Chapter 24: Never Return to the Vassal

On the question of how to deal with the Jiankang regime, Pei Gai has also discussed with Liang Fen, Pei Wei, Zu Ti and others, and everyone's words are roughly the same as Liang Fen, and they all think that now we are blocking Hu Kou in the north, and there is no foreign police in the south of the Yangtze River, so we can accumulate from the volume, if we give it four or five or even ten years, when the people's hearts are settled and the treasury is full, we can rebuild the government of Sun Wu, and then I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with.

Pei Gai was noncommittal about this, because he knew that in the original history, since the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there has always been endless infighting, so it is almost powerless to go to the Northern Expedition The Central Plains bureaucrats have their own selfish intentions, and it is certainly one thing to dump each other, and the lack of strength is also true, Zu Shizhi's Northern Expedition only conquered part of Henan, even if he does not die, it is quite difficult to continue the attack. But Pei Gai did not dare to guarantee that history had been changed by himself, so would the future appearance of the Jiankang regime be very different?

Not to mention anything else, if there is no external pressure from Hu Kou, the internal political struggle may quickly divide the winner and loser, even if Wang Dun firmly controls the power, it will definitely be slightly stronger than the original.

It's just that if you can really calm the north smoothly, and then attack and destroy Shuzhong Bayi, you will reappear the confrontation between Jin and Wu in the past, and over time, the recovery of a stable north will be much faster than the speed of development in the south from scratch, and the gap between the enemy and us will gradually widen, and it will not be difficult to destroy the south, so I will not be as cowardly as Sima Yan!

All he was worried about was that if he was fighting in the north, how would it be good for Jiangdong to stumble and stab again? Not to mention anything else, Zu Yue is still in Jiankang, in case after Zu Li's death, his subordinates fall into the hands of that kid again, will he be more inclined to the north or the south? No one can say. After all, these years attach great importance to family and blood, unless Zu Ti survives until his son is an adult, Zu Yue is a legitimate successor, and even he may not be able to stop him.

Therefore, for the Jiankang regime, we must not ignore it, and we must have some planning. What he discussed with Zu Ti was to try to attract overseas Chinese to return to the north as much as possible, so as to weaken Jiankang's manpower and material resources, but I am afraid that this will also have a certain counterproductive effect.

Now it's one ape building a house, and nine apes are demolishing it, and I took away all the nine troublemakers, do you look at the speed of building this house?

Besides, it is impossible to force too much and too much, if Sima Rui or Wang Jia is forced to take risks, it will hinder his great cause of leveling Hu very much.

Diao Xie and Liu Kui warned Sima Rui that day that the kings of the three strategies would return to the domain, set up the king of Wu, or make Xiyang, Runan and other kings supervise Yangzhou, in fact, Pei should have also considered it, but if he really did this, it would be easy to force the Jiankang regime to rebel, and he was still weak now, and it was impossible for him to attack Hu Kou in the north and resist the thieves in the south, and be the enemy of most of the world. Therefore, these strategies should be put aside for the time being and used later.

In short, before he pacified Yongzhou, let alone Sima Rui, even Sima Bao could only temporarily restrain him, so for a long time after he took power, he pretended that the Jiankang regime did not exist, and he never issued any edict by order. Pei Wei once said about this: "If there are wise and resourceful people in Shangkang and Jiankang, or loyal and upright ministers, they will definitely ask for orders to come to Chang'an to meet first, so as to observe the movements of the imperial court." If he is willing to come, he can take advantage of the opportunity to plot against him; If they don't come, they have nothing to fear. "If you really don't have any sensitivity to the changes in the general trend of the world, that kind of small group will be trampled into powder in minutes.

Pei Cai thought deeply about this, so he waited for a while, but when he didn't see any movement, he began to plot to seize the four counties of Yongxi. And on the day he returned to Chang'an City, there was an assassination, saying that the king of Langya sent Liu Kui, the prime minister, to pay respects.

Pei Gai couldn't help but smile at Pei Wei: "There are people in Jiangdong, which are different from Qinzhou. Then he thought about it, Liu Kui and Liu Dalian he naturally knew, but when he was in Jiankang before, he had not dealt with much, and this person's figure in history was quite vague I knew what his position was and what he had done, but his specific temperament and personality could not dig out much information from his memory.

Pei Wei said: "Wen Yue can be seen, I will retire first." "Pei should say, uncle, don't leave yet" After avoiding the screen for the time being, he watched his personal situation for me. ”

After Pei Wei hid, Pei Cai invited Liu Kui in. But Liu Dalian didn't come alone, there was another one behind him, who reported his position and name, but Guo Pu, the secretary of the department.

