Chapter 178: How can a house be peaceful if it is not swept
Sitting behind the low table, Liu Wei always maintained a faint smile on his face, but his eyes kept looking at You Heng, who was sitting on the side and talking.
"Confucianism advocates the Three Principles and Five Constants, and does not establish a country by law!" Looking at Liu Wei who was sitting in front of him, You Heng continued: "If the legal system is not good, the world will not be prosperous!" The law is excessive, and the people are deeply resentful! If His Royal Highness wants to govern this Hedong County well, he must take a compromise......"
"Is it modest?" Without waiting for You Heng to finish speaking, Liu Wei stood up, put his hands behind his back, and said to You Heng while pacing in the room: "This king admires Mr. Wuchang in the Zhaoxian Pavilion very much, but Mr. dare to ask himself, which of the five constants has Mr. achieved?" ”
When Liu Wei asked this, You Heng was stunned for a moment, looked up at him, and asked with a blank look on his face: "What does Your Highness mean by this?" ”
"Five Constants, Benevolence, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom and Faith!" With his hands behind his back, Liu Wei turned to face You Heng, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to him: "The benevolent person loves people, Mr. in the public, he argues people down, and he still talks endlessly, leaving no room for people, can it be said that he is not benevolent?" This king is thirsty for talent, there is a request for Mr., Mr. came here, but this king is arrogant and uninhibited, although he said some ways to govern the country, but he is not deep, and he does not help people thoroughly, can it be called unjust? ”
The two sentences first stunned You Heng, Liu Wei didn't give You Heng a chance to think at all, and then said: "The military advisor led Mr. to come, and the military advisor should sit in the first seat in terms of the order of duties?" The gentleman didn't say a word, and sat down straight to the first seat, the number of etiquette is wrong, can it be called rude? The world is rich and powerful, and the Han Society is in decline, and Mr. does not think about the law of rapid change, but he talks about the legal system here, can it be said that it is unwise? This king opened the recruitment hall, is to recruit the world's talents, Mr. came to win the official title with talent, but Mr. is a crazy look, so that the king is really cold, so that the pie, can it be said that you don't believe it? ”
"Mr. is talented, this king knows it well!" Looking at You Heng, who was kneeling on the straw mat, Liu Wei nodded slowly, and said in an extremely sonorous and powerful tone: "Mr. has the heart to govern the country, and has the heart to calm the world and display his ambitions, but Mr. can you know that self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world, why is self-cultivation in the front?" ”
Liu Wei asked a series of questions, and You Heng was also a little stunned.
Without waiting for You Heng to come back to his senses, Liu Wei waved his hand and said to him: "If you don't sweep a house, how can you calm the world?" Even if you have great talent, please go back and think twice, if you have any thoughts, this king is waiting for you at any time! ”
Liu Wei did not have a particularly in-depth study of Confucianism, and his remarks were also learned from books in his spare time, but he didn't want to use them on You Heng today.
After being stunned for a while by Liu Wei's words, You Heng stood up with a look of shame, clasped his fists with both hands, gave Liu Wei a deep look, walked out of the study quickly, and walked out of the county without saying hello to Xu Shu.
Seeing You Heng leaving, Xu Shu hurriedly stood up, hugged his fists and bowed to Liu Wei, and was about to go out to chase Youheng, but he didn't want Liu Wei to reach out and grab his sleeve.
"Don't chase!" Pulling Xu Shu's sleeve, Liu Wei had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to him: "If this person doesn't suffer a blow, even if he has talent, he will definitely be embarrassed!" Whether it is available or not depends on whether he will come to look for this king in the next two days! ”
Stopping Xu Shu from going to chase Youheng, Liu Wei then said to him: "This king will go to the camp north of the city with Zilong in the afternoon, and the military advisor still needs to urge the forging workshop to speed up the forging of Mo Dao!" ”
"The Mo knife is heavy, and it consumes extremely refined iron." Speaking of the Mo knife, Xu Shu's face showed a look of embarrassment, and he said to Liu Wei: "Replace all the blades of the spear battalion with Mo knives, I'm afraid it won't be ready for a while!" ”
"And equip 5,000 men!" Liu Wei pondered for a while, and said to Xu Shu: "I want Zhou Cang, Dian Wei and others to step up training officers and soldiers to use Mo Dao, and in a few days, our army will march east and go to Yanzhou to clear the Yellow Turban!" ”
"No!" Xu Shu summed up a little in his heart, with the number of fine iron and blacksmiths in the city, five thousand Mo knives could still be prepared quickly, he responded with his hands in fists, and exited Liu Wei's study.
Reading in the study, until the afternoon, until Zhao Yun walked into the house and told him that he was ready and could go to the north of the city, Liu Wei put down the "Hedong County Chronicles" and went out of the room with Zhao Yun.
In the front yard of the county government, more than 100 personal soldiers who were about to accompany them pressed the hilt of their swords with one hand and held the reins of their war horses with the other, standing straight in the courtyard, waiting for Liu Wei and Zhao Yun.
Liu Wei, who was wearing gold armor, and Zhao Yun, who was wearing silver armor and white robes, walked out of the backyard, and the afternoon sun shone on the two of them.
