In Chang'an City, the yamen hall of General Hussar's Mansion.
The dull atmosphere was like an invisible heavy stone, which made the bones in the necks of Wei Duansinpi and Wei Duansinpi creak, as if they were rusty, and even simple movements such as turning their heads and raising their heads were difficult.
Not only that, but even some local officials in Chang'an, such as Du Ji and Li Yuan, lowered their heads and did not dare to meet Fei Qian's eyes.
Last night, gangsters attacked a manor on the outskirts of Chang'an. Although the rangers rushed to the scene after receiving the alarm, the damage had already been done. Some of the remaining gangsters were killed, while others who left early were killed in a short time.
Unable to catch up, after interrogation, it was found that these gangsters were actually the Weinan Rangers who were expelled and captured near Chang'an some time ago...
So, at midnight in the morning, Wei Duan and Xin Pi asked for forgiveness together.
The two of them are mainly responsible for this matter. If there is a problem, they will naturally apologize together.
It's okay, there is no blame-shifting, but according to the intelligence of Wei Duan and Xin Pi, they should not make such a low-level court mistake. When there is a problem, the first thing is the attitude towards the problem. If the attitude is not correct,
They were still going back and forth, and Fei Qian didn't mind letting these two people see which flowers were the reddest.
In fact, it is not surprising that there was a riot by the so-called "Ranger" last night. These "Ranger" have been accustomed to the life of big fish and meat before, and are used to the days when hundreds of gold come in today and hundreds of gold will be lost tomorrow. We must let them return to normal.
Human life is really not something that these people can get used to. Just like those who sell their bodies for money, it is so easy to say that they can become good people after making enough money?
Don't get me wrong, it doesn't just refer to women, but to both men and women.
After all, the oldest professions of mankind are killers and prostitutes.
These "Rangers" who have become accustomed to licking blood from their swords and are unwilling to join the army and fight on the battlefield. Since they are unwilling to return to normal life, there is no need to return.
Fei Qian suppressed his anger. To be honest, he didn't have high hopes for these Han gentry officials, but he didn't expect that this problem was more serious than he originally thought.
In other words, this is not entirely a problem of the officials and descendants of the gentry, but a problem of the entire social structure.
Did Fei Qian give any orders? Did he give orders three times and five times?
some.
Did Wei Duansinpi vigorously crack down and arrest people, and did he do his best?
It's basically there.
But this situation is like those no-man's lands in later generations. Within those areas, law belongs to law, sin belongs to sin, and human feelings belong to human feelings. It seems that they can exist independently and have nothing to do with each other.
In this era, the most serious problem is that the people at the bottom cannot hear the voice of the court, and it is difficult to be exposed to the changes in the court. Take Huang Yueying's words of comfort to Fei Qian yesterday as an example, those who get the benefits are Chang'an
This is just an ordinary man and woman near Kyoto. As for more remote places, such as Hanzhong and even Longxi, the changes have not actually been great.
After all, there is a Qinglong Temple Grand Discussion this year, and many people are voluntarily engaged in the Qinglong Temple Grand Discussion business. Naturally, more workers are needed, which naturally reduces the number of people who freeze to death due to lack of income and warmth.
Feiqian has implemented many new policies at present, the most important one and the one most directly related to ordinary people and women is the New Land Policy.
However, this Jue Tian system currently has the greatest impact on those who participated in the Fei Qian group. There are other soldiers who have gained military honors or sacrificed their lives. Only in the shortest time can their families understand
What is the "Grand Land System", and for those people who have been farming on the same field for generations since their grandfather's grandfather, the biggest thing they understand is whether the tax they have to pay every year is more or less...
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This is the shortcoming of the Han Dynasty, and also the shortcoming of the entire era.
In the first year because of the "Grand Land System", the civilians who got benefits were naturally inexplicably excited. Then a lot of civilians who had not joined the army and had no military merit rose up to make trouble, saying why they did not get the land rent tax exemption. Is it because they were cavalry?
The general is too farsighted...
The next year, those newly joined the army and the civilians who had received exemptions and exemptions due to the newly added "Grand Land System" were happy, but the first group of civilians who had received exemptions and exemptions began to be unhappy again. They felt that they had obviously been earlier, so why are they still there now?
Enjoying the same standards as these new guys? Shouldn't it be better?
In the third year, some people came to ask, why are there no new tax exemptions and when will there be new tax exemptions?
There are people who feel that following the hussar general will lead to a bright future and they will definitely get better and better. Naturally, there are also people who feel that everything has nothing to do with them and only care about whether there are two more grains of rice in their own rice bowl.
