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

Chapter 299 Survival in troubled times requires both strength and luck
The blood-colored setting sun filled the sky, dyeing this bloody battlefield red.

The battle on Jiming Mountain, no... To be precise, it was in Jiming Valley, the unilateral massacre was finally over.

Blood everywhere, corpses everywhere!
Crows hovered in the sky, as if seeing new food.

I can't wait to see through the corpses.

Before they have a full meal, the losers...that is, these people who have buried their souls and bodies in Jiming Mountain forever, they must first accept the "exploitation" of the "winners".

Their armor, the coins on their bodies, the tokens of their families, these... all belong to the victors.

Soldiers from the Nanyang Army and the Lu Family Army have already begun to clear the battlefield.

The crossbow bolts of Liannu are collected, washed and dried, and can be used again.

Who didn't hide some valuables in their pockets.

Cao Jun's armor seems to be harder than what they were wearing, and there are weapons, these are precious treasures.

The battlefield is inherently cruel.

On the contrary, Lu Xun and Hou Yin were still standing on the top of the mountain, despite the setting sun like blood, they were chatting with great interest.

Lu Xun exclaimed.

"What do you mean? According to the letter that Mr. Yunqi wrote to you, no matter whether it is Cao Cao, Liu Bei, or Sun Quan who ended this troubled world, there will definitely be a distribution of upper, middle, and lower classes in this world again. Is it?"

In Lu Xun's sentence, he specifically introduced the term "class" that Hou Yin just explained...

Just now, Hou Yin mentioned that half of the dozens of letters between him and Guan Lin were talking about this so-called "class division"!
This also made Hou Yin deeply understand the composition of this world...

Understand the origin of the contradictions in this world, the origin of the Han rebellion.

At this moment, he let out a deep breath, and explained lightly: "Yes, classes exist forever. Guangwu Zhongxing just overthrew a class and established a brand new class with Guangwu as the ruler..."

Speaking of which, Hou Yin drew the sword on the stone steps on the sole of his feet, and as the edge of the sword sharpened, he drew a triangle...

He divided the triangle into three.

"This is the class distribution mentioned in Mr. Yunqi's letter. The most people stay at the bottom, and the fewest people stay at the top. Those at the top are responsible for formulating the rules of the world, while the middle...that is, those wealthy families, they are attached to the top. The ruler, however, built a deep moat between them and the lower class, preventing the lower class Li and Shu from crossing the class at any time to seize their position in the middle class..."

Hearing this, Lu Xun only felt that it was too novel. This was a truth that he had never heard of since he was a child, and a concept that he had never felt.

But... As a big family in Wu County, Lu Xun can deeply feel that it is true.

Hou Yin's words continued, "According to Mr. Yunqi's theory, this class will always exist. After all, Uncle Liu unified this chaotic country, then there will also be some brand-new middle classes, and a deep moat will be established as always. , to prevent the people at the bottom from crossing this class!"

"...Didn't this story just keep repeating after Guangwu Zhongxing? Especially during the period of the Second Emperor Huanling, the governance at the bottom was completely out of order, anomie, and out of balance... What caused this was the collusion between the high-level and the middle-level, and the low-level The common people are oppressed to the extreme, and there is no hope at all?"

hope…

In fact, it still exists, especially at the end of the Han Dynasty, if you want to counterattack, one of the indispensable conditions is the help of nobles!
Under the official selection system of the procuratorial system, without the criticism of celebrities and the support of higher-level officials, it is too difficult for a white body to break through.

However, it is not impossible.

Either after showing talent, or by luck, after gaining a good reputation by chance, being valued by a big family, marrying the daughter of a big family, or becoming a disciple of a celebrity, and then the relationship with the master and apprentice through marriage will skyrocket .

This is the only way!

To be more awesome, you can learn from Dong Zhuo, recognize the Yuan family as the eldest brother, and then lead the troops into Beijing and push the eldest brother away!

all in all…

In this day and age, if you simply want to work hard on your own, hehe, let's wash up and sleep!

"Then..." Lu Xun asked back: "Young Master Yunqi, how does he solve this problem? How does he destroy this deep moat built from the middle to the bottom?"

"Exam!" Looking at the red blood in the valley, Hou Yin sighed, "It's an exam! An exam that is a hundred times more cruel than this battlefield!"

Before Lu Xun could react, he murmured, "Exam? Exam?"

It's not that he doesn't understand what exams are. In private schools and government schools, there are often exams in stages...

But how can a mere exam resolve this class conflict?

