"Your Majesty, this person is from a branch of the Wang family. This family was killed for hiding food and grass. This person wanted to enter the palace to assassinate you. After paying off the eunuch, he entered the palace to assassinate Your Majesty."
After Mingong reported the news of the poisoner to Lin Mu, he quietly waited for Lin Mu to speak.
"Everyone involved in this matter will be killed, but innocent people will never be allowed to be implicated, framed, or harmed. I will let Xuande go with you."
Mingong made a promise and walked out.
Lin Mu looked at Mingong's back and put down the bamboo slips in his hands.
Jia Xu was vicious and Liu Bei was benevolent. At first, the situation in the court was unstable, and aristocratic families from all over the country did not care about the court. After a large number of them were brutally massacred, these aristocratic families have learned their lesson.
In the past, Lin Mu could only rely on Jia Xu to handle his own affairs, but now Liu Bei is here and Jia Xu is far away in Xiliang.
This can improve Liu Bei's reputation, and can also provide a check and balance on Jia Xu, making Jia Xu a little more restrained.
And now Liu Bei's arrival has just allowed Lin Mu to make up for the missing piece.
Liu Bei has always been kind and benevolent, both to his family and to the common people.
Later, when Liu Bei was in Xinye, Cao Cao led his army to attack.
Liu Bei was so kind that he took the people of Xinye across the river with him, and was almost overtaken by Cao Cao's cavalry.
With Jia Xu's viciousness and Liu Bei's benevolence, Lin Mu can now use both kindness and power.
He picked up the bamboo slips in his hand and looked at them. At this time, the fleeing Yellow Turban Army had already arrived at Hulao Pass.
This Yellow Turban Army was originally the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. They originally wanted to take advantage of the confrontation between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan to go to Jizhou to grab some food.
But he didn't expect to be driven away by Yuan Shao, who had just finished fighting Gongsun Zan.
There are now a large number of Yellow Turbans, numbering in the millions. With so many Yellow Turbans flowing into Yanzhou, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, decided to personally conquer the Yellow Turbans, and a small part of them came to Sizhou.
Lin Mu put down the bamboo slips in his hands with some sadness. This Yellow Turban Army had about 130,000 soldiers and horses. Although it looked like a lot, it was not. Most of them were old, weak, women and children.
This Yellow Turban Army is not so much a Yellow Turban Army as it is a group of refugees who cannot survive. These refugees do not care whether you are the emperor or not.
It doesn't matter whether the emperor's surname is Liu or not, they just want to eat enough. What's wrong with them?
Lin Mu could kill those ambitious people with blood, but he had no intention of killing the common people who became the Yellow Turban Army because they didn't have enough to eat.
Who can guarantee that after coming to this era, he will not become a Yellow Turban Army because he has no food.
If you want to kill, just kill the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army.
But if you want to help these Yellow Turban Army, there is nothing you can do.
Now the imperial court is on an expedition to Xiliang. After all, there must be no chaos in Xiliang. Once there is chaos, I am afraid that the entire Sanfu area will be attacked by rebels.
Therefore, now the imperial court really has no way to help these Yellow Turban Army.
If you don't have food, you should never go to rescue the Yellow Turban Army. Once you take people back to Luoyang and there is no food, they will really loot everywhere.
By then, Luoyang, which had just recovered somewhat, would probably turn into a white land again due to the looting of the Yellow Turban Army, which would give Lin Mu a headache.
You want to save but you don’t have food. In these troubled times, food is more valuable than gold and silver. Who would use food to help the ordinary old, weak, women and children?
At this moment, a eunuch suddenly ran into the study and presented the bamboo slips in his hand to Lin Mu.
Lin Mu picked up the bamboo slip in his hand and looked at it, and found that it was a letter from Jia Xu.
As Jia Xu once said, the Qiang and Hu mixed armies were defeated.
As soon as the army arrived at the border of Liangzhou, someone led the crowd to surrender.
One of them is Pang De, who was originally Ma Teng's subordinate.
But later Ma Teng was killed, and Han Sui led an army to raid Ma Teng's camp, and Pang De led his troops to kill him.
During this period, he kept hiding until the news that Lin Mu had killed Han Sui spread back to Xiliang along with the deserters.
In addition, as soon as the news came out that Jia Xu had entered Liangzhou with the imperial army, Han Sui's remaining troops in Liangzhou immediately fled.
Lin Mu had a reputation as a Jie and Zhou, so they really didn't dare to surrender for fear that they would be burned.
But Pound is not the case. Pound is Ma Teng's subordinate. Logically speaking, the court is under the banner of revenge for Ma Teng, so it should tolerate Pound due to emotion and reason.
Under the leadership of Pang De, Jia Xu surrendered wherever he went, and the most important thing was that they no longer needed the court to provide them with food and grass.
Seeing Lin Mu's mood improved slightly.
Although the rations for a 10,000-strong army are not much, more than half of them are consumed. If the distance is longer, only 70% of them will not be enough.
Therefore, it seems that ten thousand military rations have been saved. In fact, these ten thousand military rations plus various losses are enough to barely feed fifty thousand people. However, this Yellow Turban Army has more than one hundred thousand people.
Lin Mu thought for a while and asked Liu Bei to be found.
"His Majesty."
Lin Mu handed the bamboo slip in his hand to Liu Bei and said.
"Mr. Xuande, if the Yellow Turban Army breaks them up into farmers, is it possible?"
After Liu Bei thought for a moment, he spoke.
"Your Majesty, it's winter right now. The spring plowing will be two months away, and the autumn harvest will be nine months away. Does the imperial court have so much food?"
Lin Mu handed Liu Bei the court's grain inventory and consumption.
"Your Majesty, even if Jia Zhongcheng doesn't need food and grass, there will only be enough for 50,000 people. If this Yellow Turban Army is forcibly separated, trouble may occur."
People have always been like this. They worry not about scarcity but about inequality, not about poverty but about insecurity.
Why don't you save me when you save him? People who are extremely hungry are irrational.
"I don't care about this. I just want you to use this food and grass to stabilize the Yellow Turban Army. Everything in Luoyang is at your disposal."
Liu Bei looked at the grain and grass on the account, then at the trees, gritted his teeth and said.
"Your Majesty, did you say everything?"
"everything!"
"Including the army?"
"include."
Lin Mu nodded.
"Your Majesty can ask the Hulao Pass defenders to put this yellow scarf into the pass first, and the food and grass will arrive soon."
Lin Mu was really impressed by Liu Bei at this time. He really wanted to know where Liu Bei went to get so much food.
After Lin Mu wrote an edict to Liu Bei, Liu Bei took the edict and left in a hurry.
On the morning of the third day, Mingong came to Lin Mu and said that Liu Bei was mobilizing an army. Lin Mu said that this was what he meant.
On the morning of the fifth day, Mingong came to tell Liu Bei that he had transferred the grain and grass stored in Luoyang, and Lin Mu also said that this was his intention.
On the eighth day, Min Gong came to tell Liu Bei that he was heading north with Guan and Zhang and an army of 10,000.
Lin Mu still ignored him. Mingong wanted to remind Lin Mu that Liu Bei might have run away, but seeing Lin Mu's confident look, he couldn't say anything.
A month later, Liu Bei returned to Luoyang with his army. The first thing he did when entering Luoyang was to return the imperial edict in his hand to Lin Mu.
