Three Kingdoms

Taiyuan Jinyang fell like this?

Cui Jun stared.

Even the whole person is not well because of it.

Before the fall, everyone thought that Jinyang was impregnable.

There are city walls, city defenses, soldiers, civilians, military equipment, food and wages, everything is available.

Yes, how come a city that is fully prepared looks like there are sieves everywhere?

How could it be that after so many years of operation, it was suddenly broken?

This is impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Cui Jun refused to believe it and even felt angry!

How long has it been since then to make such a joke?

This huge stimulation made Cui Jun feel like his head was buzzing, his heart was so confused, he couldn't calm down at all, and he couldn't accept it at all.

Is Jinyang the only city that has been easily conquered in history?

It's like Yangzhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, like Nanjing under the Japanese invaders.

The preparations are not inadequate, and the preparations for war are not short-term. Even the people around are thinking about how they will resolutely confront the enemy under the city wall. There are even many people who are thinking about how to fight and how to defend against the enemy. , and can also make more than a dozen combat plans.

How could it fall so easily?

Yangzhou fell, was it Shi Jiangzhi?

Nanjing fell, did Tang lose his mind and go crazy?

neither.

Even because they are "smart" enough and do a "good" job.

Similarly, the fall of Jinyang is also inseparable from Cui Jun's "smartness".

If Cui Jun is really stupid, really wise, but he doesn't want to be so frivolous, and he doesn't want to be harmonious, and he doesn't want to play political tricks, but just knows how to do things honestly, then Jinyang will naturally have nothing to do. worry.

But Cui Jun is not a stupid person, he has not been reduced to intelligence, and even all his intelligence has been brought out before!

Authority, measure.

Profit, greed.

Compromise, politics…

This is people!

This is what people are superior to, smart people!

After Cui Jun moved from Xihe County to Taiyuan County, he regarded Taiyuan County as his territory.

A big official in a place can be killed or killed.

This was originally excellent, but Fei Qian did not follow the original dual monarch system of the Han Dynasty. Instead, he strengthened the centralization of power in Guanzhong and controlled the authority of the local prefects. Naturally, his ancestors were all officials, and there were even three sons in the family. Cui Jun was not used to it.

Cui Jun has never said anything publicly, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done anything.

After Fei Qian vigorously developed cavalry, the military battles of the entire Han Dynasty had actually accelerated passively. Just like in the Spring and Autumn Period, both sides could still fight according to etiquette, but in the Warring States Period, with the emergence of vaginal foot lifting, everyone began to kick each other...

Some people adapt, some adapt passively, and some don't feel they have to adapt.

Cui Jun was in Taiyuan, but his words and deeds were like those in Shandong. Xiahou Dun was in Cao's army, but his tactics were like those in Guanzhong.

Who is right?

Who is wrong?

Xiahou Dun's move was undoubtedly extremely risky. He rushed from Fukou Xingbei Road, approaching a hundred miles day by day, and headed straight to Jinyang, Taiyuan before the heavy snow fell.

On the other hand, Cui Jun in Taiyuan County thought that Xiahou Dun would at least wait until the ice and snow melted in the spring before attacking. Cao Jun could not bear the ice and snow by then and retreated on his own. Therefore, although he took some precautions, he did not use much care and was caught by Xiahou Dun. He broke through and invaded the city in one fell swoop.

At the beginning, Xiahou Dun never thought that he could really conquer Jinyang in one go. He was even prepared in case he couldn't defeat him. He divided his troops and advanced lightly in order to cooperate with Cao Cao's original plan as much as possible. If more hussars could be dragged to the northeast of Hebei, it would of course be equivalent to This reduced the pressure on Cao Cao and created more opportunities for Cao Cao to defeat Tongguan.

Therefore, Xiahou Dun was prepared to sacrifice the two thousand people under his command if he failed to succeed. Attacking the civilian camp outside Jinyang City was actually a bit like a last-ditch battle. Xiahou Dun chose to attack the Minfu camp first. The most important thing was not to seize the city in one fell swoop, but to first obtain the supplies hoarded in the Minfu camp...

What Xiahou Dun didn't expect was that he actually defeated Jinyang!

In fact, if Cui Jun could clearly judge the number of Cao's troops at that time, and adjust his strategy in time, leading his personal guards to engage in street battles with Xiahou Dun's Cao troops, and at the same time sending people to contact the surrounding troops to clean up the remaining troops, then he would have an absolute majority in terms of numbers. Cui Jun, who has the advantage, may not have no hope of victory when facing Xiahou Dun's attack.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a God's perspective, and not everyone can have a small portable radar to mark the comparison of the combat power between the enemy and ourselves. Cui Jun, who was in the fog of war, had no idea how many people Cao Jun had outside the city, nor why Jinyang fell. When he heard the word "city destroyed", he couldn't help but panic. He was angry and unwilling to accept the reality. When he found out that Cao Jun had really entered the city, he instinctively wanted to avoid it.

