Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1215 Ambition is a double-edged sword

   Ambitious people always see opportunities.

  The greater the ambition, the greater the opportunity, it seems...

   But in fact this is not the case, but ambitious people are willing to take more risks, and even risk their own lives for the last chance of success.

  Some people succeeded, their brilliance attracted everyone's attention, but more people failed, their bones were piled up, and they fell into the shadows without anyone noticing.

   Zheng Tai is an ambitious person.

   Just…

  When he was young, Zheng Tai had a lot of ideas, few talents, and was easy to make friends with heroes. The first promotion of Xiaolian, the establishment of three government offices, and the collection of public vehicles are all in vain. The family is rich and has 400 hectares of land, but it is often not enough for food. Such actions will naturally increase the prestige.

Afterwards, when He Jin came to assist the government, Zheng Tai felt that the opportunity had come, so he resolutely placed a bet on He Jin, recruited him as Minister of Shangshu, and later moved to serve as Yushi, but found that He Jin actually wanted to call Dong Zhuo, so he advised He Jin to dissuade him, but He Jin did not Listen, Zheng Tai was very disappointed, so he abandoned his official position and left. Later, he also discussed this matter with Xun You, and sighed: "Why is it not easy to help?"

Later when Dong Zhuo came and He Jin died, Zheng Tai became Yilang again, together with Wu Qiong, He Yong and Zhou Wei, as Dong Zhuo's staff, elected some Shandong nobles as officials, and secretly colluded with the Shandong nobles on.

When he was in Chang'an, Zheng Tai felt that Dong Zhuo would be defeated in the end, so he planned to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but failed, so he fled Chang'an in a hurry and hid in the Wubao of Zheng Gan, a friend of the same sex, originally planning to wait until the arrest. After weakening, he went to Shandong to defect, but he never thought that the situation in Guanzhong was unpredictable.

   It's a pity that everyone seems to have forgotten it. No matter who it is, they haven't searched for the whereabouts of a warrior who previously resisted Dong, let alone conscripted. Zheng Tai waited silently in the early days, but in the end, only his own lonely shadow remained and he never left.

  How could Zheng Tai, who had aspired to make some achievements in his official career since childhood, endure such an unknown fate?

  So, when Xu Shu started to implement the new land administration, Zheng Tai felt that the opportunity seemed to come, and he instigated Zheng Gan to take the lead in opposing the land administration...

It turned out that what Zheng Tai meant was to be able to advance, attack, retreat, or defend. No matter what, he could attract a wave of attention. The worst case would be to sell Zheng Gan, but he never expected to hear about Fei Qian, General Zhengxi Rumors of defeating Longyou and smashing the halberd on the battlefield!

   This disrupted Zheng Tai's original plan.

   Fortunately, there are other options…

  Hedong County, near Anyi County, has suddenly become lively recently.

The reason for the excitement is simple. Soldiers are constantly gathering and arriving outside the city of Anyi. Naturally, these soldiers need all kinds of living equipment. It is the price of daily necessities that has brought about soaring.

  Soldiers are also human beings, and of course they have to eat and use various things. It’s good to say that there are fewer people, but when the number is large, not only will there be high requirements for the commander and army, but it will also be a huge test for local political security.

Now it is not a collection of soldiers of the same series, but one station, each with its own designation and flag, and most of them are some small and powerful local armed forces, gathering in Anyi for a while, causing as many problems as those in the warehouse The same as the rice grains, how much rice grains are consumed, so much trouble is added, among other things, whoever listens to whose orders, who to ask for logistics, and where to live, has become Wang Yi's endless hustle and bustle. matter.

The soldier system in the Han Dynasty was originally chaotic. This time, I heard that Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west, had died, and I was sure that Huchuquan had sent troops to capture Diaoyin and was attacking Linjin. I always felt that I was being defeated by Fei Qian. Wang Yi, who was oppressed and exploited, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then under Zheng Tai's persuasion, his mind became active.

  It is naturally possible to help Yang Biao take Guanzhong, but the more important thing is to first grab this piece of geomantic treasure land in Beipingyang!

  In the past few years, Wang Yi has watched Bingbei Pingyang grow from nothing, from existence to wealth, and from rich to rich. His eyes are staring, and they are not ordinary green...

   Binh Duong is rich!

   Quite rich!

Especially in the Han Dynasty, when the five baht money was completely devalued in this area, the Jiaozi paper money, which flourished in Bingbei Pingyang because of the conquest of Xifei, has penetrated into every aspect of Hedong. Even works better than silver beans.

   If Pingyang is captured, wouldn’t it be Feiqian’s purse in his hands?

