"Father, haven't we already complied with the Pei family's request? Why haven't we started yet? If we are preempted by other families, we may face an unfavorable situation in the future."
"Oh? Then tell me what we will gain if we do it, and what we will lose if we don't do it?"
"Back to father, the Pei family is the most powerful in Wenxi. If we capture Linfen County as agreed, we can legitimately transfer the family's power back there, and we no longer need to worry about being suppressed by the Pei family. But if we don't do this
If I do, I will still have to compete with the Pei family for space in this small Wenxi County, and
And we are worried about the joint suppression of other powerful people. The most important thing is that if we are slow to take this step, we will not have a share in the division of interests in Hedong in the future. If nothing else, the salt pond alone can bring benefits to our family.
It will bring considerable income, not to mention some other new industries that can be involved."
"Have you finished talking? I thought you had learned something over the years. People in the village also praised you and said you were better than me back then. You were enough to share the worries of your father and your uncle on your own. Who would have thought that you are still a person who only sees benefits and forgets about everything?
Little brat. It seems that after the situation calms down, you should leave home and go out to practice. Anyway, you are seventeen years old and your body is considered strong."
"I'm sorry, the child has disappointed his father. It's just that the child doesn't understand where the mistake is. Please ask the father to clarify the child's doubts."
"Okay, you have a good attitude, but your brain is still not flexible enough. Anyway, you are a child who has never been out of the house."
A pot of filtered sake, a few plates of seasonal fruits and vegetables, the original serious conversation between father and son magically turned into a drinking chat that obviously lost any identity in just a few breaths.
Hey, director, the camera changes here are too fast, and the atmosphere doesn’t match it at all!
Well, in fact, the main reason why it turned out like this is because there was an uncle who was over forty years old beside the father and son who was trying his best to act cute. While the father and son were still there calmly and calmly, the uncle here was already there.
Most of the bottle of wine was consumed.
"Brother, do you need me to bring you a few more jars of wine from the wine cellar?"
"Oh my, my third brother, why are you always so serious? Look at how cute Xing'er was when he was a child, but now he has become as lifeless as you. And you, if Brother Wei hadn't been bragging outside these years.
It's been a few years, maybe if we stand together, others will say that you are the eldest brother, but I am more like your younger brother."
"My eldest brother knows how hard he has worked for the family for so many years, and he has seen much more of the world than me. If there is anything inappropriate in my words or deeds, please give me some advice."
Regarding his eldest brother's malicious act of cuteness, the cold-faced man couldn't help but show a knowing smile. Although the two people are quite different in personality, it is obvious that the relationship between the two is quite good. It is possible to maintain such harmony between brothers in such a big family.
The relationship is quite difficult to say the least. After all, bloody TV dramas also have real backgrounds.
"It's boring. Forget it. I'm here to tell you that the troops have been assembled and can be called upon at any time. But I didn't expect that you would choose to support Dong Zhuo and Li Xue. Could it be because of your eldest brother and me? If so,
That's not okay. Kindness is kindness, family is family, and public affairs cannot be abolished for personal reasons."
At this point, the uncle stopped his cute behavior and the expression on his face became serious.
"Don't worry, brother, I still have a clear distinction between public and private matters. Could it be that I still can't trust my brother on this point? And I think this is an opportunity for my Guanqiu family to rise. After all, things are very different now from back then. Already."
The facially paralyzed uncle, uh, it would be better to call him Guan Qiuji, still calmly responded to his brother's concerns. His calm tone and calm face made people feel convinced by his words.
But maybe he has long been accustomed to such a younger brother. Guan Qiuji's elder brother, Guan Qiu Yi, is the uncle who has been acting cute but not cute at all (it's not that he can't find cuteness at all!), he is completely immune. He looked at his brother. Anyway, he just wanted a confirmation. He was completely convinced of his brother's abilities.
However, because of such a conversation, his thoughts couldn't help but become a little wandering.
I remember that He Jin was not dead at that time, but Zhang Jiao had passed away for a long time. At that time, although Guan Qiu Yi had passed the vigorous era, he became a big man in Luoyang City with his own efforts and his identity from Sili Kinki. A captain in the general's palace has no position in Luoyang, a place where among ten people, four are officials, three are relatives of the country, two are members of the clan, and one is a commoner but is inextricably linked to the nine people above. There is nothing to be proud of, but the advantage is that you are in the general's palace. Maybe you will be appreciated by the general He Jin who is becoming more and more popular at that time, and you will be promoted step by step.
In fact, less than two years after entering the General's Mansion, he received an errand, which was to go to Danyang County to recruit troops.
This is a good job, because if you do it well, you have a great chance of becoming the commander of some of the soldiers you have recruited. At that time, the war in the northwest was far from over. The Banchen barbarians in Yizhou and the Wuxi barbarians in the south , Shanyue in Yangzhou, plus some remnants of the Yellow Turban Army who are still strong after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and rebels who plan to take advantage of the situation, a high-level general with no name or even a general with a name is not perfect if he is done well. Unthinkable things.
