Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 660 Interesting Good News
"It's good news to soothe His Majesty's heart by making a move. Naturally, I don't bother to show me general news about vulgar people like Lu Zijing." Zhong Yao smiled and handed over the battle report in his hand. He gave it to Leng Shouguang, and teased Lu Su quite leisurely.

Lu Su was immediately displeased: "Zhong Yuanchang, you are so cheap and good-looking. These days, my ministers go to the inner palace every day, bringing a lot of good news about the wealth and trade of the Han Dynasty. But in the end, His Majesty just Encouraged the humble official, but did not find two economic talents for the humble official. Besides, the country, the country, the most important thing is the country, do you know what the word "sheji" means?"

Sheji is the general term for the God of Earth and the God of Valley.The community of separation is the god of earth, and the god of grain is the god of grain.On the surface, this is talking about the gods of earth and valleys, but in the feudal dynasty that was based on agriculture, these two were the most important primitive worship objects of the Chinese nation.

In order to pray for the peace of the country and the harvest of grains, the ancient monarchs went to the suburbs every year to worship the god of land and grains.Sheji gradually became a symbol of the country, and later people used "sheji" to represent the country.

As the prime minister of the Shaofu, Lu Su was not qualified to say these things.After all, the Shaofu is basically in charge of the small treasury for the emperor. Under the Confucian law of 'the world is the public', the income of the royal family has nothing to do with the community.But the problem is that after returning to Chang'an, Liu Xie also started to fight back after enduring the sacrificial and suburban worship made by those ministers.

So in the court hall, Liu Xie said righteously: "I am the Son of Heaven, and there is no king in the world. The royal family is the family of heaven, so what is the distinction between internal and external?" The intention of these words is what Liu Xie wanted Merge the Grand Commander and the Shaofu of the imperial court into one.And its starting point is naturally because Liu Xie is lazy.

There was no Lu Su before, and in order to centralize power, Liu Xie took this power into his own hands when the chief minister was vacant.Because of this, every time the Han Dynasty made a large-scale conquest, Liu Xie was responsible for the preparation of military supplies and the payment of military salaries, which made him very annoyed.Now with Lu Su, Liu Xie of course wants to be a hands-off shopkeeper.

Unexpectedly, he originally thought that he had grasped righteousness, and he spoke generously.Unexpectedly, those ministers from foreign courts would still attack them in groups, saying that the ancient system is a system that has never been changed since ancient times.Liu Xie was so angry that he played a rogue with the ministers in the front hall on the spot, and dragged his confidants to quarrel with those ministers who were stubborn.

Of course, quarreling can't solve the problem, and Liu Xie's anger can basically only mobilize the dead atmosphere in the court.However, after returning to the inner palace, Lu Su sneaked up on him and whispered a trick to Liu Xie.

After that, Liu Xie started to complain five days later: Oh, why isn't this Qingliang Temple cool?The Jiaoshu Hall is too dilapidated, and why is the Tongguang Hall not bright?Shouchun Yuan Shu's Sanssouci Palace is much more magnificent than Weiyang Palace.

As soon as the word got out, the ministers of the foreign court suddenly became nervous.You know, Confucianism advocates 'thrift leads to virtue', and the emperor's tone is obviously to make a big effort.Just when Yuan Shu was defeated, he became arrogant and extravagant. This, this is the omen of reappearing the former emperor!
The ministers of the foreign court suddenly felt that the end of the Han Dynasty was coming, and they all sighed.At this time, Lu Su easily broke into the circle of those veterans in the outer court, and said leisurely: "Isn't it enough to merge the two mansions of Shaofu and Dasinong? The emperor wants to build a palace. I don’t dare to say too much about taking money. But if the two governments are integrated, this is a state affair, and don’t you ministers have a reason to advise you?”

The ministers of the foreign court immediately came to their senses: Yes, how cool it is to let His Majesty shoot himself in the foot with a stone!

But they forgot that Liu Xie's original intention was to be lazy.What kind of bullshit is repairing, how many houses can Liu Xie live in alone?I didn't have that thought.

Because of this, Lu Su, who was originally the housekeeper of Liu Xie, became the financial director of the Han Dynasty, so he was naturally qualified to trace the source of the word "sheji".

But Zhong Yao looked down on Lu Su's villain's success, he laughed, and continued to tease Lu Su lightly: "Why didn't you get any benefits? If it weren't for your repeated operations, how could His Majesty have resisted all opinions and fought with those in the outer court?" The ministers are so angry that they have to go to great lengths to combine the Dasinong and the Shaofu into one? Although your rank as the Shaofu has not changed, your power is much more important than before. Otherwise, you can rely on today. Why talk to me about the word Sheji?"

Not to be outdone, Lu Su raised his eyelids slightly: "Then you and I exchange our official positions, how about it?"

