Chapter 141: Disputes at the Banquet [Two in One]
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"This kid...... It's so poisonous for him to say that.'"
Behind Xue Gongtianwen, his staff members "Wei Division" and "Feng Chen" looked at Meng Zhong with a few hints of different colors in their eyes.
They must admit that in fact, their master, Xue Gong Tianwen, spoke very harshly, and dubbed the feat of "five hundred soldiers successfully attacking tens of thousands of Qi military camps at night" a fluke, but they didn't expect that the young man named Meng Zhong in front of him spoke even more harshly, and he actually vaguely said that the reason why Tian Wen was able to stand here was entirely because he was the son of Jingguo Jun Tianying.
"Boy, what did you say?! β¦β¦ You are so bold, why don't you apologize to Xue Gong quickly? β
Behind Tian Wen, a man dressed in a very peculiar costume rebuked angrily.
Hearing this, several other heroes who were fortunate enough to attend the banquet also shouted, and even glared at Meng Zhong angrily, but Meng Zhong didn't bother to pay attention to these people at all, and stared directly at Tian Wen and this world-famous nobleman.
After a long time, Tian Wen raised his hand to stop the shouting of the few chivalrous warriors around him, looked at Meng Zhong expressionlessly, and said coldly: "Meng Sima, what do you mean by 'luck' just now?" β
Meng Zhong did not back down, and said confrontedly: "What does the luck in Tian Xiangfang's mouth mean, what does it mean when I talk about luck!" β
Hearing this, a few traces of anger flashed on Tian Wen's face, and the few chivalrous warriors behind him also stared at Meng Zhong fiercely, as if they were about to rush forward to teach Meng Zhong a lesson.
Seeing this, Wu Ying and Meng Hu immediately stood up from the seat, and also put on a fierce look, and even Meng Hu shouted strangely: "What? To bully more and less? I'm going to call someone...... My 500 brothers are guarding the temple. β
"Hu!"
Le Yi hurriedly stopped Meng Hu, and at the same time glanced at Meng Zhong with a little resentment.
"Isn't it impulsive?"
Seeing that Meng Zhong offended a famous noble son like Xue Gongtian Wen to death as soon as he spoke, Le Yi secretly sighed helplessly.
But then again, Le Yi can also understand Meng Zhong, who asked Tian Wen to use "luck" to summarize the matter of Thaksin's guards attacking Qi camp at night as soon as he came up, even if he Le Yi heard this, it made his heart angry.
"This ...... Little brother Menghu. β
Anpingjun Zhao Cheng suddenly interjected, and said with a smile: "Xue Gong is a distinguished guest of my Zhao State, it was Meng Sima's words that collided with Xue Gong, and the little brother Meng Hu did not persuade Meng Sima to apologize to Tian Xiang, but even summoned the Xinwei army outside the palace, hehe, I don't know if it is the Xinwei army, is it the guard of Lord Zhao's father, or the private army you are waiting for?" β
Hearing this, Meng Hu scolded unceremoniously: "Who the hell is your little brother?" Do I know you well? Shameless old thing, call me a pawn! β
"......" An Pingjun Zhao Cheng was dumbfounded, pointing at Meng Hu and trembling angrily.
You must know that he, Zhao Cheng, is the brother of Zhao Suhou, the uncle of Zhao's father, and no one in Zhao Guo is respectful to him, but today, he was scolded by a teenager as a "shameless old thing", Zhao Chenghe has encountered this kind of thing.
From the side, the corners of Fengyang Jun Li Dui's mouth raised a few sneers, and said to Meng Zhong: "Meng Sima, you connived at your subordinates to be so rude to An Pingjun?" β
"Oh?" Meng Zhong turned his head to look at Li Dui and asked calmly, "Did my subordinates do anything rude to An Pingjun?" β
"Hehehe." Li Dui laughed twice, pointed at Meng Hu and said to Meng Zhong: "This little ...... Well, this Menghu pawn is disrespectful, and insults An Pingjun in public...... Uh, shameless old thing, everyone present must be clear about this, is Meng Sima still cunning? β
"Oh." Meng Zhong pretended to nod suddenly, then patted Meng Hu's shoulder, and said lightly: "I don't think there is anything wrong with my brother's words. As he spoke, he glanced around, then looked at Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, and said lightly: "I, Meng Zhong, how can I say that I am also a courtier of Zhao State now, I am just now, Xue Gongtian Wen humiliated him as soon as he came up, and he humiliated him below, however, An Pingjun ignored Xue Gong's humiliation of Zaixia, and insisted that I Meng Zhong, a courtier of Zhao State, apologize to Xue Gong for something unwarranted, and regard Zhao Guo's face as nothing, I ask An Pingjun, can you call this a 'face'?" β¦β¦ So my brother is not wrong to scold you for being shameless, right? β
When Anpingjun Zhao Cheng heard this, a thick anger appeared on his face, and he gritted his teeth and said, "What about the 'old thing'?!" β
Meng Zhong laughed twice and said, "Old, this is an honorific title, as for things, it's better for you to decide." An Pingjun, do you say you are something? β
"You ......" An Pingjun Zhao Cheng's face was full of anger, but he didn't dare to attack.
