rumor.
The ancient sages said that rumors ended with wise people, but unfortunately, there were very few wise people among the world, so rumors always had a market.
Rumors often provide a false sense of certainty, "This is actually what happened!"
Simple, so that everyone can understand and accept it without using their brains.
But the truth is it? It’s like a young lady wearing complex clothes, peeling one layer and another layer, and each layer is connected to each other, complex and contradictory, making it difficult to see the scenery under the skirt.
Faced with such a situation, ordinary people prefer to choose to brush it directly and let the young lady twist it by herself.
Simple actions bring simple results. Anyway, many people who like simple can use the excuse that the brain has so many important things to deal with every day, and are exhausted as a result to save brain cells that are not necessary to save, making themselves increasingly dull. In the end, although they know that something is wrong with the rumors, believing rumors will obviously be more in line with the cognitive strategy of being lazy in the brain, so they believe it.
On the other hand, rumors are born with traps that make people with the ability to think easily fall into.
Prisoner's Dilemma.
People are selfish. In their subconscious minds, people tend to be selfish. They are afraid that under the dual influence of losses and gains, they will make people choose choices that are more beneficial to them, and they will prevent their own interests from being hurt.
This sense of insecurity will lead to the idea that it is better to believe in its existence than to believe in its absence...
I would rather kill a hundred people by mistake...
I would rather bear it...
rather……
So the rumors became more and more prosperous.
Some people say that Zhao Yun has conspired with Cao Cao...
Some people say that the emperor has appointed Zhao Yun as General of the Carriage...
Some people say that Zhao Yun had a strange intention and had not entered the pass to pay homage to the cavalry for many years. I'm afraid it was Lu Bu's second...
etc.
But if there is a specific content, then there will be nothing.
What is the content of the conspiracy?
have no idea.
Has the emperor's edict really been issued?
Also not sure.
Of course, no one knows these.
But what I don’t know does not prevent these people from spreading their emotions vividly.
Catching Li Kui is of no use to stop the spread of rumors, because many people would rather believe in the fake than the real.
Or pretending to believe the rumors, waiting to see the jokes of Pang Tong and Fei Zhen...
What?
A sense of belonging?
The people’s hearts at the grassroots level belong to Fei Qian, but that is exchanged for welfare. You should know that on the middle level, there are neither “people” nor many additional “wealth”!
China has been passed down for thousands of years, and its skin and hair are inherited by its parents. It has been a thousand years of tradition. It has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Then, the scalp is itchy, so just shave your head if it should be? It has not been cultivated for thousands of years that these people have a sense of belonging to China. How can Fei Qian cultivate it in these people's hearts in the past few years?
After the rumors spread, ordinary people were worried, but there was no other way. However, these middle layers were not worried, but instead laughed secretly, just like those later generations who heard "why service" and were laughing wildly in the light and shadows.
Is Zhao Yun going to rebel?
Ah hahahahaha...
Want to be loyal?
Ah hahahahaha...
During the day, they were well-dressed, handsome and sat steadily, and they would definitely call fairness, justice, loyalty and conscience. As for what it takes tonight, hahahahaha...
A person who is in the imperial examination?
There are people who are involved in the imperial examination. On the one hand, Feiqian needs a county, and the replacement and infiltration of one county. On the other hand, the number of people is not enough. The reference of thousands of people seems to be large, but the passing rate is not high. Even if a thousand people accept it, how many can each township and county be divided on average?
Then people from Shandong can shout again, the land in Guanzhong is full of sieves and eyes!
These people think that the next generation will be the same?
The Chinese dynasty must work hard to integrate the rotten and crooked sieve in the sieve that leaked again and again, and what they paid was a thousand years of reincarnation and the blood and tears of generations. Even if so, they could not let the stingers shut up and concentrate on doing things.
Rumors "finally" spread into the Mansion of General Cavalry...
Pang Tong was immediately furious, and then the Wensi immediately went out to arrest those people who dared to rumor this matter around the Sanfu of Chang'an. Then Pang Tong personally killed three heads of people who were said to be carefully written by Cao's army on the edge of the Wei River in Chang'an.
But this did not make the rumor disappear, but instead spread more and more.
Some people began to poke secretly or semi-publicly mock Pang Tong's incompetence. Some people coughed, saying that Pang Tong's move to kill spies was meaningless, and more importantly, it should be to announce more news.
