Three Kingdoms

Jin.

Taiyuan.

Tongye became his younger brother.

When mentioning Shanxi, a few words like this pop out.

Maybe there are also Shanxi merchants.

But looking at the entire history, it seems that the Shanxi region has been trying hard to move closer to the central government, but it has always been outside the mainstream circle of China.

Somewhat strange, but also inevitable.

Due to the geographical environment of Shanxi, after the Little Glacier ice seal line moved south, the mountains and rivers originally located in Shanxi must have degraded like the ancient city of Loulan due to climate reasons. In addition, in order to obtain more food and grass, Large-scale deforestation for farming eventually led to land erosion in Shanxi.

Although the Shangdang area in Taiyuan is not as miserable as Bingbei, it is also bordered by Hu land, so it has the style of Hu land, likes martial arts, and there are not as many inheritors of Confucian classics as there are in Shandong gentry. It is precisely because of this. In many cases, they were considered by the Shandong gentry to be a group of country bumpkins.

This situation is also a helpless one. The harsh living environment naturally led to more people having to spend most of their energy on survival, and they had little intention to read scriptures or think about things above the court. Therefore, in order to balance, most of the government officials in later generations Students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have a low admission rate. It is not without historical reasons that Shandong produces prime ministers and Shanxi produces generals.

Although the concept of aristocratic families in the Han Dynasty has been somewhat decentralized, there are still not many aristocratic families in Shanxi today...

Taiyuan Wang family?

The Wang family must at least continue to be a high-ranking official of two thousand dan in this generation, otherwise it will be equal to decline.

Originally, according to the records of the Book of Rites and Tai Shigong, a family must be a king, a prince, etc., and can build an ancestral temple to be considered a family. However, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political system changed and power flowed, and relatives, nobles, powerful men, civil servants and even eunuchs were in charge. Central and local power, up to now, the standard of aristocratic families has been reduced to the point where the descendants have to work for more than 2,000 dan to be considered a family. In other words, there are families where the father has 2,000 dan and the son also has 2,000 dan. As long as they can still pass it on, they can It can be generally called a family.

Just like at the beginning, it was like provincial, ministerial, and national excellence, and a special sign was hung on it, which seemed to be high-end. Later, everyone swarmed for this and that prize, and it became worthless, and even the sign was embarrassed to hang up.

Therefore, Wang Ling was waiting twenty miles outside Taiyuan City with the Wen family and other local nobles. Although Sima Fang was not from Taiyuan, he happened to be meeting and waited with him.

Everyone gathered together. Although they were talking about something and smiling, no one was interested in talking. The so-called smiles were also a little stiff, but they were just a noble demeanor that they could barely maintain...

chilly.

There is just a pavilion here, and the wind is blowing all around. How can it not be cold after standing in the wild for most of the day? How can I have any thoughts to chat happily?

"I'm coming!"

Those with sharp eyes stood on tiptoes and saw the cavalrymen running from a distance to report the news.

"General Zhengxi's vanguard brigade is already ten miles away from here!"

Everyone couldn't help but let out a roar, and the formation suddenly became somewhat scattered.

Isn't it a land of ten miles? Even though it's just the beginning of spring, the wild wind is still cold, but none of these nobles are willing to hide among the carriages and horses behind them to keep warm and avoid the cold. Even if they stomp their feet and fold their hands, they still have to endure it. The positions that were finally arranged according to the size of each family could not be easily given to others.

"It's coming! It's really coming!"

At the far end of the sight, a three-color war flag jumped out high, fluttering in the wind among many flags, followed by the red cherry blossoms on the knight's head, followed by the dark iron armor and blood-red cloak, and when a column When the soldiers marched in like mountains, these people who had been waiting for a long time couldn't help but take a long breath...

"True Tiger Ben also..."

As if the enthusiasm that had been suppressed for a long time finally found a breakthrough, everyone seemed to unanimously begin to praise Fei Qian's troops, and then moved forward involuntarily.

A general in the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army, with a helmet on his head and an extraordinary bearing, he stood out from the crowd.

"Could this be General Zhengxi? He is truly brave and brave!"

"See General Zhengxi!"

Some people in the rear who had never seen Fei Qian didn't know what was going on. Seeing Lu Bu's strong figure and full of killing spirit, they couldn't help but think that he was General Zhengxi, and they started to shout loudly to pay their respects...

Sima Fang didn't know General Fei Qian of Zhengxi, but he stroked his beard and glanced at Wang Ling, who was still standing motionless. He understood and was unmoved.

Lu Bu was a little embarrassed.

