Liu Bei received an order from Lu Zhi in mid-May, asking him to help officials from all over Jizhou to eliminate local Yellow Turban forces so that these officials could go to their posts safely.
During the month from mid-May to mid-June, Liu Bei traveled through counties and gave alms everywhere in Julu and Anping counties.
However, Jizhou has a population of six to seven million, and Anping Julu County has a population of more than 1.2 million.
After excluding the powerful families who died from the war and plague and did not need help, as well as the people who participated in the Yellow Turbans, the remaining 700,000 to 800,000 people were more than enough.
Even if you remove most of the people who have clan support, there are still two to three hundred thousand homeless refugees.
If you want to help such a huge population, even if you have money and money, it is impossible to do it.
When Cao Cao massacred Xuzhou, he killed hundreds of thousands of Jianghuai refugees at one time, until the Jianghuai area was completely empty and the people were eating each other.
Because Cao Cao himself couldn't afford to feed so many people, he simply killed them all. It can be seen that the population of one county was quite large. To feed so many people, tens of thousands of tons of grain and grass were consumed every day.
Liu Bei's tens of millions of properties can be said to be a drop in the bucket, and they were all spent in less than a month. Even if he attacks the city and drives out the Yellow Turbans, he will not gain much.
However, the money was not completely meaningless. While Liu Bei gave away food, he also helped tens of thousands of people return to their hometowns and resettle their fields.
In addition, by the beginning of June, the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou had been barely pacified. The large Yellow Turban troops were trapped in Guangzong Julu and other places, while there were very few small-scale troops in other areas. They were slowly cleared out, and the people were finally cleared.
You can continue to recuperate.
By the middle of June, Liu Bei helped Anping Prime Minister Li Xie pacify the Anping Kingdom, and when he returned south to Guangzong to return to Lu Zhi, his army was already huge, with more than 15,000 troops, more than when he set out.
Twice.
If Chen Mu were here, he would definitely have mixed feelings. On the one hand, he could not convince Liu Bei to give up "benevolence and righteousness", and on the other hand, he would feel sorry for the tens of millions of money he spent.
All that money was Zhang Fei's family property and the family fortune he had accumulated through so many hard-fought battles, and it was all squandered by Liu Bei.
It hurts so much that I can't breathe.
The only good news is that Chen Mu doesn't know the news now.
Chen Mu is very busy now.
What are you busy with?
Busy fighting with the Yellow Turban Army.
It turned out that after the sacrifice that day, Chen Mu climbed up to the high platform and pretended to pray to God.
After seeing the situation in the distance, the Yellow Turban soldiers reported to the police.
Bocai and others came out of the camp, built a pergola under the scorching sun and looked towards the city. They saw a two-foot-high platform set up at the city's head, with people wearing Taoist robes dancing swords and performing rituals on it to offer sacrifices to heaven.
Seeing this scene, Bo Cai and others were very puzzled at first, wondering what the officers and soldiers in Changshe City were doing.
Later, when Taoist Huang Lao from the Yellow Turban Army reminded me, I realized that this was an attempt to open an altar.
Taiping Taoism was born out of Huang-Lao Taoism, which was later Taoism.
Zhang Jiao placed Huang Lao Taoist priests in the Yellow Turban Army in various places. These Taoist priests made talisman water for the soldiers to drink on weekdays. When the soldiers encountered war wounds, they deceived them with stories of ghosts and gods. They were considered early psychologists.
There were many Huang Lao Taoist priests in the Bocai Army, and the leader of them was a direct disciple of Zhangjiao Taiping Dao named Gao Feng, who had a very high status in the Bocai Army.
After discovering that there were changes in Changshe City, Bo Cai found Gao Feng and asked about the situation.
"This is a prayer to God."
Gao Feng looked serious.
Bocai wondered: "Didn't the Great Master say that Heaven is dead and Huang Tian should stand?"
"You do not understand."
Gao Feng shook his head and said seriously: "I, Taiping Dao, are the incarnation of Huang Tian in the human world. If I, Taiping Dao, can successfully seize the world, Cang Tian will completely disappear and be replaced by Huang Tian. But now, although Cang Tian is old,
But it still occupies the position of central heaven. This is the period of struggle between the sky and the yellow sky. If the officers and soldiers pray to the sky, the sky will bring disaster, and our army will be in danger."
Of course Chen Mu knew that this was pure nonsense. Huang Tianyi said it came from Zhang Jiao's "Taiping Jing", which actually did not exist in Taoism. However, the Eastern Han Dynasty was the budding period of Taoism, and the Taoist classics at this time had not yet been produced.
, Zhang Jiao can say whatever he wants.
So Chen Mu didn't believe it, but Bo Cai believed it. He was shocked and said: "Master Gao, what's the best way to deal with it?"
Gao Feng said: "There is only one way, that is, we can also open an altar to prevent him from offering sacrifices. If we are lucky, we can still communicate with Huang Tian, like a great sage and mentor, and pray to Huang Tian to bring disaster to the officers and soldiers, so that when the war comes,
It is certain that our army will march straight in and destroy the decaying Han court in one fell swoop."
Bocai was overjoyed: "Then please invite Master Gao to open the forum."
So on the next day, Chen Mu, who continued to perform magic on the city tower, was surprised to see a high platform rising at the entrance of the Yellow Turban Camp across the way, and it was even higher than the high platform under his feet, at least five feet tall.
Banners were hung on both sides of the stage, with the words "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian should stand" on the left and "A year old in Jiazi, the world will be prosperous" on the right.
A Taoist priest stood on the high platform. He was very dedicated under the scorching sun. He imitated Chen Mu and began to swing his sword. The two danced like a master, hundreds of meters apart, as if they were fighting in the air.
