When Xue Gongtian Wen was drinking with his disciple Xiahou Zhang in the mansion, Meng Zhong, who he had the intention to invite, went to the banquet with Hui Ang in Duan Gan's mansion.

It is worth mentioning that when Meng Zhong and Hui Ang arrived at the hall of the main house in the mansion under the guidance of Tian Di, they saw that Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Le Jin were already sitting in the hall.

"Yo, Ah Zhong, here?" At that time, Meng Hu was still unconsciously greeting Meng Zhong.

Meng Zhong rolled his eyes and stepped forward to greet the male sheep Ping who was sitting on the top seat and Duan Ganyin, the head of the Duan Gan clan, and after him, Hui Ang also bowed to these two.

Hui Ang, as the most trusted minister of Song Wangyan, has also been sent to other countries as an envoy of the Song State many times, of course he knows Ram Ping and Duan Ganyin, aside from the family background of these two, these two and Tian Di are the most famous Confucians in Xihe Confucianism at present, how can Hui Ang not recognize them?

You must know that Hui Ang had a very good relationship with Confucianism, although he was not a disciple of Confucianism, but because he always advocated Mencius's "benevolent government" and applied it to the Song Kingdom, Confucian disciples basically regarded him as their own, even if it was Ximen Confucianism.

No way, who makes today's Confucianism, the world only knows Meng Ke but doesn't know anything else? For example, Ram Ping, who has a higher rank than Meng Ke, is not known by many people after leaving the Wei State.

"Duan Gan's family master, Mr. Ram, I haven't seen you for a long time, and the two of you are still in good spirits." Hui Ang greeted with a smile.

"Hahaha, Hui Xiang is too polite." Duan Ganyin smiled and invited Hui Ang to take a seat at the top.

Looking at his appearance, it seems that he treats Hui Ang more politely than Meng Zhong.

It's no wonder, after all, Meng Zhong is a disciple recognized by Mencius, and Duan Ganyin is the same generation as Meng Ke, so Duan Ganyin's treatment of Meng Zhong is mostly the attitude of the elders towards the younger generations; But Hui Ang is different, Hui Ang is not a Confucian disciple, so naturally he can't be counted according to the seniority of Confucianism, not to mention that Hui Ang is the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, so Duan Ganyin or Tian Huang is naturally more polite.

Speaking of which, although Duan Ganyin and Tian Dian are Confucians in Xihe, they are inevitably stained with a bit of worldliness, but Ram Ping is still an old practice, and they are neither humble nor arrogant to anyone, and they are as plain as water, unless they are the descendants of their own Confucianism, this old gentleman will sometimes mention a few words, especially the younger generations he values.

For example, Meng Zhong.

No, when Meng Zhong greeted Ram Ping, Ram Ping didn't ask anything else, just asked Meng Zhong if he had abandoned his studies in recent times, and then took the trouble to tell Meng Zhong again not to slack off his studies whenever and wherever he was, obviously in the heart of this old Confucian, the most important thing for a person to live is to do learning, I have to say that he is indeed a very pure Confucian, even if it is Duan Ganyin and Tian Di, it is not as good as Ram Ping in this regard.

After greeting each other, Duan Ganyin ordered his subordinates to serve sumptuous wine and food.

During this period, Duan Ganyin asked Meng Zhong about the war in the Song Kingdom, and when he saw this, Meng Zhong briefly recounted it, in fact, this war can only be said about two battles, a battle of Taoyi, and a battle of Tancheng, to be honest, they are not very thrilling, but Duan Ganyin, Duan Ganchong father and son, including Ram Ping, Tian Di and others, all listened to it with relish.

When mentioning the Fangcheng cavalry, Duan Ganyin suddenly showed a smile on his face, after all, the war horses of the Fangcheng cavalry were given by his Duan Gan clan for free, Meng Zhong used these war horses to defeat the Qin army, the Zhao army, the Qi army, and the Yan army, and Duan Ganyin also felt that his face was bright.

At this time, Meng Zhong also took the opportunity to thank Duan Ganyin for his kindness in giving the war horse free of charge, after all, it was five thousand war horses, which was not a small amount.

Hearing Meng Zhong's words, Duan Ganyin smiled and waved his hand and said, "Eh, virtuous nephews don't have to be polite, in business, I didn't give you those five thousand war horses for nothing...... Do you remember what I said? ”

"Take back the West River, little nephew remembers." Of course, Meng Zhong will not forget.

