Chapter 3403 Food (Updated)

Chapter 3402 Food (Added)

What is the purpose of life?

If you ask the young Wen Pin this question, he will definitely stand up and answer loudly, "To make achievements! To achieve immortal merits!"

But if you ask Wen Pin now, he will probably just be silent.

People grow up, become realistic, and lose something.

Especially when Wen Pin saw that the angel Lu Su was not the reinforcements, Wen Pin felt the deep malice of the world towards him...

When Lu Su came, the two sides could not fight.

It was temporary.

Everyone knew it was temporary, but no one said it.

Under Lu Su's strong request, Wen Pin and others were able to take a breath and received some supplies sent by Lu Su.

Looking at his soldiers staring at the meat like starving ghosts, surrounding the pots and pans, unwilling to move, just waiting for the cooking to be ready for sharing, Wen Pin suddenly realized that people are just here to live.

Everything is for survival.

Survive first, then everything else...

In order to give the angels at least courtesy, a small hilltop was surrounded by a curtain, which was considered a good reception venue.

Although there were no fine wines and delicacies, there was still barbecue.

Lu Su's appearance was not particularly outstanding, but he was very talented, eloquent, and had a reputation for being generous. Although this mission was almost imposed on him, he still smiled and did not seem to feel aggrieved at all.

Lu Su seemed to like Pang Shanmin very much and was very close to him. He praised him intentionally or unintentionally during the conversation.

Pang Shanmin was somewhat embarrassed to see Lu Su appreciate him so much, but he felt quite comfortable in his heart. In addition, both of them had some knowledge and discussed some scriptures and poems, which was also a good match, so they talked more.

The atmosphere was still good for the time being.

"Today is such a good day. If we use swords and guns and see blood, it will be a big spoiler! 'Lu Su said with a smile, 'Why don't we stop fighting for the emperor's sake? I am not talented enough, so I will borrow your precious land to invite General Wen to come down to the fort and have a few drinks together! If there is any grudge, let's put it aside today and settle it tomorrow! What do you think? '

Seeing Lu Su bring up the emperor, Pang Shanmin's face changed slightly, and then he glanced at Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong sat at the bottom, just twirling his beard, not saying anything.

Pang Shanmin pondered for a moment, then slowly straightened his waist, looked at Lu Su, and said in a deep voice: 'Yes! '

Lu Su's heart jumped. He knew that after he said this, the good atmosphere he had created before would inevitably be discounted, but he had to do it.

Because Lu Su could not guarantee that he would be able to mediate successfully. What if he delayed in Guanzhong for a while, and then the battle in Hedong was over, and Pang Tong let him go?

So Lu Su had to seize any opportunity, at least to show that he had made an effort...

For example, this Wuguan Road.

A one-day ceasefire, a two-way, oh, three-way talks, no matter how you say it, can prove that Lu Su has made efforts and is not just eating rice and doing nothing.

And Lu Su's point is just right. After all, the two sides have not really beaten each other's heads to pieces. Just one day of cessation will not cause such a big loss to both sides, especially to Pang Shanmin and Huang Zhong. However, Lu Su did not expect that Pang Shanmin, who seemed a little shy when talking about poetry and scriptures just now, would change so much after hearing the military suggestion of a one-day ceasefire!

It's like...

A knife was pulled out of the scabbard!

Although Lu Su felt that it was not good, he had said it and could not regret it immediately.

Wen Pin was invited to go down the fort, and then with seven or eight guards, he passed through the cavalry formation and came to the curtain of the temporary gathering.

Huang Zhong looked at Wen Pin and saw that although he looked tired, he was not afraid of shrinking. He nodded and said hello, without deliberately making any trouble for Wen Pin.

Wen Pin stepped forward and greeted him in turn.

Wen Pin did not expect that there would be such a sit-down meeting before the war, so even if he came, he did not know what to say. Of course, even if Wen Pin was asked to prepare, he still did not know what to say. He was just a military general who had read some books, but he could not say some allusions and poems in a vague way.

So after Wen Pin sat down, he was silent.

Fortunately, there was Lu Su.

As someone who often ran around...

