When Cui Jun first came to Xihe County to take office, he felt a lot of the hostility of the people around Xihe.
The hostility of the people of Xihe at that time was not aimed at Cui Jun alone, but at all the officials of the Han counties and counties, and at the Han court itself. Simply put, in Xihe County and many places in Shangjun at that time, the people were actually very disappointed with the Han Dynasty.
Even most people don’t know Cui Jun at all.
When the woman in the Lifang saw the officials passing by, she felt like she was facing a great enemy. She hugged the children beside her, as if they were not people, but jackals. The farmers who were weeding by the fields would spit hard at their backs after the officials walked away, and the half-grown boys beside her also rushed to imitate...
Because in the perception of these people, officials have never done anything good. Apart from asking them to pay this and that every day, they seem to be arrogant and eat and drink. Ordinary people are always suffering and tired. Once the people encounter some difficulties, these officials are immediately blind and deaf, know nothing, follow the process, and announce nothing...
Ahem.
So starting from Xihe County, Cui Jun always felt that he was in danger at all times.
Although there have been many changes in recent years and the people's hostility towards officials is not so strong, will Cui Jun go to the fields to check and truly understand the public's opinions?
Not.
Cui Jun is more used to staying in the government office.
Therefore, Cui Jun still stayed at the time of Xihe Prefect, or even earlier.
This kind of fragmented attitude towards the situation and metaphysical concepts and ideas are actually not only found in Cui Jun alone. Just like most people in later generations have learned to look at problems with a developmental perspective and dialectical philosophical thoughts in compulsory education, but there are still many people blurting out one-sided and fragmented words...
For example, putting aside the facts and not talking about anything...
From the perspective of God, of course Choi Jun is very stupid.
But does Choi Jun have a God's perspective?
No.
Even the nine years of compulsory education in later generations failed to teach everyone to look at problems from a developmental perspective. Now, because Cui Jun had problems with his personal thoughts, he called Fei Qian a waste. He has not changed the cognition of the old bureaucrats for so many years?
Do you really think Fei Qian can hold a modifier and adjust his loyalty at any time?
What's more, Cui Jun did not do anything out of the ordinary at the moment. He neither wanted to express his rebellion nor said he wanted to surrender to Cao Cao. He just had some small thoughts in his heart, selfish, and wavered the hesitant old bureaucrats. Could it be that he had to be arrested and killed?
Cui Junyilai and Fei Qian did not establish any special emotions under Lushan. Secondly, his ideas and views have long been formed and stable. What reason does he have to become a staunch, unswerving, thorough revolutionary or reformist who fully supports and loyal to Fei Qian?
Fei Qian is like a football coach. What he can drive is always the athletes who are willing to follow him, and are other people...
It's like all Chinese football, women's football, men's football, and men's football's soft feet.
Even God cannot save the Chinese men's football team!
It is impossible to teach everyone well for nine years of compulsory education. Then, after counting on Qinglong Temple in the past few years, it can change everyone's three views?
Anyone with a little brain...
Forget it, it is better to expect the male football team to qualify than to rely on the leverage sperm to have a brain.
And the key is that Cui Jun’s old model was successful during his tenure as Xihe Prefect!
He could even send troops to help Fei Qian back then!
Then now is there any reason to convince him that his pattern has become obsolete?
If he was wrong before, then how would he explain the soldiers who helped Fei Qian back then?
Therefore, from a certain perspective, Cui Jun is still kind to Fei Qian.
So does Cui Jun have the heart to be respectful?
Yes, and neither.
Cui Jun was not very ambitious. For him, he wanted an official position, but he had not yet reached the level of being completely useless. He was more of an old model that the Han Dynasty was originally used to in the officialdom to operate.
This is true for Chen Rui, Yan Rou, and others.
Cui Jun is definitely not a clean official.
During the Hengling period of the Han Dynasty, there were basically no so-called "clever officials", and Cui Jun was no exception. At most, he just wouldn't end up robbing the people for his greed.
Cui Jun would commit favoritism and fraud to facilitate Cui Hou, which is also a common phenomenon in the Han officialdom. As soon as one person goes to heaven, the chickens and dogs will also gain some benefits.
In this way, Cui Jun, as an old bureaucrat of the Han Dynasty, was not adapted to the new official model that Fei has been promoting at the moment...
