Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6 Heading to Julu
The autumn wind is bleak, everything is sad, and there is another year of severe drought. Thousands of miles of fertile fields have failed to harvest, and the people have left their homes and become refugees. Wild dogs walk in the Tao and feed on the dead, and the cannibal dogs are grouped together to feed on the living.

There are more and more refugees, and there is no food left in the counties and cities. Officials and gentry all want to feed domestic slaves and ministers. They would rather rot wine and meat on the table than give them away. The food of domestic dogs is not a hundred times that of ordinary people.

Along the way, Xiang Yu witnessed the tragic situation of Yi Zi cannibalizing each other, and Xiang Yu couldn't help but feel a little sad. He thought that at the end of Qin Dynasty, although the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty was brutal, it was not as good as it is now, and the weeds on the roadside were stripped off. , The bark is shoveled off and eaten. If there is a mouse running along the road, it will attract people to surround and compete for food.

Xiang Yu killed the powerful family that robbed Zhou Zhuo's property that day, and became a fugitive wanted by the government. The wine shops in the city may still have wine and meat to eat, but once he leaves the city, it is like entering a purgatory on earth. The tragedy can be seen everywhere. Of course, Xiang Yu is not a kind person. Although he feels a little sadness for these common people in his heart, he doesn't have more energy to help them. Those ferocious and man-eating wild dogs may be like a real thing to the weak common people. Tigers and wolves are generally terrifying, but to Xiang Yu, they are just delicacies in his belly.

Xiang Yu had a ring-shoulder knife in his hand, even if dozens of wild dogs besieged him, he would not be his opponent. He specially searched for these wild dogs along the way, and as long as he encountered them, he could kill as many as they could. Cut off the best part of the wild dog's body, and then find an open place to light a fire and roast it.

The meat of the wild dogs that have eaten people seems to be more delicious. For Xiang Yu, he does not think that the wild dogs that have eaten people will be different. Thinking that he also cooked living people in the past, in this troubled world, he can Survival is the most important thing.

All the wild dogs that Xiang Yu killed were thrown on the ground, and many people would follow behind Xiang Yu. Whenever he finished killing the wild dogs, he would wait for Xiang Yu to pick out the good meat first, and then share the food. There were quite a few people following behind him. These people saw that Xiang Yu acted swiftly and resolutely, and their eyes were quite murderous, but they didn't dare to greet Xiang Yu, they only dared to follow at a distance.

Xiang Yu knew this too, but he didn't seem to care about it at all. He just walked forward every day. Xiang Yu's foot strength was extraordinary, and most of the people who followed him couldn't follow him for a long time. They were often thrown away by Xiang Yu after a day or two.

He followed the official road, heading north all the way, heading for Julu County.

Xiang Yu was disheveled, and entered the city together with many refugees. There were few officers and soldiers guarding the city gate. Xiang Yu didn't think much about it, and walked straight into the city.

Xiang Yu went to a place and saw that someone built a porridge shed to put porridge, and there were countless hungry people queuing up to get the porridge. God bless, the world is peaceful!"

In addition to receiving a bowl of porridge, some hungry people also received a piece of paper talisman from the hands of a few people who had dotted the rune on their heads with white ash. Everyone who received the paper talisman showed joy on their faces. The color of gratitude.

Xiang Yu stood watching from a distance, and in the next few days Xiang Yu also walked around the city. He found that these porridge shops were run by local officials and those who claimed to be Taiping Taoists.

The founder of Taipingdao and their leader, Zhang Jiao, would appear near the porridge market from time to time. Zhang Jiao often held a nine-section stick in his hand, and led the crowd to draw and recite spells. Whenever Zhang Jiao appeared, the porridge From time to time, there will be a burst of high-pitched tsunami-like voices near the field. Many of the hungry people are already so hungry that they are thin and thin, but at this moment they can have extra strength to follow. Shout together.

Zhang Jiao claimed that everything he said came from the "Taiping Jing", and called himself a great virtuous teacher.

After Xiang Yu saw it, he found it interesting, because in fact, instead of arresting Zhang Jiao for these activities of gathering people to preach, the local officials took the initiative to cooperate with Zhang Jiao and facilitate Zhang Jiao's Taipingdao activities in many ways. It is also for this reason that Taipingdao has spread at an extremely fast speed.

A month later, Xiang Yu could clearly feel that there were many more believers in the city than when he first came, but even though Zhang Jiao always claimed that the purpose of establishing the Taiping Dao was to protect the common people with the power of Huang Tian, ​​what he did Everything is to replace Huang Tian and save the common people, but Xiang Yu is quite clear in his heart that there is no such thing as a so-called saint without any selfishness in this world, let alone a so-called savior. It is to strengthen his own power. As for where this growing power will go in the end, Xiang Yu is not too sure.

