The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 257 Xingyang Li Ju
Zu Ti trained soldiers as usual. Although he was wary of Liu Tai, he was not too wary to prevent the two sides from falling into unnecessary vigilance, leading to a confrontation and even wasting food. After all, there are some improvements in the use of food now. A bit reserved.

"Brother, brother!" Zu Yue came quickly and said to Zu Ti, "Li Ju, who is stationed in Xingyang, sent news that Liu Tai sent us a large amount of food.

It is said that now Han King Liu Tai has restored the Han Dynasty in Hebei, and he can't bear to see the people homeless and deprived of food.

Now we are given [-] shi of grain as a gift. I hope we can open a porridge shed to help the people in winter! "

"What!" Zu Ti couldn't help but stand up immediately after hearing Zu Yue's words, "Where is the person now?!"

"He was detained by Li Ju and is still in Xingyang!" Zu Yue said to Zu Ti.

Zu Ti couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Zu Yue's words and said:
"Fortunately, Li Shihui is a man of many strategies and ambitions, and he knows the priorities of things.

You immediately send someone to deliver [-] shi of grain to Li Ju and ask him to open a porridge shed on the spot to help the people.

At the same time, I went to inform the envoy Liu Tai in person, saying that I had accepted his thoughts, expressed my gratitude, and asked the envoy to return to Hebei! "

"Brother, this is five hundred stones of food!" Zu Yue heard Zu Ti's words and said, "We don't want to give it up and give five hundred stones to Li Ju. I'm afraid you are crazy!"

"Confused!" Zu Ti heard Zu Yue's words and said, "If envoy Liu Tai really delivers the five hundred shi of food to me, His Majesty is already afraid of me holding military power. Then I will be speechless and can't say anything. Cleared!"

Zu Yue reacted quickly after hearing Zu Ti's words, and immediately sent people to deliver food to Li Ju.

To be honest, Li Ju was somewhat confused.

Although he was very strategic and ambitious, he intercepted the grains presented by Liu Tai.

It wasn't that he didn't want to covet this batch of food, but he knew that it was given to Zu Ti by Liu Tai.

Regardless of whether Zu Ti wants to accept it or not, it's better not to touch something like this on the surface, because it's too easy to check.

As for why Liu Tai's envoy was intercepted, it was natural to decide whether to let him go or to wait for Zu Ti to speak.

Otherwise, what would Zu Ti do if he doubts himself and Liu Tai?
Although Li Ju technically belonged to one party, because Zu Ti had returned to Luoyang, and Zu Ti himself was more attractive, Li Ju chose to stick to Zu Ti's name.

Soon, Zu Yue came with Zu Ti's order, and also brought five hundred shi of food.

To be honest, Zu Yue himself felt a little distressed when these five hundred stones of grain were sent out to build a porridge shed.

But Zu Yue understood that since Liu Tai had spent money and food, he must follow him, otherwise Liu Tai would fight for his favor, so Zu Yue met Li Ju with a dark face.

"I wonder where the messenger of the hypocrite is?" Zu Yue said straight to the point after seeing Li Ju.

"Second General, if you want to see the envoy, please come with me!" Li Ju didn't want to get involved in this matter, so he took Zu Yue there as soon as possible.

Zu Yue looked at Li Ju and said, "What has this hypocritical envoy been doing these days?"

Li Ju heard Zu Yue's words and smiled bitterly: "After someone intercepted them, they started going out every day to spread rumors, saying that Liu Tai had sent food and that the porridge shed would be opened for them to eat soon.

Some people even say that Liu Tai is now in charge of Hebei. If you can't survive in Henan, just go to Hebei. You can survive in Hebei! "

"The evil words confuse the people, and their intentions are to be punished!" Zu Yue couldn't help but said after hearing Li Ju's words.

"Who says it's not the case!" Li Ju sighed after hearing Zu Yue's words, "The two generals will be delayed for a few more days. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive, so I will either send them back or send them directly to Zu Yue! "

Zu Yue asked Li Ju and said, "Please rest assured, Governor Li. My brother has also sent five hundred shi of food to the general.

I hope that Governor Li will build a porridge shed to appease the people, and will never let the hypocrite’s plan to disturb people’s hearts succeed! "

When Li Ju heard Zu Yue's vow, he couldn't help but smile and said, "That's very good."

Soon Zu Yue saw the envoy from the Han Dynasty. It was no longer Wang Ming who was the last envoy, but Cui Yue.

After having a formal conversation with each other, Cui Yue didn't insist on anything. He quickly agreed with Zu Yue's words and handed over the grain in Xingyang. Then Cui Yue left with the envoy group.

