Chapter 567 Yuan Pu secretly visited Song Chufeng, and the Empress discussed military and political affairs in the Southern Dynasties (1)
Song Keli suddenly stood up, bowed to the end, and said in panic: “Song Keli greets Mr. Yuan!” ‘This worship is to pay homage to the Emperor’s Master of Tai’an City – Ban Cun Tongyuan Benxi!
White dew, the fifteenth day of the twenty-four solar terms, when the plants and trees come to see dew, the wild geese cross south to avoid the cold.
Weize County, Ningzhou, is a Shang County, and is equipped with two county lieutenants. At the end of last winter, Song Keli, a foreigner, came here to take office and suppressed the bandits with great force. He broke more than ten places in the nests of horses and bandits. The horses in Ningzhou were frightened. However, when the summer entered, the Little Song Chief lieutenant dismissed his official position without warning from the Ningzhou Governor’s Office and has been idle at home for several months. It was raining all night long, and a marriage that had been roughly agreed upon was also ruined. The woman was a jasper from a middle-class family in Weize County. She could not be called a lady from a prominent family or a scholarly family. She was suspected of marrying a young commander who had been in the past, but she was naturally wronged to marry Song Keli, who was a white Ding family afterwards. The marriage changed and did not cause much trouble in Weize County. After all, Ningzhou is located in the south of the capital, and all the old and young people in a state are staring at the restoration of the Western Chu country on Guangling Road. Who cares about a down-and-out scholar’s neighbors’ relationship with good firewood, rice, oil, salt, and neighbors, and they would shout “Little Song Captain” when they met. Most people don’t like to pay attention to this official dog who has no backing.
However, one evening at the time of the white dew, an old Confucian scholar with frosty hair entered the county town. Without asking for directions, he walked straight to the door of Song Keli, who had already moved out of the county government. There was a small carriage parked outside the door so that people would not feel that there was nowhere to be lost. The old scholar looked at the pretty face in a corner of his eyes, feeling miserable and miserable. The woman was a little surprised when she saw a visit from the house. She slowly lowered the curtain and the carriage slowly drove out of the alley. The old Confucian scholar pushed the door straight in. Song Keli was reading a court newspaper that was coming with a relationship. After seeing the Confucian scholar who was not astonishing, he looked surprised and put the newspaper on the stone table. He hurriedly got up, bowed and said, “I have met Mr. Yuan after I was young.”
The visitor was the introverted old Hanlin Yuan, the Hanlin Yuan. The words of this Hanlin senior were better than those of him who read the books of sages for ten years. Song Keli had to think carefully about the words written by Mr. Yuan in the Hanlin Academy on rice paper that day: “There are three things that scholars do not care about: managing the family does not care about self-cultivation, governing the country does not care about governing the country, and pacifying the world does not care about governing the country.” “The world’s family and country are defeated, and they cannot escape the root of the word “accumulation and gradual”. The rise of the world’s family is inseparable from the word “accumulation and gradual”.” At the beginning, the entire Tai’an City was watching the jokes of their Song family. The Song family’s two masters who dominated the literary world, his grandfather was so angry that he was sick and his reputation was ruined; his father was demoted from the capital and could not become an official in his lifetime, and his former Song family’s youth was also exiled to Weize County, Ningzhou, where the poor mountains, rivers and horses were affected by horses. This is not a tragic matter. When he asked for his mission to the people to make some achievements, he first came from the county government and then the Ningzhou governor’s residence. Someone tried to suppress him one after another, but Song Keli was not depressed. What really made him feel confused was another thing-those shortsThe people who had received many favors from him, Song Duwei, within half a year, rolled their eyes and mocked them with their colleagues in the county. However, Song Keli did not want to ask anyone to complain, except for the Yuan Huangmen Yuan Pu in front of him. Because Song Keli was inappropriate, he wanted to ask this gentleman who couldn’t afford to be in the Hanlin Academy.
After Mr. Yuan sat down, Song Keli asked respectfully: “Why did you come to Weize County?”
Yuan Pu, who originally liked to write more than speak, picked up the newspaper. Perhaps because he read too much and had bad eyes, he lifted it up a few points, browsed it carefully, and then spoke after gently, but his voice was still vague: “I haven’t left Tai’an City for too many years, so I want to go out and take a look.”
