On this day, you go out on the streets. I was lucky to see several handsome guys. Each has its own characteristics, not the same. Two drunken drunkards, because they are good-looking, sloppy and sloppy and swaying from side to side also have a chic and uninhibited taste, this is Ji Kang and Li Feng. There are also those who don't drink, and he walked all the way, and the whole person exuded a warm and dazzling brilliance. This is Pei Kai.

If you want to talk about the common ground, these handsome guys all like to read the books of Lao Zhuang's metaphysical school, and at a young age, they are proficient in "Lao Tzu" and "Zhou Yi".

When Cao Wei was in power, when he looked at his face and knowledge, he had to look at his background first. Most of the celebrities and scholars are from the Han Dynasty, and there are not a few prime ministers, captains, and imperial historians. Wang Cang, great-grandfather Wang Gong, and grandfather Wang Chang were all the three dukes of the Han Dynasty; Xun Yu, grandfather Xun Shu is the Marquis of Langling, equivalent to the current governor of a province, uncle is Xun Shuang, who has been a plain phase, and a little further away, they have an ancestor in their family, called Xunzi; Another example is Yang Xiu, a descendant of the famous Fourth Third Duke Hongnong Yang. His great-great-grandfather Yang Zhen is the "Confucius of Kansai" who said, "God knows what you know, I know".

The great families of the Eastern Han Dynasty have been honored by the princes, and a big reason is that they have the right to interpret a Confucian classic, such as Hongnong Yang's "Zhou Yi" and Yingchuan Xun's "Xunzi". In the final analysis, the advantage of status is cultural superiority. Interestingly, a family that has been culturally ahead for a hundred years is often the first to be exposed to a new idea, but the most difficult to embrace it. Thus, the turn of a family's spiritual temperament is actually no less painful than the turn of a nation's mind.

In the era of Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty, two political and cultural groups that looked down on each other were clearly visible in terms of their acceptance of the new trend of thought: the "Etiquette School" headed by Jia Chong, He Zeng, and Xun Yi spoke of three rites and rules; The "celebrity faction" headed by Shan Tao and Pei Kai made every effort to promote metaphysicians through "Lao Tzu" and "Zhou Yi".

It is difficult to avoid the fate of being stifled by the conservative government, but Ji Kang went to his death and asked for his life by 3,000 students, and Jia Chong instructed Cheng Ji to kill Cao Chao and was ridiculed by the world. The new generation of intellectuals has made their choice between Ji Kang's true temperament and Jia Chong's duplex.

But in the Pei family, there were cracks within the family because of the differences in the court. Pei Kai's cousin Pei Xiu is a faction of Jia Chong, and the three important things to do in the founding of the country: setting etiquette, correcting laws, and changing the official system, are completed by Xun Yi, Jia Chong and Pei Xiu respectively, all of whom are old Confucian students that the Sima clan relied on to seize power.

But Pei Kai is too chic to become a "etiquette school" who follows the rules: he is a person who is not moved by external objects, and other people's evaluations are like a breeze in his ears, and he does not hesitate. He can take away the treasures that rich people love when they are playing, or he can give him a luxurious courtyard because Wang Yan boasted about it; He could ignore the ridicule of the ministers and ask the king of Liang and the king of Zhao to take out their money to divide it equally among the several kingdoms, or he could not give a single thing to Shi Chong, who was in the limelight at the time. There was a man named Uncle Sun Ji, who was arrogant and rude to Shi Chong when he was drinking, and Shi Chong was very angry and wanted to go to the next excerpt to remove Uncle Sun Ji from his official position. Pei Kai walked up to him coldly and said, "You? An alcoholic who loves drugs. If you don't respect etiquette, you have to punish others for disrespecting etiquette, isn't it? ”

When Pei Kai began to appear on the political stage, it was already the Sima Zhao era. This country, after the coup d'état of Gaopingling and the Gaogui Xianggong incident, was named Wei Shima. Most of the radical celebrities have been killed, Wen Qin, Biqiu Jian, Wang Ling's Huainan rebellion has also been basically pacified, in the first break of the rainstorm but still rumored in the fifth year of Jingyuan, Pei Kai understands that there will be no more tragic stories of fighting violence in his life, and he should not be a "three regardless" romantic idler, he wants to stand in the court and establish a new moral fashion.

Pei Kai, Shantao, and Heqiao were promoted because of "Shengde". All three of them are "Baume & Mercier Schools". Shantao is one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", so naturally it is needless to say. He Qiao is Xiahou Xuan's brother-in-law, and he is dedicated to Xiahou Xuan's life goal. He Qiao was once sent together with Jia Chong to investigate the intelligence of the later fool emperor and Sima Zhen, who was still the crown prince at the time. Jia Chong came back and bragged about it, praising Sima Zhen as if he was the next Yao Shun. And Heqiao honestly said that the prince's IQ is about the same as that of a newborn child......

Compared with the Confucian scholars who adhered to the outdated and hypocritical etiquette, the celebrities and scholars appeared sincere and upright, and coupled with their unique taste of life, it was difficult for them not to be admired by the world. It is not so much "Shengde" as "fame". Therefore, although most of the government and the opposition are controlled by the Rite and Law faction, the public opinion of the Celebrity faction is extremely high. Although the Wei and Jin dynasties did not engage in universal suffrage, if a government completely disregarded the will of the people, it must always be roasted on the fire.

