Three Kingdoms: The Reverse Son of the Guan Family, Dragon Blessing Jingxiang

The eagle is a ferocious carnivorous bird with a huge body and a fierce temper.

Because its territory is the vast sky, its heart is higher than the sky. How easy is it to tame it?

The so-called - boiling the eagle.

This is a way for humans to tame eagles.

Generally speaking, when the eagle is sleepy, he is not allowed to sleep, and the owner is also not allowed to sleep. The man and the eagle are kept together like this, and sometimes they cannot sleep for several days and nights.

This is because it doesn't matter whether the eagle eats or not, because physical pain will not make it surrender.

But don't let it sleep, because once it sleeps, it will dream of the vast blue sky again.

After the eagle is tortured like this for a few days, its energy will slowly wear away and it will surrender and beg for mercy.

Its wildness has been almost eliminated, and it will be able to obey its master obediently from now on.

Of course, because the eagle does not need to sleep, humans cannot sleep, so the process of eagle boiling is extremely painful. In the end, it depends on whether the person or the eagle lies down first.

Even if one is not careful, the Eagle Man may turn into a one-eyed dragon.

Guan Lin told Lingju in detail what "boiling an eagle" is and how to "boil an eagle". Lingju still had some new doubts: "Then? How can we prove that the eagle has been tamed? "

"It's very simple." Guan Lin explained: "Put a piece of raw mutton in the palm of your hand and stretch it out in front of the eagle. If the eagle eats it, it means it has been tamed. If it doesn't eat, it can only be said that it has been tamed. It’s not enough...you have to continue to endure it. Of course, you can also judge by petting it. If the eagle cook touches the eagle’s head and the eagle doesn’t resist, it also means that it has been tamed.”

Speaking of this, Guan Lin smiled, "Of course, if you boil an eagle, it may take seven days, but it's different if you boil a person. Just like the young master you just mentioned, in my opinion, at most I couldn’t stand it any longer after two days, and I was all exhausted.”

Lingju nodded in understanding.

Looking at her appearance, Guan Lin seemed to have not understood the essence of "Boiling the Eagle". "Come on, I'll accompany you to interrogate the 'gold master'... whether it's 'Ying' or 'Ren', I can give you a look."

Lingju had been waiting for Guan Lin's words for a long time.

She grabbed Guan Lin and said urgently: "Go now..."

This has nothing to do with "voting for a certificate of fame". Lingju really wants to know whether this method of "boiling the eagle" is effective?

To go into detail, Lingju is not only interested in Aoying, but also Guan Lin.

"Your mother is still cooking..." Guan Lin glanced at Diao Chan who was busy in the kitchen...

"Eat less and you won't be hungry..." Lingju pulled Guan Lin and just walked out.

Diao Chan saw the two of them and shouted quickly: "The food is about to be cooked. Where are you going?"

"I won't be back tonight..." Lingju waved his hand and said casually.

Before Diao Chan could come to her senses, she and Guan Lin had already disappeared.

Ah...ah...

After a strange brain circuit, Diao Chan murmured.

"Today...tonight...not...not coming back?"

These words would inevitably make her, a mother, have wild imaginations.

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In the middle of Shu, along the Minjiang River, Liu Bei and a group of civil and military convoys marched forward in a mighty manner.

Finally, in an area full of stone towers, the convoy stopped.

The Bashu land of this era believed in the art of witchcraft. Stone towers like these were extremely common in villages. Some were used as altars and some were the strongholds of some churches.

However, since the break between Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, the Five Pecks of Rice Cult was widely expelled, and many stone pagodas became empty. Few people cared about it, let alone attracted the attention of officials.

Liu Bei got off the carriage first.

He and Zhuge Liang looked at each other, took a deep breath, and then walked towards the stone tower with heavy steps.

The setting sun stretched the shadows of the two people sideways.

A group of officials looked around...

I could only hear the screams of "Wow wow wow" coming out.

Several crows circled in the sky.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on this land, the black eagle flies over, and dusk officially arrives, adding a lot of loneliness and desolation to this place.

All the civil and military officials couldn't help but pause. They had a feeling that something big was going to happen today.

As we get closer and closer to the stone tower...

There was an inexplicable smell of blood in the air, which made people feel very nauseated.

Ma Di asked Yang Yi, "Where are you going?"

