Chapter 26: The March
On the desolate land of Guanzhong, a group of Shu troops were driving north on the pale yellow path.
It was Liu Yu and his party.
After Liu Yu left the camp, he found Jiang Wei and expressed the meaning of Prime Minister Zhuge .
Jiang Wei didn't say much, just asked Liu Yu to follow, and then led an army of 10,000 to set off for Yongcheng immediately.
Regarding Liu Yu's arrival, Jiang Wei did not show any enthusiasm, but was a little cold.
As a general of Wei, Jiang Wei has always been a very low-key existence in the army.
Even though it is highly valued by Zhuge Liang, it has always been a place of seniority in the army.
Jiang Wei is a general, and during the Northern Expedition, he did not have particularly great military achievements, and now he is just a miscellaneous general.
This time, he was able to lead 10,000 troops alone, and Zhuge Liang was already opening the back door for Jiang Wei.
If this battle is won, then Jiang Wei's status will also be improved accordingly.
It seems that Zhuge Liang is already arranging the future.
Knowing that his time was short, he wanted to raise Jiang Wei's position up, so that Jiang Wei could walk faster in the army.
No matter what Jiang Wei's family says, he is now also a general, a member of the senior military ranks.
And Liu Yu is still just a military commander, not to mention a general, even if he is still a big step away from the captain.
In terms of qualifications, Liu Yu is even more unranked, and it is estimated that he is a few generations later than Jiang Wei.
Although it is said that the current military Sima of Liu Yu is the military Sima of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he can be on an equal footing with Fei Yi.
But the military position also depends on the background and connections.
Liu Yu was just a trilogy general before, where did he have any connections?
At most, he knows Wei Yan, but Liu Yu is Wei Yan's general, that is to say, Liu Yu still has to listen to Wei Yan.
As for the other generals, Liu Yu didn't know any of them, let alone command them.
However, Fei Yi is different.
Fei Yi is a native of Jiangxia, and he is from the Jingzhou scholar family.
After Liu Bei became the lord of Shu Han, Fei Yi joined Liu Bei's command and served Shu Han
During Zhuge Liang's reign, Fei Yi sent envoys to Eastern Wu many times, and made great contributions to the alliance between Shu Han and Eastern Wu.
At the same time, Fei Yi also won the respect of Zhuge Liang, as well as the value of Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, every time Fei Yi went out, Sun Quan would personally summon him to show his respect for Fei Yi.
Then Zhuge Liang went on five Northern Expeditions, during which Fei Yi was Zhuge Liang's right-hand man, helping Zhuge Liang manage military affairs.
It can be said that the Jingzhou generals in the army are very familiar with Fei Yi.
Not only the generals of Jingzhou, but even the generals of the surrender faction, such as Ma Dai, Wang Ping, and Jiang Wei, all respected Fei Yi.
Because of this, Fei Yi has the name of integrity and forgiveness, and is loved by the Shu army.
Fei Yi's strength in the army is actually not weaker than Wei Yan and Yang Yi.
This is also the reason why Fei Yi was able to ascend to the throne later and ascend to the throne of the general of Shu Han.
As for Yang Yi and Wei Yan, because of the fight with each other, one was finally wiped out of the three clans, and the other was dismissed and exiled.
Fei Yi has such energy, even if he is only a military Sima in the Prime Minister's Mansion now, he will be able to rise to the top in the future.
But Liu Yu can't, because he has no connections and no fame.
Even if there is some fame, it is not necessarily a good reputation.
After all, the thing given to Sima Yi is really hard to say, and it is easy to be despised, but it is just a means that cannot be put on the stage.
Jiang Wei naturally won't have too much contact with Liu Yu.
There were many factions in Shu Han, and various factions fought with each other.
When Zhuge Liang was still alive, these people could still exercise some restraint, but once Zhuge Liang died, these contradictions would erupt sooner or later.
The battle between Yang Yi and Wei Yan can see some clues.
Jiang Wei is not a stupid person, so naturally he doesn't want to get involved in the battle between these factions.
Liu Yu was Wei Yan's subordinate general before, and there is no doubt that he is a staunch Wei Yan faction.
Jiang Wei didn't want to stand in line, so it was normal to keep a distance from Liu Yu.
Liu Yu saw that Jiang Wei didn't seem to have any intention of talking to him, and he didn't bother himself, but silently followed the team, thinking about the tasks assigned by the system in his heart.
There are more than 10,000 people, and there is no boundary.
The 10,000 Shu army meandered along the path in the field, like a long red dragon, with smoke and dust billowing and constantly approaching the north.
It's August, and it's the hottest time of the year.
The originally fertile Guanzhong Plain is now overgrown with weeds on both sides of the road, and even if it is fertile land, there are no people cultivating it anymore.
Since Dong Zhuo moved to Luoyang and returned to Chang'an, Li Dao and Guo Yan later rebelled, resulting in the purification of Sanfu.
The Sanfu region, with a population of nearly one million, has been tossed by the warlords of Xiliang to wither here.
First of all, Ma Teng and Han Sui rebelled, and then Dong Zhuo, Li and Guo Yan attacked each other, these people had a tyrannical temperament and tortured and killed the people at every turn.
Under the rule of these people, where can the people live and work in peace and contentment?
In less than ten years, the people in Guanzhong were empty, and nine out of ten people were scattered.
Most of the people in Guanzhong now are the displaced people recruited from all over the country after Cao Wei took charge of Chang'an, and reclaimed the tuntian, so many people were left.
The people before them were either killed by the rebel army, or were taken captive and made slaves by the local landlords.
The Cao Wei and Jin dynasties were an era of carnival of the scholars, who wantonly plundered the people and turned them into slaves.
Annexing land, enjoying privileged classes, squeezing the people, and not having to pay taxes, it can be said that the scholars in the Wei and Jin dynasties were the most rampant eras.
In this era, they rely on the nine-product Zhongzheng system to firmly control the promotion channels of the entire society.
As a result, the children of the poor family can no longer enter the court as officials, and the scholars collude with each other and recommend each other, even if they are a child of a waste scholar, they can ascend to a high position.
The Shi family controls the government, and the Sima family is a royal family on the surface, but in fact it is the largest scholar family in the world.
The Sima family colluded with the scholars of the world, occupied the resources of the whole world, and treated the people as pigs and dogs, taking whatever they wanted.
The scholars plundered the people and used them as slaves, so that these people could cultivate the land for themselves and use it to satisfy their own selfish desires.
And the imperial court could not collect taxes from the scholars, so they hit the idea on the people.
During the Cao Wei period, the tax had already reached six out of ten, and when it came to the Jin Dynasty, this tax was as high as eight out of ten, or even nine out of ten.
If the people are oppressed like this, where can the people live?
Since the beginning of its establishment, this dynasty has been dull, which is simply a shame for China.
The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.
Liu Yu looked at the barren scene in front of him, his heart was extremely desolate, and he sighed at the fate that the Chinese nation would face next.
But even if he knew the ending, Liu Yu felt powerless.
He himself is now precarious, his life is ups and downs, and he has to do his best to survive in this troubled era.
If he wants to change history, Liu Yu only feels that it is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
Liu Yu continued to march north with the large army, drifting with the tide, and his heart was melancholy.