The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 289 Director Wang’s arrangements

Chu Hui responded, and Liu Tai continued, "Did you receive any news yesterday that the Jin court is planning to implement the guest system? What do you think?"

Everyone looked at each other. Wen Qiao was the first to stand up and said:

"Although Emperor Jin implemented this policy with the support of Diao Xie, Liu Wei and others, according to the information I have received, most of the Jin court's aristocratic families actually resisted this system, and even a relatively large controversy broke out.

However, with Wang Dao intervening, everyone put aside their arguments for the time being and completed the spring plowing first! "

When Liu Tai heard Wen Qiao's words, he nodded thoughtfully, this is the right thing!

However, Liu Tai then thought again. Although Director Wang's handling of the situation was not wrong, it was simply delaying and was not what a mature politician should do.

In other words, politicians' instinct is to procrastinate and their skill is to compromise, but politicians will not do purely meaningless procrastination.

Because the politicians want to turn this matter into a minor issue, instead of hesitating and refusing to take sides when it comes time to take sides.

The Sima Rui in front of him wants to implement the guest system. To a certain extent, even if it is not a reform, it is at least the first time to take sides.

Even if this matter is suppressed with the help of spring plowing, it seems to be okay, but this time I did not solve the problem quickly. After the transmission and precipitation during the spring plowing period, the next time this system is mentioned, , the more help you receive, the greater your support will be.

Director Wang doesn't look like he's here to help Sima Rui, but rather like he's here to thwart Sima Rui?

"Is there a crack in the gold medal combination between the Sima family and Director Wang?" Liu Tai couldn't help but think in his mind.

"Taizhen, put the focus of your investigation on the Langya Wang family!" Liu Tai said to Wen Qiao, "Especially after the spring plowing, if Sima Ruiruo continues to implement this policy, I think he may not be able to resist the Wang family's politics. strength."

"No!" Wen Qiao responded after hearing Liu Tai's words and began to focus on this aspect.

In fact, Wang Dun was originally released by Director Wang and Sima Rui to defend the capital and shock the powerful families in Jiangnan.

Neither Sima Rui nor the Langya Wang family were considered strong when crossing the river, so they naturally supported each other.

When Du Tao was a refugee from Bashu and rebellion swept across Jingzhou, the court used Wang Dun to deal with Du Tao.

However, Wang Dun's ability to lead troops is not very strong. He has taken the route of a celebrity, and his true combat ability has not been honed at least yet.

But now he has honed two very good skills: sneak attacks and deception.

First, he promised Tao Kan to be the governor of Jingzhou, saying that if he defeated Du Tao, he would recommend him as the governor of Jingzhou.

After Tao Kan finished fighting, he became jealous of Tao Kan's achievements and wanted to capture and kill Tao Kan and take over Jingzhou himself.

As a result, Tao Kan thought he met Bole again, so he came to Wangdun camp completely unprepared and was caught.

But Tao Kan's men decisively rebelled. Wang Dun tried his best and found that even Tao Kan's men could not suppress him. In addition, Tao Kan's relatives were visiting Zhou, so he found an excuse to send Tao Kan to Guangzhou to do the work. Governor.

And then Du Zeng joined forces with Tao Kan's men who were forced to rebel and took up residence in Jingzhou, but he still couldn't defeat him.

Wang Dun decisively went to ask Zhou to visit, saying that as long as you capture Jingzhou, I will appoint you as the governor of Jingzhou.

Zhou Fang thought that such a big celebrity could talk like farts, so he helped Wang Dun conquer Jingzhou.

But Wang Dun regretted it again and still appointed himself the governor of Jingzhou. He failed to fulfill his promise. During Zhou's visit, he only added General Annan and still served as the governor of Liangzhou.

This led to a complete break between Zhou Fang and Wang Dun, and also made Zhou Fang the best candidate for the Sima clan to check and balance Wang Dun.

Of course, Wang Dun would go back on his word again and again. In addition to his own poor character and relying entirely on the reputation of the Langya Wang family accumulated by his ancestors, the most important thing is that this place in Jingzhou is really So important.

Because in the past, after the Jin court fled to the south of the Yangtze River, Jingzhou was basically controlled either by the refugees in the north, the Bashu rebels, or other rebels. But now it is in the hands of Wang Dun. Wang Dun suddenly discovered , by occupying Jingzhou, he could not only intimidate Jiangnan, but he could even intimidate the entire Jin court.

How could Wang Dun be willing to let go?

In the final analysis, it is the land of Jingzhou that exerts absolute suppression on the area south of the Yangtze River. As long as Jingzhou is not in their hands, only a few of those in power with Jiankang as the center can truly relax.

