Lan Ruochan

Chapter 277
Feng Monu's face turned cold,
"How many people are here? What is the reason?"

"There is only one person, a masked woman who claims to be King Jinna of Tianzong."

"King Jinna?

This woman has always been a loner, and she doesn't interfere with us.

Why is she here? "

Feng Mo Nu looked at Brahmin.

The latter shrugged, obviously unable to answer the question.

"It's all here, so please come in and have a chat.

She came here alone, so she might not be able to swallow us up. "

"Ok!"

Feng Monu nodded, and said to the spy,
"Let her in. Take her directly to the castle chamber."

"Yes!"

A string of silver bell-like laughter sounded in the conference hall, and a young girl with a good figure covered her face with a black veil drifted towards her.

"What a coincidence that King Jin Na came here!
Did you come to see me make a certain joke on purpose? "

Feng Monu asked angrily.

"Hey, is this the Yasha King's way of hospitality?
The little girl came alone because she was afraid of causing misunderstanding by King Yasha.

I didn't come to see your jokes.

Although the eight kings of Tianzong usually dominate one side, they are one body after all.

I'm here to help you catch ghosts. "

"Oh? Then I would like to hear more about it.

Seal it back, watch the seats, serve tea, and be vigilant behind closed doors. "

Feng Monu officially greeted the guests with the welcome ceremony and sat down again with King Jin Na, and then asked,
"How did King Jin Na know that I, Yi Jing, has undergone a change?"

"My spies told me that someone is using the Saintess Shuttle in Yijing Castle to send messages.

I have always been obsessed with the position of the saint, and you all know it.

So when I received the news, I rushed over immediately. "

Feng Monu raised his eyebrows,
"King Jin Na put spies in my village? What's the purpose of this?"

The veil of King Jin Na covered her expression, but it was not difficult to distinguish the sly taste from her voice,
"Yasha King, you have misunderstood.

My spies are not targeting Yi Jingzhai.

Speaking of which, Yasha King should also know this person,

He is the Heavenly Slave of Zhan Snake Villa, ranking fourth.

He hasn't sent out a summons in the past few days, presumably something has happened to him, right? "

"Ding Si...? He is indeed dead."

King Jin Na turned his head and lifted a corner of the tulle, took a sip of tea, and moved gracefully and calmly.
"He suspects that the saint is here at this moment, and remotely controlled an important person in the inner village to commit murder.

This person probably came from Zhan Snake Villa, because Ding Si found traces of the Saintess Shuo on the pillars near his residence. "

"Saint Shuo has not appeared in Jianghu for more than ten years, how does Ding Si know?"

"Ding Si is Liu Chang's cousin. Naturally, he knows about Saintess Shuo."

The imprints of Tianzong's ten fingers correspond to the leader, saint, and eight kings respectively.

The saint is the son of Tianzong's entry into the world, and is usually packaged as a celebrity by the organization, responsible for news collection and distribution, and has a high status.

The last saint came from the branch of Shenjian Villa, the daughter of Ben Xie.

The Xie family is the mother clan of Liu Chang, the owner of Zhanshe Villa.

If Ding Si thanked his family, it would be no surprise to know Saintess Shuo.

The inheritance of the saintess has always been extremely secretive. Once the identity of the saintess is revealed, the token Jade Girl Shuttle must be given up to choose the saintess again.

At that time, the holy daughter of the Xie family married thirty times and handed over the jade girl Shuo.

Tianzong re-selected the saintess, and there were five finalists, and King Jin Na was one of the five.

It's just that King Jin Na is a high-profile person, and he accidentally slipped his tongue about being shortlisted, so he lost the election.

As for who the other four people are, only the elusive Tianzun himself knows.

It is said that some accidents happened during the selection of the saintess. The new saintess who succeeded the saintess shuttle died suddenly for no reason, and the saintess shuttle disappeared.

The Saintess Information Network will be inherited by another person found by Tianzun.

Now that the Saintess shuttle has reappeared in the rivers and lakes, is it the return of the Saintess back then, or did Tianzun cast another one and secretly chose the Saintess?

Even the three big bosses who are the eight kings of Tianzong couldn't tell the reason for this answer.

"The saint is going to attack me, Yi Jingzhai?"

