Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2918 Rats have skin, but humans have no manners

  Supporting bandits is not just something to talk about, it is also something that some people will actually do.

   During the three or four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions were not a good place, but they were a good place to raise bandits.

   Here in the Western Regions, there are all kinds of enemies.

   There are endless enemies.

  It is like the Western Qiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it seems that so many Qiang people always rebel.

Under such circumstances, when the Western Regions returned to the feet of the big man and included the hussars, many people still didn't know the difference between this return and the previous ones, let alone Fei Qian's attitude towards the Western Regions. How is it different from the previous emperors, so they are very used to operating according to the original practice.

   Lu Bu is like this.

  Wei Xu is actually an extension of Lu Bu's will.

  Perhaps in their hearts, a general without war is worthless. In fact, they may also understand that fighting the war for too long is not beneficial to the country, but...as long as it is beneficial to them.

   Like a businessman.

Good merchants are not absent, but when the environment is harsh and the laws and regulations are not perfect, those merchants who are willing to give up profits to benefit everyone will often be swallowed up by profiteers in the end. Bad money drives out good money, not only happens in currency superior.

   This type of profiteer often clamors "without borders" in their mouths. In other words, for this type of businessman, they just like to break the boundaries and are used to testing the red line.

  The entire process of inciting riots is actually very simple.

  First of all, there must be contradictions.

   This, is not lacking.

  In Xihai City, maybe everything is lacking at the moment, but what is not lacking is internal conflicts.

All kinds of things, either being concealed, suppressed, stranded, or delayed, anyway, after Lu Bu came to Xihai City, all kinds of contradictions that should be resolved, but have not been resolved .

  Second, there must be someone who stirs things up.

  Guan Er is not considered a good person, because a truly good person often makes things difficult for himself, not for others.

  He is a businessman, as long as he makes money, he can talk about anything and sell anything.

  It is also impossible for Wei Xu to turn all military equipment into money, he must go through these merchants.

  Lao De is here, Fatty An is here, and Guan Er is here too...

  So, did Xihai City have these merchants first, and then the arms piracy, or did the arms piracy first attract these merchants?

Although Zhang Liao had cleaned it up before, he mainly targeted the officials of Xihai City and the Protectorate's Mansion, and did not take action against these merchants, but these merchants were still uneasy, fearing that when the Hussar General came, it would be their doomsday. . So the second-class Guan, naturally planned to escape, hide first, go to a safe place, and see the follow-up situation. After all, the money in their hands was earned by them "hard work", how could they Give up easily?

  Third, there must be an introduction.

  Guan Er fixed his eyes on the remaining officials in Xihai City.

  These officials are also not good people, let alone wronged. If these officials usually followed the rules, there would be no such people as Guan Er in Xihai City.

Zhang Liao cleaned up some of the officials in Dadu Protectorate and Xihai City, but there were still some officials left. The work of these Xihai city grassroots officials has survived.

   Then these low-level officials, would they feel that Zhang Liao was kind and let them go, so they changed their minds and changed their past?

   Maybe there is.

  But the vast majority of them still feel that "Don't talk about eating some of your rotten watermelons, I don't ask the price when I eat restaurants in the city..."

  or "I am so unlucky..."

   Before the concept has been completely changed, the thinking of officials is still the thinking mode of the feudal dynasty.

  At the same time, for the ordinary people in Xihai City, can they feel the changes in the overall situation and know the direction of the overall situation?

   Maybe there is.

  But most of them still haven't formed a complete thinking mode, and are more often driven by emotions.

The Western Regions are in turmoil, and the West Sea is about to face danger. The reason why these ordinary people stay in Xihai City is because they think that Xihai City is a city after all, with the defense of the city wall; assets.

  Including but not limited to acres and real estate…

  They are reluctant, even if they know the danger and difficulties, they can only endure it.

Those who always talk about the big world and want to see it, and can turn it into practice, are often young people, while middle-aged people are silent, even middle-aged people also know the world. It's big, but middle-aged people also know that they have a lot of mortgages and young children.

People who can't go, or are unwilling to go, don't mean that they don't have worries and fears, and don't feel pain. If they don't fluctuate, they can't endure like stagnant water. It seemed that some fires were ignited, and some people who were suppressed to the limit also became restless.

  If these remaining officials of Xihai City can have a little subjective initiative, can think for a while from the standpoint of the people, and can truly solve the worries and doubts in the hearts of the people, then everything will be different.

   It's a pity that Zhang Liao is just an outstanding cavalry general, he is not Jia Xu who can manipulate people's hearts like a palm. When he led the troops to set off, he thought more about the soldiers of Xihai City, and less about the people in Xihai City. Of course, this does not mean that the responsibility lies with Zhang Liao, but that Xihai City is already in a distorted state, and normal rules cannot be used to speculate.

  The Allied Forces of the Western Regions are attacking massively, and the war is imminent. This is undoubtedly a very serious situation. In the face of such a situation, the markets in Xihai City are generally under the jurisdiction of the curfew, and people are not even allowed to move freely during the day. Such a decree, in fact, can be understood by the common people. After all, it is a special period, and the risk of transmission caused by the movement of people and the transfer of goods should be minimized as much as possible.

