The sound of the soldiers passing by a group of Cao soldiers was like the background music accompanying him as he walked.
Although he was in the army, Yang Xiu was still dressed in Tsing Yi, neatly dressed and spotless.
Only Yang Xiu's boots were stained with a lot of mud.
There is no way around this. In the military camp, it is impossible to say that there is a bluestone road for Yang Xiu to walk on, right? The dirt road trampled by many soldiers is full of potholes. It is dry now and is just a little dusty.
Loess, if it encounters rain or snow, it will be like a pile of mud.
Several soldiers followed Yang Xiu at a distance, seeming to be protecting, but also more like monitoring.
Yang Xiu walked back to his tent, then sat down, straightened his clothes, and then gently raised his hands and played them in the void, as if there was an invisible piano placed in front of him.
, and he was playing a beautiful piece of music.
Yang Xiu has been smart since he was a child, and he has stood out among his peers early. Whether among the Yang clan or in the land of Heluo, his research on Confucian classics and exploration of Confucianism are at the forefront.
Not only did he improve his knowledge, he also had his own unique features in music, painting, and poetry.
He was extremely talented and once shone brightly, he was the idol of all young people. Although he did not cause any scenes of throwing fruit cars, it cannot be denied that he was once a high-ranking official at the same level as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and ordinary people had no access to him.
, a person who is like a god...
However, now he has fallen into the dust.
Perhaps only in such a small tent, Yang Xiu could get a moment of undisturbed peace.
Yang's servants stood quietly in the corner of the tent, looking at Yang Xiu with respect and admiration. The old man was their god, and the young man was the one who inherited this god. As for the emperor, it had nothing to do with them. Their god
He is the young and old husband of the Yang family.
A void playing stopped, and Yang Xiu opened his eyes.
The servant took a step forward and bowed slightly, "Young Master."
Yang Xiu was silent for a moment, and then said: "I...I'm afraid I'm going to die soon..."
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Xiliang, Jiuquan.
It seemed like endless troops and horses were unfolding before our eyes, filling every corner of our field of vision.
Countless swords and guns.
Countless flags.
The armor, the coldness of steel, is integrated with the flesh and blood of humans and horses.
On the high platform in front, there was only one figure, Fei Qian.
Under the high platform, the leaders of the big families and barbarians who came one after another from the sky all had their necks shrunk, as if they were tied up by invisible ropes under the platform.
Ten thousand people of cavalry were arrayed in front of them, and their breath seemed to set off a storm.
The cold wind howled by, but it was definitely not the wind that made these wealthy households feel cold all over their bodies.
Many of the ordinary people in Xiliang are honest, but these wealthy people with big surnames do not belong to the category of honest. They are all smart and cunning people. After seeing everything in front of them clearly, some things will come from them.
The bottom of their hearts emerged, like cold claws, grabbing their hearts and holding them hard, causing them great pain but unable to scream.
Standing in the queue under the stage, Duan Yan felt goosebumps all over his body accompanied by chills, rolling up from his heels and penetrating into his head. All messy thoughts were lost when facing these soldiers and horses.
Disappeared. I just stared blankly at those soldiers and horses showing their majestic appearance under the high platform, doing various military drills.
Smoke and dust billowed like dragons.
People and horses gallop like tigers.
The flags are ringing, and the clouds and smoke are spreading and billowing.
Duan Yan raised his head and looked up. The man on the stage was standing in the sun, bathed in brilliance. It was so dazzling that he couldn't open his eyes and couldn't see clearly. The words he talked about when he met with that man two days ago were still there.
The thoughts in his mind were like huge waves, sweeping over him and slamming him irresistibly onto the beach.
On the day when the chaos broke out in Jiuquan, many wealthy families were still very ignorant, and Zhang Liao cleaned up Jiuquan very quickly, so that some people did not feel any changes before the incident was over.
But now the large-scale military exercises during the day are different...
Weapons, battle armor, men and horses roaring.