Seeing that Meng Zhong had this matter firmly in mind, Duan Ganyin was greatly pleased, and suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and said to Meng Zhong: "Speaking of cavalry, Gongsun Zhu seems to be planning to train a cavalry, and in the autumn of last year, he sent someone to send me a letter to prepare to buy a batch of war horses from my Duan Gan clan. ”

"General Gongsun?"

Meng Zhong was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he was relieved, after all, Gongsun Jian and his generals Wei Qing, Dou Xing and other generals had seen the power of cavalry during the Battle of Yique, so it was not surprising that they were preparing to train a cavalry after returning to Hedong.

The question is, Gongsun Zhu, Dou Xing, Wei Qing and others knew almost nothing about cavalry, could they really train an excellent cavalry?

After thinking about it, Meng Zhong felt that he might find an opportunity to help Gongsun Zhu, after all, Gongsun Zhu's friendship with him was still very good, and Gongsun Zhu always wanted to recommend him to serve as Hedong Shou, but unfortunately, as far as the current situation was concerned, Meng Zhong thought that he was getting farther and farther away from Hedong Shou's position.

This has nothing to do with Tian Wen, but because his fiefdoms are all in the south of Wei - no, today Wei Wang Yun has given Meng Zhong a city with great potential.

But all people inevitably have a different mind, and instead of governing Hedong, of course, they tend to vigorously develop their own fiefdoms, which Meng Zhong is not exempt from vulgarity.

From the side, after chatting with Hui Ang for a while, Ram Ping also turned his head and asked Meng Zhong: "Ah Zhong, have you ever visited your two teachers when you went to Song Kingdom this time?" ”

Meng Zhongleng paused for a moment and said truthfully: "Master Zhuang's side, the juniors went to meet on the way, and Master Meng's side ......" [Author: I forgot to write, you can carry a pot.] Meng Zhong: ......]

Seeing this, Ram Ping rarely reproached in a displeased tone: "Zou Guo is not far from Tancheng, since you have arrived in Zou Kingdom, why don't you go to see your teacher?" ”

Meng Zhong knew that he was in the wrong and did not dare to respond. [Meng Zhong: ? 】

On the side, Duan Ganyin and Tian Huang persuaded him with good words, but Ram Ping was still dissatisfied with this, until Meng Zhong said that he would write to Mencius the next day, asking the teacher for forgiveness, and Ram Ping gave up, and at the same time did not forget to tell Meng Zhong not to make similar mistakes again in the future. [Meng Zhong: ?? 】

When everyone was halfway through drinking, drinking and eating, a servant of the palace hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words in Duan Ganyin's ear.

After just a few words, Duan Ganyin's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand to nod Meng Zhong, and said with a smile: "Ah Zhong, in front of my uncle and uncle, you are so insincere. ”

After that, he saw that Ram Ping and Tian Di both showed puzzled expressions, so he said with a smile: "I just received the news that the king rewarded Yuncheng to him in order to show Azhong for saving the Song State this time, and defeated the armies of Qi, Zhao, and Yan, and named him the king of Yuncheng, but this kid and I drank for a long time, but I never mentioned it...... Why, are you afraid that I will wait for you to beg for wine and food? ”

Hearing this, Ram Ping and Tian Di were also surprised and delighted, only to see the former holding his gray beard and looking at Meng Zhong with a pleased gaze and nodding again and again, while the latter, echoing Duan Ganyin's words, scolded Meng Zhong with a smile: "But it shouldn't be!" ”

Meng Zhong hurriedly explained: "King Wei just has this intention, and it has not been officially released, the kid doesn't dare to talk nonsense, not to mention, how can this kind of thing be brought up by himself......"

Tian Dian smiled and said: "Uncle Cai, no matter what reason you have, hide from the elders, and you should be punished for drinking......

Before he could finish speaking, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Le Jin, who were also extremely surprised by this, had already rushed forward to hold Meng Zhong down and poured wine into his mouth.

After a lot of commotion, everyone's excitement calmed down a little.

Meng Zhong was named Yuncheng Jun, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Le Jin don't need to say much, and Gong Yang Ping, Duan Ganyin, Tian Dian and others are also extremely happy, after all, although Meng Zhong is not their disciple, but at least he is also a descendant of Confucianism.

From now on, Confucianism can proudly say that our Confucians not only have chapters, but also Yunchengjun.

Thinking of Tian Zhang, Duan Ganyin suddenly asked Meng Zhongdao: "When you were in the Song Kingdom this time, did you see Kuang Zhang?" ”

"No, I didn't." Meng Zhong shook his head and explained: "The junior actually wants to meet with Brother Tian Zhangyi, but it is said that he is recuperating in his feudal province Kuangyi, and this time the Qi army is under the command of Tian Touch and Tian Da......