"It's not the saint who wants to attack you, but the king of Wei.

He sent Tangun Qingyun to come first to find out your reality.

This kid has a lot of tricks, and he must have played tricks on you.

And the missing saint is likely to be lurking beside him.

The spies I placed in Baoyi sent news that the latest evidence appeared at the scene of the murder in the Lu Mansion, and it was actually engraved with the seal of a saint.

It shows that the saint once participated in the case of the Lu Mansion.

Qingyun and Tanzong Shuangshu beside him were also there at the time!

Now that the Saintess Shuttle has entered Yijing Village, it is obvious that people following Qingyun have infiltrated in.

You and I join forces, I want a saint, wouldn't it be a pleasure for you to capture Qingyun? "

Feng Monu curled his lips and said,

"King Jin Na's eyeliner is all over the world. Could it be that he has inherited the intelligence network of the saint?"

"King Yaksha, your question is a little unruly."

Feng Monu looked up and laughed,
"I understand, I understand! I shouldn't ask."

The Brahmin who had been silent for a long time suddenly interrupted,
"How does King Jin Na want to catch ghosts?"

"I want to first understand what troubles Yi Jingzhai has encountered recently, the more detailed the better.

You have to follow the vine to get the melon. "

Feng Mo Nu sighed,
"Hey, it's more than trouble! It's a long story~"

It was indeed a long story, and the three of them chatted for most of the night, and then they killed themselves for no reason, and finished the series of strange and strange stories from the murder of the culprit.

"I want to see the dead body of the culprit."

King Jin Na suggested.

The three came to the morgue, and the culprit's body had been cleaned up in advance.

Clothes removed, wounds scrubbed, apparently inspected for several rounds.

"The fatal injury was shot into the throat by a concealed weapon at close range.

This open wound on the throat was cut open during the examination to see the injury. "

Jin Na Wang frowned slightly,
"With the cultivation of the culprit, what kind of person can shoot a hidden weapon into his mouth at close range?"

Feng Monu and the Brahmin looked at each other and shook their heads together.

"This shows that the culprit was restrained at that time.

I have read the battle reports of the First World War in Jinan.

It is said that Qingyun of the Tanzong possessed a strange magic weapon, which could use the lightning escape technique to make the whole body stiff.

He once took this treasure to defeat the Ximen defenders with his own strength. "

Feng Monu stroked his beard and said,

"That is to say, that kid has sneaked into Ben's house?"

"It is not yet known. The magic weapon is a foreign object after all.

If everyone can drive it, it may not necessarily prove that the deity has arrived. "

As King Jin Na said, he carefully inspected the incision on the culprit's left arm,
"This sword, um, should look like this."

King Jin Na suddenly stood up, pulled out the long sword behind his back, and stood up with his feet.
A person is like a full bow, and a green tip is like an arrow. Once you spit out your strength, it will open like a storm on the sea!

This sword actually drew seven or eight parts of the essence of the Zong family's swordsmanship.

"This, isn't this... Changfengchuanglang, Zongxi's unique skill?"

In his early years, Feng Monu was the queen of the Wei Dynasty, and had several relationships with Hulu Zongxi in the Southern Dynasty.

The two stand against each other, so naturally they greet each other more with swords, so Feng Monu is no stranger to the clan's swordsmanship.

"Really? It is said that Zong Luoyun, the son of Zongxi, has been undercover in Zhanshe Villa for decades, just to kill the culprit.

The king of Wei took this as bait and summoned him to go north.

This person is now traveling with Qingyun. "

"""""Knock on the blackboard time"""""

The author often challenges some public opinions on social platforms, and recently there has been another big battle.The point of view of this challenge is not recent, and the myth has actually been circulating for some time.It is known that there was a sharp drop in the population of China in the Three Kingdoms, which was related to the successive years of war and Cao Cao's massacre during this period. "Three Kingdoms" has repeatedly recorded that Cao Cao slaughtered the city, and Liu Bei's record is excellent, so Cao Cao is the culprit of the sharp population decline.

