Chapter 12 A man cannot be without authority for a day
Gongsun Xun came out of Wangri Tower and was hit by the cold air outside the building, which made him sneeze... He really didn't know how to explain to Han Dang now?
But if you don’t explain it, it seems...it doesn’t make sense, right?
Thinking of this, Gongsun Xun was squirming beside Wangri Tower, and finally he saw a kind-faced follower of the county guard, and asked him to call his clan brother Gongsun Yue over.
"Captain Lieutenant?!" Han Dang was shocked and angry. "Did the Lord really say that?"
"That's true." Gongsun Yue also frowned. He didn't know whether he was dissatisfied with the Hou Prefect or with Han Dang's attitude. "My brother failed to apply for the post of Tun Chief for you. He was so ashamed that he said he didn't dare to come.
Please let me convey this matter to you, my righteous brother."
Han Dang remained silent.
Cheng Pu, who was on the side after all, was more mature and had been working in the county for many years. He had some understanding of these things. He shook his head slightly and in turn advised Han Dang: "In this world, the Han family
If you want to get ahead, it will be difficult after all. Righteous Gong, don’t think too much, let alone make mistakes!”
Han Dang remained speechless and didn't know what he was thinking.
"That's right." Gongsun Yue turned to Cheng Pu again and said. "Brother Demou, you don't have to worry too much. My brother asked me to tell you that he has already gone to find my uncle. There is nothing better than this."
You are easy to talk to and will definitely give you a good job!"
Cheng Pu quickly thanked him seriously.
By the way, just as everyone imagined, Gongsun Zhao is a big softie. In addition, this guy has just laid down and made great achievements. How can he be entangled with the promotion of a lowly official with his nephew who fought bloody battles that day?
Therefore, Gongsun Xun came over angrily and almost slapped the table: "Cheng Demou should at least be a county magistrate with a rank of 200 shi and have real power!"
Gongsun Zhao immediately nodded and said that the Zhongfa Cao of Beiping County was short of a deputy historian. In addition, the prefect Wang also expected him to share the military merits, so he would not refute his own face and gave it to Cheng Demou.
I have to say that soft eggs also have the benefits of soft eggs, so it’s easy!
However, Han Dang was really helpless.
In this way, on the second day, the two prefects inspected the heads together, determined the merits, and then rewarded the property and purchased wine and meat. Lulongsai was full of joy. However, the results of Cheng Pu and Han Dang were not at all
According to the previous gossip, the former had great luck and was directly appointed as the deputy historian of the county's Fa Cao, while the latter was promoted to the same rank of two hundred stones, but it attracted the laughter of his colleagues in the fortress, Lieutenant Ling Zhi Se Zhan.
After the matter was settled, Gongsun Xun was too embarrassed to go see Han Dang again, and barely spent a day in the fortress. When Gongsun Yue also got the letter of recommendation, he gathered Gongsun Zan, and the three brothers directly led the guests and accompanied Han Dang back.
Lingzhicheng went to celebrate the New Year. At the same time, I also packed up my things, said goodbye to my family, and prepared to go to Luoyang as soon as spring begins.
"I finally understand." One day after the new year, in the afternoon, snowflakes were falling like goose feathers outside the window. In a bright house of the clan where the earth dragon 'invented' by Gongsun Auntie was burning, after drinking a few more drinks,
Gongsun Zan couldn't help but say what was in his heart. "This man cannot be without power for a day!"
"Brother, why do you say this?" Gongsun Yue, who was called over to drink with him, looked puzzled. "Why did a man who was celebrating the New Year suddenly say such a thing?"
"What can I say?" Gongsun Zan poured himself a glass of hot wine and couldn't help but sneered. "Look, before my father-in-law appreciated me, the only powerful family in the clan who valued me was the Ah Xun family, and my father was not upright.
Seeing me... And Ah Xun, huh, is actually a fatherless man, so we share the same problem. But once I became the son-in-law of the county governor, these days, those people who used to never see each other became arrogant and respectful.
, everyone came to get close to each other...new houses with independent houses were delivered! By the way, does Ayue know the legitimate son of the second room?"
"Is he the direct grandson of the great-uncle who served as the governor of Shanggu County, the one named Gongsun Fan?" Gongsun Yue thought for a moment before reacting. "What's wrong with him...?"
"He also came to me this morning to congratulate me on the New Year." Gongsun Zan still sneered. "This is the first time I remember that I am the eldest brother in this generation."
Gongsun Yue was speechless.
On the one hand, he had been poor since he was a child and had suffered a lot of discrimination, so he seemed to recognize Gongsun Zan's complaints; but on the other hand, Gongsun Fan came here as a courtesy after all, and although he had not deliberately gotten close to him before,
But there are no targeted evil words or deeds. Just hating someone for no reason just because they have a good background... What does this mean?
"Watch!" Gongsun Zan shouted more and more. "I, Gongsun Bogui, must one day be a man of two thousand stones like my father-in-law. I will do whatever I want and no one will look down on me again!"
Gongsun Yue became more and more silent.
"Okay." At the same time, in the courtyard of a deep house on the east side of the clan's settlement, the earth dragon "invented" by Gongsun was also burning vigorously, and Gongsun herself, who was sitting cross-legged on the fire kang, finally put down her hand.
Then he put down his precious glasses impatiently. "Isn't it just that I didn't help Han Dang get a good position? I have been sighing for several days. What are you doing? It's not a good year for people.
Feeling!"
"The key is that it's such a pity!" Gongsun Xun was lying on a strange bench next to the window in the distance, staring at the snowflakes falling like goose feathers outside the window, feeling quite frustrated. "I went to night raids to risk my life just to win him over.
