The eagle is a ferocious carnivorous bird with a large body and a strong temperament.

Because its territory is a vast sky, its heart is higher than the sky, and how easy is it to tame it?

The so-called - boiling eagle.

It's a way for humans to tame eagles.

Generally speaking, when the eagle is sleepy, he is not allowed to sleep, and the owner does not sleep either, and the man and the eagle hold it like this, sometimes for several days and nights without closing their eyes.

This is because it doesn't matter if the eagle eats or not, because the physical pain will not make it succumb.

But you must not let it sleep, because once it sleeps, it will dream of the vast blue sky again.

When the eagle is tortured like this for a few days, the sharp energy is slowly worn off, and it will give in and beg for mercy.

Its wildness has also been almost worn away, and it will be able to obediently listen to its master in the future.

Of course, because the eagle required by the eagle does not sleep, and the person cannot sleep, the process of boiling the eagle is extremely painful, and in the end, it depends on whether the person lies down first or the eagle lies down first.

Even, if one is not careful, the eagle man is very likely to become a one-eyed dragon.

Guan Lin explained in detail what "boiling eagle" is and how to "boiling eagle", and told Lingju in detail, and Lingju still had some new doubts: "That? How can it be proved that the eagle is tamed? ”

"It's simple." Guan Lin explained: "Put a piece of raw lamb in the palm of your hand and stretch it out in front of the eagle, if the eagle eats it in a big gulp, then it means that it has been tamed." If you don't eat it, it can only be said that you can't boil it enough... You have to continue to boil, of course, you can also judge by stroking, if the eagle boiler strokes the eagle's head, and the eagle does not resist, then it also shows that he is tamed. ”

Speaking of this, Guan Lin smiled, "Of course, if you boil the eagle, it may take seven days for a long time, but 'boiling people' is different, just like you just mentioned the young son, in my opinion, at most two days will not be able to survive, and all the tricks will be done." ”

Lingju nodded as if he didn't understand.

Guan Lin looked at her like this, as if he didn't understand the essence of "boiling eagles". "Come on, I'll accompany you to judge the 'gold master'..."Boiling eagles" or 'boiling people' can be regarded as giving you an example."

Lingju had been waiting for Guan Lin's words for a long time.

She grabbed Guan Lin and said in an urgent tone: "Go now..."

This has nothing to do with "casting a name", Lingju just wants to know too much, is this method of "boiling eagles" effective?

To put it more in detail, Lingju is not only interested in boiling eagles, but also interested in Guan Lin.

"Ling Niang is still cooking..."Guan Lin glanced at Diao Chan, who was busy in the room...

"Eat less and don't go hungry..."Lingju pulled Guan Lin and walked out.

Diao Chan saw the two of them and hurriedly shouted: "This meal is about to be cooked, where are you going?" ”

"I'm not coming back tonight," Lingju waved his hand and said casually.

Before Diao Chan came back to her senses, she and Guan Lin had already disappeared here.

Yes... Yes...

After a strange brain circuit, Diao Chan muttered in his mouth.

"Today... Tonight... No... Not coming back? ”

These words inevitably made her a mother.

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In Shuzhong, along the Minjiang River, Liu Bei and a convoy of civil and military forces moved forward mightily.

Finally, in an area full of stone towers, the convoy stopped.

In the land of Bashu in this era, there was already a belief in witchcraft, and stone pagodas similar to this kind were extremely common in the villages, some were used as altars, and some were the strongholds of some churches.

It's just that since Zhang Lu broke with Liu Zhang, the Wudou Mi Sect was widely expelled, and many stone pagodas were emptied, and few people were interested, let alone attracted the attention of officials.

Liu Bei got out of the carriage first.

He and Zhuge Liang glanced at each other, took a deep breath from each other, and then hurried forward towards the stone tower with heavy steps.

The setting sun stretched the shadows of the two people obliquely.

A cadre of officials observed the surroundings...

I could only hear the cry of "wow, wow, wow" kept coming out.

A few crows hovered in the sky.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the land, the black eagle flew in, and the dusk officially came, adding a lot of loneliness and desolation to this place.

All the civil and military officials couldn't help but pause, and there was a feeling that something big was going to happen today.

As we get closer and closer to the stone tower...

Inexplicably, there was a slight smell of blood in the air, which made people feel very disgusting.

