On the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, Gongsun Xun, who was stationed in Jiexiu, received the message from Xi Zhong and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and his people were obviously excited that such a simple strategy to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf could easily capture a county...... However, it turns out that the simplest pros and cons and the most direct distinction between strength and weakness are the easiest to convince the opponent, and the simplest strategy is also the most impeccable.

So, Gongsun Xun no longer hesitated and immediately sent troops.

Among them, Wei Yue led 4,000 cavalry, immediately turned around, turned back to Qi County, and then went to Nie County head-on along the main passage of the Taiyuan Basin and the Shangdang Basin under the banner of welcoming Lu Zhi; At the same time, Gao Shun took 3,000 foot soldiers, and set off from Jiexiu to directly climb over the North Yangtou Mountain, which was defended by Zhang Yang, and then easily sneaked behind Niexian.

Gongsun Xun is not ready to ask about the rest of the matter in person...... It is nothing more than the eldest son in the south, Huguan, and Boxian, how to exchange territory with Zhang Yang; And here in Nie County, Yufro, who was blocked by both ends, either fought or surrendered.

However, Gongsun Xun still did not leave for Hedong.

There are three reasons for this:

First, although Fenshui thawed, but now is the spring ploughing, the plan of the year lies in the spring, at this time postponed for more than ten days, although a lot of military supplies have been wasted, but maybe it can be avoided Taiyuan and Hedong counties for a year of famine, and the accounts need to be calculated from a higher place...... In fact, Gongsun Xun was resting in the realm, and even asked soldiers to assist in farming, and sent military officials throughout the whole process to supervise the spring ploughing in Taiyuan;

Second, there are 20 counties in Hedong Tianxia on the surface, with a population of 6 or 700,000, in fact, there may be a large number of checkpoints, small towns, and ancient cities, and the mountains and rivers are by no means vain...... The military situation is unclear and the political situation is complicated, so he needs a coordinated military, political, and strategic strategy;

Third, that is, Gongsun Yue's party was really beyond Gongsun Xun's imagination, and the latter was only shocked to find out at this time that his clan brother not only brought a Lu Zhi, according to the return of Xi Zhong, this time there should be Hebei Mingshi Leyin, so the general Zhao, the leader of Bai Ma Yicong who also cut off the message before, Tian Chou, the former Hanoi resident general Cheng Lian, and even the family members of He Jin......

For the arrival of these people, not to mention anything else, just the three generals of Zhao Zhao, Tian Chou, and Cheng Lian are enough to make Gongsun Xun, who was a little stretched thin before, breathe a sigh of relief...... He urgently needs these three generals and Gongsun Yue to complete the personnel structure in the army and at the local level for himself.

Besides, there is another Lu Zhi!

There are also the 5,000 Hun royal court cavalry of the two brothers Yu Fuluo and Hu Chuquan!

These were enough for him to stop in the realm and rest for a while.

However, Gongsun Xun didn't wait too long, from the end of the first month, good news came one after another, first the sentry cavalry returned, Gao Shun and Wei Yue had successfully surrounded Fu Luo in Nie County! Then, it was Zhang Yang who obeyed the agreement and led his troops south, while Cheng Lian and those who stayed in Bo County led 2,000 people to the north to join the party, and the party had actually decided the overall situation...... As for the Taihang bandits, who have seriously infested the party, they can slowly figure it out.

It is worth mentioning that probably because the situation in Hanoi is unclear, it is said that a large number of people from Po County have gone north with the recruitment, and they would rather go to the mountains like Shangdang to open up wasteland than stay in their hometowns.

And in the end, on the first day of the second month, because of the call, Gongsun Yue himself took the lead in coming to the realm to meet his brother.

"Wen Chao (Gongsun Yuezi)!" Gongsun Xun led the crowd out of the city to greet him, and when he saw his arrival, he was really heartfelt and overjoyed. "Half a year ago, you were in Luoyang, I was in Changping, walking in the opposite direction, who would have thought that we would meet in Taiyuan?"

Gongsun Yue rode alone, and bowed respectfully outside the city gate: "The elder brother used the soldiers to fight the gods, and the rest of the princes all froze, and even suffered repeated defeats, but the elder brother used troops thousands of miles away, and now he actually came to Sili, after this incident, I am afraid that everyone in the world must know who is the person who really calms the world!" ”

This can be regarded as scratching Gongsun Xun's itch, and it is indeed true, so he couldn't help but raise his head and laugh proudly.

