Chapter 3, Only Death!

Pei Gai never imagined that two thousand years ago, there would be a young bureaucrat with the same name and surname as himself, but for the deceased father of this body, he had an impression before he crossed over. Basically, what Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty left to his son was a vote of corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats—of course, there were many ambitious vassal kings whose abilities were absolutely incommensurate with their ambitions—who only knew how to loot the people's wealth and exclude dissidents, and basically had no correct strategy for governing the country.

Among them, if there are special cases, there are only three people: Zhang Hua, Pei Yi and Jia Mo. When Jia Nanfeng was in power, the three of them ruled together, barely maintaining eight years of peace. However, compared with the famous ministers of the previous and subsequent dynasties, these people are just ordinary politicians, and they can barely be compared to Feng Dao in the five dynasties, who were all coerced by the butcher's knives of the nobles and warlords, and tried their best to ensure that the bureaucratic system did not completely collapse.

Governance may be comparable to Feng Dao, but as for being an official and a whole body, then you can't catch up. Feng Dao was able to get a good death, but Zhang Hua and Pei Yi finally fell under the careerist's butcher's knife...... Jia Mo was lucky, and died of grief and illness a few years earlier.

Unexpectedly, Shi Le said today: "Ling Xianjun Julu became a duke, and he is a person I have always respected...... Pei Caixin said that kind of goods is a general in a file, and there is really nothing to respect. Fortunately, his soul has been changed, and that can't be regarded as his real Lao Tzu, otherwise I'm afraid he would blush on the spot.

Shi Le stared at Pei Gai's pair of eagle eyes and narrowed slightly, and continued to ask: "Now, your army has been defeated by me, the country is in turmoil, and I see that it is about to be overturned. I asked the reason, but Wang Taiwei said that he wouldn't do his business - what did Pei Lang think? ”

Pei Gai glanced at the white-faced man who was sitting next to Shi Le, who was still neat and tidy, and was about fifty years old, and said in his heart that this was Wang Yan. Then he moved his gaze to Shi Le again, and said loudly: "Wang Yan misled the country and disrupted the government, and the corpse of the minister was a vegetarian meal, and we and the others were all incompetent and unscrupulous, and even so. The country is defeated, and who can blame the meat eaters! ”

Shi Le was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then twisted his tendrils in his hands and looked up to the sky and laughed. When he had laughed enough, he turned to Wang Yan, who was full of embarrassment, and shouted, "What Pei Lang said is true." I want to be a young man and a strong man to ascend to the court, famous all over the world, and I am in charge of being a ruler, how can I say that I have no eunuch feelings, and I never want to be an official? The world has reached this point, how can you still have the face to say that you don't want to do your business? Immediately ordered Wang Yan and others to be driven out of the tent.

When there was a group of Hu people and a Pei Gai left in the big tent, Shi Le slowed down his tone slightly, and asked Pei Gai: "The princes and princes of Jin are not as good as respecting the ancestors and becoming dukes, and now the people who are captured by me are not as good as Pei Lang." Pei Lang is willing to surrender to me, can I avoid death? ”

Hearing the words "save from death", Pei Gai's facial muscles couldn't help twitching - do you want to promise him? Do you want to try to "save the country with a curve"?

But if you think about it, if you are a leading general, you can still try to "save the country by curve", first pretend to lower Hu, and then find an opportunity to stab you in the back - similar examples, the time of the two Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms is simply full of pits, and it may not necessarily leave any notoriety. But he is just a civil official, even if he demotes Shile, he is willing to spare his life, then he will inevitably be chained to his side as a staff officer, what opportunity do he want to find to stab? Do you try to stick a knife in him when you eat a banquet?

Heaven and man fought, only in an instant, Pei Gai quickly struggled out of his desire for life, and replied loudly: "I will never surrender, only death!" ”

Shi Le frowned slightly, and continued to persuade patiently: "The Jin lord is immoral, the world is in chaos, I started from the first emperor (Liu Yuanhai, the lord of the Han Dynasty), originally to comply with the will of heaven, and hang the people to fight crimes. Although your father and son ate Jin Lu and became a prince dedicated to the country, they were victimized by traitors, and they can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the Jin lord. Pei Lang is still young and has a long future, so don't you miss life? Why do you refuse to surrender to me? ”