"That's how I asked Mr. Yunqi in the letter back then." Hou Yin looked at Lu Xun at this moment, as if he saw himself when he exchanged letters with Guan Lin in the past, and he continued to explain: "Why did the lower class rebel? Why did they The Yellow Turban Uprising broke out? Was it because they were afraid to wear clothes when they were cold, or to eat when they were hungry? Yes, but not completely. I have been the prefect of Wancheng for so many years, and he has seen through it... This is why when I rebelled against Cao Cao, I responded to everyone!"

"This is because they can't see hope...their life, the life of these Li Shu, they can see the end at a glance. As long as they become tenant farmers, they will be tenant farmers for the rest of their lives. There is no hope of promotion...Mr. It's not hunger and cold, it's the loss of hope!"

"So, what if some low-level people are allowed to jump through the dragon's gate through a fair examination? Allow them to pass this step, show their talents, be valued by the high-level, and thus become officials, become a clan, and enter the middle class? If this exam is fair, it can... let the bottom middle class, because their children cannot pass this exam, gradually, the official title of one generation is not as good as that of the previous generation, and gradually loses the light of the middle class, and becomes the bottom... and so on, the middle class and The bottom will flow, and the Li Shu at the bottom will have more hope... And hope is the easiest way and method to keep the bottom from being disturbed!"

"It's not hope!" Hearing this, Lu Xun gritted his teeth. He felt as if he understood and had a deep understanding, "It's fairness...it means that the children of the lower class can stand on the same line as the children of the middle class. Competing for the position of this official in a fair way, like this, the middle level will feel oppressed, will be reduced to the bottom, and the bottom will have more hope... even if it is one in a hundred, there is more hope to become the middle level..."

Speaking of this, Lu Xun thought of something again, he quickly shook his head, "Actually, this is not fair, because where do the people at the bottom have so many opportunities to study? But the children of the middle class, they can easily enter private schools... It is inherently unfair to select officials through examinations!"

"As expected of Boyan..." Hou Yin was relieved, and stared deeply at Lu Xun. He found more and more that Lu Xun was exactly what he thought.

The question Lu Xun is asking now is the same question he asked Guan Lin back then.

"So, I also threw this question to Mr. Yunqi, but he...sent me two atlases, one is the atlas of the improved and extremely low-cost papermaking technology, and the other is the atlas that can print books at will. According to these maps, documents can be produced in batches, and according to his idea...the most urgent task is to solve the problem of filling the stomach and putting on clothes, and the next thing to be solved is the popularization of books, the popularization of characters, and the The problem that everyone can read..."

This…

Lu Xun seemed to be intimidated.

He finally understood why... a prefect of Nanyang Wancheng, a prefect with a heavy army in his hand, and a prefect who was entrusted with important tasks by Cao Cao.

Because of the letter with Guan Lin, he stood on the opposite side of Cao Cao without hesitation, and stood firmly on Guan Lin's side.

gosh...

What kind of picture did Guan Lin paint to him?
It's not about being compassionate, or hypocritically saying that thousands of people can live a good life.

It's not realistic at all...

Pang, Ma, Xiang, and Xi in Jingzhou followed Liu Bei to travel north and south, fighting bloody battles, and they didn't live a good life. How can the low-level Li Shu live a good life?

What Guan Lin describes is a more realistic, more stable, ideal world.

People don't have to pay poll tax;

The heavy taxes are all distributed among the fields;
Everyone can read, read to take an exam, and take an exam to become an official;
Through hard work, the people at the bottom have the opportunity to cross the dragon gate, and they also have the hope of crossing the class;

The middle class has a sense of oppression, not under the package of the moat, enjoying all resources...

The invisible moat is still there, but a big hole has been poked out.

The high-level is not the same as the middle-level, the rules made by the high-level are to allow the people at the bottom to survive and see hope!
Even the people at the bottom cannot be officials in this generation, and they cannot cross the class.

never mind...

Because there is still the next generation, the next generation, as long as there are "fair" exams, every year there will be carp jumping over the dragon's gate, and there will be people who will rise to the top...

This is different from the past high-level, that is, the ruling class and the middle-level clans colluded together and did not give the bottom a way out.

One exam, one study...one hope!
It is enough to make this world and make this pyramid stable.

"I...I understand..."

Finally, after pondering for a long time, Lu Xun understood, Lu Xun completely understood...

He knows that it is difficult to cross classes, but as long as this hope exists, it is enough for a wave of people to pass the exam every year.

That hope will always exist.

People at the bottom will not complain!
Because the exam is fair, if they fail the exam and fail to be an official, it is because they are not good at academics, because they cannot compete with others, they will not transfer all their hatred to the higher-ups, they will only think that they are not capable!
So... that's enough!
In fact, to be frank, exams...or imperial examinations, for the high-level, it doesn't matter...it's just drizzle.

