Huan Wen drank a cup of bride's tea. He put down the tea cup and looked at his newly married son. He saw that his face was pale and haggard, as if he had not slept all night, and he felt unhappy:
At such a young age, he was so greedy for female sex and had no control over it, so Ji'er ended up tossing around women's bellies.
Suppressing his dissatisfaction with Huan Ji, Huan Wen said:
"You pack up earlier and take the bride back to Jiankang. When we get to Jiangling, I will make my own arrangements. You are not young now, so you should contribute to the clan."
When Huan Ji heard this, he was so ecstatic that he even forgot about the trouble of being kicked out of bed by his wife.
"My child obeys!"
Huan Ji suppressed his excitement and said.
He always felt that the reason why he was considered inferior to Huan Xi was because he did not have a broad stage for him to display his talents.
However, as everyone knows, Huan Wen's so-called contribution to the clan is actually to send him to the north to serve under Huan Xi.
Talking about Guanzhong, Huan Xi has returned to the north, and his life has not changed much from when he was in the south. He still spends a lot of time with Xie Daoyun and is affectionate with her.
On the contrary, Xie Daoyun couldn't stand it anymore, so she persuaded:
"My husband has the ambition to help the world, so how can he linger in the gentle land all day long?"
Huan Xi understood what Xie Daoyun said, but he deliberately tried to win over Wang Meng, just to make him concentrate on being a cow and a horse, so that he would have no time to enjoy life.
With Zhuge Liang under his command, whoever wants to live like Zhuge Liang is not afraid of death from overwork.
"I govern the country like this all the time. The generals and subordinates under my command each perform their duties and do their duty. There is no need to take part in non-military and state affairs.
"If someone makes a mistake, I will hold them accountable."
Huan Xi explained.
When Wang Meng was alive, there was no need for Fu Jian to take care of everything. When Zhuge Liang was in power, Liu Chan did not need to interfere with political affairs. Even if he fought with crickets every day, the government of Shu was still peaceful and harmonious.
Having a great sage who can be completely trusted can relieve the superiors from too many burdens.
Of course, such people are usually prone to overwork and illness. Huan Xi then found two helpers, Quan Yi and Zhao Ju, for Wang Meng. He thought that this could also reduce his burden to a certain extent.
After hearing Huan Xi's explanation, Xie Daoyun felt that it made sense, but he spent all day enjoying herself with her in the Weiyang Palace. For those who didn't know, he thought that her charm could confuse the Lord and make Huan Xi happy and careless about politics.
"As the saying goes, if a husband is lazy, he will not be imitated by others.
"No matter if something happens or not, my husband will still have to stay in the military residence while he is on duty. How can he be nostalgic for tenderness."
Xie Daoyun advised.
Seeing Huan Xi's face darken, she thought she had made him angry, so she hurriedly said:
"This is just my wife's opinion. I hope your husband will calm down."
However, Huan Xi was not angry. He sighed:
"If Ling Jiang hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have known that I almost made a big mistake.
“The world is in chaos today, and it’s time to make progress, so how can we be satisfied with this?
"If I lose my spirit, how can I help the world?"
Xie Daoyun was greatly relieved when he heard this. This is what the husband she likes should look like. A man's ambitions are everywhere, and he should not be immersed in the pleasure of the boudoir with her.
Before Huan Xi left, he smiled and said:
"If there are any shortcomings in the future, I hope that Madam will give you some pointers."
Xie Daoyun said seriously:
"It is a wife's duty to care for her husband and raise her children, and I am just fulfilling my own responsibility."
When Huan Xi heard this, he felt deeply that he had not married the wrong wife. With such a good wife, the few years of waiting would be worth it.
He left Jiaofang Hall and went straight to General Zhengdong's Mansion.
The military mansion was a busy scene. Different from the slackness that Xie Daoyun said, almost everyone was full of energy.
The reason is that Huan Xi occupied Weiyang Palace as the Jingzhao Palace, which sent a strong signal to them that the Huan family was determined to usurp the country.
Logically speaking, after Wang Mang, Cao Pi, and Sima Yan, it should have become the norm for powerful officials to usurp the country.
However, two families, the Langya Wang family and the Yingchuan Yu family, appeared in the middle.
Before the rise of the Huan family and his son, the Wang and Yu families had successively held power. The Wang family once had a king and a horse, sharing the world. However, after the death of the main characters, they all handed over power.
Those who followed the Wang family of Langya and the Yu family of Yingchuan enjoyed great success when the two families were in power. However, when the Wang and Yu families declined, if they could not embrace the new entourage, they would surely follow them. decline.
Now that Huan Xi is living in Weiyang Palace, and Huan Wen often laments to others that if he cannot be famous forever, he will be infamy for thousands of years, they are all showing his attitude to his generals and giving them reassurance:
The Huan family is not the Wang family of Langya or the Yu family of Yingchuan, and would not be stupid enough to become a loyal minister of the Jin Dynasty.
Those who followed Huan Xi in starting a business were certainly not satisfied with the wealth of one or two generations.
Internal unity is far more important than external public opinion.
Without a common goal, how can we unite people's hearts?
Recovering the Central Plains and helping the world was politically correct, but establishing a country and proclaiming himself emperor in the future was in the common interests of everyone under Huan Xi.
If Huan Wen were not still alive, Huan Xi's group of generals might have persuaded him to imitate Liu Bei's story of calling himself the King of Hanzhong, add a royal title to himself in Chang'an, and make the three states of Yong, Qin, and Liang his kingdoms.
