】

Based on this logic, Liu Xie had always relied more on Dong Cheng.

It wasn't until the incident of Yuxi's return that Liu Xie's view of Bai Tu changed greatly, and then...he began to fall back on Liu Ai again, and became cold towards Dong Cheng.

Liu Ai was also very helpless about this - Liu Xie's performance, even in peaceful times, seemed unqualified.

This cannot all be blamed on Liu Xie. Like most emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xie lacked the growth experience and corresponding education that an emperor should have.

It was not only caused by Dong Zhuo. Before Liu Xie was eight years old...when Liu Xie was just born, his biological mother was poisoned to death by the queen at the time, the later "Queen Mother He". Emperor Ling was so angry that he wanted to depose the queen. Only after the persuasion of many eunuchs did he give up.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Xie was brought up by Empress Dowager Dong. If it was replaced by someone else, he might not grow up.

Until the death of Emperor Ling, he had been hesitant about the position of crown prince. The Dong family, headed by the Queen Mother and General Dong Chong, had always supported the young Liu Xie.

But in the end, He's skill was still higher. After the death of Emperor Ling, He Jin forced Dong Zhong to death, and the Queen Mother also died of fear. Even in the novel, it is explicitly stated that Queen Mother Dong was also killed by He Jin.

After Liu Bian succeeded to the throne, the good times did not last long. In the following months, He Jin was killed by Shi Changshi, and Dong Zhuo entered the capital...

When Dong Zhuo first decided to abolish the throne, it was also thanks to He's previous actions, so it was not without support.

Later generations of literati often criticized the Empress Dowager He, and even attributed the decline of the Han Dynasty to this. Mao Zonggang, who corrected Mao's version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", attributed this to retribution, ranking it with Empress Lu - Empress Lu was brutally murdered. Qi Ji, but Emperor Hui had no children; why did the queen poison the king's beauty to death, but the young emperor did not die...

Regarding Dong Zhuo's dethronement of Liu Bian and the murder of Queen Mother He and her son, Liu Xie must have felt secretly happy at that time.

Liu Xie's growth experience before the age of eight made Liu Xie not trust any clan members, and his growth experience after the age of eight made Liu Xie not trust foreign ministers.

Empress Dowager Dong supported Liu Xie for the sake of her own status, but in Liu Xie's heart, the identity of Empress Dowager Dong's nephew greatly gave Dong Cheng extra points.

However, a muddled emperor who only knows how to distinguish "closeness" but can't distinguish "good from bad" will help Hua Xin to do things in Xudu.

……

At the same time, Xu Rong had returned to Jinling and reported to Bai Tu what happened on the way.

"You did a good job this time. We will work hard in the future, not only to learn weather forecasting, but also to open the Taishi Bureau to every county as soon as possible!" Bai Tu encouraged.

In fact, Bai Tu had known Xu Rong's "great success" for a long time. After all, Xu Rong's return speed could not compare with the message transmission speed of "signal tower + fast horse".

"Yes! Tai Shi Cheng takes the order!" Xu Rong said energetically.

Then with a roll of her eyes, Xu Rong asked with a smile: "But... Lord, you still have a lot of astrology books, right? It seems that they were removed from the library later? Can you..."

Rumor has it that in the library of the General's Mansion, there were initially a few astrological books that no one could understand, but they were later collected by Bai Tu.

"No, those are too profound for you." Bai Tu thought for a while, but rejected Xu Rong first.

It's not that Bai Tu is too precious, but... Bai Tu's astrology, or astronomy, is completely different from Xu Rong's previous astrology. How can he learn astronomy if he doesn't even know that the earth is round and has gravity?
"My lord, I have probably read through all the astrological books that can be found in Jiangdong. Even the Taishi Ling of Luoyang may not have learned more deeply than I did!" Xu Rong obviously didn't believe it. She couldn't even read any astrological books. got it.

If there is, it must be written randomly.

"My astrology is quite different from others. When you were studying divination, you also learned mathematics, right? That's good. If you really want to learn, I'll send you a note to the Ministry of Industry. Can you and Pang Si If you can learn arithmetic to the earth level, you can almost get started with some simple astronomy." Bai Tu said.

"Astronomy? Is this the name of your old school, my lord?"

"Ahem, Xu Taishi, although you are very young, my lord, I am not very old either... By the way, prefectural level is not just about endorsements, you must at least pass the first-class exam!" Bai Tu retorted and added One sentence.

Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang, Earth Level... It's probably the knowledge of high school mathematics. If you want to get the first grade, you can master it to the level of 140 points in the college entrance examination, which is almost enough. After all, Bai Tu is not a demon.

When Xu Rong heard this, she showed a proud look - does it count?
Numeracy is one of the six arts of a gentleman, and as an expert in stargazing, Xu Rong's attainments in numerology are definitely much more solid than those of ordinary scholars!

