Pei Tong Pei Xingzhi is from a relatively humble background among Zhu Pei - he is a concubine, and he is the elder, especially since there is a powerful and powerful eldest brother Pei Xu, who has a strong desire to control...... I think that when the country was built, whether it was Xi Pei or Dong Pei, the big guys were against Pei Tong Feng Gong, thinking that it was enough to give him a county marquis.

Although Pei Tong met Pei Ying earlier, and to be honest, Pei Xu and Pei Xuan came to vote, and there is no lack of credit for Pei Tong's matchmaking; But after all, he is not good at literature and martial arts, except for being a little sharp and good at talking, Pei Xingzhi has almost no strengths. And since the dragon, Pei Tong has not established any miraculous feats or honors to show off.

Therefore, the Pei clan of the East and the West is in harmony on the surface, but in fact, they are secretly competing, and Dong Pei naturally pointed the breakthrough point to Pei Tong, and looking at the meaning of Xi Pei, he didn't care about abandoning Pei Tong and exchanging greater benefits with Dong Pei. Although Pei Xingzhi is mediocre, after all, he was in the middle of the Jin Dynasty, and he still has this bit of political sensitivity, but he is not at ease.

Once, I chatted with a doorman and asked, "If Liu Heng, Liu Yao and others come to surrender early, can they avoid death?" ”

The doorman said: "If he takes the initiative to return, it will be inconvenient for the court to be sentenced to death, but after three or five years, it will inevitably be Cao Wei today." ”

Pei Tong smiled: "I can always live three or five more years......"

The doorman said: "Its meaning, I would rather be the king in a distant country than be the fish and flesh of the Chinese dynasty." ”

When Pei Tong heard this, he immediately thought about it, and after thinking carefully for several days, he finally made up his mind and ran to Pei Gai to ask for the king.

But as soon as he came up, he made it very clear that I only want "King Han", and the other two are resolutely not accepted.

Compared with the so-called Xia and Yue, the distance between "Han" and the Central Plains is still relatively close, and the Central Plains scholars also know a little more about the surrounding Goguryeo and Sanhan. In addition, the sea route is passed, it is said that from Huiji County to the ship, in Qingzhou to do a turnover, you can go straight to Sanhan, then Pei Tong calculates the distance, if I still want to come back, five thousand miles by land, two or three months by horse, the sea route may be faster.

This is not much different from when he traveled thousands of miles from Chang'an to Linhuai to canonize Pei Gai for Sima Ye, and he had to bypass the Central Plains and fight back and forth.

In Pei Tong's mind, Pingjiangnan is still far away, although Jiangnan is down, and then there are diplomatic relations and Guangzhou, I don't know that it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse; Besides, in the southern miasma, the epidemic is raging, so I am afraid that I will have my life to go and not to return. The same is true in the Western Regions, it is said that the west out of the Yumen is the Gobi, thousands of miles of barren beaches, few cities, and the people only live by water and grass...... I have never been exiled to the Western Regions, and I have never heard of anyone being exiled to the Western Regions!

So in comparison, Sanhan may not be a too bad place, and with the backing of Pingzhou Liu Yan and Murong Diao, if you can ask the next dynasty to come and make the two families help, 350,000 soldiers will be available in a moment. Even if I can't really expand my territory, it shouldn't be difficult to defend the two counties I have sealed.

Although it is estimated that there are only hundreds or thousands of households in those two counties, after all, they can appoint themselves as officials, and they can be dethroned from their hearts, with the respect of the vassal king, even if they order the whole country to pay tribute to young girls to serve the lord, no one should dare to oppose it.

I can think of this, the brothers can't think of it, even if the two uncles are too old to brave the wind and frost, maybe some of the brothers will covet this title of King Han after considering it...... If no one grabs it back, that's it, in this case, no, I have to strike first!

If the place is really not deserted, after a few years, crying and crying, and casually finding an excuse - for example, not adapting to the water and soil, seriously ill and dying - to ask for the withdrawal of the feudal domain and return to the country, the emperor may not refuse to agree. Taking the opportunity, he was able to avoid the dispute between the east and the west, so as to wait until they really decided the winner.

That's why he came to ask for the seal, Pei should be overjoyed, and immediately stroked Pei Tong's back and said: "I know that I have far-sighted ambitions, and I am different from my brothers. ”

In order to take Pei Tong as an example, Pei Cai also made a lot of money, and immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to plan a grand canonization ceremony, officially worshipping Pei Tong as the king of Han, and taking the two counties of Haiming, Tixi and Sanhan as Korea, and agreed to bring gravel mountains and rivers, and the descendants will inherit forever.

Because Pei Gai and the important ministers reviewed the gains and losses of the past dynasties, and proposed that if the title can be passed on from generation to generation, there will be a day when the public will be full of pits and marquises, which will have an impact on the country's finances. Therefore, it is stipulated that the title should be descended from generation to generation - the prince I descends to the prince of the county, the prince of the county and the fifth prince to the marquis, and the marquis and below, and the uncle and son III. That is to say, even if the heir of the prince descends to the eleventh generation, after the fourteenth generation, he is no different from the common people - although whether the Hua Dynasty can really maintain the fourteenth generation is still two questions.

