Three Kingdoms

The setting sun was like blood, and the riot in Sanfu in Guanzhong finally broke out.

The first outbreak occurred near Lantian, an area with a large number of refugees. Lantian was the first stop after entering Guanzhong after Wuguan. When Liu Bang entered Guanzhong, he also took the Wuguan-Lantian line. In the early Han Dynasty, almost no one cared about the Wuguan line. After all, starting from Funiu Mountain in Nanyang, it basically plunged into the ravines. When traveling in the Qinling area, you will lose it if you are not careful. direction, so Liu Bang, who initially decided to take the Wuguan route, was undoubtedly a courageous crab eater.

And now, some people are ready to eat crabs...

It is unclear how exactly it broke out. It is said that someone cut in the queue while queuing, and then a dispute broke out. Immediately, someone transferred their anger to Mipu and began to beat and rob the Mipu clerk, just like in later generations. Just like beating up cashiers when they are not allowed to cut in line, some people always get angry out of nowhere and can easily take it out on others.

Is the guy at Mipu the one who sets the price?

Obviously not, but angry people don't care about this at all...

Almost in the blink of an eye, the unrest in Lantian has not subsided. In the area of ​​​​Sanfu, Chang'an, many rice shops were also treated in the same way. These rice shops were smashed open, the workers were beaten, and some were even beaten to death. Or they were trampled to death, and then the grain stored in the rice bunks was swept away, and some were set on fire.

The zero-yuan shopping activity is not limited to a certain skin color, and what is interesting is that most of the people who participate in zero-yuan shopping are not refugees, but ordinary residents around Sanfu, Chang'an, and there are many of these ordinary residents. I was extremely grateful when I received the Hussar welfare last year...

Lao Wangtou was a native of Chang'an, and now he was limping back along the street with blood all over his head. Even so, Lao Wangtou still squeezed the rice bag in his hand, even though the rice bag was stained with some blood.

Lao Wang held his head against the wall and looked back. In the direction of the rice shop in the distance, there were countless noisy sounds floating on the wind.

Some shops on the street quickly began to seal their doors, fearing that their families would be implicated. Some people stuck their heads out of their doors out of curiosity. There were even some people who heard about the food grabbing, but were afraid that they would be late and not be able to grab it. He arrived, yelling and running towards the place where the incident occurred.

Lao Wangtou is getting old. Although he knows in his heart that he probably doesn't have many years left to live, after all, as long as he opens his eyes, he has to live, not to mention that he still has a little one to raise at home. What Lao Wangtou liked the most was to finish the day's work, feed his grandson and himself, then lie lazily in the courtyard waiting for dark, and then listen to his grandson calling his grandfather from the left to the right. Focusing on things is the most comfortable time of the day.

Until a while ago, everything changed.

Whenever Lao Wangtou opens his eyes every day, his heart is filled with panic.

Food, what should I do with food today?

Will the price increase again today?

Lao Wangtou is a carpenter. Ordinary people, if the furniture in their home is broken, they just throw it out without saying anything. They always repair it. If they receive a wedding order and have to marry their son or daughter, this is the happiest time for Old Wangtou.

But during this period, there were fewer people doing repair work or making large furniture.

There is less money and food is more expensive.

It’s not that rice shops don’t have food, they all have it, but they have to pay a premium.

It’s not that Lao Wangtou didn’t complain, but is complaining useful? The rice shop clerks laughed and said that the price of their grains was too high and there was nothing they could do about it.

But when the Mipu guy said there was nothing he could do, could he not smile so happily?

This made Lao Wangtou always feel that these guys were laughing at him.

So when someone started to grab rice today, Lao Wangtou, who was originally waiting in line, ignored the painful wailing of the rice shop boy. After hesitating for a while, he also joined the queue to grab rice...

In the chaos, Lao Wang didn't know whether he hit somewhere or was hit by someone. Anyway, his forehead was broken, and there was a splash of blood, and everything turned red.

