Chapter 134: The Twilight of the Scholar (Part II)

By the time the news reached the ears of the Nashi, the Nashi had already put on his leather armor, wiped his weapons, and were even ready to die.

When the herald had finished speaking, the man's expression was first glazed, and his eyes widened in disbelief at such an order.

After being sluggish for a long time, the left side of his face twitched a little, not angry, but hoping to use the muscles of his face to drive out a wild smile as if he didn't care under the sluggishness, but the pain in his heart made it difficult for him to make even the simplest expression.

After convulsing like this three times, his stiff expression finally showed a smile like a bitter melon.

Unstoppable.

When the corners of the mouth were pulled upward, the whole corner of the mouth turned into a curved crescent, and laughter echoed in the tent.

After laughing for a long time, he suddenly turned around and glanced at his friend who wanted to persuade him, bowed down and said, "Don't forget what you trusted!" ”

His friend was about to agree, but he drew his bronze sword with lightning speed, and the horizontal sword was between his throats, and he slashed and fell to the ground.

Blood spurted out, staining the tent red.

The friend next to him did not exclaim or scream in pain, but after he fell to the ground, he stabbed his sword in the heart on his still convulsive and painful body, and ended his pain, knelt down and wiped the man's eyes that had not yet been closed, knowing that he could no longer hear, but still said in an extremely sincere and solemn voice: "I will not dare to forget." ”

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In the Qi military camp, the soldiers who received the assembled artillery to prepare for the assault on the Mo family were not silent.

Occasionally, someone looked up at the front in the distance, crossed the barracks, and threw out a crying cannonball in the middle of the army, and cursed.

A sergeant in his thirties suddenly sighed when the next cannon bombardment sounded: "The world is coming to an end......

When he speaks of the world, he does not mean the world composed of thousands of ordinary people in the land of Kyushu.

The world he spoke of was just a rule.

A system in which the whole world is not the king's land, the princes have a country, the doctor has a family, and the feudal warriors are enough to cultivate on their behalf.

This system is only a part of the world, but in their eyes, this is the whole world.

The sound of cannons seemed to verify his words, and his words also attracted the approval of more people.

"The decisive victory of the two armies was originally determined by the impact of soldiers. In the past, my father followed the prince and the marquis of Lu, and the two armies faced each other, and with one blow, the chariot impacted, directly crushing the army of the Lu people, and won a complete victory. ”

"But now?"

The soldier who spoke opened his arm covered by leather armor, revealing a huge wound on his arm, and said with a miserable smile: "A few years ago, I participated in the war with the army. While the chariot was still being assembled, the bronze cannon on the opposite side had already hit, and a stone had smashed directly through my arm. ”

"My partner made the left side of the car, rushed to the front of the righteous army, and was about to draw the bow, when the muskets on the opposite side fired in unison, and his head was directly shattered!"

"Who are those? They are all common peasants, some of whom have only been in the barracks for two or three years, and some of them have only been trained for a year......"

In the scolding, many middle-aged scholars couldn't help but sigh with some sad feelings about the death of rabbits and foxes.

The sergeant, who spoke out at the beginning and said that the world was about to end, smiled bitterly: "Since I was five years old, I have been practicing shooting with a small bow at home. ”

"I started learning swords at the age of twelve, and I have never stopped for eight years."

"In order to be able to shoot at the target on the galloping chariot, I have to stand on the chariot for a long time every day, just so that I can still keep my hand steady and draw my bow quickly while the chariot is running."

"In order to shoot the white deer, I ran deep into the barren mountains and ran non-stop, and was almost eaten by a tiger, and finally got the white deer, so as to make the crown of the crown ceremony."

He pointed to the samurai hat on his head, which was from a buckskin.

"What did more than ten years of hard training get in exchange? In exchange for the fact that my horse was killed by a spear as soon as I was at the top of the ground, I fell from my chariot and moved forward with my companion, but before I could get close enough to use my sword, my companion was smashed by the sand and iron balls that were sprayed by the bronze cannons...... What captured me turned out to be just a subordinate farmer who once didn't even have his own share of the land! ”

Similar stories, similar experiences, always resonate the most, and there are many people who have similar experiences to him.

Under the feudal system, they did not need to do lowly things, and from the time they were born, they lived a life of "the property of the nine peasants", and all they had to do was to provide military obligations for their feudal lords.

Chariots, bows, fencing, and shocks are the foundation of their lives.

From the age of five to learn the small bow, from the age of twelve to learn fencing, more than ten years of cold and summer, before being able to become a "scholar" after the crown ceremony.

Starting from the lowest-level corporal, from the right of the car, to the left of the car, and even to become a sergeant, I don't know how many fights I have to experience.

And now, a farmer who has put down his hoe and raked his axe has taken up his musket, trained for half a year, and after forming a formation, he can fight against them.

If the gunpowder had appeared late, and if the iron armor had appeared first, perhaps they could have given up the chariot and become a heavy cavalry tribe, but now, there was no chance to even turn into a heavy cavalry division.

