62. Changan situation
The turmoil in Chang'an lasted for five days before it ended. With Dong Zhuo being killed, Li Ru disappeared, Niu Fu being arrested, and the Bingzhou wolf cavalry led by Wang Yun and Lu Bu finally occupied the entire Chang'an City.
Wang Yun also became the actual controller of the court. After he established his position, the first thing he did was to arrest Dong Zhuo's remnants, and he did not let go of anyone who had something to do with Dong Zhuo.
The Central Secretary Cai Yong is one of them. It is said that Wang Yun and Cai Yong were originally good friends. It was just because Cai Yong accepted Dong Zhuo’s title of official position, which led to Wang Yun regard him as a remnant of Dong Zhuo and wanted to arrest him and imprison him.
However, Shadow had previously laid a slight eye on Cai Yong's mansion, and took advantage of Dong Zhuo's death and chaos to secretly take out the mansion Cai Yong out of the mansion. When Wang Yun ordered people to come and arrest him, there was no trace of Cai Yong in the mansion except for some servants.
Afterwards, Wang Yun snorted coldly: "Hmph! He ran fast! Otherwise, he would have to let him be buried with Dongzhe!" After saying that, he stopped paying attention to Cai Yong.
Two days later, at the Caishikou of Chang'an City, Wang Yun ordered people to build a high platform! He wanted to publicly execute all the remnants of Dong thieves, including 83 Dong Zhuo's relatives! On this day, only people were killed, and blood stained the streets! After killing people, he was still unable to relieve his hatred. Dong Zhuo's rotten corpse was ordered by Wang Yun to hang it on the flagpole and light a sky lantern.
Jian Yong was sitting in a room in the inn. A middle-aged man with white face sat opposite him. This man was Cai Yong, the middle-aged man who was rescued by the shadow. Jian Yong said, "Cai Zhonglang, Ling Ai is under my rule now! Please come back with me later?"
"Forget it, since Zhao Ji is there, I'll go with you!" Cai Yong said lightly.
He was very happy to see Cai Yong agreeing to Jian Yong. After chatting for a few more words, Jian Yong said he would leave the house. Of course, Cai Yong was excellent for his knowledge. Therefore, whenever he had time in the past few days, Jian Yong would always come to Cai Yong's house to ask him for advice. Cai Yong was very calm about Jian Yong, and he did not refuse or please him. The character of a famous scholar can be seen.
This day was the first court meeting after the Chang'an Rebellion, and Jian Yong also received the news. He prepared early in the morning and today he would go to the palace to present his words.
The court has now become Wang Yun's one-man rule. The emperor was young and could not be in charge of the ministers. Lu Bu was a martial artist. He knew his shortcomings, so he only took charge of military affairs and did not ask about anything else. Most of the other ministers were Wang Yun's confidants or best friends, so the voice in the entire court was only Wang Yun's voice.
Jian Yong has made sufficient preparations for this presentation. He knew that Chang'an is short of food now, so he collected all the grains of the grain merchants under Chang'an Shadow, which happened to be 100,000 dan. Today, these will be presented to the emperor as gifts!
When Wang Yun was told that Liu Bei sent someone to offer a letter, he was stunned at first, and then summoned Jian Yong into the hall. After Jian Yong came in, he saluted the emperor first, and then presented the gift list with Liu Bei's statement. Wang Yun checked on behalf of the emperor, but he was overjoyed when he saw it.
It’s easy to say anything else on the gift list. This 100,000 dan of grain can solve the urgent need of Chang'an City. He immediately coughed and said to Jian Yong: “Your Majesty has agreed to what your Lord Liu Bei asked for. Go back and will deliver it later.”
When Jian Yong heard that the matter had been done, he was delighted and bowed again. Sure enough, after only half a day, Xiaohuangmen came to the inn where Jian Yong was staying with the imperial edict.
The imperial edict not only appointed Liu Bei as the governor of Qingzhou, but also named Guan Yu as General Fenwu and Zhang Fei as General Yang Wei. Although he was the title of two miscellaneous generals, they were also fourth-rank military officers! Jian Yong received the imperial edict and quickly thanked him, took out a silver ingot from his arms and handed it to Xiaohuangmen.
The little yellow gate smiled and put the silver ingot into the sleeves. Then he whispered to Jian Yong: "Your Majesty the Emperor asked me to tell you in private, if your lord Liu Bei has a genealogy, you must keep it. You can copy a copy and bring it to Chang'an in the future."
Jian Yong nodded and said yes. The little yellow gate bowed to him and took the people away. Jian Yong achieved his goal in this trip, so he was unwilling to stay any longer. He asked someone to pack up his things and planned to set off early tomorrow morning.
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves outside the inn was heard, and a knight came here. He jumped off his horse and walked quickly, shouting, "Situ has an order to order Liu Bei's envoy Jian Yong to go to Situ's mansion as soon as possible!"
Jian Yong heard it sincerely and frowned. He said to himself, "What's the matter with this Wang Situ?" After thinking about it, the knight had already come to him. He looked at Jian Yong arrogantly and said, "You are Jian Yong? Situ has ordered you to go to Situ's mansion as soon as possible!"
Jian Yong smiled and said, "Brother, I wonder what this Lord Situ is asking me for?" As he said, he took out a gold ingot from his arms and handed it over.
The knight saw that the gold was indeed lit and he grabbed it in his hand. After getting the gold, the knight's attitude was a little better. He said to Jian Yong: "Situ has a lot of things to do every day. Even if you are the master Liu Bei, you can give him a chance. If he can surrender to Situ's command, it will be impossible to be promoted to the Nine Ministers in the future!"
A smart man could speak clearly, and Jian Yong felt a clear idea when he heard what he said. He replied immediately: "I'll clean up and go to Situ's Mansion!"
The knight saw that Jian Yong was tactful and no longer made things difficult for him. Seeing that he agreed, he turned around and left. Jian Yong hurriedly asked someone to prepare another gift list, then changed his clothes and got into the car and rushed to Situ's mansion.
The intention of summoning Jian Yong was very obvious, just to take Liu Bei under his own command. As for the reason, of course, Lu Bu is now holding military power, which made Wang Yun care very much. Without military power, I don’t mean that Wang Yun’s life and death are in the hands of Lu Bu’s common man. How can this be done! You must strengthen the power in your hands. At this time, Liu Bei’s comment made Wang Yun’s eyes lit up. Yes, there is no in Chang’an City, but there is something outside!
Since Liu Bei dared to be a patriarch of a state, he must have soldiers and generals under his command! If he took him under his command, he could also check and balance the Lu Buyi and the other two. Wang Yun had lived in the court for a long time, and this time the destruction of Dong made his heart swell to the extreme. He had never thought about whether Liu Bei would depend on him!
That night, Wang Yun held a banquet to entertain Jian Yong. During the meal, he pretended to have unintentionally proposed the idea of letting Liu Bei surrender! Jian Yong still thought of a countermeasure when he came. He said to Wang Yun: "Master Situ is clear, and he is a lord sitting down with a small minister. How dare you make the decision? Although my lord Liu Bei has always admired Lord Situ, this decision still needs to wait for me to come back to report to the lord, and wait for him to decide!"
Wang Yun looked a little bad when he heard this, but he thought about it carefully and it was indeed the case! If he really replied to him now, it would be a perfunctory thing! Thinking of this level, Wang Yun was unwilling to have a banquet with Jian Yong anymore, so he took out a letter and handed it to Jian Yong, asking him to hand it over to Liu Bei himself when he went back.
Chapter completed!