This ditch, in which the Wei army had invested countless efforts and high hopes, was still broken overnight.

Wang Ping was still resisting stubbornly, he was alone in the face of the attack of Wu Lan, Gao Xiang, and Wu Ban, he had already been injured and staggered, but he still forgot to fight to the death.

"Get out of the way-" Wei Yan joined, and subconsciously, Wu Lan and the three quickly got out of the way.

Wei Yan's broadsword slashed at Wang Ping's leg at the right time, cutting a huge wound.

Wang Ping couldn't support it and knelt on one knee.

"Die—"

With Wei Yan's shout, he saw that his big knife was about to fall from Wang Ping's forehead, but at this moment, a "and slow" came from behind him.

Wei Yan turned his head and saw Liu Bei and Fa Zheng behind him, it turned out that... Wei Yan was not the only one who attacked the ditch at night, Liu Bei and Fa Zheng brought 3,000 soldiers to support.

"My lord? Filial piety? Wei Yan opened his mouth in surprise.

Liu Bei nodded at him, as a gesture, and then quickly walked in front of Wang Ping.

Wang Ping raised his head, and from Wei Yan's words, he knew that the person who came must be Liu Bei, the new master of this Shu, and he glared at Liu Bei angrily.

Liu Bei looked compassionate and said sincerely: "I heard that General Wang is the leading warrior in the tribe of the people, with both wisdom and bravery, and Ling Bei admires him, would I like to ask General Wang to help me and rejuvenate the Han dynasty together?" How is it? ”

"Hahahaha..." Wang Ping laughed, supported the ground with his sword, dragged the injured leg, slowly walked towards Liu Bei, and laughed miserably: "Cao Gong has the grace of knowing me, I can't report to Cao Gong, and I have the entrustment of the general of Zhengxi, and I can't lead the people out of a new road, so... There's only one way for me..."

Liu Bei thought that he was going to surrender, so he relaxed a little, but Wang Ping narrowed the distance with Liu Bei for other purposes, only to see that he suddenly used force in his hand, as if he had used all the strength in his body, and suddenly stabbed at Liu Bei with his sword.

At this time, Wei Yan, Wu Lan, Gao Xiang, and Wu Ban were shocked...

Liu Bei was also taken aback.

Only Fa Zheng, he was the closest to Liu Bei, and he reacted quickly, and he dodged in front of Liu Bei for the first time, Wang Ping's sword had already injured Fa Zheng, and at the same time... Wei Yan, Wu Lan, Gao Xiang and others took out their swords one after another, intending to split this Wang Ping into meat puree.

On the other hand, Wang Ping, the corners of his mouth raised, a smile appeared, and he said intermittently: "Cao Gong appreciates me, I am a Wei minister, I die as a Wei ghost, and I ask for benevolence!" ”

After all, he didn't resist and went to his death...

Seeing that Wang Ping was about to be chopped into pulp, Fa Zheng covered his wounds, and he said to Liu Bei in an extremely weak voice: "Wait... This is a loyal person, and the lord can use it! ”

Even if he was injured by a sword, Fa Zheng was still thinking about his good friend Liu Bei.

I still want to find a helper for my good friend Liu Bei to revive the great cause of the Han family.

And this Wang Ping, he is not only a person, but also an extremely important branch of the tribe, Fazheng can't let him die here, if he dies here, then the tribe of people... The ditch, the three bars are deeply buried in hidden dangers.

Liu Bei's gaze only met Fa Zheng for a glance, and he had already realized the deep meaning of Fa Zheng.

"Stop—"

With Liu Bei's voice, Wei Yan and the others' weapons were against Wang Ping's neck, and just a little bit, this Wang Ping was in a different place.

Liu Bei said with emotion at this time: "General Wang is a Wei general, doesn't everything he has just done show his loyalty?" Such a righteous man? How can I, Liu Bei, endure to be killed? ”

"Take it down, call the medical officer to heal his wounds, such a loyal person, no matter what his position, is my Liu Bei's guest, don't slack off-"

This...

