14. Interlude: The World of Benevolence
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"Big brother, the scout is here, there is a Yellow Turban Army attacking the village fifteen miles ahead, should we send troops to help."
"Yide, how many people are there after us?"
"It stretches for more than ten miles, and I can't see the end at a glance, and I can't count how many people and villagers follow us."
"Is there enough food to eat?"
"How can I be! When we left, we only took half a year's worth of grain and grass, and it stands to reason that there should be no problem in supporting Xuzhou, not to mention that Tao Qian's old man also promised that he would send someone to greet us, and he would give us some money and grain at that time. So at the beginning, the people of Yuyang were willing to follow their eldest brother for thousands of miles, and this friendship was that bastards like Lao Zhang and I felt that it was precious and couldn't refuse, so they agreed.
It's just that who would have thought that now the yellow scarves in Qingzhou have resurged, and the momentum is no less than at the beginning, bandits gathered, and the people are struggling to make a living. Along the way, hungry people continue to join our team, and the eldest brother is unwilling to give up on them, so the consumption of this food is naturally great. Moreover, the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou is powerful, how dare Tao Qian Lao'er go north if he has no time to take care of himself, and the eldest brother will not let us attack the city occupied by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Without input, we have to cope with the food and drink of almost 100,000 people, and even if we reduce the ration ration, we will not be able to last long. ”
"Really...... Is it already strict zhòng to this kind of process...... I, Liu Bei, am really sorry for the people who have followed me all the way. ”
"Big brother, don't say that, the third brother is just worried about the problem of food and grass, you don't see that he has eaten less food and no more wine these days. Don't you just want to save more food for the people? But big brother, this food problem has indeed reached the time when it can't be solved, after all, if this problem is not solved, it will be a matter of hundreds of thousands of lives. ”
"Second brother, second brother, third brother, I don't understand, obviously the people who follow us are less than 200,000 (probably), how can there be no food that will matter hundreds of thousands of lives?"
"Third brother, you said that if you were about to starve to death, what would you do if you saw a bad guy with food in his hands at this time?"
"Then you don't need to ask. Fuck it! Lao Zhang, even if I am hungry and faint, I can fight five at a time! ”
"yes. Third brother, a good person like you will do something to those who have food when they have no choice but to do it, how will those hungry people choose when their lives are short? Cannibalism? Or to attack the state and county? Join the Yellow Turbans in rebellion? Flee to the mountains and become a new bandit? In this way, this calamity will be greatly expanded. ”
"So what does the second brother think?"
"Then you don't need to ask, of course, it is to cut off those corrupt officials and corrupt officials along the way, and the bullies are strong. And they took out the grain which they had stored up and distributed it among the people. Misuse their hidden belongings as military funds. Grain and grass were purchased from local ordinary people and merchants. ”
"But what is the difference between our move and those bandits who are 'robbing the rich and helping the poor' and 'doing the right thing for heaven'."
"Eldest brother, second brother admires you the most in addition to your benevolence to the people. It was you who dared to kill the killer in the face of the difficult post supervisor at the beginning, and you also dared to use thunder against those fornicating Hu people to lead thieves and thieves in Yuyang, but why are you ...... now?"
"Hey...... Brother Wei also knows that this move will work very quickly, and he also knows that this is a good way to solve the current dilemma. But second brother, have you ever thought that if we always use this method to solve problems, over time we will become obsessed with this feeling of 'force decides a qiē', and finally our actions will become simple and rude. In that case, what is the difference between us and those who do evil? Isn't there still a world of strife, where the weak will always be bullied by the strong? ”
"Big brother!" x2。
"Forget it...... Brother Bogui sent Shan Jing to pass through Qingzhou has a very good relationship with me, and I think I should be able to be accommodating. In return, let's do what we can for him. In addition, I heard that Beihai Confucius Wenju is a famous Confucian family, and Beihai has hoarded a large amount of grain and grass, for the sake of the hungry people, I think it should be able to give us some for turnover. ”
"Just listen to the eldest brother." "Hmm...... It's not happy, it's really not happy. ”
"Haha, Yide don't worry, when we fight against the Yellow Turban Army, we still have to count on Yide's bravery."