But the king of Han who is crowned today can be passed down from generation to generation and rest with the country. In Pei Cai's mind, if Pei Tong's descendants can really make the best of the land of Sanhan and rebuild it like China, sooner or later they will be swallowed by the Central Plains Dynasty with an excuse, and this probability is quite high. Even if it finally becomes independent, it should be no different from China, unlike Goryeo and North Korea in history, which use China's politics on the surface, but the connotation is very different.

Pei Tong had to use the honor guard of the vassal king, sacrifice Dai Jiu Mian and be at the forefront of the court, leaving Pei Wei, Pei Xu and other princes far behind. Pei Xingzhi is full of ambition and arrogance, and on the other hand, Zhu Pei's eyes will inevitably be hot when he sees it.

It's a pity that Xia and Vietnam are too remote, and the day of the seal is far away, and the eyes are hot, but no one dares to run to Pei Gai to ask for the seal anymore. However, their enthusiasm for chasing Xianbei in the north has invisibly increased a lot, because they will look forward to the day when the Son of Heaven will be happy and turn to the clan after the three titles of King Gao, Acting King, and King Liao are vacant? Although Mobei is bitterly cold, it is not much worse than South Korea.

In fact, Pei Tong is not the only one who covets the throne of King Han, Pei Kai also once had this idea. Because he followed his deceased father to serve as Xuansu Taishou when he was a child, he grew up in the northeast region, so the land of Sanhan may be a daunting path for others, and for him, it is not a few hundred miles away from Xuansu.

It's just that Pei Kai didn't dare to go directly to ask for the seal, but had to discuss it with his uncle Pei Wei first. Pei Wei immediately shook his head and said: "I have no heirs, the position of the prince of Donghai County, sooner or later will be passed to Jing Shu, Jing Shu will be the queen, but there is no mistake, Zai Fu can be done, why should I be greedy for the king of a foreign land?" ”

Pei Kaifu suggested: "Why don't you make Yishen (Pei Zhan) accept the lord of King Han?" ”

Pei Wei still shook his head and said: "The Western people are prosperous, Ziyu is an auxiliary minister, and Cheng Fang and others are also four or five products (referring to professional products, in fact, if you talk about titles, they are all one product), and my family is only a brother." If righteousness is done far, then you will be alone in the future, and what can you rely on? It will be rejected and even trampled on by the Hispanics! ”

After Pei Tong was appointed as the king of Han, his momentum was so strong that the Pei Kai brothers inevitably felt lost, and even Pei Wei did not say anything, but he felt a little remorse in his heart.

However, although Pei Tong has been sealed, he did not immediately become a vassal member, on the one hand, he first has to recruit people and form his own vassal team - it is impossible to go to a remote place to erect a flag alone - second, Liu Yan is still recovering Lelang and Daifang two counties, and the good news has not yet been returned.

- After saying that I will seal the two counties of Haiming and Tixi, then you must have two counties first.

In fact, in the last years of Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, because of the chaos in Hebei, the flow of bandits was everywhere, and the traffic was blocked, and the Jin court could not control the northeast region. Pei Wu and Pei Wei guarded Xuansu and Changli, and they were not allowed to move for more than ten years, and there was no way to plan from above. During the reign of Emperor Huai Yongjia, Goguryeo and Sanhan repeatedly invaded, resulting in the loss of land in the two counties of Lelang and Daifang, and they only relied on the local wealthy clans to barely hold the two counties.

That is, in the same year that Liu Kun chased Cui Yu and took Pingzhou, the city of Fangcheng was officially lost in the hands of Ma Han.

The core area of the two counties, including the hot spring plain, the Zaining plain and the Yanbai plain of the later generations, the terrain is flat, the land is also relatively fertile, the statistics of the early Jin Dynasty, Lelang has 3,700 households, and the belt is 4,900, which is not weaker than the counties of Youyou and Ping. It's just that the south of Mazishui (Yalu River) is mountainous and dangerous, and it is not easy for the army to march, and it is not easy to recover the second county as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the sea route is open, and it can transport materials by ship, from Qingzhou to Nanpu and Haiming (Haizhou), which can be somewhat helpful.

It is because Liu Yan broke Goguryeo in April, regained the town of Xi'anping, rested and died, and went south to the second county in June. Pei Tong therefore pleaded, and when the two counties were recovered, the ministers would return to the vassal - Pei should have promised.

Since he wants to set Pei Tong up as an example, of course it is impossible to force him to set off, if Pei Xingzhi can't stand firm in Korea at all, and even dies in the conflict with Sanhan, then isn't all his previous hard work in vain?

On this matter, someone played the impeachment of Liu Yan - I don't know if it has anything to do with wanting to blow Pei Tong away as soon as possible - saying that his march was slow, his teacher worked in vain, and asked for Yi Jiang. Pei should understand the intention of these ministers, who wanted to completely expel Liu Kun's forces from Pingzhou. However, considering that the battle is easy to general, the army is unfavorable, and for the time being, Liu's uncle and nephew are needed to contact and restrain Murong Xianbei, so it is dismissed.

