1216 Ambition is a double-edged sword
Ambitious people always see opportunities.
The greater the ambition, the more opportunities there seem to be......
But in reality, this is not the case, but the ambitious people are willing to take more risks, and even put their own lives on the line for the slightest chance of success.
Some people succeeded, and they were brilliant and attracted the attention of everyone, but many more people failed, and their bones were full of white bones, and they fell into the shadows of darkness, and no one noticed.
Jung Tae is an ambitious man.
Merely......
When he was young, Zheng Tai was very thoughtful, rarely talented, and easy to make heroes. At the beginning of filial piety, the three prefectures, and the bus levy, all of which were not enough, and the family was wealthy and there were often not enough food for the 400 hectares of land, so the prestige of nature became greater and greater.
Then He Jin assisted the government, Zheng Tai felt that the opportunity had come, and resolutely bet on He Jin, recruited as a scholar and servant, and then moved to serve the imperial history, but found that He Jin actually wanted to summon Dong Zhuo, so he advised He Jin to dissuade, but He Jin did not listen, Zheng Tai was disappointed, so he abandoned the official and left, and later also discussed the matter with Xun You, and sighed: "Why is it not easy to assist." ”
Later, Dong Zhuo came, He Jin died, and then Zheng Tai became a Yilang half-pushed and half-pushed, and together with Wu Qiong, He Hao and Zhou Yu, as Dong Zhuo's staff officers, he elected some Shandong scholars as officials, and secretly hooked up with the Shandong scholars.
When he was in Chang'an, Zheng Tai felt that Dong Zhuo was defeated after all, so he planned to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but he didn't succeed, so he hurriedly fled from Chang'an and hid in the dock fort of his same-sex friend Zheng Gan.
It's a pity that everyone seems to have forgotten, no matter who it is, they didn't look for the whereabouts of a warrior who resisted Dong before, let alone conquer it. Zheng Tai waited silently at the beginning, but later he was left with his lonely shadow and never gave up.
Zheng Tai, who has been determined to make achievements in his career since he was a child, how can he endure such an unknown end?
So, when Xu Shu began to implement the new style of Tian Zheng, Zheng Tai felt that the opportunity seemed to be coming, and he instigated Zheng Gan and let Zheng Gan take the lead in opposing Tian Zheng......
It turns out that Zheng Tai means that he can attack, retreat and defend, no matter what, he can also attract a wave of attention, and the worst situation is nothing more than to sell Zheng Gan, but he didn't expect to hear the rumors that the general of Zhengxi, Fei's submerged army, defeated Longyou and broke the battlefield!
This disrupted Zheng Tai's original plan.
Fortunately, there are other options......
Hedong County, near the county seat of Anyi, has suddenly become lively recently.
The reason for the excitement is very simple, there are constantly soldiers gathered and arrived outside the city of Anyi, these soldiers and horses, naturally need a variety of living equipment, for Anyi, naturally in a blink of an eye, not only the congestion of the road, but also the price of living materials skyrocketed.
Soldiers are also human beings, of course, they have to eat and use all kinds of things, and it is easy to say that when there are few people, when the number is large, not only for the commander-in-chief to govern the army, but also for the local administrative security is also a huge test.
Now it was not originally the same series of soldiers gathered, stationed in one place, each with its own number and banner, and most of them were some local small armed forces, gathered in Anyi for a while, causing more problems than the rice grain in the warehouse, how much rice and grain were consumed, how much trouble was added, not to mention anything else, who listened to whose orders every day, who wanted the logistics, and where to live, all of which had become a matter of constant disturbance in Wangyi.
The soldier system of the Han Dynasty was originally chaotic, this time I heard that the general of Zhengxi Fei Qian had died, and I was sure that Hu Chuquan had sent troops, captured Diaoyin, and was attacking Linjin.
It is naturally possible to help Yang Biao take Guanzhong, but more importantly, he will snatch this piece of feng shui treasure land in Pingyang first!
In the past few years, Wang Yi has watched and Beipingyang grow from scratch, from rich to rich, from rich to rich, and this eyeball is not ordinary green......
Binh Duong is rich!
Quite rich!
Especially in the Han Dynasty, when the five-baht coin has been completely depreciated to worthless in this area, the Jiaozi paper money that flourished in Pingyang in the north because of the expedition to Xifeiqian has penetrated into all aspects of Hedong, and is even more effective than silver beans in the market.
