Chapter 2372 In the Dark

Jiaozhi is good...

Except that there are more poor people, more hills, more woods, more bugs, more fools, and the weather is hotter, everything else seems to be pretty good.

There are spices, as long as someone collects them, ivory, as long as you can hunt them, tortoise shells, as long as you can catch them in the sea, pearls, as long as you can catch big clams, well, basically there are mountains and seas, forests and animals, and there is no land. Even if it's not bad, it seems to be pretty good.

What a shit!

Mr. Zhang was a little angry.

This is a village with a majority of indigenous people. About a hundred miles away from this village is the sea.

When Mr. Zhang saw the sea for the first time, he was excited. Well, it was like Erha seeing a mud puddle. He jumped into the sea so fast that he couldn't hold it back and rolled around happily. Not to mention how happy he was.

Second Master?

The big ala next to it is soaked in the sea water.

Liu Bei?

Of course, he always wears a gentle smile, just like the Samoyed who is always healing people.

San Sha was so happy when he saw the sea for the first time, but when he was covered in salt and alkaline seeds, he gradually stopped being happy.

Most of the indigenous villages in Jiaozhi are made up of mud-legged people who cannot read a single word. Their ancestors have lived in Jiaozhi for generations. Some of them have never even gone out to the surrounding forests. It is impossible to imagine that there is a so-called culture or the inheritance of knowledge. . When these natives saw Mr. Zhang, they had no intention of resisting at all. Without saying a word, they knelt down on the ground with a clean cry...

At first, Mr. Zhang was quite happy. After all, he felt that this was the might of the Han Dynasty, and the natives were watching the wind. Later, he realized that these guys didn't understand anything at all, it was just a conditioned reflex. Because the original lords of these indigenous people, whether they were Zheng or Ou, disciplined these local people in this way.

Nowadays, in this land, as long as there are people wearing clothes and shoes, they are the upper class.

What Mr. Zhang saw were low bamboo buildings, an environment where humans and animals were indistinguishable from urine and urine, roads that were trampled on to be muddy, uneven and not repaired, and these indigenous people who were not fully clothed and even had naked bodies, both men and women.

When it comes to nudity, some friends who have sex every day may light up their eyes, but in fact, in ancient times, those skinny bodies had flies and lice on their bodies, their hair was stuck with fleas and lice, and their teeth were black and yellow. Basically speaking, even the most stubborn people in later generations would soften immediately after seeing Mu Guo's naked body.

To put it simply, there are three words: dirty, messy and poor.

And it was extremely dirty, ridiculously messy, and extremely bad.

Mr. Zhang felt that he was already informal enough to tolerate the mess, but when he truly realized the gap between the living culture of guys like Hinami Kyūma and the big men, Mr. Zhang was still close to collapsed.

When Mr. Zhang was roaring, no one could stand firm. Almost everyone in the village was kneeling on the ground. The man put his head on the ground and shivered. The woman looked pale and held the child tightly, covering her mouth and nose. In their arms, some people forgot to leave a room for their children to breathe. Seeing the indigenous kid, they gradually kicked their legs and rolled their eyes...

"Third brother..." Liu Bei looked at his mud-stained boots, feeling a little distressed and worried. He took them off and shook the mud off, "Get rid of the fire, they... they really don't understand..."

"roll! Zhang Fei roared angrily.

A group of natives "swiped" and ran away.

In Dahan, if your boots are broken, you have to either repair them or replace them with new ones. Isn’t it very simple? But here, if it's broken, it's broken. If the craftsmen in the army are not available, Liu Bei will have to repair it himself!

The natives don't know how to repair shoes. Some of these indigenous people have never seen a pair of shoes in their lives! How could such a person know how to repair a boot?

Therefore, Liu Bei is considering whether to return to his old profession...

When Zhang Fei was angry, it was the boots that lit the fire, but in fact, it was because of the accumulation of emotions during this period of time.

The difficulties facing the three brothers are not limited to boots.