At noon, when the morning sacrifices were over, Chen Mu got off the high platform. Zhu Jun came up to meet him and wondered: "What's going on on the other side?"
Chen Mu was confused at first, but after dancing for a while, he almost understood what the other side meant, and explained to Zhu Jun: "There are also experts on the other side. Taiping Dao believes in Huang Tian, and Huang Tian's power should not be underestimated.
If we let the other side block our prayers and take advantage of the east wind this time, we may fail."
"What should we do?"
Zhu Jun frowned.
Chen Mu said with a serious face: "It seems that I can only use the unique skills that my Chen family has been brewing for hundreds of years."
Zhu Jun: "???"
In the afternoon of the same day, two huge yellow talismans were hung on the altar of Changshe City, which were larger than the ones on the other side of the Yellow Turban.
The yellow talisman is made of yellow cloth. Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, yellow cloth was not a taboo, because the dragon robes of the Han Dynasty were black and red, not yellow, so using yellow cloth did not violate the rules.
When the Yellow Turbans saw this situation, they immediately reported it to Bocai, who asked a soldier with excellent eyesight and literacy to come closer and take a look.
Soon the soldiers reported back, saying that the banner on the left said, "The sky is not old, but there is still a strong ambition." The banner on the right said, "The yellow sky is about to stand, but it will never last forever."
This sentence means that Cangtian is not old yet and is still in his prime. If Huang Tian wants to replace him, it will never be possible.
Bo Cai came to Gao Feng again and asked, "Master Gao, what do you mean?"
Gao Feng sneered and said: "The people in Changshe City want to fight with a certain person and use the Heaven Talisman to suppress my Yellow Sky Talisman."
"How should we respond?"
Bocai asked again.
"It doesn't matter, let me prepare something today and then fight him tomorrow."
Gao Feng went back to prepare.
In the afternoon, Zhu Jun saw that the Yellow Turbans did not dare to do it again. He smiled and said, "Chen Zigui's secret technique is indeed unique. It scares the Yellow Turban thieves so much that they dare not come out."
Huangfu Song also came after hearing the news. When he saw this scene, he nodded and said: "It seems that Qu Nihou's family collection of classics for generations is really powerful, and his family's academic background is enviable."
Chen Mu smiled and said: "No matter how deep the origin of family knowledge is, it is not as good as all the truths in the world. I am just fighting back."
The knowledge means in the Han Dynasty were in the hands of noble families, and not all knowledge was in their hands.
Maybe some people don't know how thick a book was before the advent of paper.
The bamboo slips unearthed in the Han Dynasty are divided into large slips and small slips. The large slips can write twenty or thirty characters, and the small slips can write ten to twenty characters. For example, the Zhouyi has more than 5,000 characters, so about 200 characters are needed. There are many large slips and more than 400 small slips.
This is only the Zhouyi. During the Han Dynasty, the "Lianshan Yi" and "Gui Zang Yi" were not lost. The three Yis in total are said to have 90,000 words, which required 3,000-4,000 bamboo slips to complete.
And how much does 3000-4000 bamboo slips weigh?
About ten kilograms.
Dongfang Shuo, the founder of cross talk, used 3,000 bamboo slips to write his self-recommendation letter, which required two people to lift.
Sima Qian wrote "Historical Records" with 520,000 words and used more than 50 kilograms of bamboo slips.
Therefore, the ancients said that learning to become rich in five vehicles should not be thought of as a compliment. It was originally a derogatory term. Because in the era when Zhuangzi said that learning to become rich in five vehicles, there were not many books on five vehicles.
In the Han Dynasty, if a family had a complete Confucian classic, it could be passed down as literature and become the foundation of the family.
"Book of the Later Han·Rulin Zhuan" records that the Yang family of Hongnong was passed down to Ouyang's "Shangshu". The Yuan family of Runan was passed down to Meng's "Book of Changes". The Heng family of Peiguo was passed down to "Shangshu". The Zhen family of Beihai was passed down to "Shangshu". "Gongyang Chunqiu". The Sima family in Hanoi, the "Book of Han" passed down from generation to generation. Not to mention the Kong family in Lu County, the "Analects of Confucius" are all from his family.
Therefore, family learning has been maintained for generations, and it is impossible for outsiders to learn except for disciples within the clan or apprentices accepted by great scholars in the clan. As a result, family learning has gradually become synonymous with mystery. In the late Han Dynasty, there was a strong trend of traveling to study, and the concept of "impermanence of teachers" The purpose of appearing is to break this family-schooling situation.
However, Chen Mu's Puyin Chen family has been ruined, and the classics passed down from the family are only scattered fragments, and there are no secrets. Therefore, the ancestral secrets are purely used in the name of family knowledge to fool Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.
But this kind of deception can really be fooled. After all, outsiders don't know what you learned at home. You can say whatever you want, just by opening your mouth, and you can live or die.
Here in Changshe City, they attacked the altar of the Yellow Turban Camp. The next day, the Yellow Turban Camp started to act like monsters again.
Early in the morning, I saw soldiers coming out carrying two huge iron swords. The iron swords were two feet long and weighed a hundred kilograms.
The kilogram here is the kilogram in the Han Dynasty, which is equivalent to more than ten kilograms in later generations.
After all, the Yellow Turban Army couldn't really get two solid iron weapons, so they were actually wooden swords covered with a layer of iron.
The soldiers hung two swords on the left and right sides of the altar, swinging them sideways, with the sword tips pointed directly at Changshe City.
The soldiers on Changshe City immediately reported to Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song.
The two came and were surprised.
There was no need for Chen Mu to explain this time. They both understood that the other party was cursing Changshe.
The sword is a tool for killing. The tip of the sword is pointed at oneself, and even a fool understands the reason.