"Yan Jun, there is something to ask for below!"

"It's okay to say it!"

Although Yan Xing forcibly left Xi Zhicai, and the thin layer of camouflage between the two was removed, Yan Xing's respectful attitude towards Xi Zhicai remained the same as always, and did not change in the slightest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"In a market in the west of the city, there is a woman who sells wine, but it is an old acquaintance under the bottom, in the past, she was hungry and had no money to spare, she will always come to this woman's wine bar to drink on credit, and the wine money owed is also some, although she entered Yan Jun's camp, and there is good wine to treat each other, but the love of the old man is always unforgettable, and I also ask Yan Jun to go with me to the wine bar, let Yan Jun also drink my farmer's wine in Yangcheng, and help me pay back the wine money I owe in the past, so as not to let the woman who sells wine think that she is in debt and will not return!"

When Xi Zhicai said that he was drinking on credit, and when he asked Yan Xing to help him repay the wine money, there was no look of confusion on his face, Yan Xing smiled, and also agreed, and after thinking about it, he let the carriage and horses be rerouted, and did not enter the city for the time being, and first came to the market in the west of the city that Xi Zhicai pointed out.

After all, the market in the city is still too far away for the ordinary farmers outside the city, so the ordinary daily objects of the farmers can be bought in the township market.

Now it is close to noon, the morning market has been missed, the flow of people in the city has been sparse a lot, many peasant couples who are rushing to the market are pushing deer carts, carrying goods on their shoulders to embark on the return journey, everyone is in a hurry, although yesterday's battle to seize the city and loot the rich is something that happened in the city, but the Qianshou outside the city obviously also heard the wind, the peaceful life was stirred up by the hooves of the Xiliang soldiers, and the corpses under the shrine outside the city were all over the field, so that each of them was worried.

The location of this township and city is also a bit remote, Yan Xing's carriage and horses came here, and saw that there were only a few merchants in the city, but the wine hall that Xi Zhicai said, the wine banner fluttered outside the wine wall, and there was a woman over thirty years old standing in front of the wall, but it was still open in this city.

The woman couldn't help but be taken aback, and hesitated a little whether to immediately step forward to entertain these uninvited guests who seemed to be noble, and when Xi Zhicai got out of the car, she opened her mouth in surprise, but she quickly reacted and walked towards Yan Xing, Xi Zhicai and others.

"Hey, who is it, such a big battle, it turned out to be a drama man in the city, hey, there is also a gentleman, come, everyone, please come in and rest in the house!"

Yan Xing looked at this wine bar, it was a simple grass house, this woman was standing in front of the wine house just now to buy wine, but it seems that today's business is not good, there are only one or two people in the grass house, after seeing Yan Xing and others come in, followed by a few guards with knives After examining themselves, they also paid for the wine with interest, and quickly got up and left.

And the woman in front of her, although her appearance is mediocre, but she is better than her plump figure, and listening to her just spoke, her accent Wu Nong is soft, with the accent of Jiangdong, it seems to be a southerner, and it seems that this woman is quite familiar with Xi Zhicai, and she is not angry at all when she speaks.

Xi Zhicai nodded, and said with a chuckle:

"Mrs. Wu, this is my new acquaintance with Yan Jun, I happened to pass by here today, and I remembered the farmhouse wine you brewed by yourself, so I came by the way, hurry, according to the wine and food in the past, my stomach is empty, and I am about to drink with Yan Jun!"

"Okay, please wait, the concubine will go and get the wine."

"Also, by the way, I will also take the bonds I owe on weekdays, and today, I will simply pay back the wine money I owe in the past."

"Okay."

The two of them said this, and the exchange of eyes did not stop, and Xi Zhicai waited for the woman to leave before turning around and explaining to Yan Xing:

"This lady Wu is a member of the Huiji people's family, with her husband to come to Yangcheng, her husband died of the plague, and before in order to cure the disease, the family wealth has been dispersed, she is lonely, and there is no hope of returning to her hometown, she can only settle on the spot, remarried to a butcher in the city, but the butcher soon died of illness, she was ridiculed by Lilu, she can only move to live outside the city, relying on the craft of winemaking for a living!"

Yan Xing nodded when he heard this, now is the time when the epidemic is raging and spreading, just when Emperor Huan was in the time, there were three major epidemics in the world, and in the year of Emperor Ling, the epidemic was even more expanding, and there were five major epidemics in succession.

In the years to come, there will be endless wars and chaos between the states and counties, and I am afraid that this epidemic will ravage the world again.

