Chapter 35: Poor Man
Cai Xin's family is poor, and his parents have been farmers for generations, but unfortunately there are too many children in the family, and half of them die young, and the rest is also thin and struggling to survive.
encountered a major drought in a few years, and had to sell children and daughters at home, and Cai Xing, in order to survive and reduce the burden on the family, was finally sold to the palace by gritting his teeth and stomping his feet and became a eunuch.
Cai Xin was not tactful, he was honest, and he was not favored at all in the palace full of deceit, and finally followed a big eunuch to the imperial tomb.
Although the days are hard and there is no power, the good thing is that he can be stable, and he only needs to wait for the imperial tomb, and this life is estimated to have passed
For him, who doesn't have any big pursuits, it's thank God that he can have a bite to eat.
This Dachang Empire is now in chaos, and the number of displaced people who can't eat is counted, and he can at least eat a mouthful of hot rice, and there is a house to cover it!
In addition, he must be a eunuch from the palace, although the dignitaries look down on him, they will not target him
After all, no one knows whether this little eunuch or the big eunuch behind him will be activated by the emperor one day.
Although Cai Xin's life is not good, at least he can survive.
His daily work was nothing more than serving the great eunuch. Guarding the Imperial Mausoleum mainly has to go out to purchase, which is one of the few days when he can go out of the Imperial Mausoleum to see the outside world.
He never expected that this time he came to the village to purchase, but he met a rogue, which made him tremble and he could only hide in a thatched hut.
But the strange thing is that these rogues invaded the city and did not burn and loot on a large scale, but only attacked large households.
It's a pity that he was hiding in a big house, and he was finally exposed and pulled out.
He was very afraid of the rogues, and he had heard too much about how frustrating and peaceful the rogues were, these people were all bloody and murderous people without blinking. After being caught, he was completely desperate, but he didn't expect that the other party would not kill him, but would take off his pants, which was even more uncomfortable than killing him.
In order to live, in order to survive, he has given up the dignity of a man and become a eunuch, but in public, he confesses his flaws, which undoubtedly makes him more desperate than killing him.
In his desperation, a man appeared, and instead of killing him, the leader of the rogue appeared and helped him up and pulled up his pants for him.
He trembled with fear, and looked at the handsome man in front of him, and an indescribable feeling kept surging in his throat
No one in the palace has ever done such an action.
Even if it was served by the little eunuch, the contempt in his eyes was unobstructed.
Everyone is crippled, and no one is better than the other.
Eunuch is a very unfamiliar word to Chen Zhang.
As a time-traveler, I have only seen it in novels in the past, and I will not see it at all in reality.
Even the costumes that appear in the TV series are eunuchs.
Who has seen a eunuch in the first place?
Chen Zhang did not have any contempt for the eunuchs, but was very heartbroken
Eunuchs are the most disgusting group that has appeared in the entire feudal dynasty.
Of course, this group of disgusting is not eunuchs, what is disgusting is that the people in power cut off a man alive and made him an inhumane eunuch, think about how cruel it is,
This is enough to show that in feudal society, people don't treat others as human beings at all, even if those in power are high up and say that they do practical things for the people, but in fact they are never human beings, just as a tool.
Not even as good as a tool.
Chen Zhang helped Cai Xin up, tightened his pants, and looked around, the three soldiers who were beaten on the side were now trembling with fright.
They are very respectful and reverent for their own adults, and they fell to their knees with a thud, constantly kowtowing
"My lord, we were wrong, my lord spared my life, my lord spared my life" "Enough, stand up for me"
Chen Zhang's brows furrowed slightly, and the sound of scolding made the three of them tremble in fright.
After the three of them stood up cautiously, Chen Zhang sighed and said
"Don't kneel down at every turn, I don't blame you!"
"I just want you not to bully people and become brutal oppressors like those dignitaries."
"My lord, we don't want to be an oppressor, but he's a eunuch"
A soldier asked cautiously
"Yes, eunuchs are the most hateful, we used to have eunuchs come over, they were arrogant and domineering in the local area, wantonly bullying people, really hateful"
There is a way that there are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are overlords, and eunuchs are the lowest existence in the palace, but when they go outside, especially as eunuchs who are released, the power is quite large.
There are Taoist priests who don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, and the local government will serve these eunuchs kindly.
Because none of them knew what kind of relationship these eunuchs had in the palace, no, to be precise, they were all related to what could be released.
When the eunuch returned to the palace, a casual word or two could make the status and position of the officials even suffer a catastrophe.
This also made these foreign eunuchs extremely powerful, and they almost acted as a prestige in the local area.
