Three Kingdoms: The Guan Family's Rebellious Son, Long Blessing Jing Xiang

Chapter 252 The people are the most important, the society is second, and the king is the lightest!

The eagle is a ferocious carnivorous bird with a large body and a strong temper.

Because its territory is the vast sky, its heart is higher than the sky. How easy is it to tame it?
The so-called - boil the eagle.

It is a way for humans to tame eagles.

In layman's terms, when the eagle is sleepy, he is not allowed to sleep, and the owner is also not allowed to sleep. People and eagles support each other like this, and sometimes they can't sleep for days and nights.

This is because it doesn't matter whether the eagle eats or not, because physical pain will not make it succumb.

But don't let it sleep, because once it sleeps, it will dream of the vast blue sky again.

After being tortured like this for a few days, the eagle will give in and beg for mercy when his vigor is slowly worn away.

Its wildness has also been worn down, and it will obediently listen to its master in the future.

Of course, because boiling the eagle requires the eagle not to sleep, neither can the human, so the process of boiling the eagle is extremely painful. In the end, it depends on whether the human or the eagle gets down first.

Even, if one is not careful, the eagle boiler may become a one-eyed dragon.

Guan Lin told Lingju in detail what "boiling an eagle" is and how to "boil an eagle". Lingju still had some new doubts: "Then? How can we prove that the eagle has been tamed? "

"It's very simple." Guan Lin explained: "Put a piece of raw mutton in the palm of your hand and stretch it out in front of the eagle. If the eagle eats it, it means that it has been tamed. If you don't eat it, it can only be said It’s not enough to endure it...you have to continue to endure it, of course, you can also judge by stroking it, if the bearer strokes the eagle’s head and the eagle doesn’t resist, it also shows that it has been tamed.”

Speaking of this, Guan Lin smiled, "Of course, if you boil an eagle, it may take seven days for a long time, but 'boil a person' is different, just like you just mentioned about the young son, in my opinion, at most I couldn’t stand it for two days, so I’m going to do it all.”

Lingju nodded half-understood.

Guan Lin looked at her like this, as if she didn't understand the essence of "boil the eagle". "Come on, let me accompany you to interrogate the 'golden master'... Whether it's 'boil the eagle' or 'boil the man', it can be regarded as an example for you."

Lingju had been waiting for Guan Lin's words for a long time.

She grabbed Guan Lin and said urgently, "Go now..."

This has nothing to do with "voting a certificate", Lingju really wants to know, is this method of "boiling the eagle" effective?

In more detail, Lingju is not only interested in boiled eagles, but also interested in Guan Lin.

"Niang Niang is still cooking..." Guan Lin glanced at Diao Chan who was busy in the kitchen...

"Eat one less meal and you won't be hungry..." Lingju pulled Guan Lin and walked out.

Seeing the two of them, Diao Chan shouted, "This meal is about to be cooked, where are you going?"

"I won't be coming back tonight..." Lingju waved his hands and said carelessly.

Before Diao Chan came back to her senses, she and Guan Lin had disappeared here.

ah... ah...

After a strange brain circuit, Diao Chan murmured just now.

"Today...tonight...no...won't you come back?"

These words inevitably made her, a mother, dream about things.

...

...

In the middle of Shu, along the Minjiang River, Liu Bei and a team of civil and military convoys marched mightily.

Finally, in an area full of stone towers, the convoy stopped.

The land of Bashu in this era believed in witchcraft. Stone pagodas like this are very common in villages. Some are used as altars, and some are the strongholds of some churches.

However, since the break between Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, Wu Dou Mijiao has been widely expelled, and many stone pagodas have been vacant, and few people care about it, let alone attract the attention of officials.

Liu Bei got out of the carriage first.

He and Zhuge Liang looked at each other, took a deep breath, and then walked towards the stone tower with heavy steps.

The setting sun stretched the shadows of the two obliquely.

A group of officials look around...

I could only hear the screams of "Wow, wow, wow".

Several crows circled in the sky.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on this land, the black eagle flew over, and dusk officially came, adding a lot of loneliness and desolation to this place.

All civil and military officials couldn't help but pause, feeling that something big is going to happen today.

As I got closer and closer to the stone tower...

Inexplicably, there was a bloody smell in the air, which made people feel very sick.

