Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2171 Man and Tao

   There will be a long gestation period for a thing from its occurrence to its final formation. At the beginning, it may be possible to stop the incident with only a small amount of effort, but when a wave finally forms, it will not be something that one or two people can resist.

Just like a snowball rolling down a hillside, it may be just one or two snow blocks at first, and it is also very slow. It may be blocked by one or two bushes, and it will disappear. But once the acceleration of gravity is gradually exerted, the snow The ball eventually evolved into an avalanche, and everything in front of it would be either destroyed or submerged.

  The food incident was such an avalanche.

   Now this avalanche is already unstoppable. At this time, there is no good way to stop it except to hope that this avalanche will end as soon as possible.

  Sima Hui knew that many people would be swallowed by the avalanche this time, but he couldn't help it, or he didn't care much, because the people who were swallowed were not those who had too much contact with the Sima family. It's like standing in the distance and seeing those victims, maybe a little sad, but it won't hurt my heart.

  Sima Hui believed that this avalanche was naturally premeditated. In the eyes of politicians, nothing is a pure coincidence, so what the Sima family needs now is to keep a low profile, not attract attention, and not get angry.

  『Master Uncle…』 Sima Fu hurried in from the outside, 『A new notice from Hussar’s Mansion is out…』

  『Bring someone to have a look. 』Sima Hui stretched out his hand and took the new notice copied by Sima Fu.

"Well..." Sima Hui quickly unfolded the scroll, and then read it, "The ancient scholars are polite and courteous, modest and restrained, their words must be gentle and elegant, and their actions must be respectful and modest. Today, there are also so-called scholars." The generation of the people, the foreword is earnest, and the aftermath is bad. why? Those who are only interested in profit...』

  『There is a cloud in "Poetry", the crane crows in Jiugao, and the sound is heard in the sky. Therefore, a gentleman is not free from vulgarity, but he should be good at refining and being independent... umm," Sima Hui glanced at the words quoted before, and then saw some key lines, "Governing the country and the world is called greatness, Very human. The Qi family cultivates morality, does not engage in evil deeds, and does not fall into greedy beetles. Although they are not perfect, they can be called scholars! Those who harm the public and selfishness are greedy, those who neglect their duties and slack off, they are beetles... umm...』

  『People can spread the Tao, not Tao can promote people. Dao is prospered by people, and it is also practiced by people..." Sima Hui nodded, "If Dao can promote people, then everyone will become a scholar, and the world will be peaceful. There is no need to talk about learning, and there is no need to cultivate virtue. Just sit and wait for Dao to spread... Ha ha, it's a bit interesting ...so now there should be "People can promote scholars, but non-disciplines promote people"... Hiss..."

  Sima Hui couldn't help shaking his hands, and then looked down hastily.

  『If you are a greedy beetle, betray righteousness and ruin your name, pollute a gentleman, fulfill your selfish desires for a while, and harm your relatives for a lifetime! ’ Sima Hui’s eyes widened, and then he saw, ‘…a greedy man, a traitor, violates the name of a man, and bad reputation of a man, so he should have his name removed, and he should be listed as a common man... After investigation, there is Zhao A certain group of twenty-three people, who were either greedy, moth, or both, have been dismissed from their posts and investigated, and their crimes are widely publicized as follows..."

Sima Hui brushed over those crimes. After all, the announcement of the hussars means that he has already grasped certain evidence, but the most important thing is below, "Resignation due to greed should not be suspended for a long time. Ancient Mao Sui recommends himself to be more beautiful than before, and now he can be appointed by those with lofty ideals...』

  『"Competition"? When Sima Hui saw this, it meant that it was the end of the scroll, so he hurriedly flipped through it, but he couldn't see any writing on the back, so he raised his head and asked, "What's next?" 』

Sima Fu hurriedly took another one, and was snatched by Sima Hui. He looked at it with trembling hands, his eyes kept moving, and after a while, he sighed and said: "This matter... It must mean hussars again...』

  『Master Uncle…』 Sima Fu blinked his eyes twice, 「Your Uncle means…」

  Sima Hui pondered for a while, then suddenly smiled, flicked the two scrolls in his hand, and said, "Fu'er, would you like to try it?" 』

"I? 』Sima Fu pointed to his nose.

