Three Kingdoms

August has entered mid-autumn.

After the heat of summer, the weather gradually turned into a chill.

When the golden leaves fall quietly in the wind, who will immediately realize that the severe cold of winter is coming? Just like when the people in Guanzhong are facing a bumper harvest, who would think of the hardships encountered in other areas?

Fei Qian was lazily watching the fallen leaves floating down in the small courtyard. On the table were several reports that came and went...

These things are not urgent, so Fei Qian can deal with them more casually.

Fei Qian also didn't expect that the pill that opened up the local religion in the snowy area was actually the elixir that Fei Qian had been dismissive of before. So when Fei Qian saw this report, he didn't know what to do for a moment. What to say. Pills are not a good thing. This can be testified by the emperors of all dynasties who took pills. In comparison, Buddhism is a bit of a thief. For example, they only told the emperor some things like Happy Zen...

It doesn’t seem right, Buddhism also seems to have elixirs.

Is there any?

No?

Sometimes just thinking about it boringly is also a kind of happiness. After all, with all kinds of things intertwined, it's rare to have some time for Fei Qian's private space, like now.

However, the time of happiness is always short-lived, and more time is spent on various things, which may be troubles, difficulties, or helplessness, they all vary.

Cai Yan officially stood on the stage some time ago, and then attracted a large number of ladies from Guanzhong and Hedong to fight for Zhiyin Prison, as well as some people from Longyou and Hanzhong. Among them, the youngest one selected turned out to be Xin Xianying …

There was a lot of fuss about the matter of Supervisor Zhiyin, and it was very lively, but many people thought it was just a lively event. After all, so many days had passed, and Cai Yan did not say what specific things he would do, unlike Wei who was involved in the Law Academy. Duan was immersed in Han law from the beginning, and the revision of the law on corruption attracted so much attention.

Everyone likes to reap benefits, and perhaps this "who" is used inappropriately, but most of the officials in the Han Dynasty, one by one, there are not many who are dedicated to the public service, dedicate themselves to the cause, and die. Even the deified Brother Zhu suppressed the Sichuan and Sichuan factions and supported the Jingxiang faction. If he really felt a bowl of water in his heart, why would he do this? Leaving Qishan was not only for the sake of the great Han Dynasty, but also with the intention of taking over the military and political power and not letting go.

Take Fei Qian himself as an example, he is also selfish.

So when Wei Duan immediately began to sort out and revise the laws on corruption, the focus of the nobles' children naturally shifted to it. Some people even secretly inquired from left to right, as if they were suddenly opened. The ants in the ant nest on the lid have lost their sense of security and are running around, bumping their tentacles with each other, and exchanging news.

After all the subordinates have been tormented, the leader will be free.

Fei Qian has been relatively leisurely these days, and even had time to take Huang Yueying for a walk around Chang'an City in casual clothes.

Nowadays, Chang'an is naturally full of vitality. A lot of decorations have been left for the general ceremony. They are flaunting in the city, adding a bit of color and joy. The stores on both sides of the street are also full of people coming and going. , and some seemed to be expanding, building bamboo and wood limbs, and workers in twos and threes were busy up and down.

Overall, Feiqian is quite satisfied. Fei Qian could not take care of everyone's life and death, but under Fei Qian's best efforts, Chang'an at least did not become as corrupt as Luoyang...

Prices are generally stable.

Fei Qian took Huang Yueying and bought some small things. Of course, Fei Qian did not go to the very crowded market. He was mainly worried about safety issues. On ordinary streets, the guards could more or less take care of them, but if It is difficult to ensure safety when you are caught in the flow of people.

Huang Yueying seemed very excited. Although she was already a mother of a child, she was still as cute as a crazy girl. She bought this and that, and bought a lot here and there.

Huang Yueying didn't care much about those things, so as soon as she returned to the house, Huang Yueying sent a few to the east, a few to the west, and even sent some to Cai Yan. It was like showing her careful thoughts clearly. On the bright side...

Fei Qian shook his head and smiled, forget it, this is good.

