[Three Kingdoms] Heroine Cultivation Manual
Chapter 98
The emperor wanted to make Fu's daughter his queen.
On the day when the news came out, the biggest reaction was not the aristocratic family, but the chief minister in charge of the treasury. It is said that when he received the imperial decree, his face was greener than the leeks in the vegetable field in the suburbs, and his knees were trembling when he stood up.
Now Luoyang is not as poor as before, poorer than ever.First, the mourning of the Ling Empire, the enthronement of the young emperor, the burning of the North Palace, and the rampage of Dong Zhuo after that, all of which consumed a lot of gold and silver, and the national treasury was even weaker than Liu Bian's body.
Da Si Nong huddled in the farm prison like a mourner and did not go out for three days. He kept flipping through the bamboo slips recording income and expenditure. Several adjutants under his command calculated and calculated, and finally handed over the word chiseled on the fourth day:
—No money.
Liu Bian: "..."
However, weddings and funerals in the Eastern Han Dynasty have always been a big deal, and royal affairs should not be neglected.What's more, given the status of Qin Chu and Fu's family, the emperor was weak and had no choice but to rely on others. Since he wanted to use the power of his relatives to win over the central power, he had to show sincerity.
If you want money, you must first centralize power; but if you want to centralize power, you must first use money to win over people.
Liu Bian spent a few days arguing with Da Sinong, but he only had the words "no money" as the answer. There was nothing to do, so he had no choice but to make deals with a few aristocratic families who were not upright, and "sell officials" according to the late emperor. He promoted a bunch of messy people to the top, and finally got together [-] catties of gold.
According to the "six rites" of the emperor's wedding ceremony, [-] jin of gold must be the basis of the dowry gift for marrying the queen. Only after paying this high fee can we start to consider other matters.
In addition to the so-called "Thirty Betrothal Gifts" such as sheep, geese, fish and deer, extravagant and expensive betrothal gifts such as bundles of silk, jade, chariots and horses must also be prepared.After all the iron cutting with the needle, let alone hurting the muscles and bones, even Liu Bian, who is sitting high in the hall, feels exhausted physically and mentally, and is almost on the verge of bankruptcy.
As for the betrothal gift, which was scraped and cramp, it also went to the General's Mansion in the north of the city as a matter of course.
"Things outside me are of no use to me."
Qin Chu had just dispatched the imperial forest army who had delivered the dowry gifts, and went up to take a look. The pear blossom wooden boxes for the dowry gifts had been stacked three to five layers high.
She took out a silver sword inlaid with pomegranate red jade from it, took it out and looked at it twice, and thought it was meaningless, so she threw it into Sun Ce's hand:
"Here, this should be what Ah Ce likes—I didn't want to accept these things at first, but it's really important to send them to the north or east of the city."
Sun Ce hurriedly held the sword, but didn't understand what she meant, so he replied in a daze:
"Why does it have to be charged?"
Guo Jia shook his feather fan, walked over slowly, and answered for the lord in a dragging voice: "Because whether the betrothal gift enters the Grand General's Mansion or Buqihou's Mansion is related to who is in charge."
As he spoke, he stretched his head and looked into the box twice, then looked away in disappointment, and sighed:
"Oh, there is no goose feather fan."
Holding the red jade sword, Sun Ce lowered his head and pondered, but he couldn't figure out what it means to be "the one who makes the decision", so he replied to Guo Jia in a good-tempered manner:
"If the military master wants it, I can go to the mountains to catch wild pheasants and make it for you."
"...No need," Guo Jia's eyelids twitched, "I'm not really short of fans."
In any case, the gold and silver treasures from the royal family are still piled up in the warehouse of the General's Mansion.
The most glamorous part of the dowry was rewarded one after another to the subordinates of the Fuchu, and the rest were transported to Xu/zhou in batches, becoming an important resource for the development of Tobu.
As Guo Jia said, the whereabouts of the dowry determines the central figure of the "foreign relatives faction". The rule of "Go to the General's Mansion if you have something to do", gradually got used to recognizing Qin Chu as the head of the relatives.
At the same time, even though Yuan Shu in the south took King Chen Liu under his wing, there was no further splash.
According to the secret guard stationed in Xuzhou, Yuan Shu was writing private letters to deal with various princes, intending to follow Yuan Shao's example and form another southern coalition army.
When Guo Jia heard the news, he rarely lost his composure. He stared dumbfounded at the secret guard who reported the news. After a long silence, he sincerely asked a question:
"Is Yuan Gonglu crazy?"
