Three Kingdoms

Among Sichuan and Sichuan.

Various strange incidents that occurred during road construction were immediately reported to Sichuan.

If there is a problem, of course it must be solved.

Solve the problem itself, not the person who asked it.

As Xu Shu is an important decision-maker for backup support, he naturally has to solve problems for Xu Huang on the front line, even if it is a new problem that Xu Shu has never encountered before.

Xu Shu came to Ma Heng.

A branch of the Sichuan-Sichuan Youwen Department, the person in charge is Ma Heng.

Ma Heng has been traveling around in the past few years. He was first in Hanzhong, and later in Longyou. After returning to Chang'an to report on his duties, he was sent to Sichuan and Sichuan to establish a branch of the Youwen Division in central Sichuan.

Because the Youwen Department has both bright and dark lines, it is easy to say on the surface that it is just some clerical work, delivering documents and collecting files, so it is easy to recruit and arrange. Xu Shu assigned some clerical staff to Ma Heng, and Ma Heng found them himself. Some people also built it.

But covert personnel are generally not easy to find.

Ma Heng has been busy with this matter for a while.

"Greetings to the envoy..." Ma Heng bowed his hands to Xu Shu and said, "Heng is late, but I hope the envoy will forgive me." 』

Xu Shu said with a smile, extending his hand to invite, "No need to be polite, please sit down." 』

Xu Shu glanced at the dust on Ma Heng's face and said, "Thank you Zhong Chang for your hard work." Can anything be gained in Guanghan County? 』

Before Ma Heng came to see Xu Shu, he set up the framework of the Youwen Division in Guanghan County. On the one hand, he visited the countryside and on the other hand, he looked for talents behind the scenes. After receiving Xu Shu's order, he came from Guanghan County.

"My subordinates have found Wang Luoyang's descendants in Li County..." Ma Heng smiled, "He can be said to be a virtuous person, and I will continue to give him the job. I can see the consequences..."

"After Wang Luoyang?" "Excellent, very virtuous, the king of my county"? ” Xu Shu asked.

Ma Heng smiled and said, "Exactly." ” Then he said, “Wang Luoyang is honest and honest. He does not take people’s money or accept offerings. As a result, his family is poor, has no land, and is often hungry and thirsty. Despite this, his family still keeps reading and works diligently, which is really rare. ...』

Xu Shu also nodded and said, "I once heard that for three years after Wang Luoyang was in office, the civil affairs were completely clean. There were no officials to ask for money, and no officials were greedy for money. It is a pity that he died in the middle of the road." When Wang Luoyang died, the people paid homage to him on the road, lamenting the injustice of heaven for accepting this virtuous man. They also lamented that in the three years since Luoyang, no officials had looted the city. When a virtuous man dies, bad things will happen again..."

Ma Heng also sighed.

Xu Shu waved his hand, "Since she is a virtuous queen, if she can be used, she should be treated kindly." Okay, let’s call Zhong Chang to come here today. We really have something important to discuss..."

"Your Majesty, please speak." Ma Heng said with cupped hands.

"Does Zhong Chang know about the labor service in Nanzhong?" ” Xu Shu asked.

Ma Heng frowned slightly, "Your Majesty, are you talking about... the labor epidemic?" 』

Xu Shu nodded slowly.

"The envoy's intention is..." Ma Heng asked in a low voice.

Xu Shu stroked his beard and said, "After General Xu heard the news, he quickly attacked to quell the chaos." However, I always feel that this matter is a little strange, and I hope Zhongchang will investigate in various ways and find out..."

Ma Heng bowed his head and accepted the order, "This is a matter within my subordinate's duty." 』

……(ò?ó?)……

What are the best places to spy?

Perhaps future generations will say, driver, bodyguard, secretary...

But in the Han Dynasty, there was only one person who had access to important information and whose position was not critical.

Book left.

Shu Zuo is the official in charge of documents. Also known as Men Xia Shu Zuo, his position is under Yue and Shi.

There are Shu Zuo not only in the Central Court Chancellor's Desk, but also in general prefectures and counties, and they are removed by the governors of the prefectures and counties. Sometimes they are divided into inner and outer shuzuo. The inner shuzuo is an official who is close to the governor of the state and county, and is called the shuzuo under the door. The outer shuzuo that handles general documents has two characters less, so it is called shuzuo.