  However, when the soldiers gather at the moment, in fact, each army has its own thoughts. This gathering again, it is like a dog on the grassland who eats carrion. Everyone is salivating, but they cannot control each other.

Wang Yi, the highest official in Hedong, the foreign monk Zheng Tai, and the local local tyrant Wei, although they have been discussing how to fight together these days, no one dared to attack Pingyang easily. The entanglement and friction between the respective troops over some trivial matters was very annoying.

In fact, among the three, Zheng Tai's desire to fight is the strongest, followed by Wang Yi. After the Wei family drove away the hawk faction Wei Ke, the turtle faction naturally gained the upper hand, so they had the mentality of picking up the cheap Come, the desire to really go into battle is not strong.

  The problem is not only that, Zheng Tai is not interested in Bingbei, he doesn't want to lead the team to attack Bingbei Pingyang, because although money is attractive, power is even more attractive! Compared with Pingyang's wealth, obtaining the power and status in Guanzhong is what really attracts Zheng Tai!

Even if he wins the fight against Pingyang, he might still have to face Fei Qian's troops staying in Yinshan. Even if he finally wins, the feast in Guanzhong is almost over. Could it be that he just stayed in Bingzhou forever and acted as a Frontier guard generals of Yang Biao, Wang Yi and others?

  Are you kidding me?

  So when choosing the leader to attack Pingyang, Zheng Tai said that he wanted to lead the army to Guanzhong and did not want to participate in the attack on Pingyang...

As for Wang Yi, the shadow left by Zhengxi General Fei Qian in his heart was too deep and too large, and he hadn't fully recovered in a short while. Fat increases day by day with the increase of age. Riding a horse is tiring, and the horse is also strenuous. If you really want to charge and fight, you are somewhat guilty.

It is even more impossible for the Wei family. It is okay to pick up cheap, and it is not a problem to send out some soldiers and manpower. The appearance of going out to the funeral directly, and then Zheng Tai and Wang Yi are more or less embarrassed...

  For a while, in Anyi, Hedong, although the soldiers gathered, they were still somewhat entangled.

  ………………

The sun was hanging in the western sky, and it was still too early for the mountain to completely set, but in Pingyang City, Zhao Shang told his servants early, closed the door, and sat alone in the study room without lighting a candle oil lamp, just staring at the sky like this It dimmed a little bit.

  The last time Zhao Shang saw Fei Qian was also in such an afternoon. Originally, Zhao Shang thought that Fei Qian was going to reward him and give him a promotion, but he didn't expect that all the hard work he had done in Taiyuan would become someone else's pocket.

   Cronyism!

  Wolf-hearted!

  Breach of faith!

  Ever since he learned that he had been transferred to a so-called enlightenment inspector, Zhao Shang felt that everything in his life was bleak.

  Zhao Shang is also ambitious. If he had no ambition, he would not have traveled thousands of miles from Jizhou to Bingzhou.

  Under Zheng Xuan, although he had the longest apprenticeship, he did not achieve the most achievements, and he is still unknown to this day.

Huchuquan is actually a force that Zhao Shang has come into contact with a few years ago. When Wang Hei of Taiyuan was studying in Pingyang Academy, when Wang Chen wanted to seek the foundation of the Wang family, he contacted it for Wang Chen. Hu Chuquan, but in the end Zhao Shang found out that Wang Chen was actually ambitious and talented, so it was difficult to achieve great things, so he sold Wang Chen...

  Although this is somewhat dark, but there is no way, you can't follow a fool all the way to the dark, right?

  Zhao Shang sat behind the table in the bookstore, tilting his head slightly, watching the light of the setting sun recede and shrink a little bit, and his face was gradually shrouded in darkness.

  He wanted a lot, but since Fei Qian couldn't give it to him, he had to find a way to get it himself!

  Zhao Shang has read a lot of classics, but he doesn't know much about things on the battlefield. If he really wants to organize some troops, a few hundred people are enough. If there are more people, he can't take care of them. Therefore, if you want to obtain more things, you must borrow the power of others.

   Zhao Shang doesn't want much, and someone in Pingyang is thinking about it, and he knows it, so he wants Taiyuan, and he wants to get back a piece of land that originally belonged to him.

   Just as the sunset was about to set, the person Zhao Shang was waiting for finally arrived...

  ………………

  Night can always cover up many things, no matter it is beautiful or ugly.

  Because he rushed back to Guanzhong with the cavalry, Fei Qian naturally didn't spend all his time building camps along the way, so he spread out a large camp of plum blossoms at the foothold according to the habits of the Hu people.