...His elder brother Yuan Shao has done righteous deeds to kill eunuchs and resist Dong Zhuo, and his reputation has spread far and wide for a while.But Yuan Shu, who was publicly demoted by the central government and was in the clique of the aristocratic family all day long, did he have any commendable achievements?
If the name is not correct, the words will not be smooth, and the words will not be smooth, and nothing will be done.Even if the dynasty is precarious and seems to be late, as long as the rituals and music are not completely collapsed, people in the world will ultimately depend on "name".
Even if Liu Bian didn't dare to tear himself apart with him and announced to the world that "Yuan Gonglu took King Chenliu away", the governor of a state brought a vassal king from Luoyang with him when he took office. How many people really don't understand?
Therefore, as expected, Yuan Gonglu's road of recruiting Xiangyong and wooing the princes was not very smooth.
From the point of view of the Hanchen, Yuan Shu's "wolf ambition" was written on his face by coercing King Chenliu to rule a state;
While Yuan Shu was conscientiously laying the groundwork, Yuan Shao also impassionedly sent a secret letter (written by Chen Lin), denouncing his younger brother for disobedience, and expressing a meaning to Jinshang tactfully:
Yuan Shu committed suicide by himself, so go find trouble with him instead of bothering me.
Fortunately, the bloody storm in the north and south did not spread to the northwest for the time being, so Qin Chu's general's mansion was also stable for a while, and it was the end of the year in a blink of an eye.
Mid-January is the season when it snows in the Central Plains.
In the year of auspicious snow, the first snowfall in the second year of Guangxi was so powerful that the whole Luoyang City was covered in white overnight.
"It's An Ding... The emperor came to me again today to mourn, saying that Yuan Shu in the south was eyeing him like a tiger, and Dong Zhuoli's 'Han Xiandi' incident was vivid in his mind. He tossed and turned day and night, fearing that Xu/zhou would change."
"Hmm. How did my lord answer?"
"I said, it's fine if you want me to go down and fight, first convince the person surnamed Yang."
Xun Yu smiled: "Your Majesty must not be able to give you an answer."
"Yes," Qin Chu sat under the small octagonal hall, shook the small black lacquered lamp, and rolled his eyes at him, "Yang Biao is Yuan Shu's son-in-law, how can he really admit that 'Yuan Gonglu has something wrong'— —By the way, why hasn’t Feng Xiao come back yet?”
As soon as the words fell, there was a very light "rustling" sound from the stone road in the courtyard. A thin layer of snow was soon spread on the freshly swept bluestone, and a string of footprints were left behind.
"What did my lord say about me?" The military officer Jijiu rarely put down his obsessed goose feather fan and held up a plain oiled paper umbrella.
He bent down and got into the pavilion, and put the brown pottery altar in his arms on the food table: "Honey."
"I was wondering why you didn't come—thank you Fengxiao." Qin Chu nodded at him, and turned his head to look at the courtyard.
Sun Ce and Lu Bu held a sword and a halberd, and they were still fighting in full swing, while Pang De was the referee; Cao Cao stood with his arms around his chest in the porch, chatting with Zhou Yu with his head tilted.
"They are quite comfortable."
Guo Jia touched the pottery altar, found the unsealed wooden thread, unsealed the seal, and took a spoonful into his tea bowl very rudely, watching the transparent and slightly golden honey melt into the Among the tea and porridge, he just laughed: "When spring comes, the generals may not be free."
Qin Chu nodded: "Son of Heaven...Even if Yuan Shu is not fully prepared to expose all his minions, His Majesty will not be able to bear it anymore."
Xun Yu didn't speak.He is probably the only person in the general's mansion who has a good face towards the royal family surnamed Liu. Even if the matter has developed to this point, he still keeps silent in the various discussions related to the emperor.
Qin Chu said briskly in her usual tone of ignoring "junchen, father and son":
"Although there are Hongnong Yang family and other aristocratic families looking for a replacement for Yuan Shu, the fact that he took away King Chenliu and recruited troops in Xu/zhou is all there.
The Son of Heaven had never made trouble before, firstly he cared about the family in the court, secondly he was afraid of Yuan Shao's soldiers, thirdly...he didn't want Liu Xie to stay away from Luoyang. "
Emperor Xiaoling underestimated the eldest son and favored the second son. If the Fu family had not initially cleaned up the eunuchs 12 years ago, when the emperor passed away at the beginning of the year, the regular servants would have taken the opportunity to support Liu Xie.
