Here in Beihai County, the Yellow Turban Army is approaching day by day.
In Duchang City, Kong Rong was in great torment.
But he still had to keep an indifferent look on his face, trying to pretend to be indifferent.
Those who usually corresponded with Kong Rong in various ways, looked down upon the people of the world, worried about the country and the people, and felt that their talents were not appreciated, all became silent at this time.
There is no other way except to say that the world has become so corrupt and to curse the Yellow Turban Thief and Yuan Shao.
There's a lot of nonsense, but it doesn't lead to anything serious.
There is no solution at all to the current actual situation and the problems we are facing.
There are also a few who come up with ideas, but the ideas they come up with are also hard to describe and all kinds of unrealistic.
Some people advocate abandoning the city and fleeing to other places as soon as possible.
Some people advocate holding on in the city...
In this situation, Kong Rong was anxious, panicked and had no choice.
In order to cover up his incompetence, he burned incense and bathed, and sat there reading Confucian classics seriously.
Make the surrounding very atmospheric...
Kong Rong was sitting on the city wall, reading these classics in a straight and clear voice.
It seemed like the whole person was completely immersed in it.
This kind of menstruation is really in line with the style of these celebrities and suits their taste!
They were instantly attracted by what Kong Rong did, and were greatly impressed.
Everyone praised Kong Beihai one after another, saying that he was indeed Kong Beihai! He was really magnanimous!
He is a role model for our generation!
Follow it!
So, most of these people imitated Kong Rong's example, burned incense and bathed, sat beside Kong Rong on top of the city, and read books loudly with Kong Rong.
While reading loudly like this, listening to the vast echoes of the people around me, I felt a surge of passion in my heart for a moment, as if I was blessed by some mysterious power!
I feel that the journey of me and others is really touching.
From now on, I and others, whether alive or dead, will definitely leave a strong mark in the history books!
Please imagine this, surrounded by thousands of thieves, you and others follow Kong Beihai, standing still, sitting cross-legged on the city wall, concentrating on reading the classics. What a spectacular scene this is, how exciting it is to make people excited!
But this is just their own illusion, it is just they who have moved themselves.
Some officials in Duchang City were running around anxiously.
Now that the Yellow Turbans are getting closer and closer, there are many things that need to be prepared and done.
Some things require arrangements and orders from the prefect.
But now, Kong Beihai just left everything behind and went to recite the classics!
Not only Kong Rong, but also many self-proclaimed celebrities who imitated Kong Rong's behavior after seeing it, many of whom held important positions.
As a result, at this time, they actually forgot about their duties and followed Kong Rong there to recite poems and books.
Someone came to report and inquire about the matter, and was scolded loudly, saying that it affected his ability to read the saint's subtle words and righteousness, without a wink or anything like that.
This kind of thing is shocking.
"Read, read! Read a damn book! Can they read away the Yellow Turban Thief by reading?!
Can the crisis be solved?
When you encounter difficulties, you don’t think about the solution, but you sing poems and books here, how shameless!”
Some people couldn't help but yell angrily.
"If you piss me off, I won't stop doing it. A group of people who can't do anything still look down on this and that every day.
We have been asked to do everything, but these guys have far higher official positions than us..."
Some people seemed angry and cursed.
"Well, if the whole family wasn't here, I wouldn't want to do it.
Now... let's do our best to do things, not for anything else but for ourselves.
You can't let the Yellow Turban thieves enter the city."
Someone said this.
After the voice fell, someone said: "I'm just afraid. After we worked hard and blocked the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, the credit went to these people.
If something goes wrong or the city is not defended, it becomes ours..."
After these words were spoken, everyone's hearts immediately became heavy.
Because based on their understanding of the group of celebrities around Kong Rong, this thing will most likely happen in due time!
"Don't worry about these things for now. Defending the city is the most important thing at this time. The remnants of the Yellow Turbans are too cruel. After entering the city, they will not be good to you and me.
This time, we are not doing it for anything else but ourselves.
