Zhou Budo suspected that Cao Cao wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Shi Xun to make a book of Han Shang to make his reputation screwed, and Shi Xun couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this. But Guan Jing pouted and smiled: "Yuan Zhi is too worried. "You can't help but think too much-" With the Wei Dynasty Han, he is determined to follow the heart of heaven, and also relies on people's strategies, and can quote scriptures and classics for it, so that the people are happy to obey, who is the one who gives up the master? ”

Changing the dynasty is not such a simple thing, not only must have enough strength, but also must have a considerable public opinion base, in order to get the support of all the people - of course, in fact, it is to get the support of the scholar class, how can the people care if the surname of the Son of Heaven is Liu or Cao? Of course, for those barbarians in later generations who did not care about the perception of the Central Plains scholar class, the overthrow of the inherent Central Plains Dynasty could rely purely on force, without taking into account social public opinion - but if you want to really gain a foothold, you must eventually win over the scholar class, and you have to put on a Confucian cloak for the change of dynasty, Jin and Yuan, Qing, or so.

So Guan Jing said, what can give Cao Cao the greatest help in public opinion now is that you are Hongfu - Xi Wei's reputation is stinky, and Ren Yi and others are not enough to work - the matter has not been completed yet, why should Cao Cao cut off his arm to smear you? Besides, calculating the time, Xu Du issued an edict, it should be before the news of your admission of Kong's orphans reaches Anyi, there is no need for us to correlate these two things and analyze them.

This statement is indeed reasonable, and even Zhou Budo couldn't help nodding when he heard it, and bowed down to be taught. Shixun finally put his mind at ease, and said that I will inform Xin George, ask him to announce the edict, and I will be ordered - but before the words came out, he suddenly frowned again, and then muttered for a while. Said slowly: "Or." It's a matter of resignation. ”

Guan Shiqi, you are right. When the imperial court issued an edict to recruit me as a scholar, Cao Cao didn't know that I took in the second son of Kong, and in his thoughts, perhaps he also felt a little guilty about forcing me to resign and killing Kong Rong, so he instructed Xi to summon me to the court as compensation. But now he has read my poems. Will there be a change in mind? If Cao Cao wants to take back his fate, I will calmly take office, will I go against his will and make him hate?

Zhou Budo pursed his lips: "In this way, it is okay to say - there are a lot of worries, so why should the official accept it, and how can it be done?" "I thought too much about it just now, and now you think too much, if you really want to be so timid, this official is not appropriate. The big career you expect to achieve is probably not a big deal after all.

But this time, it was Guan Jing who nodded. agreed with Shi Xun's thoughts, and said: "The lord resigned before, because he was suffering from cold and illness, and now he resigns, and he must not express it." "If you are free of illness and disaster, and you have no special reason to refrain from the imperial court, you must show humility - this is also the practice of officialdom. Why not take this opportunity to show loyalty to Cao Cao again to avoid unnecessary suspicion?

Shi Xun adopted Guan Jing's advice and wrote an article on it—an official article that was flat and stable, and he was still capable enough. The basic content of the expression is nothing more than humility and saying that he is not capable enough and it is difficult to take on a heavy responsibility-

"Shangshu, the Shaofu belongs, the main hall Chinese book is also ......" Shangshu this position, the earliest was set up in the Qin Dynasty, the early Han Dynasty continued, and Shang Guan, Shang Yi, Shang food, Shang Yu, Shang Xi and called "six Shang", just responsible for the royal documents of the inner court of the petty officials - "Emperor Xiaowu because of the establishment of the Chinese Dynasty, so that the book involved in political affairs, and to the important ministers to record it, to catch the ancestors of the first order 'three sitting', its order to take charge of Taiwan affairs, auxiliary Yin and Yang, than the prime minister ...... "When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first set up Shangshutai, he often hung with important ministers to "record Shangshushi", " The title of "Lingshang Shushi" is responsible, the so-called Shangshu Ling is not the real head of Shangshutai, until the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shangshu Ling is in charge of Shangshutai, and with the Sili School Captain, Yushi Zhongcheng is listed as "three solitary seats", that is, the court can set up a separate seat to show favor. Shang Shuling thus became the head of the inner court, and his power was comparable to that of the prime minister.

So, I can't do such an important position - "Although the minister is Guanglu, after the military reform, the government returns to the Central Dynasty, Jiuqing prepares the position, and the matter disappears the drama, if it is the beginning of the country, I really dare not do ......it" Yes, I have also been a court official Guangluxun in the past, but the Eastern Han Dynasty returned to the inner court, and the work of Jiuqing has been simplified a lot, so I can barely cope with it, if it is Guangluxun in the early Han Dynasty, I really dare not accept it.

"The minister is also the book of Wei, and he is a relative of the king of Wei, and he is favored by him, but he has to do his best to do it, so as to do his best to be loyal. In addition, Wei is small and Han is big, and the carp ears of the Chenhe River can jump above the turbid waves, but they dare not swim between the oceans. The first half of the ......sentence is the truth, saying that I am related to Cao Cao by marriage, so I went to do the Zhongshu Order of the Wei State, what do I have to do with Your Majesty? There's no need to work hard to do a job that you're not fully qualified for; The second half of the sentence is false, saying that Wei Xiaohan is big, I can do the Zhongshu order of the Wei State, but I may not necessarily be able to do the Shangshu order of the Han Dynasty, you better ask for another master.