After all, the father cannot be the Duke of Linhe County and the son should already be the king.
Huan Xi came to the military mansion and saw the busy scene of everyone. He was sincerely relieved. In fact, there was really nothing for him to ask about in the general's mansion.
The so-called Holy Emperor ruled from the top, and with the help of wise men like Wang Meng and his own effective power operation mechanism, Huan Xi did not need to worry too much, so that the place could be effectively governed.
For Huan Xi, he only needed to secure military power and handle the relationship with his confidants such as Wang Meng, Quan Yi, Zhao Ju, Deng Xia, Deng Qiang, Shen Jin, Huan Yi, and Zhu Xu.
Of course, the premise of all this is based on having a genius like Wang Meng who can be entrusted with important tasks with confidence.
However, Wang Meng took the initiative to rectify the officialdom and went into confrontation with the Guanlong scholars, which did not mean to reassure Huan Xi.
After all, he holds such a heavy power and can maintain good relations with people from all walks of life. Even Huan Xi may not be able to sleep well.
This is the same as when Wang Jian led an army to attack Chu and focused on asking for land and houses before the war.
Sometimes, you have to do something to make people completely relieved and fully support you. This is also a science.
Instead of saying to the leader, I have been in Pingliao for five years, if anything happens, you have to trust me, and then backhandedly kill Mao Wenlong. This will only arouse suspicion among the emperor and his ministers. Of course, Chongzhen is not responsible, and Governor Yuan is equally responsible. consider.
Huan Xi sat in the military mansion for a whole day. Just as he was about to return to the Jingzhao Palace, an urgent report came from the border. It turned out that an envoy from the Tiefu Xiongnu appeared at the border, requesting entry to Chang'an to pay a visit.
The Tiefu Xiongnu are an ethnic group that is the result of the union of Xiongnu men and Xianbei women, so there is a saying that Xiongnu father and Xianbei mother.
On the contrary, the Tuoba Xianbei who established the Dai Kingdom were the result of the union of Xianbei men and Xiongnu women.
The Tiefu Xiongnu occupied Shuofang and Hetao grasslands and surrendered to Dai. They were Huanxi's northern neighbor. Now they suddenly sent an envoy to visit, which immediately attracted Huanxi's attention.
While he sent someone to notify the border to let them go, he summoned Wang Meng and Quan Yi to discuss the matter with them.
"Sir, Ziliang, I have never had any contact with Liu Wuhuan. This time the Huns envoy came. I don't know why?"
Liu Wuhuan is the current leader of the Tiefu Xiongnu.
Wang Meng was silent.
Quan Yi guessed:
"Could it be that the Tiefu Xiongnu had a quarrel with Tuoba Xianbei, and now he wants to change his family and accept the canonization of the Jin Dynasty?"
Wang Meng shook his head when he heard this:
"The Tiefu Xiongnu were weak and attached to Dai State, so they could occupy the Hetao. However, Dai people had no intention of taking their land, so how could the Tiefu tribe have the intention to change their family."
In the early years, the Tiefu Xiongnu also competed with Dai Guo for the hegemony of Monan, but Liu Wuhuan's father Liu Hu was defeated repeatedly. In the last battle ten years ago, he only escaped with his life. Soon after, he died of worry and anger.
After Liu Wuhuan succeeded to the throne, he sued for peace with Tuoba Shiyijian and married Tuoba Shiyijian's daughter. This stabilized the situation and prevented it from falling apart.
However, the Tiefu Xiongnu have not yet recovered their strength, and although the Dai Kingdom does not have the military scale of one million soldiers with armor and string control as advocated in the "Book of Wei", considering the nature of men on the grassland, all men are soldiers, with more than 100,000 soldiers After all, there is.
The reason why they did not go south to fight for the Central Plains was that the chiefs only wanted to preserve their strength and did not want to get involved in disputes.
Huan Xi nodded slightly. He did not think that Liu Wuhuan sent the envoy to abandon Dai and defect to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
While thinking, Wang Meng muttered:
"Perhaps Tiefu came here specifically to find out what is true on our side."
Compared with Tiefu Xiongnu changing his court, it is obvious that the possibility of being ordered to come to find out the truth is higher.
Since ancient times, there has been no lack of disasters on the grasslands, and the way for nomadic people to make up for their losses is simple: looting.
Either take action against the surrounding tribes, or enter the pass to plunder the Han people.
Presumably Liu Wuhuan also wanted to find out Huan Xi's strength before deciding his attitude towards his neighbors to the south.
Huan Xi smiled and said:
"It seems that we need to show the strength of our army in front of the Tiefu envoy in order to deter our northern neighbors."
In fact, Huan Xi's military strength is not weak. He not only has a main battle force of 25,000 people, but also a large number of state and county soldiers in various places that can be recruited at any time, which is enough to deter the Tiefu Xiongnu.
The three people decided to hold a military parade when the Tiefu Xiongnu's envoy arrived, which could not only deter the Tiefu Xiongnu from taking rash actions, but also appease the people of the country.
In fact, it is not that Huan Xi has never thought about expanding the scale of his military force, but today's Guanzhong still has to focus on developing production.
As a time traveler, Huan Xi certainly understands that technology is the primary productive force. The emergence of every new agricultural tool that helps liberate labor can often trigger agricultural innovations.
After discussing the issue of the Xiongnu envoys, Huan Xi stayed with Wang Meng and told him his plan.
