Chapter 35 The Bigger the Storm, the More Expensive the Fish
It was getting late afternoon, but the sun was not bright.
A gray cloud slowly passed over Yecheng, giving the earth a hint of coolness.
From the fourth quarter of the morning to the second quarter of the day, Shen Chen and Wang Lang had been debating for more than half an hour.
Wang Lang wanted to use Tianming and Shen Chen to hinder the unification to convince him.
But Shen Chen exposed that Wang Lang was a person with vested interests in maintaining the family's rule, and that the so-called destiny and unification were just hypocritical remarks that did not care about the lives of the people.
The words made both parties unhappy, especially the last sentence, "You cynics are worthy of talking to me about the world of all peoples", which made Wang Lang furious. He felt his chest was tight, his beard turned up, and he pointed at Shen Chen for a long time and said
Speechless.
After a while, his breathing calmed down, and he no longer reasoned with the hypocritical theory of destiny and unity, but said: "Since you care about the people, you know how many innocent people are implicated in the war? Aren't these all the same?
Is it your own fault?"
"I won't say anything stupid like "For the sake of the world, even if there are casualties, it is inevitable."
Shen Chen said without hesitation: "There is no such thing as killing or protecting life in this world. You only have one life. Everyone's life is equally precious. Some are just helpless sacrifices. If I say that Wang Jijiu died in front of the battle
, I will withdraw my troops immediately, is the king willing to offer wine?"
"Forehead......"
Wang Lang was speechless for a moment. He suddenly felt that he had made a mistake in his calculations. He seemed to be no match for his sharp tongue.
"Look."
Shen Chen grinned and said: "Wang Jijiu is not willing to commit suicide in front of the battle for the sake of the people of the world, so why can you say on behalf of the people of the world that my Northern Expedition will make innocent people suffer?"
"I......"
Wang Lang was speechless. He wanted to kidnap others morally, so don't blame others for kidnapping him morally.
Shen Chen shook his head, turned his horse's head and said: "Forget it, I thought that as a veteran of the Han Dynasty, you would have a high-minded speech when you came to the battle, but I didn't expect that you would say such vulgar words! I see you are like this
You have been living like a dog all your life. If you can’t cure it with the classics and principles, and you can’t explain the principles clearly, how can you be considered a great Confucian?"
"you......"
Wang Lang was furious, pointed at him and said: "Now we in the Wei Dynasty have millions of soldiers and thousands of good generals. How can the fluorescent light of the rotting grass compare to the bright moon in the sky? Will your northern expedition not harm Henan?"
Are the people in danger of losing their lives?"
"At least I won't kill people wantonly."
Shen Chen immediately turned around and angrily said: "I killed beasts like Cao Ren, and cynics like you who are looking out for Cao Cao. The noble families will naturally support Cao Cao, but the common people will not. What's more, why can't the rotten grass be compared to the bright moon?
As long as I am here, although Cao Cao is strong, the fate of destiny will not be fulfilled on him after all!"
Although the bright moon is bright, not a single inch of light belongs to itself. It is only in the name of darkness that it emits the light that should belong to the sun.
Although the rotten grass is dark, what shines is its own unique passion. It has illuminated many places, but it has never illuminated its own path.
In this way, Fucao may not be inferior to Haoyue, it just has different ideals and a different fate.
So in today's world, even if Cao Cao is Haoyue, he only becomes powerful by squeezing the people with the northern aristocratic families, and cannot be considered powerful in his own right.
Only when Liu Bei acted benevolently and used various methods to solve the problem of hidden households and hidden property from aristocratic families, liberated the population and land, and allowed the people to farm and weave by themselves without being enslaved by others, was he able to radiate the light of the firefly.
Illuminating the world.
Some people may say that he only did this for himself, but at least all his words and deeds were to protect all people.
Even before he died, he always advised Adou to "don't neglect doing good deeds because they are too small."
Comparing the two, Cao Cao's talent and ability cannot be denied, but when it comes to moral character, how much is the difference between the two?
When Wang Lang heard what he said, his eyes widened, his blood surged, and he scolded: "Shen Xiaoqing, you are in vain for your reputation. You are so disrespectful. How can you be worthy of being a great scholar in this world?"
"Huh, Master also said that if you don't die in old age, you are a thief."
Shen Chen snorted coldly and said: "I have always known the life of Wang Jijiu. You have lived on the coast of the East China Sea for a long time. You were a filial and honest person when you first entered the official position. You should help the king and assist the country, stabilize the Han Dynasty and prosper the Liu Dynasty. How can you help the rebels?
, conspired to usurp the throne, the crime is so serious that heaven and earth will not tolerate it!
Wang Lang stretched out his hand and glared at him: "You...you...Shen Xiaothief...how dare..."
"Shut up! Shameless old thief, don't you know that everyone in the world is willing to eat your flesh alive, how dare you talk here!"
Shen Chen stood up and shouted angrily, then raised his hands to the west and said: "Thankfully, God's will has not stopped the Yan Han Dynasty. The king of Hanzhong is in Xichuan to punish the thieves. Now, according to the king's edict, the Northern Expedition is launched. Since you are a flattering minister, you can only hide in hiding."
