When Wei Zheng wrote a few words in Jing Wen's hand, Jing Wen immediately came to this person's house when he left the palace. This person is Pei Ju, a prime minister of the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, who is now over eighty years old. When Jingwen rushed there, he also found a few "people who understand" to inquire about this Pei Ju's information. As a result, after inquiring, I found that this guy is still a powerful character.

Pei Ju's real name is Pei Shiju, because he avoided Li Shimin's name and Li Ji, he removed the word "world", and he was a diplomat in ancient times, and in ancient words, he was a columnist. He had two exploits in his life, and these two exploits alone were enough to make him famous in history. One is that the Turks were divided by their own strategy almost without spending a single soldier, and now the East. The Turks and the Western Turks were "born" in his hands. Because of him, the Turks fell into internal friction for a long time and could not be the enemy of the Sui Dynasty, which removed a lot of defensive pressure for the Sui Dynasty.

The second is that he passed through the Western Regions, opened up the Silk Road in history for the Sui Dynasty, and contributed to the trade between the East and the West. And if you want to understand the Western Regions and the Turks, I'm afraid that no one in the Tang Dynasty knows better than him. Moreover, because Jingwen got out of the publishing house a few years ago, Pei Ju was happy for a while and survived a mortal illness, and now he is not dead. However, he is already over 80 years old, and he can no longer continue to be an official in the officialdom, and he is already idle at home. Jingwen didn't know it yet, because his arrival made a person who was already dead linger for a few years.

However, this Pei Ju cannot be described as a loyal minister or a traitor, he was a traitor in the Sui Dynasty, but in the Tang Dynasty, he was a loyal minister, this can only be described by the south orange and the north orange. He is actually just a wall-to-wall grass, and he will say whatever the emperor likes to hear. And because he supported Emperor Yang of Sui in his attack on Goguryeo, he was not able to leave a good reputation. Actually, from Jingwen's heart. The failure of the attack on Goguryeo cannot be attributed to any one person. There were too many mistakes in the military politics of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty back then, and these mistakes couldn't make Pei Ju carry the black pot! And because of this hat, Pei Ju was not highly evaluated in later history.

"Knock knock!" Jingwen knocked on Pei Ju's home.

"Hello sir, the teacher has been waiting for you for a long time!" A young man took the initiative to speak.

Jingwen was a little surprised, this Pei Ju had already prepared, and knew that he was going to come.

"Brother Tai, can you take me to meet Mr. Pei Ju?" Jingwen said.

"Okay! Sir please! The young man said.

"Xuan Ce, are you here?" Pei Ju asked in an old voice.

"Teacher, here!" The young man named Xuan Ce said.

Jingwen immediately saluted and said, "Mr. Pei is well!" The younger generation Jingwen asks to see! ”

"Come in! I knew you would come! Pei Ju said.

And the young man named Xuan Ce poured some tea for Jingwen and Pei Ju, and then took the initiative to serve next to Pei Ju.

"If there's anything you want to ask, just ask?" Pei Ju said.

Jingwen thought for a moment. immediately asked, "Mr. Pei Ju, have you heard of Shi Zhixuan?" ”

Pei Ju raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect Jingwen's first question to be this. Pei Ju was actually prepared, and he guessed that Jingwen must have asked about the Turks, or about the Western Regions. But Pei Ju never expected that Jingwen's first question was so inexplicable, and he actually asked Pei Ju if he had heard of Shi Zhixuan? Who is Shi Zhixuan? Pei Ju didn't recognize it at all, but why did Jingwen take the initiative to ask this question? Actually, don't talk about Shi Zhixuan. None of Pei Ju's relatives and friends had the surname Shi, but Jingwen actually asked if there was Shi Zhixuan?

"No, absolutely not! Although the old man is old, his memory is not bad. The old man did not have Shi Zhixuan as a friend in his life. Why do you ask this? Pei Ju asked.

"Hehe, it's nothing, just ask!" Jingwen laughed.

Jingwen just couldn't help but be curious for a moment and asked. Because there is a martial arts novel by Huang Yi in later generations. It is called "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Shi Zhixuan's pseudonym is Pei Ju, and he has also passed through the Western Regions, and Pei Ju in that novel is the evil king Shi Zhixuan. And now Jingwen just asked in a bad taste. It's not really, this Pei Ju is the evil king Shi Zhixuan with strong martial arts.

Pei Ju felt inexplicable for a while, Jingwen would actually ask himself a question that had nothing to do with him, and it was the first question, Pei Ju would never figure out why in his life.

"Okay, let's get back to the point, Mr. Pei should have heard about today's discussion in the imperial court, right?" Jingwen said.

Pei Ju nodded and said, "I heard it, I actually knew for a long time that sooner or later Datang would set its sights on the trade route in the Western Regions. And this trade route, the wealth is innumerable, I am afraid that anyone will be jealous. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian successfully opened up the Western Regions, and truly let a very large world let the Han people see another world. Later, the two sides traded, and some cheap materials from the Central Plains arrived there, which immediately became worth a huge amount of dollars. And there are a lot of good things there, and it is also very rich when you come to the Central Plains. Many people say that I am a light businessman in the Central Plains, but once it comes to interests, who will despise it? And whether we can control the Western Regions is also a symbol of whether our Han people in the Central Plains are strong. As long as my Datang is truly strong, it is destined to control the Western Regions. Because this can not only bring money, but also control the Western Regions represents the strength of a country. There are war horses in the Western Regions, and many dynasties inevitably have to control the Western Regions in order to obtain war horses in order to fight against the border troubles in the north. ”

After listening to Pei Ju's words, Jingwen finally knew that this old man Pei Ju was not an ordinary person. Since ancient times, diplomats are often also strategists, and this Pei Ju is also a strategist. It's a pity that Pei Ju's luck is not good, and he has lived in troubled times all his life. When he was born, it was the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and although the Sui Dynasty was able to stabilize a lot, it was inevitable that there would be troubled times. And in his later years, it was a troubled era in the last years of the Sui Dynasty. And in this troubled era, the role of Pei Ju as a diplomat has been weakened. In troubled times, more military strategists and famous generals are needed, and this kind of diplomat can be said to be useless for heroes. If he could be born decades later and in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, then I am afraid that his achievements would be enough to reach eternal fame, not just a little fame now. Born at the wrong time, I am afraid that it is also the helpless idea of many military generals born in peacetime, and Pei Ju has been in this situation in his life. (To be continued......)