Zhang Gong is such a scholar.

He has been in Sichuan and Shu for a long time. As early as Liu Zhang's time, he had already served as a minor official in Guanghan County. Later he was transferred to Mianyang. He recently arrived in Chengdu and served as Chengdu Shuzuo.

Mr. Zhang was wearing a scholar's robe, which was originally dark blue, but it had faded and turned white after being rinsed many times. He hung a cloth bag around his waist, which probably contained some things, and slowly left his residence and headed to the market.

"Zhang Shuzuo, are you busy?" ’ Fang Ding saw Mr. Zhang and said hello.

Mr. Zhang nodded, smiled, and said nothing, let alone explained why he appeared here and what he was going to do...

Is Mr. Zhang a fool? Obviously not. So unless he needs the help of this shopkeeper to do something, or wants this shopkeeper to reveal some information, a normal person will not explain in detail to an acquaintance what he is going to do next. .

Zhang Gong is very careful.

Be careful and you will live longer.

Chengdu is very prosperous now, with people coming and going on the streets.

The people like and enjoy this kind of prosperity, and Zhang Gong also likes it, but there is a problem, that is, to enjoy the prosperity properly, a lot of money is needed.

Only those with money can enjoy prosperity. Otherwise, these prosperity belong to others and have nothing to do with Mr. Zhang, right?

Zhang Gong walked around the street and then arrived at the market.

In the market, there are more people coming and going, and there are more interesting goods, such as mellow wine, fine mutton, and if you have more money, there are even horses from Xiliang and Hu girls from the Western Regions. Everything is possible...

What? Book?

No, Mr. Zhang is not interested in books.

For Mr. Zhang, books are just a tool for him to climb up, so he has no interest in further research on this tool.

It's just that he is still a book scholar now, and he has just been transferred to Chengdu. He must be careful about everything, so he walked into the bookstore, rummaged around, found the cheapest anthology, and paid for it. He walked out with the money in his hand.

Turning another corner, Mr. Zhang walked into a small restaurant and ordered some food and tea. Then he ordered a small pot of good wine and a small plate of mutton shank. He ate and drank slowly while reading the anthology. .

As society becomes increasingly rich in supplies, the rule of two meals a day gradually loses its original binding power.

In fact, in the ancient times, in the tribal era, because the productive forces were underdeveloped, people were not bound by any ideological system and had no worldly concepts, so they basically ate when they had something, when they were hungry, and when they were not hungry, they did not eat. Eat at a fixed time and at a fixed time. It was not until the Shang and Zhou dynasties, with the birth and improvement of the etiquette system, that people began to eat at fixed times, and slowly began to form a two-meal-a-day system.

Since there were no electric lights in ancient times, candles were too expensive, so except for special days such as the Lantern Festival where you could go out to play at night, most ancient people did not have nightlife. After eating, they would eat and do housework, etc. The last day has passed, which is why ancient people only ate two meals a day. After all, there was not so much time for activities.

But this is only for ordinary situations. In fact, during the Han Dynasty, the relatively wealthy nobles, especially the emperors, had already started the "four meals a day" model. These four meals were "dinning food" and "day food" , "Evening food" and "Evening food" are breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper respectively.

For example, in the current restaurants in Chengdu, basically due to the needs of merchants, sometimes some people eat early, and sometimes some people eat late because they have something to do. In the end, the stove is lit most of the day, cooking and eating wherever they go. . The cheaper ones include large pots of porridge and soup, the better ones include side dishes, and the better ones are like the wine-braised pork that Zhang Gong ate...

No matter how good it is, then you have to go to a big restaurant.

Zhang Gong never goes to big restaurants, he only comes to such relatively inconspicuous small restaurants.

"Brother, this book is good..." I don't know what happened, but there was a middle-aged man who looked like a businessman next to Mr. Zhang, who seemed to be looking for something to say.

After hearing this, Mr. Zhang put down the collection of essays and said, "It's really good... Well, do you want to take a look?" 』

The middle-aged man who looked like a businessman smiled and said, "I have my wish, but I dare not invite you." 』

Mr. Zhang handed over the collected works, then lowered his head and continued eating and drinking. Eat a small sip of wheat rice and some vegetables, then drink a sip of wine and eat a small piece of meat. Eat slowly and attentively.

