Chapter 137: See He Jin
The farce in front of Xiyuan Gate ended soon, but Huo Hai couldn't help but think too much on the way to Hejin Mansion.
Why do people like Yuan Shu still get promoted repeatedly, or even do nothing while lying down, and become a prince with great achievements?
In addition to being born in the Yuan family, the three masters of four generations and three disciples, the disciples and relatives all over the world, there is another reason. The emperor wanted to see such a gentry.
So, even if Yuan Shu was really blocking the road and robbing Huo Hai today, and the words reached Liu Hong's ears, he would only laugh it off.
Liu Hong now hopes that all families will produce such goods. He specifically promotes these goods to encourage all families to produce such goods.
Because if you don’t promote him, Liu Hong will be promoted to some capable gentry children. Wouldn’t that cause trouble for himself?
As for Yuan Shu, is he really that stupid?
Maybe not, he might have caught Liu Hong's mentality, so he deliberately did these unreliable things to gain the upper hand.
Haven’t you seen Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi, who had great military achievements, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others who had no credit and worked hard, what are their official positions now?
What is Yuan Shu who is staying in Luoyang, robbing and teasing the folk girl, who is now in charge?
He was still the General of the Hu Ben a few months ago! He forced two girls to be concubines and was promoted to general of the army. This development routine made Huo Hai very envious, and there was no place to make any decision.
The news of this skirmish arrived at the General's Mansion almost at the same time as Huo Hai. Therefore, when Huo Hai was qualified to enter, He Jin had already known the specific situation, because every morning, the people waiting for him to summon him could line up to the next street, and the level was not lower than Huo Hai.
It was not until noon that Huo Hai and his men were allowed to enter the mansion? Under the guidance of the waiter, they walked through the front yard? As soon as they entered the main hall.
Wow, have you eaten? And there are quite a few people? Three rows on each side, each row has at least twelve people.
Needless to say, these people are all high-ranking officials of more than 1,000 stones, otherwise? They are not qualified to sit in Hejin's mansion and have a meal at all.
"Welcome to the General Huo Hai, Central and Southern China? Meet the General." Huo Hai and his men walked into the main hall with their backs straight, intervened to see He Jin.
"Yeah!~"
He Jin, who was holding a lamb leg and gnawing, was full of oily flowers, and didn't even look at Huo Hai directly, but just hummed with a little nose, indicating that he knew.
Huo Hai wouldn't keep inserting his hand and waiting for him? After putting down his hand, he swept his eyes to the left and right sides, and found that except for Yuan Shao holding the wine glass in his hand, he was looking at him.
Others should eat and drink, as long as He Jin doesn't speak? They are too lazy to look up and look in the middle.
Is this the military general team of the Han Dynasty?
Can't they even pay attention to me, the number one thief who just surrendered to the court?
Among these people, I’m afraid that more than half of them are officials who rely on He Jin’s nepotism? They are just eating the court’s food!
After all, He Jin sells officials cheaply! You can buy an official position of 2,000 stones with just 10 million yuan? Where is the Ten Changshi? The price is 20 million yuan!
Of course? The officials given by others are different. They are usually county prefects, which is much better than the general position of He Jin.
"It's lunch time now, so Huo Ping can't sit and eat and drink first. After using the meal, let's talk about the matter." Yuan Shao pointed to a few small cases that were sitting at the last time.
Huo Hai looked at the corner of the wall and saw a desk that was less than one meter wide in total, and was still by the door, with the cold wind whizzing. The key was that there was no cushion under the desk, only a shiny straw mat.
"The case is too small, and we can't sit in the five of us. We'll wait for the general to eat before we come back."
Huo Hai said, about to go outside. Yuan Shao was stunned, but said again, "There are only a few cases for the officials on duty. You are a military officer of two thousand stones. You will have a seat for you. No one next to you can wait first!"
"I, Huo Hai, only brothers and sisters, and there are no irrelevant people. Please use it slowly, I will go out and wait before coming."
Huo Hai waved his hand without giving Yuan Shao any face, signaling Chu Yan, Zhao Yun and others to follow him out.
At this time, He Jin spoke and said, "What? Huo Ping didn't think the food in my general's mansion was not delicious?"
Huo Hai looked at the large piece of meat and a big bowl of wine on the table table, and turned around and said, "To be honest, the general said, I really don't eat well. I can't even smell the aroma of wine and meat. I can't sit down and eat it."
When Huo Hai talked about this, everyone in the hall immediately thought of the dishes from the Zuixianlou in Luoyang City. It seemed that those delicacies were produced by Heishanzhai.
Unfortunately, the food there is very expensive. Even if they are two thousand stone officials in the court, they cannot eat anywhere every day.
"The prince is so rude. This is the public meal that the emperor has sympathized with our hard work and gave us. How can you dislike it?" someone shouted in the hall.
"Oh, it turned out that it was the public lunch paid by the court. No wonder you made a big bowl of wine and a big mouthful of meat, but you didn't know that if you eat one more pound of meat and drink one more tiny of wine, how many people would starve to death because they had no food to eat." Huo Hai replied loudly to the man.
Others were unaware of his words, but Tian Feng was very relieved when he heard them.
Why did the imperial court have no money to support soldiers and provide relief to the people?
It was not created by these officials. He raised this question when he was an official in Luoyang, and then offended all the officials. In the end, he was excluded and had to voluntarily resign.
