Chapter 621: The First Month
"... Therefore, the hussar general Shen was built with great honors during the Zen Dynasty. When the wind moved out of the town, the soldiers and the people were happy. Although he died, the remaining wind was bitter."
"...Xun is from a famous family, and he is appointed as the Fang Bo. I treat him with his legs and arms, and I reward him with the reverse knot; I teach him with the jingjie, and I use him to usurp."
"... In vain of the kindness of the imperial court, the world is shocked, and the whole world is shocked. I dare not discuss the matter privately, and it is best to order the generals of Youzhou to punish him. "
Liu Bai finished reading the edict in a mellow tone, and Shao Xun and a group of Youzhou officials immediately saluted and accepted the edict.
They received the order in the courtyard. Wang Jun was detained in the bedroom, not far away, and everyone basically heard it.
He was silent for a long time, and just when everyone thought he had resigned, Wang Jun started to curse.
"Zao Song, divorce my daughter." Wang Jun shouted: "You have betrayed me, who dares to use you? Who can use you? Haha, you are a short-sighted person. Without me, you can Are you so rich now? How stupid are you?" Zaosong listened calmly to his father-in-law's yelling, with no trace of strangeness on his face.
This world is all for yourself.
Marrying your daughter is for myself, after all, she is the daughter of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Do you want a divorce? Can't get it. I was just trying to break up with you.
"Zhu Shuo, aren't you afraid of being slaughtered as a fat sheep?" Wang Jun continued to scold: "How can you keep so much money in your family? Thief Shao will kill you with just one sentence. By then, your family will be rich. But they were all laughed at by Shao. If you leave me, who will give you a chance to make money? ”
Zhu Shuo had a calm expression.
Admittedly, I cannot keep all my family wealth. But the Youzhou Building is about to collapse. If you move slower, all your wealth will be gone, and your wife and daughter will become someone else's plaything. I can still tell the difference between what is light and what is serious, so I won’t bother Peng Zu to remind me.
Now that I have given half of my savings, I can still become a rich man and my family is safe and sound. What more can I ask for? To put it bluntly, in such a chaotic world, you have to spend money to buy peace. As for who to buy from, you have to choose carefully. Anyway, it is not you Wang Pengzu.
"You Tong, someone reported that you were secretly communicating with Shile and entangled with Yecheng. I said that you have been following you for many years, but you will not be like this. However, you are also a wolf-hearted person. I hate you, I hate you. ! "
You Tong had an angry look on his face and muttered something, seemingly dissatisfied with Wang Jun's insult.
"Shao Xun, you have done a lot of ugly things. Queen Hui, uh--" Wang Jun's mouth was blocked just halfway through the curse.
Angel Liu Bai was a little embarrassed. He bowed his hands and said, "I would like to teach Mr. Chen to know that before the servant left the capital, the emperor thought of Wang Qiaoqi (Wang Chen) for his merits. Xu Jun committed suicide. The crime was punished. Involving others."
Zao Song, Zhu Shuo, You Tong and others all woke up from a dream and left one after another.
Shao Xun pondered for a while and said: "Okay."
Liu Bai bowed and left for the post.
Shao Xun stood in the courtyard for a while and said: "Let's do it."
"Ming Gong, I..." Liu Ling was eager to give it a try.
Shao Xun waved his hand and said: "Let Wang Pengzu kill himself. If he doesn't want to, help him. Afterwards, hang the head on the city gate for ten days. After ten days, if his family is willing to collect the body, then let him collect it himself. Don't stop me."
"No." Liu Ling agreed excitedly.
After Shao Xun left, Liu Ling trotted into the bedroom, sat in front of Wang Jun, and smiled: "Wang Jun, if you know the truth, you will hang yourself from the beam. If you don't, you will hang yourself from the beam. I’m going to help you.”
Wang Jun glared at him and sat on the couch without moving.
Liu Ling laughed, stood up and came behind Wang Jun.
Wang Jun seemed to have a premonition of something, and his whole body started shaking like chaff.
Liu Ling's thick arms had already clamped Wang Jun's neck, and with a strong squeeze, Wang Jun's eyes bulged out.
