"Quack......!"

In the early afternoon, with an abrupt stop of frog chirping, on the edge of the pond in the backyard of the official temple, Gongsun Xun kicked a frog away, and the latter flipped three or five times in the air before smashing into the water with a thud.

Immediately, he turned back to the eaves, sat cross-legged again after a few cases, and picked up the pen, only to find that he was still exhausted...... Probably because of the cicadas?

So Gongsun Xun got up again, first went to find a bamboo pole, and then went to the kitchen to ask for a piece of gluten left over from making dough sheets, ready to go and stick the cicada himself.

However, the cicada didn't have time to stick to one, but someone behind him laughed and made a voice under the porch:

"Wen Qi is so interested."

"What is so interesting, I was purely angry by Tian Yuanhao, and I only wrote five words in half a day." Gongsun Xun sighed helplessly when he heard this, so he had to put down the bamboo pole in his hand and sit down to talk to Lu Fan...... Since he became a marquis, he has become more and more majestic, even if he gets along in private, only this Lu Ziheng dares to call him a word.

"Isn't that your fault?" Lu Fan sat casually under the porch, and then glanced at the almost blank white paper on a few cases, which also felt funny. "People are a state Maocai, and they have been serving for a term, but you asked someone to come over and help...... Do you come here as a guest or as a county official? ”

"Then why didn't Ziheng remind me before?" Gongsun Xun asked helplessly. "Instead, you're still delivering letters for me?"

"Wen Qi is unreasonable." Lu Fan said quietly. "If it weren't for Tian Yuanhao's anger after opening the letter, how would I know the content of the letter? Besides, I guessed the meaning of your letter that day, and according to your mood at that time, can you listen to what you said? ”

Gongsun Xun was speechless for a while...... He still doesn't understand that the other party is waiting for him here!

"It's really my self-righteousness in this matter," Gongsun Xun said after a long time. "It's hard work, Ziheng ran for me for nothing."

"You can't say it's a trip for nothing." Lu Fan crossed his legs and looked at the small pond with green weeds, and he was also thoughtful. "At least Wen Qi, your vision doesn't have to run. In Luozhong that day, everything was complicated, and there was no detailed contact with Natian Yuanhao, these days in his home, discussing the story of the current situation with him, it can indeed be seen that this person is a top resourceful person. The so-called words must be true, and the arguments must be fruitful, that is, ......"

"It's just that my temper is a little worse, and I don't like to save face." Gongsun Xun pointed to the paper on his desk and said. "He actually mocked me in his reply, saying that I had too many selfish thoughts, which seemed to be high-sounding, but in fact, I only used talents for my own use, which is really ridiculous...... I really don't know how to deal with him! ”

"Isn't that just the right thing to the point?" Lu Fan couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. "No wonder Wen Qi, you don't know how to reply to the letter, are you actually said to be a pain in the foot? Or, ignore him? ”

"One state and nine counties, a year of unique talents." Gongsun Xun was also very emotional when he heard this. "Either a high gate, or a handsome, but Tian Yuanhao and Fu Gonghe are the Maocai among the Maocai, the top resourceful people in Hebei, I am really reluctant to let go......"

"Then let's fool around." Lu Fan shook his head again and again. "However, I came to look for you today, not Tian Yuanhao's...... You go to invite people, but if they don't come, you can't talk about it...... I want to tell you about another Hebei celebrity. ”

Gongsun Xun, who was about to put down the pen again, couldn't help but move slightly in his heart, but put down the pen again: "Which one is Ziheng talking about?" That great sage and good teacher or Zhenzhengnan? ”

"I want to talk about the matter of judging the south," Lu Fan immediately frowned. "But looking at Wen Qi's appearance, it seems that he attaches more importance to that Zhang Jiao and his Taiping Dao? Before, you secretly sent Zibo and Yigong to Julu to inquire about the information, and brought back such a pig-waisted ugly Taoist...... If I hadn't happened to meet it on the way back, I wouldn't have known about it, so solemn? ”

"I won't hide it from Ziheng" Gongsun Xun stroked the case with his hand, with a serious face. "Zhang Jiao will be opposed!"

"He's done it again." Lu Fan said with a spread of his hands. "Actually, Wen Qi, in my opinion, everyone in this Hebei wealthy family has a lot of resentment towards the center, and this one is not bad."

Gongsun Xun was immediately silent, because he knew that what Lu Fan said was actually true, especially after having a deeper contact with the wealthy and powerful families in Handan these days, he recognized this assertion even more.

As we all know, Hebei and Nanyang are the two basic plates of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, and the weight of Hebei is even heavier...... This point can be clearly known from the fact that Liu Xiu pretended that his wife Yin Lihua did not exist, and married the daughter of the Guo family of the Hebei clan as his wife, and established him as the latter.

However, in the same way, it can also be seen from the later incident that Liu Xiu abolished the Guo family and re-established Yin Lihua as the latter, and this Han Shizu was consciously suppressing the Hebei forces.

