Sima Pi seemed to be a little interested, and turned around slightly.

Wei Ji said: "If the monarch and the ministers complement each other and perform their duties, Empress Jia alone will not be able to cause such a big disaster, it is nothing more than the selfishness inside and outside the court, greed and power, which was used by Empress Jia, causing the princes and kings to kill each other, and the people are not happy." ”

Sima Pi frowned: "Then tell me, where is the root cause of the corruption of the government?"

Wei Ji hesitated until he showed impatience again, and then said, "I think the root may have been planted when Emperor Wu was there. ”

"Go on." Sima Pi was not angry.

Wei Ji said: "Emperor Wu has great wisdom and courage, but at the beginning of the founding of the country, he wantonly divided the feuds, supported many high-ranking families, and sold officials and lords in order to fill the treasury. As soon as this case was opened, hundreds of officials followed suit, and the style of arrogance and lasciviousness prevailed. It completely abandoned the Confucian principle of benevolence and love for others, and self-denial and retribution for benevolence. This is one of them. ”

Sima Pi said: "The second"

Wei Ji said: "Emperor Wu is from Cao Wei's heavy minister, so he is extremely taboo about this. After the founding of the country, the system of the previous dynasty was abandoned, the feudal system was restored, and the princes of the clan were vassal to the court, which led to the rebellion of the eight kings, which is the second. ”

Sima Pi looked at her, his eyes were a little surprised, "Third"

Wei Ji said: "The Di, Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei and other ethnic groups moved inward, but the imperial court did not pay attention to it, which is also the source of civil strife. ”

Sima Pi's face was slightly dark, and he closed his eyes in contemplation.

Wei Ji was silent.

"There is no other four"

Wei Ji felt that what she said today was enough, so she didn't say more, shook her head and said, "I have limited knowledge, so I only think about this." ”

Sima Pi glanced at her and said, "If you have limited knowledge, you casually point out three points, you are very modest." ”

Wei Ji gently rubbed the corners of her forehead, and said with some grievances: "Your Highness let me speak freely." ”

Sima Pi was thinking about her words, a little fascinated.

Wei Ji waited for a long time, tired and sleepy, but seeing that Sima Pi had no intention of falling asleep with her eyes open, she didn't dare to complain. No one spoke in the room, it was silent, Wei Jiao's eyelids gradually sank, and she couldn't control her nap, she was sitting again, her head was slightly down, she leaned forward, and woke up suddenly. She straightened her posture again, and after a while she took a nap again, and the cycle continued, one after another.

Sima Pi couldn't sleep more and more when he thought about things, and when he turned his head, he saw Wei Ji squinting and leaning her body. He looked at her for a while, felt that her confused appearance looked really naïve, and reached out to hit her head hard.

Wei Ji opened her eyes suddenly.

Sima Pi originally wanted to ask her to recite the article again, but seeing that she was really sleepy, his heart softened and said, "Go back." ”

Wei Ji was like being amnestied, as if he was afraid that he would regret it, so he quickly got up and handed the silk book in his hand to Fubao.

Sima Pi said again: "Come back tomorrow before going to bed." ”

Wei Ji agreed, and went with a bitter face.

When I came out, I met two maidservants arguing on the porch, and one of them was familiar, it was Tang'er, the maidservant next to the princess. She pushed another maidservant and said in a suppressed voice, "The princess said that no one should disturb His Highness's rest, and the Ruan family wants to disobey the princess."

The servant girl who was pushed away said aggrievedly: "My lady has been unwell for the past two days, and she has to hurry again, so I just came out to ask where there is medicinal oil......

Tang'er said disdainfully: "As far as your family is concerned, ask how the medicinal oil came to His Royal Highness, what thoughts are hidden when people don't know, go back quickly, otherwise I will have to be the princess." ”

The maidservant didn't dare to argue, and left with tears and grievances.

Seeing the two maids arguing, Wei Ji stood on one side, knowing that the two of them were walking on their front and back feet, so she quickly went downstairs and went back to the room to sleep.

