The news of the envoys of Qi and Wu entering Beijing not only made the Son of Heaven in the imperial city eager to try, but also set off a whirlwind in the city of Xudu. It is said that as early as the beginning of Wu Shuo's return to Beijing, Cai Ji's sixteen-character initiative of "Bu Du Dingding, returning the Son of Heaven, dividing the princes, and using the feudal Ping Han" has been quietly circulated in the streets and alleys of Xudu. It is no wonder that as soon as the envoys of Qi and Wu entered the city, they immediately attracted the attention of Jia Haoqiang, a businessman of all kinds in Beijing, and even the nobles of the clan.

However, whether it was Guo Jia on behalf of Cai Ji or Lu Su on behalf of Sun Ce, they all avoided these unusually enthusiastic visitors. At the beginning of the lanterns, the outside of the Xudu Post House was still full of traffic and crowds, but the post house was silent, in stark contrast to the noise of the outside world. Lu Su closed the door early to thank the guests, holding a volume of Donglai's newly published "Lü's Spring and Autumn" to read at night. In the house at the other end, Guo Jia is sitting and playing against his old friend Xun Yu, whom he has not met for a long time.

In the small house, two fish lamps illuminated a small wenge table resting in the middle. On both sides of the small table, Xun Yu holds the sunspot, the Xuanyi is crowned, and he is sitting in danger; Guo Jia holds a white son, a white shirt drags the ground, and his long hair is shawl. Several chess games have been close to the palace, and the black and white chess pieces emit a smooth and jade-like light against the heavy agarwood chessboard, just like their respective masters, one black and one white, one static and one moving.

The images of Xun Yu and Guo Jia happen to represent the definition of appearance beauty in the two eras before and after. Xun Yu is delicate and elegant, and abides by etiquette. It is an example of the prestige of Han officials. Guo Jia broke away from the shackles of the Confucian etiquette of the two Han Dynasty, praised his clothes and belts, and distributed the sitting. Uninhibited. And this style of exaggerating individuality as beauty will eventually evolve into the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties in the future, and will have a profound impact on the aesthetic thought of later generations in China.

However, in this chaotic era of inheriting the past and opening the future, the replacement of the old and the new is not only grooming. Just like the game between Xun and Guo at the moment, Xun Yu's black son originally occupied the advantage of the middle abdomen and forced the white son into a dying Jedi, but Guo Jia counterattacked from the corner, exchanging the lower left twenty white seeds for the trapped white son in the middle abdomen to highlight the encirclement. So far, the situation on the plate has changed from a sunspot to a declining trend. Faintly, it coincides with today's trend. The sunspot in the middle is Cao Cao, on territory and population. All are slightly stronger than the horned white sons who symbolize the princes of the four directions. The twenty white seeds that were taken away by Guo Jiashe are like Jingbei that was annexed by Cao Cao after Liu Biao's death, and the white son who broke through from the middle of the abdomen is the son of today.

However, whether it is the chess game in front of him or the current situation, Xun Yu is obviously not willing to admit defeat. But when he saw him sitting upright, he was holding chess and meditating. It's like I'm fully engaged and selfless. However, the chess game is close to the palace. The space that can be revitalized by Xun Yu is extremely limited. On the contrary, Guo Jia took advantage of the trend, and while maintaining the advantage of the corner land, he continued to penetrate the mid-abdomen, and there was a great tendency to bloom in the middle.

Looking at Xun Yu, who was especially unwilling to give up with white temples, Guo Jia couldn't help but recall the years when he talked about wine with Xun Yu in Yingchuan in the past. At that time, many members of the Xun clan had died in court party disputes, and Xun Yu himself abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown due to Dong Zhuo's dictatorship. However, in the process of communicating with Guo Jia, Xun Yu's speech and demeanor did not see the passive retreat of the hermit at all, but was full of ambition to support Liu Fuhan and help the poor and save the people. The repeated long talks made these two resourceful people who took the world as their own responsibility sympathize with each other and introduced each other as confidants. Soon after that, Xun Yu and Guo Jia both went north to see Yuan Shao. But after a period of contact with Yuan Shao. The two of them soon discovered that the third duke of the fourth dynasty, the prominent Ben Chu Duke, lacked the minimum respect and loyalty to the Han family. He is by no means a good minister of the Han Dynasty. So Xun Yu and Guo Jia successively decided to abandon Yuan and go south to find another job. It's just that Guo Jia never expected that the parting between him and Xun Yu would be sixteen years, and when the two met again, the two sides were already the same thing, each with its own master.

