Chapter 60: Half an inch of tongue
White dew, the fifteenth day of the twenty-four solar terms, when the plants and trees come to see dew, the wild geese cross south to avoid the cold.
Weize County, Ningzhou, as a county, is equipped with two county lieutenants. At the end of last winter, Song Keli, a foreigner, came here to take office and was able to suppress the bandits. He even broke the horses and bandits' nests in more than ten places. The horses in Ningzhou were frightened. However, when the summer began, the little Song lieutenant dismissed his official position without warning. He has been idle at home for several months. The house was leaking and raining all night. A marriage that had been roughly agreed was also ruined. The woman was Wei.
The small jade family in Ze County, which is a middle-class gateway, cannot be called a prominent family or a scholarly family. Compared with the young commander who had previously been beautiful, it is suspected of being high. However, compared with Song Keli, who was later in Bai Ding, he is naturally wronged. The marriage changed, and there was no trouble in Weize County. After all, Ningzhou is located in the south of the capital, and all the old and young states are staring at the restoration of the Western Chu country on Guangling Road. Who can care about a down-and-out reading
The scholar's firewood, rice, oil and salt? The neighborhood has a good relationship, and he will call out Xiao Song Duwei when he meets. Most people don't like to pay attention to this official dog who has no backing. However, one evening at Bailu, an old scholar with frosty white hair entered the county town. Without asking for directions, he walked straight to Song Keli's private house, which had already moved out of the county government. A small carriage parked outside the door so that people would not feel that the door was deserted. The old scholar looked at the curtains.
The pretty face in the corner of Zi was sad and miserable. The woman was a little surprised when she saw a visit from the house. She slowly lowered the curtain and drove out of the alley. The old Confucian scholar pushed the door and entered directly. Song Keli was reading a court newspaper in the courtyard that he wanted to come with a relationship. After seeing the Confucian scholar who was not astonishing, she looked surprised and put the newspaper on the stone table. She hurriedly got up and bowed and said, "I have seen Mr. Yuan."
The visitor was the introverted old Hanlin Yuanpu, the Hanlin Academy, who was also the introverted old Hanlin Academy, and it was this Hanlin senior who spoke to him, which was better than reading the books of sages for ten years. Song Keli had to think carefully about the words written by Mr. Yuan in the Hanlin Academy that day, "There are three scholars who do not care about their family, do not care about self-cultivation, governing the country, and governing the world." "The world's family and country are defeated, and they cannot escape the disaster of the word accumulation and gradual. The rise of the world's family is inseparable from the word accumulation and gradual contribution." At the beginning, the entire Tai'an City was watching the jokes of their Song family. The Song family masters who dominated the literary world, his grandfather was so angry that he was sick and his reputation was ruined. His father was demoted from the capital and could not become an official in his lifetime. And his former Song family
The young phoenix was also exiled to Weize County, Ningzhou, where the mountains and rivers were bad, which was a disaster. This was not a tragic matter. When he asked for the people to make some achievements, he first became a high-ranking official in the county government, and then the Ningzhou governor's residence. Someone tried to suppress him one after another. However, for Song Keli, there was no depression in his heart. What really made Song Keli feel confused was one thing. Those people who had received many favors from him in just half a year followed their colleagues in the county government to roll their eyes and mock him. However, Song Keli did not want to complain to others, except for the Yuan Huang clan Yuan Pu in front of him. Because Song Keli was inappropriate, he wanted to ask for advice from this gentleman who was not good at himself in the Hanlin Academy.
After Mr. Yuan sat down, Song Keli asked respectfully: "Why did Mr. Weize County?"
Yuan Pu, who originally liked to write more than speak, picked up the newspaper. He probably read too much and had bad eyes. He lifted up a few points. He browsed it carefully, and then put it down gently, and spoke, but he was still vague. "I haven't left Tai'an City for too many years, so I want to go out and take a look."
Speaking of this, the old man sighed a little: "After Wang Xianzhi walked out of Wudi City, an old friend in Tai'an City also left."
Yuan Pu looked at Song Keli and said straight to the point: "There is a root cause for the horse suffering in Ningzhou. This is just a piece on the chessboard. It's not big or small, but if you are alone and outsiders want to play chess pieces, the old chess player will make you die."
Song Keli nodded and said relievedly: "As I expected, the horse thief who has swarmed in Ningzhou over the years is Cao Changqing's move."
