Chapter 474 The commotion in the prisoner of war camp
Guo Jia felt complicated when he heard Wan Shi's words, because he found that there was nothing wrong with what Wan Shi said.
Yes! The people all over the world are self-sufficient and even don't have enough to eat. Now Da Gan gives Yuan Shao a much higher treatment than the people. Compared with the Han who killed the Yellow Turban Army, he really has no reason to say that Lei Gong treated Yuan Shao and the others harshly.
It's just that he felt weird no matter how he heard these words. He always thought that Lei Gong should not treat Yuan Shao like this, let alone let these captured officers do such short-term work! At this time, Guo Jiacai discovered that he had always had the idea of being superior to others!
Now he finally understands why the actor stayed in Hebei back then. Because he was not burdened by his family, and he was born a commoner, which made him more suitable for a career. Although he laughed at himself for coming from a poor family, he was still Zhai Yang after all. The children of the Guo family must ultimately stand on the side of their own family, and it is difficult to accept Lei Gong's policy towards the noble family!
In the end, Guo Jia could only smile bitterly. Back then in Yingchuan Academy, he looked down on those guys with great reputations but little talent, but now he sees himself as no better than his classmates back then!
At this time, Wan Shi continued to say as if he was venting his anger: "I have seen through you people. Each one of you is blowing loudly, as if you are a god descending to earth, but you are not one with one head and two shoulders. If you cut off your head, you will still die. If you lose the battle, you will surrender. If you have no ability, you will kill innocent people indiscriminately. It seems that if you kill us poor people, the world will be peaceful! But the more you kill the rebels, the more people you will rebel against!
Now we are just asking you officials to live the life that common people live, but you can't stand it. You have only been here for a few months. We ordinary people have been living like this all our lives. We can even eat three meals a day. This is the life that other people live. At that time, only a few families out of hundreds of families in our village lived like this.
Most of the people in the Han Dynasty don't even have enough to eat, and now Yuan Shao can at least have enough to eat, but we haven't even had a few full meals. It's a humiliation to give you a full meal, so we What's the point of living hungry every day?
I’m surprised that you officials of the Han Dynasty have humiliated the people of the world so much, so you don’t worry about us rebelling, or that we will kill your whole family in revenge!”
Guo Jia smiled bitterly and said: "It's just a pity that all their knowledge is wasted on moving bricks. The old man not far from you is named Tian Feng. He is a famous scholar in Jizhou. He has read all the Confucian classics and has profound knowledge, but Don’t you think it’s a pity to do some physical work like this now?”
Wan Shi sneered and said: "Of course it's a pity. I'm also from Jizhou. How can I not know Tian Feng's name? But what's the use of him being famous again? When we were starving in Jizhou, we didn't see what solutions they came up with. Help us solve this problem. When millions of people in Jizhou cannot survive, I don’t see what he can do. What does such celebrities have to do with us people? They are just praised by each other!"
"These celebrities you mentioned can't bring peace to the world, and can't keep us fed. Such knowledge is of no use! It's not like this big man has declined into what it is now in the hands of a group of learned people like you!"
When Guo Jia heard this, he instinctively felt disgusted and said: "This is because the emperor does not use capable ministers. If the officials in Jizhou were famous people like Tian Feng, you would not need to follow Lei Gong to rebel!"
Wan Shi sneered and said: "You are telling lies here again, hoping that others will take the blame for you. I will ask the simplest question, how many fields does your family have?"
Guo Jiadao: "It's over a thousand acres, it's not a lot. Back then, my mother almost couldn't afford to send me to school!"
Then he asked Xiahou Dun: "How much does your family have?"
Xiahou Dun said: "I don't know, it's probably hundreds of thousands of acres. My family is a big family, with a large population, so we have more fields!"
Wan Shi pointed at Guo Jia and said: "Your humble family has thousands of acres of land, while his family has hundreds of thousands of acres of land. There are more than thousands of families in the world, and more than half of the world's land is in your hands. We
These ordinary people can have fields!
I remember that when I was a child, my family still had ten acres of land, but because the tax burden became heavier and heavier, it all went into the hands of your powerful men. In the future, my family will have to rent your land. These methods of annexing land were also taught to you by Emperor Ling!"