Regarding this statement, we must first clarify one point.The word Tu has a very different meaning between the Han Dynasty and the current word. "Shuowen" Tu, cut also.And 刳 means to dissect. "Zhou Li" all butchers gather their skin, horns, tendons and bones, and enter the Yufu.These two interpretations are the standard interpretations of the word Tu before the Han Dynasty: 1. Break open, cut open. 2. The profession of peeling horns and bones from hunting.In "Hanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", the basic meaning of massacre is to attack and destroy the city (detailed explanation will be attached later).Not massacre.

There are many reasons for the sharp decline in the official statistics of the three countries.First of all, the author has repeatedly reminded that the statistics of the population of the Han Dynasty are not all the population, but the taxpaying population.The ancient way of counting food and goods is not to go door to door as it is now, but to transform the population according to taxation.This does not include the gentry (those who eat the salary of the city), the aides (those who eat the enshrined offerings of the master's house), and retail investors regardless of the king's land.In ancient times, land was granted at [-] and returned at [-], that is, only those in this age group were required to pay taxes, and only during this period could they be included in the statistics.Therefore, in the census of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the two prefectures of Yongliang and Liangzhou, each county had only a few thousand people, but Dong Zhuo, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Bian Zhang, Song Jian and other princes who dominated one side could be derived.Centrifugalization of official statistics.

Regarding the population issue of the Three Kingdoms, the author will focus on the discussion when writing about the Three Kingdoms.Here we will focus on the interpretation of the word Tu.

Many people have cited counterexamples about the interpretation of killing by the word Tu, but these examples all come from after the Tang Dynasty.This statement was first put forward by Yan Shigu, a famous interpreter. The original words are as follows: Tu means breaking the city.Killing his people is like six animals.This sentence first says that Tu means to break the city.The following is an explanation, (because) killing people is like killing animals. (So) with this analogy.The word Tu, which was originally used to kill livestock, was extended to kill, and it was used to refer to breaking the city.Therefore, the destruction of the massacre must be a fortified city, a destruction of the city with heavy casualties.

Also supporting this point of view is that "Historical Records Suoyin" is also a Tang Dynasty book, which quotes an isolated evidence: According to Fan Yeyun, many people were killed in Kecheng, so Yuntu also.Where Fan Ye's sentence came from is unknown.But in fact, this sentence is the same as that of Yan Shigu: conquering the city kills a lot of people, so it is called Tu.Students with high scores in reading comprehension should be able to sort out the backbone. This sentence explains why Kecheng is called Tu, and the logical succession of the word "Gu" is very important.

Therefore, the fundamental meaning of Yan's and "Suo Yin" is the same: massacre means breaking down a city, but it is not an ordinary breaking up a city, but an attack on a fortified city with great casualties.

Some people say that the author is using the translation to play word games.No.Because Yan Shigu and Fan Ye's annotations quoted in the "Index" are all annotated in the same place.It is the section of Gao Zu Tu Pei in "Han Shu".The original text is as follows:
There are hundreds of Gaozu's people. ...Gaozu shot at the city with a book and silk, and said to Pei's father and elder: "The world has suffered from Qin for a long time. Although the elders are guarding Pei's order today, the princes have risen together, and now Tu Pei. Pei is now punishing the order, and it can be established. , In order to respond to the princes, the house and family will be finished. Otherwise, father and son will be slaughtered, and there will be nothing to do."

It is well known that Liu Bang was a native of Pei, and when Liu Bang rebelled, hundreds of people gathered at that time.Pei Ling confronted him.Liu Bang shot a book into the city, saying that I will be Tu Pei today, and the fathers and villagers will either rebel against me, or everyone will be killed and injured.In this context, what Yan Shigu and Suo Yin said is obviously correct. Liu Bang threatened to destroy the city at any cost, not massacre in the modern sense.He couldn't do it emotionally, even with hundreds of people under his command, he couldn't do it emotionally.This allusion just shows that the massacre of the Han Dynasty refers to the attack and destruction of the city, not the massacre today.

If the judges still feel ambiguous, today we can make an unprecedented extreme commentary.The author has counted all the places where the word Tu appeared in "Three Kingdoms", a total of 58 places, including 25 places in the original biography, and 33 places in Pei's annotation. We use exhaustive methods to explore the true meaning of the word Tu at that time.

First, the author sorted out the 58 different interpretations of Tuzi:

A．The structure of Tu X City, that is, the interpretation of Tu City that we need to discuss, has 18 places in total.

