Chapter Thirty-Eight: Self-Rebellion
It's a long way back.
From Mengxia to Jixia, the long shirt was transformed into a short shirt.
God seems to be indignant at the atrocities at the moment, and in a fit of rage, the sun is scorching for months, and the rain does not fall.
Soon, there was a great drought.
Even Yangzhou, where the river is abundant, has a large drop in water level, and people are panicking, not to mention Qingzhou, which is already dry and hard.
In this scorching summer weather, food is no longer so precious.
Everyone is fighting for water.
The gentlemen and officials rushed to carry water to their mansions, and even more simply moved directly to the water source, dispatched troops and slaves, and enclosed land to build mansions.
At this time, the hungry and thirsty people were finally forced to the end, and they raised their hoes to rebel.
Since the appearance of the first warrior to eat crabs, the reactionary situation in various places has spread like a spark on fire.
Not all officials are wicked people who loot the people's fat and ointment, and extort and extort all kinds of evildoers, but under the grinding and pouring of this kind of big grinding plate of the government and the people, they are still blurred in flesh and blood, and it is difficult to escape "retribution".
It seems that there is some grievance.
It's a pity that there are too many things in this world that can be called unjustified. And, if you have to be more serious, the results of going back to the source may leave you speechless.
Heaven and earth have a way, and there is no far-reaching world.
Whether it is a Confucian gentleman, a Buddhist enlightener, or a Taoist master, all of them are heading towards the avenue. They want to realize.
Comprehend the law, clarify cause and effect, like a fish in water, on the contrary, touch the red line, bury the disaster, and die.
Everyone was originally in a cage, but then a group of detachments appeared.
Then they sealed off the road, blurring and mutilating the already difficult and obscure paths.
No matter how talented you are, proud of the past and the present, it's useless.
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The cowardly people, who have always faced the loess with their backs to the sky, and who have been submissive, are much more terrible than those soldiers who look fierce and vicious.
There is a big difference between bluffing and being fearless to death.
Although the Lu clan of the puppet regime is a eunuch in power, which is contrary to morality, the family has a large number of generals and a rich family, and the change of power has hardly infringed on the people. Therefore, the rule of the jurisdiction has always been calm, at most occasionally set off a few insignificant small waves.
Lin Ruhai, who originally occupied the moral high ground, thought that it would be beneficial to himself and harmless to drag it out, but unfortunately people are not as good as heaven. Now that he was in turmoil, he could only watch his people run to other people's side for refuge.
This old fox quietly infiltrated the states and counties in a few months, and when there was a great chaos, he immediately took the opportunity to replace the actual rulers of the states and counties, and by the way, he poured dirty water on them, and pushed out to behead the people to show the people's grievances.
However, the common people who rose up this time not only did not buy it, but directly rushed into the yamen in one go.
The states and counties fell into a leaderless chaos, and Lin Ruhai lost almost all control except Yangzhou.
Next, ambitious characters of all kinds appeared one after another, and the jumping clowns who thought they were proud of themselves emerged one after another.
The real troubled times are coming.
The lines between the dead and the living have become blurred.
Murder and arson are commonplace, and after eating occasionally, I still want to have some snacks to appetize.
Maybe you just inadvertently glanced at others, and you were given a bad reputation for looking at people with dog eyes, and you were inexplicably stabbed and killed.
Maybe you're a little boss who leads a group of people to live freely in the days when the legal system is ineffective, but you are fed poisoned wine by your brother who beats him and wears a pair of pants. It's just because he has a crush on your new concubine.
Maybe he was just an honest farmer, but he ended dozens of lives with his own hands. Because I was forced to be helpless, because of a little selfishness, a little desire.
Taste the sweetness and can't stop.
has lost the shackles of etiquette and morality, and all the pickled things that I only dare to think about on weekdays can now be done without scruples.
Ye Xiaochuan didn't go well all the way, especially when he was cleaned up by the round-faced thin man, he always had a fire in his heart, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, plus the weather was hot and dry, it simply became a humanoid powder keg, which exploded when he touched it.
When he passed through Taiyuan County, at the beginning of the great turmoil, he, a young man with clear eyebrows and unusually clean clothes, immediately attracted the attention of the peasant rebels who were searching for the children of the eunuchs with red eyes.
In the face of the menacing crowd of people who were unclothed, Ye Xiaochuan was unwilling to kill innocents even though he was aggrieved, but he soon found himself helplessly trapped in layers of encirclement.
At the critical moment, the young man suddenly had an idea, quickly picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground, and then raised his hands high above his head, while his legs were slightly bent, "Ah~ Mommy Mommy!"
The stone cracked in response, and at this time the wind was blowing, and the young man's face was full of inscrutable, and the green tendons on the back of his hand loomed.
After the stone cracked, it slipped naturally from the white palms and between the ten slender fingers, and shattered into dust in the process of falling.
Drifting in the wind, one after another.
The people who were approaching with red eyes were silent at first, then suddenly took a big step back, and all knelt down in fear, chanting in unison as they worshipped, "Heavenly Master for......gives sins!"
The young man quietly breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and thought for a while, then became angry and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, please get up quickly, in Xia Hu Sanduo, he is just a Mo family ranger who walks the rivers and lakes." ”
"Please make the decision for us!" someone said loudly, "The young man is cornered and does not want to hurt us, which shows that you have a good heart." Admire it below!"
Ye Xiaochuan looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who came out of the passage that spontaneously separated from the crowd, and only felt a little uncomfortable. Although this person is very popular, and his face is honest and honest.
"Are you?" Ye Xiaochuan didn't like it in his heart, but he also felt that he didn't look good at giving people a good face when they met for the first time, so he asked with a smile.
"In Xia Liu Ji, he was the county magistrate of Pei County. "The man was polite and elegant.
Ye Xiaochuan felt that this name was a little familiar, and he was a little confused when he thought about it carefully. He was once fortunate enough to see a dilapidated copy of the "Chronicles of Kyushu" on the top floor of the Chen Family Library Building, if he remembered correctly, this seems to be the name of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, right?
"Shaoxia, what's wrong with you?" The middle-aged man was dressed in gray coarse cloth and muddy trouser legs, looking like he was just a peasant.
"I'm fine, but I suddenly remembered something urgent. Ye Xiaochuan came back to his senses and secretly said in his heart, the world is so big, there are many duplicate names.
"Oh, I would venture to ask, if it's convenient, can you tell us what it is? maybe, we can help you. Liu Ji's face was full of sincerity, it stands to reason that if someone is kind and enthusiastic to help you, you should be happy.
But the boy was disgusted, and he always felt that this smile was a bit hypocritical.
"No need. There's still something important to do, farewell!"
The boy smiled and declined, then parted the crowd and walked away.
The middle-aged man always smiled and watched, but the palm hidden in his sleeve curled up slightly slowly sent away, and some fine sand slipped from his hand, and he couldn't see it at all if he didn't look carefully.
At this moment, a person on the periphery of the crowd suddenly shouted, "Lord Liu, you have read the book of sages, and you are still a good official!
Then four or five more people shouted, and the people, who had already hated officials, joined in.
This person is indeed called Liu Ji, and Pei County does exist, but he is not a county order, just a street scoundrel.
It's a pity that even the people of Pei County don't know who the county magistrate's surname is.
What's more, how many counties are separated?