This is of course only a small part.For Liu Bian, Dong Zhuo was probably the one who could cast a shadow on him the most.
People walk before the gate of hell, and when they come back, they are always different. With Liu Bian's suspicious and hesitant performance now, it is reasonable for him to be afraid of Liu Xie.
"As for now," she picked up the pottery cup and took a sip of tea leisurely, "he is more afraid of Yuan Shi."
The Yuan family naturally included Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.
"Going south in the spring is also necessary for my lord." Xun Yu finally spoke, using his elegant gentry accent as before, but his words were not too gentle, "Yuan Shu is stubborn, nothing to be afraid of. It's just this person Occupying Xuzhou may provide conditions for Yuan Benchu."
Qin Chu: "How to say?"
Guo Jia pondered for a moment, then nodded to Xun Yu:
"Yuan Shu's desire to win over King Chen Liu is so obvious that anyone can see it.
However, the emperor was weak. Yuan Benchu was stationed in Jizhou, but he refused to return to Luoyang many times, and his power became stronger day by day.When people see Yuan Gonglu, they will only feel that the world is in chaos; but when they see Yuan Benchu, they will feel divided in troubled times. "
Yuan Shu's act of recruiting troops to form an alliance is more like an introduction, reminding the world of the possibility of some kind of "rebellion". When they realized this, the way they looked at Yuan Shao changed.
When you acquiesce in this era that the heavenly family is still supreme, looking at the princes of the separatist side is to look at the "disobedient generation".
However, when you realize that this is the troubled times that have arisen, he can be a "great ally" or "extraordinary monarch".
And Qin Chu—even though he didn't deliberately go on that road, he still walked on the road of "serving the emperor to order him not to be a minister" very naturally.
She quickly realized this, her heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but cast her gaze on Xun Yu.
Those slightly drooping peach blossom eyes were still calm, and he sat in the pavilion with his eyebrows frowned, like a statue made of snow.
"My lord, you can do whatever you want." Behind Luo Yang's snowflakes, Xun Yu was against the morning light, and a trace of melancholy appeared on his white jade-like clean face, which disappeared in an instant, "Yuan Gonglu... the two of the Yuan family, Can't stay."
On the day when the news came out, the biggest reaction was not the aristocratic family, but the chief minister in charge of the treasury. It is said that when he received the imperial decree, his face was greener than the leeks in the vegetable field in the suburbs, and his knees were trembling when he stood up.
Now Luoyang is not as poor as before, poorer than ever.First, the mourning of the Ling Empire, the enthronement of the young emperor, the burning of the North Palace, and the rampage of Dong Zhuo after that, all of which consumed a lot of gold and silver, and the national treasury was even weaker than Liu Bian's body.
Da Si Nong huddled in the farm prison like a mourner and did not go out for three days. He kept flipping through the bamboo slips recording income and expenditure. Several adjutants under his command calculated and calculated, and finally handed over the word chiseled on the fourth day:
—No money.
Liu Bian: "..."
However, weddings and funerals in the Eastern Han Dynasty have always been a big deal, and royal affairs should not be neglected.What's more, given the status of Qin Chu and Fu's family, the emperor was weak and had no choice but to rely on others. Since he wanted to use the power of his relatives to win over the central power, he had to show sincerity.
If you want money, you must first centralize power; but if you want to centralize power, you must first use money to win over people.
Liu Bian spent a few days arguing with Da Sinong, but he only had the words "no money" as the answer. There was nothing to do, so he had no choice but to make deals with a few aristocratic families who were not upright, and "sell officials" according to the late emperor. He promoted a bunch of messy people to the top, and finally got together [-] catties of gold.
According to the "six rites" of the emperor's wedding ceremony, [-] jin of gold must be the basis of the dowry gift for marrying the queen. Only after paying this high fee can we start to consider other matters.
In addition to the so-called "Thirty Betrothal Gifts" such as sheep, geese, fish and deer, extravagant and expensive betrothal gifts such as bundles of silk, jade, chariots and horses must also be prepared.After all the iron cutting with the needle, let alone hurting the muscles and bones, even Liu Bian, who is sitting high in the hall, feels exhausted physically and mentally, and is almost on the verge of bankruptcy.
As for the betrothal gift, which was scraped and cramp, it also went to the General's Mansion in the north of the city as a matter of course.
