There was nothing to say all night, and the next day the day was just dawning, and before Pei Gai got up, he heard someone knocking on the door from a distance.

Pei Shi lived in the upper room, and Pei Gai slept in a small room on the side, because the yard was too big, and there were still dozens of steps away from the gate, if the other party did not knock on the door but knocked on the door, it is estimated that he might not be able to hear.

Struggling to get up, put on clothes and shoes, and walked to the courtyard, I saw that the maid named Yun'er also happened to come out of the main room, and I wanted to run to answer the door, but when I saw Pei Gai, I naturally stopped, and lowered my head with my hands. Pei Gai nodded at her, then raised his voice and asked, "Who is outside the door?" ”

I heard a familiar voice, and a smile sounded from outside the door: "Zhang Bin is here to worship, can Mr. Pei get up?" ”

Pei Gai was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly replied: "It is not neatly dressed, it is inconvenient to entertain guests, Mr. Zhang, please wait a while." Hurry up and wrap her hair, put on her clothes, and Yun'er also brought over a basin of cold water with a very good eye, asking him to rinse his mouth first, and then wipe his face. When Pei Cai was almost cleaned up, Yun'er went to open the door, and saw Zhang Bin leading an old army, smiling all over his face, and entered.

The two saluted, and Zhang Bin asked the old soldier to put down the things he was holding—they were not valuable, but they were just some simple food and a pot of thin wine. Zhang Bin looked at the courtyard and house, and apologized: "Last night, when Ming Gong was called, I had to go, and I treated Mr. Pei slowly, please forgive me - the courtyard that Jian Zhifan was looking for is barely worthy of the identities of Mr. Pei and Princess Pei." ”

Although this person put his figure quite low, a "sir", and his face was full of smiles, in Pei Gai's opinion, he naturally had a sense of majesty of the superior, as if the leader had come to inspect. Searching for memories, this kind of natural coercion on others, Pei Gai has only seen it in a few vassal kings of the Sima family before, and it is difficult to find it even on the dead ghost father Pei Yan, as well as Zhang Hua and other court ministers.

By the way, Shi Le's aura is actually very similar, but it is slightly different, in comparison, when the smiling face is opposite, Shi Le seems to be more kind, of course, he is angry, that kind of terrible should also be incomparable to Zhang Bin - although the contact time is too short, Pei Gai has not seen Zhang Bin shine.

I don't know why, Pei Gai can still maintain a neither humble nor arrogant posture in front of Shi Le, but in front of Zhang Bin, he feels that he is naturally shorter. This is probably because he was determined to die at the beginning, so he deliberately tensed up, and refused to fake his color to Shi Le, and then found that Shi Le was bent on recruiting himself, and there would be some sense of superiority in his heart; And since he has joined Hu Ying and become a colleague with Zhang Bin, there is no such sense of superiority, and it is not good to behave too hostilely.

But more importantly, Shi Le and Zhang Bin's eyes were equally sharp, but Pei Cai naturally thought that Shi Le might not be able to see through himself - after all, Wufu considered different issues from scribes. But Zhang Bin is different, his ambition and ability to conquer the world are far inferior to Shi Le, but when it comes to conspiracy and tricks, he is really above Shi Le, and he is a scholar himself, so he naturally has a self-confidence that can see through what all scholars think. Although Pei Gai is not a scholar in this life, he will inevitably be overwhelmed by the other party's self-confidence.

- Originally, when people get along with each other, the growth and decline of arrogance is relative, not absolute.

Therefore, when the two sides met, Pei Cai naturally bent his waist slightly lower than Zhang Bin—although Zhang Bin was shorter than him—and said that you are too polite, you are old, and there is no need to call me "sir".

Zhang Bin smiled: "That being the case, how about I hold a big one, and also call 'Pei Lang'?" ”

Pei Caicai nodded, and saw Zhang Bin slightly restrain his smile, and said in a low voice: "Pei Lang, before Ming Gong Xu Qing's deputy governor of the 'Gentleman's Battalion', this matter may be difficult to cooperate." ”

When he said this, he kept looking at Pei Gai's expression from the corner of his eye. In Zhang Bin's opinion, if Pei should really surrender to Shile and want to assist Shile to make a big career - just like himself - he will inevitably have all the expectations for the position, once he knows that he will not be the deputy governor, he may be disappointed, and even angry, even if he refuses to show it, he will inevitably be anxious to ask for a reason.

But Pei Gai, as he had expected before, was light and light, and it seemed that he didn't take it seriously at all, and he didn't ask why the promise couldn't be fulfilled, but just gave in: "Please Mr. Zhang talk indoors." ”

Zhang Bin said no, the weather is good today, let's sit in the courtyard and drink a few glasses of thin wine - while the army has not yet set off, let's talk and make friends.