  So Xihai City is governed by a quiet... bah, curfew, all illegal gatherings are prohibited, and shop sales are also naturally prohibited. What the people in Xihai City needs is collected by the officials in Lifang, and then distributed to the people in the city.

   Are these reasonable?

   Then the problem comes.

  Officials can be the first to get food rations.

  So officials and officials can eat well, and even have leftovers!

   Then the people have nothing...

  Sometimes, officials will be too tired, they will forget, and they will miss it.

   Isn't this normal?

   Among the officials in the feudal dynasty, which one is dedicated to the people?

   As a result, the behavior of the officials stealing food was hit by the hungry people!

The officials in Lifang loudly scolded the people in anger, thinking that these people were disorganized and undisciplined, violated the curfew management, and violated the laws of Xihai City. Considering the problem in front of me, whenever they start to scold the people, these people will shrink back, so the officials in Lifang will habitually use their scolding method again.

   Isn’t it just eating and drinking, not even dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, it’s just used to satisfy hunger, so why make such a fuss?

  But what they never expected was that it didn't work this time!

  The already nervous and panicked emotions were ignited...

  Ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could carry knives or guns, but they had to remove the gun head and separate it from the wooden handle. People in the Han Dynasty could even have long-range weapons, shooting bows and arrows with a kinetic energy much greater than 1.8 joules!

  In the Han Dynasty, crossbows and armor were banned among the people.

  A, ordinary people simply cannot afford it.

   As for the crossbow...

  Only a crossbow can give an ordinary citizen the ability to kill someone from a distance at any time.

   Bow and arrow needs to be practiced, and most people can't afford it. People who have to work hard for two meals a day don't have much free time and money to practice bows and arrows.

  Why did ancient China strictly control weapons?

   This is not difficult to understand. After all, in the thinking of ancient feudal dynasties, who owns this world? Of course it belongs to the royal family! Therefore, as the head of the family, the emperor certainly did not want his servants or servants to walk sideways with weapons every day. After all, if one day, the common people can't think about it, then wouldn't the emperor, who was originally extremely noble, become a wage earner serving the people? How can this be possible?

  Of course, what the emperor focused on was not the people at the bottom, but those local tyrants who hid their soldiers privately under the pretext of the people.

The officials of the Chinese feudal dynasty are actually very powerful, far beyond the cognition of ordinary people, especially the top officials. They face the concentration of social contradictions in the feudal dynasty, and the wealth differentiation is obvious , Under the trend of prominent civil conflicts, it is basically foreseen that there will be vicious incidents such as riots, resistance to the law, and uprisings among the people, so lethal weapons must be included in the category of management and control.

   Such as Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

  Yuan Law stipulates, "Those who hide a full set of armor privately shall be executed; those who fail to wear a pair of armor shall be given fifty-seven lashes for one year; those who have scattered pieces of armor that can be worn to defend against the enemy shall be given thirty-seven lashes." Anyone who owns ten guns, knives, or crossbows shall be executed; for five or more, the staff shall be ninety-seven, and three years in prison; for four or more, the staff shall be seventy-seven, for two years; Anyone who owns ten sets of bows and arrows shall be executed; if there are more than five sets, the stick shall be ninety-seven years, and his imprisonment shall be three years;

In the Qing Dynasty, the prohibition on firearms was very strict, not only dealing with single individuals, but also killing families and neighbors together. Beheaded at the same time, the wife is paid to the family of the hero as a slave, and the family property is transferred to the official. The neighbors of the foundry, the owner of the house, the head of the village, etc., all plan to hang and wait. 』

   However, even with such a strict ban, there are still contradictions and problems...

  In Xihai City, there are still some ordinary people. Even if the Allied Forces of the Western Regions are coming, Zhang Liao organized two migrations of the people, but for the daily food, drink, shit, etc. of the officials and their families in Xihai City, it is impossible for them to obtain and clean up by themselves. There must be some ordinary people to serve them.

   When foreign enemies come, we should have united to the outside world.

   This point, the officials in Xihai City are clear, and so are the common people.

But the question is, why at a time when it should have been more critical, when it was supposed to be more united, and when it was more difficult, when it was more important to strengthen our confidence and work together to win the war of the Allied Forces of the Western Regions, did something happen? question?

   Is the troublemaker intentionally provoking?

   Is it the untouchables who refuse to accept the management?

  Maybe it is, or it may not be, but one thing is undeniable, that is, in the face of the same life-and-death crisis, the hearts of each other are still incommunicable.

  Who doesn't want to be safe?

  Who doesn't want to protect their family?

   Especially under the wartime rationing system, the elderly and children of ordinary people want to eat something soft, but there is no such thing!

  If everyone doesn’t have one, that’s fine too.

   But officials have it.

  Before, they could give some money, and they could make some money, but after Zhang Liao came, these officials were a little scared, and they didn’t dare to collect money for fear of being reported.

