Sima Fang should be worried.

He couldn't help but worry.

In fact, he started to worry more than two years ago, but he has been even more worried recently.

Because he was very optimistic at one time, Xun Yu, the son of the Xun family of Yingchuan who recommended his son Sima Lang, was guilty of treason and was killed.

Sima Lang was recommended by Xun Yu to become an official, which was not easy.

Sima Fang found Cao Cao through his own relationship, and Cao Cao came forward to mediate to Xun Yu, and then Xun Yu recommended him to Sima Lang as an official.

The Sima family was very happy at that time.

The Sima family is not a traditional scholar family, nor is it a standard scholar family that passes on to family poetry and books, but a scholar family that has transformed from a military general family. It was considered to be a monk halfway through and did not start studying until Sima Fang's father's generation. It was a complete military general family before.

It was not until Sima Fang's generation that the Sima family of Hanoi officially entered the house and transformed into a scholar's family.

The Sima family can be said to be a goalkeeper.

However, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, if you say that people are growing, they may not be happy.

So the Sima family was very unhappy.

After several generations, a family of wealthy families have been considered to be a wealthy family for generations, but because they were from military generals, they were not accepted by scholars. They could only do their best to study and transform. Finally, Sima Fang's generation basically completed the transformation from generals to gentry.

Sima Fang had eight sons, known as Sima Bada. He started studying and studying since childhood. He no longer chose the path of military generals, but instead worked hard to study.

If you do not join the army, you will take the path of becoming a filial and honest official, and move towards a more pure family of scholars.

Only when the military generals have no future, the scholars have a future. This is the general trend.

This is clear to several generations of the Sima family, and everyone is moving in this direction.

Earlier, after Guo Peng captured Hanoi, the Sima family returned to Hanoi from the shelter to live.

At that time, Han Hao, the prefect of Hanoi, took a fancy to Sima Lang's talent and was willing to recruit him as an official, but Sima Lang refused Han Hao's call.

What a joke, what qualifications do a mere prefect of Hanoi and a local tyrant person have to be the leader of the Sima family?

After being summoned by you, you will become your old official and run for you all your life. No matter how hard you are, you must consider whether you have enough weight?

The Sima family has abandoned such great efforts to transform into a gentry. Now they have finally seen the dawn. How can they reduce their status and accept the call from a prefect who is a powerful landlord?

So Sima Lang rejected Han Hao with the support of Sima Fang.

Sima Fang once recommended Cao Cao to be an official in the Northern Territory during his tenure, and he was kind to Cao Cao. He was one of the few scholars and officials who were willing to interact with the Cao family at that time. According to political rules, Cao Cao wanted to repay his kindness, and Cao Cao also remembered this kindness.

So when Sima Fang found Cao Cao and asked Cao Cao to mediate for Sima Lang, Cao Cao was not easy to refuse.

The Sima family hopes to be recommended by famous gentry. It would be the best if it was the gentry in Yingchuan. It would be the best if it was to hold the thighs of the Yingchuan gentry. In the future, it would be the best if it was a child of the Sima family to marry the daughter of the Yingchuan gentry. Then it would be able to openly penetrate the internal circle of the Yingchuan gentry.

Cao Cao and Chen had not had that good relationship. At that time, the Zhong family was not under Guo Peng's command, so there was only Xun family.

Cao Cao had some friendship with Xun Yu before, so he found Xun Yu, who was still the second-in-commander of the government office at that time and was in a high position and powerful position. He hoped that Xun Yu could summon Sima Lang as his subordinate and a little support for the Sima family.

Xun Yu himself didn't have much idea. Judging from his previous friendships and the identity of Cao Xun as Guo Peng's wife and brother-in-law, he thought that he could not refute Cao Cao's face, otherwise he would not be able to meet in the future.

It happened that Xun Yu was planning to support a group of children of Yingchuan scholars, so he made a small effort to help Sima family, summon Sima Lang to become the official, and became Sima Lang's leader, and included Sima Lang in the category of the former Xun family official.

Han Hao had a shallow face, and Sima could still refuse. How great Xun Yu was, Sima was ecstatic and asked Sima Lang to pay homage to his leader.

So Sima Lang started to do business under Xun Yu's command.