So Pei Cai instructed Yun'er to take a table, and the two sat down opposite each other, there was no table, and the old army spread food on the table and between the two, and took two bowls and poured wine. Pei should have saluted Zhang Bin first, but he didn't drink heavily, just slightly touched his lips - the wine was not good, and it was already a little sour.

Zhang Bin also took a sip, then put down the bowl, and said affectionately: "With Pei Lang's background, coupled with the love of Duke Ming, he should serve as the deputy governor." However, Xu Jiwu and Cheng Ziyuan have quite a few complaints, Yun Peilang is new, and he has not made an inch, so he will be appointed as the deputy governor at this moment, I am afraid that the people will not be convinced......"

When Pei Gai heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then responded: "I really don't know these two. ”

In these years, people like to call the table when they meet, such as Zhang Bin, Zhang Mengsun, Pei Gai, Pei Wenyue, and so on. The reason why Shi Le called the latter "Pei Lang" was because he was young and respected his deceased father, so it seemed cordial to call him so - Jiao'an and other rough people were all called like this; As for Zhang Bin's follow-up, he treats Pei as a close junior. Pei Gai had roughly read the "Book of Jin" and "Zitong" in his previous life, and he had also seen a lot of popular texts related to this period of history, but when it came to the ancients, there were many names, and the table words were introduced when they first appeared, and they were rarely mentioned repeatedly in the text.

So in the hostile camp, he only remembered Liu Yuan's character Yuanhai, Shile's character Shilong, and Shihu's character Jilong, and even Zhang Bin's character Mengsun, if it wasn't for Shile's words, he wouldn't have any impression.

At that time, scholars were still dominated by single names, and Xu Jiwu and Cheng Ziyuan mentioned by Zhang Bin all sounded like they were calling words, how could Pei Ying think of it?

Zhang Bin immediately introduced him: "Xu Jiwu is famous, and Dunqiu is also a person; Cheng Ziyuan is famous, and Jizhou people are also. They are all confidants of the Ming Gong, and they are also in the 'gentleman's camp', and they want to be the deputy governor for a long time. ”

Xu Guang, Cheng Yao? Pei should be a little impressed, it seems that those two guys later took charge of Houzhao political affairs, and then they were both slaughtered by Shi Hu.

He raised his eyes and glanced at Zhang Bin's expression slightly, his eyes showed a little doubt, and it seemed to be a little sarcastic, as if to say, "Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by this?" Sow discord? ”

The post of deputy governor that was originally promised can't be fulfilled now, so Zhang Bin came to inform him, which is normal; said that he was in favor of this proposal - "With Pei Lang's background, coupled with the love of Ming Gong, he should serve as the deputy governor", which is also an ordinary polite remark, and he may not want to take the opportunity to get closer; But you have to name names, saying that it was because of Xu Guang and Cheng Yao's opposition that the matter was stopped, what is the intention? He even pointed out that Xu and Cheng "have wanted to be deputy governors for a long time", indicating that the reason why they oppose it is purely out of jealousy, not as they said on the surface, "Pei Lang is new and has not made an inch, and he will be appointed as deputy governor at this moment, I am afraid that the people will not be convinced", out of public intentions - your intention to instigate is too obvious, right?

Pei Gai's eyes naturally fell completely on Zhang Bin's eyes, and Zhang Bin didn't give the slightest explanation, just smiled faintly, raised the bowl again, and directly revealed the matter. In fact, Zhang Bin was thinking in his heart: "This kid is still a little knowledgeable." ”

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Originally, Shi Le recruited scholars from the Central Plains everywhere, although he brought back a young man this time, it was not a too bizarre thing, after all, Pei should not care how young he was or what his ability was, his family and official products were there, even if it was just a trick of a thousand gold and horses, and if he moved it over as an ornament, the role was at least greater than that of Jian Dao and others. Zhang Bin didn't take it very seriously at first, and it was not until last night that Shi Le summoned the generals and staff officers to discuss the matter of attacking Luoyang in the north, and the discussion lasted until the middle of the night, which came to an end. Shi Le said casually, I have brought that Pei Gai as a new one, and I have already promised him the post of deputy governor of the "Gentleman's Battalion".

Except for one Jiao'an, all the big guys were shocked and dissuaded Shi Le. In fact, not to mention Xu Guang and Cheng Yao, who have always coveted this position, even Zhang Bin begged Shi Le to think about it carefully, and then consider it in the long run-the "gentleman's camp" is full of talents, not all of them are the kind of indiscriminate filling of the number of simple roads, with a newcomer, or a weak crown young man as the deputy governor, how can everyone be convinced?