Ma Jian asked Yang Yi, "Where is this going?" ”

Yang Yi shook his head: "I only know that Zhuge Military Division has been preparing for this day for a long time..."

This...

Ma Jian bit his lip slightly, he had a kind of, as a disciple of Zhuge Liang, but in such an important action, he didn't know it... and even the loneliness of being excluded.

But the breathless depression of the people in the air made him have no time to think about it.

"What sound?"

Ma Jian suddenly heard something... It's not the crow's "whoa" cry, it's not the sound of an eagle hovering in the air looking for food, it's more like... Sobbs.

It's a child, no... It's the doll's sobs.

The voices came faintly from the stone towers.

At the same time, Ma Tan also saw several old men walking out of the stone pagoda with empty bamboo baskets on their backs.

"This is..."

Without waiting for Ma Tan to think deeply, the eye-catching plaque on the stone tower in front of him has jumped in front of him:

- Eagle Tower!

Ma Jian couldn't help but ponder.

- "The origin of the name... Is it a stone tower where eagles are entrenched?'

At this time, Liu Bei had already walked towards the old men who came out of the stone tower, and he deliberately raised his voice and asked the old man: "What is the old man doing here?" ”

"I didn't do anything... Didn't do anything..."I saw so many people, such a big battle.

The old man was extremely frightened for a while.

"I know it's wrong, I know it's wrong...", he and a few companions, quickly turned around and ran into the eagle tower, and after a while, they came out again, and there were a few more babies in the bamboo basket behind them, to be precise, baby girls.

When they faced Liu Bei again, they kowtowed vigorously, "This official... We, we're blinded by lard, we're going to take her back, we're going to take her back..."

As he spoke, these old men ran away quickly with the bamboo basket on their backs, because of the bumps in the run, the bamboo basket swayed and swayed, and the baby girl "Wow" cried more than once.

But these old men only care about running, where do they care?

This sudden scene surprised the entire audience.

- "What the hell is going on?"

At this moment, Zhuge Liang stood under the plaque of the Eagle Tower, and he said to Liu Bei: "Please ask the Lord for your permission, open the stone gate of this Eagle Tower, and start this memorial ceremony..."

"Accurate!" Liu Bei groaned lightly, as if because he knew what was behind the stone gate of the Eagle Tower, his tone was pathetic.

- Knock!

The stone door was pushed open, and a group of guards entered, raising torches.

With the bright light inside the stone tower.

The cry of "woo" became louder and louder.

In the middle of this, with a "whoosh" sound, several eagles flew up with their wings and flew out of the stone tower, with blood and unswallowed meat on their beaks.

- "What the hell is this place?"

The increasingly strange atmosphere made all the civil and military moods deeply mentioned, and some of the timid ones were even a little timid.

As they walked in, along the torch... The interior of this eagle tower comes into view, and it is clear.

It was a blood-soaked slate of cold stone;

It was a baby girl on the slate who was either dead or still breathing, but was allowed to be eaten by the insects and ants...

For a moment, everyone's hearts couldn't help but groan.

- "Is this blood of these baby girls?"

- "Isn't it... Did those old men send their baby girls here?'

Thinking of this, countless people's eyes widened, and they couldn't believe the scene in front of them.

Many kind-hearted officials hurriedly picked up the baby girls who were still angry, still sobbing, and had begun to crawl with insects and ants, and listened to their "woo-woo" crying...

Or others, who have already cried their last tears and do not have the strength to cry.

The officials' hearts were extremely heavy.

Who would have thought that this Bashu... Unexpectedly... There is such a stone tower that hides such a group of baby girls.

In fact, it's not just Bashu...

The whole Han, any place, there will be such a cruel place.

How could these officials, who had read all the books of the saints, imagine that there would be such a dark and eerie place under the bright world!

At this moment, in this pathetic atmosphere, Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, his tone was very high, but his tone was extremely pathetic.

- "You have all seen this eagle tower, I sent someone to check it, in Shu alone, so there are no less than 700 eagle towers, not so much the eagle tower, but ... Say it's a baby tower! ”

Even if he had been prepared, but when he was really in this eagle tower, in the sobbing sound of this baby girl, seeing this bloody scene, Zhuge Liang was still choked.

