Zhu Nao

This question made Wu Cong slightly startled.

Many people are curious about this, what kind of deep hatred between Xie Wuji and Xie's family back then caused Xie Wuji to run away from home?Because they couldn't find out the truth, good people made up many twists and turns. Some people said that Xie Wuji took a fancy to a woman and wanted to marry her back home, but the Xie family beat mandarin ducks. In order to make Xie Wuji give up, he even poisoned her to death. The woman eventually led to a break between the two parties; some people said that Xie Wuji was not actually of the blood of the Xie family, but a little bastard born of his mother's fornication. Home.

In fact, that is all nonsense, in fact, it is not the case at all.

Wu Cong said: "If you really want to talk about it, it's not a very tortuous thing. The cause was just a quarrel. It's just that I never thought that today would be..."

He paused, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, and after a while he said slowly: "Do you remember that there was a year when the imperial court reformed. At that time, the imperial court should also have realized that the world has accumulated evils and people's livelihood is difficult, so they inspired reforms and promulgated There are many laws and decrees that want to check the property of the rich households in the world, increase taxes on the rich households, and reduce taxes for the poor, so as to appease the people and increase the revenue of the national treasury.”

Cheng Jingzhe looked blank.He's not a kid from a rich family, and he doesn't remember any tax cuts in the past.Could it be that he was too young at that time to remember anything?

Wu Cong said: "But you also know that although this kind of reform is well thought out, it is not easy to implement. After the implementation of the decree, the local governments are corrupt and corrupt, and do not follow the rules. The name was all passed on to the poor. The imperial court’s original intention was good, but the matter failed, which increased the burden on the people. Later, the public resentment boiled over, riots broke out in many places, the imperial court was forced to abolish the new law, and a large number of people who supported the reform Officials were investigated. It seems that from then on, the emperor fell into a slump, and General He and his relatives began to take turns taking power."

Jing Zhe was silent.In this way, he has the impression that his family is just an ordinary farmer, and he doesn't care about the affairs of the court. One year, he vaguely heard that the court was reforming the law.But it turned out to be such a thing.

It was only after following Zhu Nao that he realized that being an official is not easy.Being an official is by no means just giving orders and everything will be fine.How to implement the decree and how to achieve results are all extremely difficult.I think that when Zhu Nao first took office as Yin of Chengdu, he also ordered to remake the household registration and field books, in order to find out the property of the people.Zhu Nao also encountered great resistance. He spent great efforts to suppress corrupt officials and appease the people. In addition, the Shu government was in great chaos at that time, and the intertwined relationships in various places had been broken up, so he finally completed this matter.

But what does this have to do with Xie Wuji?

Wu Cong continued: "It seems that the general was only 14 years old back then. Mr. Xie sent him to study in a government school. He wanted him to be an official in the court." The owner of the house.

"The Xie family was a powerful family in Huizhou at that time, and they had long colluded with local officials. After the government's decree came down, the Xie family easily passed on the tax and was not affected in any way. General Xie learned of this, and Seeing that the local poor have only thatched huts and a few tiles, and cannot eat enough to eat, they had some disputes with Mr. Xie.”

"The general thinks that Xie's family is rich and doesn't care about the taxes. Why doesn't he act according to the order of the court? Mr. Xie thinks that the general is stupid in the official school. How can he have too much money? Besides, once the family's wealth is known by the court, the court will pay for it in the future. They will try every means to confiscate it, and the status of the Xie family will be hard to protect."

"The general said that the imperial court promulgated such a decree to check and balance the rich families. If the rich families in the world are like the Xie family, the poor people will have nowhere to go. Sooner or later the world will be chaotic, and no one will have a good life. Xie Gong was furious , Said that the general is a child of the Xie family, and should put the Xie family first. If he can't put the interests of the Xie family first, it will be a disaster in the future."

Cheng Jingzhe looked at Wu Cong in a daze.

Wu Cong sighed softly, and said: "At the beginning, it might just be a verbal dispute between father and son, but the general and Mr. Xie are both strong and stubborn people. For some reason, this matter became more and more troublesome, and Mr. Xie even banned the general Go to government school to study again."

"Later, the father and son still failed to reconcile, and it happened that the post of Sima in the garrison near Huizhou was vacant. Xie Gong used some means to send the general to the army as Sima. At that time, Xie Gong just wanted to let the general have some food in the army. Bitter, he said to the general, sooner or later the general will understand that he is nothing if he leaves the Xie family! The general was young and energetic at the time, so he naturally refused to accept it, so he really went..."

