Chapter 11: Disillusionment
Tao Sheng sneered: "What's wrong with your Tang Master, will you know?" ”
Pay the salary and said: "I don't know, I don't know, what's so strange about this, there is something to say." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Tao Sheng responded to the case: "Okay, I'll talk about the evil deeds of the traitor Tang Zhou." Jingzhou Dafang Shen envoy Ma/Yuanyi was ordered by General Tiangong to gather tens of thousands of sectarians in Jing and Yang, and the meeting was expected to be issued in Ye, and it will be issued throughout the country at the same time on the fifth day of the first month of March. But I didn't want the traitor Tang Zhou to secretly collect all the secrets of the Tiangong General's incident in order to get the reward of the Han family, and took the opportunity to go to Luoyang in the first month of the month to inform the Han Emperor. ”
"The Emperor of the Han Dynasty was furious, and ordered the three dukes, the Sili school captain, and the hook shield order to inspect the palace, the province, the direct guard, and the people in Beijing who were related to our religion, and killed more than 1,000 people on the same day. He also ordered the army to besiege the divine envoy Yuan Yi in Shanyang, Hanoi County, so that the divine envoy was captured and thousands of loyal followers were killed at the same time. Soon after, he was more driven by the god of Yuyang. Later, he pushed all the states in the world to arrest all the important personnel of my sect within a time limit, so that many of the commanders, petty marshals, leaders, and deacons of my sect were also killed, and the major event of the Yellow Sky Uprising almost died because of it. You say, "Are you two traitors and are you thieves, and you deserve death?" ”
The salary was shocked, it turned out that the Taiping Road incident was really because of Tang Zhou. But when he saw Tao Sheng's triumphant appearance, he couldn't help but smile and said:
"Tang Zhou informed, I was in Handan at that time, what does this matter to me? Is it just because I'm a disciple of Tang Zhou? Hmph, in October last year, I met with Ma Dafang and Tang Zhou at the same time outside the city of Luoyang. At that time, I felt the benevolence and righteousness of Ma Dafang and the great ambition of the great sage and good teacher to 'bring peace', so I had the heart to devote myself to teaching and follow the great sage and good teacher 'to Taiping'. ”
"At that time, I was worshipping Ma Dafang as a teacher, but I didn't want to be accepted by Tang Zhou in advance, Ma Dafang didn't want to compete with Tang Zhou, so I agreed to Tang Zhou's apprenticeship. But since then, I have never seen Tang Zhou again, so my relationship with Tang Zhou can neither be called intimate nor accomplice. How can you put the evil deeds of Tang Zhou on my head. Isn't that ridiculous? ”
Tao Sheng pointed to the paid nose and shouted angrily: "That's right, just because you are a traitor and a traitor, no matter how much you quibble, it can't change the result that you are a traitor." ”
Pay the salary and laughed shamefully, did not argue with Tao Sheng, and said to Zhang Liang: "I don't know what General Rengong thinks of this matter? ”
Zhang Liang said: "Tao Sheng is right, you have been in my sect for too short a time, and you are a disciple of the traitor Tang Zhou, and you are suspected of being under the melon field, which makes it difficult to trust." ”
Pay the salary and said disappointedly: "What is there to answer this, even if Tang Zhou is treacherous, he is also the confidant disciple of the great virtuous master of the Tiangong General, and the generous and small parties who studied the art at the same time as Tang Zhou have heard of no less than five hundred, and you are Tang Zhou's uncle." If you want to investigate people who are related to Tang Zhou and close to them, everyone can't run. ”
Zhang Liang was stunned, as if this was really the case. Cheng Zhang took the opportunity to say: "Yes, Master, I really want to investigate, I and others are all related to the traitor Tang Zhou, and no one is exempt." Therefore, we can't continue to investigate like this, but we have to see whether the person is of the same mind as me. Although he was still a young man, he was a follower of a great and wise teacher, and there is no doubt about it. Just look at him in just over 20 days, with only a few hundred people, he has successively captured several cities of Zhao Wei, and gathered an army of 10,000 people for my Yellow Turban Righteous Army. It can be seen that he is indeed a loyal person of my teaching, and he is not the same as Tang Zhou. ”
Zhang Liang nodded and said: "What you said also has some truth, when I am not in the Zhao State, you can take the Zhao State in one fell swoop, and you can be regarded as a meritorious person I taught." It's true that it's not like the traitor Tang Zhou, so it's ......"