Although the number of believers in the Way of Peace is increasing day by day, most of them are just a group of mobs. Even in Xiang Yu's view, they are not even a mob. The number of people has never been a measure of an organization or a group. The most important factor in the strength of an army, Xiang Yu, who has always been good at winning more with less, is even more aware that sometimes the integration of low-quality personnel may not necessarily bring benefits, and there are hidden fatal weaknesses in it.

Back then, with less than 5 troops, Xiang Yu broke the boat on the Julu battlefield and defeated the 40 Qin army commanded by Zhang Han and Wang Li in one fell swoop. After defeating the nearly 3 Han army led by Liu Bang, even in the final besieged situation, Xiang Yu was still able to charge and kill the thousands of Han troops with only a few dozen cavalry troops. It can be seen that at least in Xiang Yu's hands, the outcome is decided The most critical factor is not the absolute number of soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of the soldiers themselves and the battlefield command ability of the generals who command these soldiers.

You must know that even though Xiang Yu had the invincible courage back then, he was still a mortal after all. It is possible for one person to fight hundreds of people, but it is naturally impossible for one person to fight thousands or even tens of thousands of people. Therefore, the main reason for being able to win more with less is definitely not because of Xiang Yu's own bravery and combat skills, but more importantly because of his ability to train soldiers and his genius on-the-spot command ability.

However, although these ordinary people may not have any strong combat power, their advantage lies in their large number. On the way to Julu County, Xiang Yu also passed through many states and counties. The development of Taiping Road is extremely rapid. You can see some people in yellow robes drawing talismans and chanting spells, which means that this way of peace is likely to have spread in other states and counties. When it has such a huge mass base, it means This so-called great virtuous teacher who seems to be talking about God holds a very huge power or potential power.

The essence of power lies in control. Whether it is through the administrative system, military deterrence, or ideological control, the fundamental purpose of each method is to control others for its own use. The government establishes the rule of an autocratic country through military deterrence and administrative systems. The land within its jurisdiction may be divided into prefectures, counties and counties, and managed by local officials, or entrusted to kings, uncles, and marquises as their jurisdictions, and the territory is self-governing.

If all the people in the world agree with this kind of management, then this kind of governance system will be relatively stable. The power of the government is based on the people. As the saying goes, the country is a boat, and the people are water. People who understand the people must be able to grasp power and potentially huge power, which is called the aspiration of the people.

Xiang Yu has already keenly smelled the breath in the air, the breath that the whole world is about to go into chaos. The peasant uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang at the end of Qin Dynasty also fired the first shot to destroy the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu knew that these peasants Although the rebel army led by them has limited combat effectiveness, the greatest power of their uprising lies in shaking the foundation of the entire country's rule, that is, the hearts of the people. The country's war machine was put down, but then the local forces would quickly embrace themselves and quickly disintegrate the entire empire to form a new melee pattern.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this chaotic situation lasted for hundreds of years before it was finally unified by Qin Shihuang, and the melee situation of the princes at the end of Qin Dynasty did not last for too long. In fact, Xiang Yu had a chance to dominate the world at the beginning, but he himself did not. Not as ambitious as Qin Shihuang or even Liu Bang, but just wanted to become a Western Chu overlord. Until later, when Liu Bang's power gradually grew, he had gradually missed the best opportunity to defeat Liu Bang, and the world returned to unity. Big trends are hard to change.

Later, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and most of the systems followed the Qin Dynasty. The difference was that in the early Han Dynasty, the enfeoffment system was retained in order to win people's hearts. Liu Bang even granted many kings with different surnames. As the kings with different surnames were gradually eliminated, These fiefdoms returned to the clan of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty continued to use the system of prefectures and counties in parallel with the enfeoffment system for the next 400 years.

However, as more and more princes were enfeoffed, they became more and more threatening to the central government. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the Tuen Decree to gradually disintegrate the power in the hands of these princes. The Tuen Decree stipulated that the original princes After his death, except for the eldest son who has the right to inherit, the rest of the descendants have certain inheritance rights, thus gradually dividing the original large fiefdom into many small territories. After inheriting the land, these remaining descendants are called Liehou. The prefectures and counties have management rights over these lieutenants.

Since then, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of these princes and vassals has been very weak. On the contrary, some local state officials and local tyrants have quite powerful power.

Xiang Yu decided to change his strategy. On the one hand, he continued to secretly observe the development of Taipingdao, and on the other hand, he began to look for people who could provide him with sufficient resources.

And what kind of person can provide Xiang Yu with the resources he wants?
(End of this chapter)