We agreed that you, a weak strategist, would fight against three heroes by yourself?

And Chen Qiang has been staying at the city gate for a day or two.

Except when he goes to the toilet, he appears in front of everyone.

In just a few days, he seemed to have become quite haggard.

According to the soldiers guarding the gate, some people from the Bai Kingdom secretly came here, hoping to have a look at their emperor.

Xi Yu sighed with emotion. Even if someone is being evil, there are always people who are friendly to them.

Zhou Yu and the soldiers threw the old man heavily to the ground.

Because Chen Qiang is here, this place has become a tourist destination.

Zhou Yu asked: "Everyone, take a look. Are you familiar with this old man?"

A lot of people came over.

"Hey, this old man is indeed very familiar. I seem to have seen him somewhere."

A young man murmured.

There was also Bai Yuan among the crowd.

Bai Yuan said: "I remembered that he was the Taoist priest who lobbied that day. He was talking nonsense and it was everyone who wronged the actor."

As soon as he said this, everyone was impressed.

"That's right. That said, I also remembered that it was indeed this beast. I almost fell for him."

He must have conspired with the person who poisoned him.

Many people pointed at the old man and continued to insult him.

Xi Yu also happened to arrive, and when he heard these sounds, he felt both relieved and sad.

It turned out to be this old guy.

Zhou Yu asked the soldier guarding the gate to bring a whip, and a whip was immediately brought over.

Zhou Yu directly beat the old man violently.

"You bastard, how dare you pretend to be a ghost."

The old man shouted loudly: "It's wrong, it's wrong."

He never expected that his drunken gaffe would actually attract the attention of others.

Someone once told him not to drink indiscriminately, but he never listened, but something finally happened today.

"Drama Master, you shouldn't treat me like this. I've never done anything like this."

Zhou Yu's whip struck again.

"Bastard, everyone has seen it very clearly. Are you still saying that you haven't done such a thing?"

After being beaten several times, the old man's skin and flesh were already torn.

He had no choice but to admit that he was indeed pretending to be a Taoist priest.

All this was done by Mao Dacheng.

And at the same time, some people were found to pretend to be little Taoist priests.

It turns out that my family is very poor.

In the past, Mao Dacheng knew about this, so he specially found someone to bring him to him and let him do something. At the same time, it gave him many benefits.

As for him, he doesn't have any principles. He will do it as long as it is beneficial.

Mao Dacheng saw this, so he dressed up as a Taoist priest and deceived the public with his lies.

Zhou Yu's face turned pale and he whipped him again.

"You are worse than a beast. You actually harmed your own compatriots."

And many people started talking about Mao Dacheng.

It turns out that this matter really has something to do with him.

Some people cried on the spot for those who died in the well water incident.

"My family, you died so tragically."

"Mao Dacheng used to say he loved the people so much, but he personally harmed his own people."

Someone asked Xiyu to find Mao Dacheng quickly.

Xi Yu immediately comforted these people.

Don't worry, this beast will be found sooner or later.

When this issue was brought up, Zhou Yu was a little unhappy.

If it weren't for my carelessness, how could these things have happened?

Therefore, he felt very ashamed.

The old man hurriedly said, let him go. He was just trying to get benefits, and he was not inherently bad.

Many people picked up some stones and started throwing them at him, and some even spit at him.

It's really disgusting that you've come to this point and still say things like this.

And Xi Yu didn't interfere, obviously acquiescing to this.

After a while, Xi Yu asked the old man to name all the people pretending to be Taoist priests.

The old man was completely convinced at this time and said he was willing to talk.

He named a few people at once, and Zhou Yu asked the soldier to quickly find a piece of paper and write them down.

According to the previous conclusions, there were about five people pretending to be young Taoist priests, which was basically the same as what the old Taoist priest said.

Under Xi Yu's instructions, Zhou Yu sent people to arrest a few people.

I hope that Zhou Yu will lead everyone in person this time, but there must be no more trouble, otherwise it will be dealt with directly by military law.

"Don't worry, Mr. Xi, my subordinate will definitely complete the task satisfactorily."

At this moment, several grain transport teams came to the city gate, sent by some princes from the Central Plains.

Xi Yu began to ask everyone to distribute food.

Many people were temporarily relieved from the haze of pain.

Chen Qiang's eyes were particularly empty.

Xi Yu looked at him and said: "You and Mao Dacheng did things that were worse than animals because one wanted to enrich the country and the other wanted to get more territory. People like you will not end well in the end. I originally planned to catch Mao Dacheng. I will let you die after the success, but this will allow you to live for several more hours, and now I have changed my mind."

Xi Yu ordered the soldiers to kill Mao Dacheng.

And Xi Yu said: "I have chosen a way to die for you. Burn it directly with fire. This will make your pain less."

Chen Qiang was startled and peed his pants again.

Being burned to death is less painful?

