Chapter 24

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When Dong Zhuo, the worst offender, was put to death, his body was dragged to the street and lit lamps with fat paste, the people passing by all "threw their hands at his head and trampled on his corpse" as a way to vent their anger, and no one did not applaud and applaud.

Li Su's fault is far from being comparable.

Although he rebelled against his master, the industry was sanctioned by Lu Bu's hand, in the eyes of others, it is just a dispute within Lu Bu's army.

And to see his vengeance to the point of this at least had to recommend the love of the townspeople thwarted, it is inevitable that the heart has a feeling of solidarity, feeling that his temperament is small, acting harshly, not mercifully intolerable.

Certainly can be exchanged for deterrence and fear, at the moment of just starting out, the foundation has not even had time to lay down, Yuzhou local classes are still cautiously wait and see, is not a good thing.

Since Yan Qing had foreseen it, he naturally would not let such rumors go, let alone allow hidden dangers to grow.

Taking advantage of the fact that Lu Bu personally ordered dozens of soldiers to trample on the corpse had not spread, although the people saw him riding his horse out of the city, but did not know where he was going, Yan Qing made the decision on the spot, and did not turn a small matter into nothing, whitewash, but rather the opposite way to send Zhang Liao as the head of the three generals, each led by a hundred or so people, with fanfare, went out of the city to clean up a circle of thieves and bandits loitering around the outside of the city, so that Lu Bu's act of venting his anger was naturally misconstrued as a righteous act of He was sympathetic to the people and personally acted as a vanguard to eliminate the bandits.

When Yan Qing had finished implementing the emergency measures, he turned around to see another military advisor, Jia Yan, sitting leisurely at the desk, one hand holding a pen, occasionally outlining a few strokes in the brief documents, the other hand holding a teacup, lightly sipping a few mouthfuls of good tea from time to time.

Even as he watched Yan Qing busy himself, he didn't have the slightest intention of helping out, noticing Yan Qing's baffled gaze, he slowly raised his eyes, asking as if he didn't know, "Shiguang is busy with that end of the business? The official documents here are piling up, so you might as well start working on them."

Yan Qing: "......"

He glanced at the two piles of bamboo slips stacked up as high as Lu Bu, so large that just looking at them gives one a splitting headache, and then looked at Jia Yan's calm and relaxed manner, clearly stood by and watched him play, how could he not see that the other party was intentionally showing his three points of leisure as ten points, to take revenge against himself for being out with his new friends and playing in the mountains, and leaving him here alone, not only to take care of the internal military affairs which are yet to be reborn but also to clean up the mess made by this runaway wild horse, which is inhuman and heinous and worthy of condemnation. And also to clean up the mess made by Lu Bu's wild horse, such inhuman, heinous and condemnable evil behavior.

Autumn settling of accounts of the debtor is here sitting neatly, Yan Qing after two comparisons, deeply feel that the good man to do not lose in front of you, regardless of the usefulness of the first soft to ask for forgiveness before, then upright to him a bow, sincere: "Hope Wen and adults generous, please forgive the fault of the Qing."

Jia Daan smiled but did not laugh, answered impeccably: "Oh? Chongguang through great difficulties, return is already not easy, I am still too late to celebrate, what is wrong with you?"

Yan Qing sighed, politely reminded: "Qing Governor ineffective, failed to block the Su army rebel out, has been the body of the crime, later even if lucky to save the head, but also have to be dozens of army sticks, once the injury to the bones and bones, at least also have to recuperate in bed for ten days and a half months, when the text and will have to fight alone also."

Jia Yan, however, even eyelids are not with lift, not threatened in the slightest, coolly said: "Chongguang can be relieved, in my opinion, really is too much to worry about!"

Yan Qing was truly a bit perplexed this time, "I wonder where Wen He started with this statement?"

Jia Daobao lazily opened fire to him: "heavy light for the Lord into a great cause of the pillar, but also with the Lord have acquaintance with the righteousness of the Lord, have ridden together, and sit tent seat, but also against the foot to sleep, put the heart into the heart, both the good minister of the plan, the more rare and valuable to know the Lord is also. You do not know, when I first heard of the heavy light in the Su army suffered, the people suspected that the life has been lost, the Lord grieved into the heart, deeply regretted, and then it is for the Lord Su thieves, hundreds of miles of raids, the party revenge, after a setback, this is obvious to all, the party saw your body has injuries, feel the same way, the anger of the five viscera, and can not wait to go to whip Su corpse."

"Yu Su army in the heavy light of the power of a single thin, a single tree can not support, he suddenly born rebel heart, I also did not expect, if you want to liquidate the fault of dereliction of duty and negligence, I also can not escape also. How can you save the day with just one person? With this offense will be Chong Guang accountability, not too brutal and unreasonable."

Yan Qing laughed dryly, and was about to defend himself, when Jia Yan stopped him with his feathered fan, and then finished: "Now that we have regained the lost and found, it is a fulfillment of the Lord's dream, so how could he blame him for no reason? I am afraid that in the future, I will never allow Chong Guang to take risks alone. Therefore, I dare to assert that anyone can receive this military club, but Chong Guang is definitely not related to it."

Stomped Li Su's body into mud, finally returned refreshed Lu Bu just at this time lifted the curtain and walked into the inner hall, only to catch the end of Jia Yan's words, but it was the most crucial word "army stick", and immediately gathered his sword eyebrows, shouted and hit the innocent desk on his side, and made it click and split into pieces: "Who dares to hit Mr. Buzhi's military stick?!"