"Crack!" The sound sounded like a broken neck bone, and the look on Liu Ling's face became more and more excited.
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The first day of the tenth year of Yongjia (316) is coming soon.
Zao Song went to Wang Jun's mansion early in the morning for a banquet.
The guests were mostly shogunate generals, Youzhou scholars, and barbarian chiefs. They started eating and drinking at noon until evening.
While resting at home the next day, his wife Wang Shao was crying, which made him very troubled.
"Does Mr. Chen keep his words?" Wang Shao shook Zaosong's shoulders and asked.
Zao Song was about to scold him, but thought about it and just said: "No one will help the prince at this time. Let him bring some traveling expenses and go south to join Bian Zhiren."
Wang Jun He has three daughters with his first wife Wen.
The eldest queen, Shao (named Shaoying), married Zaosong.
The second queen Li (named Shaorong) married the son of former Tingwei Bian Jun.
The third queen Ze (named Shaoyi) married Sun Hui, the youngest son of Sun Qi, the former Pingnan general.
The second wife, Wei, had no children.
The third wife, Hua Shi, has two sons, both of whom are younger.
The eldest son Wang Zhou (named Daoshi) is only fourteen years old, and the second son Wang Yi (named Daoxian) is two or three years younger.
The fourth wife Cui has no children.
In short, Wang Jun had two legitimate sons, three legitimate daughters, five concubine sons, and two concubine daughters.
Unfortunately, the elder among the concubines died of illness. Now the eldest among the concubines is Wang Zhou, the eldest son.
The two concubines were married to Duan Wuwuchen and Su Shuyan respectively.
Duan Wu Wuchen was the former Duke of Liaoxi County. He was dead and it was not appropriate for him to join him.
Su Shuyan once defected to the Huns. After Shi Le and Wang Jun failed one after another, he fled to the frontier fortresses of Guangning and Shanggu counties. He is currently waiting and watching. It seems inappropriate to go to him.
As for the Sun family in Le'an, because they were implicated by Sima Lun's favored minister Sun Xiu, Sun Hui had been killed, and Wang Ze also died of illness, leaving him with nowhere to seek refuge.
In this case, the only choice was to go south to Jianye and join the Bian family in Jiyin.
When Wang Shao heard what her husband said, she held back her tears and asked: "Then - go south?" Zao Song said impatiently: "The sooner we leave, the better. I'm afraid something will happen later."< br>
After saying that, he turned around, looked at his wife seriously, and warned: "You must not interfere in this matter. If you let me know that you are funding the prince's money——"
Wang Shao was very angry and cursed: "Zaotai, when the King of Chengdu was defeated, you went to my father in embarrassment. First, you had a low official position and were ridiculed. Who helped you at that time?"
Zao Song was speechless.
"Are you completely committed to Shao Xun?" Wang Shao asked again: "Do you work for my enemy who killed my father?"
Zaosong took a deep breath and said: "Why don't you go out and take a look. Yesterday, the heads of women and men were hung at the city gate. Many people in Jicheng have not passed the age. The black people rushed over and cursed endlessly. In such a situation, you let What should I do?"
"Besides, the prince still has his aunt, the Cui family, and he doesn't care about it, so what do you and I care about?"
"If I intervene, maybe it's Mr. Chen. If you are arrested, who will maintain this family?"
"The emperor only sinned against the woman. He may or may not agree to spare the prince's death, which is an extrajudicial mercy. , What else do you want? If you continue to make trouble, none of your brothers and sisters will survive."
Wang Shao was stunned for a long time, and then he covered his face and cried: "My father has been in Youzhou for more than ten years, and a disaster is coming. No one responded."
Zao Song glanced at his wife with disgust.
Not only is there no one in charge, but everyone wants him to die. What a stupid woman.
He still remembered the scene this morning when he was hiding in the carriage and watching Wang Jun's head from a distance. To be honest, if there were no sergeants to guard him, someone would have taken off the head, hacked it with knives and axes, and cut it into pieces for meat.
The people of Youzhou really hate Wang Pengzu. At this juncture, who dares to take the risk? Even if Mr. Chen doesn't deal with you, I won't be able to survive in Youzhou.
