Thousands of miles away from Yanmen Pass in the south, there is a prosperous and majestic city, Chongde Hall is in the palace wall of this city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chongde Hall, a place that countless people have dreamed of in the past. It's a pity that ordinary people and even the county guards and county commanders of many counties find it difficult to set foot here in their entire lives.

At this time, the sky was not yet clear, and when the probe looked at the sky, a touch of fish belly was faintly visible, hazy.

The threshold of the Chongde Hall is quite high, up to the calf of a person, outside this threshold, dozens of pairs of black shoes are neatly placed, and there are six-foot-high sword racks on both sides of the vermilion gate, on which all kinds of swords are placed.

The founding law of the Han Dynasty, but all Han ministers are not allowed to wear swords to the palace, and violators will be punished for the crime of great disrespect.

And at this moment, in the solemn Chongde Hall, there were bursts of hearty laughter.

Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, wears a crown on his head, sits on the throne high, hangs down twelve times before and after, has a built-in close-fitting black brocade robe, and wears a wide black robe outside, which is embroidered with twelve chapters such as the sun, moon and stars from his shoulders down.

In the entire Han Dynasty, only the emperor can share these twelve chapters, and the three princes and nine kings can use the following eight chapters such as mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, and algae, and a captain like Lu Bu is at the level of Lu Bu, and only the last two chapters of Mi and Huang Huang are available.

When today's son Liu Hong is not from the first emperor, this is no longer a secret.

After the death of Emperor Huan Liu Zhi, there was no son to succeed to the throne, and Empress Dou Miao discussed with her father Dou Wu and others for several days, and finally chose Liu Hong to inherit the unification. Dou Miao sent Liu Zhengshou, the imperial historian, Qu Yi, the Guanglu doctor, and Cao Jie, the commander of Fengche, to Hejian to welcome Liu Hong, who was only twelve years old, to the throne.

After Liu Hong succeeded to the throne, he changed the name of the year to Jianning, and the three of Taifu Chen Fan, the general Dou Wu and Situ Huguang participated in the Shangshu affair, and posthumously honored his father Liu Chang as the "Emperor Xiaoren", and his mother Dong was named the "Shenyuan Noble".

Now that Liu Hong has succeeded to the throne for 15 years, his face is too fair when he is young, and occasionally he will reveal a trace of sickness.

In Liu Hong's view, if he is as stable as Mount Tai today, he rarely asks about political affairs and only cares about pleasure.

At the instigation of his mother, the Empress Dowager Dong, and his attendants, Liu Hong began to try to sell his official position, and after making a lot of money, he became more and more out of control, and then used the money from the sale of official positions to build the West Garden.

Liu Hong likes beauty, and specially built a 'naked tour hall' in the West Garden, and ordered the palace maids to all strip naked and go down to play and chase for him to enjoy.

In addition, Liu Hong also imitated markets, markets, various shops, and vendors in the harem, and asked some of the palace maids and concubines to dress up as various merchants to sell, others to dress up as guests to buy things, and some to dress up as singers and monkeys. And he himself put on the clothes of a merchant, pretended to be a merchant selling goods, and walked up and down the man-made bazaar, or drank and had fun in the hotel, or quarreled and fought with the shopkeepers and customers.

No one dared to rebuke Liu Hong, he was the Son of Heaven, he was ordered by Heaven, and he lived forever.

There are more than 40 people standing on the left and right sides below Liu Hong, each divided into three columns and standing neatly.

The courtiers on the left are unified maroon court clothes, and the right side is all black ink court clothes, the Han Dynasty has always respected black, coupled with the saying that the right respects the left and is inferior, the position of civil and military officials in the hearts of the emperors of previous dynasties can be seen one or two.

Don't look at the dozens of people in the hall one by one with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, once out of this Chongde Palace, which one is not casually stamping their feet, the entire Han Dynasty will tremble.

The tens of millions of living beings of the Han Dynasty are all in the hands of these dozens of people, and they can be regarded as the real handles of life and death.

Liu Hong, who was on the throne, had a bright smile and was obviously extremely happy.

"Your Majesty, what is it that deserves such pleasure from you?" Situ Yuan Kui was the first to ask.

Liu Hong didn't hide this, and said very happily: "Zhong Aiqing, I got the battle report last night, and the Xianbei people in Yanmen Pass were beaten back to Xihe by my Han Erlang. You say, "Is this a great joy?" ”

When the courtiers below heard this, they bowed down one after another and congratulated in unison: "Your Majesty is mighty, God bless the great man." At the same time, the doubts hidden in their hearts also quietly dispersed, no wonder Liu Hong, who has rarely been in court, suddenly remembered that he was going to court early.

Prior to this, the Xianbei people had always been a big problem for the Han Dynasty, like appendages.