Speaking of this, the old man said with some emotion: “After Wang Xianzhi walked out of Wudi City, an old friend in Tai’an City also left.”
Yuan Pu looked at Song Keli and said straight to the point: “Ningzhou horse suffering is difficult to return, and it has its roots. This is just a chess piece on the chessboard. It’s big or small, but if you are an outsider who wants to play chess pieces, the old chess player will make you die.”
Song Keli nodded and said relievedly: “As I expected, the horse thief who has swarmed in Ningzhou over the years was Cao Changqing’s move.”
Yuan Pu said calmly: “Cao Changqing has not been idle for these twenty years. There is also a member of the Western Chu who has been in charge of the third leader of Zhao Gou. This person proposed seventeen years ago to plant secret spies in the army of Guangling Road. In the early spring of this year, the first year of Xiangfu, most of the spies who have been lurking for many years have become chief lieutenants and school lieutenants, to be precise, there were 367 people, half of whom died suddenly, and half of them became the backbone of the Western Chu rebels. This move was completely unexpected by the Ministry of War, which had been planned with Zhao Gou for more than ten years. The Minister of War Lu Baijie was stretched at this moment, which has a lot to do with the disaster of this matter. Otherwise, you would think that there were so many elite troops in Western Chu who could fight to the death as soon as they came to the battlefield.”
Song Keli looked stunned.
Yuan Pu smeared his fingers together on the stone table, and said hoarsely: “The situation is divided into different sizes. To put it in a big way, it is to reduce the vassal state, to gather national strength, to promote imperial examinations, and to suppress military personnel. After all, it is to swallow Beimang, unify the world, and to complete the feat that the Great Qin Dynasty did not achieve eight hundred years ago. One step back is someone’s eternal emperor.”
Yuan Pu’s fingers were drawn: “To put it slightly, it was forcing the King of Beiliang to use all his responsibilities to restrain Beimang, and limit Gu Jiantang to the northern line. This was an open conspiracy. Using the restoration of the Western Chu Kingdom as bait, it consumed the strength and ambitions of the major vassal kings, including King Guangling, to destroy the local military strength of Gu Lu, and to use this to catch the big fish that occupied the geographical and cultural harmony of Yanla King Zhao Bing. This was a conspiracy. The terrible thing about the King of Beiliang was that there were 300,000 strong troops. The respectable thing was that the father and son held authority but would not rebel. The pitiful thing was that the Liyang court would have to lose all the money whether you rebel against Beiliang or not. “
Yuan PuHe spread his palms and wiped it on the table: “Life is helpless, just like Xu Xiao trying every means to kill me, but even if he has 300,000 troops, he can’t kill me, but he can’t kill me. Just like Cao Changqing is so romantic, but he is not lucky, and was born in Western Chu. Just like Zhang Julu, who devotes his whole life to seek welfare for the people of the world, but has to face the current situation of a family and a whole world. Just like Xu Fengnian, who defeated Wang Xianzhi, and then faces the millions of cavalry of Beimang. Their helplessness, Song Keli, is bigger or smaller than that of you, Song Keli,”
Song Keli was dumbfounded: “Mr. Yuan”
Yuan Pu smiled.
Song Keli suddenly stood up, bowed to the end, and said in panic: “Song Keli pays homage to Mr. Yuan!”
This worship was to pay homage to the Emperor Tai’an City – “Half-inch tongue” Yuan Benxi!
Yuan Benxi ignored Song Keli’s solemn matter and said calmly: “I shouldn’t have seen you so early, but I have been in that city all my life. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, I was just an unknown man. The word Xun Ping is more useful than a few kilograms of saliva in my mouth; in the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, I had nothing to do. Now that I have taken root on the chessboard, according to Huang Longshi’s view, going to the fields to farm. What’s interesting is not to wait for a bumper harvest at home, but to go to the fields to see the golden yellow on the ridges in person. You shouldn’t continue to stay in Weize County, you might as well see the scene of smoke everywhere. Otherwise, we scholars just say that even if we really think about how hard it is to mourn the people’s livelihood, it would be too ridiculous to even not understand how the people are suffering.”
Song Keli’s eyes were shining and she said happily: “I wish to be a former guard of Mr. Yuan.”
Yuan Benxi nodded and asked, “I just saw the woman in the alley. How do you think it is compared to the princess who secretly left the capital to see you?”
Song Keli was speechless for a moment and didn’t know how to answer.