A family has a family environment, and a society has a social ecology. Fei Qian was sitting in the courtyard, basking in the lukewarm mid-autumn sun. In his mind, he could not help but take out the things he had done these days and go through them one by one.

Hey, I was born to work hard!

When Fei Qian suddenly realized that he was starting to think about these annoying things again, he couldn't help but scolded himself, but he still had to think about what he should think about, because if Fei Qian didn't want to think about it, not many people would think about it. , let alone promote implementation.

There are several reports on Fei Qian's desk, one of which was sent by Xue District.

Fei Qian picked up his pen and approved two lines of words on the report on the snow area, asking the Baiyi Medical Center to set up a project and allocate personnel to study the issue of follow-up pills for deworming.

Perhaps an official from the Han Dynasty would either file it away or laugh it off when faced with such a report on the snow area. Most of them would not see any special problems in it, let alone like Fei Qian. With divergent thinking connections, the direction of this report was immediately transferred to the Hundred Medical Center to set up a deworming project.

Parasitic diseases are not new to later generations, and it is not just ordinary people who die from parasitic diseases. In this era, the understanding of parasites was not very clear. It was even because of the military health regulations implemented by Fei Qian that it ensured that the current diseases and parasites in the Hussars were not so serious.

If the people of later generations traveled back to ancient times with their physical bodies, it would be an activated biochemical weapon, then the parasites in ancient times were great killers that could completely eliminate biochemical weapons, and they were also incurable. If any time traveler accidentally takes a sip of cold water or steps into a puddle, there is a chance that he will be infected with parasites, and then...

In the Han Dynasty, when there were no corresponding insecticides and anthelmintics, all one could do was wait for death!

Of course, there is still no problem with most water sources, especially in the north, but in the south, in history, both Prime Minister Cao and Zhu Geliang have personally practiced and proven the horror of parasites.

Speaking of which, is it possible that Prime Minister Cao's migraines are also caused by parasites? After all, Cao Cao also stayed in Chibi in history, so it is possible that he was infected with parasitic diseases...

In the Han Dynasty, parasitic diseases were generally classified as plagues. Of course, from a certain perspective, they were indeed like plagues and were equally difficult to prevent and treat.

Therefore, in another report, Fei Qian also carried out epidemic prevention treatment before reorganizing a group of Yellow Turban thieves in Runan.

When seeing this report, Fei Qian couldn't help but feel a little emotional. The fall of this group of Yellow Turban thieves in Runan means that the role of the entire Han Dynasty in leading chaos since the first year of Zhongping has finally withdrawn. There are no more Yellow Turbans in the Han Dynasty.

Ambition, or better to say, ideal, or more profound, is called subjective initiative, which is likely to determine what a person, or a group of people, can ultimately do and reach that height.

What determines the lower limit is rules and restraint. Those things can be done and those things cannot be done. It is not about killing whenever you want or doing whatever you want. When a person or a group of people has no lower limit, they often can't get much higher.

Although this statement cannot be said to be completely correct, it also reflects some truth.

At least in the chaos of the Yellow Turban Thieves, countless people were incited, and then they could only shout "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian is here", but they didn't know what they should do, or where the direction of the road was. , shouting "stand" in his mouth, but destroying all "stand" in his hands.

Throughout the history of China, there have been many peasant uprisings, perhaps due to famine, plague, tyranny, etc. Then someone raised their arms and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people rose up, like locusts, sweeping the world, but eating After all the light was taken away, it gradually became silent.

Obviously, the three brothers of the Zhang family may have had some vague ideas in the early days of the Yellow Turban outbreak, but they were just ideas, and they had not found a direction to go on. The three brothers of the Zhang family may have proposed the concept of equal rights on a flat earth, but even they themselves didn't believe in it. In the end, it just fell into disuse and became a dispute between "blue sky and yellow sky".

Because in the context of feudal society, if you want to compete for the throne, then there is only one opponent, but if you want to average wealth, then there are a group of opponents! Since these people at the lowest level can be incited by the three brothers Zhang Jiao, they can also be incited by the government gentry to go back. A mob, whether ancient or modern, can never achieve great things.