He was silent for a moment, calming down before he continued to speak. "I also recently learned that the actual function of this eagle tower is to 'bury' the body of the baby girl, from the pre-Qin to the current Han Dynasty, for hundreds of years, many young babies because they are daughters, they were tragically abandoned by their families in this baby tower made of stone bricks!"

"Let these living beings lie in the myriad... Or a baby girl who has turned into white bones, or is rotting, or has just lost her breath! Insects eat ants and fend for themselves! ”

Zhuge Liang's voice was as calm as possible, but the pathos, the sorrow of complaining about the injustice of the times could not be hidden.

And with Zhuge Liang's words, the civil and military forces here were stunned...

Everyone is holding their breath... I can't believe what Zhuge Liang said is true.

Ma Jian hurriedly asked, "How can anyone be so cruel?" How can there be parents who are so ruthless... Put these baby girls in this eagle tower? ”

Ma Yan's eyes almost burst out...

As a family in Jingzhou, the scene he saw in front of him was already a huge deviation from the world he understood.

"Reason? Does this need a reason? Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly, "Throughout the ages, I don't know how many babies have been drowned by their families because they are daughters, and their bodies are thrown in the streets and alleys, let the sun and rain shine, and the beasts will be hungry!" None of the bones were saved! ”

"You have read the book, don't you know that it was also mentioned in "Han Feizi Six Antis", 'Parents are also to their sons, and they congratulate each other when they give birth to a man, and kill them when they give birth to a girl!'" ”

"I didn't believe this at first, but I recently visited many villages, and according to their stories, in every village, every month, there will be an old woman who skillfully lifts a newborn baby girl under the bright sun, throws it into a large basin of water in the courtyard, picks up a thick wooden plank, presses it the baby girl, and completely immerses the head of your baby girl in the water... In just half an hour, the baby girl stiffened, leaving only a piece of umbilical cord floating in the water... This is called "drowning" in folklore."

Whew-

Zhuge Liang exhaled deeply, he said this, and his heart also suffered endless grief.

But he still endured the throbbing, he continued.

"If you can't do it yourself, you can also ask the neighbors to help, or an old man similar to Fang Cai, after seeing that his daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby girl, they will take them to this eagle tower, let the baby girl cry and dry her strength, and fend for herself in the eagle tower!"

What Zhuge Liang shows is the darkest side of the Han tax system since the Zhou Dynasty, after thousands of years, and even today.

His voice grew sharper.

"Drowning girls and babies is a folk custom, there is this eagle tower in the entire township community outside of Dahancheng County, there are many records in the pre-Qin period, and the Han Dynasty is still like this, whether it is governing the world, troubled times... The history is endless! Compared with drowning and abandoning it, this seemingly crazy and cruel Eagle Tower is the best and most decent home for these baby girls! ”

Zhuge Liang controlled his emotions as much as possible.

At this time, there were already people in the civil and military forces who couldn't help but stand up.

It's Huang Zhong... He lost his son in middle age, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and he was grief-stricken.

He was the most incomprehensible of such madness.

"Why? Why are baby girls abandoned? To suffer such a vain death? Aren't they born to their parents? Tell us, Why? ”

Huang Zhong's eyes were cracking, and he pointed to the vermilion, cold stone slabs.

"Because that's a tax, because of that poll tax!" Zhuge Liang seemed to have suddenly exploded, and he roared loudly. "If you give birth to a baby girl, then for a family, you need an extra pair of chopsticks, an extra piece of food, and an extra tax!"

"But because it is a girl, even when she grows up, she can't do heavy work in the field, and if she is too young to sell, if she doesn't marry at the age of fifteen, she will have to pay five times the poll tax, which can only increase the burden on the family! Today's people are even... I can't even afford to raise myself, how can I raise my daughter? It is precisely because of this that if they are sent to this eagle tower, maybe the family can still live, but if not, the family will be dragged to death and starved to death because of this heavy poll tax! ”

Zhuge Liang rarely groaned loudly like a madman: "Otherwise, otherwise... But if there is a way to live, which parent is willing to send her child to this eagle tower and let her fend for herself? ”

Poll tax...

The source of all evil lies in the onerous poll tax of the agrarian age!

"That..."Huang Zhong's excited tone suddenly became a lot dumber, his eyes were wide open, as if... What he sees and hears today is something he has never encountered in the environment in which he grew up for more than 50 years.

