Chapter 101: Winter Should Have Clothed The People

As the Northern Mang army pushed southward, the city of Leaving Behind, located on the border of Long Waist Prefecture, became an extremely notable town. After the violent death of the previous city shepherd, Tao Qianzhi, for no apparent reason, the new city shepherd who took his place in the southern dynasty’s temple has since risen in stature. However, when he hastily got that news, he was still scared, with a few riders of his personal guards, he desperately rushed to the outside of the city, but at the junction of an official road and a goat’s intestine path, he was very nonchalantly stopped, about which the city pastor has no complaints, but just resentfully hit the road back to his home. When he was going back, he didn’t need to rush, but from time to time, he turned his head to look at the solemn and dignified cavalrymen, hey, it’s our North Mang’s self-proclaimed second no one dares to call it the first scout, the crow bar! I’ve heard that the training of a crow’s fence can be compared to the only two heavy cavalry in the North Court’s royal tent, and it’s a good thing that the fat man is willing to spend this silver.

Dong Zhuo since the promotion, go out still cloak armor, even on the court to see Her Majesty the Empress, also did not wear once this South Court King of the illustrious official clothes, but this trip did not alarm the border troops around the private visit, in the left behind near the city, but changed this body can be said to be under the robes of ten thousand people. He held Tao Qianzhi’s daughter Tao Manwu’s small hand, walked to the old and new graves, the old grave some years, lying in the inside of the one although no relatives, but in the past will not be overgrown with weeds, because lying in the new grave of the one, when alive, will allow people to often pull weeds, from the position of the General of the Chongjian retired as a leave behind the city of the city of the pastoral care, but more often on the graves, but unfortunately, nowadays with the old guy became a neighbor, I think it is true that there are also unable to do anything! I think that even if I had the will, I would not be able to do anything about it. Dong Zhuo squatted down behind, put a pot of wine at his feet, first in the old grave grave silently pulling yellow weeds, murmured: “old Wu long, do not blame the little Dong fat ah, I once swore, one day does not become a high-ranking official, one day have no face to come to your grave toasting, today I’m this little fat can be considered developed, how bright your face ah, why not grinning a smile? What, is it finally know their mouth full of yellow teeth look oozing?”

Dong Zhuo, who had great achievements in the battlefield, whether chasing and killing or fleeing, even without a horse, it was two legs faster than four legs, but at this time, pulling the withered grass, which could be easily reasoned by those young children, appeared to be particularly difficult.

This great general and king of the southern courtyard, who likes to call Her Majesty the Empress “Sister” and prefers to put spring couplets on other people’s gates, was already in tears at this time, and then wiped his face with his hand fiercely, with tears and snot slurred, “There is a saying in the Central Plains, which is called “Returning to one’s homeland in fine clothes”, Old Chief of the Army, you can say in good conscience that I am not good enough to ‘return to one’s homeland’ today. Dong Zhuo today is enough to be ‘clothed in gold’? What am I wearing? It’s a robe of the same rank as Xu Huainan, the king of the North Court! Old Captain, can you believe it? Back then, the one who’s legs would go limp at the sight of a small standard of Northern Liang cavalry, the little fat man you called a coward, is the biggest officer among all the soldiers you’ve brought with you.”

Dong Zhuo didn’t turn his head, he just reached out and pointed at the fresh grave, “Look at this son of a bitch Tao Qianzhi, he’s even worse than you, he didn’t even die on the battlefield, he just died when he said he would. What the fuck is this if not a deserter? Old Captain, can you sleep peacefully with this kind of person as your neighbor? Anyway, I, Dong Zhuo, don’t believe it to death.”

Dong Zhuo suddenly turned his head and roared towards that new grave, “Tao Qianzhi, it’s you that I’m cursing! After the old captain left, you were the first among your brothers to become a captain, the first to become a lieutenant, and the first to become a general, and you think that’s something great? Bullshit! The biggest official in your life is a general, a small town pastor who left the city behind! My lord!”

Dong Zhuo laughed miserably, “I know, you are too ashamed to hang out with Fatty Dong, so you refused to come to Dong’s army to help me, other people just want to save face and live to suffer, and then look at you, dead, right? You have the ability to crawl out, see I do not kick you back!”

Probably afraid of scaring the little girl kneeling in front of the new grave, Dong Zhuo convergence of out-of-control emotions, unscrewed the lid of the jug, from the pocket took out three wine cups, one placed on the grave of the old chief of the army, squeezed a smile, said to Tao Manwu: “Little Manwu, give the cups to your father, on his addiction to alcohol, lying for so long, I guess gluttony is bad enough.”

