Chapter 2344 Confucian scholars can kill
Amidst the rising flames, black smoke billowed.
Fierce flames and smoke filled the entire valley.
The Di people who stepped into the trap wailed in pain.
Some Di people who were burned by fire and smoked jumped off the mountain road in pain. Even if they knew that they would die if they fell into the rocks and streams, the long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain. It is more enjoyable to be burned alive and smoked to death.
The screams of being burned alive by the fire kept echoing between the valleys, colliding with the rocks, and then rang in Zhuge Liang''s ears.
Zhuge Liang stood silently at the other end of the valley, the mountain mist blowing his gray robe.
Are these Di people all sinful?
Perhaps there are also many Di people who were not stained with any blood, but were fooled by those Di people''s leaders, but in a war, how could there be any comprehensiveness, how could there be glory and justice everywhere, under the three-color banner of Hussars Among the illustrious prestige, it is unknown how many wives and children were separated and their families were destroyed.
What Zhuge Liang can only guarantee is that if the government is governed according to the ideas and concepts of General Hussars, at least it can be guaranteed that it is the place with the best military discipline in the Han Dynasty. It is the same as in other areas, burning, killing, looting, bullying men and women, and bullying the people.
As for these gentry children in Sichuan and Shu, Zhuge Liang didn''t believe them.
Gang Jing will always raise opinions, and then there is no suggestion for a solution. These Sichuan and Shu gentry had opinions when Liu Yan was there, and they also had opinions when Liu Zhang was there, and now that the hussars are here, they also have opinions. So after satisfying them, there will be no opinions? Then these guys will probably push the envelope and complain that there isn''t more...
Follow-up, those Di people who did not enter the valley and the mountain road fled in a hurry, not daring to look back. Even if the fire is extinguished, these Di people may not dare to attack again. And some Di people who were lucky enough to bite Huang Liang''s buttocks were not contaminated by the fire, but they were also terrified and collapsed on the ground in extreme panic...
Huang Liang came in front of Zhuge, and then looked at the small group of Di people who were lucky enough to escape from the flames and were captured. There was still a bit of murderous look on their faces, "Zhuge is engaged, how to deal with these...?" 』
According to Huang Liang''s intention, he would simply kill all these Di people and wipe out the roots. But Zhuge Liang was obviously unwilling to do this. Zhuge glanced at it and said, "Confiscate the weapons, tie them up and take them away." 』
『Only…』Huang Liang didn''t say much, just took orders and left.
Fire and water are ruthless.
Whether he can make good use of water and fire is undoubtedly a criterion for whether a general is good or not.
When Zhuge Liang burned the Di people, in the north of Guanghan, in a dense forest outside Zitong City, some people were also planning to use some water and fire tactics.
In a small open space in the dense forest, stood a strong man named Li Shi.
Li Shi was in his thirties, with a strong body, his eyebrows and beard were a little brown, and he seemed to have some barbarian blood. Of course, this is also his symbol. He is a member of the Li family in Guanghan. As early as his grandfather''s generation, he was already a vassal of the Li family. As Li''s private soldiers, the whole family contributed bravely to the Li family. .
Li Shi didn''t have much hatred for the hussars, nor did he have any grievances with Xu Shu, but just relying on his own thoughts, he didn''t have much say in the Li clan. He was just a tool, a knife and a gun, And the sword and gun don''t need any thought, just do it.
Behind Li Shi, stood a young man of the Li family wearing a scholar''s uniform, called Li Bo. It was this person who first contacted and persuaded Gan Ning and others. This person is easy to talk and has a slight reputation, but after the hussars general Fei sneaked into Sichuan, not only was he not awarded an official position because of his original reputation, but he was given special care by Xu Shu, and he was even recruited by local officials. Also free.
For Xu Shu, he naturally hopes that even local officials will do practical things instead of talking all day long. People like Li Bo who talk more than hands every day, of course, are not within Xu Shu''s choice.
