Liu Bei left Guantao as if fleeing. When the galloping horse reached the end of the official road, the people of Guantao who were still standing at the city gate and looking at them could no longer be seen. Liu Bei then reined in the galloping horse and said with a wry smile to Guan Zhangchen: "I didn't expect that I
It’s so famous in Jizhou.”
Guan Yu smiled and said: "My eldest brother is famous all over Jizhou because he generously donated money to help the people. This is what fame comes from."
Chen Mu said with a smile: "This shows that the eldest brother's benevolence and righteousness have moved the people of Jizhou. As long as we use the name of eldest brother along the way, I'm afraid we won't have to worry about anything when eating or sleeping."
Zhang Fei's eyes widened: "Then we don't have to spend money along the way, and we can drink whatever we want."
"Hey, Yide."
Liu Bei rolled his eyes at Zhang Fei: "The people in Jizhou are suffering now, how can we accept the people's gifts for nothing? This is no different from the eunuchs who plunder the people's fat and anointing. From now on, when you go to various counties and counties, don't mention my name again, just
Just call me brother, don't let the people hear you."
"I don't want anything given for free..."
Zhang Fei muttered.
Chen Mu smiled and said nothing.
The fact that the late Han Dynasty reached this stage has a lot to do with Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling committing suicide.
Historian Mr. Qian Mu once said that the heroes of the separatist regime at the end of the Han Dynasty were actually celebrities from all over the world who were loyal to the Han Dynasty.
The main culprits who pushed these celebrities to split the Han Dynasty were the two generations of emperors, Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han.
In terms of integrity and moral character, the party members of the Eastern Han Dynasty were more than a hundred times stronger than the Donglin party in the late Ming Dynasty, because the party members really sympathized with the Han Dynasty, devoted themselves wholeheartedly, and made contributions to the country and the people.
For example, the three monarchs and eight heroes are all moral models. In addition to Duan Xi's poor character in Liangzhou Sanming, Zhang Huan and Huangfu Gui were also good partners of the party members. Although Zhang Huan was in danger in his later years and was deceived by the eunuch.
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However, no matter what, the members of the Eastern Han Dynasty had almost no black spots in terms of their deeds and moral character. Some people say that they were also representatives of the family bureaucratic interest group, but the family interest group had not yet been fully born at that time, so there is no way to say this.
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Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling suppressed the party and killed party members several times, which caused the scholars at that time to feel disheartened towards the Han Dynasty. As early as twenty years ago, there was a saying that "the world is in chaos and the Han family will perish."
Even this argument gradually became the mainstream concept among scholars.
After directly or indirectly causing Dong Zhuo's rebellion, scholars began to start their own businesses and segregate local areas, or they served as counselors to assist others in starting their own businesses.
Twenty years have passed like this, and now most of the scholars have lost the loyalty to the Han Dynasty that they had decades ago. They have become selfish, no longer thinking about serving the country, and focusing on developing their own families.
This is the origin of the clan system in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it is also the main reason why a clan like Wang Yun was born.
Because the scholars abandoned the big country and began to pursue their own personal interests.
Although Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty later lifted the party ban and issued an imperial edict in the sixth year of Xiping (AD 177), punishing corrupt officials in large numbers, reducing or exempting taxes from all over the world, and requiring ministers to state their strategies for governing the country, it was considered a short period of time.
A little bit of a wise man.
But I don’t know whether it was due to the lack of tax revenue or because the eunuchs were quickly instigated to enjoy themselves. Within two years, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty began to plunder private wealth, which was exactly the same as Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, and even worsened.
As a result, the scholars were completely desperate and had no hope for the Han Dynasty. In the mainstream thinking, there was the idea that hope for the country and the country would be dashed.
This is why Liu Bei has obviously taken over Xuzhou and became a state herder, with territory, soldiers and food, but no one defected to him.
Because Liu Bei was fighting against the Han clan clan and in the name of supporting the Han clan, if he continued like this, even if Liu Bei took over the throne, it would actually end up being a new Eastern Han Dynasty, no different from before.
The scholars had already despaired of the Han Dynasty, and naturally they did not want another Emperor Guangwu to continue the reign of Han Zuo.