"Things outside me are of no use to me."
Qin Chu had just dispatched the imperial forest army who had delivered the dowry gifts, and went up to take a look. The pear blossom wooden boxes for the dowry gifts had been stacked three to five layers high.
She took out a silver sword inlaid with pomegranate red jade from it, took it out and looked at it twice, and thought it was meaningless, so she threw it into Sun Ce's hand:
"Here, this should be what Ah Ce likes—I didn't want to accept these things at first, but it's really important to send them to the north or east of the city."
Sun Ce hurriedly held the sword, but didn't understand what she meant, so he replied in a daze:
"Why does it have to be charged?"
Guo Jia shook his feather fan, walked over slowly, and answered for the lord in a dragging voice: "Because whether the betrothal gift enters the Grand General's Mansion or Buqihou's Mansion is related to who is in charge."
As he spoke, he stretched his head and looked into the box twice, then looked away in disappointment, and sighed:
"Oh, there is no goose feather fan."
Holding the red jade sword, Sun Ce lowered his head and pondered, but he couldn't figure out what it means to be "the one who makes the decision", so he replied to Guo Jia in a good-tempered manner:
"If the military master wants it, I can go to the mountains to catch wild pheasants and make it for you."
"...No need," Guo Jia's eyelids twitched, "I'm not really short of fans."
In any case, the gold and silver treasures from the royal family are still piled up in the warehouse of the General's Mansion.
The most glamorous part of the dowry was rewarded one after another to the subordinates of the Fuchu, and the rest were transported to Xu/zhou in batches, becoming an important resource for the development of Tobu.
As Guo Jia said, the whereabouts of the dowry determines the central figure of the "foreign relatives faction". The rule of "Go to the General's Mansion if you have something to do", gradually got used to recognizing Qin Chu as the head of the relatives.
At the same time, even though Yuan Shu in the south took King Chen Liu under his wing, there was no further splash.
According to the secret guard stationed in Xuzhou, Yuan Shu was writing private letters to deal with various princes, intending to follow Yuan Shao's example and form another southern coalition army.
When Guo Jia heard the news, he rarely lost his composure. He stared dumbfounded at the secret guard who reported the news. After a long silence, he sincerely asked a question:
"Is Yuan Gonglu crazy?"
...His elder brother Yuan Shao has done righteous deeds to kill eunuchs and resist Dong Zhuo, and his reputation has spread far and wide for a while.But Yuan Shu, who was publicly demoted by the central government and was in the clique of the aristocratic family all day long, did he have any commendable achievements?
If the name is not correct, the words will not be smooth, and the words will not be smooth, and nothing will be done.Even if the dynasty is precarious and seems to be late, as long as the rituals and music are not completely collapsed, people in the world will ultimately depend on "name".
Even if Liu Bian didn't dare to tear himself apart with him and announced to the world that "Yuan Gonglu took King Chenliu away", the governor of a state brought a vassal king from Luoyang with him when he took office. How many people really don't understand?
Therefore, as expected, Yuan Gonglu's road of recruiting Xiangyong and wooing the princes was not very smooth.
From the point of view of the Hanchen, Yuan Shu's "wolf ambition" was written on his face by coercing King Chenliu to rule a state;
While Yuan Shu was conscientiously laying the groundwork, Yuan Shao also impassionedly sent a secret letter (written by Chen Lin), denouncing his younger brother for disobedience, and expressing a meaning to Jinshang tactfully:
Yuan Shu committed suicide by himself, so go find trouble with him instead of bothering me.
Fortunately, the bloody storm in the north and south did not spread to the northwest for the time being, so Qin Chu's general's mansion was also stable for a while, and it was the end of the year in a blink of an eye.
Mid-January is the season when it snows in the Central Plains.
In the year of auspicious snow, the first snowfall in the second year of Guangxi was so powerful that the whole Luoyang City was covered in white overnight.
"It's An Ding... The emperor came to me again today to mourn, saying that Yuan Shu in the south was eyeing him like a tiger, and Dong Zhuoli's 'Han Xiandi' incident was vivid in his mind. He tossed and turned day and night, fearing that Xu/zhou would change."
"Hmm. How did my lord answer?"
"I said, it's fine if you want me to go down and fight, first convince the person surnamed Yang."
Xun Yu smiled: "Your Majesty must not be able to give you an answer."
