Wuguan, Kuching Chu, Qinchu national border access checkpoint. It is located on the north bank of the Dongwuguan River in Danfeng County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province in modern Shaanxi Province, and has become the "Four Stops of Qin" with Hangu Pass, Xiao Pass and Dasan Pass.

Wuguan has a long history, far away in the Spring and Autumn Period to be built, the name is "Shao Xi Pass", the Warring States period changed to "Wuguan". Guancheng is built on a relatively flat plateau between the canyons, with the lofty Shaoxi Mountain in the north and the dangerous in the south.

The circumference of the castle is 1.5 kilometers, and the city wall is made of earth and slightly square. A door was opened in the east and west, and the roll hole was covered with bricks and stones. There are four characters of "Sanqin Fortress" on the west gate, two words of "Wuguan" on the east gate, and four words of "Gu Shao Xi Pass" on the forehead of the inner door.

The terrain of the western part of the country is relatively flat, only out of the east of the Guan, the mountainside is winding through, the cliff is high and the valley is deep, it is narrow and difficult to walk, so Wuguan is the place where the ancient soldiers must fight.

After Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, Wuguan also became one of the important gateways from Kansai to Kanto, and Dong Zhuo also attached great importance to it, and sent his generals Li Dao and Guo Yan to lead 50,000 troops to be stationed here to guard the southeast gate for it.

This Li Dao was originally Dong Zhuo's general, because of his courageous personality in leading the troops, he was liked by Dong Zhuo, so he was promoted to the general of the Yamen, and then he was promoted all the way to the infantry captain Sima, rank Qianshi, under the jurisdiction of the Northern Army, and was valued by Dong Zhuo.

Guo Yan was originally a horse thief who caused rebellion in Xiliang, and was later captured by Dong Zhuo. After surrendering to Dong Zhuo, because he was good at using soldiers, he was reused by Dong Zhuo, and at this time he served as the captain of the Yue Cavalry Sima, with the rank of Qianshi, which was under the jurisdiction of the Northern Army.

One of these two has a brave personality and a feminine personality, but the two people with diametrically opposite personalities have become friends of Mo Zhuo, and they have become a force in Dong Zhuo's army, representing some of the people who followed Dong Zhuo at the earliest, and won Dong Zhuo's trust.

At this time, all the princes of the Kwantung region were busy expanding their own power, and no one would come to attack Dong Zhuo, who was the most powerful, without taking any measure, so Wuguan was also quite calm.

In addition to inspecting the city defense and training the soldiers in Wuguan every day, Li Dao and Guo Yan were drinking and bragging, which seemed quite boring.

Luoyang was destroyed, many displaced people moved west, and stayed here after coming to Wuguan, so today's Wuguan is also quite prosperous.

On this day, Li Dao and Guo Yan drank and bought drunk in the Zuichun Building as usual, and there would be no such leisure and entertainment places in Wuguan and other fortresses, but there was no war, and the two were really bored, so that their relatives opened a restaurant here, saying that it was to entertain guests, but in fact it was set up for the enjoyment of the two.

The two of them are pushing the cup and changing the lamp at the moment, and there is a singer and a beautiful maid beside them, so they are so happy.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Li Wei frowned, he hated being disturbed at such a time the most, and immediately spoke: "That bastard who doesn't open his eyes, he came to disturb at this time, but he is impatient?" ”

A slightly old voice came from outside the door and said: "Jingzhao Yin Sima Fang has returned from the province, passing through Wuguan, and came to visit the two generals. ”

Li Dao and Guo Yan glanced at each other, both sides were a little confused, this Sima Fang They knew that Dong Zhuo promoted a large number of children of the Shi clan in order to stabilize the Kwantung Shi clan, and this Sima Fang was one of them, he was promoted to Jing Zhaoyin, I heard that he went home for the Chinese New Year some time ago, why did he come back and suddenly visit the two of them here.

Li Wei forgot to forget Guo Yan, and the other party was also a little dazed, but Guo Yan still nodded.

Li Dao understood what Guo Yan meant, waved his hand, and let the rest of the people retreat, the two have worked together for a long time, and Li Dao will ask Guo Yan's opinion on many things, which has become a tacit understanding between the two of them.

After a while, after all the idle people had withdrawn, a middle-aged man with long sleeves and fluttering sleeves walked in, with a warm smile, and saluted with his hands in his fists when he was far away: "Sima Fang has seen the two generals, and I ask for forgiveness for his sudden visit." ”

Li Dao and Guo Yan hurriedly got up and returned the salute, Sima Fang was two thousand stones in the rank of Jingzhao Yin, which was much higher than the official positions of both of them, although after Dong Zhuo took control of the government, the court officials did not dare to raise their heads in front of their Xiliang officials, and not many Li Dao and Guo Yan still maintained respect for these Shijia gate lords.

Guo Yan's voice was a little feminine like his character, and he was the first to ask, "I don't know what Lord Jing Zhaoyin is here for?" If you have any orders, just send your subordinates to summon the two of us. ”

Sima Fang smiled even more, as if he didn't hear the ridicule in Guo Yan's words, and said: "Don't hide it from the two generals, the old man has always respected the two generals, and this time he returned to Chang'an and passed through Wuguan, and specially came to intersect with the two generals. ”

Guo Yan had deeper doubts in his heart, the two of them had never had any friendship with this Sima Fang, and these Kwantung scholars had always been in the eyes of their Western Liang martial artists, and at this time they suddenly took the initiative to say that they wanted to have a relationship, which had to make the two of them wary.

