When the morning fog rises, it surrounds the high mountains and low hills near Hangzhou, and the company camps are all over the mountains.

The low temperature of the early morning froze the smoke and blood that had been permeating the air not long ago, and the frenzy of war, which had lasted for several days, had fallen silent. At the distance from the besieging barracks to the city wall of Hangzhou, countless corpses, blood, arrows inserted in the ground or corpses, and destroyed siege equipment formed a bright red and pale intertwined, warm and dead landscape, and some corpses fell on the ground, leaching red blood, and the flames ignited the vicinity again, throwing out black ashes. Over the battlefield, red, white, and black stretched out into the drifting mist, covered in a thin layer of ice after the night.

Occasionally, there will be three or three war horses out of the barracks, in the direction of this side of the battlefield, there are occasionally one or two points of black shadows in the dead scenery, this is the soldiers who have a certain right to go out of the camp, rummaging for the corpses of friends within a safe range, or a small part of the speculators in the army secretly come out to rummage through the belongings of the dead bodies, most of this search is futile, but occasionally small gains, it can also be tempting.

On the opposite city wall, the burning light points of the torches floated faintly, like a ghost shrouded in a sea of clouds, mountains and fog.

Around the first millennium AD, the unpredictable climate of the Xiaoice period briefly prevented the battle, and after five days of repeated sieges, Tong Guan finally temporarily interrupted the idea of taking Hangzhou in one go, allowing the besieging soldiers to rest for a while.

Although the besieging army was silent for the first time in five days, the defending side still could not relax. Tong Guan is not a mediocre hand in the art of war, in five days, the army launched an attack from three directions in Hangzhou, the offensive is as continuous as a raging wave, but each wave of the offensive is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and the 150,000 forbidden army in the south can be called the elite of the world at least in the Wu Dynasty at this time, and the combat effectiveness is still far better than a group of rebellious peasants in the city. If it weren't for the Fang La camp in Hangzhou at this time, it would be considered an elite gathering, with sufficient manpower. There is also a constantly cold weather, and I am afraid that Tong Guan will have to find an opportunity to tear open the crack on the city wall several times.

It is also because of this, even if the besieging army has stopped attacking. There was still no room for slackening in the city's defenses, and no one knew if Lu Dao Tongguan would suddenly launch a new wave of attacks.

Hangzhou City, which was a little more lively, fell into a tense and pale atmosphere at this time, but compared to the panic in the city when Fang La's army attacked the city last time, half of the people in Hangzhou City at this time have become rebels, and they are now presented here. It's another kind of ecology.

The vicinity of Xiliu Street, which belonged to the perimeter of the Badao Battalion, had been fenced off at this time, with a long fence and a high arrow tower. At this time, this place is more like Badaozhuang, which is hundreds of miles away, and has been surrounded into a cottage. To say that such a guard is to prevent the Tong Guan army outside the city, no one believes it, since the complete break with Bao Daoyi, Liu Dabiao ordered to get such a layer of things outside, mainly because the conflict with Bao Daoyi is becoming increasingly hot. Fang La and the others couldn't pull the fight. However, not many people know the real reason for the passage is something that was going on in the streets of the willow at this time. Liu Xigua didn't want to be disturbed, so he took advantage of the topic to play and make the Badao Battalion so independent.

After Fang Qifo, Wang Yin, Si Xingfang, Deng Yuanjue, and Shi Bao came back, Tong Guan's army was already approaching Hangzhou, so they did not have the air conditioning to stop the contradiction between the Badao Battalion and Bao Daoyi. However, after the siege of the city, the two sides temporarily put aside the idea of seeking revenge against each other, and each chose one side of the city wall to participate in helping.