If Pingyang is taken, won't he hold Fei Qian's money bag in his hands?
However, at the moment when the soldiers gathered, in fact, each army had its own thoughts, and this gathering was once again, like a soil dog on the grassland that specializes in eating carrion, all salivating, but they could not control each other.
Wang Yi, who is the supreme governor of Hedong, the foreign monk Zheng Tai, and the local tyrant Wei, although they have been together for the past few days to discuss how to fight, no one dares to easily launch an attack on Pingyang.
In fact, among the three of them, Zheng Tai's desire to fight is the strongest, followed by Wang Yi, and after the Wei clan drove away the hawkish Wei Qi, the turtle faction naturally gained the upper hand, so he came with the mentality of picking up cheap, and the desire to really go into battle was not strong.
The problem is not only that, Zheng Tai is not interested in the north, he does not want to lead the team that attacks and north Pingyang, because although the money is moving, the power is more attractive! Compared with Pingyang's money, gaining the power and status of Guanzhong is what really attracts Zheng Tai!
Fighting Pingyang, even if it is defeated, it is difficult to face the troops left in Yinshan by Fei Qian, even if it is finally won, the feast in Guanzhong is almost over, is it possible that he will stay in Bingzhou forever and act as the frontier guard general of Yang Biao, Wang Yi and others?
Are you kidding?
Therefore, when he selected the army to attack Pingyang, Zheng Tai said that he wanted to lead the army to Guanzhong and did not want to participate in the attack on Pingyang......
And for Wang Yi, the shadow left by the general of Zhengxi Fei is too deep, the area is too large, and he has not fully recovered for a while, plus he has been pampered in Hedong for a while, and the fat on his body has increased day by day with the increase of age, and he is tired of riding horses, and the war horses are also hard, and he really wants to charge and fight, which is somewhat frightened.
Wei's is even more impossible, it's okay to pick up cheap, and it's no problem to send some soldiers and manpower, but when the commander of the army goes into battle to attack, the old man of Wei's is on crutches, blowing his beard, trembling, and he looks like he can't go out of the battle and go out of the funeral directly, and then Zheng Tai and Wang Yi are somewhat embarrassed......
All of a sudden, in Anyi, Hedong, although the soldiers were gathered, they were still a little entangled.
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The sun hung in the western sky, and it was still early before it completely set, but in Pingyang City, Zhao Shang explained to his subordinates early, closed the door, and sat alone in the study, without lighting candles and oil lamps, just staring at the sky and dimming a little.
The last time Zhao Shang saw Fei Qian, it was also such an afternoon. Originally, Zhao Shang thought that Fei Qian was going to reward him and give him a promotion, but he didn't expect that everything he had worked so hard in Taiyuan would become someone else's bag.
Cronyism!
Wolf's heart and dog's lungs!
Stab in the back!
Ever since he learned that he had been transferred to the so-called Inspector of Enlightenment, Zhao Shang felt that everything in his life had become bleak.
Zhao Shang is also ambitious, if he didn't have ambition, he wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles from Jizhou to Bingzhou.
At that time, under Zheng Xuan, although he studied for the longest time, he did not achieve the most, and he is still unknown to this day.
When Wang Hei of Taiyuan was studying in Pingyang Xue Palace, when Wang Chen wanted to seek the foundation of the Wang family, he had contacted Hu Chuquan for Wang Chen, but in the end, Zhao Shang found that Wang Chen was actually ambitious and difficult to achieve great things, so he sold Wang Chen......
Although it's a bit dark to do this, there's no way, you can't follow a fool all the way to the dark, right?
Zhao Shang sat behind the desk in the bookstore, tilting his head slightly, watching the light of the setting sun reced, shrinking little by little, and his face was gradually shrouded in darkness.
He wants a lot, but since Fei Qian can't give it, he naturally has to find a way to get it himself!
Zhao Shang has read a lot of books, but he doesn't know too much about the things above the battle array, if he really organizes some military brigades, a few hundred people are okay, if there are many people, he can't take care of them. Therefore, if you want to acquire more things, you must borrow the power of others.
Zhao Shang didn't want much, and some people in Pingyang were worried about it, and he also knew it, so he wanted Taiyuan and wanted to get back a piece of land that belonged to him.
Just as the sun was about to set, the person Zhao Shang was waiting for finally came......
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The night is always able to hide many things, both beautiful and ugly.
Because he rushed back to Guanzhong with the cavalry, Fei Qian naturally did not spend all his time building camps along the way, so according to the habits of the Hu people, a plum blossom camp was scattered at the foothold.
