Everyone present watched Shi Bufan and Pei Xuanji walk into the inner room, and they all looked at the people next to them everywhere, they didn't know what medicine this Pei Ju was selling in the gourd before he died, and he actually remembered a person who seemed to be irrelevant, and bequeathed his own thing that he didn't know what it was to Shi Bufan, a person who didn't seem to have anything to do with it. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and Wei Zheng was even more envious, jealous and hateful, he licked his face to please himself, but people ignored him. Anyway, Wei Zheng still married a woman from the Pei family, at least half of the Pei family, right? What's more, Wei Zheng has a mental calculation, since the Pei family currently lacks a suitable political spokesperson, then he is just right!

He, the son-in-law of the Pei family, can be regarded as barely half of the Pei family. Although it is a relative, but in the case that the Pei family really can't come up with any talents, then it will be okay to choose a taller one among the shorts. What's more, he is not a complete shorty, he is also a fourth-grade in the current dynasty, and he is fully qualified to accept the support of the Pei family, and has since become the high-level spokesperson of the Pei family. These four products, the size and length are just right, and I am not afraid of anything that is not suitable. But Wei Zheng took the initiative to post it, but it was not taken seriously. On the contrary, Pei Ju did not forget to give Shi Bufan a thing before he died, which made him very depressed. This is obviously Pei Ju who attaches more importance to Shi Bufan, a person who seems to be not related to him, this Pei Ju did not have any intention of choosing Wei Zheng as the political spokesperson of the Pei family before he died. Of course, maybe Pei Ju didn't like Wei Zheng, or something else.

However, Wei Zheng didn't think there was anything, anyway, Pei Ju was dead, and he couldn't affect the Pei family who was alive now. As long as the Pei family is willing to support Wei Zheng, then Wei Zheng is not unable to become the political spokesperson of the Pei family. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, there is a serious fault in the Pei family's talent echelon, and this time is the most dangerous time. They couldn't find the temple gate with a pig's head, as long as Wei Zheng, the son-in-law of the Pei family, could help them, they would also be willing to support Wei Zheng.

"I will definitely be able to get the support of the Pei family! As long as I have the support of the Pei family, then I will definitely become the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Wei Zheng clenched his fists and thought.

However, what Wei Zheng thinks has nothing to do with Shi Bufan. Shi Bufan and Pei Ju's son Pei Xuanji came to the inner room and found that this was Pei Ju's study. And Pei Xuanji took the initiative to open a small box and took out four books from it. Shi Bufan really didn't expect that this gift would be four books.

"This is what my father asked me before he died, if you come to mourn him, then let me give you these books. If you don't come to mourn him, then let me burn these books! Pei Xuanji replied.

"Oh? What book? Shi Bufan asked.

Shi Bufan took these books and found that three of them were a series.

"Map of the Western Regions?" Shi Bufan was surprised.

"Yes, this is the map of the Western Regions, which was left by my father when he ran the Western Regions for the Great Sui. However, with the turmoil of the Central Plains, the Western Regions were once again controlled by the Western Turks. Back then, my father provoked the Turks and split the Turks, and now the Western Regions are occupied by the Western Turks. This is one of the regrets of my father's life, and he left this map of the Western Regions, which is a record of various situations in the Western Regions back then. Pei Xuanji said.

Shi Bufan looked at this map of the Western Regions, and his heart was full of emotion. Because when he studied international relations, he naturally had to study the famous diplomats of ancient times, and this Pei Ju was indispensable among the ancient diplomats. Many people may think that Zhang Qian is a diplomat, but Zhang Qian is famous mainly because of his unfailing mission and indomitable and courageous spirit, not because he has any personal ability. But if you really know how to understand and apply diplomacy, in addition to Su Qin and Zhang Yi, it was this Pei Ju before the Tang Dynasty. Pei Ju took advantage of the internal contradictions of the Turks to divide the Turks, so that the Turks could not be unified. This legacy was still inexhaustible until the Tang Dynasty, otherwise the pressure of a unified Turk on the Central Plains Dynasty would be unprecedented.

