Chapter 474 Written about Spring and Autumn Theory and Dream of Spring and Autumn
While the troops at Erlong Mountain were cleaning up the battlefield, Shi Jin, Chen Da, and Yang Chun escorted Haransheng, who they had captured alive, while Xu Ning and Jiao Ting escorted Sha Zhiren to deliver orders to Xiao Tang.
Haransheng, who had his right arm chopped off by Shi Jin, was strong. Now he had woken up. As soon as he saw Xiao Tang and other leaders of Erlong Mountain, he yelled: "You robbers! My brother was killed by you." These beasts have harmed me, and I don’t intend to survive! Just kill me quickly. Even if I, Haransheng, die, I will turn into a ghost and seek your life!"
After hearing this, Shi Jin said angrily: "We brothers have no grievances against you militiamen and villagers in the past, and we have no enmity recently, and we have never harmed the people in your village! It's you guys who insist on helping those dog officials, how dare you! Why are you here to provoke us! But not to stroke the tiger's beard?"
Yang Zhi also pointed at Harlanson and cursed: "You guys, how can you be so straight? But you are so bold, you specially lure officers and soldiers to make money from us. In the final analysis, is it not for fame and wealth? Now it's your incompetence. , but you still dare to behave in front of us!"
Haransheng's eyes were full of resentment. He stared hard at Shi Jin, Yang Zhi and others, and cursed in a hissing voice: "You are thieves who betray the country and bandits who fight against the imperial court! Why can't I help Shangguan?" Kill you bandits and show your loyalty to the officials? Even if I am going to die in your hands, you rebellious thieves will sooner or later be taken away by the government and cut into pieces to pay for the sins of you bandits!"
Although Haransheng kept cursing, Sha Zhiren, who was kneeling beside him, was already pale with fear. He could not figure out why the green forest grass bandits could build such dangerous weapons, including divine arm bows, sling cannons, etc. A sharp weapon for military expeditions. In the battle just now, Sha Zhiren could personally feel that the troops under the leader of this group of strong men were far more powerful than most of the imperial troops guarding the prefecture!
Sha Zhiren knew that they had not lost this battle unjustly, but if he had known that these two bandits were so fierce, he would never have been willing to follow the Ha brothers and others to provoke these untouchable beasts!
Xiao Tang looked coldly at the glaring and scolding Haransheng and the shaking Sha Zhiren for a moment, then said coldly: "You guys came to provoke us first. Since you are asking for your own death, I I’ll help you too. Come on, pull these two donkeys down and chop them down!”
Sha Zhiren was so frightened that his whole body trembled, but Bao Xu, the god of mourning, had already jumped out and stretched out his skinny hands to grab Haransheng, and Sha Zhiren's hair buns were pulled back!
The heavy sword slashed hard, and Harlanson, who had been cursing a moment ago, could no longer utter a word. When the bloody human skull rolled to the side, he was stunned with fear. Sha Zhiren came to his senses, and then begged for mercy loudly like a pig: "All heroes, spare your life! As long as you can spare the villain from death, you are doing nothing..."
The miserable howl suddenly stopped again, and Sha Zhiren was also beheaded by Bao Xu! Xiao Tang looked at the two headless corpses lying in a pool of blood, and ordered his men to leave the two dead bodies in the wilderness. Although Xiao Tang Tang intended to recruit as many capable people as possible who could work together to achieve great things, but he had never tried to recruit these so-called gangsters.
Not only because that wave of characters seem destined to be mortal enemies with the heroes of Water Margin, whether through the descriptions in Water Margin or the records in official history, Xiao Tang can always roughly figure out the temperament and behavior of the characters in Water Margin and official history. However, except for a few extremely hypocritical and pretentious people and a female devil who is addicted to murder, those who advocate the eradication of grass bandits and peace in the world are just a group of people with twisted personalities or stereotyped images. In addition to various reasons, Apart from even hating the strong men in Water Margin for no reason, Xiao Tang had no idea what those guys were thinking. How could he safely keep these characters by his side?
Of course, another reason is that the gangsters also represent a group. This group of people will flaunt their benevolence and morality by insisting on a few points, using harsh words or even extreme means to suppress those who disagree with them. That book ends the same way, ignoring all truth and objective factors.
The Water Margin was written because the rule was becoming increasingly bewildered. It describes the lives of all kinds of people in society under the social background of that time. Therefore, reading it will make people understand why some people in that era could not live and work in peace and contentment, and why they fell into poverty. They risked their lives to fight against the imperial court. However, some people kept advocating their justice, but they were never able to change anything, and they could not make people understand anything.
For those people, Xiao Tang would only feel disgusted.
After this battle, Li Zhong and Zhou Tong worked together to kill Huang Kui, Lu Zhishen struck Xie De to death with a stick, Zhu Jing beheaded Ha Yunsheng, and generals Li Feibao, Lou Xiong, Mian Yixin and others were also killed by Ling Zhen. Under the bombardment of artillery, Dong Ping and Sun Li each led their own troops to retreat back to Yunzhou and Dengzhou... Now only Yun Tianbiao was left. Hearing the report from Qingqi Detective Ma, he had already led his troops to be in trouble. He fled and rushed to Zichuan County to camp.
