Chapter 2156: Respect others and everyone respects them
The setting sun was like blood, and the riot in Sanfu in Guanzhong finally broke out.
The first outbreak occurred near Lantian, which is also an area with a large number of refugees. Lantian was the first stop after entering Guanzhong after Wuguan. When Liu Bang entered Guanzhong, he also took the Wuguan-Lantian line. In the early Han Dynasty,
At that time, almost no one cared about the Wuguan line. After all, starting from Funiu Mountain in Nanyang, it basically plunged into the ravines, and when traveling in the Qinling area, you would lose your direction if you were not careful, so once
Liu Bang, who initially decided to take the Wuguan route, was undoubtedly a courageous crab eater.
And now, some people are ready to eat crabs...
It is unclear how exactly it broke out. It is said that someone cut in the queue while queuing, and then a dispute broke out. Soon someone transferred their anger to Mipu and started beating and robbing Mipu clerks, just like in later generations.
Just like beating up cashiers when they are not allowed to cut in line, some people always get angry out of nowhere and can easily take it out on others.
Is the guy at Mipu the one who sets the price?
Obviously not, but angry people don't care about this at all...
Almost in the blink of an eye, the unrest in Lantian has not subsided. In the area of Sanfu, Chang'an, many rice shops were also treated the same way. These rice shops were smashed open, the workers were beaten, and some were even beaten to death.
Or they were trampled to death, and then the grain stored in the rice bunks was swept away, and some were set on fire.
The zero-yuan shopping activity is not limited to a certain skin color, and what is interesting is that most of the people who participate in zero-yuan shopping are not refugees, but ordinary residents around Sanfu, Chang'an, and there are many of these ordinary residents.
I was extremely grateful when I received the Hussar welfare last year...
Lao Wangtou is a native of Chang'an. Now he is limping back along the street with blood all over his head. Even so, Lao Wangtou is still holding it tightly in his hand.
rice bag, even if the rice bag is stained with some blood.
Lao Wang held his head against the wall and looked back. In the direction of Mipu in the distance, there were countless noisy sounds floating in the wind.
Some shops on the street quickly began to seal their doors, fearing that their families would be implicated. Some people stuck their heads out of their doors out of curiosity. Some people even heard about the food grabbing, but they were afraid that they would be late and not be able to grab it.
He arrived, yelling and running towards the place where the incident occurred.
Old Wangtou is getting old. Although he knows in his heart that he probably doesn't have many years left to live, as long as he opens his eyes, he has to live, not to mention there is a little one to raise at home. What Old Wangtou likes the most
, that is, after finishing the day's work, feeding my grandson and myself, then lazily lying in the courtyard waiting for dark, and then listening to my grandson calling from the left to my grandfather and asking about things, this is a day.
The most comfortable time ever.
Until some time ago, everything changed.
Every time Lao Wangtou opens his eyes, his heart is filled with panic.
Food, what should I do with food today?
Will the price increase again today?
Lao Wangtou is a carpenter. Ordinary people, if the furniture in their home is broken, they just throw it out without saying anything. They always repair it. If they receive a wedding order and want to make a carpenter for their son or daughter, it is Lao Wang.
When the head is happiest.
But during this period of time, there have been fewer people doing repair work or making large furniture.
There is less money and food is more expensive.
It's not that rice shops don't have food, they have it, but it costs more.
It's not like Lao Wangtou didn't complain, but is complaining useful? The rice shop clerks laughed and said that the price of their food was too high, and there was nothing they could do.
But when the rice shop guy said there was nothing he could do, could he not smile so happily?
This makes Lao Wangtou always feel that these guys are laughing at him.
So when someone started to grab rice today, Lao Wangtou, who was originally waiting in line, ignored the painful wailing of the rice shop boy. After hesitating for a while, he also joined the queue to grab rice...
In the chaos, Lao Wang didn't know whether he hit his head somewhere or was hit by someone. Anyway, his forehead was broken, blood spurted out, and everything turned red.