Also, how dare he admit that he is "not a thing"?
"It's a thing" doesn't sound good, but it's better than "it's not a thing", right?
Seeing this, Meng Zhong secretly sneered, deliberately smiled and said: "That's why I said, 'shameless old thing', it's not that my brother is humiliating An Pingjun, it's just a matter of stating one thing." Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Fengyangjun Li Dui and said with a smile: "Fengyangjun, are you satisfied with this explanation?" β
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Glancing at Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, who dared to be angry and didn't dare to attack, Fengyangjun Li Dui smiled reluctantly, not daring to say anything, after all, he was also afraid of scolding him to his face - he couldn't argue with this Meng Zhong.
At this time, not far away, Zhao Wanghe looked at Meng Zhong with a worried face, and frequently signaled Zhao Xiangfeiyi with his eyes.
Seeing this, Fei Yi pretended to persuade him to drink, and came to Zhao Wanghe with a wine bottle.
"Fat Phase, won't you come forward to stop it?" Zhao Wanghe said in a low voice.
Fei Yi shook his head slightly, and said to Zhao Wang He in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the old minister knows a little about Meng Sima's talent, whether it is Zhao Cheng, Li Dui or Tian Wen, it may not be able to make Meng Sima suffer...... Don't you want to see what Monsima is capable of? It's a great opportunity. β
"......" King Zhao nodded thoughtfully, and then couldn't help but ask again: "Is it really okay?" β
"Your Excellency, don't worry." Fei Yi laughed in a low voice: "Look at Master Zhao. β
Zhao Wanghe secretly glanced back at Master Zhao's father, but found that Master Zhao was holding a wine bottle, looking at Meng Zhong's side with interest, without the slightest intention of interfering.
may have noticed the gazes of Feiyi and Zhao Wanghe, Zhao's father glanced at Feiyi, the two glanced at each other, and exchanged a look with tacit understanding.
In all fairness, Master Zhao doesn't have a good impression of Xue Gong Tianwen - first of all, Master Zhao doesn't have a good impression of any Qi people, whether it's Tian Qi, Tian Zhang, or Tian Wen; Secondly, Tian Wen's pomp of nearly 1,000 people made Master Zhao's father even less fond of this pompous guy; Not to mention, after Tian Wen first arrived in Handan yesterday, he got together with Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui.
You must know that Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui are the biggest obstacles for Zhao's father to regain the royal power now.
As for Zhao Xiangfeiyi, he thinks about more questions than Master Zhao's.
On the one hand, he needs to rely on Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyangjun Li Dui and others to curb Zhao's father and Gongzizhang, but on the other hand, he also needs to curb Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui, so naturally he can't sit back and watch Zhao Cheng and Li Dui do something he doesn't like by taking advantage of Tian Wen's fame.
In addition, he doesn't mind taking Zhao Cheng, Li Dui, Tian Wen, etc. to "sharpen" Meng Zhong, after all, after solving the problem of Zhao's master father and Gongzi Zhang, he still wants to reuse Meng Zhong, and at that time, Meng Zhong will inevitably have a conflict with Zhao Cheng and Li Dui - give Meng Zhong "practice" today, Fei Yi feels that this idea is not bad.
As for Xue Gong Tian Wen, Fei Yi also felt that this noble son was too arrogant, and he didn't mind using Meng Zhong's hand to frustrate Tian Wen's sharpness, so that Tian Wen could understand that after all, this was in Zhao State, and Qi State was now subservient to Zhao State, Tian Wen should treat Zhao State with a more respectful attitude.
It is precisely for these reasons, whether it is Lord Zhao or Zhao Xiangfeiyi, they have no intention of stopping the situation for the time being, and let Meng Zhong and the others deal with Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyangjun Li Dui and Xue Gongtian Wen alone - they also want to see how far these teenagers can go.