As for the refugees who were willing to follow, Cui Yue did not refuse, because after the refugees arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River, not to mention Yecheng, which was preparing to dig the Yongji Canal, even Jijun would need a lot of manpower to widen the river and guide the water flow.

So Liu Tai doesn't care about the refugees at all, and the more refugees the better!

Zu Yue couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had successfully persuaded Cui Yue to leave.

To be honest, Liu Tai's envoy caused so much trouble in Xingyang. It would take more than [-] shi of grain to stop the envoy from Xingyang all the way to Zu Ti. By then, all the refugees would be afraid They all have to ask Zu Ti for help from the porridge shed!
"Liu Tai is really difficult to deal with. Just this flaw, which is not a flaw, almost caused big trouble for my brother!"

At this time, Zu Yue couldn't help but feel a little bit sad, and even more aware of Liu Tai's difficulty.

In any case, the errand was completed. I looked at Li Ju, sighed at his good luck, left the food, and went to reply to Zu Ti.

Li Ju couldn't help but said at this moment: "In other words, this thousand grains are just left to me to handle?"

"This battle between Han King Liu Tai and the governor Zu Ti has given us an advantage!" Li Ju's boss Bo Gouyuan said.

"This is somewhat of a good thing..." Li Ju suddenly came to his senses and said to Gou Yuan, "What did you just say? Liu Tai, King of Han?"

"Yeah!" Gou Yuan nodded, not knowing what he said wrongly, and looked at Li Ju curiously.

At this moment, Li Ju didn't say much. He only sighed, "It's just that I haven't heard the title King of Han for a long time!"

"Now that Liu Tai has occupied the land of Hebei, it is normal for him to call him King of Han even though he did not proclaim himself emperor. For example, Liu Yao was not called King of Qin and Shi Le was called King of Zhao. They just changed their names!" Gou Yuan didn't really care. .

"Liu Tai changed his name to King of Han, so is this big man the Huns' big man or the Han people's big Han?!" Li Ju couldn't help but sigh at this time.

"Whether it's a big man from the Huns or a big Han from the Han people, what does it have to do with us people? We're just trying to save our lives in this troubled world!"

Gou Yuan said to Li Ju, "The grains delivered today will allow the people to have a good meal. Why bother thinking about such distant things! At least the big man will be able to fight less wars now that Liu Tai is in charge!"

"Indeed!" Li Ju nodded in recognition when he heard this, "In this world, it is always good to have fewer wars!"

Cui Yue soon returned to Yecheng and reported the situation to Liu Tai.

Liu Tai said thoughtfully, "It was intercepted by Li Ju, the governor of Xingyang, so is the spread only in Xingyang?"

"I am incompetent and failed to complete my mission!" Cui Yue said quickly looking at Liu Tai's posture. "Nothing, it was just an experiment with five hundred stones of food!"

Liu Tai waved his hand and looked at the matter in front of him. To be honest, Liu Tai didn't care very much.

Because it only takes one year to produce food, but it takes 16 years for humans to grow.

So the cost of all other supplies is nothing compared to people.

I am willing to try any plan that can reduce the opponent's resistance. Even if it doesn't work this time, it will eventually work in the future.

And just when Liu Tai wanted Cui Yue to retreat, Cui Yue couldn't help but muster up the courage to say to Liu Tai: "Your Majesty, I have other things I want to report!"

"Oh, tell me!" Liu Tai said to Cui Yue after hearing Cui Yue's words.

Cui Yue took a deep breath and glanced at Wen Qiao who was not far from Liu Tai, but saw Wen Qiao nodding encouragingly.

Cui Yue said: "To report to your Majesty, I discovered in Xingyang City that Li Ju is very popular in Xingyang and has great prestige.

He built a camp on the river bank facing the water. Although the camp was buried a lot by the snow, I asked someone to inquire about the newly cultivated farmland.

Obviously Li Ju intends to resist for a long time. I heard that he did not lose in battle with Liu Yao in the past few years, but he is a talented general.

But in the final analysis, he is the governor of Sizhou, and strictly speaking, he and Zu Ti do not belong to each other.

I think we can win over Li Ju. If we can win over him, we will definitely break Zu Ti’s arm! "

"Oh?" Liu Tai heard Cui Yue's words and said thoughtfully, slowly,
"This matter is a direction. Let's collect Li Ju's information first. If Xingyang can get it, we will have a foothold on the other side of the Yellow River. This is indeed an attempt that can be tried.