Chapter 159: Chapter 158: The Wanderer

Tang'er returned to the room, Wang Muzhi had already freshened up and removed the hairpin ring, and was slowly applying balm. Tang'er walked over, picked up the grate and gently sent it to Wang Muzhi, and said: "That Ruan is really cunning, the one named Ling'er next to her just now said that she came out to find medicinal oil, but she went to His Highness to find an opportunity, which is really frivolous. ”

Wang Muzhi's face was still calm, and he said, "It's your voice outside just now, don't make noise about Your Highness." ”

Tang'er said: "I know the severity, that is, Ruan's place, all day long, using some foxy methods, even on the road does not stop, she just sees that the mother is open-minded and does not care about her, but I am not so good-natured." ”

Wang Muzhi smiled silently.

Tang'er glanced at her, and said: "Then the Ruan family and the Xie family are cousins, these days Xie Xuanke often comes to discuss with His Royal Highness, if the Ruan family does not have some thoughts in her heart, who would dare to believe it, She likes to show off her style on weekdays, and she votes for His Royal Highness's favor, with the support of the Xie family, I don't know how to be proud behind her back." Don't underestimate her, wait for Her Highness to ascend the throne in the future......"

Wang Muzhi pressed the balm box on the table, his face turned cold, "These words should be what you can say."

Tang'er has followed Wang Muzhi since she was a child, knowing that she has paid attention to the demeanor of a famous family since she was a child, such an expression is obviously angry in her heart, she put down her hand and hung her head, and she dare not speak in awe.

Wang Muzhi looked at her from the mirror, his eyes were a little stern, "Your Highness's affairs should not be nonsense, next time I will hear you chew your tongue and talk about Your Highness's head, and immediately bombard you out." ”

Tang'er turned pale with fright.

Wang Muzhi's eyelids jumped when he heard the word "enthronement" just now, and then his face changed, and now he saw Tang'er was afraid, thinking that it should be "grace and power", his face softened a little, and said: "You said that Ruan's affairs are all for my good, I understand these in my heart, but she is a girl from a poor family, no matter how beautiful and clever she is, I heard that she went to the Xie family when she was young, and Mrs. Xie treated her like a daughter, and her food and clothing were almost the same as the Xie family girls, but you see, how can she compare with the Xie family girls." Eat the same meal and read the same book, but there is no grandeur at all. It can be seen that the high and low are all determined by birth. Let her scheming run out, but it will only make people laugh. ”

Tang'er put down the grate, brought a cup of tea, and said softly: "Niangniang should be careful." ”

Wang Muzhidao: "With you watching for me, I'm not worried." ”

This was a compliment, and he said all the maidservants beside him, and several of them hurriedly expressed their loyalty.

Tang'er served Wang Muzhi to rest, and when she blew out the lights and went out, she secretly said in her heart: "Niangniang is good in everything, but she is a little brainless, her background is important, but throughout the ages, how many lowly women in the harem have become unattainable." It can be seen that if you really get the mercy of a man, you may not be able to change your life. Thinking about it, I felt that I was getting older, and I didn't have a place to go home, so I sighed for a while.

On the second day, the team continued to travel, from Yuzhang to Jiankang is thousands of miles away, must pass through Yuzhou, Yangzhou and other places, the royal team is huge, there are officials on the way to greet and send, roughly estimated that it will take about a month on the road.

In the past few days, Sima Pi has called Wei Ji every night and asked her to sit in front of the bed and recite the article. Sometimes it's history, sometimes it's poetry and articles recommended by others. Wei Ji had a headache about this, Sima Pi listened to her recitation, and often had to discuss, if Wei Ji was perfunctory, he would be sneered at, if he answered seriously, Sima Pi was too worried to sleep.

Tossing like this for a few days, Wei Ji slept late, got up early, and it was difficult to rest when she was in a hurry during the day, Qi Gongming looked at her this day and asked if she was not adaptable, and said that her face looked bloodless.

That day and night, the chamberlain came and invited her over. Wei Ji didn't sleep well for a few days, her brain was swollen, her head was heavy, and she was light-footed, but thinking that Sima Pi's temper was not easy to provoke, she gritted her teeth and held on.

