Jin Tianzi Sima Ye is sixteen years old this year, and it will soon be his seventeenth birthday, although according to the ancient rites, men start to perform the crown ceremony at the age of twenty, and can get married, but now there are still a few people who will abide by the ancient rites at a glance? Moreover, the Sima family had killed each other's brothers and uncles and nephews before, and Sima Zhen only had one son, and he was murdered by Empress Jia, and Sima Chi had nothing to do (he had established his brother Sima Quan as the crown prince and was also killed by Liu Cong), so if Sima Ye had a good and bad life, and the close branch was cut off, did he have to give the throne to Sima Rui according to historical inertia, and even Sima Bao couldn't do it?

Only when the Son of Heaven has an heir can the authority of the imperial court be more stable.

However, Pei Gai naturally lacked this string in his mind, and Liang Fen brought up this matter a few days ago. Pei should understand Liang Fen's intentions, he hopes that the Liang family of the Wu family can produce another queen, so that his power can be stabilized - Pei Wenyue You can't easily defeat me, you can only cooperate with me.

Therefore, when Pei Gai heard this, he couldn't help but ask him: "The former Situ was also trapped in Huzhong, where did the first emperor and queen see it?" ”

Liang Fen's daughter Liang Lanbi is the queen of Emperor Sima Chi of Jin Huai, after the fall of Luoyang, she was captured with Sima Chi and escorted to Pingyang, but the figure of this woman disappeared in history, and I don't know how it ended. Now that he mentioned the matter of the queen, Pei should have remembered this one, and he immediately inquired - out of pure curiosity.

Liang Fen raised her head proudly and said, "The queen is unwilling to be humiliated, and she has already committed suicide." Otherwise, how could Liu Cong send his daughter to Emperor Yu as the wife of the country? It is said that Liu Cong treated Sima Chi quite well at the beginning, and was named the prince of Huiji County, often held banquets and entertained him, and also gave his noble Liu family - the daughter of Liu Yin, a new celebrity and Hu Han Taibao, as his wife, and was named Mrs. Huijiguo.

Come to think of it, if the Liang family doesn't die, the Liu family can only be a concubine even if they marry, how can they be the wife of the country?

I heard Liang Fen say again: "My Liang family heirloom is a family heirloom, and I value filial piety, how can I be as unbearable as a sheep?" Pei Gai smiled secretly in his heart, and said in his heart that you compare the sheep with the sacrifice of the sheep, the problem is that the Taishan goat clan is a scripture heirloom, and I don't know how high it is compared to your Wushi Liang......

At that time, Pei Gai casually said a few perfunctory words, and when he brought up this topic today, he discussed it with Zu Ti. In fact, for Pei Gai, it is best to choose a woman from the Pei family after Sima Ye, but the problem is that the Pei family is thin, and there don't seem to be any unmarried women of the right age in the branch. Taking a step back and picking people from the Xun family is also beneficial to Pei Cai, the problem is that Xun Song is just a girl, and Pei Gai preempted it, as for Xun Fan and Xun Group brothers......

"I didn't know that the Taiwei had returned to Luoyang before, and he had never issued an edict," Pei Gai asked Zu Ti, "Why don't you want to come with you?" "Xun Group is a lieutenant of the imperial court, even if I didn't know in advance that he had returned north and didn't summon him, theoretically he should come to Chang'an with you, right?

Zu Yi smiled: "Xun Gongyun should protect the capital, waiting for the Son of Heaven, and refused to enter the customs." "Xun Fan and Xun Group brothers are Sima Ye's own uncles, if they wanted to come to Chang'an, they would have come a long time ago, the problem is that the two brothers look down on the surnames in Guanzhong at all, and they don't want to be with them, so they would rather be forced to be beaten by Hu Kou near Luoyang, and even Xun Group once planned to flee to Jiankang, but they just refused to come west. Now that Luoyang has been recovered, the Xun group has even more excuses: the Son of Heaven will come back sooner or later, so I'll wait here.

