The so-called big is hidden in the court, the middle is hidden in the city, and the small is hidden in the wild. Like Dongfang Shuo, he has always been able to stand alone in the imperial court, and his way of dealing with the world is indeed outstanding, and the core point is that he has almost no political enemies when he reduces his status to Haiyu and the like.

In the Martial Emperor Dynasty, it was so transcendent to be able to do this!

So even if he was high-crowned and wide-sleeved at this time, and his strange clothes made his tall and burly body look a little abrupt and funny, Zhao Gao and Mai Linglong didn't dare to have the slightest slackness, as soon as they entered the hall, they immediately made a big salute uprightly, and leaned over in unison and said, "Sir!" ”

"That's it!" Dongfang Shuo calmly accepted the half-salute, and waited until Zhao Gao saluted for the second time before he turned sideways slightly, and at the same time supported the two of them with both hands, helped the two of them up, and arranged for the boy to lead the two of them to their seats.

This is a standard answer game, and it can be regarded as Dongfang Shuo giving Zhao Gao a chance to convince himself - that is, before Zhao Gao opened his mouth, he had fully understood Zhao Gao's intentions for this trip.

In this respect, the ancestor of divination is indeed no different from the prophet.

"Isn't it true that Sir can sit us down, and that he already has an answer?" Zhao Gao, who was kneeling and sitting upright, was not willing to deal with it, and at the beginning, he gave the tone and result of the whole incident.

Dongfang Shuo didn't answer, for this kind of semi-trap question, he just smiled slightly, and asked the first question at his own pace.

"Why me?"

This question may seem simple and ordinary, but the meaning of the words is very profound.

Probably when the plot world was integrated, the Han Dynasty was dominated by the Han Dynasty, and most of the famous ministers of this dynasty were under the command of Emperor Wu, and the famous ministers and generals could be said to be the volume of the car.

On the ability of the auxiliary country, there are Dou Ying, Xuchang, Tian Wei, Zhuang Qingzhai, Shi Qing, Gongsun He, Liu Quchen, Tian Qianqiu; In terms of military affairs, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Huo Guang, and Li Guang are all peerless famous generals; On Confucianism and Taoism, there is Dong Zhongshu who deposed Confucianism and respected Confucianism; On the economy, there is Sanghong sheep in the middle of the overall coordination; In terms of intelligence, there are Zhang Tang and Ji Di all over the eyeliner; On historiography, there are Sima Qian, Ban Gu, Ban Zhaobo, ancient and modern; In terms of diplomacy, there are Su Wu and Zhang Qian colluding with the Western Regions; dissertation studies, there is Sima Xiangru literary style; In addition, there are countless heroes like Han Anguo, Zhu Maichen, and Master Father Yan, and it can be said that the status of any of them is much higher than that of Dongfang Shuo, and the weight of their words and their influence on national politics are also much heavier.

But among so many people, Zhao Gao fell for Dongfang Shuo, and the reason for this is, of course, to ask clearly.

"Your Majesty is wise and martial, and it is often difficult for the ministers around him to be consistent. And Mr. once as a scholar, into the bamboo slips 3,000 pieces, His Majesty read it endlessly, for the festival admiration, but after the official position is not granted, the meaning of which is worth playing. Since Zhao Gao came to find Dongfang Shuo, this point was naturally within his scope of consideration, so Cheng Zhu talked eloquently in his chest, "Although Your Majesty has not entered your high-ranking officials, he has always let you serve with you, and allowed you to be debauched, and repeatedly violated the ban but gently let it go, I am afraid that Mr. also knows the meaning of preservation." ”

"Mr. has never left the center for decades, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is His Majesty's henchman." Mai Linglong's next addition is more straightforward, which can be regarded as a positive answer to Dongfang Shuo's question.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the proportion of these famous ministers and famous generals getting a good death is not too high, and once they are in a high position, it is inevitable that there will be a clash between various forces. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only arranged Dongfang Shuo with an idle official of about 1,000 stones, and made it clear that he was tolerant, which was clearly a special means of preservation.