  Anyway, the matter of collecting money will have a bright future, won’t it?

  Of course, it is also possible that the officials feel that these people are ignorant, and the money given is not in place, so they look down on them. At least it must be made of jadeite or something. What are a few copper plates?

  People are forgetful. As soon as Zhang Liao walked away, many people breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the matter was over and they were stable. They think how dare these troublemakers make trouble, but they forget that people are the scariest when they are hungry...

  The chaotic people angrily killed the official who stole the food, and immediately stormed the houses of some other officials.

   Under such chaos, Guan Er and the others took advantage of it and ran away.

Of course, if these officials can immediately deploy manpower to deal with it, no matter what method is used, even iron-blooded methods, anyway, it is a feudal society, it may be just a small episode, and it will stop after that, but the problem is that in Xihai City Most of the soldiers were taken away by Zhang Liao and Han Zheng, and the remaining forces in the city were not many. In addition, these officials were a little lax and could not respond quickly to call for reinforcements, so the first day was only a small-scale chaos at first. , but as such chaos was not stopped in time, it slowly turned into large-scale chaos the next day.

   On the third day, Tai Shici rushed to Xihai City with his people, and there were already many fires in the city.

  Seeing the city gates open and the streets covered with blood, Tai Shici was furious.

  Now the streets are empty, every house is closed, every house is locked, and there is a dead silence.

  Some large houses near the street have their doors opened, and various sundries can be vaguely seen scattered, and some **** smell comes from them.

   Tai Shici gritted his teeth.

Suddenly, there was a grunt under Tai Shici's horse's hoof, and a black object was kicked out by the horse's hoof. This accident seemed to startle the horse, and the horse stood up, screaming twice, and Fang fell Come down and snort twice.

  At this time, Tai Shici discovered that the thing that had just rolled under the belly of the war horse was a human head.

  In the distance, on the streets, and in the alleys, there are also corpses in disorder.

   And farther away, there are officials and military academies who came in a hurry and stayed in the city and received the information after a long time.

"How is this going? ! Tai Shici asked angrily, "Why is there chaos in the city?" ! 』

  The left-behind clerks squinted at the military academy, and the military academy squinted at the clerks. After a while, they all said in unison, "The villain doesn't know..."

  『I don’t know? ”Tai Shici’s hand on the handle of the knife loosened and then tightened, then tightened and then loosened, “Then what do you know? 』

  『The rioters, the rioters attacked the city, killing innocent people...』

  Tai Shici sneered, "Rebellious people? So why are these people rioting? 』

  『This... I don’t know...』 The civil servants and the military academy bowed their heads deeply and remained silent.

  『So what did you all do? 』Tai Shici took a few breaths to stabilize his emotions.

  Speaking of this, the left-behind civil servants and military academies are excited.

  They scrambled to talk about how much contribution they had made, how much effort they had made, and how much they had protected the safety of the people when the riots occurred, especially protecting the important facilities in Xihai City from being disturbed by rioters and so on.

  As for whether most of the protected people belong to the family members of officials and officials, and whether the important facilities guarded include their own houses, there is no need to elaborate.

  Tai Shici suddenly understood why Fei Qian asked him to say those things on purpose.

  The problem of the Western Regions is not just a problem of Lu Bu alone, even after Zhang Liao has cleaned it up, it is still the same.

  With Zhang Liao here, Xihai City seems to be all right.

  As soon as Zhang Liao and others left, something went wrong in Xihai City.

   What is this?

  Are the left-behind civil servants and military academies afraid?

   Neither scared nor scared.

Deep down in their hearts, they actually know that there is a problem with doing so, just like when Tai Shici questioned them, their silence and uglyness have already proved this point, for them, there is actually a basis Shame and sense of responsibility, but avoided, just like avoiding Tai Shici's question from them.

   Not sure.

have no idea.

  Under investigation.

awaiting notice.

  Tai Shici looked at these people silently. These people stood humbly with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

  Is this a sign of awe?

   Indeed, it's just that what these people fear is not Tai Shici, but authority.

  The authority represented by Tai Shici.

  『You guys…』 Tai Shici glanced past them, looking at the blood-stained street, and said, “Xihai City has only been built for a few years…”

  The left-behind civil servants and the military academy looked at each other, and went inside if they didn't know.

   "Pass the order down," Tai Shici was too lazy to argue with these officials and the military academy, "Immediately rectify and clean up the riots in the city, and put out fires and disasters!" 』

  The military academy and civil servants who stayed behind responded loudly, and then they took action.

  『General, why did you not use military methods to kill these silverfish? ’ Tai Shici’s confidant asked.

  Tai Shici looked at those left-behind civil servants and military academies who seemed to be full of vitality suddenly and began to shout and drink, "No hurry. My lord has something to say, if something big happens, you should be calm... There are some problems here, I haven't fully figured it out yet... Stabilize the situation first, and when I figure it out, it won't be too late to deal with these people slowly! 』

  (end of this chapter)