"Hahahaha~ How dare the third brother complain about the eldest brother, hahahaha~ The eldest brother can rest assured, those yellow turban thieves can't run out of my Lao Zhang's palm. When the time comes, maybe those yellow turban thieves will be able to serve the food they have stolen. ”
"That's really good, if that's the case, you'll make a great contribution, third brother."
"That's right, don't look at who my eldest brother is."
After that, it was by relying on such an act as if he was a part-time worker, but tens of thousands of people, no, as the battle progressed, those ordinary people who originally participated in the Yellow Turban Army gradually joined Liu Bei's team, and the size of the team was still expanding - there was no large-scale starvation and riots, which is really incredible when I think about it.
In fact, the team that had just crossed the Yellow River had not yet set foot in the relatively wealthy Qi State in the Qingzhou region, and the pressure of food had already put the team in danger of collapse.
What's even worse is that Beihai Kong Rong, who had already agreed to provide them with some food and grass to tide over the immediate difficulties, was surrounded by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, who also lacked food and grass, in the county town of Beihai State, with three layers inside and three layers outside, and it seemed that even a fly could not fly out from this layer of encirclement to report the news.
After all, compared to the more towering walls and armaments that the Qi State has because of its wealth and history, Kong Rong, the minister of the Beihai Kingdom, is not only a civil official who has no ability to raise troops to fight and can only boast about it, but also the descendants of the second son of Kong also despise the martial arts very much, unless you can have a certain amount of literary talent and knowledge, then the force can be regarded as a manifestation of might and courage, after all, there is a martial arts and courage among the sages of Confucius.
But if it's just a brutal warrior, then I'm sorry, how can a Confucian celebrity look down on such a vulgar person, and how can he associate with such a barbarian.
And so over time. The sound of reading in Beihai is indeed a lot louder, but correspondingly, the county soldiers who can protect the land and the people have become children who can only embroider their legs. The country is naturally thriving, but in this troubled world, it is like a small child walking in the downtown with a heavy treasure, and when it is robbed only depends on the mood of the thieves and the timing of their hands.
But the only thing that is impossible is to walk through the city safely and nothing.
Of course, although the city wall of Juxian County cannot be compared with Linzi of Qi State, it is still a big problem for those Yellow Turban Army who lack the ability to attack the city, so Juxian County, which has enough food and grass, is not worried about being broken for a while. It's just that it's always besieged by a mob. For those scholars in the city who only read the books of the sages, it was indeed a little difficult.
In fact, when Liu Bei got the exact news, the head of the drama city had already carried out several attacks and defenses. There were even two times when the Yellow Turbans had already stormed the city. If it weren't for the private soldiers sent by the powerful in the city, especially the young general Zong Bao from the Zong family, he would have taken the lead. I am afraid that the drama city has already been defeated and broken, and it will provide rich supplies for the Yellow Turban Army.
Even so, the drama county is already in jeopardy. At least most of the people in the city did not think that the soldiers in the city could withstand the murderous attacks of the Yellow Turban Army, and their morale was even more low.
From this, you can also understand the reason why when Liu Bei ordered all the soldiers and horses and borrowed 3,000 elite soldiers from Shan Jing to go to the drama city to relieve the siege, but only saw the smoke of the city and the somewhat familiar corpse hanging on the city gate.
Even though Zhang Fei killed the enemy chief Xu He in the end and dispersed the Yellow Turban Army thieves who occupied the city, allowing Liu Bei and the soldiers and civilians who followed him to recover the drama city and obtain a large number of supplies that the Yellow Turban Army did not have time to move away, it could not eliminate the unwillingness and self-blame in Liu Bei's heart.
"It's all about Kong Beihai!"
