The family door valve system to the Eastern Han Dynasty for its abuse, to the Wei and Jin Dynasty began to take shape, during the period of change, the rise and fall of the regime, but the vast majority of the first-class gate valve from the Han Dynasty has always been standing, the family's prominent political prestige has been extended to the Tang Dynasty and even the Northern Song Dynasty———— for example, Yingchuan Xun, Langya Wang, Taiyuan Wang, Xingyang Zheng, Gaoping Xi, Hongnong Yang, Qinghe Cui, Fanyang Lu, etc., Hedong Pei is naturally listed.

These first-class families must meet three conditions: first, culturally, their ancestors have produced famous scholars, educated their children with Confucian classics for generations, have a rich collection of books at home, and even take charge of a family doctrine; Second, in politics, there are high-ranking officials of more than 2,000 stone for generations, and it is best to have those who enter the court to serve as ministers and pay homage to the prime minister; Third, in terms of economy, the family is prosperous, the population is large, there is a wide range of land, and the country dominates the party......

Of course, these three points are actually cause and effect of each other: if you don't know the scriptures, you won't get the opportunity to become a high-ranking official; If there are no high-ranking officials, it is difficult to annex a huge amount of land; There is not enough economic foundation, and there is no guarantee that the children will learn the scriptures from generation to generation, and then go through the dynasties. Then, because he basically monopolized the right to study and interpret the scriptures, and because he was rich and powerful, he was able to let the political turmoil and the change of dynasties always maintain the family's momentum.

These children from families have never been above the top, they are not willing to take over if they are not in the Qing Dynasty, they do not travel with the eunuchs, and they do not marry each other if they are not in the right place, not to mention that they look down on the scholars and bureaucrats of the next class, and even the emperor may not take it seriously. After all, Sima's family only belonged to the second-class gate valve in the Han Dynasty, although he stood up with scriptures, but he didn't have any people - unlike Xun Shuang in Xun, Wang in Wang, Zheng in Zheng, Xi in Xi, Yang Zhen in Yang, Cui Yan in Cui, and Lu Zhi in Lu...... The Wang Xiang and Wang Lan brothers of the Langya Wang family, Pei Mao, Pei Qian, Pei Xiu, and Pei Yu of the Pei family in Hedong have four generations of grandchildren, although they are not the leaders of scripture, they can all be teachers of the first generation.

So when I heard that the descendants of this kind of top gate valve had actually descended to Shile, do you think Wang Zan could not be surprised? Although Wang Zan's surname is Wang, his ancestral home is Yiyang, and he is not close to the king of Langya and the king of Taiyuan, and his family is not of the highest grade. As a result, Pei should be used as a horse bone by Shi Le in this way, and he still has a golden horse bone, and he will show it to Wang Zan's generation when he is empty - even the Pei family is willing to submit to me, who are you, and dare to look at me with no words? !

So after Wang Zan was stunned, he immediately fell to the ground and said to Shi Le: "Ming Gong is mighty, the air covers the world, and the virtue also feels the heaven and the earth. ”

Pei Gai saw this scene and smiled bitterly at first, and then seemed to be as disgusting as eating a fly. He was just temporarily sheltering in Hu Ying, and he didn't plan to help Shi Le at all, but he didn't expect that just joining Hu would already be considered a big help......

Shi Le laughed "haha", hurriedly stretched out his hands to help Wang Zan up, and then made a request: "Zhengchang, are you willing to write a letter for me, and advise Gou Dao to defect and vote?" ”

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Shi Le did not attack Yangxia City, first sent people with Wang Zan's handwritten letter to Mengcheng to persuade Gou Xi to surrender. Because according to Wang Zan, Gou Xi is still leaning on the red cui at this time, dreaming of Cao Cao's reincarnation in the Qingqiu Autumn, in other words, where is he crazy, how can he surrender to Hu Hanguo because of a letter from an old friend?

But because of this, Shi Le guessed that Gou Xi was still unprepared, and had a chance to capture one of them - it is said that Mengcheng has enough food and straw, and if he comes back to his senses and vigorously expands his armaments, it will be difficult to capture it quickly. You must know that there is a Wang Mi in the south, who may come up to the north at any time to insert a kick, Shi Le is not afraid of Wang Mi and Gou Xi attacking him, what he is afraid of is that Wang Mi will take the first step to destroy Gou Xi and annex his subordinates, and when the time comes, his strength will rise, and he may not be able to resist it.

So after he discussed with Zhang Bin, he didn't have time to ask the opinions of Diao Ying, Xuan An and others, so he hurriedly gathered the main force, personally led the troops, and went out of Yangxia overnight to take Mengcheng.

