At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

chapter 1063 one thousand and seventy-three

When Mao Jie asked this, Sima Yi suddenly realized something, and he immediately became excited.

Is it...

He couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately answered Mao Jie.

"Yes, there are eight brothers in Xiaguan's family, and Xiaguan ranks second."

Sima Yi nodded with inexplicable emotions.

"Besides your elder brother, Sima Boda, you have six younger brothers. The burden on you is not light, Zhongda, you have suffered."

Mao Jie said with a smile: "Nowadays, the prefectural governor and county guard's right to recruit officials has been greatly restricted. It is not as easy as in the former Han Dynasty to recruit subordinate officials, but there are still some positions that I can choose. of.

If there is a brother in your family who wants to be an official, it is not easy to be an official in Luoyang, and you don’t dislike my Liangzhou, which is located in a remote and bitter cold climate, then you can let him come to Liangzhou, at least he can find a job here. An errand, no? "

When Mao Jie said this, Sima Yi immediately looked at Mao Jie with surprise.

"What Shijun said...is it true?"

"What did I lie to you for?"

Mao Jie nodded: "This time when the investigation team comes to investigate the case, I, the Governor's Mansion, will have to conduct a thorough review, and there will be a shortage of manpower. I am worried that there is no place to replenish manpower, and I still have to do things here.

But after this review, I found out that the people around me really can't choose randomly, otherwise their hands will be unclean at some point, but I don't know anything.

Zhongda, as an officer, you can't be deceived. I also want to know something, but there are not many people who can believe it. If your brother can come, I will definitely believe it. It will be regarded as doing me a favor. "

Mao Jie smiled and extended an olive branch to Sima Yi.

Of course Zhuge's family won't be able to get him, but Sima's family is still looking forward to it.

They are all former officials of the Guo family, and their future prospects are very promising.

Sima Yi was overjoyed, the heaviness in his heart was instantly swept away, and the rest was a sense of relief.

"If that's the case, then the envoy is my family's benefactor! Sima Yi thank you envoy!"

Sima Yi bowed solemnly to Mao Jie and expressed his sincere thanks to him.

"Hahahahaha! It doesn't have to be like this, Zhong Da is a talent, and the future is limitless."

Mao Jie helped Sima Yi up, his face was full of optimism and encouragement for him.

Obviously, for him, it would be beneficial for him to use his power a little bit to encourage and win over Sima Shi.

The future of Sima Yi will not be uncertain, after all, he is also from the cabinet and an old official of the Guo family.

If you pull now, what kind of return can you get in the future?

Mao Jie doesn't know yet, but his keen intuition tells him that he will definitely not suffer.

On the way back to Guangzhi County after leaving the Governor's Mansion, Sima Yi still hadn't recovered from the absolute joy.

Because he is really happy, very happy.

He envied Zhuge Liang, and what he envied was his background.

He believes that because of this background, Zhuge Liang has the courage to do whatever he wants, the confidence to do whatever he wants, and the courage to do everything.

It's just because his elder brother is the right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Zhang Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has a good relationship with his family.

All this is what the Sima family does not have.

The eldest son of the Sima family even faced the serious situation of social death because of Xun Yu's problem, and almost lost his qualifications to be an official.

The eldest son is unable to become an official, so the Sima family is now fully supported by Sima Yi.

If Sima Yi can't open up the situation now, he won't be able to win the chance for his six younger brothers to become officials, and he won't be able to restore the family.

The Sima family is also a family of scholars who have successfully transformed. What a rare thing. If they lose their chance of prosperity due to political factors, they will be sorry for their ancestors.

In the past, Sima Yi did not have the deep confidence of Zhuge Liang, but now, he has at least a part of it.

Through Mao Jie, he seemed to have gained some confidence.

Although Mao Jie does not hold power in the central government, as long as Mao Jie can enter the central government, he must be a member of the central government.

The relationship between Mao Jie and Chen Gong, the Cao family, and those officials from Yanzhou, as well as his own qualifications, all determine that Mao Jie has the qualifications to enter the central government to call the wind and rain.

Let the Sima family get Mao Jie's help, let one or two younger brothers become Mao Jie's former officials, and continue to follow the route of the Guo family's former officials, so that the Sima family has a retreat. This is what Sima Yi gained from this adventure. return.

