Chapter 30: Deception

Cheng Yao once wanted to suppress Pei Gai, let him know that this deputy governor of the "gentleman's camp" is not easy to do, I have been looking at it myself for many years, but I have never been able to get it, how can you be a new young man, how can you make Shi Le want to hand over this important position to you for a while?

But he set a trap twice, and wanted to see Pei Gai's jokes, but they were easily resolved by the other party - Qu Bin said "get off by luck", but can that really be a fluke? Cheng Yao carefully studied Pei Gai's remarks about Kong Rong, and the first conclusion he came to was: This villain will give his tongue with his mouth, and he is really a father!

Celebrities and scholars talked, began with Han Ji, and then this crooked wind blew directly into the court, but whoever is in a high position, will come out of a family of scholars, and be good at debate, Zang or not, boast of withering and blowing, like Zhou Chang in the period, Ai Ai Deng Ai's generation, in this year and month at all, don't think about getting a prominent position. Wang Yan is like this, he can win the three princes purely by talking about the Qing Dynasty, and Pei Gai's father, Pei Yan, holds a lofty opinion, and it is not just to write an article, but between the government and the opposition, it is not only once to debate with others. Do you want to say that it is really a family history? This Pei Gai is so good at talking!

However, people who are good at words are often short in practice, and the original is not enough - Hu Hanguo does not attach importance to scriptures, let alone advocate pure talk. The problem is that if he gets the reuse of Shi Le, when the time comes, his tongue will be bright and lotus, and some wind will blow next to Shi Le's ears, maybe someone will be unlucky!

So could this unlucky person be himself? These days, Cheng Yao has also probed everywhere and determined that what Pei Gai said once plotted to assassinate Shi Le and Shi Le was not guilty, and that Gan An was whipped by Shi Le because he ran away, etc., are real, not made. Then this guy will be even more terrible, unless he is killed quickly, otherwise if he gets into his own slander in the future, he will definitely not be good!

But to hurt Pei Gai, how easy it is to talk about, there are still six horizontal branches in the middle. Even if Zhi Quliu didn't get very close to Pei Gai, after all, Zhang Bin ordered him to take care of (or can be interpreted as 'supervising') Pei Gai before leaving, he might not hinder himself from cleaning up Pei Gai, but he would never let Pei Gai die.

Thinking about it a little deeper, Shi Le has always despised those who talk clearly, and he will never recruit them to the curtain because Pei should be able to speak. Pei is young, in addition to the family heirloom knowledge and debating techniques, what other strengths may he have? It is said that after the battle of Ningping City, Wang Yan and the princes and ministers of Jin all coveted each other and asked for surrender, but only Pei Gai resolutely refused to surrender, and once planned to assassinate Shile. This time, Pei Gai angrily scolded Kong Rong, which also shows that this kid is very bold and not afraid of death - can he really scare Kong Jiang away by luck? Or is it purely by word of mouth? Qu Mofeng, you said it so easily, so why don't you go and try it?!

Shi Le's temper, Cheng Yao has been with each other for many years, and he has touched it more or less, and there are two points in general: one is to love talents, and anyone who has the ability wants to pull them to his side; The second is the most loyal and martyr, disgusted with cowards, or repeated villains. If you want to have a horse bone in the gold market, isn't Wang Yan's bone golden? He said that he would slaughter it. Only Pei Gai, the more he held his neck and refused to surrender, the more Shi Le wanted to recruit him, and he would not give up easily.

So Pei should help audit the account books of the craftsman camp, he angrily scolded Kong Rong, and even scolded Kong Chang, and once Kong Rong's words fell into Shi Le's ears, then someone would definitely report to Shi Le, even if he didn't say it, Zhi Quliu would definitely say it, Shi Le would definitely respect him more and more, and love him. Unlucky, I wanted to suppress Pei Gai, but unexpectedly achieved his reputation for not being afraid of strength. You want to kill Pegai? Even if you do it perfectly and clean it yourself, Shi Le may let you go with Zhi Quliu to Pei Cai's funeral - at least this is a crime of dereliction of duty. Anyway, the two of us together are not as good as a Xuan An in Shi Le's mind...... And Shi Le would beat Xuan An for Pei Cai's sake......

Bold, not afraid of death, able to speak well, plus the favor of Shile, the future is limitless. Be a friend, be an Austrian aid, be an enemy, and the future will be endless! This person can only be deceived in a way, not in a positive way.

