At the end of October of the first year, the weather was very cold, and Xu Fengde, the widow of Dunhuang County, heard the shouting of the pawn who was looking at the watchtower, saying that there was another team in the east.He left the fire, limped up and took a look, and immediately judged the identity of the comer."
It's a prisoner who has migrated."
The little eater who helped him up had just arrived at Hanging Spring for a few days, and said in surprise: "He is still a few miles away, how can he know that he is a prisoner?"
”Xu Fengde glanced at him with disgust: "When the Marquis of Xi'an was a small official, he wouldn't have asked me such stupid things. ”He pointed to the distance and said, "Those who pass through the Hanging Spring to the west are nothing more than these kinds of people, post horses, messengers, army soldiers, merchants, and prisoners who have migrated far away. ”"The post riders are all riding alone, and the messengers are riding in the chariot, and the car cover is erected high, and there are flags, for fear that others will not know; The army and the Tuntian soldiers often numbered hundreds or thousands, and they could see the dust from the march of the brigade from a distance of ten miles; There are many camels in the merchant's procession, because they have to carry a large amount of goods, do you hear the camel bell ringing?
”Dou Shi shook his head, Xu Fengde said: "Then it can only be the people who have moved far away, they are still walking very slowly, there is no high cover of the car, and the number of people is small, not batches of prisoners, but officials who have been relocated alone, it seems that there are people in the court who are unlucky." ”Why do you say it again?
Wasn't there a large number of virtuous scholars who were released to the Western Regions last year, and many people were deformed when they passed by Hanging Springs, but the strange thing is that no one repented, but continued to move forward with the mortal heart of a martyr, which made Xu Fengde a little admired.After the comers arrived at the Hanging Spring, there were indeed several officials, escorting a family, led by a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a white face and long beard, haggard in character, gentle in speech, and polite manners.Xu Fengde saw that everyone was thirsty and hungry, so he asked people to bring water, and after greeting the escort officials, he bowed his hand to the middle-aged man: "Dare to ask how to call it?"
”The middle-aged man hurriedly returned the salute: "Huang Ba, the word Cigong, and the Yangxia people of Huaiyang County." ”With an obvious Central Plains accent, Xu Fengde bowed his head: "It turned out to be Huang Gong!"
”He hadn't heard of it anyway."
Huang Jun used to be an official, right?
What is this commit?
”Xu Fengde saw that he was exiled with his family, not only an old wife but also children and grandchildren.Huang Ba smiled bitterly: "Big crime, don't mention it, don't mention it." ”So Xu Fengde inquired about the escort officer, and the officer had already heard that Hanging Spring was the place where Xi'an Hou started, the food was fine, and he wanted to eat more fish, so he had to answer all questions."
Xu Qifu, that Huang Ci official is not small, the prime minister has a long history!
It's a pity that he has only been in office for a month, and he committed a big crime, criticized the edict, and destroyed the first emperor!
”Hey, that's a big crime.It turned out that at the beginning of August, Liu Ai had been as good as a stream, according to Ren Hong's proposal, issued an edict to praise Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and said: "I flatter my ancestors with my eyes, and I only remember Emperor Xiaowu to perform benevolence and righteousness, choose a Ming general, and disagree with it, the Huns are far away, Pingdi, Qiang, Kunming, Nanyue, a hundred barbarian rural style, and enjoy it; Jiantaixue, cultivating suburbs, fixing Zhengshuo, consonant rhythm; Feng Taishan, Sai Xuanfang, Fu Ruiying, Baoding out, Bai Lin.The merit is luxuriant, and it cannot be fully announced, and the temple music is not called, and its discussion is played. ”The general Huo Guang obeyed the law of Emperor Wu, punished the princes with punishment, and wanted to open the Western Regions to destroy the Huns, affirming the government of filial piety is to affirm him, and he was happy to see it, and the ministers then discussed the temple number, and set it as "Shizong", not only in Chang'an to build a temple, but also to build a temple in dozens of counties that Xiaowu had inspected before his death.The ministers disagreed, but someone sang the opposite, and it was this Huang Ba.He strongly objected, thinking that Emperor Wu had no kindness to the people and could not set up another temple, so angry that his boss, Prime Minister Cai Yi took the lead in denouncing and convicting Huang Ba of a serious crime and going to prison."
In the end, he was condemned by Tingwei as a big rebel, and he was going to execute the three tribes, but the Son of Heaven forgave him and changed it to exile Loulan with the whole family.""
Put it in Loulan, it's so far."
