On this day, Yu Wenxin came out of the military camp and met Sima Liu Dewei. Liu Dewei said: "General Yuwen, the wine bug in my stomach is greedy. Can you accompany me for a drink?"
"Okay! I was just about to take a few sips."
The two found a restaurant, went up to the second floor, and entered a private dining room. After a while, the waiter brought food and wine. After Liu Dewei poured the wine, he picked it up and said, "Drink it!" He took a big sip, put down the wine container, and said, "General Yuwen, General Yuwen, I have seen that you have been looking gloomy lately, what's on your mind? "
Yu Wenxin sighed and said: "The emperor sent me to assist King Qi, but you don't know what kind of virtue our prince is? Not only does he hunt and play every day, he also repeatedly breaks military discipline and bullies the people. I heard that before He killed all his wet nurses in a few days...Liu Wu and Zhou from the north are sharpening their swords and watching eagerly. If this continues, how can Jinyang City be defended?"
"Isn't there another King of Chu?"
"Hey, you don't know that this King of Chu has no interest in military affairs. He is either traveling with his fourth brother or hanging out on the streets. I heard that he opened many hotels and banks in Chang'an. You said , What does it sound like for a prince to do businessmen's business instead of doing serious things?"
"General Yuwen, you are wrong in what you said." Liu Dewei said, "As the saying goes, 'A man starts with money.' Who in this world doesn't know that money is a good thing? I heard that those few The princess's family also opened a hotel and a bank, and made a lot of money."
Yu Wenxin shook his head, "It would be fine if he was an ordinary person, but he is the King of Chu, he has conquered the country, and the whole world belongs to his family, will he still be short of money? I think he just has no ambition. !”
"Hey, how ambitious can a teenager be? However, he is still much better than his fourth brother. No one can control that King of Hell."
Yu Wenxin picked up the wine and took a sip, then put it down and said, "I see, the Li family can only rely on Li Shimin."
"You are right." Liu Dewei said, "General Yuwen, don't be upset. As I say, you should write down the situation here in a memorial and report it to the court. If anything happens in the future, you can also Less responsibility, right?”
Yu Wenxin sighed again, nodded and said: "It seems that this is the only way..."
In order to resist Liu Wuzhou's possible attack, Yu Wenxin proposed to the two general managers to conduct an inspection of the defense situation of various states and counties. The fourth brother was in a bad mood and didn't want to go, so he asked Li Zhiyun to do it for him.
It has been almost a month since Li Zhiyun arrived in Jinyang, and he was a little bored. He thought it would be a good idea to go out for a patrol. First, he could relax, and second, he could inspect the market conditions in various states and counties to see if there were any business opportunities, so he went accepted.
Li Zhiyun asked Scarface to bring two hundred soldiers to escort him, then he took Yinggu and two subordinate officers and set off with Yu Wenxin.
After the group inspected several states and counties, they headed to the next stop. That afternoon, they were walking on an official road. The sun was scorching in the sky, the weather was scorching hot, and everyone was hot and thirsty. When Li Zhiyun saw a tea shed beside the road, he said to Scarface: "Let brothers take a break and have a bowl of tea."
So the team stopped by the roadside. When the stall owner saw so many customers, he immediately beamed and was busy greeting business. Li Zhiyun also dismounted and walked into the pergola.
After he sat at the table and drank a bowl of herbal tea, he was fanning himself with his hand. Suddenly he saw Scarface sitting not far away taking out a piece of paper from his sleeve. After looking at it for a few times, he folded it and prepared it. After putting it back, he asked casually: "Wang Baoqiang, what did you write on that piece of paper? Why were you so secretive?" Scarface hesitated for a moment, then said a little embarrassedly: "King Chu, this is a poem I wrote..."
"What? You can also write poetry? Bring it over here and let me see!"
Li Zhiyun asked for the piece of paper, unfolded it, and saw that there were several poems, but the writing was crooked, comparable to his own poor handwriting. Li Zhiyun almost laughed out loud when he saw the content. He suppressed his laughter and said loudly: "Let me read it to everyone." After that, he cleared his throat and read:
Ode to Mount Tai
From a distance, Mount Tai looks dark, thin at the top and thick at the bottom;
It's like turning Mount Tai upside down. The lower part is thinner and the upper part is thicker.
Lightning in the sky
Suddenly I saw a chain of fire in the sky, as if the god was about to smoke;
If the god doesn't smoke, why is he a chain of fire?
Laugh at Liu Bang
I heard that Xiang Yu was so powerful that he was so frightened that Liu Bang ran away;
It's not my little Zhang Liang. He has already returned to Pei County.
Li Zhiyun recited a song, and everyone laughed for a while. After he finished reading them all, Aunt Ying said: "Brother Wang, your poem is really good! If it were me, I wouldn't be able to write it!" Scarface said with a smile: "I think the king of Chu's words are poems, so Do you want to follow him and learn to be more elegant?" Yu Wenxin said with a smile: "General Wang, as a military general, it is not easy for you to write such a poem!..."
