Three Kingdoms

When there are no problems, it seems that the world is peaceful, but once a problem arises, countless problems seem to follow one after another, and the ground is stepped on. (Due to caching reasons, please visit the COM website directly with your browser to watch the fastest chapter updates)

Before Li Dian could figure out any strategy for the attack on the merchant, someone arrived in Nanzheng, delivered a famous assassin, and asked to see Li Dian.

This person is Wang Kai.

He was going to be a lobbyist.

Part-time lobbyist.

Wang Kai'er's true occupation is to eat, drink and have fun.

Wang Kai previously worked with Guan Ning and Lu Yu in Chang'an for a period of time, but he did not get a good position. Because he has money but no talent. He only has money but not enough ability.

But the problem is that Wang Kai himself doesn't think there is anything wrong with him.

He feels that he is very smart and everyone else is a fool.

If it were in Shandong, people like Wang Kai would be like a duck in water, because although he is not capable enough, as long as he has the reputation, he can do the same. As long as you have a little judgment ability, you can exchange money for other people's brains and let those from poor families act as his disciples.

If someone else has a good poem or poem, give it some money and it will be his.

If someone else has a good idea and gives some money, it will also be his.

Then some people came to invite him because of his reputation, and some people came to apply for him because of his reputation. Anyway, as long as his reputation is established, everything will be easy to talk about.

What do Chinese people like most? Ranking! As long as you spend money to get ranked, even if there is something wrong, most people don't dare to say anything. After all, seeing that the ranking is so high, how can you say it? Something doesn't look right to me. Maybe it's my problem. Otherwise, how could I be ranked so high?

But here in Chang'an, Wang Kai's Jinyuan offensive is not feasible.

Why are there people selling them in Shandong? It's because those poor families know they can't make it, so they might as well just sell them for a few bucks.

The general environment is such that an individual is often unable to fight, but Chang'an is different.

Chang'an can be said to be a paradise for poor families. As long as an individual has the ability, he can climb up!

In this case, will anyone easily sell their own wisdom at a low price?

As a result, Wang Kai couldn't play anymore.

Guan Ning took office, and Lu Yu became a minor official and left him, but he still couldn't squeeze into Fei Qian's political circle.

Because he only has money and his brain is not bad, but his abilities are mainly used in eating, drinking and having fun, what about other aspects...

Guan Ning persuaded him to read more books. Lu Yu said that the academy was recruiting auditors, but Wang Kai could no longer study. He had passed the golden age of studying and was distracted. He felt sleepy as soon as he picked up a book. He was hit in the face by books several times. If most of the books in Chang'an had not been converted into paper versions, it is impossible to say that Wang Kai would have been disfigured by now.

Moreover, what bothers Wang Kai most is when others tell him what to do. Doesn’t he understand these principles?

Really annoying.

Super irritable.

It was really uncomfortable to see my "good friends" coming ashore one by one while I was struggling in the sea of ​​misery.

Wang Kai is Wang Can's clan brother. When he left Jingzhou for Chang'an, whether it was Guan Ning, Lu Yu or others who asked him why he left Jingzhou for Chang'an, Wang Kai always expressed a He looked indescribably sad, and then choked up and fell silent, so others naturally stopped asking.

After all, you still have to be polite, and you are not being tortured and interrogated...

But if there is a real interrogation, Wang Kai will not be able to hide it.

Wang Kai originally thought that his task would be easy. With Wang Can's name, he could easily sneak into Fei Qian's political circle, but he didn't expect that even if he was famous and rich, he still couldn't get in!

Chang'an only recognizes the imperial examination, why is it so stubborn?

Don’t you know how to be flexible?

When he was helpless, people from Shandong brought him a new batch of money expenses, but also warned him that if he could not do anything anymore, he would either go back to Shandong or cut off the supply of money.

How can this be accomplished?

Without money, it would be equivalent to killing him!

However, both Guan Ning and Lu Yu went to Longxi, and Wang Kai could not find anyone else to inquire about the news. In addition, the Chang'an Youwen Division was also well-known, and he wanted to test them, but no one came. Ability, secondly lack of courage...

