Chapter 147 Pleading for Zhang Zhao
King Chen Liu Chong heard that the Beihai prefect Kong Rong and the thief-stricken lieutenant Wei Xuan came together to visit. When the two sat in the flower hall, Kong Rong told the whole story about the cause and effect. Liu Chong also stood up and saluted Wei Xuan and said, "Zhong Dao Zhennao."
Kong Beihai is also a hero of the world. How lucky is it to be that I am a great man to have two such ministers. Unfortunately, thieves are rampant in this world now..."
Wei Xuan naturally wanted to be polite, but after he was polite, he did not forget to tell the weapons-loving King Chen. He heard that Wei Xuan's food problem was temporarily solved with the help of his uncle Pei Ye, but the weapons were
In the face of suffering from no way out, King Chen waved his hand and smiled: "Zhongdao, the more than 200 warriors who follow you still have to go to Beihai, of course, we cannot do without armor. I will give you a match. As for weapons, I only have bows here
It’s better to bring four hundred crossbows with you.”
Wei Xuan was a little surprised when he heard this. The King Chen in front of him seemed to be a rich man. A few sets of two hundred armors were nearly two million, plus four hundred crossbows, and this move was four or five million, which was converted into food.
It’s almost ten thousand stones! Especially the rumors are that Chen Wang’s collection of crossbows are all fine products, so he quickly stood up to express his gratitude!
King Chen Liu Chong waved his hand and smiled, "If I could be as recommended by the court, I would definitely let Zhongdao lead your troops into Qingzhou. Although the Yellow Turbans are numerous, they cannot withstand the attack. Besides, they are not the same leader. According to Zhongdao, you are in Hedong and Xingyang.
I think my record is only 20,000 to 30,000 elites, and as many as half a year, as few as three months, I am afraid that Qingzhou will be evaluated in three months. Unfortunately, I can’t speak, and those like Kong Beihai have been excluded from Beihai."
Wei Xuan shook his head quickly: "King Chen praised it. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou are different from the Baibo Army in Hedong. They have occupied counties for a long time and have learned to use the city wall to defend and use the people to help defend the city. Today, the only Han Han can easily wipe out the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou.
Gong and Liangzhou Dong Zhongying and Xuan are far from that."
"It is not because Zhongdao that the Yellow Turbans of Hedong can be quickly pacified because Zhongdao you have rectified the county and the Wei family and other major families to provide food and disaster relief and Taiping Road to compete for the people's hearts, so that they will not be swept by them when they have sex. Later, Zhongdao you use your troops as a god, they
He had to surrender to the court." Liu Chong said as he spoke, he couldn't continue and knew that he had said it in vain that he, the vassal king, not only had no right to interfere in the government affairs, but also could not leave the country without authorization. At that time, Bocai, in Yuzhou, was the first to be in charge of Bocai.
After the people were so fussed, Chen State did not dare to go because King Chen liked bows and crossbows, and the Yellow Turban bandits were afraid that the vassal king would arm the people of the city in anger, so Chen State was relatively peaceful.
With the generous King Chen's participation, Chen Guojin Luo Jun had no choice but to send someone to Yangdi as a reward for rescuing Kong Beihai in the territory. If Kong Rong had not appeared and said that, Luo Jun would not believe in Chen's territory.
Thieves have become so rampant that they are blocking the road and robbing the 2,000-stone prefect. It seems that it is necessary for the imperial court to set up a siege to fight against the thief, especially in preventing the resurgence of the Yellow Turban Army. There are young sieges who are good at fighting and knowing the soldiers in the territory.
The pile of many people with thieves is also a great shock.
Wei Xuan was naturally happy when he got the benefits of Chen State. Kong Rong also envied Wei Xuan for a captain who did not need a maid to guard the place but could raise food and weapons all the way. The next Prime Minister Liang was also just taking office, and he was an old acquaintance of Wei Xuan.
Wang Meng, the Hedong County Magistrate! Wang Meng was promoted from the county magistrate to the prime minister of Liang with his outstanding performance before and after the troubled trouble and the strong recommendation of the Wei family and Pei family of Hedong. Although Liang State is small, less than one-third of Hedong, he is at least good.