Of course, after laughing, Gongsun Xun didn't forget to help the other party, and solemnly and earnestly said: "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, not to mention that two thousand miles are only more than a thousand miles?" In the future, I still need Wen Chao to support me along the way...... When I was a child, my mother taught us that if brothers work together, the benefits can be broken...... Our brothers, don't learn from Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. ”

Gongsun Yue didn't dare to slack off, regardless of his arms being held by the other party, he bowed down again: "The future is long, the more willing I am to work for my brother and horses!" ”

Gongsun Xun couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then regardless of this fashion outside the city, after helping the other party again, he asked directly: "In this case, can Ah Yue sit in Jinyang for me and appease Taiyuan?" ”

Gongsun Yue was silent for a moment, but he still bowed his head: "It's all up to my brother's orders, but I'm just a little worried about my lack of talent, and I ask my brother to make more arrangements." ”

"It's nature." Gongsun Xun didn't care.

Hearing the two brothers' simple words, many people around, from the Taiyuan clan to the Youzhou officers, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief, at least no one expressed any objections or doubts.

No way, this is the special role of clan brothers or blood relations in the era of the world, as long as Gongsun Xun expresses his trust in Gongsun Yue, then Gongsun Yue will immediately obtain part of the authority that originally belonged to General Wei from Gongsun Xun...... In other words, everyone's recognition of Gongsun Yue sitting in Jinyang and pacifying Taiyuan does not come from the fact that he was a student of Lu Zhi, or that he had been a waiter of the Yellow Gate for many years, but that his surname was Gongsun, and he was Gongsun Xun's brother.

This is related to Gongsun Xun's placing his wife and eldest son in Changping to allow Lu Fan to manage the overall situation there; and Aunt Gongsun unimpeded her Amway when laying out her Amway behind Gongsun Xun; is even similar to He Jin's ability to grasp the real power of the world before...... Essentially, it's all the same truth.

The difference is nothing more than that the former relies on the concept of clan to share, extend, and protect power, while the latter relies on blood.

And it is conceivable that this kind of thing will always be taken for granted until the concept of clan is eliminated, and until the concept of family is eliminated, the latter will not be easily eliminated from history.

Back in front of him, after all, the two brothers were accompanied by young people, and they hadn't seen each other for many years, so they returned hand in hand from outside the city, and set up a banquet to introduce Gongsun Yue to Tian Feng, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, and many Taiyuan clans.

And Gongsun Yue naturally did everything in detail, and said it from beginning to end.

"So, after you read my letter, you actually reminded me and He Jin?" Gongsun Xun lay on his back on the couch with three points of drunkenness, smiling rather than smiling. "But they still died?"

"Yes." Gongsun Yue, who was sitting on the collapsed Maza, bowed his head and answered. "Died in front of the forbidden tart in the Nangong Jiade Palace."

"Then in my name, I left Tian Chou and the more than 100 injured righteous servants in Luoyang, and relied on them to assist Lu Shi, forced Zhao Zhong to kill, rescued the Queen Mother, and took away He Jin's family?" The smile on Gongsun Xun's face became more and more strange.

"Exactly!" Gongsun Yue still bowed his head and replied.

"But is there anything else I don't know?"

Gongsun Yue just bowed his head this time, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

"Look up!" Gongsun Xun couldn't bear to open his mouth and scolded. "Do you dare to do it?"

"Please punish my brother!" Gongsun Yue finally raised his head and spoke.

"Why should I punish you?" Gongsun Xun, who was lying on the couch on his side, looked a little bored. "Although everything you have done is done without permission, which one is bad for me? And which one of them has transgressed the law and is virtuous? Which one is for you personally? If you really want to talk about it, it's you who have written for me, so I don't feel too sorry...... I am not a lone husband who cannot tolerate anyone, nor am I a disobedient person who cannot distinguish between good and bad. ”

Gongsun Yue bowed his head and was silent.

"You said before that He Jin's son was killed by Dong Zhuo? At that time, only the wife and the pregnant daughter-in-law were still there? "Seeing that it was not easy to persecute, Gongsun Xun casually moved on to another trivial matter." And Mrs. He was anxious along the way, and always wanted to marry her daughter-in-law Yin to me as a concubine to protect He's heirs? ”

"Exactly." Gongsun Yue hurriedly replied.

"I am commensurate with Brother He Jin, how can I marry her daughter-in-law?" Gongsun Xun shook his head again and again. "And I have to act as an agent of military affairs on the front line, the big war is imminent, what's the matter with suddenly taking a concubine?"

