Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 465 Public and private
In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chengzhu Neo-Confucianism had not yet appeared, and five generations of ethics collapsed. In addition, the bold and unrestrained customs of the Tang Dynasty were still present, so the boys and girls among the nobles played together since childhood. Naturally, marriage will be arranged.

Although we can't talk about free love, usually as long as the children agree, the parents rarely object, otherwise Zhao Pu and Li Chongju would not have married their children in such a position. They are so big. Doesn't your boss have political IQ?Anyway, almost [-]% of the bureaucrats firmly believe that the two young people must be in a hurry, or even cooked raw rice.

Now, Zhao Tingmei's expression is reckoned to be similar to that of Li Chongju back then.

But that's my own daughter, can she beat someone to death?Do you dare to delay if you don't beat him to death?What if you get pregnant?Don't dare to procrastinate? Does he dare to give Cao Bin face?The girl is married, so she is going to enter someone's house. Is it heartless to offend her in-laws?

So just two days later, Sun Chunming received an invitation to attend the engagement banquet of Cao Bin's second son, Cao Jue, and Zhao Tingmei's eldest daughter.

Sun Chunming couldn't laugh or cry about this. He never expected that Cao Bin would even dare to make such calculations with Zhao Tingmei's daughter in order to create a suitable meeting time, which shows that he is really under a lot of pressure.

"This Cao Bin is so ruthless, I underestimated him before."

On the day of the engagement, Zhao Tingmei, Sun Chunming, Cao Bin, and Zhao Pu, who had recently retired and had a good time with Zhao Tingmei, gathered around the table. Even Xue Juzheng was embarrassed to join them.

Zhao Dezhao naturally wanted to come over in person, drank two glasses of wine, encouraged the newlyweds, and then went back. On such a festive day, Cao Bin and Sun Chunming naturally did not talk about annoying political affairs, but just purely Talking about friendship in terms of personal friendship, looking back on the past, there is no shortage of pleasant cooperation experiences between the two, so the two soon seemed to have settled their differences.

After the banquet, everyone went back to their homes. Sun Chunming and Cao Bin happened to be on the way, chatting and laughing together, which was normal. Most people couldn't talk to such a big leader.

"Brother Chunming, it's really not easy for you and me to chat. It's hard for you. Remember our little friendship."

"Yeah Brother Cao, time flies, in a blink of an eye, we have known each other for almost 20 years."

Cao Bin said: "Brother Chunming, let's speak directly. Didn't you say enough polite words just now? Time is limited."

"Okay, then I'll just say it straight, you seem to be hesitating about my terms?"

"Of course, everyone knows that the Military Commission is the lifeblood of the new army. It's all in your hands. I'll be blind. Is this military power yours or mine? Then I won't be able to fight you for the rest of my life?"

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "Is a lifetime very long? For me, it is true that there are still some years. For Brother Cao, it is hard to say. Brother Cao, in terms of age, you are more than ten years older than me, but it is longer than life. The odds of winning are greater than yours. The most important thing is that I have a good son. Even if you can beat me, you may not be able to beat Brother Yue. Even if you can beat Brother Yue, you can outlive him ?”

Cao Bin's face turned bitter when he heard the words. What kind of affairs under Zhongshu's family, what kind of company, these are all external possessions, and his son is his real trump card. How can there be any reason for this?Thinking of this, he couldn't help but bitterly said: "Oh, if I have a son like this, you may not be able to hold my lifeline so easily. With the abilities of our two old fellows alone, I may not be able to convince you."

Sun Chunming nodded with a smile, and instead of being stubborn with him, he went down the donkey tunnel and said, "Oh, brother Cao, you don't know that this brat doesn't let me worry at all, and he was basically not obedient. Back then Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Pu are against each other, don't you know what is the relationship between our father and son? I don't believe your son dares to talk back to you. This brat is getting older and more ignorant. I asked him to bring his grandson to me two days ago. I refused without giving you any face, I really envy you, your son is obedient and obedient, he is better than anything else, we are all at this age, aren't we just playing tricks on our grandchildren?"

Cao Bin's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly, "Let's get down to business."

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll talk about business, brother Cao, I really don't know what's the point of you competing with me for the sake of yourself? You're not the kind of ambitious person, and you don't Maybe I can fight against my father and son, for the Zhao family? Hehe, for all the people in the world? I am not as good as you in the battlefield, but you are far worse than me to make the country rich and peaceful."

Cao Bin glanced at him and said, "I'm not really ambitious, but now I think you father and son are. You're going to take me in as a kid. Hehe, I have to give myself some confidence."

Sun Chunming said: "I don't keep confidence like this. Look at me, my son is my biggest confidence. If the officials go crazy and dare to harm me, Yue'er will lead troops to Beijing. My waist is stronger than yours." hard."

Cao Bin frowned and said, "What do you want to say?"

"Brother Cao, I think your son is also a dragon and phoenix, why don't you follow suit? Brother Can is not much younger than me, Brother Wei is also sixteen this year, 16 years old, and Brother Yue is already sixteen years old. Conquering the world, now, Zhuzhou is a good place to make great contributions, and Yueer is in charge there. If you agree, you and I will join hands to let them go there. I promise Yueer will use her sincerely and lead the army alone. He is qualified enough to be a capital prisoner. I think Weier is quite aggressive. I guarantee that within three years, he will at least be the deputy commander of the capital and work under Yueer. Confidence, even if there are any changes in Beijing in the future, your Cao family will have successors, how about it?"

Cao Bin was surprised: "You want Sun Yue to hold Can'er and Wei'er? Is it possible to deal with the life and death of the country like this? Can Sun Yue agree? Are you father and son so unprincipled?"

Cao Bin was not very worried about whether the two sons would become hostages if they were thrown into Sun Yue's hands. On the contrary, if the Sun family really wanted to do such an ambitious thing in the future, Sun Yue would definitely lead his teachers back to Beijing. Keeping the two sons in Beidi, as long as he doesn't break up with Sun Chunming, their family will be as stable as Mount Tai.

But he was still shocked. In his memory, this shouldn't be the character of the Sun family and his son. Can such an important matter in the frontier be passed on privately?
"Yue'er, don't worry. It's too late for him to be happy. You don't have to look at me like this. After all, the two brothers are generals. You taught them by yourself. Don't you know? We all believe that they are fine. , and even become Yue'er's right-hand man in the future."

Cao Bin didn't speak, he felt that he couldn't get over this threshold.

"At the fork in the road ahead, it's time for us to part ways. I've finished what I want to say today. Think about it for another two days. I'll wait for your news."

After finishing speaking, Sun Chunming turned around and left.

Sun Chunming really has a clear conscience. Cao Can, that is the so-called little Cao Bin, with second-rate military ability and first-rate political ability. Cao Wei, one of the four generals in the early Song Dynasty, is not much worse than Li Jilong in ability. Li Jiqian called him dad. It was absolutely a matter of public and private matters for the two of them to give their son away.

(End of this chapter)