With Liu Bei's words, Wei Yan, Wu Lan, Gao Xiang, Wu Ban and others were shocked.

Wang Ping was also shocked.

He didn't expect that his act of assassinating Liu Bei like this would be taken away by Liu Bei with such a frivolous sentence, without the meaning of blame at all, and he also talked about his high righteousness!

At this time, Wang Ping's mind turned violently...

Cao Cao's sentence "Every brave soldier under the lonely subordinates, their lives are not cheap" and Liu Bei's sentence "Doesn't everything he has just done show his loyalty?" Such a righteous man? How can I, Liu Bei, endure to be killed! ”

A series of sentences began to alternate and collide rapidly in Wang Ping's mind.

Wang Ping, as a man, did not have a high level of education, but he had also heard of Cao Cao's slaughter of the city and Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness.

I even heard that when Liu Bei was the Plain Commander, some assassins wanted to assassinate Liu Bei, but Liu Bei received the assassins sincerely, so that the assassins couldn't help but be moved, and told me that he was instructed to assassinate Liu Bei.

Wang Ping has never read a book, so he naturally doesn't understand what it means to "get more help from the righteous and less help from the unrighteous", but inexplicably, just because of Liu Bei's words, one behavior was affected by his charm, which made the thoughts of Wei Chen and Wei Soul in his heart begin to waver.

I have to say...

Liu Bei is born with his unique charm, the kind of unique charm that climbs up step by step from the bottom, goes through hardships, but always treats others with kindness and benevolence...

Liu Bei was born at the bottom, and he can best understand the hardships of these people at the bottom!

"Liu... Liu..."Wang Ping muttered, as if... It's incredible.

Liu Bei waved his hand, "Don't say anything, the top priority is General Wang's injury, as well as Xiaozhi's injury... Everything will be healed until you are healed! ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bei glanced back at Fa Zheng, saw that Fa Zheng was covering his wounds, and was also looking at him and nodding at him.

Between good friends, often with one look and one action, they can understand each other.

But at this moment...

"Boom... Boom..."Fa Zheng didn't mention it in one breath, and the whole person fainted... The body fell heavily to the ground.

Liu Bei's pupils widened suddenly, he hugged Fa Zheng, and the worry on his cheeks overflowed, "Filial piety, filial piety... Quickly pass on the medic, pass the medic—"

In this voice, the heartfelt concern for his subordinates could not be hidden, nor could it be pretended, and all this was reflected in Wang Ping's eyes.

Not long after, Fa Zheng and Wang Ping were taken down to heal their wounds, and Liu Bei personally carried Fa Zheng with a worried expression.

For a while, only Wei Yan, Wu Lan, Gao Xiang, Wu Ban and others were left in this lively and lively official office.

Wei Yan held his chin, he walked to the place where Fa Zheng fainted, and he muttered: "Although he was hit by a sword, this Fa Xiaozhi's injury doesn't seem to be serious!" Could it be..."

Thinking of this, Wei Yan lowered his mouth again, he raised his head slightly, glanced at the figure that Fa was being carried away, and then said softly: "Could it be that this Fa Xiaozhi is pretending?" Is it pretending to be for Wang Ping? ”

For a while, Wei Yan pondered.

The lord, the law... Now there is another Zhang Fei, why are they all with a hundred hearts and eyes!

It was Gao Xiang and Wu Ban behind Wei Yan who were discussing.

"Why did the lord suddenly appear here?"

The only one who knows the answer to all this is Zhang Fei's subordinate - Wu Lan!

It's just that at this moment, he is looking at his nose and nose, and his nose is looking at his heart... A feeling of seeing through but not telling.

He knew in his heart that this battle, starting from the drunken deception of Zhang He by the three generals, was not over yet!

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This is Huang Yueying's home.

Merely... Now it seems that this place is more like Zhang Xingcai's home.