This shattered his three views.

"And what will happen to these baby girls?"

"——If there is a well-meaning master, he may take away one or two baby girls, raise them as slave girls, or even be his son's house-filling maid, which is already the best home for these baby girls, and more of them are left to fend for themselves in this eagle tower."

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang seemed to hear something, and he hurriedly shouted:

"Listen, listen—"

Wow wow wow...

Wow wow...

Wow...

It seems that Zhuge Liang's voice here is too loud for the abandoned baby girls in the Eagle Tower next door to hear.

They seemed to be spiritual, as if they heard the hope of living, and they cried and sobbed wildly.

They were also just born into this world...

But fate made them leave again without a choice.

They don't even have the power to fight.

Woo woo –

The screams of these baby girls, the hope of these children for life, brought tears to the eyes of every official.

Some officials can't help but run to the other towers, they want to rescue these baby girls, so that they can escape from this unjust fate and destiny of the towers.

It's just that...

When they picked up the baby girls, they realized that there was only a limit to what they could save.

Only, as long as... The heavy poll tax was especially onerous, and every day new baby girls were sent into the tower to be food for dingoes and eagles.

Whew-

The heavy exhale that accompanied everyone's breath.

Liu Bei stepped forward quickly and stood in front of a bloodstained stone slab, he stared at the dried bloodstains and groaned for a long time.

Finally, he spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have seen it too... I saw this world, and there was such a dark scene! ”

"I also saw it, Kong Ming took me to see this scene a few days ago, and then I thought... I wanted to smash these towers, but in fact, when I was about to give the order, I realized that it was not the tower's fault at all! It is the man who sent the baby girl into this eagle tower, the poor people in suffering! ”

"In the past, I often wondered, what is the difference between my Liu Bei and Cao Cao? I always feel that he Cao Cao slaughtered the city, I Liu Bei saved the people, he Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven, I Liu Bei saved the Son of Heaven, he Cao Cao wanted to usurp the Han, I Liu Bei wanted to prosper the Han Dynasty, as long as 'every time it rebels, it will be done'! ”

"But... But when Kong Ming took me to see this Eagle Tower, when that answer sheet from Jingzhou, I realized, what is a king? What is a minister? What is the time when 'water can carry a boat and can also capsize a boat'... I realized that I, Liu Bei, if I can finally defeat Cao Cao, I must rely on not the ones I just mentioned, but..."

Liu Bei picked up a baby girl who had already choked her breath and was cut off half of her body by Ying, and he said while crying:

- "What can make me defeat Cao Cao is that my eyes and mood are completely different from him, what he sees in his eyes is a hegemony, a wealthy clan, and a meritorious nobleman, but I can see that it is these that Cao Cao will not be able to see in his life!" ”

"I saw that in the barren fields, and even in the garbage heaps of the market, there were bursts of heart-rending cries from time to time, one after another, endlessly! These cries make my heart tug together. ”

"I saw these baby girls, abandoned in the Tower, lying quietly in the tower, on the corpses of the other girls, under the heavy taxes and servitude, and finally... Scattered in the dust of history, leaving no trace. ”

"What I see is the suffering of all peoples, the cruelty of the heavens, their silent struggle, what I see is this deep tribute to the dead soul of the baby girl in the air, who I have never known in my life..."

Speaking of this, Liu Bei paused, and he bowed deeply towards these cold stone slabs with blood stains.

He pursed his lips, and Liu Bei was already crying silently at this moment.

Fa Zheng hurriedly handed over the silk snap, and Liu Bei slowly wiped away the tears on his face.

"I understood, I suddenly understood, the difference between me Liu Bei and his Cao thief is not this 'benevolence' and 'love'? If I see this eagle tower today and still be indifferent, if I realize today that from the Zhou Dynasty to the current Han Dynasty, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of baby girls have died every year, and I am still indifferent? If I see this heavy poll tax, the people in suffering are oppressed by suffering, and even the daughter born cannot be saved, 'the male will be congratulated, and the female will be killed', I will still be indifferent? ”

"Then how am I different from Cao Thief? Am I worthy of the baby girls who have died in the past thousand years because of bad habits and burdens? Is it worthy of their gaze from the horizon? Is it worthy of the kindness and love that I have always adhered to? ”

Speaking of which...

