The peaks are majestic, the mountains are covered with red leaves, and there is a thin mist in the autumn morning, making it difficult for people surrounded by mountains to know their direction. Zhou Yuanfu's team has been setting off for two days, but this mountain seems to be endless.
, the team shuttled through the mountains all day long.
As soon as Zhou Yuanfu came out of the camp, he heard the noise of people outside, so he walked over curiously.
When the bodyguard saw this, he shouted: "General Lei Gong is here, everyone, please stop making noise!"
The noisy crowd suddenly dispersed on both sides, and no one said a word.
"Who was making the noise just now?" Zhou Yuanfu asked with a frown.
A heavy-backed man raised his hands and said: "General Qi, we have just captured a deserter and are about to deal with it, so there is a lot of noise."
Zhou Yuanfu was very surprised when he heard the news. He had just won a battle and his morale was strong. Why would anyone still want to be a deserter?
"General Lei Gong, please have mercy on me and let me go home. I will definitely come back."
A soldier with a simple face fell to his knees.
"What's your name? We just won the battle and our army is so powerful. Why do you want to go back to your hometown?"
"My name is Wang Sanzhu. My second brother Wang Erzhu died in battle not long ago. The general ordered someone to give him some money, so I want to send him home."
The big man scolded: "Wang Sanzhu, don't try to deceive General Lei Gong. You clearly want to escape home and never come back! All your money has been entrusted to someone to take it back a few days ago."
Wang Sanzhu stiffened his neck and continued: "Yes, I just want to go back. I don't want to die so far away and end up being a ghost without being able to return to my hometown. My eldest brother Wang Dazhu died in Guangzong in the battle, and even the bones can't be found. My second brother
Wang Erzhu also died in the battle not long ago, and I am the only one left in the family. I heard that we are going to a far away place, and I don't know if I can come back, so I just want to go home and serve my mother."
The platoon leader kicked Wang Sanzhu over with one kick and cursed at the same time, "Let you deceive people! Let you shake the morale of the army! Let you talk nonsense!"
Zhou Yuanfu felt sad. Wang Erzhu himself still remembered that he had quarreled with Cui Niubi at that time. The three brothers were also very pitiful. If Wang Sanzhu died in the battle again, then the family would be cut off, so he quickly stopped it.
Platoon leader.
"Do you have any other relatives at home?"
Wang Sanzhu shook his head stupidly.
Zhou Yuanfu sighed, patted Wang Sanzhu on the shoulder, and ordered the entire army to assemble.
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"Warriors, the place we are going to is very far away. Many of us may die there. Are you afraid?"
Zhou Yuanfu stood on the general stage and asked loudly.
The people in the audience looked at each other, and Ju Yi was the first to shout: "Don't be afraid!"
When the others saw someone taking the lead, they also shouted: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"
"I'm afraid!"
Zhou Yuanfu shouted loudly, and everyone fell silent for a while.
"Most of you are descendants of Jizhou. You were born and raised here. If nothing unexpected happens, you will sleep here forever in the future. It would be a lie to say you are not afraid!"
After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion. How could General Lei Gong tell the truth? Isn't this discouraging everyone?
"The distance is scary, and death is also scary, so why do we still go there?" Zhou Yuanfu raised everyone's curiosity with a question, "It's because we have no way to survive in Jizhou!"
As soon as Zhou Yuanfu said this, everyone fell silent.
"Since we have no way to survive in Jizhou, we have to go further to find a way to survive! In this process, many people will die fighting, and many people will not be able to return to their hometowns. But one day we will fight back, and we will
We swear to this land that we are the masters! Our expedition is to accumulate more strength and come back to fight! Our expedition is to find a way for more people to survive! Those who die will not die in vain, they die for everyone
, the soul will go to heaven after death!"
Zhou Yuanfu spoke impassionedly, and everyone whispered to each other after listening.