This time, Ram Ping nodded, but he didn't say anything, after all, although Tian Zhang is Meng Zhong's righteous brother and Meng Zhong's senior brother under Mencius, but after all, the two brothers have different positions, Meng Zhong can't go to Qi Country to meet Tian Zhang, right?

Afterwards, the people chatted while drinking, and chatted for an hour or two, until it was close to the end of the day, and then they were still unsatisfied with the withdrawal of the banquet.

That night, Meng Zhong, Hui Ang and Meng Hu were all invited to stay in the house temporarily.

The next morning, when Meng Zhong woke up from sleep and was lying on the bed with his forehead aching after a hangover, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside the house.

"Who?" Meng Zhong asked casually.

Hearing this, Duan Ganchong's voice immediately came from outside the house.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong got up and opened the door, and immediately saw Duan Ganchong bowing to him, and said with a little smile: "Yunchengjun, how did you rest last night?" ”

Meng Zhong was also very familiar with Duan Ganchong, and he closed the door without saying a word: "Hmm, goodbye!" ”

Duan Ganchong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly raised his hand to push the door, but how could he, the strength of this noble young master, compare to Meng Zhong, and he hurriedly shouted: "Ah Zhong, Ah Zhong, I have business, I have business...... Okay, good, I was wrong, I was wrong. ”

Seeing this, Meng Zhong opened the door again.

At this time, I saw Duan Ganchong and said angrily: "I kindly passed the word on your behalf, but you actually turned me away?" What's even worse is that this is still the ...... in my house."

"What's the matter? Do you even say it? "Meng Zhong is about to close the door.

Seeing this, Duan Ganchong didn't dare to tease Meng Zhong anymore, put away his smile and said, "Tian Wen's doorman Feng Tan is here, and he is waiting for you in the hall in the front yard. …… Do you want to see him? If you don't want to see it, I'll send it away for you. ”

Meng Zhong hurriedly stopped Duan Ganchong, shook his head and said, "Let's see each other." ”

Seeing the solemn look on Meng Zhong's face, Duan Gan Chongzheng said: "Ah Zhong, you are now a feudal monarch, and your status is not much better than Tian Wen, so there is no need to be too polite to him at all...... Speaking of this, he suddenly changed his tone and said with a smile: "You said yes, Yuncheng Jun?" ”

With that, he quickly turned around and ran.

After all, he also has self-knowledge, the body and bones of a rich boy like him are not at all the opponents of Meng Zhong's peers who were born and died on the battlefield, and even Meng Zhong is enough to deal with him with even one hand.

Looking at Duan Gan Chong's back as if he was leaving, Meng Zhong shook his head speechlessly, went back to the house to wash, and then went to the hall in the front yard to see Feng Chen.

Like Duan Ganchong, when Feng Tan saw him a moment later, Feng Tan also bowed his hand and honored Meng Zhong as Yuncheng Jun, of course, Feng Chen's honorific title was very different from Duan Ganchong's tone when he joked with Meng Zhong, and he was respectful.

On the contrary, Meng Zhong was a little uncomfortable with this.

He asked Feng Tan, "Mr. Feng came here today, I don't know what advice he has?" ”

I have to say that Meng Zhong's attitude of having nothing in the past surprised Feng Chen, after all, most of the ordinary young people who are ambitious are proud, but Meng Zhong is obviously not like this, his attitude is still the same as usual, as if nothing has changed because of the title of Yuncheng Jun.

Seeing this, Feng Tan couldn't help but secretly praise: He really deserves to be a sage disciple who is also the head of the three academic schools of Taoism and Confucianism!

After secretly praising it, Feng Tan arched his hand and said to Meng Zhong: "Yun Chengjun, I came here today to invite Yun Chengjun to the mansion for a small gathering on the order of Xue Gong, and Xue Gong has something important to discuss with Yun Chengjun. ”

"Something important?" Meng Zhong glanced at Feng Chen a few times in surprise.

You know, Tian Wen invited him to the house for a small gathering, this is really the first time in the world, at this moment Meng Zhong really wants to go outside the house to have a look, to see if the sun is coming out of the west today.

Or some people will say that maybe Tian Wen changed his attitude towards Meng Zhong because Meng Zhong was named Yuncheng Jun.

However, this kind of assertion may apply to other people, but it will definitely not appear in Tian Wen, after all, Tian Wen's character is too arrogant, not to mention that Meng Zhong's status in Wei has not surpassed Tian Wen, even if he surpasses Tian Wen one day, Tian Wen will never take the initiative to show goodwill.