And the two husbands of this lady Wu all died of illness, although it cannot be said that she died, but in the eyes of the ordinary superstitious Qianshou Shengmin, she is indeed an ominous woman who will bring disaster.

The two talked one after another, this lady Wu soon held the lacquer plate in her hand, and brought the wine and food one after another, Yan Xing took a look, the dishes were all common dishes of ordinary farmers, and the meat was only sliced into thin slices, and the wine looked very turbid, and there was no aroma of wine.

These drinks and dishes in front of him naturally can't be compared with the sorghum meat and wine in the wine shops in Luoyang City, but in the market outside the city in Yangcheng, it is already very good to be able to eat these wines and dishes, Yan Xing is not a delicate person, he stretched out a dagger and picked up a piece of the meat, although there is a faint smell, but the meat is quite delicious, and after taking a sip of turbid wine, Yan Xing's eyes lit up, and he asked:

"Is this fruit wine?"

Mrs. Wu, who was holding a pile of scattered bamboo chips in her hand, became a little restrained, and she said a little crampedly:

"Don't dare to deceive the gentleman, in the past year, the price of grain in Yangcheng has risen, although the concubine has the craft of making wine, but she really can't afford to sell corn for wine, she can only pick wild fruits in the mountains, and make wine with this thing, if the gentleman is not used to drinking, the concubine will be removed for the gentleman."

"Excuse me, this fruit wine is also sweet and sour, it has a different taste, you can prepare a copy for my guards according to such a wine and dish!"

Yan Xing said this, seeing that the woman who sold wine wanted to speak and stopped, she didn't respond immediately, she caught a glimpse of the bamboo pieces in her hand, and thought of the wine money owed by Xi Zhicai, so she asked her to put the bamboo pieces on the case, Yan Xing roughly swept them, these bamboo pieces were obviously not specially sweated bamboo slips, the handwriting on the newly written bamboo pieces was still clear, and the handwriting on the bamboo pieces for some days was blurred, and it should be all Xi Zhicai's own handwriting, and each bamboo piece wrote that the wine money owed ranged from more than a dozen dollars to dozens of dollars, because of the accumulation of time, This pile of bamboo bonds, I'm afraid it will cost two or three thousand dollars.

"Mrs. Wu allowed me to owe wine money on credit for many years, the money is small, and the favor is big, and I ask Yan Jun to pay it back, and it will not be in vain to waste this old love!"

Looking at this pile of scattered bonds, Xi Zhicai's face was indifferent, and when he said that he wanted Yan Xing to repay his debts twice, his face was not embarrassed, Yan Xing also smiled, and asked the guards to repay the wine money owed together with today's wine and food money, and did not discuss the matter of this wine money, waved his hand to let the woman who sold the wine retreat, and also prepared wine and food for his own personal guards.

Xi Zhicai saw that his bond had been repaid, and his spirit became cheerful, and he raised his dagger and began to feast. Looking at Xi Zhicai, who was eating and drinking as usual, Yan Xing remembered Guo Jia, who was acting similarly to Xi Zhicai, and said with a smile:

"Xijun, I have heard for a long time that there are many talented people in Yingchuan, and I admire him, and I also asked Xijun to be a few talented people in the county for me, how many of them are as talented as Jun?"

Xi Zhicai took a sip of wine, glanced at Yan Xing deeply, and then drank and ate meat non-stop, muttering:

"There are four chiefs of Yingchuan before, Xun's eight dragons, Chen, Han, Shentu are all well-known people in the sea, virtue is known in the state and county, and then there are uncles and nephews of the Xun family, Xun Zhongyu has the style of Confucianism, twelve years old can say "Spring and Autumn", Handan Zi Shuwen is talented, open-minded people also, Xun Wenruo has both ability and political integrity, Nanyang celebrity He Hao praised it as "Wang Zuozhicai, Xun Gongda shrewd man, thirteen years old, can see into treacherous evil." Another example is Zhong Xuan, Zhao Yan, Du Xian, Xin Ping, Xin Bi, Fanqin, Zao Yi, Chen Qun, Guo Tu, etc., who are also handsome for a while, and the talents of the state and county, as for the below, the drunkards in the market, the poor and crazy, where can they be compared with these talents! ”

Yan Xing listened carefully to Xi Zhicai's comments on the characters, he nodded slightly, most of the four chiefs of Yingchuan and Xun's eight dragons have died, and others such as Xun Shuang, Chen Ji, Han Rong, and Shen Tupan have also been conquered by Dong Zhuo one after another, and Xi Zhicai seems to have a preference for the characters of the Xun family, and specially praised the uncles and nephews of the Xun family, and there is also a Handan Zishu, Yan Xing doesn't know who he is, but he didn't expect that in the eyes of Xi Zhicai, he can get more evaluation than Zhong Xuan, Chen Qun, Xin Bi and others.

