Chapter 402: Greedy Humanity

After Tengshan County, the official road was straight and wide again, Zhang Xiaowu was pleasantly surprised to find that the width of the official road can accommodate four carriages side by side. Moreover, the highway of Shenghan does not charge tolls, and some idle people are staring at the convoy of big people on the side of the road, speculating which big man is this.

For the ghost guard and his party, the people talked about it more, especially the closer they got to Longdu Mansion, the more people watched the excitement, after all, no one is more familiar with the romance of "Ghost General" than the people near Longdu Mansion.

"Is that the famous Ghost Guard?"

"Look at their armor and blades, they are truly mighty."

"I think it's more majestic than the forbidden army."

"But their flags - how are they skulls? It's scary. ”

"Is it because of their flag that they are called Ghost Guards?"

"I heard that the ghost will be a foot tall, with a mouth like a silver basin, and can eat a child in one bite. Can you help me see if the ghost will be in there? ”

"It's definitely there, but I've never seen a person with a height of one foot in my life, and I guess I haven't seen it in my previous life, so it's as high as the city wall of the county, how can there be such a tall person."

"Why not, I heard that the people in the north are so tall."

"Don't talk nonsense, the people have been defeated by the ghost guards."

"That's why I said that the ghost general is taller than the Devil Man."

Some young children sang nursery rhymes: "Ghost guard is good, ghost guard stick, ghost will be the strongest in martial arts!" ”

Wang Yijin was beside Zhang Xiaowu and grinned: "General, general, they all praise you." ”

"Shh......h You talk to disturb me, listen to how they praise me, don't disturb me. Zhang Xiaowu said in a low voice.

Wang Yijin: "General, you're not modest." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I just want to hear how ordinary people evaluate me, but there are so many sycophants that make me fluttering, I can't do it!" That's not possible! As the saying goes, good medicine is good for disease, and good words are good for deeds, and when you hear the true voice of the people, tell me everything. ”

Ruan Qingwen couldn't cry or laugh on the side, and shook his head, although Zhang Xiaowu is a famous general, but after all, he is not very old, and he occasionally has a naughty mentality, but it adds a lot of vividness.

Zhang Xiaowu asked, "Does Mr. Ruan have anything to say?" ”

Ruan Qingwen thought deeply and said: "People don't read well, as long as someone praises you a little on the side, they will think that you are the best person in the world, but if someone arranges with you, they will immediately think that you are a traitor." The voices of the people are actually the most confused voices in the world, because they have no voice, they are just other people's trumpets. ”

Zhang Xiaowu thought about it carefully, it was indeed this truth, and he laughed, since ancient times, people have been easily deceived, saying that they are kind, but they will make stupid decisions, if they are hateful, they are grateful for the kindness of some people.

"The people are water, but water is also divided into desert springs and monstrous floods." Zhang Xiaowu followed his words and concluded, "If it is good for them, they are a sweet spring in the desert, but if it is not good for them, they will become a monstrous flood." ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "A person who is an official is a person who manages the people, and as a person who manages people, how can he be good to the people everywhere." I remember more than ten years ago in Bingzhou, there was a place called Jinzhang County, where golden cicadas were abundant. The golden cicada is actually an aphrodisiac, and after eating it, the man is fierce and fierce, and it has become the most popular tonic in Longdu City for a while. Some people slandered that Jinzhang County should offer more golden cicadas, so Emperor Taiqian issued a holy decree, which provoked a popular uprising. It is not easy to catch a golden cicada, but if it is so easy to catch, how can it compare to the price of gold? But the nobles didn't know how difficult it was for the people to catch the golden cicada they took for granted. What should you do if you are the prime minister? Will you stop it, or will you pretend to be confused? ”

Zhang Xiaowu naturally knows this story, because Hu Li is one of the protagonists in this story, and he is also a survivor of the Jinzhang County Massacre.

But he thought about it again, the decision to force the people of Jinzhang County to capture a large number of golden cicadas should not only be the emperor's idea, but the overall needs of the nobles of Jingshi. If the prime minister blocks this holy decree, he will not only offend the emperor, but also offend the officials, so will the people remember the prime minister's merits?

The people of Jinzhang County are far away from the temples, and the people of Longdu City do not care about the life and death of the people in other places at all, so no one will remember the heroes who prevented the imperial court from implementing tyranny. Naturally, the people of Jinzhang County were killed, and it became a matter of course that the people of Longdu remembered that the border people were ignorant and rebelled against the imperial court, and the high-ranking officials of the Shi clan just thought that they had killed a group of mobs.

Ruan Qingwen saw that Zhang Xiaowu's face was cloudy and fell into contemplation, so he sighed slightly, and said in a deep tone: "There is a contradiction, called the contradiction between the ruler and the ruled, they are naturally opposed, the ruler needs the ruled to provide food, wine, power and land, and the ruled needs the ruler to provide wisdom, faith, benefits and force, so they are interdependent. At this time, the world was in turmoil, and the new dynasty was established to implement benevolent government, and after hundreds of years, the new dynasty was in a state of twilight, and the nobles persecuted the people again for their own selfishness, and so on. ”

Zhang Xiaowu listened carefully and said, "Could this be the end of all dynasties?" ”

Ruan Thanh Van said: "Throughout history, no dynasty has escaped this law. ”

"But what if the dynastic system is no longer there, and the old king recommends a more capable new king to ascend the throne and restore the Zen concession system?" Zhang Xiaowu asked, the so-called Zen system, that is, the modern state system, of course he will not put the modern system stupidly in the current era of imperial rule, forcibly reverse the times, and will only end up being trampled on like Wang Mang.

Ruan Qingwen laughed: "That's impossible, anyone has to hand over power to their son, for a man, the most important thing in his life is to make his bloodline power perpetuate." The reason why the Shi clan appeared was because the Shi Taizu knew that human nature was greedy, and he gave some people the opportunity to consolidate their power forever, so the Shi clan supported the Shi Taizu and made him a saint. For 5,000 years, the history of the Central Plains was the Zen concession system, but the historical records record that the Zen concession system caused the chaos of the ancient Central Plains, and the ancient countries were divided into hundreds of countries, attacking each other for hundreds of years, resulting in the population of the Central Plains plummeting to more than 100,000 people. General, don't underestimate the greed of human nature, some people are greedy for money, some people are lustful, some people are greedy for power, some people are fetish, as long as they are human, they are all greedy. ”

"There are no saints?"

"The saint is greedy for fame."

"Hahaha......"

While the two were talking, the ghost guard and his entourage finally arrived at the capital of the Holy Han Empire, the most prosperous city in the world, the core of the Holy Han Empire, Longdu Mansion.