What a gentleman is, right?

This kind of evasion is, of course, extremely ridiculous.

If we live and die with the ship, the simple people of China will still have more respect and less scolding for the captain who died on the ship and sank with the ship, even if the captain may have made some bad decisions before. , causing the ship to hit an ice floe, killing many people.

The person who died on the boat was named Shi, and the person who ran away was named Tang.

Did Cui Jun ever think that he would run away?

He didn't even think about it.

At least he didn't think about it before the city was destroyed.

If he had thought about it, he would have been somewhat prepared, but he really was not prepared at all.

On a normal day, Cui Jun would also whip, criticize, ridicule, and ridicule this kind of behavior of "just wanting to escape when disaster strikes", and said that a person must have a sense of responsibility, a sense of justice, and a sense of responsibility for the world. Courage and more...

Just like some people in later generations who had their money stolen by a thief, they angrily cursed the thief with the most vicious words, and then turned around and read pirated novels with peace of mind.

This is people!

Officials are also human beings, and they are also ordinary people. Being an official does not mean that they are isolated from the seven emotions and six desires. It is even because after taking power, they will stimulate more desires. It is not only in the Han Dynasty that people who talk endlessly on the stage and are immediately arrested off the stage are not the only ones in the Han Dynasty.

This is just the instinct of human nature, and to defeat this instinct requires great perseverance and great determination. If you waver a little, your position will immediately collapse.

Just like Cui Jun.

In panic, Cui Jun did not think of fighting to the death, but wanted to take his guards and escape first while protecting the whole family.

After all, if you keep the green hills, you won’t have to worry about running out of firewood, right?

Most of the Cui family's properties are in Jinyang, Taiyuan. When they want to invite their family members to go with them, there will always be someone who wants to take this away, and that person wants to take that with them. As a result, there will be a lot of commotion. The wait is really imminent. After leaving the mansion, they didn't go far when they ran into Cao Jun's soldiers.

When Cui Jun's groggy head finally came to his senses and he reacted, he had already been captured by Cao Jun's soldiers.

Several soldiers of Cao's army tied his hands and feet together, dragging and holding him like a pig.

Cui Jun wanted to scold these Cao soldiers for being degrading, but he seemed to be choked by something and couldn't say anything.

He didn't know how long he had been dragged, but he heard someone giving orders with a sonorous and powerful accent in Shandong accent. Cui Jun managed to look up and saw that he was being dragged into the Jinyang lobby again, but now in the lobby, he changed his mind. The master. Listening to the shouts with Shandong accents, he tried to raise his head, but when he saw Wen Cheng's hunched-over humility, he couldn't help but feel angry.

Wen Cheng, a person of the Wen family.

He was previously involved in the Taiyuan smuggling case of Wang Ying and Wang's family, but at the end of the day Wen Cheng saw that the situation was not good, abandoned the car to save the commander, surrendered, was exempted from the death penalty, and paid a large amount of fines, almost all of them were cleared. Only because of his family's wealth can he be exempted from the punishment of crime. He can do some trivial things in Jinyang City as a guilty person...

"Wen Cheng... Shuzi..."

Cui Jun suddenly realized that Wen Cheng must have been in cahoots with Cao Jun's spies!

The inexplicable rumors and other messy things that happened in Jinyang City before are probably related to Wen Cheng!

Why didn't you kill him in the first place?

Cui Jun will never admit that Wen Cheng donated enough money at that time...

I just hate and regret!

Wen Cheng had already seen Cui Jun being tied up and dragged into the lobby. The corners of his mouth were raised like a hook, and he was secretly happy in his heart. Cui Jun, you also have this day!

Behind the desk where Cui Jun originally sat, Xiahou Dun is now sitting. Wen Cheng was obviously cooperating with Xiahou Dun to count the documents and check the documents.

"Poof", Cui Jun was thrown into the lobby.

Cui Jun stretched his neck desperately and felt somewhat horrified when he saw that Cao Jun's soldiers had occupied the surrounding areas inside and outside the lobby. It seemed that all the soldiers were Cao Jun's soldiers. Xiahou Dun seemed to be far more powerful than he imagined.

Why is this so?

Cui Jun turned his head and met Wen Cheng's half-smiling expression.

Wen Cheng turned his head slightly. Although he was facing Xiahou Dun, Cui Jun felt that Wen Cheng was looking down at him and mocking him...