The rank of the country is two thousand stones. If it was a peaceful era, it would be possible to endorse the Wei family for a few years, and seek a big county or even go to Beijing to become a three-month and nine ministers.
Therefore, Wang Meng has a profound impression of the Wei family. When he heard that Chen State gave out 5,000 stones of grain, Wang Meng proposed to give out 5,000 grain without saying a word, and to get penguins to pay 2 million. This kind of use of public wealth for personal affection There is nothing wrong with it, not to mention that Wei Xuan recruited soldiers under the banner of the emperor, and as long as the officials under the scope of Liang State's endorsement, there is nothing to say.
Because he was worried that Kong Rong would be delayed on the road for too long, Wei Xuan decided to pass by the north of Pei State for the time being and not go to the Pei State Governor Huang Wan and Pei Xiang to meet with the governors of Yuzhou, and then come back from Beihai and slowly suck here.
After passing Pei State, he entered the Xuzhou border. The first stop was Pengcheng State. As the Grand Tutor, Wei Su served as the prime minister of Pengcheng State before being promoted to the governor of Yuzhou. Therefore, many officials in Pengcheng State remember Wei Su. OK. So when Wei Xuan led the cavalry into Pengcheng, he felt that the treatment of Liang State was similar to that in Yingchuan and Yingchuan. Many people came to greet him enthusiastically, which allowed the famous scholars to see the energy of the Wei family.
When the local wealthy families in Pengcheng heard that Wei Su's son came, they also went out one after another. In addition, the Beihai prefect Kong Rong was accompanied by the local celebrities and wealthy families.
Wei Xuan and Kong Rong only agreed to other people's banquets in the evening when they were staying in the local area, and still followed the itinerary during the day. Although this would disappoint some people, they could not take it out.
On this day, the Prime Minister of Pengcheng held a banquet to entertain Kong Rong, Wei Xuan and others. During the meal, Xue Li sighed and complained. Kong Rong asked him about it. Xue Li told him what Tao Qian did after he arrived in Xuzhou.
It turned out that Tao Qian was also a strong-willed person and had ambitions. When he was in danger, he took the order and used the reputation of suppressing the Yellow Turbans to exploit the people of Xuzhou, which aroused dissatisfaction among local wealthy families and famous scholars. Now, the five counties and states in Xuzhou, Pengcheng and Guangling are not convinced by Tao Qian. Langya was occupied by Zang Ba, a native of Mount Tai. In addition to using his neighbors to drive the Yellow Turbans to Qingzhou and Xuzhou, Tao Qian was planning to use force against Pengcheng. Such an ambitious governor naturally attracted even more dissatisfaction among the local wealthy and scholars.
Xue Li, the prime minister of Pengcheng, was even more sad, so in addition to complaining about Tao Qian, he also criticized Tao Qian's imperfection. Wei Xuan was not interested in such a half-sized ambitious man, but he was very interested in one of the things. care.
It turned out that after Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he kept recruiting soldiers to satisfy his inflated ambitions and recruiting famous scholars in the country. This was originally a normal move. He originally recruited famous scholars in the country for his own use, and no matter who was in power, he could not do without the assistance of famous scholars at that time.
However, in this era, there were also famous scholars who chose their masters or avoided them. Some were to gain fame, while others had different political views from the officials. This is normal.
However, after Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he recruited Zhang Zhao, a native of Pengcheng several times. Zhang Zhao refused to accept it. Tao Qian was furious with his temper. He was dissatisfied with Pengcheng's prime minister Xue Li, so he actually refused to respond to Zhang Zhao. Stopped to prison!
In the eyes of Xue Li and Kong Rong, Zhang Zhao was just an ordinary famous scholar, but in Wei Xuan's opinion, this was an internal affairs expert who could compete with Xun Yu and Zhuge Liang!