This return is beyond the reach of many people.

And he got it.

At this moment, Sima Yi suddenly had a feeling that the sky is high and the birds are flying and the sea is wide and the fish are leaping.

Although I feel a little sorry for Zhuge Liang, but...

Didn't he suffer any loss?

Presumably he doesn't care about this kind of thing. In the future, he can continue to be good friends, right?

Sima Yi smiled slightly, what he saw in his eyes was an infinitely beautiful future.

What such a wonderful future represents is that he can sit on an equal footing with Zhuge Liang.

Sit on an equal footing with Zhuge Liang, do what you want to do, and you won't feel very angry like before.

Right, that is it.

With the background, I can be like Zhuge Liang.

Certainly!

This is what Sima Yi saw.

But at this moment, far away in Luoyang City, what Guo saw in his eyes was a future of fierce collision.

In order to build a complete framework for the Wei Empire as soon as possible and plan a future route for the empire, Guo has to do a lot.

And what he is currently preparing for is the Northern Expedition to the Grassland.

The northern expedition to the grassland should be done sooner rather than later, and the Xianbei people should not be given too much time to recuperate.

Wei Jun needs to enter the grassland in one fell swoop, wipe out all the Xianbei people, completely wipe out the threat of the grassland to the Central Plains, and then create a livestock economic zone to control the grassland for a long time.

In this way, eliminate the threat from the north before the full arrival of the Little Ice River, and then concentrate on dealing with the threat brought by the Little Ice River.

After eliminating Xianbei in the north, the biggest hidden danger of the Wei Empire in the future will no longer exist.

The threat and influence Xianbei brought to the Eastern Han Empire during the Tanshihuai period was really great. If Tanshihuai hadn’t died early, and the descendants Helian was very incompetent, the Xianbei Empire at that time really threatened the Central Plains regime of strength.

And all this was caused by the Eastern Han Empire itself.

In the 21st year of Jianwu Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Xianbei followed the Huns as a servant of the Huns to invade the border. From this, Xianbei was known as a national entity by the Central Plains Dynasty.

After the split of the Huns, the Xianbei people gradually got rid of their control. In the era of Emperor Zhangdi of the Han Ming Dynasty, Xianbei attacked the Huns twice to resist the oppression of the Huns.

Then, until the third year of Emperor Yongyuan of the Han Dynasty, the Northern Huns who were attacked by the Eastern Han and the Southern Huns were forced to move to Central Asia, and the Xianbei took the opportunity to occupy the prairie and gradually developed.

Guo has always believed that Dou Xian's Northern Expedition to the Northern Huns was a great tactical success, making Le Shi Yanran and Feng Lang Juxu together the pinnacle of the Han nation's military achievements, but strategically, this was a major mistake.

This war directly caused the rise of Xianbei.

After proclaiming himself emperor, Guo Peng took the time to read the records of this period of history in the official collection of the Eastern Han government, and more clearly determined that this war was a strategic misjudgment.

Dou Xian advocated the Northern Expedition to the Northern Huns not for any military purpose at all, but a political adventure.

Because Dou Xian had a grudge against Empress Dowager Dou's favorite minister Liu Chang, he sent someone to assassinate Liu Chang, and tried to blame Cai Lun, but things failed and he was imprisoned in the palace.

In order to save his life and power, Dou Xian has no choice.

Of course, Queen Mother Dou would not really give up her outstanding offspring in her family.

No matter how much you favor Liu Chang, the queen mother must of course rely on her relatives and descendants to govern.

So Empress Dowager Dou is angry, but she still has to keep Dou Xian.

But what Dou Xian did was too arrogant. He assassinated the enemy and provoked public anger. If he can kill Liu Chang today, who knows that he won't kill other people in the future?

Isn't this a capital crime?

Public anger is hard to offend, and Empress Dowager Dou had to imprison him in the palace. On the one hand, she taught him a lesson, and on the other hand, she was also protecting him.

Although he really wanted to let him out, he couldn't be blatant, so he could only think of other ways, otherwise Dou Xian would probably die tragically on the spot as soon as he went out.

