Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2174 Say and do

  Jiangdong was in turmoil, but Jingxiang gradually calmed down.

  『Passing here is Wuguan! 』

  Liao Hua squinted at Cao Zhen and pointed forward.

  Cao Zhen nodded,

Now it is November of the fourth year of Taixing. After the long battle of Jingzhou, the East and the West of the Han Dynasty have entered a relatively peaceful period. In addition, there are some limited cooperation, so before Niang Xipi, There's nothing wrong with smiling now.

As Cao Cao's envoy, Cao Zhen came to Guanzhong, one is to make some final handover matters with Fei Qian, and the other is to verify some things. After all, those who came to Chang'an before are either ordinary people or foreign surnames, even Guo Jia, Cao Cao It's not completely assured, only Cao's children whose interests are completely tied together have the qualifications to confirm.

After a short rest, the group set off again. They took the "Wuguan East Road", which is the road opened along the Danshui River Valley, connecting the Xiong'er Mountains in the east, from the Nanyang Basin to here, the road gets narrower as you go west. For hundreds of miles, there are mountains and deep valleys, narrow and difficult to walk.

   These mountains and deep valleys are not impossible to walk at all. If you really want to climb over, it is not impossible to climb over. However, according to the technological level of the Han Dynasty, in the absence of positioning equipment, it is easy to get into the deep mountains and old forests, but difficult to get out.

   Not long after, after crossing a mountain pass, Wuguan suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

  Cao Zhen looked up and down habitually, but saw that the Guancheng was built on a relatively flat highland among the canyons, with the steep Shaoxi Mountain in the north and Danshui in the south. The outer wall of the Guancheng is made of green bricks, and the wall is two miles long, winding along the mountainside, almost completely blocking the road to enter the pass!

   When it comes to entering the customs, from Shandong to Shanxi, of course it is the most direct way to go through Hangu Pass, but I don’t know the reason, or maybe it’s because Cao Zhen started from Jingzhou, so going through Wuguan is not a big problem.

  『The friendship between Qin and Chu, according to the danger of mountains and rivers. Road to Nanyang and move to the east, enter Lantian and pass to the right. The giant defense of Wuguan can be divided into important and important in one fell swoop, sincerely speaking! 』

  Cao Zhen didn't do anything to cover up, and said very emotionally, which caused Liao Hua to nod slightly. After all, Liao Hua also stayed in Wuguan for a long time before.

  Liao Hua, Cao Zhen and his party are not the only walkers at Wuguan. On the left and right sides of the road nearly three miles before Wuguan, there are some business travelers and people waiting in line to pass the customs.

  Liao Hua sent his own seal and customs clearance documents to the customs first, and then the generals in the customs checked them. Liao Hua has now removed the Wuguan order, and Xu Yu is acting as his temporary replacement. It is said that Ma Heng will take over in a few days...

  Liao Hua was promoted to Captain of the Overseer. Although he was still a miscellaneous number, he was only one step away from the position of general. If the hussars go out, Liao Hua is nominally the guard of the warlord before the big account, but in reality he is just a professional title. It is impossible for Liao Hua to be the guard, otherwise why would Huang Xu do?

  Although there are seals and transmissions of Liao Hua and others, it still takes a certain amount of time to inspect and check, so Cao Zhen couldn’t sit still, walked up to a group of merchants, stretched his neck to look at the vehicle, and asked, “What is this seller?” 』

  The merchant hurriedly showed a smiling face, lifted the bamboo mat covering the vehicle, and then took a piece from it, wrapped it in oiled paper and offered it with both hands, "This is a special product of Nanyang, and the red rice is also..."

  Red sugar, that is, brown sugar, is of course not as pure as later generations. There are many impurities, which condense into lumps and are dark brown.

  The merchant nodded and bowed his head and said: "It's not a small brag, this is the first-class red candy, sweet as honey, suitable for all ages..."

  Cao Zhen looked at the red candy, then broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth, "Not bad, very sweet!" 』

  Sugar is probably a deeply imprinted molecular structure in human genes. Eat sugar, the brain will secrete a reward, and then encourage more intake of this high-calorie food...

  Of course a general like Cao Zhen doesn’t have any worries about being fat, but it’s purely sweet, and if you eat too much, you’ll feel a little greasy, so you just wrap it in oiled paper and say, “How straight is this red candy? 』

  The merchant said with a smile: "The general likes it, it is a small honor, how can I accept the general's money..."

  Cao Zhen touched a Zhengxi silver coin from his body and threw it to the merchant, "Who is so-and-so, how can I take it for nothing?" Someone is asking how much is the price of this item? ! 』

  『Thank you, General, for the reward! Thank you General for the reward! ”Although the merchant said that he was embarrassed to accept it, he was holding Zhengxi silver coins tightly in his hand, “so that the general can know that this item costs a hundred yuan, and if it is sent to a remote place, the price will be doubled, or even three hundred One dollar..."

  Cao Zhen nodded, threw the red cane to the guards behind him, and left. He didn't care about the price difference, and naturally he didn't care that he exchanged for a cheaper red cane. In the eyes of others, he is a fool, but Cao Zhen knows that one of the reasons he came to Chang'an is for these...

   Not long after, Cao Zhen swayed around, and the guards behind him took a lot of things, large and small.

  After returning to Liao Hua, Liao Hua glanced at Cao Zhen and smiled slightly.

  Cao Zhen also laughed a few times.

  Liao Hua knew why Cao Zhen did this, but firstly, there was no need to stop it, and secondly, it was useless to laugh at Cao Zhen even if he did so...

   After a while, soldiers from Wuguan came. When they saw Liao Hua, they went forward to salute, and then guided Liao Hua, Cao Zhen and others to enter the pass first.

  『This is...』 Before arriving at the pass, Cao Zhen saw soldiers approaching with ignited wormwood, and the smoke was choking for a while, and he was quite confused, so he couldn't help asking Liao Huadao, "Why did you do this?" 』

  Liao Hua got off his horse and said, "This is a common practice." Before entering Guanzhong, people, horses and vehicles have to pass through water and fire...the so-called fire is the fire that smokes it with moxa, burns it, weighs the yoke, inspects the cattle and horses...』

Cao Zhen turned his head and looked, and found that it was not just for himself, but for everyone, so he nodded and signaled his guards to follow the instructions of Wuguan's soldiers, thinking in his heart, when he went back, It must be admonishing Cao Cao to do the same.

  This is a great move...

  The vehicle is mixed with people and horses, it is inevitable to be entrained, and there may even be hidden people in the interlayer of the vehicle, but after being smoked by this wormwood, few people can hold back coughing, and they are naturally exposed...

   In fact, Cao really thought badly, because the most important reason why Fei Qian set up such a rule is not to check entrainment, but to prevent epidemics and insects. Under the fumigation of wormwood, neither mosquitoes nor fleas can continue to attach to vehicles and cattle immediately enter Guanzhong, which reduces the possibility of plague in Guanzhong to some extent.

  As for the water test, that is, bathing with lime water and saltpeter water, the intention is the same.

  After all, the refugees from Jingxiang have some parasites on their bodies. If they can't be checked out before entering the customs, it will naturally be difficult to control after the entry spreads. Wuguan, Hangu and other customs are specially staffed by doctors. Anyone who enters the customs, if there is a disease at first sight, even if they have a headache, they will be stopped, so as not to bring infectious diseases into the capital of Guanzhong.

  And all of this looks very common in later generations, and even some rudimentary epidemic prevention and testing methods have become a symbol of civilization and advancement here in Feiqian...

  At the same time, under such measures, people who entered Wuguan couldn't help but feel a sense of restraint. This sense of restraint will continue, making these people subconsciously accept other health regulations and related laws in Guanzhong.

  Cao Zhen also feels a little bit like this, but he is more looking forward to it.

Guanzhong was the confidant of the Qin State back then, the land of Yongzhou, the solidity of Weihan, and the fertile land of 800 li, but now it has become the rich land of General Hushi, the rich land, and the prosperous land of the current Han Dynasty …

   I don't know where it is, what kind of wonders will Cao Zhen see?

  …b(￣▽￣)d…

   Just as Cao Zhen was about to enter the customs, a group of people gathered in a manor outside the west gate of Chang'an.

The manor is surrounded by mountains and rivers, but the scenery is beautiful. There is a pond at the foot of the mountain, and the spring water from the mountain is clear and pleasant. In the pond, there is a strange stone. Although it is in the water, it can be square and rugged character.

  So this village is also called Fangshi Courtyard.

  The small courtyard here, ordinary people don’t even think about approaching it, there are private servants guarding it far away, driving out ordinary people, and those who can enter this place are "talking and laughing with great scholars, and communication without white people".

  In the strange stone courtyard, it is very elegantly arranged, and even the servants who serve can say a few scriptures. Of course, it would be wrong to say that this strange stone courtyard is regarded as a general literary gathering place...

  It is like Zhang Shi once said, "If you come to this courtyard and only discuss the classics, it will be absurd..."

  So regardless of the scriptures, what are they talking about?

  In the lobby, Zhang Shi lived in the middle, raised his hands high, waved his fists, and said angrily: "This is a party struggle!" Pang Lingjun disregarded the kindness of the hussars and acted recklessly! Harm colleagues, accuse them of crimes, arrest them wantonly, and disrupt the place! It's really a heinous act! 』

  Sometimes, it's not that people don't know good or bad, or that they don't know the relationship between bad and bad, but they still do it.

  It's like climbing over a guardrail instead of a pedestrian bridge.

   Didn't you walk like this before, didn't you have nothing to do? Since there is nothing to do, why do you have to walk on the overpass in a proper manner now?

  On the whole, the big action of Pang Tong and others this time is quite good for the common people and the wild gentry, because the common people find that the price of food has dropped, and the children of the wild gentry find that a lot of pits have been vacated for nothing...

  So for the actions of Pang Tong and others, people of these two classes naturally approve with both hands, and they can't wait to raise their five limbs to express their opinions. But for others, it's not so comfortable.

   The one who suffered the most was naturally the Guanzhong faction.

   There is no doubt about this.

   And it is precisely because of this that the actions of Pang Tong and others this time seem to be full of party disputes.

   Zhang Shi shouted loudly and attracted many people's support, saying that what Zhang Shi said made sense, and that Pang Tong and others probably took this opportunity to eliminate dissidents and frame virtuous people.

  Party struggle, it can be said to be a common phenomenon throughout the rule of the feudal dynasty.

  The word faction is basically derogatory, and usually has a strong smell of blood. At the beginning, the party struggles still had some face, but the later dynasties became more ruthless and merciless, ranging from demotion of officials to exile, and severe cases of ransacking and beheading. The rise and fall of the soul of the party leader is related to political interest groups.

  『Don’t compare yourself to Zhou, don’t have cliques, and you’re a gentleman who knows how to understand and is public. Someone followed Zhang Shi in a loud voice and said, "As the saying goes, a gentleman should not compare himself, and a villain should not compare himself. Now that the villain is in power, and his friends are in the party, it will do great harm! 』

  『Exactly! Really! 』

  『There is a saying in "Guanzi", "When a group of ministers compare with each other, they will hide the beauty and promote the evil"! "Chu Songs" also said, "The people are more pressing than Zhou, and the sages are far away and hidden"! Isn't it the case now? ! 』

   For a while, everyone clamored and felt a little outraged.

   The word "party" in "friend party" is actually written as "party" in ancient Chinese.

  Five hundred families are the party. Party, long also. The place where the elders gather together. The original word "Dang" didn't have too much malice, it just refers to the relatives who take care of each other and rescue each other, so the party leader said it.

  Later, I colluded with "friends" and brought out a derogatory meaning. Some people said the word "friends" means "several people hiding in a dark room"...

   During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, imperial power was dispersed. Among the vassal states, even if there are villains like Zhou and cliques for private interests, the vassals still have to respect the emperor of Zhou and the lords of the vassals in name when they fight for hegemony. You can get the title, so the ruler can still have innate authority, and the harmfulness of cronies is not reflected too much.

In the Han Dynasty, after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty replaced it, so the influence of the enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty on people was slightly weakened. The rights did not come from noble blood, but from the imperial power. Meddling in politics has even become a normal state, making "relatives" and "eunuchs" obviously have the characteristics of cronies, and regardless of whether the specific affairs are right or wrong, they open map guns without distinction...

   And this habit has continued.

  The emperor of the Tang Dynasty lamented, "It is easy to get rid of the bandits in Hebei, but it is difficult to go to the imperial court to cronies." 』

  The emperor of the Song Dynasty mourned, Mr. Wang and Sima Aiqing, can you two stop catching birds with your eyeballs? Can you have a good talk?

  Then the Donglin Party in the Ming Dynasty held up the torch and roared, heterosexuals... Uh, wrong, all the eunuchs will die, and everyone who is not my kind, even the eunuchs, will die...

I shook my pigtails and said that it was very effective in preventing Han people from forming a party. Through the Daxing Literary Inquisition, any suspicion of party formation or clues were immediately suppressed with a high degree of zero tolerance. The Nine Clans also have it from time to time...

However, there are policies and there are countermeasures. During the Qing Dynasty, the superficial cronies went underground, and the entanglement among officials formed by former students and old officials became more and more intense, and eventually formed a huge underground torrent, which was more influential than the superficial cronies. It's even worse, at least the superficial cronies are easy to check, but the underground collusion is even more hidden...

  In the hall, Zhang Shi raised his fist and scolded loudly, and everyone in the hall echoed.

  『The people arrested today are all from Guanzhong, and there is no one from Jingxiang. If this is not a party struggle, what is it? 』

  『Corrupt people deserve their crimes, but faction fights innocent people, it’s intolerable! 』

  『It is common sense to communicate with each other, but now it has become a crime of framing! 』

  The discussion is eloquent, and the more you talk, the more you feel that you are reasonable, and then you will selectively forget some things.

It’s like a child may just be beaten and scolded by his parents, and then cry and mutter by himself in one place, but his parents never loved him, the world is gray and colorless, and he completely forgets what he is Was beaten for something wrong...

Another example is a husband and wife quarrel, that is to say all the things about each other's old sesame seeds and rotten millet. The man said that the woman swiped the phone every day, and the woman said that the man played games every day, staring at each other and spraying white foam. I forgot all the things I did when I didn't hold my phone or play games...

  The officials who were invited by Zhang Shi also forgot whether they had made any contribution in their daily life, whether they had improved the economy and improved people's livelihood, anyway, they just remembered that because Pang Tong and others were investigating corruption, their original income dropped sharply...

  The most important thing is that they have become accustomed to it, and they all think it is a normal "human relationship".

  Is there anything wrong with reciprocity?

   What's wrong with collecting some red envelopes?

  The promotion did not have their share, and the extra income was reduced. Naturally, he was dissatisfied. In addition, Zhang Shi gave an excellent reason, party struggle!

   This is definitely a party struggle!

  If it’s not a party struggle, what could it be? !

   Simply put, the hussars have changed their minds!

   It's not their fault!

  Before I was late for an hour or two, I smiled and said it was okay, but now I am five minutes late, and I turn my face and say what the **** I am doing. At the beginning, I gave roses every now and then, but now it is either cauliflower or broccoli all year round...

  How can this be tolerated? !

  What do you do when you can’t bear it?

   Make trouble! Let Hushi know that not all Britneys can be called Mrs. Niu!

  『Everyone, everyone! Zhang Shi said in a deep voice, "In a few days, Pang Shiyuan will publicly punish him to show his righteousness!" There must be a lot of spectators at that time! This is an excellent opportunity! 』

  『At that time, we will fight on the basis of reason, which is to expose Ponzi’s hypocrisy, to report the harm of party disputes, and to let the world understand that our magnanimity will shine brightly! 』

  Zhang Shi speaks frankly, isn't he afraid of spreading the word?

   To some extent, Zhang Shi is really not afraid.

Because not everyone can enter the hall today. In addition to the requirement of "three years as an official, thirty private servants, more than three hundred shi, and thirty million yuan", there must be three Sponsors, at least one of whom is a direct nominated sponsor already present.

   They are all well-known, and they are all related, so how can it be spread?

Sometimes when there are more people who follow behind me and listen to me, it will make people feel that I have become a figure in control of everything, and I can challenge a higher position, so Zhang Shi is not afraid, and even feels that after this It is the best opportunity to test the team...

  (end of this chapter)