Ma Su asked Yang Yi, "Where is this going?"

Yang Yi shook her head: "I only know that Army Master Zhuge has been preparing for this day for a long time..."

This…

Ma Di bit his lip slightly. He felt a sense of loneliness that, as Zhuge Liang's closed disciple, he didn't know about such an important action...even being excluded.

However, the overwhelming depression in the air left him with no time to think.

"what sound?"

Ma Su suddenly heard something...not the crow's "wow" cry, nor the sound of an eagle hovering in the air looking for food, it was more like... sobbing.

It's a child, no... a doll's sobbing.

These voices came faintly from the stone towers.

At the same time, Ma Su also saw several old men walking out of the stone tower with empty bamboo baskets on their backs.

"This is…"

Before Ma Su could think deeply, the eye-catching plaque on the stone pagoda in front of him was already in front of him:
— Eagle Tower!
Ma Su couldn't help thinking.

——"The origin of this name...is it the stone tower occupied by eagles? 』

At this time, Liu Bei had already walked towards the old men who came out of the stone pagoda. He deliberately raised his voice and asked the old man, "What do the old men do here?"

"I didn't do anything... I didn't do anything..." Seeing so many people, such a big battle.

The old man was terrified for a moment.

"I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong..." He and his companions quickly turned around and ran into the eagle tower, and came out after a while, and there were a few more babies in the bamboo basket behind him, to be precise It's a baby girl.

When they faced Liu Bei again, they kowtowed, "This official...we, we are deceived by lard, we will take her back, take her back..."

As they talked, these old men ran away quickly with bamboo baskets on their backs. Because of the bumps in the running, the bamboo baskets shook, and the baby girl in it kept crying "Wow".

But these old men are only focused on running, so where should I take care of them?

This sudden scene surprised everyone in the audience.

——“What the hell happened here? 』

At this moment, Zhuge Liang stood under the plaque of the Eagle Pagoda, and he said to Liu Bei: "My lord, please allow me to open the stone gate of the Eagle Pagoda and start this sacrificial ceremony..."

"Sure!" Liu Bei groaned softly, as if he knew what was behind the stone gate of the Eagle Pagoda, and his tone was sad.

- Boom!

The stone door was pushed open, and a group of guards entered it, holding up torches.

With the light in the stone tower.

The crying sound of "woo woo" became more and more resounding.

In the middle, with a sound of "嗤——", several eagles spread their wings and flew out of the stone tower, with blood and unswallowed meat still on their beaks.

——"What the hell is this place? 』

The increasingly weird atmosphere made all the civil and military people feel deeply raised, and some timid ones were even a little timid.

As they walked into it, following the torch... the inside of the Eagle Tower came into view, clearly.

It was cold stone slabs soaked in blood;
Those were baby girls who were either dead or still alive on the stone slabs, but let the insects bite...

For a moment, everyone couldn't help pondering.

——"Is this blood from these baby girls?" 』

——"Could it be... those old people just sent their baby girl here? 』

Thinking of this, countless people's eyes widened, and they couldn't believe the scene in front of them.

Many kind-hearted officials hurriedly picked up the baby girls who were still sobbing and had insects and ants crawling on them, and listened to their cries...

Or some other children who have already cried their last tear and have no strength to cry.

The hearts of the officials were extremely heavy.

Who would have thought that this Bashu... unexpectedly... would have such a stone pagoda hiding such a group of baby girls.

In fact, it is not only Bashu...

There will be such a cruel place in the whole big man, anywhere.

How could these officials, who had read the books of the sages, imagine that there would be such a dark and eerie place under the bright universe!

At this moment, in this sad atmosphere, Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, his tone was very high, but his tone was extremely sad.

——"Everyone has seen this Eagle Tower. I sent someone to check it out. In Shuzhong alone, there are no less than 700 Eagle Towers. It is not so much an Eagle Tower as it is... a Baby Tower!"

Even though he was prepared, Zhuge Liang was still choked with sobs when he was really in the Eagle Tower, amidst the sobbing of the baby girl, seeing this bloody scene.

He was silent for a moment, calmed down, and then continued to speak. "I only recently learned that the actual function of this eagle tower is to 'bury' the corpses of baby girls. From the pre-Qin period to the Han Dynasty today, for hundreds of years, many young babies were born as daughters. They were abandoned by their families in this baby tower made of stone and bricks!"