Since there is a value preserved by special means, it is equivalent to saying that Dongfang Shuo has a hidden influence that can influence Emperor Wu's decision-making.

"Hmm, how did you offend our Wanderer?" Dongfang Shuo was noncommittal about the answers of the two, but asked an irrelevant question.

can be a free cavalry attendant who has no name in the Emperor Wu Dynasty, except for Sima Xiangru, where is there a second person?

This question couldn't help but make Zhao Gao and Mai Linglong look at each other. In fact, the two of them are similar to Sima, and they don't even owe one side. It's just that when Zhao Gao killed the shepherd, he killed Zhuo Wenjun, who had been recruited by the shepherd, and killed this historical figure in the sense of the underlying rules. As the female protagonist of the classic event "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", how could Sima Xiangru not gnash his teeth at Zhao Gao?

The bad feeling derived from such an underlying rule has obviously been inherited by historical figures. No wonder Dongfang Shuo put on a dead end waiting for Zhao Gao: this is not only to test the ability of the two, but also to show Sima Xiangru his attitude and continue his peaceful life in the court.

After all, Sima Xiangru's status in literature is too high. There are only two biographies of writers in Sima Qian's "Historical Records": among them, "The Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng" is a combination of Qu Yuan and Jia Yi, and "The Biography of Sima Xiangru" is not only a separate article, but also six times as long as the former.

"It is said that Zhuo Wenjun ran away with his disciple, and I killed her by mistake in a fight with his disciple." Zhao Gao honestly said the matter briefly, Dongfang Shuo's eyes widened, obviously he had no immunity to this kind of strange gossip, but he kept saying "That's it, that's it" and then listened to every detail of Zhao Gao's story quietly.

"Those who bear others will always be lost." Dongfang Shuo obviously heard the later stories of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, and he was not surprised by this result, but with his habit of changing his wife, he was obviously a little lacking in confidence to say this.

It's just that he didn't dwell on this, paused for a moment, and asked the second question: "Why Dahan?" ”

The dispute between Han and Hungary can actually be traced back to the "Siege of Baideng" of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty. In that year, Liu Bang led a large army to fight against the Huns, and was trapped by the Xiongnu for seven days and seven nights in Baishan Mountain, and finally the epic strategist Chen Ping retreated from the enemy with a strange plan, and since then he has established a strategy of encircling the princess and his relatives.

Now in this plot world, Mao Dunshan has already led his troops to the west, leaving Yi Zhi oblique to be swaying in the wind and candles. Under the situation of strength and weakness, it is obviously not easy to let the Han let the Xiongnu have a way to survive.

"The Xiongnu are thousands of miles away, with a population of one million, and they still have the strength to fight."

Zhao Gao didn't beg for mercy for the Huns, in fact, if it was useful to beg for mercy, he didn't mind kneeling, but the only thing that could really make the other party have scruples was strength.

The Han Dynasty was of course in full swing at this time, and the Xiongnu were indeed not their opponents in comparison, especially under the attack of the Qin Empire and the Eastern Han Dynasty, it can be said that they had no basic ability to fight back, which was also the fundamental reason why the Xiongnu tried to survive. But if you think about it from another angle, once the Xiongnu are forced into a desperate situation, the trapped beast is still fighting and the net is broken, giving up the other two sides and concentrating all the forces against the Han, I am afraid that the destruction caused by the final death struggle will not be small.

It is foreseeable that once this situation is formed, Meng Tian of the Qiang Qin Dynasty and Dou Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty will definitely stand by and watch, and even add fuel to the fire. It's not about the moral standards of the individual, it's about the interests of the state.

There can never be a true alliance and friendship between the three neighboring powers, and the Western Han Dynasty, which is in the middle of the geographical location, is born with this defect and has to consider the deadly threat on both sides.

This can also be seen as a game made by the Huns with their own lives.

PS: My speed has not improved.