Sima Pi was holding a letter and looking at it, this was sent by the fast horse from the official road today, no one disturbed him when he was pondering, and Wei Ji and the inner attendant were pestle like wood.

After a while, Sima Pi looked up and saw Wei Ji and said, "What are you doing standing, sitting." ”

Wei Ji sat down, and Sima Pi continued to watch.

After waiting for a long time, the light and shadow in front of Wei Jiao's eyes seemed to overlap a little, and she only felt that her eyelids were heavy like lead, and gradually closed, and people were also fluctuating.

Sima Pi felt that something was wrong, Wei Ji sat opposite the low table, her body staggered, and suddenly rushed forward. Sima Pi was startled, instinctively reached out to fish, but it was too late, watching Wei Ji slam, his head hit a few shorter, he raised his head with tears in his eyes, his mouth hissed straight out, his facial features were wrinkled together in pain, and his hands were tightly covering his forehead.

Fu Bao hurriedly stepped forward to check, "Xiao Langjun let go of his hand and let me take a look." ”

Wei Ji hit the ground just now, and there was a white light in front of her eyes, and at this time, her forehead was in sharp pain, and she couldn't speak, so she slowly let go of her hand.

Sima Pi also looked at it. I saw that the corners of her forehead were red, and some oily skin was broken, and gradually swelled up, which was conspicuous on the white skin.

He looked at her pitiful and faintly amused, pointed at her and said, "You can fall asleep while sitting, you can really do it." ”

Wei Ji said in pain: "Your Highness, the pain is terrible, I am afraid I can't recite it anymore today." He said goodbye and was leaving.

Fu Bao glanced at Sima Pi and said, "Xiao Langjun, don't worry, the collision is a bit bad, and you need to use some ointment to remove stasis." ”

Sima Pi frowned and said, "It's not that you have the ointment you carry, get her a jar." ”

Fu Bao asked the chamberlain to bring it, stuffed it into Wei Ji's hand, and advised: "Xiao Langjun take it back and wipe it twice in the morning and evening, don't touch the water, it'll be fine in two or three days." ”

Wei Ji nodded again and again, thanked Sima Pi again, took the ointment and left. When I went back to my room, I applied some to the swollen area, and then fell asleep. After that, she didn't go to Sima Pi again, and she felt that kowtowing was not a bad thing.

After traveling for many days, passing Poyang County, leaving the boundary of Jiangzhou, and walking between the mountains and barren forests for two consecutive days, Fan Ning, the commander of the guards, had a solemn face and a deep frown in his eyebrows. Deputy Commander Ma Dun has had a lot of friendship with Wei Ji since the last time Wei Ji helped bring people back from Huan Xin, and he specially reminded him this day, "Be careful, the road has been a little strange in the past two days." ”

Wei Ji asked, "What's weird?"

Ma Dun said: "I didn't meet a few people on the road, maybe they were too careful, it's always right to be careful." ”

Wei Ji remembered in his heart, and he also observed it carefully this day, and sure enough, there were no travelers on the road, after entering the mountain forest, there were dense jungle trees on both sides, and I don't know if he was deliberately reminded by Ma Dun, Wei Ji looked at the dense forest, and always felt gloomy.

Looking a little tired, Wei Ji sat back in the ox cart to rest, Qi Gongming also had another scholar in the same car with her, that scholar surnamed Yin, he was born in a small scholar clan, he had a good temper, and he got along well with Wei Gong and Qi Gongming.

Before it was dark, Fanning urged all the staff to speed up, but after walking three or four miles, they came to a rugged forest road, the road was difficult to walk, and the speed slowed down. At this moment, a bird's cry suddenly came from the forest.

Fanning, Ma Dun and the others suddenly changed their faces when they heard this, and they shouted loudly: "Be on guard." ”

The sergeants were well trained, and immediately drew their swords, and the outermost sergeants surrounded the inside to protect them. Soon there was a sound of running from the dense forest, it was a lot of people, Fanning listened to it, and shouted: "Enemy attack." ”

Before he could finish speaking, a large group of people had already rushed out of the woods, dressed in tatters, holding various weapons in their hands, and rushing over with a shout in their mouths. Fan Ning frowned when he looked at the people, his heart was homeless, and he drank so that the sergeant could not be soft.