How dare you make false claims in front of our army when you are just trying to survive on food and clothing?"
"Ahem..."
Wang Lang coughed twice and was already out of breath.
Shen Chen sneered and said: "What a brilliant man, an old thief with a gray beard! You are about to die under the Nine Springs. How will you be able to meet the twenty-fourth emperor of the Han Dynasty?"
"I...I..."
Wang Lang covered his chest and felt tight.
Shen Chen shifted his firepower again and looked at Cao Hong: "And you, old thief Cao Hong, after you were a eunuch of the Cao family, you took the throne due to stolen goods, owned gold chariots and bis, transported goods to wealthy families, stole tripods, and overthrew the Chongqing Dynasty.
Qi. If you deserve to be punished by death, how can you deserve to pretend to be a king?"
Cao Hong said angrily: "How dare you, Shuzi!"
"Come on!"
Shen Chen pulled out the tiger's guts knife and said coldly: "If you want to die, I won't stop you!"
Cao Hong is over fifty years old, and his fighting power has long declined. On the other hand, Shen Chen has been practicing martial arts for many years and has become so powerful that even Gan Ning is no longer his opponent. If Cao Hong dares to come today, let him die.
"General!"
Wang Lang finally managed to catch his breath, stretched out his hand to stop Cao Hong, and said with difficulty: "This Zhuzi has gone crazy. There is no need to deal with these villains anymore. Let's go back to the camp first and wait for him to perish."
"hehe."
Shen Chen looked at Wang Lang again and sneered: "You two ministers and traitors, you have studied Confucianism all your life but you can't even learn the simplest loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, benevolence and righteousness in dealing with things. You have wasted sixty-seven percent of your life. You have not made any merit in your life.
He can wag his lips and stick out his tongue to help Cao Cao do his harm! How dare a dog with a broken crest bark in front of our army's formation?"
"I...I..."
Wang Lang opened his eyes wide and was speechless.
Shen Chen stood up from his horse, looked down from a high position, pointed his sword directly at him and shouted angrily: "I have never seen such a shameless person!"
"Ah, poof!"
Wang Lang felt a tightness in his chest, blood spurted out suddenly, and he fell from his horse.
Several generals nearby were shocked and said: "Wang Jianjun, Wang Jianjun!"
"Should."
Shan Yi spat and sneered: "This level of ability is enough to debate scriptures with my master, but it is not as good as me."
Cao Hong was horrified when he saw that Wang Lang was dead. He quickly ignored Shen Chen's previous provocation and went down to pick up Wang Lang. With the help of several other generals, he went back in disgrace.
"Hahahahaha!"
Shen Chen laughed loudly, and the soldiers behind him shouted loudly, the sound was overwhelming.
Cao Jun's face was ashen, and his already low morale was even worse. Under the orders of their respective generals, they ran back to the camp in disgrace.
Boom!
At this time, the already gray sky became even grayer.
It was supposed to be midsummer in May, when the sun is relatively hot, but at this time the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and it seemed like it was going to rain.
Showers are common in summer. The morale of Cao's soldiers was not high. Now that they saw Wang Lang died after failing to debate the scriptures, they fled back to the camp in panic and never dared to come out again.
The Nanyang Army was powerful in the distance, but Shen Chen did not order an attack and withdrew his troops with a wave of his hand.
Both sides evacuated separately, and the place quickly became empty. It seemed as if something had happened, but it seemed as if nothing had happened, and they each went back to the camp.
Only the increasingly sultry temperature tells us that it is becoming more and more unusual.
It's late afternoon.
When Cao Hong returned to the camp, the army was in a state of desolation.
As the military sacrificial wine minister, the prefect of Wei County, and the military supervisor, Wang Lang's status was second only to Cao Hong.
As a result, the attack was unlucky and he himself died, which made the soldiers quite uneasy.
Cao Hong had no choice but to send someone to take Wang Lang's body back to Yecheng and summon Zhao Yan, Deng Zhan, Jia Xin and others to discuss the matter.
"It looks like it's going to rain soon."
In the general's camp, no one mentioned Wang Lang again, and they revealed the matter in a tacit understanding.
Wang Lang himself wanted to go into battle to debate the scriptures, but ended up arguing to death. It was really a loss of face and hurt the morale of the army.
So after entering the camp, Zhao Yan deliberately raised the issue of the weather.
It was only the end of the day, around three o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was obviously going to rain heavily.
Cao Hong looked around and said to them: "Then Shen Chen built the dam to intercept the Lishui River. Did he want to take advantage of the heavy rain to store water and flood our camp?"
"How heavy the rain will be."
Deng Zhan scratched his head and said: "There are daily showers in summer, but the rain stops after a while. If we want to submerge this area of more than ten miles, it will take at least a month. What's more, even if the water is stored, he is not afraid of flooding it.
Your camp was flooded?"
"That's true."
