Chapter Twenty-Four, Hanoi Sima
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Shi Xun's family background is not very high, of course, compared to the children of a single family like Lu Su and Wu Zhen, it is too strong. It is estimated that if the two Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, when the nine-grade Zhongzheng system prevailed later, the Sima family would be properly top-grade (of course, without considering the premise that their family became a royal family), the children of the family would be able to be five- or six-grade officials from the beginning, and they should be regarded as middle-grade, and they could start from the seventh- and eighth-grade county officials.
This kind of social form and bureaucratic system of "no poor people in the upper grades and no powerful families in the lower grades" directly restricted the flow of talents, divided the social classes, and led to the corruption of the government and the strict annexation of the two Jin dynasties and the Southern Dynasties. Shixun himself didn't want history to go to that point again, and wanted to rely on his own strength to avoid the introduction of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system. He once persuaded Cao Cao to crack down on the wealthy family in Yanzhou, and it was for this reason. But this does not mean that he completely hates the family, his thoughts from two thousand years later, in fact, are quite in line with Cao Cao's employment policy - as long as you are really talented and used by me, who cares what your background is? A single family is available, and the potential family is still available.
As for the future reform of the government, or to obstruct Chen Qun's introduction of the nine-product Zhongzheng system, he may have to face the opposition of these officials from wealthy families, but the eyebrows are burning, and considering the current situation, the world has not yet been unified, so why worry about things so far away?
However, "meritocracy" is only Cao Cao and Shi Xun's personal thoughts after all, and the social trend of thought has not been completely reversed, with Shi Xun's current identity, it is normal to recruit Wu Zhen, Qin Yi and other children of the single family as guests, and want to recruit the children of the Sima family. That's a lot of difficulty. So even if he can really let go of the king's eight anger. Even Sima Zhongda bowed his head and bowed. The other party may not be willing to use it for him, but he has to recommend it to Cao Cao to use.
The question came back again, Cao Cao is a commonplace, and he is the third duke, not to mention the Sima family, even the children of the noble gate lords like Hongnong Yang, who are not aggrieved to be Cao Cao's disciples and subordinates, why did Sima Lang go in the original history. Sima Yi resolutely refused to answer the call?
The Book of Jin said that Sima Yi pretended to be sick and refused because he "knew the fortunes of the Han Dynasty and did not want to bend the Cao family", which is completely nonsense. Later, he was forced to answer the call, starting from Cao Cao's literary career, and he has been "bending" until his death, and he did not show the slightest sign of finding an opportunity to resign and return to his hometown to live in seclusion.
According to Shi Xun's analysis and conjecture, the biggest possibility of Sima Yi's rejection of Cao Cao's recruitment was that the family's idea of protecting the family and protecting the industry was at work. When Cao Cao was first recruited. Yuan and Cao fought fiercely, although Cao Cao won in Guandu. But he hasn't been able to finally decide the victory, Sima Yi is afraid that if he presses the wrong treasure, it will bring unnecessary damage to the family - anyway, the eldest brother is already an official under you, so why put my eggs in the same basket? If something happens, I'm afraid that the basket will be smashed and the whole family will be destroyed.
Several brothers of the Xun family are either in Hebei or in Henan, which is precisely for this reason.
Thinking about it further, Cao Cao recruited Sima Yi to send him to his subordinates to be officials, and it is estimated that if the imperial court issued an edict and summoned him to be a local order, a minister, or something, he might not be able to refuse-well, he followed this line of thought, but he might be able to do some tricks to try it......
The Sima family in filial piety is one of the top wealthy families in Wen County, and it is easy to inquire, so it is Xun and his party who are freshly dressed and angry, and they go directly to his family's village. There was Zhuang Ding at the door to block it, and Shi Xun dismounted and handed over the name thorn, saying: "The servant is Xun and others, and he went to Guanzhong on the order of the king, passing through here, to pay homage to the late Jingzhao Yin Sima Gong, and please pass it on." ”
Looking at the eyes of those Zhuang Ding, it seems that they don't believe it - the dignified angel, the two thousand stone servants, just hit our door directly? Shouldn't the county government be notified first, and then the county will send someone to report and ask for a greeting? Shi Xun glanced at them with a sneer, and easily raised the long scepter: "The envoy is here, why do you doubt it?" Go to the pass! ”
Of course, those Zhuang Ding had no chance to see the scepter, but they had all heard of it, and it was estimated that no one would deliberately make a scepter to swagger and deceive in these years, so they were all stunned, and a few of them hurriedly held the famous stab in to report, and a few of them took out a mat from the porter and asked the nobles to rest for a while. It was Xun who rode a horse and his legs were sore, so he didn't sit, but just walked in a circle in front of the village to refresh his muscles and bones.
By the way, he took a rough look at the scale of Sima's Zhuangyuan, compared to the Zhuangzi outside his own Xu Du and Juancheng, it is indeed much larger and more brilliant, especially the century-old mansion, there is no trace of recent renovation, and it looks so vicissitudes and has so much heritage...... It's like the real monuments and pseudo-monuments of later generations, which can be seen at a glance by those who have a little knowledge.
The time was not long, and he saw the gate of the village opened, and then Sima Fang led a large group of boys to welcome him out of the door. Shi Xun was startled at first, and then he thought about it, as a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones, and he was an envoy with a festival, Sima and his son should all go out to greet him - this saves his own business, there is no need to make excuses to tell Sima Fang to let me meet your sons, especially the second child, and there is no need to worry about Sima Yi suddenly pretending to be stupid and pretending to be sick.
