But it was said that Zhuge Liang wanted to behead Wei Yan, Guan Yu was shocked and asked: "Wen Chang is not guilty, why did the military advisers harm each other?" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "It is disloyal to eat its lu and kill its master; It is unjust to dwell in its land and offer its city. It seems that this disloyal and unrighteous person should be cut off first, so as to eliminate the root of the curse. ”

Wei Yan defended: "What is loyalty? What is righteousness? The Han family has run out, Cao Cao fiercely hugged the Han zombies, and in the name of the Son of Heaven, he wanted to dominate the world, and the princes were divided and resisted, how could it be disloyal? Uncle Liu Huang relied on Cao Cao, voted for Yuan Shao, ran to Liu Biao, and Mr. Uncle Pope repeatedly seized the counties of Jingzhou, is it unjust? Mr. Sima Hui once said, "Those who know the times are handsome", good birds choose trees to perch, and good generals choose the master to do things. I wanted to follow the emperor's uncle in Xiangyang, but because I was intercepted and killed, I couldn't find it, so I had to stoop to Changsha City to wait for the emperor's uncle's soldiers to arrive. Seeing that Han Xuan didn't know what to do and wanted to kill Huang Hansheng as a veteran, he rescued General Huang Lao righteously, killed the stubborn general Han Xuan, and dedicated the city to Yun Chang, how did he become an unloyal and unrighteous person? ”

Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan tightly as he spoke, and his emotions slowly stabilized.

Huang Zhong stepped forward to intercede and said: "I am a general, and I have no right to speak." If Nai Ruo is not a literary chief, the old man has become a ghost under Han Xuan's knife. If the text is long, how dare the old man live in the world? ”

Liu Bei heard what Wei Yan said, and admired and loyalized him so much, and hurriedly said: "If you cut off the chief, everyone who is afraid of surrendering will be in danger, and I hope that the military teacher will forgive him." ”

Zhuge Liang pointed at Wei Yan and said: "I will spare your life today, and I should be loyal to the Lord, and don't have different intentions." Otherwise, you will not be spared. ”

Wei Yan looked at Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Huang Zhong, and then retreated in a row.

Liu Bei wanted to order Huang Zhong to be the Taishou of Changsha, but Huang Zhong excused himself with old age: "The old man is old, how can he be in this position?" Now Liu Jingsheng's nephew Liu Pan lives in Youxian County, and he can be recalled to Renzhi. ”

Liu Bei immediately sent people to Youxian (now Zhuzhou Youxian County, Hunan) to retrieve Liu Pan and take charge of Changsha County.

The four counties in the south of Jingzhou have been leveled, and Lei Xu of Lujiang County has led tens of thousands of troops to return to Shun.

Liu Bei returned to Jingzhou to govern the public security, the wise men returned, the money and grain were abundant, and the generals and horses were scattered to the passes.

For the sake of common interests, the two political and military groups of Sun and Liu jointly fought against a strong enemy; Chibi defeated Cao Cao, for their own interests, around Jingzhou, you and I deceit, you plan and I plan, open and covert, launched a competition, and gave birth to many details.

First, Sun Quan's group believed that Cao Cao had seized Jingzhou, and Eastern Wu had defeated Cao Cao's great achievements, and Jingzhou should belong to Eastern Wu; Liu Bei's group thought that if there was no Zhuge Liang to help Zhou Yu burn the warship, how could he defeat Cao Cao, and because Jingzhou originally belonged to Liu Biao, it should be owned by his son Liu Qi, and Liu Bei managed Jingzhou on behalf of his nephew, which was logical.

Soon after, Liu Qi died of illness.

After Liu Qi's death, Zhou Yu sent Lu Su to ask for Jingzhou; Liu Bei set up a paper document according to Zhuge Liang's plan, saying that it was based on Jingzhou for the time being, and it would be returned to Jingzhou after taking Xichuan.

Just when Mrs. Gan died, Liu Bei lost his wife's room, Zhou Yu arranged a beauty plan, and married Sun Quan's sister Xu to Liu Bei as his wife, and wanted to take Liu Bei to Nanxu as a hostage in exchange for Jingzhou, and deduced many wonders: Lu Fan was ordered to be a matchmaker and went to Jingzhou to propose marriage; Liu Bei swaggered through the city and went to Dongwu to kiss; Wu Guotai Ganlu Temple is the son-in-law, making the fake come true; The red torch in the cave room flickered and the two were happy, surrounded by guns and halberds, and swords and swords; Liu Bei was trapped in the Yellow Crane Tower, thinking of the candlelight in the cave room, and he couldn't wait to return; Zhao Yunsan dismantled the trick and escaped from the cage, but the result was that Dongwu was self-defeating, lost his wife and broke his soldiers; Under the protection of Zhao Yun, Liu Bei got rid of Zhou Yu's waterway interception and pursuit, and was safely taken back to Jingzhou by Zhuge Liang.

