The first year of Yanping, early autumn.

Yang Biao's Biqiu Xing led the troops, numbering 100,000, out of Anyi, to Linfen, and the soldiers pointed directly at Pingyang.

The momentum was huge, but the road was not very smooth, first the scouts were pitted, and then the cavalry was beaten in the process of chasing Zhang Lie, causing Biqiu Xing's already small cavalry to be overstretched, in addition to sending a large team of scouts to investigate the surrounding area every day, Zhang Lie and others were allowed to wander in front of the formation, all of which were ignored.

In the past two days, the same drama has been played out again and again. Zhang Lie took the cavalry around, and then the remaining cavalry of Biqiu Xing only dared to expel them under the cover of his own foot soldiers, and did not dare to chase them exhaustively.

Zhang Lie's cavalry did not find any flaws in Biqiuxing's relatively rigorous large array, so they could not actually cause much direct damage, but they only successfully slowed down Biqiuxing's two-day journey, and even walked less than 20 miles in one day, and finally walked three days away from Pingyang before they arrived at the camp five miles south of Pingyang.

In accordance with the custom of saluting first and then soldiering, Biqiu Xing sent a letter of persuasion to the city of Pingyang.

Then Xun Chen waved his pen and said that he needed to think about it and replied in three days......

Biqiu Xing smiled coldly after getting the reply, although he understood Xun Chen's intentions, but he also needed to set up a relatively stable camp first, so he didn't care, but he sent troops to destroy those workshops in the northern suburbs of the city, and dismantled some materials for the construction of his own camp, which can be regarded as some demonstrations.

However, those workshops have long been empty like Xun Chen's personnel, and Biqiu Xing is just to dismantle some wood and red bricks, and for those walls built with soil and cement, it is laborious to dismantle, and they can't be burned again, and they don't care after tossing for a while.

Therefore, in the past two days, the city and the city have faced off strangely, and each has been busy with its own affairs.

Because Pingyang City is already the largest trade center in Shanxi, and even at this point in time, Chang'an Luoyang has declined, and Xuchang Yecheng has not yet risen, so it can be said that it is the richest place in the Han Dynasty, and it seems to be barely reasonable.

The local wealth naturally brings more people flow, more people flow, and more people flow, and more and more promote the construction of the city, which can be heard in the classic song of the five rings in later generations of China, knowing that it is crowded to death, and still forgetting to die to squeeze in.

Therefore, the facilities and ground in the original Pingyang City were gradually insufficient, and after Xun Chen took charge of Pingyang's affairs, he also began to build the second ring road of Pingyang, thanks to the steelmaking materials of the Pingyang workshop and those Xianbei slaves, the cost of building the second city wall was even smaller than repairing the original city wall.

Because the circumference of the second ring is more than twice that of the first ring, it can be calculated that with the more advanced materials and equipment invented by Feiqian, it will have a huge impact on the current production and construction.

However, the corner tower cloud tower on the second ring city wall or something, limited by craftsmen and material restrictions, after all, it is still necessary to have wooden beams or something, and the earth and cement wall is acceptable, but to be like the reinforced concrete structure of later generations, the strength is still insufficient, so most of them only have an embryo, and they have not been fully completed, and the output of the red brick kiln on the city wall has not increased much, many places on the second ring city wall of Pingyang have not been laid with relatively hard red bricks, and the trenches outside the city have not been excavated. Therefore, the overall defense system of the second ring city wall is still somewhat insufficient, and it can barely be used, but if Biqiu Xing attacks it, after all, the perimeter of the second ring city wall is placed there, and it is easier to be broken through.

Therefore, the people who are still in Binh Duong, who have a little status, have also moved into the inner city of Binh Duong First Ring Road for the sake of safety, after all, it is safer, even if they have not had time to purchase rental houses in the First Ring Road, they have more or less friends and relatives or something, and they are squeezed at all times......

As for the question of whether there will be personal danger after Biqiu Xing breaks the city, in the eyes of these scholars, most of them think that there will not be too many problems, the reason is very simple, this is not the Hu people attacking the city, but the army under Yang Biao.

It's not that Yang Biao's personal reputation is good, but because at this point in time, in addition to Hu Man's ability to do some things to slaughter the city, the other princes still need some benevolence and righteousness to cover their faces, so after Cao Cao did the slaughter of the city, he was talked about for I don't know how long, even if he became the world-powerful Prime Minister Cao Cheng, there are still people chattering, and even the officials who compiled the history of Wei used the sentence "There are many killings where they have passed" in this matter......

If Zheng Xifeiqian and others can hold it, and they did not abandon and dodge when they were fighting, they can naturally show off more or less in the future, so as to be closer, if Yang Biao's command captures the city, they will not risk the world's disapproval to slaughter the city, and then only need to close the door, and wait for a little more stability to visit Biqiu Xing, and express the willingness to bow their heads and vassals, and there will be no delay in both aspects......