They are the ones who make the rules, and they are not bound by the rules themselves!
The emperor, the three lords, the seventy-two doctors, and the generals, would they worry about the future of their children?

Do not…

The future of their children, as early as a very young age, the road has been paved incomparably magnanimous.

take an exam…

It's just a way to check and balance the "middle-level clan" and "low-level people", a way to stabilize the whole world!

"These words are insightful, better than the books I have read for 20 or 30 years..."

Lu Xun sighed again...

Hou Yin nodded and said: "Yes, when I saw Yunqi's words for the first time, I was shocked... that's why? I am sincerely convinced and loyal to Mr. Yunqi. To tell you the truth, he I know that the letters are very dangerous, but even now, I am reluctant to burn them, I hide them next to my body, and regard them as the words to govern the world!"

call…

At this moment, Lu Xun let out a long breath.

There's never been a moment like now...

It made him even more enlightened by Lu Xun, and made him even more fortunate...

How lucky?His master is no longer that Sun Zhongmou!

How lucky?His master is Guan Yunqi from Jingzhou!
In terms of this pattern and vision alone, Lu Xun still stood upright on the surface, but he was already on his knees in his heart.

Deeply, thoroughly, dormantly, sincerely kneeling——

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On the path leading to the south gate of Anlu City.

This is a small road that is not often walked by, and it is usually very quiet...

But today, because Yujin's [-] troops passed by, it seemed noisy and chaotic.

Walking through a trail, there is a wide jungle in front...Because of the winter, the grass is overgrown here.

There is some water, because it is not far from the west gate of Anlu City. This is an extremely rare location for supplies and rest. After resting from here, you should go directly to the west gate, and then feint to attack the west gate... Then, turn to raid the south city Door.

Yu Jin is a cautious person, even with ten times the enemy's strength.

Even if it is an easy siege, he will choose to use a smarter method.

"Stop, the whole army rests for a while..."

At this moment, Yu Jin gave an order.

A group of soldiers released water one after another, and those who drank water drank water. No matter how bad they were, they rushed for so long and wiped their faces with water from the lake to wake themselves up.

The war is coming...

On the contrary, Yu Jin remained cautious as always. He looked around. His observation ability was amazing. Even though there were low mountains nearby, the enemy's ambush was easy to be found on this kind of bare mountain in winter.

People can hide, but weapons cannot be hidden...

It is impossible to completely cover up the weapons of the tens of thousands of ambushers, especially the crossbows... it is very difficult not to expose them at all.

Yu Jin observed the terrain again and again, and he was sure that there was no ambush on the nearby mountains...

Or, to be more precise, there was no ambush of more than a few thousand people!

He finally closed his eyes and let out a soft breath.

In his mind, an ambush by hundreds of people is negligible in the eyes of the [-] Runan Army.

but…

His right eye had been twitching ever since he entered the path, as if he had a feeling that something big was about to happen.

At this time...

The surrounding soldiers were washing their faces and chatting.

"What do you say about the widowhood order? What are the conditions to reward another concubine?"

"Don't think about it, there are only a thousand people in Anlu City, how much merit can you do if you do more meritorious service? What's more, the south gate will open there, so it's not your turn to go there first?"

"I heard that the Lu family's army captured the envoy Sima who was sent to Soochow, so his wife is also considered a living wife? That girl... when she was young, she was the well-known 'Chun Xiao Tai Sui'! If you can touch her Bundle…"

At this moment, a voice came out, "If you can catch that Guan family Shiro, you can't keep it...The wife of Sima Yi will become your wife!"

"No, no, no... I dare not!"

The soldier who mentioned Sima Yi's wife waved his hands again and again, showing a cowardly look, "The Sima family is also a prominent family in Hanoi. How could the prime minister not keep the daughter-in-law of such a prominent family for himself? Wife Yi...the prime minister raised her...hahahaha... "

As if to relax the mood, the soldiers joked and laughed at each other.

Normally, despite the strict discipline of the Runan Army, Ke Yujin was still allowed to speak freely before the battle.

Take it easy...it's easier to play his ideal combat power.

but…

Others were relaxed, but Yu Jin's right eyelid twitched even more violently.

For a moment, he had an ominous premonition, but he couldn't say what the premonition was.

But... that is just a hunch, you can't rely on this hunch to...

Just retreat?

"Where is General Dong?" Yu Jin called softly...

"The last general is here!" Dong Chao strode over. He also just turned on the water, and then washed his face again, looking very refreshed.

Yu Jin narrowed his eyes, and said softly, "I suddenly thought, if our army invades from the south gate, what will happen to Guan Lin?"

This…

Seeing that the city was about to be attacked, Dong Chao scratched his head when he said this out of the blue, but in an instant, he suddenly thought of something.

"General Yu, I understand...if our army enters through the south gate, then Guan Lin will run...to the north gate!"

Dong Chao is not considered an elm head...

The west city gate is too close to the south city gate, there is no time to escape, and the east city gate is facing the river, where to escape?And north of the North City Gate... is the main force of Anlu City, Guan Lin will definitely flee there!
"That's right!" Yu Jin nodded heavily on purpose, "So... I plan to send you to lead the troops to ambush at the North City Gate. If Guan Lin comes out of the North City Gate, you will capture him immediately... This will be regarded as a feat. !"

Yu Jin's eyes were full of promise.

But Dong Chao inevitably thought of something else.

——"General Yu Jin is not trying to take credit from me, is he?With so many people, can Guan Lin run away? 』

Yes…

If it was an ambush at the North City Gate, it should have been deployed long ago. How could it be deployed in the end, when it seemed that the city was about to be broken?
This is not in line with the forbidden general's usual style!
Immediately, Dong Chao showed a look of embarrassment, he really didn't want to let the credit come to his lips!

and this…

Just as Yu Jin expected, he realized that Dong Chao had misunderstood him.

And this misunderstanding came just right.

"How about this? General Ben led a troop to the north gate to ambush. General Dong rushed to the south gate immediately. General Zhu Shu was already waiting there..."

As soon as this remark came out, Dong Chao quickly agreed in surprise as if he was receiving an amnesty.

"promise--"

"Thank you, General, for fulfilling it!"

While speaking, Yu Jin ordered two thousand soldiers to withdraw from the trail.

Even when he withdrew, he still felt something was wrong, and his right eyelid twitched even more... He was sure that there was something unexplainable hinting at him.

Or... the smell in the air... and there doesn't seem to be any smell.

All in all, this is an unspeakably weird...

But I can't tell, what's wrong!

Sometimes, I have to believe that some famous generals can survive in troubled times not only by strength!

To a certain extent, the more battlefields you experience, the richer your experience will be.

It will appear, this feeling that cannot be described in words...

At some point, it will play an important role.

It even saved his life!
Perhaps, this is called luck!
really…

The reason is that it is not long before the military vehicles are banned from the battlefield...

Dong Chao, who finally had the opportunity to take charge of a siege battle, stood on a stone step, eagerly drew his knife, and raised his voice...

He felt that the meritorious service was getting closer and closer to him.

"Brothers..." Dong Chao was about to shout, "Follow me straight to the south gate..."

But I heard a "bang bang" sound...

It was a clay pot that fell from the mountains overhead.

Accompanied by a "click", the clay pot collided with the ground and shattered immediately, and an inexplicable white powder was released in an instant. Accompanied by it... There are egg shells, milky white liquid flowing out from it...

This sudden change made all Runan soldiers startled.

but soon...

"Kangdang...Kangdang——"

"Bang Dang Dang Dang..."

Clay pots were continuously thrown from the sky, hitting the resting place of the Runan Army one after another.

With the crumbling of clay pots... with the cracking of eggshells.

As the white powder rises from the sky...

Finally, a soldier realized something was wrong, and he exclaimed, "It's oil... the egg is not egg white, it's oil—"

油…

Especially when this kind of trail encounters oil, especially in this exceptionally dry weather, especially after experiencing the baptism of the Chibi battlefield.

Any Cao Jun general will associate oil with "fire".

All Runan soldiers raised their heads subconsciously...

Through the layers of white powder and dust, they faintly saw hundreds of people standing on the hill and on the low slope...throwing clay pots down continuously...

And there is a person in the middle, a person who is not tall...and not burly at all, and even a little bookish.

It's Jiang Gan...

Jiang Gan watched as the pots fell and smashed, and the flint powder scattered...the fish oil was scattered all over the ground.

This process was very fast, almost overnight, as if he realized that the clay pot was about to be thrown, finally, Jiang Gan pulled up a bow with all his strength, and used all his strength to draw the bow to the full, until his soldiers held the arrows After the front of the arrow is ignited.

"Whoosh"...

A fire arrow flew out.

Jiang Gan seemed to lose his strength, staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Then, in the eyes of each of Cao Jun's soldiers, the white smoke and dust in the sky suddenly turned into gorgeous and dazzling fire dragons——

These fire dragons rapidly became bigger, covered the sky, and fell from the sky...

The temperature also soared to the extreme in an instant!
At this moment, it was as if countless meteors and fire showers fell from the sky as swiftly as lightning.

Fire...fire everywhere.

The falling fire, the soaring fire...the scene...extremely spectacular!

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(End of this chapter)