And due to the heavy losses of the elite of the Badao Battalion who had to accompany Fang Qifo to contain Tong Guan's army during this period of time, in the past few days of defending the city, the people belonging to the Badao Battalion were not assigned too many tasks, but tried to check and fill in the gaps in a safe place. On the other hand. It is also because no matter how capricious Liu Xigua is, the people of the Badao Battalion are still the strongest supporters within Fang La after all, no matter whether the city may be broken or chaotic in the future, such as the strength of the Badao Battalion, it is still the core force that Fang La needs to preserve. As long as the Badao battalion is free, the city will not be too chaotic. Even if someone intrigues and wants to replace Fang La as the emperor or come up with the future of the seller, they will be afraid of the existence of the Badao Camp and dare not make a move. …,

At the beginning, with Fang Qifo's attack on Jiaxing, there were more than 3,000 people in the main force of the Badao Battalion involved, and later Liu Dabiao turned back halfway, and there were still more than 2,000 left in Fang Qifo's hands. In order to realize the strategic idea of dragging Tong Guan's siege time through the autumn, Fang Qifo led a cadre of soldiers to drag down the pace of Tong Guan's 150,000 army, and the losses under his command were actually quite heavy, and most of the people in the Badao battalion had been killed and injured along the way, and only a few hundred survived.

With such heavy casualties, Hangzhou City finally won a lot of time to build defenses, and Liu Xigua had a part of the battle progress against the people in Xiliu Street. After the army returned to the city this time, the atmosphere in Xiliu Street naturally could not be raised. But after several days of siege, thanks to Tong Guan's stoppage, the people on the streets were finally able to rest in the early morning. In the not dense fog, there are occasional pedestrians on the street, and they all speak softly. In the main mansion of the Badao Battalion, there is a window that has been lit since the early hours of the morning, and the two people in the room are talking about something at this time.

“…… The people are noble, the community is secondary, and the gentleman is light...... When I first said it, I said that everyone is equal, and it is difficult to interpret it from Confucius, and it is best to interpret it from Mencius. Liu Xiyang is everyone in this regard, although his article is explained casually, I am afraid there is no sincerity, but it is easy to understand, it is still good, and it can be used as a primer in the future...... I think it's worth ......."

"If you have no sincerity, why give him a fight...... I'm only allowed five liters. ”

"It's not nothing, but there is still sincerity......"

"Anyone can do a shallow solution, just go to the street and pull a group of people, and there are a bunch of such articles. Since he is a great Confucian, of course he has to force him to write a few articles that are worth scrutinizing. And he is deeply knowledgeable, but he writes a plain article to fool people, obviously resisting in his heart, taking a bucket of rice, and he won't solve the second article if he doesn't finish it...... Only five liters are given. ”

"It's good, Liu Xiyang is five liters...... Guo Jiliang's article is a little deeper, since he wants to beat Liu Xiyang, Guo Jiliang's article will be given seven liters. In addition, the Korean side is a little bit uncaught......"

The lamp swayed slightly, and the two people talking in the room were Ning Yi and Liu Watermelon, who were reading an article. Although they are both serious, it sounds a little strange to be a liter and a bucket. Liu Watermelon has also been in the city recently, and he took a little rest yesterday. I got up early today, so I came to Ning Yi to discuss the matter, chatted for a while with one article after another, and talked about Manichaeism again.

“…… Wu Yunying, that woman has no brains. Loyalty is loyalty, but she is not a person from Badaozhuang, she is not in the same group as us, you have to pay attention to her. "Fang La's Manichaean "Vegetable Eating Demon" has an incident, and there are still quite a lot of sectarians in the army, but the Badao Battalion is already strong, not lacking. This sect that pays attention to sharing weal and woe and uniting the strength of the peasants has a somewhat poor degree of faith in the Badao Battalion, this Wu Yunying is the helmsman of the Manichaean Sect in the Badao Battalion, Liu Xigua doesn't take her very seriously, because she is the Holy Maiden of the Manichaeism here.

"She's fine, she's been attending a class lately, and when I asked her, she said that it had a lot in common with the teachings."

"Oh...... Good. ”

"But they usually preach, and the helmsman doesn't have much to study. Wu Yunying didn't even read through "Praise of the Lower Part", so it would be difficult for her to help change the doctrine. ”

"The other helmsmen still understand very well, but Wu Yunying is a little stupid...... But you don't really need to know much about preaching in the countryside. Uncle Fang said that it is nothing more than four words that are difficult to be together......"