In fact, this winter, under the ravages of the Xiaoice River period, it snowed in Jiangling City for several days, and the heavy snow crushed hundreds of houses in Jiangling City, which also greatly affected the progress of building a new city, so that Mi Fang had to quickly rush back from Xiangyang City to deal with this large number of head-making things.

Merely...

The more disastrous the weather, the more it shows the "difference" of this Shuishui Villa, and at this moment, under the guidance of Zhang Xingcai, Huang Yueying, Huang Zhong, and Xiahou Juan walked into this villa.

Looking at the entire villa, countless people are working hard in the workshops... Sometimes I concentrate on it, and sometimes I talk a little bit.

Heavy snowfall, natural disasters, winter, cold, these terrible words do not seem to affect their lives in case of emergency.

Seeing the endless stream of people...

Seeing the workshops, full of sweat like rain, Xiahou Juan couldn't help but ask.

"How many people are there in this Shui Shui Villa?"

Zhang Xingcai retracted the smile on the corner of his mouth, and said truthfully to his mother Xiahou Juan: "There have been more than 6,000 people before, most of them are original homeless people and beggars, and every one of them needs to review three generations, review various relationships, and also need someone to guarantee ... Now it seems that there are more people, I'm afraid it has exceeded 8,000! ”

"So many..."Xiahou Juan was shocked at the number he heard.

You know, this is just a mountain village, but there are 8,000 people gathered in it, which is already the scale of a small county town.

But it seems that there are not only workshops in this water villa, but also places where these people live, as well as schools, canteens, and horse rings... There are even farmsteads.

Even in winter, there are still sheds in the farm, and it seems that they are especially comfortable growing melons, fruits, and vegetables that are not hardy.

There is the sound of reading in the school;

The men in the dining hall were preparing for noon, and the food for nearly 8,000 people...

The horses in the pen are also fed fat and strong...

In the workshop, each craftsman seems to be connected into a line, and everyone is just repeating the fixed process, and at the end of the line, there are constantly large or small ordnance manufacturing completions

The whole Shuishui Villa has its own duties, different people, doing different processes... They were all in order, and although they all looked busy, it was obvious that they had satisfied expressions on their cheeks.

In this troubled world of "white bones exposed in the wilderness, thousands of miles without rooster crowing", there is work, food, clothing, and a place to live, which is already too satisfying.

Not to mention... The workers of this Shuishui Villa can still save money, the children of these workers can still go to school, and they can continue to live such a comfortable and peaceful life in Shuishui Villa when they grow up. It's all a burst of relief and rejoicing.

In the end, the people of this era are still too bitter...

After suffering and experiencing the days of eating and sleeping in the open, you can realize that this water villa is heaven, even if you have to work for six hours a day, even if you don't have a few days of rest a month, it is also heaven, and it is a blessing!

The more she went deeper, the more Huang Yueying sighed...

It's not that I'm impressed by the scale of this workshop...

She was thinking, recalling the day she married Zhuge Liang, the two of them were in the cave room... talked about ideals, ambitions, and the prosperity of his fantasies.

For a while, Huang Yueying couldn't help muttering in her heart.

- "Isn't that what Kong Ming always mentions to me?"

- "Let this world of broken etiquette be reshaped, everyone will have clothes to wear, everyone will have food, everyone will have work to do, and the ideal peaceful and prosperous world of political communication and harmony will be established... At least, Guan Yunqi did it in this Shui Shui Villa!"

The more Huang Yueying looked, the more emotional...

Huang Zhong couldn't help but ask: "Is the crossbow that shot Cao Wei's 35,000 soldiers at that hour from the hands of these coolies?" ”

Huang Zhong originally asked a sentence casually, who would have thought that after hearing the words, Zhang Xingcai's footsteps paused, she stood still, then quickly turned around, and said seriously: "They are not coolies, Brother Yunqi said, they have a new name." ”

"What?" Huang Zhong was curious.

