Chapter 24, Verbal Sword
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Shi Xun understood why Xun Chen had to invite him to Jizhou, because his current status is very important and very subtle, and even in a sense, he can influence the political situation in Xuzhou. First of all, he is the son-in-law of the Cao family, and he has been wooed repeatedly before the wedding, and now the Cao family's power in the state is in full swing.
Secondly, he is Chen Deng's wife and cousin, and his influence on Chen Deng is definitely more than that of several other legitimate brothers-in-law, and now Chen Deng has become Tao Qian's first favorite before driving, so Tong GuΓ² himself can envelop Chen Deng, and then directly affect Tao Qian's decision-making.
Third, he is the link between Cao and Chen Deng and Cao Cao, and Xuzhou wants to rely on the forces on the side, and there are only two options at this time, one is Cao Cao, and the other is Yuan Shao. As long as he can envelop himself, he will naturally cut off the possibility of Xuzhou attaching Cao, and at that time, in addition to relying on Yuan Shao, who else can Xuzhou get close to?
He proposed to meet the monarchs and ministers of Jizhou at one time, and Xun Chen readily agreed. According to Xun Chen's thoughts, anyway, many people will want to convince Shixun, instead of adding fuel tactics, it is better to bomb intensively. It's just that according to Chen Dengwei's plan, gathering all the ministers of Jizhou together, in fact, there are other intentions......
The next day, Shi Xun and Xun Chen left Tan County in the same car and headed north to Jizhou. Not far from the car, Xun Chen opened his mouth: "My brother is in Yanzhou, and he often exchanges letters, preparing characters in the state, saying that Hongfu is the dragon and phoenix among people, and he has the talent to stabilize the country." This meeting is true. β
Is Xun Xin saying why are you wearing a high hat for me? Lao Tzu doesn't appreciate it. He smiled faintly: "Wen Ruo also often talks about people in Jizhou with Xun. I heard that he had gone to Jizhou to meet General Yuan in the past. Yes? β
Xun Chen said that there was - "It was the second year of the first peace, and I was in the old Jizhou Mu Han Gong (Han Fu)." Because he recommended his younger brother to Han Gong, but when Wen Ruo arrived, Jizhou already belonged to General Yuan......"
Shi Xun didn't wait for Xun Chen to finish speaking, so he deliberately interrupted his words: "Xun Wen General Yuan treats Wen Ruo as a guest of honor, and he is not the only friend of Mr. Ruo, the same county Xin Zhongzhi (Xin Ping) and Guo Gongze (Guo Tu) are all in General Yuan. Ran Wenruo finally abandoned it and left, and went to Dongjun to be in my lord Cao Yanzhou-what does Mr. Youruo think of Brother Ling's knowledge? β
When Xun Chen heard this, his face couldn't help but sink: "Everyone has their own ambitions. Even though brothers should not be strong against each other. β
Shi Xun laughed "haha": "Wen Ruo also tastes Xun Yan and Jizhou characters, I don't know if Mr. Youruo wants to hear about it?" β
Xun Chen said that he wanted to hear it, you said it. So Shi Xun snapped his fingers and said one by one: "Mr. Youruo is Brother Wenruo, so naturally he refuses to say anything." In addition, Tian Feng just committed a crime, and Xu Yu was greedy but not cured. The trial is specialized but unplanned, and the results are used for their own use...... I don't know if it's true? β
The above four sentences of evaluation are actually not what Xun Yu said, but what Xun Yu said when he cheered for Cao Cao before the Battle of Guandu, which was recorded in the history books. It was Xun who was familiar with it in his previous life, and now he took it out and deliberately scolded Xun Chen. In fact, it is also recorded in the history books that Xun Yu said that Yuan Shao "is wide on the outside but jealous on the inside, and is suspicious of others", "late and less decided, lost in the back" and the like. But this can't be said to Xun Chen in person - scolding his colleagues in front of people is unhappy at most. And maybe it's a little bit of a steal, scolding his boss in front of people, and the consequences will be very strict.
Sure enough, Xun Chen listened to Shi Xun's words, and his face turned slightly pale: "People are not sages, and they are not guilty?" In the past, Wu Qi killed his wife and begged for a general, and he was able to do it for Wei and Chu Gancheng, Chen Ping stole his sister-in-law to receive gold, and he assisted Gaozu to become the emperor's business, as a generation of virtuous ministers. Employing people but taking their strengths and curbing their shortcomings, this is exactly what General Yuan does not mean to sinner, but can tolerate the heart of the four seas. β
"Oh, take its strengths and curb its shortcomings," Shi Xun couldn't help laughing, "I don't know if Xu Yu is greedy and arbitrary, can this shortness really be curbed?" β
Basically, there are many strategists under Yuan Shao's command, and there are not many who have the ability, but there are really not many who have discipline. Xu Yu was greedy and indulged his family to break the law, and later the trial was because of this incident to arrest his family, so he led him to surrender before the battle. However, the trial and others did not clean up Xu You's family because of honesty and strictness, it was completely because of the party dispute, after Cao Cao captured Yecheng, he once copied and checked the thousands of family wealth of the trial and others, and most of them were not serious income. So it's Xun who asked, you said, "Take their strengths and curb their weaknesses", so have their shortcomings really been contained?
