Three Kingdoms

In Chang'an City, the lobby of General Hussar's mansion.

The dull atmosphere was like an invisible heavy stone, weighing down the bones in the necks of Wei Duansinpi and Wei Duansinpi as if they were creaking, as if they were rusty. Even simple movements like turning their heads and raising their heads were difficult.

Not only that, but even some local officials in Chang'an, such as Du Ji and Li Yuan, lowered their heads and did not dare to meet Fei Qian's eyes.

Last night on the outskirts of Chang'an, gangsters attacked a manor. Although Youqi also rushed to the scene after receiving the alarm, the damage had already been done. Some of the remaining gangsters were killed, while others who left early could not be caught up for a while. After interrogation, it was found that these gangsters were actually the Weinan Rangers who had been expelled and captured near Chang'an some time ago...

So, at midnight in the morning, when the matter was discussed, Wei Duan and Xin Pi apologized together.

The two of them are mainly responsible for this matter. If there is a problem, they will naturally apologize together.

It was okay, there was no blame-shifting, but according to the intelligence of Wei Duan and Xin Pi, they should not have made such a low-level court mistake. When a problem arises, the first thing to do is the attitude towards the problem. If the attitude is not correct and you still talk about it, Fei Qian doesn't mind letting these two people see which flower is the most popular.

In fact, it is not surprising that there was a riot by the so-called "Ranger" last night. These "Ranger" have been used to the life of big fish and meat, used to the days when a hundred gold comes today and a hundred gold is gone tomorrow. It is really not something that these people can get used to if they are asked to return to a normal life. . Just like those who sell their bodies for money, they say they can become good people once they make enough money. Is that so easy?

Don't get me wrong, it doesn't just refer to women, but to both men and women.

After all, the oldest professions of mankind are killers and maids.

These "Rangers" who have become accustomed to licking blood from their swords and are unwilling to join the army and fight on the battlefield. Since they are unwilling to return to normal life, there is no need to return.

Fei Qian suppressed his anger. To be honest, he didn't have high hopes for these Han noble officials, but he didn't expect that this problem was more serious than he originally thought.

In other words, this is not entirely a problem of the officials and descendants of the gentry, but a problem of the entire social structure.

Did Fei Qian give any orders? Did he give orders three times and five times?

some.

Did Wei Duansinpi vigorously suppress and arrest people, and did he do his best?

It's basically there.

But this situation is like those no-man's-land in later generations. Within those areas, law belongs to law, sin belongs to sin, and favor belongs to favor. It seems that they can all exist independently and have nothing to do with each other.

In this era, the most serious problem is that the people at the lowest level cannot hear the voice of the court, and it is difficult for them to be exposed to the changes in the court. Take what Huang Yueying said to comfort Fei Qian yesterday. Those who benefited are ordinary people and women near Kyoto in Chang'an. As for more remote places, such as Hanzhong and even Longxi, the changes have not actually been very big.

After all, there is the Qinglong Temple Forum this year, and many people are voluntarily engaged in the business of the Qinglong Temple Forum. Naturally, more workers are needed, which naturally reduces the number of people who freeze to death due to lack of income and warmth.

Feiqian has implemented many new policies at present. The most important one and the one most directly related to ordinary people and women is the new land policy.

However, this Jue Tian system currently has the greatest impact on those who participated in the Feiqian group. There are other soldiers who have obtained military honors or sacrificed their lives. Their families have understood in the shortest time. What is the "Grand Land System", and for people who have been farming on the same field for generations since their grandfather's grandfather, the biggest thing they understand is whether the tax they have to pay every year is more or less... …

This is the shortcoming of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the shortcoming of the entire era.

In the first year because of the "Grand Land System", the civilians who got benefits were naturally inexplicably excited. Then a lot of civilians who had not joined the army and had no military merit rose up to make trouble, saying why they did not get the land rent and tax exemption. Was it because they were cavalry? The general is too farsighted...

The next year, those newly joined the army and the civilian husbands who had received exemptions and exemptions due to the newly added "noble land system" were happy, but the first batch of civilians who had received exemptions and exemptions began to be unhappy again. They felt that they had obviously been earlier, so why are they still there now? Enjoy the same standards as these new guys? Shouldn't it be better?

In the third year, some people came to ask, why are there no new reductions and exemptions? When will there be new reductions and exemptions?

There are people who feel that following the hussar general will lead to a bright future and they will definitely get better and better. Naturally, there are also people who feel that everything has nothing to do with them and only care about whether there are two more grains of rice in their own rice bowl.

