Chapter Seventy-Six: Telling History

After leaving Xinyang, the army went north, and did not continue to attack the county seat, first, the food in Xinyang City was enough to support the army for a period of time, and on the other hand, after entering the Great Plain of Henan, I really saw what it means to be white bones exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crying for thousands of miles.

Some county towns don't need to be attacked at all, and there are basically few people guarding them, but what about hitting the county seats? The county town is also empty. The grain taken from the county town is not enough to feed the hungry people in the county. Luo Rucai couldn't bear to take food from the mouths of these hungry people.

If Zhang Xuan still heard that someone ate human flesh in Nanyang, Zhang Xuan's understanding of this only existed in rumors. But on the land of Zhongzhou, he saw it with his own eyes, and it was still in large quantities.

More than a dozen corpses hung on the shelves as if they were killing pigs, openly selling meat by catty. Zhang Xuan killed the first arson and killed all the people in this butcher shop, and buried all these dead people.

But is that enough?

Zhang Xuan often saw a lot of broken bones when he was in a hurry, which were human bones. There are also tooth marks on it, and it's not hard to imagine what happened. The so-called easy eating is never a joke.

Zhang Xuan's mood became low, and even Luo Yujiao didn't pay attention to it.

The relationship between Zhang Xuan and Luo Yujiao developed rapidly in the Zhou Party incident. At least Zhang Xuan no longer avoided Luo Yujiao, and he rarely even mentioned the matter of going to Jiangnan.

I don't know if it's wrong, Zhang Xuan's mood was wrong, it spread from Luo Yujiao's mouth to Luo Rucai's mouth, or because of something else, Luo Rucai called Zhang Xuan to his side and asked him to put his small camp of more than 100 people aside first.

Zhang Xuan's department, after the first battle in Xinyang City, should have been supplemented, but he didn't want Zhang Xianzhong to break with Luo Rucai, Luo Rucai left in a hurry, and there was no time to replenish Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan's wounded at any time were much better, but the number was only about two hundred. Zhang Xuan organized two hundred households, one for Cao Zongyu and one for Deng He. They were familiar with everything on the march.

The people of this era are very able to endure hardships, so only if they can eat enough, it is very easy for them to march seventy or eighty miles a day, of course, if they let them run, it is also possible to run more than 100 miles a day. Now the speed of their march is limited by nothing else but baggage.

Zhang Xuan's headquarters is now the escort of the medical battalion. They themselves simply can't get up fast. In addition, Zuo Liangyu was attracted by Zhang Xianzhong, and there were no pursuers behind, so there was no pressure, and there was no need to go too fast.

"The students meet the palm plate." Zhang Xuan saluted on his horse.

"Follow me." Luo Rucai's whip pointed. Let Zhang Xuangen be behind him, Zhang Xuan cautiously lagged behind Luo Rucai by half a horse's head, and said, "The palm plate called me, I don't know what to order." ”

Luo Rucai said: "There is nothing to do, I just want to hear you talk about the ancients." He often tells his subordinates about the ancients, I heard Yujiao say it's very interesting, come and tell me about it, the road we took was the route of Yue Wumu's Northern Expedition? ”

Zhang Xuan looked back, but saw Luo Yujiao winking at Zhang Xuan from behind.

Luo Rucai's so-called talk about the ancients is part of Zhang Xuan's training of his subordinates, Zhang Xuan trained his soldiers, first military training, and then let Cao Zongyu and Deng He teach practical combat skills, in fact, they can be used on the battlefield, that is, those three or two, Zhang Xuan also taught his subordinates to read. When he has nothing to do, he tells his subordinates history.

In fact, modern people with a little insight can tell a lot of ancient characters. But in Luo Yujiao's eyes, he simply knows astronomy and geography, if he doesn't recommend it to his father, let him be an old man by the way, and take a look at the strength of his future son-in-law.

After Luo Rucai broke through Xinyang City, Luo Rucai treated Zhang Xuan differently. In his heart, he already regarded Zhang Xuan as his son-in-law, so he followed Luo Yujiao's meaning to see what Zhang Xuan was capable of.

After all, the future father-in-law's test of the hairy-footed son-in-law has absolutely no intention of ending before getting married.

"Exactly." Zhang Xuan didn't have time to figure out the joints for a while, but Luo Rucai asked, how could he not say it, so he pointed to the direction of Yuncheng and said: "This is Yuncheng, Yue Wumu fought in Yuncheng back then." defeated the Jin army, beat Zhu Xianzhen, and was immediately recalled by the twelve gold medals. ”

Zhang Xuan then put the battle of Yuncheng, the story of the twelve gold medals, and the death of Yue Fei, which is clear every day. told Luo Rucai about it again.

Luo Rucai was not shocked when he heard it, but Luo Yujiao's eyebrows fluttered when he listened, thinking that what he cared about was Zhang Xuan talking eloquently in front of Luo Rucai, and he didn't care what he was saying.

After listening to this, Luo Rucai said: "I have also heard about Yue Fei's Storm Pavilion, but it is not as tortuous and moving as you said. ”

Zhang Xuan's face was a little red for a while, from history, the version he talked about must have been reprocessed by later generations. And not the original anymore. What Luo Rucai heard must be closer to the truth than what Zhang Xuan heard, and many historical truths are not tortuous or exciting. Many twists and turns in wonderful stories are often not historical facts.

Luo Rucai suddenly asked, "If you were Yue Fei, what would you do?" ”

This is the difference between today's people and the ancients who read history, who read history but just listened to stories, but the ancients read history to increase their wisdom. Why is it that the same book is read differently? Because the ancients often did their own thinking, put themselves in the shoes of the characters who entered the history books, thought of their own solutions, and then looked at the ancients as people. And modern people see too much and think too little.

Zhang Xuan fell into thought for a while.

After a while, he said, "I may go and abandon my official position and go into hiding." ”

"Why not rebel?" Luo Rucai said: "Kill Song Gaozong, or stand on your own, or set up someone else as the emperor?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "The reason why Yue Fei's subordinates followed Yue Fei in life and death was not because of anything else, or because Yue Fei was loyal to the country and devoted himself to the Northern Expedition. Once Yue Fei rebelled, he became Huan Wen and his ilk, using the Northern Expedition to control military power and plot against him. At that time, there are a few people who are willing to follow Yue Fei to rebel, and the Song Wen people are in power, despise Wufu, and regard Wufu as the source of chaos, under this mood, even if Yue Fei is invincible, he will inevitably not be able to control the government, many things are not something that can be done by killing, I also thought about whether Yue Fei would divide Xiangyang, but I want to come to Xiangyang to divide the territory, sandwiched between the two countries, without the support of the rear, Yue Fei will inevitably be destroyed even if he is powerful, and with Song Gaozong's actions, it is impossible to say that he would rather borrow the hands of Jin soldiers to eliminate Yue Fei. Even if it is to abandon the official position and go into hiding, it is not the best way. Because once he goes into hiding, he will be incognito from now on, and even a few officials can be bullied. Thinking about it, Yue Fei thought the same, Song Taizu released the military power with a glass of wine. The ancestral training of the Song Dynasty was not to kill the doctor, and Yue Fei thought that if he returned to Lin'an, he would probably be raised. In the future, there will be a chance to use it, maybe the next Northern Expedition will use him. ”

"It's just that Yue Fei doesn't know, Song Gaozong doesn't think that Yue Fei is a scholar."

Luo Rucai nodded secretly in his heart, in fact, Luo Rucai didn't think as much as Zhang Xuan. After all, Luo Rucai has not studied history systematically at all, but he just listens to the story with one ear and one ear with the right, and the image of Yue Fei in his mind is similar to the image of Yue Fei in the storytelling, and he didn't think about it so much at all.

But he admired Zhang Xuan's words extraordinarily, that is: "Many things can not be done by killing." ”

Luo Rucai has a lot of insight into this, he has been fighting for life and death for so many years, and he has seen more tragic things, and he has been killed for many years, and the more he kills the world, the worse it is. Killing people solves some things, but it doesn't solve everything.

Luo Rucai said: "From now on, you will tell history by my side." ”

Zhang Xuan was startled and wanted to refuse, but he didn't know where to start. Seeing this, Luo Rucai smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, no one can grab your little belongings, you are just talking about the ancient times by my side for the time being, and you have been idle after all recently, when you get busy, I have time to listen to your story." ”

"Yes." Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Where to start?" ”

"Just from the "Historical Records"." Luo Rucai said: "I heard this history book is the most famous. ”