Prime Minister Si Zhi was originally a Han official, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was established in the fifth year of Yuanjia, more than 2,000 stones, responsible for assisting the prime minister to supervise hundreds of officials, report illegality, and rank above the captain of the school; At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the prime minister was not placed, so the division was changed to Situ and abolished. At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the prime minister was not placed until Sima Lun claimed to be the prime minister, and then Sima Ying, Sima Yue, etc., until now Sima Bao and Sima Rui have to serve as prime ministers, and the official position of the prime minister Sizhi returned to the court.

In comparison, the secretary next to Si Zhi is a sesame mung bean official, and he is not even as thin as a county lord.

However, Pei Gai was quite interested in the little official Guo Pu, and just greeted Liu Kui, and then turned to Guo Pu and asked him, "Who is Qing?" Guo Pu arched his hand and replied: "I am from Hedong and Wenxi, and I am the same as Pei Gong." ”

Pei Cai smiled and said that it was no wonder that "Wen Qing's words are quite familiar." ”

The official language of the Jin Dynasty was Henan dialect, which was often called "Heluo language" in later generations, because the capital was here, but because of the vast territory, it was inevitable that each place would have its own dialect, and sometimes it really affected communication. For example, Wu Yin, the so-called "dumb and ridiculous is hard to hear", not to mention the common people, those scholars who do not plan to enter the court as officials, and only seek rural officials, it is estimated that most of them are still a mouthful of "bird language".

As for Pei Gai himself, he is a genuine Heluo dialect, because he followed his father as an official in Luoyang since he was a child, Pei Tongran was the same. But after all, his hometown is in Hedong, and the distance between the two places is not far, and there are some differences in pronunciation, such as the Beijing urban dialect and suburban dialect of later generations, and people come from time to time in his hometown, or he occasionally returns to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and he is familiar with the Hedong dialect. Now Pei Gai's soul, although he knows Guo Pu, he doesn't remember where he is from, but borrowing the memory of this life, as soon as the other party speaks, he feels so kind, so he asks.

The key is that as a history lover in later generations, I know Guo Jingchun, but for Pei Gai in this world, who will pay attention to a poor boy in his hometown?

But after asking this sentence, it's over, he has to leave Guo Pu behind and talk to the main owner Liu Kui first. After a few words, after greetings, Liu Kui took out a roll of paper from his sleeve and presented it with both hands. A servant took it and handed it to Pei Gai, who unfolded it and took a look, it turned out to be a letter written by Sima Rui to himself.

The letter is four and six, and I don't know which staff member was asked to write it, Pei should know Sima Rui, the literary style is limited, and he has ten lines at a glance, and he chooses the big one to read. At the beginning of the letter, first of all, congratulations to Pei Gai on the success of the Northern Expedition, and then entered the ruling dynasty, after a few words of compliment, he reaffirmed the deep friendship between Sima Yue and Sima Rui's faction and the two generations of the Pei family, including you as the nephew of Concubine Pei, and I also respect Concubine Pei as my own uncle. When I went to the central part of the country, I began to talk about state affairs, saying that I had always been worried that the Son of Heaven was in Guanzhong, forced by Hu Kou, and the situation was precarious. Thanks to Wen Yue and your ancestor Shizhi for helping me fulfill this wish, "Not only has it been a great contribution to the country, but there is also a great virtue in the lonely, and I have not dared or forgotten." ”

So now that you have recovered Henan and killed Liu Yao, the transportation route from Jiankang to Chang'an is finally unblocked, and there is no need to cross the mountains and mountains from the west of Jingzhou and travel on dangerous roads. As a vassal king, I have been paying tribute for a long time, although it is a necessity, but now I have to pay tribute.

Therefore, he sent Prime Minister Sizhi Liu Kui to pay tribute, and also offered you a gift. Pei Gai read this, jumped directly to the end of the article, and sure enough, he made a list of gifts, including: Yue Bu Ten Sections, Celadon One Box, Zhenbei and Pearl in One Box...... It's really not much, and its value is limited, just for a gesture.

Flip back and continue to read the letter, it is a long piece of soup, it is nothing more than that there may have been some misunderstanding between us before, and now Liu Kui is sent to explain, hoping to bridge the rift and work together to assist the country. Pei Cai couldn't help but wonder, so he asked Liu Kui: "In the book, I and the king of Langya, I am afraid of the gap, but I don't know where the gap is?" ”

Liu Dalian replied respectfully: "Before that, the prince entered Henan, and the king was blinded by Xiaoxiao, thinking that the war was unfavorable, so he urgently summoned the second prince to return to the south, and risked the failure of the Northern Expedition. ”

Pei Gai asked, "Who is Xiaoxiao?" ”

Liu Kui replied bluntly: "Yu Yuangui." ”

"What should the king do?"

"He has been stripped of his official position, and he has been dismissed as a concubine."

Pei Cai heard this news for the first time, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then pouted As far as I know, at least before I entered Chang'an to govern, Yu Liang also called for wind and rain in the Jiankang Prime Minister's mansion, and even once made Sima Rui issue an order to "lock the river". If Yu Liang was really punished for ordering the withdrawal of the army, why wait until now?

