The reason for Zhuge Liang's trip to the Western Regions was too legitimate. He wanted to stop him. There was almost no other way except to launch another candidate. Xun Yue didn't pinch Sima Yi to let him go. He was a Henan Yin, who was a nine-minister, and went to the Western Regions to be demoted by two thousand stones. Besides, with the move to Luoyang, he was in front of him. He had gradually become a real position from a false position. He was still so young, and it would be a big problem to be the head of a civil servant in the future. He would not have to go to the Western Regions.

Xun Yue meant that Sima Yi would recommend the recommended person. Isn’t your Sima family known as Bada? Let’s arrange Sima Fu and Sima Lang.

However, Sima Yi is such a smart person. Although he doesn't mind being an enemy of Zhuge Liang, it seems that the emperor's preference for Zhuge Liang is already very obvious. As long as Zhuge Liang wants to go, ordinary people will definitely not be able to fight him. If you are not careful, you will easily become a mistake and will provoke the emperor's disgust.

The key is that our Sima family is a great family, and now the leader of the Sanhe Scholar Group in Hanoi County and even the Sanhe Scholar Group, why do we let our brothers go to the Western Regions to eat sand? Isn’t your Xun family still known as the Eight Dragons of the Xun family?

However, the same problem is different for Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang keenly realized that this conquering the Western Regions must be his own god-given opportunity.

First of all, this is an opportunity to avoid Xun Yue and the old people in the court. He knew that if he entered the court like this, he would have to be excluded. The key is that he has married a wife and his sisters at home have already married, so it is already difficult to expand the relationship network through marriage.

It will be much better if you go to the Western Regions. Not only will it be easy to make contributions, but the issue of qualifications after a few years is no longer a problem. There is also a ready-made Western Regions faction that can support you.

Although the position of Two Thousand Stone is still a bit conspicuous, considering the rule of being promoted to two levels when going to the Western Regions, his new card position is at least sensible.

Secondly, since the Western Regions Protectorate is Cao Chun, it must be infiltrated by Cao Cao. The Cao Cao power group has almost no civil servant power in the court, only Guo Jia, who is still a law-abiding person. The law-abiding person is actually quite taboo to factionalism, and joining himself is a timely help.

Although Cao Cao's power has been suppressed by the emperor over the years, Zhuge Liang had a premonition that this suppression had almost come to an end. He would not really kill him when dealing with a pillar minister who was protecting the country. From the perspective of a minister, it can be said that few people have been able to surpass him for thousands of years.

In other words, if he and Cao Chun can make a career in the Western Regions, they will most likely become one of the important civil officials of the Cao Cao group after returning, and will be on par with Guo Jia. After Cao Cao's 100 years, he will even be very likely to accept most of his political legacy.

With the support of the Western Regions and the Qiao Pei Sect, you can really compete with the Yingchuan Sect.

This opportunity has to be seized.

And Liu Xie really wanted to do something big in the Western Regions, so although he was extremely reluctant to leave, he still agreed after thinking about it carefully.

After all, the government is stable now, and it is not as good as Zhuge Liang's operation. And if Zhuge Liang is there, you can feel more at ease with Zhuge Liang in the Western Regions Protectorate.

"So what are your requirements?"

"I have nothing to ask for, but I only ask Your Majesty to bypass Han Sui's life and let his followers go with General Anxi to atone for his sins."

In fact, Zhuge Liang knew very well that Liu Xie would let Han Sui go. If this was not the case, it would be impossible to just talk about the Western Regions.

Xiliang has not been unified yet. If Han Sui is killed, Xiliang may not be determined. Do they fly over to build the Western Regions Protectorate?

Seeing this, Han Sui, who had been standing timidly at the back as a surrender, hurriedly knelt in front of Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, if you are going to manage the Western Regions, you will be able to stabilize Xiliang, and if you are stable in Xiliang, you will rely on Jincheng. I have some reputation in Xiliang and Jincheng, and I am very familiar with the customs, customs, mountains and geography here. I was forced by Beigong Boyu back then, so I couldn't help myself. I would like to ask Your Majesty to give me a chance to make me atone for my sins."

"Okay, the court does have the intention of moving the capital of Zhengzhou to Jincheng, so let you be the second guard of Liangzhou. The court has three guardians. Since you are from Liangzhou, you can only recognize the second guard. I will order Wei Duan to be the governor of Liangzhou and your son-in-law Yan Xing as the commander of the commander."

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That night.

Xun Yue specially called Sima Yi to his room and took out a large bag of fried pine nuts. The two of them sat cross-legged and started to crack.

"Lingjun is looking for me, there is something wrong."

"Why did Zhongda ask clearly? It is of course a good thing to manage the Western Regions, but as soon as officials arrive in the Western Regions, they will be promoted to two levels. This move greatly undermined the political balance between the court. How should we, the scholars of the Central Plains, gain a foothold in the future?"