Between heaven and earth, at this moment, it seems that regardless of wind, frost, rain or snow, as long as the man on the high platform gives a command, the steel beast in front of him will pounce on it and tear it to pieces!
The thunderous sound of horse hooves made the big family members including Duan Xuan's feet tremble a little.
I don’t know whether it’s the passive vibration caused by the galloping horses’ hooves, or whether my feet are trembling spontaneously...
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Hedong, Pi County.
Sima Yi stood under the tricolor flag, and in front of him, a fortress was struggling in the fire.
"Those who conspire against us shall be punished!"
Sima Fu shouted excitedly, as if he wanted to transfer his pain to others.
On the high wall of Wubao, a white-haired old man roared angrily at Sima and the others, his face full of anger, and his eyes full of anger.
Within Wubao, not far away, some people with weapons and bows were being surrounded and killed by soldiers.
Although those who wielded knives and sticks were tall and powerful, they could not make too big a wave under the encirclement and suppression of soldiers...
Sima Yi turned his head slightly and looked at the man who was pushed to the ground and still yelling angrily.
"Your land?"
Sima Yi asked with a sneer.
"A certain person settled here a hundred years ago..." The man struggled and seemed to want to argue with Sima Yi.
"Ah... a hundred years..." Sima Yi shook his head, "It's been a hundred years, and you still can't raise a smart person? Just behead him..."
A cold light flashed and the head fell to the ground.
"How can incompetent people live in this world?"
Sima Yi looked up. It seemed that only the three-color flag was the most beautiful and the thing that attracted his attention the most. As for the other noisy sounds, Sima Yi seemed not to care at all...
"Brother," Sima Fu was obviously stimulated by the blood energy and walked over excitedly, "The roster has been checked, everything is done..."
The word "done" means that more than a hundred heads have fallen to the ground.
No one, male or female, old or young, was spared.
Sima Yi nodded, suddenly remembered something, and laughed twice.
"Brother, why are you laughing?" Sima Fu asked, wiping the blood on the knife.
"I remember when I was in the academy, some stupid people said that we Han people were cruel and easy to kill, while the Hu people were a little kind... The reason was that the Han people would kill three tribes at every turn, but the Hu people could leave women and children behind, which was no better than
Don’t kill the wheel rider...hahaha..."
"Such stupid words!" Sima Fu shook his head and laughed, "Such a stupid person must have been expelled from the academy!"
Sima Yi nodded.
During the initial period of the academy, due to the inconsistency of ideas, uncertainty of teaching materials, and the erosion of some obscurantist contents of Shandong scriptures, Shoushan Academy also experienced a period of ideological chaos.
During this period of chaos, there was such a saying that the Han people were punishing people for treason and genocide would be too cruel. However, when the Hu people killed people, they still knew how to leave children who were not taller than a wheel and not kill them. Why did the Han people just kill them?
What if we can’t imitate it?
The person who raised this question was scolded by a group of people. The key is that this person was still unwilling to correct his own ideas and stubbornly believed that he was right. In the end, he became the laughing stock in the academy.
If we simply take the scene of killing as an example, the Hu people do have a rule not to kill women and children and leave no children taller than a wheel. But the problem is that not all the Hu people abide by this rule, especially those who went south to plunder Han people.
How many infants and young children were killed during the war? Moreover, when most of the Hu people caught Han women nursing infants and infants, they would immediately kill the infants who were still in the nursing period. There were almost no consequences.
exception.
The reason is very simple. In the Hu people's concept, if these babies are killed, the captured Han women can quickly give birth to children again...
And the children conceived next will naturally be of the blood of the Hu people.
As for the rule of not killing people who are not higher than the wheel, most of them only appeared during the tribal wars between the barbarians.
And this phenomenon is still not the "kindness" of the Hu people, but is caused by the Hu people's living habits, productivity and production conditions. It has nothing to do with kindness or unkindness.