But Li Bo couldn''t understand, and didn''t want to understand. He only thought that Xu Shu should cooperate with him, understand his needs, and satisfy him in everything, so Li Bo was very dissatisfied.
Like many local gentry children, Li Bo has a personal loyalty, but the concept of survival of the family and the country is very thin, which is related to the education that Li Bo has been exposed to since he was a child. Everyone told him that if he studied, he could become a high-ranking official, benefit from it, and gain his own benefits from it. Studying is for himself, not for the country. So Li Bo now feels that he has read so many books, and now he is seeking some benefits for himself, is it wrong?
Those who cannot benefit Li Bo are naturally not good officials. Therefore, in the eyes of Li Bo and others, the government of hussars is worthless. As the leader of Sichuan and Shu, Xu Shu is meaningless.
Sichuan and Shu should be governed by the people of Sichuan and Shu. As for foreigners like Xu Shu, they will be driven away sooner or later. So when Li Miao and others started to hook up, Li Bo joined without saying a word. , and also took the initiative to confuse and incite more Sichuan and Sichuan native children who are willing to join their ranks...
At the beginning, these people just criticized some current events, talked and laughed at some officials who did not handle things properly, and even successfully organized several reprimands and criticisms against Xu Shu''s subordinates, and rejected several flawed laws and regulations.
If it continues like this, there is nothing wrong with it, and it is not even a big problem. On some levels, the actions of these people are actually within the scope of reasonable supervision and feedback, but the problem is that Li Miao and Li Bo et al. are not satisfied with these.
The more dissatisfied, the more hungry these people are.
They have been looking forward to some of the same problems as the usual soldiers stationed in Sichuan and Shu, such as intimidating the people, bullying the women, etc., under the command of the Hussar General, and then they can take this opportunity to cause some mass incidents. , but unfortunately, because the hussars adopt the recruitment system, they are completely different from ordinary soldiers in terms of armaments, military pay, and military discipline. What''s more, the hussars also have special selection from the army and the cultivation of a military spirit. The sense of honor is particularly emphasized, so that Sichuan and Shu are under the hussars, and the military-civilian relationship is even better than that of Liu Yanzhi, which makes these people feel a little helpless when they want to attack and slander.
Then these people start thinking of other ways.
After Feiqian occupied Sichuan and Shu, there was a period of time when Sichuan and Shu transported grain and grass to Chang''an. This made Li and others think that they had grasped Feiqian''s weakness. , will naturally cause dissatisfaction among everyone in Sichuan and Shu, but what I did not expect is that Feiqian also brought more advanced farming techniques and agricultural tools to Sichuan and Shu...
The yield per mu nearly doubled in a flash, and the population in Sichuan and Shu did not increase much in a short period of time, and the price of food collapsed visibly to the naked eye, so that the natives in Sichuan and Shu begged Huqi to buy grain and grass, otherwise It is possible that low grain prices will hurt farmers.
Therefore, these people thought that the requisition of grain might cause the people in Sichuan and Shu to boil with dissatisfaction, but in the end it was Feiqian who reached an agreement with the people in Sichuan and Shu, not only not to lower the price, but also expressing how much they would buy. The common people praised the hussars, which also made Li Miao and others have to change the aspect of the original plan to oppose the hussars when they finally took action, and they could only change the target to Xu Shu.
Not against the hussars, but for the hussars to eliminate rebellion!
Then more people were fooled.
It would be great if the hussars were really stupid...
Li Bo sighed slightly.
Li Shi put the saber back into the scabbard, heard Li Bo''s sigh, and couldn''t help squinting at Li Bo. For Li Shi, he always felt that Li Bo was more or less useless, but he just chirped every day, and it was up to Li Shi himself if he really wanted to do it. People like Li Bo, if something happens, they will probably just flee in a hurry holding the wooden slips and bamboo slips.
『I want to fight now...』 Li Shi took a look at Li Bo, 『However, can Confucian scholars kill people? 』
Li Bo was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing.
