"Yes, I have also heard of Sima Zhongda's talent. It is said that he has few extraordinary talents, is smart and resourceful, is erudite and well-versed in Confucianism, and is promising at a young age."
Hearing Sima Lang's words, Chen Mu complimented him casually: "I originally wanted to invite you to serve as an official when you reached the throne and recruit such talented people for the imperial court, but I didn't expect that the Taiwei would take the lead. "
This is not a polite word, although Sima Bada's name was only famous during the Cao Wei period, when the other six Das were still teenagers or young children or even just born.
But the Sima family was originally a prominent family in Hanoi, and Sima Lang, as the eldest son of the family, was well-known. Sima Yi, as the second son, was talented and learned, and was quite famous in Hanoi County. It was for this reason that Zhu Jun recruited him.
Although Chen Mu had secretly sent someone to monitor him, just because he pretended not to care, it didn't mean that he wouldn't hear about Sima Yi's reputation.
Let’s not talk about the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chu. The young Linzhong Tiger was known to all women and children in later generations. Speaking of others, in the late Han Dynasty, based on the public opinion environment at that time and the singing among the aristocratic families, it was natural that Sima Yi’s name would be heard.
After all, he himself is in Hanoi. Many wealthy families in Hanoi move around each other and often visit the young master's residence. They talk loudly during banquets. Everyone occasionally talks about local young heroes and makes insinuations, hoping to get into Chen Mu's ears.
At this time, Chen Mu would remain calm on the surface, but in fact he would secretly send people to investigate. If there were indeed talents that he had not remembered in his memory, or sages who had been forgotten by history, he would also conduct conquests.
People are not computers. Before time travel, he was indeed interested in history in his early years and read all the Twenty-Four Histories. However, this does not mean that Chen Mu can remember all the characters who appeared on the historical stage in the late Han Dynasty.
So recruiting talents is not a bad thing.
But regarding Sima Yi, Chen Mu still had quite complicated feelings.
Three families returned to the Jin Dynasty, and five families fled to China.
In the eyes of countless people in later generations, the Three Kingdoms Wei, Shu, Wu, and Wei and Shu have countless supporters. If any of them dominates the world, the controversy may not be that big.
Because among the Three Kingdoms, even the weak Ji Han defeated the surrounding barbarians and suppressed the surrounding ethnic minorities.
Even if you take a step back, even if Soochow conquers the world, in the eyes of many people, it will be stronger than the Sima family.
Although all ethnic minorities in later generations are part of the Chinese nation, it is an indisputable fact that the Five Husties destroyed the Han people and almost destroyed the Han people.
It can be said that this period of history will always be an indelible pain in the history of the entire Han nation.
The culprit behind all this is naturally the incompetent Sima family.
Therefore, the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties have always been rated very low in history, and many people have even selectively ignored this dynasty.
After all, they all talk about Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Tang and Song. But who has mentioned the ancestor of Jin and Wu?
Chen Mu has lived in the Han Dynasty for nearly twenty years. While he has gradually become more oriented towards the thoughts and culture of the current people, he still retains some of his previous thoughts.
For the Sima family, especially Sima Yi, they were more defensive than they loved their talents, otherwise they would not have sent people to monitor them.
So when I suddenly heard that Sima Lang was bringing Sima Yi for a visit today, and saw this twenty-year-old Tomb Tiger with my own eyes, I felt surprised and had some prejudices wearing colored glasses.
It's just that as of today, he has long lost his emotions and anger, so maybe he has some indifference and hostility in his heart towards Sima Yi's arrival, but he won't show it.
"Thank you, Mr. Shaofu, for the compliment."
Hearing Chen Mu's praise, Sima Yi stood up from the table as if he was flattered and bowed: "Young Master Shaofu is so complimentary. Yi is only a humble person, so how can he deserve the attention of Mr. Shaofu?"
"hehe."
Chen Mu smiled, looked at him with deep eyes, waved his hands and said: "Sit down. Excessive humility is arrogance. Sometimes, hiding one's clumsiness is a good thing, but hiding one's clumsiness too much is stupid. Do you understand?
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"ah?"
Sima Yi glanced at him and felt that the smile in the other person's eyes seemed to contain some kind of hidden weirdness. He couldn't help but feel chills running down his spine, as if everything in his mind had been seen through. He quickly pretended to be taught and kept bending down.
He said with a posture: "Master Shaofu taught you a lesson."
"Lesson? Not a lesson at all."
Chen Mu smiled faintly: "The Sima family is the descendant of the King of Yin. They have lived in Hanoi for generations. The family has two thousand people, and they are a big family in Wen County. I am just a country commoner, how can I judge the affairs of a wealthy family? But Zhongda is proud of his heart.