"That's the truth...... Not much else, oh, the last few articles......"

"If I were to change my name, what would you think would be a better name?" …,

"After showing it to the kids...... What the? Ning Yi was stunned.

"Uh...... Rechristen. The girl named Liu Watermelon, who was dressed in a simple single dress but wore a big cloak, waved her hand lightly, "Let's talk about you first...... Uh, I'm just asking anyway...... Of course, I don't really want you to help you get it...... You're still more knowledgeable, see what you think. ”

“…… One of the children read it and asked some questions. After writing two short essays, I think he still has potential...... Change your name and still have the surname Liu? ”

"Of course...... Which kid is that? ”

"The surname is Chang, and his name is Changqing, and I plan to reward him with something, of course. There is no shortage of rice in his house. When the time comes, I'll get a certificate, and you can help you write it...... Uh, let's put a stamp, the kind that can be framed...... Surname Liu, how is Liu Yifei? ”

"Oh, you take the lid yourself, I'll put it on the table, I'm not talking to Uncle Tiannan...... What did you say? ”

"Liu Yifei." Ning Yi began to put away the articles on the table, which he said casually, he was thinking about other things in his heart, but he didn't take it seriously, and smiled to himself.

Liu Yifei...... It's not good, there is a nine surnamed Liu on the street named Liu Yifei...... Forget it, I'm just asking for fun. You go back first, if you have time in the afternoon......"

"Nine out of ten, is that right?"

"Yes, the day before yesterday, I heard that Liu Ahua's aunt next door was also called Yifei, and there was a cat raised by Wen Ke's nephew's second wife, also called Yifei Yifei...... You have something to do, let's go first, I'm just asking. ”

After Ning Yi left, Liu Xigua took out a piece of paper full of names from the drawer, wrote the new name, and then put it away and continued to deal with business......

After the official break with Bao Daoyi, Ning Yi was no longer closely involved in this matter, and Liu Xigua asked him to be responsible for some more pragmatic or retreat work in his Badao Battalion, that is, the issue of changing the institutional foundation of the entire Badao Battalion. At the time, it seemed like a bit of a joke.

The Badao battalion has already held its first so-called election, and it doesn't seem good to stop it in a hurry. However, Tong Guan's army is moving south, the pressure is imminent, and the future of the Badao Battalion is uncertain, so it is naturally a bit ridiculous to really use the strength of the entire Badao Battalion to cooperate with some "reforms" that are child's play. But in any case, since there is a war, you must be prepared to lose, and you must be prepared to win, if Fang La's side can really persevere, Liu Xigua will be the lord of a county and a county in the future, and there is no problem in giving her a piece of land to toss blindly, what to do in the future, what to do, you can start to arrange it now.

Ideas like democracy and freedom are mostly weapons used to fool Liu Xigua, but at the real psychological level, Ning Yi really wants to do a test. Of course, democracy has never been a question of the system, but of people's hearts. In this era, the so-called democracy is just a tree without roots, and few people think about it. Throw a system to the Badao Battalion, copy the electoral system, and fantasize about the establishment of the Great Tong World and the Lu Realm. That's absolutely impossible.

In fact, in the poor history of Ning Yi's knowledge of the Dao, I have also heard that in the history of China, there have been many experiments in the Datong society. Some wealthy people or scholars donated their family property to create a commune-like village, where everyone ate a big pot of rice and their children went to school. Everyone did things in unison, and some things were voted on by the elders together, but in the end, they all failed without exception. Regardless of whether this is the case in Datong society or not, it will never be useful to just give people a system. The essence of democracy is also the dictatorship of the majority over the minority. To be democratic, we first need culture, and we need people to fight for it spontaneously and recognize the legitimacy of their own struggles. It is necessary to have such a theoretical basis. …,

After having the power to act, Ning Yi first took a group of literati from Wenlie Academy.