Well, West, not often, but East, Lu Su still had a lot of experience. He knew that he could not let the scene cool down, so he laughed and said some warm words to support it. However, what Lu Su never expected was that some of the polite words he had always used smoothly in Shandong had problems here.

Just like the weather is always the topic of conversation in the Great Sakura Empire, the Yellow Turbans are also the topic of conversation in the Han Dynasty.

Yes, in the Han Dynasty, it was called the Yellow Turban Rebellion. But in later generations, it was called the Yellow Turban Uprising.

The Yellow Turban Uprising was a peasant war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and one of the largest religiously organized popular uprisings in Chinese history. Bankrupt peasants who had no choice but to launch a fierce attack on bureaucratic landlords had a huge impact on the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. . Although Zhang Jiao failed in the end, he promoted the Han Dynasty to form a situation where the feudal princes were divided.

Lu Su is a landlord.

Pangshan people are also landlords.

But now when it comes to talking about the Yellow Turban, their attitudes are completely different.

Lu Su had always been very disgusted with the Yellow Turbans' uprising, resisting the imperial court, burning, killing and looting.

If it weren't for the Yellow Turban Thief, there's no way he would still be in Linhuai and be a good little landowner. Why would he need to go bankrupt and go to this place or go into exile there?

Although it is said that in troubled times, there will be more opportunities, but it is also hard in troubled times!

Just like all kinds of drifting in later generations, opportunities are just duckweed on the water, successful ones are survivor bias, and unsuccessful ones are landlords and homeowners' happiness index enhancers. Earn whatever you can, and don't even think about taking a cent home.

Lu Su believed that the unorganized Yellow Turban thieves were just mob rebellion, causing harm to the country and ruining lives. Lu Su was very straightforward. He believed that suppressing the rebellion was correct and essential. However, he retained a certain attitude on whether to kill other ordinary Yellow Turban thieves after capturing the culprit.

Lu Su thought it was too much to trap and kill the captives. The Huangfu family may have caused subsequent disasters and harmed their family because they killed too many people and damaged their luck...

Lu Su felt that when dealing with the Yellow Turbans, he should win the battle and let them surrender. Those who can be recruited for his own use can be used for his own purposes. Those who cannot be used should be appeased on the spot, so that they can live a stable life, and the world will naturally stabilize.

But Lu Su didn't expect that Pang Shanmin had different opinions on this.

Pang Shanmin frowned slightly when Lu Su was talking, but said nothing. When Lu Su had almost finished speaking, Pang Shanmin slowly said something that made Lu Su surprised and puzzled, but also felt that It makes sense, something that needs to be understood and pondered...

"Why do the people rebel?" Pang Shanmin asked, and before Lu Su could answer, he said, "It's impossible to live." All the people in the world are seeking to survive. If they can’t live or die, why don’t they rebel? ! 』

Wenpin, who had been acting as the background wall, couldn't help but feel a sudden movement in his heart when he heard this!

He looked at Pang Shanmin.

This is the first time Wenpin has seriously visited Pang Shanmin since he arrived here.

Pang Shanmin was neither handsome nor suave, but at this moment, Pang Shanmin's expression seemed to be full of power, solemn and solemn.

"How can the Han people live?" There is no silk for mulberry, no meat for fishing, no fur for hunting. If a farmer does not work for a day, he will have no food for a day! How can the Han people live? After working hard all year long, I have no clothes to wear, no food to eat, no leaks to repair, and no mend to the rags! How can the Han people live? ! A family of five farmed non-stop. For a hundred acres of land, two to three hundred dan would be very good. However, half of the tax was cut off, and transfers were directly levied. The young and old at home were howling, and the beetles were howling outdoors! 』

Wenpin sighed and lowered his head slightly.

He knew that Pang Shanmin was right.

A peasant family of five in Han Dynasty spends at least a hundred shi on food every year, and it also has to be mixed with a lot of wheat bran and wild vegetables. In addition, the cost of exchanging salt, production tools, daily necessities, etc., and selling the rice costs 100 kilograms. One layer of skin is peeled off, and another layer of skin is peeled off when buying something...

If a family's income does not meet the minimum standard of living they need, they will inevitably fall into a situation of hunger and cold, let alone maintain farming in the coming year.

