The small court of Chang'an was originally just a grass platform team, purely Yan Ding, Jia Kai, Liang Fen and other Guanxi scholars formed a small group, supporting a close branch of the vassal king as the banner, the territory is small, and there are few soldiers and horses, so many positions are all vacant. In addition, Suo Juxiu, who was in power with him, was a person who was arrogant and jealous, and he firmly held those vacancies, but he refused to give them easily.

Seventy percent of the Chinese scholars are in the Central Plains, and thirty percent of them are in Sanhe (Henan, Hedong, and Hanoi), and there are not many outstanding people in Kansai. Before and after the "Yongjia Rebellion", ninety percent of the fugitives from the Central Plains also crossed to the south, and only one percent entered the customs. Therefore, Sima Rui got "one hundred and six peng" as soon as he established the banner of Jiankang - not that he only had one hundred and six subordinate officials, but that there were only one hundred and six famous people; Pei Gai is in Xu Fang, and Suo Qi is in Chang'an, but he basically can't get a few celebrities.

Although the number of people is small, it is one thing, but the exclusivity of the Kansai clique also plays a very bad role. So now that the Chang'an court has changed its power, Pei Gai, a Kwantung man, has to take charge of the army and political power, so naturally it should and must be, and it is more likely to change this vicious situation.

Previously, Pei Gai had just entered Chang'an, and his foothold was not stable, so he was not in a hurry to recruit the Kwantung scholars, in addition to inserting a few of his cronies into the court logically, he spent a lot of effort to recruit the opposition Kwantung scholars - such as You Yao, Wei Hong, etc., and the upcoming Du Yi. Now that Yongzhou is about to be determined, and the run-in period for his first appointment has passed, it is time to gradually eliminate the geographical barrier and truly shape the Chang'an Imperial Court into a central government governed by all Chinese scholars.

Wei Zhan, Du Yi, Li Ju and other relatives and friends are about to arrive, and the fellow Liu brothers are also very likely to enter the customs side by side, and Pei should have prepared a suitable position for them. Although there are no outstanding talents among these people, at least they serve as middle-level bureaucrats in the imperial court, or local ministers, and are barely competent. These are the ones who take the initiative to invest, which can play a thousand golden roles, and in addition, they must also take the initiative to recruit some talents.

Summoning Xun Di is to double the Yingchuan Xun clan and give the Taiwei Xun group a face; To summon Deng You is to increase the power of the Hedong people in the government in a broad sense. In addition, these two people have also lived in the Zu Ti shogunate for more than half a year, and they can serve as the spokespersons of the Zu Ti forces in the court, which is convenient for communication and cooperation between Pei Gai and Zu Ti.

In fact, before Pei Gai and Zu Ti conspired to take the initiative to summon the Nandu clan to return to the north, many families had already smelled the smell of the changing sky, and one after another, or in whole or in part, crossed the river and returned to their ancestral hometown in the Central Plains. Not long ago, after Zu Ti returned to Luoyang, he immediately sent a list to Pei Gai, which means: I want to use some people, don't grab them, but I can't use them up, you can pick the rest.

For example, the Xiao clan and Chu clan in Henan, the Yuan clan in Chen County, the Zhong clan in Yingchuan, the Xiahou clan and Huan clan in Qian County, the Zhang clan and Shan clan in Hanoi, the Xu clan in Nanyang, the Ruan clan in Chenliu, the He clan in Runan, the Wang clan in Taiyuan, and so on.

Among them, Pei Gai paid the most attention to the dragon Kanghuan of Qianjun and the king of Jinyang in Taiyuan. Long Kanghuan's original reputation was not obvious, although his ancestor was the Eastern Han Dynasty Confucian Huan Rong, the world was 2,000 stones, but in the later period of Cao Wei, there was a great Si Nong Huan Fan, because the party was with Cao Shuang and was killed by Sima Yi. His son Huan Kai was originally the prime minister of Jibei, and he was also dismissed, although Huan Kaizi Huan Hao was still out of office, but he only stopped at the public mansion Peng and Langzhong. Huan Haozi Huan Yi was therefore "lonely and poor", starting from the state master's book, and then followed the king of Qi Sima Jian to raise troops and was forced to be a lieutenant, but soon Sima Jian was killed, and he rolled back to his hometown in disgrace.

Long Kang's own branch declined, and the division of Hao County gradually became noble-as mentioned earlier, Huan Xuan was sent by Sima Rui, Beitou Zu Li, got the credit of Zu Shizhi, and was appointed as the internal history of Dongping.

Speaking of Huan Yi, "Yongjia" was difficult to get, so he took his family to the south and went to seek refuge with his old friend Yu Liang and Zhou Yi, who had appreciated him, and was signed as a decree. In the original history, he will start again from this position, and finally achieve the internal history of Xuancheng, which was attacked and killed by Su Jun's general Han Huang. The reason why Pei Gai is interested in this person is, of course, not because of his family background, reputation, or even because he is not respected for his unyielding martyrdom, but because Huan Yi gave birth to a good son.