Yang Yi shook his head: "I only know that Military Advisor Zhuge has been preparing for this day for a long time..."

this…

Ma Di bit his lip slightly. He felt a sense of loneliness that, as a close disciple of Zhuge Liang, he had no knowledge of such important actions... and was even excluded.

However, the breathless oppression in the air left him no time to think too much.

"what sound?"

Ma Su suddenly heard something... It wasn't the "wow" sound of a crow, nor the sound of an eagle hovering in the air looking for food, but more like... a sobbing sound.

It's a child, no... it's a baby crying.

These sounds came faintly from the stone towers.

At the same time, Ma Su also saw several old people walking out of the stone tower carrying empty bamboo baskets.

"This is…"

Before Ma Su could think deeply, the eye-catching plaque on the stone tower stood before his eyes:

——Eagle Tower!

Ma Su couldn't help but think deeply.

——"The origin of this name...is it the stone tower where the eagle is entrenched?" 』

At this time, Liu Bei had already walked towards the old people who came out of the stone tower. He deliberately raised his voice and asked the old man: "What are you doing here?"

"I didn't do anything...I didn't do anything..." I saw so many people and such a big battle.

The old man was extremely frightened for a moment.

"I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong..." He and his companions quickly turned around and ran into the Eagle Tower. After a while, they came out, and there were a few more babies in the bamboo basket behind them. To be precise, they turned around and ran into the eagle tower. It's a baby girl.

When they faced Liu Bei again, they kept kowtowing, "This official... we, we are deceived by lard, we will take her back, take her back..."

As they talked, the old men ran away quickly carrying the bamboo baskets on their backs. Because of the bumpy running, the bamboo baskets shook, and the baby girl in them kept crying "wow wah".

But these old men only care about running away, so who cares about them?

This sudden scene shocked all the civil and military officials.

——‘What on earth happened? 』

At this moment, Zhuge Liang stood under the plaque of the Eagle Tower. He said to Liu Bei: "I ask the Lord for your permission to open the stone door of the Eagle Tower and start this memorial ceremony..."

"Accurate!" Liu Bei groaned softly, as if because he knew what was behind the stone door of the Eagle Tower, his tone was sad.

——Boom!

The stone door was pushed open, and a group of guards entered, holding up torches.

With the light inside the stone tower.

The cries of "woo woo" became louder and louder.

In the middle, with a sound of "ouch--", several eagles spread their wings and flew out of the stone tower, with blood and unswallowed meat still on their beaks.

——‘What on earth is this place? 』

The increasingly weird atmosphere made all the civil and military people feel deeply moved, and some timid ones were even a little timid.

As they walked inside, following the torch... the interior of the Eagle Tower came into view clearly.

They were cold stone slabs soaked in blood;

Those were baby girls who were either dead or still breathing on the stone slabs, but allowed to be bitten by insects and ants...

For a moment, everyone couldn't help but ponder.

——"Could this blood belong to these baby girls?" 』

——"Could it be that...did those old people send their baby girl here just now?" 』

Thinking of this, countless people's eyes widened in disbelief at the sight in front of them.

Many kind-hearted officials quickly picked up the baby girls who were still alive, still sobbing, and had insects and ants crawling on their bodies, and listened to their cries of "wuwuwu"...

Or there are other children who have already cried out their last tears and have no strength to cry.

The officials' hearts were extremely heavy.

Who would have thought that Bashu... would have such a stone tower hiding such a group of baby girls.

In fact, it’s not just Bashu…

There would be such a cruel place anywhere in the whole Han Dynasty.

How could these officials who had read all the saints' books imagine that there could be such a dark and ghastly place under the bright sky!

At this moment, in this sad atmosphere, Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, his tone was high, but his tone was extremely sad.

——"Everyone has seen this Eagle Tower. I sent people to check it out. In Shu alone, there are no less than 700 Eagle Towers like this. It is not so much an Eagle Tower as... it is a baby tower!"

Even though he was well prepared, Zhuge Liang still choked with sobs when he was actually in the Eagle Tower, surrounded by the sobbing of the baby girl, and seeing this bloody scene.

He was silent for a moment, calmed down, and then continued to speak. "I only recently learned that the actual purpose of this Eagle Tower is to 'bury' the bodies of baby girls. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the present Han Dynasty, for hundreds of years, many young babies were buried because they were girls. He was abandoned by his family in this baby tower made of stone bricks!"

"Let these fresh lives lie among countless...baby girls who have become bones, are rotting, or have just lost their breath! Insects and ants bite them, and they will fend for themselves!"

