Pei Gai poured cold water on Bian Yan's enthusiasm one after another, and Bian Yan couldn't help but feel sad, so he asked Pei Gai: "Can you have a way to save you?" ”

It's not out of the question, but are you really going to hear it?

Bian Yan arched his hand: "Please also ask for your advice." ”

Pei Cai patted his thigh, which was a little sore, and was about to speak, when he heard a voice outside the door: "Uncle, someone from Qian County is here again." ”

As soon as I heard the title of "uncle", I knew that it must be the sycophant Pei Lone, and Pei should not help but laugh. Immediately realized that Qian County, isn't that where Zu Li lives, why did he send someone here so quickly? Before he could ask, he heard Pei Lian add another sentence: "The person who came is Feng Tie." ”

When Pei Gai was still in Jiankang, he once borrowed Feng Tie from Zu Tishang and taught him archery in the mansion, and Pei Lian was already a slave of Pei's mansion at that time, so he not only knew Feng Tie, but also knew each other quite well. Pei Gai couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this name, and said in his heart that if he simply sent a letter, there was no need to send Feng Tie, could it be that Zu Shizhi came to ask for food again? Although it is just the time of the green and yellow, will you eat all the food I have served so quickly, and you will not survive the harvest period in two months?

Dude, you can't just point to me to farm for you, you have laid such a large base area, and you have no less than five counties, more than me, isn't it good for you to develop production yourself?

Oh yes, Zu Ti only nominally ruled those counties, and it is estimated that the vast majority of the people and fields are still in the hands of the lord of the dock fort in various places - so I want to break the dock fort in Guangling, fight the local tyrants, and divide the land, just because I am afraid that I will end up like you, and I have to rely on the breath of some landlords in everything!

Forget it, no matter how dissatisfied you are, you are allies on the same front after all, and I have promised to provide you with funds to recover Luoyang's grain, since you have sent Feng Tielai, more or less, I should also give you some more. So he beckoned: "Please come in." ”

It didn't take long for Feng Tie to lead a person into the room. Pei Gai frowned slightly, and said in his heart, who is this? My name is Feng Tie, not all cats and dogs can follow in. When I looked closely, I saw that he was forty or fifty years old, with a thin body, and he was still hunched on his waist and wearing a short shirt...... This is clearly a subordinate. Feng Tie, what are you doing with a servant?

Since the man entered the door, he stared at Pei Gai with a good eye, looked up and down, and saw that Pei Gai was a little hairy in his heart, and was about to be reprimanded, but he saw that the man hurriedly approached a few steps, approached the food table, and then "plopped" and fell to the ground, crying loudly: "Sure enough, Erlang is here!" ”

Pei Gai couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this title, stretched out his hand to push the eating table away, stood up, grabbed the man's arms, and ordered him to raise his head. I saw that the man was like this for a while, his face was full of tears and snot, and it was obvious that this crying was pure sincerity. Pei Cai searched his memory repeatedly, and then asked hesitantly: "Isn't it ...... Pei Hu? ”

The man sobbed and said, "Erlang admits the difference, Pei Hu is the brother, and the villain is Pei Fu......"

"How did you get here, where is my brother?!"

This Pei Fu was originally a slave of the Pei family, and he has been following Pei Gai's eldest brother Pei Song, so as soon as Pei Gai recognized him, he subconsciously asked, "Where is Brother" - what about my brother? Don't tell me you don't know his whereabouts!

"Everybody's dead...... Woo woo woo ~ ~ "

"Everyone" is the name of the slave to the master, and occasionally it is also used for the daughter-in-law to call the mother-in-law. Pei Gai himself is not used to this title, because theoretically, he is not the patriarch, and there is a Pei Song above, and the servants in the family generally call themselves "Lang" or "Erlang"; But he crossed to the south alone, and today's slaves are all called from Jiangnan, and the southerners call young men "Lang", which is easy to confuse, so they directly let them call themselves "master" or "lord".

The "everyone" in Pei Fu's mouth, no need to ask, of course, refers to Pei Song, the patriarch of the Pei family.

When Pei Gai heard this, his face immediately turned miserable, and with an "oops", he fell to the ground, so startled that Bian Yan next to him quickly stood up and helped him. In fact, Pei should not be so surprised, he has not heard from Pei Song for a long time, and it is estimated that it is difficult to survive in this troubled world, and even the concubine Pei of the East China Sea has already been mentally prepared. And after all, he is not the real Pei Gai in this life in his bones, and his impression of that brother is very vague, and he can't talk about too deep family affection, but because of this, he heard the bad news at first glance, and his performance was a little overdone......

If it is true that someone close to him passes away, for example, Pei Shi, in terms of Pei Gai's heart now, he will not fall in shock - has he seen less death? The nerves have long been numb.