Zhang Xingcai blurted out: "Workers, Brother Yunqi said that they are all workers, and they can also be called craftsmen!" ”

"Workers? Artisan? Huang Yueying and Huang Zhong looked at each other, as if they were a little surprised by this title...

Zhang Xingcai explained: "According to Brother Yunqi, the so-called workers refer to those who rely on manual labor or skilled labor to obtain remuneration... They do not own any productive resources, and they can only be paid through their labor! ”

Zhang Xingcai briefly described...

Of course, when Guan Lin told her about the concept of workers, she was also confused.

But... Huang Yueying seemed to realize something, "In the article "Rank Official" of Zhou Zhi in "Chinese", it is said: When the enemy country arrives, Guan Yin will tell you...... The people offered the food, Sima Chenshu, and the workers showed the car. Hundreds of officials are at home. "Xunzi Confucianism" has a saying... Set the rules, Chen Shenmo, and then spare, the gentleman is not as good as the worker..."

She directly moved out "Chinese" and "Xunzi", which seemed to be based on this, and Huang Yueying's tone was much more determined, "Most of the workers mentioned by Yunqi are the same as the workers told in this book." ”

In fact...

Regarding the topic of "workers", what Zhang Xingcai and Huang Yueying experienced was only one-sided.

And to distinguish whether a person is a worker or not?

It does not depend on what kind of labor is engaged, but on whether the individual occupies the means of production, whether he has no land and tools, and sells his labor power for a living!

Of course, Huang Yueying has not yet realized this layer, she silently wrote down Zhang Xingcai's words, wrote down the worker's theory, and planned to wait until she returned to Bashu and then discuss it with Kong Ming in detail.

What she didn't know was that as early as in the previous answer sheet, Guan Lin had explained to Zhuge Liang what the working class was, how to vigorously develop the working class, and how to use the working class to create a new and irreversible force to overthrow Cao Wei's rule.

"Well, it's a worker, not a coolie..."

Huang Zhong also changed his words according to Zhang Xingcai's words.

Zhang Xingcai gave up, because he had not met Huang Chengyan and Liu Ye for the time being, so as he went further into the Shuishui Villa, Zhang Xingcai began to explain the magical ordnance one by one.

"Old General Huang, the crossbow that shot 35,000 Cao troops at the hour you just mentioned is this... With a range of up to 300 paces, it's incredibly powerful... Before the battle of Xiangyang, it was our Shuishui Villa, and more than 20 days were stunned to create more than 30,000 crossbows and millions of crossbow arrows... This is the feat of the thief who killed Pound's army of more than 30,000 by 10,000 arrows in an hour, and there was no survivor! ”

With Zhang Xingcai's introduction, Huang Zhong's eyes stayed on the strange "crossbow"...

His eyes narrowed.

But before he could take a closer look, Zhang Xingcai introduced it again.

"General Huang Lao look at this big guy again, this is called the Eight Bull Crossbow, the range can reach 800 steps, the crossbow bolt shot can be buried deep into the city wall, when attacking Xiangyang City, it is relied on... There is no need for a ladder at all, so you can easily get to the city first! This eight-bull crossbow is the invention that I admire most Brother Yunqi! ”

Not... The range of 300 paces of the crossbow.

The range of 800 steps of the Eight Bull Crossbow.

With Zhang Xingcai's explanation, Huang Zhong recalled a past event, an unbearable past.

It doesn't take three hundred steps, it doesn't take eight hundred steps, once upon a time, he Huang Zhong was only one step away from saving his young son:

- Twenty steps!

It's only twenty steps away!

At this time, Zhang Xingcai's voice chanted again, "In fact, if the wind is downwind, this crossbow is more than 300 steps, and if the wind is downwind, this eight-bull crossbow is more than 800 steps... If you take advantage of the direction of the wind, they can actually be even more powerful! ”

Zhang Xingcai's original intention was to introduce Guan Lin's "great" invention...

