Asking hexagram 20 taels

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"I'm looking for a small rock."

When the rivers and lakes were so busy, Tang Yuan secretly knocked on the door of the ruined temple on the outskirts of the city, and there was only one sentence when he entered the door.

"Little stone! I'm looking for you!" The child who opened the temple door preached.

I don't know how long this dilapidated temple has been abandoned. The grass in the courtyard is as tall as half a person, and a small path was cut out for the convenience of walking.This dilapidated temple might be a gathering place for boy scouts. The boy who opened the door just now was short enough, about the height of weeds, and the small stones coming from the road were not as tall as the weeds in the yard.

"Who are you?" Little Stone asked warily.

Tang Yuan replied: "It was Xie Sanchuan, Pavilion Master Xie, who asked me to come to you."

"Bring it." Little Shitou nodded clearly, and stretched out his hand.

"Take what?"

"Thank you, Pavilion Master, for your letter."

"The letter has been sent away." Tang Yuan stretched his neck and looked into the ruined temple deep in the weeds. "What? Why don't you invite me in to have a look?"

"Do you know Pavilion Master Xie? Are you a running dog of the imperial court?" When he said the last sentence, his voice suddenly became louder, and many children with sticks rushed out from behind and in front of Tang Yuan. He is not tall, but he has a fierce expression, no worse than many people in the rivers and lakes.

Tang Yuan's expression remained unchanged, he stretched out his hand to grab a child, snatched the stick from his hand, shook it twice in his hand, and then stuffed it into the child's hand, saying: "Little heroes, don't be so right Me. ——I do know Pavilion Master Xie Sanchuan, if you don’t believe me, ask Pavilion Master Xie if he knows a Taoist named Ku.”

"Are you a bitter Taoist?" Xiao Shitou looked like a king of children. With a wave of his hand, the children surrounding Tang Yuan took two steps back, and stepped forward to ask him, "I've heard of a bitter Taoist."

"Do you see the portrait of me and Ku Taoist?" Tang Yuan asked.

Little Shitou looked him up and down, shook his head, and said, "It's not like that."

"What's not like?"

Before Xiaoshi could answer, the children behind him started chatting about it.

"Shouldn't Ku Taoist be an old man?"

"Yes, yes, you said that you are a bitter Taoist, so can you tell fortunes? I heard that bitter Taoists can tell fortunes accurately!" A tall and thin child who looked like a thin stick walked out of the crowd. Get out and ask him.

Tang Yuan looked at the child, and beckoned him over, "Come here and I'll make a fortune for you. - Stretch out your hand."

Shou Ma Gan walked up to him and obediently stretched out his palm.This child has been homeless since he was a child, and can only live in a ruined temple. He eats and sleeps in the open and often does heavy work. His joints are thick, and there are mud in the crevices of his fingers. Naturally, his hands are rough and ugly.But Tang Yuan didn't dislike it. He held his hand and looked at his palm prints: "The palm prints are numerous and deep, and it's a hard job. If the palm prints are broken, the mother will be lost first, and the eyebrows will be pale. Parents will die. Your seal is full of blood, Parents must have died badly. Let me guess, you are a survivor of a murder case 12 years ago, aren't you?"

Before Tang Yuan finished speaking, Skinny Gun's eyes were already red, and when he finished speaking, a tear fell on Tang Yuan's hand, and he heard the child say "yes".

Little Shitou kept watching him vigilantly, and when he saw Shoumagan crying, he shielded him behind him: "I know you are a bitter Taoist. Come on, what do you want to do?"

"I want to leave the capital. Although the emperor didn't give me an explicit order, he may not ask me to leave the capital. Please trouble the Wuwei Pavilion to send me out of the city first. Even if the emperor doesn't want to, he can't call me back."

"See the martial arts conference?"

"Exactly. What? Xie Sanchuan, Pavilion Master Xie, won't you participate?"

"Governor Xie is under house arrest." Xiao Shitou replied, "I am the peripheral eyeliner of Master Xie, and I escaped the catastrophe because I was not in the Wuwei Pavilion to make a book. Now the faction of Pavilion Master Xie in the Wuwei Pavilion has been emptied by the people below, and we are the only ones left. This kind of outsider."

"So that's the case. No wonder Pavilion Master Xie wrote to me. It turns out that something like this happened in the cabinet."

"But you don't have to worry, thanks to the martial arts conference held in Bafeng Villa, those traitors haven't been able to take all the power of the Wuwei Pavilion under their feathers, and they still have to rely on the name of Pavilion Master Xie, the Pavilion Master will not be in danger for a while. "

"Then I'll wait to meet Pavilion Master Xie again at the Martial Arts Conference. ——The way out of the city hasn't been sealed yet?"

"Not yet, the young hero can leave the city by water from the moat."

"Thank you so much." Tang Yuan said with a smile to Xiao Shitou and the skinny stick behind him, "You don't need to ask for the fortune-telling 20 taels, and the favor of Wuwei Pavilion is worth it. In addition, let me say one more thing, I will Alright, Skynet is full of details, no matter who he is."

"Let Yuan's army transfer to Gubei City, draw 5000 government soldiers, join [-] Gubei City frontier troops, and [-] Yuan's troops, a total of [-] people stationed in Gubei City."

Gubei City is the place where Yuan Xiao became famous as a general in the first battle, and it is also the place where Tang Yuan almost died.This city was originally a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but as an important hub for communication inside and outside the pass, it was a place that military strategists must contend for.As a result, there have been endless wars for years, alternating between attacking and defending the city, and the residents in Gubei City have also been replaced by frontier troops and united troops.Some of the remaining residents who failed to move into the pass also became semi-soldiers who Wu Ke carried a knife on the battlefield and Wen Ke went to work in the fields.