Up to now, these taxis, who used to be able to control the outcome of a battle, and these taxis who could control a battle of 10,000 people, have to attack those copper and iron monsters that emit white smoke and flames.

Under the gap, it is not only a question of life and death, but also a question of the meaning of existence.

The system of the world has changed, and what they have lost is not only their fiefdoms and fiefdoms, but also everything they exist in this world.

status, honor, superior pride, strength to control victory and defeat, the attention of doctors and superiors, and the envious gaze of the farmers......

Everything from birth to all life is going to be turned upside down.

Meat eaters despise, they are not meat eaters.

Among them, there is no lack of warriors, there is no lack of gentlemen who abide by the "Zhou Rites", there is no lack of compassion for the people of the fiefdom, and even the mind of looking forward to the great rule of the world.

But these do not prevent them from subverting the fate of all cherished things under the tide of the times.

The smoke from the iron ore mines destroyed their fiefdom system; The rumbling sound of cannon destroyed the impact of the victory or defeat of the battlefield because of their pride; The black smoke of the explosion of gunpowder that reached into the sky destroyed the walls of their master, the fiefdom doctor, who could stand against the king; The sound of ping-pong volleys destroyed the swordsmanship they had been practicing for more than ten years; The neat formation of the snare drums destroyed the swordsmanship that they could use as one......

When all of this is destroyed, their glory, their worth, their meaning will be lost.

And when all this is destroyed, there will be people who will step on their corpses and say disdainfully: If you are not in line with the will of heaven and the productive forces at this time, you should perish.

It's not the elimination of the body, but when the system changes, even if they are still alive, are they still "scholars"?

When a person's identity is completely changed, what is the difference between them and a baby?

When they are no longer there, they are also like new students, living naked in the new world like others, but this new life is forced.

Now, this sense of urgency has made them feel the coolness of autumn and the cold of winter.

After the silence brought by the sound of artillery again, one person suddenly sighed: "In the past, the Zhou metric ceremony was the time when the authority of the Son of Heaven was at its peak. At that time, since he was a saint, he should have stipulated that there should be no iron oxen ploughing, no gunpowder and muskets, and those who use them should be punished with five punishments, and the world will not change......"

In fact, the world has long changed.

From the king of Chu to the king, Zheng Bo shooting the Son of Heaven, Jin Wen inviting the Son of Heaven Tian Hunting, and even the three families of Jin and Tian Dynasty, the world has already changed.

But even if this is a change, as long as the iron ox ploughing and gunpowder do not come out, their "world" will still not change, and they still need to divide the samurai.

The world in their eyes is not the world in Zhongni's eyes, which is all from the Son of Heaven; It's just that the sub-feudal Lu is enough to cultivate the world on behalf of the soldiers.

Faced with the fantasy of the Zhou metric ceremony in the past, some people sighed: "This is not fair. I have been training hard for 20 years, and in the end I have to face a farmer who has been training for a year with a musket. ”

"Such an unfair world is the way to perish!"

In the praise of the people, none of the farmers told them: It is not fair for us to cultivate for you and let you train out of production, but is it not the same that has existed for thousands of years and has not perished?

Because the farmer could not stand here, he was not qualified to speak to them, so he could only wait in silence for someone to shout this unfairness.

When everyone is a scholar, they all feel that it is unfair.

But after all, someone muttered: "The Mo family has the saying of the nine layers of the Paradise. They said that before the advent of iron ox ploughing gunpowder, Zhou Li was in line with the happy land of the times and could make the world beneficial. Now that time has passed, I am afraid that it is the comeback of Zhou Gong......"

One of the people next to him immediately scolded: "Shut up! Don't you hear that attacking heresy will cause harm! Is it possible to learn such heresies? ”

According to what they said, if there were no iron tools and oxen to plough gunpowder, Zhou Li would have been in the interests of the world. So, why do they have to make these things out when they shout that they want to benefit the world? Originally, without these things, the world could be governed! ”

"You have to figure it out, they first came up with such things as iron tools, ox ploughing, gunpowder, and then they wanted to change the chaos in the world. If they don't get out, how can the world be in chaos? ”

"Besides, the gentleman is righteous, and the villain is profitable. They only say that the sum of the wealth in the world, wealth is profit, and only look at profit, isn't it just the villain? The Mo family is a villain, and everyone in the world must become a villain! ”

After denouncing the man's remarks, the warrior slammed the samurai fur hat on his head to the ground, drew his sword and shouted, "Today's battle is not for us, but for the world!" The Mo family will not die, and the world will not stop in chaos! ”

"Today's battle is not the battle between Qi and Sishang, but the battle between the gentleman and the villain!"

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the kings!"

"If heresy is not eliminated, the world will not stop in chaos!"

After shouting, the men shouted, and the man jumped out of the camp with his sword drawn, and rushed towards the artillery between the infantry phalanxes of the righteous division.

"For the prosperity of the world, eliminate heresy!"

"Attack! Heterodox! ”