"I understand your thoughts, but you must know that not all eunuchs are bad people, if he does bad things, he can be tried publicly, and if he is found guilty, he will be killed and beheaded for public display, and insulting people like this is not what a legitimate person should do, and eunuchs are also poor people."
Eunuchs are also pitiful!
Everyone present was stunned.
It is true that they look down on eunuchs, but it is strange to say that eunuchs are pitiful.
After all, ordinary people see that the eunuchs are all released from the palace, and the eunuchs are arrogant and domineering, where is there a little pitiful look?
"What do you mean, sir?"
Chen Zhang did not answer, but looked at the eunuch on the side
"What's your name?"
"This adult, my name is Cai Xin"
"Cai Xin, huh? Okay, then can you tell us about yourself and why you became a eunuch? What are the conditions like in your home? ”
"Me"
Cai Xin's face was forced, he didn't know that the bandit leader in front of him asked himself what these were?
Could it be that you want to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots?
Frightened, he fell to his knees and begged for mercy in pain
"My lord, if you want to kill me, kill me, please don't deal with my family, please don't deal with my family"
"Shut up and stand up for me"
Chen Zhang wanted to cry without tears.
He found that people in ancient times would kowtow and beg for mercy at every turn, which also showed how ridiculous human rights were in ancient times
If those in power want to kill a person, they don't need to go through the law at all, they do whatever they want!
"If I tell you to say it, you can say it, and if you don't say it, I'll kill you right now"
Cai Xin trembled with fright and stood up cautiously.
"Adult, the younger one is called Cai Xin, originally a farmer, I had two older brothers above me, one died young, and there are three younger sisters below who are all waiting to be fed. In the early years, my family encountered a catastrophe, I couldn't survive the disaster, and my sister was given away, and I really couldn't open the pot at home, so I gritted my teeth and stomped into the palace and became a eunuch."
Although it is only a short sentence, the number of words is not much, but what comes out of these words is blood and tears.
Chen Zhang nodded, turning his head to look at the soldier who stood up.
"I heard that it is gone, the eunuchs are not all bad people, they are also poor people, think about it, is this eunuch more miserable than you?"
"Originally, it was just an ordinary farmer, with parents, family and brothers and sisters, but as a result, the elder brother died of starvation, but the sister was trafficked, and he still does not know whether he is alive or dead, and although he himself survived, he became a crippled man, in the final analysis, it is all because of this damn world, because of those in power, those exploiters, those high-ranking officials and nobles"
"They don't have any compassion and empathy, they oppress the people, they oppress everyone, they force you into a rogue, they force this person into a eunuch, and even say in the end, you are your life"
"Is this your fate? No, it's not your life, it's designed by these people in power, those in power."
"Are you not trying hard enough? You farm, you farm, you pay taxes, it can be said that you used your own flesh and blood, your own blood and sweat to support this huge court, to support these high-ranking officials and nobles, but in the end you can't even survive yourself, you can't even raise a child, you can't even become a man."
"Is this fair?"
In just three words, the soldiers present had tears streaming down their eyes, and their eyes looking at the eunuch became a little gentle, not as aggressive as at the beginning, and shouted loudly
"It's not fair."
"That's right, this is not fair at all, we want to build a world where everyone can have food, everyone has their own house, and everyone has students to go to school, and we want to build a world where poor people can work with their own hands to support themselves, without relying on people's hearts, without the cold weather in the north, and fleeing in the face of catastrophes, selling their sons and daughters, and even being forced to become eunuchs, such a thing is not right!"
"We must unite all the forces that can be united, we will not harm the poor, we must unite the poor, because only the poor can help the poor!"
"Counting on the dignitaries and nobles, and counting on those in power to help them with great kindness, is just a fool's dream"
"Now you still think it's right for you to play with him and pick up his pants"
The three soldiers were so moved to tears by Chen Zhang's words that they knelt on the ground again
"My lord, we were wrong, we were wrong."
"Since you know that you are wrong, then you will be dealt with by military law, do you admit it or not?"
"We admit it!"
"Okay, then take it down to the military law for disposal, and after the disposal is completed, write me 300 words to check out the thoughts, if you can't write, then go to the military advisor, and let the military advisor take you to write!"
300 word check.
The three soldiers' hairs exploded in an instant, their faces turned pale, and the sweat on their foreheads flowed down
One of them smiled bitterly.
"When adults, we are all bitter haha, we can't even write, let us write and check that we can't at all"
"If you can't write, can't you learn? Even if you can't learn it, you don't have a military advisor, can't you even speak, in short, 300 words can't be missing! ”
After speaking, he turned to look at the eunuch in front of him, and Cai Xin opened his mouth to ask again.
"Has he been tried? If not, we will control him, and when we leave here, let him go, go wherever he wants, and don't hinder us."
"Yes, my lord"