Shi Le did not go against everyone's wishes, and finally had to say that the matter was suspended. Then the generals and staff officers all withdrew, and Shi Leguang left Zhang Bin alone and continued to talk - he relied on Zhang Bin as a confidant and a humerus, which was not a strange thing, and everyone had long been accustomed to it.

Zhang Bin originally thought that there were still some military details that needed to be finalized, but he didn't expect Shi Le to directly tell him about the process of recruiting Pei Gai. Of course, it was already very late, Shi Le didn't make a long speech, but just roughly said, Pei should have been caught by me in Ningping City, his attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, and he dared to confront me in person, without fear of death, very different from Wang Yanzhi and others, I admired him very much, plus I revered his deceased father, so I killed all the Jin officials, but left his life alone. I repeatedly solicited, but he resolutely refused at first, but later found out that I had arrested his aunt Concubine Pei, and in order to save Concubine Pei, he agreed to stay, but put forward three conditions......

When talking about "Hu Ying's Three Things", Zhang Bin felt that it was very interesting and fresh, and he listened very carefully. Pei Gai said that he "descended the stone but not the Han", Zhang Bin felt himself deeply, and said in his heart that in fact, I am almost the same, but I didn't say it so clearly.

When he saw that the government was chaotic and he could not be reused, he simply took the opportunity of illness to resign from the post of governor under the account of King Zhongqiu and lived in seclusion at home. Zhao Jun is also one of the hubs of the Central Plains, seeing that Tian'er has soldiers and horses from all walks of life, you fight for me, Zhang Bin watched coldly, carefully screened, and finally determined that Shi Le is a hero who can achieve great things, so he carried a long sword and ran to Shi Leyuan Gate to shout and beg to see. Although Shi Le accepted him, he didn't pay much attention to it at first, and Zhang Bin had the opportunity to offer many clever plans, and he finally determined the status of the first staff officer in Shi Le's army.

Zhang Binxin said that I haven't seen Liu Yuanhai again, my ambition is impossible, it is impossible to dedicate it to him, I only recognize Shi Le alone - that Pei Gai said "Falling stones do not descend to Han", how similar to my state of mind is my ear! In this regard, he had a good impression of Pei Gai.

It just so happened that Shile hoped that he could take a closer look at Pei Gai and give him more guidance. He said that I knew that Pei should have surrendered to me, not necessarily out of sincerity, but that the Lord would choose his ministers, and the ministers should choose his masters, and he should leave enough time for him to observe me, to understand me, to admire me, to look up to me, and to be loyal to me. This kind of water grinding kung fu requires you to worry a lot about Mr. Zhang, after all, you scholars have a common language.

After Zhang Bin left in front of Shi Le, he basically didn't sleep much, and he reviewed the official documents for a while, inspected the city defense, and then ran to find Pei Gai just after dawn. He came up to bring up the problem of the difficulty in fulfilling the promise of the deputy governor, that is, to test Pei Gai first, to see if this young man has the ambition to achieve a career, there is a certain possibility that he will stay in the army for a long time, and he can really become Shile's wings and become his own helper. As for Pei Gai's ability, he didn't have much expectation—after all, he was still young, and he was a high-grade child who grew up in brocade clothes and jade, and it was normal to be gentle, and it was a miracle to be outstanding—he just wanted to test it with words, to see if this young man could hear the hidden words in his seemingly casual words.

One can be inadequate, but not spiritual. If you don't have enough talent, you can learn, you can exercise, and if you get the Master's cultivation, you can always achieve something. But if you are born without spirituality, then you will perish forever, and no matter how you teach, you will not have any good results. As a result, as soon as he asked, he could see from Pei Gai's expression alone: the little guy is very sensitive, maybe he is a talent that can be created.

As for "sowing discord", in fact, Zhang Bin does have this meaning. Xu Guang and Cheng Yao are second only to Zhang Bin in the degree of favor among the scholars in the Central Plains, and colleagues are parting with each other and competing for the first, which is the proper meaning of the question; But Zhang Bin always felt that the two guys were exaggerating and exaggerated, so he quietly suppressed them secretly, not wanting Shi Le to rely on them too much. Even if Pei Gai can't be the deputy governor, Guan Shile's words and deeds have high hopes for him, and he will definitely be able to occupy a place in the "gentleman's camp", Zhang Binya doesn't want Pei Gai to get too close to those two and be too affected by them.

But he didn't have to make it clear, saying that he didn't mean to provoke, and he didn't intend to make this kind of provocation too obvious and in-depth, he knew that even if Pei should see through his thoughts, the thorn was buried after all, and he just had to wait for the thorn to bloom.