He held a short class every day, gathering many literati inside and outside the academy. Explain the relationship between production and distribution every day, and talk about Capital. Among them, a simple social essence is separated, that is, the essence of the state is a group of people who gather together to help each other obtain benefits, in this essence, no one is superior or inferior, and the progress of society is to make the distribution continue to achieve fairness. Then have people explain these basic relationships and write about them in any language that others can accept. It doesn't matter if Confucius's theory can be, Mencius can also be, Mozi can also be, Han Fei, Lao Tzu's can also be used, you can use Sun Tzu's to break it out for me, if there is quality. It is also possible to receive the goods.

At this time, Hangzhou had already turned into a wartime state.

Although it is said that when Fang La occupied Hangzhou, it was still an autumn harvest, and a large amount of resources were gathered to prepare for the war, the resources of Hangzhou City were still sufficient. However, in wartime, it is difficult to circulate all kinds of materials, and it is difficult for anyone who has money and food to take them out again. These Confucian literati in Wenlie Academy have once again become idlers, and Ning Yi has made such an offer. There are articles, there are foods.

Ning Yi explained all kinds of modern theories as simple as possible, in short, these people who have read books can generally understand them. Whether they agree with it or not, forcing them to break blindly and be far-fetched to the way of Confucius and Mencius and the way of the sage, it doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong, these Confucian articles are written too much, and one or two interesting articles can always be produced in a hundred pieces of garbage. In the future, you can use these articles to enlighten children, turn a lie a thousand times into the truth, and then let people gradually verify and improve it in their lives, and show it to others, there will always be some rebellious people who can see something that seems to make sense.

But first there must be an article, he is bored, and what he needs to do now is to break up such a thing as "Capital" and rub it together with Confucius and Mencius, and he doesn't care what this bomb can become in the future.

In this way, when he came out of the main house, he met Chen Fan, who he hadn't seen for a few days. He hung up again, with a strong smell of medicine on his body, but he still looked fierce, and after saying hello, he said that he had been on the battlefield in the past few days.

"In this kind of thing of fighting, the first thing to rely on is not high martial arts, but the most reliable thing is luck...... Although you are a master, but you are unlucky, it is better not to go to the city. You just came out of there? How's the watermelon chick, does she have a lottery? ”

"Looks like she's got better luck than you." Ning Yi laughed, "I heard that Manager Tiannan said that you almost did it with her a few days ago, what's wrong?" ”

"Just kidding. I didn't do anything, but at that time on the city wall, she suddenly said that if she changed her name, I thought it would be better to change something...... Recently, she has been asking people about this, mysterious, I said, her father's name is Liu Dabiao, she calls Liu Dabiao on the one hand, and Liu Watermelon on the other is not very good, it is best to combine the two......"

Speaking of this, Chen Fan couldn't help laughing, leaned down, and the corners of Ning Yi's mouth twitched: "Eh, what's it called?" ”

"Hehe, let's combine it, of course it is...... Ha Lu Ha, Hu Hu ...... Called Liu ...... Liu Da watermelon, you can also call Liu Da watermelon Biao, Ha Lu Ha ......" Chen Fan laughed non-stop, very inflated, "Then, then she collapsed, pulled out a knife to cut me, on the battlefield, I couldn't do it, I died laughing, Ha Lu Ha ......"

He couldn't stop laughing, the corners of Ning Yi's mouth twitched for a long time, and finally patted him on the shoulder: "I think it's best for you not to let her see you recently." ”

"Of course, of course, oh, wait, there's something, something to look for you......" When Ning Yi walked over, Chen Fan grabbed him, laughed again, and then straightened up, trying to keep his face as strong as possible, "That's it, Tong Guan has been attacking for five days, the weather is getting colder and colder, and when it really snows, he can't fight." The city should be defended, but Master said that with Tong Guan's personality and the tense situation in the north, he may not give up, and he should attack it once or twice in the future. Anyway, when he is free, he wants to see you, let me tell you first, it may be the last time, if Tong Guan is free, it may be this afternoon......"

Ning Yi thought about it, nodded, and the two chatted a few more words, and waited until Chen Fan left, and he stood there for a while before he let out a breath and smiled.

"Fang Qi Buddha ......"

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