We have exchanged business with Zu Ti, so we chose Xingyang as the location. It will also be convenient for us to win over Li Ju!
Of course, it doesn't matter if Li Ju can't win over him. He can try other generals around him. "

"I understand!" Cui Yue couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied to Liu Tai after hearing Liu Tai's words.

After Liu Tai let Cui Yue leave, his eyes fell on Wen Qiao, and then said, "Taizhen, do you think this is feasible?"

Wen Qiao replied to Liu Tai: "I feel that Zu Ti was deeply grateful to Sima Rui for his knowledge and experience, so naturally he would not betray the Jin Dynasty lightly, but Li Ju has no enmity or grudge against the king, so we can make friends first.

He doesn't expect to be effective now. As long as he and his subordinates are shaken by the military front in the future, it will be worth planning! "

"Okay!" Liu Tai nodded, "This matter can be left to Cui Yue, and you can assist."

The implication of Liu Tai's words was to allow Wen Qiao to favor Cui Yue in terms of resources to a certain extent.

After Wen Qiao came to Liu Tai's side, he was only in charge of intelligence in name, but in fact he began to be in charge of intelligence.

This is a right separated from Chu Hui, so Wen Qiao's status is behind Chu Hui.

Chu Hui had no objection to this matter. After all, as Chu Hui's territory expanded, more and more government affairs were piled on him.

Compared with only Qingzhou, Youzhou and half of Jizhou at the beginning, the prefectures and counties under our control now have doubled.

Even if Chu Hui is a government official of the Juanwang type, he is still a bit overwhelmed.

Naturally, Liu Tai would not use Chu Hui as Zhuge Liang, and let Chu Hui take care of everything.

By riding Wen Qiao over, the intelligence system in Chu Hui's hands was broken up, and Chu Hui would naturally not object.

Because in addition to the usual government affairs, he now also needs to build a new merit system, and he has a lot of things going on.

Chu Hui knew that it would do no harm to him if he could share some of his burdens.

Soon as this incident passed, both sides of the Yellow River could not help but maintain relative peace.

With the tacit understanding between the two parties, the business trips between the two parties began to travel through the winter ice and snow.

It can only be said that the low temperature brought by the Little Ice Age was not completely without benefits. At least the ice surface of the Yellow River was quite solid. People could travel to both sides of the Yellow River with their own legs and did not need to borrow fishing boats.

Although the two sides have opened trade exchanges, both sides do not allow business travelers to wander around and can only go to designated places for mutual trade.

If you leave the place where the two parties trade, you will be treated as a spy spying on military intelligence.

But no matter what, as there is no need to fight on both sides of the Yellow River, the two sides maintain peace. This is a rare peace in these years, but it is quite rare for the people.

Some people who fled to Xingyang with Li Ju wanted to take this opportunity to return to the other side of the Yellow River. Some even wanted to sneak home.

Therefore, there are naturally more people coming and going at this moment, and even the blowing wind and snow cannot stop the enthusiasm of the people!
Li Ju stood on the city wall of Xingyang and watched the people heading towards the north bank of the Yellow River, but he felt more or less sad in his heart.

To be honest, if he was just an ordinary citizen, he would probably be able to return to his ancestral land.

After all, after communicating with Liu Tai, Li Ju already knew Liu Tai's attitude towards ordinary people. As long as they were human and worked for Liu Tai, they would have to eat, so Liu Tai accepted all the people who were willing to go back.

And Li Ju also wanted to go home and visit the ancestral land of the Li family.

It's a pity that Li Ju didn't dare to have such extravagant hopes easily, so he had to let a group of people who were eager to return to the north take a look first.

In the future, he will ask Liu Taishi, his confidant, to find out how these people are arranged.

No matter how you say it, Liu Tai is Liu Tai of the Han nationality. Compared with the Huns or the Jie people, they are somewhat different!
At this moment, Li Ju also had a little thought in his heart. If it were not forced by the situation, he would not want to fight!
At this time, Liu Tai burned several pots of hot pot in his mansion. The bottom of the pot was millet porridge with various kinds of shredded meat. Then he said to the invited ministers:
"Gentlemen, let's drink and eat together today. Don't let me save money. After eating this meal, I will have to work hard tomorrow!"

At this time, Yuan Yan stood up and said loudly: "King Han, these hot pot tables are just for us. Why do you want to eat more times?"

"My cook will send a batch directly to ensure you have enough food in the future!" Liu Tai said happily.

"That Yuan Yan is right here. Thank you so much for the gift, Your Majesty!" Yuan Yan said thanking Liu Tai.

"Hahahaha!" The people around also laughed, and the group was enjoying themselves.

(End of this chapter)