B．Obviously interpreted as the use of destroying city defenses (the object is wall, wall, etc.) or conquering (slaughtering).There are 9 places in total.

C．Occupation, butcher, or slaughter of livestock.4 locations

D．Surname or proper noun (Xiongnu Xiutu, Tugebu, Futu, Tusu, etc.).15 in total

E．It is used against killing and killing.Slaughtering cities and killing officials are expressed separately.2 in total

F．Massacre, the meaning of defeat.Massacre is used repeatedly to refer to the killing of individuals.10 in total

"Wu Di Ji"

(Cao Cao) conquered (Lv) Bu and slaughtered Pengcheng. A
(Xia Houyuan) Tu Xingguo. A
(Xia Houyuan) Tu Yuhan. A
(Cao Cao) Tu Di. A
(Pei's note Xiandizhao) slaughtered his cave dwelling. B
(Cao Ren) Tu Wan. A
"Dong Zhuo Biography"

(Pei Note) into the Tujiazi. C
(Pei's note, written by Zhang Wen and Li Jue) However, he slaughtered the royal city and killed the ministers. B
"Yuan Shao Biography"

(Pei's Note, Heroes' Notes) All of them slaughtered their walls. B
(Pei's note, Liu Biao's legacy Tan Shu) Slaughter the city and kill officials. E/Ran Tu each has two or three hearts. D.
"The Story of Zhang Miao"

(Cao Cao) Tu Yongqiu, beheaded (Zhang) Chao and his family. A
(Pei's Note, Heroes' Note) (Yuan) Shu raised his troops in the Kanto, but failed to kill (Dong) Zhuo. B
"Zang Hong Biography"

(Pei's Note, Kyushu Spring and Autumn Period) Tu cracked the city. B
Why gather crowds to watch people slaughter? f
"The Biography of Gongsun Zan"

(Pei's Note, Han-Jin Chunqiu) The final death was slaughtered, and each other cherished it. f
"Biography of Gongsun Du"

(Cao Cao) Tu Liucheng. A
(Pei's Note, Wei Lue) slaughtered Jinzhu. E.
"The Legend of Xia Houyuan"

(Xia Houyuan, Xu Huang) Tu Taiyuan. A
Turn to Gaoping Tuge. D.
"The Legend of Cao Shuang"

(Pei's Note, Biography at the end of Wei Dynasty) Inviting misfortune without form, and being slaughtered. f
(Pei's note, Wei Lue) The hall slaughtered Su badly beforehand. D.
"The Story of Xun Yu"

(Pei's Note, Cao Man Chuan) The army captured Lu, Suiling, and Xiaqiu counties from Sinan, and slaughtered them; chickens and dogs were also wiped out, and there were no pedestrians in the town. A
(Pei's note, the classics are omitted) Qing wants to make me follow Tugu's generation. C
"Jia Xu Biography"

(Pei's note, Kyushu Spring and Autumn Period, obviously decorated with literary colors) Seven states swept across, slaughtering 36 square meters. A
"Su Ze Biography"

(Pei's note, Wendi Zouwen) In the past, Han Sui saw the slaughter and exile. B
"Zheng Hun Biography" quotes the later Han books to say about the Huns, and the text is brief. D.
"Cao Zhi Biography"

Due to the difficulties of the country, although the body is slaughtered, the merits are engraved on the tripod bell.Class F
Lu Shang's place for slaughter and fishing is extremely humble. C
"Biography of Cao Yan"

(Pei's note, Cao Jiong's letter) and the body has been slaughtered. f
"The Legend of Wang Can"

(Pei's note, Wei Lue) Meat from Rufei butcher's machine C
"Biography of Chen Qun"

The whole city was slaughtered and a whole state was destroyed. B
Tu Longyou. A
"Leading the Legend"

Insulting the artifact is the only way to slaughter it. f
"Guo Huai Biography"

Liangzhou Xiutu Hu Liang Yuanbi et al D
"The Legend of Wuqiu Jian"

Tuguli Sodu A
"Zhuge's Birthday"

(Zhuge) Dan, (Wen) Qin slaughtered, (Tang) Zi also gave birth to poultry F
"Biography of Yiren" all come out of "Buddha" D
"Fei Shi Biography"

(Xiang Yu) Tu Xianyang. A
"Biography of Qiao Zhou"