Huan Yi had five sons, and his eldest son was the successor to the king, Xie and the ruler of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the famous minister Huan Wen Huan Yuanzi!

Of course, this year, Yue Huan Wen is still in infancy, and his fate will be completely changed because of his father's decision in the north.

Huan Yi took office, belongs to Huainan County, originally in Jiangbei, standing in the position of the Jiankang regime, as if he was an abandoned son who was thrown into a vicious way, he was quite dissatisfied, and repeatedly greeted his old friend Yu Liang and moved a place for himself. It's a pity that the official hasn't been replaced, but Yu Yuangui was framed and imprisoned by Diao Xie and Liu Kui first. Huan Yi was shocked when he heard the news, for fear that he would be implicated, so simply, I will abandon the official and return to my hometown - anyway, now that the county is the base of the ancestors, it seems that it has completely settled down.

Immediately Huan Yi exchanged letters with his brother Huan Xuan, after Huan Xuan's introduction, Zu Yi ordered it to be the order of Xingyang Mi County - Zu Shizhi did not need to sign, basically he proposed the candidate, Pei should not disagree, and Pei should agree, the imperial court's edict will naturally be issued overnight.

Pei Gai's second concern is the Wang family of Jinyang, Taiyuan. The King of Jinyang is different from Long Kanghuan, his family name is Xuanhe, and he is above the Langya Wang clan - in fact, the Langya King is also a branch of the King of Taiyuan - in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were two founding dukes in a row, namely King Hun of Jingling and King Shen of Boling. The big Sima Wang Jun, who has lost his head, is the son of Wang Shen - he is not a concubine, but an illegitimate son, only because he has no living brother, so after Wang Shen's death, he was able to attack the knighthood and embark on a smooth career.

The Boling family was originally the main branch of the Taiyuan Wang family, but now Wang Jun and his two sons - Wang Zhou and Wang Yi - were killed by Shi Le, and the main branch was cut off. In the "Yongjia Rebellion", the Taiyuan Wang clan was divided into three parts, one followed Wang Jun to Youzhou, one followed Wang Cheng to the south, and the other fled to the east, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Wang Cheng is the son of Wang Hun's younger brother Wang Zhan, known as "the first scholar in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty" by later generations, and his reputation is higher than that of Wang Dao, Zhou Yi and others, and he is now engaged in the Sima Rui shogunate. Pei Gai originally had the intention of soliciting him - because the king of Taiyuan is a big family, although the heirs of the two dukes' families are not numerous, and there are many side branches, it is said that a considerable number of them are in Liu Kun's curtain.

However, since he got Zu Ti's letter, he dispelled this idea, and he did not mention Wang Chenglai in front of Liu Kui. Honestly, what is the "First Gentleman"? Can it really play a positive role for the country and the nation? If you only want to win over the king of Taiyuan, there is a more suitable person than Wang Cheng.

The Taiyuan Wang clan regained nobility in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties, and comprehensively suppressed the king of Langya, relying not on Wang Cheng of Nandu, but on staying in the north, Wang Guang who went out of the Northern Wei Dynasty to be the history of the state assassin and Wang Jian father and son who did the degree of the branch of Shangshu and the captain of the Karasuma school. Wang Guang, Wang Yin, He Zhi and He Liu, I don't know very well, Pei should estimate that they should be the descendants of the two people written in Zu Li's letter.

These two people, one Wang Zhuo, the word Wenxuan, the other Wang Yu, the word Maoxuan, although they are both concubines, they are Wang Hun's own grandson and the son of Wang Ji. Among them, Wang Zhuo served as the prince of Jingling County, and Wang Yu took the princess of Changshan and the marquis of Minyang. "Yongjia Rebellion", the two escaped from Luoyang and migrated east without a trace, but they suddenly appeared at this time, and got the identity of Zu Ti confirmed.

Pei Caixin said what happened to the concubine? Wang Jun is not even a concubine, just an illegitimate child, didn't he also be the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang family? A duke, a marquis, enough to be illustrious, does Wang Cheng have a title? There's no fart, just relying on a loud reputation, what can you fight with these two cousins?

He had already greeted Zu Ti, and said that I want these two goods, you can leave me at least one, and when the time comes, I will summon him to the court as an official to contact the Taiyuan Wang family.

Pei Gai began to gradually recruit Kwantung scholars to enrich the Chang'an court, starting with Xun Di and Deng You.

Because of the shortage of manpower, the government and politics are complicated, and we must also pay attention to the way of balance, Pei Gai is busy all day long, and he is eager to Xun Di, Deng You, as well as Wei Zhan, Li Ju and others can enter the customs to help him - Du Yi He didn't have any hope, that guy's body is really bad, and whether he can survive to Chang'an is a matter of two words.

At the same time, he must spare some energy to pay attention to the war in the north at any time - Guo Mo and they went to fight Jiao Song, what was the result? Do you need to send another team of troops to help?