What does this mean?

The soldiers immediately began to operate the matter.

Chen Qiang was eventually burned to death, and many people applauded.

Among the crowd, there were actually several Bai people. When they saw this scene, they were so painful that they also threw themselves towards the flames.

They claimed that they wanted to die with their emperor, and many soldiers were going to pull them away.

But they seemed to have unlimited strength and had to burn them to death.

Xi Yu got angry and said to the soldiers: "Don't pull them away. Since they have to choose this path, let's help them."

It's not that he doesn't sympathize with these people, but he also knows that these people are like crazy people, and it is difficult to do ideological work for them.

Their stupid mentality really makes me heartbroken.

Eventually, those who are willing to die do so.

Xi Yu temporarily returned to the palace. He locked himself in a room and began to think.

Through this incident, he felt that many ancient ideas of loyalty and patriotism were completely wrong.

He must use the wisdom from his previous life to illuminate this place.

He also understood that people's minds cannot be transformed in a day or two.

There is a long process in between.

Moreover, it will be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice,

Doing something too hastily may backfire.

But he still had to give it a try anyway.

Yes, he must promote his ideas across the country.

Maybe he will be an emperor in the future.

If he makes the people particularly civilized, even the emperor will become a decoration, but he will still do it.

He also thought about how many emperors in ancient society knew it well, but used various theories to deceive the people, making them willing to be their own loyalists.

Therefore, this situation must be changed.

He shouted loudly: "When someone comes, I will serve you with pen and ink."

Soon, a young eunuch brought pen and ink.

"Okay, close the door to my room. No one can come in without my permission."

The little eunuch immediately did the same and stood guard at the door.

Although Xi Yu did not proclaim himself emperor here, these young eunuchs treated him just like they treated Mao Dacheng before, and they already regarded him as an emperor in their hearts.

He wrote an article eloquently called Downing Dong Zhongshu.

Because starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism.

But he did not really want to respect Confucianism, but used this idea to confuse the people.

So now I have to change this situation.

The theories of various schools of thought can be widely and freely chosen.

And in the next step, he opened an academy and a school, and he had to do the same.

In addition, the idea of ​​​​loyalty to the emperor is not advisable. No one should obey someone willingly, but there must be benefits.

In other words, whether the king or the boss of a business, he must bring benefits to his subordinates.

There is nothing wrong with individuals pursuing their own interests.

Xi Yu also knew that these remarks would probably cause a revolutionary storm, and it might even take a long time for people to accept them.

Some people will also insult themselves because of this, not just insults from officials, but even some ordinary people will insult them.

Just like those few Bai people who insisted on dying today.

When he finished writing this thought eloquently, he asked the eunuch to ask for a few printers to spread it throughout Fangjun and the entire Central Plains region in a short period of time.

Strive to let all ordinary people know what he said.

Facts have also proven that these remarks indeed caused a revolutionary storm.

Perhaps in the hearts of ordinary people, it will only cause some waves and eventually calm down, so the next step is to vigorously popularize this knowledge in schools.

A few days later, Wenxuan in Youzhou got the manuscript and felt excited.

Xiaocui didn't understand why the young lady was so happy.

Wenxuan explained it to her.

But Xiaocui felt that these remarks were too shocking and treasonous.

"Xiao Cui, what do you know? Sooner or later you will reach this point."

Of course, all this is a story later.

After Xi Yu finished writing the book and ordered the eunuch to finish it, Zhou Yu immediately came to report that several young men pretending to be Taoist priests had also been found.

They themselves are unemployed people, doing nothing. But they generally live in poor rural areas, so when they come to the city to speak out, no one knows them at all.

"Okay, Chen Qiang has been burned to death. Kill these young men and the old man together."

Xi Yu didn't want to give them any chance to beg for mercy this time, because what they did was so abominable.

Xi Yu said: "Let's burn them to death as well."

At the city gate, these poor men and the old man had to go through the fire.

The old man cursed loudly: "How can this be done? This actor is worse than a beast. I have already taken responsibility for my mistake and provided him with clues. How can he do this to me?"

And several young men started to curse at the old man.

"It's okay for you to suffer alone. Why do you have to confess all of us?"

Zhou Yu said that if they continued to insult Xi Yu, their death would be even more uncomfortable.

When the fire came, several people were pushed into the fire pit.

They complained incessantly.

However, the people in the county are doing better.

Now the people just hope that Mao Dacheng can be caught quickly.

Another late night has come.

Xi Yu felt very painful when he learned that Mao Dacheng had not shown up yet.

I don’t know how to give an explanation to the people.

And Mao Dacheng has been living in the wine cellar.

My health has also improved in the past few days.

It was the man who went outside and got him some medicine.

This man's name is Di Qing.

On this day, Di Qing brought him dinner and said: "Now the whole city is arresting you everywhere, and there are also reward orders. So I decided to send you away."

Mao Dacheng was shocked.

"In this case, if you send me away, aren't you asking me to go into a pit of fire?"

"The word fire pit you mentioned is quite good."

Di Qing's face was particularly cold.

"Several people have died in the fire."

So, he told everything about Chen Qiang and those people who pretended to be Taoist priests.

Mao Dacheng was even trembling with fear.

Then I will definitely not end well.

Di Qing said: "If I am not wrong, it is possible that searches of every household will begin tomorrow. I will definitely be found by then, and won't I also be beheaded?"

Mao Dacheng was so frightened that he became frightened.

"Please don't take me out. Don't worry, as long as I win the country, I will definitely bring benefits to you."

However, Di Qing said, now that he can no longer protect himself, what is the use of saying these words?

So Mao Dacheng knelt down in front of him.

"I beg you, please let me go, okay?"

Di Qing was about to speak when he suddenly had an idea and said, "In that case, let's talk about it later."

After a while, he walked out, but soon came in with a wooden stick.

Mao Dacheng was startled and asked him quickly what he was doing.

Di Qing shouted: "You'd better faint first."

He knocked Mao Dacheng unconscious with just one stick.

In the early morning of the next day, a secret guard appeared beside Xi Yu, saying that he had captured Fang Zhongyuan.

The secret guards have been secretly observing Fang Zhongyuan in the past few days under Xi Yu's orders.

But I never got any handle on him.

And finally last night, Fang Zhongyuan revealed his conspiracy with Mao Dacheng while talking in his sleep.

The secret guards felt very happy.

Finally a conclusion can be reached. So they arrived before dawn.

So, Xi Yu asked the secret guards to quickly bring this beast to the court.

Moreover, the secret guards followed Xi Yu's instructions and knocked Fang Zhongyuan unconscious.

After a while, everyone came to the morning court and felt incredible when they saw Fang Zhongyuan lying on the ground.

But some soldiers said not to touch him until everyone was here.

Xiyu was watching from behind the screen.

After a while, everyone arrived.

Liu Bei already knew about this, so he asked the soldiers to wake up the other party quickly so that everyone would not be confused anymore.

Soon the soldiers began to bring cold water. Fang Zhongyuan woke up. He suddenly realized that he was in the Chao Chao Hall and was startled.

Moreover, Xi Yu had already seen the expressions of the other four people who conspired with him.

Fang Zhongyuan stood up immediately and saw everyone looking at him with blank eyes.

He quickly asked what was going on?

Liu Bei asked coldly: "Fang Zhongyuan, tell me, what wrong thing did you do? Please explain it to me immediately."

Fang Zhongyuan thought to himself, has that matter come to light? Of course he wouldn't admit it.

He then expressed that he was confused and wronged.

So Liu Bei asked the secret guard to come out and talk about the relevant things.

Fang Zhongyuan was shocked. It turned out that when he was talking in his sleep, he actually told the truth of the matter.

Liu Bei asked coldly: "Now, what else do you have to say?"

"Liu Gong, you also said that this is just talk in sleep, how can you count?"

"If you weren't talking in your sleep, how could you tell the truth? Fang Zhongyuan, I hope you will explain it quickly, otherwise, we can punish you."

Then, Liu Bei asked the soldiers to move out some torture instruments.

Many ministers believe that it is very inappropriate to move torture instruments here.

"You don't need to tell me these things, this is the opera master's order."

When Liu Bei said this, no one dared to say anything more.

When Fang Zhongyuan saw those torture instruments, he was frightened.

Because he had seen prisoners being treated with this torture device before.

He was immediately frightened and hurriedly told the truth and confessed all four of his companions.

The four companions were also very angry.

As soon as someone scares you, you resort to them all. It’s really ridiculous.

But Liu Bei took out a piece of paper in front of everyone. This was exactly the few relevant people that the actor had written down a few days ago.

And asked the eunuch to pass it on to everyone.

Everyone was very surprised. It turned out that everything was under Xi Yu's control.

And five people immediately confessed.

Liu Bei ordered on the spot that these five people be dragged out and killed.

The five people began to beg for mercy, saying that they were all confused for a moment, so they should let them go.

"It's simply ridiculous. You are not three-year-old children, and you dare to say that you are confused."

In the end, all five people were beheaded in public.

Although some ministers have suggested that the queen should be beheaded and so on.

But Liu Bei said that this was also the order of the actor.

If anyone dares to do any bad things again, this will be their fate.

Many ministers felt that today's morning meeting had never happened before. The smell of blood also rushed to their side.

Before he died, Fang Zhongyuan also mentioned the miracle doctor Zhuge.

Because everything was the medicine he gave me, that's why this situation happened.

Fang Zhongyuan thought to himself that he would not survive anyway, so he had to have someone to support him, so that he could feel more balanced. (End of chapter)