The blood was still flowing, dripping down his face.

People seemed to be running around in the streets, but Lao Wangtou just wanted to get back home as quickly as possible. He still had a grandson waiting for food...

The son died during the turmoil in Chang'an that year. Then a year later, the daughter-in-law silently said she was going to buy groceries one day, leaving the child behind and ran away. Well, compared to being kidnapped, Lao Wangtou is still willing to believe that his daughter-in-law just ran away, which also shows that at least she can find a family and live a good life.

"The inspection is coming!" 』

"Run!" The inspection is coming! 』

With the sound of horse hooves, more people began to run in disorder on the street. Naturally, some people got into the box and ran past Lao Wangtou.

Lao Wangtou moved forward step by step, and suddenly he heard the footsteps that seemed to have just been running past again. When Lao Wangtou looked up, he saw a black shadow waving towards him...

『塡! 』

More blood spurted out, blurring his vision. Before he felt the severe pain, Lao Wangtou had already fallen down. The blood spread across his entire field of vision, and then darkness fell.

"It's food!" food! Hahaha! It is indeed food! 』

In the last burst of blood, Old Wangtou heard the cry of joy, and stretched out his hand with all his strength, trying to express that it was food for his grandson, but in the end no sound came out. Collapsed...

……(／_＼)……

"here we go……"

Wang Chang stood on a high platform in the nearby school grounds of Chang'an, holding the command flag in his hand and looking up at the black smoke rising in the distance. When the whole turmoil began, Wang's rice shop was undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt and the most severely damaged. It is impossible to say that Wang's shop was among the black smoke.

Next to Wang Chang stood Kan Ze. In the school grounds, flags were fluttering, and the soldiers who had gathered and lined up stood like statues, with a faint murderous aura rising.

Wang Chang started out as a small clerk under the command of Hussar, and today he has become a part of Pang Tong's overall plan. This is not based on flattery, but on the results accumulated over time.

Wang Chang did not directly give the order to set off, but continued to wait for something.

After a while, several cavalrymen came running from a distance and delivered the latest information.

Wang Chang opened it and gave it to Kan Ze. "It was not Pang Lingjun's order, but the scouts... There was chaos in three markets in the city, and the rest of the shops were closed... There were only two in the mausoleum." The chaos started...Zuo Fengyi was the most serious..."

Kan Ze nodded and said: "Pang Lingjun said that if more than half of the people were involved in the rebellion, they would be dispatched without any orders. But now..."

"Just follow your order and wait." ” Wang Chang nodded, then looked up at the sky and said, “After dark, we will see the light of day... On a night with dark moon and high wind, it is the time to kill people and set fires... These moles will always show up. Coming...』

Although it is said that there are a series of elite talents under the Hussar, such as Pang Tong, Zhuge, Xu Shu, Sima Xunchen, Xunyou, Jia Xu, Jia Qu, etc., it is obvious that not these few people, or more than a dozen people, can support all the people. affairs, you can solve all the affairs of the three auxiliaries in Guanzhong and the merger of Sichuan and Sichuan.

No matter how smart Pang Tong and others are, a person's time is always limited, and those trivial but essential tasks must be done by others. This will be true even in later generations, just like it is certainly impossible for a mayor to move a table and sit on the street to register people for vaccine distribution...

If you really do this, it is also a kind of dereliction of duty.

Therefore, there are still a large number of gentry children who hold general local positions under the Hussar, and these gentry children may do it for money, favors, or other things at a certain period of time. Inside, he will act in violation of Hussar policy.

For example, making it easier for some people, or turning a blind eye when checking credentials. For example, even if the strange behavior of the red ball makes Newton's coffin unable to be covered, it can be treated as invisible. .

This kind of behavior is sometimes difficult to define. For example, you can be negligent, and being careless about a certain thing does not prove how serious a sin it is. After all, people are not machines after all, and they all make mistakes sometimes. No matter what the reason, as long as he makes a mistake, he will be killed, so who would want to follow the hussar?

