Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2531 Some people are happy and some people are inexplicable

  The other side.

  After the hustle and bustle, there is always a mess.

   It's like leaving all kinds of messy things after every party, which makes the clean-up person a headache.

After Cao Cao ended the coup, the Prime Minister's Mansion officially became the place for the temporary court meeting. The ministers lined up outside to show their loyalty, and all of them wagged their tails, and the serious Chongde Hall, no one went at all.

  But the so-called "challenge meeting" in the prime minister's mansion is different from the normal court meeting after all, and the number of people participating is not so many. Especially those officials who were vacillating and failed to make any contribution during this turmoil were basically excluded from the court meeting of the prime minister's mansion, and those who could participate were basically the real power figures under Cao Cao's command.

   or some specific groups of people.

  Cao Cao is still only the prime minister of a country. Although he presides over the work, he is still a vice president after all, not a real emperor, so there are relatively few rules in the small court meeting in the prime minister's mansion.

   Just like today's meeting, it was also held temporarily.

  In the lobby of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Cao Cao is located in the center, with many tables and seats on both sides. The distance between them is obviously much smaller than the distance between the monarchs and ministers in the palace hall. In addition, there are some empty seats on both sides. The overall feeling is not very solemn, but more casual and flexible. .

When the ceremony officials outside the hall sang Xiahou Dun's entrance to the hall, Cao Cao stood up directly from his seat and descended to greet him. Without waiting for Xiahou Dun to salute, he pulled Xiahou Dun inside and said with a smile: "Yuan It can be said that he has worked hard to make great contributions to the country, to support the country, and to set the trend for the country, so you don't have to care about these customs. Take your seat quickly, everyone in the hall must be eager to know how the surrounding thieves are going...』

  Xiahou Dun has been staying in the camp outside the city for the past few days, and he hastily arrived at the prime minister's mansion from the camp outside the city after receiving the call.

  Xiahou Dun glanced at his eyebrows and knew why Cao Cao acted like this, so he was not polite, and when he arrived in the hall, he bowed and said in a low voice: "After the minister is ordered, he will send out soldiers and horses from all walks of life to put down the rebellion. Today, He Shiyi, the traitor in Runan, has been awarded the head! Hanoi will never be peaceful again! 』

  Xiahou Dun recounted the general situation again.

In fact, Xiahoudun had asked Cao Cao to report the relevant information to Cao Cao long ago, but now let me repeat that, including Cao Cao, all the surrounding officials still listened very seriously, even Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Zhongyou and others also listened. As if I just found out.

   After all, at present, how to calm down as soon as possible after the chaos is invisible is a test for Cao Cao's regime. Only after passing this test can the Cao Cao regime continue to go on.

  Xiahou Dun was reporting the military situation while looking at the current situation in the festival hall.

  Except for the Cao family, the Xiahou family and the officials and generals who were inherently close to Cao Cao, the first echelons were still Xun Yu and Guo Jia.

  Guo Jia will not talk about it, Cao Cao’s old friend, um, old subordinate...

Although Xun Yu is from Yingchuan, during this turmoil, he kept his own place and did not do anything under strict surveillance. After Cao Cao copied Xunwangwu Fort, he also did not show any dissatisfaction. Coupled with Xun Yu's status over there, naturally he is still the first.

Under Xun Yu and Guo Jia, there is the second echelon. Except for Dong Zhao who rushed back to Xu County to report the relevant situation because of "accidentally attacked and died", Cui Yan, perhaps unexpectedly, was also expected. listed in it.

  Benefited from Cui Yan's previous role as a strong advocate for Cao Cao's promotion to prime minister, and this time Jizhou was relatively stable, without any major disturbances, which was somewhat different from what Cao Cao Xiahou Dun had expected before. I don't know if this is Cui Yan's suppressive management behind, or Chen Qun's scheduling credit in Yecheng, anyway, basically, Cui Yan has been promoted to a position just behind Xun Yu.

  As for Zhong Yao and Cai Mao, they are of course considered to be in the third echelon. To be honest, such a position is a bit embarrassing, neither up nor down.