"Later, until the Huizhou garrison changed defenses, the general never returned to Xie's house, and he followed the army around. Then he went to the north..."

Later, when the world was in chaos, Xie Wuji showed his sharpness and stood out in the troubled times.Jing Zhe also knew all about it.

The fact is not as frightening as the rumors in the market, the cause was just a father-son dispute, at that time the Xie family never imagined that Xie Wuji would have today, I am afraid that Xie Wuji himself did not think of it either.

And Xie Wuji and Xie Jia didn't have any deep hatred at all, when Xie Wuji made a fortune in the north, Xie's family thought about asking him to go back.The intensification of the conflict between the two parties was precisely because the Xie family sent Xie San to take away Xie Wuji's military power when he was disobedient.

The reason why Xie Wuji killed his brother was not out of selfishness.Everyone in the world thinks that he is very powerful as the commander-in-chief of the army, but in fact he is extremely dangerous.One wrong step would lead to eternal doom, and Xie Wuji at that time was really incapable of handling such a crisis with ease, so he could only cut the mess with a knife, behead the chief culprit, and stabilize the morale of the army.

As for Xie Wuji killing his uncle... Wu Cong was also terrified by this back then.But after a long time, Wu Cong also gradually understood that in fact, the chaos in the world and the corruption of the imperial government were caused by the incompetence of the imperial court, but it was not because of the collusion of these powerful and powerful people, covering the sky with one hand, emptying the power of the imperial court, and making the imperial court's decrees impossible. carry out?Without the removal of the Xue family, Chanzhou would not be able to restore peace.

Xie Wuji has always been a righteous person in his heart.It's just that there are too many things in the world that are difficult to do or have to do, which makes him misunderstood.He was once regarded as a bandit army by the people of the world and squeezed out by various princes.If he died at that time, who would know the authenticity of his life?

Fortunately, he met Junao.

After hearing the grievances between Xie Wuji and Xie's family, Jing Zhe was filled with emotion and didn't know where to start.

Wu Cong said: "The general has killed a lot of people and offended a lot of people this way. I'm really afraid that one day..." He stopped talking at this point.

Jing Zhe was silent, and said: "Young Master will deal with it properly and treat General Xie kindly."

Wu Cong raised his eyes to look at Jing Zhe.He slowly said: "I know. But the general...he is General Xie. He can't be like a woman in the harem, tying his wealth and life to the emperor's happiness and anger..."

Jingzhe was unable to answer for a while.Following Jun Nao, he naturally understood the necessity of disarmament. An overly large army is a burden to the country and an existence of instability. If there is no disarmament, the people will not be able to live in peace.But he also understood Wu Cong's worries.As for exactly how Zhu Nao planned, he really didn't know.

He repeated again: "Young Master will handle it properly."

Wu Cong was silent for a moment, and laughed at himself: "Perhaps your Majesty and the general have reached an agreement, but I am worrying unnecessarily. I just... Alas! I am very flustered, and I don't know who to tell. So I want to talk to you. If you have heard it, forget it. Come on, don't take it to heart."

After speaking, he filled the glass with wine, raised his glass and said, "I respect you!"

Jing Zhe raised his glass and collided with him, and drank it down in one gulp.

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A few days later, Xuzhou.

Several envoys who had just returned from Luoyang stood dejectedly opposite the horse bundle, not even daring to breathe.Ma Shu's face was full of anger.

"Are you saying that the officials of the Shu Kingdom don't want to see you at all?!"

"Yes, General Jianwu..."

Ma Shu just felt incredible.Yes, he really lacks the conditions to negotiate now, but anyway, he pulled out an army in half a year, and even snatched Xuzhou from Tian Chou's subordinates, which is considered famous.But Shu people are not even interested in talking to him? !

"It's really useless!" Ma Shu yelled angrily, "You guys were shut down, and then what? Then you came back in despair?! Maybe the Shu people just deliberately gave us an insult, and you just left?!"

He was always quite confident that Junao would accept him, so he didn't believe the messenger's words.Perhaps the people of Shu deliberately ignored them, it was just a means of negotiation.And these useless subordinates came back stupidly after being left out for a few days!

"General, that's not true!" the envoys hurriedly called Qu, "We have searched for all possible channels, and spent a lot of money to clear up the relationship, but we still haven't been able to meet the officials of Shu! They only said that the Emperor of Shu would not accept him." Those who surrendered to the army of Chen State told us to give up as soon as possible..."

Ma Shu looked at them suspiciously.Did the Shu people really say that?If you say such a thing, it is really an attitude that you don't want to talk about it... Could it be that these messengers are greedy for the money he gave, and deliberately made up such words to fool him?

