Chapter 2 2. Xun Yu's Blood Letter to the People

At this point, his eyes moved, and he looked at Wang Lang suddenly: "Doctor Wang, Yu also heard that there are many celebrities in the Qing Dynasty in the Jiangdong area who are vacillating between the two ends of 'fighting' or 'peace' with Cao Cao. Zhi, Qin Song and the local nobles in the Jiangdong prefecture welcomed Cao's surrender to protect their own self-interest, which is still reasonable; Follow Gu Yong, Bu Zhi, Qin Song and others and lose your own opinion?" "This is the reason why Lang took the risk to see you urgently, Mr. Xun Ling." Wang Lang raised his eyes and looked around secretly, then took out a letter from his arms, and presented it carefully to Xun Yu, "This It is Zhang Zhao’s secret letter to Lang and you on behalf of the members of Jiangdong Sun’s shogunate, in which he implores us to give them the guidance of ‘obedience and legality’...”

Xun Yu took the secret letter, read it carefully, and sighed deeply: "Yes! Zibu (Zibu Zhang Zhaozi) is also a loyal minister of my Han Dynasty, and he has always followed the rules. Of course, he will not be afraid of Cao Cao, who has hundreds of thousands of troops and is powerful in the world. However, he cannot be afraid of the orthodox status of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty that Cao Cao is carrying. Without any scruples, he, Zhang Zibu, and the Jiangdong scholars can't afford to be charged with the "crime" of "a traitor of the religion and a traitor of the Han Dynasty". However, we only need to explain Cao Cao's trust to them. It’s enough to be famous as a prime minister of the Han Dynasty, but to be a traitor of the Han Dynasty. Help them unload the psychological burden of being a traitor of the Han Dynasty and a traitor of the Han Dynasty. Maybe they can go into battle with ease and unite with Liu against Cao Cao... ..."

He murmured, put the middle finger of his right hand into his mouth and bit it lightly, a stream of blood gushed out, red and dazzling like agate.In this way, he dipped his own blood on his fingers, and wrote a line of regular script at the end of the secret letter from Zhang Zhao: "Mountains never tire of being high, and water never tires of being deep. The Duke of Zhou vomits his nourishment, and the world returns to his heart. Xun Yu Respect." Wang Lang watched from the side with tears streaming down his face, and his voice choked up: "Xun...Xun...Xun Lingjun, you...you..."

However, Xun Yu still had such a calm and calm smile on his face, and gently handed back the secret letter from Zhang Zhao with his own blood written on it, and said in a leisurely and far-sighted tone: "You will return this secret letter to Zhang Zibu, after reading it, he should know how to make a 'successful and legal' decision..." "If every Confucian scholar in the world can be as loyal, honest, and upright as you, Xun Lingjun, even if there are ten Cao Mengde, how dare they have the aspirations to ascend to the sky and ask for the top?" Wang Lang sighed with tears, "I hate Hua. Xin, Dong Zhao, and Xi Ji, these sycophants, only know that Afu is powerful, and they don't hesitate to join forces with bandits, so what kind of face will they have in the future to dare to see the sages and sages of Confucius and their ancestors in the spring?"

Xun Yu was silent for a moment, then suddenly said slowly: "I recently heard that Xu Du's eunuch has added a lot of 'backward newcomers' out of thin air. I don't know where they came from? Can you tell me something, Doctor Wang?" "Ah! Xun Lingjun, you have been recuperating at home recently. You really don't know something. Since Hua Xin took charge of the Ministry of Officials, he has been vigorously promoting Cao Mengde's "do not ask about virtue, do not ask about academics, do not ask about family status, do not ask about teacher's succession, only It's the selection strategy of "judgment, only merit is promotion", what kind of money-stealing wives, cock-crowding dog robbers, and ignorant people are all scrambling to get in..." When Wang Lang talked about this issue, he became very angry. "The Ding Yi and Ding Yan brothers that Hua Xin recruited from Guanzhong, one is ugly and disgraceful, the other is lustful and notorious, my family's Wang Su felt that he had lost his identity when he sat at the same table with them. "

Xun Yu listened silently, but did not say a word.He smelled a strange smell from Hua Xin's large-scale recruitment of Han Su's talented people to enter Xudu's officialdom recently: Cao Cao is laying the groundwork for his future usurpation of the Han Dynasty!What Wang Lang said about "ugly eyes, stealing gold and prostitutes, cocks and dogs stealing, ignorant, greedy and lustful" and so on, are all trivial matters.Do you think that Cao Cao didn't pay attention to "morality" and "merit" in selecting people?He also values ​​"virtue" and "gong".The core content of his virtue of selecting people is "whom to be loyal to"; the core content of his selection of meritorious service is "serving for whom".Whether to be loyal to the Cao family or to the Han Dynasty, and to make contributions to the Cao family or to the Han Dynasty, these are the two fundamental "bottom lines" for him to employ people.In addition to these two fundamental "bottom lines", whether you are ugly, greedy, lustful, stealing money, stealing money, stealing, or ignorant, Cao Mengde's eyes are nothing.In other words, he abolished the employment guidelines of "combining both morality and ability, and putting morality first" since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and replaced it with the selection policy of "attaching Cao to use, disobedience to Cao, discarding, rewarding meritorious deeds, and promoting talents only". The general strategy is actually a major move to break the Han and establish the Cao, and its impact is far-reaching!

"Xun Lingjun, do you know? The Huan clan of Peijun, who was once a descendant of the great Han emperor, has also begun to move closer to Cao Mengde... Huan Jie, the elder of the Huan clan, has also recently been appointed as the deputy head of Cao Cao's prime minister's office... ..." Wang Lang was still babbling, his expression very aggrieved. At this time, Xun Yu spoke slowly and word by word: "My Yan Han, since Emperor Xiaowu deposed hundreds of schools and praised the Six Classics, although the style of learning from Confucianism has flourished, the virtue of righteousness has not yet appeared, so Wang Mang usurped the throne and established a falsehood, and there were people who eulogized virtue and offered talismans to pretend to be prosperous; in view of this, Emperor Guangwu respected integrity and righteousness, was honest and honest, and took the people who practiced the scriptures and learned what they can do as the foundation of strengthening the country. The world's customs were pure. Until the time of the two emperors Huan and Ling, state affairs were increasingly in turmoil, power eunuchs were rampant, and strong officials rebelled. There were still Li Ying, Chen Fan, Fan Pang, Liu Tao, and Huangfu Song. , relying on benevolence and righteousness, fighting on the basis of reason, so as not to let Yan Han's energy die once. Now Yu can only inherit the ambition of the former sages to go to the sage, pass it on from generation to generation, pass on the fire from generation to generation, and stick to it for life-like Hua Xin and Huan Jie's generation In the face of difficulty, Yu will never be able to do it."

Hearing Xun Yu's sonorous and powerful words, Wang Lang, who was muttering about the changes in Xu Du's officialdom, suddenly stopped talking—tears wet his eyebrows again.