So Wang Kai searched for various "secret tips" that could be effective in the short term in Qinglong Temple, and he really spent money to find a lot of them, such as "Secret Biography of Lobbyists", "Essentials of the Analects of Confucius", "Military Students" "Twelve Questions for Officials" and so on are all written by some people in Qinglong Temple during this period of time after smelling business opportunities and rushing to work on them. They are said to be "good books" that can save time and effort and improve personal abilities.

Isn’t this everyone’s dream just to enjoy life without working hard?

Wang Kai thought so too.

Later, when he heard that Li Dian had arrived in Hanzhong, Wang Kai felt that an opportunity had come, so he rushed from Chang'an to Nanzheng and handed over a famous assassin to see him.

Wang Kai strode forward, high-spirited, touching the "Secret Biography of Lobbyists" in his arms, feeling that he had a complete book in his mind.

He is going to be a great lobbyist today!

When preaching to others, Wang Kai felt that he was good at it.

Before coming, Wang Kai prepared several rhetoric according to what was written in the book.

But the most certain thing, Wang Kai feels, we should start with the word "authority".

Does Li Dian like authority?

Must like it!

Wang Kai thinks, how can a man, a real man, be without power for a day?

Right, Sun Sanpang?

Some people think that power is a very strange thing, or very mysterious, because as long as you hold such power in your hands, you can start a bloody storm at any time, but similarly, once the power fails, then the original ability to stir up trouble will immediately change. Become a naked clown.

The word authority can be seen but cannot be touched.

It is said to be tangible. There are official seals, official robes, honor guards, whips, hinges, handcuffs, swords, guns, clubs, etc., which are all manifestations in a certain form, but it is also intangible, because no matter what represents authority, Utensils, the first people who come into contact with these items are not the officials, but the working people and poor craftsmen.

Wang Kai only saw the appearance and felt that he understood.

Isn't this super simple?

But he didn't go deep enough and didn't know why the same thing had different effects in different places? It was just an object in the hands of the craftsman, but it represented authority in the hands of the emperor?

Some people come forward with mystery and deception. That is because God has given them authority!

In the feudal dynasty, most of the rights of local officials belonged to the emperor, who were granted by the central court or the organization. Therefore, they would naturally respect the upper levels of the organization and obey the emperor. However, when the emperor was weak, local officials Will he immediately become arrogant and arrogant, thinking that he might not be the next emperor?

At least when the upper-level organization cannot directly manage him, he will expand his authority infinitely, and then use all his abilities to absorb more benefits.

But in fact, power is something that is exchanged for brains.

To put it simply, it is like paying a protection fee. The people at the lower level hand over part of their brains and let the people at the upper level think for them. It is a deformed thing.

Of course, I don't mean to actually pry open the head and take out a handful of brains to give to others, but it means this.

Originally this was just basic human division of labor and cooperation, but when people with superficial power discovered that they could use the power in their hands to obtain more benefits and command more other people, greed became synonymous with the powerful. .

From witches in ancient times to officials in later generations.

In the same vein.

Wang Kai naturally doesn't know this. He just does things according to his own understanding. The key is that he still feels that other people's principles are preaching, and he becomes irritated after hearing them.

If you don't listen or read, you can conquer the world even if you only know half of the Analects...

This is a misplaced thinking, but Wang Kai feels that he is right.

This misplaced thinking mode does not only exist in officialdom, but also in many places. For example, capitalists misunderstand that all employees’ bodies belong to them and must be controlled by them, and then employees watch them during lunch time. Cell phones are a sin...

Wang Kai himself didn't realize there was any problem, just like the officials of the Big Bear Country, they didn't feel they had done anything wrong. Wang Kai longs for power so much, as if he longs for the day when some god will perform a great power on him, and then he will have some extraordinary ability and peerless talent.

Anyway, for Wang Kai, it is impossible to make efforts. He will never make efforts in this life and can only survive by cheating. The trick he used before was the money ability, but now the ability value of this thing is insufficient. He must find new merits to recharge.

He came to Hanzhong.

Wang Kai himself likes authority, because with authority, he can make others listen to his teachings. Therefore, he believes that the word authority must be something that Li Dian cannot refuse. He hated those who lectured him most, those who told him what to do, but he also hated those who did not let him lecture, those who did not listen to his good advice.