Moreover, Pang Shanmin is talking about a home with a hundred acres, which is already a very good family. But among the big Han people now, many farmers actually own less than a hundred acres of land, usually only dozens of acres or even a few acres, and only one hundred acres a year. With an income of more than a stone or less, after deducting various taxes, there is not much left, and it is impossible to survive.

"Why did the Han people die?" Birth, old age, illness and death are human ethics. However, if you don’t lose your family, you won’t be filial to your children; if you don’t lose your property, you won’t be your son! Why did the Han people die? The lender wore fine clothes and sat high behind the counter, and the dutiful son, wearing white linen, knelt down and begged in the hall! Why did the Han people die? ! The three chapters of Emperor Gaozu's founding of the country are understood by all the villagers. Now it’s a matter of rules and regulations again? There are even those who enter the woods and mountains without permission and die without compensation, but are severely punished for their lives! If you can’t live without living, and you can’t die without dying, why not fight back? ! 』

Lu Su was stunned.

In fact, doesn’t Lu Su know about these issues?

He also knew it, but the mainstream thinking in Shandong, or most people when talking about the Yellow Turbans, held a critical and opposing attitude. At the same time, when dealing with ordinary people, they often treat them with their nostrils turned upward and their eyes downward.

Because people in Shandong feel that these untouchables are not literate, ignorant of reason, and unable to communicate, and they are a completely different category from them...

But they have forgotten that if in the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi, Confucius, Xunzi, Mozi and others had not spread knowledge and writing, preached, taught and solved doubts, most of them would still be lackeys under the princes. Understand the skills taught by family business. After they acquired the knowledge, they took it for themselves, set up various obstacles, and then laughed at the people who were unable to acquire the knowledge.

Pang Shanmin sighed: "I have heard that there was a folk song in the early years, "The common people's hair is like leeks, it grows again after being cut; the head is like a chicken, it crows again after being cut. Officials don't need to be feared, they should be treated lightly. But how can we expect peace!" When I heard it in the past, I just sighed, but I didn't know that the people suffered so much! I also hated the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but now I know it is so, I should know why it is so! If the Yellow Turbans rebel, they will die, and if they don't rebel, they will also die! In this case, it is better to rebel, and we can still kill corrupt officials, eliminate evil tyrants, burn carved beams and painted buildings, destroy the crisscrossing roads, divide money and jewelry, and eat fish and meat... Even if we know we will die, how can we be happy! The people have no future, and the whole world will rebel! When the jade and stone are burned, how can there be high spring and white snow? There will only be blood and fire on the ground, and corpses in the valleys and rivers! 』

Lu Su swallowed a mouthful of saliva and was speechless for a long time.

Lu Su has been to Jiangdong for too long...

People will change the environment, and the environment will also affect people. Everything has two sides. Lu Su was in Jiangdong. Even though he was quite disdainful of Zhang Zhao and other people who only cared about the present, Lu Su himself was gradually affected. He looked at problems limited to Jiangdong, not the whole world, and could not see the future direction clearly.

For Pang Shanmin, after a baptism in Guanzhong, especially after a heart-to-heart talk with Pang Tong, he was truly reborn. He had many feelings and accumulated them in his heart. It happened that Lu Su ran into the muzzle of the gun...

What Pang Shanmin said was not completely a refutation of Lu Su, but also a mockery of Pang Shanmin himself.

In the early years, Pang Shanmin only stared at the Pang family, the surrounding area of ​​Wancheng, and his own one acre and three points of land.

But what?

Can you keep it if you stare at it?

Pang Shanmin didn't believe that Pang Tong would give up the Pang family business, and didn't believe that Pang Tong would not give up Wancheng. That was because Pang Shanmin's eyes were only so big at that time, so he couldn't see it and wouldn't believe it. As a result, Pang Shanmin found out that he was the clown all along.

Pang Shanmin was talking about those ordinary people, those rebellious people because they couldn't see the future, so they were obsessed with the present, and they were also mocking themselves before?

Because they couldn't see the future, there was only today.

Because they couldn't see the distance, they only cared about the present.

After his thoughts were clear, Pang Shanmin understood why Wancheng was so easy to break through, why it couldn't be defended, and Tongguan and Wuguan in Guanzhong were like copper walls and iron walls. Even if the enemy army was ten or even a hundred times stronger, it still couldn't be broken.

It's not how strong the pass is, but how firm the people's hearts are.

As the governor of Wancheng, Pang Shanmin had been staring at his family and the land in front of his door. How could he expect other civilians and merchants in Wancheng to be selfless and sacrifice for the Pang family business?

Pang Shanmin felt how ridiculous he was before, and now he naturally showed how much hatred he had.

But in Lu Su's eyes, it seemed that Pang Shanmin hated him. He was dumbfounded and dared not say another word.

At that moment, Lu Su even thought that Pang Shanmin was possessed by Zhang Jue or some other rebel leader. Maybe in the next moment Pang Shanmin would leave the table and shout, "Are there any kings, princes, generals, and ministers?"

So Lu Su did not dare to continue arguing, for fear of irritating Pang Shanmin, and could only smile in embarrassment but politely.

However, Lu Su did not expect that the person who was most shocked among those present was not Lu Su himself, but Wen Pin!

In the Han Dynasty, "righteousness" was very important.

Some people may talk about this level of importance, while others may keep it in their hearts.

Wen Pin is undoubtedly the latter.

In history, when Liu Cong surrendered, Wen Pin did not follow him to meet Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao later asked Wen Pin, "Why are you so late?"

Compared with the sons of the noble families in Jingxiang who hurriedly bowed down to Cao Cao and expressed their iron-willed and loyal character, Wen Pin, who was not good at expressing himself and even a little "pedantic", was like an alien.

Just like "grain" and "grain".

When everyone thinks that rice is good, it is grain, and they forget that rice should be in quantity to be called "grain". Otherwise, the world only focuses on the few grains of good rice, but ignores that most people are actually eating more and worse bran and wild vegetables.

Wen Pin put down his wine glass, bowed his head and thought silently.

In the Han Dynasty, it is not that no one has noticed that the Han system, or the political model, has problems, but many times even if they know that there is a problem, they don't know how to solve the problem. So they could only drag it out, waste time, and then watch the whole country slide into the abyss bit by bit.

Wen Pin had loyalty in his heart, but he never said it. He also had the Han in his heart, but he never said it.

In comparison, Lu Su's "loyalty" to the Han...

In fact, to a certain extent, the more loyal Lu Su was to Sun Quan, the more disloyal he was to the Han.

It's just that under the long-standing dual monarchy system of the Han Dynasty, it was in line with the cognition of the gentry and was praised as a virtue...

So, Lu Su was a little bit unable to adapt to being messed with by Pang Shanmin so righteously. He forced a smile and tried to save the situation, but it looked very strange. When he was thinking hard about how to save it, he heard Wen Pin on the side say: "I am willing to follow the angel to Guanzhong... Oh, just me and a few personal guards, and the rest of the soldiers... will be decided by General Pang and General Huang. ”

‘Ah?’ Lu Su was stunned, ‘This…’

What kind of a development is this?

‘Envoy Pang…’ Wen Pin looked up at Pang Shanmin, ‘These words, before… Oh, forgive me for being rude, Envoy Pang, it was only after arriving in Chang’an that you had this realization and made such a heartfelt statement?’

Pang Shanmin did not shy away and nodded in agreement.

Wen Pin nodded, and was silent for a long time before he bowed to Lu Su and said: ‘Wen Mou is not talented, but has some martial arts skills. I am willing to escort the angels into Guanzhong. I wonder if the angels are willing to accept it?’

Lu Su was stunned, and then nodded: ‘Of course I am willing, but I wonder… whether Envoy Pang is willing to release General Wen?’

Pang Shanmin looked at Wen Pin, ‘General Wen, why are you so determined to go to Guanzhong?’

‘Because before the Han Dynasty, no one had ever said that the Han people could not live or die!’ Wen Pin said in a deep voice, ‘Evangel Pang had never said that before he went to Chang’an! Qinglong Temple in Chang'an... I have long admired it. Now that the angel has come, isn't it an opportunity for me? '

I wish the country will become stronger and the people will be happier!