Zhuge Liang's voice was as calm as possible, but he couldn't hide the sadness and complaint about the injustice of the times.

Following Zhuge Liang's words, everyone here was shocked...

Everyone held their breath... couldn't believe what Zhuge Liang said was true.

Ma Di quickly asked: "How could someone be so cruel? How could there be parents so cruel... to put these baby girls in this Eagle Tower?"

Ma Su's eyes almost burst out...

As a member of a Jingzhou family, the scene he saw in front of him had a huge deviation from the world he understood.

"Reason? Does this need a reason?" Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly, "Throughout the ages, countless babies have been drowned by their families because they were daughters, and their bodies have been dumped in the streets and alleys, left to be exposed to the sun and rain, and wild beasts to feed themselves! There are no bones left. It can be preserved!”

"If you have read a book, don't you know that it was mentioned in "Han Feizi: Six Antis", 'Parents treat their children as such: if they give birth to a boy, they will congratulate each other, and if they give birth to a girl, they will kill them!'"

"I didn't believe this at first, but I have visited many villages recently. According to their stories, in every village, every month, an old woman would skillfully lift up a newborn baby girl and throw it into the In the large basin in the courtyard, you picked up a thick wooden board, pressed it hard on the baby girl, and completely immersed your baby girl's head in the water... It only took half a quarter of an hour for the baby girl to become stiff, with only one left. Cutting the umbilical cord and leaving it floating in the water...is called "drowning" among the people."

call--

Zhuge Liang exhaled deeply. As he said this, he felt endless grief in his heart.

But he still resisted the throbbing and continued talking.

"If your family can't do anything, you can also ask the neighbors to help, or the old man like just now, after seeing that his daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby girl, they will take them to the Eagle Tower. Let this baby girl cry out of strength and fend for herself in the Eagle Tower!"

What Zhuge Liang showed is the darkest side of the Han tax system since the Zhou Dynasty, after thousands of years, and even to the present day.

His voice became more and more shrill.

"Drowning female infants is a bad custom among the people. There are eagle towers in all villages outside Hancheng County. There are many records in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and it is still the same in the Han Dynasty. Whether it is a time of governance or troubled times... there are endless books in history! Compared with Drowned to death and abandoned casually, this seemingly insane and cruel Eagle Tower is actually the best and most honorable destination for these baby girls!"

Zhuge Liang controlled his emotions as much as possible.

At this time, some people among the civil and military could not help but stand up.

It's Huang Zhong... He lost his son in middle age, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man away, and he was heartbroken.

He is the last person to understand such crazy behavior.

"Why? Why should baby girls be abandoned? Have to suffer such a wasted death? Aren't they the biological children of their parents? Military strategist, tell us, why?"

Huang Zhong's eyes were about to burst as he pointed at the vermilion, cold stone slabs.

"Because it's a gift, because it's a poll tax!" Zhuge Liang seemed to burst out suddenly, and he roared loudly. "If a baby girl is born, then for a family, there will be an extra pair of dishes, more food, and more taxes!"

"But because she is a girl, even when she grows up, she cannot do heavy work in the fields. She is too young and cannot be sold. If she does not marry at the age of fifteen, she will have to pay five times the head tax, which will only increase the family's income. Burden! Today's people can't even... even support themselves, how can they raise their daughters? It is precisely for this reason that if they are sent to this Eagle Tower, maybe the family can survive, but if not, the whole family will suffer because of This onerous poll tax dragged us to death and we were starved to death!”

Zhuge Liang shouted loudly like a rare maniac: "Otherwise, otherwise... If there is a way to survive, which parent and relative would be willing to send their child to this Eagle Tower and let her fend for herself?"

Poll tax…

The source of all evil lies in the heavy poll tax in the agricultural era!

"Then..." Huang Zhong's excited tone suddenly became muted. His eyes were wide open, as if... what he saw and heard today was something he had never encountered in the environment where he had grown up for more than fifty years. .

This shattered his outlook.

"So what happens to these baby girls?"

"——If there is a kind-hearted master, he may take away one or two baby girls and raise them as female slaves, or even as the maids who fill his son's house. This is already the best destination for these baby girls, and more are Live and die in this Eagle Tower."