The most famous one is probably Lu Meng who crossed the river in white clothes and stabbed Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms era, which is enough to show the importance of Jingzhou's geographical location.

What Director Wang was doing at this moment was obviously to assist Sima Rui and reduce Sima Rui's current pressure. However, because of Director Wang's operation, Wang Dun's chance of success would be increased by several points if he raised troops to rebel.

For Director Wang, as the representative of the Langya Wang family in the political arena, even if he is directly implicated and killed like Yuan Ji because he is in the central government, he must keep himself clean.

Only in this way can the hope of the Langya Wang family's rise be preserved. Even if Wang Dun's rebellion is eliminated in the future, it would be better not to involve the Langya Wang family.

In Director Wang's view, the best way to resolve the relationship between the Langya Wang family and Sima Rui is for Wang Dun to continue to curb his greed and maintain a situation where he controls the military and he controls the politics.

Even if Sima Rui wants to seize power, it doesn't matter if he gives away some power. After all, he is from a noble family, and the most important thing for a noble family is its survival, not its power!

However, there are fewer and fewer families with old-school ideas like Director Wang.

The Eight Kings Rebellion and the Yongjia Rebellion led to more and more aristocratic families no longer just enclosing one-third of an acre of land.

Because they grew up in troubled times, almost all aristocratic families almost instinctively desire power. After all, nothing can protect the family better than power.

Therefore, Director Wang did not dare to help Wang Dun too obviously, but it was unrealistic to cut him off.

Because Wang Dun controls the military force and himself controls the court, this is the strategy of the Langya Wang family. Even if he wants to cut off, these people will not believe it!

"I'm afraid that Chu Zhong won't be able to bear it anymore after the spring plowing. The next step is to see whether Master Yi successfully finds the Chu family and then stays in Hebei.

If Wang Dun fails, my Langya Wang family may be uprooted. Liu Tai will treat Chu Zhong kindly even if he just wants to set up a sign for the surrender family! "

Director Wang sighed. He had tried his best to plan the future of the family. He only hoped that the Langya Wang family could survive smoothly!

Of course, if you look at it from a historical perspective, since Director Wang has sent Wang Xizhi away, the next thing he needs to do is to find a way to wipe out the entire Wang family. Then Wang Xizhi's original qualifications as a calligrapher may not be enough. It will become a source of fame and fortune.

There is no way, maybe the Wang family really has the secret technique of infusing seeds into one person when only one person in the family dies.

At least during this special period of time when Wu Huanhua was in chaos, he had established a reputation as the most difficult to kill and the most brutal among the seven Wang families of the Wang family.

The most typical one is that it often happens that the entire clan is wiped out, and the direct descendants escape, return after cultivating, and destroy the enemy.

Don't care whether this enemy is a powerful minister or an emperor. Basically, it is a powerful minister killing a powerful minister. It is the emperor's unreasonable revenge method for destroying the country. Other aristocratic families are stunned to see this.

If there are several other aristocratic families with five surnames and seven looks, they basically intermarry and want to love each other, but the Wang family just relied on their brutal revenge methods to squeeze into the five surnames and seven looks. At least the Wang family was not included in the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes, and other aristocratic families felt that this ranking was somewhat inflated.

Of course, at this time, other aristocratic families only felt that the Wang family was a bit violent, but they were still more or less celebrities and did not change their jobs in the direction of force.

It wasn't until the Wang family began to collectively transfer positions to the military officials during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that those aristocratic families would discover what Wang Jian's bloodline was.

Throughout the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, seventy-two famous generals emerged from generation to generation, which is simply unreasonable.

At this time, Wang Xizhi also went to Hebei under the arrangement of Director Wang. Director Wang did not arrange for Wang Xizhi to go to the open treaty port of Jijun and Xingyang.

Instead, Wang Xizhi was arranged to go to Xuzhou, where Gou Xi and Xu Gong were fighting, to Langya's hometown, and then from Langya County to Taishan County, from Taishan County to Qingzhou, and then to Yecheng to find the Chu family.

The current governor of Yuzhou is Dai Yuan, who is a member of Sima Rui. It is very dangerous for a member of the Langya Wang family to go north of the Yellow River from here.

Director Wang wanted to leave a way out for the Langya Wang family, not to deny the Langya Wang family a way out.

Then, take the route of Xuzhou. In Xuzhou now, Gou Xi and Xu Gong are confronting each other.

Xu Gong received the support of the imperial court to check and balance Gou Xi, so there was naturally no problem with this path.

Wang Xizhi was not popular among the Langya Wang family because of his identity, and he would not be obstructed by Gou Xi.

Because special products such as snowflake salt, Qingzhou weaving, and dragon pattern porcelain spread from Qingzhou, all passed through Gou Xi first, and then flowed to the Jin court, and wealthy families were even more eager to buy them.