The middle-aged man looked through it for a while and said with a smile: "It's really good. I'll return the original book. Thank you very much... Uh, let me ask, did you buy this book in a bookstore?" Are there any more in the bookstore? 』

Mr. Zhang raised his head, took the collection with a smile, and nodded, "Of course I bought it from the bookstore, not far away. When I went to buy it, there were still a few copies..."

The two people seemed to be very interested in the contents of the collection and began to discuss it.

Zhang Gong seemed to have deliberately flipped through the sentences and paragraphs in the collection in order to verify it, and then more smiles appeared on his face...

After a while, the middle-aged businessman left first.

Zhang Gong collected the collected works and continued to eat.

He ate faster.

After a while, he finished eating, called the shopkeeper to settle the bill, and then walked home leisurely.

When he got home, he closed the courtyard door, then entered the house, and closed the door again. Then Mr. Zhang took a breath, and couldn't wait to take out the collection of essays from his arms, holding it with both hands, and then took it out from the collection. After picking up a piece of flying money, he threw the collection of essays away, then put his face on the flying money, took a breath of intoxication, and laughed foolishly, his face was a little flushed, as if he had drank a bottle of money. The most delicious drink.

After a while, Mr. Zhang took a long breath, and then walked to the corner of the room. One person moved a cabinet slightly, then moved the blue bricks under the cabinet and took it out from under the bricks. I got a paint box wrapped in oil paper.

Inside the paint box, there is still oil paper wrapped, and some insect-proof and anti-corrosion lime powder.

In the center of the box is a cloth bag.

Zhang Gong carefully took out the cloth bag, took out another stack of flying coins from the cloth bag, and then counted them happily. Although Mr. Zhang knew the amount of flying money in his heart and counted it countless times, he still counted it again very carefully, put the newly obtained flying money on it, and put the bag back in place with satisfaction. Go back into the paint box, and then do what you just did in reverse...

Mr. Zhang stood up and patted the cabinet, just like patting a guard guarding money. Then he picked up the collection again, opened it, took out another slip of paper, and looked at it twice. Then he frowned, "Why is this?" 』

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Ma Heng was a little troubled.

He is in charge of the Youwen Division of Sichuan and Sichuan, not because he is good at countering spies, but because Ma Heng is relatively senior on the one hand, and loyal enough on the other.

As for being calm in doing things, these are actually relatively minor conditions. After all, there are actually many people who are calm in doing things. If this is the primary condition, then wouldn't Dong He be the most suitable?

Dong He is very stable in his work. Is it most suitable to be honest and calm? In fact, it is inappropriate, because no matter how calm Dong He is, he came from Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's subordinates. Therefore, Dong He can serve as a prefect, or even as a governor, but he cannot serve as Youwensi.

Because the power controlled by Youwensi is far greater and more terrifying than what is seen on the surface. If it is controlled by someone with different intentions, the consequences will be disastrous.

If Ma Heng had come to Sichuan earlier, it might be better to face the current situation, at least the personnel deployment would not be so stretched.

There are too many control points and too few manpower. In any case, each person has twelve hours. If it is used to focus on this aspect, it is impossible to keep an eye on another person in another place at the same time.

And if the matter is entrusted to ordinary soldiers, or patrol inspectors, the information may be leaked accidentally, alerting the enemy, and even being discovered by spies...

Xu Shu felt that there were some spies in Sichuan and Shu. After all, they were all in Chang'an. There was no reason to say that Sichuan and Shu would be pure soil. So this time after Xu Huang arrived in central Sichuan, an epidemic occurred in the labor camp. Maybe it was not man-made, or maybe it was sabotaged by someone secretly.

What Ma Heng has to do now is to form the Sichuan-Sichuan News Department, not only to screen the officials in Sichuan and Shu, do a complete survey, and establish a complete file, but also to cooperate with Xu Shu and Xu Huang on the current situation. The investigation of emergencies is carried out. As a result, the time for establishing the Youwen Division organization is short, and the problem of insufficient manpower becomes more obvious.