Pei Cai smiled and asked, "Doesn't Xun Gong want to work with me?" ”

Zu Ti shook his head: "It's not about Wenyue, it's ...... As Wen Yue Shicai said, if the Westerners don't want the East, then the Easterners want the West? "Now the DPRK and China, except for Pei Gai, are basically all Guanzhong bureaucrats - including Liang Fen - Xun Group is afraid of being jointly dumped by them. If the Son of Heaven returns to Luoyang, it doesn't matter, you have come to my land, plus my identity and family background, are you afraid that someone will dare to scold you? It is purely geographical.

Immediately, Zu Ti said: "However, even if Xun Gong is under his knees, I am afraid that there is no suitable daughter of the Son of Heaven...... "You are dead, the Xun family has no suitable candidate for the queen."

The two began to discuss, whose woman should be the queen? Zu Ti naturally thought about the big family, and he had to be a first-class family to be qualified; Although Pei Gai doesn't value the family, it is also inconvenient to go against the times - besides, the emperor is courting his wife, although it is not a trivial matter, why should I be equal to him?

It's a pity that after thinking about it, the first-class family is either as unsuitable as Pei and Xun, or the Langya Wang clan moves south, or the Qinghe Cui clan is trapped in the enemy territory, and has no choice but to retreat. Zu Ti said: "The so-called 'Chengnan Wei Du, go to the sky three feet', the Jingzhao family, there are no more than these two families...... Chang'an is located in Jingzhao County, there are many wealthy families, but only Wei and Du can be mentioned - such as Song Zhe and Song Chang's Song family, they are completely unqualified.

Who else is there in Webster, Pei should not know, he must be visited, as for Du's, he is familiar with it...... It's a pity that I originally hired Miss Du, who has already married into the Xiyang Wang family and is the concubine of the prince Sima Bo, otherwise it is quite suitable - even if she is two years older than Sima Ye, it will not hurt.

I heard Zu Li say again: "It's a pity, if you cross north and return to Hedong, there are many Xian clans, and most of them are related to Wenyue...... "During the Wei and Jin dynasties, there were at most two or three families in other counties, and the Hedong clan could take a dustpan!" Regardless of the Pei family for the time being, there is also the Jia family who once co-ruled with them - that is, Jia Kui, Jia Chong, and Jia Nanfeng's family, originally from Xiangling, originally belonged to Hedong, and was later separated into Pingyang County. In addition, there are Liu's, Xue's, Liang's, Wei's, Bao's, Biqiu's, and so on......

Pei Cai heard what Zu Ti said, and couldn't help but bow his head and groan, and only raised his head after a while and said: "Liu and Wei saw that they migrated to the south of the Yangtze River, although Hedong has not recovered now, after all, Henan has been decided, why don't I and Shizhi send a book to summon us to return to the north?" In addition, there are Xingyang Zheng clan, Taishan Goat clan, Nanyang Xu clan, Chen Liuruan clan, Chen Jun Yuan clan, Langya Zhuge clan, Henan Yu clan, Zhongshan Zhen clan, etc., can also be summoned ...... "He did not mention Langya Wang and Yingchuan Yu, it is estimated that those two families will die next to Sima Rui and refuse to return."

Zu Ti couldn't help but smile and said: "This is a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, why do you have to obtain Shu land to deter Jiangdong?" ”

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The gossip often spreads faster than the official documents delivered through formal channels, and the news of Pei Gai and Zu Ti recovering Henan, and then Pei Gai's entry into the customs, spread to the Jiangnan region as early as possible. Many overseas Chinese seemed to have seen a ray of light in the dark, and under the joy, they immediately packed up and returned north.

Of course, the first thing to set off is mainly some poor families, one property and population are limited, and you can go on the road with a bag; The second is to migrate to the south of the Yangtze River, and if you can't get the power of the big clan, you can't share the money, and you can't fight the head snake in the south of the Yangtze River when you retreat, and it's really difficult to find a way to survive if you stay there, I'm afraid that you don't have to have two generations, and you will be confused with everyone and Li Shu - now that you have the opportunity to return to your hometown, how can you be delayed?