These storylines that have been retold by everyone in later generations will not be repeated.

However, it is said that Cao Cao Chibi was defeated, and in March of the 14th year of Jian'an (209), the army arrived at the army, made light boats, and trained the navy.

In July, from the vortex river into Huai, out of the fertilizer water into Hefei, I saw that the soldiers who went out with the army were infected with the epidemic, or died in battle, or were captured and had no return, the family was disgruntled, and the people were displaced, and they were very sad. Ordered: "For the deceased's family who has no foundation and is unable to survive, the county officials should not be cut off, and the chief officials should be compassionate and cared for, so as to praise me." "Arrange for Yangzhou county officials to open up the peony slope tuntian, build water conservancy, and develop farming.

After the Chibi War, Liu Bei occupied most of Jingzhou and the nearby counties, Sun Quan's power was also growing day by day, Cao Cao's ideal of unifying the world was very resistant, and he often thought about revenge for the defeat of Chibi, but he was worried that Zhou Yu was high, Kong Ming was broad, Sun and Liu were strong, and he did not dare to enter lightly.

In order to break Sun Liu, he wants to seek talents. In the spring of the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), Cao Cao personally wrote the "Order to Seek Talents" and said: "Since ancient times, the king of Zhongxing has been ordained, and he can't taste the wise man and gentleman who rules the world with him? And he is virtuous, he has never been out of Lu Lane, how can he be lucky to meet? The ear of those who are above seek it. Today's decision has not yet been made, and this special talent is also urgent. 'Meng Gong is Zhao and Wei Lao is superior, not Teng and Xue Dafu. 'If it is available later, then how can Qi Huan dominate the world!' Is there anyone who is fishing in Weibin by brown jade today? And did you have to steal the money and not meet the ignorant? The second and third sons are bright and ugly, and I am the only one who moves, and I have to use it. ”

Although the article of "Seeking Talents" is short, it is complete in facts, which not only clearly puts forward the employment orientation of "eclectic and meritocracy", but also shows superb literary talent.

The full text is free and clear, without carving, speaking reasonably, clearly as words, and implying a sincere thirst for talents in the detailed comments and cross-examination; Although it does not pay attention to rhetoric, it is full of flavor, the words are appropriate, and the metaphors are vivid and appropriate. For example, using Jiang Shang and Chen Pingshi, instead of laying out more narratives, but using facts to make arguments, skillfully unifying historical facts and talent standards, using history to prove oneself and telling history with oneself; It not only enhances the persuasiveness, but also adds a literary meaning to the applied text; It is not only easy for the ministers to understand the reality from history, but also to make the criteria for seeking merit put forward by themselves have a solid historical foundation.

Cao Cao has always attached great importance to the selection and appointment of talents, and has tried his best to correct the shortcomings of the times, and has repeatedly issued orders to seek talents, and implemented "meritocracy". He not only chose people who led troops to fight in an eclectic manner, such as "Yu Ban, Lejin in the marching array, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were among the dead, and they were listed as famous generals", and the military generals became forests; It also attaches great importance to the selection of governance talents who are resourceful and good governance, "pulling out the subtleties and becoming shepherds, innumerable", and there are groups of strategists; At the same time, he also attaches great importance to the cultivation and appointment of literati, creating a new situation of "polite and prosperous" Jian'an literature, in addition to him and his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi are known as the "three Cao", but also emerged "Jian'an Seven Sons" and Cai Wenji and a number of outstanding literary representatives of the Jian'an period.

Cai Wenji is the Jian'an period with the seven sons and the famous female writer Cai Yan, is the Eastern Han Dynasty famous writer Cai Yong's daughter, since she was a child has a good cultural upbringing, history records that she is "erudite and talented, and wonderful in music", "Three Character Classic" said "Cai Wenji, can distinguish the qin".

When Cai Yan was nine years old, his father Cai Yong was playing the piano at night and suddenly broke a string, Cai Yan said: "The second string was broken." ”

Cai Yong said: "You just said it by chance." So he deliberately broke one and asked her, and Cai Yan said it was the fourth.

Cai Yan suffered extremely unfortunate in his life, and spent a life of exile with his convicted father when he was a child.

At the age of sixteen, he married Hedong Wei Zhongdao as his wife, and less than a year later, Wei Zhongdao died of hemoptysis and was widowed because he had no children.

At the age of twenty-three, he was taken captive by Hu Qi in the war, exiled in the Southern Xiongnu, married to the Hu people, and gave birth to a boy and a girl.