Xu Fengde shook his head and glanced at Huang Ba, who was about the same age as him, this person did not feel sorry for himself at night, his wife borrowed needles and threads from the officials, and silently mended the holes in the placket, while Huang Ba summoned his children and grandchildren to his side, took out a book from his bag, and was actually teaching them the Analects.Seeing this, Xu Fengde asked Dou Shi to prepare a meal for the Huang family, according to the standard of a soldier rather than a prisoner, and then add a salted fish to the younger child.Dou Shi was puzzled: "You can eat dry rice with tempeh, why do you need to add fish?"
”Xu Fengde glared at him: "No matter what crime he committed, it is not easy to come here alive, be kind to others, be kind to himself, even if he is guilty, why are those young children innocent?"
”For example, the little guy who was exiled to Dunhuang when he was a child and grew up eating his chicken legs, hasn't he now become the general of Anxi and the protector of the Western Regions?
At the beginning of last month, Ren Hongxi and his wife went to the west to take up his post, passing by Hanging Springs, and came to meet Xu Fengde.However, although he received Ren Hong's gift of thanks, which was enough for him to buy a big house in Chang'an, Xu Fengde promised to let his children enjoy happiness, and he was still willing to stay in Dunhuang as a husband.It's just that this year, the superintendent has allocated more money to the Hanging Spring than in the past, which allows him to repair the surrounding roads, and raise manpower to dig wells and canals in Ershiquan, so that it can flow to the storage place, and he no longer has to go far to get water.And if you meet someone who looks good and passes by Hanging Spring, you can help it.So Xu Fengde personally brought the meal to the Huang family, and said with a smile: "Huang Jun did not forget to teach his children and grandchildren on the way to the distance." ”Huang Ba released the scroll and said: "I'm ashamed, but when I heard it, I can die at night." ”In fact, Huang Ba is bitter in his heart, and it is not easy for him to get to this day.He was originally a Yangxia tourist, a small township official, he studied the law since he was a child, and his ambition was to be an official, but he never got the opportunity to be promoted, and he finally couldn't bear it until he was thirty years old, anyway, his family was rich, so he simply donated an official.That's right, it is a donor, from the beginning of the Xiaojing era, there is a selection of people, some small and medium-sized landlords with considerable assets, eager to improve their status, will donate a certain amount of assets to the imperial court, in exchange for the opportunity to enter the office.These donors were called "Lang" at the time, and Sima Xiangru entered Chang'an in this way.When Xiaowu used troops against the Xiongnu, the finances were tight, and it was more common to donate officials, but soon after Huang Bacai donated a squire, he was impeached and removed from office for his brother's crime.But there's nothing that money can't solve, not once, then twice!
So Huang Ba donated another official!
Supplement the history of Feng Yi's 200 stone deaths.In the Han bureaucratic system, officials are regarded as improper and have a very low status, and Huang Ba is also strange, although he is a donated official, he is exceptionally honest, enforces the law fairly, is benevolent and loves the people, and has worked hard for ten years in office, and finally got the inspection of his superiors, and has been promoted little by little since then.He successively served as the governor of Hedong and the Taishou Cheng of Henan, because Liu He passed through Henan County when he entered Beijing, Huang Ba was not used to seeing the servants of the king of Changyi, and he took the blame, which can be seen in his temperament.I thought I had offended the emperor, but I didn't expect that the emperor would be deposed after only 72 days, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, all those who impeached and admonished Liu He had to be promoted.Huang Ba hit the luck in this way, entered Beijing as the court lieutenant, just in time to investigate the cases of the king of Guangchuan and the king of Zichuan, and was quite capable, so he continued to be promoted and became the prime minister for a long time.has been silent for fifty years, but when he was halfway into the ground, he suddenly prospered.But his good luck came to an end, this time for Emperor Wu to discuss the temple number, Huang Ba's Geng Zhi touched the mold, so he was exiled today.He did not forget to teach his children and grandchildren the scriptures of filial piety along the way, and wanted to learn from Confucius to be trapped in Chen Cai without being surprised, but his heart was not peaceful.Since entering Dunhuang, the surroundings have become more and more desolate, making people deeply feel that they have entered a foreign land, and Loulan is outside the Yumen Pass, Huang Ba has felt a trace of despair, I am afraid that he will be buried in this life, in the dead of night, he can hear his wife and children secretly sobbing, he is extremely ashamed, and even had the idea of committing suicide.A hemp rope, tied to the beam of the stable, can end this life, but it is a little unwilling.Huang Ba was bored, walking around in the hanging spring, and the officials didn't even bother to follow him: since he entered Dunhuang, it was often a vast field for thousands of miles, and the people of the household were concentrated in the county and urban areas, and there were only some Guiyi Qiang outside, and then there was no man's land.He found that although the hanging spring is small, but all the organs are complete, there is a Yuan Feng three years of the four o'clock month order fifty articles, the handwriting is different from the handwriting, specially pointed out, this is Xi'an Hou Renhong for the official when the transcription.Xu Fengde sent the little official to be a tour guide for Huang Ba, and the little official said proudly: "The county guard has to add it himself, but in Xu Qifu's words, this is called painting snakes." ”"It's really redundant."
