A.D. 188, the fifth year of Hanzhong's reign, the summer solstice.
Maybe it’s because the climate is cold this year, or maybe it’s just because it’s so far north. The hot summer here in Youzhou is actually not that hot, but it feels a bit comfortable and pleasant. In the breeze, a convoy of more than a dozen luxury carriages drove by dozens of people.
The knight's retinue came from Jizhou to Youzhou, showing off their power all the way.
After entering Youzhou, they headed north along the Zhuojun Avenue, leaving Liangxiang, turning to Guangyang, passing Yushui, and crossing Ji County... just as the people weeding the fields along the way thought, and just as the scholars traveling from the north to the south had guessed.
In such a way, this group of people seemed to be heading for Changping. Over the past few years, the locals in Youzhou have become accustomed to this.
The carriage galloped along without any pause along the way, and did not stop until it came to the famous Houde Stone of Changping Private School.
The so-called Houde Stone comes from the fact that after General Wei Gongsun Xun established a private school in Changping, in order to encourage his students and commemorate his mentor, he took local natural boulders according to local conditions and carved the four characters "Houde Zaiwu" on it.
Learning and training.
Because this large stone faces the main entrance of the private school, which occupies a large area, it is particularly famous.
Back in front of me, it was afternoon, and the private school was taking a lunch break, so there were not many people coming and going in front of the door. The luxury motorcade stopped in front of the door, and a middle-aged scribe in luxurious clothes got out of the car, and then walked directly
The crowd stood in front of the stone and stopped under the shade of the tree with their hands folded and looked at these four words.
But a moment later, the man suddenly twirled his beard and sneered:
"We, General Wei, are quite interesting. We do everything under the pretense that it is our Liu Gong's suicide note, but no one in the world except him knows what was actually written in the suicide note, so we cannot refute it..."
The people accompanying him were speechless.
"I heard someone say that there is actually a 'self-improvement stone' in Changping, with the four words 'self-improvement' written on it?" The man turned around and asked again.
"Yes." A person wearing a seal and ribbon next to him could not help but recall briefly. "Since my younger brother Wei Zhongmao abandoned his official position and came here the year before last, I have been with General Wei for a long time. He told me about this in a letter, saying that he was in Wei.
There is such a stone in the Baima Yicong station on the right side of the general's palace. He also said that the Baima Yicong was named Yicong, but he actually had a martial arts style. General Wei and his close staff often went to teach the art of war in person, and
In the land of Yan, martial arts were practiced, and the sons of the noble families tied their hair and went to school. In the weak season, some people left their official posts in the prefectures and counties, but others turned to join the Yi Cong, hoping to learn from General Wei's teachings."
"Bianjun is a martial artist!" The luxuriously dressed scribe raised his head and sighed. "In other places, General Wei is still a bit weak at heart. A family like yours with a good foundation is still a little unsure, so
Only one younger brother was allowed to come over, and it was delayed for a long time. But in Youzhou, he is... really impeccable, and even his family background, which is a disadvantage elsewhere, is now an advantage."
The man behind him immediately shut up.
But the scribe still pointed and didn't take it seriously at all: "I heard that outside Changping City, under the Mang Mountain, General Wei's Mansion is in the middle. On the left is the private school for reading scriptures, on the right is the residence of Baima Yicong, and in front is
The Amway is in Guangyang, and at the foot of the mountain behind it is the shogunate where he coordinates everything... General Wei has lived here for several years and has a deep foundation. Guangyang, Yuyang, and Zhuojun, the three counties have millions of people.
The population, military, people's livelihood, economy, and talents all come from here, it's like a country within a country!"
"After all, General Wei is the most popular person in Youzhou." Someone next to him really couldn't bear to listen and could only quickly smooth things over. "Mr. Ziyuan, my uncle Fang asked you to visit General Wei on his behalf this time. He must have a great trust. We It’s better to go in quickly.”
The luxuriously dressed man, Xu You, sneered again when he heard this, but he still waved his hands and led the crowd forward.
The private school is open to everyone, but the residence of General Wei on the right side of the private school is not so easy to enter. However, when Xu You led the group there, the guards turned a blind eye along the way and allowed the group to arrive at the residence of General Wei without any hindrance. .
After entering the mansion, a person came out. He was the son of Wei Song of the Wei family in Handan. He was the former magistrate of Zhongshui County in Hejian Kingdom and now abandoned his official position and came here. Wei Chang and Wei Zhongmao first met with Xu You and his own boss. Brother Cong, who served as the governor of Jizhou, and others said hello, and then led Xu You alone to the backyard.
Everyone didn't understand at this time. They were probably finding out from the beginning of their trip, which was why the journey was so smooth. And thinking about Xu You's shameless words in front of the Houde Stone, this group of people also felt very special. Become anxious.
However, the outspoken Xu You and Xu Ziyuan himself were still calm.