"We have no land. How can we live without rebellion? And the people who are forcing us to rebel are you people who are full of knowledge. If your knowledge is not used in the right place, what is the use of this kind of knowledge!"
"Moving bricks is what you should really do. At least moving bricks will give you no time to harm others!"
"Furthermore, your knowledge is simply created to restrict others from becoming officials. Not many of us in Dagan have read the Six Classics thoroughly, but we can still manage such a large land. As long as we can read and count, we can collect taxes and govern.
On the one hand, this has nothing to do with Confucian classics.
We in China have inherited it for thousands of years, and it has only been a few hundred years that we have really used Confucianism to govern the country, and the effect is not very good. Where do you get the confidence to think that the world cannot be without you masters!"
Xiahou Dun on the side was filled with emotion. A small messenger has such insight. No wonder the Lei Guild is so powerful!
Xiahou Dun also had a complicated heart at this time. Although building the wall here was hard, it was only physical hard work, but his spirit was very relaxed. Even because of the regular life here, his body, which had declined due to the war, was much better.
But now that he knows that they are going back to Qingzhou, and thinks that he will continue to face the behemoth of Daqianjun in the future, that overwhelming feeling of being so overwhelming is back again! He will have to struggle for survival again. Leaving Yanzhou Xiahoudun
I don't know if this is a good thing.
Guo Jia was speechless and did not dare to continue discussing this issue! Instead, he proposed to pay for Xiahou Dun and his companions’ food expenses in the future! He only hoped that Xiahou Dun and his soldiers from Qingzhou would not have to continue to build walls here in the future.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wan Shi thought that Xiahou Dun and the others were leaving here soon, so he agreed!
At this time, Xiahou Dun suddenly said: "Fengxiao, how much money did you bring this time?"
Guo Jiadao: "Not much, about ten gold!"
Xiahou Dun said: "Lend me the money. I plan to treat the brothers who are together to have a good meal before I leave!"
The people in this prisoner-of-war camp were all officers above Sima level. Even if they didn't know most of them, they had heard of the famous names they were fighting against. They had fought together in the Yanzhou War, and being held here could be considered as having been behind bars together. These people have experienced two of the four iron pillars of life together, so their friendship is naturally extraordinary.
Although Xu Wei did not treat them harshly here and ensured that they could eat three meals a day, he did not give them much preferential treatment. It was impossible to eat well. They could only see fish in their daily meals (this is also the case in Daqian). The only meat that is widely available is fished on thousands of cement boats, and the price is very low! Now people in Hebei can also see these fish meat or dried salted fish on a daily basis!)
This is a good meal for ordinary people, but it is difficult for Yuan Shao and the others to swallow it. Now Xiahou Dun wants to help Yuan Shao and the others have a good meal before he leaves, which can be regarded as helping them!
Guo Jia heard Xiahou Dun's thoughts and gave all the gold in his hand to Xiahou Dun!
In the evening, after a hard day's work, Yuan Shao and the others began to return to the prisoner-of-war camp. Although they were prisoners, they were only confined in Changyi. Of course, it was very difficult to escape. Not to mention that everyone above and below was watching their actions. The range was restricted, so they ran out of Changyi, but there were tens of thousands of cavalry around Changyi, so they had no place to escape.
There were officers who did not believe in evil and escaped, but they were captured less than 20 miles away from Changyi. The people of Yanzhou hated these people extremely. The number of forts in Yanzhou was no worse than that of the Great Wall. How many, these were built by a large number of officials who oppressed them. I don't know how many people died in the construction of the city wall. The local people hated the Han army extremely. As long as the escaped officers were recognized by the people, they would be beaten to death and captured. The officer failed to escape several times. Instead, he was beaten and bruised all over his body, so he did not dare to escape again!
The prisoner-of-war camp is managed by a strong man named Wang Guanjie. He is an old soldier who has followed Xu Wei since Jizhou. His ability is not outstanding, but he does things seriously and carefully, so Xu Wei appointed him as the manager of the prisoner-of-war camp! Wang Guanjie does what he does every day My job is to supervise these people when they go out to do things, take good care of them, and then bring them back intact.
Today, Xiahou Dun came to Wang Guanjie and said, "We will be leaving here soon, so we want to buy some food for everyone. Please help me, brother!"