As for whether something like this will happen in the future, we’ll talk about it later!”
After a brief discussion, these people no longer asked for instructions from those who could only recite poems and books, and began to deal with things nervously here.
Equip city defense materials, appease the people, etc...
But Kong Rong and others didn't care about these, they just recited scriptures here.
After some reading, I turned around and found that the city of Duchang had become much more orderly.
This surprised and moved these scholars and celebrities.
This is the power of poetry and books, this is the subtle words and great meaning of the saint!
This is the result of me and others singing poems and books in this chaotic time!
If he and others hadn't made such an awe-inspiring act at such a critical moment, how could An have seen such a scene in Duchang City?!
With this thought in my heart, I am even more energized when I sit here and read...
In Donglai, a ship docked and a man jumped out of the ship.
The man seems to be very good in water, even though the boat was walking in the water just now, there were quite a lot of wind and waves, and the boat was constantly bumping left and right.
But he was not affected at all and walked on the ship as if he were walking on flat ground.
There were still many people on the boat, and they were all disembarking one after another.
Seven or eight of them were walking with the man who jumped out of the boat first.
They carried some furs and other goods.
After the group of people sold the goods they carried, they gathered the money together and asked the leading man to divide the money among them.
The leading man was not polite and divided the money into points according to each person.
Apart from that, there is still a bunch of money left in the middle.
Some people passing by, after seeing such a scene, thought that this was the leader and wanted to take the lead.
I also think this is normal.
As a result, I saw the leader reach out and take out some of the undivided money in the middle, and put it on the pile of money in front of a person.
"Erlang, you have a wife and children who need to be supported. This money belongs to you."
After that, he picked up some money and put it on the pile of money in front of another person: "Zishan, you have done a great job this time..."
After a while of dividing the money, as the leader, this person who made great efforts in this incident did not get the most money.
There are four more people than him.
"Brother Ziyi, this won't work. You still have a high school to support..."
Someone said this, grabbed some money in front of him, and wanted to hand it to this person.
The leader stretched out his hand to stop her: "No, my old mother is still in good health and can't use such a lot of money.
Your child is not in good health. You can take these back and give him some medicine..."
No one present was dissatisfied with this man's money.
This is really fair and humane.
While dividing the money according to the amount of effort this time, we also took into account the situation of each family...
"Brother Ziyi, thank you for protecting me all the way.
I’ll meet my sworn brother for a drink in a few days!”
"Brother Ziyi...this...this is not good..."
After dividing the money, everyone bid farewell to each other here.
The leader clasped his fists at them and said with a smile: "Okay, no need to say anything more, many of them have never gone home, so go home quickly."
The others responded one after another and bowed their hands towards him.
Then they went home in twos and threes.
The passers-by couldn't help but secretly marvel at this situation.
He had never seen such a leader and such a way of distributing money.
Ziyi brother?
Adopted brother?
Who is Ziyi?
This man was thinking this in his heart.
After chanting like this for a while, I suddenly thought of someone.
Taishi Ziyi?
Tai Shi Ci?
Could it be that the person taking the lead just now was Tai Shi Ci?!
I heard that Taishi Ci had provoked some people because of his righteous actions, and later went to Liaodong to avoid trouble.
But I didn’t expect that I would be back now!
After remembering that the person who took the lead just now was most likely Tai Shici, this person no longer felt strange.
Such behavior is normal for Taishi Ci...
This person's guess was not wrong at all. This person was none other than Tai Shici.
Now I have returned from Liaodong.
Taishi Ci was very homesick, so he carried a gun and rode a horse with something on his back.
One of them was a fine bearskin.
He was not willing to sell this thing, and planned to take it home for his mother to cover in the winter.
If you sell it to others, they will use it to build it, but it is better to keep it for your mother.
My mother is getting older and is afraid of the cold in winter, so this bearskin is just right for her...
After thinking about it all the way, Taishi Ci came home.
At this time, my mother was in the courtyard, doing something.
Taishi Ci got off his horse a hundred steps away and ran towards his mother. As soon as he reached the courtyard gate, he knelt down directly in front of his mother.
