In his heart, both out of an anger of being teased and deceived, and in order to divert the shame and discomfort of just eating human flesh by killing Ranger, Wang Zhong shouted and slashed at Ranger'er, although he did not hit the vital point, but a knife slashed on Ranger's leg, and blood also splattered and splashed on Wang Zhong's body.

Blood splashed onto his feet, and the smell of blood stimulated his nose, making the small piece of jerky that had just swallowed no longer had much taste more like a bloody piece of human flesh, but for some reason, after cutting this knife, Wang Zhong's heart was already much more comfortable.

On the contrary, after being slashed, the ranger was angry, but before he died, he still had to speak, as if he was defending himself and questioning Wang Zhong and others.

"I ,,, I eat human flesh, but there is no way to do it, if I don't eat human flesh, I will starve to death. Besides, that person was ,,,, and eaten by Yizi before his death, and ate other people's children, and if he didn't eat him, he would die, so since he died, I ,,, cut a few pieces of meat from his body,,, what's wrong,,, I also want to live, there is no way,,, you people ,,, pick people's clothes,,, take away people's food,,,, and live the living, and kill ,,, how much better than if I cut human flesh to satisfy hunger,,, you also deserve to die... ”

"Boom!" Wang Zhong didn't want to hear the terrifying voice of this dying man again, he shouted loudly, and directly cut off the head of the ranger, making this terrifying sound disappear completely.

It's just that after cutting this knife, Wang Zhong's strength seems to have been exhausted, he dragged his body and walked a few steps, his legs were weak, and he sat on the weeds that were crooked, and his face was extremely ugly, like a serious illness.

"I ate human flesh, I ate human flesh!!"

The terrifying voice echoed inside him.

Wang Zhong fled all the way and killed many people, including those who were killed in combat and those who were innocent, but he never ate people, because he still had strong force to rely on, and he could rob the living, not the idea of killing people.

He felt that he was different from those who ate and cooked with their own children, and he was more qualified to survive, but now that he has eaten human flesh, he has become the same as those who eat and cook with his own children.

Or, the ranger's question before his death was right, the act of "picking people's clothes and taking food from people" is also a kind of "cannibalism", robbing the living is no different from the idea of killing people, and he deserves to die like him.

Wang Zhong, whose lips were white after being tortured in his heart, turned his head to look at his subordinates, unexpectedly, the dozen or so subordinates whose faces had just changed greatly had now stabilized again, although they were all silent, but they did not make stupid actions such as vomiting and pulling their throats, and one of his subordinates also deliberately picked up the thrown jerky again, leaned to the side of his nose and sniffed it carefully, and persuaded himself in a self-muttering manner:

"It's not human flesh, and the taste is not human flesh at all."

For some reason, after watching the performance of his subordinates, Wang Zhong seemed to feel a lot better in his heart, and muttered to himself:

"What's wrong with me, picking people's clothes and taking away people's food, if I don't do this, I will also starve to death and freeze to death, not to mention that he is still raised by a dog, what is wrong with me to kill him."

After another period of time, Wang Zhong, who had regained some physical strength in his body, got up neatly, he stood up straight and patted the grass mustard on his body, as usual, and there was no slightest wave on his face.

Looking up, the twilight was dreary, and before I knew it, it was already dark.

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As the first year of Jian'an entered the end of May, Yan Xing rushed back to Luoyang City from Hedong.

The 15,000 allied troops of Hedong and Hongnong have gathered under Tongguan, and with the arrival of the next military supplies and heavy grain, Duan Xuan will lead the allied army out of Tongguan and join up with the Zhangliao garrison in Huayin to conquer the traitor Li Dao and recover the lost territory of Sanfu.

I heard that Ma Teng, who was originally detained between Wangyu and Chongqing, couldn't wait to send troops to attack Li Dao as early as the turn of spring and summer this year, and beat Li Dao, who was huddled in Chang'an City for a long time, to lose his armor and flee to Zuo Fengyi's Huangbai City to defend it, but Ma Teng did not intend to let Li Dao go, and soon sent his eldest son Ma Chao to lead the army to chase Zuo Fengyi and besiege Li Dao in Huangbai City.