I didn't expect it, but I finally fell into the prefect's words... It's great to have power, everything can be decided with just one word."
"So this is called feudal society." Aunt Gongsun also sighed. "When I was young, because you know it, I couldn't stand it. But there is no way, this is the way of the world. This Han Dynasty
After all, there are tens of millions of people, so what can you do on your own? Since you have no ability to change it, you can only choose to integrate into it and use its rules to occupy a good position... This will also be the case in the future, so-called hard work..."
"Work hard to hear it and reach out to the princes, in order to save your life in troubled times." Gongsun Xun opened his mouth and came. "I know."
"It's good that you know." After saying that, Aunt Gongsun lay on the hot bed with her head up, and a little maid climbed up flexibly and began to massage her temples. "Silly son, I will say a few more words today.
You just listen to me carefully. As for you and I, I have been observing the world for decades. Objectively speaking, there are two things in the Han Dynasty that are definitely more troublesome than the Xianbei people who have been fighting for years.
One is regional discrimination. Not to mention between states, even people from the next county will not let you do business there because you are not from the county. Even if you are passing by them fine.
, the local big businessmen can pull out their knives for no reason, just because you are a foreigner! You see, our family’s business, capital, and channels are not lacking, but we can’t get through Zhuojun to the west, and this line to Zhongshan, to the south
You just can't get over Mount Tai. Being able to open a semicolon in Yecheng is already a favor given to you by the people in Jizhou because of their years of cooperation. If the Mi family in Xuzhou doesn't give you favor, you won't be able to open a stall in Langya.
"
Gongsun Xun also shook his head. This was a common topic between mother and son.
"There is another issue, which is the issue of family background we are talking about." Aunt Gongsun couldn't help but sigh quietly when she said this. "Thinking back to those days, luckily the person I met when I came out was your father. Even after he died, you were still alive.
Can you give me the title of Gongsun Auntie? You said, if I meet a poor family, wouldn't it be as difficult as the eighteenth level of hell? If I meet a low-level commoner, other than those refugees from Guanzicheng, etc.
Besides death, is there any other way out? Besides, it’s a good thing I didn’t wear it while traveling in South Korea. If that were the case, I’d probably have been sold somewhere as a slave girl from Sanhan…”
Gongsun Xunchun pretended not to hear the last sentence.
"In short, these days, not to mention the low-level commoners like Han Dang, even the rich and powerful but without connections and knowledge inheritance, that is, the so-called 'poor family', can only be a rich man. Look,
There is not even the slightest hope of taking a step forward..."
"If the world is like this, then why did my mother teach me from a young age that I should treat everyone equally, based on talent, and not focus on family background?"
"Because it is right to treat everyone equally," Aunt Gongsun raised her hand to interrupt the maid's massage, sat up and replied seriously. "And this kind of discrimination based on family status is wrong! Think about it, if the upper level hadn't locked up the lower level.
If the rich were not getting richer and the poor were getting poorer, and if those in power didn't know how to treat everyone equally, wouldn't the Han Dynasty have been around forever? The four hundred years of the Han Dynasty were like this
Isn't it because of such a large territory and such a large population that we are in this situation now because there are too many wrong things like this?"
Gongsun Xun was slightly startled and turned to stare at his mother without saying a word for a long time.
"Boy, what are you thinking about?" Although Aunt Gongsun didn't wear glasses, she still felt something strange about her son.
"I'm thinking... this time, I really believe what my mother said back then." Gongsun Xun said as he stood up. "People in power are like Prefect Hou. No matter how capable they are, there is no way in this world."
It will be chaotic."
"What you said touches on the internal logic." Aunt Gongsun nodded slightly. "Let me tell you bluntly, for such a large dynasty to fall over at the word, it must be because the internal conflicts have intensified to a certain extent.
It’s not very obvious here in the border counties. After all, the ethnic contradictions here suppress the class contradictions. I don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing... If you have the opportunity to look at the counties in the interior, it is called one..."
"So, a real man cannot lose power for a day!" Gongsun Xun suddenly turned over and sat up from the strange recliner, as if he did not listen to his mother's teachings at all. "A person sitting in the position of Prefect Hou should be
Someone like me is the right person!"
"Gongsun Xun, I have to remind you! In these troubled times, it's okay to be ambitious, but you have to act within your capabilities. The first ones will die first... Do you want to go out?"
"Hey." Gongsun Xun, who had already begun to put on his clothes with the help of the maid, responded in a low voice.
"It's Chinese New Year and it's snowing so heavily. Where are you going out now? Are you going to have a drink with that boy Gongsun Zan?"
"I don't have that intention." Gongsun Xun shook his head and replied. "Such a heavy snow is a joy for some people, but for others, it is a disaster... Isn't this what you taught me, mother?
? Those guests and cavalrymen who fought with me but died outside the Lulong Wall should give them some dry firewood, charcoal and the like. It would be a thoughtful gesture to go there in person before leaving. "
"Then go." Aunt Gongsun couldn't help but put on her glasses and glanced at her son. "I have really made a lot of progress in the county in the past few years...it's just that the charcoal thing is too
Trouble, I haven’t found a suitable coal mine, otherwise I would freeze everyone in the city to death.”
Gongsun Xun pushed open the door and walked out in the snow.
"Gongsun Zan, courtesy name Bogui, was a native of Lingzhi in western Liaoning and a brother of the Taizu clan. He was a secretary to the county. He had good manners and a loud voice. He was used by the marquis as his wife. He sent him to Lu Zhi of Zhuo County to read the scriptures as his wife."