"traitor! Cui Jun couldn't help but become angry, blurted out and glared angrily, "Traitor!" I should have killed you according to the law in the first place! The heart of a wolf and the lungs of a dog..."

Cao Jun soldiers on the side stepped on Cui Jun and suppressed his angry curses.

People are often so strange. They won't say anything to the powerful, but they are angry and abusive towards the same weak people, especially when they see people who were weaker than them before now climbing on top of them...

In this world, are things really done according to principles?

Hearing Cui Jun's roar, Wen Cheng glanced sideways at Cui Jun. The corners of his mouth were raised like a hook. He did not refute or get angry, but continued to report the document affairs to Xiahou Dun.

Xiahou Dun listened without looking at Cui Jun, as if Cui Jun was just a decoration in the lobby.

Cui Jun tried to turn his head to see Xiahou Dun's appearance, but was stepped down by a soldier on the side. He was unable to struggle and could only see his feet coming and going.

Pairs of feet either covered in mud or humble and simple trampled on the lobby.

It was like trampling on Cui Jun's self-esteem, bit by bit, turning it into mud.

After a while, a burst of laughter was heard from outside the lobby, and soon Cao's soldiers cheered, which was earth-shattering.

Cui Jun raised his head as much as possible and saw Cao Jun's military academy rushing into the lobby, claiming what warehouses had been captured and what trophies they had obtained. Then, accompanied by the cheers of Cao Jun's soldiers, people kept coming in and going out.

From time to time, some soldiers of Cao's army came in carrying heads and threw them directly on the floor of the lobby. They rolled around, and blood stains were everywhere. There were even one or two heads rolled in front of Cui Jun, pale and as if they were dead. The fish-like eyes stared at Cui Jun, as if silently questioning Cui Jun.

Cui Jun was frightened and closed his eyes tightly.

When you close your eyes, it's almost as if you can't see anything.

If you can't see it anymore, it's as if nothing exists, and you don't have to answer those questions.

I don't know how long it took, but there was some tremors on the floor. It seemed like someone came over and stopped in front of Cui Jun.

The surroundings suddenly became silent, and the complicated sounds suddenly disappeared.

Cui Jun slowly opened his eyes, raised his head, and saw Xiahou Dun walking in front of him.

There was no smile on Xiahou Dun's face, and there was only coldness in his gloomy eyes.

Cui Jun suddenly felt the hairs on his back stand up, and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look any further.

Someone came forward and helped Cui Jun up.

Cui Jun raised his eyes slightly gratefully, but what he saw was Wen Cheng.

What was very strange was that Cui Jun didn't feel any insult at this moment, and even his resentment towards Wen Cheng was not as strong as before.

"Cui Shijun, now that the city of Jinyang has been destroyed, you have lost your land..." Wen Cheng said slowly, "The prime minister has received the emperor's decree to command an army of millions, and it only takes a moment to destroy the rebels... Do you want to Die, or do you want to live? 』

When Wen Cheng said this, his head was slightly raised.

Looking from Cui Jun's perspective, he saw that Wen Cheng's chin and nose area seemed to be larger than his forehead. Some nose hairs were exposed in the two black nostrils. The whites of his upper eyes were very large, but the kernels of his eyes seemed to have shrunk a lot...

Cui Jun has never seen Wen Cheng look like this. He was very familiar with the back of Wen Cheng's head, but he was very unfamiliar with Wen Cheng's nostrils.

There was another sarcastic smile on Wen Cheng's lips, tilted to one side.

Cui Jun had never seen Wen Cheng smile like this in front of him.

Now……

In the Han Dynasty, appearance was important, and people with bad looks could not even become officials.

The reason why Wen Cheng was able to get away after committing a crime was inseparable from his good looks, but Cui Jun had never seen Wen Cheng with such an ordinary face, like a wolf.

"When... did you contact Prime Minister Cao?" Cui Jun asked.

Although in front of Xiahou Dun, in the current situation, Cui Jun felt a little stupid for asking such a question, but Cui Jun still asked.

Wen Cheng glanced at Xiahou Dun slightly, and saw that Xiahou Dun had no objection, so he smiled, but the sarcasm in his smile was even stronger, "It's very early... It's just that Cui Shijun is a busy man..."

At this time, Wen Cheng couldn't help but think of many names who endured humiliation and finally succeeded. Perhaps King Gou Jian of Yue was at the top of these names. After all, in order to escape the crime, he even handed over his own manor, and there was no place to worship his ancestors. He could only put up a table to worship in the small and embarrassing hall at the end of the year.

Every New Year, Wen Cheng would cry secretly under the spiritual tablets of his ancestors, with tears streaming down his face.

This year, no more. Wen Cheng will get his original manor back soon, and even get more...

No one wants to lose, especially if you lose after gaining, the pain will be doubled.