"Handan Zishu, Yan has not heard of his high name, what a person's family, please ask the drama gentleman to explain it in detail for me."

"Handan Zi Lady, Yang Zhai Handan Chun, Zhixing clean, teenager left home, traveled to Kyoto, worshiped the great calligrapher Fufeng Cao Xi as a teacher, tempered over the years, and finally succeeded. His calligraphy is especially good at insect seals, only to learn sensitive, the pen is overflowing, and it must be written in a moment. What's even more rare is that he is good at telling and writing grotesque and funny things, which is hilarious at first hearing and sobering when he thinks deeply! ”

"I see!"

Yan Xing nodded, there were novelists' words during the Warring States period, and there were fables such as the Song people who helped the seedlings, the Zheng people who bought clogs, and the Chu people who carved boats for swords, and the Han Dynasty had comical people like Dongfang Shuo. It seems that Xi Zhicai praised this Handan Chun, not because he is a talented person who can compete with Xun Yu and Xun You, but because he is good at telling and writing jokes, which is in line with Xi Zhicai's temperament, so that the dissolute and unruly Xi Zhicai deliberately looks up to him.

During the chat, Yan Xing also wanted to get closer to Xi Zhicai, so he also continued to ask according to his meaning:

"Since he has a clever joke, the drama king may wish to repeat one or two for me"

Xi Zhicai chuckled while drinking, and said:

"It just so happens that between the banquets, there is neither singing and dancing, nor singing and drinking, and it is very boring to drink, and there is a joke here that can be told to Yan Jun!"

"Legend has it that there was a man who lived outside the city in Lu Kingdom, and once he wanted to go into the city with a long pole, but when he arrived at the city gate, because the long pole was too long, he was blocked by the city gate while holding the long pole vertically, and the long pole was still blocked by the city gate horizontally, and the person who lived outside the city could not enter the city, and he was in a hurry, so he cried at the city gate."

"Oh?"

"The man's cry startled the people who entered and exited the city gate, and there were many people around him at once, and there happened to be an old man from the same village who was with him, and after asking him about his situation, he immediately laughed, and then said: 'Although I am not a saint, I have seen a lot of the world, and in your situation, why is it difficult to find a solution, and you cut the long rod in two sections from the middle, and you can not go in?' ”

"This!"

When the man heard this, this was indeed the truth, so he hurriedly cut the long rod into two parts, and finally transported the long rod into the city, and when he left, he did not forget to praise the old man for being a man of quick thinking.

After hearing the man with the long rod praise the old man, Yan Xing finally laughed and said:

"This person with a long rod is really stupid, and this old man is also smart, where do you need to cut the long rod into two sections, just lie down with the long rod, can't you pass it in, the two are really ridiculous!"

Xi Zhicai listened to Yan Xing's words, took a sip of wine, smiled faintly, and did not speak.

Seeing that Xi Zhicai didn't speak, Yan Xing remembered his original purpose again, Guo Jia should also be a poor scholar like Xi Zhicai, although it may be a branch of the Yang Zhai Guo family, but at the moment, it should be young and not famous.

So Yan Xing said:

"The Handan Jun that the drama jun said is a talented and open-minded person, but, the drama gentleman, I don't know if you have ever heard of Guo Jiaqi?"

"Guo Jia, who is it?"

Xi Zhicai shook his head when he heard this, obviously he didn't have any impression of Guo Jia, Yan Xing was a little disappointed in his heart, but he still continued:

"This Guo Jia, I have also heard people talk about it, he is a rising talent in Yingchuan, although he is not famous, but he has a genius in his chest, so Yan has this question!"

"I am drunk in wine all day long, too lazy to make friends, and I really don't know who he is, but if Yan Jun insists on looking for Guo Jia, I know that there are two people, and they may know some information about the talent Yan Jun is looking for."

"Which two?"

When Yan Xing heard that Xi Zhicai said that the two of them might know Guo Jia's whereabouts, he couldn't help but light up and asked in surprise.

Xi Zhicai was not in a hurry, stretched out a finger and shook it and said:

"Yingyin Xun Wenruo, his talent and morality, humility and etiquette, and can make friends with people with all his heart, not treat people with the eyes of the noble and lowly world, he is good friends with many scholars in Yingchuan, if Yan Jun said that Guo Jiazhen is a talented and infamous figure, then maybe Xun Wenruo will also know this person."