Compared with Tian Wen's initiative to show goodwill, Meng Zhong was actually more inclined to another guess, such as Tian Wen asked Feng Tan to trick him into the mansion and kill him with a sword.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong asked Feng Tan with a strange expression: "Duke Xue invited me to come over for a small gathering, this is the first time...... Mr. Feng, for the sake of how respectful I had for Mr. in the past, Mr. Trouble me to get to the bottom of it, Gong Xue wouldn't be ready to trick me into going to the house to kill me with a sword, right? ”

Hearing this, Feng Tan was angry and funny.

He said helplessly: "What does Yunchengjun think of Xue Gong? You...... Hey, let's put it this way, Xue Gong invited Yun Chengjun just to envoy Zhao Guo. ”

"Envoy Zhao?" It may be a hangover, but Meng Zhong didn't react for a while.

Feng Tan nodded, and hinted: "Duke Xue has a lot of friendship with Fengyang Jun Li Dui of Zhao State, and Yun Chengjun, you have a good relationship with King Zhao...... You get the idea, right? ”

At this time, Meng Zhong also reacted.

Win over Zhao Guo, yesterday when he and his righteous brother Hui Ang met with Wei Wang, Hui Ang put forward the strategy of "linking Zhao", it was Gu Tian Wencai who was ready to personally envoy Zhao Guo, and was also ready to pull him Meng Zhong, a person who had a close relationship with Zhao Wanghe, in order to draw Zhao Guo to his Wei side.

It's just that......

Is his relationship with Zhao Wanghe really not shallow?

To be honest, Meng Zhong wasn't much sure about this.

Although he had also thought about finding an opportunity to go to Zhao a while ago to persuade Zhao Wang He to sever diplomatic relations with Qi and instead unite with the three kingdoms of Wei, Han and Song, he did not expect this opportunity to come so quickly.

Since it was for the matter of envoy Zhao Guo, of course Meng Zhong did not mind going to Tian Wen's mansion and listening to Tian Wen personally narrate the matter.

In fact, Meng Zhong didn't understand the reason why Tian Wen invited him to come over: Tian Wen just wanted to show his dominance, and wanted Meng Zhong to know that even if Meng Zhong was worshiped by the King of Wei as the king of Yuncheng, his Tian Wen's status in Wei was still above his Meng Zhong.

Of course, Meng Zhong can also do what Duan Ganchong said, not to dump Tian Wen's face, with his status now more and more valued by the King of Wei, Tian Wen can't help him even if he is angry.

But there is no need, after all, Tian Wen is a very extreme person, and it is not worth it to offend Tian Wen again for the sake of the battle of will, and destroy the relationship between the two, which is relatively relaxed at the moment.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong took a few guards and followed Feng Tan to Tian Wen's mansion without knowing anything.

When he came to Tian Wen's mansion, Feng Tan seemed to think of something, and said to Meng Zhong: "Actually, last night, Xue Gong prepared good wine and food to invite Yunchengjun to a banquet, but when he went to the post house in the city to invite Yunchengjun, Yunchengjun was invited to the mansion by Duan Gan's family...... You know Xue Gong's character, Xue Gong is a little unhappy about this, when you meet Xue Gong later, if Xue Gong has any offense, please forgive Yun Chengjun. ”

As he spoke, he also bowed to Meng Zhong.

Meng Zhong hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Feng Chen, and immediately, he looked at Feng Chen, and suddenly said with a smile: "If you want to come and follow Xue Gong, Mr. Feng will inevitably suffer some grievances, and it will be difficult for Mr. Feng......"

Feng Tan was stunned, then shook his head and said: "Accepting people's favor and being loyal to people, why are you difficult to say?" What's more, Xue Gong has always been bold in treating the people around him, and my generation is willing, but sometimes, Xue Gong refuses to listen to our advice, hey...... Oh, in the next gaffe. ”

Meng Zhong smiled slightly.

He has always looked at Tian Wen objectively, so he did not contradict Feng Chen's words, and followed Feng Tan into the mansion.

Following Feng Chen, Meng Zhong came to Tian Wen's study after a while.

At this time, there were two people standing outside Tian Wen's room, both dressed as swordsmen, and one of them was known to Meng Zhong, who was Tian Wen's disciple Xiahou Zhang.

I saw Feng Tan arch his hand towards Xiahou Zhang, and said, "Yunchengjun is here, please pass through Xue Gong." ”

Xiahou Zhang looked Meng Zhong up and down a few times with interest, obviously surprised that the guards beside Lord Zhao back then had now sat in the position of the feudal lord in the Wei State, and he was only one step away from the feudal lord of the extremely human minister.