His management of the Western Regions was regarded as opening the communication channels of East and Central Asia for the Sui Dynasty, but unfortunately the troubled times of the Central Plains made his efforts in vain. However, according to history, when he was running the Western Regions, he left a map of the Western Regions, but it was later lost and was not handed down. But now I have finally seen this map of the Western Regions, which is an important material in ancient human geography.

"This is a Goguryeo custom?" Shi Bufan asked again.

"Yes, this is a Goguryeo custom, and it is a survey that my father did before he conquered Goguryeo for Emperor Yang of Sui. Later, this Goguryeo custom was summarized, and various customs of Goguryeo were recorded, which was conducive to the future rule of Goguryeo. It's a pity that the three expeditions to Goguryeo failed in success. Everyone in the world thinks that his father instigated Emperor Yang of Sui to conquer Goguryeo, and he was an out-and-out traitor to the country. But who can really know the dangers of Goguryeo? Therefore, my father always hoped to destroy Goguryeo and completely cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. However, now too many people think that their father caused the destruction of Sui, but they put the blame on their father for the three expeditions to Goguryeo, thinking that his father was a traitor. At that time, you were saying that raising millions of troops on the Liao River and immediately the first peak of Taibai showed that you still had to conquer Goguryeo. ”

"So my father wants me to give you this map of the Western Regions and the customs of Goguryeo, as long as you are willing to come and mourn him, then let me give it to you. If you don't come to mourn him, then I'll burn him! Pei Xuanji said.

Shi Bufan couldn't help but ask: "Why did you burn it?" ”

"There's no successor!" Pei Xuanji said with some mixed feelings.

Shi Bufan seemed to probably understand why these two books were lost in the original history, it turned out that it was not lost naturally, but Pei Ju burned these two books, which made him lost.

"Then why give it to me? To say that Pei Xiang and I are not familiar with each other, and we ...... Well, you get the idea! Shi Bufan said.

Pei Xuanji's mood was even more complicated and said: "You know, my father became a traitor in the whole life of the three expeditions to Goguryeo. He hopes that you can help him complete his regrets, his biggest regrets on his deathbed, that is, Goguryeo and the Western Regions. ”

Shi Bufan exclaimed: "Pei Xiang asked me to be the heir to the mantle? ”

Pei Xuanji said with a toothache: "Yes!" ”

Pei Xuanji really has a toothache, and his father chose an outsider as the heir to the mantle, which is a great sorrow for Pei Xuanji's son, and even for the Pei family. No one in the Pei family can inherit Pei Ju's mantle, his son is not valued by his father, his father would rather entrust his ideals and career to an outsider, and even this outsider is not a scholar, so he feels despised by his father. Even the Pei family couldn't choose a person who satisfied Pei Ju and chose to inherit his mantle. This made Pei Xuanji even more helpless.

Pei Xuanji thinks that if Shi Bufan is a scholar, then there is nothing, but it is a poor family! Even if he is just a small scholar, as long as Pei Ju is willing, with Pei Ju's status in the Pei family, he can even make an exception to let a daughter of the Pei family marry Shi Bufan, so that Shi Bufan can inherit his mantle, and there will be no problem with everything.

However, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Shi clan and the Hanmen were an insurmountable gap, so Pei Ju did not dare to break this gap casually.

"Hey, people are dying, and their words are good. Pei Xiang did not forget the Western Regions and Goguryeo when he was dying, and he could be regarded as worrying about the country and the nation all his life. But I didn't expect that before he died, he actually chose me to inherit his mantle, hoping that I would destroy Goguryeo and recapture the Western Regions? Maybe he was on his deathbed, and he had long since lost his thoughts about the struggle for power and the class struggle, and was just a simple old man. Shi Bufan thought.

Shi Bufan probably understood Pei Ju's dying thoughts, a person often has two extremes before he dies. One is to work hard for his family or some people close to him, hoping that after his death, his important relatives and friends can live well, and the power group behind him can continue to maintain his wealth.