Moreover, for the big family of the Dashi clan, now located in Pingyang, even if it is the children of the Shi clan of their own family, most of them are just individuals sent from other territories, and they themselves have no original family in Pingyang, so there is no family safety, even if they are unfortunately killed in the war, for these Shi clans, it is just the loss of one or several family members, just like a broken branch or two branches on a big tree, although it will hurt, but it will not be fatal.

But for Zhao Shang, who is a family, he naturally can't be so indifferent in his heart, and he can't sit still and wait for the final result......

In Zhao Shang's heart, there is nothing wrong with Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, but in terms of behavior, there is something wrong, and the most critical point is that he did not leave the Han Emperor in the north!

What does General Fei Qian want to do?

Zhao Shang believes that the most serious problem in this dynasty is the excessive military power, Dong Zhuo was like this before, and Li Guo was the same, and finally saw Fei Qian welcome the Han Emperor to Pingyang, originally thought that Fei Qian was also a loyal courtier, but he didn't expect that he was reluctant to hold the military power in his hands, so that the opportunity to enter the court slipped away in his hands......

Does Dong Zhuo have a good end?

Will Li Dao Guo Yan have a good end?

In Zhao Shang's view, the best route for Fei Qian is to take the direction of his relatives, regardless of how old Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty is, anyway, find someone, take advantage of the Han Emperor in Pingyang, marry the Han Emperor and finish the matter, and then lead the troops and the Han Emperor into Luoyang, so that the inner court and Shangshutai can be held in their hands......

As a result, Fei Qian was short-sighted to such a situation, and let go of the Han Emperor Liu Xie in vain, and did nothing, which is equivalent to losing the best opportunity, how to make Zhao Shang not regret!

Although the official system of this dynasty follows the system of three princes and nine secretaries, this three princes and nine secretaries refer to the officials of the outer courts, that is, the outer court, because the offices of the three princes and nine secretaries are all located outside the palace.

Although the position of the Three Princes and Nine Princes is high, it is also the dream pursued by the world's scholars, but in the hearts of the discerning people, the position of the Three Princes is not so beautiful.

Under Dong Zhongshu's celestial and human induction system, the emperor is guilty, the heavens have opinions, and a disaster has descended, so naturally someone has to carry the black cauldron, so Sangong is the best candidate to carry the black cauldron. In this context, if it is a disaster every year, the three princes will naturally be like a marquee, taking turns to walk around in accordance with the etiquette norms, anyway, everyone knows what is going on.

However, the official positions of the inner court are not changed frequently, and once they are replaced, it means political bloodshed.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the prime minister plus the three dukes and nine qings had too much power, which led to many times the emperor being tied, so after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to power, the first thing was to kill the prime minister, and then naturally followed by the three dukes and nine secretaries, so that the three dukes and nine secretaries gradually became honorary positions.

Emperor Wu was eloquent and strategic, and he needed to quickly upload and issue edict decisions, but due to the excessive power of the minister, Emperor Wu was greatly constrained, and the imperial power could not be commanded by his arm, so he began to reuse the court officials in the inner court. The three dukes were gradually deprived of real power, and Shangshu became a prominent official position of the cashier's order, and there were Shangshu Ling, Shangshu Servant Shot and Six Cao Shangshu in Shangshutai, which was called "Eight Seats" at the time, and the status was very respectful.

Among the three princes and nine secretaries, whether there is an official position of leading the secretary has become an important watershed, and what is not is the wooden statue of the smile, which is placed when needed, and removed from the thunder when there is an accident.

At the same time, in order to avoid the situation that the middle people of the inner court Shangshu and the poems united with the three princes and nine kings, and the emperor was elevated, Emperor Wu mixed sand into the Shangshutai, and generally appointed his relatives as generals or great Simas, and recorded Shangshu's affairs, so as to avoid the complete control of Shangshutai by the foreign court officials, after all, the relatives and the emperor were more or less a family.

The emperor generally consulted with the courtiers of Shangshu and the courtiers who added officials, but the ministers could not participate, so starting from Emperor Wu, the Chinese officials had greater decision-making power over the government affairs, and many political affairs were agreed by the Chinese officials and implemented by the emperor.

As a result, the power of the court officials in China and the DPRK was too heavy, and when it also posed a threat to the imperial power, Emperor Wu later used the ban on the central officials, that is, the eunuchs intervened in government affairs to balance politics.

The forbidden middle refers to the place where the emperor and his concubines lived, and most of the officials in the inner court were eunuchs. In the late period of Emperor Wu, considering that Shangshu could only perform in the palace and could not convey government affairs in the forbidden middle, he appointed a eunuch as the Zhongshu Confessor's Order, responsible for transmitting the edict and the chapter, and from then on, the Zhongshu Order began to contain the Shangshu Order.

By the time of Emperor Guangwu, the distinction between palace bans was stricter, and scholars could not enter and leave the forbidden places at will. The ban was announced, and the affairs such as the presentation of the chapter were all set up in the forbidden Shizhong Temple, the East Temple and the West Temple, which were originally considered tripartite constraints, but as a result, when Emperor Xiaozhang was in power, Guo Ju had an affair with the harem, and drew a sword to frighten the emperor, resulting in the relocation of the Shizhong Temple, and the ban completely became the world of eunuch power.

