Three Kingdoms

Anyone can shout slogans.

As early as when the ancient Zhou Dynasty was conquering the Shang Dynasty, the king of Zhou knew how to shout slogans.

"Come here, let's overthrow that evil King Zhou together..."

Those who have never heard, or rarely heard of, people shouting slogans gathered together and overthrew King Zhou. Then, they discovered that King Zhou and King Zhou actually had the same sound, but they were different. Just the appearance.

Generation after generation, those who can shout slogans can always take advantage. Those who shout slogans usually stand behind and shout, while those who can't shout often rush forward. Therefore, among China, the gene for shouting slogans has a greater probability. The fact that it can be preserved is the reason why later generations will always follow formalities and shout slogans.

The chaos in Chang'an is interestingly divided into upper and lower parts.

The officials and nobles at the upper level were panic-stricken and fearful, and each had his or her own agenda. Those who were at a loss were mixed with those who were confident.

But the ordinary people at the lower level are still living a life that is not much different from usual. Even the people who are worried about the fluctuation of food prices due to the burning of the warehouse, after seeing the water price posted in the food shop, it is just After having one or two more money than before, I felt relieved.

The things that people at the top worry about have nothing to do with people at the bottom.

The food and clothing issues that people in the lower class worry about are not a problem at all in front of people in the upper class.

It is impossible for a big man to jump to Xism in one breath. This kind of class fragmentation in the feudal dynasty makes the so-called unity in China always a small group that is closely connected. Once it expands, it becomes extremely loose, even if it is called "water energy" every day Even a boat carrying a boat can capsize, and it is useless to shout about believing in this or that.

In fact, the person who shouts these words may not even believe them himself.

"Do you want to believe Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan?" 』

You can shout slogans, but who knows what you are thinking in your heart?

The people and officials, officials and the emperor did not communicate, coordinate, or synchronize with each other at all.

Shouting slogans feels good for a while, and of course it will always feel good if you keep shouting slogans. But when you stop shouting slogans, what you do when you turn your back is the real world.

Otherwise, it would not be possible for corrupt officials in the feudal dynasties of China to own hundreds of houses and thousands of acres of real estate at every turn...

This deep love remains the same.

This kind of class estrangement and division was passively cultivated during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but was basically established during the Qin and Han Dynasties. In subsequent dynasties, although there were ambitious emperors or ministers who wanted to carry out reforms, they were still unable to Resisting the strong historical inertia, China has always been in a state of endless wisdom in internal fighting and helpless in external fighting.

When Chang'an Sanfu was about to face a threat, the people were at a loss and the nobles had their own thoughts.

Sima Yi's request to transfer to Hedong seemed to be a signal. Immediately, many people said that a big disaster was coming and they flew away. Then some people shouted that they should believe Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan. In the process, the generals and ministers were not in the center of the chaos. Wei Yan, who was in a peaceful situation, quietly disappeared.

Of course, some people noticed this, but they were quickly attracted by the various news and rumors that were surging in Chang'an. It was like they couldn't help but check their mobile phones and look at the little goblin twisting their waists, and they forgot about the business. .

Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?

Wei Yan is not swiping the young lady now, but is swiping the "wild monsters" in Zhongnan Mountain.

Zhongnan Mountain, perhaps no other mountain, is as famous in Chinese history as Zhongnan Mountain.

Zhongnan Mountain is not a mountain, but an area. It is a part of the entire Qinling Mountains. From Lantian to Huxian, it can be called Zhongnan Mountain.

In the Tang Dynasty, Zhongnan Mountain was the closest mountain to the capital of Chang'an. It seemed to be hidden but not invisible, so there was a saying that Zhongnan was a shortcut. Many people were originally unknown, but after they went to Zhongnan Mountain and painted it with gold paint, they immediately became famous and were recruited as officials. It was like a certain period of time in later generations. As long as they went to Pheasant University abroad and painted with gold paint, they would become famous. Just like you can get high salary and good treatment.