  Sima Hui looked at Sima Fu and said, "In a certain temple, there are lotus spoon orders and Nanling orders, both of which are 800 shi, but...well, the "competition"...Why, Fu'er despises his position?" 』

  『Uncle’s meaning, so is the same! 』

Sima Yi's voice came from outside the door, and after a while Sima Yi came in, first bowed his hands to Sima Hui, then accepted Sima Fu's gift, then sat down on one side, and said, "This is a good opportunity from God, if Fu It's a pity that I missed it..."

  『If you don’t go through local experience, you will not be able to achieve great things...' Sima Yi said, 'Although Lian Shao Nanling is small, the affairs are not simple. In addition, there are corrupt officials in it that cannot be eliminated. It is beyond the reach of ordinary people...』

  Sima Hui slowly stroked his beard and nodded.

  When Sima Fu heard this, he became anxious, "Isn't this..."

   It sounds like a mess, why do you want me to "compete"? Isn't this jumping into the fire pit? You two are still going to send me into the fire pit with your own hands?

Sima Yi glanced at Sima Fu, and then did not continue to explain to Sima Fu, but turned to Sima Hui and said: "Now Hushi's move is against the rules, like a chess player, it seems that there is no trace, but the weight is light... 』

   Cracking down on tyrants and degrading scholars, if one is not handled properly, it will cause many problems. Even though these disciples of powerful and powerful gentry have many problems, not everyone can be rational, maybe there will be emotions such as rabbit death and fox grief, or hurting others, etc., and then they are fired by someone with a heart, then the situation may be serious. will deviate from the original direction...

   Then it was obviously right, but it turned out to be wrong.

   It's like the scourge of the party, and it was just a scholarly criticism at first. Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, and they have a little measure of whether something is good or bad. At first, it was just some spontaneous comments, saying that this official did a good job and that official was worse. It is like the self-media of later generations. Spontaneously, without any specific interests, but later capital infiltrated it, and naturally it changed afterward...

  Later it evolved into that all officials have to beg these scholastic disciples, dear, give a good review, five stars, very satisfied...

  Further on, the Shilin disciples discovered that the nest is too cold, so how easy is it to use my little hands? Nima lost a lot of money before, do you want to give me money? Ten yuan for one star, one hundred yuan for fifty plus praise! If you don't give money, you will have a bad review!

  The snowball gets bigger and bigger.

Those who have the ability start to think of a way. On the one hand, buy some people, get a lot of five-star praise, and even prepare a hundred different kinds of manuscripts. On the other hand, they threaten bad reviews. Nima wants to die. ? If you dare to make a bad review, I will kill you!

Those who don’t have that much power also start to make up their minds, dear, give a good review, return the red envelope, take a picture and give it, and then wait for someone to do it, just turn around and say, dear, people are on Mars, there is no Signal, wait until you return to Earth to send red envelopes...

Officials who do things honestly, on the one hand, find that they don’t get good reviews, and on the other hand, some people say no to giving red envelopes, and bad reviews if they don’t give them... Then these people naturally either fall with them, or simply get angry And resigned...

In the end, the old emperor gave an order, perhaps at first it meant to engage those who got money stuck around their necks and asked for red envelopes, and then the people under him expanded the order, arresting all those with the word "red envelopes", and then even the individual "red envelopes" ", the word "package" alone is not enough, and in the end, even the red ones are taken together!

   Orange? Orange is also a little red, grab it and talk about it!

   There are also purple ones, and don't run away from the brown ones!

  Yellow is a relative of red, and it was also caught. Blue, blue and red have been CP since ancient times. Dare you say that you are okay? take away! green? Don't safflower match with green leaves? Where does red come from without green?

  What black? It's all red and black!

White? Xiao Mian, don't think that I won't recognize you if you wash it white!