But in front of such a big deal of right and wrong as today...

No deviation is allowed. It’s just like you can ignore the fact that the bricks and mortar is asking for a small amount of money from the company, but you can never tolerate betraying the country for its own interests.

If you can't show your responsibility at the critical moment, then why wait for the New Year?

Pang Tong specifically told Wang Chang and Kan Ze not to attack. In fact, the purpose was to wait for more guys to jump out and wait for these people to hit the knife edge...

"Oh, a lot of people will die..." Kan Ze sighed softly from the side.

Wang Chang glanced at Kan Ze, "Why, are you still worried about these people?" 』

"I'm not talking about those silverfish, I'm talking about ordinary people..." Kan Ze looked at the black smoke rising in the distance, "These implicated people are always innocent, right?" 』

"..." Wang Chang was silent for a moment, but shook his head, "Such people...may not be completely innocent..."

"Wen Shu means..." Kan Ze was a little confused.

Aren’t these people victims? How can you say you are not innocent?

Wang Chang looked at the blood-like sunset on the horizon and said slowly, "When I was in Shoushan Academy, I often heard that Qiao Qi rode in Pingyang and did many good deeds... For example, Pingyang Bookstore has books in front of it. , and the counter is at the back, allowing students to browse through it without expelling them... If there are any missing pages, etc., they will be placed at the entrance of the store and they can be copied without charge..."

Kan Ze nodded. He also knew this. Back then, he was also a regular customer of Pingyang Bookstore. Sometimes he would hold a book in his arms for a long time. He had never been scolded by the bookstore clerk, and sometimes he could not even see it. The figure of the shopkeeper can only be found deep in the bookstore.

"There are many books, and there are many contacts, but I have never heard of book theft in Pingyang Bookstore..." Wang Chang said slowly, "Why?" Because people respect others, everyone respects them... Pingyang Bookstore treats each other as scholars, so it is natural to repay them with scholars..."

"But in Chang'an..." Wang Chang sighed, "So what?" If you take something without reporting it, you are called a thief. Is it considered a noble thing to steal a book? What a mistake! Therefore, in Chang'an Bookstore, we are following the same trend, but what can we do? Is this the fault of the bookstore? No, it’s people’s fault! 』

Kan Ze was silent.

In fact, what Wang Chang said is not wrong, but there is one thing that Wang Chang missed. That is, when he went to Pingyang Bookstore, most of them were students from Shoushan Academy, and these students basically found someone to follow. The matter cannot be escaped, and the flow of people in Chang'an is very large, and there are quite a lot of gentry children coming and going. It is impossible to track every gentry child. Naturally, some people feel that even if they misbehave, they may not be caught. The residence was found in the home...

Once this little goblin named Lucky started to walk forward with his hips swaying and his waist swaying, Greedy, the guy, naturally stared at him with drooling eyes and followed him closely.

"Besides, the current price of food is soaring..." Wang Chang laughed twice, with a hint of disdain in his voice, "It is said that there are many people in Chang'an who are greedy for money, and they actually sell their own food!" Just by bragging about one's own harvest, others will also sell and store grain. When the price of grain rises even higher, they will either regret it, get angry, or curse it... Haha, these people... are the ones who started making figurines, will they have no descendants? 』

Some people in later generations thought that Confucius was talking about the people who made pottery figurines. In fact, he was just talking about this matter. At that time, Confucius saw that because of the need to make pottery figurines for the king to be buried, a large number of farmers had to abandon their farming. I sighed and said, shouldn’t we think about the future?

Wang Chang also used this sentence to explain that those who do not think for themselves, only know how to follow the trend, are blinded by interests, and do not consider future problems, there is no such thing as "innocent".