Huang Ba smiled, didn't say much, he has also been a small official, he knows how difficult it is to be promoted, Xi'an Hou is indeed an outlier.Pacing to the west wall, there was another kind of handwriting, the pen is strong, but he also heard the first poem, it was Ren Hong who followed Fu Jiezi out of the jade gate to cut Loulan when he made a military march, the sentence "not broken Loulan will not be returned" has long been widely sung in Chang'an.But next to it, there is a poem that Huang Ba has never seen, and the name is still very long."
Bai Xuege sent Fu Du back to Beijing?"
Dou Shizhi said: "This is what the Marquis of Xi'an did when he arrived in the Western Regions in August and sent the Marquis of Yiyang to the east in Luntai.He was injured in Akatani Castle, and his left hand was no longer strong, leaving only his right arm to be fine.Yiyang Hou also joked to Xu Qifu that in the future, all the poems of Xi'an Hou would be recorded on the wall of the hanging spring. ”Huang Ba bowed his head, looked at it carefully, and read it softly."
The north wind swept the white grass and folded, and the snow flew in August.Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom.Scattered into the bead curtain wet curtain, the fox fur is not warm and thin.The general's horn bow is uncontrollable, and it is difficult to protect the iron clothes.The sea is dry and icy, and the gloomy clouds are bleak and condensed.The Chinese army returned with wine and drinks, Huqin pipa and Qiang flute.The snow is falling in the twilight, and the wind and red flags are not overturned.Luntai East Gate sent Jun to go, and when he went, the snow was full of Tianshan Road.The mountain loop turns around, and the snow leaves a place for horses. ”"Amazing!"
After reading it three times, Huang Ba sighed, only to feel that the block in his chest suddenly disappeared, this poem is clearly a farewell, but it is not sad at all, but the momentum is majestic, there is a kind of optimism and heroism of a strong man outside the plug drinking goodbye.I have long heard that Xi'an Hou Renhong is good at making a new style of seven words, and he doesn't like to rhyme very much, and some people say that Xi'an Hou doesn't know how to rhyme, but his wife Princess Anping is good at Qin pipa, and plays a song with Hu Sheng, but makes this not too rhyming poem, there is a flavor of the song that is stuffed into the stopper, it seems that this one will also be selected into Yuefu, and Yu Ping is optimistic.It's a pity that when Fu Jiezi arrived in Chang'an, Huang Ba had already traveled west and passed by him.Huang Ba glanced at the Hanging Spring again and reflected: "When I came to the Hanging Spring, I only saw the suffering of the barren land moving away, but the Marquis of Xi'an was promoted to a general and a marquis as a small official.I looked at the Western Regions, and I only saw the bitter cold outside the Saiwai, but General Anxi saw thousands of trees and pear blossoms blooming.I'm ashamed that I have lived more than thirty years longer than him, no wonder he can do such a big job. ”Although the political views are different, Huang Ba is quite appreciative of the spirit of Xi'an Hou, and he has more confidence in being able to walk to Loulan alive.Perhaps it was in response to the words of Jitailai, but the next day, when they were about to set off from Hanging Springs, another group of people came from the east, and this time even the fighting officials could see that this was a messenger from Chang'an, riding in a high-cover chariot and holding a scepter."
Where is Huang Cigong?
Come out quickly and receive the edict!
”As soon as the confessor entered the Hanging Spring, he found Huang Ba, but he had been driven away for more than half a month.Huang Ba's family members are a little excited, could it be a pardon?
followed Huang Ba and paused, secretly looking forward to it in his heart."
Loulan Houyi presented his subordinates to the Han Dynasty, and the Anxi capital Huhong suggested in the second mansion, set up a road to govern it, and the Son of Heaven pardoned the sins of Huang Ba, except for the county magistrate of Loulandao!"
PS: The second chapter is in the evening.