Shi Xun straightened his clothes, handed over the scepter to the servant, and stepped forward to greet Sima Fang. He is an incumbent servant, Sima Fang is now white, it stands to reason that there is no need to be so respectful, and even if Sima Fang is still in the office of Jing Zhaoyin, the two are of equal rank. But firstly, the dignity of the official position is not completely according to the rank, as the official of the Chinese Dynasty is more valuable than almost all the county guards, but it is only lower than the Henan Yin and Jing Zhaoyin where the two capitals are located.
He made a gesture first and said, "Meet Sima Gong." Sima Fang hurriedly returned the salute: "The angel light is coming, the puff is shining, please come in and talk to the waiter." The two of them just looked at each other, and the children of the Sima family knelt down according to the etiquette, and Shi Xun stretched out his hand to hold it: "Qing and the others are all Sima Gong's sons and nephews, there is no need to be like this." "The young men are lined up quite neatly, roughly numbered, exactly seven, plus Sima Lang, who has been Cao Cao, is called the "Bada" of the Sima family. The Han Dynasty respected the right, and it was Xun who started to help from his left hand, the boss of the Sima family was Sima Lang, and now Xu Du, so this, theoretically, must be the second Sima Yi-
Looking at this Sima Zhongda, I saw that he was young and weak, with only a faint short mustache on his lips, a thin face, slightly higher cheekbones, and nothing special about his appearance-alas, what about the "eagle and wolf Gu" that we said? This young man always lowered his head and lowered his eyelids, looking so polite that he couldn't see his eyes clearly.
The second place should be Sima Fu, the word Shuda, who is about the same age as the second brother, and his appearance is quite similar. Yes Xun had an impression that it was just these two brothers plus Sima Lang, and he couldn't remember the rest of Ji Da and Youda, and he didn't bother to pick them up one by one, so he just raised his hands emptyly: "Please get up." "Look at the youngest one, it's probably not even ten years old.
Sima Fang let Shi Xun and others into the village and sat down. Lu Su, as a servant of six hundred stones, naturally sat on the side, as for Wu Zhen, Qin Yi and others, they were not qualified to go to the court, and their own relatives and guests of the Sima family were entertained. The children of the Sima family did not all come over, only the first two accompanied the last seat - it is estimated that because these two have already performed the crown salute, they are considered adults. It's Xun Xin who said it's just right, I'm really not much interested in the remaining five.
After taking a seat, Sima Fang asked, the angel claimed to want to go to Guanzhong, passing by Wen County, how did he think of coming to our house? Any commands? It was Xun who told him straight to the point: "Xun was ordered to go west this time, and the governors Hedong, Hongnong, and Guanxi generals would crusade against the traitors Li Dao and Guo Yan, because he was not familiar with the situation in Guanzhong, so Cao Sikong asked a certain person to come and ask Sima Gong first." As he spoke, he presented Cao Cao's letter and Sima Lang's letter to his family.
In the last years of Emperor Sima Fangling, he served as Jingzhao Yin for a few years at the beginning of Emperor Xian, in other words, he was the Jingzhao of Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun's pastors, and after Li and Guo entered Chang'an, they took the initiative to resign and return to their hometowns. said that he was an old bureaucrat, but in fact he was not very old, and he was estimated to be about fifty years old, and his beard was black. At that moment, he put aside his son's letter first, unfolded Cao Cao's letter and read it, and couldn't help but smile: "I don't want Meng...... Cao Sikong still remembers the old man. ”
Yes Xun didn't play with him, and the officialdom of these years and months was not as polite as later generations, repeatedly twisting and turning, so he said bluntly, although Li and Guo Bahu were raging, but this time the generals who called for a crusade were no better, if they destroyed Li and Guo and occupied Guanzhong, it would be tantamount to rejecting the wolf at the front door and entering the tiger at the back door, so the imperial court sent itself to pacify Guanzhong after the war and appoint officials to guard the herdsmen, so that the thousands of miles of fertile fields in Guanzhong were returned to Wanghua. This is the real name of righteousness, to put it bluntly, I'm not afraid that you Sima Fang will not help.
Sima Fang has been a bureaucrat for so many years, and he understands it as soon as he hears it: "In this case, the servants are not here to inquire about the mountains and rivers in Guanzhong, but to inspect the people and know whether the sages and fools of the counties and counties are foolish, so as to confer officials?" Shi Xun nodded, and lost no time in putting on a high hat: "Sima Gong has seen thousands of miles, and he must have something to teach me." ”
Sima Fang said this is simple, I have been in Jingzhao for Yin for many years, the local customs and customs, the surnames of the counties, that are all Men'erqing, although it has been a few years since he left office, after all, those big families are deep-rooted, even if Li and Guo may not be able to pull them up, they must still be useful-"As for Feng Yi and Fufeng, most of them have been heard, I am afraid they may not be true. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!)
ps: Recommend, I've always liked Qi Cheng's "Industrial Overlord", I think it's the best of the same type of works, but it's a pity that his last "Daming Dishi" is only in the middle of the peace, and it ended in a hurry (it is estimated that it is more hands-on to historical themes). Fortunately, the new book "Material Empire" has reverted to the old routine, which is worth looking forward to. Material Empire (ISBN 3172915) joined the Dream Cup essay contest, I hope that friends who also like that book after my recommendation will go to his page to vote, my vote is all to Qi Cheng anyway.