"Mr. Ziyuan, please help yourself!" Wei Chang led Xu You to a small courtyard and stopped.
Xu You was calm and composed, ignoring Wei Chang, and walked directly in with his head held high. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw a tall and healthy man wearing home clothes and two seven or eight-year-old female generals. The baby was standing under the shade of a tree by the pond in the courtyard, with two cats at his feet, one fat and one thin. However, their backs were turned to him, and they were pointing and saying something to the singing cicada on the tree.
"Cicadas do not become adults every year," the man said. "As early as when I was a child, your grandmother told me that cicadas live underground for varying periods of time before they shed their shells. Some are three to five years old, and some are seven or eight years old. Years old, even sixteen or seventeen years old... The larvae are covered in hard shells and have been hiding underground for more than ten years before crawling out of the ground with the help of rain, then climbing up trees to shed their shells, spreading their wings and singing. However, now that they have shed their shells, But it will definitely die after autumn. As for Ah Li, you just asked why it sings? Actually, I don’t know. But I think it worked so hard underground before, and now it can sing. If it doesn’t sing, wouldn’t it be wrong? Wasting a lifetime in vain? In other words, it may live just for the song of this season."
"So that's it." The slightly taller girl's voice was clear, and she must be that A Li.
"It's so pitiful." The voice of the smaller girl next to her seemed a little soft. "In that case, I won't let anyone cling to the cicada... It's just a nap, it's okay."
Gongsun Xun couldn't help but laugh when he heard his youngest daughter's words: "They are pests after all, A Zhen doesn't have to think too much..."
Before he could say anything, suddenly, one of the skinny cats that was squatting at the feet of the two girls jumped out. In the blink of an eye, he slapped the cicada that had been chirping non-stop with one paw, and then moved on to another one. A fat cat stepped forward and swallowed the cicada in one gulp.
The skinny cat landed on the ground and could not find its prey, so it could only circle in circles, but the fat cat calmly licked a few water in the pond, then proudly went to sleep in the shade of a tree.
Both father and daughter were speechless.
Suddenly, Gongsun Li couldn't help but ask again: "Father, why don't the fat cats and the thin cats drink the clean water we prepared for them? Instead, they only drink water from the pond?"
Gongsun Zhen also instantly shifted his attention, and then looked at his father eagerly, while Gongsun Xun was at a loss and didn't know how to answer.
"Wen Qi did a great job at home!" Seeing this, Xu You finally stopped eavesdropping, instead twirling his beard and laughing out loud.
Gongsun Xun let out a sigh of relief after hearing the sound, and pushed the shoulders of his two precious daughters to persuade them to take a nap. After the two little girls bowed to their father and the visitor to say goodbye, Gongsun Xun, who was wearing casual clothes, Then he turned around and faced Xu Ziyuan.
Under the shade of the tree, a mat had been spread out and some fruits were placed, and the two of them sat casually on the dustpan, and then got straight to the point.
"It's boring to sit at home, so I can only teach my daughter," Gongsun Xun said first. "Compared to Zi Yuan, he is now busy with his career. He has rich clothes, luxurious cars, and even a state-wide chauffeur."
"It's just a fox pretending to be a tiger." Xu You stretched his head to take a bite of cantaloupe on the table, and then replied with a smile. "Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, was a generous person when he was a party member, and he is even more generous now."
Gongsun Xun frowned slightly: "Speaking of Wang Fen and Wang Wenzu, how many years has he been in Jizhou?"
"He has been in Jizhou for as many years as you have been in Youzhou." Xu You threw down the melon rind and smiled casually. "That day Wenqi cut the bottle to say goodbye, and encountered Black Mountain bandits making trouble on the way. Wang Wenzu took office at that time .”
"Is there anyone in the world who can serve as governor for four years?" Gongsun Xun sighed for a moment. "I didn't know there was such a rule in Luozhong."
"Of course there are no rules," Xu You said simply. "But who knew that Wang Wenzu was a party member and his family was rich? The party members regarded him as the main force in the outer town, and the eunuchs secretly collected his money and repeatedly protected him. .Moreover, in the past few years, chaos in various places has not stopped, and he has been in office for four years. Although he is not as good as Wenqi who sharpened his minions here in Youzhou, Jizhou is also known as a great government, and the court also relies on him. Quite... this is the same thing as the Central Committee's somewhat laissez-faire treatment of Wen Qi."
Gongsun Xun shook his head for a moment: "Speaking of chaos, Ziyuan comes from the south, what can you teach me?"
"What can it be? It's just natural and man-made disasters." Xu You originally wanted to get another cantaloupe, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but look irritated. "There was a flood in the Central Plains, and seven counties were flooded. , even my family was not spared, and all the belongings I had saved for decades were in vain! But now that the floods have receded, the court was unable to provide relief, so that the Qingxu and Yellow Turban armies resurrected and used Mount Tai as their foundation to disrupt the Central Plains. It has been like four years. It was like Hebei in the past... But according to me, the current chaos in the Central Plains is actually the same as that in Hebei four years ago, and its roots still stem from Liangzhou."