   Then there was a bang, an avalanche.

  『However, the hussars are clever...』Sima Yi praised, "The method of performing thunderbolts, the grace of spreading rain and dew...It can be retracted and released freely, and the operation is smooth...It’s wonderful..."

"Especially this last method of "competing for office" is like the finishing touch, and everything is alive..." Sima Hui also sighed beside him, "I think that among the three assistants in Chang'an, all the scholars are interested in this, and have almost forgotten the **** incident... 』

  One radish and one pit.

   Big pit eight hundred.

   Four hundred small pits.

  The key is that there is still room for improvement...

  Since the day when humans had classes, upgrading is like an instinct imprinted in human genes. And from civilian to scholar, it is already a major class promotion, but if you want to go from scholar to official, you still need to pass the exam...

  And this time, there is no need to memorize those scriptures. As long as you feel that you have the ability and want to try like Mao Sui, you can run for the job.

  Although there are some minor restrictions, they are much more relaxed than the general requirements, and there are still four hundred to eight hundred stone officials in charge, which is even more commendable.

  You must know that even local great sages often start as so-called officials when they come to the court, just like the staff officers of later generations. If there is no word "long", they will not fart. And from such an official to a foreign place, as a local governor, there is undoubtedly a huge class span, and some people even fail to make it in their entire lives.

  Now this step is a heavenly opportunity, right in front of you.

Under such circumstances, the sons of the gentry of Chang'an Sanfu would still talk about what happened to those corrupt officials before, and they would not pay attention to what those big families should be. "Competition" opportunity?

   Really fragrant.

  Student Xiao Wang will definitely become a classic inherited across time and space because of this classic epiphany.

  『Lian Shao and Nanling, although both are 800 stones, they are slightly different...』 Sima Yi took out two scrolls from his sleeve and put them in front of Sima Fu, "The word Lizhi has its own uniqueness. Most of the lotus spoon households are large, and there are many fortresses, which is the root cause of the disaster of food prices. If you let it go, you will focus on "governance". I'm too involved..."

  『Nanling focuses on refugees. There are many miscellaneous tasks, such as basic necessities, food, housing, transportation, material allocation, transshipment arrangements, population placement, and handover handling, which are no less than the logistics of an army of 100,000. If there is a slight mistake, it will be a disaster..." Sima Yi clicked on two volumes with different place names , "If you are qualified to be a lotus ladle, you can get the word "government". There are no counties and counties in the world like this. If you are qualified to be a Nanling, you can understand the method of "reason". It is the same as the position of Dasinong..."

  Sima Yi paused for a moment, then looked at Sima Fu, "But I don't know what word Brother Fu wants?" 』

  Si Mafu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and fell silent in thought.

  Sima Hui and Sima Yi didn't urge them either, they just watched quietly and waited.

You have to choose your own path, so that you can truly face it. If it is forced by the elders, or given to you, it is rare to be serious, and more often, you will clamor if you do something wrong. It was not you at the beginning. I was forced to do this, I didn't want to do this, I wanted to do that...

  Of course, Sima Fu can choose neither of them, but Sima Fu also knows that if he chooses neither, then there may be another chance to choose, or there may be no next time.

  Now that the Sima family has a Sima Yi, it can be regarded as a firm foothold under the hussars. If they can have one more Sima Fu, it is naturally the best. If not, then it doesn't matter.

   This time, there are also some internal materials of the two counties that Sima Yi helped to obtain. Next time, what Sima Fu wants, he will have to rely on himself.

  Sima Fu thought for a long time, and then reached out to take the scroll with the word "lotus spoon" written on it...

Sima Yi's eyes flickered slightly, and he put the other scroll into his sleeve with a smile, and then said: "Very good...the selection period will be around the end of November or early December, and Huqi will ask...Fu Brother, prepare a lot, don't take it lightly...』

  Sima Fu nodded, thanked Sima Yi again, then bowed to the two of them, and retreated first.