For example, the situation in the Western Regions and the Northern Regions...
The reason for these people is that the people from Sanfu in Chang'an are somewhat worried about the Western Regions. So now that the incident in the Northern Region has spread, it naturally triggers more people's worries. This kind of worry is obviously not to say that if you don't let it spread, nor does it mean that if you cut off your head on the Wei River, you can calm the situation. Only by publishing the news in a "real way" can people's worries be eliminated.
Is there any reason?
It makes a lot of sense.
But what about it?
Do these people really care about the truth?
So, when the rumors became increasingly uncontrollable, Fei Zhen, the son of the General of the Cavalry who was left in Chang'an City, held an enlarged meeting of the General's Mansion with some 'attachment'.
At the meeting, Fei Zhen wanted Pang Tong to announce the "truth", but was opposed by Pang Tong. However, Pang Tongguang opposed it, but he could not come up with any countermeasures. Fei Zhen asked Zao Zhi how to deal with this matter, and Zao Zhi said that he was just in charge of farmland and farmland and knew nothing about military affairs and government affairs.
Fei Zhen asked Sima Yi again, and Sima Yi, who was as eccentric as a ghost, saw that Pang Tong and Zao Zhi performed a little differently and were very strange. He immediately learned to Zao Zhi and said that he was just in charge of legal litigation, and the rest was not clear...
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Guo Tu of the Senate Law Office even shrank his head and didn't dare to put one of them.
The exam teacher was worried and said that his arithmetic was acceptable, but his talent was limited...
Everyone was discussing the matter, from the morning to noon, there was still no action.
Fei Zhen lost her temper and said that there must be a solution. Then she proposed to send someone to the Northern Region to investigate the rumors and completely resolve the rumors from the root of the source. She was immediately opposed by Pang Tong.
Then after a day, nothing was discussed.
At night, Fei Zhen couldn't stand it anymore and had to announce the end of the meeting. Let's discuss it tomorrow...
Pang Tong particularly emphasized that everyone was not allowed to leak the content of the meeting, otherwise it would be that military law would be engaged in the same way. But strangely, many people learned that the whole day of discussion was not discussed.
This made the lower officials even more uneasy.
For these lower-level officials, they know some things, but they cannot know everything.
This is their pain.
They are always at the end of the information chain.
As for the lowest-level people?
That is excluded from the information chain.
The next day, Fei Zhen held the so-called "closed-door meeting". Everyone could see Pang Tong entering the General's Mansion with a gloomy face, and then closed the door again with a bang. Unlike before, the only participants in this closed-door meeting were Pang Tong and Zao Zhi.
After all, the most important disagreement is with Fei Zhen and Pang Tong.
The guards of the General's Mansion, who were big and round, guarded all the key points. Anyone who wanted to peek at the General's Mansion was immediately warned. If they did not listen to the warning, they would be taken down and the rebels would be killed on the spot.
Everyone thought that the most serious discussion was going to be held between Fei Zhen and Pang Tong, perhaps it was a discussion that determined some life and death...
Huang Chengyan, a master of the big exam, was still a happy optimist, heartless, pretending to be deaf and dumb, haha, as if he was not concerned about being excluded from being closed-door discussions. Sima Yi from Dali Temple was silent for a long time after learning about this, but he still didn't say anything, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Guo Tu also strictly forbidden the officials of the Senate Law Court to discuss this matter, and then secretly found Feng Ji with his back door.
As the director of the examination department, Feng Ji was actually qualified to make suggestions, but like Guo Tu, he smelled some ominous smell, which was like Guo Tu, and he said nothing.
The two sat there. After a long time, Guo Tu sighed, "Oh, Pang Shiyuan still can't trust you and me..."
Feng Ji was silent, closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.
After a moment, Guo Tu suddenly sneered, "But we are not bad either... At this time, who moves around... hehe... then you're really looking for death..."
Feng Ji nodded, shook his head again, and said, "But... Chang'an has been cleaned up for several rounds... But so, some people always think they are smart..."
Guo Tu smiled and said, "This time it's different. It is said that the Prime Minister came with the emperor's order!"
"Haha." Feng Ji sneered and repeated half of the sentence, "Yes, it's the emperor's order after all..."
