Later generations were famous for their ingenuity and wisdom for Yingchuan strategists, however, really speaking, this court politics is the tradition of the Yingchuan scholars who became famous in the world and have been going on for generations.

Seeing Fu Quan's question, a hint of a dark smile flashed in Xi Zhicai's eyes, and he said with a little deep meaning: "Pingkou Town is outside, who dares to bully?" ”

Nodding, Fu Quan realized something, and wanted to ask again, but the opposite Xi Zhicai ate and drank again, looking at this posture, he didn't plan to say anything more. Seeing this, Fu Quan stopped asking, arrogant people have their own personalities, and he doesn't want Xi Zhicai to be dissatisfied with him.

The three of them continued to drink, during which Xi Zhicai seemed to deliberately set aside Fuquan, only reminisced with Xu Fu, and completely put Fuquan aside, and even Xu Fu wanted to promote Fuquan several times, but was also stopped by Xi Zhicai, which made Fuquan quite embarrassed.

Fortunately, in his previous life, he had also seen a lot of dramas in which virtuous people recognized the master, and of course Fu Quan didn't believe that even if Xi Zhicai was impatient and unruly, he would really deliberately ignore a person as powerful as him. If that's the case, this guy wouldn't have to sing "Ostrich Fu" in this remote wine shop, and sigh that he would never meet his talents.

Sure enough, as Fu Quan was ignored by Xi Zhicai for a long time, he was not dissatisfied, but instead sat aside and watched the conversation between the two, and after Xi Zhicai nodded, he finally moved.

"The party has been solved, the 'model of the world' Yuan Benchu was ordered by the general He Jin to recruit the world's famous people, most of whom are party members at home, and the famous families in Yingchuan have a bright day, but they are still worried about their careers, and the world is really unfair." Xi Zhicai seemed to complain, and seemed to mean something, drank wine, and said these words to Xu Fu.

When Xu Fu heard the news, he replied: "Yuan Benchu is a model in the world, a famous gentleman, I have heard of the people he befriended, regardless of his background, in the name of his brother, if he goes to the like-minded, he will get something, I don't know ...... brother."

"A famous gentleman?" Xi Zhicai interrupted Xu Fu and sneered, "If it weren't for his other plans, how could he be abstinent from sex so far?" However, what is his filial piety, Yuan Zhi doesn't know? After speaking, Xi Zhicai turned his head to look at Fuquan, who was holding wine and drinking alone at the moment, and quipped: "Ping Kou is credible that Yuan is really a 'filial son'?" ”

Hearing this, Fuquan was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it and replied: "Filial piety or unfilial piety is not done by people, but the mouth of the world!" ”

"Huh?" Xi Zhicai was shocked when he heard this, and muttered to himself in surprise: "Inhuman? The mouth of the world? Wonderful! Wonderful! I have heard that Pingkou is young and "curing the plague", and he has tasted the wisdom of others. ”

"My little wisdom also, how can I be as wise as Mr. Dazhi? All kinds of puzzles are in need of Mr. help! Fu Quan replied modestly, but he lost no time in complimenting Xi Zhicai, which caused the opposite Xi Zhicai to laugh, but he did not answer Fu Quan's words. Of course, although he did not reply, it is obvious that Fu Quan's words made Xi Zhicai a lot of impressed.

Fang Cai, what Xi Zhicai asked, in fact, after confirming Fu Quan's heart, he intended to test Fu Quan to see if he was virtuous and would be confused by the filial piety established by Yuan Shao. Fortunately, Fu Quan's reply is more interesting, and he directly said whether there is filial piety or not, not to look at the behavior of the filial son himself, but to see the spread of the people in the world, which is like the public opinion propaganda of later generations, many celebrities and high-ranking officials, on the surface, they are glamorous and upright, and no one exposes "Wei Guangzheng" or "moral model", but behind the scenes, once the black history breaks out, one by one is shocked.

All this is also the importance of public opinion propaganda, this is the case in later generations, and the same is true in the present world, is Yuan Shao a "model in the world"? Is it a "filial son"? This answer is not in his own filial piety, but in the word of mouth of the world, in the words of later generations, it is Yuan Shao's reputation outside, it is obvious that his reputation is very good, and he is naturally a "model in the world" and "filial piety".

As for those who promote Yuan Shao's reputation, they will naturally not be ordinary people with low social status, but those who have the right to speak locally, especially intellectuals such as "celebrities" among the world's heroes. Anything that is repeatedly propagated in their mouths, through their local public opinion prestige, even if it is black, they can propagandize it into white.

