After the banquet that day, Xiahou Hui learned the information from Xiahou Ba's family book. In order to be qualified to comment on the conquest of Hanzhong in the future, he began to live a life of diligent companionship every day, even Xiu Mu gave up. .
Although, he did not have the status to influence this battle.
However, once Emperor Cao Rui allows him to speak on this matter, he will be able to demonstrate his military strategy!
And when the battle develops as he expected, it will make the emperor very special, and he will carefully consider his future advice!
When things are irreversible, you should give up the useless struggle, admit failure decisively, and then try to let the failure breed the hope of future success.
This is the kind of mind and wisdom that successful people possess.
However, what he didn't know was that he now had little reputation among scholars.
At the banquet that day, his claim that he was exhausted from writing and thinking finally came out, and people had mixed beliefs about it.
The believers feel sorry for God's favor against him, while the doubters think that he is pretending to be an excuse for not being invited to write poems or poems at banquets in the future.
But no matter what, he is praised by everyone for his humility and gentlemanly virtues.
According to legend, his eldest brother Xia Houheng and the emperor Cao Rui were speechless for some reason after hearing such praise.
Of course, people treat this kind of modest fame as a pastime, and then get slapped to death on the beach by the constant waves of fame and fortune in Kyoto.
The real undercurrent is the whispers between Master Sima and Chen Tai.
Their fathers were both important ministers of the country. After learning about their eldest son's inheritance, they couldn't help but pay a little more attention to Xia Houhui.
As for the reason for paying attention~
Whether it is out of surprise that She Ji has talented people who have grown up, or because of his own consideration of the talented people in She Ji's "clan", that's a matter of opinion.
Xia Houhui didn't know any of this and didn't pay attention to it.
In recent days, his daily companion has become interesting again.
As everyone expected, Emperor Cao Rui's diligence stimulated by Sun Quan's proclaimed emperor only lasted for more than ten days, and then he became a combination of work and rest, relaxed and relaxed, and there was no shortage of afternoon outings for fun.
There was no shortage of banquets, cultural gatherings, hunting and prison visits, and Xiahou Hui was often left to accompany him on his journeys.
En Chong Zhilong has almost become a close minister second only to Qin Lang.
This also led to something that made him laugh and cry: since mid-May, people have been sending him gifts and asking for help.
Even though I knew that Kyoto was bound to be messed up by people, I still felt like I had to ride alone for more than a month! I didn’t have much time to travel with a driver, so how could I dare to disturb the emperor with some unreasonable things!
To take a step back, even if he dares, the emperor may not be able to listen~
These people who work hard can really be said to be stupid because of their sharpness.
While sighing with emotion, he also suddenly discovered that bribery had become a common practice in Wei State, which had only been in power for a few years after the Han Dynasty.
For example, Jiang Ji, a member of the Central Guard Army who had just taken office a few years ago.
Because the position of the Central Guards is a typical low-level position, in addition to being the president of the generals and in charge of the imperial guards, they also have the power to select military attaches. [Note 1]
It also makes people like flies and dogs rush to pay bribes, please ask.
However, Jiang Ji, who was promoted by Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty, could not withstand the temptation and rejection, and was so sophisticated that he took advantage of his position and power to seek personal gain regardless of his reputation and integrity. His greed was so fierce that the folk song satirized: "If you want teeth, you should get them." If you get a thousand horses; if you have five hundred people to oversee it, you get five hundred horses."
Character and reputation are like toilets, the fragrance of which spreads ten miles in the wind.
There is also the low-key Qin Lang.
He won the favor and trust of Emperor Cao Rui and was always with him, making people who wanted to bribe him flock to him, and made his family as wealthy as a prince.
If these actions were carried out in a strict way, and Cao Cao of Wei Wu would be punished even if his subordinates were not satisfied with the slightest dissatisfaction, he would not be imprisoned and executed, but he would also be deposed and deposed by the people and never be used again.
Therefore, although the wealth and silk were attractive to people, Xia Houhui still told his family to return the entrusted wealth to the way they came from, and not to let the entrusted people in in the future.
Yes, Xia Houhui, who had no money left, struggled in his heart.
Because the Shaofu ordered Yang Fu to refuse to comply with Emperor Cao Rui's request to the Shaofu to subsidize Xiahou Hui's horse in the palace on the grounds that it was unprecedented and inconsistent with the law, he sent people to Xiahou Hui's house to ask for the money spent on the mount.
At that time, Xia Houhui was not at home.
After Xia Houheng learned about it, he immediately asked someone to pay the fee and went to find the Weiyang Stable Order himself.
After accounting for the cost of the good horse during his one year of confinement in the palace, he asked the steward of the family to send the money and food to the Imperial Servant's Office in one go.
Xia Houhui, who learned about it later, was very angry.
How can there be such a ridiculous thing in the world to accept a job at the expense of one's own salary?