Cheng Yao's brain turned quickly, and since he knew that he couldn't step on Pei Gai for a while, he immediately changed his past attitude and took the initiative to come over to show favor to Pei Gai. Because he considered that since Pei Gai's status in Shi Le's mind was very high, maybe he was still above himself and Xu Guang, and only below Zhang Bin, so if he could encircle and use Pei Gai, would he have the opportunity to step on Xu Guang and even covet Zhang Bin's position?

Judging from his previous temptations, the most obvious shortcoming of this young man is that he is arrogant - it is estimated that because of his family, character and past official positions, he does not take his peers in his eyes - all those who are proud will have no deep planning and no foresight, as long as he gently pats the horse's buttocks a few times, it may raise its hooves to kick people for you...... Why give up such a good knife? If Xu Guang comes back from Luoyang and he picks it up in advance, then I will be unlucky.

Besides, Zhang Bin once took the initiative to visit Pei Gai on the order of Shi Le, maybe Zhang Bin also wanted to use this knife......

Cheng Yao's analysis is half reasonable, but he can't imagine that the reason why Pei Gai didn't react to the fall of Luoyang and the capture of Emperor Jin is not complicated at all, but it is actually very simple - because he already knew it! How can the result that is already known make any waves in a person's heart, and then manifest it on the face?

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In the afternoon of the same day, Zhiqu Liu really had a large banquet, and most of the remaining generals attended the meeting. Pei should be regarded as the first time to appear in front of everyone, at first the big guy looked at Zhi Qu Liu's face, and was very perfunctory and polite to him, but then saw Cheng Yao also stood up and toasted Pei Gai, everyone was surprised - I relied on the civil and military two to stay so respectful to him, this kid Niu! Let's hurry to the bar, don't be left behind.

Cheng Yao was condescending and respectful, Pei Gai was a little confused for a while, and he couldn't refuse to be thousands of miles away, think about it later-this is not bad. The so-called "I'm not afraid of thieves stealing, I'm afraid of thieves remembering", although I didn't want to be a "traitor" with this vote...... It's not enough to say that this ticket is a traitor, and he has no intention of having a deep friendship with them, but maintaining a superficial harmony is also conducive to his own escape. Otherwise, there will always be people staring at you from behind, and it will be like a thorn in the back, and it will be inconvenient to act.

So after he showed Pei's family, he still came to the banquet, and although he only accepted the toast, he did not respect others, and still maintained the arrogant posture that a high-ranking family should have, but after three rounds of wine, he took the initiative to hold a cup and let everyone go: "And let me wait to congratulate the lord on this triumph." He took the opportunity to knock out the word "lord".

Everyone present responded, only Qu Bin Qu Mofeng, his eyes were so wide that they almost fell out. He vigorously turned his doubtful and aggrieved eyes on Cheng Yao, but Cheng Yao ignored it at all. This banquet was originally a celebration of victory, and all the generals were very happy, especially Zhiqu Liu, who almost drank to the end of the wine, but he was not drunk; Only Qu Bin, like sitting on pins and needles, twisted back and forth on the mat repeatedly, and escaped without waiting for the final seat.

Cheng Yao looked at his back coldly, and said in his heart: If I were you, I should quickly apologize to Pei Gai - the more arrogant people are, the easier it is to be deceived by flattery, but if you lower your head, maybe you don't care about the past-you see how I perfunctory him? A real waste one!

He didn't know that Pei Gai had another idea in his heart: Cheng Ziyuan was condescending, he might not be really convinced of me, he wanted to find time to use me as a gunman and seek the position of deputy governor of the "gentleman's camp" for him, right? This kind of face, Lao Tzu saw a lot in the agency in his previous life! Care must be taken. As for Qu Mofeng, it's purely a miscellaneous one, so I don't bother to take care of this kind of waste, and he can't make much trouble anyway.

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After meeting with the remaining generals at the banquet, Pei Gai gradually tried to expand the scope of his activities. At most, he had only walked on the street in front of his house, and he did not dare to go far, otherwise a soldier guarding the gate would come and persuade him to go back with kind words. Pei should understand what they meant, it must be Zhang Bin's care before leaving, afraid that he would run away. He said in his heart that it was ridiculous, you always follow step by step, even if I walk to the gate of the city, where can I run? Besides, Pei's is still in Xuchang, how can I abandon her and flee alone?

But there is no need to say these words to those little soldiers, he is currently needing to win the trust of the people in the Hu camp, and it is inconvenient to do anything to make others suspicious, so he will not go far. But when he was able to go to the horse farm every three days under the escort of Zhi Qu Liu, and then blasted away Kong Cheng who came to ask for food for the other party, it can be seen that Zhi Qu Liu, as the queen of the future, has no doubt about himself; Then Cheng Yao, the deputy left-behind, also showed restrained goodwill......

