Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 628
Xuchang, the sky prison.

"The wine is Fenjiu made from the Fenhe River in Bingzhou. The strong liquor has a lot of stamina. Even those who are addicted to alcohol will lose consciousness after drinking this pot." In the neat cell, Chu Nan Putting a jug of wine and several dishes on the table, looking at the two people in front of him, he said with a smile: "After all, it has been almost five years since I last met."

Tian Feng remained silent, Ju Shou poured a glass of wine for each of the three, sniffed them on the tip of his nose, nodded and said: "The prime minister had a meeting with me after his triumphant return, and the prime minister was busy with government affairs for about a few months. Afterwards, he traveled all over the six prefectures, and accomplished many great things, for three full years, and it has been half a year since he was still in power, adding up, it is more than four years, but less than five years."

"Forgive me, both of you. There are a lot of things to do. Now that we have conquered this territory, we should govern it ourselves." Chu Nan raised his glass with a smile: "I have nothing to do today, let's come and see you two."

"It's rare that anyone still remembers the two of us." Tian Feng raised his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp. The strong wine entered his throat like a ball of fire rising from his lower abdomen. This wine, this is not as simple as Lie.

"In life, I'm always running around for my livelihood. I never stopped the two family members from visiting the prison." Chu Nan laughed.

"The prime minister's reputation, we still believe it." Ju Shou smiled: "It is enough to know that the family is safe and well-fed."

Jushou's son, Juhu, has now joined Chu Nan's command. He is now working in the Ministry of Officials. He is not a high-ranking official, but he has a lot of work and is very busy. It is easier for people to accept the reality. Under Chu Nan’s rule, there were not many scholars, but there were some. When Juhu was in Jizhou, he lived under the shadow of his father. Although he had no worries about food and clothing, young people, who don’t want to prove themselves?

His father's life was safe, and Chu Nan had said that as long as he figured it out, he could get out of the prison at any time, but Ju Shou and Tian Feng never came out, so it seemed that Chu Nan could not be blamed.

Juhu is very satisfied with his current life. Although he is not as comfortable as before, it feels good to gain status and respect bit by bit.

There were a few arguments with Jushou, and they finally broke up, but they still came to visit my father every month, talked about outside things, and brought some things my father liked to eat, so the two of them were never separated from each other in the sky prison. learn.

In contrast, Tian Feng's son is a typical dandy thinking, without his father's blessing, he can't survive on his own, and when he comes to prison several times, he always tries to get his father out and continue to be a protective umbrella for himself. Hu at least has his own philosophy, and between him and Jushou, it is mostly a dispute of ideas.

But between Tian's father and son, Tian Feng almost didn't die of anger.

"Time can change a lot of things. Things that were unthinkable in the past may not be unthinkable now. The concepts that I insisted on in the past will be funny after a few years. There is no other meaning in coming to the prison from the south today. I just want to ask you two. Or keep the same thinking as four years ago?" Chu Nan laughed.

"The Prime Minister now has a cloud of fierce generals and a rain of counselors. From the Prime Minister's point of view, there seems to be no difference between the two of us whether we are re-entering official positions?" Ju Shou asked puzzled.

"No one would think that there are too many talents, let alone two such talented people. I gave the Xun family a chance back then. Even if Xun Yu just stayed at home obediently, I would not let him go. , I have always been tolerant." Chu Nan laughed.

He really doesn't feel too urgent now, so talking to the two is more like old friends reminiscing about the old days. If the two are willing to come out, Chu Nan will naturally welcome them, and if they don't, Chu Nan will not force them.

Jushou and Tian Feng were a little silent, and indeed they didn't treat Xun Yu badly, but there was a line in the middle, and Chu Nan would not be merciless when he crossed it.

"It seems that the two of you haven't made up your mind yet." Chu Nan said with a smile, "There's no rush, I'm going to visit two old friends today, and the food is made by my cook at home, and it's delicious."

"Prime Minister, there are some things I don't understand." Tian Feng was obviously a little bit over the top, and looked at Chu Nandao.

"Sir, it's okay to say." Chu Nan nodded.

Tian Fengdao: "The prime minister can have today's hegemony, I really admire it, but the prime minister has been fighting against scholars all the way, and the two of us are famous scholars in Hebei. Why does the prime minister think that the two of us will vote for the prime minister?"

Chu Nan smiled, picked up an egg and put it in his mouth, and said with a smile, "First of all, I never make anyone an enemy, I just want to survive."

"Survival?" Tian Feng looked at Chu Nan: "The prime minister's survival is a bit expensive."

Chu Nan didn't blame him either, he thought for a while and said, "Look at how you look at the two characters, you can survive for yourself, you can also survive for the people, and you can even survive for the world!"

"When I was in Xuzhou, I was a merchant, and I never imagined that I would be where I am today. Therefore, what I asked for was only half a lifetime of food and clothing. The life and death of others has nothing to do with me. This is for my own survival."