Bian Yan helped Pei Gai up, then turned his head and scolded Pei Fu: "Hugh has to cry again, how the head of your family died, and talk about it in detail first." ”

Pei Fu wiped a handful of tears and snot, and slightly suppressed his sadness, and then stammered to state the past - it turned out that he had followed Pei Song to Pengguan to persuade Chen Wu to lead the army into Luo to help defend it, as Pei Gai expected, Chen Wu was not stupid, nor was he stupid, how could he be willing to die by himself? On the contrary, he also persuaded Pei Song, saying that you are a disciple of a high family and an important minister of the court, so it is better for me to serve you as the master.

Of course, this so-called "master" is just a puppet, a banner, and later Xi Jian was captured by Chen Wu's subordinates, and Chen Wu also made such a play, Xi Daohui was more shrewd, threw down a few words of soup, bent and wronged the snake, and then ran away when he got a chance, returned to his hometown first, and then went to Yishan.

Pei Song was young and lacked political wisdom, so he actually agreed to it - in his mind, if I can become the master of this army, won't I be able to drag them to Luoyang? But who Cheng thought that basically no one would listen to him, and after he persuaded him everywhere, and even planned to pull a few groups of people to go first, he completely annoyed Chen Wu - and was finally killed by Chen Wu's clan uncle Chen Chuan.

As for whether Chen Chuan made his own decision or whether Chen Wu secretly gave the order, no one knows.

When Pei Fu said this, Feng Tie interjected beside him: "Before, my family's envoy defeated Hu Shuai Hu Yanyan in Chenting, and Chen Wu also sent the general Li Tou to lead the army to help, this person is in Li Tou's army, and he invited himself to see my family's envoy, saying that he is an old servant of the Pei family, and hopes to come to Huaiyin to visit Pei Envoy. ”

Pei Fu nodded, sobbing and explaining: "In the past, when everyone was in Pengguan, they were quite familiar with Li Tou, and they wanted to return to Luo at the beginning, and Li Tou also agreed, so after everyone was killed, the villain was taken in by Li Tou. Before this, I followed Li Tou to Chenting, and heard that the ancestors of the assassin Shi said that Erlang was in Xuzhou, and he would supply more grain and straw, and he knew the news of Erlang...... Vote now. ”

Pei Gai was dumbfounded and said angrily: "I will kill Uncle Chen Wu and his nephew to avenge my first brother!" ”

Feng Tie hurriedly dissuaded: "My family envoy Jun is afraid that Pei Envoy Jun is like this, so the last general will be sent to bring Pei Fu - although Chen Wu is begging, he refused to help Shouluo before, after all, he is a citizen of my Jin Kingdom, and he has fought with Hu thieves many times, and he has tried to warn the left and right clouds: 'I wait but to live, not to descend to Hu, if I descend to Hu, it is to abandon my parents and ancestors, what is the difference between death?' 'Now is the time to employ people, it is not appropriate to fight with them, respect the brother's enmity, or let it be avenged later. ”

Pei Gai glanced at him and replied coldly: "He is in Pengguan, I am in Huaiyin, blocked by mountains and rivers, even if you want revenge, you can't get it." Qing repays the ancestor, he can be with Chen Wu's uncle and nephew, I don't blame him; But when I went to Henan, I expected that it would be the day when Hu Lu was cleared, and at that time, the enmity of my relatives would not be shared, and I asked Zujun not to stop me. ”

Feng Tie bowed and replied, "It's just like Pei Envoy's order." ”

Pei should pause for a moment, and then felt that his reaction order was a little misplaced? immediately asked Pei Fu: "Where are the bones of my brother?" Pei Fu replied: "Li Tou helped the villain and was hastily buried in the north of Pengguan." Pei Gai nodded: "We want to wait for the expulsion of Hu Lu, drink the Yellow River, and return to the hometown for burial when the remains of my first brother are buried." ”

Feng Tie interjected again: "Since Brother Venerable has died, my family envoy has sent someone to Chang'an to mourn, please inherit the Duke of Julu County by Pei Envoy, I believe the court will agree." ”

Pei Gai frowned, and said in his heart that this could barely be regarded as good news......

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Pei Cai left Pei Fu, sent someone to settle Feng Tie, and sent Bian Yan away, and returned to the inner room alone, sitting on the bed with his legs hanging down in a daze. Pei Bing probed his head and came in and asked, "Does the master want tea?" Pei Gai nodded: "Make a pot." ”

He got some tea from Jiangnan, of course, he did not ask for tea cakes according to the current custom, but asked to pick the new leaves, stir-fry them slightly, remove their grassy smell, and send them to Linhuai - Pei Ren and others are responsible for handling it. To tell the truth, any natural species is not born to raise people, and the statement that people are the spirit of all things and that all things are for human use is complete nonsense, so without long-term cultivation and improvement, these new tea varieties cannot be compared with later generations. But Pei Gai was not a good tea drinker in his previous life - in fact, he preferred coffee - in this life, it is enough to have tea to drink, and there is no need to be too demanding.

