"yes." Sun Ce picked up the bowl and took a big bite. The taste of the food was average, but looking at He Kui uncomfortable, he had a kind of excitement that his prank had succeeded, and his appetite was great. "How do you feel about your feet, can you still swallow it?"

He Kui nodded very reluctantly. "Uh...... Fair. ”

"Then eat more. The foot is burly, and the amount of food must be not small. "Sun Ce is very satisfied." I have long admired the name of the foot, and I have a lot of questions to ask, and I am willing to talk with the foot at night. ”

He Kui was silent for a moment, and said with a forced smile: "Thank you for the general's mistaken love, but Kui has mundane affairs, and he is not accustomed to the military camp, so it is inconvenient to stay for a long time, and I ask the general to forgive me." I take the liberty of bothering the general today, and next time I will pay a tribute. ”

Sun Ce sighed, the smile on his face dissipated, and he was very sorry. "I heard that Ling Zu once rode the military with Dasi Nong's chariot and conquered the Huns, and I yearned for it. If there is chaos today, the Huns are ready to move, and they want to chase the stories of the former sages and expel the Huns, but they are entangled in important tasks and can't ask for benefits, which is a pity. ”

He Kui's eyes were puzzled, and he couldn't tell the truth from the fake for a while. "General, the Central Plains is undecided, how can you use troops to merge states?"

"Yes, the Son of Heaven moved westward, and the Central Plains Prefecture and County fought their own battles, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, so it was indeed difficult to take care of the northwest. Even if the world is initially decided, the household registration is depleted, and the Northern Expedition is rushed, I am afraid that it will inevitably be difficult for Emperor Gaozu to level the city, and every time I think of this, I can't sleep. I think that my Chinese clothes are attacked and trampled by Hulu, even if there are delicacies from the mountains and seas, they are tasteless and difficult to swallow. ”

Sun Ce was originally just talking and playing, using the matter of He Kui's great-ancestor He Xi to ridicule He Kui. He Xi was a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Emperor, and the era of the Han Dynasty and the Emperor can be said to be the last glory of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the economy, politics, and military reaching its peak, which can be called the prosperous era of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then began to decline. Some scholars in later generations analyzed that the prosperity and decline are only the appearance, and in the final analysis, the so-called prosperity is often the accumulation of various contradictions to a certain extent, and the beginning of the positive role to the negative.

For example, the increase in population. For an agrarian society, only when the population increases, will the social wealth increase, and only then can there be enough manpower and material resources to conquer foreign countries. But population growth also means a shortage of land, and with land annexation, the sprouts of displacement are already sprouting.

For example, Confucianism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. On the one hand, it strengthened the centralization of power and made the imperial court more efficient, but the centralization of power also gave some interest groups the opportunity to control power, and the struggle for power between relatives and foreign dynasties began to appear. After more than 200 years of hard work, when they finally saw hope, they found that the nearest relative to the emperor had picked the peaches first.

There is another influence of Confucianism that cannot be ignored, that is, the disappearance of martial arts. Because of social stability, there are few wars, it is almost impossible to enter the military with military exploits, and it is far less convenient than studying, the scholar class has turned to Confucianism, the atmosphere of Yunwen and Yunwu has gradually faded, and it is no longer a good story to put pen to paper, and the emphasis on literature and light on military force has begun to appear.

The He family is also one of the representatives. He Xi once led an army to conquer the Xiongnu, but his children and grandchildren were all Confucian scholars, with the torso of a great husband, but his spirit gradually weakened. By He Zeng's generation, he had degenerated into hypocrites.

Sun Ce deeply regretted this, and when he saw He Kui's appearance as a moral gentleman, he was angry, and wanted to make fun of him, but as soon as the words came out, he thought of the Wuhu chaos after the Civil War in the Central Plains, and his mood was really not good, and there was a little more sincerity in the joke, and his fighting spirit really turned into anger.

He Kui was unconscious, and chuckled: "The general is worried about the world, which is admirable, but I think the general is a little worried." The Xiongnu have been in decline for nearly a hundred years, and now they are just a guard dog raised by the imperial court, how can they be compared with the Xiongnu during the Qin and Han dynasties. Even if there was some loss in the Central Plains, the Huns would not be enough to help. ”

Sun Ce's eyes flashed, and he gently put the dishes and chopsticks in his hand on the table, with a solemn expression. He originally had some respect for He Kui, but when he heard this sentence at this moment, he suddenly realized that he was thinking badly. The change of the atmosphere is not a day, the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties has never risen suddenly, there has long been a consensus in the academic circles, the so-called Qing talk comes from the Qing discussion of the late Han Dynasty scholars, the difference is only not to talk about state affairs, more pragmatic. However, the scholars of the late Han Dynasty were so pragmatic, they held a few scriptures to guide the country, but they refused to open their eyes to see the real world.

He Kui in front of him is a typical example, he felt that the Huns were not enough for national trouble, but he forgot that the Huns were the most deep into the Han border among the ethnic minorities, and with the blessing of the doves headed by Yuan An, they not only got the benefits of Han farming, but also retained the nature of nomads. When the Xiongnu admired the culture of the Central Plains and wanted to further integrate into the Chinese nation, the scholars of the Central Plains were arrogant and still regarded them as Yidi, and refused to accept the best of the Huns, which forced Liu Yuan to rebel, occupy the annexed states, and establish Zhao Han.

It is ironic that the scholars abandoned Liu Han, but the Huns claimed to be descendants of Liu Han.

The more Sun Ce thought about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but say, "Dare to ask how much you are doing?" ”

He Kui's eyes flickered and he pursed his lips, thinking that Sun Ce had the idea of marriage. The Sun family is from a poor family, and if you want to be among the Shilin, marriage is the best way. If he hadn't married Yuan Shu's daughter, he wouldn't have been where he is today. And he heard that Sun Ce is lustful, although he has not officially married a wife, he has already accepted a few concubines, Feng Fang was originally a mediocre person, but he was favored as a woman, and now he is in Yingchuan Tuntian. Although Qiao Rui's two daughters are young, they have national colors, which is quite liked by Sun Ce, so they can also be tuntian Dangshan. But he didn't feel like marrying the Sun family, he couldn't afford to lose that person, and the Yangxia He family couldn't afford to lose this person.

"Kui is not confused just now, and he has not yet had a son and a half daughter."

Sun Ce was stunned, feeling that He Kui's answer was inexplicable. He glanced at He Kui, and saw He Kui tilting his head slightly, stroking his beard and sneering, with obvious disdain on his face, and then understood what he meant, and immediately became furious. You think I want to marry your family? Wrong, I want to make your family last. Since He Zeng's bastard hasn't been born yet, don't give birth.

"I see." Sun Ce sneered: "That's not a bad thing. ”

The smile on He Kui's face suddenly froze. is not confused when he is close and has no heirs, this is not something to be proud of, there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great. His face sank, and his serious-looking face was like an iron plate, cold and hard.

"Why did the general say that?"

"Without him, just for the sake of his feet." Sun Ce unhurriedly raised two fingers. "If you don't enter the official career, you don't govern the industry, you don't have the ability to stand up, you must rely on the ancestral industry and send food. If you can be diligent and thrifty, with the accumulation of generations of ancestors of the He family, you must be able to support a period of time, but you don't get tired of eating, you don't get tired of detail, and you live a very delicate life. This is one of them; Although I am not confused when I am young, I can only talk about moral articles, but I don't understand the original intention of the sage, and I don't know that the world is difficult. Even if you give birth to a son, you may not be able to teach. This is also the second. If you are born but you can't raise it, and you can't teach it, it's better not to give birth to these two things. ”