, If you can restrain yourself today, it proves that you will become a great person in the future!"
Sima Yi was shocked and raised his head to look at Chen Mu in shock.
But he soon realized his rudeness and lowered his head again.
Just like Guo Jia can judge whether what others say is the truth or a lie through their expressions while observing others.
Sima Yi also has this ability.
But just as Guo Jia couldn't see through Chen Mu, Sima Yi couldn't see through him either.
He didn't know whether Chen Mu was telling the truth or lying.
Even if it seems genuine on the surface.
Her lovely eyes and that half-smiling expression don't deceive anyone.
Sima Yi only felt his scalp numb now because he thought Chen Mu was ridiculing him.
On the surface, he is humble and polite.
In the bones.
But he still has the domineering pride of a wealthy family!
Sima Yi was not sure whether Chen Mu meant this, but it just felt like this to him.
So in order to confirm his conjecture, he couldn't help but raise his head and look into those deep eyes again.
However, when he raised his head to look again, what he saw was a look that made him extremely frightened and creepy.
Chen Mu's face still maintained a smile as indifferent as Hexi's spring breeze.
If you just look at the facial expression, it might be nothing.
But looking at those cold pupils, what exudes is a kind of extreme indifference without any emotion.
That look... seemed like looking at a corpse, a dead person.
Sima Yi was extremely frightened.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He didn't know where he offended Chen Mu. He came in all the way, and even if he felt disdain, he never showed it.
Mr. Shaofu, how did you figure it out?
Are you deceiving yourself?
Or can you really see your pride in the world?
For a moment, Sima Yi was panicked.
In fact, he does have a bit of arrogance in his heart.
I think that all the heroes in the world are nothing more than this.
Even for the world-famous Shaofujun, Sima Yi might still respect him in his heart.
But he was too proud. Even though he came from a big family, his good upbringing kept him polite and humble.
However, Chen Mu's commoner background would still make these children of aristocratic families instinctively look down upon him.
This kind of contempt will not change just because a commoner is in a high position, just like the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, even if they later declined, many princes were proud to take Yuan's daughter.
A truly aristocratic family values its heritage.
Even if Chen Mu is the queen of Puyinhou, when is the queen of Yin Wang worse than the queen of Puyinhou?
What's more, the ancestors happened four hundred years ago. Now this big man values his family and his family more than his ancestors!
But what Sima Yi didn't expect was that he was very humble on the outside, even though he had a hint of disdain for Chen Mu in his heart, but he didn't show any action.
For some reason, in front of Chen Mu, Sima Yi felt like a person who had been stripped naked. No matter how he disguised himself, he could not escape his eyes.
Chen Mu's cold eyes were still looking at him.
This is a kind of coldness that comes out of mountains of swords, seas of fire and piles of corpses!
Chen Mu killed very few people with his own hands.
But he had seen more dead people than Sima Yi had seen alive.
Although the murderous look in his eyes is far less than that of his second and third brothers, and even not as good as his eldest brother.
But the aura of his high position and the killing intent in his eyes frightened Sima Yi, a young man who was proud of his talent.
However, Sima Yi would never have imagined that the reason why Chen Mu looked at him like this was not because he had seen through the little pride deep in his heart that relied on his talent, nor because he had seen through his ambition to look down on the heroes of the world.
But when he was sitting on a high seat, with his head lowered, looking down at Sima Yi, the founder of the Jin Dynasty, who was kneeling on the mat and trembling like a quail.
Chen Mu suddenly laughed.
At the same time, there was an indifferent chill in his eyes.
Because he figured something out.
That is, Sima Yi?
Jin Gaozu?
WTF?
Even heroes like Cao Cao were forced to do nothing but live in Yanzhou.
What kind of thing is Sima Yi, who has been suppressed by Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Rui for three generations all his life and can't even lift his head?
If you are obedient, just be like a dog.
Maybe I can spare your life so that your talents can be used.
If you dare to have any disobedience.
hehe.
Confiscating a family and annihilating a clan can be done at the snap of a finger.
After Chen Mu figured out the key to this problem, his thoughts suddenly became clear.
He actually never cared about Sima Yi. He had only thought about how he should deal with this future sinner of the Han nation.
Kill or exile?
But as I grow older, the childish ideas of the past have long gone with the wind.
As soon as I traveled through time, I wanted to shout and kill, slaughter all the Sima family, kill all the five barbarians who rebelled against China, and make all the national sinners disappear into the dust of history.