Of course, at the moment, no one is trying to take this Zhongnan shortcut to fame, but there are also some people who want to take other modes of "Zhongnan shortcut", because no matter what, Zhongnan Mountain is still the closest mountainous area to Chang'an, and Chang'an City, because The reason for Feiqian's conceptual construction is that there is no generous outer city wall, only the original inner city wall, the imperial wall, and the mausoleum wall.

Therefore, if there are thieves hiding in Zhongnan Mountain and disrupting certain key nodes, it will easily cause various problems, and it will also make some ignorant people fear and cause turmoil in Sanfu.

Especially at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, there are many labor camps...

Ma Jun was standing next to Wei Yan, pointing out the key points on the map.

As Ma Jun, who often travels between Xuanwu Pond in Chang'an City and his workshop in Zhongnan Mountain, he is very familiar with the terrain in this area.

"General, in this area, there are mountain roads cut down and made of ore... from here to here," Ma Jun said, "If there are thieves hiding in the mountains, they will inevitably have to purchase daily necessities... These mountain roads , is the shortcut...』

Live in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain.

It sounds beautiful, and it sounds fairy-like, but in fact it is not.

Mosquitoes in the mountains don't just look up and raise their mouths just because they are reclusive people. When they encounter living creatures, they will feed them whether they live or die.

If it's just mosquitoes, it's nothing. Smoke and fire can always solve some problems, but there are not only mosquitoes in the mountains, but also wolves, bears, and tigers.

There are also food and utensils, which will not be reduced by half because of seclusion, nor will they say that drinking northwest wind and southeast dew will make everything taste like chicken and crispy.

Wei Yan grinned slightly, "Okay, I'm familiar with this matter..."

Ma Jun hummed and wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he hesitated and did not say them out.

"Don't worry..." Wei Yan raised his head and looked at the Zhongnan Mountain Forest, "As long as there is a direction, everything will not be difficult... Counselor Ma, I would like to bother you to light the wolf smoke at every hour of the day..."

The smoke is not to call the police, but to determine the direction, and as long as the fireworks are not interrupted in a specific order, they will often be mistaken for the black smoke produced by something burning in the workshop...

Mountain roads are like lines, but not every line has fish. Therefore, when hunting in the wild, you naturally need to walk through mountains and forests. To determine the direction in the mountains and forests, in addition to your own excellent skills, you can also seek help from outside the field. .

Ma Jun cupped his hands in response and said, "Take the general's order." 』

"good! Then please! ” Wei Yan didn’t waste any more words, put away the map, turned around and headed towards his own military formation.

Before arriving at the military formation, Wei Yan glanced from left to right, and then without saying a word, he waved his hand and gave the order, "Let's go!" 』

Wei Yan's mountain troops responded with a roar, so angry that they flew into the sky!

Are there really no practitioners or hermits in Zhongnan Mountain?

In fact, there are some.

One thing that needs to be noted is that no matter how the practitioner expresses his tranquility and inaction, he himself comes from the world. Unless practitioners are really like monkeys who can be raised from birth and pop out of stone eggs, then when their parents are still alive, they will abandon everything and only pursue their own practice, which is undoubtedly a betrayal of their parents. .

Human beings are born with responsibilities, otherwise they are no different from animals.

Wei Yan's responsibility is to protect this land when the Qiaoqi leave Chang'an. Only in this way can he be worthy of Fei Qian's attention and promotion, instead of saying that this is the position and military power "voluntarily" given to him by the General Hussars...

In the Zhongnan Mountains, animals have their own paths, and people have their own paths.

But whether they are animals or humans, they all need to eat and drink.

The water source is always the most important place in the mountains and forests, just like the oasis in the desert next door.

In the morning mist, a man wearing a ge robe, carrying a pole, staggered out of the path in the mountain forest, and then arrived at the water source, ready to fetch water.