To put it simply, it’s okay for him to say something to others. That’s good advice. Why do others have no reason not to listen? Others say he can't do it. Is it interesting to preach every day? Can I not understand this?

Wang Kai found Li Dian and was ready to have a good talk.

Wang Kai felt that he had seized a good opportunity...

Compared with other places, Hanzhong is not big, but it is not small either. The important thing is Hanzhong, Li Dian has the final say!

This means that Li Dian enjoyed the taste of "power" for the first time!

If Li Dian loses this delicious power at this time, will he be willing to let it go?

So isn’t the strategy just coming out?

Hanzhong is far away from Chang'an and separated from the Qinling Mountains!

At that time there was Zhang Lu, then there was Zhang Ze, and then Zhang Liao was transferred! what does that mean? It shows that Qiusi must be worried about Zhang Liao being in Hanzhong!

Under such circumstances, Li Dian took over from Zhang Liao. Will Qiaoqi feel relieved because of this?

Obviously impossible!

What happened in the Western Regions is a lesson for others!

Wang Kai felt as if he had grasped Li Dian's vitals and squeezed his balls.

After General Hussar leaves Chang'an, there is no doubt that Chang'an will be a huge dangerous whirlpool.

Can Hanzhong be able to escape?

Under such circumstances, anyone with a little common sense would understand that if Fei Qian fails to handle matters in the Western Regions, then the figures who are so prominent today may immediately fall into the mortal world tomorrow...

In fact, falling into the mortal world and leaving the family in the cold is considered the best ending. For Wang Kai, who has witnessed the political struggles in Luoyang and Jingzhou with his own eyes, countless heads and bloodshed are often the final outcome for these losers.

So who loses and who wins is very important.

Wang Kai felt that he had to be on the side that would always win. He felt that no matter what, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty would never lose, and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty would always be the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty is Liu Xie now. He may not be Liu Xie in the future, but he will still be the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Whether it's Cao Cao, Fei Qian, Dong Zhuo, He Jin, or Huo Guang, Wang Mang who went on...

Isn’t the Emperor of Han still the Emperor of Han?

Authority is still the same authority.

As long as this kind of authority still exists, then the green mountains will definitely still be able to turn red in the sunset.

Over the hundreds of years of the Han Dynasty, there have been successful kings and defeated bandits, and there are mountains of examples from both sides.

Therefore, Wang Kai feels that he is definitely stable. At this moment, he claimed to represent the imperial party, the Central Court, and the glorious Han Dynasty for three to four hundred years!

So when Wang Kai faced Li Dian, under one point of friendliness, he had another six points of pride, plus another three points of hidden contempt.

Yes, Wang Kai looked down on Li Dian and thought Li Dian was just a defeated general...

Therefore, Wang Kai was somewhat rude.

"General Li," Wang Kai said in a deep voice, almost straight to the point, "Nowadays, the Han Dynasty is in chaos in all directions, but only loyalty to Your Majesty is the right path!" Son of Heaven, given by Heaven! I wonder if the general thinks so? 』

Li Dian was stunned for a moment. The reason why he met Wang Kai was that on the one hand Wang Kai said that he was a brother of the Wang Can clan, and he was somewhat named after Wang Can. On the other hand, Wang Kai was from Shanyang, and Li Dian also wanted to know something about his hometown. news, but he never expected that Wang Kai would throw out such a sentence after just sitting down and chatting for a few words.

Wang Kai looked at Li Dian's face, and then shook his head more and more. He felt that he was quite successful in cultivating at Qinglong Temple. Look, just such a sentence can scare Li Dian to restlessness.

The secret of lobbying, the first formula.

"Confused".

Well, to put it bluntly, it’s just to scare people.

It is said that General Fei Qian of the Hussars also played this trick in Jingzhou back then, before he met him at that time. Wang Kai felt that if he had left the mountain a few years earlier, huh...

"General!" Wang Kai continued, "Why are the Hussars marching westward?" The Western Region is unfair. Why is the injustice in the Western Regions so great? The government of Hussar is inappropriate. 』

Li Dian laughed and said, "Oh?" What's wrong? 』

Wang Kai suddenly became energetic and said, "First, it is inappropriate to recruit talents." Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, so naturally we cannot blame them for everything. Nowadays, the imperial examination is limited to the imperial examination, and rigid questions are used to determine all the situations in the world. Isn't it wrong? 』

This kind of speech was not exclusively pioneered by Wang Kai. It even lasted for a long time and is still popular in later generations.