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang seemed to hear something, and he quickly shouted:

"Listen, you listen-"

Wow wow wow…

Wow wow…

Wow…

It seemed that Zhuge Liang's voice was too loud, so that the abandoned baby girls in the Eagle Tower next door heard it.

They seemed to have spirits, as if they heard the hope of living, they cried and sobbed crazily.

They were also just born into this world...

But fate gave them no choice but to leave again.

They don't even have the ability to fight.

Woohoo——

The neighing of these baby girls and the children's hope for life made every official burst into tears.

Some officials couldn't help but run to other Eagle Towers. They wanted to rescue these baby girls and let them escape from this unfair fate and destined Eagle Tower.

only…

As they picked up the baby girls, they realized there was only so much they could save.

As long as, as long as...especially the heavy poll tax, new baby girls will be sent to the Eagle Tower every day to become food for wild dogs and eagles.

call--

Accompanied by the heavy exhales from everyone.

Liu Bei quickly stepped forward and stood in front of a blood-stained stone slab. He stared at the dried blood and pondered for a long time.

Finally, he spoke.

"Everyone, you have also seen... you have seen such a dark scene in this world!"

"I also saw it. Kong Ming took me to see this scene a few days ago. At that time, I thought... I wanted to smash these eagle towers, but in fact, when I was about to give the order, I realized that this was not the case at all. It’s the Eagle Tower’s fault! It’s a human being who sent the baby girl into the Eagle Tower, it’s the poor people who are suffering!”

"In the past, I often thought, what is the difference between me, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao? I always felt that Cao Cao massacred the city, Liu Bei saved the people, Cao Cao held the emperor hostage, and Liu Bei saved the emperor. Cao Cao wanted to usurp the Han, and Liu Bei wanted to revitalize the Han. Room, as long as 'every time you go against your will, everything will work out'!"

"But... but when Kong Ming took me to see the Eagle Tower, and when the answer sheet from Jingzhou made me realize, what is a king? What is a minister? What is 'water can carry a boat but also capsize it'... I realized, If I, Liu Bei, can finally defeat Cao Cao, I must not rely on the things I just mentioned, but..."

Liu Bei picked up a baby girl who had died and half of her body was cut off by an eagle. He cried and said:

——"What allows me to defeat Cao Cao is that my eyes and mood are completely different from his. What he sees in his eyes is hegemony, a wealthy clan, and meritorious nobles. But I can see that he, Cao Cao, has spent his whole life. These are the things you can’t see!”

"I saw in the barren fields and even in the garbage dumps of the market, bursts of heart-wrenching cries could be heard from time to time, one after another, continuous! These cries made me cry. My heart will be pulled together."

"I saw these baby girls. They were abandoned in the Eagle Tower and could only lie quietly in the tower, lying on the corpses of other girls, lying under the heavy taxes and labor, and finally... drifting in the dust of history , leaving no trace."

"What I saw was the suffering of all the people, the cruelty of the sky, and their silent struggle. What I saw was this deep memorial ceremony under the gaze of the undead baby girl who was a stranger to me..."

Having said this, Liu Bei paused for a moment, and he bowed deeply towards these cold, blood-stained stone slabs.

He pursed his lips. At this moment, Liu Bei was already crying.

Fazheng hurriedly handed over the silk pa, and Liu Bei slowly wiped away the tears on his face.

"I understand, I suddenly understood. Isn't the difference between me, Liu Bei, and his traitor Cao the same 'kindness' and 'kindness'? If I saw the Eagle Tower today, I would still be indifferent. If I saw the Eagle Tower today, I would still be indifferent. I realize that from the Zhou Dynasty to the present Han Dynasty, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of female infants died every year, and I am still indifferent? If I see this heavy poll tax and the suffering people being oppressed, even The daughter I gave birth to cannot be saved. "If a boy is born, congratulate her, but if you give birth to a girl, kill her." I am still indifferent?"

"Then what's the difference between me and the thief Cao? Am I worthy of the baby girls who have died due to bad habits and burdens over the past thousand years? Am I worthy of their gaze from the horizon? Am I worthy of the kindness and love that I have always adhered to? ?”

Speaking of which…

Liu Bei paused for a moment, then looked around at everyone: "You are all my meritorious ministers, Liu Bei. You have repeatedly asked me for this fertile and wild farmland in the Chengdu Plain. It's not that I won't give it to you, but if I give it to you, who will give it to you?" What are the chances of these baby girls surviving? Today...it is still this farmland. I have figured it out and I still want to reward you. But let me see, who among you can bear the heavy burden of this farmland?"

