Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 573: Benefits Together

The Double Ninth Festival banquet went on as normal, and Kong Rong left without making any statement.

Soon he found Zhang Ding being summoned by several military officers, and he quickly walked up the stairs and disappeared from Kong Rong's sight.

On the third floor, Zhang Ding also grabbed the wine glass and tried the wine. He frowned for a moment and said, "It doesn't taste good."

"I don't think it tastes good either. I prefer sweet wines, fruit wines with a strong fruity aroma."

Black Bear was still smelling the aroma of wine that continued to be released from the wine glass: "Wine is just the beginning. Liangzhou can also develop various fruit wines. I will give you a jar after the banquet. When you have time, you can taste it with Chen Xuanliang, Xu Lin and others. Just drink fresh, sweet and fragrant wine. There is no need to chase after aged or strong wine. Every year, there are people who die or go blind from drinking privately brewed wine. There is no need to take risks."

"Yes, I understand. I will remember your teachings and will not indulge in alcohol unless necessary."

Zhang Ding restrained his expression, feeling that this was a deliberate warning to him.

A person's day has limited time. If you are busy with official duties, you naturally have no time to enjoy.

But if you want to indulge in enjoyment, the best thing to help you have fun these days is still wine.

Drinking too much alcohol not only causes trouble, but also reduces one's judgment.

"Well, a group of disabled soldiers will return in a while. You can select a few of them and assign them to the forest farm."

Black Bear handed a warrant to Zhang Ding and said, "I have chosen a child in Xixiang, and you are to send him to the forest farm as well."

"Here."

Zhang Ding didn't say much, but just agreed carefully.

He did not ask when Black Bear would leave or when he would lead his troops back, but just concentrated on drinking.

After finishing a glass of wine, he did not want to disturb the black bear sitting facing the windowsill. He stood up carefully, took seven or eight steps back, and then turned and left.

Black Bear looked towards the south of the mountain, his hands on the handrails, thinking about what happened in Xixiang.

Ma Yunlu faces more intense competition here. She can prepare many women, but the internal competition and suppression are also very fierce.

While he was away at war, the mother of a child may have thought she had the strength, and then she fell ill and died.

The people are all dead and they don’t have any deep feelings for each other.

Even when he tried to recall carefully, Black Bear couldn't even match the other person's specific facial features with the name.

What we can do now is to relocate the child and keep him in Xixiang. It will be troublesome if he grows up, and it will be even more troublesome if he does not grow up.

Compared with the disorderly competition in Xixiang, Dongxiang has always been very stable.

It was the fact that there were so many pregnant women in Xixiang that aroused Zhen Mi's sense of crisis.

By now, he more or less understood the cruelty of those emperors.

Kindness will only bring greater disasters. Only a sense of distance can maintain the greatest security everywhere.

In the future, many children were not planned to be raised in Xixiang and Dongxiang. After the subsequent rewards were given to meritorious generals such as Lu Bu, these children would be registered there; after having their identities cleaned up, they would be led to Xixiang and Dongxiang for centralized upbringing and education.

Thinking about the long-term future, Black Bear was exceptionally calm.

In this kind of calm state of mind, not to mention wives, concubines and children, even one’s own future feelings can be ignored.

At dusk, Dongxiang.

Black Bear came galloping on his horse. Seeing the speed and momentum of Black Bear and the Iron Cavalry Team, the officials at the Dongxiang Gate did not verify their identities and opened the gate to let them pass under the urging of the gate chief.

We traveled smoothly all the way and arrived at the pavilion beside the gourd pond.

When Zhen Mi heard the news and hurried over to lead the way, Black Bear had already entered the building. He saw Zhen Mi wearing an outer robe and heard a child crying on the building. Black Bear waved his hand to dismiss the laughing maid, carried Zhen Mi on his back and went upstairs.

"What~!"

Nakago, shogunate.