This group of homeless people did not know where they came from, and saw that the sergeants of this team were neat and extraordinary, which was completely different from the previous passing teams, and the group of people who ran at the front were already afraid, but the more people who came behind did not care about those, shouting for looting, and the people in front were pushed, and all the bees pounced on them.

For a while, the dense crowd of people was also very terrifying to watch.

Fanning commanded the team to meet the attack. The outcasts looked menacing, but when they encountered the sergeants, they were unable to defeat them and fell one after another. Immediately, blood splattered, and corpses were strewn all over the field.

Wei Jiao, Qi Gongming, and the scholar surnamed Yin saw the fight outside in the car, and their faces changed slightly.

When the homeless people were killed by the long □□, the people who swarmed up behind broke through the gap of the sergeants, and several homeless people rushed to the ox cart, and the waiters screamed in fright, and the homeless people scurried around, and were chased and killed by Fanning with people, and there were two who ran fast, waving a knife in their hands, and cut when they saw people, and the sergeant stopped them, and the homeless people saw that the situation was not good, so they simply stabbed the ox with a knife.

The oxen roared wildly, ran wildly, and crashed headlong into the ox cart in front of it.

The team was in turmoil.

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Chapter 160: Chapter 159: Comparison

The ox cart was guarded by sergeants, and there were attendants watching, and it should have been fine, but when the homeless people approached and injured the ox, they immediately became in chaos. The driver tried his best, but he didn't hold the ox, and after hitting the previous one, he also panicked in front. The maid screamed in amazement.

It turned out that in the two ox carts in front were Wang Muzhi and Ruan.

Fanning had a bad heart, so he rode a horse and led the sergeant to catch up, slashed the homeless man from behind, and then stepped forward himself, jumped into the ox cart, and helped the coachman tighten the reins. With great effort, the ox cart where Wang Muzhi was sitting was controlled.

As for Nguyen's car, he had already run out of the cow in fright, and was almost about to go straight into the forest, thanks to the efforts of several sergeants to stop it.

The outcasts on the periphery are a rabble, and they don't have much combat power, and after being killed in three waves, they are also afraid, knowing that they have encountered hard stubble, and there are people in the rear shouting and running. Like headless flies, the homeless people evaded the pursuit of the sergeants, and soon retreated like a tide into the dense forest, some of them were slashed by the sergeants on the way, and some of them were trampled together, and the forest was full of wailing and painful sounds.

Wei Jiao's ox cart was at the back of the team, and just now I saw a mess in front of me through the crack in the compartment door, but fortunately, Fan Ning and the others made a timely move, quickly stopped the momentum, and did not affect the rear.

Wang Muzhi was frightened in the car, and was helped out of the car by the maidservant, her face turned pale, and when she got out of the car, she said to Fan Ning: "Thanks to General Fan's action, he saved me from danger." ”

Fan Ning arched his hand, his face was ashamed, "It's the minister's negligence, so that the thief has a chance to take advantage of it, and he shouldn't be praised by his mother." ”

Wang Muzhi said: "Although I don't know the way of soldiers, I also know that the war situation is changeable, and I can't take care of it everywhere, so it's okay to have nothing to do now, and the general doesn't have to blame himself too much." ”

Fanning turned around and instructed the sergeant to clean up the mess, the ground was full of corpses of homeless people, some of whom were only wounded but not killed, and the sergeant quickly made up for the stab, leaving no survivors.

The maidservant stood in front of Wang Muzhi and did not let her see the bloody scene in the forest.

Ruan Jue's ox cart was running wildly just now, she was frightened in the car, and the maid screamed again and again, now that the ox cart was controlled, she quickly got out of the car, and the hairpin ring on her head fell without noticing, she turned her head and looked around, and found that many maids and servants were surrounding Wang Muzhi, and there were only two maids and a few sergeants around her.

Ruan Jue's hand clenched tightly, and quickly let go.

When Fanning led the soldiers to clean up the mess, Sima Pi got out of the car with his attendants.

"Your Highness, let's go back and rest, and soon pack up and set off." Fanning hurriedly stepped forward.