"But on the road to survival, I have seen too much injustice in this world. The high-ranking nobles can talk loudly and pity the common people with their mouths, but they can't see the people under their feet. They are disheveled and hungry. ? Still don’t want to watch?”

"If I were a scholar, I should be just like them. After all, no one would betray my position. Unfortunately, I am just a merchant, and I can't change anything after seeing it. Although I was favored by my wife and entered an official career by luck, I know very well. As far as the masters are concerned, sir, I am still a merchant, if I follow the way of the princes and try my best to win over the nobles, with the reputation of my father-in-law at that time and my background, not to mention the current situation, even Xuzhou may not be able to keep it!"

"At this time, I am still seeking survival, but what I seek is not only my survival, but the survival of my father-in-law, wife, and loyal soldiers!" Chu Nan said with a smile: "It was also at this time that I began to look at people's livelihood and the world. , Look at yourself, whether the princes are strong or not, in the final analysis, it is just to see if you can attract more people to use for me. These people can be scholars or people, but since ancient times, although there are people The gentleman said lightly, but no one has ever actually practiced it, so I am not talented, and I am willing to be the first person to practice it."

"The massacre of Xuzhou gentry is not because they did something wrong, but because their existence hinders people's livelihood!"

Tian Feng said angrily: "It's ridiculous. Since ancient times, the emperor has ruled the world, relying on scholars, and scholars and emperors have always complemented each other!"

"But now, the power of the gentry has long surpassed the power of the emperor. The gentry occupies a large amount of land and population. The livelihood of the people in a state and county is basically in a big net formed by the gentry and the powerful. There was imperial power before, but when Dong Zhuo rebelled Before the dynasty, the imperial power had already declined, and after looking through the historical materials these days, I found some very interesting things, the Emperor Ling used various methods, including selling officials to break the gentry's control over the officialdom and the locality!"

Chu Nan looked at Tian Feng and said with a smile, "I'm not going to say whether this move is stupid or not, but even if it is stupid, it can be regarded as Lingdi's counterattack against the scholars. What's more coincident is that there was a chaos in the Taiping Sect after that."

"Of course, there are many reasons for the Taiping Rebellion, but some things are really coincidental. After the Taiping Rebellion, those who bought officials were all cleaned up by the Taiping Religion. On the contrary, scholars and officials were not affected. In this chaos, he gained military power."

"We don't talk about the abilities and virtues of these officials, but according to the normal situation, there should always be a small group of survivors, but there are none. From the point of view, whether these people are good officials or not, they are all Belonging to the Royal Party."

"And as far as I know, the Taiping Sect was the guest of many aristocratic families before the incident."

"Afterwards, Emperor Ling was assassinated in Jizhou on his east tour. Although he failed, he passed away the next year." Chu Nan said with a smile, "Many things seem unreasonable. For example, Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, was How do you have the guts to assassinate the emperor? Why do you want to assassinate the emperor? It is rare for a scholar to take the initiative to attack the emperor."

"And what's more interesting is that the participants in this incident, from Wang Fen to Xu You and He Yong, are all celebrities, but the highest official position is only Jizhou governor. According to common sense, it is impossible to know their ranks. It is even more impossible to prepare for the route of the emperor's east tour."

Tian Feng and Jushou were silent, they naturally knew about these things.

"These things seem to be accidental one by one, but one day I was very bored, and when I connected these things with the scholars, what I saw was a monstrous net." Looking at the two of them, Chu Nan smiled and said: " I have never rejected scholars, it is scholars who have been rejecting me, and I have never thought about butchers, but every step of my government orders must cut flesh from scholars in order to feed these tens of millions of people and die in The person under the knife may be confused for a while, and there may be someone who has done good deeds all his life, but to me, you are a whole, so huge that I can hardly see the whole if I stand on tiptoe and look up. There are so many of you in this world that I can see when I go out Almost everything they see and hear is mastered by scholars."

"I don't want to be mediocre in my life, and I don't want to start a business on my knees, so that's all I can do." Chu Nan sighed: "Maybe you are not wrong, but the moment you put too many things in your pocket legally and reasonably , that’s wrong, it’s not for me, nor for the people, but for the world, may the two gentlemen understand?”

Seeing that the two were silent, Chu Nan took a sip of wine and said, "It's true to cherish the talents of the two. There are only so many talents in this world, and I really can't bear to kill them. The two of you don't want to come out, and I can understand it, so I still say that." If the two of you are willing to come out and do something for the common people in this world, and wash away some sins for the scholars, then you will come out and use it for me. We will do something together. It is hard to say how future generations will treat you and me. In your hands, but I only want to be ashamed of my heart, and this is all I have to say, it is getting late, so I will leave first."

After finishing speaking, he got up and pushed the door out, striding away.

In the cell, Ju Shou smiled wryly and said, "That's the end of the conversation, Yuan Hao, I want... to go out and have a look."

"My wicked son, it's time to discipline him!" Tian Feng sighed. After more than four years, Chu Nan's words also made his position clear. As for himself... In four years, the outside world has changed. Can you count now?
(End of this chapter)