"It's just in name." Gongsun Yue couldn't help but persuade. "Just as I married Zhen...... Aren't he and his children doing well in Zhongshan? The two do not hinder each other. ”

"That's not good." Gongsun Xun still felt awkward. "So how old is Yin this year? How long is the pregnancy? ”

"Seventeen...... The child has been born in Po County. ”

"It's pitiful, no wonder Mrs. He is so uneasy." Gongsun Xun sighed with emotion, and then casually ordered. "That's good, why don't you marry! Anyway, it's just Mrs. An He's heart...... You have your own concubines, right? ”

Gongsun Yue was silent when he landed, and the room was silent for a while.

After a long time, Gongsun Xun continued to lean on the couch, and suddenly smiled: "Actually, Ah Yue, I am grateful for the things you have done for me...... But one, two, three, all of them are right for you, doesn't it seem that I am not as righteous as you? ”

"No one else knows that I made these things privately, and they all thought that my brother did it!" Gongsun Yue was cautious and got up to face each other.

"Sit down! Didn't hold you accountable for this. Gongsun Xun said disappreciatively. But wouldn't it be worse if I had to hide it in my heart if I felt unwell? And since you've done this, you should have thought of my reaction, right? ”

Gongsun Yue reluctantly bowed his head and sat back.

"As for no one knowing?" Gongsun Xun continued to disagree. "It's okay for the rest of the people, how can they hide it from Teacher Lu? In his eyes, I'm afraid I'm going to end up with a deliberate evaluation again...... But that's right. ”

“……”

"Why don't you speak?"

"I really don't know what to say." Gongsun Yue replied in a low voice. "I just think that Master Lu has abandoned his post and left now, and he may not be so harsh."

"Perhaps." Gongsun Xun leaned on the couch and sighed, but he was a little depressed. "Actually, I don't think he's harsh, just as I don't really think you're arrogant...... Over the years, the number of children in the family has increased, and the older ones have all opened up and entered school, and only then did they gradually wake up, if they didn't regard me as the future and pinned their hopes and responsibilities on me, why would he be so harsh? When he strictly restrained me that day, did he know that the situation would come to this point? In the final analysis, he had a heart of support, so he gradually distanced himself from me. But now that he has left the court, it means that he has completely awakened to the situation, and that is ......"

"It was Lu Shi's idea to go and merge the state." Gongsun Yue suddenly interjected. "Originally, I was going to go to Chaoge, Yecheng, and Handan...... But Lu Shi said that Yuan Benchu might be a villain, which would make you embarrassed at that time, and Handan, Chaoge, Guan Yunchang and Zhengnan are all brothers and scholars, so there should be other arrangements. ”

"Our teacher, born twenty years early, must be a famous minister of Confucianism in the world, and twenty years later, he must also be heroic and heroic, and he is my great enemy." Gongsun Xun smiled with relief. "Fortunately, it is not too early or too late, nothing can be accomplished......"

Gongsun wanted to speak more and stopped.

"If you have something to say, say it." Gongsun Yue disagreed. "Brothers are drunk and opposite, what can't you say?"

"I thought that Lu Shi had worked hard for the past 20 years, and although he had achieved nothing, he lived up to the name of a famous minister of Confucianism." Gongsun Yue gritted his teeth and said. "And Luozhong has changed greatly, although he has not been able to save the sky, but he has not lost the heroic spirit of the north...... Brother, the heroes of this world can't just judge them by success or failure! ”

Gongsun Xun smiled dumbly, and only after a long time did he shake his head and sigh: "So, you still feel in your bones that what you did in Luoyang is all right, and it is all to make up for the shortcomings, right?" ”

Gongsun Yue bowed his head and was silent.

"Where is Master Lu?" Gongsun Xun suddenly asked again.

"When I arrived in Qi County, I separated from them, thinking that he should have taken his young son Lu Yu, Leyin Legong, and the He family to Jinyang in the north first."

"Lu Yu is only seven or eight years old this year, right?"

"Yes!"

"I remember that his mother died in childbirth?"

"Yes."

"There are no servants from Luoyang?"

"Yes."

"Go out and call someone." Gongsun Xun suddenly turned over. "It's night, and I'm drunk and can't ride a horse...... Let them prepare the car. ”

Gongsun Yue hurriedly got up and hugged his brother, but he was puzzled: "Brother is going to see Master Lu?" ”

"Not bad." Gongsun Xun simply replied, but he had already begun to dress.

"It's never too late to see you tomorrow." Gongsun Yue hurriedly persuaded him. "Besides, if the car is bumpy, if the brother does not rest well, it is not easy to change horses during the day...... Instead, it's better to wait for tomorrow to wake up and then ride to Jinyang for a while. ”

"That's true, but I'm afraid it's too late." Gongsun Xun knew that what the other party said was true, so he took a long breath of wine and sat back on the couch, but he looked a little helpless.

"How can it be late?" Gongsun Yue was puzzled.