So in the beginning, Liu Bei's title as a clan member of the Han Dynasty could not bring him any benefits, and even hindered him a lot.
This time Liu Bei was in Jinan to recruit local celebrities. Except for Jushou, there were only a few people working for him. Liu Biao was in Jingzhou, Liu Yan was in Yizhou, and Liu Yu was in Youzhou. None of the three of them achieved anything famous, even Liu
Yu was also killed by Gongsun Zan, so you can imagine how weak the appeal of the Han Dynasty was later.
Therefore, Chen Mu, who was well aware of the whole story, had no idea of recruiting talents on a large scale. Instead, he began to develop the middle and lower classes, treat the people well, and gain Liu Bei's reputation among the people and heroes.
In fact, Liu Bei did the same thing in history. Chen Mu just brought this process one step ahead.
Water can carry a boat and also capsize it. This world is ultimately the world of the people.
Liu, Guan, Zhang and Chen continued their journey north.
The northern wind swept across, like countless ghosts weeping.
Now that the Yellow Turban Rebellion has barely been put down, Jizhou seems to have become empty overnight, with hundreds of miles of deserted areas, new graves everywhere, and white cloth hanging on the roadside.
The snow in early winter covered the whole area, and the earth was white, covering all the blood and tears in the soil.
Now Huangfu Song was transferred to Chang'an, and Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, took over. After Wang Fen took office, he allocated the disaster relief funds given to him by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to help the victims in various places in Jizhou, barely allowing the people to survive this winter.
Although the major chaos subsided, the minor chaos did not stop. On the North China Plain east of the Taihang Mountains, there are countless bandits hiding in the hills, countryside, swamps, and lakes.
The four of them, Liu Guan, Zhang Chen and others, were attacked by several groups of bandits as they went north. It was only with the bravery of Liu Guan, Zhang and Chen that they were able to escape the danger.
However, because it is difficult to produce large-scale bandits in the North China Plain, Zhang Jiao's remaining forces had to hide in the Taihang Mountains. They were named the Black Mountain Army and gathered more than 100,000 people. For the time being, there was no war with the imperial court.
The thieves on the plains are basically just a small number of people who really can't survive, who gather together to plunder. They range from dozens to hundreds. They don't even have the weapons, and they have no fighting power.
When Liu Bei encounters a small group of dozens of people, he can repel them with the bravery of Guan Zhang. If he encounters hundreds of people, he goes to the local county town to find the government and asks for troops, then turns back and defeats them.
With his current prestige in Jizhou, it can be said that if he stood in the middle of the county and raised his arms, half of the people in the county would obey his orders.
On the contrary, when more bandits heard his name, they immediately bowed to him and wanted to follow him as his followers.
That's what fame brings.
It's just that Liu Bei is not in Jinan now, nor is he marching to fight, so he can't bring so many people with him. When he meets people who want to join him, he distributes travel expenses and lets them go to Jinan, and they will be settled when he returns to Jinan next year.
In this way, a group of four people went to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures. By the time they arrived at Zhongshan Kingdom in the north of Jizhou from Yangping County in the south of Jizhou, not only had all the money brought by Liu Guan and Zhang been exhausted, but they had also persuaded thousands of people to surrender to Jinan.
This was something Chen Mu couldn't help but laugh at, and had never thought of.
Seven or eight days later, Zhongshan Kingdom.
On the official road from Lunu County to Wangdu, four horses moved forward slowly. After the snow melted, a wild grass that had not yet completely withered eagerly emerged from the soil, sucking in the fresh air. After being crushed into the soil by the horses' hooves,
He slowly straightened his waist and faced the sky tenaciously.
Chen Mu lowered his head and sat on the horse. The bumpy horse was unstable, but he seemed to be asleep, with his eyes closed and motionless, quietly listening to the gentle whistle of the east wind blowing in his ears.
The fox fur coat on my body has experienced wind and frost, and the snow-like color has become much duller.
"Fourth brother, we are going to Wangdu soon. After Wangdu, we will reach Puyin. Your father and mother must be missing you."
Liu Bei patted Chen Mu on the shoulder and said slightly excitedly.
Traveling for seven or eight consecutive days with all the dust is really mentally exhausting.