  Only Sima Hui and Sima Yi were left in the hall. After Sima Fu's figure disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, Sima Hui looked away and asked, "But it was expected?" 』

  Sima Yi nodded slightly, then sighed softly, "This matter, I would rather be unexpected..."

"well! ’ Sima Hui laughed, “Young and energetic, it’s inevitable…”

Sima Yi's original intention was to hope that Sima Fu would take the "reasonable" word, because if Sima Yi said that he would have the opportunity to lead the army alone in the future, he would naturally hope that it would be best to have a family member who could ensure that his logistics affairs would not be hindered. Fu is not willing to be a hero behind the scenes, he also wants to stand in front of the stage.

   Is it because Sima Yi took Sima Fu to wash blood in the middle of the night before?

   Or did Sima Fu think those logistical matters were too cumbersome?

But these are not big problems. Sima Fu’s willingness to choose Nanling as the focus is naturally the best, but there is no big problem in taking the lotus spoon route. It’s not that Sima Yi can’t live without Sima Fu as the logistics director. kind of...

  The key point is that this time the Hushi's political means really surprised Sima Hui and Sima Yi. Especially the political sensitivity, it simply made the Sima two amazed.

  For a leader, various factions will inevitably emerge under the flag, and such factions will form involuntarily, and cannot be completely eliminated by expressly prohibiting them.

However, Fei Qian controlled the sanctions against the faction very precisely within a certain range, that is, it hit the Guanzhong faction without getting too involved, and even asked Wei Duan to come forward and create a "ten evils" as a law According to the legal basis, this made many Guanzhong children understand that the people who were dealt with this time were within the scope of the ten evils. Basically, it was equivalent to going against Fei Qian, and it also drew a red line for other people.

As for the corrupt officials, they are also within the scope of the ten evils in a certain way, because these people will inevitably buy some officials if they want to do things. In fact, it is the relationship between the outside and the inside, so it is reasonable to clean up the hussars together.

Subsequently, Huqi's competition for the post broke the deadlock in one fell swoop, turning the entire public opinion direction to another aspect. For the big man who lacks entertainment, every new concept will trigger a burst of heated discussions, like Huqi Such a pioneering work will inevitably make many children of the gentry talk about it.

In previous history, whether it was the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, or the Great Han Dynasty in the former Qin Dynasty, the property of the losers was generally inherited by the winners. No matter the position, it will become the bag of the Longyou faction of the Jingxiang faction represented by Pang Tong and Jia Xu.

  But now these positions are taken out as "competition"!

   The original hostility towards the Jingxiang faction and the Longyou faction has been virtually reduced a lot!

  And the Jingxiang faction and the Longyou faction are also willing to give up!

  Of course, it is unavoidable for people like Sima Yi to sneak some information into his family, but at least for the public, there is a slight chance of fair competition, unlike before...

   Instead of being like Mao Sui, you have to wait three years before finding an opportunity to come forward and say something.

"Okay, good..." Sima Hui sighed slowly, and after a moment of silence, "If the top is mediocre, there will be fish eyes, and if the bottom is mediocre, there will be scumbags... Mao Sui competed for the post, and both It can be removed...'

  『It’s more than that...』 Sima Yi stroked the mat slowly with his hand, "From now on... the way this student recommends... is absolutely impossible! Gathering the people under the hussars will be like crucian carp crossing the river...On weekdays, you will be tested, and when you don't, you will compete for office...』

  『It’s just staring at corrupt officials more and more...』 Sima Hui interjected, and when he met Sima Yi's eyes, Qiqi turned to the south, and then sighed in unison.

  Nowadays under the hussars, it seems more and more difficult to be an official...

But to give up, it is really reluctant, not to mention anything else, just talk about the mining rights of the gold mine newly obtained by the Sima family in the Western Regions... If the Sima family shows a little bit of intention to retreat, countless people will pounce on it ...It seems to be similar to the current situation?

  Could it be that... the suspect of the hussars had already thought of this when he promised Sima's gold mining rights?

  Sima Yi suddenly felt that he needed to be quiet...

  (end of this chapter)