But thinking that when Meng Zhong had not yet achieved his ambition, he had killed hundreds of them in Zhao State, Xiahou Zhang did not have a good impression of Meng Zhong, nodded and did not greet Meng Zhong, and walked straight into the study.

After a while, Xiahou Zhang went and returned, clasped his fists and said, "Xue Gong is invited." ”

Seeing this, at Feng Chen's invitation, Meng Zhong ordered several guards to wait outside the house and walked into the study.

At this time, in the study, Xue Gongtian Wen was pretending to be reading.

Why is it pretending, just because although he is facing the side of the book in his hand, he glances at Meng Zhong who enters with his spare eyes from time to time, and happens to be seen by Meng Zhong.

Of course, Meng Zhong would not debunk Tian Wen without interest, and he also understood the embarrassment and indignation in Tian Wen's heart at the moment - the embarrassment, in fact, Meng Zhong also felt the empathy.

"Xue Gong." Meng Zhong bowed his hand.

Hearing this, Tian Wen put down the bamboo book in his hand, and a few traces of smugness flashed on his face.

What is proud, it is nothing more than the proud Meng Zhong who took the lead in saluting him.

It's a pity that his pride can't last long, no, I saw that a few traces of blue and white flashed on Meng Zhong's face, and after a few struggles, he finally stood up, and bowed to Meng Zhong: "Yuncheng Jun......"

It was just three words, but it seemed to have exhausted all of Tian Wen's strength, especially his appearance of barely squeezing out a polite smile, which made Meng Zhong and Feng Tan can't help but want to laugh.

I have to say that with Tian Wen's arrogant personality being able to salute Meng Zhong, he is really wronged by this noble son of Qi State.

Some people may think that since Tian Wen is so reluctant, why he still salutes Meng Zhong, the reason is because of the number of courtesies.

Etiquette is a very important part in contemporary times, think Confucius was ridiculed because he didn't understand the number of etiquette, ashamed Confucius went to Zhou to ask Lao Tzu for etiquette, while learning Zhou etiquette, he created Confucianism - so Confucianism is the inheritance and continuation of Zhou etiquette, which is not a problem.

And right now, Tian Wen can not return the gift, but if this matter spreads, it will be a great blow to Tian Wen's reputation, which is similar to killing him for Tian Wen, who cherishes his reputation.

Because of this, even if Tian Wen is reluctant in his heart, he can only honestly return the salute to Meng Zhong, which is also one of the reasons why Hui Ang smiled at Meng Zhong yesterday and said that it will be difficult for Tian Wen to target him again in the future.

But having said that, in addition to being a little unhappy about having to return the salute to Meng Zhong, seeing that Meng Zhong took the initiative to come to visit after being summoned by himself, Tian Wen still felt very happy, and he was in a good mood, and he did not ridicule or target Meng Zhong in the follow-up, but directly stated the purpose of inviting Meng Zhong to come.

is the same as Feng Tan said, it is to envoy Zhao Guo.

He said to Meng Zhong: "The world has underestimated Zhao Wang He, even I originally thought that Zhao He would take advantage of this time to regain power and depose Li Dui, but I didn't expect that he firmly supported Li Dui to continue to serve as the minister of Zhao, which made Zhao He famous in Zhao and was called a virtuous monarch by Zhao. In my opinion, Zhao He and Li Dui must have made some agreement in private, otherwise, Li Dui would not have been so confident under the coercion of Wei and Qin before. …… With this in mind, I recommend to the king that you be my deputy envoy and accompany me on the envoy to Zhao. When the time comes, I will persuade Li Dui, you go and persuade Zhao He, as long as you and I can convince these two people, Zhao State will fall to my Wei State. …… Do you have any questions? ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong also nodded secretly in his heart.

I have to say that although Tian Wen is narrow-minded and will take revenge, his vision is really good, and he can see at a glance that Fengyangjun Li Dui must have compromised with King Zhao this time, so he has the confidence to resist the coercion of Qin and Wei to force him to dismiss Zhao Xiang, in terms of ability, it is really no less than Feiyi, Hui Ang and other virtuous ministers in the hearts of Meng Zhong.

"It's a pity that I'm too narrow-minded......

Secretly sighing, Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "There is no doubt. ”

"Good!"

Tian Wen nodded and said, "In that case, without further ado, this afternoon, you will leave for Zhao with me...... Why is it so urgent, I will tell you more on the way. ”

"Okay."

Meng Zhong nodded.

A moment later, Meng Zhong walked out of Tian Wen's mansion and looked at the rather clear sky, feeling a little melancholy.

After a few years, he will finally set foot in Zhao again, the country that once left him with so many regrets.