The reason why the Hu people do not kill women and children is because the Hu people regard women and children as property and treat them as the same as cattle, sheep and livestock. After not killing the men who are not older than the wheel, they often follow the cutting and distribution of these animals, treating them as
As servants like cattle and sheep, those who survive must not only serve their enemies, but also call their enemies their parents and masters. This kind of production and life relationship is only possible in a barbaric land with few ethical concepts.
But after the Han Dynasty experienced civilization and enlightenment, it would be impossible to appear...
Most of the genocide of the Han people, similar to what Sima Yi did now, was due to political factors. They also killed the rulers of the upper class. They rarely massacred ordinary people, serfs in the manor and the owners of the manor like the barbarians did.
Irrelevant people will generally not be killed as long as they do not resist or obstruct.
When the barbarians kill the Han people, more ordinary people kill the Han people!
Therefore, as a Han Chinese, he said that the Hu people did not kill women and children as a benevolent system, which was undoubtedly a betrayal of China's own culture.
Those who have betrayed their own class should not cry and shout about injustice or inhumanity when they are retaliated against.
Just like these big households in Hedong who colluded with Cao Jun and lent Cao Jun a road...
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Yuzhou, Xu County.
The Emperor Liu Xie slapped the table angrily, "I treat him with sincerity, why can't I be sincere?"
Huang Men stuck his butt out and trembled.
"When discussing politics, everyone talks nonsense!" The flesh of Liu Xie's cheeks was trembling, "If you really want to do something practical, you just have to push back and forth! Why don't I have a loyal minister and a good general?!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down..." Huangmen eunuch raised his buttocks higher and his body became more and more trembling.
"Calm down, calm down!" Liu Xie slapped the table, "That's all you can say!"
"Your Majesty... calm down..." Huangmen eunuch followed suit as a habit, and then kowtowed, "Slave... damn..."
"It's me who deserves to die!" Liu Xie slapped the table and couldn't help but shed tears, "Everyone in the world wants me dead! Everyone wants me dead! I give them positions, give them rights, and give them what they want.
What did they give me in return? Cheating, concealing! Treating me like a fool!』
Liu Xie was very angry because he was deceived again and again.
Lies surrounded him and seemed to fill every corner of Chongde Hall.
Whoever he places his hope on will give him a hard slap...
Zhong Yao tricked him.
Zhong Yao got the position and was promoted to the imperial censor. The result was not as Liu Xie had hoped. He immediately led his people to diligently and painstakingly formulate new laws of the Han Dynasty, and then tied the two ends like shackles.
Instead of tying up the ferocious beasts, he led a group of people to hold banquets every day, criticizing this and criticizing that...
He said there was no work, but Zhong Yao also said that he was trying his best to recruit talents. He said he had work, drinking and feasting every day, only asking for money and things without any feedback.
Liu Xiecai expressed his dissatisfaction, and Zhong Yao immediately took off his hat and said, "I am incompetent and I have failed your Majesty's trust..."
Liu Xie hoped that after experiencing these sufferings, the Han Dynasty would be like a phoenix and be reborn in the fire. However, he found that it was unclear whether the Han Dynasty could be reborn. He was about to be dried by the fire...
"Why? Why?!" Liu Xie patted the table, his voice became lower and lower, and finally he slumped down on the throne, "They are all rebellious officials and traitors... They are all..."
The Huangmen eunuch still stuck his butt out, "Your Majesty, calm down... calm down..."
"Get out!" Liu Xie shouted.
The Huangmen eunuchs hurriedly rolled out of the Chongde Hall as if they had been pardoned.
Liu Xie sat blankly on the throne, like a wood carving and clay sculpture.
Liu Xie couldn't understand why this happened...
The old central court and three-gong system of the Han Dynasty was a Confucian bureaucratic system created by Dong Zhongshu. It was also a knife used by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to fight against his relatives, the queen mother, and the old nobles. When this knife hacked to death this prince and that prince
After that, it became a little uncomfortable.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty thought that he was so talented that he could use the people of the world as cattle and horses to drive him at will. However, he did not expect that no matter how powerful he was, he would be like an ant in the face of time. When he aged, this sword began to
Backfired.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty thought that by killing the prince, he was killing the last batch of old nobles who resisted him. But what he didn't expect was that it was he who cut off the foundation of the royal family. From then on, the bureaucrats lay on the corpses of the royal nobles and devoured them.