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Let's say that Guo Mo, Beigong Chun, and Dong Biao led their troops to leave Beidi County and did not pass through Xinping Yuyi, because in the original plan, their main targets were Jiao Song and Peng Fubao, and they should try not to clash with Zhu Hui - although they ordered the three counties to join forces to attack Lu Shuihu, it is estimated that Zhu Hui has a 30% chance of helping Jiao Song, and 70% of the probability of not moving; As for Zhu Huihui, he personally led the main force to the south to aid Fufeng and occupy Meiyang, although it was reasonable and expected, it could not be used as the basis for planning the layout in advance.

Therefore, the army bypassed the northeastern tip of Xinping, took the foreign trail in the north, entered Anding County from the east of Zhengning County in later generations, and then turned south and entered Xishan City. Xishan is the easternmost county of Anding, the household registration is scarce, the city is dilapidated, although the county order is signed by Jiao Song, but there are only hundreds of soldiers under his command, and they dare not block the soldiers and horses in the north, and they are forced to go out of the city to meet them.

Guo Mo was honest and unkind, and immediately took control of Xishan County-it was related to the back road of the troops and the grain transportation channel, so naturally he could not let it go. Xuan rested in Xishan County for two days, and continued westward to the east bank of the muddy water.

The muddy water is the Malian River of the later generations, poured from north to south, this is the source of Jingshui, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the East of the Sea" says: "Jingshui out of the north mountain of the Great Wall, the mountain is in the north of Yuzhi Changyuan, ......" in the Han Dynasty Beidi County has Yuzhi County, which can be proven. Nowadays, the upstream of Jingshui, which is injected into Anding County in the West, is originally called Yanzhi (rouge) water, and it was probably in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty that it was regarded as the source because of the "Hanshu Geographical Chronicles" written by Ban Gu.

The muddy water gets its name because the water carries a large amount of sediment, resulting in turbidity, bitterness, and inability for humans and animals to drink. The so-called "clear distinction between Jing and Wei", turbid and clear, the sediment in Jing water is half brought by muddy water.

As for the name of the Malian River in later generations, according to expert research, it is very "Malian" may be the sound of "Malan", because from the Western Jin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Malanqiang lived in its basin. Guo Mo and others led the army from the east, after entering Anding County, they first took over a battle with Ma Lanqiang, and the "Qiji Battalion" galloped, killing more than 100 of them, and captured nearly 1,000 car tents, and most of Ma Lanqiang was forced to flee to the north and enter the territory of the old Hanshang County. Beigong Chun took advantage of the situation and pursued him to the hometown of Yuzhi County, set up camp, and waited for news from Guo Mo.

Guo Mo and Dong Biao led the main force to the east bank of the muddy water, and sure enough, they met with the existing stable troops to set up a garrison and block the ferry - it turned out that Jiao Song had mobilized a large army to block the northern soldiers a few days ago, but he knew that the west mountain was difficult to defend, so he was forced to give up and only rely on the muddy water to stand up.

Guo Mo wrote a letter and sent someone to cross the river to spread the word to Jiao Song - my soldiers and horses from the north are coming with an edict, and your army should quickly open the road, or...... Send someone over and let's discuss how to coordinate the march?

Jiao Song reported back: "Regarding the matter of Lu Shuihu, I have asked the king of Nanyang to lead the army to help, and the east and west are flanked by him, and there is a good chance of victory, so there is no need to bother the soldiers and horses of your county - please withdraw from Anding as soon as possible." ”

This book was expected, Guo Mo immediately replied to the book, and said sincerely, saying that since we were ordered by the court, how dare we retreat without accepting the enemy? I also ask your army to open the way and allow us to cross the muddy water. If we don't need to wait for the battle, our army can protect the county and govern Linjing for Jiaofu......

Jiao Song took the book and sneered again and again: "The picture is poor! He didn't see Jiang Tong come back, but he didn't expect that kid to go to Guo Mo, he just thought that he was cowardly and ran away, or something happened on the way, or ...... Was detained by Zhu Hui? So he sent someone to see Zhu Hui and asked him to lead the Xinping troops to the north, so as to scratch the northern soldiers, and even take the opportunity to take the northern land directly. Then he didn't reply to Guo Mo anymore, just kept silent, blocking the muddy west bank.

Guo Mo waited for a day, but did not receive a reply, so he wrote a third letter according to the original plan. This time, the rhetoric was much more intense, saying that the court ordered the three counties to join forces to attack Lu Shuihu, and if you didn't let us go, you would be disobeying the order, do you want to rebel? If there is no rebellion, please cross the river immediately to discuss the crusade, or else I will be forced to meet you first for my ruthlessness!

Since he planned to turn his face, Jiao Song was not ambiguous, even if he tied the messenger to the west bank of the muddy water, cut off the head with a knife, and threw the body into the turbulent turbidity of the muddy water together.

Jiao Song's series of measures, long before the troops, Pei Gai, Pei Wei, Wei Hong and others had already anticipated them, and informed Guo Mo. Guo Mo knew that Jiao Song was the most arrogant and rude among the four county guards, and he would never allow the Beidi soldiers to enter the country.

In this regard, I urgently sent a letter to Beigong Chun, saying that it was okay, you can move.