Just like the three Liu Bei brothers...

Fei Qian said calmly, "Go and invite Liu Xuande here." ” Then he motioned to the guard to clean up the report writing on the desk.

Liu Bei has been in Chang'an for a few days. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not come and were still in southwest Sichuan.

Fei Qian did not receive him immediately, but left him alone for a few days. Firstly, Fei Qian was really busy some time ago. Another reason was that Fei Qian asked Liu Bei to go and take a look.

Liu Bei is undoubtedly a very ambitious person, or to put it more nicely, he is a person with strong subjective initiative. This kind of person, if used well, is naturally quite easy to use, but if used poorly, it is also very troublesome.

So because there may be trouble in the future, you choose to kill Liu Bei from the beginning?

Just like when parents encounter their children being naughty and crying, they will inevitably feel that this child is really a trouble for them in the future, and then simply step forward and strangle him to death?

In any case, Liu Bei's lower limit is not that low. Judging from Xu Shu's report, Liu Bei at least believed that he was a Han and stood on the standpoint of a Han. At least this point was worthy of Fei Qian's further efforts.

Liu Bei arrived soon, standing outside the pavilion and saluting respectfully.

Fei Qian nodded and asked Liu Bei to sit down.

"How about Ding Ze?" ” Fei Qian had some refreshments served, and while drinking, he motioned to Liu Bei that you were welcome.

"Hello, Qiao Qi..." Liu Bei said cautiously, "Everything is fine in Ding Ze." 』

"oh? Fei Qian put down the tea bowl, then tapped the table twice, and said, "The iron smelting went well too?" 』

"This..." Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and his eyes could not help but stop on Fei Qian's face. After a few breaths, he lowered his head again, "A lot of iron ore has been mined, but...it's hard to smelt good iron..." In the land of Zhe, iron ore is not difficult to mine, but the problem is that it is difficult to refine and shape, and the scrap rate is extremely high.

"Xuande's prediction was correct. I already knew about this." Fei Qian said slowly, "The mine of Dingzuo is easy to mine but difficult to refine." Because the quality is different, it is different from other places. 』

"What? ! "Even though Liu Bei was deep in heart, he almost jumped up when he heard Fei Qian's words. He stared at Fei Qian for a while before sighing with depression, his shoulders drooping a little, "Why didn't Qiusi say something earlier..."

"If someone had said it earlier, would Xuande believe it?" ” Fei Qian smiled and motioned to the guards to bring some tea to Liu Bei, “Isn’t he trying to make a profit out of suspicion? 』

Liu Bei couldn't answer.

Fei Qian looked at Liu Bei and suddenly remembered an article in his childhood textbook. Now that he recalled it, it had a different flavor.

"When Confucius passed by the side of Mount Tai, there was a woman crying in mourning at the tomb..." Fei Qian read slowly.

Liu Bei was stunned. What does this mean? But I quickly recalled this passage. Because this passage was not only heard by Lu Zhi during class, but Liu Bei himself also read it.

"... Master listened to it and asked Zilu to ask, "When you cry, it seems that you are worried." He said, "Yes. In the past, my uncle died of a tiger, and my husband died again. Now my son is dead again." Master said, "Why don't you go?" Fei Qian continued to read, and then looked at Liu Bei.

"A harsh government is stronger than a tiger..." Liu Bei cupped his hands and said, "Do you mean the harsh government at the moment?" 』

Fei Qian laughed, shook his head and said, "If that's the case, why did you summon Xuande here?" The great Han is harsh on politics, and everyone in the world knows it! The emperor hangs in the court, and his corpse is poisoning the place! Corruption is rampant and people are in dire straits! If not, why would the world be in chaos? How can we have the current situation? 』

Liu Bei swallowed, what he said was true...

"Excuse me, Xuande. Master, if you ask a woman, do you know about harsh government?" Or maybe he has known the disadvantages of harsh government for a long time? Fei Qian asked.

"This..." Liu Bei thought for a moment and said, "You must have known the disadvantages of harsh government for a long time..."