And just when Guo Jia was distracted from reminiscing about the past, Xun Yu seized the opportunity to search hard, and finally defeated Guo Jia by a half-eye. Faced with such an ending, Guo Jia was not annoyed, and saw him raise his hand and collect the chess pieces in a dashing manner, "Yu loses." ”

Xun Yu's face did not have the joy of winning chess at all. After all, although he defeated Guo Jia by a small game on the chessboard, he lost a lot in the overall situation of the whole world. Coupled with Guo Jiahuang's expression before, Xun Yu couldn't help but salute expressionlessly, "Feng Xiao didn't do his best, and Yu Shengzhi didn't fight." ”

Guo Jia was distracted by Xun Yu, so he had to smile wryly and pun on it, "The world is like a new chess game, why bother with the victory or defeat of a game." ”

"The world is like a new chess game...... But from Cai Anzhen's words? Xun Yu raised his eyebrows and asked. In his impression, this concise and meaningful way of choosing words is very much in line with Cai Ji's consistent style. is like the "Zhou Gong Fear Rumors Day, Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the time". Xiang Zhi died at the beginning, who knows the truth of his life? It left a very deep impression on Xun Yu and Cao Cao.

Sure enough, the next moment, I saw Guo Jia's head confirmed, "This sentence was indeed made by the master of my family." Brother Wen Ruo is really a confidant of Qi Hou. ”

"Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the time. Xiang Zhi died at the beginning, who knows the truth of his life? Xun Yu recited Cai Ji's "famous words" in a low voice, and then said with a mocking tone, "Qi Hou has lofty ambitions, gods and men are unpredictable, how dare Yu claim to be a bosom friend." ”

Facing Xun Yu's prickly words, Guo Jia shook his head calmly and said, "Wen Ruo's words are wrong. Qi Hou has always taken it as his mission to protect the Han Dynasty and quell the chaos, and he has not changed his mind in the past ten years. However, since the defeat of the Yuan family, Cao Gong's disobedience has become increasingly apparent. But I don't know who Duke Zhou, Wang Mang, and Duke Cao want to imitate? ”

Guo Jia's words can be said to hit Xun Yu's weakness. Cao Cao did have many arrogances against the Han family after the fall of Yuan Shao, and his evil act of killing the noble concubine and imprisoning the Son of Heaven was even more indignant. However, even so, Xun Yu still stubbornly believed that the Han family and Cao Cao could coexist, because there were still precedents such as Huo Guang between Zhou Gong and Wang Mang.

Huo Guang, whose name is Meng, is a native of Pingyang, Hedong, and is the half-brother of the Western Han Dynasty Sima Huo Quai, who has gone through the three dynasties of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. In the second year of the Later Yuan Dynasty (87 BC), when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was dying, he clearly designated Huo Guang as the general of the Great Sima. Together with Jin Riyan, Shangguan Ji, and Sang Hongyang, he assisted the eight-year-old Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty. However, Emperor Zhao of Han reigned for only thirteen years and left no heirs after his death. So Huo Guang, who was in charge of power at that time, decided to welcome Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sun Changyi, and Liu He, the king of Yi, to ascend the throne. But only 27 days later, Huo Guang reported to the Empress Dowager Shangguan on the grounds of fornication and unreasonableness, abolished the king of Changyi, and instead welcomed Emperor Wu's great-grandson Liu Yi to inherit the throne. He is known as Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. And Huo Guang also abolished the establishment of the Son of Heaven, and Yi Yin, the prime minister of the Yin Shang period, as the representative of the ministers, and was called "Yi Huo" by later generations.