Sure enough, as Shi Le and Zhang Bin expected, Gou Xi had just received the defeat report of Yangxia's loss, and he panicked on the spot. After all, he is also a general, his mind is just confused for a while, and he believes that he will soon recover and plan a way to deal with it - either attack, defend, or simply abandon the city and flee elsewhere. But before he could begin to calm down and plan, the Hu Han army had already arrived at the city, and without saying a word, he launched a fierce attack - it was really "the speed of the soldiers".

And Shi Le also shot a number of arrow books into the city*** Rong is very simple: "This city will be conquered in three days, and after the city is broken, no chickens and dogs will be left, and women and children will be killed!" If the city is surrendered within three days, only Gou Xi will be guilty, and the rest of the party will not care. ”

Gou Xi's strength has been declining for a while, and his heart is flying higher than the sky, he has been strict in casting spells, and this shaking majesty is even more detailed, and it must be punished, and small crimes must be punished, which makes people panic, and finally everyone betrays their relatives. Therefore, Shi Le had just attacked the city for half a day, and someone took the initiative to open the west gate and guide Hu Hanjun inside, and then several cronies directly tied up Gou Xi and his brother Gou Chun and escorted them over.

Shi Le got a horse to personally untie the two of them, and then handed over Wang Zan's letter. Gou Xi fell from the sky almost instantly, and the huge psychological gap completely destroyed his will to resist, and when he saw the persuasion letter from his good friend, he couldn't help but sigh, and immediately knelt on the ground - the dignified general Gou surrendered!

At this time, several of his cronies were all dumbfounded, and asked again and again, Isn't Gou Xi the only one, why don't you blame him? What are you going to do with us, General? Shi Le glared: "You are unfaithful to your master, do you still want to live?!" "Ordered all of them to be beaten to death. Then he comforted Gou Xi and said: "The general is not guilty. The world is all bad by the Sima clan, what is the general's crime? It is implied that Gou Xi beheaded Sima Duan, the crown prince he had just established, to dedicate it.

Gou Xi is trying to survive at this time, what is he unwilling to do? On the spot, he personally killed Sima Duan, cut off his head, and knelt down to sacrifice Shile. Shi Le was overjoyed, that is, worshiped Gou Xi as Zuo Sima - and Zhang Bin's reputation was as high.

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Pei and the others left Yangxia three days later and went to Mengcheng - this is Shile's rear army, the family battalion plus the baggage team, still supported by Lu Ming, with 5,000 soldiers and nearly 30,000 non-combatants of all kinds. In addition to Zhang Bin, Xu Guang, Cheng Yao and more than ten other members of the "Junzi Battalion", most of them are also in the queue.

Wang Zan has been staying with Pei Gai these days. He first asked to see Concubine Pei, and then pestered Pei to ask about the other party's surrender, and as he spoke, the topic turned to the battle of Ningping City - Wang Zan asked for details in many ways, asking someone if someone was in the army at that time, what was the result? Pei Gai was embarrassed to say that the whole army was gone, and he was the only one who surrendered to Shi Le-what Shi Le respected his ambition, loved his talents, and Hu Ying's three things, etc., were too tortuous, and it was not easy to win the trust of others. One can't say it well, but it seems that Wang Yan and the others are all martyrs, and they are greedy for life and afraid of death......

had to deal with it vaguely, and quickly turned the topic away. At first, he didn't plan to pay more attention to Wang Zan, but as he spoke, he listened to Wang Zan's sadness and began to chant poetry, Pei Gai couldn't help but feel a slight move in his heart - this may come in handy......

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, the literary style was elegant, and the scholars basically cut off the inheritance of Han Confucianism, so they were forced to either go to the Qing Dynasty to talk, or to do poetry, so they undertook to build an Fenggu and opened a prosperous era in the literary world - "The country is unfortunate and the poet is fortunate, and he is endowed with vicissitudes of life", which is really sad and ridiculous to think about.

Pei should be planning to run away to Jiangdong, although the world is big, only there is barely a pure land, even if he still has the will to recover, at least he has to place Pei in such a safe place first. However, if he goes to Jiangdong, he will inevitably have to deal with a vote of sour and rotten literati, in this regard, whether in his previous life or in this life, he has knowledge, but he lacks spirituality, and he has no talent for reciting poetry at all. Listening to Pei's words, this Wang Zhengchang is a very good poet, why don't I ask him for advice first.

That's it, the two of them got tired of it for several days, although the age difference is very far, it seems that they are quite deed-but the way of poetry and writing is not something that can be improved in a day or two, and the aura of the article, even if you worship the Master, you have worked hard enough, you can't find it......

Pei and Wang marched side by side and followed the brigade into the city of Mongolia. Wang Zan has served as a magistrate for many years, and has also led soldiers and fought in battles, so he is naturally skilled in equestrianism, and he also taught Pei Cai a lot of quick tricks - Hu people play small horses, but they may not understand. At this time, the streets of Mengcheng have really been "cleaned up", and there are not many tragic scenes after encountering soldiers.