The blood was still flowing, dripping down his face.
People seemed to be running around in the streets, but Lao Wangtou just wanted to get back home as quickly as possible, where he still had a grandson waiting for food...
The son died during the turmoil in Chang'an that year, and a year later, the daughter-in-law silently said she was going to buy groceries, left the child and ran away. Well, compared to being kidnapped, Lao Wangtou
I still want to believe that my daughter-in-law just ran away, which also shows that at least she can still find a family and live a good life.
"The inspection is coming!"
"Run! The inspection is coming!"
With the sound of horse hooves, more people began to run in confusion on the street. Naturally, some people got into the box and ran past Lao Wangtou.
Lao Wangtou moved forward step by step, and suddenly he heard the footsteps that seemed to have just been running past again. When Lao Wangtou looked up, he saw a black shadow waving towards him...
『塡!』
More blood spurted out, blurring his vision. Before he felt the severe pain, Lao Wangtou had already fallen down. The blood spread across his entire field of vision, and then darkness fell.
"It's food! Food! Hahaha! It's indeed food!"
In the last burst of blood, Old Wangtou heard the cry of joy, and stretched out his hand with all his strength, trying to express that it was food for his grandson, but in the end no sound came out.
Collapsed...
……(／_＼)……
"here we go……"
Wang Chang stood on a high platform in the school grounds near Chang'an, holding the flag in his hand and looking up at the black smoke rising in the distance. When the whole turmoil began, Wang's rice shop was undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt.
Among those with the most serious damage, it is impossible to say that Wang's shop was inside the black smoke.
Standing next to Wang Chang was Kan Ze. In the school grounds, flags were fluttering, and the soldiers who had gathered and lined up stood like statues, with a faint murderous aura rising.
Wang Chang started out as a small clerk under Qiusi, and today he has become a part of Pang Tong's overall plan. This is not a matter of flattery, but the results accumulated over time.
Wang Chang did not directly give the order to set off, but continued to wait for something.
After a while, several cavalrymen came running from a distance and delivered the latest information.
Wang Chang opened it and gave it to Kan Ze. "It was not Pang Lingjun's order, but the scouts... There was chaos in three markets in the city, and the rest of the shops were closed... There were only two in the mausoleum."
The chaos started...Zuo Fengyi was the most serious..."
Kan Ze nodded and said: "Pang Lingjun said that if more than half of the people are involved in the rebellion, they will be dispatched directly without orders. But now..."
"I will just follow your order and just wait." Wang Chang nodded, then looked up at the sky and said, "After dark, we will see the light of day... Nights with dark moon and high winds are the days of murder and arson."
Sometimes...these moles will eventually pop up..."
Although it is said that there are a series of elite talents under the Hussar, such as Pang Tong, Zhuge, Xu Shu, Sima Xunchen, Xunyou, Jia Xu, Jia Qu, etc., it is obvious that not these few people, or more than a dozen people, can support all the people.
affairs, you can solve all the matters concerning the three auxiliaries in Guanzhong and the merger of Sichuan and Shu in the north.
No matter how smart Pang Tong and others are, a person's time is always limited, and those trivial but essential tasks must be done by others. This will be true even in later generations, just like a mayor
It is certainly impossible to move a table and sit on the street to register people for vaccine distribution...
If you really do this, it is also a kind of dereliction of duty.
Therefore, there are still a large number of gentry children who hold general local positions under the Hussar, and these gentry children may do it for money, favors, or other things at a certain period of time.
Within a certain period of time, he will do something that violates Hussar policy.
For example, making it easier for some people, or turning a blind eye when checking credentials. For example, even if the strange behavior of the red ball makes Newton's coffin unable to be covered, it can be treated as invisible.
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This kind of behavior is sometimes difficult to define. For example, you can be negligent, and being careless about a certain thing does not prove how serious a sin it is. After all, people are not machines after all. They all make mistakes sometimes.
