Chapter 2919: Rats have skin, but humans have no manners
Raising bandits to create trouble is not just a word of mouth, it is also something that some people will actually do.
During the three to four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, the Western Region was not a good place, but it was a good place to raise bandits.
Here in the Western Region, there are all kinds of enemies.
There are enemies that can never be defeated.
Just like the Western Qiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it seems that there are always so many Qiang people rebelling.
Under such circumstances, when the Western Region returned to the feet of the Han Dynasty and was included in the territory of the Hussars, many people still did not know the difference between this return and the previous one, let alone Fei Qian's attitude towards the Western Region.
After all, it was different from the previous emperors, so they were very accustomed to operating according to the original practices.
This is what Lu Bu is like.
Wei Xu is actually an extension of Lu Bu's will.
Perhaps in their minds, a general without a war is worthless. In fact, they may also understand that fighting a war for too long will not do any good to the country, but... as long as it is good for them.
Just like a businessman.
It is not that there are no good businessmen, but when the environment is harsh and regulations are not perfect, those businessmen who are willing to give up their profits to benefit everyone will often be swallowed up by profiteers in the end. Bad money drives out good money. This does not only happen in currencies.
superior.
This type of profiteers often clamor for "no borders". In other words, for this type of businessmen, they just like to break boundaries and are used to testing red lines.
The whole process of fanning the riots is actually very simple.
First there must be a contradiction.
This is not lacking.
In Xihai City, everything may be lacking at the moment, but what is not lacking is internal conflicts.
All kinds of things, either obscured, suppressed, stranded, or delayed. Anyway, after Lu Bu came to Xihai City, various contradictions arose that should have been resolved, but have never been able to be resolved.
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Second, there must be someone who stirs up trouble.
Guan Er is not considered a good person, because truly good people tend to embarrass themselves rather than embarrass others.
He is a businessman. As long as he makes money, he can talk about anything and sell anything.
It was impossible for Wei Xu to turn all military equipment into money, he had to go through these merchants.
Lao De is here, Fatty An is here, Guan Er is here too...
So, did Xihai City have these merchants first, and then the theft and sale of arms, or did the theft and sale of arms first, and then attract these businessmen?
Although Zhang Liao had cleaned up before, he mainly targeted the officials of Xihai City and the Protectorate. He did not take action against these businessmen, but these businessmen were still uneasy, fearing that when the General Hussars came, it would be their end.
.So Guan Er and others naturally planned to escape, hide first, go to a safe place, and see what happens next. After all, the money in their hands was earned by their "hard work". How?
Can you give up easily?
Third, there must be an introduction.
Guan Er then fixed his gaze on the remaining officials in Xihai City.
These officials are also not good people, let alone being wronged. If these officials followed the rules on weekdays, people like Guan Er would not exist in Xihai City at all.
Zhang Liao cleaned up some officials in the Protectorate and Xihai City, but there were still some left. This does not mean that these officials are innocent, but that Zhang Liao did not have so many manpower to replace these people and do some basic work.
His work has allowed these grassroots officials in Xihai City to survive.
So these grassroots officials would think that Zhang Liao was kind and let them go, so they would change their minds and change their past mistakes?
Maybe there is.
But the vast majority of people still think, "Don't talk about eating your rotten watermelons, I won't even ask the price when I eat in restaurants in the city..."
Or "Why am I so unlucky..."
Before the concept was completely changed, the thinking of officials was still the thinking mode of the feudal dynasty.
At the same time, can ordinary people in Xihai City feel the changes in the overall situation and know the direction of the overall situation?
Maybe there is.
But the vast majority of them still fail to form any complete thinking model, and are more often driven by emotions.
The Western Region is in turmoil and the West Sea is about to face danger. The reason why these ordinary people stay in Xihai City is because they feel that Xihai City is a city after all and has city walls for defense. On the other hand, they are reluctant to let go of some things they have finally obtained.
assets.