Turning to the extremely short-sighted Lu Bu to confirm what he said, Jia Yan happily looked askance at the flabbergasted Yan Qing, back: "But the Lord Gong heard the wrong thing, but Chong Guang is deeply ashamed of not being able to prevent the purge of the rebels, and would like to ask to be punished, and I was about to discourage a little."

Lu Bu frowned in disgust and said, "The rebels have been purged, why are we still rehashing old scores? Besides, Su's son is a wolf with a heart of gold, so how can you blame him?"

Yan Qing, however, did not dare to agree, and he did not think that even though Jia Dang helped to excuse himself, it meant that he genuinely agreed with the idea.

But is as smart as a fox, but also smooth and cunning Jia Yan can see his position was Lu Bu held supreme, do not want to touch the Lord mold when touching the scales of the head of the bird just.

This does not bode well at all. Although Jia Yan's cautious, life-preserving character greatly predetermined his behavioral patterns, but a master who calls his staff unwilling to offer straightforward advice and give reasonable admonitions, reduced to Lu Bu's fate in the White Gate Tower, the previous life of the rebellion is not far away.

And so, even though Lu Bu and Jia Dang showed great opposition, Yan Qing struggled internally for a while, and still bent on deciding to accept the punishment, and in order not to waste this great opportunity to make an example of others, he also had to be beaten in public.

Yan Qing insisted on three main reasons: First, this is the errand he volunteered to lead down, and indeed because of the high self-esteem, to the point of dereliction of duty, in reason, should be punished severely, even if it is considered to be a wake-up call for his own lessons; Second, he is insensitive to pain, beaten by the army stick, even if the injuries are more serious, but also have a cure for a hundred diseases of the Peach can be lifesaving, to play a little bit more hard also does not matter, will not be really out of the disease; Third is to remove the bad impression of Lu Bu's employment, only relatives, brainless shortcomings, to help the new soldiers and generals into the army to increase cohesion. The third is to remove the bad impression of Lu Bu's use of people, only relatives, brainless short-term protection, to help the new soldiers and generals to integrate into the army, increase cohesion, he is in the eyes of the people is completely treated as a treasure by Lu Bu's military priest, it is the most suitable to be used to open the knife candidate.

Lu Bu thousand refused ten thousand refused, Yan Qing exhausted the nine oxen and two tigers, or reluctantly persuaded the other party, but also thanks to know his heart, but also know that his mind is determined Jia Yan to later also helped persuade a few words.

So Lu Bu was forced to cooperate with him in a big drama in front of the eyes of all his subordinates. Because of his heart is really reluctant, face gloomy up is more not like hypocrisy, is also dark, so make up for a few points of acting, interpretation more realistic a few points.

First, he was furious to count a dry faults of Yan Qing Governor's negligence, and then even showed no mercy, want to heavily punish him to be beaten with twenty military clubs, that can quickly take the life of a weak scribe.

Yan Qing only kowtowed and admitted his faults, indifferently received punishment, the soldiers responsible for the execution just came out, a hand carrying a military club, one hand rudely dragged the master of the army, who was loved and respected by Lu Bu, to the high platform, the only thing that can be said to be a consideration for the decency of his literati, is that it didn't strip off his pants and beat him, but when they saw that Lu Bu, who has always been a favoritism and protective of the shortcomings of the people, was really prepared to be executed on the spot, everyone realized that it was going to be a true test and were shocked to the extreme.

Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, who are closest to Yan Qing on weekdays, do not know the inside story, and they are incredulous of what Lu Bu is doing, and at this moment, they can't bear to watch it anymore, and they take the initiative to come out on their knees and plead for leniency.

They do not hesitate to get on the furious Lu Bu, well elaborated Yan Qing's past great achievements, meaning that even if this dereliction of duty, the root cause is also a dominant Li Su, should not be blamed on him, the penalty can only be a small punishment, how can be so heavy, even if it is a thick-skinned military man was beaten so much, have to lie down for ten days and a half a month, weak such as the Yan Qing military division, that would not be given to the bad.

Lu Bu first froze, not angry but happy, Yan Qing could not help but thump in his heart, straight to bad.

Lu Bu did not want to beat him, but when he saw Gao Shun and Zhang Liao pleading for leniency, he was ready to go along with it. Although touched Zhang Liao and Gao Shun's affection, but the thought that they want to mindlessly bad their own plans, Yan Qing is very laughable, only to cough, the results of Jia Wan as if he did not hear, continue to pretend to be dead, refused to come out for the black face of the offended, he had to persuade himself a few sentences, and with a wink to remind of the negativity of the Lv Bu a bit, and only then the play finally continue.

However, when the soldier coldly swung the grimy military club high and aggressively delivered the first blow to Yan Qing's buttocks, Yan Qing, who had still been doing a good job of building up his psyche for a while, was instantly dumbfounded.

Then it dawned on him.

No wonder Lu Bu suddenly changed his mind and agreed in the end, this is definitely Jia Yan's private compromise to Lu Bu, the two of them tacitly played a trick, and successfully fooled him - this is not a copper hearted solid wood baton, it is clearly a carefully dyed and densely tied up strip of cloth!

Playing up is looking like a million pounds, extremely bluffing, the soldiers under the high platform to see the indistinguishable look silenced.

Yan Qing had no other choice but to give full play to his acting skills, pretending to cry out in pain a few times every time he was hit with a strip of cloth, but felt that the time was incredibly long, and it was not easy for him to finish this 'army stick'.