The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Xun Zhen said: "Du and Fan are not far away and come to join me, if you kill them, King Chen's lesson is not far away; although Yi and Xiang were once thieves, but they have already surrendered, they have already surrendered, and Xiang Yu's lesson is not far away. Fans are all my old friends, living together in the same county, Yi and Xiang surrendered themselves to me, and used their lives in battle, no disrespect, so why would you bear to kill them?"

Xun You and Xun Cheng both read poetry and books, and knew that what Xun Zhen was talking about was "King Chen" and Chen Sheng. No relatives Chen Wangzhe", he has no trusted people around him anymore. "Xiang Yu's lesson is not far away" refers to Xiang Yu's murder and surrender. One of the ten sins of Xiang Yu listed by Liu Bang is "killing has surrendered".

"Brother, if you don't kill them, then when they are bought by Zhao Ran, I'm afraid you will regret it too late."

Xun Zhen said, "Right now, I'm just guessing. I treat Du Mai very well. Even if Zhao Ran bribes them, it's still between the two. Zhongren, don't kill people because of speculation!"

Xun Cheng disagreed, turned to Xun You, and said, "Gongda, what do you think?"

Xun You said: "What the lord and lord said is very true. Now if you kill Yi and Xiang for no reason, you will be shocked when you surrender. Junhou Yi has surrendered a lot of soldiers. If someone stirs up chaos, it is unthinkable; All my fellows, but I am in the same county as you and me. The villagers must know about the affairs of the lords and lords. Now, if you kill them because of speculation, not to mention what the people of Junqing and A-Deng will think, the villagers hear it. Of course, you must be far away from the monarch.”

Xun Cheng said, "Then what do you think we should do? 'The crime of first concealing the death penalty' and being seized in private are all serious crimes. If Zhao Ran found out, it would be 'unthinkable'."

Kill, can't kill. If you stay, there is a possibility of being bought by Zhao Ran.

Between the two dilemmas, how to choose?

Xun You said, "It's definitely not okay to kill people without a reason. The only way to do it right now is to send people to spy on them."

"Is it just monitoring?"

"If they were bought by Zhao Ran..."

Xun Cheng asked, "How?"

Xun You didn't answer, but looked at Xun Zhen.

Xun Zhen sighed and said, "I treat people with sincerity, I just hope that Du Mai, He Yi and others will not blame me."

If you lose Xun Zhen, there is nothing you can do, then you can only kill it according to what Xun Cheng said.

Xun You said: "This is a secret matter and should not be known to outsiders. Zhongren, you can choose a few cronies from the clan and relatives in the camp, and ask them to spy on Du Mai and others."

When Xun Zhen raised troops to attack the Yellow Turbans in Yingchuan earlier, the Xun clan, the Liu clan in Yingyin County, the Xin Ai clan, and several other in-laws sent some young and brave children and disciples to Xun. Zhen, help him to gain momentum, these children and disciples have made great contributions in the past battles, and now most of them hold middle and lower military positions in Yi Cong. Xun Cheng and Xin Ai are their leaders.

Xun Cheng has a lot of relatives and children who can be used by him. It is not difficult to choose a few who are calm, careful, alert and smart. He replied: "This is easy." Yingchuan old story, does this person know where he is now?"

Xun Zhen frowned and said, "Fan Tan contracted typhoid fever last year, and Fan Shang ignored him. After I expelled him from the residence, I didn't pay attention to him, nor did I hear from him again."

Xun You said: "Not long after he was expelled by Duke Ming, I heard someone talk about him once, saying that he had seen him in the Handan market. People have talked about him, maybe he is already dead. If he hadn't died, he would have been expelled by Duke Ming and had no face in Zhao County, like a rat crossing the street. ."

Xun Zhen nodded and said, "Zhongren, you send someone to Zhao County to inquire quietly. If he is not dead, then send someone to Yingchuan to visit him."