At this time, on Meng Zhong's side, Anpingjun Zhao Cheng had already been trembling with anger from Meng Zhong and Meng Hu, while Fengyangjun Li Dui was afraid that he would also be humiliated by Meng Zhong and others, so he didn't dare to be overly persecuted, and deliberately said to Tian Wen: "Xue Gong, look at this, ...... it."
Obviously, he deliberately instigated Tian Wen to come forward against Meng Zhong.
Tian Wen pressed his hand in response to Fengyangjun Li Dui, immediately looked at Meng Zhong, and said coldly: "Boy, Tian has traveled around the world, no matter where he goes, he has been treated as a guest, but he has never met someone as arrogant and rude as you......
Meng Zhong said calmly: "No, I think that Tian Xiang is a person who is used to seeing sycophants, so that when an upright person ignores your majesty, you will consider it arrogant and rude. β¦β¦ Do you really think that you are treated as a guest of honor by all countries, and this is all your own talent? In this case, I might as well say a few proud things in my life, so that I can admire and admire him. β
Hearing this, Tian Wen snorted coldly and said, "I have thousands of guest ......"
"That's the credit of Ling Zunjing Guo Jun, what do you have to do with it?" Meng Zhong interrupted indifferently: "If you weren't the beloved son of Jing Guojun and got the rich Xue Yi as a fief, where would you feed thousands of guests?" β
Tian Wen's face froze when he heard this, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I went to the Qin State to ...... each other."
"Oh." Meng Zhong nodded and interrupted again: "I've heard about this, this Qin Xiang, probably not for long, right?" Then he almost died in the Qin State, and finally relied on a doorman by your side to steal the white fox fur that had been given to the King of Qin for you, and transferred it to the favorite concubine of the King of Qin, so that he was released by the Qin State, and then fled back to the Qi State overnight...... Tsk, Xue Gong Tianwen, who was conceited and talented, was finally able to escape back from Qin State by relying on the rooster and dog thieves, could it be that this incident was a worthy achievement for Tian Xiang? β
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Tian Wen gritted his teeth with hatred.
I have to say that in fact, Meng Zhong deliberately confused this matter.
First of all, Tian Wen's position as Qin Xiang was managed by Zhao's father - when Zhao's father learned that Tian Wen went to Qin as the prime minister, he was afraid that the two countries of Qin and Qi would unite to be unfavorable to Zhao, so he asked Zhao Guo, who was in Qin, to send his minister "Lou Zhuan" to try to slander the King of Qin and the Empress Dowager Xuan, and finally let Lou Chuan replace Tian Wen as Qin Xiang.
As for Tian Wen almost dying in the Qin State, this is also because the Qin State and the Zhao State both knew Tian Wen's talent and did not want him to return to the Qi State, so they wanted to try to get rid of him, so that Tian Wen was forced to flee in a hurry overnight.
Like this, it is no wonder that when Tian Wen fled back to Qi State, when passing through Zhao State, he asked the doorman next to him to slaughter a county town in Zhao State - he hated Zhao Guo and almost let him die in Qin State, plus some Zhao people who didn't know how to live and die laughed at his short and thin figure, how did Tian Wen swallow this breath?
And this is also one of the reasons why Zhao Guo covered up this matter afterwards and did not pursue Tian Wen.
Therefore, Tian Wen was dismissed by the Qin State, and even almost died in the Qin State, which was caused by his talent, but Meng Zhong said this experience in mocking words, which makes it difficult for people to ponder the reason, most of them laughed at the fact that Tian Wen almost died in the Qin State, as well as the disciples he kept around him - there were hundreds of disciples around Tian Wen at that time, but it was two chickens and dogs who helped Tian Wen escape from Qin to Qi State, I have to say, this is a great irony.
No, even Tian Wen's guest Qing Wei and Feng Tan couldn't help it.
Wei Chu and Feng Tan are both one of the most relied on guests by Tian Wen's side, and unlike some people who eat for diners under Tian Wen's seat, these two are really talented and far-sighted people.
Among the two, Feng Tan is the most famous.
When Feng Tan collected "interest money (usury)" for Tian Wen in Xueyi, Feng Tan asked Tian Wen: "After the debt is recovered, what do you want to buy back?" β
Tian Wen said very casually: "Look at what is missing in my family, you can buy what you come back." β
Feng Tan nodded in understanding.
Later, after Feng Tan came to Xueyi, he gathered all the people in Xueyi who owed Tian Wen interest, and burned boxes of debt receipts in public, so that the people of Xueyi shouted "Xue Gong is benevolent and righteous".
The next day, Feng Tan returned to Linzi from Xueyi and returned to Tian Wen.