Yan Xing nodded subconsciously, but did not speak, Xun Yu later assisted Cao Cao in the process of making many achievements in internal affairs, planning, conspiracy, Kuang Bi, lifting people, etc., and many well-known or unknown talents in Yingchuan were recommended to Cao Cao by him. This is related to Xun Yu's kind of lenient treatment of others, and he does not have the proud attitude of being born in a famous family and being superior, he may indeed know that Guo Jia is a person.

However, Xun Yu is currently in Yingyin, from Yangcheng to Yingyin, and he can't get around Yang Zhai, who is heavily guarded by soldiers nowadays, Yang Zhai is the place where Kong Ling, the assassin of Yuzhou, is the place where the soldiers are stationed, although Yan Xing knows Xun Yu's talent, but it is difficult to make friends with him, and ask him, so Yan Xing asked again:

"There is one more, but who is it?"

"The other person is Tian Rao!"

"Who is Tian Rao, I haven't heard of it, and I haven't mentioned it even if I have just counted the talented people in Yingchuan."

Facing Yan Xing's doubts, Xi Zhicai chuckled and said:

"Tian Rao is a native of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, not my Yingchuan talent, Yan Jun naturally doesn't know, as for why he knows, but there is still a story to tell Yan Jun."

"-It's okay, please talk about it!"

"This Tian Rao, he is a talented scholar in the Lu country, serving the monarch of the Lu country, Lu Aigong, but he is often not taken seriously. So one day, Tian Rao said to Wai Gong: 'The minister will go to the king and the king will be lifted. Wai Gong couldn't help but wonder, so he asked, 'What is it?' ’”

"That Tian Rao said: 'Don't you see your husband? The one who wears the crown on his head, Wen Ye; Foot Fu distance, Wu Ye; Those who dare to fight in front of the enemy are brave; Seeing food and calling each other, benevolence is also; Vigil does not lose time, letter also. Although the chicken has these five, the king still eats them, what is it? With its proximity from the beginning. The husband and the hoofs are thousands of miles away in one fell swoop, stop the Junyuan Pond, eat the Jun's fish and turtles, peck the Jun's corn, without these five, the Jun is still precious, and he has never been far away. Please do the bidding. So Tian Rao left the country of Lu and went to the country of Yan, and the king of the country of Yan really valued him and appointed him as the prime minister. ”

Speaking of this, Xi Zhicai smiled faintly, changed his words, and began to say:

"Lu Aigong because the Honghu came from afar, and the chicken was near, so he focused on the Honghu and lightened the chicken, and as a result, the Honghu and the chicken were both lost.

After Xi Zhicai finished speaking, Yan Xing also fell silent for a moment, and Xi Zhicai told him at this time, "Tian Rao goes to Lu", is he mentioning himself in disguise, although he has lofty ambitions, wants to help the country and the people in the troubled times, and seeks wise people to help, but he is going in the wrong direction.

It is very unwise to dare to take advantage of one's own prophet and reputation, and then use the method of solicitation or even forcible recruitment to fall into the eyes of Xi Zhicai.

Know that "in the town of ten chambers, there will be faithfulness." If Yan Xing can deny himself as a corporal, strive to obtain a position and territory, and observe the talents around him, so that there is no omission of talent, then the talented people in the whole world will go to him as a master.

Instead of being like Lu Aigong and Dong Zhuo, or loving Honghu and light chickens, or forcibly recruiting Xun Shuang, Chen Ji, Han Rong, Shen Tupan, Cai Yong and others, in the end, those Honghu will fly away, and the chickens will leave.

These words are thought-provoking, so that Yan Xing, who was still a little happy in his heart because of the forced departure of the drama talent, was warned in his heart, in the troubled times, if he wants to compete with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others in the Central Plains, he can't rely on this kind of use of prophets to take advantage of the way, but should do a better job than them in employing people and making decisions, and go back to the source, which is the root of the struggle for hegemony in the world.

asked about the whereabouts of talented people, but in fact, Tian Rao's "Honghu and Rooster Theory" explained the root knot of talent gathering clearly, and indeed no one understood better than him where the talents he was looking for were.

Looking at Yan Xing, who was solemn and deep in thought, Xi Zhicai quietly looked at Mrs. Wu in the direction of Jiuyuan, got up and said that he was going to the toilet, and walked towards the dung behind the grass house.

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After a while, Yan Xing, who was in deep thought, suddenly felt a sigh in his heart, thinking of today's morning to noon, what Xi Zhicai said seemed random, but in fact they all had a deep meaning, the story he told about Wei Wuhou and Wu Qi, the story of the Lu people entering the city with a long pole, and the story of Tian Rao going to Lu, all of them revolved around the current matter.