Zhong Yao waved his sleeves contemptuously, and ignored Lu Su at all: Just kidding, His Majesty the Emperor is a man who is looking for money. Although he has centralized the financial power to one institution, how dare you play tricks in it? Try something tricky?This kind of intrigue and perfidious merchant affairs should be done by people from local tyrants like you.People like me, who come from an upright scholar family, can't do this job...

Listening to these two ministers playing tricks, Liu Xie's little unhappiness before coming here was immediately diluted.After cheerfully reaching out to take the report, he saw the good news that Zhong Yao had prepared for himself: it turned out that after he left Huaiyang, Yuan Huan, Yan Xiang, Liu Ye and others made great achievements.

In Huainan, after Yuan Shu was wiped out, thieves would naturally swarm.But it is too correct to let Yuan Huan, who has known Huainan for a long time, serve as the prefect.After Liu Xie left Shouchun, several tyrants in Huainan, mainly Zheng Bao, Zhang Duo, and Xu Gan, started to make trouble, trying to fish in troubled waters.Yuan Huan took advantage of the banquet to congratulate Han Rong on his appointment as Yangzhou pastor, cut off Zheng Bao's head with one knife, and then rode a horse under the banner of the Han Dynasty, and took over thousands of elite soldiers from Zheng Bao in one fell swoop.

At Yan Xiang's place, after half a month of investigation in Danyang, he gave up on getting rich in Danyang.Instead, they took Yuan Shu's belongings and assembled a Danyang army, cooperated tacitly with Yuan Huan, and within half a month, they wiped out the powerful people in Huainan.

As for Liu Ye, he is also doing very well.Together with Tai Shici, Chen Ce, a giant Lujiang bandit with tens of thousands of troops, was pushed forward step by step, and he was appeased as he marched. It took only one month to kill Chen Ce.

As a result, the law and order in the Huaiyang area has basically stabilized.In about half a year, Liu Xie will be able to transform the Huaiyang area into the strength of the Han Dynasty.Such good news is really exciting.

But for Liu Xie, these were expected.After looking through the report with a bored face, he also joked with Zhong Yao: "Yuan Chang, the news is indeed good, but other than that, is there any special news?"

"Special news?" Zhong Yao shook his head: This is not a trick, how can such a major event in the world allow you to play with it to relieve boredom?
Xun You, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his head at this moment, his eyebrows jumped like a flying knife, and he said with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is also a battle report in Longxi area. Compared with Huaiyang's defeat in the battle, it may be interesting." Some."

Liu Xie couldn't help but smile after taking a look at it.It turned out that Ma Chao, who had returned to Liangzhou, made another contribution, and this contribution was actually completed in tacit cooperation with Han Sui.

Of course, such cooperation is completely passive and coincidental.And the protagonist of the incident is Song Jian, King of Heshouping Han who caught up with the trend and became king after Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor.After such a man became king, Han Sui immediately became dissatisfied: Damn, I can't beat the soldiers of the Han family, but you, a horse thief, are jumping around under the old man's nose, are you impatient to live?
Therefore, Han Sui personally raised an army of [-] from the Iron Qiang League, with Yan as the vanguard and Cheng Gongying as the auxiliary wing, to attack Song Jian.

Song Jian was originally a horse thief with little knowledge, and the level of soldiers under him was only slightly lower than him.These small rebels who are still in the most primitive accumulation of capital, of course, cannot be the opponents of Han Sui who has a long history, repeated defeats, and rich combat experience.In the first battle, Song Jian's 1 people were immediately beaten up by Han Sui, and they fled to Xiaoguan crying like father and mother.

Song Jian was actually very proud of his escape route at that time. After all, the dispute between Han Sui and the Han family was well known in the world, especially Ma Chao and Han Sui, the general guarding Xiao Guanxiao, had a feud against his father.According to his thinking, after the two armies meet, they will definitely be jealous of their enemies, and if he joins the Han Dynasty at that time, he may be able to earn a lot of military merit.

But he never expected that Ma Chao would lead his elite old soldiers to plow again on his already scattered troops.When he fled into Jincheng again with less than [-] soldiers, he was driven to Xiaoguan by Han Sui's army like a dog chasing a rabbit.After that, of course Ma Chao would not be polite... So poor Song Jian became a ball, kicked back and forth by Han Sui and Ma Chao.

In the end, Song Jian was beaten enough to cry, and he yelled at Ma Chao in grief and indignation: "You, what are you doing! The enemy chieftain is right in front of you, why do you still bully the poor king alone!"

"Because, now is not the time when the world is in chaos and you can fish in troubled waters. If you want to blame it, blame you for your hard life and ignorance of current affairs!" Ma Chao said, stabbing out the iron box in his hand with a fierce and ruthless posture. The head immediately became a military achievement of Ma Chao.

And just three miles ahead, Han Sui quietly watched the scene before slowly retreating with his army.

(End of this chapter)