There are many people who are willing to follow the Hussars General, but there are also many people who are insensitive, selfish and only care about themselves, even more than the previous group.
Of course these people have feelings for the big man, but they have more feelings for their own families...
The Han Dynasty or the future of the country were far away from them, but the trivial things of the people in the countryside were very close to them.
Therefore, the Han Dynasty, and even later generations, did not post a notice on the cross street and the whole world would know about it... This kind of situation is only suitable for games.
These people who have not yet kept up with the rhythm are still more or less inclined to cover up and conceal the three auxiliary rangers who have existed for a long time. After all, the Han Dynasty has been implementing the law of "protecting each other dearly" for three to four hundred years.
In many more remote places, in the minds of the people, it is not a wrong thing for them to cover or even deceive the officials for these rangers, but a legitimate and natural thing.
They are all fellow villagers, and they all grew up looking at naked buttocks. If they don’t help when something happens, why don’t they go and help outsiders? If they are really so self-indulgent and give these people away, how can they have the dignity to show off to the villagers?
People say hello?
Therefore, Wei Duanxinpi was able to clean up and arrest people in Chang'an City, and it was effective, but once he arrived outside the city, or in areas further away, it was inevitable that he would have no use for his strength...
There is a way to deal with the shortcomings that the Han Dynasty has accumulated for three to four hundred years. Even wise men like Pang Tong and Xun You may not have any particularly good ideas. After all, the words "historical limitations" are not simple.
Piece of ground strokes.
"Come here! Master Chuan Yun is here."
Fei Qian broke the silence and glanced at Wei Duan and Xin Pi, who were prostrating themselves in the hall to plead guilty. "You two, please get up and take your seats first..."
"Thank you, Lord."
"Thank you Qiusi."
After the two of them finished speaking, they looked at each other and then slowly retreated to their seats.
"Taoist Master Yun?" Both Wei Duan and Xin Pi had the same doubt in their minds. For this kind of thing, instead of asking Xu Huang to send troops to arrest him, and not letting Pang Tong track down the officials, he asked Yun Yi first?
What can be of use?
However, Wei Duan and Xin Pi naturally would not say it stupidly, but lowered their heads and waited quietly.
Pang Tong on the side had a wrinkled black face.
Xun You still looked as calm as water.
As for Du Ji, Wang Chang and others who were further outside, they were basically silent, waiting for Fei Qian to reveal the answer to the mystery.
In the experience of later generations, how do we deal with problems like this?
Of course, it is to mobilize the masses to mobilize the masses...
So how to mobilize the masses? Of course, let alone posting notices on the cross streets as before, and then sending two people to read them, that's it. Such a move has proven that it can only work in towns at most, but in a wider area
In rural areas, it is basically impossible to pass through.
Since the information transmission through the use of officials is not smooth in this aspect, then we should try another way.
……??????????……
Wei Duan and Xin Pi, with some men, watched from a distance as Yun Yi and a group of Taoist priests were busy on the grain drying field at the entrance of the village, and then looked at each other again.
Does General Hussar’s method really work?
At first, the people in the village watched from afar in fear and did not dare to come forward to watch.
The village where the accident happened is not very far away from Zhuangzi. Last night, there were first the flames and loud noises, and then the cavalry roared past. Early this morning, Cao Bingli, a subordinate of the sect with rude faces, came to inquire about the situation, which made people panic.
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Now another group of Taoist priests have arrived, what are they going to do?
The Taoist priests like Yun Yi are quite skillful in setting up the arrangements. After all, they have held many rituals in the vicinity of Chang'an, but they have not yet gone to the relatively remote villages like now.
The people in the village looked at these Taoist priests in surprise and fear as they stood up one after another, and then one after another magical weapons were placed out, with twisted runes on them.
It looks so mysterious and authoritative, and there are also some masked guys wearing colorful clothes, made of red silk soap, and holding large spears in their hands. It seems like they are about to perform a Nuo dance?
Oh, this is interesting...
The villagers looked at Wei Duan, Xin Pi and others who were standing in the distance. Seeing that they seemed to have no intention of coming forward, they looked at me and me. Then their curiosity gradually grew and they braved their courage.
Slowly they began to gather on the grain drying field.
Da Nuo was mainly born in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It was inherited from the witchcraft of China. Its main purpose at the beginning was to "drive away plagues". It is said that there are a total of twelve kinds of plagues in the world, such as ghost tigers, drought demons, and ominous ones.
, death, parasitism, etc. Normally, the entire Da Nuo process uses dance to represent the beginning of the plague, and then the suffering in the world. The mythical beasts go out to drive away the plague, and then achieve peace for humans and animals.
