Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 280 Subduing the enemy without fighting (11)
Sima Yin took a look at Zhong Yao's copybook, and saw that it read: "When the way of heaven is extreme, it will be reversed, and if it is profitable, it will be a loss. Therefore, if you are smart and wise, guard it with stupidity; be well-educated and debate, guard it with frugality; use force, perseverance, and courage. Guard with fear; riches and honor are vast, guard with narrowness; morality bestows on the world, guard with yield. These five are the reason why the previous kings guarded the world.” The strokes of the characters are strong, with golden hooks and silver strokes, three points into the paper, and the style is not vulgar.

"Well written! Well written! I will pass it on to my general in time." After reading it, Sima Yin slowly rolled up the copybook, bowed and saluted, "I will take my leave now." He bowed his hands respectfully backed out.

Hearing the sound of Sima Yin's footsteps outside the study door fading away, the smile on Zhong Yao's face faded away in an instant, revealing deep thoughts.After a while of silence, he sighed a long time and said, "Yu'er, come out now..."

Zhong Yu and Zhong Hui brothers came out from behind the bookshelf one by one in response to the sound.

There was silence in the study room, only the long flames of the big red candles flickered, burned and danced silently.

Zhong Yao stared at the candle flame quietly, did not turn around, but continued to stand where he was, silent for a long time.

"Father..." Zhong Yu said with a confused expression, "You...are you getting too close to General Sima..."

His younger brother Zhong Hui looked at his father with twinkling eyes, moved his lips a few times, wanted to say something but didn't say anything.

After a while, Zhong Yao said slowly, "What's the matter? Yu'er, are you scared?"

Zhong Yu was silent for a moment, with a serious expression on his face, and replied: "I am not afraid of anything in my heart. It is just that I think that my father is one of the three princes, with a high position and authority, and he shares weal and woe with the Great Wei Dynasty, so why bother with the unpredictable Sima family?" How about together? The boy also thinks that whether it is General Sima, Taiwei Hua, or Chen Sikong, they have to rely on our Zhong clan to govern in the court...Why do we have to wade into this muddy water?"

When he said these words, Zhong Hui stretched out his hand and gently tugged on his sleeve four times, trying his best to wink him to stop talking, but Zhong Yu ignored it, and still kept his heart straight. Not afraid of offending his father because of his temperament, he still talked about it with eloquence.

After hearing this, Zhong Yao didn't answer immediately, and stood still for a moment before slowly opening his mouth and said, "Yu'er, you are right! During the Great Wei Dynasty, our Zhong family was indeed able to prosper for a long time, and our foundation was unmatched. Can shake.

"However, have you ever thought about it, if the fortune of the Great Wei Dynasty suddenly collapsed one day? Wouldn't our Zhong family also be like a bereaved dog-how can we die in panic?!"

"Father..." Zhong Yu and Zhong Hui didn't expect Zhong Yao to explain this question so thoroughly and sharply. They were so frightened that they sweated profusely, and hurriedly knelt down on the ground together, and said tearfully, "Father, what Want to make such ominous words? The children are terrified, and please father be at ease about this."

Zhong Yao's face seemed to be cast with a bronze mask, and his expression was very cold: "Don't think that being a father is scaremongering! The world is unpredictable, and people's hearts are unpredictable! My father is 81 years old this year. I don’t know how many storms and waves I have survived until I am here today! The complexity of what my father saw and heard in his life is beyond the imagination of young and inexperienced people? Thinking about the glorious Han Dynasty, in Wei’s eyes It fell apart in just 30 to [-] years! Is there anything that cannot happen in this world? Is there any disaster in this world that will not happen to people? How can our Zhong family not be "prepared for danger in times of peace, and plan for a rainy day"?"

Zhong Yu and Zhong Hui knelt on the ground, listening to their father's sighs, they didn't dare to breathe.

Zhong Yao stopped talking, and still stood there silently for a long time. After he calmed down, he said again: "Yu'er, I am asking you for my father. In your opinion, in all fairness, I am cultivating for my father. Is the talent in literature, science and politics better than Chen Sikong?"

Zhong Yu was startled, but was speechless.

"As a father, I will ask you again. In all fairness, is your father better than General Sima in governing the army and defending against the enemy?"

Zhong Yu muttered, still unable to answer.

Zhong Yao looked at him deeply, and smiled coldly: "As a father, I am not afraid of exposing my own ugliness—as a father, I am not as good as Chen Qun, who can govern the country in peace, and as Sima Yi, who is not as good as Sima Yi, who can win on the fly. But as a father, he can In the Great Wei court where there are many talented people, the position of the Grand Tutor has been firmly established for ten years, what is it based on?"