Flesh and blood became a parasitic tumor on the body of the dynasty.
Everything needs balance, and once the balance is broken, it is almost a dream to return to the original state.
Now Liu Xie wants to let bureaucrats deal with bureaucrats, just like appointing corrupt officials to investigate and deal with corrupt officials. It is destined to have no good results from the beginning.
But Liu Xie still couldn't figure it out and felt that the person he found was wrong...
Most people who can't figure it out will never figure it out.
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Heluo, Tongguan.
Yang Xiu slowly flicked the dust off his body, then looked at the mud stained on his boots and sighed, "Cao Jun's strategy of attacking Hedong may have failed... Cao Zilian's son is deeply trapped in Hedong, and there is no news at all. I'm afraid...
There are many unforeseen circumstances...Xiahou Miaocai invaded Wangwu Mountain, lost contact, and lost his trace...Prime Minister Cao stopped at Tongguan and could not advance..."
The trusted servant whispered: "What...how do these have anything to do with Mr. Shao Lang?"
"Guanzhong is like He's Jade, only the virtuous can live there." Yang Xiu said in a low voice, "I still haven't controlled my greed... I hate him... so I hope he can fall down.
On the dirt floor... I can look down at him and look at him to get rid of the demon in my heart... But now..."
"If Prime Minister Cao fails to attack Guanzhong," Yang Xiu smiled, and then the smile stiffened a little bit, and finally it seemed as if his face was frozen, "We must find someone who will bear the responsibility for the failure... I think it will be
Who is suitable?』
"Is it the Cao family, the Xiahou family, or someone else?"
"For example...like me?"
Yang Xiu smiled.
The smile was a little bleak.
The trusted servant said anxiously: "How...how does this have anything to do with Mr. Shao Lang? This is obviously them..."
Yang Xiu's eyes were dark: "Do you think they care about the truth? They just want an explanation... and I'm neither big nor small, just right..."
To the Hongnong Yang family, would it be more threatening to have a young man in the prime of his life as the leader, or would it be more terrifying to have a senile old man clinging to his old age?
The Yang family, caught between the two major powers, has no future.
If Cao Cao wins, the Yang family still has hope, but if Cao Cao fails...
But now, Yang Xiu can't see the hope of Cao Cao's victory, and the best outcome is that both sides will suffer losses.
Then, the Yang family is destined to be unlucky.
Who made Yang Xiu come up with a "damn" plan?
The tradition of the Han people is that they will always have more compassion for the orphans, the old and the young, so once Yang Xiu dies, it is just Yang Xiu's personal death, which will protect the Yang family. On the surface, the Yang family has lost a young heir.
There is no development in the next few decades, but in fact it can truly lie dormant and wait for subsequent opportunities.
Of course, if you become like Yuan Shang, you can live in a cage and be watched by others.
But Yang Xiu's pride did not allow him to live like an animal.
At first, when Cao's army surged forward and captured Luoyang in a moment, Yang Xiu thought that such a majestic force, even the powerful hussars, would be difficult to resist, and that both sides might even lose. Then Yang would have another chance.
However, during his stay in Tongguan, he realized that he had been wrong.
Although Cao's army had a large number of soldiers, they were large and useless. There were great differences between the soldiers. There were some elite soldiers, but most of them were ordinary soldiers with thin bodies and crude armor. Such soldiers had no problem against the princes of the Central Plains, and the powerful people from all over the country.
But against the hussars...
"Only if I die..." Yang Xiu said slowly, his eyes full of desire for life, but also full of pain, "Only if I die, Yang can live..."
"That's it..." Yang Xiu closed his eyes and started playing the piano with his hands in the void again, "Go and tell my father... if something happens to me... he can't be too sad, the Yang family still needs him to support him."