"Let these fresh lives lie among the countless...baby girls who have become bones, are rotting, or have just lost their breath! Insects and ants bite, they will fend for themselves!"

Zhuge Liang's voice was as calm as possible, but the sadness, the mourning complaining about the injustice of the times couldn't be hidden.

And following Zhuge Liang's words, the civil and military people here were shocked...

Everyone is holding their breath...can't believe Zhuge Liang is telling the truth.

Ma Su quickly asked: "How can someone be so cruel? How can there be parents who are so cruel...put these baby girls into this Eagle Tower?"

Ma Di's eyes almost burst out...

As an aristocratic family in Jingzhou, the scene he saw in front of him had deviated greatly from the world he understood.

"Reason? Does this need a reason?" Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly, "Throughout the ages, I don't know how many babies were drowned by their families because they were daughters, and they threw their corpses in the streets and alleys, letting the sun and rain, and the beasts were hungry! It can be preserved!"

"Have you read the book, don't you know that it is also mentioned in "Han Feizi·Six Antis", 'Parents are to their sons, congratulate each other when they give birth to a boy, and kill them when they give birth to a daughter!'"

"I didn't believe this at first, but I visited many villages recently. According to their stories, in every village, every month, an old woman would skillfully lift a newborn baby girl under the bright sun and throw it into the In the large water basin in the courtyard, take a thick wooden board, press it hard on the baby girl, and completely immerse your baby girl's head in the water... It only takes half a quarter of an hour, and the baby girl becomes stiff, leaving only one The severed umbilical cord is floating in the water... This is called "drowning" in the folks"

call--

Zhuge Liang exhaled deeply. He said this while bearing endless grief in his heart.

But he still resisted the throbbing, and continued to talk.

"If your own family can't do it, you can also ask the neighbors to help, or the old man similar to just now. After seeing that the daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby girl, these old people will bring them to the Eagle Tower. Let the baby girl cry out, and let her fend for herself in the Eagle Tower!"

What Zhuge Liang showed is the darkest side of the Han taxation system since the Zhou Dynasty, which has gone through thousands of years, and even today.

His voice grew shriller.

"Infant drowning is a folk custom. There are eagle pagodas in the townships outside the Hancheng County. There are many records in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and it is still the same in the Han Dynasty. Whether it is a ruled world or a troubled world... the history is endless! Compared with Drowning and throwing away, this seemingly insane and cruel Eagle Tower is actually the best and most honorable belonging for these baby girls!"

Zhuge Liang controlled his emotions as much as possible.

At this time, some people in civil and military could not help but stand up.

It's Huang Zhong... He lost his son in middle age, and the white-haired man gave away the black-haired man. He was devastated.

He is the least able to understand such insane behavior.

"Why? Why are baby girls being abandoned? Do they have to suffer such a vain death? Aren't they born to their parents? Tell us, military commander, why?"

Huang Zhong's eyes were about to burst, and he pointed at the vermilion and cold stone slabs.

"Because that counts as a tax, because of that poll tax!" Zhuge Liang roared as if he had suddenly erupted. "If a baby girl is born, then for a family, an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks, an extra grain, and an extra tax will be needed!"

"But because it's a girl, even when it grows up, it can't do heavy work in the fields. If it's too young, it can't be sold. If you don't marry at the age of 15, you have to pay five times the poll tax, which will only increase the burden on the family. Today's people can't even support themselves, how can they raise their daughters? It is precisely because of this that the family may survive if they are sent to the Eagle Pagoda. The onerous poll tax is dragged to death, starved to death!"

Zhuge Liang groaned in a rare and crazy way: "Otherwise, otherwise...but if there is a way to survive, which parents and relatives are willing to send their child to this Eagle Tower and let her fend for herself?"

poll tax...

The source of all evils lies in the heavy poll tax in the farming era!

"Then..." Huang Zhong's excited tone suddenly became hoarse. His eyes were wide open, as if... what he saw and heard today was something he had never encountered in the environment where he grew up for more than 50 years.

This shattered his three views.

"And what happens to these baby girls?"

"——If there is a kind master, he may take away one or two baby girls, raise them as slave girls, and even serve as his son's housemaid. This is already the best belonging for these baby girls, and more are Fend for itself in this eagle tower."