What kind of heaven level or earth level is just a pretense...

Tsk tsk, what if the famous Ministry of Industry and Engineering Department insists on worshiping me as their teacher?
Bai Tu didn't know why, but Xu Rong wanted to leave with a silly smile on her face.

"It's great to be young." Bai Tu sighed.

"When I first met you, I was still sixteen." Lu Lingqi on the side said as if she had been younger.

"Huh? Yes, what's wrong?" Bai Tu hadn't reacted yet.

After all, in Bai Tu's impression, old aunts in their 30s can still call themselves babies, and 20 years old is not the time to lament the passing of youth.

"It's nothing, I'm afraid that little girl won't be able to learn the numerology even if she reaches the standard!" Lu Lingqi said with a blank look.

"Indeed, after all, there are many principles, not just math problems..." Bai Tu was still analyzing rationally, not noticing that Lu Lingqi was only reacting emotionally.

Seeing Bai Tu's appearance, Lu Lingqi deliberately smiled like a flower and said: "Giggle, it's not the reason that I don't understand, but I heard someone say..."

"say what?"

"If you want to learn well, sleep with the master first!"

Baitu: ...

No matter how blunt Bai Tu was this time, he also noticed Lu Lingqi's little emotions, so he said solemnly: "It makes sense!"

Hearing this, Lu Lingqi looked at Bai Tu angrily and said, "Hey, my lord, you don't really have any plans, do you? Do you want me to make arrangements when I stay in the guard? So as not to ruin the good thing!"

"Yes! I feel like I haven't been able to learn well in the Nine Transformations of Black Bird recently... Isn't there a saying that says, 'If you want to learn well, give the master more rubs and baths'? Master Lu, when do you want to take a bath... …”

"Bah! Stay away!"

……

While Bai Tu was practicing hard, Zhang Chunhua from the Household Department received a new task, or rather... he applied for a new task, which was also a challenging order!

"Do you really want to go? In fact, you should find a bookkeeper to do this in person. After all, the Fuyang area has just been recovered not long ago, and things are complicated and complex..." Lu Kang laid out the steps and finally gave her a An opportunity to give up.

But Zhang Chunhua still said: "No, the bookkeepers are busy with their affairs, so I'd better go there!"

That's right, Fuyang is where Zhang Chunhua is going.

The task is to check the accounts!
At the end of the year and the end of the year, the Ministry of Accounts also collects local accounts. The more fashionable term is audit.

Ordinarily, it is a very cool thing to go to other places to do audits. On the contrary, the local departments that have been "beaten" have to be busy.

Except in war zones!
Because of the accounts of the war zone, in order to facilitate military deployment, the financial aspects are also controlled by the local military commander.

Although it is not conducive to the centralization of power, but... with the current speed of message transmission, even if some centralization is sacrificed, it is necessary to ensure that the troops in the theater have the ability to respond in battle!
Otherwise, even with the speed of the General's Mansion's news delivery, he would still be stunned...

But in this way, it will be a headache when the household department audits the accounts. When they go to the local household department to audit the accounts, they are "Shangguan", but when they go to the war zone to audit the accounts... When a scholar meets a soldier, he can't explain why!

What's more, sometimes the Ministry of Revenue is also worried that it is not just "unclear", but really "unclear".

Generals on the front line sometimes stretch out their hands. In the current era, it is completely normal. Most of them have to bear the risk of being held accountable and help others wipe their butts. This scale is not easy to grasp.

So they all went there for inspection, but no one in the war zone was willing to go.

For example, in Jingnan, there is no way to do an audit, and there is no plan to audit the accounts. In the Miankou area, Lu Kang directly asked Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing to investigate, so he had to rely on himself...

Moreover, both the Sun family and the Zhou family have big businesses, and Lu Kang believes that they will not mess around.

As for Fuyang, it is the big problem for the Ministry of Household Affairs this year - Zhang Xiu, Zhao Yun, Jia Xu...

Look at these masters!
In the eyes of others, Zhao Yun is handsome and handsome, but what the people in the household department saw, these three people looked like...Liangzhou soldiers and bandits, Youzhou soldiers and bandits, so bad that they oozed pus...

Don't blame everyone for being biased. After all, it was Dong Zhuo first, and now Guanzhong has also been severely harmed by the Liangzhou warlords. And Zhao Yun's old boss Gongsun Zan did many things that ruined his character in the last few years. Jia Xu ...Needless to say.

If Zhang Chunhua hadn't been there, several bookkeepers would have been waiting to see who the last unlucky guy would be.

However, Zhang Chunhua didn't know what he was thinking, so he took the initiative to go to Fuyang...

(End of this chapter)