On Yuan Shao, under today's rules and etiquette of keeping filial piety for his parents, Fu Quan doesn't think that Yuan Shao is really a filial son. After all, the Han Dynasty established the country with filial piety, and for keeping filial piety for his parents, he had his own set of rules and etiquette, and during the period of filial piety, Yuan Shao should pay attention to not laughing, not wearing beautiful clothes, not singing, not listening to music, not dancing, not taking a bath, not going to work, not investing, not enjoying food, not drinking, and many other taboos, and the most important thing is abstinence. If these taboos are violated, it is unfilial piety, a hypocrite, and mourning will be in vain.

Yuan Shao has been working for six years, although there have been no scandals of unfilial piety during this period, but Fu Quan knows that those taboo rules, Yuan Shao endured for six years but did not really abide by them all the time.

Not to mention anything else, it was said that after Yuan Shao resigned from Puyang County due to his mother's funeral, he wore luxurious clothes and went home with a large number of car apprentices, and when he was about to enter the border of Runan County, he suddenly remembered Xu Shao of the same county, and said in fear: "How can I make Xu Zi see him." So he dismissed the guests, changed into simple clothes, and drove home alone.

Xu Shao, as a celebrity in Runan, is a fellow villager of Yuan Shao, and is known for his appraisal figures. He has the world's well-known "Yuedan Commentary" in his hands, and he is not a party member, commenting on other people, basically not giving face, in the words of later generations, Xu Shao is a famous authoritative and fair "poisonous tongue" in Runan.

Even in Yingchuan, there are many celebrities who have been criticized by Xu Shao, but they are all afraid of Xu Shao, but they dare not offend him because of this. Once Xu Shao went to Yingchuan, completely according to his own preferences to visit celebrities, many Yingchuan County has moral knowledge of the elderly, have traveled with him, only one of the "Yingchuan four chiefs" Taiqiu chief Chen Yu, Xu Shao does not like, not to see at all, not to visit.

This move can be said to have not taken Chen Yu in his eyes at all, and even the party leader Chen Fan and Xu Shao have been disrespectful to him. At that time, Chen Fan's wife returned to his hometown for burial after his death, and everyone in the village went to attend the funeral, but Xu Shao did not go.

Someone asked Xu Shao why he was so, and Xu Shao said: "Taiqiu is wide, and wide is difficult to circumstance; The middle is Jun, and the Jun is less passable. Therefore, it is not made. It means that Chen Yu Chen Taiqiu's Taoism is too broad, and if it is too wide, it will be difficult to be thoughtful; Chen Fan and Chen Zhongju have a severe temperament, and if they are severe, they can't be reached, so he doesn't go.

Think about it, Chen Yu and Chen Fan, one is a famous member of the Yingchuan Shi clan, and the other is the leader of the party in the world, Xu Shao is so faceless ridicule, which shows Xu Shao's "poisonous tongue". Of course, no matter whether Xu Shao is doing this to make Chen Yu and Chen Fan famous, anyway, Xu Shao's "poisonous tongue" makes Yuan Shao afraid.

As for why be afraid? Of course, he was afraid that Xu Shao would ruin his hard-earned reputation, after all, Yuan Shaoke resigned from his official position and kept filial piety because of his mother's death, although Yuan Shao had only returned to Runan at that time, and his mother's funeral had not yet begun, but he had to wear mourning clothes to go home.

However, Yuan Shao was still wearing the luxurious clothes he wore when he was an official, so after thinking of Xu Shao, Yuan Shao said that he couldn't wear these luxurious clothes into the county, otherwise if Xu Shao saw him, I am afraid that the reputation he wanted to establish as a filial son would immediately be completely lost because Xu Shao ridiculed him for wearing beautiful clothes during his filial piety.

Therefore, in Fuquan's thought, Yuan Shao's insistence on long-term mourning was not because of his filial piety in his heart, out of sincere mourning for his mother and stepfather, but mainly because he acted in front of others, especially Xu Shao and other celebrities, and gained a reputation as a "filial son".

Of course, this is not to say that Yuan Shao is unfilial, after all, even though Yuan Shao may have done some unknown outrageous behaviors during his mourning, he must have done very little, but he will never say that he has not. At least, in Fu Quan's view, a young man who has been married and has children will never be able to face the temptation of all kinds of beautiful maids around him, and be abstinent from filial piety for seven years.

In other words, a man who has tasted the joy of fish and water and the taste of a woman is absolutely impossible to say that he can abstain from sex and endure not touching a woman for six years. Moreover, Yuan Shao himself is not a person who is not close to women, which can be seen from his later wives and concubines, therefore, in Fu Quan's view, Yuan Shao's so-called six-year abstinence is just that he has very little outrageous behavior and very little exposure.

After all, in this, there must be many party members and celebrities and Yuan Shao himself, using their strength to promote Yuan Shao, even if there is a real scandal, it will be covered up in a timely manner. It is fully guaranteed that Yuan Shao can inherit the reputation of his father-in-law, party leader Li Ying, so that the party group that has been tragically rejected by the party can continue to develop, wait for the opportunity, and reappear in the court.

