With Wang Lang's political sense, it can naturally be seen that there is no possibility of reconciliation between Wei and Shu. Since Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, the Liu family will inevitably share the sky with him, and the two sides will inevitably fight to the death. Unless one side falls completely, this war cannot be stopped.

Zhuge Liang in history did do that, he ignored the relatively weak national strength of Shu, "six out of Qishan" to cut Wei, until the national strength of Shu was exhausted, his almost reckless behavior, it is estimated that it is related to this mentality.

Wang Lang understood this, so he persuaded Wang Su to give up mediating for the two countries and focus on interceding for the clan. And Wang Su thinks very highly of himself, and secondly, he wants to become famous in one fell swoop through this incident, and even become famous through the ages, so he refused to agree with his father's point of view at first.

The two fathers and sons argued with each other, but they could not reach a consensus because they considered things from different angles. In the end, Wang Lang became angry, brought out Lao Tzu's shelf, and gave Wang Su an ultimatum, he forced Wang Su to promise not to mention the affairs of the two countries, otherwise he would not be allowed to go to the Shu camp.

Seeing Wang Lang playing a scoundrel, Wang Su had no choice but to obey his fate, in this era of monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, the majesty of the father is very heavy, not to mention the scholarly family of the Wang family, the traditional etiquette of Confucianism is more particular. Father's words must be obeyed if you understand, and if you don't understand, you must obey unconditionally, so Wang Su couldn't resist him in the end, so he had to agree.

After deciding on Wang Su's secret envoy to Shuying, the meeting could not be over, because the time was too urgent, and it might not be able to wait for Wang Su to come back before making a decision, and the family must react immediately.

The surrender time given by Zhang Bao is tomorrow noon, and it seems that there is still an evening and a morning, which seems to be a lot of time. However, noon refers to the time when the emperor surrenders, and for the major families and officials, it is necessary to express their attitude and do their work from now on.

Therefore, it is estimated that many officials have entered the palace overnight to ask to see the emperor and have begun to do ideological work for the emperor. After all, it will take a certain amount of time to persuade the emperor to surrender, and it may not even be possible to persuade the emperor to surrender, so other work will be done, such as whether to consider gathering private soldiers and opening the city gate to welcome the Shu army.

Even if the emperor is persuaded to surrender, the ceremony of preparing for surrender is not a simple matter, such a little time is simply not enough, and the hateful Shu army only gives everyone so little time.

The Wang family also has to make a choice at this time, whether to enter the palace to persuade the emperor to surrender, so as not to raise a butcher's knife against the Wang clan after Zhang Bao enters the city, or continue to go all the way to the black, and strongly persuade the emperor to stick to the city, and finally live and die with the Wei state, and even gather private soldiers to seize a city gate to welcome the Shu army into the city and become the founding hero of the new imperial court?

"The old man decided to take sick leave from now on and no longer take care of political affairs." Wang Lang said quietly, he didn't choose the above three options, and he finally chose the fourth option.

"Is this okay?" That Wang Su called the third uncle's clan. Other clansmen also discussed and expressed their voices of agreement or disagreement with Wang Lang's decision.

Wang Lang's decision seems to be very slippery, but it is actually very stupid. He tried to remain neutral and not help each other, but in this kind of political turmoil and drastic changes of the times, his behavior as a wall-riding faction could only turn out to be unpleasing to both sides.

It can be said that it is time to force people to choose a position, at this time it is either friend or foe, whether it is for Wei or Shu, whoever does not make it clear that he is on his side is his enemy, and if he is an enemy, he must be resolutely eliminated.

Therefore, those wall-riding factions who want to not offend both sides will eventually offend both sides, and in the end, no matter where they win, these people will not have good fruit to eat. This is a very simple heroic logic, but unfortunately although Wang Lang is a great Confucian who has read the scriptures, he can't figure it out.

He thought that if he didn't help each other, he could be alone if he remained neutral, but how could there be such a cheap thing in this world? Did he think he was Switzerland? If you want to be a neutral country, you should be a neutral country. Even if Switzerland can be a neutral country, it is backed by all the soldiers.

Every household in Switzerland has a gun, and every adult man has undergone military training and is ready to go to the battlefield to become a qualified soldier, who would dare to bully them easily? However, what does Wang Lang have? He could be said to have nothing but his own knowledge and fame among scholars.

Knowledge and fame can become his invincible weapons in the officialdom in a peaceful and prosperous era, but in troubled times, if you want to live in trouble, you don't rely on knowledge or fame, but on powerful force. Without a strong force to rely on, you can only rely on the strong, become a courtier of a strong man, assist the strong man, and go to the top together.

If you don't have the strength and want to survive between two strong people, it's just a fool's dream, and in the end, you will only be eaten to the point that there are no bones left. Although this is a simple principle, not many people can see it clearly.

Wang Lang obviously does not have the quality to become a hero, and at the same time, he does not see the rules of the game between these heroes very clearly, and at this point, he is not even as good as the third uncle who is countless levels below him.

At least the third uncle still questioned his decision. But it's useless, Wang Lang is a well-deserved person in charge of the Yancheng Wang clan, and in this clan, no one's words are as good as his words. This system of feudal patriarchal absolute authority was fully violent at this time~ and exposed its shortcomings.

So, Wang Lang settled this matter in a few words, and then everyone went their separate ways~ things, what should they do. The busiest is Wang Lang, he has to arrange for someone to secretly send Wang Su out of the city, and he also has to write a letter to ask people to send him to the palace overnight.

It's no wonder he's so anxious, because according to Zhang Bao's ultimatum, tonight is the deadline for the major clans to act. According to the usual rules, after the palace gate is locked at night, it will not be easy to open the palace gate again, and it is extremely difficult for officials to enter the palace.

If there is no big thing, you can only wait until the palace door opens the next day before you can enter the palace to face the saint. But now is the time for something big. Tonight, the palace gate was wide open, and countless civil and military officials and clan lords poured ~ into the palace.

Their aim was to see the emperor and express their political demands, while also refuting the political demands of their opponents. Of course, before these people entered the palace, countless family meetings and clan meetings were held in the homes of some big people.

The meetings of these families and clans were very similar to the clan meetings of the Yancheng Wang clan, in that they were all heated discussions and finally reached resolutions one by one. These resolutions are broadly divided into four types:

The first, and most family, clan choice, is to persuade the emperor to surrender and avoid offending Zhang Bao, a brutal general, in order to preserve the clan's incense in the new Han dynasty in the future, so that the clan can continue;