As for the slightly higher families, most of them are still waiting, one is a big family, and it is difficult to relocate, and the other is if it is difficult to return to the Central Plains, and the Hu people are killed again, then won't they be blind? Not only is it difficult to return to the hometown, but even the power and industry that were forcibly pulled out of the mouths of the raccoon dogs when they moved south have also been lost. If you wait for the second time to cross to the south, where is there still your home in Jiangdong!

Especially led by the so-called "one hundred and two peng" under Sima Rui's curtain, all of them are "serious". You must know that in addition to the Langya Wang family, Runan Zhou family and other surnames, the vast majority of overseas Chinese who can squeeze into the Jiankang regime are also some original second-rate families - including the Yingchuan Yu family - if the world is peaceful and in his hometown, he may not be able to become an official or even hold great power. As the saying goes, "Rather be a chicken's mouth, not a cow queen", the Central Plains is prosperous for the priests, how can the remote places in Jiangdong be the slaughter - besides, the counties of the Central Plains today may not be able to retain half of the household registration of the past.

The first famous family to make a move was Fan Yangzu's family. Since Zu Yue broke up with his brother Zu Li, he stayed in Jiangdong and was appointed by Sima Rui as Peng, which was on a par with Chen Liu, Ruan Fu and others. But he was not satisfied with this, and he was bent on following the third brother to gallop across the field and chase Hu Kou in the north, so the Northern Expedition was prosperous, so he ran to ask his half-brother Zuna, you are more handy with Director Wang, and tell him, let me cross the river.

However, Zuna has never looked down on this fourth brother, and often said: "It is far better to be overpowered, and if you want to protect the family, you can't let it gain power." "I thought it would be best to put him under my nose, so as not to make any trouble, so I pretended to be deaf and dumb and ignored Zu Yue's request.

When the news of Luoyang Kefu came, Zu Yue couldn't hold back anymore and ran to Sima Rui in person. Sima Rui had no idea, so he asked Wang Dao and Yu Liang first, and then asked his cronies Liu Kui and Diao Xie, and everyone said that leaving the ancestral covenant could restrain Zu Li - Zu Na can't succeed, after all, he is not a mother and a compatriot - it is better not to let him cross the river. Zu Yue was angry, so he planned to be alone, secretly cross north, and go to Zu Li.

Before the Zuyue trip was made, the other three families moved first, that is, the Wei family, which was originally from Hedong, as well as the Jingzhao Du family and the Jiangxia Li family.

Wei Zhan Wei Daoshu, his uncle was originally Pei Caicong's aunt, and his sister married Li Ju and Li Maoyu - it was the famous calligrapher "Mrs. Wei"; Du Yi Du Anqing married Pei Gai's sister. Therefore, these three families surround the Pei family, support each other, and the relationship has always been good.

Of course, those who are in-laws with the Pei family also include the Sima family and the Langya Wang family - Pei Gai's maternal grandfather is Wang Yan's cousin Wang Rong. However, "the in-laws of my in-laws are not my in-laws", Wang Daoke did not take care of the three families of Wei, Li, and Du because of this, even if Mrs. Wei gave the young "book saint" Wang Xizhi, his brother and husband failed to squeeze into the "one hundred and two peng". In fact, in a sense, these three are all affected by Pei Cai......

Therefore, after Pei Gai crossed to the north, they could only rely on Pei Shi, the princess of the East China Sea, although Pei Shi had a very respectful name, but under the deliberate precautions of Wang Dao and others, they could not exert any influence on politics - unless Sima Yi could really cultivate his own power. The three families of Wei, Li, and Du were depressed because of this, and when they heard that Henan had been decided, they all had the heart of returning to the north, but I am afraid that the situation will still be repeated, so they will wait and see for the time being.

Finally, Pei should have to take charge of the Chang'an government, and the letter he wrote to Pei's almost arrived in Jiankang, Wei Zhan and others were overjoyed, and after running to ask Concubine Pei for instructions, they hurriedly packed up, went out of Jiankang City, and sent straight to the ferry. However, when I arrived at the place, I saw that on the vast Yangtze River, there was not a single sail in sight, and all the ships were tied to the port, and none of them set sail - which was the ferry we set?