What's even more hateful is that the emperor Cao Rui, who already knew about this matter through the rebuttal of Yang Fu, the young man's order, actually pretended to be deaf and dumb!
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that Xia Houhui was tempted by money and silk.
However, fortunately he held back and maintained his image as a loyal and upright minister, otherwise he would have no say in what happened next.
Before midsummer came in June, two more things happened.
First, Sun Quan, who proclaimed himself emperor, left Lu Xun to assist Sun Deng in guarding Wuchang and moved the capital to Jianye.
In other words, in the future, when troops from the east of the Yangtze River invade the territory, Huainan will be the main force, followed by Jingxiang.
This was the consensus of the monarchs and ministers of the Wei State. Emperor Cao Rui also gathered his important ministers to work together and asked the soldiers of the two prefectures of Yan and Henan behind the Huainan battlefield in advance to focus on military exercises and prepare for reinforcements at any time.
After making the decision, he also started to take exams, allowing many accompanying officials to express their opinions on the Huainan front.
It’s just a harvest.
After the Battle of Shiting, the vitality of Wei's Huainan elite was severely damaged by many close officials, and their advice on strategy was nothing more than the advice of an old man who wanted to protect the country and keep the country strong.
Xia Houhui, who "stands on the shoulders of his predecessors", is much more radical.
He proposed the tactic of luring the enemy deep into the country, because Jiangdong had always relied on the natural dangers of the river to stay in a corner, and focusing on developing the navy would also lead to the Wu soldiers' mentality of being timid when away from the water.
Therefore, he suggested that the Huainan front should first add one or two thousand elite cavalry to stay in hibernation while the walls were strong and the country clear.
When the Wu soldiers invaded, the Wei State showed that the enemy was weak, prompting him to become arrogant and come ashore to fight. Then the Wei State could use its elite cavalry to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
If the war goes well, and Jiangdong invades again in the future, he will have to hesitate whether to go ashore to fight.
It's just a pity.
After hearing this, Emperor Cao Rui just nodded and smiled, and said, "Zhiquan's plan has some merits, but generals like Zhang Wenyuan are rare." Then he put the matter aside.
Yes, the emperor, who only wanted to take the exam, did not think that Xiahou Hui was more capable of military strategy than the veteran ministers of Sheji, so he misunderstood Xiahouhui's advice and preconceivedly regarded it as his desire to imitate "Zhang Liao's power to shock Xiaoyaojin" matter.
However, Xia Houhui didn't care about this.
After all, now that Man Chong is guarding Huainan, what big trouble can that thief Wu Sun Quan make?
Another thing is that another Sanqi Shilang was moved to the left.
Nai Du Shu.
He, who never interacted with others, went to Shu a few days ago and learned that Lian Zhao from Le'an fell in love with the book. He also told Cao Fan, the minister Zuocheng, the younger brother of General Cao Zhen, who "does not obey the imperial edict when he is in charge". The captain Wang Cai privately excused the music man Meng Si from his crimes and other crimes as an example, criticizing the inaction of important ministers in the court and the atmosphere in the temple of flatterers and self-interest, reminding the emperor Cao Rui that he should pay attention to it, rectify the administration of officials, and remove the treacherous sycophants. I am a small man who aspires to be the emperor of the sage.
After writing such a memorial, it is inevitable that he will be moved to the left.
Even though Emperor Cao Rui praised him very much, he still had to be moved to the left in order to take into account the mood of the Gongun princes.
Therefore, not long after he was appointed as the Minister of Sanqi, he had not yet accumulated enough experience and resume to hold the post of two thousand dan, so he was sent out of the capital to take up a casual position.
He himself seemed disheartened by this.
When he was appointed, he left Luoyang City and resigned due to illness, and went to live in seclusion in a spring dock in Yiyang.
Emperor Cao Rui did not ask his ministers to advise him on this matter, but Xia Houhui wanted to give him some advice.
There is no other reason.
First, Xia Houhui was also disgusted with the current culture of corruption in the court, and he also agreed with Du Shu's memorial.
The other is that although Du Shu was from a noble family, his father Du Ji was already in a poor family at the time.
It is not a family with deep foundation and complicated family interests. If the emperor Cao Rui has special talents, he can be cultivated to become a die-hard loyalist of Cao Wei.
He also happened to be the like-minded person Xia Houhui was looking for.
Can be cited as a party member!
However, if he wanted to persuade Emperor Cao Rui about this kind of thing, he would have to find a suitable opportunity if he didn't want to face the same fate of being moved to the left.
With this in mind, Xia Houhui was drafting words of advice while patiently waiting for the opportunity.
The deceased is like a man who never gives up day and night.
Unknowingly, the mid-autumn month of August has quietly arrived.
Xia Houhui, who had been working diligently, finally waited for the right time to give advice.
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[Note 1: The responsibilities of the imperial guards of the Wei Kingdom were separated by Simamen. The central guard was in charge of the outside, and the central leader was in charge (inside). 】