But there is another kind of person, who may have let go before he died. On the contrary, he did not think about what would happen in the future, but was able to see very clearly, and he was not blinded by the power struggle and the interests of any class interest group, but saw it more clearly. Before he died, he gave up the so-called insurmountable gap between the scholars and the Hanmen, and chose Shi Bufan as the successor of the mantle, inheriting his ideal career, and then conquering Goguryeo and recovering the Western Regions. This is that people are about to die, maybe they suddenly figured out things that they couldn't see, and suddenly they were able to see a lot of things, and they were not bound by external things.

"Pei Xiangke is really in a state of mind, and he is truly accessible. He can be regarded as truly enlightened and sanctified, he can be regarded as truly reaching the peak of mental learning, and he has completely seen it all his life. Although he didn't really study my mind, before he died, he really achieved the mind of mind without external objects and returned to the true heart. But I couldn't see it, hey......" Shi Bufan sighed and said, obviously he was not able to reach the realm of Pei Ju, but most of the people who can reach this realm are generally people who are about to die.

However, Pei Xuanji immediately emphasized and said: "Don't go around talking about your father's book to you, and our Pei family will not publicly admit that you inherited your father's mantle." You don't want to get any benefits from our Pei family. ”

"Arrogance!" Shi Bufan scolded in a low voice.

Pei Xuanji just wanted to have a seizure, but Shi Bufan left immediately and did not continue to stay where he was. He accepted this book this time, which means that he has accepted the mantle of Pei Ju, and he must consider destroying Goguryeo and recovering the Western Regions in the future. However, this is only to inherit Pei Ju's ideals and career, not to inherit Pei Ju's wealth and social relations. Just like what Pei Xuanji said, although Shi Bufan is the heir to Pei Ju's mantle, this is only Pei Ju's personal behavior, not on behalf of Shi Bufan who has become the Pei family. Pei Xuanji thinks that Shi Bufan may take this opportunity to ask the Pei family for this and that, which is unacceptable to the Pei family.

In the eyes of the Pei family, Shi Bufan will always be a poor family, and from his background, it will determine all this. Many families even look down on the emperor, how can they afford to look down on Shi Bufan's humble family? He didn't want Shi Bufan to take advantage of this opportunity to climb the Pei family, so he hoped to clear up the relationship as soon as possible.

However, Shi Bufan did not take this opportunity to climb the Pei family at all, but thought that the Pei family was so arrogant, which was simply unreasonable.

"These gentlemen are arrogant one by one. It's obviously gone.,But it's like he's very noble.。 These scholars, similar to the Western nobles in later generations, are really just monkeys! Shi Bufan snorted coldly in his heart.

In fact, this kind of scholar clan during the Tang Dynasty has begun to gradually decline. Although it still looks very powerful on the surface, it is far from the peak of the scholar clan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At that time, every big family was a warlord who supported the army and respected himself, but now the scholar clan does not have much military power at all, and relies on academic and financial resources to influence politics, which cannot be compared with the warlords who supported the army and respected themselves.

But these guys still think they are noble here, and they think they are noble and look down on others. No matter how poor they are, they have to look like nobles, which is definitely a monkey. Many Westerners in later generations are also like this, obviously they are already a republic, and there are no nobles for a long time, but they still claim to be the heirs to a certain title one by one. Even France and Germany have heirs to the throne, and they call themselves nobles. These nobles are just in name, and in fact have no power. In fact, the Chinese nobles are the aristocracy of the West, and they are the products of the same economic base. However, China has experienced a more common landlord stage than the West, and the West has directly transitioned from the aristocratic feudal economy to industrialization. Therefore, there are still many remnants of the so-called aristocratic ideology in the West, but there is no so-called noble clan in China in later generations, and they sneer at the so-called aristocracy. In fact, the Western aristocracy's layer-by-layer management method is similar to that of the Chinese scholar enclosure, so although the scholar clan does not have a so-called title, it is the same economic model.

So from those in the West who are obviously already a broken household or are aristocrats, you can know what these nobles are. Obviously, it is not as good as before, and even some low-level scholars are not as good as the rich, but they are arrogant, and the people look down on others.

Even if they begged to let Shi Bufan climb high, Shi Bufan was actually unwilling! Following a class doomed to decay and collapse, he didn't die like that. (To be continued.) )