Pei Gai pursed his lips and sneered: "As the king said, the Jin lord is immoral, and the vassal clans kill each other, such a Jin Dynasty, I am ashamed!" However, in the name of providence, you ravaged the Central Plains, destroyed the fields, and killed the people. If it is said that the Jin lord leads the beast to eat people, you are like a human on the outside, and you are really a jackal, tiger and leopard in the heart! Now that the Hu people have a deep enmity with China, even if I die, I will still be a human being, how can I be willing to surrender to the beast and fight for the tiger?! ”

When Shi Le heard this, he couldn't help but be furious, his thick eyebrows were upside down, his eyes were wide open, and he shouted: "The fork will go out!" The two Hu pawns before pounced on him and dragged Pei Gai out of the big tent. Pei Gai also wanted to reprimand angrily: "I can go by myself, why not Lao Cha?" But after all, he was weak, and before he could speak, he struggled twice, and the man was already outside the tent......

After driving Pei Gai away, Shi Le couldn't help but slap the table case again, and then turned his head and asked his minions Kong Chang: "Like Wang Yifu and others, I have never seen such brazen goods in the world for so many years - is it necessary to keep them?" Kong Chang pursed his lips and replied: "They are all princes of the Jin Kingdom, and they refuse to be used by me, so why not kill them?" Shi Le asked hesitantly, "Wei Pei Lang is different from them, do you want to kill them too?" Kong Chang raised his eyebrows: "Pei wants to be a martyr, so Ming Gong will make him a martyr, the so-called benevolence and benevolence ......"

Shi Le nodded, but frowned and thought for a while, then lowered his voice and said: "Wang Yifu is a famous man in the world after all, and those princes of the Jin Kingdom, you can't let them see blood......"

It was decided that night, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, to kill all the captured officials of the Jin Dynasty, and as for the princes, they simply tore down the wall and buried them directly, which was also a plan to give a whole corpse.

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It's a pity that among the current Jin officials, Pei Gai is the only one who doesn't know himself, doesn't ask himself, understands this plan, and the other guys are still dreaming of Qingqiu with their whole body and avoiding death. Even when Pei Cai was "forked" out of the big tent, Wang Yan pointed at him with a halberd and blamed him: "You don't do anything more, so that you anger Shi Gong, if Shi Gong kills you, what face will I have to see Brother Ling?" ”

Pei Gai was so angry that he laughed out loud: "I actually call the thief a public, I'm really ashamed to share the world with you." Do you still worry about your brother? I'm afraid you have no face to the world! ”

Someone next to him immediately scolded: "Wenyue, don't be rude!" ”

Pei Gai snorted angrily: "Rude? Is it for the beasts? Is it for thou shalt be clothed and beasts? Thinking about it, it was really not enjoyable, so he simply scolded with the grammar of later generations: "If you want to be a dog, no one wants it, and if you want to be a traitor, you can't get the master's miscellaneous pieces!" I X you XXXXXX! ”

Well, it's really "addicted to death", I have been in this world for two days, and I can barely close my eyes without regrets.

Wang Yan and the others couldn't understand what Pei should be saying, but they were still frightened by his appearance of angry eyes and spitting stars, and they couldn't help but stagger back. Immediately, everyone discussed: "Pei Wenyue is really crazy......"

Wang Yan was still quite confused, and asked left and right: "Is he calling me a 'traitor'?" This one...... On the contrary, I'm not a Hanchen now, so I can't be a traitor. ”

Because there is no clear national consciousness in this era, let alone the title of "Han", people generally refer to the land as the title and the country as the title, as for Wang Yan, he can be regarded as a Jin person, or a Chinese - China here means the Central Plains; On the contrary, Shi Le, as a courtier of Hu Han, can claim to say that I am Han. Wang Yan's meaning, I want to surrender, I want to be a Han, but the other party hasn't clearly agreed to it. How did I become a "traitor"?

Someone pretended to explain: "I think Pei Wenyue wants to compare the prince to the Zhongxing who betrayed the Han and surrendered to the Huns, saying that he is with Li Ling......"

Wang Yan shook his head: "The Bank of China said that it was its own betrayal, how can it be compared with me?" As for Li Ling, he was also defeated and surrendered, but he could barely compare ......."

The person who explained before didn't know whether it was good intentions or bad intentions, whether he took the opportunity to mock, and then this one must be a sycophant-"Li Ling surrendered to the Huns, only his wife was a princess, and he was crowned a prince, and with the prestige of the prince, how can he be compared to Li Ling?" The Han Kingdom must reuse the prince, and maybe there is also hope for the king. ”

Wang Yan pretended to stroke his beard: "But it is enough to save the remnants, how dare you have such extravagant hopes......"