"Lingjun was joking, didn't the emperor say that the roads in the Western Regions are far away, the wind and sand are strong, and the border is hard and tired. It is better to give some treatment to go. Think about it, it is reasonable."

"Zhongda, you are pretending to be confused. The separatist rule of the court will change."

Sima Yi smiled while eating pine nuts, "Isn't it that Ling Jun, isn't it just Zhuge Liang? Although I don't know how he got into the eyes of the emperor, he came too late. We both came to power when we killed Cao Hong. How can we achieve this kind of success in the future? Your qualifications are all here. In addition, although Ling is not in the court now, his influence on the government has not diminished. With your current status, the civil servants have already reached the top. With him, Zhuge Liang, threaten you?"

"Ha, Zhongda, you think you're too despised me. Do you think I have dissent to this matter only for personal political interests? I'm for the sake of our great Han Dynasty for thousands of generations!"

Sima Yi smiled when he saw this and continued to eat pine nuts without saying anything.

"You have to continue to pretend to be confused, right? Well, then I will understand this matter with you. First of all, now Yizhou and Yangzhou are not yet determined, Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Zhao Wei, Yuan Shang, and Gongsun Du are all there, and the world has not been unified, but they are so anxious to manage the Western Regions. Isn't this unwise?

Although the Xianbei outside the Great Wall has been divided since Tan Shihuai's death, I heard that Ke Bi Neng is currently extremely prestigious among the Xianbei and has been called Tan Shihuai by some Xianbei people! Now when I go to manage the Western Regions, who knows what the Xianbei will react? What if it is really unified? Zhongda, Tan Shihuai's lessons are not far away, and its momentum is not much worse than that of the Huns back then. If the second Tan Shihuai really comes out, it will be a great shock to the country!"

Sima Yi smiled and said, "Zhao Xi Sun Quan, the dead bones in the tomb, Yuan Shang Gongsun, is not worth mentioning. As for Ke Bineng, he is not the second Tan Shihuai, even if he is Tan Shihuai, His Majesty is not the late emperor. Don't say that he is just a powerful man, even if he is Maodun, he will be resurrected. Is it still afraid that today's great man is not successful? With the emperor's long-term plan, I believe this matter must have been thought about it."

"What about the dynasty? The emperor's current military system, soldiers can go to the imperial guards to eat imperial grain when making military achievements in wars, read a little, read a little, and write, and do a little arithmetic, and become clerks. Liu Da Military Region plus the land of Xuxia and Sanhe, after all the reorganization is completed, it will probably be 800,000! (The six major military regions have 100,000 households, and the three rivers have 200,000 households in total) But you see which one is not happy when you hear the war!"

"Zhongda, the world will eventually be unified, but human desires are endless. If the world is peaceful, they will find every opportunity to fight. There are 36 countries of all sizes in the Western Regions, and even if they are defeated, they will not be able to implement effective governance. Today, they will fight again tomorrow, and it will be endless! Besides, I heard that the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions have a vast world in the west, and there is even a country called Daqin, which has thousands of miles of land, with more than 400 cities, and dozens of people with small countries. Do you still have to fight? Zhongda, even if the country is big, it will be destroyed if you are warlike."

Sima Yi laughed even happier and deliberately sarcastically~ He said, "So that's it. Hey, this is the case in the court. Two thousand stones are fake than two thousand stones. Wherever you use troops, the weight of speaking is heavy. It can also be said that the more money the government spends, the more authority it has, and the more officials it raises, the higher its status. This is the truth in ancient and modern times."

"Things in the Western Regions will continue to happen all day long. The resources and manpower of the Central Plains will flow continuously to the Western Regions and Liangzhou, and new generals will appear continuously. It will not take a long time. Ten years later, I am afraid that the military generals in the court will always call the Western Regions."

"If we wait a few more years, it may be the most important thing in the court in twenty years and thirty years. If our Central Plains family does not touch the military affairs of the Western Regions for twenty years, it is believed that the weight of speaking will definitely be greatly reduced at that time. If we do not care about military affairs for so long, it will naturally be difficult to be the leader of all officials. On the contrary, Zhuge Liang is highly valued by His Majesty and seems to be a capable person. He will definitely be highly valued when he returns to the court in the Western Regions. He has no family background and must win over those poor families with the same origin as him, or even lower background than him."

Xun Yue smiled bitterly when she heard this: "Just say you are pretending to be confused. Alas, okay, I admit that I have selfishness, but my selfishness is definitely not the reason for me to oppose this strategy. After all, the Western Regions are too far away from the center. If you really use military force for decades, there will be only two results."

"Or, it's a strong branch and a weak trunk, and the entire court and even the entire Han Dynasty will be erected by the Great Protectorate of the Western Regions. Even if the national interests conflict with the interests of the Western Regions, the court must satisfy them. Otherwise, it is very likely that the warlord separatist, which has led to the decades of hard work of the court. It is even impossible for them to simply rebel and counterattack Luoyang."