Wang Guanjie also knew about the negotiations between Xu Wei and Cao Cao and had given him an order from above. Someone would come to pick up Xiahoudun and the others tomorrow, so he said, "I can buy food for you, but no other actions are allowed!"
Xiahou Dun cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much!"
When Xiahou Dun returned to his cabin, the other generals all said with envy: "Yuan Rang heard that you are leaving. It's great to have an older brother like Cao Cao. But to take you back at such a price, we still have to suffer in this place!"
Xiahou Dun said: "My brother has already taken us back. With the benevolence of the general, the envoy who wants to negotiate is already on the way. Brothers should be able to return to Jingzhou soon!"
Hearing this, the generals of the Jingzhou faction were also uneasy. They also knew the price Cao Cao paid this time, the families of 20,000 Qingzhou Army soldiers. This was a high price for Cao Cao, but it was not impossible to take back Xiahou Dun and other close confidants.
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But the entire Jiangnan has more than 100,000 prisoners in Yanzhou. If this deal is to be done, Jiangnan will lose hundreds of thousands of people. Most of them feel that this hope is too slim, even if the general is benevolent and righteous!
At this time, Xiahou Dun came to the front of Guan Yu's wooden house and said: "Yun Chang, go to my little brother's place to get together in the evening. It will be difficult for us to meet each other in the future!"
Guan Yu came out and said: "Guan will definitely know how to do it by then!"
Then Xiahou Dun said to others: "Everyone is coming!"
Naturally, no one would refuse if they could have a big meal, and they all promised Xiahou Dun that they would know how to do it!
But at this moment, a strong man came to Guan Yu. His height was not much worse than Guan Yu's!
"Marquis, Cao Cao has saved his brother. The general will not give up on you, right? Do we still have a chance to return to Jingzhou?" The strong man asked with hope on his face!
But Guan Yu shook his head and said: "I am also in Changyi, so how can I know about Jingzhou? Wen Chang should ask someone else earlier!"
At this time, another strong man appeared and said: "Chief Wen, it's better not to have any hope. We are no better than Xiahou Dun and others. Cao Cao will lose tens of thousands of old, weak, women and children at most, but if the general wants to redeem us, he will only have to pay hundreds of thousands of millions."
The price of a last name!”
This person's name is Wenpin, and he is followed by a series of Jiangnan generals! They all form a small group with Guan Yu as the core!
When Wei Yan heard this, he sighed and said, "I'm just not convinced. I, Wei Yan, have been studying martial arts for many years, but in the end, I can only end up being a fool. I still have unfulfilled ambitions. People in the world still don't know my name, Wei Wenchang!"
Wen Pin next to him said: "You are still young and you still have a chance. Da Gan will detain you for a maximum of three years. After three years, you will only be in your twenties. You are still young. With your ability, you may not be able to get ahead!"
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But Wei Yan said: "I am really worried that I have been delayed for three years in Yanzhou. Now everyone knows the situation in the world. Lei Gong has gained the full upper hand. In these three years, Daqian may have completely occupied the Central Plains. If
At this time, I am taking refuge in Lei Gong. This is not to fight against the general. The general treats me well, and I cannot do such a wolf-hearted thing!"
Huang Gai smiled and said: "Chang Wen, you can also escape back to Jingzhou. The general sees that you are so loyal, and maybe he will reuse you!"
Wei Yan said helplessly: "Firstly, I don't know whether Lei Gong will let us go, and secondly, I don't expect the general to deal with Da Gan. This time we had the advantage in strength, but we were still defeated by Lei Gong in a battle. Now the three of the Han side
The vitality of the great princes was severely damaged, and they could not be the match of Thunder Lord. With the current situation, Thunder Lord could completely occupy the Central Plains within 2-3 years. By then, only the generals of the Han Dynasty could resist Thunder Lord.
But the general only occupies the land of the four states south of the Yangtze River. It is difficult for us to be a rival to the great general who occupies the entire Central Plains and the desert! Lei Gong has too many cavalry and powerful artillery. It is difficult for us to resist Lei Gong with only the land south of the Yangtze River.
, especially the artillery can be mounted on the ship. Now we don’t even have the advantage of the navy. Although I am willing to join the general, I don’t want to be captured again in a few years!”
Huang Gai and others thought about the battle with Lei Gong's artillery and cavalry, and had to admit that the Han Dynasty was really in danger of national subjugation this time!