I originally thought that just because of his reputation in Wuyuan Daijun, even if he came to Taiyuan, which is separated by a mountain, some people would know him or remember him, but I didn't expect that when he stood out from the crowd, , these people actually thought he was General Zhengxi, and started shouting randomly...

Are these guys blind?

Didn't you see Lu Zijingqi behind me?

How to do this, just pretend that you didn't hear it and move on?

Or should I shout loudly that I am Lu Bu and not Fei Qian, so you blind people can see clearly?

Fortunately, Wang Ling took a few steps slowly, held his hands towards Lu Bu, and said loudly, "See Marquis Wen."

"Marquis Wen? This person is not Zhengxi?"

"That is to say, I heard that Zheng Xi is a literary and Confucian general, how can he be like this..."

"..." Lu Bu had good ears and eyes. Although the crowd was noisy, he still heard a few words. His eyes twitched involuntarily. He nodded to Wang Ling and said, "General Zhengxi will be here soon!" No longer interested in talking to these people, he turned his horse's head and walked back.

Wang Ling was stunned for a moment, and then took a step back without changing his expression.

Sima Fang chuckled twice.

"It's coming! It's really coming this time!"

The banner of the Commander-in-Chief of the Three Armed Forces finally appeared on the horizon. Beside the banner, there was a red flame pattern on a black background, with a large "Fei" character on it, jumping in the wind.

Then there were hundreds of cavalry, all of them strong men, neatly dressed, all wearing black armor painted with black paint, with black faces and red lining capes floating behind them, and their crotches were between the horse's neck and chest. There was a circle of black leather armor surrounding it, like a black wave, rolling in!

Those black-faced red cloaks floating in the air are like the bloody waves surging out of the billowing black tide!

The scene was completely silent, and the original noise seemed to be suppressed back into the throat.

Lu Bu's fingers holding the riding whip turned white, but he didn't say a word. Gao Shun, Wei Xu and others who followed him also held their breath and just looked at the scene in front of them. They also led the army and were considered princes, but facing the real strength of General Zhengxi, they were still in heaven and earth!

This is also the reason why Lu Bu is unwilling to go with Fei Qian and would rather be a forward.

Wealth is compelling!

If you pull out any one of the cavalry of General Zhengxi, you can buy three or five ordinary cavalry with this outfit, which can be equivalent to twenty ordinary infantry. If it is like some temporary recruits who only have spear heads Counting the militiamen, it can be worth at least fifty people...

If the ordinary cavalry brought by Lu Bu are mini-cars like Tutuo, then Fei Qian's cavalry can be said to be composed of a group of large cavalry. Compared with this, even if they don't understand the car prices at all, , you can also intuitively feel which one is stronger and which one is better.

When ordinary people see rich people, do they hate them more, or do they kneel down and lick them? Or do you look like someone who would rather die than surrender and hate the rich, and then secretly cry and demand to be the leg pendant of the rich?

Lu Bu didn't know, he just knew that he was dwarfed by him, and his mood was very complicated. It was so complicated that Lu Bu couldn't hear clearly what Chen Gong said when he stepped forward.

Wang Ling took a step forward and paid homage: "My subordinate Wang Ling, I pay my respects to General Zhengxi!"

Then everyone also bent down and made a bow to the sky.

Etiquette in the Han Dynasty can be divided into bowing to heaven, bowing to time, and bowing to earth. There are also long bows, traveling bows, special bows, side three bows, etc., which are used in different occasions and by different groups of people.

Although there are many etiquettes, there is one thing: kneeling down and worshiping is not recommended. Even if you meet the emperor, you can only kneel down during the court meeting, and bow to him the rest of the time.

Fei Qian got off his horse, helped Wang Ling up, then looked around with a smile and said loudly: "You are all excused!"

"My subordinates are leading the folks from Taiyuan to greet the general. I'm going to prepare a little wine. I hope General Zhengxi will accept it..." Wang Ling introduced some of the prominent figures in the surrounding area to Fei Qian, and then without saying much, he gave some guidance. After a moment, he signaled that a banquet would be prepared in the pavilion.

Of course, this banquet is not meant to allow General Fei Qian to eat and drink here as much as he wants. It is just a courtesy. Fei Qian sits in the pavilion and accepts toasts from everyone. Under normal circumstances, he does not even know the dishes on the table. After taking a bite, the real banquet will not be considered official until it arrives in Taiyuan City.

Fei Qian did not hesitate to refuse, nodded, and said loudly: "So, I am ashamed to accept it!"

But when he arrived at the pavilion, Fei Qian took a look and couldn't help but be slightly startled.

Although the banquet in the pavilion was also exquisite, it was not necessarily that stunning. What Fei Qian didn't expect was that there were bar stools placed above the seats in the pavilion...