He planned to wait for the two counties to be fully restored, and then in the name of reward, he summoned Liu Yan to return to Luo and promoted to a high position, so that China and North Korea could completely control the affairs of Pingzhou.

However, this victory is also gratifying, and it doesn't hurt to lose, after all, it's just a small fight in the northeast - Liu Yan only sent 5,000 troops, and it is said that even if the three Koreas join forces, there will be less than 10,000 soldiers and horses - Zhan Ji is already two years old, and he has been completely calm and quiet for more than a year, and the treasury has been stored for three years, so he can try to fight a big battle.

That is, as Tao Kan asked, increase the troops in Hanzhong to cut down Bayi.

I was thinking about this winter, and I was going to make a big move next autumn at the latest, but the privy envoy Zu Ti was sick again, and he was forced to resign.

In fact, in the original history, Zu Shizhi should have died a long time ago, and in this timeline, he had to take the heavy responsibility of destroying karma and regain his merits, for such a person who is obsessed with meritorious deeds, it is like taking a shot of heart booster, and it is to prolong his life for a few more years. But because of years of hard work, the old handsome man who was nearly sixty years old finally couldn't stand it anymore, so at the request of his children and grandchildren, he took the initiative to relieve himself of his heavy responsibilities and return to the house to enjoy his old age in peace.

Pei Gai was also quite pleased with this. Although it is said that when the general describes his own aspirations, he often repeats Ma Yuan's famous saying, saying: "If a man wants to die in the border field, he will be buried in horse leather and his ears will be buried, how can he lie in bed and be evil in the hands of his daughter?" "But Yu Zu Shizhi, Pei Gai always hopes that he can live to the fullest and not die because of war or depression.

Zu Ti went, that is, Jin his son-in-law Xu Liu was the privy envoy.

Pei should have greeted Guo Mo in advance, and said that you will enter the political hall sooner or later, now you might as well let the Zu family - if it weren't for the fact that Zugong's physical condition does not allow it, I originally planned to let him be the cardinal minister for a few more years, until the world is decided, this can be regarded as letting Xu Liu take his place - anyway, Xu Liu is young and has little qualifications, and the main work of the cardinal department is still in Sidao's hands?

Xu Liu, the life of Liu, is to release goodwill to appease the ancestral team. To say that the heaviest person under Zu Ti has three generals, namely Li Ju, Wei Ce and Zhang Ping, Xu Liu can be regarded as a rising generation who has been touched by the light of his marriage. Now that Zhang Ping is martyred, and Li and Wei are still alive, they will inevitably think: I will also have the opportunity to worship the prime minister for the cardinal envoy in the future. Isn't the highest ideal of the scholars to be a marquis and worship the prime minister? Hou has already obtained it, so there is only one thought of worshipping the prime minister.

And in the future, maybe Zu Lian, Zu Ji and even Guo Yu and other juniors will also have a chance.

So Xu Liu and Guo Mo docked with the Ministry of War and planned to enter the war against Badi, and when Zhen Sui heard the news, of course he would take the initiative to jump out and ask for his life. Pei Cai asked him: "Since I have allowed Qing to conquer the south of the Yangtze River and returned with glory, I will be in Bayi and let others." ”

Zhen Sui shook his head and said: "The minister is also going to be cut down, and Jiangnan is also going to be taken." Only by setting Shu one day earlier can we go down the river and capture Jing, Hunan, and even Jiang and Yang, and when the time comes, the ministers will not seek to be the commander-in-chief......"

Pei Caixin said I didn't want you to be the coach either.

“…… The minister does not seek to be the commander-in-chief, but wants to lead the people of Bashu and take a big ship to make meritorious contributions, just like Wang Jun in the past - although he is old and faint, he was killed by Shi Le, after all, he has made great contributions to the destruction of Wu......"

Pei Gai was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then understood - this is not a rough man, you have made a mistake, this Wang Jun is not Wang Jun, and the difference between the two is half a century!

I didn't plan to teach Zhen Sui a lesson-just let that guy go for the rest of his life--I heard the other party say again: "Shuzhong is mountainous, and it is not easy to march in the army, and the minister is the best at mountain warfare, even Tao Gong may not be the opponent of the minister." Then this time I will be killed, and if Your Majesty does not order me to go, who can I send? If I am forced to give credit to others, but it affects the use of troops on the front line, it is inevitable that I will lose a lot because of a small loss. ”

Pei should listen to what he said and reasoned, so he consulted with the prime ministers. Pei Xu said: "There is a comparison between the ministers, or it may not be appropriate - General Zhen is not a dog guarding the household, but a falcon that assists in hunting, if he does not let go of the rabbit for a long time, I am afraid of resentment." And now in Shu, General Zhen is indeed the best candidate, which can make up for Tao Gong's shortcomings. ”

So Pei Gai appointed Zhen Sui as the commander of the Tiger Ben army, and Lu He as the commander of the Shence army, so that he led the second army south to Hanzhong, assisted Tao Kan, and set Shu. and took the opportunity to transfer Yang Hu and Tao Zhan out of Hanzhong County.