In comparison, Xun Chen is a bit of a discipline among the Yuan family's strategists, so he refuses to tell lies with his conscience, and flatly denies that there is no such thing, Xu You and the trial are very innocent. At that moment, he frowned, so he had to change the topic: "The business of the king is more important because of the people's schemes. Now my lord is in Ji and Qing, going north to the thistle, Gongsun is tied, entering Montenegro, Zhang Yan is rushing, within three or five years, he will be able to settle the four states. At that time, in the north of the great river, there were millions of people, and the world could be determined, how could General Cao, who succumbed to Yanzhou, be comparable? β
Shi Xun retorted: "Soldiers are impermanent, and the momentum is impermanent. In the past, Xiang Yu Julu broke Qin, concubines and princes, self-proclaimed overlords, and arbitrarily arbitrary, isn't its power stronger than today's General Yuan? However, my Emperor Gaozu secretly crossed Chencang, came out of Hanzhong, swept through the Three Qins, broke Chu under the wall, and was dying in the world. How can the momentary momentum be relied on for a long time? β
Xun Chen replied: "There are three defeats of Xiang Yu. First, Pengcheng is a place of four battles, and there is no danger, and the foundation is unstable; And my lord is located in Jizhou, with the sea in the east, the river in the south, the Taihang in the west, and the Yanran in the north, like a solid rock. Second, Xiang Yu indiscriminately changed the princes, so that the people were promoted, the heroes lived in seclusion, and the hearts of the people were not attached; And under the benevolence of my lord, the famous people from all over the world look at the scenery from, if Xuzhou is attached, Dow can also be safe. Third, Xiang Yu could not make Gaozu King Guanzhong as promised, dishonest in the world, and could not fulfill his ambition in Hongmen, and even lost his life; So my lord will not have such covetousness, nor the mercy of a woman......"
Ah, it's Xun Xin who said that this guy's eloquence is really powerful. His Badiba pretended to analyze the reasons for the failure of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and by the way, compared Yuan Shao, and then stopped, what is the purpose of this last one, which suddenly braked in the middle of the words? He first said that Xiang Yu did not let Liu Bang be the king in Guanzhong as agreed, saying that Yuan Shaocai would not be so petty, and then said that Xiang Yu was not able to slaughter Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet, saying that Yuan Shaocai did not have this kind of woman's benevolence...... Is he threatening himself? Or is he threatening Cao Cao behind his back?
In other words, if you spray against this kind of goods, it is likely to be humiliating, and even if you barely win the spray, what can you do? Xun Chen pushed the gold mountain, poured the jade pillar, and bowed his head? Don't talk nonsense! When he was in Suixiang, Cao Cao kowtowed to you, because he pretended to kill you before, kowtowing is an apology, not that your big set of rhetoric really shocked him. Besides, Xun Chen has a master, even if he doesn't care about his own face, he has to take care of the face of the lord Yuan Shao, even if he is speechless by you, he has to stick his neck and continue to be strong-what's the point of you talking so much about him in vain?
So when Xun thought of this, he stopped being serious with Xun Chen, and changed the topic to say something else. Xun Chen was also like a mirror in his heart, he was bluffing and scaring just now, and he couldn't really say that he was Xun, the other party just didn't want to be entangled anymore, so as the topic changed to Xun, he also followed "Hahaha The weather is good today".
It's not good for them to talk about Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, and it's not even convenient to mention Xuzhou, so let's talk about others, for example, Lu Bu and Gongsun Zhan. Lu Fengxian and Gongsun Boqi can be regarded as the common enemies of the Yuan and Cao families at this time, so they have no psychological burden when they are degraded. And even if they praise them a little, it's okay, after all, Yuan Shao vs. Gongsun, Cao Cao vs. Lu Bu, at this time, they all have a big chance of winning, and raising the enemy actually happens to raise themselves. If you say Gongsun Zhan, Lu Bu, Ji Dog...... He meows you guys fight insects and chickens and dogs so hard, what is there to boast about?
In this way, the topic is getting farther and farther, and the more the two talk, the more speculative they become. Xun Chen Xun Youruo, he can barely be regarded as a first-class strategist in the world, his vision is very broad, and his wisdom is very deep; It's Xun, he has several times more historical accumulation than Xun Chen, plus he is used to clichΓ©s and storytelling, so he often listens to Xun Chen and is stunned.
The two commented on the characters, talked about the form, talked about history, and talked about the scriptures - Xun Chen was a strategist, not a genuine scholar, although he was well-read and familiar with the "Five Classics", but he didn't study deep enough, so he just had a tie with Shixun. It was Xun Xin who said that it was fortunate that when I went to the East China Sea with Shi Kuannan, I didn't talk about poetry with Ya, nor did I talk about scriptures with Ya, who knew that he was a disciple of piety and Yingrong, if I talked about the scriptures, I had to beat the individual without a complete skin.
But in another matter, Shi Xun can't say Xun Chen at all, that is-geography. Whether it is the geography of Hebei, the geography of Xu Yanyu, or the geography of Henan and Guanzhong, Xun Youruo is familiar with it as if he was looking at the text, but Hongfu...... Not to mention that the geographical situation has changed a lot in the past two thousand years, although he ran a lot of places in his previous life, he really didn't know it clearly. Xun Chen was riding in a carriage, stepping on the avenues and small roads step by step, and the journey had a lot of time to observe the terrain and landforms.
So walking and walking, Xun Chen stretched out his hand and pointed: "The west is Weishui, the defeat of Han Xin in the past and Qilu, that is, the shallow and narrow place in its upper reaches of the water, I traveled in the past, and watched the trend of its mountains and rivers......" is Xun caught blind on the spot, and said that this is not far from the Yingling, why didn't I think that there was an ancient battlefield back then, and I could go to investigate and hang on it? This has entered the boundary of Qingzhou, it is estimated that it will soon turn around and go to the northwest, to Jizhou, and there will be more places of interest and historic sites along the way in the future. No, I'll have to talk about something he doesn't know and understand.
Come to think of it, what knowledge does you have that is richer than that of the scholars of this year, and you can barely make sense? Simply, Lao Tzu told you - the earth!
(To be continued)