Including but not limited to acres and properties...
They are reluctant to part with it. Even if they know the danger and difficulty, they can only endure it.
Those who readily talk about the world they want to see and turn it into practice are often young people, while middle-aged people are silent. Even middle-aged people also understand the world well.
It's very big, but middle-aged people also know that the mortgage loan is huge and the children are very small.
People who can't leave, or are reluctant to leave, don't mean that they don't have worries and fears, and they don't feel pain. If there are no fluctuations, it means they can't endure like stagnant water. However, the behavior of Guan Er and others
It was as if some fire had been ignited, causing some people who had been suppressed to the limit to become restless.
If these remaining Xihai City officials could have a little bit of subjective initiative, could think from the people's point of view for a while, and could truly resolve the worries and doubts in the people's hearts, then everything would be different.
It's a pity that Zhang Liao is just an outstanding cavalry general, and he is not Jia Xu who can play with people's hearts as if they were in the palm of his hand. When he led the troops to set off, he only considered the soldiers of Xihai City.
He thought less about the people. This of course does not mean that the responsibility lies with Zhang Liao, but that Xihai City is already in a distorted state and cannot be speculated using normal rules.
The Western Region Allied Forces are invading in large numbers, and war is just around the corner. This is undoubtedly a very serious situation. Faced with such circumstances, the markets in Xihai City are generally under curfew jurisdiction, and people are not allowed to have freedom even during the day.
Activities. In fact, ordinary people can understand such a decree. After all, it is a special period, and the risk of transmission caused by the movement of people and the transfer of items should be minimized.
Therefore, Xihai City is managed by a quiet... bah, curfew. All illegal gatherings are prohibited, and shop sales are naturally prohibited. The people's needs in Xihai City are collected by the officials in the inner square, and then distributed to the people in the city.
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Are these reasonable?
Then the problem comes.
Officials can be the first to obtain food rations.
Therefore, all the officials and officials could eat well, and there were even leftovers!
Then the people have nothing...
Sometimes, officials are too tired, forget something, or omit something.
Isn't this normal?
Which official in the feudal dynasty did his or her duty conscientiously for the people?
As a result, the officials' behavior of stealing food was caught by the hungry people!
The officials in Lifang got angry and yelled at the people. They felt that these people were unorganized and undisciplined, disrupted the curfew management, and violated the laws of Xihai City. They originally thought that this would make the people retreat, because they had not only encountered
When faced with such a problem, whenever they started scolding the people, the people would shrink back, so the officials in the village habitually used their scolding method again.
Isn't it just something to eat and drink? It's not even dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder. It's just to satisfy hunger. Is it such a fuss?
But what they never expected was that it didn't work this time!
The already tense and fearful emotions were ignited...
Ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could carry knives or guns, but they had to remove the gun head and place it separately from the wooden handle. People in the Han Dynasty could even have long-range weapons, shooting bows and arrows with a kinetic energy far greater than 1.8 joules!
In the Han Dynasty, crossbows and armor were banned among the people.
A, ordinary people simply cannot afford it.
As for the crossbow...
Only crossbows allow ordinary people to have the ability to kill someone from a distance at any time.
Bows and arrows need to be practiced, but most people cannot afford to practice them. People who have to work hard for two meals a day do not have much free time and money to practice bows and arrows.
Why did ancient China have to strictly control weapons?
This is not difficult to understand at all. After all, in the thinking of the ancient feudal dynasty, whose family belongs to this world? Of course it belongs to the emperor's family! Therefore, as the head of the family, the emperor certainly does not want his servants or servants to carry weapons every day.
Walking sideways. After all, if one day, the people can't think about it, then the originally noble emperor will become a wage earner serving the people. How can this be done?
Of course, what the emperor is focused on guarding against is not the people at the lowest level, but the powerful locals who secretly hide their weapons and armor under the pretext of the people.