Write first in the middle, and then add a lot of empty words of humility at the beginning and end, and then seal it up, hand it to Xin Bi, and ask him to read the edict without need, so return to Xu Capital. Xin Bi didn't care - the appointment of the three princes and the nine secretaries, the self-respecting identity of the person called, and it was normal to resign and let it go three times - just reminded Shi Xun in a low voice: "After me, there will be more comers." "The imperial court will send someone to recruit again. Shi Xun smiled silently, and said in his heart that if Cao Cao still wants me to be this Shang Shuling, I just accept it, why is it difficult.

After all, this resignation is not simply following Shilin's conventions, but mainly to test whether Cao Cao's attitude has changed after learning that he has taken in Kong's second son.

Guan Jing and Zhou Budo naturally knew his thoughts. A certain Zhou Budo came to ask: "Wei Zhi's generation of Han, the general trend has been achieved, and Mr. will plan and break the work in the meantime, and history will not be ashamed." In this way, why not really hide in the forest spring, note the scriptures as the master of all ages, and still diligently in the position, so why? "You want to assist Cao Cao to unify the world and create a new dynasty, seeing that victory is just around the corner, the general trend is coming, there should be no more twists and turns, then you can also retire successfully, and now you are still obsessed with official positions, what is it for? Can you tell me about it?

It was Xun who twisted his beard and smiled, and then pointed to the court: "For their ears." ”

In the past, when he was in Xudu and Anyi, Shi Xun used to sit in his study and not run to the courtyard, but in recent months, he has increasingly moved a chair to sit in the court. The courtyard was bustling, and the slaves and maids were sweeping and carrying things back and forth, and when they saw their masters coming out, they often bowed down and retreated, and the result was that they were busy with what they should be busy with, and I just came out to breathe and clear my mind, and I did not mean to supervise your work—if you really want to supervise the work, it is not my turn to be the head of the family to do it.

Gradually, the slaves and maids also got used to it, and when they met Shixun, they just bowed from a distance, and then continued their work.

The reason why he is accustomed to running in the courtyard to get the wind is because Yehoon needs to use the fresh air to relieve his mental fatigue, reflect on his past, and plan his future life course. Since Cao Cao's debut, he has been non-stop, lobbying everywhere, or being in the center, constructing strategies, and he is always forced to be busy, and he does not have enough time to sink his mind and think. On the one hand, after all, when the age comes, he is no longer a hairy boy in his twenties, in his thirties and early forties in the next life, and his career has just started. On the other hand, it is also a rare period of leisure, jumping out of the game, you can see the current situation more objectively and clearly, and also see yourself clearly.

So this time, when Zhou Budo asked, Shi Xun was sitting in the courtyard, with a few heights beside him, and made a pot of strong tea - sometimes he really thinks that this seclusion should be equated with the old man, how can once he return to seclusion, he is used to drinking tea and basking in the sun, and he really looks like an old man?

In the Han Dynasty, there was no habit of drinking tea, and people's daily drinks were mainly boiled water. So he sent people to search for tea trees everywhere, because although the legend of Shennong discovering tea trees is too nonsense, but theoretically, at least the Han people already know that there is a plant called tea, but they don't think it is drunk, but only use it as medicine. But at the beginning, he walked into a misunderstanding in his thinking, just thinking about going to Yangzhou Valley to find tea, especially after the destruction of Dongwu, he even ordered to stay in Qiantang and Yuji to pay attention to - the location of Maofeng in Huangshan is still secluded, and the West Lake Longjing can always be found, right?

However, nothing was found - of course, some wild tea was found, but the quality was too poor to eat. Yes Xundu is about to be disappointed, who wants to turn around, but occasionally in Hua Tuo's posthumous manuscript turned a sentence: "(Tea tree) is born in Yizhou River Valley, mountains, and roadsides, Ling Dong does not die, and it is picked on March 3." "Ah, I'm just thinking about the southeast, how can I forget that there will be many tea producing areas in the southwest in the future?

It's a pity that Yizhou is under Liu Bei's rule, and it is difficult to go deeper, so I have to visit the businessmen who come and go to Yizhou, buy tea at a high price, and finally get dozens of catties. Try to stir-fry and brew, it is estimated that it is not stored legally, and it has a slightly musty smell...... It's okay, with some dried jasmine, let's drink flower tea from now on.

I don't know if it's related to age, it's Xun who let Guan Jing with tea, saying that drinking this thing for a long time can eliminate food, phlegm, quench thirst, diuretic, and be beneficial to the body and mind, Guan Shiqi soon became addicted, but the young Zhou Budo couldn't accept it at all: "Although it is fragrant, it is very bitter." "He hasn't seen good tea leaves (Yeshun doesn't have anywhere to touch them), and suspects that the fragrance is only due to jasmine, so I can smell the flowers directly, why should I suffer this kind of sin?

Medicine, wait until you are sick to drink it, how can there be a reason to drink it as water every day?

Therefore, Xun drank tea in the court, and Zhou Budo sat beside him, but he just drank boiled water. He asked Shixun, why are you so tossing and turning on the eunuch journey? Shi Xun pointed casually: "For their ears." Zhou Budo took a look in the direction pointed by Shi Xun, isn't this a slave in the house? If it is said for the family, for the children, there is still something to say, for the slave and the maid - "The disciple is foolish, please explain the doubts." (To be continued......)