Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 134 Restraining the Rear (2)
Xun Yu heard his question, but didn't answer, he just sighed in his heart: Doctor Wang Lang, you don't know something!If it weren't for the old man's nephew, Xun You, who has been trying his best to interfere and mislead Cao Cao's impromptu decision-making, how could Cao Cao have committed the fallacy of the overall strategy of "taking Jiangling and abandoning Xiakou, greedy for small profits and ignoring distant plans"?Gongda was by his side "seeking stitches in every corner" and "making things right", he was indeed stepping on every step, taking risks, fighting hard all the way!Judging from the situation in front of him, he has basically completed the "top-secret mission" entrusted to him by his secret orders.However, Cao Cao is by no means an idle person. After careful reflection in the future, he should also realize that Gongda played a subtle and secret role in "misleading" and interfering with his wrong decision-making. Da somewhat suspicious and alienated.well!From now on, Gongda's life in the Prime Minister's Office of the Cao Mansion will be even more difficult and dangerous... However, Xun Yu is such a person. Every effort is deeply buried, and I will always bear it silently, and I will never confess or reveal anything to anyone outside.He felt that he and his entire family should be obliged to pay for all of this, and everything should be taken for granted without complaint or regret.

There was silence for a while in the arena, and Xun Yu suddenly said again: "Actually, what Yu is most concerned about now is whether Jiangdong Sun Quan will seize this opportunity and form an alliance with Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang to fight against Cao Cao as soon as possible. Of course, According to Yu’s previous observations, Sun Quan has been sharpening his sword in Jiangdong, and has always had ulterior motives for Jingzhou. He probably would not have hoped that this strategic location would fall into the hands of Cao Cao. Therefore, the motivation for Sun Quan and Liu Bei to join forces to resist Cao is sufficient. of.

"Then again, although Liu Bei's side retreated to Xiakou City to get a respite, their strength is too weak... If Jiangdong doesn't send troops to help as soon as possible, in case Cao Cao mobilizes all his troops to mobilize Liu Bei In the end, the lonely city is hard to defend, outnumbered. Alas! The time God has left for both of them to move around is really running out..."

Xun Yu's Blood Letter to the People

At this point, his eyes moved, and he looked at Wang Lang suddenly: "Doctor Wang, Yu also heard that there are many celebrities in the Qing Dynasty in the Jiangdong area who are vacillating between the two ends of 'fighting' or 'peace' with Cao Cao. Zhi, Qin Song and the local nobles in the Jiangdong prefecture welcomed Cao's surrender to protect their own self-interest, which is still reasonable; Follow Gu Yong, Bu Zhi, Qin Song and others and lose your own opinion?"

"This is the reason why Lang took the risk to see you urgently, Mr. Xun Ling." Wang Lang raised his eyes and looked around secretly, then took out a letter from his arms, and presented it carefully to Xun Yu, "This It is Zhang Zhao’s secret letter to Lang and you on behalf of the members of Jiangdong Sun’s shogunate, in which he implores us to give them the guidance of ‘obedience and legality’...”

Xun Yu took the secret letter, read it carefully, and sighed deeply: "Yes! Zibu (Zibu Zhang Zhaozi) is also a loyal minister of my Han Dynasty, and he has always followed the rules. Of course, he will not be afraid of Cao Cao, who has hundreds of thousands of troops and is powerful in the world. However, he cannot be afraid of the orthodox status of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty that Cao Cao is carrying. Without any scruples, he, Zhang Zibu, and the Jiangdong scholars can't afford to be charged with the "crime" of "a traitor of the religion and a traitor of the Han Dynasty". However, we only need to explain Cao Cao's trust to them. It’s enough to be famous as a prime minister of the Han Dynasty, but to be a traitor of the Han Dynasty. Help them unload the psychological burden of being a traitor of the Han Dynasty and a traitor of the Han Dynasty. Maybe they can go into battle with ease and unite with Liu against Cao Cao... ..."

He murmured, put the middle finger of his right hand into his mouth and bit it lightly, a stream of blood gushed out, red and dazzling like agate.In this way, he dipped his own blood on his fingers, and wrote a line of regular script at the end of the secret letter from Zhang Zhao: "Mountains never tire of being high, and water never tires of being deep. The Duke of Zhou vomits his nourishment, and the world returns to his heart. Xun Yu Respect."

Wang Lang watched from the side with tears streaming down his face, and his voice choked up: "Xun...Xun...Xun Lingjun, you...you..."

However, Xun Yu still had such a calm and calm smile on his face, and gently handed back the secret letter from Zhang Zhao with his own blood written on it, and said in a leisurely and far-sighted tone: "You will return this secret letter to Zhang Zibu, after reading it, he should know how to make a 'successful and legal' decision..."

"If every Confucian scholar in the world can be as loyal, honest, and upright as you, Xun Lingjun, even if there are ten Cao Mengde, how dare they have the aspirations to ascend to the sky and ask for the top?" Wang Lang sighed with tears, "I hate Hua. Xin, Dong Zhao, and Xi Ji, these sycophants, only know that Afu is powerful, and they don't hesitate to join forces with bandits, so what kind of face will they have in the future to dare to see the sages and sages of Confucius and their ancestors in the spring?"

Xun Yu was silent for a moment, then suddenly said slowly: "I recently heard that Xu Du's eunuch has added a lot of 'backward newcomers' out of thin air. I don't know where they came from? Can you tell me something, Doctor Wang?"

