Chapter 286, the pursuit of a distorted reputation
Sun Qing and the others were furious when they heard Xian Yuyin's words: "Xian Yuyin, are you seeking death? Who gave you the right to share the spoils of our Tengjia Army! Do you really think that we can't kill people because we can't lift a knife?
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Tengjia's army stayed in Jixian for 10 days for this food. Everyone felt that the food in this area was theirs. They had even thought about how to distribute it. Now that they were tricked by Xian Yuyin, how could Tengjia not let Tengjia
The generals of the army were furious!
Xu Wei looked at Xian Yuyin in surprise. He did not expect that Xian Yuyin would play tricks on him. Could it be that because he was easy to talk to, he really thought he was a vegetarian.
Xu Wei understood Xian Yuyin's purpose as soon as he thought about it. He was not afraid that he would use this batch of grain to attack Jizhou, so he simply distributed this batch of grain to the people of Jixian County. This way, even if he wanted to capture these people again, he would lose the money.
The public sentiment of the people in Ji County and even Youzhou will also cause the Tengjia Army to lose the good reputation that it has worked hard to maintain for seven or eight years. But if it is not collected, the Tengjia Army will really lose this batch of food, and it will take a while to collect it.
, so that the big man can be prepared to resist himself in Jizhou.
This puts the Tengjia Army into a dilemma, but aren't you Xian Yuyin worried about my revenge?
If you, Xianyu Yin, were really loyal to the Han Dynasty and committed suicide before surrendering like Liu Yu and Huangfu Song, Xu Wei would really admire him. What he did must be for the sake of the Han Dynasty.
But for him to be a surrendered general, he still needs to talk about being loyal to the Han Dynasty. This loyalty is too cheap.
Xian Yuyin just wanted to use this batch of grain to maintain his reputation as a big man and to build up his reputation!
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, people's pursuit of prestige reached its extreme. In this era, there was no imperial examination system, and official selection relied on the system of filial piety and incorruptibility. And filial piety and incorruptibility meant finding ways to spread one's reputation, and to increase prestige! And more!
Find a way to suppress others, because there may only be one or two Xiaolian in a county. If you don't suppress others, you won't get Xiaolian!
So in order to seize the position of Xiaolian, the scholars of the Han Dynasty began to engage in internal affairs!
Originally, when parents died, it was enough to observe mourning for a few days or a few months to express one's feelings. However, due to involution, the period of mourning continued to be extended, and in the next three years it was just a normal thing!
Yuan Shaogen took a different approach and helped his parents observe mourning for six years, thus gaining the reputation of Yuan Benchu, a model in the world! Because of this reputation, he became the mastermind behind the death of the general as soon as he became an official!
In order to become famous, all kinds of weird things appeared in this era. It doesn’t matter whether it is reasonable or not, such as lying on the ice to ask for carps, crying bamboos to produce bamboo shoots, anyway, filial piety moves the heavens. Most of the stories of the Twenty-Four Filial Piety appeared during this period.
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When Xu Wei saw these stories for the first time, he did not feel that the protagonists were filial. Instead, he felt that they were sick, and they were still alive despite seeking death!
It can be said that for the sake of reputation, people in this era are not much worse than modern people in terms of hype! Even stronger, because in this world, whoever grabs the hot spot can become a high official!
And when a person with a great reputation becomes an official, he will be a high-ranking official, just like Xun Shuang is a world-famous Confucian!
At the beginning, Dong Zhuo deposed Liu Bian, the young emperor, and made Liu Xie, the king of Chenliu (the Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty), the emperor. He recruited the great scholar Xun Shuang as an official. Xun Shuang wanted to evade the conscription, but due to the pressure of the officials, he had to be appointed as the Prime Minister of Pingyuan. He went to Wanling.
(now Xuancheng, Anhui), he was worshiped by the court as Guang Luxun. After three days in office, he was promoted to Sikong on December 18th.
Three days.
Look, as long as there is a reputation, it only takes three months to go from a commoner to a third official. It is because the benefits are so great that people in this world have gone to a twisted level in order to gain reputation.
Xu Wei remembered that among the books he was reading now, one of the so-called masters of the Republic of China said that after three generations, the best atmosphere was during the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. During this period, gentlemen spread all over the world, and scholars took the world as their own responsibility.
Xu Wei disagreed with this. As long as you think about it deeply, you will know that there is something wrong with this statement! If there are many true gentlemen in this period, how did the Eastern Han Dynasty fall?
Could it be that the country fell because there were too many gentlemen in the court?
If you think about it deeply, doesn’t a gentleman have a negative meaning to a country?
Doesn’t this violate everyone’s common sense? I’m afraid most of those gentlemen are hypocrites! So it is only in line with common sense that the Eastern Han Dynasty perished due to the efforts of these hypocrites!
After all, more than 1,000 years later, there is still a Ming Dynasty that collapsed due to the overwhelming power of the people!
Xian Yuyin obviously wanted to use this kind of thing to burnish the reputation of a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, so that even if he could no longer be an official, his descendants could still be Han Dynasty officials. Even Tengjia Army learned this trick from the Han Dynasty.
With the recommendation system, with the reputation of being loyal to the king, future generations can also serve as officials in the Tengjia Army!
Xian Yuyin's behavior reminded Xu Wei of the Donglin Party in later generations. They all had great reputations and claimed to serve the country and the people. They were united and united. They treated the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty like the boss in the dungeon. He took advantage of the Ming Dynasty every day.
The emperor starts brushing! To enhance his reputation.
When it comes time for them to be willing to serve the country and the people, they all have itchy scalps, the water is too cold, their integrity is all over the place, and they are the ones who are shameless.
These people are the pig teammates of the Ming Dynasty, which allowed the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty with hundreds of millions of people, but a small tribe of hundreds of thousands of people, to sink China for 300 years!
Xu Wei is obviously not willing to let himself become the boss for gaining experience! He is even more unwilling to see officials from the Han Dynasty using such methods to hold him hostage in the future!
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "I didn't expect you to be really loyal to the Han Dynasty! Since you want to be a loyal minister, I, Thunder Lord, will help you! Our Tengjia Army will not take a needle and a thread from the people. Since these grains have been
If you give it to the people of Ji County, it will become their food ration, and our Tengjia Army will not take a grain of rice from them!"
Xu Wei turned to Sun Qing and said: "Go to Jixian and tell the people that our Tengjia Army will buy the excess grain from them at 500 yuan per stone, and tell the people that they can keep their rations for a year, so that the people of Jixian don't have to worry.
Regarding the food issue, our Tengjia Army can allocate thirty acres of land to each household. As long as they can plant for a year, they will be able to eat enough in the future without worrying about starvation, so leaving enough food for a year is enough!"
"You must remember that we are buying food, not robbing or expropriating it. If I hear someone robbing food in the city, I will question you!"
Sun Qing said helplessly: "No!"
Then Xu Wei looked at Xian Yuyin and said: "After all, the food in Ji County is the spoils of our Tengjia Army. I am the most fair person. If you divide the spoils of our Tengjia Army, I will naturally settle the score with you.
You also heard that 1 stone of food costs our Tengjia Army 500 yuan, and these are all clear."
"How much money I spent to buy grain in Jixian County, how much money will you have to hand over! If you divide our spoils, you will definitely have to bear the consequences, and the grain collected will definitely not be as good as the grain you dispersed.
There is a lot of food, but speaking of it, you still make a profit. I, Thunder Lord, always value fairness and would rather suffer a loss than let you suffer a loss. This should be very fair to you, right?"