Zhongnan Mountain is quiet in the early morning. Occasionally there will be early birds singing, perhaps because they are happy to find bugs that also get up early.

The wages of avarice is death.

What about insects?

The man in Gepao washed his face with water, then wiped it randomly, and was about to dip the bucket next to him into the stream to get water, but when he reached out to fish out a handful, he found nothing.

The man in ge-clothed robe didn't pay attention at first, but still fished for the second time without looking back, because he remembered that he put the bucket beside him. Maybe he didn't catch the bucket at first because he didn't aim at the right position.

But the second time I still caught a hole...

Strictly speaking, it was not that he failed, but that he caught something that looked like a stick. Then he turned around so hard that he almost jumped up and fell into the stream.

It was almost because when he was about to jump up, someone grabbed him, pushed him to the ground, and thoughtfully covered his mouth.

For a moment, he didn't know how many hands were wandering around his body. He was so frightened that he immediately peed, and a foul smell came out...

"Hey, bad luck. ” A mountain soldier cursed and then washed his hands in the stream nearby.

"Old Bird Wang, who makes you like to dig out human birds?" "Another person who looked like a captain whispered, "Did you find anything? 』

There was a burst of laughter around him.

Only then did the man in ge-cloth robes realize that so many soldiers suddenly appeared around him.

Where did these soldiers come from?

Did it fall from the sky or come out of the earth?

Why didn't he see anyone when he came to fetch water?

"There is a short blade. 』A soldier found a sheathed short blade from the leggings of a man in Gebu robe.

"Hmm..." The soldier who looked like a captain took the short blade, pulled it out and looked at it. He even sniffed it close to his nose. Then he laughed twice, squatted in front of the man in Gebu robe, and waved his hand, "This is There is the smell of blood on the knife... After all, who are you and what are you doing here? 』

The soldiers holding down the man in Gebu robes slowly loosened their grip on the man's mouth, allowing the man to breathe heavily and speak.

"I, I... I am a Taoist... I practice Taoism in the mountains, practice Taoism..." the man said eagerly, "I didn't do anything, I just came to fetch water... This knife, uh, this knife is the front A hunter gave it to me two days ago, for self-defense! There was a thief a few days ago..."

"Haha, there are still thieves in this wilderness?" ” The team leader laughed softly, “What kind of thief is he? 』

"I...I don't know..." the man said, "I just came here in the middle of the night and stole something. I...I didn't dare to check..."

"You are the only one where you live?" ” asked the team leader.

The man nodded, "Just me... there was an old man before, but I don't know where he went after that..."

The team leader frowned, thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Help him up." 』

The man stood shivering, his lower clothes a little wet.

The team leader waved his hand and said, "Let's go, lead the way." Let’s go see the thief you mentioned..."

"They've already run away!" ” the man said eagerly.

The team leader raised his eyebrows, "It's okay... there will always be some traces left... just lead the way!" 』

The man was obviously reluctant, but he had no choice but to turn around and walk back.

Lao Wangtou, who likes to hunt human birds, came close to the team leader, squinted his eyes and hummed softly, "I'm looking around, this thing is not a good bird..."

The team leader smiled and said, "I understand." ” Immediately he waved to the two of them, and after giving such instructions, he took most of the soldiers and followed the Gebu man to the mountains, while the three or two soldiers who stayed at the same place turned around and walked back. .

The small mountain path is winding and hidden in the grass. If you don't go in this direction specifically, it is not so easy to find it.

After walking around the woods and halfway up the mountain, the leader suddenly realized, "It turns out this is here, no wonder I didn't see it before..."

In the era when there were no drones or hot air balloons that provided high-altitude vision, if you wanted to find out whether there were any people or buildings on the mountain at the foot of the mountain, you really had to rely on "smoke". If the smoke is not visible, or the angle of the building is wrong, even if there is smoke or something, it will be blocked and cannot be recognized at all.