However, this time in Nuo, it was not the mythical beasts sent out to drive away the plague, but Taoist priests.
When the Taoist priests began to appear in the "plague-ridden" grain drying field with neat and orderly movements and words, they then splashed talisman water around, danced with peach arcs, and hit the monsters representing the plague scattered with thorn arrows.
When they ran away, waving earthen drums and big traps, which represented the removal of the plague from the world, and finally poured the red pills and grains, which represented a good harvest and antidote, into the crowd, the people in the village suddenly burst into joy and rushed to grab the goods.
Small bags of Akamaru and grains...
Amidst the sound of drums and trumpets, Yun Yi slowly stood on the simple wooden platform wearing a gold embroidered soap Bagua Taoist robe, looking like an immortal, and immediately stunned the whole audience.
What should I say?
People need clothes, Buddha needs gold bricks, uh, gold clothes. Although this sentence is tacky, it also makes sense. At least when these villagers saw Yun Yi's appearance, the expressions on their faces seemed to be better than those of Wei Duansinpi.
All my subordinates must respect me even more...
Respect and fear are two completely different emotions.
This difference naturally made both Wei Duan and Xin Pi think a little...
Yun Yi first skillfully preached some new Taoist theories, and asked his Taoist priests to perform some magical powers. Although it was not a pot of oil to wash hands, the runes could spontaneously ignite without fire, and the runes could make evil spirits appear.
The old routine is still very effective, causing the villagers to gasp and become more and more awed.
Well, these so-called supernatural powers had actually appeared during the time of the three Zhang brothers, and they were not the creation of Yun Yi or Fei Qian.
Then, Yun Yi showed a compassionate gesture. He watched the sky at night and knew that there would be a catastrophe here. The surge of blood would lead to the destruction of all living beings and the death of both humans and animals. He also reported it to the Hussar General, who sympathized with the people.
, specially ordered him to come here to resolve this...
"There is a bloody disaster in this place?!"
"Isn't it? What happened yesterday...wasn't it a bloody disaster?"
"I heard people say that a lot of people died last night. Poor the mistress of the Wang family at the end of the village, isn't she dead... His mother cried all night. When I passed by, it was really uncomfortable to hear..."
"It's so pitiful..."
"Speaking of which, what Ergouzi did this time was really unethical..."
"Shh, be quieter..."
The villagers were talking a lot.
Seeing that it was almost done, Yun Yi declared that the ghost of the plague was now extremely cunning and had possessed the human body. He was a human during the day and a ghost at night. His music remained the same on weekdays, but secretly he ate human flesh and blood! He spoke vividly, and even used
A few pieces of skull, thigh bones, etc. came out, and he expressed sadly that this was one of his comrades, but he was deceived by the plague evil spirit in human form, and was eaten until all his flesh and blood was gone, with no trace of his liver and intestines, and only a few bones were left.
, and the plague evil spirits will take advantage of it, and there will be no peace forever...
Yun Yi spoke sadly, and even shed some tears, which made the villagers in the audience couldn't help but sigh together. Some villagers were also filled with righteous indignation and loudly cursed these evil spirits.
Seeing this situation, Simpi couldn't help but cover his face with his sleeves and coughed twice.
Wei Duan also turned his face to the side...
Others may not know it yet, but will Wei Duan and Xin Pi, who came with Yun Yi, not know it? The skull and thigh bones in Yun Yi's hands are real, but they are definitely not those of his "poor comrades"
, but Yun Yi picked it up from weeds on the road...
Although things have generally stabilized in recent years, there were still a lot of people who died in the past few years. There are so many jagged bones in places where no one has passed by that you don't have to worry too much to find them.
Suddenly someone among the villagers wailed: "My poor son! He must have been eaten by the dog possessed by evil spirits! Damn it!"
There was a slight commotion among the villagers, and a space was made. An old woman staggered to the front, threw herself to the ground, kowtowed to Yun Yi and cried: "Please have mercy on the Heavenly Master. I have accepted the practice and been possessed by evil spirits."
The second-year-old son who is naked, please give my third son peace..."
Wei Duan and Xin Pi suddenly realized it, and immediately admired General Hussar's strategy. They waved their hands and led their men forward. Now that they have reached this point, what should they do next if General Hussar still wants to do it?
Once you explain it, you might as well find a place to kill yourself!
Soon after, Ergou's whereabouts were exposed, and together with many remaining rangers and wanderers hiding in various places, they were strangled to death during the "Purge of Possessed Evil Ghosts" campaign carried out in Guanzhong...