More than ten years ago, the Xianbei people made chaos on the border, and the first emperor wanted to crown Xianbei Shan Yu Tanshihuai as the king, and made peace with him, but Tanbeihuai was not accepted, but strengthened the invasion of the territory of the Han Dynasty.

After Liu Hong ascended the throne, Xia Yu, the captain of Wuhuan, wrote again to ask for a crusade against Xianbei.

Therefore, Liu Hong sent Xia Yu to lead the army out of Gaoliu County, Tian Yan to lead the army out of Yunzhong County, and Zang Min to lead the Southern Xiongnu to Tu Teruo corpse to go out of Yanmen County, each leading more than 10,000 cavalry to attack more than 2,000 miles outside the Saiwai. Tanshi Huai ordered his subordinates to be three adults (that is, the current three kings) to lead their own people to meet the attack, Xia Yu and others were defeated, discarding their own rune seals and baggage, and only led dozens of people to flee back.

Liu Hong was furious and sent the three to prison, and was later deposed as a concubine after redemption.

Now that Xianbei has been defeated, it can be described as a shame, how can Liu Hong not be happy.

Facing the courtiers' congratulations, Liu Hong accepted them all with a smile, and then threw out a new topic again: "Of course, it is worth being happy to defeat the Xianbei people, but there is a problem that I can't distinguish after thinking about it. ”

When the courtiers heard this, they all whispered with joy in their hearts, 'It's time to show your true talent', but their faces were extremely humble, and they asked for advice: "The ministers are stupid, and please make it clear to Your Majesty." ”

Liu Hong raised his left hand, which was lying flat on his lap, and waved it forward, and a small yellow door quickly walked in front of the ministers with two bundles of bamboo slips.

Looking at the slightly urgent expressions below, Liu Hong opened his mouth and said, "You all take a closer look at these two notes for me and distinguish which one is true and which one is false?" ”

The two bundles of bamboo slips were passed down in turn, and after reading it on the side of the third duke, it was passed on to the military attaché's side.

About half an hour later, the bamboo slips were handed in again.

Liu Hong saw that everyone had finished reading it, so he asked again: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you think the content of these two bamboo slips is true or false." ”

Facing the inquiring gaze of the Son of Heaven, the ministers bowed their heads one after another, and no one dared to reply.

The Chongde Hall fell into a dead silence for a while.

Liu Hong's originally festive face gradually became gloomy, and there was a little chill in his smile.

At this time, I suddenly heard someone next to me say: "Your Majesty, the old slave has heard that Zhang Yi, the assassin of the state, is respectful and humble, and has a wide range of faith, so I don't think I will lie Your Majesty." ”

Finally, someone responded, and Liu Hong also had steps, and while nodding again and again, he didn't forget to glance at the old eunuch who had been in charge of the palace for nearly 20 years.

This eunuch with pale temples, wearing an embroidered suit and a long black crown is named Zhang Rang, and he holds the position of a permanent attendant. Unbeknownst to Liu Hong, he took advantage of the favor of the Son of Heaven to loot and extort everywhere, known for his arrogance and greed, and when he asked to see Zhang Rang's guests in Luoyang, hundreds of carriages often parked at the door, blocking the door of the mansion, and competing to bribe him in order to seek wealth and nobility for high-ranking officials.

In addition to Zhang Rang, there are Zhao Zhong and Xia Yun, Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Bi Lan, Li Song, Duan Qi, Gao Wang, Zhang Gong, Han Kui, Song Dian 12 people, all of whom served as regular servants, and their fathers and sons and brothers were distributed in the prefectures and counties as officials, corrupt and brutal, and the Son of Heaven did not know, and the people called them 'Ten Permanent Servants'.

Seeing Zhang Rang speak, someone in the originally quiet court began to speak.

"The minister thought that what Zhang Changshou said was true, and the minister seconded it."

"That's right, the minister also remembers that Zhang Yi is indeed not a man of his word, and the minister also seconded it."

"The minister seconded the ......"

More and more people on the civilian side's side seconded the proposal, but on the military attaché's side, few people spoke squeakily.

"This old eunuch doesn't know how much money he received from Zhang Yi behind his back!"

"Who doesn't know that Zhang Yi served as the assassin of Bingzhou at the beginning, and it was the idea that you all wanted."

"A bunch of rootless things, sooner or later, I'm going to get rid of you all!"

Many courtiers among the courtiers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and could only secretly curse Zhang Rang and others in their hearts for not dying well in the future.

Most of the military attachés set their eyes on the middle-aged man at the front, who was not tall and somewhat short.

Just as the Son of Heaven was about to make a decision, this short man with a thick beard on his chin spoke, "Your Majesty, although the minister and the general of Zhenbei have never met, they can win the trust of the first emperor, and they have been in charge of the state for nearly twenty years, and no Xianbei person has set foot in the Yanmen Pass. The loyalty and courage of his people can be known, and it is by no means as the assassin Zhang Yi said in the recital, commanding indiscriminately and not daring to fight. ”

As soon as this person's words came out, the civil official's side suddenly fell silent and fell silent again.