The Sima family thought that a good day had finally come, but finally allowed the Sima family to enter the circle of the wealthy families of Yingchuan, and could get rid of the embarrassing identity of being a general.

So when they were about to make great achievements and then pushed Sima Lang's second brother Sima Yi into the category of Xun's former official, the incident of Guo Peng's advance to Duke Wei broke out.

In this incident, Xun Yu made a mistake in taking the lead and clearly opposed Guo Peng's advance to Duke Wei, which was alienated and politically attacked by Guo Peng.

Soon, Xun Yu fell out of favor, lost all his power, lost his important position in the Guo Wei group, and was exiled politically.

And more importantly, as a minister summoned by Xun Yu, as long as he does not rebel and follows the rules in the officialdom, he must follow the leader clearly.

Xun Yu cheated more than one subordinate and a group of fools who were also hot-headed. But Sima Lang was not a fool. He knew that this thing could not be done.

He did want to invade the Yingchuan gentry group, but there was a prerequisite, that is, Guo Peng, as the person in power, would reuse the Yingchuan gentry group and give them power.

After working in Guowei Group for a while, Sima Lang suddenly discovered that the Yingchuan Scholars Group was not the most powerful under Guo Peng's command. The Qingyan Scholars, Jizhou Scholars and even the Han Scholars were very powerful under Guo Peng's command. The Yingchuan Scholars were actually weak.

He did not receive any preferential treatment because Guo Peng's ancestral home was also in Yingchuan.

He thought that as time went by, the Yingchuan scholars could have the advantage, but who would have thought that a failed positioning would cause a heavy blow to the little power that the Yingchuan scholars had just accumulated.

Sima Lang was in a dilemma at that time, his younger brother Sima Yi, who was traveling in Yecheng at that time, thought of a way to help him.

"Brother, now it's a time for Sima to survive and die. There's only one way to go for the elder brother."

Sima Yi told Sima Lang what to do, so Sima Lang nodded with difficulty.

After a wave of operations, Sima Lang successfully caught a severe cold and couldn't get up in bed, and successfully survived that period.

The political disaster has passed, but this disease is real and almost killed Sima Lang.

Fortunately, Hua Tuo was there, and Hua Tuo took action and pulled Sima Lang back from the Gate of Ghost.

It's a blessing that this is a real illness, not a pretender. Sima Lang spent three months recuperating and survived the blow of public opinion. He was lucky enough to enter the Wei Duke's Mansion, and was not politically exiled with Xun Yu and his colleagues.

Even so, Sima Lang was criticized by his behavior of being an old official of Xun's family, who did not advance and retreat with the leader.

Whether you are sick or not, you just didn't follow.

At that time, Xun Yu had not been slandered as a rebel minister by Guo Peng, but it was just a dispute over the line. As a subordinate of Xun Yu, Sima Lang should follow his master to advance and retreat together. As a result, he not only did not follow Xun Yu to advance and retreat together, but instead took advantage of this to enter the newly formed Wei Duke Mansion.

This has to make some people feel unhappy when they see Sima Lang, and criticize him everywhere, slander him, exclude him, and isolate him.

Two months later, Sima Lang was forced to resign and returned to his hometown in Hanoi to avoid accusations.

Because following Xun Yu to resist Guo Peng...

He would rather not be an official than be an official.

At least we must leave a glimmer of life for the Sima family. We cannot cheat all of his seven younger brothers just because of his reputation alone. Wouldn’t that be fatal?

This time, the Sima family saw some tricks and knew that no one under the command of Duke Wei could compete with Duke Wei's power. As famous as Xun Yu, he would be demoted. He finally got involved in the circle of the Yingchuan gentry, but happened to run into Guo Peng to attack the Yingchuan gentry and became inappropriate.

Sima Lang's reputation and future were covered with a thick shadow, and he was depressed because of this.

However, the overall goal of the Sima family has not changed. They still yearn to get involved in the circle of top gentry and successfully complete the family's gorgeous transformation, avoiding the current embarrassing situation.

Sima's family is passionate about fame, power and status, and has become a typical scholar's family in terms of mentality.

So Sima Fang took Sima Yi with a look of shame and found Cao Cao again and met Cao Cao. He hoped that Cao Cao could help the Sima family and not let the Sima family really find a way to become an official. Then wouldn’t the Sima family be too miserable?
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