Although some people say that people who have experienced war tend to be tired of war, it is often more because people with this kind of thinking have lost the motivation or possibility to improve, so staying in the same environment for a long time will naturally make them tired. People feel lazy.
Although Guanqiu Yi has been to the battlefield several times and killed many enemies with his own hands, including foreigners and rebels, such as the Yellow Turban Army, except for some adverse reactions at the beginning, he still has not felt tired or tired until now. exhausted.
After all, he has the burden of the family's continuation and prosperity on his shoulders.
That's why he doesn't behave like a stable brother on weekdays, because he needs to vent the negative emotions accumulated from the battlefield. It is precisely because he understands all this very well that his two younger brothers never blame him for his lack of etiquette.
Going to Danyang to recruit troops, a job that looks easy but actually tests one's personal level, is much more difficult than when Bao Xin, Wang Kuang and others went to Mount Tai to recruit troops.
As mentioned before, Danyang soldiers were one of the four major mercenaries of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Except for the relatively flat terrain along the Yangtze River in the northeast, which has become an excellent grain-producing area after several generations of cultivation, the rest of Danyang County is either hilly or has enough terrain. The primeval forest makes people who enter it despair, and the various miasma in the forest caused by high temperature and humidity are difficult to prevent.
According to the ancient saying that "poor mountains and bad waters breed unruly people", the mercenaries here are naturally extremely unruly. Even if they are not people they recognize, even if they are recruited using official documents, they will often encounter various situations on the way back because they cannot restrain them.
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What's more, whether the northerners go to the south (Cao Cao in Chibi) or the southerners go to the north (Huan Wen in the Northern Expedition), they need to adapt for a long time, otherwise there will be various physical and psychological problems caused by maladaptation.
.so once managed
The prestige of the soldiers is not enough to suppress those unruly guys. It is not unusual for them to blow up the camp or even run away. Anyway, the central government has no good way to deal with them. It is said that Cao Cao, who was defeated in Hulao in history, also suffered such a fate.
deficit.
From this, you can know what kind of person Tao Qian the old fox is who can effectively command the Danyang soldiers. It is estimated that if there was a selection of "Unfulfilled ambitions come before misfortunes" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Tao Qian and Liu Biao would definitely be in the top five - one has nothing.
ambition and
It was a pity that when he could use his abilities, he found that he was already old enough to be close to death. The other one had just hunted the Tiger of Jiangdong and driven away the Fourth and Third Duke. He had accepted the remnants of the Xiliang Army and was preparing to copy Guangwu. However, an explosion broke out in the territory.
A massive plague.
By the way, as the most successful geographer in the Three Kingdoms period, Xu Xiake’s forerunner Liu Bei regrettably had no works handed down to the world. Otherwise, he was born in the northeast of the Han Dynasty, traveled to the eastern coast, stayed in the Central Plains, and traveled all over the Yangtze River and Central China.
Downstream's rich resume will definitely allow him to leave more and more precious wealth to the Chinese Empire. What a pity!
Let’s go back and talk about Guanqiu Yi. When Guan Qiu Yi went to Danyang to recruit troops, he started from Luoyang and passed through Chenliu, Liangguo, Peiguo, Pengcheng, Xiapi, Guangling, and then boarded a ship from Guangling to Moling and Niuzhu.
. Generally speaking, this road is an official road. Not only is the road flat and convenient for horses to run, but there are basically no detours, so generally speaking, you will not reach your destination very quickly.
But as the saying goes, that's a good thing - "No coincidence can make a book", so Guanqiu Yi was disappointed.
When he was in Xiapi, he was attacked by a group of brutal thieves.
In fact, the leader of this group of "thieves" is called Que Xuan. He is not only a well-known local tycoon, but also founded a religious group called "Tiandi Sect" with many members, so even Tao Qian dare not easily
offend him.
Although Guanqiu Yi is very skilled, a good tiger cannot defeat a pack of wolves. So at the critical moment, a group of people appeared...
These people were Hou Cheng and Hao Meng from the Northern Army, whose strength was greatly reduced by the departure of Zhang Liao and Zhang Yang, and their Bingzhou Gang. They were a group of unlucky people who did not originally intend to leave Luoyang but had to accept orders to leave.
But this group of people not only did not take the opportunity to retreat when facing the enemy, but instead helped Guanqiu Yi to repel Que Xuan's attack. Of course, the two parties took over Liang Zi from then on, and Que Xuan even said that as long as Guan Qiu Yi
If Yi appears again in the Huaisi area, not only will he die a good death, but the people around him will also have a bad end.
The distance between Xiapi and Danyang is not that far, and even if the two sides have no contact, most of them know each other's names. Therefore, Guanqiu Yi, who was labeled as hostile by Que Xuan, naturally did not gain much in Danyang.
Although Guanqiu Yi finally returned to his hometown in Hedong due to the failure of his mission and worries about the changes in the current situation, his relationship with the Bingzhou Gang has been preserved and he even used this relationship to obtain certain "benefits", allowing the Guanqiu family to Add a weight to this game between Hedong's powerful forces and the Bingzhou army.
The situation seems to be getting more and more complicated.
PS: Second update, maybe this way we can regain some of our moral integrity...
