The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 166: Luo Gongqi is beyond his time, the show begins and he wants to take Liao Hua

After breakfast, Luo Yuan and Xu Shu went to see the giant snake's tomb. The tomb was really big, like a small hill, pointed on the top and round on the bottom. The soil was new, and the grass leaves were still covered with dew.

The tombstone is a piece of wood with the words "Tomb of the Great Snake" written on it.

Luo Yuan laughed and said, "It looks like a crudely built tomb. It's too careless. The big snake is a sacred creature after all."

That's it?

This kind of civil engineering is completely shoddy. Luo Yuan looks down on it. From his perspective as a person who comes from a country obsessed with modern infrastructure, it is completely unqualified.

It's a cemetery after all, can't it be treated like a real one?
It can be seen that the people who manage the cemetery are very unprofessional. First, they did not conduct any measurements, second, they did not choose a site, and third, they just did it casually.

Are you expecting it to become a spectacle overnight and then be used to scare people?

Are you being too anxious?

"My lord, do you think we don't need to care about it?" Xu Shu was a little undecided. This kind of thing was very strange for people of this era.

But for Luo Yuan, it's really not good enough.

It would be better for Zhang Jiao to shout: "The blue sky is dead, and the yellow sky should be established!"

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"What's there to worry about? It's just a small mound of earth!" Luo Yuan laughed and said, "When I look at this tomb, I feel like someone is provoking me!"

There is no other feeling except this one.

Luo Yuan said: "Don't worry about it!"

Just as Luo Yuan had finished speaking, a group of people came over from a distance carrying baskets. When they arrived in front of the giant snake's tomb, they offered sacrifices, knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and asked for blessings.

There are also village elders leading the sacrifice and chanting sacrificial words, which is very formal.

Luo Yuan listened for a while but didn't hear what the village elder was reading. It was probably the local dialect. The village elder walked towards Luo Yuan, and Xu Shu went over to negotiate.

Luo Yuan was the lord, so he would not let outsiders get close to him easily. Xu Shu came back and said to Luo Yuan, "Lord, the local villagers want us to move the military camp. The soldiers are too aggressive and we are afraid that it will affect the big snake's sleep!"

Luo Yuan looked at the village elder with an extremely cold gaze, and Xu Shu felt a chill in his heart when he saw it.

Luo Yuan asked coldly: "Does he want to die?"

What a joke, a military camp can't just be moved.'

How dare an ordinary village elder make such an excessive request to me?

Luo Yuan sneered at the village elder and said, "I will count three times. If you don't retreat, you will be a spy on the army and I will behead you!"

Xu Shu hurriedly said: "My lord, you can't kill people, otherwise it will cause panic among the people!"

Luo Yuan sneered, "If I don't kill people, someone will come to my door. If you dare to plot against me, you must know the price of offending me. The nobles in the city just want me to kill people to provoke a civil uprising, but how can I care? Go and tell the people behind you that if you send food, everything will be fine. If you don't send food, I will kill all of you trash. How dare you plot against me? Are you looking for death?
"How can this noble man do this? Although I am humble, I am still a village elder. The villagers all respect me. I am already seventy years old. I don't need to kneel even if I meet the emperor!"

And he's taking advantage of his age to bully me!

Luo Yuan sneered: "What a pity that I am not the emperor!" So there was no need to be polite to this old man.

The old man was stunned and looked surprised. Luo Yuan's reaction was beyond his understanding.

Who among the Han scholars would be so cruel to an old man? Old men in the countryside have a special status among the people.

Only those who are highly respected and virtuous can be called village elders. This is actually a class of folk self-governance since the Han Dynasty. The Han people live in clan groups and are divided into villages. Among them, the elderly, those with high moral character can be called elders and enjoy some special treatments. They can commit crimes without being punished and assist in local governance.

To stop local lawsuits and settle disputes among the people.

It was even more common not to bow when meeting an official. This custom had become a habit and even continued into the judicial system after the Han Dynasty.

Village elders also have another power, which is the power to recommend talents to the government.

Are there any talented people locally? Who are the talents? The recommendations from the village elders have the final say!

In the Han Dynasty, scholars were recommended and were called Xiaolian.

What is very interesting is that a man like Liu Bei couldn’t even get a filial and honest title, which shows that the customs at that time had long changed. The recommendation system of the Han Dynasty had long been controlled by the gentry, and local elders had basically become the minions of the local gentry.

If Liu Bei had not been lucky enough to have Lu Zhi as his teacher, he would probably have been just an ordinary person.

Luo Yuan's thinking was naturally different from that of people of this era. When he heard that the other party was a village elder, he had already concluded in his heart that this was just another wave of temptation from the gentry. In this case, he naturally would not be polite.

What a shitty village elder. When this guy made unreasonable demands on him, he was already a dead man.

What are you polite?
And from the fact that the gentry sent an old man to disgust him, he could see the attitude of the local gentry towards him!

The local nobles don't like me, but they are also afraid of me.

Xu Shu didn't know why Luo Yuan was so rude to this village elder. Offending a village elder would affect Luo Yuan's reputation. "My lord, you can't kill anyone. This person must have a great influence in the local area. Why don't I go and explain the reason to him?"

How could an army set up camp and move around randomly? Luo Yuan chose this place as the military camp. This place naturally has the advantages of garrisoning troops. The military camp is on a small hill, which is convenient for viewing from a distance. There is a water source nearby and there is no need to worry about the water source being cut off. With a simple construction, it will be a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It's a joke that an old man asked me to move.

Luo Yuan gave Xu Shu face: "Okay, you go and talk to him. If he refuses, you will be beheaded. Don't be polite. Since we can't talk nicely with reason, let's use weapons. It's not just Liao Hua who dares to plunder Yingchuan. I will be even more cruel than Liao Hua. A group of local dogs dare to test this tiger of mine!"

Isn't this just courting death?

Luo Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to this damn old man. He turned around and was about to leave with Huang Zhong and the others, but he immediately stopped and took a look at the snake tomb: "Come here, flatten this damn snake tomb for me. How can we let ghosts and gods sleep soundly beside the army!"

Gan Ning immediately took people and tools to start digging the grave. The village elders were anxious, but they could not stop them at all!
Luo Yuan and his men turned back and said to Huang Zhong, "I predict that strange things will happen in the future. Han Sheng ordered the archers to ambush tonight. If there is any movement outside the camp, thousands of arrows will be fired!"

Huang Zhong nodded quickly: "My Lord, do you think there was a sneak attack at night?"

"A sneak attack? You overestimate them. They are just pretending to be ghosts to scare us away. If that's the case, we will kill them without leaving a single piece of armor. Afterwards, we will say that it was the ghosts who killed us and we knew nothing about it. Send someone to find Liao Hua and bring him back!"

Huang Zhong smiled slightly and said, "My lord, do you want Liao Hua to plunder Yingchuan?"

"No, Liao Hua is a loyal and brave man, but he doesn't trust me so he is unwilling to join me. But I admire this man very much, and there will be a big show in the next few days!" Luo Yuan said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)