"Presumably Hui'er mentioned Yan Ming, right? Yan Ming is a genius, a genius who is simply a prodigy who troubles the world! Zhang Jiao is a very capable person, but he is not invulnerable. He was from the Han clan and was dissatisfied with the fact that the central and local areas of the Han Dynasty were completely controlled by the clan. Yan Ming befriended him and became a confidant, and after learning his thoughts, he persuaded him to be patient. Zhang Jiao was dissatisfied with his persuasion, so Yan Ming turned to persuade him to accumulate strength and prepare to rebel. And said that if Zhang Jiao rebelled in Jizhou, he would echo in Liangzhou.

"At the end of February of the first year of Zhongping, Zhang Jiao played the slogan of 'the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious' and launched the Yellow Turban Uprising. Zhang Jiao is a ...... Hehe, Boguang, speaking of which Zhang Jiao is somewhat similar to you, he saw that the yellow scarf was full of ruins, and the people had died countless times, and his heart was very unbearable, and the echo of Yan Ming's promise did not appear, and the irritability and resentment were depressed, and he fell ill within a few months.

"In October, Yan Ming reappeared, found Zhang Jiao, and asked him to hold on for a while longer, as long as he held on for a few more months, the situation would improve. But at that time, Zhang Jiao had long regretted the Yellow Turban Uprising, he couldn't see the death of thousands of disciples, and he couldn't see that there was no grass everywhere he passed. In the final analysis, the Yellow Turban Army is a rabble, with no military discipline to speak of, and many times Zhang Jiao is simply unable to control this kind of destruction. After Yan Ming found out about this, he said to him, even if you want to stop now, it's too late, and the court won't let you go. Zhang Jiao also knew that he was going to die, and he had long wanted to apologize for the mistakes he had made, so he didn't care about his life.

"But...... Yan Ming is Yan Ming after all, he has already said that Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang have been moved, and many of the top ten Dharma protectors under Zhang Jiao are people he had already bought earlier. Seeing that Zhang Jiao had already had the will to die, Yan Ming told Zhang Jiao and others about his thoughts. Zhang Bao and the others enjoyed the feeling of dying with a wave of their hands, and they didn't want to die silently, so they killed Zhang Jiao.

"That day was the day Hui'er ran away. Hui'er, this child is also miserable enough, seeing her father being killed, and her mother being killed in order to save her, how can ordinary people understand the torture in her heart? She escaped protected by the Golden Horn, and then came to Tarzan and met me, so she was able to survive. ”

Speaking of this, Old Immortal Peng stopped, looked directly at Tian Fan, and said, "Now, are you still insisting?" ”

Tian Fan knew that his face was very bad, because he felt the muscles on his face twitch suddenly.

Gritting his teeth, he took two deep breaths and said in a deep voice: "The juniors still insist!" ”

Old Fairy Peng smiled and didn't answer, he stood up, took a medicine pot from the low couch in the corner, a small red clay stove and put it on the low table, and took out a copper kettle and a package of medicinal materials from the cook, and then took a feather fan from the top of the cook.

Sitting opposite Tian Fan, he pointed to the wood and leaves piled up in the corner of the wall, and said, "Those things are fueled, you decoct medicine for me!" ”

Tian Fan nodded, got up and took some wooden strips that were cut to the thickness of his fingers and the length of his palm, and held two handfuls of leaves and small branches, first ignited the leaves and put them in the red clay stove, and after the fire was burning, he ignited the small branches, and then ignited the wooden sticks. After five minutes, seeing that the wooden stick was already burning vigorously, he placed the medicine pot on top of the medicine stove, first put in the medicinal herbs, and then took the copper kettle and added water to the medicine jar until the volume of the medicinal herbs was about four times the volume. Finally, he closed the lid of the medicine jar, picked up the feather fan and carefully fanned the wind, and the wooden sticks in the medicine stove burned even more vigorously.

Old Immortal Peng didn't say a word, and kept watching Tian Fan do these things. Seeing that Tian Fan lit the wooden stick, as long as he kept fanning the wind and controlled the heat, the medicinal herbs could be fried, so he nodded with satisfaction.

He smiled silently and said, "If you have something to do in your hands, you won't think about it in your heart, right?" ”

Tian Fan nodded with a smile and said, "Exactly!" ”

Old Immortal Peng smiled and said: "Many things, just like this fire decoction, the most difficult part is actually igniting the fire, as long as the fire is lit, the rest is simple, as long as the fire can be controlled, it can even be said to be a matter of course." ”

Tian Fan nodded thoughtfully.

Old Immortal Peng smiled and said, "Boguang, we don't have anything to do today, why don't you listen to me and gossip?" ”

Tian Fan smiled and said, "Okay! ”

Old Immortal Peng nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "Emperor Guangwu is a generation of Ming Jun, and in any way, he is a great figure. Boguang, do you know what life was like after Emperor Guangwu became emperor? ”

Without waiting for Tian Fan to answer, he continued: "The reason why Emperor Guangwu can be called emperor is that he has the support of his twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, most of these people are clans or wealthy clans, and they have great influence and appeal in the local area.

"After Emperor Guangwu became emperor, he once wanted to check the land in his hometown of Nanyang County, and he knew that the local clan would not agree to him to tax according to the acres of land, because the clan actually held much more land in his hands than the government had registered. So, he made it clear that I didn't want to collect taxes, I just wanted to see how much land there was in the world, so that I could know by heart. Do you imagine how much of a concession an emperor would speak to such an extent? What a shame?