If Zhong Yao is willing to act earlier, at least he can take two steps forward. Although he confessed to Ren Jun in the Tuntian camp, he has made great achievements in controlling and defending the mutiny in the Tuntian camp. But because of the vague attitude before and Zhong Yao's own attitude towards the emperor, Zhong Yao's position will not be too high.

Similarly, Cai Mao's position is low, not because Cao Cao has any dissatisfaction with Cai Hao. After all, Cao Cao and Cai Hao were old friends back then, but it's just that Jingzhou's strength is not as good as before, and Cai Hao's value has dropped a lot. Cai Mao, who is basically mediocre in political governance and combat and military, is considered a good salary to be in the third echelon.

  Of course, there may not be no intention of stabilizing Jingzhou...

  Further down, there are basically some officials who have kept themselves safe during this chaos, sitting on both sides of the lobby.

When Xiahou Dun reported the general affairs and said that he would return to Yanzhou to continue to prepare for the war, and recommended Ren Jun as the guard of Xu County to replace him in controlling the Beiya Forbidden Army, Cao Cao thought for a while, then Nod in agreement.

Now the possibility of another turmoil around Xu County is very small, and it is true that Xiahou Dun is not needed to sit here. Relatively speaking, Guanzhong has become a place that needs to be focused on at the moment. If it is ordered to ban, I am afraid it will be difficult to isolate, and it will more or less penetrate to the Guanzhong side.

  Although Cao Cao’s internal line in Guanzhong didn’t send any news, both Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun knew that General Hussars organized and assembled troops much faster than Cao Cao and the others...

  If it is said that it took Cao Cao about ten days at the fastest to assemble a large army, then it would only take five days or even less if General Hussar General Fei Qian assembled a cavalry army of the same size.

   This also means that if Fei Qian really launched a military operation, the news may not even reach Xu County, and the front of Fei Qian's front may have already approached!

  So even if there is no news at the moment, you have to be on guard.

  『The family and the country are in this crisis, fortunately, Yuan Rang has such courage and courage, we share the joys and sorrows, guard against the passing of time, and defend the country in peace! Yilu, be rewarded! ”Cao Cao said in a deep voice, “I have ordered Shangshutai to approve the meritorious service. After Yuan Rang arrives in Yanhou, it will be clarified...”

   Really haven't figured it out yet?

Obviously not.

   It's just obvious that if Xiahou Dun was rewarded in Xu County, then there would be no effect of using this opportunity to appease and stimulate the Yanzhou official military academy. After all, hearing and seeing are two different things.

  People are in different positions, and their demands are different.

Perhaps in the eyes of some ministers, the gold, silver, jewels, and fine silk brocades awarded by Xiahou Dun were really nothing, but for ordinary officials and military academies, it was indeed a considerable wealth, and it was inevitable that they would envy and discuss it. What Cao Cao wants is precisely for these people to envy and discuss, and then throw away all the emotions that may have been a little frightening and uneasy before...

  After the military talk, Xiahou Dun withdrew to his seat. Although he said that he would return to Yanzhou, he was not in a hurry for this moment. And obviously, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun not only to listen to Xiahou Dun's military reports that he had known for a long time...

   Like the next one.

  As soon as Xiahou Dun sat down here, an official from the Dali Temple got up and said: "The son of Confucianism violated the etiquette, wrote a lot of random prose, sowed dissension, and caused trouble..."

Almost at the same time, there was another person who belonged to Yushi Zhongcheng's undersecretary, who also came out of the class and said: "I recently investigated the case of Qingzhou, and I was shocked to find that Kong Ziqian was involved in many hidden songs. Please detain Kong Ziqian immediately." , to find out the truth, if Kong is innocent, he can be restored, and it will not be too late to give him a beautiful post. 』

   Hearing voices one after another, Cao Cao smiled.

Cao Cao, if he wants to mess with Kong Qian, he doesn't need to do anything himself. He just needs to show his attitude of loathing Kong Qian a little bit. With Kong Qian's careful thinking, some people want to stand up and kill this evil wind, so that this A so-called descendant of a sage, the descendants of the Kong family know who they are.