Therefore, if anyone says that Gou Xi and Liu Tai are innocent, they can say it again in front of Luo Shui.

Director Wang's ability was only to arrange manpower to help Wang Xizhi be sent to Gou Xi's sphere of influence.

At most, they could send people to Taishan County because of the deal. Director Wang would like to go further, but the problem is that he really can't do it.

The reason why they were able to arrange for someone to send Wang Xizhi all the way to Taishan County was because one of the aristocratic families who traded with Gou Xi was the Langya Wang family.

But Liu Tai's sphere of influence is basically a restricted area, at least for most of the aristocratic families who fled to the south.

At this moment, Wang Xizhi was also stepping cautiously on this piece of land that was regarded as a restricted area by the family.

Wang Xizhi looked at Taishan County carefully. Although this city was regarded as the front line of the Jin court and the Han Dynasty, Wang Xizhi did not dare to be careless.

At this time, Wang Xizhi first went to see Bian Yi, the current prefect of Taishan County.

Because Bian Tong's grandfather, Bian Tong, was once the prefect of Langya, so the Langya Wang family still had some communication with Bian Yi.

At the same time, Director Wang also told Wang Xizhi that he should be careful when arriving in Liu Tai's territory, otherwise if he angered the big man, the Langya Wang family would not have the power to rescue Wang Xizhi.

He also asked Wang Xizhi to visit the Beihai Wang family, Laiyang Wang family, Yecheng Wang family, etc. as much as possible along the way.

Families of the same clan but different origins, see if they still exist. At least if something happens to you and you get involved with these families, they will give you some help for the sake of the same clan.

After all, in this chaotic era, not to mention people with the same surname helping each other, even people from the same hometown or even the same county are very normal to help each other, because only by uniting can we survive as much as possible in troubled times.

Of course, what Director Wang really meant was to delay Wang Xizhi north of the Yellow River.

If the Langya Wang family has been destroyed by then, then Wang Xizhi will inherit the Langya Wang family lineage. If Wang Dun wins, then Wang Xizhi will come back as well.

At this moment, Wang Xizhi went to Bian Mansion and gave his servant a famous assassin. Soon Wang Xizhi was welcomed in by someone sent by Bian Yi.

Bian Yi looked at Wang Xizhi with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

Because he didn't expect that someone from the Langya Wang family would actually contact him, and the Langya Wang family was an important minister on the opposite side, so Bian Yi would not miss him.

After all, he is now a big man, and naturally he has restored some of the customs among the upper class of the big man that are not very taboo.

Wang Xizhi also explained the situation to Bian Yi earnestly:

"My father Wang Kuang died in a foreign land, and now Xi, with the permission of the family head, wants to take my father's coffin back to his ancestral land for a safe burial.

Therefore, I also ask the prefect to be noble and issue a pass to allow Xi Ke to pass safely in the Han Dynasty! "

When Bian Yi heard Wang Xizhi's words, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, nephew, I will drive it to you naturally!"

Bian Yi continued, "Xian Nephew can go to Linzi first, take a boat to Youzhou from there, and then take a boat from Youzhou to Yecheng. This trip only takes twenty days to half a month, which is better than Xian's." It would be much faster for my nephew to go directly to Yecheng by land!"

"So fast?" Wang Xizhi said in disbelief when he heard Bian Yi's words, "Is it possible to travel by boat from Youzhou to Yecheng?"

"It was just dug out not long ago. At least the waterway from Yecheng to Youzhou has been opened!" Bian Yi slightly sighed, "From now on, Youzhou is no longer a bitter and cold place!"

Wang Xizhi was a little surprised, because at least there was no such canal in what he had learned, and he did not even dare to think about such a canal. Therefore, Wang Xizhi had a hard time imagining the picture Bian Yi painted.

Bian Yi looked at Wang Xizhi and said calmly, "You stay in my mansion for a few days. When everything is ready, I will send someone to take you to the border of Taishan County."

"Xi thanks uncle for taking care of me!" Wang Xizhi saluted Bian Yi heavily after hearing Bian Yi's words.

Bian Yi nodded and arranged for Wang Xizhi to stay. However, Bian Yi also wrote down the matter of Wang Xizhi's retrieval of his father's coffin and directly dispatched a fast horse to send it to the court.

Taishan County belongs to Yanzhou, so it does not belong to the same country as Qingzhou. To a certain extent, Bian Yi himself is the governor of Yanzhou.

Bian Yi knew that it would be okay for him to take care of Wang Xizhi, but he must communicate this matter with the court.

After all, he was at the forefront of the Jin court and the Han Dynasty, so he had to be careful when doing things.

　No more waiting today

　　

　

(End of this chapter)