There are more and more displaced people in Suiyang, and the security inside and outside the city is also deteriorating, and between depravity and survival, many people choose to survive.

For a little food, in order not to starve to death, many people are strung together and become thieves.

At first, they only robbed some property on the road, but later, they tasted the sweetness, and even dared to attack some small villages, as well as the rich people's forts.

From the beginning, these people only robbed money, and did not hurt people, but now they are killing people, setting fires, committing adultery, and plundering, and doing everything.

They are degraded in poverty, mad in depravity, and the virtues of human nature are eaten away little by little.

The people of Suiyang are panicked, and at the beginning, there were some kind rich families who helped the displaced people, but now they are avoided like snakes and scorpions, and even the government has begun to expel the displaced people for the sake of social stability.

The outcasts were expelled and could only become robbers in order to survive; The government feared that the displaced people would become robbers, and their expulsion intensified, creating a vicious circle.

There are many people and thieves are swarming around, but the reward given by the government for killing thieves is getting less and less, from the original reward of 50,000 yuan for killing a thief, to only 10,000 yuan now.

Despite this, there are still many powerful people who lead domestic slaves and specialize in killing thieves to receive rewards.

They are said to be thieves, but in fact they are just some unarmed people who do not have three meals, and after encountering powerful domestic slaves with excellent equipment, they will either become bloody heads or become captives.

These days, Chen Xu has become very silent, often alone in the yard in a daze, sometimes waking up in his sleep, and after waking up, he is covered in cold sweat.

He felt fear in his heart, not for himself, but for the future of this nation.

Before the troubled times came, so many Han people died, he thought of the upcoming Yellow Turban Uprising, and thought of the decades-long melee between the princes.

He seemed to see the endless corpses, the red-stained earth and the river......

The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The vitality of the Chinese people will be wiped out little by little in such internal friction......

"If there was no internal friction, there would be no Wuhu Chaohua, right?"

When he was alone, Chen Xu often asked himself this. He doesn't know much about history, he doesn't know how many bones of his compatriots were buried in the Central Plains from the end of the Han Dynasty to reunification, and he doesn't know whether the roots of Wuhu Chaohua began to be buried from the end of the Han Dynasty.

He sympathized with the homeless and the thieves who could not survive. However, Chen Xu was just a civilian, and he had no more ability to help others.

'If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world', Chen Xu just wants to let the people of Chenjia Village have a foothold in the troubled times through his own efforts.

"Da Lang, why are these **** so depressed?"

Although Dian Wei said that he worked hard every day and practiced martial arts diligently, he also saw that Chen Xu was preoccupied.

Chen Xu didn't answer, got up and picked up the spear he had captured, and danced wildly in the courtyard......

I don't know when, Qiao Xuan has come here, and when he saw Chen Xu stop dancing the gun, he said loudly: "Your marksmanship exposes the anxiety in your heart. ”

Wiping a handful of fine sweat on his face, Chen Xu stepped forward and asked astringently: "Qiaogong, disasters are everywhere, the people have no way to live, or they are homeless people or bandits, and their bones are exposed in the wild, how many people have died?" Why is my big man like this? ”

In later generations, the Han Dynasty has always been synonymous with strength.

When it comes to the Qin and Han dynasties, many Chinese descendants are full of pride. However, in real history, the lives of ordinary people have been so difficult.

Sighing slightly, Qiao Xuan said slowly: "What you see now is just a drop in the ocean, if you see too much, you will be numb, and you will not be so compassionate." ”

"In the first year of Yongxing, one-third of the counties and counties of the entire Han State suffered from floods and locust plagues, hundreds of thousands of families went bankrupt and went into exile, and there was a tragic situation of cannibalism in various places."

"In the ninth year of Yanxi, there was a great famine in Yuzhou, where we lived, and four or five out of ten people died of hunger; When it came to Emperor Ling, it was 'Hanoi women and husbands, and Henan women and women.' ’”

"What is the value of what you have seen now?"

"I've seen all these things with my own eyes, and I wanted to change something just like you did. However, failure after failure made me feel hopeless and numb. ”

When Chen Xu heard this, he stood on the spot.

Dian Wei was also silent, he was also born poor, but he had seen far more things than Chen Xu, although he sympathized with these people, but more than he thought about how he should live.

Qiao Xuan looked at Chen Xu, shook his head, and said, "Now you can't help them." And don't forget, I passed on your art of war in the hope that you can gallop on the battlefield and settle the country. ”

"Your heart is upset, but this is not good."

"For the sake of the general, there must be no such woman's kindness. If you are the commander of an army, you can be 'benevolent', but you can't be 'benevolent'. Who doesn't know that 'mercy is not in charge of soldiers'? ”

"In the future, your enemies, rebels, bandits, and rebellions, may all have them, and for them, only bows and arrows and spears, death and blood, can achieve their own glory."

"Once the success is achieved, the bones are withered, and for the sake of war, sacrifice is inevitable. At that time, it will not even be these people who have never known each other who will be sacrificed, but the soldiers who will accompany you day and night, and you should remember this matter. ”

Qiao Xuan felt that Chen Xu was very good in all aspects, but he was too simple, and he was a little kind of woman.

And these are the taboos of generals.

