Not long ago, Liu Yu sent a caravan in the name of offering auspicious offerings to the new emperor Sima Chi.
This caravan mainly carried fur medicinal materials purchased from Liaodong and Lelang, as well as newly fired porcelain and books produced in Donglai County.
This caravan traveled south from Donglai County through Xuzhou, and arrived in Luoyang after passing through Xuzhou, which was occupied by Wang Mi's rebels.
However, at this time, Luoyang had been harassed by the Bingzhou Huns several times, and many noble families in the city had fled, so the porcelain and books that Liu Yu had high hopes for were not sold at ridiculously high prices.
After all, in later generations, there was the so-called "literary play in prosperous times, gold in troubled times", but in the Western Jin Dynasty, people believed in a simpler "food and clothing are the most important thing".
The items with the fastest rising prices in Luoyang were grain and cloth. These utensils and books were bought by the gentry, whose number had been greatly reduced.
But the harvest of this trip was not small, because Xiangrui, who was the nominal escort of the caravan, was a white spotted deer bought from the Xianbei people in Liaodong.
Since ancient times, people have believed in the theory of telepathy between heaven and man. After the Han Dynasty, prophecies became more and more popular. Everyone always firmly believed that as the emperor, the emperor must have special channels to communicate with heaven. Earthquakes, floods, locust plagues, etc., as small as a three-legged toad, a crowing hen, etc. can all be said to be part of God's will.
These signs of providence range from bad to good omens.
The white deer is one of the good omens, also known as auspiciousness.
If local officials find that the auspicious gifts are presented to the emperor, they will definitely be praised by the emperor, because the auspiciousness coming from the sky shows that God affirms his [cheap son] the emperor, so he makes animals like deer become albino, oh no, it is auspicious. change.
Sima Chi, the puppet emperor who had just succeeded to the throne, had been showing an image of diligence and wise administration in front of the ministers since he came to the throne, vaguely establishing his own prestige, thinking that one day he could regain his power and become the real emperor.
Now, Emperor Sima Chi, who has always been ambitious, saw that Donglai County actually offered auspiciousness, and he was so happy that he wanted to reward the governor of Donglai County on the spot.
However, the emperor's intention was quickly rejected by Sima Yue, the regent of East China Sea.
Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, reminded the emperor that Liu Yu, the prefect of Donglai County, was a member of the Tianshi Dao bandit army who caused rebellion last year. He later surrendered, but his bad habits remained unchanged. Not long ago, he also expelled Ju Xian, the prefect of Donglai County appointed by the imperial court. However, Willing to obey the imperial court's instructions.
As soon as these words came out, the scene in the court suddenly became a little embarrassing, because as the emperor, Sima Chi did not remember at all that he had issued any order to appoint the two thousand stone prefect. After all, the emperor's seal and jade seal were not in his hands at all. These appointments How could a puppet emperor read the edicts from local officials?
However, Emperor Sima Chi quickly said that if this was the case, then this auspicious omen should be an opportunity for the prefect of Donglai County to make up for his past mistakes, and then the merits and demerits would be equal to each other.
Seeing Emperor Sima Chi giving in, Sima Yue, who had taken over the power, thought of another problem.
Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, had just received information that Gou Xi, the governor of Qingzhou, was attacking Liu Yu, the prefect of Donglai. Because the strong men in Qi had an affair with Liu Yu, the army suffered losses and even Gou Xi was injured. In this way, Wei, who was ravaging Yanzhou, I'm afraid there won't be the right people to suppress the Zhiqiu Rebellion.
Sima Yue, who had no more troops to mobilize, had no choice but to beg Gou Xi, the governor of Qingzhou, to send troops to Yanzhou again.
In order for Gou Xi, the governor of Qingzhou, to put down the rebellion, Sima Yue needed to resolve some conflicts for Gou Xi. Among them, Liu Yu, who had just met Gou Xi in battle, was an important unstable factor that Sima Yue needed to fill up. After all, if When Gou Xi led the army confidently to suppress the refugees in Yanzhou, it would be bad if his hometown in Qingzhou was attacked.
Although Sima Yue and Gou Xi had a rift over the issue of Yanzhou's ownership, the two were still on the same page at this time.
Therefore, after the puppet emperor gave in, King Sima Yue of the East China Sea announced in front of the court ministers that he would strictly enforce the court's laws, neither wrongfully punishing good people nor letting bad people go, and would send officials to Donglai County to investigate all matters. .
December of the first year of Yongjia.
As the Chinese New Year approached, a group of imperial envoys from Luoyang arrived in Donglai County.
The leading official of this Western Jin Dynasty was Ju Xian, the previously appointed governor of Donglai County.
A group of more than a dozen people were interrogated by Dongnai Army soldiers at the intersection when they entered the territory of Donglai County.
Although Ju Xian and others claimed that they were imperial officials and even produced seals and ribbons to prove their innocence, they still did not receive much preferential treatment.
When Ju Xian learned that Liu Yu was in Yin County, he even scolded him secretly and changed the imperial government's prefectures and counties without authorization. This simply showed that he did not take the emperor seriously.
Soon, Ju Xian met Liu Yu and asked about the situation of both parties according to the order issued by Shangshutai. During this period, Liu Yu was absent-minded the whole time.
Because in this official document written in parallel prose, Liu Yu did not understand what was said after listening to it at the end, but most of the gorgeous rhetoric was nonsense.
After a few random prevarications, Liu Yu excused himself and left on the pretext that he had something important to do, leaving Ju Xian and his group stunned.
Ignorant fanatics did not follow the imperial edict with due courtesy, but instead blocked Taiwan Province's inquiry.
Ju Xian thought angrily that if he had not been able to defeat Liu Yu, he would have exercised his power to issue edicts and order Liu Yu to be detained.
Because Liu Yu was more anxious about another major event at this time.
That is a cliché, the problem of eating for the surrendered troops who have just surrendered.
According to the standard, Liu Yu's rations for these surrendered soldiers were about one bushel. Due to the lack of meat, these surrendered soldiers generally ate an appalling amount of food. Each of them ate ten kilograms of cooked grain.
You know, although many people who left Tiexin have left, the number of these surrendered troops is still more than 20,000. In just one month, Liu Yu's previous winter savings were almost wiped out.
At this time, Liu Yu was thinking hard about how to find enough food for these tens of thousands of mouths.
