Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 207 The envoy from the Prime Minister’s Office comes

"Uncle Wenhe, I'm causing trouble for you." Zhang Xiu said to Jia Xu.

Zhang Xiu treated Jia Xu privately as a descendant.

"Humph." Jia Xu hummed with drooping eyebrows.

Previously, Zhang Xiu was so excited that he directly joined the Cavalry General's Mansion, and his behavior of talking to death did indeed cause a lot of "trouble" for Jia Xu!
This directly caused Jia Xu to change from the party being persuaded to the party who needed to actively persuade Zhu Zhi, and... it had not yet succeeded. Apparently Bai Tu had named him to go to Jinling, and Zhu Zhi would not let him go at all.

"Uncle Wenhe, you will also go to Jinling in the future. Bai Gong also promised that he will go to Duan Xuan to ask for your family. It is said that the climate in Jinling is pleasant, so you can enjoy your family in your old age." Zhang Xiu explained with a shy face. road.

When Jia Xu abandoned Duan Xuan for Zhang Xiu, his family was left behind in Huayin.

Duan Xuan was originally afraid of Jia Xu, but he was actually happy that he had left, and he also wanted to attract Zhang Xiu to help each other, so he took good care of Jia Xu's family, but did not let them go.

Zhang Xiu's face was not enough to ask for people from Duan Xuan, especially the positions of Huayin and Wancheng. Zhang Xiu insisted on asking for Jia Xu's family members, and Duan Xuan was afraid that he wanted to annex him.

However, Bai Tu was different from Zhang Xiu. He had much more face, and Duan Yan understood after thinking about it that if Bai Tu really wanted to do anything to him, it would be useless if he tied up Jia Xu's family members, so all he needed was a piece of paper. Don't be afraid that he will disobey.

"Enjoy your family relationship to the fullest? It's good if you can survive." Jia Xu didn't look very happy.

"My lord, haven't you already said that in the past, Uncle Wenhe was just trying to survive, and it was also Li Jue and Guo Si's fault that he wreaked havoc in Guanzhong. Uncle Wenhe still had a chance to make a difference... With Uncle Wenhe's ability, , in the Chariot General's Mansion, he will definitely be able to perform better than at my nephew's place." Zhang Xiu complimented.

"Exhibition? Huh, if I only wanted to show off my strengths, I would have been pissed off by you long ago. And today?" Jia Xu curled her lips.

Jia Xu's principle is "If you are poor, you can take care of yourself; if you are rich, you can protect yourself." Compared with ordinary conspirators and people who harm others and enrich themselves, Jia Xu passively harms others, just like when he was a small official in the Xiliang Army, Even though he was not young, Jia Xu never made any sacrifices to advance to the next level when he was safe.

Probably because, in his opinion, there are more dangers after being developed. Being a small official, paddling the water and "taking care of oneself" is the happiest thing. As for being developed... he wants to do that more than helping the world. The purpose is also to "preserve oneself", not to be suspected or framed by enemies.

Therefore, in history, even the suspicious Cao Pi relied heavily on Jia Xu.

If Jia Xu had an enterprising spirit, he would be the most terrifying conspirator and a more ruthless poisoner than Li Ru who proposed the plan to burn down Luoyang. However... Jia Xu is the type who has no enterprising spirit and only passively spreads poison.

"Hehe, my lord is naturally different from me...Besides, there are many talented people in the Chariot General's Mansion. Come to think of it...that word is...using tricks to make up for the numbers? No...fishing in troubled waters?" Zhang Xiu couldn't describe it for a while.

I saw Jia Xu looking over with dead eyes.

However, Jia Xu already understood what he meant - if he had said this to other counselors, he would definitely feel humiliated, but if he had said this to the few petty-minded people under Yuan Shao, he might have lost his mind.

However, for Jia Xu, these words spoke to his heart.

