At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Three days later, Sima Yi received an order from Wei Wangfu in Yecheng.

Guo Peng, king of Wei, summoned Sima Yi, a native of Wen County, Hanoi County, as a subordinate official, and ordered Sima Yi to take up his post as soon as possible.

Although Guo Peng held a talent discussion ceremony and admitted more than 300 people into the officialdom of the Wei State at one time, the operations in all aspects were not mature enough, and the timing was not so secure, so the filial piety system and the expropriation system still dominate mainstream.

In the past, Mr. Guo would occasionally use his calling authority to select some people he liked to work with him, but as his status improved, such things became less and less common.

This time, Sima Yi was personally summoned by Guo Peng, which indeed attracted the attention of many people.

Many people began to pay attention to who this Sima Yi was.

After some attention, they found that Sima Yi was not a great person, but a 22-year-old young man, and his elder brother Sima Lang was the only one among Xun Yu's old officials who was not implicated.

Because of the damage to his reputation, Sima Lang was forced to resign and stayed at home to study.

Now that Sima Yi appeared as his second brother, it gave people a particularly bad feeling and made people feel uncomfortable.

But for Guo Peng, this is also a political gesture, because the reason why Sima Lang was placed in the Duke of Wei's mansion before was the instruction of Guo Peng, because Guo Peng admired Sima Lang's knowledge of current affairs and knew how to retreat in time. Not against yourself.

Guo Peng originally wanted to set up Sima Lang as a model, telling others the different fates of disobeying himself and agreeing with him, but this model's ability to resist pressure is not good enough, so he resigned voluntarily.

That being the case, Guo Peng is not reluctant.

Now, in Guo Peng's opinion, Sima Yi's ability to resist pressure should be top-notch.

With such a top pressure-resistant player, scholars should know Guo Peng's attitude towards people like Xun Yu who disobey him.

It's okay for you to disobey your own advocate, but if you disobey someone Guo, then there will be a big problem.

Under such a background, Sima Yi came to the Wei Palace to meet Guo Peng in Wei official costumes, and established a status as a monarch and minister.

Needless to say, Sima Yi's appearance, Chinese character face, tall stature, looks quite official.

The ancients selected officials with a Chinese character face first, because wearing a national character face can best reflect the majesty of an official. Wearing an official uniform must reflect the official prestige, so as to better control the people.

Those who are wretched and ugly, who look like monkeys instead of humans in official uniforms, even if they are talented, they can't be the chief officials of a place, but can only be heroes behind the scenes.

The tradition of judging people by appearance for thousands of years is not such a simple matter.

Sima Yi is a typical face with Chinese characters. This face is matched with the Wei official costumes designed by Guo Peng himself.

However, compared to civil servants, Sima Yi may be more suitable to be a military officer. Many generations of his family have been military officers. higher rating.

Seeing Sima Yi like this, Guo Peng couldn't help being happy.

However, there is still some dismounting that should be done.

"Sima Zhongda, your Sima family's hands are really long, they even reached out to Gu's face."

Sima Yi was startled, knelt down quickly, and bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty, forgive me, the Sima family will never dare to do this, but... it's just that the world is in chaos, wars are raging, and the family is in danger of collapse. Shelter, that's all!"

"shelter."

Guo Peng smiled: "Why don't you seek asylum under Prime Minister Cao's command? Why don't you come to my Guo family to seek asylum? Prime Minister Cao is the chancellor of the state of Wei. His lonely wife and brother can't protect your Sima family?"

"That's not the case, but...but..."

Sima Yi stuttered.

Guo Peng waved his hand.

"Come on, don't think about those high-sounding reasons. People go to high places, and water flows to low places. This is the truth in the world. Isn't it normal that you, Sima, want to make contributions and prosper your family? Are you keen on fame? Is it normal?"

Guo Peng smiled, stood up, walked forward, and helped Sima Yi up: "Everyone has the heart to make contributions, but not everyone has the ability to make contributions. Sima Zhongda, your Sima family sent you here , is Sima's ability, but if you can gain a firm foothold here, you must let Gu see your ability."