Speaking of which…

Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang and said: "Kong Ming, read——"

Zhuge Liang took out a piece of government order from his arms at the right time.

He read aloud:

"——General Zuo of the Han Dynasty ordered to abolish the original arithmetic and oral taxes of the Han Dynasty, and implement a new land tax and taxation system-the land and the tiles were combined into one, and the tiles were divided into acres! From today on, all the cultivated land in Jingzhou and Shuzhong will be re-measured , all taxes are paid by those who have cultivated land, and those who do not have cultivated land do not need to pay any taxes."

"General Han Zuo said that he will immediately inform the world that in the land ruled by General Han Zuo, no one, regardless of gender, old or young, may collect a 'head tax' in any name. All states and counties must put an end to all bad habits of drowning female infants! In all Han lands, All Han ministers must abide by their duties, breed more people, and never pay taxes... Anyone who disobeys will be killed without mercy——"

Zhuge Liang's voice was not loud, but every word and every sentence was deafening!

Because of the opportunity of the baby girl's abandonment.

——The abolition of the caput tax and the taxation policy of dividing every person into an acre will be vigorously implemented in Shuhan today!

In fact…

The problem of baby girls has been recorded in many ancient books.

In "Han Feizi·Six Antis" - "Parents are like to their children. If they give birth to a boy, they will congratulate each other, but if they give birth to a girl, they will kill them!"

According to "The Biography of Liu Zhan in Southern History" - "Whenever Zhan gives birth to a daughter, he kills her, which is very strange for the times!"

According to "The Biography of Luo Qinruo, Shiyi of the Song Dynasty" - "During Shaoxing, Ganzhou was the general judge. The customs of the state hate women and will drown them when they are born!"

Perhaps these... can't more intuitively show the cruelty of such bad habits.

For example, including the Rwandan genocide, the Jewish genocide, and even World War I and II, the death toll ranged from 15 million to 72 million.

But... worldwide, the number of people who have been killed because they were girls throughout the ages is approximately: 100 million!

This number is too shocking.

In China, it is the so-called "poll tax" that allows this bad habit to be passed down from generation to generation.

Because of what Guan Lin mentioned about "spreading a small person into an acre"

Zhuge Liang found a way to avoid the tragedy of "baby girl"!

In the same way, this "dividing a small family into a small family" is more like allowing Liu Bei to find a brand new path...

A path that is destined to be completely opposite to Cao Cao's "forceful massacre" and will definitely work.

This isn’t just a baby girl issue…

This means that from this moment on, Liu Bei will follow the same path - the people's line, the people's road!

As the saying goes - the prosperity of government depends on obeying the people's hearts;

The key to government is to win the hearts and minds of the people;

The abolition of government is contrary to the people's will.

Because Liu Bei's work was divided into acres and acres of land, the route Liu Bei took has been fixed, and he has been deeply tied to the "people".

This route will always be about political connections and people-friendly policies!

yes:

——The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the most important!

With this in mind, Liu Bei looked around at everyone.

His eyes narrowed and his tone was meticulous: "Officials, I, Liu Bei, don't want to settle in just one corner. I, Liu Bei, always want to do something for the great man and for the thousands of common people. Therefore, if this 'sharing a small family' The government decree will definitely infringe on the interests of some of you. I, Liu Bei, apologize to you in advance today..."

"If you accept my apology, then you will be my brother Liu Bei, working side by side with me to forge the great man who defeated Cao Cao into a brand new look!"

If you don't accept it, then it doesn't matter, just throw all your hatred and all your open and covert arrows at me, Liu Bei! Never hurt innocent people! "

Liu Bei's words...

Yigan Wenwu hadn't reacted for a while, still experiencing the shock in his brain circuit.

Only Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng understood the deeper meaning here.

Xuande is...protecting Guan Yunqi!

Protect this young man from Qilin who proposed the national policy of "dividing a young man into an equal share"!

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Ps:

(Don’t scold me for being clumsy. I know I’m clumsy, but I’ve always written books like this. I’m used to it, and I can’t change it! Why don’t I scold me for you...)

(Milk candy is just a big water candy!)

(The water poured into the milk sugar can flood Guan Yu’s seven armies.)

(The author of Milk Candy Black Heart is so shameless!)

(Okay, dear readers, please feel relieved now! I’m going to continue coding.)