The little girl took the cup with both hands, and after being poured a cup of wine by Uncle Dong, she gently sprinkled it on her father’s grave.

Dong Zhuo sprinkled a cup of wine in front of the old grave, he also tilted his head rip and drank a cup of wine, pouring a cup of his own, and then a mouthful of drink, found that the little Manwu hands holding a cup of wine to hand over, Dong Zhuo smiled and said, “Uncle does not give your father to drink, let him lie there dry eyes.”

The little girl’s tears filled her eyes, but she forced herself not to cry out, aggrieved and sad.

Dong Zhuo hurriedly poured her a cup of wine, looking at this child solemnly spilled another cup of wine, Dong Zhuo again eyes sour, tilted his head to look at the new grave, whispered: “You can rest assured, Xiao Manwu is more than my own daughter daughter, as long as I defeated the Northern Liang, then still alive, in the future, not dare to say that the whole of the Central Plains to our Xiao Manwu as a dowry, half of it always cannot escape. ”

Dong Zhuo turned his head to look at the old grave, “Old Wood Chief, is it again want to say that I Dong little fat man blind bragging? This time you really don’t look down on people, nowadays I put a fart in the courtroom, there are a large number of people say it is fragrant. Hong Jingyan Murong Baoding these look like a powerful son of a bitch, have to obediently give me a hand. Aren’t the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen the best in the world? Old Captain, you have the guts to say openly that you want them to die tens of thousands of deaths this winter? If one of them dies, I’ll dig a hole and bury myself next to you to be your neighbor! If you really can’t talk, you can send me a dream.”

Tao Manwu asked Uncle Dong for another cup of wine, and after spilling the third cup, she put it down and knelt before the grave without a word.

Dong Zhuo didn’t let her get up, nor did he comfort her with anything, he sat on his butt on the ground, poured the rest of that jug of wine into the dirt, and said softly, “Back then, old army chief, you brought us these few soldiers, I, Dong Zhuo, now have 100,000 of the Dong family’s own army! There are also the best crow bars in North Mang, the best foot soldiers in North Mang! The 300,000 border troops of the two dozen military towns in the southernmost Gusei Dragon’s Back states are under my control. Hong Jingyan’s Johoran Iron Horsemen, and the hundred thousand or so private troops of Liu Gui Yang Yuanzan, the great generals, are still under my control. A little further north, half of the military talismans in the hands of the two holders of the festival order, 200,000 men and horses, also obediently pinched their noses and sent to my hands. When His Majesty has cleaned up the northern grasslands, except for Tuoba Bodhisattva, the others will be under my control as long as they reach the southern border! How big is Northern Liang, so many people, so many war horses, take a pee, you can make Northern Liang have a flood. A big fight before the beginning of spring, at most, plus a fight in the fall hunt next year, Northern Liang will be completely played out.”

Dong Zhuo laughed eerily, “The Northern Liang side must still think that it will take three to five years to fight, I, Dong Zhuo, have been a fox for more than ten years, and this time, I will be a backward wolf, and I will never give up until I have eaten my fill of meat in one breath!”

Dong Zhuo reached out and grabbed a handful of dirt, threw it away again, stood up and said, “Old Wu Chang, Old Tao, I’ll take this empty wine pot with me, and when I lead my troops all the way to the southern border of Liyang one day, I’ll fill you up with a pot of dirt from there, so that you two country bumpkins, who haven’t even been to Beiliang, can see what kind of fertile soil can grow rice. ”

After Dong Zhuo got up, he looked at little Manwu who was still kneeling, bent down and rubbed her little head, and softly said, “We should go.”

The little girl stood up and silently raised her arm to wipe her tears.

Dong Zhuo thought for a moment, looked down at the flashy robe he was wearing, took it off, folded it up and placed it between the two graves, and blandly said, “No one is looking at the clothes. Then why still wear it?”

Dong Zhuo put Xiao Manwu on his shoulder, striding away, laughing: “Xiao Manwu, uncle did not send you a pony, soon you can step on the ice to cross the river with our millions of troops.”

Iron Horse Ice River into the Central Plains.

When that news spread throughout the capital.

Tai’an city did not clamor, but is everywhere everyone is silent.

The capital is not easy to live in, but that in the capital in just a few years will be the green clouds rocketing up the State Scholarship Right Sacrificer Jin Lanting, listed ten sins, impeachment is not someone else, it is the Liyang dynasty the whole Xiangfu spring founder, the first minister Zhang Julu.