At that time, Tian Wen was very surprised, so he asked Feng Chen: "What did you buy back?" β
Feng Tan replied: "I see that your family has plenty of food and clothing, and there are dogs, horses, and beauties, so I bought 'righteousness' for you." β
Tian Wen was puzzled: "What is 'buying righteousness'?" β
Feng Tan explained: "You did not treat your people well, but gave us usury (loans), and the people of the city were miserable, so I disobeyed your order and burned all the IOUs, and the people of the Yi praised your benevolence and righteousness, which is 'buying righteousness'." β
Tian Wen was very unhappy, so he expelled Feng Tan.
As a result, a year later, when Tian Wen returned to Xueyi, the people of Yi welcomed him, and Tian Wen realized Feng Tan's good intentions, and hurriedly sent someone to find Feng Tan's traces and invited the latter back to serve as a guest secretary.
This is the allusion of "Feng Zhen Shiyi".
As for Wei Division, he did the same thing as Feng Chen, and also bought 'righteousness' for Tian Wen, and was also expelled by Tian Wen, until Tian Wen realized the preciousness of the 'people's heart', and only invited Feng Chen and Wei back to serve as guest secretaries.
However, unlike Feng Tan, Director Wei is good at internal affairs, and Feng Tan is good at debate, so although Wei is respectfully called "Wei Zi", his reputation is not as loud as Feng Tan.
But no matter what, whether it is Wei or Feng Chen, they are all talents who are truly talented and worthy of respect among the disciples around Tian Wen.
And today, seeing that Meng Zhong seemed to have the intention of mocking the doormen around Tian Wen, Feng Tan, who was good at debate, couldn't help it, and he stood up to argue with Meng Zhong: "What Meng Sima said, Feng didn't dare to agree. β
As he spoke, he arched his hand to Meng Zhong, and said, "Xue Gong is trapped in the Qin State, and that is due to some reasons, and Meng Sima does not know what it is, so he makes an arbitrary opinion that it is not advisable. β¦β¦ Please ask Meng Sima to apologize to Xue Gong and all the guests. β
Seeing that the other party was polite, Meng Zhong's face also eased a lot, and he said calmly: "Mr. is right. In the same way, Xue Gong didn't know the danger of my Xinwei army's night attack on Qi's camp, so he thought that it was all a fluke, which was also undesirable, please sir, you first persuade Xue Gong to apologize to the five hundred Xinwei soldiers under him. β
Feng Tan was stunned, then shook his head and said, "Meng Sima was surprised by this...... It is not denied that Xue Gong may have some prejudice against Meng Sima, and he only blames the Song State in recent years. In recent years, the Song State first overthrew the Teng State, and then sent troops to attack my Xue Yi, you know, Xue Yi is the fiefdom of Xue Gong, if you want to offend, isn't it the Song State that offended first? β
Meng Zhong said with a smile when he heard this: "Then Xue Gong will go to the theory of King Song, what are you going to do?" β
Hearing this, Feng Tan said with a smile: "In other words, Meng Sima also thinks that the Song Kingdom's invasion of Xue Yi is not a benevolent and righteous act? β
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Meng Zhong frowned slightly, and after taking a deep look at Feng Chen, he smiled and said: "Benevolence or non-benevolence, it depends on the hearts of the people of Xue Yi, when the Qi State invaded the Yan State, Mencius advised the King of Qi that if the people of the Yan State welcome the Qi army, then the Qi State will annex the Yan State; If the people of Yan resist, the army of Qi will withdraw. β¦β¦ Today, the Song Kingdom occupies Xueyi, which is also the truth, benevolence or non-benevolence, I don't count if I say it, Tian Xiang doesn't count what he said, and Mr. doesn't count what he says, it depends on what the attitude of the people of Xueyi is. β¦β¦ What does the gentleman think? β
Feng Chen frowned and looked at Meng Zhong, and then smiled: "The people of Xue Yi, everyone praises Xue Gong's benevolence and righteousness. β
"Including interest-bearing money?" Meng Zhong chuckled and said: "I once heard that in order to raise thousands of diners who came to him, Xue Gong wantonly collected money in the fiefdom, exploited the people in the fiefdom with interest money, and collected the people in the euphem in order to satisfy Xue Gong's desire to "store guests", how can this be benevolent and righteous? β
"Definitely." Feng Chen shook his head and said: "What Meng Sima said, it was many years ago, in recent years, Xue Gong has often exempted some people who are unable to repay the interest money, this generosity, can't it be called benevolence and righteousness?" β
Meng Zhong laughed and said, "I'll tell my husband a story first." β¦β¦ I heard that there is a man in this world who is good at raising macaques, but because there are too many macaques and his family is scarce, the monkey keeper said to the monkeys: "Give you three acorns in the morning and four in the evening." The macaques were furious. Then the monkey keeper said, "Then give you four acorns in the morning, and three of you in the evening, and the macaques will be happy." β¦β¦ The people of Xue Yi were originally unable to pay because of heavy taxes, so they borrowed interest money from Xue Gong to support their families, and therefore owed Xue Gong a large amount of interest money to make profits, and finally reached the point where they were unable to repay. Xue Gong exempted some of the interest money that should not have been collected in the first place, and let the people of Xue Yi praise him as 'benevolence'? β¦β¦ Tsk, Xue Gong is really good at governing the people! Oh, I asked Mr. rhetorically, can this kind of deception also be called benevolence? β
"......" Feng Tan was speechless.