The emperor at that time, Sima Yan, also understood this truth. Therefore, after Jia Chong formulated the "Jin Law", he asked Pei Kai to read it and preside over the discussion of its terms. The "opposition to Jia Chong" action involving Shantao, Yanghu, Yu Chun, and Pei Kai made the momentum of the Baume and Mercier faction completely occupy an overwhelming advantage.

Taishan Goat Clan, Hedong Pei Clan, and many big families have changed from the scholarly families of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the famous families of the Wei and Jin Dynasties in such political positions again and again. While the older generation faded out, the next generation chose metaphysics almost without hesitation. At this time, Pei Xiu of Jia Chong's faction had been transferred to Sikong, which was equivalent to an honorary position. And his son Pei Wei has already become a famous man who talks about metaphysics and writes the metaphysical work "Chongyou Theory". Xun Yi's younger brother Xun Cang became the earliest anti-classical metaphysician because he said that "the Six Classics are the dregs of the sage's thoughts". He Zeng's son, He Shao, wrote a biography of the metaphysician Wang Bi. Wei Xuan's grandson Wei Jue became a metaphysician who can make people fall apart...... The descendants of the Confucian family all turned their backs on their traditions, and this important change made the metaphysicians change from street rats that everyone shouted to kill to become the mainstream of thought, which laid the foundation for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to move from persecution to persecution of others.

However, the century-old marriage and official relationship between the big families are intertwined, and they affect the whole body. The turn of the descendants of these Confucian families brought a huge shock, which eventually led to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.

Pei Kai bore the brunt of it. The Pei family's in-law relationship is also complicated. Pei Kai's daughters were married to Sima Liang and Wei Qiang, the kings of Runan, respectively, and his son Pei Zan married Yang Jun's daughter. Yang Jun was the grandfather of Emperor Hui of Jin. Although Sima Liang and Wei Qian had different positions, at the beginning of the Eight Kings Rebellion, they had the same interests as Jia Nanfeng, the empress of Emperor Hui of Jin. Pei Kai seems to be two-sided, but in fact he is difficult to be a man on both sides - this special in-law relationship makes him the most likely to be selected as a buffer zone for interests, but this buffer zone is likely to be blamed at any time with the change of the ruling group.

Therefore, Pei Kai chose a "retreat" path. Although he and Yang Jun are in-laws, their relationship is not close; When Wei Qian was the Taibao and Sima Liang was the Dazai, in order to compete with Sima Wei, the king of Chu, for the position of the middle marquis of the Northern Army, Pei Kai was introduced to replace Chu Wangwei, but Pei Kai refused. This is an overly sensitive position: during Sima Zhao's reign as Wei, the Marquis of the Northern Army was nominally a supervisory officer, but in fact he was the leader of the Central Army, that is, the head of the Imperial City Guard. Such a key position, can all parties compete for it? Pei Kai naturally understands the power of this.

But his humble retreat was useless: after Yang Jun was killed by Sima Wei's group, Pei Kai was imprisoned because of his in-law relationship with Yang Jun. finally died and escaped, but when Sima Wei killed Sima Liang and Wei Xuan, he was hunted down because he had been "killed" for the leadership of the Northern Army before.

But what's interesting is that Pei Kai's reputation is getting higher and higher in this hunt and killing. Until Sima Wei was killed, Pei Kai, who was not happy with fame and fortune, was elected to manage confidential affairs with the tumbler Wang Rong and the old qualification Zhang Hua. Pei Kai repeatedly wanted to go out and escape the chaos in the capital. But because of this humble posture and the status of a famous metaphysical scholar, he has become a useful idol that is grasped by the imperial court. Wang Rong and his father Wang Hun once helped him speak: there are not many famous ministers, his ambitions should be respected, and it is enough for Wang Rong and Zhang Hua to be in the court. Pei Kai please retreat, please respect his wishes. As a result, Pei Kai was added to Doctor Guanglu, and Kaifuyi was offered higher with the three divisions.

However, it can be seen from Pei Kai's repeated attempts to escape but always being confessed that the metaphysicians gradually became moral orthodoxy and became the default model of the government.

For example, Pei Kai. On the night that Sima Wei was ordered by Jia Nanfeng to kill Sima Liang, Pei Kai was also on the list of killed. He fled in a hurry, hiding in the house of his father-in-law, Wang Hun, and moved eight times in one night. However, when he fled for his life, he always took Sima Liang's youngest son with him. When he was implicated and imprisoned because of Yang Jun, his composure seemed to be a copy of the "Jade Man" Ji Kang and Li Feng.

When arranging a person's posture and appearance, the tolerance chapter of "The World Speaks New Words" always likes to use jade metaphors: saying that Ji Kang is "his drunkenness, and the puppet is about to collapse if the jade mountain collapses"; said that Li Feng is "the decadent Tang Dynasty is like the collapse of the Jade Mountain"; said that Pei Kai is "like a jade mountain going up, and the light reflects people". Those who are described as "jade" by "The New Language of the World" are always those who are calm and calm in the chaos of the world.