The elite did not migrate south

Chapter 598 Request to Join
When the scout delivering the letter was galloping away from Luoyang, a carriage also stopped here.

Pei Xiu looked at Luoyang not far away from the car window, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes.

After Pei Xiu left Yongliang, he went to Bingzhou again to check on the situation there before returning to Luoyang.

The emperor sent Cheng Ji to pick him up.

When Pei Xiu saw this ferocious-looking man leading many elite soldiers waiting for him, he realized that he was in trouble this time.

Cheng Ji walked up to Pei Xiu with a dignified attitude and said, "Mr. Pei, His Majesty is waiting for you."

Pei Xiu nodded, and then these people took Pei Xiu's carriage and drove towards the palace.

Pei Xiu quickly thought of a countermeasure.

But before he could figure out a countermeasure, Cheng Ji roughly grabbed his hand and dragged him in front of Cao Mao.

Pei Xiu rubbed his sore hands and cursed silently in his heart.

Cheng Ji, that mad dog, if His Majesty ordered him to chop off his own parents, would he be able to do it?

Pei Xiu hurriedly bowed and met the emperor.

Cao Mao sat in the upper seat with obvious anger in his eyes.

"Mr. Pei, you've done a great job in Yongliang. You've educated the Hu people and even brought them under the wing of the powerful clans. That's really great."

As Cao Mao spoke, Pei Xiu's face looked extremely bitter.

What a bunch of idiots!
Pei Xiu had long known that those big families would cause trouble, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.

However, Cao Mao felt extremely disappointed when he looked at Pei Xiu in front of him.

There is no doubt about Pei Xiu's ability. He is definitely in the first echelon with Zhang Hua, Wei Shu and others.

However, there are huge problems with his position.

This person is not like Zhong Hui. Zhong Hui can completely disregard clan or connections for his own ambitions, but Pei Xiu obviously cannot do that.

He can do things, but he will definitely take the interests of the big family into consideration when doing things.

The question for Cao Mao now is not whether he can reuse Pei Xiu, but whether Pei Xiu will become his opponent in the future.

When Cao Mao frowned and looked at Pei Xiu with increasingly displeased eyes, Pei Xiu probably understood this in his heart.

He sighed and said helplessly, "Your Majesty, the fault is mine. I never thought they would dare to do this."

"You didn't expect it, or you don't want to know."

Cao Mao asked again.

Cao Mao was a man who loved talents very much. He cherished talents very much. However, he was also not an indecisive person. If this talent might become his enemy in the future, he could quickly get rid of the other party.

He won't leave any hidden dangers for himself.

In Cao Mao's opinion, Pei Xiu was much more dangerous than Tufa Shuji.

Cao Mao took a sip of tea and said with emotion, "Mr. Pei, tell me the truth. I can pardon your crime."

When Cao Mao said this calmly, Pei Xiu was shocked.

He suddenly realized that this was not a question of His Majesty trying to use this matter to drive him, but a question of killing him!
Pei Xiu, who was always calm, was also panicking at this moment.

He knew that His Majesty had misunderstood.

It was a coincidence that when Pei Xiu went to Yongliang this time, he visited the homes of those big families. After all, they were all from the same big family, so it was normal for them to visit and entertain each other. But after Pei Xiu left, many big families began to help educate him in their own ways.

Pei Xiu suddenly realized that His Majesty probably thought that he had given these people instructions.
He hurriedly bowed deeply again and defended himself, "Your Majesty, I'm telling the truth. I've been a guest at the homes of these bandits, but I absolutely never mentioned enlightenment, much less conspired with them. They were able to get the Hu people and war horses because of the local officials, not because of me!"

Pei Xiu hurriedly said: "I am willing to take charge of this matter and deal with it."

"No need, Yang Gong has already taken care of it."

Cao Mao looked at Pei Xiu and said, "Mr. Pei, you must take good care of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites."

Pei Xiu was sweating profusely when he walked out of the palace.

These bastards have harmed him. Just now, he saw deep doubt in His Majesty's eyes.

Although Pei Xiu was not very decisive in his work, always liked to procrastinate, and was sometimes too close to other big families, he still felt very uncomfortable when the emperor's attitude towards him really changed.

Pei Xiu has always been lazy and would not leave unless Cao Mao pushed him. But when Cao Mao suddenly seemed to want to give up on him, Pei Xiu became anxious again.

It’s like being pursued for a long time and being rejected all the time. Suddenly one day, the other person stops pursuing you, and the person being pursued feels very uncomfortable.

Pei Xiu has this mentality.

No, I must regain His Majesty's trust!
Since the matter arose from the issue of education, let's solve it from this matter!
Pei Xiu seemed like a different person, with fighting spirit burning in his whole body.

Wu State, Le Township.

Lu Kang received another letter from Cao Mao. Recently, the two of them had been exchanging letters from time to time, talking about everything.

At first they talked about classics, and later Cao Mao began to talk to him about governance, history, and people.

Lu Kang did not resist and even started talking about the situation in the world.