This man is above the court, has the absolute right to speak, and almost no one dares to provoke him, the general He Jin. In addition, he is also the brother of the current queen, and he is called General He above the court, out of this Chongde Palace, who dares not to call him Uncle Guo?

Moreover, the Luoyang family and the wealthy families in various places seem to be particularly optimistic about this man, and many children of the wealthy families are working for him.

As soon as He Jin spoke out, most of the military attaches behind him had confidence and began to agree with the proposal.

There were only a handful of people in the back on both sides of the civil and military sides, who neither agreed nor refuted, for fear of provoking the fire, and quietly in front of the 'dumb'.

Hearing He Jin's opinion, Liu Hong felt that it was quite reasonable, but which side should he listen to?

Thinking about it, Liu Hong couldn't help but feel a little melancholy: "Alas, Father (E) and the general of the chariot cavalry have their own reasons, which makes it even more difficult for me to break. ”

Between the two dilemmas, Liu Hong suddenly remembered a person in his mind, his eyes quickly searched in the civil official queue, and soon fixed on the courtier with a yellowed face and a slight forward, and said with a smile: "Huang Shizhong, I remember that you have a lot of ideas on weekdays. Come, tell me how to decide. ”

Huang Wan, the named waiter, had an ugly smile on his face that was more ugly than crying, Liu Hong actually threw such a hot potato to himself at this time, doesn't this make it clear that he wants to kill me! As long as you are not blind, you should be able to see that this is a matter of who is right and who is wrong, and it has clearly risen to the level of the group contradiction between He Jin and Zhang Rang, no matter which side is right, it will definitely offend the other party.

At the beginning, Huang Wan offended the powerful because of his uprightness, was framed as a friend, and was imprisoned for more than 20 years.

Having learned the lesson of the last time, Huang Wan is careful everywhere in officialdom. Now living in the court, Huang Wan is even more cautious, and accompanying the king like a tiger is not a joke. Faced with the question of the Son of Heaven, Huang Wan walked out of the ranks and bowed, and before he couldn't think of a complete answer, he could only barely deal with it: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has no contact with Zhang Yi and Zhang Zhong on weekdays, and he knows very little about the two......

Liu Hong's brows sank, Huang Wan's answer was obviously casual and perfunctory, how could I spare you.

"But ......"

Huang Wan stole a glimpse of Liu Hong's subtle expression of murderous intent, and immediately changed his words and said again: "Your Majesty, do you remember that there is a person mentioned in the recitals of the two of them - Lu Bu." ”

Liu Hong's brows gradually relaxed, as if there was such a name in the note, and nodded at Huang Wan, "Go on." ”

Seeing that the Son of Heaven's anger eased slightly, Huang Wan's heart was half relieved, "Zhang Zhong said that Lu Bu had the merit of breaking the enemy and praised him as the general of Suibian, but Zhang Yi said in the recital that Lu Bu killed the captain Zheng You and should be executed. Since both of them mentioned this person in the song, why not recruit him to Luoyang and ask the Tingwei Yamen to interrogate him strictly, and he will definitely know a thing or two. ”

After hearing this, Liu Hong waved his hand and praised it: "Okay, Aiqing is really full of whimsy, so I will do as you say." ”

Huang Wan saw that the Son of Heaven showed his face again, and hurriedly returned to the queue, his heart was about to jump out just now, for fear that Liu Hong would say the last 'no'.

Just when the courtiers were all happy, Liu Hong added again, "But this time I won't bother the court captain, I will personally try him!" ”

"Your Majesty, don't !!"

Liu Hong's words shocked Zhang Rang beside him into a cold sweat, and hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him: "Then Lu Bu is just a side Saiwufu, how can he be interrogated by His Majesty personally." If this person behaves misbehaps, will we not be in danger of His Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to withdraw his order and hand it over to the court lieutenant for trial. ”

Tingwei He Pestle immediately came out of the queue and said to Liu Hong: "Your Majesty, please also hand it over to the minister, and the minister promises to live up to His Majesty's trust." ”

"The minister thinks that His Majesty's personal trial will surely accomplish a beautiful story that will go down through the ages."

He Jin interjected coldly, He Pestle is Zhang Rang's person, if he is allowed to interrogate, then Zhang Rang only needs one sentence, and what Lu Bu says is not up to him.

Liu Hong also seemed to be interested, "The general of the Che Cavalry is reasonable, this matter is so decided!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Liu Hong personally made the decision, how could the ministers dare to refute it head-on without fear of death, so they could only echo it.

After the early dynasty, the ministers put their hands behind their backs, walked out of the hall in a leisurely manner, changed into shoes, put their swords back on their waists, and left.