Jia Xu was optimistic about Cao Cao before, mainly because Cao Cao had enough smart people. When he persuaded Zhang Xiu, he said that Cao Cao needed him more and was more likely to be reused, while Yuan Shao only regarded him as dispensable.

But in fact, Jia Xu's plan for himself was exactly the opposite. He hoped that Cao Cao would not pay too much attention to him, so as not to be involved in the whirlpool. In contrast... Yuan Shao's group conspirators were better at engaging in internal fighting. Jia Xu did not want to Put yourself at risk.

"Hey, Jiangdong... is a place where there are many aristocratic families, and Bai Gong is lenient in his actions, but he is stubborn and stubborn in his dealings... he can even be said to be arrogant. I don't know whether this is a blessing or a curse." Jia Xu was not completely relieved.

The reason why Bai Tu ranked lower than Cao Cao in Jia Xu's mind was because the Jiangdong where Bai Tu started his career was a place where the family was strong, which meant... xenophobia; the other reason was that Bai Tu's worries Tu himself, as a prince who can even be said to be "morally obsessive" from the current secular perspective, and whose moral values ​​are very different from ordinary people, Jia Xu felt that he would definitely not get along with him.

No matter what, now that he had heard what Bai Tu told him, at least he didn't intend to kill himself to serve the Han Dynasty, Jia Xu didn't want to risk running away.

In a few days, Jia Xu will return to Jinling with Zhu Zhi, while Zhang Xiu will continue to be retained in Wancheng - not to retain "his Wancheng", but to subordinate the Chariot and Cavalry General's Mansion to the Front School. As a lieutenant, he guards Wancheng.

The reduction of "school lieutenant" to a grass-roots official position began with the proliferation of miscellaneous generals and lieutenant generals. However, the real establishment of school lieutenants is actually still very valuable. For example, in the capital, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu all held the position. The eighth captain of Xiyuan.

The five captains of the front, rear, left, right, and middle schools are subordinate officers affiliated with the Chariot and Cavalry General's Mansion. They are official positions with a rank equivalent to two thousand stones.

Bai Tu specially gave Zhang Xiu a position in the Cavalry General's Palace to show his closeness.

Lu Meng was also ordered to temporarily stay in Wancheng and serve under Zhang Xiu, while the woodcutter... still wanted to return to Jinling.

Originally, Zhang Xiu wanted to keep his junior brother in Wancheng to make achievements together, but the woodcutter refused.

The woodcutter was only dissatisfied because the guy "suspected of being a senior brother" wanted to defect to Cao Cao, so he asked to go with him, but in fact he still had an unresolved knot.

After that... Zhang Xiu felt proud and proud. Now he had defected to the Cavalry General's Mansion, saying "Follow the lord and fight for the people" one after another, and began to look down on the young junior brother who had talked so eloquently to him from a moral perspective.

However, the woodcutter is not a provocateur of this level, and he can rekindle his fighting spirit.

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When Jia Xu and Zhu Zhi arrived in Jinling, Bai Tu had also seen Xu Dulai's "Prime Minister's Mansion Campaign" - that is, Cao Pi!

On the one hand, Cao Pi's motorcade was indeed slow enough; on the other hand... Jia Xu was much more agile than Zhu Zhi imagined.

Because his family was still with Duan Zhen and he had nothing to live with, Jia Xu returned to Jinling with Zhu Zhi almost alone. Jia Xu had been in the army for a long time. Although he was not proficient in martial arts, he was a good horseman, which really made Zhu Zhi also surprised.

After Cao Pi came to Jinling, Sima Lang visited the officials of the Chariot and Cavalry General's Mansion for him as a famous scholar. Cao Pi washed up and came to visit Bai Tu honestly the next day.

As for Xia Houjuan...he was pretending to be a small clerk in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Originally, Cao Pi wanted Xiahou Juan to disguise himself as a manservant and not go out normally, but Xiahoujuan naturally disagreed. In the end, the two of them compromised, and Xiahoujuan dressed up as a man, but not as a manservant, but as a small book. One official.

(End of this chapter)