Fall In Love with the Technology Tree - Chapter 180

    The Little People

    In the past, Chen Gong often persuaded Cao Cao and Cao Ang not to give power to their brothers too much, so they were hated by Wei Wu and his son. But Chen Gong still went his own way. At that time, Cao Sheng was still alive, so he dared to speak nonsense and persecuted him in front of him at the Chinese New Year banquet. Finally, Cao Cao, who couldn’t bear it, found an excuse to remove him from his official position.

    After the festival, before Cao Ang went to take office as the prefect of Jiujiang, he said goodbye to Cao Sheng at the long pavilion, and asked, “I’m going to travel alone, what does the second uncle have to teach me?”

    Cao Sheng said, “Why do you think Chen Gong was demoted?”

    Cao Ang replied: “Chen Gong always thinks that all people in the world are villains, and they think about things out of malice. When such a person is on the side of the monarch, the monarch will become suspicious and narrow-minded, That’s why my father alienated him.”

    Cao Sheng asked: “Do you think that if you learn the principles of a gentleman and don’t doubt your brothers at will, you are better than Chen Gong?”

    Cao Ang quickly left his seat and stood up, standing with his hands down.

    Cao Sheng sighed: “You think that your father and uncle are both gentlemen, and they can work together in the face of the temptation of power. It is the demeanor of an eldest brother, but if you think that your children and grandchildren can act like gentlemen, you are foolish. Governing a country, you don’t worry about the gentleman, but about the villains. We took pains to write Is the law, the establishment of the system, to guard against the gentleman? No, it is to manage the villain. Preventing and responding to possible disasters is the incumbent duty of the ruler, rather than being bound by morality and ashamed to talk about it.

    “So Chen Gong can worry about the villain because of his value as a minister. It just depends on how the monarch uses him.”

    So Cao Ang went to Dongwuyang, Chen Gong’s hometown, and invited him to come out. Cao Ang waited in Dongwuyang for five days before impressing Chen Gong, who was disheartened because of his dismissal.

    Chen Gong followed Cao Ang to the prefect of Jiujiang, and it was not inappropriate to handle the relationship between the local clans. The wealthy families in the south are xenophobic, and they conspired to frame Cao Ang many times, but they were all discovered by Chen Gong.

    Chen Gong lived into his seventies. Before he died, Cao Ang personally went to visit him and thanked him for his early protection achievements. Chen Gong lay on the couch, took Cao Ang’s hand and wept bitterly: “Where can I get your Majesty to thank me? It should be me thanking Your Majesty. Because of my bad temper, I am arrogant and proud of myself, and offend me. Many people. I thought that this life would definitely die in vain, and it is all thanks to the integrity of Taizong and His Majesty that we can end well.”

    In this story, Cao Sheng called Chen Gong a “little person”, which was originally a neutral word, used in the long monarchy to describe Chen Gong as direct, The pure and lonely ministers who have offended many people. In the late Wei Dynasty and the early Yan Dynasty, the person who considered the villain was often used to refer to the head of the intelligence agency. After entering modern society, the meaning of this idiom has shifted again, and now we often use “conspiracy theorists” to satirize conspiracy theorists. Especially after the advent of the Internet age, “the villain” has completely become a derogatory term.

    The Fool of White House

    Sun Ce is Wei Wu’s son-in-law and Wei Xuan’s brother-in-law.

    Sun Ce was born handsome and good-looking since he was a boy, and his personality is broad-minded and laughable, so he is very popular. But when he was fourteen years old, his father Sun Jian was hunted by all parties for taking the lead in attacking Luoyang and discovering the jade seal of Chuan Guo, and finally died on Yuan Shu’s territory.

    In order to avenge his father, Sun Ce defected to his fiancee’s father, Cao Cao, who occupied Qingzhou Pingyuan County at that time. Cao Cao admired Sun Ce’s courage, not only kept his marriage contract and married his eldest daughter to him, but also offered him to study and practice martial arts.

      At that time, it was only the prefect of Jiujiang.

    Although Sun Ce was good at fighting, he was called Lu Zhi at that time.

    When chasing Yuan Shu, he was eager for revenge and almost robbed Cao Ang of the achievement of “Killing Yuan Shu”. This is one of them.

    When Cao Cao asked him which fief he wanted, he bluntly said that he wanted Lujiang, which was the closest to his hometown. This was the second.

    When the turmoil of Cao Sheng’s adoption was raging, many of Cao Cao’s sons and daughters dared not get close to Cao Sheng, only Sun Ce gave him gifts and invited him to live in Lujiang. three.

    Sun Ce later conquered two counties in Yangzhou. Someone advised him to stand on his own, but he didn’t listen. Someone advised him to dedicate the city to the Cao family, but he didn’t listen. Instead, he indulged in collecting lake stones and building a garden for his mother in Fuchun. As a result, less than half a month after the start of construction, he had a bad relationship with people because he invaded the hidden fields of the local family, and asked Cao Ang and Zhou Yu to take care of the aftermath for him. This is the fourth.

    The list goes on and on.

    But both Cao Cao and Cao Ang love him, even if he occasionally made taboos, he never punished him.

    When Cao Ang was in power, some people flattered the emperor and belittled Sun Ce in front of Cao Ang, saying that he “has the courage of a man and is stupid in politics”.

    Cao Ang replied: “I want Sun Lang’s stupidity so much, but I don’t have that kind of talent. Sun Lang’s stupidity is like Bai Zhu, who usually runs rampant, but there are real dangerous cliffs. , he will not approach; when he really needs to fight for his life, he will not hesitate at all. This kind of dullness is like the peach blossom in spring and the firefly in summer, always just right and lovable, I want to pass the acquired Thinking can do it, and Bo Fu is born with it, how enviable it is.”

    Sun Ce has been in Jiangdong for 30 years and has great power. Every year, there are memorials to impeach him, but they are all suppressed by Cao Ang. At the age of fifty, he really took the initiative to return Jiangdong’s government affairs to Cao Ang, which made a good story.

    The officials of the imperial court checked Jiangdong’s account books and found that Sun Ce did not do a single thing that violated the law during his term of office. Although his sons were of noble birth, they were all self-disciplined and honest. Amazing.

    This story has derived an idiom called “The Foolishness of Bai Zhe”, which is often used to describe people who are confused about small things and sober in big things, or who seem to be acting out of line but actually have a bottom line. In the early days, it was also used to describe people who are intuitive, but this usage is rare.

    Another idiom from this story is “spring flowers and summer fireflies”, which refers to things that make people love.

    Note: Bai Zhu is the giant panda.

    The author has something to say: The idioms involved in this chapter are all made up, please pay attention to the distinction.