Butcher Wanglang, swallow bronze horse. (Parallel prose is used for antithesis, meaning to break) Class B
"The Story of Fei Yi"

(Pei's note, Yin Jitong's language) There was no advice at the beginning, the training of Kaner, and the slaughter F
"Zong Yuzhuan"

(Pei's note, Wu Li) Can't help each other, just sit and watch Tu Fu. f
"Biography of Sun Ce"

(Sun Ce) Tu Dongzhi. A
"Biography of Sun Quan"

(Pei's note, Jiang Biao's biography.) Then he slaughtered the city, and the owl (Li) Shushou moved more than [-] people from his tribe. A
(Sun Quan) then slaughtered his city (Jiangxia). A
"Biography of Sun Hao"

(Pei's Note, Jin Dynasty) (Chengyang Duwei Zhang Qiao closed the gate and defended himself) Zhuge Liang, the deputy army commander of Wu, wanted to slaughter him. A
(Pei's note, Jin Dynasty) has been slaughtered (Cen Hun). f
(Pei's Note, Discrimination of Death) The suburbs of Tuyong and Shu in the west, and the Huai and Han in the north. B
"The Legend of Huang Gai"

Dance the sword to slaughter the city. A
"Biography of Sun Chen"

He also destroyed the Buddha Temple and beheaded Taoists. D.
On the whole, among the 58 places, only 20 places A+E belong to the concept category of ancient city massacres, and the remaining 38 places have nothing to do with massacres.

The common characteristics of these 20 massacres are fierce battles, fortified cities, large numbers of enemy troops, and tragic city attacks and defenses.

There are several records here that illustrate the problem. The first is the "Huang Gai Biography": "Kai Fu, Gai follows the strategy and power, smashes the armor and circles around, and slaughters the city with the blade."This sentence is an ironclad proof that the massacre explained the battle to break the city, and there is no possibility of interpreting it as a massacre.

The second was Sun Quan's defeat of Li Shu: he slaughtered his city, took the head of the owl Shu, and moved more than 3 people from his trilogy.Li Shu's forces have three thousand officers and soldiers (Sun Ce's biography) and tens of thousands of bandits (Liu Fu's biography).After Sun Quan broke the city, he could still recruit [-] people, that is, there was no massacre, and the numbers will not lie.

The only thing related to the massacre is Cao Cao's famous black spot.However, this account comes from Pei Zhu's "Cao Man Biography", which is well-known and well-known. This article is dedicated to slandering Cao Cao.Whether Pei's annotation is credible or not, we have to analyze the classics.Cao's concealed biography was done by Wu Mingshi, similar to combat leaflets, it was completely a play to slander the enemy generals.It is said that Cao Cao was invisible when he was young, and pretended to have a stroke to avoid blame.I like to work with advocates.The cards for the expedition are big, and they sit on the bed.Ma Chao came to intercept, but Cao Cao was still sitting on the Hu bed, and the shit was killed.There is also the famous stalk of Mojinfaqiu from here. It is the master of Cao Cao's black material, and it is also the style of historical novels that all those who attack Cao Cao regard it as the original scripture of "Three Kingdoms".

The Xuzhou massacre caused the flow of Surabaya to stop, which is also the stem of the flow here.It's just that in the original text, Cao Cao beheaded tens of thousands of people, Sishui Duiliu and Tuzhu County are divided into two sentences, and there is an obvious chronological order.That is to say, beheading and slaughter are two things, although they both happen, they should not be confused.

To sum up, the usage of the word Tu in "Three Kingdoms" has almost nothing to do with today's concept of massacre.The object of the verb Jiangtu is extended from beast to human, which is formed by the long-term development of linguistics.The interpretation of the Tang Dynasty is still not much different from that of the Han Dynasty.We cannot deduct the meaning of modern language from history books.

As for why Liu Bei didn't "slaughter the city"?Because he really has never fought a battle against a city.When entering Sichuan, he besieged Fucheng. At that time, Liu Bei's soldiers were mainly soldiers sent to him by Zhang Lu, as well as the newly surrendered Wu Yijun and Li Yanjun.They can besiege the city and build momentum, but it is impossible to really tear themselves apart with their colleagues for so many years.

(End of this chapter)