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang seemed to have heard something, and he quickly shouted:
"Listen, listen to—"

wow wow wow...

wow wow...

Wow…

It seems that because Zhuge Liang's voice is too loud here, the abandoned baby girls in the Eagle Tower next door can hear it.

They seemed to be spiritual, as if they heard the hope of living, they cried and sobbed frantically.

They are also just born in this world...

But fate made them leave again without a choice.

They are not even capable of fighting.

woohoo-

The neighing of these baby girls and the hope of these children made every official cry.

Some officials couldn't help but ran to other Eagle Towers. They wanted to rescue these baby girls and let them escape from this unfair fate and destiny.

only…

As they picked up the baby girls, they realized there was only so much they could save.

As long as, as long as... the heavy poll tax is in place, new baby girls will be sent to this eagle tower every day to become food for wild dogs and eagles.

call--

Accompanied by the heavy exhalation made by everyone.

Liu Bei stepped forward quickly and stood in front of a blood-stained stone slab. He stared at the dried blood and pondered for a long time.

Finally, he spoke.

"Everyone, I also saw... I saw this world, and there is such a dark scene!"

"I saw it too. Kong Ming showed me this scene a few days ago. At that time, I thought... wanted to destroy these eagle towers, but in fact, when I was about to give the order, I realized that this is not at all It’s the Eagle Tower’s fault! It’s the people who sent the baby girl to the Eagle Tower, poor people in misery!”

"In the past, I often thought, what is the difference between my Liu Bei and Cao Cao? I always feel that he Cao Cao slaughtered the city, I Liu Bei saved the people, he Cao Cao took the emperor, I Liu Bei saved the emperor, he Cao Cao wanted to usurp the Han, and I Liu Bei wanted to rejuvenate the Han room, as long as 'everything goes against the law, everything will happen'!"

"But...but when Kong Ming showed me the Eagle Pagoda, and when the answer sheet from Jingzhou made me realize, what is a ruler? I, Liu Bei, if I can finally defeat Cao Cao, I must rely not on what I just mentioned, but on..."

Liu Bei picked up a baby girl who had died and half of her body was cut off by the eagle. He cried and said:

——"What allowed me to defeat Cao Cao was my completely different eyes and mood from his. What he saw in his eyes was hegemony, a wealthy clan, and meritorious nobles, but I could see that it was him, Cao Cao, who lived his whole life. These are the things you can't see!"

"I saw that in the barren fields, and even in the garbage dumps in the market, bursts of heart-piercing cries came out from time to time, one after another, continuous! These cries, I can hear them. Hearts must be held together."

"I saw these baby girls. They were abandoned in the Eagle Tower and could only lie quietly in the tower, lying on the corpses of other girls, lying under this heavy tax and labor, and finally... drifting away in the dust of history , leaving no trace."

"What I saw was the suffering of the people, the cruelty of the heavens, and their silent struggle. What I saw was the deep memorial ceremony under the watchful eye of the ghost of the baby girl that I had never known before..."

Speaking of this, Liu Bei paused, and he bowed deeply towards the cold blood-stained stone slabs.

He pursed his lips, at this moment Liu Bei was already sobbing.

Fazheng quickly handed over the silk pa, and Liu Bei slowly wiped away the tears all over his face.

"I understand, I suddenly understand, isn't the difference between me Liu Bei and his thief Cao, is this 'benevolence' and 'compassion'? If I saw this eagle tower today, but still remain indifferent, if I Realizing that from the Zhou Dynasty to the present Han Dynasty, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of baby girls died every year, I am still indifferent? If I see this heavy burden of head taxpayers, one by one suffering people are oppressed, even The daughter who is born can't be preserved either, 'If you give birth to a boy, you will congratulate her, and if you give birth to a daughter, you will kill her', I am still indifferent?"

"Then what is the difference between me and Cao thief? Am I worthy of the girl babies who have died because of bad habits and burdens for thousands of years? Am I worthy of their gaze from the horizon? Am I worthy of the kindness and love I have always adhered to?" ?”

Speaking of which...

Liu Bei paused, and looked around the crowd: "You are all meritorious ministers of my Liu Bei. You have repeatedly asked me for this fertile and wild land in the Chengdu Plain. It's not that I won't give it to you, but if I give it? What about the chances of these baby girls surviving? Today...it is still the cultivated land, I figured it out, I still want to reward you, but let me see, among you? Who can bear the heavy burden of this cultivated land?"