If you look closely, the height of the desk is also higher than normal.

Fei Qian glanced at Wang Ling, only to see Wang Ling lowering his head and following him humbly with his hands raised, and his expression was normal.

"Yan Yun, is this your place?" Fei Qian pointed to the Hu stool and said.

"General, this is the wish of the elders of Taiyuan Township... I know that the general is wearing armor and it is inconvenient to sit at the table, so I specially set it up here..." Wang Ling said calmly, as if he was really dedicated to his career. Just like what I thought.

hehe……

Believe it or not.

After Fei Qian first arrived in Pingyang, he was planning to implement high stools and high tables, but later he dropped the idea. Was it because Fei Qian himself or others didn't know how comfortable sitting on high stools and high tables was?

Just roll out a high stool casually, and then everyone in the world will be in an uproar and happily accept it?

hehe.

When in history did barstools appear in large numbers and even become mainstream?

It started in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and became popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a term called the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms.

As for the Sui and Tang Dynasties...

Dirty Tang and Turtle Tang are not just called casually.

There is a saying, "If you are not in your position, you will not seek political power," and this sentence will be more obvious in the Han Dynasty. Whether you sit on a mat or a stool under your buttocks represents a certain political tendency!

There is no historical development to pave the way. Just push the stool at will and expect people from all over the world to flock in, waving gold and silver and rushing to buy it?

Who are you kidding?

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the contradictions within the ruling class were very great. Party members and eunuchs thought that the contradictions between the aristocratic families and the royal family were relatively large.

Before Dong Zhuo came to Beijing and was torn off the fig leaf of the Han Dynasty, two things happened...

The first one: In the first year of Zhongping, the chariot and cavalry general Huangfu Song broke through the Yellow Turban and shocked the world. Yan Zhong then dismissed the capital order and said to Song: "What is rare but easy to lose, when the time comes and does not turn around, is opportunity. Therefore, the sage always moves according to the time, and the wise will act according to the opportunity. Today, the general has encountered a rare luck. If you take the opportunity that is easy to solve, but don't take care of it, and don't take advantage of the opportunity, how can you enjoy a great reputation?" If Song doesn't follow, his loyalty will perish.

The second incident: In the fourth year of Zhongping Dynasty, Chen Yi, the son of the late Taifu Chen Fan, and the famous magician Xiang Kai from Qingzhou Plain came to the house of Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou. , Wang Fen then conspired with Xu You from Nanyang, Zhou Jing from Pei State and others to connect with local heroes in Jizhou, intending to depose Emperor Ling and establish the Marquis of Hefei as emperor. They even roped in Cao Cao to rebel, but Cao Cao refused.

These two things showed that in the eyes of party members and even some scholar-bureaucrats, the Han Dynasty was no longer as sacred as stated in the classics. They began to ignore the Han Dynasty for the benefit of their own group. .

At least he no longer takes Han Ling Emperor into consideration.

Of course, Emperor Han Ling was not an excellent emperor, and he did many stupid things, but Emperor Han Ling was at least the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Why did so many people ignore him in just four or five years? Before the Western Qiang is pacified and the Yellow Turban is cleansed, why should we incite and even rebel in person?

Most people may have the impression of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty that he amassed money and sold his official posts. However, many people do not know that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was fond of Hu clothes, Hu tents, Hu beds, Hu seats, Hu rice, Hu Konghou, and Hu flutes. , Hu dance attracted all the nobles in Kyoto to compete for it...

So this also became a reason to rebel.

Sitting on the banquet, even if the banquet is not upright, is an etiquette code passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. So why did the emperor of the Han Dynasty behave in this way?

Is it easy to sit in the emperor's position?

How can a person who has been in the position of emperor for twenty years, who can take advantage of party supervision and eunuch politics, and even set up the Hongdu Academy in an attempt to continuously suppress the increasingly large party group, be a stupid person?

When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty came to power, there were many barbarian rebellions in the surrounding areas. Although they were put down one by one by Lu Zhi, Zang Min, Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song and others, as an emperor of the Han Dynasty, it was because of the rebellion of the barbarian Hu people that he fell in love with the Hu people. Human utensils?

In fact, a simple analysis shows that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty did not trust the party members, so even the generals sent out to quell the surrounding rebellions were either from the northwest frontier, or from counties like Guangling and Kuaiji that were on the fringes of the gentry in Shandong. Characters would never let a behemoth like the Yuan family control military power...

Therefore, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty used Hu things not because he really liked these things, but to express an attitude.

And now, as Taiyuan, which has been bordering the Hu region for a long time, setting up these Hu stools is actually to test the attitude of General Fei Qian of the Expedition to the West...

To sit or not to sit?