  As the saying goes, if you don't coordinate, you will suffer.

  Kong Qian is generally like this.

  Although it is said that Kong Qian did not obtain any high position in the court, he was actually pushed to the front desk and served as the signature thug of the Yingchuan gentry...

   Qingzhou soldier incident.

  A discerning eye will know there is a problem at a glance.

  Is Cao Cao bad or not? For the people of Xuzhou, Cao Cao is an unforgivable villain who commits all crimes and cannot be exonerated by a hundred deaths. However, under the circumstances at that time, Cao Cao was a good man in Cao's army, and he was also a good man in the area of ​​Yanzhou and Yuzhou. Good man, after all, it was Cao Cao who ended the continuous war in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and allowed the surrounding area to regain a peaceful life.

  Everything has two sides.

   Qingzhou soldiers have a problem, everyone knows there is a problem.

  The problem of bullying the common people is not only a problem with the Qingzhou soldiers, but also the clansmen of the Cao Clan and Xiahou Clan, as well as the officials in Yingchuan and Xiangye Haoyou...

  Then why don't we say that the problem of "bullying the people and killing the head of Guizhou" in the officialdom and among the soldiers is the problem of "Qingzhou soldiers"?

  It’s like the world itself has good people who do good things, and bad people who do bad things, even good people who accidentally do bad things, and bad people who occasionally do good things. Individual human beings are inherently contradictory, let alone a collection like Qingzhou soldiers.

   Qingzhou soldiers are all bad guys? Qingzhou soldiers also planted farmland. Over the years, which year has it not provided Zhuanghe for the people of Yingchuan to stabilize grain prices? Are these selectively ignored and forgotten?

   Then, to take a step back, even if the Qingzhou soldiers really did something bad, then if there is a problem, it should be solved, find out what happened, and arrest the murderer, instead of clamoring, not to find out the truth.

In other words, if at the beginning Kong Qian was indeed running for the pity of the people and for the justice of the people, but there were all kinds of inexplicable agitation sounds and strange supports on the way, even with the so-called victimized people. Completely irrelevant people came out to support, judging by the rationality of normal people, something is wrong with this matter and needs to be reconsidered, but Kong Qian still did not have any hesitation, just appeared at the right time In front of the emperor...

  Humans are born with a circle.

People are indeed emotional animals, they will grieve, howl, and even lose their food and throat for the death of their close relatives. However, few people will be unable to eat or sleep well because of the death of their neighbors. Not to mention the grief and indignation for the neighboring villages, nearby counties, or even people thousands of miles away, it is more of a sigh, a moment of indignation, and then do what you should do, that's all.

   Such behavior is not cold-blooded, but an instinct of human beings to protect themselves.

If everyone would mourn and cry because of the life and death illnesses of strangers thousands of miles away, could not be himself, felt sad or angry when he heard or saw it, and could neither give birth nor live, then human beings would have long ago perished.

Therefore, with the development of the Internet world in later generations, there may still be some people who say that they support and run around for injustice from hundreds of miles away, but they are also very rare. It is to forward it on the Internet, make complaints about it, really need someone to donate money, materials, money and effort...

  So at the moment when the information transmission is very slow in the big man, for no reason, many "sad and angry" people appeared on the way, expressing their "support" for Kong Qian to "struggle", isn't it strange?

  At the same time, who was Kong Qian before? Are you concerned about the suffering of the people?

   Not really, look at Kong Qian’s previous circle of friends... er, it’s the trajectory of his actions, you can know that Kong Qian used to attend celebrity banquets, high-end places, and his contacts were never white. Such a person suddenly said that he cared about the suffering of the people. He said that it was impossible to be too absolute, but the possibility was relatively small.

  So it was very clear what Kong Qian came for.

   Today's meeting, Kong Qian also attended, and the location is not too remote.

  After hearing the impeachment of several people in succession, Kong Qian's eyes showed a little fear and a bit of resentment.

  Kong is a descendant of a saint!

  Before Kong Rong was in Xu County, but Xun Yu and others drove him out of Xu County like a refugee, without even a word of apology. This is naturally a great shame for the Kong family who claim to be descendants of saints!