"Mom!"
he shouted.
Taishi Ci's mother heard the noise and turned around to see Taishi Ci returning home. She couldn't help but be overjoyed.
He was stunned on the spot for a moment, and then walked towards Tai Shici to greet him.
He reached out and took Tai Shici's hand and looked at it carefully to see if there was any injury.
Immediately he pulled him to stand up.
When mother and son met, they were extremely excited and couldn't hide their excitement.
Taishi's loving mother couldn't help but shed tears.
I held his hand and asked him many things.
Then he took out some of the white flour he had collected and used it to make delicious food for Taishi Ci.
Looking at his mother who was full of joy and busy, Taishi Ci couldn't help but smile.
I feel very comfortable in my heart.
It feels so good to be home!
The next day, after hesitating for a while, the loving mother finally looked at Taishi Ci and said: "My son, have you heard about the remnants of the Yellow Turbans resurrecting and attacking the Beihai Prefect?"
Taishi Ci said: "On the way back, I heard some things.
It is said that the Beihai Prefect has been in office for a long time. If he is not new here, how can he be forced into such an embarrassing situation by the Yellow Turban bandits?
I heard that he is still a descendant of Confucius..."
The loving mother said: "There are some things that I didn't want to tell my son just after he returned, but I thought about it and decided to tell my son."
Hearing his mother say this, Taishi Ci also became serious.
He raised his hands to his mother and said, "Mom, please speak."
The loving mother said: "After the governor of Beihai took office, he heard about my son's reputation. He sent people to visit my son several times. In his words, he valued my son very much.
Every time I came, I was offered gifts, but I declined, but the other party insisted on letting go and leaving, so I had no choice but to accept them.
In the past, my son never came back, so that was a different matter. Now that my son is back, I have to talk to my son about this.
Just now, Prefect Kong in Beihai is encountering the Yellow Turbans. If my son goes to rescue the siege and lends some strength to Prefect Kong, it can be regarded as a return gift.
We can’t take other people’s things for nothing.”
Hearing his mother say this, Taishi Ci said: "This is the truth, what my mother said is right.
I’ll go to Duchang City now.”
As he said that, he went to get ready and looked like he was going to set off immediately.
The loving mother began to quickly prepare dry food here.
He said to Tai Shici: "My son, it is dangerous to go here. Why don't you take advantage of this moment to gather some companions and go together. It will be safer this way."
Taishi Ci said: "Mom, don't worry, they are just some yellow turban thieves, they can't hurt the child!
Moreover, they had just returned home from outside and were reuniting with their families, so it would not be good to call them away.
It was our family that Governor Kong came to visit, not theirs.
We can’t drag them with us this time.”
After hearing what Taishi Ci said, the loving mother stopped talking.
Before noon, the loving mother had already prepared the dry food and packed it for Taishi Ci.
Taishi Ci faced his mother, knelt down and said goodbye, then stood up and led his horse away.
Taishi Ci's mother made it to the outside of the village before she stopped and stood there, watching Taishi Ci leave.
Watching her son leave, Taishi Ci's mother felt both deep appreciation and worry in her heart.
My son is doing this alone. As a mother, is there any reason not to worry?
But sometimes, there are some things that you don’t need to do just because you are worried...
…
Here in Duchang City, the atmosphere in the city is already very tense.
Because since the morning, the Yellow Turban Army has been arriving one after another.
There are also some Yellow Turban troops trying to attack the city.
Although they were not captured, the people in the city were still frightened...
People are panicked.
But Kong Rong still led people to read the classics there.
But now, the place where the classics are read has changed, from the city wall to the city.
These people who only read the books of sages are also worried that when they attack the city, there will be stray arrows and the like that will kill them.
Their lives are precious and it would be such a loss to die like this.
Of course, when they went down, it was not that they were worried, but that they went down from the city wall in order not to interfere with the soldiers fighting the thieves...
It was at this time that Taishi Ci came on horseback with a gun...