  The four small camps in the east, west, north and south control the peripheral vision, and most of the horses and luggage are concentrated in the middle camp. On the one hand, it is convenient, and on the other hand, it also focuses on safety. In the wild, there is a bonfire lit with gas, and soldiers sit around the bonfire, cooking and eating, while roasting their sweaty clothes and smoking their sore muscles and bones.

   Hastily rushed from Guanzhong to Longxi, and finally rushed back to Guanzhong from Longxi. Although Fei Qian did not inform these cavalry soldiers of the specific situation, in fact, these veterans could guess a thing or two.

  Fei Qian held a bowl of miscellaneous rice porridge, sat on a stone in front of the bonfire, blew and drank, then looked at Huang Xu who was coming, and said, "How is it?"

Huang Xu cupped his hands and said: "It's okay. The subordinates walked around and chatted with some soldiers at random. Most of them guessed that something happened in Guanzhong, but most of them didn't complain, and some were calculating. How many heads do I still need to exchange for meritorious rewards..."

  The flames of the bonfire shone on the faces and bodies of the surrounding soldiers, bright and dark, and the soft laughter among the soldiers came from afar with the wind.

"Well, I see, this is enough..." Fei Qian nodded, pointed to the miscellaneous rice porridge stewed on the campfire, and said, "Haven't eaten it yet, serve it yourself... Well, Wenhe is here, have you eaten it?" ? Have a bowl?"

  Fei Qian was holding a wooden bowl, slurping mixed rice porridge, and when he saw Jia Xu coming, he greeted Jia Xu like an old farmer in the countryside, as if adding an extra pair of chopsticks.

"This... so, thank you, Junhou..." Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, then smiled, sat down, took the wooden bowl handed over by the guard at the side, spooned some miscellaneous rice porridge into the bowl, and blew He was angry and drank slowly. Perhaps it was because of the hot porridge that he felt more comfortable. Jia Xu drank the porridge, and the tense expression on his face finally relaxed.

Fei Qian handed the empty wooden bowl to the guard, took out the water bag to rinse his mouth, swallowed it, and then said slowly: "This place in Guanzhong may have interacted with Qianghu for a long time, so it's somewhat subtle. Looking up, many things seem to be slowly changing, such as the moment..."

"...There is no longer the **** bravery of the pre-Qin period, but it is more about the calculation of benefits..." Fei Qian looked at the dark night, and said, "...the spirit of martial arts was cultivated on this piece of land, and a grand empire was established. , made a sound that shook the world, but now it has become a gathering place for a group of silverfish..."

Not to mention the former Qin Dynasty, just the few emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, not to mention Wen Jing and Han Wu, even Han Zhaodi and Han Xuandi still had iron and blood wrists. Although he was far away, he must be punished, so he became Zhaojun leaving the stronghold.

  If Emperor Wu of Han met Emperor Yuan of Han, would he beat him up until he didn’t even recognize his mother? After all, Emperor Wu of Han hated the Huns the most, and what he hated the most was marriage...

From the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was not a dynasty that emphasized balance and fairness, otherwise it would not have slaughtered all the heroes after the founding of the country. After the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, amidst the chaos and noise, they put on robes with a primitive and barbaric atmosphere. The Han Chinese still worship power and force.

  As for etiquette, it is used to decorate the surface, so that one's eating will not be vicious. As a result, some people think that etiquette is more important, and if there is no etiquette, they will not eat.

  In feudal society, iron blood is not terrible, what is terrible is that there is no iron blood.

  In fact, in the social structure throughout the ages, people may yearn for a free and equal Datong society, but at the social level, class may not be a matter that needs to be minded. In most cases, a stable social structure does not need to care about whether people are equal or not, and the way to be as fair as possible is the core that needs to be maintained.

It is not terrible for a country or organization to have disparate class differences. What is terrible is that people at the bottom will never be promoted to the privileged class after hard work. In order to protect their own interests, the privileged class only knows how to use the most stupid means to guard against death. The path gradually becomes rigid, the privileged class begins to be hereditary, and begins to monopolize the access to the upper class. When it becomes more and more difficult for the smart people of the lower class to get to the top, the dissatisfaction of these lower class members will pile up, and finally they can only choose to rebel.

  Guanzhong Zheng, in order to preserve his privileges, adopted the most stupid behavior.

   "Wenhe, we seem to have endured for too long and retreated too much..." Fei Qian grasped the hilt of the Zhongxing Sword at his waist, and said, "So many people have forgotten that we still have knives and guns in our hands..."

   "..." Jia Xu stood in awe for a moment, then clasped his hands and said in a deep voice, "It will be as you wish."

  (end of this chapter)