The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

The next day, Tao Qian opened the city gate of Tan County and offered the city to surrender.

Xun Zhen ordered Chen Deng to be temporarily responsible for appeasing the people in the city, Xun Cheng and Xu Zhong to be responsible for the temporary placement of the soldiers and the defense of the city, and Zhao Yun to temporarily take charge of the security of the city. The "welcome" of the Chinese military officials in the city entered the city.

The reason why the officials in the city went out of the city to "receive" instead of Tao Qian going out of the city to "receive" is because Tao Qian was a governor of a prefecture. It was Xun Zhen's previous superior, who had been defeated by Xun Zhen and was forced to surrender. Therefore, he did not go out of the city because of his illness, but let the officials greet him on his behalf, and let his two sons represent him, and presented the seal ribbon of the prefect of Xuzhou to Xun Zhen.

Having obtained the seal of Xuzhou's prefect, after entering the city, Xun Zhen was already the "master". Although Tao Qian was ill, after deciding to surrender, he moved out of the prefecture last night and lived in a guest house. So Xun Zhen went directly to the prefecture after entering the city.

When they arrived at the prefecture and entered the lobby, the officials in the city, led by Zhao Yu and Wang Lang, all descended to the hall.

Xun Zhen asked everyone to get up and take their seats. Without saying anything else, the first thing was to ask: "Where is Cao Hong?"

Zhao Yu said: "Cao Hong and everyone are with Tao Gong, and now they are outside the residence."

Cao Hong knew that Xunzhen would be executed after entering the city, so he begged Tao Qian to save his life. After all, he was Tao Qian's henchman, and Tao Qian couldn't bear to see him die, so he took him along with Cao Bao and others, hoping to protect him. One life.

Since Tao Qian surrendered, according to Xun Zhen's original intention, he didn't want to embarrass him any more, so although he knew that his illness was just an excuse, after entering the city, he did not ask him to come to see him, and sent the army doctor Fan A et al. He was diagnosed and treated, but Cao Hong had to be punished.

One of the banners Xun Zhen used to attack Tao Qian was because there was a villain like Cao Hong in the prefecture. Therefore, if the Tanxian County was taken down today, if Cao Hong's crime was not cured, it would appear that he was an anticlimactic person, with heavy thunder and little rain. It is well known to everyone with a discerning eye that the banners Xun Zhen played were just excuses. His real purpose was to fight for Xuzhou.

Xun Zhen said: "Cao Hong's faults in Xuzhou are partly due to Cao Hong. Tao Gong has a good relationship with his old friend, but I must not understand the punishment. ... Please don't go to the guest house, count Cao Hong's crimes, and be executed in the city."

Zhao Yu hated Cao Hong for a long time. Hearing this, he got up and replied, "No!"

Xun Zhen said to Wang Lang again: "The reason why I promote righteous soldiers is because of Cao Hong's abuse of the people, and the second because of Cao Hong's chaos in government. I used to be in Xiapi, and Cao Rong gave the head, and now I enter Tan County, and I will behead Cao Hong again, except for the other two. Evil, my desire to raise an army has been fulfilled. Yuzhou government officials, county officials, and those who have made small mistakes in the past should change and follow the good. I will not blame the past. The person who wears the tiger's crown is like saying goodbye to himself within three days, returning the seal and sash, and putting it back home; if he does not say goodbye, he and Cao Zhijian are in front! What's wrong. Let's start now. I should follow the good government of Tao Gong in the past. If it is bad, I should change it. All the scholars and people who have suggestions on the state's government affairs should write to the state government. I would like to send officials to post notices outside the gate of the house, in the city, in the city, etc., and prepare an official document to go down to the counties and counties of the prefecture to state my intentions and let the people of the prefecture know.”

These remarks were regarded as a political declaration made by Xun Zhen after he entered Xuzhou.

In these words, Xun Zhen mainly elaborated two meanings.

First of all, Zhe Rong and Cao Hong abused the people and chaotic government was the reason why Xun Zhen raised the army this time. Killing these two people is to get rid of the first evil. Yes, Xun Zhen will not punish them for their sins, and even if the people have great grievances, as long as he resigns within three days, Xun Zhen will not pursue their crimes. This one is to reassure officials and stabilize the political situation as soon as possible.

Secondly, open up your opinions. Anyone who has an opinion on the state government can submit a letter to the state government. Xun Zhen will read it carefully and choose the feasible ones to implement. Keep it, if it is not good, if it is criticized by the state sergeants and the people or has bad consequences of disturbing or disabled people, Xun Zhen will change it. This one is a political move.

Wang Lang knew in his heart that although Xun Zhen only said a few simple words, the weight of these few words was very heavy. It is understood as Xun Zhen's general political policy in Xuzhou in the future. He got up in a hurry and replied solemnly: "Yes. General, please rest assured, Lang will handle this matter himself."

Although Tao Qian asked his two sons to present the seals of the prefects of Xuzhou, there was no imperial edict to appoint Xun Zhen to be in charge of Xuzhou. Therefore, although Wang Lang treated Xun Zhen as a chief official, he did not call him "Zhou". Bo", but still called "General".

Zhao Yu and Wang Lang went to do the two things that Xun Zhen explained.

Xun Zhen looked around at the remaining city officials in the hall, relaxed her expression, and said with a smile, "Many of the monarchs here, celebrities from many states, or local officials, many of whom I have heard of for a long time, just because of my previous location. Because of the remoteness, I have never been able to meet each other. I have been famous for a long time, and I finally met today. I should have a chat with you!... Come on, bring soup to you.... Yuanlong, come and give it to me introduce."

At the moment, Chen Deng introduced the officials in the city to Xun Zhen, and then introduced Xi Zhicai and others to these officials.

At this time, the officials in the hall were all those who had followed Zhao Yu and Wang Lang to welcome Xun Zhen into the city before, including officials from the prefecture government and officials from Tan County.

There were many officials in the city who followed Zhao Yu and Wang Lang to welcome Xunzhen before, but many of them were low-level officials, and their rank was not high enough to qualify for the hall. Those who are currently in the hall are all officials above "Zhu Cao Zong" in the prefecture and above "Cao Ye" in Tanxian county temples.

At that time, when Zhao Yu, Wang Lang and the others welcomed Xunzhen into the city~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Xunzhen noticed that although there were a lot of them, there were not many officials with high rank. Now, after listening to Chen Deng's introduction, sure enough It was found that many important state officials and Tan county officials were absent.

Xun Zhen didn't ask, knowing that those officials who were not there must be Tao Qian's henchmen, either his villagers or his old officials, knowing that even if Xun Zhen didn't pursue their past crimes, they would not be able to do so in the future. They used them again, so they simply followed Tao Qian and didn’t come to greet Xun Zhen—probably because of this, so Zhao Yu and Wang Lang brought a lot of low-rank officials when they greeted Xun Zhen. Going out of the city, after all, if there are too few officials in the city to greet Xun Zhen, it will look very ugly.

Xun Zhen had a amiable attitude and chatted and laughed with the officials, but the officials had different expressions.

For no other reason, just because of the few words Xun Zhenshi said to Wang Lang, many of them couldn't help but murmured in their hearts.

Tao Qian governs the prefecture, is close to the small but far away gentlemen, such as Cao Hong’s disciples, greedy for ink and accepting bribes, greedy for bribes, and effective in the upper and lower. Although these officials present here are not Tao Qian’s cronies, but they have also committed some kind of favoritism and fraud. Unlawful things.

What kind of character is Xun Zhen? I could see their uneasiness from the expressions of these officials, but they pretended not to know, it was just a joke.