Taking the reins from one of the pro-soldiers, Liu Wei turned over and jumped on the horse, and waited until Zhao Yun and the pro-soldiers also got on the horse, then waved to everyone and said, "Let's go!" ”
More than 100 people rode out of the county hall on horseback, and walked through the streets that were much more empty than the rest of the city, and the neat clothes and armor of the soldiers made them look more and more energetic.
Some of the people who were buying goods in the shops, when they heard that Liu Wei was leading the team out, hurriedly rushed to the door, looking at this small but majestic force, pointing and not knowing what they were saying.
In Anyi City, Liu Wei rarely goes out, and even when he goes out, he always changes into casual clothes and appears on the street in a very low-key manner.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no television, posters and other propaganda media that could show portraits of people, and Liu Wei entered the city, and did not inspect the city in a high-profile manner, and it was precisely for this reason that in the past, he wore deep clothes to travel, and even if the people in the city met him, they did not dare to easily recognize him as the king of Hongnong.
Deep down, people will have a stereotyped impression of a fixed group. In the hearts of the people, as the king of Hongnong, Liu Wei should be the image of a military uniform, gold clothes and gold armor. No one would easily associate him with the crimson linen coat.
Leading the team on the street without hurrying, the figures of Liu Wei and the others quickly disappeared at the end of the street.
At the same time, in a silk and satin shop opposite the county government, the cousin stood on the side of the road and watched Liu Wei lead a team of personal soldiers to disappear at the end of the street, turned around and entered the store, walked straight to the back hall, opened a small door on the inside of the back hall and walked in.
The hall entered into a very small inner room.
Kneeling in the room sat five men dressed in pure black robes, sitting in a circle, each with a long sword in front of him.
They may have been sitting in the room for a long time, but none of them spoke, as if a group of mutes were sitting opposite each other, communicating with each other's minds.
The cousin opened the small door and walked into the room, and the man sitting at the door looked up at him, lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"King Hongnong is out of the city!" He bowed to the man, and whispered, "Zhao Yun followed, and he also brought more than a hundred personal soldiers!" ”
"Zhao Yun follows!" At the mention of Zhao Yun's name, several men in black glanced at each other, and the man sitting at the door frowned tightly, and said to the other men: "I heard that Zhao Yun stabbed Xiahou Ying to death with one shot, and this assassination of King Hongnong must not be able to avoid him." At that time, twenty brothers will be selected, entanglement of Zhao Yun, and the rest of them will try their best to kill Liu Wei! ”
"That's it! Let's go! After giving an order to everyone, the man sitting at the door waved his hand at everyone and gave the order to leave.
"No!" The other four men in black answered in unison, got up and walked out of the hut, out of the silk shop, and soon disappeared at both ends of the street.
"Continue to monitor the county government, and report to me immediately if there is any change!" The four men in black went out, and the man in black sitting at the door looked up at the cousin standing in the room, gave him a command, and then waved his hand.
The cousin answered, exited the hut, and closed the door from the outside.
Leading the team out of the north gate of Anyi, Liu Wei and Zhao Yun rode side by side, quickly running towards the Hedong Army camp ten miles away.
In summer, the fields are verdant and green, with green grass everywhere, and the mountains in the distance are like wearing a thick dark green velvet coat, which glows with vigor under the sun.
The field was very empty, but since he left the north city gate, Liu Wei had not seen a single person living outside the city. The green grass sways in the wind, showing their graceful figures, and not even a single cow or sheep enjoy this abundant water and grass.
"If you can get some cattle and sheep and raise them on this meadow, it is indeed a good thing without any profits!" Speeding all the way, he saw a black flag flying in the wind in the north from a distance, Liu Wei stopped his horse, pointed to the grass around him with a horsewhip, and said to Zhao Yun beside him: "There are more cattle and sheep, and the people can eat more meat!" ”
"Your Highness has thought it through!" Following Liu Bian's slow rein, looking at the green grass in the wilderness, Zhao Yun said to Liu Bian: "In the Central Plains, there is mostly loess, and it is really rare to see such abundant aquatic plants. It's a good place for free-range, but most of the people are farming in the fields, and they rarely do this stocking! ”
"Habits can be changed!" Riding a horse and walking forward slowly, Liu Wei raised his horsewhip, pointed to the flying battle flag in front of him, and said to Zhao Yun: "On the side of the Lianshui River that day, the Hedong Army and you and I were still killed upside down, and the losses of soldiers on both sides were quite heavy, who would have thought that in just over a month, the entire Hedong officers and soldiers would all be replaced with the battle flag of my Hongnong King?" ”
"Your Highness is benevolent and virtuous, treat prisoners well, the soldiers of the Hedong Army have heard of it!" Riding a horse and walking beside Liu Bian, looking at the battle flag in the distance that was like a dark cloud, Zhao Yun said to Liu Bian: "It's just that the Hedong Army has recently surrendered, and His Highness only led more than a hundred people to visit, which is really too risky!" ”
"Heart-to-heart!" Raising his eyes and looking ahead, Liu Wei said to Zhao Yun: "Since the soldiers of Hedong have been submitted to me, if this king still takes precautions against them, I am afraid it will chill their hearts!" The king's light clothes never came to visit, but also to tell them that the king had never treated them as outsiders! ”
"Your Highness, there's a team of people ahead!" While talking to Zhao Yunzheng, a personal soldier behind Liu Wei raised his hand and pointed forward and shouted to Liu Wei.