Zhong Yao almost jumped up in shock when he heard Yang Guang's whisper. He stared with his eyes wide open and felt that he had lost his composure. He sat back down and said, "How can you be so frivolous? The Xiongnu and Xianbei tribes are in Wuyuan and Yunzhong. If anyone has evil intentions, they will only be accompanied by a hundred riders..."

Yang Guang was speechless as well, kneeling down and saying, "My Lord, you also know that the divine horse under the Grand Marshal's seat can travel a thousand miles a day. Even if the barbarians outside the Great Wall have evil intentions, they will not have time to mobilize their troops. Even if they do, I'm afraid they will not be able to catch up."

"It's hard to intercept them coming here, but what about when they're leaving?"

Zhong Yao was really frightened. He knew that the Tiger Tooth Army relied on the black bear's travels of thousands of miles a day to stabilize the situation in Guanzhong. As a result, many people did not dare to move in the early stage. After a long time, they did not dare to move and gradually became loyal and obedient.

He only thought that the enemy's horses were indeed fast, but he spared no effort to travel back and forth in order to rule and integrate Guanzhong.

Now, look what happened. He actually rushed back to Guanzhong from Daidi overnight.

This is terrible. The terrain of Guandong prefectures and counties is flat and wide, and one can travel a thousand miles a day. This means that when Black Bear patrols Guandong in the future, he can check more than a dozen counties a day. Taking into account the rest along the way, he can also ask the people in the towns and villages.

Who can stop it?

Given Black Bear's influence in the army, this time he returns triumphantly, he will be crowned king. Using the throne as a constraint, the other party will be able to break through the obstruction of the palace guards and travel around at will.

The risk of officials falsifying information or concealing the truth is extremely high, and everyone from top to bottom has to concentrate on their work... What's the difference between this and cattle, horses, and slaves?
It's bad enough that you have to work hard alone, but you also have to drag everyone else to work hard together.

Zhong Yao thought about the current situation on all sides and realized that they had almost lost the ability to resist, so he could only sigh.

It's a pity that he is an old man. He doesn't want to be pulled down by the younger generation, so he has to continue to fight on the front line.

Although as the Inspector of the Imperial Guards he could no longer take care of specific matters and his words were of no use, he could not give up.

If he dares to slack off, he will definitely suffer various retaliations after losing his official position.

Now I have figured it out. The more brutal and widespread the killing and punishment by the Black Bear, the greater the scope... These people and their relatives and friends can't afford to offend the Great Sima, so how can they not afford to offend you, an old man who has lost his job, his clan has been severely damaged, and everyone has deserted him?
If he lost his job, he would surely die of illness quickly. Many people even wanted to exaggerate the cause of his death and use it as a tool to attack the Grand Marshal.

This was the fundamental reason why Zhong Yao was so frightened. If anything happened to the black bear, he would definitely be retaliated by all parties and his life would be worse than death!

If he had not condoned it in the beginning, how could such a big disaster have occurred?

He couldn't sit still any longer, so he said to Yang Guang, "Prepare the gifts. I have to go to Dongxiang early tomorrow morning."

Yang Guang immediately replied: "Mingsir, with the speed of the Grand Marshal's journey, he will probably have taken the straight road north to Wuyuan early tomorrow morning."

"How could this old man not know?"

Zhong Yao stared, "We are on the way to Dongxiang. We will wait for the Grand Marshal at the straight road. When we meet the Grand Marshal, we will persuade him."

Zhong Yao stood up and paced back and forth: "You don't know, the barbarians are fierce and stubborn, if they have the chance, how could they indulge themselves?"

"If the Grand Marshal is attacked, there will be chaos both inside and outside the country, and the people of the world will be in danger. Neither you nor I can escape, and the clan will inevitably be in trouble!"

After hearing Zhong Yao say this, Yang Guang realized that he had no way out.

The fact that Yang Xiu was highly valued in the shogunate alone was enough to lead to the purge of his entire family.

But he instinctively thought that the Hu people were intimidated and dared not resist.

However, Zhong Yao had seen many cases of the Hu tribes invading border counties in his life, and he was instinctively wary of them.

(End of this chapter)