Yuan Pu said calmly: "Cao Changqing was not idle for twenty years. There was also a leader of the third leader of Zhao Gou during the death of Xi Chu. It was this person who proposed to plant secret spies among the troops in Guangling Road 17 years ago. In the early spring of the first year of Xiangfu this year, most of the spies who had been the chief lieutenant for many years were 367 people, half of whom died suddenly, and half became the backbone of the rebels of the Western Chu. This move was planned by Zhao Gou for more than ten years, and it was completely unexpected. The Minister of War Lu Baijie was short of his current situation, which had a great relationship with the disaster of this matter. Otherwise, where would you think there were so many elite troops in Western Chu who could fight to the death as soon as they came to the battlefield?"
Song Keli looked stunned.
Yuan Pu put his fingers together and wiped them horizontally on the stone table, and said hoarsely: "The situation is divided into different sizes. To put it in a big way, it is to reduce the vassal state, to gather national strength, to promote imperial examinations, and to suppress military people. After all, it is to swallow Beimang, unify the world, and to complete the feat that the 800-year-old Qin Dynasty has not achieved. If you take another step back, you will be someone's eternal emperor."
Yuan Pu stroked his fingers, "To put it slightly, it was forcing the King of Beiliang to use all his belongings to restrain Beimang, and limiting Gu Jiantang to the Northern Line. This was an open conspiracy. Using the restoration of the Western Chu Kingdom as bait, it consumed the strength and ambitions of the major vassal kings, including Guangling, to destroy the local military strength of Gu Lu, and to use this to catch the big fish that occupied the geographical advantage of the king of Yan Zhi, Zhao Bing, which was a big fish that occupied the right place and was in harmony with the people. This was a conspiracy. The terrible thing about the King of Beiliang was that there were 300,000 strong troops. The respectable thing was that the father and son held authority but would not rebel. The pitiful thing was that the Liyang court would have to lose all the money whether you rebel against Beiliang or not. "
Yuan Pu spread his palms and wiped it on the table, "Life is helpless, just like Xu Xiao trying every means to kill me, but even if he has a large army of 300,000, he can never kill him. Just like Cao Changqing is so romantic, but he is not lucky, and was born in Western Chu. Just like Zhang Julu, who devotes his whole life to seek welfare for the people of the world, but has to face the current situation of a family and a whole world. Just like Xu Fengnian, who defeated Wang Xianzhi, and then faces the millions of cavalry of Beimang. Their helplessness, are you, Song Keli, bigger or smaller?"
Song Keli was dumbfounded, "Mr. Yuan?"
Won Pu smiled.
Song Keli suddenly stood up, bowed to the end, and said in panic: "Song Keli greets Mr. Yuan!"
This worship is to worship the Emperor Tai'an City, half-inch tongue "Yuan Benxi"!
Yuan Benxi ignored Song Keli's solemn matter and said calmly: "I shouldn't have seen you so early, but I've been staying in that city all my life. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, I was just an unknown man. The word Xun Ping was more useful than a few kilograms of saliva. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, I had nothing to do. Now that I have taken root on the chessboard, according to Huang Longshi's view, going to the fields to farm, what's interesting is not to wait for a bumper harvest at home, but to go to the fields to see the golden yellow in the ridges. And you shouldn't continue to stay in Weize County. You might as well watch the scene of smoke everywhere with me. Otherwise, we scholars just say that even if we really think about how hard it is to mourn the people's livelihood, it would be too ridiculous if we don't even understand how the people are suffering."
Song Keli's eyes were shining and he said happily: "I wish to be a former pawn of Mr. Yuan."
Yuan Benxi nodded and asked, "I just saw the woman in the alley. How do you think the princess who secretly left the capital in order to see you?"
Song Keli was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer.
One is a beautiful golden branch and jade leaf, and the other is a beautiful girl with a handsome appearance. How can you compare?
Yuan Benxi's eyes were a little sloppy and sighed: "Some people are good people in love, and they are good to you. This is of course a blessing, but it may not be that the other party really likes you very much. Some people have a bad temperament and are willing to change a lot for you, but they really like you. The woman surnamed Zhao is willing to take the risk of leaving Beijing to find you, but will never ignore the family. When both are chosen, she will abandon you. The woman surnamed Liu in the alley has a gentle temperament, but she can mostly do everything for you and follow you with life and death. People in the world always think that people with status give some, so they are grateful. They are not deeply moved by the raising of parents who are close to you, the help of poor friends, and the care of their husbands and children who have married their wives."
Song Keli said with a little bitterness: "I have received teaching after a late child."
Yuan Benxi suddenly sat back on the stone bench, "I'm really tired of speaking than doing things, so I'll bring wine."
Song Keli quickly ran to the house to find wine.
Yuan Benxi said to himself: "If it weren't for Beimang, there were 300,000 Beiliang, what would happen to Western Chu? What would happen to the royal vassal kings like Zhao Bing and Zhao Yi?"
Chapter completed!