Shi Le said that "the rest of the party does not care", of course, does not mean that after entering the city, he will not burn, kill, rob or plunder, just like the "people's soldiers", but that the generals who take the initiative to surrender will no longer be punished - those unlucky people and the new prince Sima Duan are regarded as exceptions - he will appoint the generals, and he will be incorporated when he demotes the soldiers, and as for the ordinary people, it will not be useful for the Hu Han army that is mobile to fight, so it is naturally difficult to escape the doom. However, on the whole, the city of Mongolia was still "peaceful", and there were only one or two thousand soldiers and civilians killed and wounded before and after, which was already a rare mercy in these years.

Even so, the arrival of the army naturally led to the desertion of the streets, and no people dared to show their faces again, and they were Hu and Han generals who came and went. Wang Zan also wanted to talk to Pei Cai about poetry and fu, Pei Cai saw the depressed city, but he couldn't mention his interest at all, so he had to talk casually. In the middle of the journey, I suddenly saw a few Hu soldiers dragging several people past, all of them were covered with dirt, coupled with the bloody whip marks, I don't know what crime I have committed, and I have to be punished so severely.

Pei Gai didn't care at first, but when he accidentally swept the corner of his eye, he saw that one of them had a somewhat familiar face, so he couldn't help but stop his mount and lean over to take a closer look. Sure enough, on the one hand, although this person's facial features are distorted, it can be seen that it should have been quite exquisite, and although the beard is stained with blood and glued like a brush, there are still traces of careful combing - alas, isn't this a curved ink seal?!

When Wang Zan saw Pei Le Ma, he couldn't help but stop and asked him, "Wenyue, what's the matter?" He raised his whip and pointed at the men, raised his voice and asked, "What have they done?" Whom did you get scourged? ”

The soldiers just dragged people and ignored them. But Wang Zan seemed to recognize one of them, so he called his name in a loud voice, and the little soldier looked up and saw Wang Zan, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Wang Shilang has also descended...... Did you submit to the Han Kingdom? ”

Wang Zan smiled a little awkwardly, didn't answer the conversation, and just repeated Pei Gai's question: "What did they do?" The little soldier replied casually, "It's all offended by Shi ...... The military order of the county magistrate was therefore punished with this flogging. Pei Gai pointed to Qu Bin, whose eyes were closed tightly and his life and death were unknown: "What military order did this person violate?" ”

The soldier replied, "This man has offended General Gou...... Sima, Gou Sima said to the county duke, the county duke was furious, and immediately ordered to be whipped for thirty ......"

The details of the situation, this little soldier didn't understand very much, and it was only after the group was settled that Pei Gai learned from Jian Daokou that he was convinced. Of course, Jian Zhifan also came with them, and he didn't see it with his own eyes, but he couldn't stand that guy was familiar and easy to inquire, so he got the information earlier than Pei Cai, and it was quite detailed.

Qu Mofeng was really unfavorable for the passing years, so he suffered this unwarranted disaster. Moreover, although most of the scholars in the "Junzi Camp" have positions, they have no official titles, so they give themselves titles, just to call each other better, for example, Xu Guang and Cheng Yao both call themselves Sima - left and right, no one is willing to rank below the other. But this can only be called in private in theory, and it cannot be announced in the public, but everyone says it is smooth, and Shi Le, Zhang Bin and others don't seem to care much, so even when they are playing, they often can't help but bring it out.

It's just that now Sima has been elected, and after Shi Le surrendered Gou Xi, he appointed him as the left Sima - there is a vacant position for the right Sima, and everyone privately rumors that it is reserved for Pei Cai. Therefore, Qu Bin is not an official performance today, but when he was talking to Xu Guang on business, he respectfully called the other party Sima, but he was heard by Gou Xi when he passed by, Gou Xi was deeply annoyed, and ran to report to Shi Le on the spot. Shi Le was furious when he heard this—in fact, it was mainly for Gou Xi to see—and immediately summoned Xu Guang and Qu Bin over, and only reprimanded Xu Jiwu for a few words, but was not so polite to Qu Mofeng, and ordered a punishment of thirty lashes on the spot to set an example!

Jian Dao reported the matter to Pei Gai, and Pei Gai couldn't help sneering: "Qu Bin is arrogant and arrogant, and it is difficult to suffer from this!" Although he thinks that this kid is a waste and doesn't need to pay attention to it at all, but he has always remembered the matter of summoning himself with a big grin on Cheng Yao's order that day. It's just that since Gou Xi helped clean up that guy first, he saved himself from brains and hands.

Then he pleaded with Jian Dao: "To be complicated, there is Lao Qing to collect public and private books in the city for me......"