Fei Qian nodded and said, "Now that you know this, Master, do you know why?" 』

"This...or I know it..." Liu Bei replied.

Fei Qian continued: "Knowing what it is, knowing why it is what it is, do you know what it should be?" What if there are new disadvantages? Just like the iron that fixes the trap, what about Xuande's desire? 』

Liu Bei was confused and speechless for a moment.

Liu Bei knew that this master who lamented that "tyranny is fiercer than a tiger" was actually an example that Fei Qian compared to himself...

Liu Bei lamented the injustice of the Han Dynasty and the mediocrity of the court. He lamented a lot, but did he deeply understand the reasons behind these sighs and the causes of these "injustice" and "mediocrity"? He even went one step further and did something, To change these "injustices" and "foolishness"?

Confucius sighed on the side of Mount Tai, "More fierce than tigers, fiercer than tigers...", with a compassionate attitude, he got into the car after a sigh of relief and left. There is no record of whether he sympathized with the woman's misery and gave her some help, so I don't dare to guess.

Then did the Master make any move to change the "tyranny"?

Yes, but quite few.

Among the government reforms made by Confucius in the State of Lu, there are two that can be commended in particular. One is to open a private school to teach knowledge that was originally only circulated at the aristocratic level, and the other is to implement the Three Capitals, which is to reduce the power of the three grand princes in the Lu Kingdom, but regardless of Whether it was a private school or a private school, Confucius always had a beginning but no end.

Confucius ran away halfway through the private school. Those who could wander with Confucius followed him. Those who had no capital naturally interrupted their studies. As for the Three Capitals, they only had two, and the remaining one was difficult to deal with. Master Then he gave up.

With the Tao, nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up.

Confucius warned his students to study hard and work hard, but when encountering difficulties, he immediately turned to the side, indicating that the time has passed, the rituals and music have collapsed, and it is beyond human power...

Logically speaking, Confucius claimed that he was "no longer confused", indicating that he had a clearer understanding of various issues in life. He also served as the chief minister of the Lu State, taking photos of prime ministers, and then killed Shaozhengmao in seven days and exposed his body in three days. , so the Lu State was in great power, and under this background, the implementation of "Three Capitals" should have a good result, but in the end it was abandoned halfway.

The places where Liu Bei really served as the leader were Gaotang and Pingyuan.

Gaotang went from Gaotang Wei to Gaotang Ling. Logically speaking, there should be some emotion? In order to join the Jujube Alliance, Liu Bei mobilized all his soldiers and left. Soon Gaotang was defeated by bandit soldiers.

Pingyuan, even the place where assassins praised Liu Bei's benevolence, but for Kong Rong, Liu Bei also came out with all his strength, and never returned to Pingyuan...

Therefore, what do the ordinary people in Gaotang and the plains who are looking forward to having a good official mean to Liu Bei? Is she like the woman under Mount Tai?

Is Liu Bei ambitious? Is there any means?

All.

But...

When Dong Cheng came to find Liu Bei, things were really difficult. Liu Bei felt that it was unreliable, so he ran away without saying a word. Tao Qian entrusted Liu Bei with all his small fortune. As a result, the situation was not right and it was difficult to turn the tables, so Liu Bei ran away again. Liu Biao asked Liu Qi to entrust him. Liu Bei saw that Sichuan and Shu were too tempting, so he couldn't help but abandon Liu Qi and ran away...

If Fei hadn't set a trap in Sichuan and Shu, and it happened to be restricted by the special terrain of Sichuan and Shu, Liu Bei would have escaped accidentally...

If it were other princes, it would be fine, but he had such an image of benevolence in front of him every day, and seemed to be asking for the lives of the people all the time.

Should we continue to hang on to the sign of benevolence and think about grabbing a little here and there all day long, or should we abandon the unrealistic ideas we had before, do something well, and insist on doing one thing well? It depends on what Liu Bei chooses next.

Fei Qian asked Liu Bei to step back first, and then think about it and see for himself. If Liu Bei persisted in his obsession, Fei Qian wouldn't mind letting Liu Bei stay in Dingze to dig mines and build the earth for a lifetime!