On the first day of September in the first year of Jian'an, the Confucian Lin Wenhui and the military generals conference that touched the heartstrings of all the literati and military generals in the world finally began in Luoyang, although the conference was too hasty because of the short preparation time, and the impact of the sudden outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising in Qingzhou, the participants were not as many as Dong Zhuo, the initiator of the two sessions, expected, but under the temptation of high-ranking officials and Houlu, the participants also reached thousands of people.

There are more than 2,000 scholars who participated in the Confucian Lin Cultural Conference, and more than 1,000 people in the military general conference, mainly from the northern prefectures and counties, Jingzhou and Yizhou. It is worth mentioning that this conference Dong Taishi can be said to have made a lot of money, not to mention that thousands of scholars consumed so much expensive Caihou paper, the north is now facing famine, and the price of food near Luoyang has skyrocketed, but when the imperial master Dong Zhuo still transferred rations from the increasingly empty Luoyang granary, let Chef Dong Zhuojun carefully 'cook' to ensure the food supply of the participants. This is not counting, in order to ensure the safety of the participants, Dong Taishi deliberately arranged the participants to live in the barracks, and was 'protected' by Dong Zhuojun's soldiers.

After accurately counting the number and names of the participants, the Han Dynasty announced the statutes of the conference, and the Confucian Wenhui adopted the examination system proposed by Dong Taishi (PS: the Eastern Han Dynasty had not yet implemented the imperial examination), and the Confucian Taifu Ma Ridan, who was highly respected in the imperial court, Cai Yong and Dong Taishi, each gave a question, let the participants answer the paper, and let the level of the answer determine the ranking of the Wenhui, and all the scholars participated at the same time. The military generals conference adopts a group elimination system, the preliminaries are divided into eight groups, and the top eight in each group enter the semi-finals, and then draw lots to determine the opponent, and the top ten are still single-elimination eliminated.

As the organizer of the conference, Dong Taishi did not cheat for personal gain to let his generals directly enter the semi-finals, but honestly and selflessly divided them into a group that Dong Taishi thought was extremely powerful - there was no famous military general in the group that Dong Taishi was familiar with, and Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Wei Yan and others were also very lucky, and the draw results 'just happened' for them to avoid their families in the semi-finals. As for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Yan Liangwen, Huang Zhongtai, Shi Ci and others, they were not so lucky, although their opponents were unlikely to eliminate them, but it was enough for them to trouble and work.

The preliminary round of the military generals conference was held in the Luoyang school field, Kang Peng sat on the point general platform and watched the people in the school field secretly proud, the effect of this conference was good, the famous generals in the early days of the Three Kingdoms came almost seventy percent, as long as they were all wiped out, the rest would be much easier. It's a pity that at the Wenhui held in Taichang Mansion, none of Brother Pig, Sima Lao Immortal and Guo Jia's short-lived ghost came, and even Zhou Shuaige and Pang Xiaoniao didn't come. Wait, small? Damn it......

It wasn't until this moment that Kang Peng reacted, it was 190 AD, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi were only a few years old now, how could they come to participate in the Confucian Literature Conference? Even if they are gifted children and they can't meet the age limit for the conference, they won't be able to participate! Kang Peng was so angry that he slapped himself a few times, which surprised Jia Xu, who was sitting next to him, "Taishi, what's wrong with you?" ”

Kang Peng jumped up and shouted angrily: "Wenhe, go to Taichang Mansion with Benxiang, Benxiang wants to find a few people, just hand it over to Zijing and Yuanhua here." "Kang Peng remembers that Sima Yi has a big brother, and Zhuge Liang also has an uncle, they are all of age, find them, you can find Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi! Although Jia Xu didn't know why, he still hurriedly ran down the general platform with Kang Peng, and rushed to Taichang Mansion surrounded by Dong Zhuojun's own soldiers. provoked the participants and onlookers to look sideways and be surprised.