"Either, the Western Regions send generals and prime ministers to the prime ministers, and those civil and military generals who returned from the Western Regions gradually influenced the situation of the court. At that time, the court will inevitably be transferred to the overall strategy, and will even be kidnapped deeper, until they finally died in war, or because of the internal conflicts of the Western Regions Protectorate, they simply dragged the entire court and buried the entire Han Dynasty together! Zhongda, do you think I am exaggerating?"

Sima Yi was silent when he heard this.

In fact, what Xun Yue said is basically the sorrow of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. These thunders have flowed through the Tang Dynasty in history, and they have indeed exploded. If you move the geographical location of the Anshi Rebellion from the north to the west, it is the same thing. However, Liu Xie's current court has indeed many places, especially the military system, which is quite similar to the early Tang Dynasty.

Seeing that Sima Yi didn't speak, Xun Yue sighed and finally said, "Zhongda, we are all civil servants from the gentry and from the Central Plains. The reason why we can still participate in military service is because the world has not yet been pacified, and the emperor likes to command the commander in person. That's all, what does this war in the Western Region have to do with you and me? To be honest, Zhuge Liang and I are not the same generation at all. I think he is simply looking at the younger generation. He wants to be a pillar minister, but it will take more than ten years later. It is not certain whether I am here or not. How can he be my opponent? But what about you, Zhongda?"

"Hey, you were born in Hanoi, and I was born in Yingchuan. I know that the Sanhe gentry now has vaguely led you. However, whether it is Yingchuan or Sanhe, we are all aristocratic families in the Central Plains, and we have been based on poetry, calligraphy and etiquette for generations. After all, we are still a family? Wen Ruo has told me many times, saying that we Yingchuan people now occupy too many positions in the court. It is not good for such a family to dominate."

"There is no difference between the aristocratic families in Jingzhao, Sanhe, Yingchuan, Nanyang and other places. In fact, we have always been deliberately blurring the existence of the so-called Yingchuan school. In fact, among the civil and military officials in the dynasty, no matter how from relationships, qualifications, ability and even age, can you, Sima Zhongda be the one who can do it?"

"There is something you may not know yet. I remember that your fourth brother Sima Dao seems to be unmarried yet, right?"

Sima Yi smiled bitterly: "No, I told him that Lu Bu's daughter is a wife before, isn't it a matter of nothing?"

"Hi, it's also a miserable life. My niece is also a miserable life. She married Xiahou Dun's son Xiahou Qing. As a result...Hi, I'm not afraid to say it out loud. Xiahou Qing was killed by me, and they are all miserable people. I plan to betroth my niece to Ling. Our two families can be considered a marriage. What do you want?"

Sima Yi was stunned for a moment.

This... is the Yingchuan faction going to merge with the Sanhe faction, or is it that I was eager to form a political alliance so early to suppress the poor civilian faction? The Western Region faction still has no shadow.

"Is this... what do you mean, or what Lao Lingjun means?"

"Your Sima's younger brother is also a phoenix. Wenruo has always praised you and the family tradition of your Sima family and admired him very much. My niece has been married for a few days and has become a widow. How could Wenruo not want him to have a good home?"

Sima Yi lowered his head and continued to eat pine nuts, but he did not agree to him immediately.

I believe you!

Will Xun Wenruo's daughter be worried about marrying? Isn't it nonsense? Not to mention being a widow, even if she is a husband, I am afraid that the team that proposes marriage can be lined up from Yingchuan to Runan.

With Xun Yu's steady nature, how could he do such a thing? It's obvious that you are so impatient and provocative.

But of course, if they can really marry Xun, they will be on the top of the Sima family and they will definitely be happy secretly. Moreover, Sima Yi really felt threatened by Zhuge Liang.

Or in other words, Zhuge Liang originally poses the greatest threat to him, but he is very small to Xun Yue.

So Sima Yi ate Songzier for a while and said, "When I go back, I will take my father to the door to Lao Lingjun to express my sincerity. Let's talk about it more formally. As for the Western Regions affairs, can we still stop what the emperor believes to do? Or should we persuade him to change his mind? If he can really persuade him, you don't have to ask me to eat pine nuts."

"Or, I just want to find a way to interfere with it, and try to make this Western Region Protectorate just like the previous dynasty, just like the Luntai army. In this way, it will not cost much money and cannot do anything big."

"Or, to be honest, even if the children of our aristocratic families learn from Zhuge Liang, they will defend the country and guard the border, and eat the sand for several years to practice."

"Our disciple...oh, I'm afraid this..."

"It's okay, can you share the worries of the country? I think Pei Qian is quite suitable. Why don't you send him to be a deputy general for Cao Chun. Based on my understanding of him, maybe he will be really happy."

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Chapter completed!