"General Rengong." Tao Sheng shouted on the side: "My subordinates think that even if I win the Zhao State by paying the salary, it cannot be called meritorious. If the subordinates are in the Zhao Kingdom, they can also capture the Zhao Kingdom in a short time. This is purely due to the prestige of the great sage and good teacher, not his ability to pay his salary. An army of 10,000, hum, the number of households in the two counties of Bairen and Zhongqiu is only slightly the same as that of the county of Xiangguo, but it also gathers an army of 10,000 people. And the five places of Xiangguo, Yiyang, Wu'an, She, and Maocheng, even if they are not Handan City, if they are under the control of their subordinates, they can gather an army of 30,000 or 40,000 people, which shows that this is not his credit. ”
He was shocked and said: "General Rengong, the way of conscription is to conscript for the purpose of minimizing local production, there are a total of 20,000 households in five places, and I use the method of drawing one ding from three households, which is already the maximum limit of conscription, and it must not be forced again." ”
Zhang Liang didn't pay attention to the salary, and only asked Tao Sheng: "The Han army will arrive in Jizhou in 20 days, how long will it take for Tao Sheng to levy 40,000 troops?" ”
Tao Shengxi said: "General Yurengong, if you count Handan City, your subordinates are sure to gather an army of 80,000 people within 20 days." ”
Zhang Liang nodded again and again, and said, "Okay, good, good, plus the 200,000 troops that the eldest brother expected, can be recruited in Julu." Then against the elite army of 20,000 Han families and tens of thousands of soldiers from counties and counties, it can be said that it is like Mount Tai overpowering. Sure to win the ......"
Hearing this, Salary paid exploded in his head like five thunderbolts. There will be no more than 70,000 or 80,000 households in the ten counties of Julu, and the great sages and good teachers are going to gather 200,000 troops in a month, so aren't all the seventy-year-old men and ten-year-old teenagers all conscripted into the army?
Is there so much food? Are there so many weapons? Yes...... Great sage and good teacher, this is trying to use the law of the sea of people to resist the counterinsurgency army of the Han Dynasty?
I am not at a loss when I pay my salary, is this still the great sage and good teacher of great mercy and benevolence that I have imagined? How can it be more vicious and unscrupulous than the Han family, which is evil in his own eyes? No, this is not true, it must be that General Rengong misunderstood the meaning of the great sage and good teacher, yes, it must be like this.
Fu Yan was about to open his mouth to persuade directly, but he didn't want Tao Sheng to say: "General Rengong, Fu Gong is the traitor Tang Zhou anyway, just in case, but he can't be allowed to stay in Zhao State, it's better to take him to Julu to take care of him, how about it?" ”
Zhang Liang nodded and said: "It's okay, I am also a talent after all, but after all, the time to enter my Taiping Dao is still short, and I have not been able to understand the essence of my holy scripture "Taiping Technique" well. Anyway, he's still young, so let him go to the mountains of Julu to study, and when the world is peaceful in the future, he will come out again to teach me to do things. ”
After listening to the salary, he had to keep his mouth shut, Zhang Liang had no opinion, he listened to Tao Sheng's words, it didn't make sense, he could only go to Julu County to find a great sage and good teacher, but I don't know, can he make sense?