『You are very prejudiced against Confucian scholars! 』
『You may have heard that Zhong Ni had a disciple, Zhong You, who was vulgar in nature and fond of courage. The Master said, those who wear shabby robes and those who wear foxes and raccoons stand upright but are not ashamed, the reason is the same! 』
『Hou Zhongyou served as governor of the city in the home of the great official of the state of Wei, Kong Kui, and ruled the city for him. In case of chaos, all the warriors under Kong Kui fled out of the city, but Zhong You entered the city retrogradely, and when he met a rebel on his way, he killed them all. When he arrived at Kong Kui''s home, the rebels even ordered hundreds of people to besiege Zhongyou with spears and spears. Zhong You wielded the sword, with the strength of one man, he fought against hundreds of people, suffered dozens of wounds in his body, and still stood firm, counterattacked and killed more than ten people...』
『In the end, Zhong You couldn’t hold it back, and the crown belt was cut off by Ge, saying, “A gentleman’s death is inevitable, and the crown is inevitable”, so he tied his tassels and died! 』
Li Bo drew out the long sword at his waist with a clang, then flicked some blades with his fingers, and said loudly: "Although a certain is a Confucian, he is also good at scriptures, but Shang Zhongyou is so heroic!" Now you ask a certain person, can he kill someone? 』
『Hahaha, let’s wait and see, you must know that Confucian scholars can also kill people! 』
Li Bozhi''s words are heroic, and he is a bit chivalrous when he wields a long sword, but if he really wants to go into battle, he will be shouting from the sidelines. After all, the "big gift" he intends to give Xu Shu this time is only with Li Bo''s sword. , is obviously not enough. So Li Bo prepared more people...
"Look! This is not coming! 』Li Bo pointed his hand, and saw some figures shaking in the distance.
Not long after, those figures approached.
Li Bo spoke loudly, but these people are not Confucian scholars.
Among these people, some of them were wearing short jackets, or their heads were unkempt, or their temples were protruding. Some deliberately exposed their chests in the cold wind, and some painted their faces to show their bravery.
These people are all "Ranger".
Because of the New Deal implemented by Fei Qian, these rangers gradually lost their living space.
Rangers who rob the rich and give to the poor are not absent, but very few.
The more lacking something, the more it is advocating something. This is true both in ancient and modern China and abroad.
So the lives of most rangers are not very good, like the kind of people who spend money like water, go around, er, go high and high, and take people''s heads thousands of miles away, it''s all a dream.
The reality is that when there are inspections in the countryside, there is no need for a ranger to "do it for you" when there are some injustices, not to mention that the "ranger" sometimes becomes a "bandit". Single hunters or farmers are hated by rangers because of some **** things, and it is common for families to be destroyed.
On the one hand, it is prohibited by law, and on the other hand, it is replaced by function. "Ranger" gradually lost its foundation of existence in Sichuan and Sichuan.
Li Shi frowned when he saw these rangers coming. Although he is Li''s private soldier, he also looks down on these "rangers" who are mostly made up of libertines. But now, these rangers are more or less manpower, and Li Shi can only put on a smiling face , and then suppressed his temper, Haosheng praised these people who came here for a while, saying that these rangers are "heroes" who stood up for the country and the people.
Of course, with the limited brain capacity of these "Ranger", it is absolutely impossible to understand how sad it is when a country, a regime, or a place needs an organization like "Ranger" to keep safe and defend its territory. matter…
After complimenting each other for a while, and sharing some food and drink, Li Bo just smiled and asked someone to bring the map, and spread it out on a relatively flat stone.
『This is the map of Zitong City…』
Li Bo pointed on the map.
『In the city of Zitong, there is food and grass for the bandits to use. If you and I can burn this warehouse, the bandits will definitely run out of food and grass, and there will be chaos soon! 』
Burn the granary!
If these rangers go into battle and line up with the pawns in groups, it is basically delivering food, but if it is talking about messing around in the city and setting fires, it is the old business...