Not only was Cui Jun not suitable for him, but all the old officials and bureaucrats of the Han Dynasty were not suitable for him!
Single-manor small peasant economy and large-scale collective production economy are all two different things!
Cui Jun can't understand the new production model, but he can know how many people will resist this model in Shandong!
"Although the cavalry has made great contributions to the world, it should be kept in history..." Cui Jun shook his head and sighed, "But I'm worried that this... the cavalry will probably not have a good end in the future!"
Cui Jun's tone was quiet, "When King Dao of Chu heard that Wu Qixian was appointed as the Prime Minister of Chu. Wu Qiming judged the order and donated officials who were not urgent and were alienated from the deposed princes. Although Chu's nobles and relatives were strong, they were damaged, and all their interests were wanted to harm Wu Qi. When King Dao of Chu died, the royal ministers in chaos attacked Wu Qi and shot Wu Qi in the mourning hall! Dozens of arrows were killed in front of the king's coffin!"
"Shang Yang was the same. After twenty years of Qin, he was the king and the people. What did he do? He abolished the Qin Gong clan, Zheng Gongzi Qian, and Qin nobles hated him to the core. After Duke Xiao died, they all said that Shang Yang rebelled and the captured cart was broken into the market in Xianyang!"
『Therefore…』 Cui Jun turned to look at Cui Hou, 『Do you understand?』
ah?
What did you understand?
What does this say?
Cui Hou was stunned for a while before she reacted, frowned and thought for a moment, "Brother, are you talking about... the cavalry... this... this... cannot... be... so dead?"
Cui Jun looked at Cui Hou with a lot of laughter and cry, "I found that you are becoming more and more stupid... Before... Forget it, the reform of the cavalry is beneficial to the bottom and harming the top, so this time Shandong advances are similar to the disaster of Wu Qi and Shang Yang. Do you understand?"
Cui Hou seems to understand but not.
Cui Jun glanced at Cui Hou, shook his head, and sighed, "What Wu Shang overthrew was not evil in law, but in wealth and noble. Now Shandong marched, taking advantage of the fact that the cavalry was not in Chang'an and the center was unstable, which was the same as the death of King Dao and Duke Xiao."
『Oh…』 Cui Hou nodded, 『So that’s it, so that’s it…』
"You still don't understand..." Cui Jun glanced at Cui Hou's expression and frowned.
If Cui Hou and Cui Jun were not for the relationship between losing and prospering, Cui Jun would not bother to pay attention to this increasingly fat Cui Hou. Could it be that he had fat in his head?
Look at Pang Shiyuan, he is not stupid, he looks at his brothers, oh...
Dislikes are disgusting, but at this time, Cui Jun has to helplessly explain to Cui Hou, "What Yan Duwei said just now is that he is just trying to harm Wu Shang's noble character!"
『Ah? This…』 Cui Hou was stunned for a moment, 『How is this…』
'Can you be considered "rich"?" Cui Jun sneered, 'Then I am not considered "expensive'? How many people in the world can be richer than counties and power over two thousand stones?'
"So it's..." Cui Hou then understood more clearly what the inexplicable words between Yan Rou and Cui Jun meant before.
"The nobles in Shandong regard the cavalry as enemies..." Cui Jun said in a deep voice, "And there is no gap between Taiyuan, Shangdang, Hedong, and Guanzhong? Someone still controlled the troops... But Yan Duwei thought that he wanted to rebel... deliberately deceived me with words..."
If there are strong enemies outside, they will naturally be impetuous inside.
Cui Jun has been reluctant to agree that Yan Rou sent troops to rescue Shexian, and the reasons on the surface are also very sufficient, such as worrying about the problems of the gentry and tyrants in Taiyuan, such as shortage of money, food and materials for sending troops, such as the inconvenience of freezing in the cold and inconvenient marching, etc., all the reasons are sufficient and correct, and under these correct reasons are the uneasiness and worries in Cui Jun's heart.
Cui Jun has been paying attention to Fei Qian for a long time, but the more he pays attention and understands, the more he becomes more afraid. Cui Jun carefully ponders and ponders every change in Fei Qian's governance, and then he becomes frightened.