As soon as this decree was issued, a veteran in the army stood up and refuted it on the spot.Although the old general has not been on the battlefield for a long time, his sword is not old, and he still knows the situation in northern Xinjiang and the distribution of troops well.

"Your Majesty, Gubei City is located in a pass, and has always been a battleground for military strategists. Dawan will attack Gubei City with an army of tens of thousands. A mere 5000 people may not be enough."

There was also an old official from the main battle faction in the court who helped the old general and said: "Yes, your majesty, besides, the government soldiers don't know the climate in northern Xinjiang, so they may not be able to adapt to the climate. The elite of the Yuan family army has already been taken by you... most of them have voluntarily joined the imperial army, and I am afraid that there is not enough energy left. Your majesty Think twice."

But there were also those who stood up to support the emperor. Yuan Xiao took a closer look and found that it was Mr. Li Ge, one of the three main members of the imperial party's cabinet.Li Ge's old eyes narrowed slightly, like an old fox who is used to calculating: "Your Majesty, General Yuan is a young and talented man. He used [-] troops to defeat more than [-] enemy troops in the battle of Gubei City. I believe that [-] elite soldiers are enough. And Hu Isn’t the purpose of allocating grain, grass, and military salaries to the Yuan family’s army every year for the purpose of raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while?”

In the main hall, civil servants and military generals quarreled for a while, the war faction and the peace faction pointed their noses at each other, and the royal party and the seven kings fished in troubled waters.The emperor was sitting on the throne, and the old god was there, watching the officials in the hall arguing and criticizing each other, his face could not tell whether he was happy or disappointed.

Seeing the emperor's appearance, Yuan Xiao was determined to send him to Gubei City, a distance of eight thousand miles, and he was out of sight and out of mind. He knew that there was no chance of repaying this matter, so he stood up to lead him. achieved this purpose.

"Minister Yuan Xiao accepts the order!"

His sound rang in the main hall like a big bell in the temple, and the quarrel among the officials stopped for a moment.All the ministers present counted as one, and they all looked at him as if they were looking at a fool who voluntarily died.

Who doesn't know that although Yuan's army won a big victory in Gubei City back then, but relying more on the right time and place, no one can say for sure whether the result will change again.Moreover, Yuan's army's tactics at that time were extremely brilliant and extremely dangerous. One short step was the result of annihilation of the entire army. Yuan Xiao almost died in the battle of Gubei City, and the young master of the Tang family was also almost killed.

If you take this kind of errand now, isn't it rushing to die?

Above the court, no matter whether it is the main war faction or the main peace faction, it is nothing more than the peace of the world, and a few more words are for the sake of promoting more officials and earning more money. Most people don't want to see generals To die.Once the general dies, the country's security will be in trouble. If the country is in trouble, will the family be good?So whether it was true or false, a large group of people suddenly knelt down in the hall with a "Hula La".

"Think twice, Your Majesty!"

The emperor sat on the dragon chair without saying a word, his expression was unreadable, none of the officials could see his expression, they could only look at each other, and the atmosphere fell into a stalemate for a while.On the contrary, the eunuch next to the emperor, who has served the emperor for many years, can tell at a glance, and immediately stood behind the emperor, his sharp voice was very unpleasant, but it was also a life-saving medicine in the suffocating silence: "We will discuss this matter later! Qi Zou has no reason to retreat!"

"General Yuan, stay here." After the imperial court was dispersed, the officials filed out, while Li Ge stayed behind and waited for Yuan Xiao.

Li Ge is always an important minister of the two dynasties, and he stands firmly in the team. Even if he has some minor problems of being jealous of newcomers and taking money for money, he has firmly taken the position of Ge Lao.

"Master Li has something to say?" Yuan Xiao didn't like this Master Li very much.It's just because Li Ge is always a staunch peacemaker, and he is naturally at odds with military officers. In addition, this man surnamed Li is a little narrow-minded and very greedy for money. He always likes to intervene in military affairs in the Ministry of Finance. Half deducted.

"General Yuan doesn't seem to be very willing to accept the emperor's order." Old Li Ge held his hands in his sleeves, raised his head, his belly was as round as a pregnant woman, and he wrote "rich, noble and idler" all over his body.

"Mr. Li Ge took a look at me. How dare I not accept the emperor's order. It's just that you, Mr. Li Ge, know what Yuan Jiajun's life is like. You are an empty-handed white wolf."

"This General Yuan wronged the old man, didn't he? In the last half a year, since Mr. Zhou of the household department fell ill, Mr. Zhou took over some affairs of the household department - I can't hide this from the old man - the household department is so strict with a It’s like an iron bucket, the needle can’t get in and the water can’t get in, I haven’t touched your Yuan Jiajun’s military salary for a long time.”

"Yuan's army hasn't paid their military salary for more than half a year, can't there be someone more greedy than you, Mr. Li?"

"Of course! You only saw that the old man was greedy, but you didn't see that the old man gave you half of the rest. Naturally, there are people who are more greedy than me and want to take all these away, but those who were not capable enough before were pulled out. That's called A big corrupt official. Now this person is extraordinary, stronger than the old man, if ordinary people can't pull it out, then it's not called greed."

Li Gelao sighed and walked away shaking his head, leaving only Yuan Xiao thinking behind.

Who is more powerful and greedy than the cabinet boss?

Isn't he the emperor on the old man's head?