Even so, Lu Kang was not shaken at all. He didn't even hide the letters and directly showed them to the people around him.

When he showed Cao Mao's letter to his deputy general again, the deputy general was almost in tears. "General, you are a general guarding the front line, and this is the monarch of the enemy country. How can you exchange letters like this?"

"Everyone in the city is talking about this now. It's extremely disadvantageous to you!"

Lu Kang was very calm. "Wouldn't the things Lord Wei said about managing the army be helpful to us?"

"I've only been exchanging letters with him, and I haven't said I'm going to surrender. What are you afraid of?"

The deputy general said with a bitter face, "I'm not afraid, but I'm afraid that His Majesty will find out. If His Majesty finds out about these things, how will he view you?"

Lu Kang then pointed to the letter in front of him and said, "Please make a copy of this letter and send it to Jianye for His Majesty to read."

"what?!"

"General, what are you doing?"

The deputy general was stunned.

Are you afraid the emperor won't know? Or are you truly ready to surrender?

If you want to surrender, take me with you!

Lu Kang refused to explain and just asked him to deliver it. The deputy general had no choice but to send someone to carry out the task.

When the man brought the letter to Jianye with trepidation, Sun Xiu immediately ordered him to come and pay a visit.

The man handed the letter to Sun Xiu.

"Your Majesty, I received this from the general."

"Oh, is it a letter from Yuan Kai to me?"

"No, it was written by Lord Wei to the general."

When Sun Xiu heard this, he was not surprised at all. Apparently, he had heard about the correspondence between Lu Kang and Cao Mao.

Sun Xiu then began to read the letter. After reading it for a long time, he suddenly laughed.

"I didn't expect that Lord Wei is such a good reader. This article uses many allusions, many of which I already know. However, there's one thing he used incorrectly. Come on, get some pen and ink!"

Amid the stunned eyes of the general who delivered the letter, Sun Xiu wrote a letter to the Emperor of Cao Wei. In the letter, he thoughtfully marked the errors in Cao Mao's allusions and told him how to use them.

After quickly finishing the letter, Sun Xiu smiled and handed it to the person in front of him.

"Please make another trip and deliver this letter to the people of Wei."

The man in charge of delivering the letter was also a captain under Lu Kang. He was dumbfounded at the moment.

First, the Emperor of Wei exchanged letters with the general of Wu, and now the Emperor of Wu exchanges letters with the Emperor of Wei. Why does this world feel more and more absurd?

After seeing off the captain, Sun Xiu couldn't help but chuckle.

Lu Kang sent the letter to me to prove that he had absolutely no intention of betraying me. Judging from the content of the letter, it might be helpful in obtaining useful information from the other party.

And the letter that Sun Xiu wrote to Cao Mao was telling Cao Mao: Brother, don't worry, Lu Kang is mine, he has delivered all the letters you sent to him, don't look for him anymore in the future!
This is an act of sovereignty.

Shortly after this letter was delivered, Sun Xiu received another letter from the State of Wei.

Upon learning about this, Sun Xiu was very surprised. Did Cao Mao reply so quickly?
My letter hasn't arrived in Luoyang yet, right?

When the letter officially appeared in front of Sun Xiu, Sun Xiu realized that this was not a reply from Cao Mao, but a letter written to him by Zhong Hui, a minister of Cao Wei.

Of course, Sun Xiu also knew this person. It was said that this person was the most trusted confidant of the Cao Wei Emperor.

Sun Xiu ordered the eunuch to read the letter.

But after the eunuch opened the letter, he didn't dare to read it out loud at all.

Sun Xiu thought of something and asked the eunuch to hand the letter to him.

After seeing this, Sun Xiu knew why he didn't dare to read it.

It starts with "Marquis Wu Ting of the Great Wei", and he's not even a king, but a fucking Marquis!

Sun Xiu was almost laughing out of anger, but then he looked down again and his face instantly became gloomy.

At the beginning, Zhong Hui praised Sun Quan's great achievements, including his achievements on the battlefield and his benevolent rule in his later years. Then, he focused on Sun Xiu.

Sun Xiu did not know how to employ people, and he actually employed people like Zhang Bu and Puyang Xing, turning them into powerful officials, which disheartened the people of Jiangdong.

Puyang Xing actually mobilized a large number of manpower to build lake fields, but in the end, nothing was achieved.
In the letter, Zhong Hui madly insulted Zhang Bu and Puyang Xing, thinking that they were two villains with no talent and no morals, and that Sun Xiu's use of such people would sooner or later bring about his own destruction!

When Sun Xiu finished reading this letter, he was so angry that his nose almost became crooked.

Everyone said that Zhong Hui was a famous scholar in Wei, but this is what happened?

How disrespectful, how indecent!

It's really too much! !

Sun Xiu angrily threw the letter aside. Compared with Lu Kang's gentle and elegant character, Zhong Hui's gangster character was really disgusting.

Sun Xiu angrily said, "Go and ask Zhang Bu and Puyang Xing to come see me!"

(End of this chapter)