After everyone talked and laughed for a while, they left the tea shed, mounted their horses again and set off. They walked for about a stick of incense, and a city outline appeared in front of them. Li Zhiyun pointed with his riding crop and said, "General Yuwen, where is the front?" Yu Wenxin said, "I asked the King of Chu, the front is Xia County. "
"Oh? So powerful?"
When the team was two or three miles away from the county seat, several people suddenly ran over in panic on the official road. Some people shouted as they ran: "A dead person was found ahead..."
When Li Zhiyun heard this, he quickly stopped and asked: "Where did you find the dead person?" An old farmer stopped, turned around and pointed his finger: "On that hillside." After that, he ran away with several other villagers. .
Li Zhiyun and others walked a dozen feet further, and sure enough they saw a body lying head down on the hillside beside the road. They dismounted and walked over, and found that the body was originally packed in a sack. The sack was probably opened by the villagers. It is estimated that the villagers did not know what was in the sack at first. When they opened it and found it was a dead man, they were frightened and ran away.
Li Zhiyun carefully observed the surroundings and said: "This corpse has not yet rotted. It must have been buried on the mountain recently. It rained heavily last night and the mountain slid, and the corpse was exposed." Scarface said: " It may have been buried on the mountain by ordinary people, there is nothing strange about it.”
Li Zhiyun shook his head and said: "Look, this corpse is wearing official uniform. He must have been working in a government office during his lifetime. If it were an ordinary person who could not afford a coffin because of a poor family, it would be understandable to put it in a sack and bury it. But if an official died normally, he wouldn't be able to afford a thin coffin, right? Besides, from the side, you can see that the back of the body's head is slightly collapsed, probably caused by being hit with a blunt instrument." Li Zhiyun finished speaking. , turned to Cai Hu and said to Cai Hu: "You ride to the county seat, inform the county officials of the situation here, and ask them to send personnel to inspect." Cai Hu agreed, turned around and walked down the hillside, mounted his horse and left.
Li Zhiyun asked Zhang Zheng to search the body. With the help of two soldiers, Zhang Zheng took off the sack covering the body, fumbled in the body's pocket for a while, found something, and handed it to him.
Li Zhiyun took it and took a look. It was a wooden carving, about the size of a baby's hand. There was a Buddha statue carved on the front and the words "Buddha's light shines everywhere" were written on the back. It was probably a souvenir sold at a stall next to a temple. He put the wood carving into his sleeve.
Li Zhiyun and the others returned to the official road and waited for about a stick of incense. They saw a dozen people walking towards the county seat. The first few people carried an official sedan, and there was a person riding a horse next to the official sedan. When the team of people came to the front, the official sedan landed on the ground. A man got out of the sedan, and the man on horseback next to him also got off his horse.
Li Zhiyun looked intently and saw that the official sitting in the sedan was about thirty years old, with fair skin and a black beard under his chin. The man on horseback was dressed like a military attache, with dark skin and a strong body.
When Yu Wenxin saw them, he hurriedly stepped forward and said to the person sitting in the sedan, "Brother Tiecheng, we haven't seen each other for many years, so we don't want to meet here. It's very rare!" When the man saw them, he quickly returned the greeting in surprise: "Brother Yuwen, So it’s you? Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you!"
"Come, let me introduce you." After Yu Wenxin said this, he pulled the man to Li Zhiyun and said, "This is the King of Chu." When the official heard this, he quickly knelt down and saluted: "Xia County The county magistrate, Xu Tiecheng, bows to His Highness the King of Chu." The military attache next to him also knelt down.
Li Zhiyun quickly pulled them up and said with a smile: "Magistrate Xu, no courtesy, no courtesy." After saying that, he turned his eyes to the military attaché and said: "Who is this?..." Magistrate Xu quickly introduced: " He is the king of this county."
Li Zhiyun nodded and said: "Magistrate Xu, County Lieutenant Wang, I, and General Yuwen inspected the military affairs of the prefecture and county. When they arrived here, several villagers found a corpse on the hillside. The corpse was dressed in official uniform. You guys. Come and have a look, do you recognize this person?" After that, he led the two of them to the body.
Xu Tiecheng stared at it, gasped, and exclaimed: "Ah, isn't this Zhou Shen?"
"What, do you know this person?"
Before Xu Tiecheng could answer, Wang Xingben, who was next to him, said first, "Reporting to the King of Chu, he is Zhou Shen, Cao Cao of this county. He disappeared the night before yesterday. He died here unexpectedly. It is very sad." Xu Tiecheng pondered for a moment and said loudly: "Wang County Lieutenant , you must quickly ask Yi Zuo to come over for inspection, and we must find out the cause of death!" Wang Xingben agreed, called Yi Zuo who was accompanying him, and began to inspect the scene.
Li Zhiyun and Xu Tiecheng went down the hillside and came to the official road. Xu Tiecheng smiled and cupped his hands and said: "King Chu has worked hard all the way, so you should hurry up and follow me to the county seat to stay."
"Okay, let's go into the city."