This is of course understandable, because not to mention Liu Xiu's own background and personal feelings, it can be imagined only from the size and weight of Hebei and Nanyang, Hebei's heritage and strength should be far stronger than Nanyang, and an emperor cannot allow a certain regional group under his command to dominate.

However, although Liu Xiu used his excellent personal charm to complete this series of suppression actions when he was alive, with his death, the later contradictions intensified, and finally triggered the rebellion of the King of Chu issued by the Guo family, which implicated almost half of the Hebei heroes.

And then, the relationship between the center and Hebei became more and more delicate...... On the one hand, Hebei is the core area of national domination, and it must be operated as a hinterland; On the other hand, political traditions, regional antagonisms, and Hebei's own profound political, economic, and cultural heritage make the center unconsciously suppress Hebei's political forces.

Eventually, with the rise of scholastics, Hebei's traditional political forces were finally split in two.

Some of them, especially the Youzhou part, chose to be martialized. These people have evolved a large number of border county clans based on the border county and the tradition of martial arts, and they can live for 2,000 stones without reading the scriptures, but they are rarely able to exceed this limit...... This group of people, at the beginning, was represented by the Geng family behind the 'master of the Northland' Geng Yi, and later developed into the current Tian family and Gongsun family.

Yuan Feng said that Gongsun Xun is the master of the north, but in fact, it really has political connotations, because from the perspective of origin, there is a sense of political inheritance in it.

The other part, that is, the most populous and stronger people from the Hebei Province of the non-border counties...... Naturally, they chose to transform into scripture.

In this part, it cannot be said that no one has succeeded, Teacher Lu of Zhuo County, the Cui family of Anping Kingdom, and even the Wei family of Zhao State are all successful among them. However, compared with the population, area, and number of wealthy families in Hebei as a whole, it is inevitably too small.

This point, from two perspectives, appears clear.

First of all, from the central point of view, the position of the three princes is the respect of the ministers, but since Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, that is, after the complete rise of scripture, the scholars from Hebei who have huge political potential have only been out of the palm of their hand! One of them was still driven down by Gongsun Xun and Yang Qiu...... Zhang Hao, who relied on his brother who was always in the middle to get this position, after being pushed down, his brother almost died of illness in Wancheng, but Wang Xiu saved his life.

It's also fate!

Secondly, judging from the local situation in Zhao State, in the entire Zhao State, the truly stable family is only the Wei family, and then the Handan family is half a family, and the Li family is more like a number. However, among the powerful families below, there are no less than a dozen of them who have been established for a hundred years and have deep roots.

And these dozen or so families all want to be officials, otherwise they wouldn't be fascinated by the two positions of filial piety!

All in all, it is obvious that the Hebei forces were seriously suppressed politically after the rise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But then again, this is also something that can't be helped, after all, the right to speak about this thing is in the hands of Ruying Wanluo, and Luoyang is also south of the Yellow River after all...... The intensification of the confrontation between ancient and modern texts in this dynasty is not without deep reasons.

So back to the present, since in the vast Hebei region of the non-border county, there are such wealthy families who want to be officials but can't get it, then the perception of the center here can be imagined.

I'm afraid no one even knows that the "Taiping Sutra" that Zhang Jiao studied used to learn the routines of those ancient texts that were dug out of the wall and presented them to the center...... Of course, the central Jinwen Zhugong also quickly came to a conclusion, saying that it was 'delusional', and since then it has completely cut off the path of these Taoist scholars.

Therefore, naturally, as a recognized non-mainstream scholar, especially the canonical successor of the Taiping Sutra, it seems that it is common for Zhang Jiao to be dissatisfied with the center like other Hebei wealthy people...... It's just that before he really rebelled a few years ago, no one thought that this scripture scholar would be so extreme.

However, if you think about it this way, it seems that the court's pardon of Zhang Jiao may not necessarily be deliberately appeased.

"I mean it simply." Lu Fan saw that Gongsun Xun was silent for a long time, and he was also outspoken. "Wen Qi, I believe that Zhang Jiao has objections, you sent Zibo and Yigong to investigate carefully, and brought back a waist-faced Taoist from the Taiyuan Wang family, I think I also know more about it. But even so, it doesn't have to be, right? He also rebelled in the past, wasn't he easily taken down? In the final analysis, if the Hebei Hao clan is unwilling to help him, how can he make waves with only one Taiping Dao? ”

"I didn't want to help him a few years ago, but I don't want to help him a few years later?" Gongsun Xun was still silent for a moment before he spoke. "Moreover, in addition to the center, in addition to the world, in addition to the world, in addition to the powerful and powerful, there is actually a force. This force is easy not to attack, but once it does, it will set off a monstrous wave! And according to what Wang Xian said to me last night, this horn and his Taiping Dao, whether sincere or unintentional, have actually faintly touched this power......"

"How?" Lu Fan frowned and asked.