Kang Peng rushed all the way to Taichang Mansion, this side is in charge of Li Ru, and the second exam has begun, Li Ru saw his father-in-law suddenly coming, and his feelings changed, so he hurriedly greeted him, "Father-in-law, what happened in such a hurry?" ”

Before Kang Peng got off the horse, he gasped and shouted: "Xianjia, immediately bring the list of Shilin who participated in the Wenhui, and find out all the people surnamed Sima and Zhuge together!" ”

Li Ru didn't speak anymore, and immediately ran to make arrangements, and at this time, Ma Ridan and Cai Yong, who were invigilators, also came over to salute, and Ma Ridan asked, "Taishi, what makes you so in such a hurry?" ”

Kang Peng blinked his eyes and said in a false voice: "Benxiang has received an urgent report, two of the scholars surnamed Sima and Zhuge who participated in the Confucian Wenhui have bad intentions, trying to take advantage of the opportunity of the Wenhui to make trouble and assassinate the current saint!" ”

Ma Ridan and Cai Yong believed it to be true, but Ma Ridan was still angry and scolded when he was in his seventies, "These thieves are really bold!" The old man sees that they are either Yang Fengyu's party or Wang Yun's remnants, or they are yellow turban thieves, Taishi, if you catch these thieves, don't be soft, you must cut them with a thousand knives, in order to pay respect! ”

Kang Peng said in his heart I don't need you to say, they will either be my subordinates, or they will die, I don't learn from Cao Cao to leave a scourge for my children and grandchildren. The surnames of Sima and Zhuge were extremely rare, and Li Ru, Ma Ridan, and Cai Yong were all found out quickly, and there were only a dozen of them. Kang Peng didn't care whether he was taking the exam or not, and immediately called the soldiers to come in and arrest people.

"A few of you." Kang Peng glared viciously at the dozen unlucky people surnamed Zhuge and Sima who were escorted in front of him and said, "Are there any relatives named Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi?" Say it, there is a reward for the appearance, and there is a dare to conceal it, all of them will die for the appearance! ”

The dozen or so unlucky people were so frightened that they all fell to their knees, and shouted injustice, "Taishi Ming sees that the little ones really don't have relatives named Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi." ”

Kang Peng is almost crazy, he can be so stupid that he has forgotten the age of the characters of the Three Kingdoms, this Confucian Wenhui wasted so much time to prepare, not to mention, the waste of hard work can not be counted, it is a pity to waste so much food and materials in this famine year, and the addictive chronic poison carefully prepared by Hua Tuo is even more expensive, and it is wasted on these nobodies.

Ma Ridan angrily beat these unlucky people with his cane, "The Taishi asked you something, and I answered honestly, who among you tried to assassinate the emperor?" This scared those unlucky eggs to the point that they were scattered, kowtowing until their foreheads were bleeding, "The adults will check clearly, and the little ones will not assassinate the emperor if they eat the leopard's gall!" ”

Cai Yong was thoughtful, and suddenly said: "Taishi, is that Sima Yi from Wen County, Hanoi?" is in his teens, and there is an eldest brother named Sima Lang, who is twenty years old this year. ”，

Kang Peng was overjoyed, he only knew that Sima Yi had a big brother, but he forgot his name, but all the conditions were met, and he shouldn't be wrong. "Uncle, do you know them? Know where they are? ”

"Back to the Taishi, Sima Lang's father Sima Fang was originally the imperial court to govern the imperial history, resigned due to illness and returned to his hometown in Wenxian County a few years ago, Sima Lang returned with his father, because the Taishi held the Confucian Lin Literary Conference, Sima Lang took his second brother Sima Yi to Luoyang to participate in the meeting, and also participated in the little girl Wenji's discussion of talent and literature, Taishi, you may have seen them......"

Before Cai Yong's words were finished, Kang Peng was already impatiently grabbing his collar, "Then where is he now?" Why didn't you come now? ”

Cai Yong shook his head and said, "This villain doesn't know, it stands to reason that he should come?" Could it be that he is back in his hometown again? ”

"Find, find me!" Kang Peng roared hoarsely: "Even if you turn Luoyang City over, you have to find the two brothers for me!" ”

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Under Kang Peng's order, the Luoyang City Defense Army led by Gao Shun, the trapping camp and the Imperial Forest Army led by Dong Chong and Dong Man were almost all dispatched, holding the portraits of Sima Lang and Sima Yi painted by Cai Yong, and the whole city searched for Sima Yi and the two brothers, but from the morning to the afternoon, the two brothers were still nowhere to be seen, but they scared a few people hiding in Luoyang City, and almost thought that Dong Zhuo had discovered his attempt.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the afternoon unitary, the Confucian Lin Wenhui had ended, just waiting for Li Ru, Ma Ridan, Cai Yong and others to judge the test papers, and the military generals conference had also entered the critical stage of the preliminary round carefully designed by Kang Peng and Jia Xu, and the candidates for the semi-finals were about to be decided, but the two brothers Ma Yi had not yet been found, and Kang Peng had no choice but to let them go temporarily and return to the school to watch the competition.