But at this moment, her voice seemed to be cutting Huang Zhong's heart, making him feel painful... It also made his mind full of "twenty steps"

Almost saved his son's "twenty steps"!

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The shadow of the remnant lamp, swaying in the strong winter wind.

It seems to be because it's too fast...

The head of the city of the ditch is especially hung with the big banner of the word "Wei", and it is too late to change.

But the ditch has changed its owner.

Wang Ping's wounds had already been bandaged by the doctor he had been sent, and there were no additional guards outside his room, but there was a group of people around him.

These people were recruited by Liu Bei when he entered Shu in the past and was sent by Liu Zhang to this Jiameng Pass...

At that time, Liu Bei practiced benevolence and righteousness in the places where he passed through Bashu, and won the favor of many people here, including these ethnic minorities, such as the Di people, and some people tribes.

Some of the men of these nationalities took refuge in Liu Bei and became generals and pawns under Liu Bei!

Liu Bei specially asked them to come to see Wang Ping.

Nominally to appease him, in fact... is to let these people be able to persuade Wang Ping for him.

The words of the good friend Fazheng are vivid.

- "This Wang Ping can be used!"

At this moment, a person talked eloquently in Wang Ping's ear: "It's true, Uncle Liu Huang abolished the poll tax in the entire Bashu region and implemented the apportionment of the mu ... It is equivalent to that from now on, we do not have to pay taxes no matter how many children we have, and only landlords who own land and acres of land need to pay taxes..."

Another person added: "Originally, I thought that after Liu Zhang abolished the preferential treatment given to our tribe by King Qin Zhaoxiang, it would be good for Uncle Liu Huang to restore our preferential treatment, but I never thought that he would not only restore us, but he would simply treat us even more... We hunt for a living, we don't have land at all, and we don't have to pay taxes at all... And what could be better than that? ”

"What's more..."Another human: "Uncle Liu Huang is really very good to the people, this is not pretended at all, those big clans hoarded and the prices skyrocketed, so he tried to set up a business bureau to stabilize prices, and those meritorious ministers asked him for land and acres, and he issued a plan to suppress these people, and finally gave the acres to those who needed them... Most importantly, he... He doesn't want us to move yet! I've heard that none of the ten of Cao Wei's migrants made it to Guanzhong alive..."

At this moment, the words of the same clan came to Wang Ping's ears.

Originally, he was because of Liu Bei's words, because of Liu Bei's actions, because of Liu Bei's concern for his subordinates... I was shaken by the charm that radiated from the inside out.

If it is said... Cao Cao's words, that "every brave soldier under the lonely subordinates, their lives are not cheap"... It is more like Cao Cao's emphasis on the courage and soldiers of his subordinates.

But Liu Bei, what he values is completely different, not soldiers, not soldiers, what he cares about most is the people in suffering!

It's because of this different kind of care...

Let his whole body exude an incomparably brilliant glow!

At this time, the voices of the surrounding people came out again.

"Patriarch... Patriarch, surrender to Uncle Liuhuang, maybe he is not as strong as Cao Cao now, but... But Cao Cao is strong, it has nothing to do with us, Uncle Liu Huang is strong, and our clan can live a good life! ”

"Patriarch, I still have an eighty-year-old mother in my family, and I really can't relocate, so let's rest assured in this ditch, under the rule of Uncle Liuhuang!"

"Patriarch, actually... Recently, there has been a lot of news that Cao Cao was in Jingzhou and suffered setbacks in Huainan, and many Wudoumi disciples regretted following the sect leader to join Cao Cao, and the times have changed... Times have changed! ”

With these sounds...

Wang Ping's heart trembled again and again, and was shaken again and again.

At last Wang Ping got up slowly, because there was a wound on his leg, wrapped in bandages, and he was on a wooden stick.

"You wait, let me... Let me go and meet this Uncle Liu. ”

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(End of chapter)