The officials in China's feudal dynasty were actually very powerful, far beyond the scope of ordinary people's cognition, especially those at the top. They faced the concentration of social conflicts that emerged in the feudal dynasty, and the wealth differentiation was obvious.
, with the trend of prominent civil conflicts, it is basically foreseen that people will have riots, resistance to the law, uprisings and other vicious events, so destructive weapons will inevitably be included in the scope of management and control.
For example, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
The Yuan Code stipulates, "Anyone who secretly hides a full armor will be punished by death; anyone who fails to make it, will be whipped fifty-seven times, and will serve for one year; those who have scattered pieces of armor that can be worn to defend the enemy, will be whipped thirty-seven times. Spears, such as knives, and crossbows."
If he owns ten pieces of bows and arrows, he will be punished by death; if he owns more than five pieces of bows and arrows, he will be punished with ninety-seven sticks, and he will be punished by three years; if he owns more than four items, he will be punished with seventy-seven sticks, and he will be punished with two years of punishment; if they are unfit for use, he will be punished with fifty-seven floggings. If he owns ten sets of bows and arrows, he will be punished with death;
For those who are above the level of a pair, the staff will be ninety-seven, and they will serve for three years; for those who are below the level of four, the staff will be seventy-seven, and they will be punished for two years; if they fail to become a pair, they will be flogged for fifty-seven years."...
The Qing Dynasty had a very strict ban on firearms, not only killing individual individuals, but also families and neighbors.
They will all be beheaded, his wife will be enslaved to the family of the hero, and his family property will be transferred to the officialdom. The neighbors of the foundry, the landlord, the head of the village, etc. are all planned to be hanged and imprisoned."
However, even with such a strict ban, problems still exist...
There are still some ordinary people in Xihai City. Even if the Western Region Allied Forces are about to arrive and Zhang Liao has organized two mass migrations, it is impossible for the officials and their families to eat, drink, poop, urinate, etc. every day in Xihai City.
To obtain and clean things up by oneself, one must have some ordinary people to serve them.
When foreign enemies came, we should have united our minds to fight against them.
The officials in Xihai City know this, and so do the people.
But the question is, why should something go wrong when it should be the more critical moment, the more we should unite as one, the more difficult the moment, the more we should strengthen our confidence, join hands together, and go all out to win this war of the Western Region Allied Forces?
question?
Is it a deliberate provocation by the unruly people?
Are the untouchables disobedient to management?
Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is undeniable, that is, in the face of the same life and death crisis, the hearts of each other are still incompatible.
Who doesn’t want to be safe?
Who doesn't want to protect their family?
Especially under the wartime rationing system, ordinary people, their elderly and children, wanted to eat something soft, but there was no such thing!
If everyone doesn't have it, that's fine.
But there are officials.
In the past, they could give some money and do some things, but after Zhang Liao came, these officials became a little scared and did not dare to accept money for fear of being reported, so they simply turned their faces and scolded these people again and again, saying that they had nothing to do with it.
After all, collecting money has a long way to go, right?
Of course, it is also possible that the officials feel that these common people are not sensible and the money they give is not enough, so they look down upon them. At least it must be emeralds and jade. What is a few copper coins worth?
People are forgetful. As soon as Zhang Liao left, many people took a long breath and felt that the matter was over and they were stable. They thought how dare these unruly people make trouble, but they forgot that people are hungry when they are hungry.
The scariest thing...
The chaotic people angrily killed the officials who stole the food, and then attacked the houses of other officials.
Under such chaos, Guan Er and others took advantage of it and ran away.
Of course, if these officials can immediately allocate manpower to deal with it, no matter what method is used, or even iron-blooded methods, it is a feudal society anyway. It cannot be said to be just a small episode, and it will stop after that, but the problem is that in Xihai City
Most of the soldiers were taken away by Zhang Liao and Han Zheng. There were not many forces left in the city. In addition, these officials were a little lax and failed to respond quickly to call for support. So the first day started with only a small-scale chaos.