Cui Jun is a real family of officials, and his three views are all Shandong models. He can do so for so long without causing trouble and not report any severe droughts and disasters every year. He always needs to be exempted from money and food and allocated funds. He is already very obedient.
Looking at Vietnam in later generations, the more imposing the government buildings in the poorer the area, the more impressive they are, and you can know that Cui Jun can at least be called a "benevolent" county prefect.
What's more, Cui Jun's daily work is not bad either.
Taiyuan's water conservancy, farming and sericulture, farming and land reclamation, labor allocation, and tax collection were all fine. Even though Fei Qian began to promote the separation of county magistrates and civil affairs, Cui Jun did not jump out to oppose it.
Yan Rou yelled Cui Jun in the lobby of the government office, but Cui Jun didn't say anything and immediately became furious and wanted to settle the score with Yan Rou.
Is such a county prefect considered good or bad?
Such county prefects occupy the majority of the entire Han area.
With the reform and improvement of Fei's potential political system, these county prefects will also face the same problems as Cui Jun.
Questions about how to choose.
Before, Cui Jun could still pretend to be deaf and dumb, and it would be a day to go by. After all, Fei Qian and Cao Cao did not turn against each other, so there was no problem of standing in front of each other. They were both good ministers of the Han Dynasty. Now that Cao's army invaded the Taihang side, it was equivalent to Cao's army forcing all people like Cui Jun to take sides and make choices!
Inside and outside the pass, Shanxi and Shandong are already incompatible with water and fire, and the differences in systems are getting bigger and bigger.
Now that Cao Cao is launching a large-scale army, this is almost a very obvious signal. Cui Jun can guarantee that he will not join forces, but he cannot guarantee that there will be "noble" in Taiyuan County or other counties and counties.
Before Cui Jun was the prefect of Xihe, he had been to many places and also to Jingxiang. He felt that every city and county had its own style and habits, which was also called "customs".
For example, Luoyang City.
When Luoyang City was first built, there were still many Guanzhong styles, but as time went by, Luoyang City began to be influenced by culture in Shandong and other places, and began to have more construction looks similar to Shandong. From streets to houses, from palaces to city walls, it was already very different from the old Chang'an.
In this case, a Chang'an man and a Luoyang man met each other, and there was nothing to talk about. The accents and customs were different. Except for the Han people, they had one nose and two eyes, and they had nothing to say to each other and could not talk to each other.
During the reign of Guangwu of Han, Luoyang, the capital of Guangwu in Han Dynasty was no longer like the time of Emperor Gaozu of Han. Not only did the changes in the city walls, but people's hearts were also changing. During the reign of Wu of Han, for the sake of a Guannei Marquis or a Guannei Marquis, people could have their brains sucked from their heads. After Guangwu, who cares about Guannei Marquis?
Now there is a vague meaning, outside Guanzhong, Shandong and Shanxi.
The customs and rules are different. Originally, they could have been covered up by a big Han flag, but now the differences between them are directly exposed!
Cui Jun originally thought that he was in Taiyuan as a pure land. Although he had some resentment about his failure to advance for many years, he did not intend to climb up, because he felt that Taiyuan was obviously safer and would not be involved in the battle between the world in the future.
However, the development of things exceeded Cui Jun's expectations. Cao Cao's first move was Shangdang and Taiyuan!
Although the war is still a little far away, Cui Jun was very anxious since he heard the news. He didn't know how to deal with such a situation. Even though he had considered it more than once before, there was still no one who could make him decide.
After all, nominally, he was the prefect of the Han emperor, not Fei Qian or Cao Cao's...
Yan Rou saw Cui Jun's hesitation and anxiety.
Well, it was not just Yan Rou, but Chen Rui also saw it, otherwise Chen Rui would not have attempted to leave without saying a word before. Even the spies on Cao Cao's side felt that they could use Cui Jun's hesitation to cause trouble and spread rumors in Taiyuan City...
"Brother, now..." Faced with the current situation, Cui Houshi was having a headache, "What should we do?"
Yes, what should I do now?
Even Choi Hou asked Choi Jun to choose.
"If you are asked to betray the Cavalry, do you dare?" Cui Jun glanced at Cui Hou with his eyes squinted.
Cui Hou's expression changed and she shivered with the fat on her face, "Brother, don't joke!"