In this era, some people hold banquets during the mourning period, some people's wives and concubines become pregnant during the mourning period, or even just do a small business for the sake of life, which will be severely condemned by public opinion and named the most hateful and shameless "unfilial piety" in this era.

In Fu Quan's view, if someone didn't cover it up, otherwise, just because Yuan Shao died of his mother's illness and returned to his hometown after mourning, he didn't wear mourning clothes, but wore luxurious clothes, as long as someone used words to publicize it a little, this thing could completely publicize Yuan Shao as an unfilial son. If this is the case, there will definitely be no more the so-called "Yuan Benchu, the world's model".

"As Ping Kou said, filial piety and unfilial piety are all in the mouth of the world." Xi Zhicai paused for a moment and continued: "If that's the case, Yuan Zhi thinks that Yuan Benchu can be a 'famous gentleman'? ”

"This ......" Xu Fu was dumbfounded, he didn't know how to speak, he didn't think much about it, it was completely affected by public opinion, so he would think that Yuan Benchu was a famous gentleman and a model filial son in the world, after all, compared with the drama Zhicai who had dealt with the Yingchuan clan a lot, Xu Fu could only be said to be a ranger with some wisdom and strategy, and there were too few people who could get in touch with and understand.

"Well, don't mention it!" Xi Zhicai changed the topic for a while, and said: "Fang Caiyuan said bluntly, the general humbly seeks talents, Yuan Benchu recommended the world's famous people for him, we have a bright day, but the people recommended by Yuan Benchu really have our position?" ”

Obviously, Xi Zhicai didn't believe that Yuan Shaohui was really humbly seeking talents, and he was used to seeing the faces of the scholars, and he understood that unless he had no choice, according to the virtues of those scholars, he would always look down on them. Especially like him, a poor scholar who is not low in wisdom and strategy, and the family is even more disliked, that is, a guy named Xun Yu that Xi Zhicai once met, although he talked very happily with him, and he was also very polite to himself, but Xi Zhi knew that in the eyes of the other party, I am afraid that he is just using himself as a tool, maybe the other party will be an official in the future, and he can make himself poor and destitute and loyal to his officials!

It's really hateful, if it weren't for his poor background, no one would promote him, and he could only earn a thin reputation in the county by relying on his talents, otherwise he might want to be a servant when others meet? Think about it, the reputation of Xun Yu's "Wang Zuozhicai" is not promoted by their party member He Hao for Xun Yu, who is also from a party family, otherwise, if it is not so, the other party is just a scholar who is famous in the county with the same talent as himself.

It's a pity that I just miss this opportunity, if I can get publicity, what about this vulgar ridicule? Isn't it a celebrity who can be promoted as an informal person? After all, vulgar ridicule can describe him as bad, or it can describe him as good, right?

Thinking of this, Xi Zhicai clenched the ear cup in his hand and took a sip of water and wine, but at this moment, Xu Fu's voice surprised his eyes.

"Then now that Fu Pingkou is here, he wants to have a brother for a long time, and today he will bend down to meet his brother, this heart is not as good as the ordinary scholars, and the brother is not as good as Yuan Benchu's command, why not join Ping Kouhu?" Xu Fu said with a smug smile, although he didn't know the inside information of those party celebrities, it didn't hinder his wit, and directly compared Yuan Shao and Fuquan, hoping that Xi Zhicai would switch to Fuquan, but this was directly hit by Xi Zhicai, who was caught off guard, and there was a feeling of lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

For a while, Xi Zhicai, who was originally invincible in debate, suddenly fell silent, obviously, he still couldn't make up his mind. After all, although Fu Quan came this time and looked sincere, no one knew whether this was Fu Quan's intention, or if he was sincere, of course, the most important thing was to maintain his identity.

After all, talented celebrities, according to the convention, must shirk well, and finally choose the master, otherwise, how can it set off the importance of those celebrities?

Xu Shao's character will be, and Runan is also a public opinion. Pre-public opinion. Less famous, good people, more appreciation. If Fan Zizhao, and Yang Shi, and famous. Therefore, those who say that the world is a scholar, Xian praises and Guo. At the beginning, he was the county Gongcao, and he was very respectful to Xu Xuan. Wenzi in the house will be an official, and he will not change his behavior. Yuan Shao of the same county, a heroic man of the public family, went to Puyang to return, the car apprentice was very prosperous, and he would enter the county boundary, but he sent the guests, saying: "How can I make Xu Zi see him." So he returned home on his bicycle. Shao tasted Yingchuan, a tour of many elders, but did not wait for Chen Yu. Chen Fan lost his wife and was buried, and the villagers were finished, but Shao was alone. Or ask the reason, Shao said: "Taiqiu is wide, and wide is difficult to circumstance; The middle is Jun, and the Jun is less passable. Therefore, it is not made. "It's so much discretionary.

Excerpt from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty