The Three Kingdoms: The Cold Gate World

Chapter 26 Kill or not kill
Linjiang City fell into chaos in just a moment. Xiao Zhong first lied about the military intelligence and Qie Yuan sent nearly a thousand officers and soldiers in the city to guard against the bandits. Overwhelmed by himself, he even recruited people everywhere to put out the fire.

As a result, there were only a few people guarding the gates of the prison in Linjiang City, Guo Jia and Gan Ning rushed in side by side holding the three-foot green peak, and rescued the Jinfan thief with lightning speed.

Yongchuan is in the west, so most of the defenders in the city stick to the west gate of Linjiang City. On the other hand, the defenders at the east gate are withered.

On the bank of the river, Gan Ning and his brothers reunited after the catastrophe were full of emotions, but it is not suitable to stay in the wrong place for a long time. Although Qie Yuan is a ignorant county magistrate, it is not impossible for him to send people to hunt down such a big event as a prison robbery Therefore, Gan Ning bid farewell to his brothers and planned to leave with Guo Jia to roam around.

"Brother! What do you mean? Are you going to abandon our brothers?" The Jinfan bandit is famous far and near, and the friendship is also extraordinary. Now everyone heard that Gan Ning was leaving, and they were panicked.

Gan Ning sighed and said: "Mr. and my brothers have been fighting against injustice and fighting for justice over the years. Although punishing rape and eradicating evil has little effect, it has always been difficult to become a big weapon. As it is today, I wanted to kill Qie Yuan dog thief, but instead got hurt. All the brothers have suffered from prison, and a certain one has learned from the pain, and wants to find the hero of the world, join his tent, and do his part to help the world."

The Jinfan bandits immediately expressed their willingness to follow Gan Ning to join the hero, but Gan Ning waved his hand and refused. Firstly, he had no purpose, and secondly, the stance of such a large number of people always had too big a goal. Adding right and wrong.

The crowd had no choice but to make an agreement with Gan Ning to part for the time being. If Gan Ning calls in the future, no matter how many thousands of miles away, he will definitely come to vote.

On the water of the Guili River, a flat boat sailed eastward along the river.

Guo Jia and Gan Ning stood side by side, looking at the Jinfan bandit hero who was drifting away and reluctantly leaving on the shore, Guo Jia expressed his feelings and chanted loudly:
Killing a person in ten steps, not staying behind for a thousand miles, brushing off his clothes when something happened, hiding his body and his name deeply.

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Two days later, Guo Jia and his party left Yizhou and entered the border of Jingzhou.

After landing in Jinping, Guo Jia looked at Gan Ning, who had been holding on to his book for the past two days, and joked: "The Jinfan thief Gan Xingba who laughed at me as a sour scholar in the past, why is he still studying hard all day now? Could it be that he is afraid that there will be someone in Jingzhou? Recognizing you, pretending to be a scholar to confuse people's eyes and ears?"

Gan Ning scratched his head and said embarrassingly: "Feng Xiao, to tell you the truth, since I came out of Linjiang, I have admired Feng Xiao's intelligence from the bottom of my heart, so I have to read this book."

If it were Gan Ning in the past, he would never look at someone like Guo Jia who looked like an elegant scholar with new eyes. At first, he made friends with Guo Jia because of Guo Jia's heroic deeds of burning down the Changsha and buying his life with money. In Jiangcheng, he, Qu Shuai, a Jinfan thief with a good martial arts, was helpless when faced with the situation where his brother was trapped in the prison, but Guo Jia used a little trick to cause chaos in Linjiang City. After rescuing the heroes of the Jinfan bandits from the fire and water, Gan Ning deeply understood the gap between him and Guo Jia.

Guo Jia laughed it off, and walked east with the four Xiao brothers and Gan Ning.

Jingzhou was not peaceful at this time, and there were rebellions in all counties, and the person who led the army to suppress the rebellion was Sun Jian, who had just been named Marquis of Wucheng by the court.

"This Marquis Wu Cheng is so heroic? He put down the rebellion in Ou Xing within a month, and quickly suppressed the rebellion in the counties of Jingzhou across the border. It seems that this man is very unmatched." Gan Ning sighed with emotion.

Along the way, what Guo Jia and his party heard most was the deeds of Sun Jian and Jingzhou Mu Wang Rui suppressing the rebellion together, but what the people praised was how good Sun Jian was, which had little to do with Wang Rui.

Guo Jia said to Gan Ning: "In terms of the bravery of leading an army in battle, Xingba is on par with Sun Jian, and besides that, Sun Jian is no better than Xingba."

Gan Ning didn't believe it, he shook his head and remained silent.

A few days later, Guo Jia and his party came to the city of Changsha, and happened to watch a good show before entering the city.

The 13-year-old boy Xiao will wear armor, carry a long halberd, and carry a sword on his waist. He rides a white horse and looks down at the sinners under the city of Changsha.

There were countless onlookers, and Guo Jia and Gan Ning also joined in the fun and sneaked in. Guo Jia couldn't help being shocked when he looked at the scene below the city.

There were more than a hundred people kneeling in the city. Judging by their clothes, they were definitely from rich families. The jerk stood aside with a knife in his hand, waiting for an order before swinging the knife down.

After the young general patrolled around, he sneered and said to the surroundings: "Look clearly, this is the end of opposing my Sun family! Kill!"

What a decisive kill word!
Even though Guo Jia was murderous, he still turned his head away, even Gan Ning's expression changed slightly.

The young general brought up a human head to show off to the public, and said in a cold voice, "This is the head of the Patriarch of the Tian family in Changsha. He dared to slander my father in public, and even sent his servants to assassinate my father Wu Chenghou! This is what will happen to him! From now on, there will be no Tian family in Changsha city! If anyone still dares to slander my father and want to do something wrong to my father, first ask me if I agree with Sun Ce's sword and long halberd! Hmph!"

Those who heard it changed their expressions, looked down at him, and dared not look at the young Sun Ce, but Guo Jia was the only one who looked at Sun Ce thoughtfully. Sun Ce also noticed that Guo Jia was looking at him with his head held high, and his eyes met. Guo Jia saw him glaring angrily. Looking at himself, he smiled and turned to leave.

After entering Changsha City, Gan Ning took a rest in a restaurant, drinking wine in silence, with a gloomy expression on his face.

Guo Jia knew that he had something on his mind, so he didn't ask, and immediately accompanied him to drink.

After drinking for three rounds, Gan Ning couldn't bear it anymore, so he asked Guo Jia: "Feng Xiao, all the way from Lingling County, we heard the reputation of Wu Cheng Hou's bravery in suppressing rebellion, why did he come to Wu Cheng Hou's rule?" But Changsha has heard the name of Wu Chenghou's bloodthirsty and cruelty?"

Guo Jia was really able to answer this question for him, so he said: "Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and gentry rank first. The gentry has status and monopolizes official careers. What the people listen to is what the gentry says. Therefore, the gentry controls public opinion. It is true that Marquis Wucheng was brave enough to put down the rebellion everywhere in Jingzhou. The gentry in places such as Lingling County and Wuling County are grateful to Marquis Wucheng, because Marquis Wucheng came to quell the rebellion and rescued them, so these places spread The prestige of Marquis Wu Cheng, while Marquis Wu Cheng is the prefect of Changsha, must be incompatible with the gentry in Changsha city, the two are incompatible, as you and I saw outside the city today, the eldest son of Marquis Wu Cheng slaughtered the Jintian clan, which can be seen Because of this, Marquis Wu Cheng was not favored by the gentry in Changsha, so the gentry in Changsha city would spread rumors about Marquis Wu Cheng's bloodlust and brutality, whether it is true or not is irrelevant."

Gan Ning looked confused, and asked Guo Jia again: "Feng Xiao, isn't this official trying to eradicate evil and promote good? If the people Wu Chenghou killed were the ones who should be killed, then he did nothing wrong. Now The voices of the people in Changsha City do not seem to support Wu Chenghou."

After taking a sip of wine, Guo Jia shook his head slightly and said: "Xingba, you are too naive to think, Wu Chenghou just thinks the same as you, the person who deserves to die should be killed. Hou is so blatantly slaughtering the family, will the other gentry in Changsha City be afraid? Yes! Wu Chenghou is vigorous and decisive, who is not afraid? But it is precisely because they are afraid of Wu Chenghou that they huddle together to oppose Wu Cheng Hou, incited the people to feel dissatisfied with Wu Chenghou, and secretly planned to overthrow Wu Chenghou."

Kang dang
Gan Ning threw the wine bowl on the table, and said indignantly: "Could it be that the aristocratic family is allowed to run amok? It should be killed but it cannot be killed. Can we just swallow it?"

Guo Jia took a sip of wine tepidly, and said with a light smile, "Xingba, if you were the prefect of Changsha City, what would you do?"

"Huh? I don't know." Gan Ning was not in a good mood. He always felt that there was an evil fire. He turned his eyes and asked, "Feng Xiao, what about you? If you were the prefect of Changsha, what would you do?"

A slight smile floated on Guo Jia's face, and he said: "Kill or not, if you kill, you will uproot the family. Killing a hundred will only be counterproductive. If you don't kill, then cooperate with the family to govern Changsha together. Anyway, the former prefect That's how it was done."

Gan Ning heard the truth, and asked tentatively: "Then Fengxiao, are you going to kill or not?"

Guo Jia was taken aback, looked at Gan Ning's expectant expression, shook his head and said, "I won't kill you."

Gan Ning's expression darkened immediately, he turned his head away in displeasure, and muttered, "A certain misjudged you."

Guo Jia didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to explain: "Xingba, Xingba, what do you really want me to say about you? Could it be that you can spot a person just by your rhetoric? You just want to hear me tell you to kill, but I can Let me tell you, the prefect of this county will never be able to kill the nobles of the family. Let me ask you, if I kill all the families in Changsha County, what will happen to the families in other surrounding counties? They will go to the state shepherd to jointly sue me , the state shepherd has no choice but to attack me. And if I were the Jingzhou shepherd, I would not be able to touch the gentry, why? Because the gentry in other states would incite the state herd to attack me. However, if I occupy at least one-third of the land in the world , not to mention killing all the family, it is not impossible to dominate one side."

When Gan Ning heard this, he pondered for a while, and said shamelessly: "Feng Xiao's words are reasonable and far-sighted, I am deeply impressed."

Immediately, Gan Ning poured wine for Guo Jia again, and said unhappily: "Feng Xiao punishes himself with three cups. He compared XX with Sun Jian earlier. It turns out that XX is brave and foolish. Although it is true, XX just doesn't like it." Yue, if you punish yourself with three cups of apology, you will not be held accountable."

Guo Jia laughed after hearing this, drank three glasses of wine, and then continued to drink with Gan Ning.

As for the treatment of the aristocratic family, Guo Jia was not alarmist because of the persecution. During these years, Guo Jia often thought about how Cao Wei died, and how the Shu Han died. , is the general trend.

It was no accident that Cao Wei was usurped by the Sima family, but the Sima family became the representative of the gentry and replaced him.

The reason why the Shu Han died was because the inner gentry turned to Cao Wei, why?Because the gentry in the Shu Han had uneven distribution of benefits and many contradictions, but Cao Wei gave the gentry the greatest power and interests. In the end, the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin was not so much the Sima family who took the country, but the gentry ruled the world.

Guo Jia didn't want to see such an ending. On the one hand, it is true that the people would suffer even more under such a regime, and on the other hand, the ruling class was not strong enough. , Huaxia was raging with war, and it was almost in danger of being exhausted.

In order to establish a prosperous and powerful dynasty, the scourge of the family must be eliminated from the root, and in this period, it is simply impossible.

(End of this chapter)