Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1264 If you don't die, you won't die

  Yan Ping first year autumn.

   There was a fire at Jingzhaoyin Pavilion. Although the water dragon tried its best to rescue it, it still burned down three warehouses storing various documents.

The next day, the Sanfu gentry who received the news gathered in Chang'an. For various reasons, anyway, they were just visiting friends. They stopped by. Coincidentally, they walked to the vicinity of the fire on the pavilion and took a look with their own eyes at the houses that had been burned through. The warehouses, those black beams and pillars that are still smoking, and the stone walls that have been smoldering.

   "It's really burning?" Du Ji sat on the table, poured some wine for Wei Duan, and then asked, "Yesterday, I went to investigate the Lantian Bashui channel, and I heard about it as soon as I came back."

Du Ji and Wei Duan are relatively familiar, so Wei Duan didn't hide it, nodded and said: "It's really a mess, the bamboo slips are broken, Ling Shi was paralyzed on the spot, and has been ordered by Pang Shijun Throw him into prison and torture him for strict investigation."

  Lingshi is the chief of these archives in the bureaucracy, responsible for the management of the entire archive warehouse. In addition to the problem of the pavilion, it is naturally difficult to escape the blame.

The archives management of the Han Dynasty was inherited from the Qin Dynasty. In addition, starting from Liu Bang, under the suggestion of Xiao He, strict officials began to deal with the documents and materials in Guanzhong of the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, by the late Han Dynasty, a large number of bamboo slips and slips were already overwhelming The accumulation is like a mountain, so naturally a certain retrieval method is required.

  The retrieval of bamboo slips and slips in the Han Dynasty is first of all the compilation of official documents, which is similar to the meaning of a notification number for any notices issued by later generations, and then some short titles are added to compile them into a book.

Then, for a certain important event, a single piece or a single volume of bamboo slips is integrated and set up according to one volume and one article, and then a large number of "censorship" and "brown" are added on this basis. , for classification and sorting, "check" is a label, which is used to further subdivide the logo of bamboo slip files, and can also be used as the title of official documents, while "brown" is some small wooden posts with special patterns, and some " There is also a small hole in the middle of "Brown", which can be threaded for hanging.

Therefore, there are a large number of bamboo slips and slips, and the protection of these wooden and bamboo-based materials has become an important work item for the history. Herbs are used to avoid beetles. Originally, Lantai in Luoyang got its name because the royal family used expensive orchid grass to avoid beetles. Rue is mostly used in general warehouses.

  To ensure the safety of the archives, most of them use stone as the warehouse wall of the archives, and then dig water channels outside the stone wall to guide water, leaving only one bridge in and out, which can prevent fire and theft...

   But the problem is that no matter how good the warehouse is, it will be damp.

In the dry season of autumn, the warehouse will be opened to ventilate, the slips and slips will be moved out to the outdoors to ventilate and remove moisture, and then the forage bags used to prevent insects and beetles will be replaced again. At this time, these files that have been moved out to dry Not in the heavily sealed stone warehouses, but in general warehouses with relatively poor security levels.

   This strange fire happened at this time.

Normally, there must be water canals around the warehouse, which is convenient for getting water and fire nearby, but for some reason, when the fire started, there was not much water flow in the canals, so it was too late to rescue them, so we could only watch the fire expand , and finally burned the warehouse.

Ling Shiran's first responsible person was arrested on the spot, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that a small Ling Shi is not the key to this fire at all. file.

   "Then the information on the rumored fields will be destroyed this time..." Du Ji frowned and said, "Brother Wei, do you know whether the rumors are true or not?"

  Wei Duan was silent for a moment, and said: "The counting of the bamboo slips is in progress, and there is no conclusion on this matter... However, the burned bamboo slips are all 'inspection' of farming..."

   After speaking, both of them fell silent.

  Suddenly there was a commotion outside the courtyard, Du Ji said: "Come here, go and check, what's the noise..."

Not long after, the servant came to report and said: "Mr. Pang ordered someone to post a text saying that the original Sanfu Tianmu files in the treasury had been destroyed in the fire. Let Tian preside over the documents. Documents, those who have not issued documents, are all lands without owners. Therefore, everyone is in an uproar..."