In addition, he also heard the people of Youzhou praising Chen Gong for killing Wang Jun. At that time, some people even proposed to jointly petition Chen Gong to kill Zhu Shuo and Zaosong.
He was so frightened that he went home directly, and he is still worried now.
You should do nothing at this time. Don't let people pay attention to you or think about you, otherwise you will die without knowing how.
Kill Wang Jun and win the hearts of the people.
Killing Zhu Shuo and Zao Song can also win over the people.
Do you think Guild Chen will not be tempted?
I really want to be killed by this woman!
Thinking of this, Zao Song's eyes flickered, and a fierce look appeared on his face.
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On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the angel Liu Bai came to say goodbye, and Shao Xun personally hosted a banquet for him.
After drinking for three rounds, Liu Bai suddenly asked: "I wonder when Ming Gong will return to Beijing? The court is still waiting to organize the ceremony."
The so-called ceremony is of course the ceremony for canonizing the general and Liang Gong.
Liu Bai was actually speaking for others, after all, too many people were waiting.
"I will return after pacifying Duanbu Xianbei. If possible, Wuhuan will also take care of it." Shao Xun did not hide anything from him and said directly.
Youzhou is not big, with only seven counties and more than thirty counties.
Dai County has long been occupied by Tuoba Xianbei, and western Liaoning is in the hands of Murong Xianbei, so there are only five counties left: Fanyang, Yan, Beiping, Guangning, and Shanggu.
I don’t know if I don’t come, but I will be shocked when I come.
Shao Xun now seriously suspects that there are more Hu people in Youzhou than Han people. After asking the local elders again, it has been like this since the Later Han Dynasty, but it was not so serious.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Wuhuan and Xianbei moved inland on a large scale, mostly settling in Youzhou.
The land in Youzhou is naturally much more fertile than the grassland. Even if you don't farm, you are still grazing. A unit area of grassland can support several times more people.
In the Guo Dynasty, Hu people continued to move in, and the number became increasingly large. It seemed that some disaster had occurred elsewhere, and none of them could survive. It happened that the Jin Dynasty opened its doors to accept them, so they all came to settle down. The Jie people in Daijun, Shanggu, and Guangping are not the same group as the Jie people in Shangdang. They migrated from the northern grasslands in the late Cao Wei Dynasty.
In the fifty years since the Jin Dynasty, no one knows how many Hu people there are because no one has checked.
It’s fucked that no one is checking this, because it means that the imperial court’s control over the various barbarians is very loose, and it is basically a rule of thumb. Even if a certain tribe migrated away and no longer stayed in the original pasture, it would take a long time for the court to find out.
Shao Xun wants to take control.
It is a fait accompli that the barbarians have been relocated to the interior. It is unrealistic to kill them all, and they do not have the strength to kill them all. After all, Liu Han is still watching from the sidelines.
Then we have to find a way to manage it.
The problem of the Hu people is the accumulated evil caused by the inaction and appeasement of generations in the later Han, Cao, Wei, and Jin dynasties. It is difficult to recover and is not easy to deal with.
Shao Xun can only do it step by step, first restraining his rule, and then deepening his control step by step.
As far as Youzhou is concerned, Duan Bu Xianbei is the first stumbling block, and Wuhuan Su Shuyan who has run away is the second.
"Ming Gong wants to send troops to suppress?" Liu Bai asked.
"Use both suppression and appeasement." Shao Xun said: "No one from Duanbu Xianbei has come to surrender now, but when the army approaches their pastures, some people will be unable to sit still. Those who came to surrender first, Grant officials and reward those who move slowly, leaving no grass behind, that’s all.”
Liu Bai sighed: "Suppression and appeasement are actually the best strategy. In the past, Wang Jun got the help of Xianbei and moved across Hebei. Ming Gong conquered the barbarians of Youyan, which greatly increased his strength and gave him more confidence in the battle against Hungary."
“We still need Tuoba Xianbei.” Shao Xun said with a smile.
Liu Bai was a little surprised: "What's the explanation for this?"
"How did you get to Chang'an from Tianchou in the past?" Shao Xun asked.
Liu Bai thought for a while and suddenly realized.
(End of this chapter)