It is a good way to redeem death with military merit.

The military exploits of the Han generation were the heaviest, and it would certainly be possible to use military exploits to redeem death.

At that time, it happened that the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu requested to crusade against the Northern Xiongnu, so Dou Xian and Queen Dowager Dou seized this opportunity to prepare for the Northern Expedition of the Northern Xiongnu so that Dou Xian could gain military exploits to offset his previous capital crimes.

After the news came out, the Eastern Han court had a heated debate on whether to attack the Northern Huns, and there were many people who opposed it.

Under the environment at that time, the Xiongnu had long since lost the glorious period of controlling 50 people in its heyday.

At that time, the Xiongnu had split into the northern and southern Xiongnu. The southern Xiongnu took refuge in the Eastern Han Dynasty, while the northern Xiongnu continued to stay in the desert. Their population was greatly reduced and their power was greatly reduced.

It can be said that whether it is economic, military or political, the Northern Huns and the Eastern Han Empire at that time were no longer in the same weight class.

The Eastern Han government army's attack on the Northern Huns was like a strong adult beating a bear child. The Northern Huns had almost no possibility of war against the Eastern Han Empire.

Against this background, Shang Shu Song Yi strongly opposed Dou Xian's Northern Expedition.

He believed that the Northern Huns had declined and were no longer the opponents of the Eastern Han government, and the Southern Huns were not big enough. It would be of great benefit to the Eastern Han government to keep the two sides in conflict for a long time, split the grassland forces and fight each other.

Moreover, Song Yi also noticed that the Xianbei people were gradually rising at that time, and realized that the existence of the Northern Huns had a certain restraint effect on the Xianbei people.

If the Northern Huns were killed, it would be good if the Eastern Han Dynasty could occupy the grasslands. If they couldn't occupy the grasslands, wouldn't it just give Xianbei room to develop for no reason?

He asked Dou Xian and Empress Dowager Dou whether they had the ability to occupy the grassland and control it. If not, they would keep the Northern Huns to protect the Eastern Han Empire from disaster.

That obviously doesn't exist.

Dou Xian and Queen Dowager Dou are just fighting to free Dou Xian from the death penalty, so where is there any long-term strategic vision?

This is a political adventure, not a military strategy.

The southern Xiongnu left the grassland and did not want to return to the grassland to live a hard life.

The northern Huns were beaten away again, unable to stay in Mobei.

The grassland has become a vacuum zone, where the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit, and the one who gains in the end must be Xianbei, who has a certain size and a clear leadership core.

chapter 1064 one thousand and seventy-four

Song Yi's insight was not adopted, and Empress Dowager Dou, who was eager to exonerate Dou Xian, advocated the Northern Expedition, so the Northern Expedition was pushed forward.

Of course, the northern Xiongnu, who were not as good as before, could not resist the powerful attack of the Eastern Han government army. Dou Xian himself was indeed good at using troops and had very good military talents.

In this way, the Northern Huns absolutely have no chance of victory.

After a bitter battle, Dou Xian successfully defeated the Northern Huns, drove them out of the grasslands and forced them to move west.

From then on, the Northern Huns no longer had the possibility of threatening the Eastern Han Empire.

They were completely defeated by the Eastern Han Empire, and they left their hometown far away and went westward, which brought unexpected and huge troubles to the Western rulers of the same era.

But the troubles of the Eastern Han Empire did not end there.

What happened afterwards also proved that Song Yi's view was correct.

Without the restraint of the Northern Huns, the Eastern Han government army had no plans and plans to occupy the grassland at all, and the grassland became a development vacuum.

The northern Huns were completely beaten away, and the southern Huns continued to stay on the northern border. Dou Xian was soon killed by Emperor Hanhe on charges of treason, and the Xianbei people finally got a big advantage.

Xianbei began to develop rapidly.

The population and size increased greatly, and soon became an existence that the Han Empire could not underestimate.

Before Tanshihuai, Xianbei had been at war with the Eastern Han government, and it had become a major border problem for the Eastern Han Empire. After Tanshihuai appeared, Xianbei once restored the oppression of the Huns in the heyday of the Han Empire.

It's a pity that Xianbei's fortune was not good at that time.