But being home soon can cheer you up.
When we arrived at Puyin, we were not far from Zhuoxian County.
Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were particularly excited.
Going back now will be a true return home in fine clothes, which will definitely make the locals praise you.
"Fourth brother, cheer up, my aunt and uncle are still waiting for you at home."
Guan Yu saw that Chen Mu was not in a good mental state because he was on the road every day, so he cheered for him.
Chen Mu drooped his eyelids, as if he had just woken up, his sluggish thinking gradually became more active, and his eyes became more alive.
My father and mother?
Vaguely, I seem to be reminded of that honest father who always squatted at the door and looked at the fields across the door in a daze, unable to beat a fart with a stick.
There is also the mother who is always full of energy. She can stand at the door and scold the neighbor's aunt all afternoon just because the neighbor's sheep ate a leaf of her own bean sprouts.
"Yes, my Ye Ye and mother are still at home."
Chen Mu seemed to come to life in an instant, the tired energy and energy he had just been swept away, and his eyes became very bright.
Liu Bei asked with a smile: "I wonder how wise and wise you are to be able to cultivate a genius like Zi Gui. Compared to him, he is also a man who has read a lot of poetry and books."
My father reads poetry and books?
That honest old farmer?
Chen Mu's eyes gradually became blurred, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
As a child who grew up in a high-rise building and was born into a wealthy family, Chen Mu had never been exposed to such a strong local flavor in his childhood.
The bookish temperament and calm personality that he brought with him through time travel always made him seem to be disconnected from his peasant family in the Han Dynasty.
This is a kind of incompatibility that has not been cultivated by living together, and it is also a kind of alienation and strangeness that is born without years of nurturing.
So at the beginning, Chen Mu only respected them on the surface, but was very resistant in his heart and unwilling to acknowledge them.
It's like your parents who have lived with you for more than 20 years are suddenly told that they are not your biological parents, and now your biological parents want to take you back.
In Chen Mu's view, even if your native family is rich, they did not abandon you more than 20 years ago, but you were kidnapped. Now they want to use money to make up for you, but as long as you are a wealthy person,
Emotional people will definitely resist.
People who treat their time-traveling parents as their biological parents after time-traveling are either mentally ill or truly indifferent to feelings.
Humans are not animals, humans have their own emotions.
Chen Mu came to this world to be selfish, just because there was no one he could care about. All he cared about was himself.
But in another world, he still has his concerns in his heart.
As for the parents in this life...
The smile in Chen Mu's eyes became even stronger.
Indeed, he didn't admit it at first and didn't like them very much.
But unconsciously, there were some changes.
Anyway, I still remember that when I was leaving at the end of last year, my mother was crying and unwilling to give up. Although my father was squatting at the door, silent.
They are Chen Ping's descendants, but they can't give Chen Mu any help.
They have no money and no power.
They are just ordinary farmers who have spent their whole lives fighting over trivial matters.
But they seem to treat themselves very well.
It was a cloudy day when he left, and his mother's face was as cold as the weather outside. She was angry with him and ignored him.
But in the end, when he packed his bags and was about to leave, he killed the only hen in the house that laid eggs. His eyes were swollen from crying, and he was afraid that his tears would fall into the chicken soup. He raised his head and stretched out his hand to take out the pot of chicken.
The greedy younger brother and sister tried to steal some food, but she beat them away with a broom.
His father came out and gave him two miles away. It was winter like it is now, and it was still very cold in the north. The man's thin body was shivering. Before leaving, he blew his nose, took off his shoes, and buckled the ropes from the soles.
He took out more than ten yuan.
It was private money that he had saved and hid all his life, and it still had some smell on it. He didn't know how he hid it, but the man was not afraid of panicking and pushed it all to Chen Mu.
When he came out, his mother gave him dozens of coins, and his father also gave him more than ten coins. When he left his hometown of Puyin County, he discovered that he still had dozens of coins in his backpack.
More than a hundred five-baht coins, this is all they can give.
From that moment on, Chen Mu was thinking about it.
Maybe the joys and sorrows between people are not the same, but the love parents give to their children must be the same.
It has been some years since I came to the Han Dynasty. My parents in that life, I miss you.