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After Pei Gai drank Wang Yan, he ran out of strength, and couldn't help but weaken his legs and feet, and fell to the ground. Immediately, these conversations came faintly in his ears, and he couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, and he really wanted to rush forward immediately and bite off the flesh from Wang Yan's bastard.

It's just a pity that I don't have that much effort...... But thinking that since he had hardened once, he would simply harden himself to the end—and he wouldn't have to hold on for long anyway—so he struggled to sit upright and began to wander around aimlessly.

If you have to come to this life, how can you not observe it carefully and keep in mind this historical scene that no one in the future will be able to see with your own eyes? Oh, it turns out that the clothes of the Jin people are like this, and the weapons and saddles of the Hu people are like this...... When I saw the real thing in use, it was really different from the paintings in the book and even the excavated objects in the museum......

But suddenly, an irrepressible sense of pathos hit my heart, my nose couldn't help but be sore, and my eyes were a little red. He reminded himself that he must not cry, he must not cry, otherwise the Hu people would still think that he was actually afraid of death...... Simply close your eyes and try again to clear the chaotic thoughts in your head.

Let's start thinking about it from the Pei family to which my body belongs. The Pei family in Hedong is also a famous family between the Wei and Jin dynasties, and there have been countless high-ranking officials and eunuchs. His father's name is Pei Yan, a famous philosopher in the Western Jin Dynasty and an important minister on the same level as Zhang Hua; His grandfather's name was Pei Xiu, and he was a famous geographer in ancient history; is the second child, and it seems that there is an elder brother on it - Wang Yan also mentioned it just now - the word is Taoism, what is the name? Pei Song or Pei Chong?

To say that the population of the Pei family was originally quite large, it is a pity that in the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", there were quite a lot of people who were in different places like their father, and the rest were scattered. I vaguely remember that when Pei Yan died, he was supposed to be beheaded all over the house, and I forgot who persuaded the executioner Sima Lun at that time, and finally changed Pei Yan's two sons to exile with Fang County. But before he could get to the place, Sima Lun was defeated and killed, so he restored Pei's reputation and summoned the two brothers back.

If I had known, I wouldn't have come back! Oh, there was no "early knowing" in the world, and this body was not in my own hands at that time......

Pei should have worked hard to sort out his thoughts, and sat and meditated all day. During this period, he occasionally opened his eyes to observe the situation around the border, and saw that Wang Yan and others were hungry in their stomachs, and they even pushed people out to beg for food from General Hu with a shy face. Shi Le was really calm, and he had already made up his mind to kill this useless guy, but he still sent someone to bring water and coarse bread.

Pei Gai also felt his stomach stirring for a while, and he was so hungry that he almost couldn't even sit upright. But he was unwilling to beg for food, and in the face of the shameless expressions of those well-dressed beasts—the eyes of those people who looked at him were completely looking at a madman, or even a dead person, and they tried to stay away from him, as if the Hu people would only kill him in the end, as if they would inevitably die together as long as they approached him, and as long as they avoided him, they could live.

Whenever he saw this kind of look and thought of the other party's thoughts, Pei Gai couldn't help but grin - even if it was a bitter smile.

The red sun gradually reached the top, and then slowly fell to the west, and several Hu pawns ran over to scold, driving all the Jin officials to the bottom of the ruined city walls. Pei Gai was also forced to get up, crutches his already numb legs, and paced slowly, but he still instinctively sat as far away from the wall as possible. It wasn't until I sat down that I suddenly felt that my behavior was too useless - with my own identity, I should be asking for a knife on the meal, and I can't mix the whole corpse, so what difference is there between sitting near and sitting far? It's just that once I sit down, my whole body is weak, but I can't stand up again.

As the sky gradually darkened, the Jin officials huddled under the walls and whispered, guessing about their future. Everyone hid far away, and there was no one else within five feet.

Although he was ready to die generously, Pei Gai couldn't help but look at the sky and pay attention to the movements of the nearby Hu people. At last, he found that more than a hundred Hu people had gathered here from all directions in an apparently organized and distributed manner, and when they were about six or seven zhang away from the wall, they stopped almost at the same time, and took off their bows from their shoulders......