   "Re-establish the document?" Du Ji was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand to make the servants retreat, shook his head and said, "Mr. Pang is really... this fire is really strange..."

  Wei Duan chuckled twice, and said, "At first, I thought something was wrong, but now it seems that it must be a trick to get..."

  Du nodded a little bit, and said: "In the past, if this happened, the more the better, the number of fields would be increased in vain, and the surrounding mu of land would be changed to my own name, but now..."

  Wei Duan went on to say: "Now is the time to hand in the autumn tax. If you increase the number of acres, you will have to pay more autumn tax... If you hide, then you just have to go with the flow, and you will really become a land without an owner..."

The gentry of the Han Dynasty were not so pure that they only knew how to stare at the scriptures on the books. They also knew a lot about these contingency strategies. now?

  Du Ji's eyes flickered a few times, and he continued: "What's more, if there is no water, what should we do? Or if burning documents is not a certificate, what crime should the false report be?"

   Wei Duan shook his head and said: "Although so, there will be people in the world who are motivated by interests and take risks, but what can they do? It's just that they are deliberate and framed here, which is embarrassing."

Du nodded at a few o'clock, shook his head again, sighed, and said: "Brother Wei's words are different. Even if there is a disaster, it is self-inflicted, so how can we blame others? If we talk about means, there are no tombs around Chang'an. And who did it?"

  This matter is tantamount to a big hole, and it is still clear about the big hole dug. The problem is that the nobles around Sansuke have to jump into it. This is where Wei Duan is most angry.

But there is nothing to blame. If you are honest, you will not have many things, but people are always like this. Some people always think that they are the smartest, and others are stupid, and then they will try to take advantage of it. However, they do not know that some of these low prices are equivalent to deadly bait.

Since Liu Bang in the Han Dynasty, there has been a habit of harvesting leeks everywhere, but if the local tyrants cooperate obediently, not all of them will be on the blacklist of leeks. Outrageous, there are still three fires for the new official to take office, not to mention that Pang Tong is still young, and many people have not taken Pang Tong seriously, but after this incident...

   Simply put, if you don’t die, you won’t die.

  The problem is that there are always people who think that other people's actions are called death, while their own actions are wise. For such people, even if Wei Duan and Du Ji see some tricks, they can't stop them.

   Wei Duan frowned, shivering involuntarily, but after a while, he blinked and said, "If..." Wei Duan stretched out his hand, made a fist, spread out his palm, and pressed down.

  Du Ji thought for a moment, but slowly shook his head, pointed upwards, and said, "This is not impossible, but it's better to stay still than to move. Let's see if there are any follow-up measures..."

   Wei Duanba smacked his lips twice, sighed, and finally fell silent.

  The two of them sat in front of the hall, looking out of the courtyard, hearing the noise from the street in their ears, feeling the bleak autumn wind, and getting colder and colder...

  ……………

   People who will not die if they don't die, are not only in the Sansuke area, but also in other places.

  Gao Gan thinks he is a lucky person, at least in his current position.

  Before I followed Lu Bu to crusade against Montenegro, I didn’t do anything, and I still got meritorious deeds. Now I’m marching into Shangdang.

Two days ago, Gao Gan's vanguard troops had already left the Yangchang Slope Road and entered the Huguan area, but this does not mean that Gao Gan has already captured Huguan, it is just that part of the army has left the mountain road and is facing Huguan. The area is only slightly threatening, because the follow-up needs to obtain food and grass supplements from the mountain road. Before there is no stable foothold, the risk is still very high.

  As soon as he came out of the mountain, Gao Gan noticed something was wrong.

Normally speaking, if General Zhengxi dies, then the Shangdang area, or the entire Bingbei area, is in a state of no owner, and only local officials are governing, so once you see the Yuan’s banner, even if you don’t accept the head, you will worship , Some people will be sent over to work in the army, to inquire about some rumors, and to make some friendships, but so far, there is no...

It's like on the opera stage of Liyuan Opera. It was supposed to be a general who was supposed to come out and put on a driving show, and then he clapped his hands in a low voice to applaud his popularity or something, but in the end it was quiet, as if no one saw it. .

  Food and grass are the stabilizers of the army's morale, and after the labor supplies that the senior officials expected were not delivered, the grain and grass transported by the mountain road could not be guaranteed to be on call, so the army naturally murmured.