Speaking of here…

Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang and said, "Kong Ming, read—"

Zhuge Liang took out a government order from his arms in due course.

He read aloud:
"—General Han Zuo ordered to abolish the original calculation and oral taxation of the Han Dynasty, and implement a brand-new land tax and taxation system-the land is united, and the land is divided into mu! From today, all the cultivated land in Jingzhou and Shuzhong will be re-measured , All taxes are paid by those who have arable land, and those who do not have arable land do not need to pay a single cent of tax.”

"General Han Zuo said, immediately announce to the world that wherever General Han Zuo ruled, regardless of men, women, old or young, no 'poll tax' should be collected in any name, and all states and counties should put an end to the habit of drowning female babies! All Han officials must abide by it, breed people, and never pay taxes... If anyone disobeys, he will be executed without mercy—"

Zhuge Liang's voice is not loud, but every word, every sentence - it's deafening!
Because of the opportunity of abandonment of the baby girl.

——The policy of abolishing the number of heads and dividing the taxes into the mu will be strongly implemented in the Shu Han today!
In fact...

The problem of baby girls has been recorded in many ancient books.

In "Han Feizi Six Antis" - "Parents are to their sons, congratulate each other when they give birth to a boy, and kill them when they give birth to a daughter!"

In "Southern History · Liu Zhan Biography" - "Every time Zhan gives birth to a daughter, he kills her, which is very strange to the times!"

In "Song Shiyi·Luo Qinruo Biography" - "In Shaoxing, Ganzhou was judged. The state custom hates women, and they drown when they are born!"

Maybe these...can't show more intuitively how cruel these bad habits are.

For example, including the Rwandan genocide, the Jewish genocide, and even the first and second world wars, the death toll ranged from 500 million to 7000 million.

But... all over the world, the number of people who were killed because they were girls is about [-] million!

This number is too shocking.

In China, it is the so-called "poll tax" that makes this bad habit passed down from generation to generation.

Because of Guan Lin's "spread into the mu"

Zhuge Liang found a way to avoid the tragedy of "baby girl"!

In the same way, this "spread into the mu" is more like allowing Liu Bei to find a brand new path...

One, destined to be the exact opposite of Cao Cao's "strong massacre", and it will surely work.

It's not just about baby girls...

This marks Liu Bei from this moment, what he wants to take is one - the people's line, the people's road!

As the saying goes - the prosperity of politics lies in following the hearts of the people;

What government needs is to win the hearts of the people;

The abolition of the government is against the will of the people.

Because of the fact that everyone is in the mu, Liu Bei's route has been fixed, and he has been deeply tied to the "people".

This route will, as always, be smooth and harmonious!
Yes:
——The people are the most precious, the country is second, and the king is the lightest!
With this in mind, Liu Bei looked around at everyone.

His eyes narrowed, and his tone was meticulous: "Officials, I, Liu Bei, don't want to settle down in one corner, and I, Liu Bei, always want to do something for the big man and the thousands of people. The decree will definitely infringe on the interests of some of you, and I, Liu Bei, apologize to you in advance today..."

"If you accept my apology, then it will be my Liu Bei's brother, who will walk side by side with me and forge the big man after defeating Cao thief into a brand new look!"

If you don't accept it, then it's okay, just throw all the hatred, all the open and dark arrows at me, Liu Bei!Don't hurt the innocent! "

What Liu Bei said...

All civil and military personnel have not reacted for a while, and are still experiencing the shocking brain circuit.

Only Zhuge Liang and Fazheng heard the profound meaning here.

Xuande is... protecting Guan Yunqi!

Protect this unicorn boy who puts forward the national policy of "spending every penny into the mu"!

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　Ps:

　　(Don’t scold me for being stupid, I know I’m stupid, but I’ve always written books like this, I’m used to it, I can’t change it! Let me scold you for you...)
　　(milk sugar is a big water sugar!)
　　(The water poured into the milk candy could have flooded the Seventh Army for Guan Yu.)
　　(The black-hearted author of milk candy, I don’t even want to face it!)
　　(Okay, readers, let’s relieve our anger now! I’m going to continue typing.)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)