Qiao Xuan diverted the topic, Chen Xu still did not give up, and continued to ask: "Although a certain person is a commoner, he also knows the truth that 'the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light'. However, why is it that the powerful and powerful, the officials have good land, and there is countless money, but the people are displaced and have no food? ”

In Qiao Xuan's dizzy old eyes, two rays of essence shot out vaguely, but he didn't answer, just walked towards the house tremblingly.

"Hair is like a leek, cut and reborn; The head is like a chicken, cutting and recalling; Officials don't have to be fearful, and small people are never to be taken lightly. ”

Singing the ballad, Qiao Xuan walked to the door, he turned around and sighed softly: "The roots are rotten, the leaves are dry, and the building will collapse." For today's plan, if you want to save the people from fire and water, the only way to break it is to break it first. ”

Qiao Xuan is proficient in "Yi" and knows some physiognomy, when he first saw Cao Cao, he saw that he was not a thing in the pool, but now when he sees Chen Xu, he feels that there seems to be a layer of fog on his body, which is incomprehensible.

For some reason, after Qiao Xuan saw Chen Xu, he seemed to have a feeling: This era may change because of Chen Xu. That's why he said those words at the door.

"If you don't break it, you can't stand it, if you don't break it, you can't stand it."

Chen Xu muttered in a low voice, then threw away the spear in his hand, left the bridge mansion, and walked aimlessly in the market.

There were not many pedestrians in the bazaar, and the eviction of displaced people through the government became rare. On the streets, there is occasionally a pair of county soldiers in rudimentary armor, lazily patrolling.

"Hair is like a leek, cut and reborn; The head is like a chicken, cutting and recalling; Officials don't have to be fearful, and small people are never to be taken lightly. ”

Chen Xu walked and walked, and suddenly heard this ballad again, which was also mixed with some angry scolding, which made him curious.

He turned a street and came to a main road in Suiyang City, where he saw eight errand soldiers, each carrying a prisoner with a wooden flail on his head, marching through the street, and the person singing the ballad was a young prisoner.

The officer took a leather whip, slapped the young prisoner, and scolded viciously: "Bah, I have deceived Lord Taishou here, I really don't know whether I am alive or dead, I was caught marching in the streets, and I dare to bewitch the people." ”

The officer whipped him, and after scolding a few words, he kicked the prisoner a few more times.

An older prisoner next to him hurriedly begged the officer: "Official, he is still young, please don't worry about him." ”

After speaking, the prisoner reprimanded the young man again: "When you come out to parade in the streets, you can behave well, and what kind of songs are you singing indiscriminately?" ”

The servant spat on the ground and said disdainfully: "You old bastard, you are really shameless to use your own son to cheat the reward, he still dares to bewitch on the street, but you have not taught it well." ”

"Enough! Would they do this if they really couldn't survive? We are also poor people, so you don't have to say a word. ”

An older officer next to him interrupted his previous remarks, and then said to the young prisoner, "You must not sing any more ballads, be careful of the crime of increasing the degree." ”

Naturally, the young prisoner did not dare to commit it again, so he hurriedly agreed, and thanked the old officer in his mouth.

Chen Xu looked at a few prisoners and wondered in his heart: "Someone dares to go to Taishou to cheat?" ”

found a few onlookers, Chen Xu asked them in detail, and only then did he understand what happened.

It turns out that because there are too many thieves now, although the reward given for catching a thief has become very small, you can still get 20,000 yuan for capturing a thief alive, so many desperate people have begun to pay attention to rewards.

Some of the able-bodied people, after catching the lone thief, went to the government to get a reward, but many more died at the hands of the thief. So now except for those who have many domestic slaves, no one dares to pay attention to the thieves.

However, some people did not give up, and they were really desperate, so they came up with the idea of 'changing the head to invite remuneration'.

The so-called 'Yi Shou Invitation' is to exchange relatives with other people, and then send the exchange person to the government as a thief, so that you can get the reward.

For those who were sent to the government as thieves, they were about to starve to death anyway, and even if they were sent to the government, they would not be sentenced to death because no one had accused them of killing.

Staying in prison, although they may be exiled or sent to serve in the future, but there is free food to eat, which is much better than starving to death now, so not only will they not reveal their identity as fake thieves, but they will be very cooperative.

As a result of this incredible occurrence, the prison is now overcrowded, and the government's money and food are no longer sustainable.

For this reason, the county guard of Liang Guo had to strictly guard against those who changed the head to invite rewards, especially those who brought thieves to receive rewards, nine times out of ten they were liars and would be questioned repeatedly.

However, the person who caught the thief insisted that it was a thief, and the person who was caught also insisted that he was a thief.

Later, the government also promulgated a reward system for whistleblowing, but the effect was very small.

The four people who were paraded in front of them with flail can only be said to be relatively unlucky. When they received the bounty, they didn't go there together to avoid goofs.

The four of them were divided into two teams, and after receiving the reward, because the people who received the reward were found by others, they were caught and sent to the government, and there was a scene in front of them.

Perhaps it was better for them to stay in prison than to starve to death outside.

After knowing the reason for the incident, Chen Xu felt deep sadness.

Seeing that the sun was setting and the daylight at dusk was no longer bright, he knew that the once powerful Han had really come to an end.