However, after Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he did not set up Huo Chengjun, the daughter of Huo Guang, as the queen according to the ministers' proposal, but euphemistically stated in the name of finding the old sword that he would set up his own wife Xu Pingjun as the queen. Huo Guang did not object on the spot, but objected to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to make his stepfather a prince in accordance with the practice of the Han Dynasty on the grounds that Empress Xu's father Xu Guanghan had been punished by the palace. But Huo Guang's stepfamily was obviously dissatisfied with his daughter not becoming the queen, and took advantage of Queen Xu's birth to buy the doctor Chun Yuyan to poison Queen Xu behind his back. After the death of Empress Xu. Emperor Xuan held the doctor responsible, and Chun Yuyan was put in prison for trial, and confessed the matter to Huo Guang out of fear. Huo Guang was horrified. wanted to hold Xian responsible, but in the end, she covered up the past for her because of the relationship between husband and wife. Afterwards, Huo Chengjun was made queen as he wished.

Therefore, in Xun Yu's view, Cao Cao's actions of sending a woman to the palace and killing Concubine Dong were just repeating Huo Guang's old path. As long as Cao Cao does not learn from Wang Mang, usurping the Han and standing on his own, it will be harmless. After all, although Huo Guang was a powerful minister, he devoted his life to assisting Emperor Zhao and Emperor Xuan to achieve the prosperity of Zhaoxuan.

Thinking of this, Xun Yu immediately justifiably defended Cao Cao and said, "Although Cao Gong is a specialist. However, he worries about the danger and defeat of the country. The bitterness of the people, led the volunteers to punish the thieves for the world, Kuang the country, and the security of Sheji, and finally Yihuo. ”

Guo Jia saw that Xun Yu planned Cao Cao as Huo Guang and Yi Yin, and immediately raised his sword eyebrows and asked-for-tat, "Cao Gong is Yi Huo, and the children of the Cao family are also like Bo Lu Houhu?" ”

Boluhou is the title of Huo Yu, the son of Huo Guang. Huo Yu relied on the power of his father Huo Guang and his brothers and nephews as court officials and gave things. The pro-party conjoined body is rooted in the imperial court. As a result, Huo Guang died. Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty immediately set about cutting off the wings of the Huo clan in the court. He first appointed Huo Yu as the right general, and then moved him to the position of Da Sima, without a seal ribbon, and cut off his military power. Huo's other brothers and pro-party members were gradually transferred to foreign officials, and they were increasingly deposed. Huo Yu, who refused to sit still, conspired with non-Huo Yun and Huo Shan to rebel, but was arrested and beheaded in the city.

Guo Jia used Huo Yu as an example to undoubtedly warn Xun Yu that Cao Cao's failure to usurp the Han does not mean that Cao Cao's descendants will not usurp the Han. But Xun Yu obviously didn't appreciate it, but when he saw him clenching his fists, he said solemnly, "Gongzi Ang is loyal and virtuous, and he is definitely not Huo Yu and the like!" ”

"Ang Gongzi is not Huo Yu and others, Qian Peiwuren, Ruying family, not Huo Yun and Huo Shanhu? The world is like chess, unpredictable, how can Wen Ruo carve a boat for a sword? Guo Jia asked reluctantly. In the final analysis, today's Han family is not comparable with the Han family of the Zhaoxuan Zhongxing era, and the Cao family, assisted by the Qian Peiwu and the Ruying family, is far better than the Huo family back then. In this case, using Huo Guang's experience to rigidly trap Cao Cao's future is tantamount to carving a boat for a sword.

Xun Yu has the talent of Wang Zuo, how can he not understand the truth. However, he guided Cao Cao to follow Huo Guang's example to assist the Han family, which has always been Xun Yu's spiritual pillar. Just as Zhuge Liang recognized Liu Bei as the current Guangwu, Xun Yu recognized Cao Cao as the current Huo Guang and Yi Yin. It's a pity that plump ideals are often accompanied by the reality of backbones. Regardless of whether Cao Cao had the intention of usurping the Han Dynasty or not, the civil and military cronies around him seemed to have the ambition to stand on their own. And the betrayal of the Ruying family made Xun Yu feel resentful and helpless. Now Xun Yu also knew that it was impossible to oppose the partition, but he still hoped to persuade Cai Ji through Guo Jia so that the Han Emperor could remain in Cao Cao's sphere of influence.