In the past two days, Gao Gan did not launch any offensive. There are many reasons. One is that he has just walked out of the mountain road. Or, he is also waiting for the follow-up soldiers to catch up, and more importantly, since Yuan Shao has appointed him as the governor of Bingzhou, he will fight in the first battle and establish the prestige of the governor of Bingzhou, otherwise how will he govern in the future? place?

The current situation in Jizhou is very favorable for Yuan Shao. With the support of Jizhou gentry and some nobles in Youzhou, Gongsun Zan will not live well for a few days. Therefore, as Yuan Shao's nephew, he is naturally aware that the center of gravity of Yuan Shao's entire strategy must be from north to south Transfer, prepare to decide the outcome with Yuan Shu, and then Yuan Shao has the final say on the rest. At that time, if Yuan Shao wants to abolish the current emperor, he can rebuild the imperial line, and Yi Xian can change his ways and respect the current emperor again.

  When Yuan Shao's power is rising, the high-ranking officials will naturally rise. There is no doubt about this, but the problem is that the high-ranking officials must first take root in Taiyuan, Shangdang, Bingzhou.

  As for the gentry in Shangdang Taiyuan, the Wang family, Wen family, Linghu family and others, even if General Zhengxi is not around, would these people willingly want to have another ruler on their heads?

  Based on this point, it seems reasonable that the local gentry in Shangdang Taiyuan united and reached a tacit agreement to turn a blind eye when the high-ranking army came. Therefore, in order to fight well in the first battle and ensure victory, it became inevitable for high-ranking officials to stay and recuperate after leaving the mountain road to accumulate strength.

  Grand officials are waiting, Jia Qu and Zhang Liao are also waiting, but everyone knows that this state of silence cannot last for a long time.

  Deputy general Yuan Yu came back from patrolling the surrounding area, and surrendered to the senior officials. Yuan Yu's name is Chunqing, and he is also of the same family as Yuan Shao, from the Yuan family in Runan. This time Gao Gan is the main general, and Yuan Yu is the deputy general, and they came here together.

   "Chunqing, can you get something?" Gao Gan pointed to the Hu stool beside him and asked him to sit down.

"Reporting to the envoy," Yuan Yugong cupped his hands, stood up again, and then sat down again under the signal of Gao Gan. Although he is also a member of the Yuan family in Runan, it does not mean that he is more fond of Yuan Shao than Gao Gan. After all, Gao Gan is Yuan Shao's nephew, and he is only of the same clan, "Thirty miles away from the northwest, there is a village. Although it has been abandoned for a long time, it can also be used as a garrison..."

  Because there are Hu people in the Bingbei area, there are Montenegro later, so some villages that were originally close to Taihang Mountain were abandoned, and it is reasonable that they have not been restored so far.

  Yuan Yu described the topography of mountains and rivers around Zhuangzhai, which also gave Gao Gan a general idea.

"Thirty miles to the northwest... um..." Gao Gan is not someone who knows nothing about military affairs, so he naturally knows how to choose a camp, so he inspected the map spread out on the table for a while, and nodded with his finger. After making gestures, he said, "That's fine, we will move the village here tomorrow. By the way, do you have any other news?"

   "News..." Yuan Yu hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "After arriving at the abandoned village, he sent scouts to investigate..."

  Gao Gan nodded and signaled Yuan Yu to continue. After all, investigating the surrounding area should be done with caution.

   "...the scouts reported back. Twenty miles northwest of the village, they seemed to have seen the soldiers of General Zhengxi..." Yuan Yu said.

   "Seems?" Gao Ganyi frowned.

  Yuan Yu clasped his hands and said: "When our soldiers arrived, they had already retreated, but they saw their flags, and they were afraid that they would fall into ambush when they chased them, so they retreated temporarily. A certain place left hundreds of people in the village, waiting for follow-up investigation..."

   "Good." Gao Gan nodded, and then set his eyes on the map, "Twenty miles to the northwest...um..."

At this moment, a few scouts came rushing from outside the camp, and before they got to the camp, they hurriedly jumped down, staggered a few times, and almost fell on their hands, and went straight to the Chinese army, sweating profusely, with a panicked expression on their faces. The official report: "General, General! It's not good! That Zhengxi is here!"

  (end of this chapter)