"Ah! Xun Lingjun, you have been recuperating at home recently. You really don't know something. Since Hua Xin took charge of the Ministry of Officials, he has been vigorously promoting Cao Mengde's "do not ask about virtue, do not ask about academics, do not ask about family status, do not ask about teacher's succession, only It's the selection strategy of "judgment, only merit is promotion", what kind of money-stealing wives, cock-crowding dog robbers, and ignorant people are all scrambling to get in..." When Wang Lang talked about this issue, he became very angry. "The Ding Yi and Ding Yan brothers that Hua Xin recruited from Guanzhong, one is ugly and disgraceful, the other is lustful and notorious, my family's Wang Su felt that he had lost his identity when he sat at the same table with them. "

Xun Yu listened silently, but did not say a word.He smelled a strange smell from Hua Xin's large-scale recruitment of Han Su's talented people to enter Xudu's officialdom recently: Cao Cao is laying the groundwork for his future usurpation of the Han Dynasty!What Wang Lang said about "ugly eyes, stealing gold and prostitutes, cocks and dogs stealing, ignorant, greedy and lustful" and so on, are all trivial matters.Do you think that Cao Cao didn't pay attention to "morality" and "merit" in selecting people?He also values ​​"virtue" and "gong".The core content of his virtue of selecting people is "whom to be loyal to"; the core content of his selection of meritorious service is "serving for whom".Whether to be loyal to the Cao family or to the Han Dynasty, and to make contributions to the Cao family or to the Han Dynasty, these are the two fundamental "bottom lines" for him to employ people.In addition to these two fundamental "bottom lines", whether you are ugly, greedy, lustful, stealing money, stealing money, stealing, or ignorant, Cao Mengde's eyes are nothing.In other words, he abolished the employment guidelines of "combining both morality and ability, and putting morality first" since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and replaced it with the selection policy of "attaching Cao to use, disobedience to Cao, discarding, rewarding meritorious deeds, and promoting talents only". The general strategy is actually a major move to break the Han and establish the Cao, and its impact is far-reaching!

"Xun Lingjun, do you know? The Huan clan of Peijun, who was once a descendant of the great Han emperor, has also begun to move closer to Cao Mengde... Huan Jie, the elder of the Huan clan, has also recently been appointed as the deputy head of Cao Cao's prime minister's office... ..." Wang Lang was still babbling, his expression very aggrieved.

At this time, Xun Yu spoke slowly and word by word: "My Yan Han, since Emperor Xiaowu deposed hundreds of schools and praised the Six Classics, although the style of learning from Confucianism has flourished, the virtue of righteousness has not yet appeared, so Wang Mang usurped the throne and established a falsehood, and there were people who eulogized virtue and offered talismans to pretend to be prosperous; in view of this, Emperor Guangwu respected integrity and righteousness, was honest and honest, and took the people who practiced the scriptures and learned what they can do as the foundation of strengthening the country. The world's customs were pure. Until the time of the two emperors Huan and Ling, state affairs were increasingly in turmoil, power eunuchs were rampant, and strong officials rebelled. There were still Li Ying, Chen Fan, Fan Pang, Liu Tao, and Huangfu Song. , relying on benevolence and righteousness, fighting on the basis of reason, so as not to let Yan Han's energy die once. Now Yu can only inherit the ambition of the former sages to go to the sage, pass it on from generation to generation, pass on the fire from generation to generation, and stick to it for life-like Hua Xin and Huan Jie's generation In the face of difficulty, Yu will never be able to do it."

Hearing Xun Yu's sonorous and powerful words, Wang Lang, who was muttering about the changes in Xu Du's officialdom, suddenly stopped talking—tears wet his eyebrows again.

Cao Pi made another guess

During these days, Cao Pi lived an unprecedented scenery and comfort.This kind of scenery and comfort are highlighted in two significant changes in his daily life.On the one hand, as the special envoy appointed by Cao Cao to stay in Xudu, he finally tasted the sweetness of "power over the court and overwhelming officials" like his father, watching the past in the meeting hall every day. Those famous scholars and bureaucrats who pretended to be lofty and arrogant suddenly became three-pointed and bowed their heads in front of him. Although he pretended to be polite on the surface, he couldn't help being happy in his heart as if he had picked up some treasure. The pride in him was almost uncontrollable, overflowing from between his brows and eyes if he didn't pay attention to restraint; She suddenly changed her attitude, changed from the indifferent and unapproachable image of an "ice beauty" in the past, and became more and more considerate and flattering to him day by day. Cao Pi was happy all day and all night, and a sense of conquest and accomplishment as a "big man and great husband" arose spontaneously in his heart, lingering in his heart for a long time and it is difficult to fade away.In fact, he also understands the key to making himself a "big man and great husband" for a while-that is the extremely prominent and hot power entrusted to him by his father.However, he also understands that the good feeling of all this is "If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you must be happy if you are happy in life", and it is a day to enjoy it every day.

In the exhilaration of fluttering, Cao Pi thought of the mysterious person who was in the Qingyun Temple of Qixia Peak in the eastern suburbs of Xudu that day.At the beginning when he pretended to be a humble scholar and went to ask the hexagram, he suddenly figured out that he was a "big nobleman" with auspicious omen from heaven!It seems that I don't believe in this "destiny" is really not good!Therefore, in order to pray that the gods would always be happy with him, Cao Pi picked an auspicious day according to the Dahan almanac, turned down all official duties, and quietly went to Qingyun Temple to pray.

More than two months have passed, and the Qingyun Temple is still full of pines and cypresses, the bamboos are secluded, and the grass on the steps in front of the courtyard is also green, as if nothing has changed.

Gently pushing open the mountain gate, stepping on the fallen leaves all over the path, Cao Pi walked slowly among the winding corridors.When he came to a hollow screen wall with carved cranes and painted luan, his heart skipped a beat and he turned his head hastily.The graceful Xuanjizi, who was dressed in a five-bird feather coat and a seven-star high crown, was holding an ebony whisk, with a smile on his cheeks, and came to him from afar.

(End of this chapter)