But even so, he still couldn't get what he wanted. When the envoys sent by the imperial court to check the land, the local clans and local officials were in collusion, and the people did not cooperate with their support and encouragement. The envoy had no choice, so he could only reply to Emperor Guangwu and tell the truth. Emperor Guangwu was very angry, you can imagine that he just wanted to check the land in his hometown, and these fellow villagers didn't cooperate, how could he not be angry? Therefore, he sent troops to Nanyang, wanting to continue to complete the land inventory.

But when the army arrived, the generals found that Nanyang had become much cleaner, many villages were uninhabited, and many fertile fields were uncultivated. After the generals investigated, they learned that all the people had fled to the mountains. The envoys of the imperial court knew that if there were no people to cultivate, it would be useless if you had more land, so they reported the matter to Emperor Guangwu. Emperor Guangwu was even more angry, but he had no choice but to order the withdrawal of the army.

"As soon as the army withdrew, the people who had fled into the mountains returned. After Emperor Guangwu found out, he could only cry out in vain. He knew that the people who fled into the mountains and forests must have been instigated and instigated by the local clans, who had done everything to prevent him from taking stock of the land. He couldn't figure out why, when he raised his army, the big clan of Nanyang helped him, but now they were so protective of him? Emperor Guangwu was a smart man in the end, and he understood it in a few days, because he was no longer the nameless Liu Xiu in Nanyang, but the son of heaven in the Han world! Before he became the Son of Heaven, the greater his achievements, the greater the benefits to his hometown fathers, but once he was called the Son of Heaven, the relationship between him and the clan became antagonistic. If the imperial court wants to collect taxes, it must be cooperated by the big clans, and if the big clans want to get rich, the imperial court must collect less, which is the gathering point of contradictions.

Emperor Guangwu was very disappointed in his heart, he thought of a question that made him very frustrated, Nanyang is his hometown, is it still like this, do other places still need to try? He always thought that if he became the Son of Heaven, the world would be his, but he didn't expect this Son of Heaven to be so tragic that he couldn't even take a small Nanyang! And the reason for this is that those deep-rooted clans in the local area are making trouble, and he is even more sad to find that those people under his command who are reused are all from the clans, and he wants to change this situation, but he can't do it, and no one is available.

In order to change this situation, Emperor Guangwu began to reuse imperial relatives and eunuchs. Hehe, don't look at the world's depreciation of eunuchs and relatives as worthless, but this is all because the family is too powerful, and the emperor wants to compete with the family for benefits but no one is available, so he has to use them. The family controls the knowledge and public opinion, what they say is naturally what the world thinks, they will definitely not say the wrong things they have done, and they will definitely say the wrong things that others have done.

"But...... Most of the eunuchs and relatives were uneducated, but they seemed to be ...... Hehe, Boguang, let me ask you a question, what is the difference between cultured people doing things and uneducated people doing things? ”

Tian Fan thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "The younger generation doesn't know!" ”

Peng Lao Immortal smiled and said: "Cultured people often have good cultivation, once this cultivation is formed, it will go deep into the bone marrow, and it will not be able to go in this life, and a person's cultivation can often determine the way this person does things." You can think about it, it must be like this!

"Cultured people have traces to follow, but uneducated people are difficult to have a bottom line and are easy to do things! Because, a cultured and educated person, he has been educated since he was a child, what can be done and what can not be done, has long formed an inherent line of thought in his heart, and these ideas formed at an early age will imperceptibly affect the way he does things when he becomes an adult. There are always things that will go beyond their psychological bottom line, so they can't do it, and even if they do, they will be tortured in their hearts. So, they have principles for doing things. For example, if you get sick when you give the order to slaughter the city, the slaughter of the city is in your heart, and it has exceeded your bottom line, so you are condemned by your conscience, and this will be a serious illness.

And uneducated people, they are not educated, they do not have a very strong sense of right and wrong, good and evil, once they gain power, they often do things without principles, without a bottom line, in order to achieve the goal, they will do whatever it takes. No matter what kind of means, no matter how cruel and terrible, he will use them, because they have no psychological burden!

"Of course, there are no absolutes. If this educated and cultivated person is blinded by something, then it is also possible to do things that exceed his bottom line, and we will not talk about this today. Hey, the fire is out! ”

Tian Fan listened, and hurriedly fanned it a few times, and when the fire was strong, he added a few more wooden sticks, and then made the fire fan a little bigger. After a while, the flame that was about to be extinguished regained its vigor.

Peng Lao Immortal muttered: "This medicine, it must be fried with a mulberry stick, and the requirements for the fire are very strict, you accidentally let the fire almost go out, I'm afraid that the power of the medicine will be greatly reduced!" Isn't that harming me, you child? ”

Tian Fan smiled embarrassedly and said, "Master, you really can't blame me for this, what you said is so reasonable, it reminds me of something!" "Isn't it, the soldiers of the little devils back then were all junior high school and elementary school graduates, so it is said that they should have a sense of right and wrong, but what they did in China was not personnel! This is largely determined by their strict hierarchy, the big officials bully the small officials, the young officials bully the veterans, and the veterans bully the new recruits, and the recruits can only vent by bullying the Chinese people, so Chinese suffers......

Old Immortal Peng smiled, didn't ask Tian Fan what he thought, and continued: "But there is another situation, which has nothing to do with cultivation!" ”

Tian Fan said: "Oh? What kind of situation? ”

Peng Lao Immortal said: "Some people, as a son of a family, do not treat ordinary people as human beings, so he will not use his cultivation on them." For example, Yuan Shu, when the princes of the Eighteenth Route crusaded against Dong Zhuo, what he said to the Liu Bei brothers obviously did not treat them as human beings. But he wasn't like that, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people gathered around him. ”