("Daming Inspector" Uncle Ben's old book is an official fight, if you like it, take a look)

If it's a long story, then sit down and talk slowly, anyway, it's early in the morning, and there is time, so Lu Peng said eagerly: "Come on, come on, for us to meet here, we should serve the three whites." "It's good to drink, drinking can enhance feelings, and you can talk about things that can't be talked about, in China from ancient times to the present, countless important things are talked about at the wine table. Of course, there are more people who drink and make mistakes, but this is not mentioned.

said that he was wearing three whites, but he took Xu Jie's hand, for fear that he would run away, and looked left and right, it was a little embarrassing, in this tattered, smelly Yellow Turban camp, not to mention wine, there was no place to sit, so he naturally proposed: "Mr. must know the big tent of the Yellow Turban Fang Shuai, why don't we go there and talk about it in detail." ”

Xu Jie looked at Lu Peng with a smile, and there was a meaning in his expression to understand you, you know, Lu Peng was a little embarrassed, so he glanced at the guy named Chu Yan, and saw that the guy's expression tightened, Lu Peng immediately felt a burst of disappointment, the treasures he wanted from Fang Shuai may be hopeless, those treasures must have been blackened by these guys.

At this time, Xu Jie said with a smile: "The official army attacked fiercely, and when the thieves fled, they burned down the thieves' tent, and it has become a white land. ”

Fishing in troubled waters, destroying corpses and destroying traces, this hand is played beautifully, and it is worthy of being a financial expert. But in the future, you are all mine, isn't yours mine?

"Since the thief camp is chaotic and pickled, why don't we go back to my camp and talk." Then he grabbed Xu Jie's arm, and regardless of whether he wanted it or not, he dragged it directly to his camp. As he walked, he said to the dozen or so men who followed suit: "Now, you are my own soldiers, hurry up and throw away the yellow cloth strip on your head, or let people see it, and put on me a charge of sheltering the thief army, which is another tongue." ”

Those men looked at Xu Jie with their eyes, and Xu Jie smiled bitterly: "Lose that strip of cloth, from now on, you will be the general's personal soldiers." ”

Coercion, absolute coercion.

The group returned to Zou Jing's camp, Zou Jing had not returned from the pursuit, at this time, Lu Peng was the boss of this camp, and he returned to his tent with his party, and immediately ordered Zou Jing's cabinet to cook, prepare wine and food, and serve it after a while, of course, the wine is Lu Peng's good wine.

The two sat opposite each other, and Lu Peng asked Xu Jie again for the reason, and Xu Jie sighed.

Xu Ming was born in the Xu family of the East China Sea Wang clan, the origin of family learning, and was sent to the famous Confucian Yang Ci to study, it turned out that Xu Jie's teacher Yang Ci died, he had to serve as a closed disciple to serve the mourning and filial piety, of course, filial piety does not have to be in front of the teacher's cemetery every day, and it is the same when he goes home, so he returned to his hometown in the East China Sea, one to be quiet and filial piety, and the other to sort out the things he learned from the teacher, so as to enrich the content of the Xu family school classics, which can be described as one stone.

But who would have thought that the Yellow Turban Incident, Qingzhou Youzhou and other places were the most intense, although the Xu family is a local family, but it is not equal to a local wealthy family, the whole person owes a little, as a result, the clan was destroyed by the Yellow Turban, only Xu Jie was spared, but he was also coerced by the Yellow Turban, seeing that he was a scribe, he asked him to do some record paperwork under Fang Shuai's account.

Xu Jie was bent on avenging his family, so he endured humiliation and stealthily survived, during which he co-opted Chu Yan and other righteous people, preparing to kill Fang Shuai at the right time, first, to avenge himself, and secondly, to seize power for Chu Yan for his own use, and then use this as capital, surrender to the official army, and mix a serious background.

However, under Qingzhou City, the soldiers did not move forward, and the veteran soldiers of the division were tired, and they were beaten violently by Zou Jing who came from afar, and the whole army was directly annihilated.

At that time, Chu Yan wanted to protect Xu Ming's escape, but Xu Jie said that at that time, tens of thousands of troops were in chaos, scattered in a radius of more than ten miles, and if he and a dozen people escaped with them, they might die in the war, so they had a secret on the spot, and after the official army was gone, everyone came out to flee for their lives, but they didn't want to fall into the hands of Lu Peng by mistake.

Xu Jie couldn't help but sigh every time he talked about the past, and from time to time he cried and communicated, and sometimes gritted his teeth.

Of course, Lu Peng accompanied him or cried sadly, or was angry and resentful, and was regarded as a confidant by Xu Jie at that time, and the title of the two of them also changed from Mr. General to brother.

After complaining, the friendship wine was drunk, and the relationship between the two people was also closer, "Where does Brother Jingxing plan to go next?" Lu Peng asked tentatively.

Xu Jie sighed, and said after a while: "Some time ago, someone in Xuzhou Tao Taishou said that he intended to recommend the younger brother to enter the court as an official, and the younger brother was preparing to see the opportunity to get rid of the Yellow Turban thief, and then apply for the court. ”

At this time, there was no imperial examination system for later generations, and it all relied on the continuation of the family and the recommendation of the family, that is to say, Xu Jie, who was not a wealthy family, could only rely on his academic face to be recommended by the Confucian high-ranking officials. Of course, as long as Xu Jie is recruited by the imperial court to become an official, and then rises to a considerable level step by step, he can also recommend his own clan to be an official, and slowly turn a prominent clan into a family, thereby changing the identity and status of the family.

At the beginning, Xu Jie also had this idea and wanted to fight for the family, but now that the family was wiped out in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the idea of becoming an official again is not so hot. So when Lu Peng asked, he hesitated.

Lu Peng immediately seized this entry point and began to pull together, so while pouring wine for Xu Jie, he said with a worried face: "Brother Jingxing, the younger brother has a word of advice, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

Xu Jie took the wine, took a sip, and said calmly: "Han Qiang and say it directly, just listen to the foolish brother." ”

Lu Peng said cautiously and sincerely: "Jingxing has great ambitions, and he shoulders the deep hatred of the sea of blood, and it may be possible to become an official in the court, but Xuzhou is thousands of miles away from here, there are many yellow turban thieves along the way, and there are more thieves cutting paths, and tigers and wolves are infested. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Jie couldn't help but look gloomy again, Lu Peng was telling the truth, on this thousand-mile road, it was extremely dangerous to embark on a journey during the Taiping period, not to mention the current troubled times?

"There is another thing, even if Brother Jingxing got to Xuzhou all the way to Xuzhou and was recommended by Tao Gongzu to enter Beijing as an official, but what is the situation in the court now, Brother Jingxing also knows if he wants to come, the ten permanent servants of the court are troubled inside and outside, the party is the same and different, with Brother Jingxing's square character, he will not flatter in Arabic, and he will not flatter those eunuchs, how can you gain a foothold in the imperial court?"

Looking at Xu Jie's blackened face, Lu Peng added: "Even if the Ten Standing Servants don't embarrass you, if you want to get ahead, what year and month will you have to wait?" ”

Xu Jie sighed, tilted his neck, drank the residual wine in the cup, and then lowered his head and was silent.