Xun Zhen had a lot of old acquaintances in Yingchuan, but not many of them knew about his private affairs. Those who knew his private affairs and might be bought by Zhao Ran were just three people: Du Mai, Fan Tan, and Fan Shang. Among the three, Fan Shang was the most likely to be bought because of his resentment towards Xun Zhen. The fact that Fan Shang was expelled by Xun Zhen is widely known, and Zhao Ran should also be able to see that this person is the easiest to bribe, and may send someone to Yingchuan to find him, so even if he is not in Zhao County, as long as he is sure that he is not dead, then even if he returns. If Yingchuan wants to find him, Zhao Ran must not take the lead.

Xun Cheng agreed to the promise and said to Xun Zhen, "Brother, Zhao Ran is really abominable and abominable, so this matter can't be left alone. Since he can bribe Cheng Jia and others, why don't Brother bribe his people too?"

"..., Cheng Jia is the one I sent to buy off the Zhao family."

Xun Cheng was stunned: "Cheng Jia was sent by his brother to bribe someone from the Zhao family, but met the Zhao family to bribe him instead?"

"Yes."

"The Zhao family really knows how to choose people."

Although this is a funny thing, the shadow of "Du Mai and others may be bought by the Zhao family" has not been alleviated in the slightest.

Xun Zhen rented a house for Du Mai and Fan Tan. The two of them now live in Ye County, so they can be monitored. He Yi and Li Xiang, one in the north of the county, followed Wenpin to suppress the thieves, and the other was a guard in Fanyang, but they were not good at monitoring. Xun Cheng asked Xunzhen two military orders, namely "learning military" and "learning civil affairs". For this reason, two reliable people were selected from the clan and relatives and children. They were assigned to go to Junbei and Fanyang to monitor He Yi and Li Xiang. In order not to cause others to be surprised, they also chose a few others. The children who can be brought up are distributed to Neihuang, Wu'an, Liangqi and other counties. Of course, the children who go to these counties are not tasked with monitoring, but are studying civil affairs and military affairs.

Whether it is the acquirer or the acquisition, there is no short-term visible effect. The Zhao family is powerful, and Xun Zhen is under the control of kindness and righteousness. Whether it is the Zhao family or the people under Xun Zhen, it is not so easy for them to betray their own masters and change camps. It takes patience. However, although it was not easy to buy, the people Xun Cheng sent out soon found out.

First, it was Du Mai and Fan Tan. Once they were drinking in a liquor store in the city. One person took the initiative to pay for them and borrowed it to answer their questions. Later, the surveillance people saw this person appear beside Du Mai and Du Mai many times. , generous, warm words. After inquiries, this person was a guest of the Zhao family.

Immediately afterwards, news came from Fanyang, saying that a businessman came to see Li Xiang and presented a lot of treasures to Li Xiang. This businessman claimed to be a foreigner and came to Wei County to do business. Now the world is in trouble, so I hope I can take care of Li Xiang.

Li Xiang did not accept his treasures the first time, nor did he accept it the second time, but the third time, the merchant did not present any more treasures, but presented a jar of Zhongshan Winter Brewing. The general wine is "brewed in winter and made in spring", but Zhongshan winter wine is "made in summer". Because of its long brewing, clear color and thick taste, it is a famous wine in the world. Li Xiang is good at wine, this time he did not refuse, but accepted.

Because of this, this merchant often went to Li Xiang's door, and brought good wine to Li Xiang in exchange for the law, and even Yicheng mash and Cangwu bamboo leaves from Jingzhou and Jiaozhi were among them, and they presented him continuously.

After inquiries, this businessman has just arrived in Fanyang. Although he speaks with a foreign accent, he seems to have no flaws, but his buying and selling are not very good, and what he can get in one month is not enough to buy a few jars of Zhongshan winter wine. ——Ordinary wine is worth a bucket of money, but a fine wine like Zhongshan Dongzhuang, even if it is ordinary, costs a thousand dollars, and a better wine can even be ten thousand dollars. It seems very suspicious to curry favor with Li Hu at all costs. The person monitoring judged that this person was most likely sent by Zhao Ran.

There was movement in Du Mai and Li Xiang, but there was no movement in He Yi.

Xun You analyzed: This should be because He Yi was in the army, and Zhao Ran was not able to arrange for someone to approach him, so he did not send anyone to try to buy him.

On Cheng Jia's side, Li Hu would not respond to any request he made.

Li Hu personally sent the beauty and 100,000 yuan to his house, and then transferred it to two shops. He also showed him a letter from Zhao Ran to Prime Minister Zhao asking for Xiaolian from Zhao County next year, but he never received it. When it came to "inquiring about Xun Zhen's fault", Cheng Jia said to Xun Zhen: This is probably because Li Hu and Zhao Ran felt that the heat was not enough.

Zhao Ran and Li Hu were busy buying Cheng Jia, Du Mai, and Li Xiang. While Cheng Jia was working with Li Huxu and Wei She, he secretly stepped up the pace of buying the Zhao family.

In the past month or two, the poison has subsided, the county officials dare not disrespect Xun Zhen, and Xun Zhen is busy with the autumn harvest and other political affairs, and has also "ignored and ignored" the Zhao family. Beneath this seemingly calm surface, a dark tide is surging. Compared with the tit-for-tat confrontation on the bright side, this dark tide is truly deadly. Once the darkness turns to light, only one of Xun Zhen and the Zhao family will survive.

At the end of September, the Mid-Autumn Festival harvest and tax collection were completed in the county.

When the autumn harvest and taxation were over, Cao Nongyu, Cao Hu, Cao Jin, and Cao of the thief who were stolen could breathe a sigh of relief. When the book was presented, the Cao of Shenpei and Junji began to get busy.

The county clerk should compile a book of the counties of each county, and then send it to the county cadres in charge of official affairs, civilian households, fields, grain and cloth, prisons, mail, etc. in the county, and then they will review And send someone down to check.

The contents of the bookkeeping are all-encompassing, not only the income of households, fields, and money and grain, but also the distance between the east and west of the county and the north and south, the area of ​​the county, the list of all officials in the county, from the county officials to the pavilion and the li, The situation of domestic salt and iron officials, the number of acres of crops planted in the spring and summer of last year, how much is left in storage, the prison sentence for the whole year of last year, and all the specific circumstances such as the occurrence and the case solved and concluded, and the post office in the county, including The number of the three elders, Xiaoti, Litian, etc. in the county and township, the number of refugees in the county, the area of ​​​​the township in the county, and even the number of disabled people in the county, and the number of households contacted by the county magistrate Changxing in spring. And the food used for "rejuvenating and saving the exhausted" ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, such as the clan in the county, but also to report the clan's name, etc., all-inclusive.

It can be said that after reading the accounting books of a county, you will know all aspects of the county's situation like the back of your hand.

The accounting book has a main book and appendices. The main book mainly contains various figures, and the appendix is ​​the specific directory and detailed content.

A single county’s bookkeeping book is very heavy, and it can almost fill a box. There are fifteen counties in Wei County. It would take a lot of work to memorize all the conditions of these counties. The trial match will have to leave for Luoyang in the capital at the end of next month at the latest. He can't wait until Luoyang to understand and memorize it, so he has to watch these things together with the county governor.

Xun Zhen understands his hard work, and from time to time asks people to send him some ginseng soup to nourish his body.

It's September, and the sky is getting colder. In October, it's time to change out of summer clothes and put on autumn clothes.

In October, there was another barbarian rebellion in Wuling in Jingzhou, followed by another big incident in the DPRK.

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1. Zhongshan Winter Brewing.

The "Natural History" written by Zhang Hua of the Jin Dynasty recorded a story: "Liu Yuanshi drank wine at the Zhongshan restaurant, and the restaurant drank it with a thousand days of wine, forgetting to say its discipline. When he returned home, he was very drunk and did not wake up for a few days. But the family didn't know it, and thought it was dead, so they buried him in a coffin. The restaurant planned to be full for a thousand days, so he remembered that Yuanshi came to drink wine, and he was sober when he was drunk. Looking at him, (Liu Yuanshi's family) said: ' Yuanshi died. Three years later, it has been buried.' So the coffin was opened, and the drunk began to wake up."

This is of course just a story, but it also shows the reputation of Zhongshan Dongjiu wine in the Han and Wei and Jin Dynasties.