"Yes," Qin Chu sat under the small octagonal hall, shook the small black lacquered lamp, and rolled his eyes at him, "Yang Biao is Yuan Shu's son-in-law, how can he really admit that 'Yuan Gonglu has something wrong'— —By the way, why hasn’t Feng Xiao come back yet?”
As soon as the words fell, there was a very light "rustling" sound from the stone road in the courtyard. A thin layer of snow was soon spread on the freshly swept bluestone, and a string of footprints were left behind.
"What did my lord say about me?" The military officer Jijiu rarely put down his obsessed goose feather fan and held up a plain oiled paper umbrella.
He bent down and got into the pavilion, and put the brown pottery altar in his arms on the food table: "Honey."
"I was wondering why you didn't come—thank you Fengxiao." Qin Chu nodded at him, and turned his head to look at the courtyard.
Sun Ce and Lu Bu held a sword and a halberd, and they were still fighting in full swing, while Pang De was the referee; Cao Cao stood with his arms around his chest in the porch, chatting with Zhou Yu with his head tilted.
"They are quite comfortable."
Guo Jia touched the pottery altar, found the unsealed wooden thread, unsealed the seal, and took a spoonful into his tea bowl very rudely, watching the transparent and slightly golden honey melt into the Among the tea and porridge, he just laughed: "When spring comes, the generals may not be free."
Qin Chu nodded: "Son of Heaven...Even if Yuan Shu is not fully prepared to expose all his minions, His Majesty will not be able to bear it anymore."
Xun Yu didn't speak.He is probably the only person in the general's mansion who has a good face towards the royal family surnamed Liu. Even if the matter has developed to this point, he still keeps silent in the various discussions related to the emperor.
Qin Chu said briskly in her usual tone of ignoring "junchen, father and son":
"Although there are Hongnong Yang family and other aristocratic families looking for a replacement for Yuan Shu, the fact that he took away King Chenliu and recruited troops in Xu/zhou is all there.
The Son of Heaven had never made trouble before, firstly he cared about the family in the court, secondly he was afraid of Yuan Shao's soldiers, thirdly...he didn't want Liu Xie to stay away from Luoyang. "
Emperor Xiaoling underestimated the eldest son and favored the second son. If the Fu family had not initially cleaned up the eunuchs 12 years ago, when the emperor passed away at the beginning of the year, the regular servants would have taken the opportunity to support Liu Xie.
This is of course only a small part.For Liu Bian, Dong Zhuo was probably the one who could cast a shadow on him the most.
People walk before the gate of hell, and when they come back, they are always different. With Liu Bian's suspicious and hesitant performance now, it is reasonable for him to be afraid of Liu Xie.
"As for now," she picked up the pottery cup and took a sip of tea leisurely, "he is more afraid of Yuan Shi."
The Yuan family naturally included Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.
"Going south in the spring is also necessary for my lord." Xun Yu finally spoke, using his elegant gentry accent as before, but his words were not too gentle, "Yuan Shu is stubborn, nothing to be afraid of. It's just this person Occupying Xuzhou may provide conditions for Yuan Benchu."
Qin Chu: "How to say?"
Guo Jia pondered for a moment, then nodded to Xun Yu:
"Yuan Shu's desire to win over King Chen Liu is so obvious that anyone can see it.
However, the emperor was weak. Yuan Benchu was stationed in Jizhou, but he refused to return to Luoyang many times, and his power became stronger day by day.When people see Yuan Gonglu, they will only feel that the world is in chaos; but when they see Yuan Benchu, they will feel divided in troubled times. "
Yuan Shu's act of recruiting troops to form an alliance is more like an introduction, reminding the world of the possibility of some kind of "rebellion". When they realized this, the way they looked at Yuan Shao changed.
When you acquiesce in this era that the heavenly family is still supreme, looking at the princes of the separatist side is to look at the "disobedient generation".
However, when you realize that this is the troubled times that have arisen, he can be a "great ally" or "extraordinary monarch".
And Qin Chu—even though he didn't deliberately go on that road, he still walked on the road of "serving the emperor to order him not to be a minister" very naturally.
She quickly realized this, her heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but cast her gaze on Xun Yu.
Those slightly drooping peach blossom eyes were still calm, and he sat in the pavilion with his eyebrows frowned, like a statue made of snow.
"My lord, you can do whatever you want." Behind Luo Yang's snowflakes, Xun Yu was against the morning light, and a trace of melancholy appeared on his white jade-like clean face, which disappeared in an instant, "Yuan Gonglu... the two of the Yuan family, Can't stay."
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