If he can hurry up a little longer, if he can get the news a little earlier, if he can fight more of the Yellow Turban thieves, if ...... Maybe Kong Rong won't die, maybe the drama county won't be breached, maybe the people won't be bullied by the Yellow Turban thieves, maybe ...... It's a pity that everything has become a doomed fact, and there is no possibility of change.
"Why, why is this so?"
"Although the younger brother knows that it is not good to say this, the younger brother still thinks that the eldest brother is a little kind of woman!"
"Really?"
Liu Bei's eyes were a little blank, and it was obvious that he was beginning to doubt his future path.
Speaking of which, although Liu Bei was born "prominent" and can have something to do with the surname of the dynasty, after all, he has already fallen into the middle of the family, and from childhood to adulthood, it can be said that he has tasted the warmth and bitterness of human feelings, so in his heart, the most important thing is not only to let the surname Liu continue to rule the world, but also to let the people of the world live a stable life.
It's just that it's not easy -- just look at Li Shushi's expedition to the south and the north to get back the people of the state and stay away from the scourge of war, you can see how difficult it is to achieve this in the troubled times.
As a child surnamed Liu, if you want the country to be stable, you naturally have to rely on the strength of the family, and you can't offend lightly. However, if you want the people to live a healthy life and stay away from the dilemma of being bullied by the strong, you need to maintain a certain amount of high pressure on the family.
How do you make trade-offs to achieve your dreams?
In the past, Liu Bei chose the way of balance - for the stronger families and the weaker people, Liu Bei carefully maintained the balance between the two, lest he take a wrong step.
Although this has allowed him to accumulate a lot of prestige, only he and his brothers can clearly understand the hardships.
But even then, this fragile balance seems to be untenable.
Liu Bei really felt unprecedentedly confused.
Perhaps, it's time to think about how to walk next.
But before that.
"Lord Taishou, this is a rabbit that my boy picked up by chance in the forest, please be sure to laugh, you have worried so much about us ordinary people, and you can't even eat enough, the little old man can't bear it. You are the pillar of us ordinary people, if you have three longs and two shorts, we will have no hope of living. So you must take care of yourself, if you really can't, although the little old man is old, but there are still a few taels of meat to eat, please don't be polite. ”
Sure enough, I still can't let go of these simple, lovely people who make people want to cry!
Compared with the smiles of these people from the bottom of their hearts, the others are really just accessories of this smile!
I don't know why. Liu Bei suddenly thought of a friend who used to be close, but later drifted away for various reasons.
The other party has a similar background to Liu Bei, no, at least Liu Bei still has a reluctant "Han Family Clan" as a signboard above his head, and the other party is completely an ordinary person. So the path that that person chose for the sake of the trace was so "rebellious" in the eyes of Liu Bei in the past, even if he knew that the other party seemed to be an official who was loved by the people, but after all, he could not agree with the path that the other party had chosen before from the bottom of his heart.
But now that I look back and look at the other party's past behaviors, although there is luck, I have to admit that the other party can at least turn what he thinks into reality. Little by little, in their own sphere of influence, they sketch out the beautiful picture in their hearts. On the contrary, Liu Bei himself is still confused, not knowing where the road ahead is.
Even, he was involved in the "Shura field between my senior brother and my distant relatives" and was forced to leave the country.
"Maybe I should make some changes, too."
The eyes looked to the western sky. Far away. There was a young man. He had similar dreams but followed different paths, and now it seems that the young man is a little more successful.
"But yes. Some things don't change no matter what, you say, people like me. ”
Half a month later, under the design of someone with a heart, the southbound army and civilians led by Liu Bei had a fierce conflict with some heroes along the way, and the cause of the incident was that those heroes who were used to being arrogant in the local area wanted to scrape some oil and water from Liu Beijun, who had just defeated the Yellow Turban Army, in line with the inherent habit of "let you be a strong dragon and bow your head in front of me, the head snake".
Obviously, Liu Bei's previous tolerance of the local family along the way made these people unable to hold back their **, only because there had been rumors that Liu Beijun's lack of food had reached the point where it was unsustainable that they did not dare to touch this extremely unstable "bomb", and now Liu Bei can just take a breath, but now there is a group of vampires like piranhas around him.
It's just a pity that these people met Liu Bei, who had just planned to "change his style and promote development" - although he still seemed to be kind to the people and laughed even if he was offended by unintentional words, he was no longer the same person a few days ago.
Speaking of which, there is such a kind of person, who seems to have a great sense of tolerance on weekdays, but once he is angered and ignited, it must be a monstrous wave or even die - this is the so-called "honest fire".
Today's Liu Bei may be in such a situation.
Not only was he asked to return the so-called "losses caused by the attack of the Yellow Turban Army", but he even took action to kidnap the young and beautiful women among the people who followed Liu Bei's army south, and killed and injured countless innocent people who resisted.
Perhaps, in their opinion, Liu Bei certainly has thousands of powerful troops, and he is not the object of their anger, but Liu Bei is a person who wants to do great things, and the help they can provide is far beyond those ordinary people, even if most of the soldiers are from ordinary people, but that kind of thing is originally more or less, and there is a large group of people at will.
Even if he asked Liu Bei for the goods obtained by the Yellow Turban Army, it was just to make Liu Bei pay the price to pay for friendship with them, and it was a necessary payment for the cooperation that might arise between the two sides in the future, otherwise how could they, as land-sitting households, rest assured that they would be able to make transactions with you, Liu Bei, an outsider?
Well, maybe it's just a difference of philosophy, as if you'll never know whether it's the so-called "simple" villagers who are resentful of the local big business, or whether the big business is bullying the local villagers and causing great damage to the local disadvantaged villagers.
But as far as Liu Bei is concerned, this can no longer be simply described as two words of death, but - big. Make. Die!
What the result is...... It is said that with Boss Liu pressing the formation, Zhang Sanye charging ahead, and Pan Erye beating drums and black guns on the side, can there be a second ending?
However, that feeling is really pleasant......
Feel happy......
Rejoice......
Come on......
Yes......
“…… Big brother, we have already found out the specific location of the enemy's lair, and this time we will definitely make the bastard bandits who harassed the security of the surrounding countryside completely disappear from this land! ”
The familiar "roar" in the ear...... Of course, it was indeed not a deliberate effort to make such a loud decibel noise, it was just the volume of the other party's "normal" speech - although such an explanation would not be felt by anyone who had been tortured by this kind of sound, but as his most trusted eldest brother, Liu Bei could determine that the other party did not mean it.
After all, Liu Bei, the real loud voice of the other party, had witnessed and "enjoyed" with his own ears, and even the entire details of how the young general sent by the enemy on the opposite side vomited bitterness and fell from his horse to death are clearly remembered.
“…… Well? Well! Have you already investigated clearly, then send the news to General Yuanlong, according to the previous agreement, we will divide our troops and attack together, and we must not let those bandits escape again. ”
"Don't worry, big brother, if you let a bastard escape, Lao Zhang will take off his head and play it for big brother!"
"Nonsense, how can you and my brother make such a joke."
"Hey, hey~ Big brother taught me a lesson."
Looking at Zhang Fei's distant figure, Liu Bei suddenly realized that he was now in the barracks, standing on the wooden wall of the barracks, and the location of this barracks was in the territory of Xuzhou Langxie Kingdom.
And the scenes I experienced in my mind just now have been more than a few months ago.
"The chaos in the world comes from the chaos of people's hearts, and if you want to change the troubled times, you may have to start by changing people's hearts. Use my hands to create a new world, a country of benevolence without bullying and sorrow! ”
Jumping off the wall and stepping onto the war horse, behind him were familiar faces, the faces of the old folks who had followed him all the way south to this place, but now, they had become the most loyal robes around him.
"The whole army advances, for the sake of the benevolent world, attack!"
"Oh!"
There was a thunderous cry of joy, which was trust from the bottom of my heart.
"Third Brother ......"
"What's the matter, second brother?"
"Have you noticed, the orange-red color flashed on the eldest brother's body just now, it's so beautiful......" (To be continued......)