Chapter 180
Chapter 180
Guangling Chen Mansion.
Chen Kan, who is already very old, is playing the piano.
Chen Kan was also a man in the officialdom in his early years, and even once served as the governor of the state, but the Chen family was at odds with the Sima family who controls the world today, and now he can only stay at home.
Chen Kan is not the main branch of the Chen family, but he is close in blood to the main branch. His branch has produced many useful disciples, and its development is not bad.
"Master Lang, I went to the gate of the city today to check, and the caravan hasn't arrived yet." The housekeeper said respectfully.
Chen Kan has two legitimate sons and three concubine sons, but they are no longer here. They either stay in the Yingchuan tribe or live together in Luoyang. They have only lived in Guangling alone in recent years.One is that the climate here is warm and humid, which is suitable for him to take care of the elderly. The other is that he once worked in Guangling when he was young and stayed there for a long time. There are many old friends here, and they live comfortably.
Chen Kan and Guo Yan had a good friendship. He also heard that Guo Yan offended the Sima clan impulsively, and in the end he acted as a pawn for the Luoyang family but was abandoned. Originally, Chen Kan thought that Guo Yan's son might be asking for help, but who knew that? The idiot spent more than ten years in Luoyang, except for giving birth to a child, he didn't do anything serious.
Chen Kan is not the kind of person who rushes to help because of the friendship of old friends.
However, a letter was sent to let Chen Kan know that the son of an old friend did not know the existence of this connection, but what about sending the second son to study?You know, the Yingchuan Chen family has never been known for their knowledge, and the children of the clan are often sent to other families to be disciples.
But everyone has been sent here, for the sake of this old relationship, he will naturally take good care of it.
When You Hongyin came to Guangling with the caravan, he felt that this place was very different from Luoyang.
In fact, You Hongyin is very strange, why this person from the Chen family in Yingchuan lived in Guangling. You must know that the Chen family belongs to a noble family in the north, and has something to do with Guangling, an important military town in the south.
Although most of the journey with the caravan was by water and there were fewer checkpoints, the distance between the two places was far away. In addition, the caravan stopped along the way, and it took more than two months to reach the destination. Yin suffered a lot.
Although Guangling is also a gathering place for business and trade, there are few barbarian people, most of them are caravans of the Han nationality. This place is rich in salt and iron tea, but these important materials are not owned by the government, but controlled by the local government and powerful. You Hongyin feels that the Chen family With such an important person in the branch sitting here, I am afraid that he will also get a share of it.
Before he and the caravan entered the city, a man dressed as a servant came up to inquire, and You Hongyin stepped forward to answer, the man seemed very surprised.Indeed, going out alone at the age of thirteen or fourteen is too rare in this era of war and chaos.
Following his servants back, You Hongyin went directly to a large manor in the city. This is also the difference between the south and the north. In the south, Ubuds are rarely built, whether it is the common people or the local tyrants, or most of them are attached to the city.
Seeing Chen Kan, You Hongyin knew that this was not one of those thinkers, but a very pragmatic speculator.The Chen family has a long history of learning, and they have learned a lot of vertical and horizontal skills, and it is obvious that Chen Kan in front of him is no exception.
The two parties met and exchanged a few words, and Chen Kan felt that this son was a natural strategist, and he would definitely become a person who stirred up the situation in the future after learning the art of strategizing.
After all, being able to see signs of chaos in the world without knowing much about the aristocratic family is beyond the description of genius and intelligence.
The Guo family really gave up on a thousand-mile horse, and he no longer has the filial demeanor of Cao Wei and Guo Fengxiao!
However, Chen Kan was not happy to see Liexin, and immediately taught him everything. He always had to test and test, but the more people tested him, the more satisfied he was, but he didn't see this little cunning mentioning the matter of apprenticeship.
Mr. Chen Kan was in a bad mood to play the piano in the courtyard early in the morning, and You Hongyin, who was dragged to play chess until midnight at night, had to get up.He was still growing, so he was naturally sleepy, but Chen Kan became more energetic the older he got, and he would die if he didn't sleep much.
You Hongyin smiled helplessly, he just didn't think about whether to get involved with the Chen family, so he has been hesitating these days.
Because he was not sure how he would complete this task.
Troubled times are approaching, and the building will collapse. If order is the key, then you have to go into battle yourself, start from the beginning, and fight hard step by step.Or choose a master and use its power to accomplish your goals, which is easier than doing it yourself.
But You Hongyin's initial plan was actually aimed at the taskers.In the world, there are people like Guo Yuanchang who are fishing for fame. Naturally, there are real hermits with wide sleeves and free running. Get to know these people, untie the knots of the task target, and eliminate the source of resentment.Then he became famous for his writing, and being a real romantic celebrity can be regarded as a famous celebrity through the ages, which convinced Chen Xi wholeheartedly.
However, this method is not very safe.
reason?
The reason is naturally that the chaos is coming, and it may last for many years, and the aristocratic family may not be able to survive in this world intact. Wars are unreasonable and only depend on luck.If you want to survive well and follow the trend, you can only fight for your life with the scourge of war.