It sounds reasonable, just like some people think that "being versatile in both civil and military arts" is an impossible thing. They think it is embarrassing. They have to practice martial arts and study literature at the same time. They feel that the two are irreconcilable, but in fact it is really That's it?

But some people deliberately forget, when did the so-called "contradiction" between studying martial arts and studying literature begin?

Anyone who talks about absolute concepts without being separated from the specific situation has bad intentions.

To be an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, what is “talent” first?

It is not easy to master any subject to the top, and no one can say that they can reach the top in multiple subjects with ease. Although there are many geniuses, most people are ordinary. people. Therefore, the standard of "all-around civil and military talents" for ordinary people is naturally not measured by the peak.

The imperial examination system is definitely not something that so-called etiquette, laws and customs can stop, but etiquette, laws and customs must adapt to and accept it.

Although the imperial examination system has gone through many ups and downs in history, it still became the basic standard for measuring a person's ability. It eventually evolved into the examination system of later generations, which can prove what the standard requirements of human society for basic talents are.

The imperial examination always tests the basics, that is, the shortest board, which cannot be lower than the lower limit.

Wang Kai's words replace universality with extremes.

Li Dian was noncommittal, neither right nor wrong.

Wang Kai shook his head triumphantly.

"If you have any other suggestions, let's talk about it together..." Li Dian continued to ask. He really wanted to hear what this fellow countryman had to say.

"Of course there are. Secondly, the hussar is not using the right people. ” Wang Kai shook his head, very proud, “The current chaos in the Western Region is proof! If it weren't for the wrong use of Qiusi, how could there be worries in the Western Regions? not to mention……"

Wang Kai glanced at Li Dian with a hint of contempt, "General, aren't you still enlightened now?" 』

"Understand what?" Li Dian pretended to be stupid and asked.

"Lu Feng must die first!" Wang Kai said categorically, "Lu Fengxian's death was caused by Qiusi!" The hussar knew that he was brave but unintelligent, but he was not worthy of being assisted by his advisers, just to let Lu Feng die first! Only in this way can we seize the Western Region! Photograph the results! Poor Lu Fengxian worked so hard but made wedding clothes for others! 』

"So, General, haven't you realized what happened now?" ! Wang Kai said with raised eyebrows.

"What is enlightenment again?" 』Li Dian continued to pretend to be Hutu.

Wang Kai shouted loudly, "The next Lu Fengxian is you, general!" 』

"..." Li Dian didn't know what to say for a moment.

Wang Kai thought that Li Dian was shocked by his theory, so he became more and more proud, shaking his head and saying: "The horse is built on duckweed, and its foundation is unstable, so at first it was mostly used by foreign surnames, but now it is gradually becoming more and more popular. My surname has changed from a help to a hindrance! Now the Western Region is just the beginning! 』

Li Dian waved his hand and said, "How is that possible?" The hussar is unparalleled in benevolence and magnanimity, how could he do such a thing? 』

Wang Kai just smiled and neither refuted immediately nor continued to say anything. This is the second trick of the lobbyist secret he learned at Qinglong Temple, "leave blank".

Wang Kai felt that if the Hussars were not prepared for Lu Bu, why would they be able to send troops just by saying they wanted to? If Zhang Liao was not on guard, then why should Zhang Liao be transferred? If there was no doubt about Li Dian, why not let Li Dian serve as the third assistant in Chang'an?

So the answer is very simple?

Wang Kai felt that Li Dian must have worries in this regard, and he only needed to expand this worry and form a rift. It would be best if Li Dian could do something, and then he would be able to complete the Shandong side. If you give me the task, you can go back and get the reward!

"General!" This Lu Fengxian is a surrendered general! ” Wang Kai said in a deep voice.

Li Dian's expression finally changed uncontrollably, "Do you know what you are talking about?" ! 』

Wang Kai was very proud, feeling that he had finally hit Li Dian's "vital point", so he shook his head and said: "There are so many fools in the world!" But it’s hard to look back after all! Actually, general, this food from a foreign country may not be as good as you like! 』