No matter what the reason, as long as he makes a mistake, he will be killed, so who would want to follow the hussar?
But in front of such a big deal of right and wrong as today...
There is no room for any deviation. Just like you can ignore the cry of a brick-and-mortar family and just open your mouth to talk about it for a small amount of money from a company, but it is absolutely intolerable to betray the country for its own interests.
If you can't show your responsibility at the critical moment, then why wait for the New Year?
Pang Tong specifically told Wang Chang and Kan Ze to stay silent. In fact, the purpose was to wait for more guys to jump out and wait for these people to hit the knife edge...
"Oh, a lot of people will die..." Kan Ze sighed softly from the side.
Wang Chang glanced at Kan Ze, "Why, are you still worried about these people?"
"I'm not talking about those silverfish, I'm talking about ordinary people..." Kan Ze looked at the black smoke rising in the distance, "Are these ordinary people who are implicated always innocent?"
"..." Wang Chang was silent for a moment, but shook his head, "Such people...may not be completely innocent..."
"Wen Shu means..." Kan Ze was a little confused.
Aren’t these people victims? How can we say they are not innocent?
Wang Chang looked at the blood-like sunset glow on the horizon and said slowly, "When I was in Shoushan Academy, I often heard that Qiao Qi was riding in Pingyang and had many good deeds... For example, in Pingyang Bookstore, there are books in front of
, and the counter is at the back, allowing students to browse through it without expelling them... If there are any missing pages, etc., they will be placed at the entrance of the store and they can be copied without charge..."
Kan Ze nodded. He also knew this. Back then, he was also a regular customer of Pingyang Bookstore. Sometimes he would hold a book in his arms for a long time. He had never been scolded by the bookstore clerk, and sometimes he could not even see it.
The figure of the shopkeeper can only be found deep in the bookstore.
"There are many people with books, and there are many exchanges, but I have never heard of book theft in Pingyang Bookstore..." Wang Chang said slowly, "Why? Because people who respect others also respect them... Pingyang Bookstore is known as
When a scholar treats one another, he should repay the favor with a scholar..."
"But in Chang'an..." Wang Chang sighed, "So what? If you take the name of a thief without telling him, can stealing books be considered an elegant thing? What a mistake! So in the Chang'an Bookstore, he just followed every step.
But what can be done? Is this the bookstore’s fault? No, it’s people’s fault!"
Kan Ze remained silent.
In fact, what Wang Chang said is not wrong, but one thing Wang Chang missed is that when he went to Pingyang Bookstore, most of them were students from Shoushan Academy, and these students basically found someone to follow.
The matter cannot be escaped, and the flow of people in Chang'an is very large, and there are quite a lot of gentry children coming and going. It is impossible to track every gentry child. Naturally, some people feel that even if they misbehave, they may not be caught.
The residence was found in the home...
Once this little goblin named Lucky started to walk forward with his hips swaying and his waist swaying, Greedy, the guy, would naturally stare at him with drooling eyes and follow closely behind him.
"Besides, the current price of food is soaring..." Wang Chang laughed twice, with a hint of disdain in his voice. "It is said that there are many people in Chang'an who are greedy for money. They actually sell their own grain! They are bragging about their gains.
This leads others to sell and store grain, and when the price of grain rises even higher, they will either regret it, get angry, or curse it... Haha, these people... who started making figurines, will they have no descendants?"
Some people in later generations thought that Confucius was talking about the people who made pottery figurines. In fact, he was just talking about this matter. At that time, Confucius saw that because of the need to make pottery figurines for the king to be buried, a large number of farmers had to abandon their farming.
I sighed and said, shouldn’t we think about the future?
Wang Chang also used this sentence to explain that those who do not think for themselves, just follow the trend, are blinded by interests, and do not consider future problems, cannot be said to be "innocent".