Once the future course is determined, it doesn't matter if you make good friends with the Chen family. Now the world's aristocratic families occupy most of the resources, and no matter who dominates the world in the future, governance cannot do without them.Even if it is to open a subject to obtain a scholar, it can only gradually weaken the power of the aristocratic family, and it is impossible to completely replace it.
It is precisely because of this that there are many unprogressive family members in the aristocratic family, and they lead the talkative style. These people are indeed useless to the country and the people, but who can let them reincarnate.
As for borrowing the hands of the Hu people to clean it up, it is not impossible, but you must grasp it carefully and know that all the advanced knowledge today, whether it is classics and history, miscellaneous subjects, or even mathematics, medicine, agriculture and economics, etc., are all in the hands of the aristocratic family. If the aristocratic family is really eliminated, the development of civilization in the entire Central Plains may be set back a hundred years, and some inheritances may even be wiped out.
You Hongyin didn't want this kind of situation to happen, so it is necessary to make friends with the aristocratic family, no matter from any aspect, but in the process of making friends, you need to choose.
In the end, under Chen Kan's secretly smug eyes, You Hongyin completed his apprenticeship. Because it was a formal apprenticeship, Chen Kan made up the formal ceremony later, and sent a post to invite a banquet to inform Guangling's friends, and then wrote to Guo's Chen Kan. Shi.
Then You Hongyin started his study career.
In the next few months, the five tribes of the Xiongnu really gathered in Hedong Zahu and went south. The Hongnong Shangdang were defeated one after another, and they could only shrink back in the city, unable to stop the Hu people from going south. In just half a month, the Hu people surrounded Luoyang .
Chen Kan had written to him earlier, but obviously, his letter did not attract attention, and even if it attracted attention, several sons who had already served as officials would not listen.
Because the Hu people will not besiege Luoyang for a long time, they are also afraid of being intercepted in the rear. After all, Hongnong and Shangdang have not been completely conquered, and there are still remaining troops.
Chen Kan sighed and didn't care anymore.
No matter how chaotic Luoyang is, as long as the barbarians do not break the city, then the Chen family, as a powerful family, will be fine. Now, he is beyond his reach, and can only wait and see the aftermath.
After all, Chen Kan's status in the Chen family was inferior to that of the main branch, and at the same time, his understanding of the current situation was not as fast as that in Luoyang, so he would not impose his own ideas on others.
"Congyue, are you worried about your family?" Even though he was underage, Chen Kan took the word for You Hongyin at the teacher apprenticeship ceremony to show his closeness.
Ziyue comes from Shixi, so the word Congyue is taken.
"That's not true. I have reminded my father about this when I came here, so we should make arrangements." You Hongyin said.
"Oh? So you have already concluded that troubled times will arise so early?" Chen Kan asked.
He knew that this son could see the chaos in the world, but he didn't know that he could see the crisis in Luoyang so clearly.
"Actually, it's not a certainty." You Hongyin said, if you let him start from the actual information in his hands, it is not difficult to guess that Luoyang will be besieged, and he can roughly guess the time, but it is impossible to determine the precise and specific time. There will be errors.
But, doesn't he have the memory of Chen Xiquan?
But it can't be explained in this way, so You Hongyin said: "The weather was not good at that time, and there were signs of drought in Bingzhou, so the autumn harvest must not be rich. Bingzhou is dry, and the grassland is afraid that life will be even worse. They have the habit of going south to plunder, and after the autumn harvest, the weather suddenly turns cold, presumably if the Xiongnu do not plunder, they will not be able to survive the winter."
"Because the harvest is not good, do you think Shangdang can't stop the Xiongnu?" Chen Kan asked.
"The shepherd of Bingzhou is not a person who is good at fighting. I am afraid that Shangdang's troops are insufficient." You Hongyin said.
Chen Kan was very satisfied when he heard this.
You know, this information is known to many people, but how many people can connect the weather, harvest, Huns, Bingzhou state herdsmen, and Shangdang guards together, and then deduce that Luoyang is in danger of being besieged.
Although the world is in chaos, the elites of the gentry should still be unrestrained, and the banquets and banquets will not be missed, and the talks will be held all the time.
Although Luoyang was in a military disaster, it had little to do with Guangling, so here, it is still the same as usual, but there are many fewer merchants, presumably because of the inconvenient transportation due to the war.
Although Chen Kan is the only one living in Guangling's Chen Mansion, he has raised a lot of Qubu family members. Chen Kan has been practicing Qubu for a few years. He started to prepare, and his intuition was not bad.
On the first day of winter, Chen Kan took You Hongyin to visit his friends.
Obviously, the chaos in Luoyang was really not taken seriously by Chen Kan. No matter the troubled times or the peaceful and prosperous times, he had already experienced them, so he really didn't need to care too much.
You Hongyin was quite surprised by his attitude.
Originally, he thought that Chen Kan was a speculator, but now it seems that he is not only a speculator, but also a speculator with excellent vision and excellent patience.
The former is just a matter of both sides, while the latter is a game of the world, and the realm is completely different.
The person Chen Kan brought him to meet may be regarded as a real hermit.
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