The most important abilities of human beings are to be rational, intelligent, able to think, and able to analyze right and wrong. However, if you lose these qualities, you will just follow the crowd blindly and go with the flow. If you feel that the law does not punish the crowd, you can do things that you dare not do on ordinary days. , even knowing that something is illegal, can it still be considered innocent?

Just like the current rise in food prices, some families who purchased food earlier found it profitable in the face of high food prices, and then sold the food they bought at a low price at a high price. I didn’t know that by doing this, I was actually helping those black hands who were pushing up the price of food. Then when I found that the price of food was getting higher and higher and my granary was empty, I completely forgot about the joy I felt when I made a profit from selling, and started to Accusing this, cursing that, showing that you are an innocent victim...

If it weren't for these followers, no matter how hard Zuo Fengyi's big businessmen tried, they wouldn't be able to quickly push up the price of food in the Sanfu Land to the current level. And if ordinary people didn't participate, for some immediate reasons They sold their original grain reserves for their own interests, and these large households were not so sure that their strategy would succeed.

These short-sighted people think that if they don’t sell, someone else will. Then won’t they suffer a loss? It is precisely because of this that the large hoarders are increasingly emboldened, because they know that most people are out of food and must accept the prices they set. If these people did not sell their grain and grass because of immediate profits, Zuo Fengyi's big business owners would have no way to be sure that their prices would be acceptable.

Therefore, those who sell grain and grass because the price of grain and grass are high are actually working for the tiger to a certain extent. The tiger ate blood food, and they shared some of the soup. They are not innocent.

There are also those people who are very courageous as long as everyone joins in. They feel that since everyone is doing it, then I have to do it too. If others jump in line, I will also jump in line. If others get green onions, I will grab cloves of garlic...

"In addition..." Wang Chang continued, "I have given you three orders and five orders, posted notices in the city, and sent people to preach in the field. If there is any injustice, the people can complain to the patrol, and the scholars can remonstrate in front of the hall... However, Around Chang'an, among the three auxiliaries, to this day, has Derun heard of anyone in the counties complaining about the inflated price of grain and the harm to the people? 』

"This..." Kan Ze was stunned for a moment, "Or maybe you feel that the cavalry is not in the pass, so your remonstrance is useless?" 』

Wang Chang shook his head and said: "This is also ridiculous. As a local official, the hussar can only handle government affairs when he is in front of him. If the hussar leaves, is he lazy?" 』

Kan Ze nodded and said, "Wen Shu's words are deeply indicative of caution." 』

As the two of them were talking, the sky gradually became darker, the sunset on the horizon gradually faded away, and darkness kept eroding everything around them.

The night wind gradually picked up, bringing with it the faint sound of crying.

"Hey..." Kan Ze sighed, "Even so, I still feel that if ordinary people usually abide by the law, this moment of confusion... is somewhat tolerable..."

Wang Chang looked at Kan Ze, thought for a moment, and nodded, "If that's the case, it can be recorded, or it won't be a crime... It's just that the people should know the crime and record it on file. If they do it again, they will be severely punished." ! 』

"That's it. ” Kan Ze also agreed. Is it possible to do bad things if there are thousands of reasons? Being confused for a moment is excusable, but making the same mistake again and again is unforgivable.

This time, Kan Ze was also secretly frightened. He only knew about the changes of the sun and the moon in Mount Li, and then he went down to report that the twenty-four solar terms had been re-edited and the calendar was in order, and he encountered such a thing...

It is precisely because Kan Ze has been busy with the calendar and has no suspicion of involvement in this grain price change that he has the opportunity to serve as the commander of this operation together with Wang Chang. And according to Kan Ze's inference, this action is not the end. Whether it is Qiusi or Pang Tong, it is obvious that they are not people who only take one step and look at it one step at a time. Therefore, it is obvious that this action will cause more new changes, and then It will affect more people.

"coming! 』

While Kan Ze was thinking, Wang Chang suddenly spoke up.

The sound of horse hooves sounded again in the distance, and a cavalryman came in a hurry...