"Little General, what position do you hold in General Wei Yan's army now?" Liu Bei looked at the young man in front of him, who was only twenty years old, and asked curiously.

"Let the general smile. The kid was a military fake Sima under General Wei before, but this time when he attacked Liyang City, he made an accident and was kicked out of the army, and now, he is temporarily serving as the county lieutenant of Liyang City. After handing over to you, I'm afraid the kid will have to go to that county in Runan County to serve as a county lieutenant. Li Ming shook his head with a wry smile and said.

"Oh! In this way, County Lieutenant Li, you are that Li Ming! Hearing this, Lu Su asked in surprise.

With the withdrawal of Sun Cejun, Wei Yan completely opened the city gate of Liyang County, and the people inside and outside the city entered and exited here at will, so the cause and process of Liu Ye's trial of the two cases, the ins and outs, and the results of the trial were also quickly spread to the north and south of the river with the departure of the merchants in the city. And Li Ming, Liu Hu, Liu Wu, and Zhang's family are names and family names, and they have immediately become familiar figures to the people in the Jianghuai area.

"Oh, General Wei actually kicked you out of the army for this little thing, Captain Li, aren't you angry?" When Liu Bei heard this, his eyes froze, and he deliberately asked tentatively.

As soon as Li Ming heard this, he was reluctant, and he asked a little angrily: "General Liu, what do you mean by this?" This is the case with the military regulations formulated by Childe, and no one can violate them. If it weren't for General Wei's pleading and pleading with my father-in-law, and the face of Liu Junshi, it would be good not to pick up the kid to the end. To be honest, the kid already feels very lucky to be this temporary county lieutenant this time, how can the kid be angry? ”

"Oh! I see, it's a lonely ,...... I said the wrong thing, and I ask Captain Li for your forgiveness. By the way, Captain Li, what do you mean by military regulations? Liu Bei didn't expect that because of his tentative words, this young man would react so much, so he hurriedly apologized, and in the end, he asked more.

When Li Ming heard this, his face softened slightly, and he replied truthfully: "What do you mean, Gongzi stipulates that in the army, officers of other departments under Sima are not allowed to marry in wartime, and officers below the rank of lieutenant are not allowed to take concubines in wartime.

If a woman is robbed during wartime, the offender is immediately hanged if the woman is unwilling to marry the offending officer or soldier. If the woman agrees, the soldier who committed the offense is given twenty sticks, and the officer is pushed to the end, and the soldier remains in the army for one more year. Whoever kills and robs the people's daughters, and all those who participate in the murder shall be punished by beheading. ”

"Hey, when your son is punished, don't you care about the merits of the offender?" Liu Bei gasped when he heard this, and asked in surprise.

Before, outsiders thought that Liu Ye's judgment was his own thought, but after Li Ming heard the military order formulated by Jin Jue himself, Liu Bei and Lu Su thought at the same time that they were afraid that Liu Ye's judgment was Wei Yan's intention.

"Hehehe, our son said that the victory of the army is not the credit of the generals or military divisions alone, but the result of the concerted efforts of the whole army. If each of us uses our own merits to harm the people at will, then what are we soldiers for? Is it just to satisfy the so-called lord fighting for the world?

When Gongzi formulated all the military regulations, he made it very clear to all the generals, civil officials, personal soldiers and soldiers under his command that if some of his subordinates were to kill ordinary people at will, it was best to do it cleanly, and if he was aware of it, even if it was Cheng Lian, Li Feng or General Wei, he would order the heads of the criminals to be cut off and used to pay tribute to the people who died in vain.

When the two of them heard this, they must have thought, the military regulations formulated by Gongzi are so strict, is he not afraid that several important generals will betray him? At that time, Childe made it clear that he welcomed his generals to betray him, and when the time came, it would depend on whether the generals who betrayed him were capable of defeating him, and whether their soldiers would betray him with them. Li Ming smiled when he heard this, as if he had opened a conversation, and explained endlessly.

As soon as Li Ming's words were finished, Lu Su pointed out an extremely critical issue that was not covered in Li Ming's words, and said: "Oh, County Lieutenant Li, your son-in-law values the people so much, so what kind of attitude does he have towards the local family?" ”

"This gentleman is really not an ordinary person!" Listening to Lu Su's question, Li Ming praised sincerely.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ming replied: "Two, this is said by the kid because you were sent by Liu Yuanjun, so you had better not spread it." Someone asked this question in front of the son, and the old man seemed to be Qin Mi, a famous scholar in Shu.

Gongzi replied at the time that the Eastern Han Dynasty, founded by Emperor Guangwu, was far worse than Gaozu, and it could be said that it was rotten from the roots. Not only was the emperor controlled by his relatives, but even local government affairs were controlled by local families. The world says that the second emperor of Huan Ling is a faint king, but who got rid of the traitor Liang Ji is not those so-called loyal ministers and children of the family, but Emperor Huan himself relied on a few eunuchs to destroy Liang Ji, who had been in power for several dynasties and had endangered the imperial power of the Liu family.

As for Emperor Ling, if he didn't kill Dou Wu in advance, who could guarantee that he wouldn't become the next Liang Ji or Dong Zhuo after Emperor Ling's death? If Dou Wu's surname was Ma and not Dou, Emperor Ling might not have killed him during the Dang Rebellion. The families of various prefectures, counties and counties in the Han Dynasty controlled the local government affairs and encroached on more and more fields in the world.

The imperial court wanted to raise soldiers and soldiers, to repair the Great Wall in the north, to prevent the Xianbei and Karasuma people from repeatedly invading the border, and to prevent the Qiang and Di people from gradually eroding the entire Liangzhou, and then Fufeng County, and even the entire Guanzhong region. In the south, it is also necessary to guard against the rebellion launched by the barbarians of Yizhou in Jingzhou and Shanyue in Yangzhou.

However, whether it is raising soldiers, raising soldiers, or repairing the Great Wall, they all need money and food support, and fighting wars has always been about money and food. The tax revenues of the Han court had been eroded by the local families, who forced the local officials to pay taxes, and the local officials either did not dare to offend the local families, or colluded with them to impose taxes on ordinary peasants who had lost their land.

Therefore, the reason why the Yellow Turban Army raised troops was not forced by the imperial court or the Second Emperor Huan Ling, but by the local families. ”

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