The four small camps in the east, west, north and south control the peripheral vision, and most of the war horses and baggage are concentrated in the middle camp, which is also convenient on the one hand, and focuses on safety on the other hand. In the wilderness, the soldiers sat around the bonfire, cooking and eating, roasting sweaty clothes, and smoking sore muscles and bones.
Hurried from Guanzhong to Longxi, and rushed back to Guanzhong from Longxi, although Fei Qian did not inform these cavalry soldiers of the specific situation, but in fact, these veterans can guess a thing or two.
Fei Qian held a bowl of mixed rice porridge, sat on a stone in front of the bonfire, blew and snorted, then looked at Huang Xu who came over, and said, "How is it?" ”
Huang Xu arched his hand and said, "It's okay." The subordinates walked around, chatted with some soldiers at random, and most of them guessed that something had happened in the pass, but most of them did not complain, and some were calculating how many heads they were still missing before they could exchange them for meritorious rewards......"
The light of the bonfire shone on the faces of the surrounding soldiers, bright and dark, and some soft laughter among the soldiers floated in the wind from afar.
"Well, I know, that's it......" Fei Qian nodded, pointed to the mixed rice porridge stewed on the bonfire, and said, "I haven't eaten it yet, I'll serve it myself...... Well, Wenhe is here, have you eaten? A bowl? ”
Fei Qian held a wooden bowl, sucking the mixed rice porridge, and after seeing Jia Xu coming, he was like an old farmer in the countryside, greeting him like adding an extra pair of chopsticks.
"This ...... So, thank you Junhou......" Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, smiled, sat down, and also took the wooden bowl handed over by the guard, spooned some miscellaneous rice porridge in the bowl, blew, and drank it slowly. Maybe it was the hot porridge that made his body feel more comfortable, Jia Xu drank the porridge, and the tense expression on his face finally relaxed.
Fei Qian handed the empty wooden bowl to the guard, then took a water bladder to rinse his mouth, swallowed it by the way, and then said slowly: "This place in Guanzhong, maybe it has been interacting with Qianghu for a long time, it is somewhat subtle, and many things seem to be slowly changing, such as the current ......."
“…… There is no longer the blood and courage of the pre-Qin, but more of a calculation of interests......" Fei Qian looked at the dark night and said, "...... Originally, this land cultivated a martial spirit, created a grand empire, and made a sound that shook the world, but now it has become a gathering place for a group of silverfish......"
Not to mention the former Qin, just the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, Wenjing and Han Wu will not say, even Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty still have iron and bloody wrists, and when Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty arrived, he respected Confucianism more and more.
If Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty saw Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, would he beat him so much that he didn't even recognize his mother, after all, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hated the Xiongnu the most, and the most disgusted thing was the ......
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was not a dynasty that paid attention to balance and fairness, otherwise it would not have slaughtered all the heroes after the founding of the country, and after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in the chaos and noise, the Han people who wore robes with a primitive and barbaric atmosphere still worshipped power and force.
As for etiquette, it is something used to decorate the surface, so that your eating appearance will not be vicious. As a result, some people think that etiquette is more important, and they don't eat without etiquette.
In feudal society, iron and blood are not terrible, but there is no iron and blood that is terrible.
In fact, in the social structure of the past and present, people may yearn for a society of freedom and equality, but at the social level, class is not necessarily a matter that needs to be minded. In most cases, a stable social structure does not care whether people are equal or not, and the way to the top is as fair as possible is the core that needs to be maintained.
It is not terrible that there are huge class differences in a country or organization, but the terrible thing is that the people at the bottom will never be able to promote the privileged class after a lot of efforts, and the privileged class only knows how to use the most stupid means to strictly defend in order to protect their own interests, and the way to the upper position is gradually dead, the privileged class begins to be hereditary, and begins to monopolize the way to the upper class, and when it is more and more difficult for the smart people at the lower level to ascend to the top, the dissatisfaction of these lower class people will pile up more and more, and finally they can only choose to rebel.
Guanzhong Zheng, in order to preserve his privileges, adopted the most stupid acts.
"Wenhe, we seem to have endured for too long, and we have retreated too much...... Fei Qian grasped the hilt of the Zhongxing sword at his waist and said, "so much so that some people forget that we still have swords and guns in our hands......"
"......" Jia Xu was solemn for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "It will be as the prince wishes." ”