Sima Yi stood up cautiously.

"I will never let the king down."

"Whether you are disappointed or not is not something you can decide with a single word."

Guo Peng walked back to his seat and sat down, and said: "Gu Ping is very busy with government affairs, and one person can't handle so many things, so he specially set up a government office to assist Gu in handling government affairs, called The cabinet is full of carefully selected officials.

You can go to the cabinet to help, follow the old cabinet members, learn how to handle government affairs, learn how to find the steps in the extremely complicated regulations, and handle everything in an orderly manner. People who enter the cabinet are all alone. Those who hope can only have a future if they persist in the cabinet. "

Guo Peng spoke very clearly, and Sima Yi immediately realized that Guo Peng was giving him a chance to show his talent up close.

Sima Yi, who is good at seizing opportunities and has a keen intuition, immediately knew that this was an opportunity for him to develop, and it was an opportunity for Sima to get back on track.

Being summoned by Guo Peng himself to become Guo Peng's subordinate official was something that many people could only wish for. Sima Yi didn't even dare to think about it, but this happened so suddenly.

Right now, Sima Yi, as a half-way monk with political taint in his family, may be facing the most important and only opportunity in his life.

There must be no mistakes in this opportunity.

Sima Yi immediately knelt down, prostrated himself on the ground, and expressed his gratitude and determination to Guo Peng.

"I will do my best, and I will never let the king down!"

"Go, go to the cabinet to practice, I hope that when you come out of the cabinet, you will be treated differently."

After speaking, Guo Peng asked someone to take Sima Yi to the cabinet.

Just as Sima Yi turned to leave and was about to cross the door, Guo Peng suddenly grabbed the water glass in front of him, let go of his hand, and let the water glass fall freely to the ground, breaking with a bang.

The servants and guards all turned their heads to look or looked up, and Guo Peng locked his eyes on Sima Yi.

Seeing Sima Yi's footsteps pause, he naturally turned around and looked behind him blankly, searching for the location of the sound like a reflex.

He saw the broken cup on the ground, then raised his eyes a little, and saw Guo Peng staring at him with an inexplicable smile on his face. He froze for a moment and froze there.

"Hahahahahaha, go, go, go to the cabinet, don't stay here."

Sima Yi blinked, quickly turned around and bowed deeply to Guo Peng, then took three steps back and left the mansion gate.

Wolf Gu Zhixiang?

Hahahahahaha.

Chapter 708 710 Zhuge Liang understands how Sima Yi feels now

To be honest, Guo Peng did not lie to Sima Yi at all.

The people in the cabinet are indeed his chosen stars of tomorrow.

The officials in the cabinet are all young and capable officials. They are Guo Peng's reserve base for high-ranking central government officials and a place to store talents. They come from many sources and have different backgrounds. Sima Yi is not the most special one.

But at this moment, as a scholar with a bit of taint, being placed in the cabinet by Guo Peng will naturally attract some attention.

After all, everyone knows where the cabinet is, and everyone understands the significance of the cabinet.

Entering the cabinet is a major goal and dream of Guo Peng's official group. They all know that entering the cabinet can be regarded as a step up and a way to reach the sky.

However, the officials in the cabinet are not unlimited, there is always a quota, although it is not a radish and a hole, but not everyone can get in.

Sima Yi thought that he would be excluded, isolated, and stared at by Sima Lang's colleagues in the cabinet, and he was ready to endure it.

But he never expected that his colleagues in the cabinet seemed to have no time to crowd out and give him cold eyes.

Too busy, so busy that no one even paid attention to Sima Yi's arrival.

It made Sima Yi feel like he was like air.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Can accepted Sima Yi. He didn't care about his background and past at all, so he summoned a senior cabinet member and entrusted Sima Yi to him.

"Zhongda, the cabinet affairs are busy, and there is not much time for you to familiarize yourself with it. You have to use the fastest time to familiarize yourself with the cabinet. Ten days at the latest. If you can't keep up with the speed of the cabinet's administration, the assistant will apply to the king. , and remove you from the cabinet."