The two looked at each other, then moved their eyes away at the same time.
After a long time, I don’t know who whispered softly, “Big Man…”
The sound is as thin as smoke dissipates.
And within the office of the General of the Cavalry, there was a lot of enthusiasm.
"Where is Uncle Zijing?" Fei Zhen asked.
Pang Tong said seriously, "Sleep behind that pillar."
"Ah?" Fei Zhen was stunned.
Pang Tong said: "Zijing transferred the two grains and grass from the two warehouses overnight last night... How could he show chaos if he didn't burn the two grains?"
"Then... don't you call him?" Fei Zhen asked again.
"He said no." Pang Tong shook his head.
『So we start now?』
Pang Tong nodded, "Stop."
Fei Zhen and Pang Tong looked at each other.
"The knife must be sharp." Pang Tongyi looked serious, "This is very important."
Fei Zhen nodded slightly, "Yeah."
"The knife must be fast." Pang Tong continued, "This way, it won't stick to everywhere..."
Fei Zhen still nodded, "Yeah."
Pang Tong said in a deep voice: "Since the prince already knows the trick, then you can do it now."
Fei Zhen was stunned for a moment, "Why am I here to do it?"
Pang Tong still said seriously and seriously: "I'm wearing a court clothes, and I'm so fat, it's not convenient..."
『I was wearing formal clothes too!』 Fei Zhen said dissatisfiedly, 『And you are older than me, I am younger! And it was what you suggested by Uncle Shi Yuan! No problem is that a meal of Qiang Cook cannot be solved!』
Pang Tong frowned and said, "That's what the prince has agreed to! What's more, this sentence was what the lord said before! If you don't want to do it now, it will be difficult to deal with it. We said it's good to discuss things behind closed doors, so it's not easy for the servants to come..."
Fei Zhen nodded, "It's really not easy to deal with... But if this continues, the soup will be boiling..."
The two frowned together.
Suddenly a burst of white smoke rose between the two of them.
The soup is on the pot.
The gurgling heat was rising.
"Oh... I can't let this pot of good soup down..." Pang Tong sighed deeply, "I didn't expect that I, Pang Shiyuan, will have today! Come on! I'll cut it!"
Fei Zhen happily put the mutton strips and chopping boards in front of Pang Tong, and directed without hesitation, "This piece is thick... thick... thin... crooked... broken...
"Noisy!" Pang Tong was sweating, "I said earlier that I was fat and it was not convenient to do this...
"Fatty still eats so much," Fei Zhen said, "My father also said he wanted me to stare at you to exercise, but you were lazy every time!"
Pang Tong laughed, "If you don't eat enough, how can you exercise? Your lord wants me to stare at you and write a proposal! Are you lazy? "
"Uh... Then you eat less meat and eat more vegetables!" Fei Zhen continued, "I will just be reluctant to do it. Just eat meat for Uncle Shiyuan."
"That won't work. Who would be willing to go back and eat grass? If you really want to do it for me, come and help me cut the meat." Pang Tong said, "Or put the meat in the pot first... Let's just put the soup in this pot... Forget it, anyway, it's all like this, big and small pieces are rotten in the pot..."
"Uncle Shi Yuan," Fei Zhen said while putting meat, "Why do I sound like, what you said... is not all meat..."
『What else can it be if it is not meat?』 Pang Tong finished cutting the meat, grabbed a piece of cloth, and wiped his hands,『Who is not meat in this world? We have a small pot of meat, so we must distinguish who can eat it and who can't... Not everyone is qualified to eat meat...』
Fei Zhen looked at the meat in the soup pot rising and falling, "Yesterday was OK..."
"As the saying goes, meat is only three...wrong, things are only three..." Pang Tong laughed and stared at the rolling meat in the pot, "Look, wait until the fire burns tonight, and then we will give another order... Someone will definitely not be able to help it..."
Fei Zhen's eyes rolled, "I understand, is this considered giving those people a chance..."
『Yes, if these people don't move, give them a chance. If they want to move, give them a chance... Come on, do it yourself... I won't spoon meat for the prince..." Pang Tong nodded and said, "It's just a pity that Cao Mengde is no longer Cao Mengde's back then...