Li Wei is trapped in Huangbai City, there is no abundant reserve inside, there are no reinforcements outside, and it is a matter of time before he is destroyed, and Ma Teng's army has won consecutive battles, controlling the entire Right Fufeng and half of Jing Zhaoyin, and now he is involved in Zuo Fengyi, if Hedong does not intervene as soon as possible, he is afraid that Ma Teng's army will gain a firm foothold in Guanzhong, and it will add a strong enemy.

Therefore, Yan Xing, who was in Hedong to command and prepare for the rear of the Western Expeditionary Army, hurried back to Luoyang City after the matter came to an end, and asked the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to conquer Li Dao, recover Guanzhong, and grant Duan Xuan a fake Son of Heaven Jieyue to lead the Hedong-Hongnong coalition army to the west.

This invitation to the Son of Heaven, fake festivals and other things are just a formality, but the strange things that Yan Xing didn't expect happened one after another during his entry into Beijing.

The first thing was that the construction site of the Luoyang Palace caught fire at night, killing dozens of civilian servants and craftsmen from Jingzhou.

The second incident was that Captain Fu Jun and his entourage were assassinated on the streets of Luoyang City at night.

The third thing is that a eunuch next to the Son of Heaven suddenly wanted to murder the Son of Heaven, but the other chamberlains and waiters who were imprisoned found out that everyone saved the Son of Heaven in time, and the eunuch saw that the murder was unsuccessful, so he committed suicide on the spot.

At the feet of the Son of Heaven, at the critical moment of the army's westward expedition and Yan Xing's entry into Beijing, there were major murder cases in Luoyang City one after another, and Yang Pei, who was the commander of Luoyang, faced severe challenges in this sensitive position, and was stirred up by these things.

Because these major cases are widely implicated and public opinion is surging, the first two major cases in the city were personally commanded by Yin Peiqian of Henan, and the latter major case in the palace was presided over by Pei Mao, the Taishi, together with the three princes Yang Biao, Zhao Wen, Zhang Xi, Jia Xu in the service, Pei Ji in the Huangmen and other ministers, responsible for investigating and recovering the culprit.

It's just that the clues to pursue are confusing: the construction site caught fire at night, and the place where the fire started was still a tent where civilian servants and craftsmen lived, but the sergeants who patrolled the night did not find outsiders entering the construction site; As for why Fu Jun, the captain of the shooting sound, went out at night, and was easily assassinated on the street, and the murder weapon left on the spot was a sword made by Anyi Tieguan, whether this involved vendetta or manslaughter, Fu Jun's family cried and cried, and it was not clear what happened.

In addition, the eunuch in the palace who committed suicide in fear of sin was the chamberlain who served by the Son of Heaven. Since the rebellion of the ten permanent servants, the eunuchs have been beaten into the low end of the power in the palace, not only are there few people, but their responsibilities are only responsible for the living of the harem to serve the Son of Heaven and the concubine, and they are rarely able to contact the outside world.

In these three cases, the clues and internal information are all confusing, the investigation process is foggy, and the characters involved are also noble and extraordinary, from Taishi Pei Mao, Henan Yin Peiqian, to Sergeant Zuo, all of them feel the extreme thorniness of the matter.

From the very beginning, the investigation process was tortuously carried out in the fog, and the culprit could not be immediately traced.

But these three cases seem to be unrelated to each other, but they appeared one after another during the time when Yan Xing returned to Beijing, and with the nursery rhymes with ulterior motives that suddenly appeared on the streets and alleys, vaguely, the spearheads of the incidents were pointed at Yan Xing, who controlled the government.

There are rumors that the heavenly and human beings are sensitive, saying that the arson who has not yet caught the murderer is a sign from heaven, and warns the court in the form of heavenly fire, the traitors are in power, the dynasty is sluggish, and the Han family is in danger of overturning.

As for who the traitor is, although the rumors are tight-lipped but the content is more intriguing.

There are also rumors that this shooting captain Fu Jun has offended a certain big man in the dynasty, so he was sent assassins to assassinate him on the streets of the city.