Cui Hou's butt comes from Fei Qian. He really lets him commit Fei Qian's rebellion. Cui Hou doesn't have the courage. What he wants most is to cover up the past and turn big things into small things.
Cui Jun glared at Choi Hou with annoyance, "Since you don't have the courage, why are you asking?"
Cui Houchi said, "Will you go to help Shangdang?"
Cui Jun pondered for a long time before he slowly said: "No...wait a little longer..."
『Wait a little longer...』 Cui Hou's eyes widened, 『This...』
After talking for a long time, Cui Hou thought Cui Jun had some earth-shaking plans and unexpected plots, but he didn't expect that he would just "wait for a while", and this... I will do it too!
What's the difficulty?
Choi Jun glared, "Do you think you'll just wait for nothing, why don't you do it?"
"Then, that's..." Cui Hou was in trouble.
『I mean, wait in Taiyuan!』 Cui Jun whispered, 『How can we wait here? I want to keep Taiyuan unbreakable! In this way, we can wait until the victory and defeat will be decided... If the cavalry wins, we will have the merit of defending the territory... If the Prime Minister wins, we can... If we defend Taiyuan without losing, we will be invincible... Even if there is no great contribution, there will be no great mistakes! If the Cao army really comes to attack Jinyang, the food route is long and the winter is cold. If there is no three or five months, I will not be able to siege the city. I will not have any gains in a year or a half! And this year or two... is enough to see some changes...』
"It's amazing!" Cui Hou suddenly felt relieved and stretched out his thumb to praise, "It's still the eldest brother who is wise!"
『Wisdom?』 Cui Jun shook his head and smiled bitterly, 『I am just the wisdom of a middle-aged man, and there is no wisdom...』
"Brother, why should you be too humble..." Cui Hou thought Cui Jun was saying polite words.
In fact, Cui Jun was sincerely moved.
Cui Jun said slowly, "There are talents who can overcome the world and magnitude between heaven and earth. They lead the storm and waves and carry out the act of creating the world... There are also mediocre people who only seek food and clothing and coldness, follow them ignorantly, and wait until the cliff is in front of them and the cliff is at the air under their feet, and they do not know..."
'Where are us?' Choi Hou asked, 'Which type do we belong to?'
Cui Jun smiled bitterly, "It's better than mediocre! The only difference is that you can only find where the cliff is earlier, so you won't fall together by being wrapped around..."
Cui Hou was beside him, and was speechless for a while.
"What are you doing when you stand?" Choi Jun said to Choi Hou, "Go and take out all the wealth and weapons you have hidden!"
『Ah?』 Cui Hou was stunned, 『Pick it up...take it out?"
Cui Jun said angrily: "You won't use it now to recruit auxiliary soldiers and assist in defending the city. Are you still waiting for Wen Si's people to shake out your private hiding at that time?"
『There is Wensi!" Cui Hou shivered, but the nature of the merchant still made him say after swallowing, 『But this price...』
"No money!" Cui Jun took a photo of the desk, "I can still do anything for you if I don't have money. If I give you money, it will hurt you! Do you think you don't have to spend money in war? This...
Cui Jun said, suddenly his heart moved, as if he had thought of something.
"Brother... This is a lot of money..." Cui Hou was heartbroken and felt that he was about to have anger pectoris, and he stroked his chest and made a heart-stopping gesture.
Cui Jun instinctively felt that he seemed to have touched something very important, but this feeling was very vague, which made him desperately capture it in his heart, but still couldn't catch the key points. Just as he was thinking hard, he was interrupted by Cui Hou and suddenly broke his mind...
Cui Jun couldn't help but shouted coldly impatiently, "Don't say these bastards again! Money is gone, you can still make money. If you lose your life, what's the use of money?!"
"This...ah, I just follow my elder brother's instructions..." Cui Hou sighed long, "Then... this Yan Duwei..."
Cui Jun stroked his beard and pondered for a while, "This person has already had a gap with me, and it is useless to force him to stay... I'd just take this opportunity to let him go. Since he wants to go to Shangdang, let him go... and then there is still a reason to ask Pingyang for some troops...
『Pingyang?』 Cui Hou asked in confusion, 『There are any extra soldiers in Pingyang?』
Chapter completed!