At this time, Meng Hu saw that Feng Tan was speechless by Meng Zhong, and laughed and said: "My brother is the head of the four academic schools of Taoism, Mingming, Confucianism, and Bing, and it is simply humiliating to debate with him!" β
"Ah Hu......"
Meng Zhong whispered to Meng Hu.
"The four academic chiefs of the Tao, the Ming, the Confucian, and the Soldier?"
Feng Chen, Wei Chu and the others were all taken aback when they heard this, and even Tian Wen, who had a gloomy face, couldn't help but look Meng Zhong up and down a few times.
At this time, Zhao Xiangfeiyi slowly walked to Meng Zhong's side, and introduced Meng Zhong on behalf of Meng Zhong as if he had a deep meaning: "Xue Gong, although this son is young, he is a disciple of Zhuangzi, Huizi, and Mencius......
"I'm not ......"
Meng Zhong wanted to explain that he was not a disciple of Mencius, but Feiyi's voice completely overshadowed him: "Hui Ang of the Song State and Kuang Zhang of the Qi State are all commensurate with this son's brother......
"Tian Zhang?"
Tian Wen looked at Meng Zhong's eyes, and a few hints of different color flashed.
I have to say that although Tian Wen's reputation is famous all over the world, as Meng Zhong said, most of his Tian Wen's reputation comes from his accumulation of thousands of customers, and this is the legacy of his father Jingguo Jun Tianying.
But Tian Zhang is different, although Tian Zhang is also from a family of scholars, but his merits are true, the first time to break Qin let Qin bow to Qi Chen Chen, and then destroy Yan, 50 days to capture the entire territory of Yan, and then defeat Chu, Chu and then to Qi State vassals, the first two years have united Wei State, South Korea, and broke through Qin's Hangu Pass.
Although Tian Zhang did not experience many battle formations, he could affect the pattern of the entire Central Plains every time.
Compared with Tian Zhang, I have to say that Tian Wen is still a lot inferior.
Originally, Fei Yi deliberately mentioned Tian Zhang in order to alleviate the contradiction between Meng Zhong and Tian Wen, and at the same time try to draw Tian Wen to the side of Zhao Wanghe - after all, although Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyang Jun Li Dui and others have established a good relationship with Tian Wen, the "old aristocratic faction" cannot be confused with the "new monarch faction" headed by Zhao Wanghe.
The interests of the two are different.
But it's a pity that Tian Wen, who was arrogant, didn't pay attention to Feiyi's round, and after staring at Meng Zhong for a moment, he smiled and said, "I see, is this what you dare to rely on to humiliate Tian?" β
As soon as he heard this, Meng Zhong guessed that his newly acquainted brother Tian Zhang did not have a good relationship with Tian Wen, or that the relationship between Tian Zhang and Tian Wen was not good enough for Tian Wen to laugh at this dispute.
So Meng Zhong said lightly: "From beginning to end, I didn't humiliate Tian Xiang, it's just that Tian Xiang himself thinks so......"
"Okay, you're good."
Tian Wen nodded.
At this time, a chivalrous warrior flashed behind him, pointed at Meng Zhong and said, "I can't stand it anymore!" That kid, how can you dare to humiliate Xue Gong? Since you said that it was not a fluke that you led 500 soldiers to attack tens of thousands of Qi troops at night, then good, do you have the courage to compete with me with swordsmanship? β
"Boy, do you dare?!"
"Boy, if it's a man, use swordsmanship to compete!"
Behind Tian Wen, those heroes opened their mouths one after another.
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Meng Zhong glanced coldly at those heroes.
Anger soared.