"The situation in Liangzhou..." Gongsun Xun couldn't help but sigh. "It's been a few years, but it's only getting worse day by day. I'm still worried about Nan Rong's death last year."
"It was only last year that I realized that not a single part of the people in Liangzhou belongs to the Han people." When talking about this, even Xu You couldn't help but shake his head with emotion. "Last year, there was internal strife among the Liangzhou rebels, and Han Sui killed Bian Zhang and Li Wenhou. Beigong Boyu took over the military power. At that time, even I thought that the opportunity had come. But when Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, took advantage of the situation and sent troops from six counties to try to quell the rebellion, the whole army turned against him. The commanders in the army actually rebelled one after another... The whole state rebelled, and Fu Nanrong, as the prefect of Hanyang, was the only one who sacrificed his loyalty to the country."
Gongsun Xun was also speechless.
In fact, he knew this matter better than Xu You. He knew that the rebel commander was called Ma Teng, and he knew that Pang De's family had no choice but to follow the situation when the whole state rebelled after half a month of guarding the county seat for the imperial court.
The whole clan surrendered, knowing that this time Fu Xie could have escaped unscathed - his family was from a famous family in Beidi and had always been prestigious in Liangzhou. At that time, thousands of soldiers and horses in the rebel army outside the city were Qiang people from Beidi County.
, the Huns were willing to guarantee his safety and send him back home without surrender, but Fu Xie chose to be loyal to the Han Dynasty.
Of course, Gongsun Xun also had something he didn't know. What he didn't know was that Yan Zhong, a famous scholar in Liangzhou who had been urging Huangfu Song to rebel, was kidnapped this time. Faced with the situation of the whole state rebelling, he rejected the rebels.
He was recommended and chose to commit suicide.
As for the reason, no one knows. The only thing that is certain is that he is not loyal to the Han Dynasty like Fu Xie...perhaps, he is just loyal to Liangzhou.
"There is no need to say more about Fu Nanrong." Xu Ziyuan raised his eyebrows slightly. "He and I didn't like each other back then, but we also respected him for being so loyal and brave... But Wenqi, do you think loyal and brave people deserve to die?
?From Sima to Guo Dian, from Liu Tao to today's Fu Xie, which one of these people did not devote all their efforts for the Han Dynasty, and worked so hard for the emperor... but what did they get in exchange in the end? The emperor of Luoyang is really Xia.
The people of Jie, Shang and Zhou!"
Gongsun Xun remained silent.
"Wen Qi." Xu You said simply when he saw this. "You and I are both sensible people, so I won't be verbose... When you took the initiative to retreat many years ago, you have already seen through our emperor, and here you are.
Don't you want to be like the cicada, underground for several years, and then become a big success? But now, there is an opportunity in front of you, allowing you to shed your shell and spread your wings in one fell swoop."
"What does Wang Fen want?" Gongsun Xun asked seriously.
"What a coincidence." Xu You said with a sneer. "A month ago, Wang Wenzu was sitting around with a Pingyuan warlock, but he heard the warlock mention a horoscope. It was said that all the eunuchs were wiped out! Wang Fen's character
Even members of the party naturally felt that if they had the chance, they would do their best... However, just three days later, the Central Committee suddenly sent another official document to Jizhou, saying that the emperor intended to visit his hometown in Hebei and asked him to make some preparations."
"He feels that God's will is on him, so he plans to take the opportunity to kill him?" Gongsun Xun asked with a frown. "Is it such a coincidence?"
"It's a coincidence that I don't know, but I know that Wang Wenzu is more courageous than you think." Xu You smiled more and more ferociously. "In fact, he was planning to depose the emperor and replace him with the Marquis of Hefei! And I happened to be a pauper, so I came to help him.
Running... Wenqi, are you interested?"
Gongsun Xun's expression did not change: "Does Ziyuan think I should be interested?"
Xu You was startled when he heard this, and then couldn't help but grab a melon on the table in front of him, and asked quietly: "Then Wenqi thinks, how should I answer for you?"
————I am the dividing line of getting lost————
"At that time, thousands of Hu cavalry from the north followed the thieves to attack the county. They all expressed their gratitude to Xie and kowtowed together outside the city, asking to send Xie back to their hometown... Xie sighed with emotion and said: "And the Yin Dynasty and Zhou's violence, Boyi will not eat.
Zhou Su died, and Zhongni praised him as a virtuous person. The current imperial court is not as good as Yin and Zhou, so how can I surpass Boyi in virtue? The chaos in the world cannot support the ambition of Haoran, and I want to avoid the difficulties when I live in a salary? What should I do, and I must die like this.
"Everyone on the left and right wept, and Xie died in battle." - "Book of the Later Han". Biography of Fu Xie