Pei Gai took this opportunity to run farther and farther, although there would still be soldiers behind him, but he didn't dare to hinder him from going far. In just a few days, Pei Gai roughly turned around the streets and alleys in Xuchang City, but in order to avoid suspicion, he did not approach a few city gates.

Although Xuchang is called the Central Plains Dayi, after all, it cannot be compared with the city of later generations, and the most prosperous population is only more than 200,000 people. Shile headquarters soldiers and horses are mostly Hu and Qianzhou, about 50,000 people, falsely claimed to be 100,000, last year to cross the river to the south, once attacked Jizhou, the local county civilians were taken captive or took the initiative to follow more than 90,000 people, and later failed to resist Xiangfan, the loss was not small - most of those Jizhou civilians were assigned to the armies as auxiliaries, servants, and did not use them to fill Xuchang, Yingyin and other cities for a long time.

Therefore, this time the stone took Luoyang in the north, took away the main force and most of the auxiliary troops, and the original residents in Xuchang City were less than 20,000. Pei Gai walked freely on the street with two hands behind his back, and saw that the Hu soldiers were fierce, the Jin people were weak, most of the houses were dilapidated and vacant, and there were traces of fire on some walls, or the blood stains had not been extinguished, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly.

On this day, he went out again, planning to directly crash into several government offices, pretending to be watching, but in fact, he was spying on Hu Jun's secrets. I believe that with the banquet the day before yesterday, the vast majority of the generals did not dare to do anything to themselves, at most they warned one or two sentences, and they were done. Unless by chance, he actually bumped into Qu Bin...... But it doesn't matter, he took Pei Xiong with him, and if he really got into a quarrel, he would let Pei Xiong beat Qu Bin.

In the middle of the journey, someone suddenly chased after him, and shouted from a distance: "Isn't it Mr. Pei ahead?" Pei should stand still, slowly turned around, and saw the knight arrive in front of him, turned over, and saluted: "General Zhi has urgent business, send a villain to find Mr. Pei to discuss the matter." ”

Pei Gai "chuckled" in his heart, and said in his heart that Kong Chang was not relenting and sent someone again? That guy's greed was a big surprise to me. asked the knight what was the matter, but the other party refused to say, but just handed the reins to Pei Gai: "The general is in a hurry, the villain has come all the way from Mr. Pei's next place, and he is afraid that the general will blame him, so he asks Mr. Pei to go quickly." ”

Pei Cai glanced at Pei Xiong behind him, that means, you have to find a way to keep up, and then took the reins. The knight instinctively knelt down and gave Pei Gai a foot, Pei Gai was used to running horses in the racecourse these days, and he was not surprised, and he stepped on the other party's back and turned over.

β€”β€”In these years, there were no stirrups, only unilateral rope sleeves to assist the horse, but the rope sleeves were soft and difficult to borrow, such as Pei Gai's equestrian two knives, which made it quite unaccustomed - as for the Hu people such as the six branches, they did not use the rope sleeve at all, and they could jump on the back of the horse as soon as they jumped on the horse. But the Hu people also have the customs of the Hu people, the lower person waits for the upper person to get on the horse, is to kneel on the ground as a step, this knight is anxious to let Pei should go to see Zhi Qu Liu, and knows that Pei should be deeply respected by Zhi Qu Liu and Cheng Yao, so it is natural to lie down.

Pei should sit firmly on the saddle bridge, as soon as he loosened the reins, the mount "sighed", and then galloped with his hooves. Pei Gai was quite proud at first, he had practiced equestrianism hard these days, and he was finally able to run, but soon he began to complain - because this was a war horse in battle, but it was not steady, and it was quite bumpy to run, which was very different from the mount he used to practice on weekdays, and which was very different from the mount he used to practice on weekdays. And the streets are full of obstacles, and the occasional pedestrian flashes, and it's not comparable to an empty horse farm. Pei Gai felt that his buttocks were turned upside down, and even his internal organs were about to be turned upside down, and he was almost about to slip off the horse, so he had to slowly tighten the reins and slow down as much as possible.

Fortunately, the road is not very far. The big tent of the six branches was set up in the center of Xuchang City, knocking down a few houses and leveling an empty field. When he rushed to the big tent, Hu Bing had already come over and grabbed the reins, the mount straightened his chest, raised his hooves, and instantly "braked", Pei Gai couldn't sit still at all, and slipped down directly along the horse's buttocks......