The most important abilities of human beings are rationality, wisdom, the ability to think, and the ability to analyze right and wrong. However, if you lose these qualities, you will just follow the crowd and go with the flow. If you feel that the law does not hold the crowd accountable, you can do things that you dare not do on ordinary days.
, even if you know something is illegal, can you still be considered innocent?
Just like the current rise in food prices, some families who purchased food earlier found it profitable in the face of high food prices, and then sold the food they bought at a low price at a high price.
I didn’t know that my behavior was actually helping those black hands who were pushing up the price of food. Then when I found that the price of food was getting higher and higher and my granary was empty, I completely forgot about the joy I felt when I made a profit from selling, and started to
Accusing this, cursing that, showing that you are an innocent victim...
If it weren't for these followers, no matter how hard Zuo Fengyi's big businessmen tried, they wouldn't be able to quickly push up the price of food in the Sanfu Land to the current level. And if ordinary people didn't participate, for some immediate reasons
They sold their original grain reserves to gain profits, and these large households did not dare to be so sure that their strategy would succeed.
These short-sighted people think that if they don’t sell, others will sell them anyway. Won’t they suffer a loss then? It is precisely because of this that the big hoarders become more and more emboldened, because they know that most people have no food and grass, and they must accept it.
The price they set. If these people did not sell their grain and grass because of immediate benefits, Zuo Fengyi's big business owners would have no way to be sure that their price would be acceptable.
Therefore, those who sell grain and grass because the price of grain and grass are high are actually working for the tiger to a certain extent. The tiger ate blood food, and they shared some of the soup. They are not innocent.
There are also those people who are very courageous as long as everyone is doing it together. They think that since everyone is doing it, then I have to do it too. If others jump in line, I will also jump in line. If others get green onions, I will grab cloves of garlic...
"In addition..." Wang Chang continued, "I have given you three orders and five orders, posted notices in the city, and sent people to preach in the field. If there is any injustice, the people can complain to the patrol, and the scholars can remonstrate in front of the hall... However,
Around Chang'an, among the three auxiliaries, to this day, has Derun heard of anyone in the counties complaining about the inflated price of grain and the harm to the people?"
"This..." Kan Ze was stunned for a moment, "Or maybe you feel that the cavalry is not in the pass, so your remonstrance is useless?"
Wang Chang shook his head and said: "This is also ridiculous. As a land official, the hussar can only handle government affairs when he is in front of him. If the hussar leaves, is he lazy?"
Kan Ze nodded and said, "Wen Shu's words are deeply indicative of caution."
As the two of them were talking, the sky gradually became darker, the sunset on the horizon gradually faded away, and darkness kept eroding everything around them.
The night wind gradually picked up, bringing with it the faint sound of crying.
"Hey..." Kan Ze sighed, "Even so, I still feel that if ordinary people usually abide by the law, this moment of confusion... is somewhat tolerable..."
Wang Chang looked at Kan Ze, thought for a moment, and nodded, "If this is the case, it can be recorded, and it may not be a crime... But the people must know the crime and record it on file. If he does it again, he will be severely punished."
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"That's it." Kan Ze also agreed. Can you do bad things if you have thousands of reasons? Being confused for a moment is excusable, but making the same mistake again and again is unforgivable.
This time, Kan Ze was also secretly frightened. He only knew about the changes of the sun and the moon in Lishan Mountain, so he went down to report that the twenty-four solar terms had been re-edited and the calendar was approved, and he encountered such a thing...
It is precisely because Kan Ze has been busy with the calendar and has no suspicion of involvement in this grain price change that he has the opportunity to serve as the commander of this operation together with Wang Chang. And according to Kan Ze's inference, this operation is not
It is an end. Whether it is Hussar or Pang Tong, it is obvious that they are not people who only take one step at a time, so it is obvious that this action will cause more new changes, and then affect more people.
"coming!"
While Kan Ze was thinking, Wang Chang suddenly spoke up.
The sound of horse hooves sounded again in the distance, and a cavalryman came in a hurry...