"After the last rebellion of Taiping Dao was pardoned, Zhang Jiao set up 36 large and small parties, and his disciples were all over the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty...... At first, it was not effective, but as a result, there was a plague in Jingzhou, and there were tens of thousands of believers in Taiping Dao; And last year, Dongjun was also a plague, and Taiping Road also opened up the situation there; It's just summer this year, have you heard? There is also an epidemic in Yuzhou! ”

"Wen Qi is talking about the Mandate of Heaven?" Lu Fan looked shocked.

"I mean the head of the gang, but the head of the gang is sometimes the destiny of heaven."

"Where did the head ......?"

"Ziheng don't ask more about this." Gongsun Xun suddenly sighed. "I naturally have a plan in my heart, and you don't care about this anyway......"

Lu Fan glanced at the other party deeply, and nodded knowingly.

"You wanted to talk to me about judging Zhengnan before?" Seeing a green-skinned frog jumping ashore in his field of vision, Gongsun Xunfu hurriedly asked again.

"Exactly." Lu Fan also packed up his thoughts and said frankly. "Judging the matter of Zhengnan inviting him to go to Taihang Mountain to suppress bandits, why did Wen Qi allow him?"

"Why aren't you allowed to do it?" Gongsun Xun immediately asked rhetorically.

"Judging the celebrities of Nanhebei, in terms of fame alone, among the peers, they are only slightly inferior to Tian Feng and Fu Zhu, right?"

"It's nature." In the face of Lu Fan, Gongsun Xun was also frank. "With my achievements today, I am also lucky to be able to get the help of the south."

"But the so-called bandits in Taihang Mountain, you don't know the roots." Lu Fan continued to persuade. "I saw the document from Shuzhi today, saying that there are more than a dozen people who are unwilling to accept appeasement, as few as a dozen people, as many as seventy or eighty people, such a half-bandit and half-common treacherous people, although they have to be suppressed, but after all, it is a laborious but fruitless thing, let Yi Congzhong's lead, Yang Kai and others each lead people to extinguish it, why do you want to use people like Zhengnan? Isn't it a knife for killing chickens? ”

"Ziheng is afraid that my move will hurt the morale of the local scholars?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help laughing. "So much so that there is any rumor of mistreatment of the famous people?"

"Exactly." Lu Fan was meticulous. "Especially the lessons of Yuda Feng and Fu Zhu, I really don't understand why Wen Qi behaves like this?"

"It's actually very easy for me to do that." Gongsun Xun couldn't help laughing. "It's really Zhengnan's insistence on going his own way, so I have to let him go."

"Why is that?" Lu Fan was really confused.

"Judging the demeanor of the Southern Famous Scholars, since he was a child, he has imitated the style of the ancients, and gradually developed a generous and fierce, awe-inspiring atmosphere. But generosity and fierceness are not to be committed, in other words, to be competitive and unsubservient to others......"

"I see." Lu Fan immediately woke up. "It's okay for others, but this Wang Shuzhi is silent on weekdays, and he has never been taken seriously by Zhengnan, but he didn't expect to do such a big thing with Wen Qi in ten days, he is a little ...... I was a little uneasy. ”

"That's what you said." The corners of Gongsun Xun's mouth turned slightly, and he couldn't help shaking his head again and again. "If you want me to say, it is because he saw that I was working hard in politics and went up in the face of difficulties...... If you think about it, now that there are Wang Xian and Wang Dao people who complement each other with us, and sit on the couch all day long and debate, and the appointment of the county officials who were troublesome before is no longer hindered, then the stubborn thieves in the mountains have become the biggest crux, and how can they be delayed any longer? The appeasement of the bandits who have been appeased and are unwilling to come down for many years, it's time to kill! ”

Lu Fan also shook his head with a smile.

It is said that the two met as a teenager, although they were masters and slaves, but they were actually rare friends, and the weather was getting hotter today, and the two did not separate after talking about business, but continued to gossip about the situation in various places...... Even when the sky was getting dark, I actually talked about it until evening.

But just when the two were talking about sex and talking endlessly, a county official who had just taken office suddenly came to report in a panic.

Seeing this, Gongsun Xun couldn't help but feel a little upright, so he immediately reprimanded:

"Why are you so panicked, could it be that the Xianbei people have come to Handan?"

"Wait for you," the man hurriedly leaned over and saluted in return. "It seems that a group of bandits suddenly came out of the Taihang Mountains, and yesterday they first made a case in Xiangguo County in the north, burned a Zhuangzi of the Zhang family there, and then came to our Handan jurisdiction...... Zhang Shugong, the patriarch of the Zhang clan, did not dare to slack off after getting the news, and specially sent someone here! ”

Gongsun Xun laughed angrily: "I just said, the appeasement has passed, and it's time to kill someone!" ”

——————I'm the dividing line that gradually smells of blood——————

Three years later, Hongfu saw Taizu in Handan, when Taizu made meritorious contributions to Goguryeo, and was a pavilion marquis without worries, and the purple ribbon gold seal was also. Taizu then said with a smile: 'Jun Yan I have climbed 2,000 stones in ten years, and I will be the marquis for three years now, will it be easy to say?' Hong also smiled and replied: "Ten years must answer, why easy?" 'Taizu Naifu asked:'''"