Zhong Yu lowered his head, not daring to face his father.

Zhong Yao stroked his silver-white beard hanging on his chest, and said bluntly: "Actually, in my father's life, I have nothing to do except calligraphy and self-consolation! However, being a father has been ups and downs for dozens of years. Years, and there is nothing extraordinary about it, just being able to 'understand current affairs' that's all."

He cast his eyes on the vast night sky outside the window, and if he remembered something, he said leisurely: "I think that at the end of the former Han Dynasty, Emperor Xian Liu Xie was held hostage by Xiliang bandit leaders Li Jue and Guo Si, and it was for his father and Dong Cheng to risk Liu Xie In the name of the emperor, the joint hidden repair book secretly summoned Emperor Taizu Wu to enter the customs to quell the chaos, so that Emperor Taizu Wu justified his strategy of "holding the emperor to command the princes" and finally achieved great achievements. This is the reason for the father's understanding It is the first time that the current affairs have achieved great success - after Emperor Taizu Wu came to power, within a hundred days he was promoted to be his father as a minister!

"The second time was during the dispute between the late emperor and Cao Zhi, the king of Dong'a, for his father's full support for the late emperor's succession. He first presented the late emperor with the 'five-color jewels' to show his loyalty, and then contacted famous scholars and officials to go together. Biao Gong strongly recommends the first emperor—so, the first emperor appointed his father as Wei Guo Taifu just as soon as he became a great treasure... The decades-long prosperity of our Zhong family is achieved in this way. All of this, Yu'er, can you Understood?"

Zhong Yu blushed, but kept silent.

Zhong Yao looked at him quietly for a while, and suddenly said softly: "It's late at night, Yu'er, you don't have to think about what your father said anymore, you go down and rest! Just stay with me later Clean up the study for father!"

Zhong Yu responded without raising her head, bowed and left the study.

Zhong Yao watched him leave, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly.He was about to turn around, but saw Zhong Hui put his hands on the ground, raised his head and stared at him with twinkling eyes, and asked respectfully: "I just want to ask my father now, why do you want to "understand current affairs" this time?" Choose their Sima family?"

Zhong Yao didn't expect him to ask such a question, and he was stunned for a moment, and then he said after a while: "It's rare to be such a 'careful person' at this moment... It's okay, it's okay... Yu'er is obedient and keeps his way. A set of ways of living can be the foundation of our Zhong Clan in the Great Wei Dynasty—but you might as well place another bet on the future prosperity of our Zhong Clan if you are quick-witted!"

Zhong Hui listened to his father's words quietly and nodded silently.

Seeing this, Zhong Yao nodded and smiled with some satisfaction.He pondered for a moment, then suddenly pointed to the bright and eye-catching flames on the thick red candles, and asked Zhong Hui, "How long will your eyes be able to look directly at these candle flames without blinking?"

Zhong Hui raised his eyes to stare at the candle flame, and replied respectfully: "My child is confident that he can stare until half of the candle is burned out."

"Very good." Zhong Yao praised with a smile, and said again, "Then if you keep staring at the midday sun in the dog days without blinking, how long can you last?"

"This... I've never tried it before..." Zhong Hui said in a deep voice, "However, in the face of such a scorching hot summer day, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on to a cup of tea."

"But when Sima Yi was your age, he had to stare at the scorching sun for at least a stick of incense at the end of noon every day!" Zhong Yao caressed the silver beard under his chin and said leisurely, "Being a father I discovered this by accident when I participated in a court meeting at noon with him. Since then, my father has noticed him. He was just a small writer at that time, and he was 25 years younger than my father. , but my father has always felt that there is a deep, deep spirit hidden in him, once it bursts out, it must be unstoppable...

"Oh, I was right as a father. It only took Sima Yi more than 20 years to rise to power and become the most powerful minister of the Great Wei Dynasty...Looking at his extraordinary momentum, he is still He will make more achievements in the court. Perhaps even Emperor Taizu Wu, who was the prime minister of the Han Dynasty at that time, possessed the great power and power he had in his lifetime—he may have it in the future.”

When Zhong Yao said this, his tone paused for a moment, and he said deeply: "In retrospect, his early 'no-sightedness' was actually 'high-mindedness'! He has accumulated so many years of ambition and strength, once the wings Cultivation, I'm afraid it really has the ability to shake the world! After a while, now you understand why you chose Sima as your father?"

Zhong Hui nodded deeply, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly asked Zhong Yao with a slight smile: "Father...the Sima family has the heart to win the Kyushu, why can't our Zhong family be like them?" Also make big plans and seek power? Father is so 'understanding of current affairs', has he never thought about it?"

(End of this chapter)