"I'm afraid that Master Lu won't enter Jinyang, or if he enters Jinyang, he will at most go to his mother for a while, and he will be entrusted, and then he won't stop much, and he will leave directly." Gongsun Xun was honest. "And since I'm gone, it's not easy for me to chase it, that is, this justifiable collision can be relatively straightforward."

"It's never too late to see you later." Gongsun Yue only thought that the other party was drunk, so he tried his best to persuade him. "Isn't Master Lu going back to Youzhou?"

"It's hard to see you later!" Gongsun Xun lay on the couch with his head back again, but he was extremely helpless. "I am a disciple, if I can't do anything, how can I go to see him? And if he did something, he might trample on what he had defended in his life, so how could he go and see him? ”

Gongsun Yue woke up in his heart, and he couldn't help but be gloomy.

"Originally, after Master Liu died, I often thought about not leaving regrets in this kind of thing, but I didn't want to make things as good as I wanted?" Gongsun Xun waved his hand. "I'm in a bad mood suddenly, Ah Yue and retreat!"

Gongsun Yue had no choice but to leave.

Early the next morning, Gongsun Xun woke up, so he left Gongsun Yue as the guard, with Wang Xiu, Lou Gui, and Tian Feng presiding over the overall situation, and he led dozens of light horses to Jinyang Chi...... However, as he expected, when he came to Jinyang and saw his mother, he suddenly learned that Lu Zhi had not entered the city, so he had already left alone with his young son.

"When I received the message, I went out of the city to see him, and I wanted him to stay and see you, but he said that it was providential and that there was no need to be demanding; I asked him to keep the child and I would take care of him, but he said that the son is raised by the father, and it is right; I asked someone to escort him to Fanyang, but he didn't say anything to his face, and when I entered the city, he drove him back. Aunt Gongsun stood at the head of the city and sighed quietly. He has gray hair, much older than me, and I teased him when we first met, but I didn't want him to be as arrogant as I wrote when I was young...... It's weird and sentimental. If you think about it carefully, Dong Zhuo has made a fuss, and it can be regarded as entering the script, but it is no longer the time for our generation. ”

Gongsun Xun was silent for a moment, and he didn't know how to comfort his mother.

"Let's go to Hedong and fight your battle!" Aunt Gongsun woke up when she saw this. "When you feel sad, you feel sad, but you feel someone else, but your mother and I are in such good health, shouldn't you be happy to be a son?"

Gongsun Xun saw that his mother's spirit was indeed excellent, and he knew that there was some 'truth' in it, so he couldn't help but feel relieved, and then he was about to prepare to return to the realm.

However, just as he was about to turn around, he remembered something again, so he couldn't help but stop and ask: "Mother, is there anything that Master Lu conveys, or what you want to tell me?" ”

Aunt Gongsun glanced back at her son, and then narrowed her eyes slightly: "He praised you...... He said, you can think of postponing the war for spring ploughing, it is really remarkable, Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao are not as good as you! ”

"Mother's reply?" Gongsun Xun suddenly felt relieved, and his whole body was much more relaxed, but he was curious for a while.

I said...... My son, if you can't even compare to Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, it's better to die headfirst under Jinyang City! "Aunt Gongsun is not in a hurry, but she is looking at a busy scene on the Taiyuan Basin outside the city, and she looks a little interested." Hurry up and go to Hedong, that's where it matters, don't think about superfluous things! ”

Gongsun Xun really couldn't think about it, so he bowed down and bowed, and then turned around and went down to the city...... It turned out that the horse didn't stop, so he turned back to the realm and rested.

—————I'm thinking of an unthinkable dividing line—————

"He Jin saw that he was punished, and Dong Zhuo entered Luo, resumed the abolition, killed the Queen Mother, and exterminated the He family. The He family was scattered, left and right, and no one saved the protégé. Shi Yue was in Luozhong, serving as a waiter of the Yellow Gate, and he was about to leave with the abolition of the matter, and he heard that he told Taizu's subordinate officer Tian Chou and said: "Brother and the late general are poor and lowly friends, and I have written to tell me that if Luozhong is not harmonious, you can abandon the He family, and the Dugong Sun family cannot be abandoned." He thought so, so he led more than 100 people to fold Luozhong, and the white blade snatched He's family on the street, and left. Sergeant Luo heard it, although he didn't dare to speak, he also appreciated Taizu's unabandonment, and the more courageous! —The Book of Old Swallows. Volume Sixty-Seven. Biography XVII

PS: Thanks to book friend Jing Yaoyao, the thirty-eighth Meng appeared! I will definitely try my best to adjust my state and repay the big guys.