He Jin walked at the end, and today he blocked Zhang Rang twice in succession, which made him very comfortable.

Someone once suggested to him, saying that above the court, as long as Zhang Rang and other eunuchs agreed, you would pinch him; If they deny what is excluded, you agree. It won't be long before it will be able to win the reputation of a protesting eunuch, and then a large number of talented people will come to vote.

As a result, it really responded to the man's words, but it was hateful, and it was a pity that he failed to keep this person in the first place.

After He Jin put on his sword shoes, he began to prepare to return home, but at this time, he heard a voice from behind: "Uncle Guo, please stay......"

He Jin still took care of himself and didn't look back, this voice was familiar to him anymore.

Zhang Rang saw that He Jin refused to stop, so he quickened his steps forward, and when he was side by side with He Jin, his steps slowed down, and he asked: "Uncle Guo, our family thinks that we didn't recruit you to provoke you, why do you compete with our family in the court again and again, could it be that Zhang Zhong is your uncle Guo's person?" ”

He Jin, who was still a little shorter than Zhang Rang, pursed his lips and snorted: "General Ben has said that I have never met that Zhang Zhongsu, so why do you say that he is my person!" ”

"Uncle Naguo, you ......" Zhang Rang's voice dragged on a little long.

He Jin didn't like others to ask him this and that all the time, not to mention that he had always been a sworn enemy, so he sprayed directly: "Lao Tzu just looks at you unhappy, what's the matter, you old eunuch!" ”

Emasculation is the biggest insult to eunuchs, not to mention the addition of the word 'old' in front.

To He Jin's surprise, Zhang Rang's face not only did not have the slightest anger, but instead sneered and said: "Uncle Guo, in the eyes of those wealthy families, I'm afraid that you, a butcher, are even more unsightly than our family." ”

He Jin changed color, although he was born as a butcher, but he hated others to call him 'He Butcher' the most, with full anger, He Jin jumped out from between his teeth word by word, "Zhang Rang, do you think I dare not touch you?" ”

In the palace, Zhang Rang, who has experienced several lives and deaths, has already figured out people's hearts thoroughly, and he retreated: "Our family is a eunuch, so it is naturally not worth the uncle of the country, but have you forgotten the general and the master back then?" ”

Zhang Rang's words quickly calmed He Jin.

There were two people who were at the head of the civil and military forces, the general Dou Wu and the Taifu Chen Fan, both of whom had the merit of supporting the Son of Heaven, but in the end they ended up with a full family extermination.

Seeing He Jin's hesitant look, Zhang Rang knew the truth of striking while the iron was hot, and then said: "Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Uncle Guo defeats me and exterminates all the eunuchs such as me, then after this, who will the gradually recovering 'party people' and the ministers of the family in the court point the finger at?" ”

After He Jin heard this, he only felt a huge explosion in his head, and scolded Zhang Rang sharply: "Hmph, you don't want to separate General Ben!" ”

After speaking, He Jin strode away with his sleeves brushed up.

Zhang Rang looked at He Jin, who was leaving, and stopped chasing, changed directions, smiled and squinted his eyes, and said in a strange way: "People's hearts~"

After the courtiers left, there were still one old and one young in the Chongde Palace, kneeling in an inconspicuous position on the left. There was a black desk in front of them, and the two were not courtiers or eunuchs, they were only responsible for recording the contents of the early dynasty as the basis for the compilation of future historical books.

The old man looked at the bamboo slip described by the young man, shook his head, stretched out his right hand, which was only a layer of dry skin, and held the pen in the young man's hand, and lightly drew a slash on the bamboo slip, "27,000 killed".

After the old man finished drawing, he let go of his hand, and said to the young man with a little pampering in his tone: "How many times have I taught you, but you still can't remember how to write, and when you are officially appointed, no one will remind you anymore." ”

The boy scratched his head, still unable to understand, "But what I wrote is the truth?" ”

"What facts?"

The old man stretched out his hand and knocked the young man on a chestnut, and reprimanded him with a straight face and pretended to be an old master: "Remember it in the future, but in all battles, you can only record the victories, and you can't clearly record how many soldiers have been killed in battle." This is detrimental to the prestige of our Han country, Your Majesty will not allow it, the court will not allow it, and the people will not be happy to hear it. ”

"But that's more than 20,000 lives!" The boy argued unconvinced.

"How can there be an immortal soldier, anyway, the dead have nothing to do with us, what do you that person."

When the old man walked to the door of the main hall, he seemed to remember something, turned back again, picked up the ink pen on the copy, and in the young man's surprised eyes, the pen stroked on the two words 'Lu Bu', and drew two bars heavily.

Then, the old man hummed quite comfortably and walked out of the Chongde Palace.

A border warrior also wants to be famous for eternity?