In the area close to South Vietnam, the influence of the Han people, or Han civilization, can still be seen to some extent, but the further south, the more outrageous it becomes. Slash-and-burn cultivation is still very popular, and there are even almost primitive tribes that focus on matrilineality. .

Of course, if Liu Bei had read more books, he wouldn't be surprised about this matter. Back then, the Jiuzhen Rinan rebellion was led by two sisters...

Although the cause of the incident may be that the two sisters' father and husband were bullied and framed by the officials of the Han Dynasty at that time, coupled with the long-standing anti-Han sentiment of the local indigenous people, the two sisters gathered a crowd and raised troops to conquer Jiaozhi Fucheng in one fell swoop. He also killed the prefect Su Ding and other Han officials. Subsequently, the natives of Jiuzhen, Rinan, Hepu and other counties also rebelled and attached themselves to the Zheng sisters. More than 60 local cities fell at once.

Later, one of the two sisters proclaimed herself a king, and the other a general, and no one objected. This shows that at that time, in the Nichinan Kyuzhen area, not only were there no objections to women leading troops in war, but there was not much aversion to women taking power. , coupled with the fact that walking marriages still existed to a certain extent in later generations, it proves that the Jiuzhen Rinan area still had a certain matrilineal tribal custom during the Han Dynasty.

This also means that after the Liu Bei trio arrived in Jiaozhi, the situation they had to face was very complicated. There were not only civilized people, but also semi-civilized people, and completely uncivilized people. Some were mainly men, and some were mainly women. Mainly, there are tribes and villages that are like barbarians, and there are also towns and villages that are more similar to Han Xinjiang.

It is not difficult to regain these places, and there is not even the battle that was originally expected. Many times, as soon as the natives on the other side see the equipment and number of Liu Bei's trio, they immediately surrender without saying a word. Guan Erye and Zhang San are suffocated. My strength is of no use, and I have no place to run wild, so I have no choice but to demolish the house.

Liu Bei now somewhat understands why Shi Xie is only willing to stay in South Vietnam for a long time, and does not have many generals or soldiers to advance to Jiuzhen and Rinan. Perhaps the most fundamental reason is that it is too difficult. . South Vietnam has some foundations of civilization, but the people in this area are like savages who have just walked out of the mountains and forests. They can't communicate. If they want to do something, they just...

What? conscription? Pull me in to be a strong man?

Don't be kidding, even in later generations, farmers in Africa will have a terrible headache. What's more, in the current era of the Han Dynasty, these indigenous people have no concept of advancement, and they do not have high material needs. They only have some food every day. He would just drink. He would lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead after doing a little work. If he didn't pay attention, he would do the work crookedly. Either the building would collapse or the ditch would be tilted. He couldn't even cut wood well.

And if you look at the soldiers of Shi Xie before, those Shi Xie who only have one move "Pig Thrust" from beginning to end, you will know how thankless it is to recruit these natives as soldiers. Just practice one No matter how clear the left and right are, Mr. Zhang can completely collapse and let out a thunderous roar, not to mention how to read the flag, listen to the golden drum, and know how to advance and retreat.

This is like a person who has not even completed nine years of compulsory education and is not even qualified to work in a factory. There is no way, the level of knowledge is there, and he can't even understand the requirements of the instructions and drawings. How can he make crooked waste products? Don't you want to trick a bunch of people to death?

At most, these natives can only do some rough work.

And what Liu Bei and others need is not just menial work.

This is very contradictory.

Regardless of whether it is a political power or a foundation, it is necessary to have a certain amount of mulberry crops. But how can we guarantee a stable mulberry crop if we rely on slash-and-burn farming to make ends meet? Water conservancy also needs to be provided, but it takes a lot of effort to dig a complete canal, let alone a mill wheel. Anyway, it’s hard to do anything without having anything.

The population is not too small, but the taxes are basically zero.

There are some wealthy noble families, but the education system is basically zero.

Worse than in Xinye...

"Well..." Liu Bei pondered.