Ma Shu was also uncertain.These envoys could be regarded as his confidantes, if these people were not trustworthy, then he didn't know who else he could trust.But he also didn't believe it, or said he couldn't accept that Junau was not interested in him and his army.After all, he has blocked everything.

He didn't know that Junao had already started preparing for disarmament.Now all over the world, only his Huainan army is still desperately expanding, even at the expense of arresting strong men.

Under Ma Shu's suspicious gaze, those envoys who failed in their work felt aggrieved and worried that they would be punished.

After a while, Ma Shu spoke again: "Then who did you meet in Luoyang? Who told you what you said?"

The envoy hurriedly said: "When we entered Luoyang City, we explained our intentions and were taken to the military guards. We were kept in the military guards for a few days. The highest official we saw was a man surnamed Zhao. Chang Shi, those words were also told by Zhao Changshi. We wanted to stay a few more days to find a way, but it was Zhao Changshi who ordered us to be driven out of Luoyang City!"

Ma Shu asked suspiciously, "Military guard?"

An envoy hurriedly said: "General Jianwu, we have inquired deliberately that the military guard is under Xie Wuji's rule, and Zhao Changshi is also Xie Wuji's subordinate..."

In fact, when Zhu Nao returned to Shu, he handed over the work of supervising the reconstruction of Luoyang to Xie Wuji. The soldiers and horses near Luoyang were all under Xie Wuji's rule in name, needless to say.At this time, the emissary specifically named Xie Wuji's name out of ulterior motives, wanting to clear himself of the responsibility for his own disadvantages.

Sure enough, Ma Shu was also very sensitive to this name, and immediately frowned: "Xie Wuji?"

Ma Shu had also inquired about the grievances between Xie Wuji and Xie's family before.In his opinion, this is not a matter of right and wrong at all, but more like a momentary dispute between father and son. It is impossible to understand how it can get to this point.Therefore, although Xie Wuji has served the Shu Kingdom for so many years, Ma Shu has always suspected that this is also the arrangement of the Xie family, and he has made two-handed plans for the Xie family.

"So," Ma Shu asked word by word, "Do you think that Xie Wuji deliberately obstructed me and didn't want me to submit to the Kingdom of Shu?"

The envoys looked at each other and said cautiously: "General Jianwu, there is indeed a possibility."

There was a buzzing in Ma Shu's ears, and his chest heaved violently.After a while, he yelled, drew his knife and slashed towards the wooden table!

With a loud bang, the wooden table was cut in half by the sharp blade and fell to the ground!

"Thank you Wuji... Xie Wuchen! Why... why!"

He just wants to stand out, those things that the children of the aristocratic family can easily get when they are born, he has worked so hard to get them, why should he be obstructed, why! !

The envoys kept silent, for fear that if they said a wrong word, they would end up like that.

At this moment, the voice of the soldiers notifying came from outside: "General, Wu Qian asks to see you." Wu Qian is the chief munitions officer of the Huainan Army.

Ma Shu slowly put the knife back into its sheath, and said coldly, "Let him in!"

Not long after, Wu Qian opened the curtain and prepared to enter.As soon as he stepped in, he saw the table in the middle of the tent that was cut in half, and he froze.Looking up again, seeing Ma Shu's murderous gaze, he broke out in a cold sweat, secretly thinking that he came at the wrong time.

However, he has already come, and he can't withdraw, so he can only bite the bullet and go forward to salute: "...General Jianwu."

"What's the matter, tell me!"

"..."

Wu Qian didn't dare to speak at all, Ma Shu gave him a vicious look: "I'll let you talk!"

Wu Qian trembled in fright, and hurriedly presented the account in his arms with both hands: "General, general, this is the account that my subordinates have sorted out..."

They recently conscripted some big families in Huainan and Xuzhou, and finally raised a sum of money and food.But because many big families have already run away, and those who have not run away have transported away and hidden everything that can be hidden, so the result after the inventory is not ideal.Wu Qian didn't even dare to say the result, so he could only let Ma Shu see for himself.

Ma Shu picked up the ledger and turned to the last page to see the result.However, after reading it, he didn't get angry, and even laughed in a low voice.He laughed louder and louder, laughing until everyone was terrified, only then did he realize that he was laughing back with anger.

The next moment, Ma Shu closed the ledger and threw it on the ground.

At this moment he made two resolutions.First, no one can be relied on, he can only rely on himself, he must make himself more chips, so that Junao can't ignore him.

Second, Xie Wuji, Xie Wuchen, those Xie family children, he wants them to die!