『This time we are mainly burning food, so we don’t need to entangle with the defenders in the city...』 Li Bo clicked twice on the west city gate on the map of Zitong and said, 『If you succeed, you will leave the city from now on! Then retreat here and get away! 』
After Li Bo finished speaking, he gestured to Li Shi.
Li Shi dragged a box from the side, kicked the lid of the box open, and immediately revealed the gold and silver brilliance inside the box, which immediately attracted the attention of all the rangers present, and some even drooled a little dully.
The irony is that among these gold and silver, many are Zhengxi coins...
Li Shi greeted him, grabbing coins out of the box, no matter how much they were, and stuffing them into the hands of these rangers, while Li Bo said with a smile on the side: "After the matter is done, extra And a big thank you! 』
These rangers said that money is something outside of their body, and this time they came here not for these stupid things at all, and some people shouted about the money as an insult to their innocence, but when it was their turn, they still couldn’t help it. He bent down, and then formed a bowl with his hands, and then he was happy or envious for one more or one less gold coin, worrying about gains and losses.
The eyeballs of these rangers were either red, green, or stained with gold and silver, and some even subconsciously began to look at the soldiers behind Li Bo and Li Shi, and then looked at the soldiers with wary faces. This is the way he lowered his head honestly and didn''t think about anything else.
It seems good to do this vote...
Taking people’s money is naturally to eliminate disasters, not to mention dealing with Xu Shu, who made him lose his job, and revenge for inspections, it seems that these rangers are happy...
Seeing these rangers swaying, three or five of them scattered towards Zitong one after another, Li Shi was silent for a while, and finally said: "Only with these guys, can things be done?" 』
Li Shi felt that this strategy was not very reliable.
Even after these rangers got the money, they would go to Zitong City obediently, and they would not spend too much time to delay the opportunity, and at the same time, they would not reveal their plans on the spur of the moment, or get caught in order to save their lives when they were drinking and fighting with others Waiting for an unexpected situation to happen, and then everything went smoothly to the stage of setting fire. Could it be said that there is no defense at all around the storage of grain and grass in Zitong?
If this is the case, then why do you need these rangers? Just send two people to burn it and it''s over?
Li Bo laughed twice: "To kill someone, besides the sword in his hand, there is also the sword in his heart... What can these rascals do?" 』
『In that case…』 Li Shi was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said, 「Could it be that…」
Li Bo nodded, "You must have heard about the Chengdu incident in Zitong, so how can you be defenseless?" 』
『If that’s the case, isn’t it true that these people are going to die...?’ Li Shi frowned deeply. Although he said he looked down on these rangers, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he clearly asked these rangers to die.
Li Bo smiled, with a calm expression, "Such people should be used for this." 』
After Li Bo finished speaking, he patted the dust off his body, and then he was ready to go outside.
It was all lies about what they were receiving outside the city, and what other rewards they had. He only needed these people to attract the attention of the defenders, and he didn''t care whether these rangers could succeed at all.
In other words, these rangers were abandoned from the beginning, and the money they gave was money for their lives.
Everyone has value, but libertines, ancient or modern, are worth nothing.
Li Shi beckoned, motioning for others to follow.
While walking forward, Li Bo glanced at Li Shi, and said with a smile, "Can you say that Confucian scholars don''t kill people?" 』
『Hiss…』 Li Shigong cupped his hands and said, 「Please enlighten me…」
Li Bo nodded slightly. If it wasn’t for Li Shi’s cooperation in the next move, Li Bo would just throw up his sleeves and show Li Shi what it means to be a Confucian scholar who can turn the world upside down…
『Hehe...』 Li Bo explained with a smile, 『If you have treasures in your home that are coveted, and even have thieves peeping at them...what should I do? 』
『The thief should be captured! ’ Li Shixiang said without thinking, but after he finished speaking, his eyeballs moved a bit, and then he looked back at the direction of Zitong City in the distance, hesitated for a while before saying, “Could it be…”
(end of this chapter)