Lu Zhishen came to Xiao Tang at this time and said loudly: "Now is a good time to strike while the water and mud are hot and the iron is hot! Since Yuntianbiao came first to cause trouble, we can't let him escape so easily. ! It is said that when the Western Army was defeated, the army commander was not as good as Yang Keshi, Liu Fa and other ministers. Although they were somewhat capable, they could not overwhelm the brave men in the Western Army.
Mr. Lao Zhongjinglue initially intended to cultivate him, but the guy found it hard and dangerous to live in the border areas. He went behind Lao Zhonggonglue's back to establish a relationship, and then he was transferred to this Jingdong East Road. It was like this kind of picky bird who disliked the difficulty of pursuing profit. , the Sa family didn’t go looking for him, but this guy dared to tease us!”
At this time, Zhu Wu also rode up. After listening to Lu Zhishen's scolding, he showed disdain and said: "Yun Tianbiao? Hehe... That guy has suffered a new defeat this time. It’s a scandal that makes people laugh.”
Xiao Tang was surprised and asked Zhu Wu: "Brother Zhu Wu, how come you also know Yun Tianbiao's name?"
Zhu Wu was a strongman leader who was stationed on the Yongxing Army Road in the northwest of the Song Dynasty. He also liked to study military books and deduce formations, so he had heard some anecdotes about the Western Army. He said: "Brother, I have something." I don’t know, but when I was walking on the Yongxing Military Road, before I went to Shaohua Mountain with Chen Da and Yang Chun brothers, I heard that Yuntian Biao in the Western Army was a pretentious man who was good at fishing for fame.
During the Jinghu period, Mr. Sun Taishan, the 49th generation of Sun Wu, once wrote "Spring and Autumn King Fa Wei" to discuss the Spring and Autumn Period of the pre-Qin Dynasty. However, Yuntian Biao felt that the previous book did not reflect the saint's intention of being honest and kind to others, so he changed the number in each volume. Okay, he added a few words and claimed that the "Spring and Autumn Theory" was written by him. Not only did the fellow give lectures to the officers under him all day long, but he also said that Wu Erlang had heard him talk about the Spring and Autumn Theory, and many of them suddenly had sudden enlightenment. He couldn't stop crying. He also sent people to compile the records, edit them and bind them, and presented them to civil and military officials everywhere. I heard that they would also open up the joints and hand them over to Zhao Guan's family to present them to the royal family to praise the peace in the world and the peace between the government and the public... .. I don’t think I need to tell you more about Yuntian Biao’s character, right?”
After hearing this, Xiao Tang couldn't help shaking his head and laughing. He also remembered that Yun Tianbiao had indeed committed these acts. It was not enough for Yun Tianbiao to pretend to be Guan Gong. He even copied the works written by celebrities from the previous dynasty on the Spring and Autumn Period, took them and added a few strokes and said
I wrote it myself. This kind of behavior is not only greedy for fame, it can also be said to be shameless.
What's more, these actions of Yun Tianbiao also have a strong purpose. Although the civil servants in the court who are really well-read in poetry and books may not fail to see his intentions of sensationalizing, but just like a certain era in China in later generations, you just
If you need to shout slogans loudly and express your determination to be loyal to the emperor and the country, you will naturally be promoted more easily than those generals in the army who only know how to fight for their lives.
Although Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang both imitated Guan Yu, Guan Sheng had quite a bit of the attitude of his ancestors who were arrogant and could not bear to be inferior. Otherwise, he would not have been able to serve in the Pudong Inspection Department even though he was familiar with military books and proficient in martial arts.
An officer has always been subordinated to his subordinates. Through his contact with Guan Sheng back then, Xiao Tang never felt that Guan Sheng was deliberately pretentious, nor would he show off in any way. On the other hand, Yun Tianbiao only learned from Guan Gong, but in fact, to a discerning person,
Come on, he is no different from a clown.
What's more, Xiao Tang also had doubts about whether Mr. Zhong Jinglue would always reuse Yun Tianbiao. Who did Zhong Shidao learn from? It was Zhang Zai, one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Before being admitted to the Yuanyou Party by Cai Jing, Zhong Shidao, who had studied the scriptures several times, had served as a civil servant who could manage the Qing Dynasty. How could Lao Zhong not guess what Yun Tianbiao was thinking about Yun Tianbiao's hypocritical behavior?
For this kind of thing, it is really necessary to destroy his prestige...
Xiao Tang smiled coldly and said: "Although it is not appropriate for our army to openly break the city of the state capital now, since Yuntianbiao has had a big dream in the Spring and Autumn Period, he should really beat him... It's not just him, Qingzhou
Then Murong Yanda, it’s time to deal with that guy.”