Fu Jun is an old minister of the imperial court, loyal to the emperor of the Han family, and he also fights with Wei Qi, Zhao Hong and others of Yan Xing's faction openly and secretly in the court.

The current rumors are like this, that is, the death of Fu Jun is vaguely led to Yan Xing, who entered Beijing.

And about the murder case that happened to the Son of Heaven, because the news was blocked in time, it did not spread, but after the young Son of Heaven experienced this, he seemed to be frightened a lot, and he dropped out of the court for many days, and even the ministers in the middle of the court were not summoned.

At the same time that the rumors were secretly circulating in the streets and alleys, they also slowly flowed into the hussar general's mansion, shouting out "Zhongxing Han Dynasty, return to the old capital" Yan Xing, in all kinds of rumors, originally like Zhou Gong and Zhao Gong in charge of the court and assisting the Son of Heaven, but also faintly became Wang Mang, Dong Zhuo and other chaotic ministers and thieves who killed the Son of Heaven and plotted to usurp the throne.

As a party to the case, Yan Xing certainly knew that these things were not done by his subordinates, and he also believed that none of the civil and military forces under his command had the courage to dare to do such a series of stupid things without him.

Although he was in the middle of the court battle, he did not disdain to use these clumsy and despicable methods.

He sensed that there was a conspiracy against the Hussar General's Palace, which hung over his head, and slowly descended on him like a black curtain.

And the army is marching westward, Hedong has put most of his energy into Guanzhong, but he doesn't want the army to be pulled out yet, but the backyard is the first to catch fire.

With the return of the Son of Heaven to the old capital, the population of Luoyang City ushered in a round of huge expansion, and the ministers of the court, the harem attendants, the families of hundreds of officials, and slaves and maids who arrived with the Son of Heaven; Recruit celebrities and talents who came from all over the Kanto region, and envoys of prefectures and counties; I am glad to hear that the Son of Heaven is still in the capital, the Han family is prosperous, and the exiles who enthusiastically return to it; Families under the rule of Yin in Henan Province who returned to their hometown of Sangzi in groups······

These rapid population gatherings in a short period of time promoted the revival of Luoyang City, which made all industries flourish under the rule of Yin in Henan, showing signs of prosperity, but also brought problems in governance and management.

These rapid influx of population in a short period of time cannot be classified and naturalized and subject to compulsory direct management like the people's tuns, military tuns, craftsmen, and soldiers, and the large population brings about a mixed predicament of fish and dragons, mud and sand, and once the crisis erupts, the hussar general's palace will fall into a very passive situation.

Although Pei Qian, Yang Pei and others are capable officials, these things cannot be solved in a short period of time with a few capable officials.

In order to ensure the smooth start of the Western Expeditionary Army, Luoyang City must be stabilized as soon as possible.

For this reason, Yan Xing thought about it again and again, and finally sent the military adviser of the Hussar General's Mansion to Peng Zhouliang, and asked him to lead the school affairs that had just been formed under his command to intervene in this chaos in Luoyang in a tough form.

ps: Some book friends said that they didn't understand what I wrote, so I will briefly say that I wrote in the introduction of my book, this is the best era, but also the worst era, the best era I refer to in the late Han Dynasty The shackles of the heavy class were ruthlessly broken, heroes and heroes started in the four fields, and the good ministers and fierce generals acted meritocracy, so that a large number of brilliant talents burst out in just a few decades, and the worst era I am referring to is that all the ugliness that I couldn't think of in the troubled times have become reality. I think that no amount of slaughter and death figures written in the book can restore and reveal the bad in the troubled times, and only by exposing the ugliness of people's hearts can we arouse a wake-up call that hits the heart. In good times, the little pavilion chief will become Tengu Heifu, and in the bad times, the little pavilion chief will become Wang Zhong, who eats people. The article uses the phenomenon of "Wang Zhong cannibalism" in history, imitates "Rashomon", and creates a mental journey of Wang Zhong's blackening. It's just that I want to do an exposé of the phenomenon of "people eating people" in troubled times, as for the effect, whether it is useless work, please forgive me for my limited ability, I am just doing what I think I should do. Thank you!