When Wang Can met, he first gave Sima Yi a disgrace: "This assistant is not threatening you, but warning you that the cabinet is not a simple government office. The cabinet should not be trash. Since you were sent to the cabinet as soon as you became an official, it proves that His Royal Highness Wei Wang I am optimistic about you, but whether you can stay in the cabinet depends on yourself."

After speaking, Wang Can waved his hand and asked the senior cabinet member to take Sima Yi away.

Sima Yi was still a little dizzy, following the cabinet member to the workbench where he handled government affairs, he watched him sit down and pointed to the cushion beside him.

"Sit down, here are the government affairs I have dealt with, you can watch them first, and ask me if you don't understand anything, the chief minister said just now, if you can't keep up with the speed of the cabinet within ten days, Help me, you can leave the cabinet, the cabinet does not need you."

After finishing speaking, the senior cabinet members buried their heads in writing and began to deal with government affairs, ignoring him.

Before Sima Yi could react, he looked up and saw that all the people in the cabinet were writing at their desks, and those who occasionally communicated were talking about government affairs.

There were older ones, and there were young men who looked just like him.

Without exception, they all worked hard at their desks, without any time-wasting actions. They looked extremely busy and capable.

This shocked Sima Yi deeply.

In the world, is there such an efficient and capable government office?

What Sima Zhongda yearns for is such a place!

Sima Yi immediately started studying with confidence.

Then three days later, Sima Yi was scolded bloody by the senior cabinet member instructing him with a confused face, and then he was left alone for the whole morning.

The reason was that Sima Yi didn't see the time to ask him questions, which disturbed his thoughts on handling government affairs.

Sima Yi couldn't adapt to this at all.

He didn't want to do this either, there were really too many questions, and he didn't know when to find the time to ask his advisors.

It seems that he is always extremely busy dealing with government affairs, and there is no time to stop.

When he was resting, he closed his eyes and went to sleep without any gesture of answering Sima Yi's questions, which made Sima Yi completely at a loss as to what to do.

Bite the bullet and ask questions, but was severely scolded.

After sitting for a whole morning, when it was lunch time, everyone went to the dining hall to eat, but Sima Yi still couldn't stand up.

After a while, Sima Yi stood up and floated to the dining hall like a ghost. With a dull expression, he ordered a meal and sat at an empty table silently eating the meal.

Frustration, deep frustration filled his heart.

When did Sima Yi, who was far ahead of his elder brother in terms of knowledge and followed his father's knowledge of herdsmen and government affairs, become so disgusted?

I……

Am I really fit to be an official?

Can I really stand out and lead the family on the road to prosperity?

Can I really leave my name in history and make contributions?

The young Sima Yi was seriously shaken.

He began to doubt himself, doubted his talent and ability, and felt that those who praised him before were all playing tricks on the spot, and he had no talent at all.

At this moment, a person sat opposite Sima Yi with a tray.

"Your Excellency is... Sima Jun?"

"........."

Sima Yi raised his head in a daze, and looked across from him.

A smiling handsome man in official uniform appeared in Sima Yi's field of vision.

What a handsome man.

This is Sima Yi's first impression.

For so many years, Sima Yi has not admitted that he has lost to anyone in appearance, but now, he has to admit that the young handsome man in front of him has indeed surpassed him in appearance.

"Who is your Excellency?"

Sima Yi tentatively asked.

"My lord, Zhuge Liang, whose name is Kongming, is from Langya, Xuzhou, and is now an official in the cabinet."

"My lord, Sima Yi, whose name is Zhongda, is from Hanoi County, and is now in... the cabinet?"

Sima Yi suddenly reacted: "Your Excellency is a cabinet official?"

"Yes, I am a cabinet officer."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Mr. Sima seems to be a newcomer?"

"Yes, Your Excellency?"

"Your Majesty has been an official in the cabinet for nearly half a year."

Zhuge Liang laughed.

"Half a year?"