There are many people who are willing to follow the Hussars General, but there are also many people who are numb, selfish, and only care about themselves, even more than the previous part.

Of course these people have feelings for the big man, but they have more feelings for their own families...

The Han Dynasty or the future of the country were far away from them, but the trivial things of the folks in the countryside were very close to them.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty, and even later generations, did not post a notice on the crossroads and the whole world would know about it... This kind of situation is only suitable for games.

These people, who have not yet kept up with the pace, are still more or less inclined to cover up and conceal the three auxiliary rangers who have existed for a long time. After all, the Han Dynasty has been implementing the law of "protecting each other dearly" for three to four hundred years. In many more remote places, in the minds of the people, it is not a wrong thing for them to cover or even deceive the officials for these rangers, but a legitimate and natural thing.

They are all fellow villagers, and they all grew up seeing naked buttocks. If you don’t help when something happens, why don’t you go and help outsiders? If he really wanted to sell these people out like this, how could he have the dignity to say hello to the villagers?

Therefore, Wei Duanxinpi was able to clean up and arrest people in Chang'an City, and it was effective, but once he arrived outside the city, or in areas further away, it was inevitable that he would have no use for his strength...

There is a way to deal with the shortcomings that the Han Dynasty has accumulated for three to four hundred years. Even wise men like Pang Tong and Xun You may not have any particularly good ideas. After all, the words "historical limitations" are not simple. The ground strokes are pieced together.

"Someone is coming!" Taoist priest Chuanyun is here. 』

Fei Qian broke the silence and glanced at Wei Duan and Xin Pi, who were prostrating themselves in the hall to plead guilty. "You two, please get up and take your seats first..."

"Thank you, Lord." 』

"Thank you Qiusi." 』

After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other and then slowly retreated to their seats.

"Taoist Master Yun?" "Whether it was Wei Duan or Xin Pi, they all had the same doubt in their minds. For this kind of thing, instead of asking Xu Huang to send troops to arrest him, and not letting Pang Tong track down the officials, he asked Yun Yi first?

What's the use?

However, Wei Duan and Xin Pi naturally would not say it stupidly, but lowered their heads and waited quietly.

Pang Tong on the side had a wrinkled black face.

Xun You still looked as calm as water.

As for Du Ji, Wang Chang and others who were further outside, they were basically silent, waiting for Fei Qian to reveal the answer to the mystery.

In the experience of later generations, how do we deal with problems like this?

Of course, it is to mobilize the masses to mobilize the masses...

So how to mobilize the masses? Of course, let's not say anything, just post a notice on the crossroads like before, and then send two people to read it, that's it. Such a move has proven that it can only work in cities and towns at most, but it is basically incapable of being passed on to wider villages.

Since the information transmission through the use of officials is not smooth in this aspect, then we need to find another way.

...???? ???? …

Wei Duan and Xin Pi, with some men, watched from a distance as Yun Yi and a group of Taoist priests were busy on the grain drying field at the entrance of the village, and then looked at each other again.

Does General Hussar’s method really work?

At first, the people in the village watched from afar in fear, not daring to come forward to watch.

The village where the accident happened is not very far away from Zhuangzi. Last night, there were first flames and loud noises, and then the cavalry's iron hooves crashed past. Early this morning, Cao's soldiers came to inquire about the situation, which made people panic. …

Now another group of Taoist priests have arrived. What are they going to do?

Yun Yi and his subordinate Taoist priests are quite skillful in setting up the arrangements. After all, they have held many rituals in the vicinity of Chang'an, but they have not yet gone to the relatively remote villages like now.

The people in the village watched in surprise and fear as these Taoist priests were busy, watching the poles stand up, and then the magic weapons were placed one after another, with the twisted runes on them. They look so mysterious and authoritative, and there are also some masked guys wearing colorful clothes, made of red silk soap, and holding large spears in their hands. It seems like they are about to perform a Nuo dance?

Oh, this is interesting...

The villagers looked at Wei Duan, Xin Pi and others who were standing in the distance. Seeing that they seemed to have no intention of coming forward, they looked at me and you. Then their curiosity gradually grew and they braved their courage to move slowly. Slowly began to gather on the grain drying field.

Da Nuo was mainly born in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It was inherited from the witchcraft of China. Its main purpose at the beginning was to "drive away plagues". It is said that there are a total of twelve kinds of plagues in the world, such as ghost tigers, drought demons, and ominous plagues. , death, parasitism, etc. Normally, the entire Nuo process uses dance to represent the beginning of the plague, and then the suffering in the world. The mythical beasts go out to drive away the plague, and then achieve peace for humans and animals.