Du, Li, and Wei returned north with their dependents, walking slower than Liu Kui, and now they have not yet arrived in Chang'an, but they have also sent a letter from someone in advance, and Pei should return to Chang'an City and continue, naturally knowing about the "lock river".

But it was inconvenient for him to use this to question Liu Kui, he would inevitably seem too petty, and he would be disrespectful to Sima Rui, so he only asked: "Slander and confusion, how many times will the Northern Expedition not end, so will you stop your job?" "This kind of big crime, no matter what, it should be discussed, even if it is executed, it is not unjust!

Liu Kui replied almost without hesitation that he was planning on the road, and he had already considered various possibilities and said: "The king of Langya has to build a healthy town, stabilize Jiangdong, Yu Yuan's rules are practical and powerful, and he remembers his previous achievements, so he is exempted from the death penalty." And although he said in vain, fortunately the second prince did not follow the chaos and overcame the old capital, and there was no major damage in the end, but Dai Ruosi was killed by bandits on the way back, and the thought made people sad......" As he spoke, he raised his sleeves to wipe his eyes.

The meaning of Liu Dalian's words, how Dai Yuan died, we all know in our hearts, if it wasn't your people, it must be the black hand of the ancestors. You've already killed one of you, isn't that enough? Why do you have to die brightly?

It was inconvenient for Pei to dwell on this topic any more, so he changed his words and pretended to be magnanimous: "I know that it is not the king's intention to withdraw from the army, and I will be confused by the villain, so I will not obey the order." Then I will not complain against the king, and why should the king bother himself? ”

When Liu Kui heard this, he did not answer immediately, but first observed Pei Gai's expression, and then said straight to the point: "Because there are rumors that the court wants to make the kings return to the domain, I am afraid that some villains will lobby Pei Gong with this word, so the king sent the last official to pay his respects." ”

Previously, the two had a conversation, sentence after sentence, and neither side stumbled, but now that he got to the point, Pei Gai couldn't help but think about it a little, and then replied cautiously: "All the kings have their own countries, and they have migrated because of chaos, and now the Central Plains has been decided, why don't you want to return?" ”

Although I have meant this, I have never shown it to outsiders, and of course I will mention it to my own people, I believe they will not go around preaching it, so where did you hear about it? Questioning like this is meaningless at all, Pei should not ask Liu Kui. He knew very well that Liu Kui was representing the Jiankang regime, and used rumors as an excuse to tactfully state: King Langya will never leave Jiangdong for the time being! So he only asked: Why don't you want to go back?

Liu Kui replied: "The Central Plains is only predetermined, Hu Kou has not been destroyed, and the kings are really not suitable to return to the vassal." Pei Gong Rongyu, Xiyang County is in southern Henan, Nandun County, Runan Kingdom is in western Henan, Pengcheng is in Xufang, although it has been recovered, the time is still short, the place is not quiet, and the king's property is lost, it is difficult to return......"

Pei Gai smiled and asked, "What about King Langya?" ”

Liu Kui didn't talk about Sima Rui first, but turned his head and said Sima Bao: "The king of Nanyang guards Qinzhou, and he wants to prevent Ba Yi from jumping north, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to leave for the time being...... "You have to be able to persuade Sima Bao to return to the domain first, and then talk about Sima Rui when it's over, right?" But is Sima Baoken leaving? Why did Sima Rui go back to Langya first?

Finally, he talked about Sima Rui: "King Langya was ordered to cross to the south, overcoming thorns and thorns, and the road was ragged for several years, and he only got the first peace." However, there were Chen Min and Qian Zongyi in the past, Du and Hu Zeng were in chaos, and now Wu Xingzhou and Shen are still dissenting. I am afraid that if the king returns to the domain, Jiankang has no clan to guard, and the small people will seek to succeed in vain, and they will provoke each other, and the work of several years will inevitably be ruined. And the state is committed to Pingyang and Bashu, trying to destroy the usurpers and return to one, it is really not appropriate to mess with Jiangnan again, please think twice. ”

Pei Gai smiled and asked: "Only King Langya can calm Jiang Donghu?" ”

Liu Kui nodded without hesitation: "Duke Pei once built a Jiankang, and naturally knew that the overseas Chinese in Nandu and the natives of Jiangdong had a deep disagreement and were endless, only the vassal king of the clan could convince the two sides and reluctantly cooperate, if they changed their surnames, there would be chaos." However, if the kings of Xiyang and Nanton do not have the generosity and popularity of the king of Langya, they can make the generation? Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and added: "And today's Jiankang government, out of Wang Maohong, the heavy army on the river, no Wang Chuzhong, the minister of the Wang family's own king's domain, only believe in the king." ”

Pei Gai shook his head slightly: "Not necessarily...... How is the king of Langya like the king of the East China Sea? ”

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