Most of the people in the capital think that this foreigner is really out of his mind, calling the shots with the Chief Minister Zhang, is not to hit a stone with an egg to seek their own death is what? Over the past ten years, the people who want to lose the first minister of the Lord is barely a crop of one after another, every now and then will pop up a few, but most of the time the first minister of the Lord is too lazy to look at it, and these unsuspecting characters, are not in the capital stomping can be shocked on the Lord of the big brother, one deep-rooted, but who succeeded? What’s more, they don’t have a big appetite, they just think about that Bieye’er taking off his official robes, they never dare to expect to ask this first person of the civil officials of the Liyang court to meet the late emperor.

Of the ten major sins, the most convincing is actually just one, that is, forcing the death of the Jizhou Han family, which is full of loyalists guarding the country’s gates. This is indeed the son-in-law two chief minister mantle of a dynasty secret, Jin Lanting used the “lamp lamps continue, salary endless” eight words to describe Zhang Julu this line of political reform, can be said to be precise and incomparable.

What is interesting is that the collusion with the powerful eunuch Han Shengxuan, resulting in internal and external court pandemonium. Now that the human cat Han Shengxuan is dead, how can the chief minister defend himself?

But the most lethal one, at the same time also the most puzzling.

Not privately raised two Liao border troops, but the last of the ten major sins: more than ten years in power, the big open salt and iron transportation, pouring funds to the Northwest!

When this news quickly precipitated, seemingly quickly mud cow into the sea without a sound, but more and more people chewed out the three of them.

Although the first minister adults still participate in the court every day, the night in the forbidden on duty when inevitably on duty in the Shangshu province, dealing with various political affairs are still organized.

But the first minister’s residence is not strange, after all, the first minister of the Lord has always disliked the private meeting guests, but with the first minister of the same street on the high family mansion also began the door is cold, it is very capable of letting the spectator reverie even a story.

More importantly, this time Zhang Julu did not have the same thunderous strike as the last time against the Zhao family lords, and Bieye did not have any reaction to JinSanLang, the Right Priest of the State Crown Prison, for his ungratefulness and mad dog biting.

At the same time, there was one thing that had to be mentioned, and that was that Yin Maochun, who was known as the Hidden Minister and was fully in charge of the Grand Assessment of Local Officials this year, had quietly returned to the capital ahead of schedule.

His Majesty the Emperor brought His Royal Highness the Crown Prince along with him to pay a visit to Qi Yanglong’s residence.

Huan Wen claimed that he was sick and did not attend the big and small court meetings.

Immediately afterward a winter thunder rang out in Tai’an City.

That great general Yang Shenxing, who had been caught in a jar by the Western Chu rebels and was left in the dust, secretly petitioned Tai’an City to prove that Chief Minister Zhang Julu’s insidious framing of the Han family back then was indeed correct!

On the day of winter, in the early morning fog, His Majesty the Emperor personally led a group of ministers and generals from Tai’an City to welcome the winter in the northern suburb.

Among the dignitaries, except for Huan Wen, the chief official of the province under the door, still did not show up, led by Zhang Julu, the capital of the civil and military officials are not left out.

Therefore, there was no morning court on the first day of winter, but after welcoming the winter, there would be a grand court meeting, and the Son of Heaven would give coats to all the officials to symbolize compassion for the subjects to protect them from the winter cold.

On this day, in fact, before dawn has risen early to sit alone in the study of Tantan Weng, staring out the window at the sky for a long time.

When the sky is brightening, the old man went to the bookshelf to pull out a copy of the handwritten book gifted by the master, grinding ink, in the handwritten book title page trembling wrote a line of words, intends to let the house steward sent to the first minister’s residence.

“Into the winter is getting cold, old friend and add clothes.”

After writing, the old man began to fret again.

Then an old steward of the house pale feet staggered into the study, the sky collapsed like pathos: “Master, the first minister of adults in the court said Xu family two generations of people e guard the northwest for more than twenty years, conscientious, Xu Fengnian son inherited his father’s career, loyalty can be seen, when the inheritance of the Great Pillar State! This …… how can this be good ah? Why is the chief minister lord to act like this …… The key is that his majesty even also did not get angry, although did not promise that big pillar state, but after being rejected the holy decree, once again rewarded that the new Liang Wang a on the pillar state ……”

Huan Wen waved his hand expressionlessly, signaling the old steward to retreat.

The study returned to silence.

Huan Wen gently closed that originally spread out the treasured handwritten book, murmured: “Old man, can only burn to you.”