The results of the preliminary round did not cause many upsets, Kang Peng is generals all successfully entered the semi-finals, and Zhao Yun was even more chic in a row for many consecutive games to defeat the enemy, which caused many innocent girls who were watching to scream, if it weren't for Zhao Yun's side, there was a gun and a sword Ma Yunlu who was looking at him, I was afraid that there would be many eunuchs' daughters who would force their parents to propose to Zhao Yun on the spot. Lu Bu only fought the first battle, and with only one halberd, he beat the guy who didn't know the height of the sky to a broken tendon, and the rest of the opponents were all the children of high-ranking officials who went through the back door, and they were all so frightened that they immediately abstained, and no one dared to fight with him, Lu Bu was also happy, just chatting and laughing with Diao Chan. Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, Sun Ce, Xu Huang and Ma Chao and others all passed the semi-finals smoothly, only Gao Shun did not participate in the conference because of his heavy responsibilities.

Shuzhong Yan Yan, Wu Yi and Wu Ban and other generals because Kang Peng and Jia Xu did not do anything on their schedule, they also relied on their own strength to enter the semi-finals, and Ma Teng, Sun Jian and others, who have been friends with Kang Peng recently, and their generals also passed without much hands.

Others who successfully passed the test were Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Liao Hua and Zhou Cang and others, these people Kang Peng also beat their ideas and had won them over many times, but these people all scoffed at Kang Peng's temptation and insisted on not accepting it, but they didn't scold, Kang Peng had to let people put Hua Tuo's perfect tonic ointment in their meals, at least not let others use them in the future. What surprised Dong Zhuojun up and down was Huang Zhong's miraculous archery skills, Huang Zhong shot three arrows first without waiting for the opponent to get close in every battle, and took the helmet on the opponent's head, the chest goggles in the middle and the forehead of the opponent's horse, and then the fourth arrow did not fire, and the opponent surrendered obediently, but there was also a person who was not afraid of death and rushed forward, as a result, Huang Zhong's fourth arrow passed through his throat and became one of the many war dead at this military conference.

"Meng Degong, it's really unfortunate." Kang Peng said to Cao Cao with a smile: "I can't imagine that General Yuan Rang will be the third brother of Xuande Gong before the resumption of the game, General Zhang, although there is a dragon and tiger fight, I am afraid that the two tigers will fight, and there will be an injury!" Because of the needs of Kang Peng and Jia Xu's plan, all the princes of the Sixteenth Route who were still locked up in Luoyang were able to come to watch this time, and sat in the middle of the platform according to their official ranks.

Cao Cao snorted heavily, which was regarded as an answer to Kang Peng's words. Cao Cao knew that all this must be Dong Zhuo's arrangement, and the purpose was nothing more than to provoke hatred between himself and Liu Bei, no matter who won or lost this battle, as long as there were dead and wounded, he would have an unresolved enmity with Liu Bei! But Cao Cao didn't understand a little, this Liu Bei was a small soldier, even if he had a feud with Liu Bei, Liu Bei couldn't move a single hair of himself, didn't Dong Zhuo see this?

At this moment, Liu Bei has all the flavors in his heart, he is not worried about whether the third brother Zhang Fei can defeat Xiahou Dun, what he is worried about is whether Dong Zhuo's promise to his position as the pastor of Xuzhou will be counted, if Dong Zhuo does not break his promise, he can also show his life ambitions.

In the Luoyang schoolyard, the first highlight of today's military conference is about to begin, Zhang Fei has already held the Zhangba snake spear, staring at Xiahou Dun on the opposite side, just waiting for the judgment of the gong, he is about to rush up to pick Xiahou Dun off the horse, laying the first stepping stone for the eldest brother on the road to Xuzhou Mu......