At that time, in order to compete for power, Emperor Wu contained the foreign court and vigorously reused the officials of the Chinese and Korean dynasties. After the Guangwu Emperor, in order to prevent the Chinese and Korean dynasties from becoming powerful, the internal court officials were reused, so the imperial power expanded and expanded more and more, resulting in the contemporary eunuchs, in fact, because the forbidden officials representing the imperial power were too strong, resulting in the lack of effective checks and balances in power, and the society inevitably went to defeat.

He Jin died, and the fire in the forbidden palace was actually the joint efforts of the foreign court officials and the Chinese court officials to kill the forbidden eunuchs who could not fall off the tail, and until now, the figure of the forbidden eunuchs has been cut off in the court.

Now that the Han Emperor is young, the foreign court officials and the county guards in various places have a huge force, and it is the time to urgently need foreign relatives to balance, so if the general of Zhengxi Fei Qian takes this opportunity to get close to the Han Emperor and become the next great Sima to lead the inner court of the Chinese Dynasty and govern the world, it is just around the corner!

However, missing this opportunity is enough to make people sigh!

Not only that, General Zhengxi also gave Yuan Shao the post of general!

Although it is said that this also has the intention of provoking the Shandong scholars, but it is a pity to use a general's position to carry out this strategy, looking at the current Yuan Shao only leading but not doing things, you can know that this strategy is useless......

With such a general of Zhengxi, is there any need to continue to invest?

Every time he thought of these things, Zhao Shang couldn't help but sigh a few times.

Zhao Shang didn't think that the Han would die, in his heart, it was just that the Han had not yet met the lord of Zhongxing, and he had not enabled the minister of Zhongxing......

Of course, Zhao Shang thought that he was more or less a Zhongxing courtier who could take on heavy responsibilities, so at the moment, General Zhengxi was forced to get something from Taiyuan to understand the matter, and he was naturally indignant in his heart.

"Brother Zhao is doing recently?" A young scribe, dressed in a wide robe with big sleeves, a crown and a broad belt, handsome appearance, obviously a regular guest in Zhao Shang's house, under the leadership of Zhao Shang's servants, Shi Shiran walked in, "Recently, Yang Gong's army is displayed outside, and the younger brother can't help but be a little shocked, but he sees that Brother Zhao is stable and calm, which makes the younger brother admire it to the ......."

"Feng Xian laughed...... Zhao Shang motioned for the young scribe to sit down, and while instructing the servants to serve some refreshments or something, he said slowly, "What Yang Gong wants, but the words people and wealth, if the jade is forced to burn, what good will it be?" Therefore, the siege of the city is the bottom, and the siege of the city is the top, and we have no money, so there is no need to worry. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, then watched the servant serve the refreshments, and after being busy for a while, after retreating, Zhao Shang first asked for tea, and waited for the young scribe to take a few sips of the tea bowl before asking, "Feng Xian's trip, can you get something?" ”

Pei Jun, the word Fengxian, Wen Xi Pei's Pei Mao's son, is also the same as Zhao Shang, a group of scholars who came to Pingyang very early, in terms of family background or something, maybe it is a little better than Zhao Shang, but it is also limited, after all, Wen Xi Pei's current reputation is Pei Ye and Pei Mao, and it is still in the past tense.

Pei Ye served as the assassin of Bingzhou, Pei Mao served as Shangshuling during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, but after the death of Emperor Ling, whether it was the general He Jin or the Taifu Yuan Kui, they immediately looked at Pei Mao unpleasantly, Pei Mao was also smart, understood the spirit, and resigned and returned to his hometown, which can be regarded as escaping.

After all, if it is really said from the ancestors, whether it is Pei, Fei, or Di, they are actually passed down from the same ancestor, just like the feeling of Taiyuan Wang and Langya Wang......

Usually the road to the rise of the family is very long, so long that it is not a generation that can be completed, so after Pei Mao retreats, he naturally needs to consider the path of the next generation, but the potential of General Fei of Zhengxi cannot be successful, and it is still worth investing or not, Pei Mao still feels that it needs to be inspected and measured, so as a subordinate in the family, Pei Jun naturally has the responsibility to go to Pingyang to observe it up close.

"In the name of marriage, I asked to see Xun Dongcao...... Pei Jun put down the tea bowl, lowered his eyebrows, and said, "Xun Dongcao is happy to be willing to convey the ...... for a certain generation"

"Glad?" Zhao Shang frowned.

Pei Jun nodded.

Zhao Shang pondered for a moment and said, "...... Fiction is real? ”

Pei Jun shook his head and said, "I don't know." The younger brother is in Xun Dongcao's place, and he can't ask directly......"

"Could it be ......" Zhao Shang stood up, turned around the hall a few times, and then stood still, looked in the direction outside the hall, and whispered, "Could it be...... Does General Zhengxi have a posthumous son? ”