So when Wei Xuan heard that Zhang Zhao was imprisoned by Tao Qian, he had no intention of sitting down. On the spot, he begged Xue Li, the prime minister of Pengcheng, and the county officials to jointly protect Zhang Zhao. Xue Li said that he had written a letter to Tao Qian before, and Now that Fang Bo has any opinions about Pengcheng, he will definitely not listen to the opinions of the locals in Pengcheng, and will instead anger Tao Qian. Seeing that Xue Lihe's attitude as an official is very negative, Wei Xuan also knew that he could not count on these people.
When the banquet ended, Wei Xuan immediately told Kong Rong that he hoped he could come forward to help and ask Tao Qian to release Zhang Zhao. After all, Kong Rong is a famous scholar in the country, and Tao Qian needs to give him some face.
Kong Rong was worried that he would not have the chance to thank Wei Xuan. Seeing that Wei Xuan was so cautious about other people's affairs, he agreed. The two left Pengcheng the next day and went to the East China Sea in two days. Xuzhou famous officials Zhao Yu, Wang Lang and Kong Rongyou
When Kong Rong heard that he came to pay a visit, he was of course very grateful to Wei Xuan. Kong Rong took the opportunity to ask the two of them to plead with each other, hoping that Tao Qian could release Zhang Zhao.
Zhao Yu and Wang Lang were both upright people. Wei Xuan did not ask for help because of personal matters, so he naturally agreed. So he visited Tao Qian together and told Wei Xuan's request in public.
In particular, Kong Rong praised Wei Xuan for his heroes who were few in the sky and had no humans.
Tao Qian was unwilling to do so, but Kong Rong was too famous. Now there are very few people in the country who can surpass Kong Rong's reputation. Tao Qian also sighed that he was not as good as him. In addition, Zhao Yu and Wang Lang, two people in Xuzhou, made suggestions together, and there were also
If a Wei family doesn't agree, they will have to face the heroic and righteous Wei Xuan. Whatever you think is not worth it, Tao Qian agreed after thinking about it.
Originally, Tao Qian put Zhang Zhao in prison and was in a hurry. He couldn't stand someone being more proud than him. Zhang Zhao was still from Pengcheng. Now so many people pleaded for him, Tao Qian was so arrogant that he agreed to let Zhang Zhao go the next day.
come out.
Although Zhang Zhao was arrogant, he was naturally grateful to the person who helped him plead for mercy. So he visited Zhao Yu and Wang Lang one after another, but learned from them that they were former prime minister of Pengcheng, Wei Xuan, the second son of the Grand Secretary Wei Su, made a match with him, so he
Thinking of thanking Wei Xuan in person, he heard that Wei Xuan had escorted Kong Rong to Beihai. Zhang Zhao was very surprised. First, Wei Xuan knew that the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou were fierce but traveled thousands of miles to send Kong Rong to Beihai. He was also surprised.
Just because Xue Li, the prime minister of Pengcheng, accidentally revealed that he was imprisoned, but begged Kong Rong and others to say good things to him in front of Tao Qian. Zhang Zhao asked himself that he was not familiar with Wei Xuan, even if Wei Su was the prime minister in Pengcheng back then.
At that time, he was just a young man with a young age. He was a child of a noble family and received the favor of Wei Su only after only a limited number of years. But he never thought that he would receive the favor of the Wei family again after more than ten years. What made Wang Zhao even more uneasy was that Wei Xuan didn't even have a face.
Seeing this, he was anxious to take Kong Rong to take office.
Thinking that Wei Xuan was so righteous as a descendant of a famous family, he also knew that a newcomer like Wei Xuan would not care about his white reward, and Zhang Zhao could only temporarily remember this kindness in his heart.
In fact, Wei Xuan is not a living Lei Feng who does good deeds without leaving a name. It’s just that he and Kong Rong agreed that the four cores will not be stopped for a long time in Xuzhou. After all, one is the prefect of Beihai and the other is the captain who recruits soldiers in Yuzhou. He is misunderstood and feared.
It’s not good that the Yellow Turbans are afraid to go forward. If you really have to wait for Zhang Zhao’s repaid, you can wait until Kong Rong is sent to Beihai and then go back to talk to Xue Li. Because Pengcheng produces iron, his new army needs a lot of equipment.
I happened to buy some from Pengcheng and go back.
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