"Brother!" Zhang Fei shook his steel needle-like beard, "I said...that damn hussar general, did he really know that this is what happened here, and then he pretended to be generous and let us come here?" 』

Guan Yu squinted his eyes aside, as if he was falling asleep, and remained silent.

"That must be it!" ” Zhang Fei slapped his thigh, yes, he slapped the wrong thigh, “This cunning guy! He must know something, but he just didn’t tell us! 』

Liu Bei smiled and did not answer. He was as gentle as a Samoyed, but the white teeth he showed seemed to prove something.

If Jiaozhi really wants to be run, it will take less than twenty or thirty years, or three or four generations, to see any special effects. This is also the case for the officials sent to South Vietnam in the Han Dynasty. Almost every one of them only thinks about it. Make money, then find some way to jump back.

Perhaps not all of those Han Dynasty governors were born corrupt and only wanted to scrape the land. Perhaps when they came to Jiaozhi, each of them had some ambitions, but had to fail in the face of the cold reality. Come, be beaten until you lose your armor and finally raise your hands to surrender.

Later, the so-called going to the frontier of the Han Dynasty became an attitude and a kind of gold plating. You shouted loudly, but you didn't really want to dedicate your life to such an area and then die in a foreign land. So in the later period, basically speaking, every Han Dynasty governor who came to areas like Jiaozhi and South Vietnam tried to seize as much land as possible, sending people regardless of life or death to collect local specialties, and then presented them to the central government, making Jiaozhi their own. A pedal, as for what the future will be like after stepping on it, these people don't care and don't care.

For more than a hundred years, the situation on the frontiers of the Han Dynasty has been like this.

The Northern Desert of Liaodong, the Western Region of Longyou, and South Vietnam's Jiaozhi are all the same.

If Shi Xie hadn't encountered turmoil and frequent wars in the Central Plains, he might have been like other Han prefects, taking over territory and then looking for opportunities to run away.

Now, a very real problem is facing the three Liu Bei brothers.

Although Liu Bei had some plans in mind when he went south, when he actually arrived in Jiaozhi, left South Vietnam, and arrived in the Jiuzhen and Rinan areas, he realized that he had thought too easily.

If you really want to get down to it, you will find it very difficult.

How to choose?

This is a very difficult choice.

"My whole life..." Liu Bei said slowly, "Until now, I feel that it has been a bit futile, like the moon in the water or the flowers in the mirror. It looks very beautiful, but it is empty..."

"Brother!" 』

"Brother..."

Liu Bei waved his hand, "It's not that I feel sorry for myself... It's true... I first attached myself to Lu Gong, because Lu Gong was well-known in the world at that time. By following him, I could make friends with some people... Later, I really I made friends with Brother Bogui... and later on, I met you guys..."

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Below the peach garden, I said that I wanted to pacify the Han Dynasty and help the country... Haha, think about it now, I was drunk at the time and I was talking big words..."

Zhang Fei leaned forward slightly, "Brother!" 』

"Brother!" ” Guan Yu frowned slightly and his eyes condensed.

"But this is also my lifelong wish!" "Liu Bei did not look at Guan Yu, but just patted his chest, "I have been displaced, fighting in the north and south, living and dying in the wasteland. This wish has always been here..."

"Brother!" ” Zhang Fei smiled naively and scratched the back of his head, “Me too! 』

"Hahaha..." Liu Bei patted Zhang Fei's arm, then smiled and pulled Guan Yu's arm.

Guan Yu stroked his long beard, nodded and smiled.

"I have traveled from Liaodong to Jiaozhi in the territory of the Han Dynasty... Haha, I never thought I would travel so far..." Liu Bei laughed, "I went out to study when I was fifteen, and now I am in my forties... …At that time, you know, my face was always shiny. Others said my face was like jade, moist and lustrous. Now look at this skin, these wrinkles..."

"Brother is not old yet!" ” Zhang Fei said straightforwardly.

Guan Yu kicked Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei laughed again, "I used to think that the place I saw was the Han Dynasty, the world, and this world!" Haha, it turned out not to be... I went to Guanzhong and read the book, the map, and the sand table in the Cavalry Hall... Only then did I realize that the world I thought was actually... just a corner of other people's sand table..."

"Just now... To be honest, I wanted to back down for a while and felt regretful..." Liu Bei smiled, openly and naturally, "Isn't it good to enjoy the blessing?" I'm already this age...sit down, lie down, tired, no longer working hard, just do whatever you want, live as long as you can, eat and drink, find a few wives, give birth to a lot of children, and take a look when the time comes Once closed, no matter what happens behind him... But I suddenly thought..."

"Where has my youth gone?" 』

"Where has my courage gone?" 』

"Where have my dreams, my glory, and the vows we made to heaven and earth in the peach garden gone?" 』

"Where have they all gone?" Liu Bei slowly put his hand on his chest, "I searched for a long time...and then I found it. It's still here...it's still reminding me, so that I have never forgotten it...my heart is still beating, my The blood is not yet cold..."

"Some things don't need to be thought about or done only if you like them, but if they are right and correct, they are worth trying!" It’s worth doing! ”Liu Bei sighed, “With all the things in this world, how can everything go as planned and everything be happy? If you like something among the right things, you will naturally be happy, but if you don't like the unsatisfactory things, if it is correct and right, you must do it even if it is difficult! Could it be that just because you get what you want, you can do wrong things, ignore right and wrong, and destroy your conscience? 』

"Difficulties reveal true colors!" True gold is refined through fire! 』

"We are Han people, our big Han people. We Han people were once so glorious... fearless, open-minded, tolerant of the world, and eclectic..." Liu Bei raised his head, looked at the sky, and said slowly, "Three or four hundred years ago. , the road was even more difficult to walk than it is now. The Han people had already been here, established Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan. They also went to the Western Regions and reached Haixi... I just thought, did the Han people at that time have any people? Saying that this journey is too far, too difficult, too tiring, and too dangerous...so you can't walk it, you can't do it, there's no hope at all, so you don't need to go? No need to do it? 』

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't help but ponder.

"...our ancestors, no one set an example for them, no one opened the way for them, no one showed them the direction, no one told them what they should do and what they shouldn't do, but they just did it, and just went like this. Just like that, he opened up the world, fought all over the world, and conquered the world! 』

"Because the former governor of Jiaozhi was greedy, lazy, treacherous, and cruel, so can we be as greedy, lazy, treacherous, and cruel as those guys?" 』

"No! 』

"It has great etiquette, so it is called Xia!" There is the beauty of the service chapter, which is called the splendor! 』

"We come with the glory of China, we come with the majesty of the Han Dynasty!" We want to tell these people of Jiaozhi, South Vietnam, and the people of Jiuzhen Rinan. Although there are greedy, lazy, cunning and cruel people in the Han Dynasty, there are also people who are polite, righteous, honest, loyal, filial and trustworthy! There are Chinese etiquette and Han beauty! 』

"Let's tell them what is the real China and what is the real man"!

"How majestic China is, how glorious the Han Dynasty is!" 』

"Even if...he cannot return to his homeland in this life..." Liu Bei stood up, took two steps forward and pointed at the Han banner not far ahead, "But as long as this Han banner is there, under the banner, This is Dahan’s hometown! 』

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't help but stand up together and stood beside Liu Bei.

"Here in Jiaozhi, there are almost no scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Farming, mulberry and water conservancy are in ruins, and soldiers and equipment cannot be maintained. All these are difficulties..." Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu, then at Zhang Fei, and put the two men's hands together. Pulling up, "But it doesn't matter...because I still have two brothers here!" 』

Guan Yu bowed his hands and bowed with a straight face, "Guan, follow my brother!" If we work together with one heart, we will fight to the death! 』

"Me too!" ” Zhang Fei opened his big round eyes.

Liu Bei looked up to the sky and smiled, "Hahaha, someone is coming!" Get the wine! 』

Thin wine, slightly sour.

Like an idealist who refuses to bow.

"Here's to the big man!" 』

"Respect the great Han people in this world who are striving to move forward!" 』