Cheng Zhang bowed to Zhang Liang and said, "Master, anyway, the disciple staying in Zhao State can't help a lot, so it's better for the disciple to go to the mountains of Julu to study." ”
Zhang Liang nodded and said: "It's okay, it's okay, I think that the three of my brothers studied the "Taiping Technique" in Julu Mountain for many years, and finally achieved something and created the Taiping Dao Sect. Chengzhang, you are now the only remaining disciple of the teacher, and you are still young when you pay the salary, and the two of you can imitate my three brothers a lot, and when the world is peaceful in the future, the great sage and the good teacher and I still need you two to make a big effort. ”
Cheng Zhang bent down and responded: "Yes, master, the disciple obeys." ”
Early in the morning of the second day, Pay and Chengzhang went to Julu under the escort of ten Yellow Turban wrestlers, although it was an escort, it was more of an escort. The value of salary lies in the tens of thousands of troops in hand, once the military power is seized, in fact, in the eyes of Zhang Liang and Tao Sheng, there is no value, if it is not for Chengzhang to persuade Zhang Liang before, the salary is talented, and it is not available now, which does not mean that it will not be available in the future, which saved the life of the salary.
Paid came to Julu County with a depressed expression, but saw the rampaging Yellow Turban Rebels in their eyes, and they were wandering around the county. Forcibly pulling strong men, burning down government offices, killing officials, sweeping the dock forts of the powerful warriors everywhere, and plundering the people everywhere, it can be said that all kinds of evil are done. It seems that except for the Yellow Turban Rebels themselves, no one in the world cannot be plundered, and no one in the world cannot be killed.
The leader of the Yellow Turban Rebels said: "The great sage and good teacher said, 'It has been a month since the Yellow Turban Rebels rebelled, and all those who believe in my Taiping Dao and are willing to follow my Taiping Dao to 'Taiping' have gathered under the banner of the Yellow Turban Rebels. The rest are just the Shunmin of the Han Dynasty, the Shunmin who provide soldiers for the Han Dynasty and provide money and food. It is obedient to the other and rebellious to me, and since it is rebellious, it should be forced and punished. ’”
After hearing this, he watched the Yellow Turban Righteous Army leave in a daze, it turned out that in the ambition of the great sage and good teacher, he was leading the Taiping Taoism to "bring peace", not to lead all the people in the world to "bring peace". The people of the world have the same view as the Han family for the great sages and good teachers, and they are all untouchables, useless untouchables.
The hope in the heart of the salary can't help but begin to collapse, and a ballad can't help but come to mind in his mind: "The little people are like leeks, cut and reborn; The head is like a chicken, cutting and singing. The officials don't have to be fearful, and the people don't have to be light! ”
When I arrived in Pingxiang, I saw a group of strong men who had been captured and recruited by the rebels from a distance, and there were only about 20 young men among the more than 100 people, and most of the others were old people in their fifties and sixties, and teenagers in their teens, as well as a few slightly sturdy women, with a few children under the age of 10. thought that the child was not yet old, so he took the mother and the child, and the two of them were counted as one person.
They were tied with long straw ropes along the way, staggering, and if they could not walk, they were struck with a whip. It was even more cruel than the labor levied under the rule of the corrupt Han dynasty.
I saw a child who was only five or six years old suddenly fall out of the crowd, and before he could get up, or the adults next to him could help him up, he saw a spear flying and nailed him to the ground in an instant. A Yellow Turban rebel drew a spear mixed with blood and dust, and said dissatisfiedly: "After eating so much food, you can't even walk fifty miles, what use do you need?" ”
The child's mother let out a terrible cry and threw herself at the child on the ground. The Yellow Turban Rebel scolded: "Get up and move quickly, otherwise Lao Tzu will be killed." ”
The mother let out a terrifying roar, her blood-red eyes were like a man-eating beast, and she threw herself at him, but she didn't want to be stopped by the straw rope, and she overturned several people, and the Yellow Turban Rebels, who were frightened for a while, were furious, and stabbed one of them to death with a spear in her backhand.
Pay stared at all this blankly, the acid water in his stomach gushed out, and he vomited. This is the righteous army under the command of Taixian and Liangshi who originally thought that he could lead the people of the world to "bring peace"? There was a miserable laugh when the salary was paid, wrong, wrong, all wrong. Turning around and frantically beating the horse and walking away.