Wei Ni

Chapter 20

After the banquet that day, Xiahouhui, who learned the information from Xiahouba's family book, started a daily life of diligent companionship, even giving up on Xiumu, in order to be qualified to comment on the matter of cutting Hanzhong in the future. .

Although, he did not influence the status of this battle.

However, once the emperor Cao Rui let him speak about it, he will be able to show his own military strategy!
And when the development of the battle is as he expected, it will make the emperor look different, and he will carefully consider his future advice!

When things are irreversible, you should give up unnecessary struggle, admit failure decisively, and then strive to let failure breed the hope of future success.

Only in this way is the mind and wisdom possessed by those who achieve success.

However, what he didn't know was that he was already well-known among scholars.

At the banquet that day, the news of his exhaustion of writing and thinking was finally spread, and people had mixed beliefs about it.

Believers feel sorry for God's favor, while doubters think that he is pretending to be an excuse for not being invited to write poems at banquets in the future.

But no matter what, the praise related to his humility and virtue of a gentleman is recognized by everyone.

According to legend, his elder brother Xia Houheng and emperor Cao Rui were speechless for some reason after hearing such praise.

Of course, this kind of fame is something that people treat as a pastime after dinner, and then they are shot to death on the beach by the constant turmoil of fame and wealth in Kyoto.

The real undercurrent is the whisper between Sima Shi and Chen Tai.

Both of their fathers were important ministers of the state, and after learning about their eldest son's apology, they couldn't help paying a little more attention to Xia Houhui.

As for the reason for the attention~
Whether it is because of the surprise that the country has talents and healthy growth, or because of its own consideration of the talents of the "clan" of the country, then different positions and different opinions.

Xia Houhui didn't know about this, and didn't pay attention to it.

In recent days, his daily escort has become interesting again.

As everyone expected, Cao Ruiguo, the son of heaven, was stimulated by Sun Quan's proclaiming the emperor for only a dozen days, and then he became a combination of work and rest, with a degree of relaxation, and there was no shortage of things to do in the afternoon.

There is no shortage of banquets, literary meetings, shooting and hunting, prison visits, etc. Xia Houhui is often left behind to accompany him on trips.

The grace of grace has almost become a close minister second only to Qin Lang.

This also led to something that made him laugh and cry: since the beginning of mid-May, someone has actually sent him gifts.
Although I know that there will always be troubles in the capital, but I have only been riding loose for more than a month!It doesn't take long to travel with the driver, so how dare you disturb the emperor with some unreasonable things!

Taking a step back, even if he dared to be the emperor, he might not be able to listen~
These people who are busy and busy can be said to be blinded by profit and wisdom.

While feeling emotional, he also suddenly discovered that the Wei State, which had only replaced the Han Dynasty for a few years, had become a practice of bribery.

For example, Jiang Ji, who has just taken office for a few years.

Because the position of the Central Guard is a typical humble position, in addition to being the president of the generals in the army and in charge of the guards, he also has the power to be responsible for the selection and appointment of military officers. 【Note 1】

It also makes the people in the fly camp and dog dogs scramble to bribe and ask for entrustment.

But Jiang Ji, who was promoted by Wei Wu Cao Cao, couldn't stand the temptation and refusal, and couldn't resist the worldly way, and used his power to seek personal gain regardless of his reputation.The raging greed caused the folks to write a ballad to satirize: "If you want to have a tooth door, you should get a thousand horses; if you have 500 supervisors, you can get five hundred horses."

Character and reputation are like latrines, and the wind blows fragrance for ten miles.

There is also the low-key Qin Lang.

He was favored by the emperor Cao Rui, and he accompanied him all year round, which made people flock to bribes and entrusted him, and made his family rich like a prince.

For these acts, if the law enforcement is strict, and the Wei Wu Cao Cao, who is even the official of the office, who disagrees with him, will be punished.

Therefore, although the money touched people's hearts, Xia Houhui still told his family to return all the entrusted money back to the original place, and never let the entrusted person enter the door again.

Yes, Xia Houhui, who had no money left, had struggled in her heart.

Because the Shaofu ordered Yang Fu to refuse to implement the emperor Cao Rui's request from the Shaofu to subsidize Xiahou Hui's mount for keeping his mount in the palace on the grounds that there was no precedent for the incident and that he was not in harmony with the law.
At that time, Xia Houhui was not at home.

After Xia Houheng learned about it, he immediately asked someone to make up the expenses, and even went to find Weiyang Stable Order himself.

After calculating the cost of Liangju's one-year-old confinement, he asked the family steward to send the money and food to the eunuch at one time.

It also made Xia Houhui, who learned about it later, very angry.

How can there be such an absurd thing in the world to accept a job with his own salary!

What is even more hateful is the emperor Cao Rui, who obviously knew about this matter through the rebuttal of Yang Fu, the Minister of the Shaofu, pretended to be deaf and dumb!
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that Xia Houhui is tempted by Caibo.