Sima Fang seemed to see the two of them on guard, and said with a hearty smile: "Hahaha, it seems that the old decay came too suddenly to make the two generals suspicious, but this is the fault of the old decay." The old man spoke more straightforwardly, and the two generals were also refreshing people, so the old man said it clearly. ”

Guo Yan exchanged a look with Li Dao again, then looked at Sima Fang, and said, "Please also ask Mr. for a famous word." ”

Sima Fang looked around left and right, and Guo Yan said when he saw this: "Sir, it doesn't hurt to say, this is the territory of the two of us, and there will be no fourth person who can hear our words." ”

Sima Fang nodded at this time and said, "The old man is really here to ask the two generals for help. ”

"Ask me for help?" Guo Yan said suspiciously.

"That's right." Sima Fang put away his smile, a color of shame appeared on his face, and said, "It's not the trouble caused by those unfilial rebels who are old and decayed. ”

"Ling Gongzi?"

"Exactly, these unscrupulous sons secretly escaped from the family under the leadership of Boda." Sima Fang said as if embarrassed.

Guo Yan looked at Sima Fang carefully, at this moment he felt that the anger in his heart was slowly burning, although Sima Fang said politely, but there was half a bit of seriousness in his words, as if he was joking with the two of them.

Guo Yan glanced at Li Dao and found that the other party's face had become very ugly, obviously if this Sima Fang teased the two of them like this again, Li Dao would teach this old guy a lesson.

Sima Fang saw that the expressions of the two of them had changed greatly, and he pretended to be very flustered and said, "I can't hide it, my few unscrupulous sons have thrown themselves into the Kwantung princes. ”

"What! Sima Lao'er, you don't think your life is too long! Li Wei got up angrily and wanted to take out his sword.

Guo Yan suddenly got up and held down Li Wei, looked back at Sima Fang angrily and said: "Sima Fang, the two of us respect you for your honorific title, but you don't want to get an inch, you must know that we are not something you can play at will." ”

"General, the two generals have been wronged. Alas! To tell the truth, Lao Yu was originally the patriarch of my Sima family, but because I answered the Jing Zhaoyin given by the Taishi, I was dismissed from the position of patriarch by the elders of the family. And the old decay, the old decay was expelled from the family ......" After saying the words, Sima Fang couldn't help the old tears, and deep wrinkles suddenly appeared on his face.

After Sima Fang's words were spoken, Li Wei was stunned, and Guo Yan twisted his eyebrows and fell into deep thought.

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the system of filial piety and honesty has been adopted in the selection of officials.

Filial piety, that is, filial piety and honesty. At the beginning of the first year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty, the county and the country were each given one filial piety, that is, one person each of them was filial piety. In the normal case of the two Han Dynasty, filial piety and honesty are often concatenated and mixed into one family. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, until the Eastern Han Dynasty, many famous princes were born in filial piety, which had a great impact on the politics of the Han Dynasty.

For hundreds of years, the Shi clan has a large number of gates, and the power is getting bigger and bigger, almost all the officials are from the Shi clan, so there is a distinction between the Shi clan and the Han family, the Shi clan pays attention to the family and the country, and everything is based on the interests of the family as the first premise, so in order to preserve the family power, the elite disciples in the family will be allowed to serve different forces, so that the family can continue in any situation.

Therefore, although Sima Fang's situation is unacceptable, it is also reasonable, after all, Dong Zhuo is not liked by scholars, which is something they themselves know.

Even if Sima Fang was not expelled from the Sima family as he said, but his sons served the other princes separately, which was a very common thing, after all, the Shi family gate lord always pursued that eggs should not be put in the same basket.

However, Guo Yan still asked with some doubts: "This kind of thing should be reported to the Taishi, why did you come to me and the two of you to talk about it." ”

Sima Fang suddenly raised his head, looked around again in fear, and saw that the doors and windows were closed, so he spoke: "Don't dare to hide the two generals, Taishi, Taishi, his power is really amazing, Lao Yu is afraid that this matter will anger Taishi, although Lao Yu is old, he still wants to continue to be free in this flower world for a few years." General Li Ru, who Taishi trusted the most, was the most disgusted with our scholars. The two generals are deeply trusted by the Taishi, and the two generals do not seem to be loyal and righteous people, so the old man hopes to ask the two generals for help, and can say a few good words for the old man. ”

Sima Fang looked at the faces of Li Dao and Guo Yan, then took out a few pieces of gold cakes from his arms, pushed them in front of the two, and said: "The old man will definitely repay the two generals for saving their lives, and I hope that the two generals will be fulfilled." ”

Li Wei is very greedy, at this moment, when he saw Huang Chengcheng's gold, his eyes suddenly lit up, what Sima Fang said was not a big deal, he opened his mouth and was about to agree, but suddenly saw Guo Yan's eyes, and swallowed back the words on his lips.

Guo Yan looked directly into Sima Fang's eyes and said indifferently: "What Mr. said, the two of us already know, but this matter is very important, and the two of us need to study it carefully." If the gentleman has nothing to do, he will be in this martial arts for a few days. ”

"In this way, the old man will wait for the news of the two generals." After Sima Fang finished speaking, he bowed down and walked out of the door, and after closing the door, he slowly stood up, a smile appeared on his face again, and he walked out with his long sleeves shaking.