, but as this chaos was not stopped in time, it slowly began to turn into large-scale chaos the next day.
On the third day, Tai Shici and his people rushed to Xihai City. There were already many fires in the city.
Seeing the city gates open and the blood-stained streets, Taishi Ci was furious.
Nowadays, the streets are deserted, every house is closed, every house is locked, and there is a deathly silence.
Some large houses near the streets have their doors open, and you can vaguely see various scattered debris, and some smell of blood can be heard coming from them.
Taishi Ci gritted his teeth.
Suddenly, there was a grunt under the hoof of the horse that Taishi Ci was riding, and something black was kicked out by the horse's hoof. This accident seemed to frighten the war horse, and the war horse stood up, barked twice, and then fell down.
He came down and snorted twice.
At this time, Taishi Ci discovered that the thing that had just rolled under the belly of the war horse was a human head.
In the distance, on the streets and in the alleys, there were also corpses scattered everywhere.
And further away, there were officials and military academies who came in a hurry and stayed in the city, and only received the message belatedly.
"What's going on?!" Taishi Ci asked angrily, "Why is there chaos in the city?!"
The civil servants who stayed behind looked at the military academy sideways, and the military academy looked at the civil servants sideways. After a moment, they all said in unison, "I don't know what I mean..."
"Not sure?" Taishi Ci's hand on the handle of the knife loosened and tightened, tightened and loosened again, "Then what do you know?"
"The rioters are the rioters who attack the city and slaughter innocent people..."
Taishi Ci sneered, "Rebellious people? Then why are these people causing rebellion?"
"This... I don't know..." The civil servants and the military academy lowered their heads deeply and remained silent.
"Then tell me what you have done?" Taishi Ci took a few breaths to calm down.
Speaking of this, the civil servants and military academies left behind became excited.
They rushed to talk about how much they had contributed and how much effort they had made when the riots occurred, how many people they had protected, especially the important facilities in Xihai City from being intruded by rioters, etc.
As for whether most of the people being protected are family members of officials, and whether the important facilities protected include their own homes, there is no need to elaborate.
Taishi Ci suddenly understood why Fei Qian had specifically said those words to him before.
The problem in the Western Regions is not just Lu Bu's problem. Even if Zhang Liao has sorted it out, it is still the same.
With Zhang Liao here, everything seems to be fine in Xihai City.
As soon as Zhang Liao and others left, problems began to arise in Xihai City.
What is this?
Are the civil servants and military academies left behind afraid?
Neither scared nor afraid.
Deep in their hearts, they actually know that there is a problem with doing so. Just like when Taishi Ci questioned them, their silence and ugliness proved this. For them, there is actually a basis for it.
They had a sense of shame and responsibility, but they avoided it, just like they avoided the questions Tai Shici asked them.
Not sure.
have no idea.
Awaiting investigation.
awaiting notice.
Taishi Ci looked at these people silently, who stood humbly and bent over with low eyebrows.
Is this showing respect?
Indeed, it is just that what these people fear is not Taishi Ci, but authority.
The authority represented by Taishi Ci.
"You..." Taishi Ci glanced past them and looked at the blood-stained streets, "Xihai City was only built a few years ago..."
The civil servants and military officers who were left behind looked at each other, wondering what was going on.
"Send the order," Taishi Ci was too lazy to argue with the officials and the military academy, "immediately clean up the turmoil in the city and put out fires and disasters!"
The left-behind military academy and civil servants responded loudly, and then took action.
"General, why don't you use military law to kill these silverfish?" Tai Shici's confidant asked.
Taishi Ci looked at the left-behind civil servants and military officers who seemed to be suddenly full of vitality and began to shout and shout, "Don't worry. My lord has said that if big things happen, you should be calm... There are some problems here, I still want to calm down."
I haven’t fully figured it out yet... Let’s stabilize the situation first, and when I figure it out, I can slowly crack down on these people!』