『Prime Minister Cao back then?』 Fei Zhen asked, 『What was it like back then?』
"What the lord said before..." Pang Tong replied, "Cao Mengde was worried about the country and the people, and was upright... So, all things in the world change by time and place, how can there be a way to remain unchanged forever... I really think that the vow I made back then will never change forever? Alas, this meat is gone...
Pang Tong accurately clamped the piece of meat that had just changed color, pressed it into the sauce and rolled it into his mouth.
Lamb is undoubtedly the best sheep on the Yinshan grassland, because it is said that this kind of sheep can be eaten by itself, and over time it will be marinated and tasted.
Seeing this, Fei Zhen stopped talking and began to compete with Pang Tong.
The food is always delicious.
This is even more true for meat.
Soon, the two of them ate the meat, and then Pang Tong put the remaining side dishes into the pot with some shortcomings, "This is the time to kill cattle and sheep... Does the prince know that there is a custom in the Western Regions that it is said that two months before the arrival of winter months, people cannot eat meat, and they cannot kill cattle and sheep... Then they can wait until the first day of the first month of winter months, and they can kill... What does the prince think it is the will of the gods?
"Where is the time for the god of heaven to care about this?" Fei Zhen laughed, "It must be some other reason, but he used the name of the god of heaven. If the god of heaven really cares about everything, he would not be able to slap these fake guys to death with one slap..."
Pang Tong also smiled and nodded and said, "That's right. Actually, it has nothing to do with the gods, but with the weather. The two months before the winter moon are the most critical moment for cattle and sheep to weigh themselves on autumn weight in the desert grasslands, just like the last grouting moment for the wet in the Hanjiazhuang in late summer. Therefore, no one would be willing to harvest when the wet is about to mature, and the same is true for cattle and sheep... When winter comes, those cattle and sheep that have successfully put on autumn weight can survive the winter smoothly, and those cattle and sheep that cannot fit in autumn due to various reasons... they will naturally have to slaughter them to enjoy...
『It was originally the simplest solar term change, adapting to natural things," Pang Tong said with a chuckling, 『It was just that you had to climb into the name of a god, and then create a lot of things that were missing... This is called putting the cart before the horse, which is a problem with Cao Mengde's actions...』
Fei Zhen said: "Uncle Shi Yuan said that Cao Mengde framed General Long?"
Pang Tong nodded and said, "That's right. Zilong has less military pay in the Northern Region? Has he skipped the people's wealth? Since there is no, what's so chaotic? Why do you rebel? Just like this Western Regions riot, why should you attack quickly? That's because the current chaos in the Western Regions is just the surface chaos. It's not that the Western Regions herders suffered disasters and had no food... If one day, all the herders in the Western Regions have no food, then it's useless for anyone to quell the chaos! If there is still food, it won't be messed up! No matter when, don't take away the last bite of food from the people, otherwise... When the lord left Chang'an, he brought many craftsmen and farmers to Longyou, as well as the Qiang people. What is the most important thing for the prince to fair the Western Regions riot?"
"Well..." Fei Zhen sat cross-legged and frowned.
Pang Tong used chopsticks to knock on the Qiang boiled pot.
『Meat! No, it’s food! It’s food!』 Fei Zhen realized, 『The people’s food will not be messed up! My father also said before, and he took me to eat food... But it was really unpalatable...』
Pang Tong sighed slightly, "Yes. As long as there is food, the people will not be in chaos, so as long as we have food and grass in our hands, Chang'an will not be in chaos! What a pity... It's a pity that some people don't understand... Some people want to snatch the poor people's food, and they want to snatch them from their throats... At the end of the year, didn't the people in Guanzhong keep the winter charcoal in the people? Isn't it that the people in Shandong are talking about? They are talking about why they don't let these people go out for a few laps and get them away? It's a waste of coal...
『…』 Fei Zhen was speechless.
After a while, Fei Zhen asked, "By the way, Uncle Shi, what order do you want to issue just now?"
Pang Tong smiled and said, "Simple... The prince ordered that he be exempted from the position of the Northern Region Protectorate!"
『Ah?』 Fei Zhen was stunned and then said, 『It's acting again?"
But unexpectedly, Pang Tong shook his head, "No, it's really free..."
『Ha?』 Fei Zhen's eyes widened, 『Really no?!』
Chapter completed!