  Kong Rong escaped and fled, and finally returned to his hometown with a serious illness. Everyone in the Kong family hated this incident!

   Little did they know that Xun Yu had shown mercy at that time, otherwise, wouldn't it be easier to treat Kong Rong like Xu You?

  Later, Kong Qian understood that the current situation, although Cao Cao controlled Jizhou, Yuzhou and other places, seemed huge, but in fact, Guan Zhong was booming and in power. As for the emperor Liu Xie, he doesn't have much authority at all.

  So Kong Qian originally wanted to go to Guanzhong. If he could rely on his own name, he could become a high-ranking official, and when the Hushi General returned to Shandong, wouldn't he be able to avenge his shame?

  So Kong Qian naturally used his name to eat and drink all the way west.

   Although Kong Qian is not unfamiliar with the situation in Guanzhong, the old order is being broken and the new order is still being formed, so there is a lot of room for maneuver.

  Kong Qian and Xi Ji can meet each other, in fact, it is Kong Qian's intention to do so.

Xiji came from Guanzhong, and Kong Qian also wanted to learn about the situation in Guanzhong through Xiji. After all, he had never been to Guanzhong before, and his reputation was not as high as Kong Rong. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to die on the spot in obscurity? Wouldn't it be more beautiful if he could get recommended by Xi Xi, or if he could meet Zheng Xuan through Xi Xi, then it would be better if he could get recommended by Zheng Xuan?

  So Kong Qian has the BUFF identity bonus of the descendants of Kong, and his identity is somewhat similar to Xi Ji, and at the same time, they have a common topic.

In addition to Xi Ji, Kong Qian also paid attention to and contacted people from Yingchuan who were depressed by Cao Cao, as well as some local nobles in Jizhou and Yanzhou who were dissatisfied with Cao Cao's arrangement. With these people, Kong Qian's small circle was initially formed.

  The reason why Qingzhou soldiers were used as a breakthrough point, Kong Qian and others also made a careful balance.

First of all, it is naturally because Cao Cao is too powerful and has mastered most of the military power in the entire Shandong court. It is also very good to plant a thorn between Cao Cao and Qingzhou soldiers.

  Secondly, the contradiction between the Son of Heaven and Cao Cao is not a secret that no one knows, and the two even have open conflicts above the court. Then the emperor is naturally happy when Cao Cao is involved. If he can directly trip Cao Cao, wouldn't he immediately become a hero? Although this possibility is very small, but what if? One cannot live without dreams, right?

   Again, the reason why Kong Qian is not as famous as Kong Rong is that no one helps to promote it? With advertisements and publicity, even **** can be turned into a high-quality product! And pleading for the lives of the common people in the world, complaining for the suffering people, isn't it the best advertisement, the best reputation?

  So, under the overlapping interests of several aspects, there was a series of previous actions.

  Kong Qian deliberately bypassed Cao Cao, even left the place where the incident happened, and went to Xu County on purpose, and went to the emperor, and sued the imperial court in front of civil and military officials and ordinary people!

  In Kong Qian’s view, this is naturally a great plan, a plan that can make him proud…

If Cao Cao got angry and refused to investigate on the spot, then Kong Qian's mission would be completed, because Kong Qian had successfully established his "innocent reputation" for complaining to the people. Walking away with one sleeve, expressing contempt and disappointment for Cao Cao, is considered a perfect exit.

   But Cao Cao didn't get angry!

   It was completely beyond Kong Qian's expectation!

   Moreover, Cao Cao didn’t even have the slightest evasion words. The emperor said to investigate, Cao Cao said to investigate, said to investigate where, Cao Cao nodded and agreed to investigate there...

   It made many things that Kong Qian had prepared unusable!

  Even Cao Cao said that Kong Qian did a good job, he did a good job of avenging the people, don’t rush to leave, you can be a witness, it can be regarded as a beginning and an end, and you don’t forget your heart.

   So Kong Qian naturally had a hard time leaving.

  At that time, Kong Qian felt that there might be trouble, but now the trouble is really in front of him!

  (end of this chapter)