At the same time, Ma Heng will not only plan in Sichuan and Sichuan in the future, but also need to extend his tentacles. Therefore, although Ma Heng responded readily, he was actually troubled.

Even if you are troubled, you still have to eat.

As the sun gradually set, Ma Heng returned home.

Because of the continued political instability in Jingzhou and Cao Cao's blood-drawing strategy for Jingzhou, the Ma family, like the Pang family and the Huang family, began to move to Guanzhong and other relatively stable areas.

Some of the Ma family went to Chang'an, some to Sichuan, and of course some stayed in Jingzhou.

Most noble families are like this. They never put all their eggs in one basket.

As the founder of the Sichuan-Sichuan Youwen Division, Ma Heng will basically stay in Sichuan-Sichuan for a long time if there are no unexpected circumstances, so he will make his home in Chengdu. At the same time, in addition to Ma Heng's own family records, there was also his fourth brother at home.

Ma Heng's eldest brother stayed in Jingzhou, his third brother went to Chang'an, and his fourth brother came to Sichuan.

It can be regarded as a regular configuration for a noble family.

The eldest son inherits the family business in his hometown, and the other children are scattered like seeds. They may wither or grow into trees that are taller and more majestic than before. At that time, the family will not only be represented by the trees in their hometown. Got it...

There is a school in Chengdu, and Ma Heng's fourth brother also goes to school in the school, and he came back earlier than Ma Heng.

During the meal, Ma Heng's fourth brother seemed to notice that something was wrong with Ma Heng's expression, but he did not say anything directly. Instead, he waited until after the meal and asked Ma Heng what happened.

Ma Heng waved his hand, "Fourth brother, just study with peace of mind. There is no need to worry about these matters." By the way, actually I've always wanted to ask you, why don't you go to Chang'an? The academy in Chang'an is definitely better than that in Chengdu. 』

On the one hand, Ma Heng wanted to keep it secret, and on the other hand, he didn't want to distract Ma Liang from his studies.

Ma Liang smiled, "But there are many people in Chang'an... and there will be more and more..."

"What's the meaning? Ma Heng frowned and said, "Isn't it bad that there are so many people in the academy?" Ask each other for help and promote together. 』

Ma Liang nodded, "No, there won't be any mutual favors soon... They all have to take exams. It's not the old way of promoting filial piety and integrity. Reputation is no longer useful, so... Haha, I heard It is said that students who get admitted to Chang'an basically go to Longyou... So even if I go to Chang'an, I can't stay, so I might as well come to Sichuan. 』

"That's it..." Ma Heng thought for a moment and nodded, "So, are you ready to serve in Sichuan?" Why? Longyou is actually pretty good..."

"No," Ma Liang shook his head and said, "Longyou will have problems sooner or later... Sichuan and Shu are better, and judging from the layout of the Hussars, Sichuan and Shu are key areas. You can enter Jingzhou in the east and Jiaozhou in the south. , can be traded, can be herded, can be cultivated, can be defended, can be fought, no matter what I do in the future, I will have a chance...a greater chance than in Chang'an..."

Ma Heng thought for a moment, nodded, and then asked: "You said something will happen to Longyou sooner or later. What do you mean?" Now that Longyou has been enthroned in Beigong, what problems can there be? 』

"Beigong is dead, and there are Nangong, West Palace and so on..." Ma Liang smiled and said, "After all, Xiqiang is different from Dongqiang. To make raw wheat rice mature, it always needs to be cooked for a period of time... There will definitely be Qiang people who don't like it or are not used to Han rules, so...just like the Southern Xiongnu...Okay, second brother, since you don't want to say what the trouble is, it must be a secret matter, so I will I won’t ask any more questions, but I have some suggestions. Would you like to hear them? 』

"Tell me about it..." Ma Heng nodded.

"The most important thing about government affairs is nothing more than personnel affairs. And in human affairs, when people do something, they must have a plan. Ma Liang said slowly, "Fame, wealth, love and hatred are nothing more than that." When things are not settled, it is easy to use the effects to deduce the causes, but when things are settled, it is easier to use the effects to deduce the causes. Second brother, do you think so? 』

After hearing this, Ma Heng frowned and thought for a moment, nodded, and then said with a smile: "Now I have learned a lesson!" Haha... Fame, wealth, love and hatred, it is true, it is true..."