But sometimes he also wonders, is it better to find some dried jasmine flowers to put in the tea, and when the flower tea is drunk, the taste may be stronger?

Drinking tea is mainly for digestion and refreshment, so usually he will make a pot after dinner - the shape of the clay pot of later generations, he specially ordered someone to burn it, but there is no technical difficulty - Pei Bing is in charge of this matter, so he will probe to ask.

When the tea was brewed, Pei should have dismissed Pei Bing, and leaned on a few cases alone, drinking tea while contemplating carefully. Fang Cai Bian asked him: "Can you have a way to save you?" Before he could answer, Feng Tie and Pei Fu came in, and after hearing the letter of his brother's funeral, it was inconvenient for Bian Wangzhi to continue to ask.

In fact, Pei Gai's envisioned answer is very simple, that is-if you want to expel Hu Lu and stabilize the world, no one can rely on yourself, you can only rely on yourself! So what Chang'an and Jiankang, don't give them any hope!

After such a long time, I believe that Bian Wangzhi has also seen that the whole world really has the will to recover, and has the ability to gradually implement it, and it is only me and Zu Ti...... Oh, and maybe add half a Liu Kun. Liu Kun is far away from the mountains and rivers, you can't go; Zu Ti is in Yan and Yu, the main generals, and the management of civil affairs is very extensive, and it will not be useful if you go; So it's better to stay with me honestly and stop thinking about running away.

Since I saw Wang Yan in Ningping City, Kuxian County, until he fled back to Jiangdong, Pei Cai, a bureaucrat of the family, has seen a lot, and he is really tired. To put it bluntly, the so-called "well-dressed Chinese", that is, China's superstructure, after the heyday of the Han Dynasty, has become increasingly decaying, and it is difficult to support a huge empire. That's why they split, that's why they fought infighting first, and then they raged.

It's a bit like the collapse of the Roman Empire, which itself has come to the end of its rope and can be torn apart with a gentle push from a foreign race.

The root cause of this is the rise of the gate lord clan, which cannot but be said to be a major inducement. Although Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to support the poor family and suppress the family, but because the world was undecided, he could only rely on the family in the end, so in the era of Cao Pi, Chen Qun created the "Nine Products Zhongzheng System". The original idea of the Zhongzheng system was good, in order to revive the two Han Chaju system, which was difficult to maintain because of the troubled times, but gradually the big families monopolized the Zhongzheng product evaluation, so "the upper class has no poor family, and the lower class has no powerful family", the social class gradually solidified, and the vitality of the natural empire also shrank.

In the later period of the Western Jin Dynasty, the three main evaluation criteria gradually take family background as the first and morality as the second, so as to be at the bottom. To say that the family of scholars basically monopolizes the culture, the children of the family can get the best education, and the success rate is definitely higher than that of the poor family. Virtue comes first, that is complete nonsense.

Confucianism originally emphasized virtue and neglected talent, coupled with some Taoist theories, emphasizing the rule of inaction, as if the highest character of officials is to ignore everything, just take care of the education work, do not do things will naturally not have a fault, and no fault is meritorious. What's more, morality is something that cannot be seen or touched, and the bureaucratic class is occupied by a large group of hypocrites - for example, Wang Yan is a complete hypocrite - and the families praise each other, whitewash each other, and the slight flaws of the poor family will also be cut into big mistakes, and no matter how bad the morality of the world is, as long as they are not caught red-handed, they can all be fooled.

Confucius talked about "benevolence and forgiveness", which was not liked by the rulers, so he twisted his theory into "loyalty and forgiveness", so for a person who has not yet embarked on a career in office, how to see whether he is loyal or disloyal? Then I can only ask him if he is filial, thinking that all filial sons will be able to be loyal to the king. Therefore, the emperors of the Han Dynasty all carried the word "filial piety" in their nicknames, and the talents they sought were called "filial piety". The Three Kingdoms did not engage in that set, and when the world was decided, the Western Jin Dynasty picked this set back - there were three dynasties of filial piety, filial piety, and filial piety.

In fact, this is funny, filial piety is a matter of loyalty, history is endless, and Wang Mang is a big filial son, but where is he loyal?

It's just that I pity myself for wearing this world, and I have a signboard of a child of the world, so it is impossible to completely ignore this set. If it's just a flat-headed people, for example, starting from the homeless people, and calming down the troubled times step by step, it's okay, since there are signboards available, even if you sneer at the signboards, it's a pity to throw them away. Besides, with such a background, but ignoring this signboard, do you think you can really blend in with the homeless people and be treated as their own kind?

Pei Gai heard the news of Pei Song's death just now, although he didn't feel much in his heart, he had to make a heart-wrenching gesture, that is, he couldn't leave this signboard, otherwise, Bian Yan would definitely be the first to run away - Pei Gai was actually quite disgusted with the scene he had to act.