Wu Qi's "The solidity of mountains and rivers is no longer dangerous in Germany", which means that although Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers and horses have the danger of eight passes and Kuihan, the trouble lies in the Xiao wall, the people are not attached, and the overall situation of attacking and defending will be different sooner or later.

After Dong Zhuo came, just like the old man who proposed to cut the long pole into two sections, he stole the court, acted in vain, and thought he was successful, and it was indeed very possible on the ground, as Yan Xing said before, the Han Empire was pulled into the abyss of division between the east and the west.

As for the story of "Tian Rao Goes to Lu", it is to warn Yan Xing not to follow Dong Zhuo's example of blindly recruiting celebrities and talents for his own use, as a shortcut to win the hearts of the people, be clear for the government, increase prestige, and help, and the drawbacks are often hidden under this superficial benefit. If you don't cultivate benevolence, righteousness and virtue, even if you do everything possible to attract Honghu, if you don't get it with your way, the people's hearts will not be attached, and you will go to you.

"If the people's hearts are not attached, they will go to you!"

Yan Xing silently recited this sentence, and suddenly realized in his heart, he raised his eyes to look, only to see that the lady Wu who was still selling wine before, had left the wine hall at some point, and Xi Zhicai, who got up to go to the toilet, did not return.

"Someone!"

Yan Xing ordered a personal guard and asked him to go to see the dung behind the grass house to see if Xi Zhicai was still there. Soon, after the guard went, he ran back quickly to report that there was a secret door in the dung, and Xi Zhicai had already escaped from the secret door.

Sure enough, it seems that after Xi Zhicai met him yesterday, he had already guessed his intention, and he also expected that even if he declined his solicitation, he would still be forcibly left behind.

Therefore, Xi Zhicai let his wife out of the city in order to avoid worries, let him repay the wine debts over the years, and in order to give some money compensation to Mrs. Wu who helped him escape, and the last story of "Tian Rao goes to Lu" should be when Yan Xing and Xi Zhicai frankly confided their hearts on the mountain, Xi Zhicai felt Yan Xing's courtesy, knowledge, and talent, and would tell such a story to Yan Xing meaningfully before leaving.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Yin Tong recruited Xiang Liang and was killed by Xiang Yu, and Zheng Bao recruited Liu Ye, but was killed by Liu Ye, Dong Zhuo recruited Zheng Tai, Xun You and other celebrities, as a result, Zheng, Xun and others in turn wanted to plot against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shuqiang left Xu Xuan as the prince, and the jade seal was stolen by Xu Xuan and dedicated to the Xu Imperial Court.

These stories are warning those who have ambitions and try to recruit celebrities and talents for their own use, who are not commensurate with their titles, are ambitious, have no skills, and are not attached to people's hearts, which are all taboos for the master.

Xi Zhicai is grateful for Yan Xing's respect and knowledge, and will not choose to lurk in Yan Xing's camp, and then make an amazing righteous act to get rid of Dong Xing's accomplices, and also warns Yan Xing that his current position is not enough, so he should not be ambitious, if he recruits one or two talented and virtuous characters, I am afraid that he will end up with Yin Tong's "preemptive strike but being controlled by others".

After telling the three stories, Xi Zhicai drifted away, as for whether the act of escaping from the dung is considered elegant, since Xi Zhicai claims to be a drunkard, how can he care about such a means of leaving.

"Captain, do I want to go after you?"

The four guards saw Yan Xing thoughtfully, thinking that Yan Xing had fled because of the drama, and they were already angry in their hearts, holding back a bad breath.

"No need, I'm afraid that at this time, everyone has already changed their clothes and left this market."

Yan Xing exhaled a breath of turbidity, stretched out his slender fingers, and slowly tapped the table, while raising the wine cup, and drank the remaining fruit wine.

Speaking of which, it is also interesting that Xi Zhicai, a poor and destitute scholar, was able to make a woman who was a wine seller willing to help him escape from his control, and he also allowed him to drink on credit all year round. Just like when Liu Bang was not born, he often drank from Wang Yuan and Wu Cheng.

Yan Xing, who had fallen for the trick of the drama Zhicai, shook his head and smiled bitterly, and muttered to himself:

"Interesting, interesting, I was able to escape from the dung with the help of the hand of the woman who sold wine, it is worthy of being a drunkard, but the woman who is successful is also a woman, and the woman who is defeated, this time, if the drama Jun wants to leave Yangcheng, the land of right and wrong, with his family, it depends on whether Mrs. Zun can also escape from the eyes of Ah Xing and others."