Zhao Yan was also puzzled and said: "His camp is also on the edge of the Lishui River. Even if the water is filled and the gate is opened, the flood will probably flood his camp first. Why would he think of such a stupid method as water attack?"
Woolen cloth?"
Cao Hong thought for a long time and couldn't think of a reason, so he said: "Forget it, if he wants to store water, just store it. Let's build more earth mountains in the camp first. Even if he submerges our camp, it will at most be flooded.
Ankles, just wait until the rain stops and then drain the water from the canal."
"Well, this is a mature opinion."
Zhao Yan nodded.
They dug a ditch for drainage in the camp, just to avoid flooding the camp in the early morning.
But he was afraid that the heavy rain would not stop, and if Shen Chen waited for a sustained heavy rain, he would accumulate a large wave of water and flood the camp. The drainage canal would not be enough, and it would be good to have a mountain.
Anyway, the drainage channel will continue to release floods. With the flow of water from Lishui River, it will not turn into a flood and wash away the entire camp.
At the moment, everyone didn't care, and ordered to build more earth mountains.
After Shen Chen returned to the camp, he kept looking at the sky above his head outside the camp.
It was clearly three or four o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was already dark, with lightning and thunder.
Zhou Buji accompanied him and said to Shen Chen: "Brother, will there really be heavy rains for several months this year?"
"Um."
Shen Chen nodded: "Rain is caused by the sun scorching the earth, evaporating water vapor and accumulating in the clouds. Especially in places such as Jingzhou and Yangzhou, the East China Sea has high temperatures in summer, and the water vapor is blown to Yangzhou and Jingzhou by the southeast wind. Therefore, from May to October every year, it
It’s the plum rain season in Jingzhou.”
"It's just that in the past, even during the rainy season, ten days of rain a month was considered a lot. Most of the time, the climate was normal. How come it keeps raining this year?"
Zhou Busuo was puzzled.
Shen Chen explained: "Because there is sufficient water vapor in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and the water vapor is blocked by the Qinling Mountains, Bashan and Wushan, climates like this used to occur once every few years or decades. In February of the second year of Jian'an,
, there was a flood in Yangzhou. In June of the first year of Xiping, there was a flood in Changsha. In the autumn of the third year of Xiping, the Luo River and the Han River flooded. Wasn't Xiangyang almost flooded a few years ago?"
"Yes, I was only more than ten years old at that time. It seems that it was that heavy rain that caused my senior brother to accumulate a large amount of reservoirs in Yi County and flooded the Jiangdong Army."
Zhou Bujie thought about it and it seemed like it was the case. The climate has indeed changed a lot in recent years.
Earthquakes, floods, droughts, plagues, snowstorms, locust plagues, hailstorms, etc., almost every year, the dynasty collapses, natural disasters and man-made disasters occur simultaneously. Today, the Han Dynasty is in this situation, and abnormal weather may account for half of the reasons.
Shen Chen responded, standing with his hands behind his hands, looking up at the sky.
I don’t know whether it was the Little Ice Age or the El Niño phenomenon, but floods often occurred in the Yangtze River Basin, such as the great flood in 1998, which Shen Chen himself experienced.
At that time, he was still in elementary school. He was still in school in the morning, but the whole city was flooded in the afternoon. The students in the lower grades had to go up to the fifth and sixth floors under the guidance of their teachers, and they all hid in the classrooms of the upper grades to spend the time.
A rough night.
Later he learned that the cause of the flood was due to continuous heavy rains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River since May, coupled with soil erosion caused by deforestation in the Yangtze River Basin, such as Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, and Taihu Lake.
The direct consequences of large-scale land reclamation from lakes and indiscriminate occupation of river channels in other lake areas.
Simply put, it is caused by abnormal climate, excessive heavy rains, soil erosion in the Yangtze River Basin and the shrinkage of the lake area, resulting in a decrease in the regulation and storage capacity of rivers and lakes, a decrease in peak shaving, and an increase in water levels.
However, this situation should not have caused such a big disaster in the Han Dynasty.
First of all, in 1998, the population living in the Yangtze River Basin reached 400 million, resulting in extremely serious soil erosion and land reclamation from lakes.
The specific number of people in the Han Dynasty is currently unknown, but it was at most a few million people, which would not have had such a big impact on the ecological environment.
Secondly, Yunmengze has not disappeared yet, and the land reclamation movement around the lake is just the beginning. The lake's water regulation and storage capacity is extremely powerful, and it cannot yet flood Jingzhou.
Therefore, as long as the relocation of people on both sides of the Yangtze River is done well, the losses to the people should not be too great.
But this year's floods had another effect.
Guan Yu flooded seven armies!
Historically, it was during this year that climate changes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River caused the Han River to surge and flood the Seventh Army.
As a latecomer, if he doesn't make good use of it, wouldn't he be sorry for his status as a time traveler?
"Boom!"
With another thunderbolt, dark clouds almost covered the entire sky.
Big raindrops fell.
Shen Chen murmured to himself: "It's raining, and the wind and waves are coming."
It rained and the wind picked up.
The bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish.