Chapter 52: Regret
After initially dealing with Liu Bei and the others, Nanshan quickly scattered and reorganized the 5,000 soldiers and horses they brought to support, and put them together with the more than 70,000 slaves who were rescued.
It's not that he deliberately wants to be wary of these new soldiers, it's mainly that once it's formed, it's hard to change it on its own.
At this time, the Han Dynasty was not as chaotic as it was later, and most of the officers and soldiers who could become official officers and soldiers belonged to the scope of good families, and their families had land and grain, and it was difficult to understand what class contradictions, deterioration of productive forces, and exploitative relations and other concepts were, and I did not understand why a good Han Dynasty would fall to the point it is today.
It was unthinkable that those foreigners who had been beaten down could drive straight into the border counties and wreak havoc on the Han land.
If they don't know who caused these sufferings, I'm afraid it will be difficult to learn from the pain and accept such advanced ideas, and in more serious cases, they will even treat the Fire God Sect as a rebellion like the Taiping Dao.
Fortunately, Nanshan has been prepared for this.
The grievance criticism conference inherited from the PLA is definitely the only way to unite the newcomers and make them understand who is the class enemy.
I just don't know how Liu Bei and the others will react to this, I hope they won't be scared away.......
Outside the barracks, at the house arranged for the three of them, Zhang Fei said nervously.
"Big brother, it seems that something is not quite right......."
After only one day of training, he was a little panicked.
Different from Liu Bei Guan Yu, one was displaced in the early years, and the other was simply a wanted criminal, as the most famous "butcher" in Zhuo County, Zhang Fei is an authentic landlord class, not only has a peach orchard under his name, but also funded his eldest brother Liu Bei to pull out a group of people in Zhuo County to directly participate in the suppression of the rebellion, which can be described as a lot of money. Therefore, I felt extremely puzzled and frightened about the grievance and criticism meeting held in the afternoon. What are these people going to do, are they going to rebel?
At first, some people came up to the stage to tell their stories. There are Han Chinese who have been slaves since birth, there are also wealthy families with few assets in their hometowns, and even homeless people who have long been bankrupt and large families living in the city, all of whom tearfully tell how they were arrested and exiled to the grassland.
At first, he regarded these as arrangements for Zhonglang to use adults to motivate soldiers to fight with the Hu people, and although he would also curse with grief and various plots, he didn't think it was a big deal. Legend has it that Wu Qi also personally sucked the poisonous sores of the soldiers with his mouth, the purpose of which was nothing more than to make the soldiers willing to die.
But when he got to the back, when a few people who seemed to have extraordinary status and prestige among the soldiers came to power, he vaguely realized that something was wrong.
As one of the few people in the border area who has read a few books, Zhang Fei is the first time he has seen someone who can explain the decline of the Han Dynasty so clearly.
Because the population is growing so fast, many civilians simply do not have enough land to cultivate, and spreading it evenly among everyone means that the amount of food that can fill their stomachs is greatly reduced. In this way, not only will the imperial court's taxes not be able to rise, but in the event of natural and man-made disasters, those who can't survive will easily take risks. In order to quell the rebellion, the imperial court had only to send troops, but the problem was that the troops were sent to ask for money, and the taxes could not be collected, so in order to alleviate the financial pressure, the imperial court had to set up a clever name and collect taxes from those rich merchants and landlords.
But the key point is that these people are not willing to hand over their money in vain, and in order to make up for the losses, they will use means such as annexing land and raising food prices to transfer their losses to the majority of the civilians. This caused the already dire situation to worsen, forcing more and more people to take risks if they could not survive, and then it became an unsolvable cycle until the imperial court's financial system collapsed completely.
As for what they have seen so far, the phenomena of eunuchs in power, buying officials and selling lords, and the lawlessness of wealthy families in the prefectures and counties, and the wanton annexation of land, are just the external manifestations of this internal reason.
If this critical issue is not addressed, even the most powerful national dynasty will come to an end.
At that time, Zhang Fei was shocked, and then broke out in a cold sweat offstage.
Because this statement is too terrifying, judging from what they said, if you want to alleviate and save the current collapse situation, the most direct and effective way is to fight local tyrants and divide the land!
But what about people like him?
Frightened, Zhang Fei couldn't even take care of the newly formed cavalry unit, and hurriedly ran to his eldest brother and second brother to discuss, just worried that what they found this time was not an opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune at all, but a bottomless pit, and if they jumped in, they couldn't get out.
Similarly, Rao is our second master Guan belongs to the kind of person who was frightened since childhood, and he also has a painful face.
"Could it be that Lord Zhonglang wants to go against the wealthy families of the whole world?"
Of course, from the bottom of his heart, Guan Yu still agrees with this point of view, if he wasn't used to seeing the tyrants run rampant, he wouldn't have become a fugitive.
It's a pity that this doesn't mean that he is willing to face this kind of lifeless situation, although his character has always been arrogant and not humiliating, and he has never encountered such a thing, the success rate is lower than that of rebellion, except for the former Wang Mang who died once, even the crazy guys in the past dynasties will not do this, while it has not been long since he joined in, it would be better to run away early.
Thinking of this, Guan Yu looked at his eldest brother tightly, waiting for Liu Bei to make a decision.
But the problem is that Liu Bei's heart is more entangled than the two.
Because his background is not very good, even if he has made a lot of contributions, he can only be awarded low-level official positions such as county lieutenant and chief secretary, not only has no future, but also in that kind of more dangerous place. Since the suppression of Taiping Dao, he has been in so many positions, but there has been no improvement, and now he has finally gained a firm foothold, has been entrusted with important tasks, and has the opportunity to show his strength, he doesn't want to give up so easily. Here not only did he finally have his own direct troops, but the number also expanded directly from two thousand to ten thousand, a fivefold increase, even for the sake of this imminent future, it was difficult for him to let go.
Anyway, so many battles of life and death have come, it's a big deal to gamble.
Gritting his teeth, Liu Bei finally said with difficulty.
"Let's wait for now, Lord Zhonglang is also a royal family, so he shouldn't be so desperate, maybe there is another purpose. It's a pity that the few talented people who defected to us last time didn't come here for some reason this time, otherwise, we wouldn't have to be so difficult. ”
Speaking of this, Liu Bei shook his head and smiled bitterly, not knowing if he would regret making this decision in the future.