"A man is determined to leave his hometown, and he will not return it until he becomes a hegemon. There is no need to bury his bones in his hometown. There is no place in life without green hills!"
Zhou Yuanfu took the opportunity to paraphrase another poem from a great man, and after speaking, he raised his hand handsomely.
As a result, the people below were still talking a lot, as if they didn't care much about such an exciting poem.
Some of these people understood it, and Tian Feng understood it very well. He read the poem over and over again, praising it with his tongue.
Zhou Yuanfu saw that there was already a commotion below, so he pointed at Wang Sanzhu and said: "Wang Sanzhu comes out."
Wang Sanzhu followed suit.
"Those who have parents who need to be supported will go out! Those who have only children will go out! Those who have wives and children will go out!"
Zhou Yuanfu shouted three times in a row.
After hearing this, everyone became quiet again, and those who met the conditions filed out, and more than half of them actually came out.
Zhou Yuanfu felt worried when he saw so many people. If all these people stayed in Jizhou, why would he attack Hanzhong? Thinking of this, his heart was bleeding.
Now that you're pretending to be a hero, you have to keep pretending even with tears in your eyes. If you can't pretend half-heartedly, then you're not a hero but a bear.
"I heard that virtuous people will never stop being incestuous, and all those who go out on the list will be released home, and each person will be rewarded with a hundred thousand coins!"
When everyone heard about the reward, they didn't feel very excited. They just whispered to each other in low voices. Zhou Yuanfu was completely baffled. The atmosphere was very awkward. If everyone cheered "Long live General Lei Gong" and then rushed to receive the reward, then it would be considered normal.
; If everyone sincerely supports and says, "We have shared weal and woe for so many days, why can't we live and die together today?", then it would be normal to follow the trend and stay.
But now everyone seems to be indifferent to this matter, which is embarrassing. Could it be that one hundred thousand dollars is less? It seems to be a lot. I even asked Tian Feng for advice before. This one hundred thousand dollars can build a nice house in this era.
, how about adding some more yourself?
Zhou Yuanfu was confused, and the soldiers were also confused.
Finally Wang Sanzhu asked what he was thinking, "General, what is the soul?"
"Huh?" Zhou Yuanfu didn't even turn around, so he could only reply, "The soul is the soul, the ghost after death. After death, the person will exist in another state."
"Oh, then it's a ghost. What is heaven?" Wang Sanzhu continued to ask.
"Heaven is heaven."
Zhou Yuanfu pointed upward and saw that everyone didn't care about the silver reward, but only cared about these insignificant words. He felt baffled, but he still explained patiently.
"There is a world in the sky, and that world is where the gods live, and they can have whatever they want. The warriors who died in the Yellow Turban Army all died for the common people, and they all did good deeds, so their souls can go to heaven."
"Can I have enough to eat in heaven?"
"Of course you can, you can have wine ponds and meat forests, and you can be drunk all day long."
"Can I get a wife in heaven?"
"Of course you can. They are all fairies, they are so beautiful, but you can only marry one."
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Soon the buzz became louder. People were asking questions. The beautiful life in heaven made people yearn for it. Everyone was in high spirits and discussed the beauty of heaven. They imagined making two pots of steamed buns every day.
A wonderful life of eating a pot and sleeping on the pillow.
"Then I won't leave. I will follow General Lei Gong. Wherever General Lei Gong goes, I will go."
Wang Sanzhu finally said, and the rest of the people who came out also agreed.
Zhou Yuanfu was also shocked. Such a difficult problem was solved by just a few words of nonsense. Since everyone said so, Zhou Yuanfu was also happy to go along with the situation.
"Since the brothers trust me so much, I promise you that all brothers who die in battle will receive corresponding rewards. The rewards will be enough to support their parents, so that everyone will have no worries!"
Everyone was completely relieved.
"Can the enemy's soul also go to heaven?" Finally, one of Ju Yi's soldiers asked.