When Wen Cheng felt that he could not get more from Fei Qian, he naturally turned to Cao Cao.

The reason why Cui Jun kept Wen Cheng was not because he really thought Wen Cheng was capable or because he had any friendship with Wen Cheng, but because he wanted to buy a horse bone with a thousand pieces of gold. After all, Wen Cheng was also one of the natives of Taiyuan, so he wanted to keep him. The Wen family also represents Cui Jun's gentle attitude towards the Taiyuan natives, showing that he is the best supporter under Fei Qian's strict laws. Unfortunately...

As an official, this kind of thing is normal.

The superiors suppress the superiors, deceive the superiors and deceive the inferiors, and profit from it without taking any risks. They talk beautifully, and the responsibilities are either passed on to the superiors or to the subordinates. When it comes to those below that there is red-headed writing, they have to do it, but they never disclose the content of the writing. For those above, they pat their chests, cry about the difficulties, and reap the benefits if they can.

Cui Jun scolded his father for being a stinky person, but when it was his generation's turn to be in power, he didn't think Cui Hou was so stinky for making money.

Wen Cheng thinks Cui Jun is ridiculous. The Wen family has always been loyal to the Emperor of Han Dynasty, but Fei Qian is now a traitor, so what is wrong with him joining the Cao family? What's more, Mr. Wen has always read Shandong Classics and advocated the method of studying Classics in the Jinwen. Now Qinglong Temple suddenly said that the Jinwen is invalid and needs to be revised. Doesn't it mean that he has been studying hard for the past ten or twenty years? In vain?

How many years has Fei Qian been a party member in the north?

How old is the big man?

Now that Wen is still obeying the emperor's edict, does he become a "traitor"?

Who is the real "traitor"?

"The Han Dynasty is orthodox in the east, and the sea is open to all rivers. Is there any reason why it is not prosperous?" ! The Fei thieves seclude themselves in the pass and act in reverse. How can they survive? ! Rivers converging into the sea is the general trend of the world! Cui Shijun, one last question for you, do you want to take advantage of the trend and prosper? Or buck the trend and die? Think about yourself, think about your family! My wife, children, and children are all within your reach! 』

Wen Cheng persuaded him to come down to the last sentence, his voice was high, his eyes were burning, staring at the expression on Cui Jun's face.

Cui Jun looked a little ferocious at first, but soon his face turned gloomy.

Wen Cheng raised the corners of his mouth again and sneered, then turned sideways and bowed slightly towards Xiahou Dun.

Silence is also an attitude.

Keyboard warriors are brave on the Internet but silent in reality.

Cui Jun is brave when he is free, but cowardly in front of swords and guns.

This is people...

Cui Jun faced Xiahou Dun, silent, his body swaying. After a while, he finally lowered his head, bent down, and saluted on the floor, "Sinner Cui Jun, I wish... I wish to return." The great man... returns to the Prime Minister..."

Xiahou Dun looked at Cui Jun, who was kneeling on the ground, and finally smiled, and stepped forward to pull Cui Jun up with his own hands. "Cui Jun understands the righteousness and abandons the darkness to the light. It is really a great fortune for the man!" 』

The strong smell of blood from Xiahou Dun's body went straight to Cui Jun's nose, making Cui Jun's legs weak.

Cui Jun was not originally a stubborn person who would rather die than surrender. When he was young, he mocked his father for spending money to buy an official position. When his father found out, he became furious and waved a cane to beat Cui Jun. Cui Jun immediately ran away, and even plausibly justified his escape. As a son, he first scolded his father with bad words, and then his father became angry and refused to accept the punishment, so he found an excuse for himself to run away...

Xiahou Dun held Cui Jun's arm, his eyes slightly cold, "Cui Shijun, the surrounding villages and counties of Jinyang still need Cui Shijun to go with him to recruit surrender to avoid the disaster of weapons... I wonder if Cui Shijun is willing?" 』

Cui Jun grumbled in his throat, as if he wanted to refuse, but when the words came out, he turned into willing...

Xiahou Dun waved his hand and asked his bodyguard to take Cui Jun down to the surrounding areas of Jinyang to recruit and surrender.

This is an effective model, and it is also a method often used in Yuan Shao's territory.

When Yuan Shao, the patriarch of the Yuan family, died, chaos broke out among his followers. When Cao Cao marched into Jizhou, it could be said that he encountered no decent resistance. Most of the local nobles in Jizhou were powerful. When they saw Cao Cao's army coming, they marched to the city. The flag on the top is changed...

This model is actually the root cause of feudalism and is also the inevitable choice of local powerful people.

But what Xiahou Dun never expected was that his success in Jinyang would be met with setbacks elsewhere...