Cao Cao had a close relationship with Cai Yong, and when he heard of Cai Yan's talent, he sent an envoy to redeem Cai Yan with gold, and made the decision to marry the thirty-five-year-old Cai Yan to Dong Ci, the captain of Chen Liutuntian.

Dong Xi is a talent, a general history book, a good musician, and thinks very highly of himself, but under the pressure of Cao Cao, he had to accept Cai Yan.

The following year, Dong Xi committed a crime and deserved to die.

Cai Yan abandoned his previous suspicions and pleaded with Cao Cao.

At that time, the ministers, celebrities and distant envoys and guests were sitting in a room, and Cao Cao heard that Cai Yan asked to see him, and said to everyone: "Cai Bojiao's daughter is outside, let you see it now." ”

Cai Yan held his head open, barefoot, kowtowed and pleaded guilty, spoke in a clear manner, his voice was sour and sad, and everyone was moved.

Cao Cao is very sympathetic to Cai Yan's tragic experience of marrying three times in his life and having a bumpy fate: "I also sympathize with your misfortune, but the decree has been sent, what can I do?" ”

Cai Yan said: "There are tens of thousands of horses in the prime minister's stable, and countless warriors, why are you reluctant to let people ride a fast horse to recover the decree and save a dying person?" ”

Cao Cao was moved by it, that is, he hurried his horse and drove to recover the order, pardon Dong Ci's capital crime, demote him to the common people, and teach him to treat Cai Yan well.

At that time, the weather was cold, and Cao Cao saw Cai Yan's unkempt hair and bare feet, and gave him a headscarf, shoes and socks.

Cao Cao asked: "I heard that your father has a lot of books and many works, can you still remember it?" ”

Cai Yan said: "My father collected more than 10,000 volumes, and then sent several trucks to Wang Can. My father wrote so many that I can remember reciting only more than 400 poems. ”

Cao Cao deeply regretted and said, "Now I will send ten scribes to you to copy." ”

Cai Yan said: "I have heard that there is a polite system that says 'there is a difference between men and women', and men and women cannot teach each other in person. Please give me a pen and paper, and recite and copy from memory, whether in regular script or cursive script, listen to the prime minister's orders. ”

Cao Cao agreed, gave him a pen and paper, and taught him to go back and copy and send it.

Soon, Cai Yan handed over to Cao Cao more than 400 works written by his father and two "Poems of Grief and Indignation" written by himself based on his own experience, with his amazing memory, and Cao Cao sighed.

Just when Cao Pi and Cao Zhi sent someone to report: "Yecheng Tongque Terrace is completed, please go and inspect it." ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed, in the winter of the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), he led hundreds of civil and military officials, invited Cai Yan and his wife, and told the talented people of the world to go to Ye County, Jizhou to celebrate the Tongquetai.

Tongque Tai is facing the Zhanghe River, the middle Tongque Tai, the left Yulong Tai, the right Jinfeng Tai, each ten zhang high, the two bridges on the horizontal are connected, thousands of households, the gold and green are shining.

On the day of the inauguration ceremony of Tongque Terrace, many people came to watch early in the morning.

At the time of the hour, Cao Cao wore a golden crown with inlaid treasures, wore a green brocade robe, and wore jade belt beads, led the civil and military officials and the scribes and talents from various states, counties and counties to come to the stage, and inspected the Tongque Terrace for a week.

Cao Cao made the close attendants to lead the Xichuan red brocade robe to hang on the weeping willow branches, set up an arrow stack with a hundred steps as the boundary, and the military attaché generals were divided into two teams, the Cao clan (including the Xiahou clan) all wore red, and the generals with his surname wore green, and listened to the command of the herald.

As soon as the drum sounded, the herald announced: "If there is a person who can shoot the red heart of the arrow stack, the prime minister will give him this brocade robe; If you miss, you will be fined a glass of water. ”

Under the order, Cao Xiu, the young general of the red-robed team, hit the red heart with an arrow; The green-robed team Jingzhou was hired, and he also hit the red heart with one arrow.

Next, the red-robed team Cao Hong was full of bows and arrows, hitting the red heart; Zhang He, the green-robed team, shot an arrow in his back and also hit the red heart; The red-robed team Xiahou Yuan turned around and shot an arrow, right in the middle of the four arrows; When Xu Huang of the green-robed team saw it, he stepped forward on his horse, drew his bow and arrows, and hit the willow branches.

The brocade robe fell to the ground, Xu Huang took the brocade robe and put it on his body, and was about to pull the horse back, when the green robe team Xu Chu rushed out and took the robe from the flying horse.

The two dragged each other off their horses, grabbed and fought, and each did not give in, and the brocade robe was torn to shreds.