Liu Bei paused, he looked around at everyone: "You are all my Liu Bei's meritorious ministers, you have repeatedly asked me for thousands of miles of cultivated land in the fertile fields of the Chengdu Plain, I don't give it to you, but if I give it?" Who gave these baby girls a chance to live? Today... It's still this cultivated land, I've figured it out, I'm still going to reward you, but I'll see, among you? Who can take up the burden of this thousand pounds of cultivated land? ”

Speaking of which...

Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang and ordered: "Kong Ming, read-"

Zhuge Liang took out a decree from his bosom at the right time.

He read aloud:

——General Han Zuo's order, abolishing the original Han Dynasty's calculation and oral tax, and implementing a new system of land tax and taxation - the integration of land and land, and the apportionment into the mu! From today onwards, all the cultivated land in Jingzhou and Shuzhong will be re-measured, and all taxes will be paid by those who have cultivated land, and those who have no arable land do not need to pay a single tax. ”

"General Han Zuo said, immediately inform the world that in all places under the rule of General Han Zuo, regardless of men and women, old and young, no 'poll tax' shall be collected by any person, and all states and counties will put an end to all the evil habits of drowning female infants! Where the Han soil, where the Han ministers need to abide by, breed people, and never pay... If anyone disobeys, he will not be spared—"

Zhuge Liang's voice is not loud, but every word, every sentence - deafening!

Because of this opportunity for the abandonment of the baby girl.

——The abolition of the number of heads and the taxation policy of apportioning the mu will be strongly implemented in Shuhan today!

In fact...

The problem of baby girls is recorded in many ancient books.

In "Han Feizi Six Antis" - "Parents are also to their sons, and if they give birth to a man, they will congratulate each other, and if they give birth to a girl, they will kill them!" ”

In "The Biography of Liu Zhan in Southern History" - "Every time Zhan gives birth to a daughter, he kills her, which is very strange by the times!" ”

In "The Biography of Song Shiyi Luo Qinruo" - "Shaoxing, Ganzhou was sentenced. The state vulgar hates women, and if they are born, they will drown! ”

Maybe these... It is not possible to show more intuitively the cruelty of such bad habits.

For example, the Rwandan massacre, the Judeh, and Tai massacres, as well as the First and Second World Wars, ranged from 15 million to 72 million deaths.

Can... Worldwide, the number of people killed because they were girls is about 100 million!

That's a staggering number.

In China, it is this so-called "poll tax" that makes this bad habit passed down from generation to generation.

Because of the "paving into the acres" mentioned by Guan Lin

Zhuge Liang found a way to avoid the tragedy of the "baby girl"!

In the same way, this "paving into the acre" is more like allowing Liu Bei to find a new path...

One is destined to be diametrically opposed to Cao Cao's "strong massacre", and it will definitely be able to go through.

It's not just a baby girl's problem...

This marks Liu Bei From this moment, what he wants to take is a - the people's line, the people's road!

As the saying goes, the prosperity of the government is in accordance with the people's will;

What the government wants is to win the hearts of the people;

The abolition of government is against the will of the people.

Because of the paving into the mu, Liu Bei's route has been fixed and has been deeply tied to the "people".

This route will be as good as ever!

Be:

——The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light!

With this in mind, Liu Bei looked around at everyone.

His eyes narrowed, and his tone was meticulous: "Officials, I Liu Bei don't want to settle in a corner, and I Liu Bei always want to do something for the Han Dynasty and for the thousands of Li Shu, so if this 'paving into the mu' decree will definitely infringe on the interests of some of you, I, Liu Bei, apologize to you in advance today..."

"If you accept my apology, then it will be my Liu Bei's brother, who will walk side by side with me and forge a new appearance of the big man after defeating the Cao thief!"

If you don't accept it, then it doesn't matter, just throw all the hatred, all the guns and arrows at me Liu Bei! Don't hurt the innocent! ”

Liu Bei's words...

Yigan Wenwu hasn't reacted for a while, and he is still experiencing the concussive brain circuit.

Only Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng, they heard the deep meaning here.

Xuande: This is in... Protecting Guan Yunqi!

Protect this unicorn boy who proposed the national policy of "spreading the ding into the acre"!

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