Halfway up the mountain ahead, there is a small platform, just behind a small piece of woodland. There is a small courtyard built on the platform, with two and a half rooms, half of which is a kitchen, and a small and half-high wall. There is a lot of firewood piled in the corner of the wall, which is obviously picked up in the forest. There are branches in all shapes, and there are even some half-dry and half-wet branches.

This place has beautiful scenery and excellent views. Apart from the lack of water, there are basically no shortcomings.

"This place is nice..." The team leader looked at the forest and then at the platform, "If we didn't look from the other side of the mountain, who would have found out that someone has a house here?" so……"

The soldier who entered the simple courtyard first reported back and found no other people. It seemed that just as the man in Gebu robe said, he was the only one here. However, inside the house, there are still some robes that do not fit the figure of the Ge Yi man. Perhaps they are the things left by the original old man that the man said.

Everything seems normal.

The team leader stood on the edge of the platform and looked at the simple courtyard and the walls surrounded by gravel and wood.

Indeed, a fence of this level may be able to protect against ordinary animals, but it is not enough to protect against humans.

Therefore, if a thief comes, it is indeed impossible to prevent it.

But...

The team leader squinted his eyes and looked at the mountain next door.

As the sun rises, the fog between the mountains and forests gradually dissipates. The mountains also gradually changed from gray-black or indigo color to green and orange. The green ones are those pines and cypresses that do not lose their leaves in winter, while the orange or light red ones are those broad deciduous trees.

"Huh..." Team leader exhaled a long breath, "What a good place to practice Taoism." How did you find such a great place? 』

The man's eyes swayed, "It was just a coincidence, I found it by chance..."

"That's such a good opportunity! ” The team leader sighed with emotion, and then clicked on the small courtyard and house, “Isn’t it going to cost a lot of money and time to repair this courtyard and house? How much did it cost in total and how much time did it take? 』

"I heard it took nearly ten years..." the man said, "I don't know how much it cost...but the mountains are full of trees and rocks, so it doesn't cost much..."

"Haha...oh..." The team leader seemed to be asking casually, with no intention of going into details. He just smiled and said, "We are just here to disturb your cleaning. After two days of cleaning, we will leave... No Is it in the way? 』

"No, it's not in the way..." The man waved his hands repeatedly, then swallowed, "I dare to ask the military master... what are you..."

The team leader narrowed his eyes and smiled, "You're here to catch a thief... didn't you say you were robbed?" That's right, we are here to catch them... How about it, are you happy? 』

"Well, happy, of course happy!" ” The man also laughed.

"correct! ” Team leader smiled and said, “I feel sorry for disturbing your Qingxiu. You haven’t eaten yet in the morning, right? We brought dry food and let you use the stove. If you don’t mind, we can eat some together? 』

"Ah..." The man waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no need..."

"Look down on us? ” The team leader laughed and said, “Then shall we leave now? 』

The man changed his color, "Don't dare, don't dare... you can do whatever you want, do whatever you want..."

"OK. Thank you very much. "The team leader was still smiling, "Don't worry...my general said that you must be polite to the people under your command...I will use your firewood, water, rice and food to make up for it..."

"This... thank you, Master, thank you, Master..." The man bowed his head and prepared to retreat.

"etc! 』

The team leader suddenly shouted in a deep voice, which made the man tremble, and then turned around stiffly, "Jun...jun lord, do you have any other orders..."

"I almost forgot, this knife..." The team leader handed the short blade to the man, "In the wilderness, you really need a self-defense weapon..."

"Yes, thank you, Master..." The man exhaled, quickly took the short blade, turned around and left.

Soldier Lao Wang came over and said, "Captain... what are you going to do?" And give him the knife? 』

"Haha... It's just a knife, so he doesn't have to think about other methods..." The team leader turned around and looked at the other hills far away from the platform. He looked around and said, "One person, one pot, but prepared." With so much firewood burning, it's still a little wet... What do you think this place looks like? 』