This is undoubtedly an extremely stupid approach. Not to mention the undecided situation of the Han Dynasty at that time, just saying that the Sima family was innocent at this time and massacred their entire family for no reason. The court was shaken and all the families in the world were frightened. The lost hearts and support of the family will definitely not be restored.
return.
History has long shown that people who are full of muscles and only want to use violence to solve all problems will often be ostracized by everyone, and end up alone and helpless, surrounded by enemies from all sides, and dead.
This world is neither white nor black, but a delicate gray. How to navigate the gray area and use all means to stand at the top of power is the ambition of a great person.
At least for now, the Sima family is still useful.
Sima Fang was influential in the court, and the Sima family's land was continuously contributing food, grass and money.
Killing all the Sima family now will only chill the hearts of the old officials in the court, frighten the scholars of the world, make the common people feel that Liu Bei is cruel, and make the great cause of conquering the Yuan family fail.
If one day, after unifying the world.
He was standing above the imperial court, the head of the ministers, with the trust of his elder brother, and the power to control the world. What did little Sima Yi mean?
Chen Mu retracted his cold eyes, still maintaining a smile as bright as Hexi's spring breeze.
This sharp look was just an intimidation.
Boy, I hope you understand.
don't let me...
Murderous intention!
"Lang, thank you Mr. Shaofu for teaching my incompetent brother a lesson."
A drop of sweat fell from Sima Lang's forehead. He stood up seriously and bowed his hands towards Chen Mu to thank him. He seemed to really thank Chen Mu for the compliment.
Chen Mu glanced at Sima Lang, who was as calm as a mountain on the surface, and said calmly: "Boda, you brought your brother here today, I'm afraid you didn't bring your brother here just to let me meet your brother. If you have anything to do, just tell me clearly. I am not a good person."
I like to guess riddles.”
"I can't hide it from Mr. Shaofu."
Sima Lang quickly glared at Sima Yi and said, "Zhongda, report what you want to say to the young master."
It can make the usually calm Sima Lang panic. It can be seen that the look in Chen Mu's eyes not only frightened Sima Yi, but also made Sima Lang feel uneasy. He was just maintaining the superficial stability.
In fact, he was worried whether Chen Mu would be unhappy because he brought his younger brother Sima Yi over and paid a rash visit.
This is not unfounded speculation, but a fact.
Although the Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, "ritual" can be said to be a big mountain in life.
There are many children from aristocratic families who want to show their faces in front of big shots like Chen Mu, but how many of them can actually see him?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Even the heads of wealthy families in Hanoi who have officials in the imperial court only dare to visit in the name of their family.
During the banquet, they pretended not to care and complimented each other's heirs, just to leave an impression in Chen Mu's ears, and did not dare to bring them over at all.
The people who are truly qualified to introduce the family's children in front of him, except for those dignitaries of the same level in Luoyang, only Zhu Jun and Guan Yu in the entire Hanoi County have this qualification.
Even Zhao Yun and Sima Lang are not good enough, they are far from that status.
After all, the reason why a big man is a big man is that he has no time to turn a dial every day and is able to take care of everything.
Even if nothing happens, if you visit for no reason and make Chen Mu unhappy, your official career will suddenly become difficult.
Therefore, after keenly discovering Chen Mu's bright smile but very cold eyes, Sima Lang had no choice but to be frightened.
What he was afraid of was that he would offend the young prince because of his recklessness. It didn't matter that Sima Lang and Sima Yi had difficult official careers. If the family was harmed and the family lost power in the court, they would be the family's sinners.
So Sima Lang still managed to maintain his composure on the surface, but he was panicking in his heart and quickly asked his younger brother to tell him about his plan to claim credit from Chen Mu.
"Master Shaofu!"
Sima Yi composed himself, suppressed his previous fear, stood up slowly, and once again bent down and offered his hands to Chen Mu.
Chen Mu nodded slightly, smiled lightly and said, "Zhongda, please tell me."
"Yi wants to ask."
Sima Yi slowly said: "Is Mr. Shaofu planning to have a decisive battle with Yuan Shao?"
If you don't say anything shocking, you will never stop.
Before coming to the Shaofu residence, Sima Yi was prepared to surprise Chen Mu.
Because everything is done in secret.
However, Sima Yi guessed that Chen Mu was about to start a decisive battle with Yuan Shao through some food mobilization and army deployment during this period.
This is the purpose of Sima Yi asking Sima Lang to take him to see Chen Mu, and it is also some kind of capital for promotion!
But Chen Mu's expression obviously disappointed Sima Yi.
Because there was no change in his expression, he was still looking at him with a half-smile, as if Sima Yi had revealed a secret and it was not a big deal at all.