However, fortunately, he held back and kept his image as a loyal minister, otherwise he would have no say in what happened next.

Before the arrival of midsummer in June, two more things happened.

One is that Sun Quan, who became the emperor, left Lu Xun to assist Sun Deng in guarding Wuchang and moved the capital to Jianye.

That is to say, in the future, Huainan will be the main force, and Jingxiang will be the second.

This is the consensus of the monarch and ministers of the Wei Kingdom. After the emperor Cao Rui also recruited the important ministers to work together, he asked the soldiers of Yanyu and Yuzhou behind the Huainan battlefield to focus on performing martial arts and prepare for reinforcements at any time.

And after making the decision, he also had the heart of taking an examination of the school, so that many accompanying officials expressed their opinions on the Huainan front.

It is harvested.

Based on the fact that after the Battle of Shiting, the strength of the Huainan elite of the Wei State was severely damaged by many close officials, their advice on strategy was nothing more than the old-fashioned words of seeking the country with a strong wall and clearing the country.

Xia Houhui, who "stands on the shoulders of predecessors", is much more radical.

He put forward the tactics of luring the enemy to go deep, because Jiangdong has always relied on the natural danger of the river and stayed in a corner, and focusing on the development of the navy will also cause Wu soldiers to feel timid when they leave the water.

For this reason, he suggested that when the Huainan front is hardened and cleared, one or two thousand elite cavalry should be added to dormant.

When Wu soldiers came to attack, Wei Guo showed the enemy weak, and encouraged him to leave the water to fight on the shore, and then Wei Guo could defeat the enemy with elite cavalry in one fell swoop.

If the battle goes well, Jiangdong will come back to attack again, and he will hesitate again and again whether to go ashore to fight.

But, it's a pity.

After hearing this, the emperor Cao Rui just nodded and smiled, and said, "Zhenquan's strategy is quite desirable, but a general like Zhang Wenyuan, you can meet but never ask for ears", and then exposed the matter.

Yes, the emperor, who was only interested in school examinations, did not feel that Xiahou Huineng was more strategic than the old officials of Sheji, so he misunderstood and took Xiahouhui's remonstrance preconceivedly as he wanted to imitate "Zhang Liao's power to shake Xiaoyaojin" matter.

However, Xia Houhui didn't care about it.

After all, now that Man Chong is guarding Huainan, what big waves can that thief Wu Sunquan make?

And another thing is that another Sanqi servant was moved to the left.

Nai Du Shu.

He, who never socializes with others, went to the shuffle a few days ago, borrowing the fact that Lian Zhao, a native of Le'an, loves writing and talking about things, and said that the younger brother of the great general Cao Zhen, Shangshu Zuocheng, Cao Fan, "did not follow the imperial edict" and rode a horse. Du Wei Wangcai privately exempted Leren Meng Si from illegal crimes and other incidents as examples, accusing the inaction of important officials in the court, the atmosphere of the temple, the flatterers, and the self-seeking, reminding the emperor Cao Rui that he should pay attention to it, and rectify the administration of officials and depose the treacherous and sycophant. People, determined to be the Holy Son of Heaven.

After making this kind of memorial, it is inevitable to be moved to the left.

Even if the emperor Cao Rui praised him very much, in order to take into account the emotions of the princes, he had to be moved to the left.

Therefore, it was not long before he was appointed as the servant of Sanqi, and he had not yet accumulated enough experience and resume to serve two thousand shi, and he was released from Beijing to take up a idle position.

He himself seemed disheartened by this.

When he was appointed, when he left Luoyang City, he said he was sick and resigned, and went to live in seclusion in a spring dock in Yiyang.

The emperor Cao Rui did not ask his close ministers to persuade him, but Xia Houhui wanted to persuade him one or two.

There is no reason for him.

First, Xia Houhui is also very disgusted with the ink-greedy atmosphere in the court today, and agrees with Du Shu's memorabilia.

The other is that although Du Shu is a nobleman, he was already a poor family at the time of his father Du Ji.

It is not a family with a profound background and no complicated family interests. If the emperor Cao Rui has a different weapon, he can be cultivated to become a diehard Cao Wei.

It also happened to be the like-minded people that Xia Houhui was looking for.

Can be cited as a party friend!
It's just that if he wants to persuade the emperor Cao Rui about this kind of thing, if he doesn't want to receive the same treatment as being moved from the left, he has to find a suitable opportunity.

With such thoughts in mind, Xia Houhui waited patiently for the opportunity while preparing the draft for the words of persuasion.

The deceased is like a husband who does not want to leave day or night.

Before you know it, Mid-Autumn and August quietly arrive.

Xia Houhui, who has been working diligently, finally waited for a good time to persuade.
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[Note 1: The duty of guards in the imperial palace of the Wei Kingdom is divided between China and foreign countries by Simamen.The central defender holds the palm outside, and the central leader holds the palm (inside). 】

(End of this chapter)