However, this time in Da Nuo, it was not the mythical beasts sent out to drive away the plague, but Taoist priests.

When the Taoist priests began to appear in the "plague-ridden" grain drying field with neat and orderly movements and words, they then splashed talisman water around, danced with peach arcs and thorn arrows, and scattered the monsters representing the plague. Running away, waving earthen drums and big traps, which represented the eradication of the plague from the world, and finally splashing red pills and grains, which represented a good harvest and antidote, into the crowd, the people in the village suddenly burst into joy and rushed to grab the goods. Small bags of Akamaru and grains...

Amidst the sound of drums and trumpets, Yun Yi slowly stood on the simple wooden platform wearing a gold embroidered soap Bagua Taoist robe. He looked like an immortal and immediately stunned the whole audience.

What should I say?

People need clothes, Buddha needs gold bricks, uh, gold clothes. Although this sentence is tacky, it also makes sense. At least these villagers saw Yun Yi appear, and the expressions on their faces seemed to be more respectful than those of Wei Duansinpi's men...

Respect and fear are two completely different emotions.

This difference naturally made both Wei Duan and Xin Pi think a little...

Yun Yi first skillfully preached some new Taoist theories, and asked his Taoist priests to perform some magical powers. Although it was not a frying pan, the runes could spontaneously ignite without fire, and the runes could make evil spirits appear. The old routine is still very effective, causing the villagers to gasp and become more and more awed.

Well, these so-called supernatural powers had actually appeared during the time of the three Zhang brothers, and they were not the creation of Yun Yi or Fei Qian.

Then, Yun Yi showed a gesture of compassion. He watched the sky at night and knew that there would be a catastrophe here. The surge of blood would lead to the destruction of all living beings and the death of both humans and animals. He also reported it to General Hussar, who took pity on the people. , specially ordered him to come here to resolve this...

"Is there a bloody disaster in this place?" ! 』

"Isn't it? What was yesterday... wasn't it a bloody disaster? 』

"I heard people say that a lot of people died last night. Poor the mistress of the Wang family at the end of the village, isn't she dead... His mother has been crying all night. When I passed by, it was really uncomfortable to hear..."

"It's so pitiful..."

"Speaking of which, what Ergouzi did this time was really unethical..."

"Shh, be quieter..."

The villagers talked a lot.

Seeing that it was almost done, Yun Yi declared that the ghost of the plague was now extremely cunning and had possessed the human body. He was a human during the day and a ghost at night. His music remained the same on weekdays, but he secretly ate human flesh and blood! The story was vivid, and he even took out a few skulls, thigh bones, etc., and said sadly that this was one of his comrades, but he was deceived by the humanoid plague ghost, and was eaten until his flesh and blood was gone, and his liver and intestines were gone. There are only a few bones left, and the evil spirits of the plague will take advantage of them, and there will be no peace forever...

Yun Yi spoke sadly, and even shed tears, which made the villagers in the audience couldn't help but sigh together. Some villagers also shouted and cursed these evil spirits with righteous indignation.

Seeing this, Xinpi couldn't help but cover his face with his sleeves and coughed twice.

Wei Duan also turned his face to the side...

Others may not know it yet, but will Wei Duan and Xin Pi who came with Yun Yi not know it? The skull and thigh bones in Yun Yi's hands are real, but they are definitely not those of his "poor comrades". They were picked up by Yun Yi from weeds on the road...

Although the situation has generally stabilized in recent years, many people died in the past few years. There are many jagged bones in places where no one has passed, so you don't have to worry too much to find them.

Suddenly someone among the villagers cried out: "My poor son!" It must have been eaten by Gou Er who was possessed by an evil spirit! Damn it! 』

There was a slight commotion among the villagers, and a space was made. An old woman staggered to the front, threw herself to the ground, kowtowed to Yun Yi and cried: "Please have mercy on the Heavenly Master. I will accept the practice and be possessed by evil spirits." The second-year-old son who is in poor health, please give my third son peace..."

Wei Duan and Xin Pi suddenly realized this, and immediately admired the hussar general's strategy. They waved their hands and led their men forward. Now that we have reached this point, if the Cavalry General has to tell us what to do next, then we might as well find a place to end our lives!

Not long after, Ergou's whereabouts were exposed, and together with many remaining rangers and wanderers hiding in various places, they were strangled to death during the "Removal of Possessed Evil Ghosts" campaign carried out in Guanzhong...