Now, my new and old man seemed to have the same opinion as I did, and suddenly, my eyes felt much more comfortable when I looked at Huo Hai.
"If the people don't eat, it's natural disaster. We and officials are doing our best to repay the emperor. Besides, there are rules for how to spend three meals a day. We don't waste it, and there is nothing wrong with it.
It's hard for Huo Ping to do a lot of business, make money every day, and earn hard-earned money from others, why didn't you think about how many people are hungry?" Another verb took the speech with a quick mouth.
"I have raised more than three million people in Heishan Village. Do you know how much does it cost to eat a meal of more than three million people? I'm afraid you don't know, because you have never considered supporting more than three million people. You only know how to ask the court for the salary of alcohol and meat, but you don't know that the salary of alcohol and meat in the court is all the people's money. If I am jealous of making money, then you will be jealous of the wrong money. I will use the money I make to support the people under my control." Huo Hai retorted again.
Seeing that the man had nothing to say, He Jin said, "Okay, this is the General's Mansion, a place to discuss military affairs, not a place to discuss political affairs. Huo Ping couldn't come to Luoyang for the first time and did not understand the rules. I will forgive you for not guilty for the time being.
But, in the future, you must not speak so rudely."
Seeing that my subordinates couldn't argue, they came out and called to stop?
But it's not that easy.
The court recruited Heishanzhai and threw the burden of supporting more than 3 million people to Huo Hai. He could not afford any money and had no grain of rice. This is an unreasonable thing.
Therefore, Huo Hai spoke again, "The reason why the last generals speak is unruly is also a reason. Heishan Village has 100,000 soldiers and more than 3 million people, which maintains the public security and defense of many places in Hebei. However, the court does not allocate military pay or the military ration. Do you want us to do whatever you want, or are you hungry and unable to rebel?
Finally, I will come here, one is to pay homage to the emperor's holy face. Two is to solve this problem, and I will report it to the general for information."
Huo Hai was very serious about the word "分". When everyone heard this word, they remembered that a few months ago, this guy was a rebel who was unable to do anything to the court.
Okay, He Jin, who originally wanted to ask Huo Hai for money, hasn't spoken yet! Huo Hai asked He Jin for money first, and kept raising the flag to rebel. Is this threatening the court?
It was his threatening words that reminded He Jin of the guy in front of him, a mountain king with a armor of 100,000. Although he was a general of the court, he might not be able to mobilize so many troops. He seemed to have no sense of superiority in front of him.
Of course he didn't know that what Huo Hai said was a brag about Boyi, and the Heishan Village had only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in total. He exaggerated the numbers and said that one was to scare He Jin, and of course, it was to ask for money and food. The lion spoke loudly.
After Huo Hai finished speaking, Yuan Shao, who was sitting in the upper left, gave He Jin a look. I was right. Then he said, "Last year, there were disasters in various places, and the Yellow Turbans were in chaos. The money and food of the court had been emptied long ago. All prefectures and counties are currently raising their own food and money to support their own money. Huo Ping is difficult to make money every day, so it should be no difficulty to raise money by himself!
However, the general needs to support tens of thousands of imperial guards, and also allocate food and grass to the border counties to provide border guards with soldiers from the foreign enemies. The money and food cost has long been too short. If Huo Ping couldn't afford to buy it, please be sure to help."
"Yes, I have to help you, otherwise, the soldiers guarding the border will have no food, and the enemy invaded the border, we don't know how many innocent people will die..."
Everyone agreed with Yuan Shao.
"I don't know which foreign enemy wants to attack the border. The 100,000 soldiers in the Heishan Village are very itchy. Why don't you ask the court to send me to clean up them? We just need the court to allocate some food, manpower, weapons and equipment to me, and we will allocate them by ourselves." Huo Hai said with the water.
The most fear of the sudden silence of the air. After Huo Hai finished speaking, there was only the sound of wine rolling in the whole hall. He Jin's face was a little embarrassed, but he was so blocked that he didn't know what to say.
The only ones who dare to invade the Han Dynasty are currently the Xianbei and the Xiongnu on the northern grasslands, and Huo Hai is already in the north. If there is any war there, how could he not know!
"Uh, let's talk about the border guard later. Today, I'm here because Your Majesty decided to meet you in the hall during the court meeting next month. You have not had the experience of being an official, so you need to learn the etiquette of the audience first. Since you are not used to the meals from the General's Mansion, it's hard to take Huo Ping down. Learn the etiquette of the audience. You must teach me more carefully when you see the scene." Yuan Shao was embarrassed to see the scene and said.
His mood is the most complicated now, that is, he wants to stir up He Jin's relationship with the eunuch, and use He Jin's sword to kill the eunuch.
I don’t want to force Huo Hai to rebel immediately now, because the time for him to destroy Huo Hai is not yet ripe.
After all, his goal is to become the son of the chosen one. Now, except for Huo Hai’s camp, the only one in the world knows that Huo Hai is a man outside the world, and only he knows that killing Huo Hai can become the son of the chosen one, so Huo Hai only wants to kill himself.
After he finished speaking, two waiters from the General's Mansion came to invite Huo Hai down, which made Huo Hai a little confused.
Didn’t it be agreed that we would summon five hundred imperial guards to the general’s mansion to make trouble?
Why don't the food be served?
This makes me unable to make excuses to be high-profile!
Chapter completed!