So after being silent for a long time, Xun Yu sighed faintly, and said in a slow tone, "Yu Zizhi knows that the Son of Heaven is in charge of the government, and the princes are divided, which is a foregone conclusion. However, the pass is broken, and Jing Yang is occluded, how can it be like Xu Du according to the original moderate land, the soil is fertile, and the hundred faith are Yinfu. If he moved out of Xudu from Cao Gong and chose Yecheng as the shogunate, he could also avoid the worries of the Marquis of Qi. ”

I have to admit that although Xun Yu was put on the issue of moving the capital and dividing it into feuds, this Xun Lingjun's vision is still very vicious. He saw for a moment that with Cai Ji's heart and identity as a woman, he would never take over the Son of Han who was like a hot potato, and he would also not want to see the Son of Heaven fall into the pockets of Liu Bei and Sun Ce. Otherwise, Cai Ji would not have inserted a bar in Cao Cao's stall when he was trapped in Dangyang, thus destroying Liu Bei's plan to exchange Cao Cao for the Son of Heaven. Therefore, Xun Yu's mention of the Cao family's forces moving out of Xudu was also a compromise choice for Cai Ji.

In fact, if Cai Ji had not made up his mind in advance, Guo Jia would most likely accept Xun Yu's proposal. But now that Cai Ji has finalized the move of the Son of Heaven to Xiangyang, Guo Jia naturally doesn't think much about him, but directly refuses in a tactful tone, "Jia thinks that when it comes to moving the capital, Brother Wen Ruo still conforms to the people's hearts." ”

"Conform to the heart?" Xun Yu looked up noncommittally and asked.

Facing Xun Yu's questioning gaze, Guo Jialang replied, "Mencius has clouds, and those who win the hearts of the people win the world." The Marquis of Qi conformed to the people's hearts and advocated 'Budu Dingding, returning the Son of Heaven, dividing the princes, and using the feudal Ping Han' to get the corresponding princes of the world. The relocation of the capital by the Son of Heaven is a matter of social welfare, how can the rest of the people not conform to the hearts of the people?

Hearing Guo Jia's words on this, Xun Yu knew that it would not be easy for him to convince the former Qi camp mastermind tonight. Thinking of the scene in the past when he and Guo Jia were like-minded and talked at night, Xun Yu's heart couldn't help but feel sour. Could it be that Yu is really old? Gongda and Changwen are all dedicated to the seal, that is, Fengxiao is also proud to assist the Cai family.

Although Xun Yu was stunned, he refused to give up. So he asked tentatively, "Feng Xiao wants to assist the Cai family for Qi Huanhu?" ”

"Definitely." Guo Jiawu shook his head.

Xun Yu was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it and seemed to understand something. Because Cai Ji started in Qingzhou and was named the Marquis of Qi, the outside world is always accustomed to comparing her to the overlord of Qi Huan in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, Duke Huan of Qi eventually starved to death in civil strife, and Jiang Qi was later replaced by Tian Qi. It is really a bit ominous to call himself the Duke of Qi Huan. So Xun Yu cited another Spring and Autumn overlord, "Qin Muhu? ”

"Definitely." Guo Jia still shook his head.

"Jin Wen?"

"Definitely."

"Chu Zhuang?"

"Definitely."

"Song Xiang?"

"Definitely."

It is no wonder that Xun Yu will ask the Spring and Autumn Five Tyrants all over again. The strategists of this era were accustomed to using the ancient emperors and generals as an example to shape their own lords, such as Guangwu and Huo Guang. Cai Ji's proposal to divide the seal was naturally very tolerant, and Xun Yu was classified as the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period. However, in Guo Jia's mind, Cai Ji is by no means an imitator of some ancient emperor and general.

The next moment, I saw Guo Jia straighten his sitting posture, straighten his waist, and said, "The head of my family is neither Qi Huan Jinwen nor Qin Muchuzhuang, and the master of my family is an unprecedented master." ”

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Small Theatre Hours:

Guo Jia: Wen Ruo is here tonight! Take a bath with the soap given by the Lord~~~

After a quarter of the pillar of incense ~~~

Guo Jia, with a cloak and a white coat mopping the floor: yo ~ Wen Ruo ~

Xun Yu, Xuan Yi Eguan, is sitting in danger: playing chess.

Guo Jia: %>_