Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 65 Analysis of Social Structure in the Late Han Dynasty
Although I met Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others at today's banquet, for Shen Chen, there was actually no joy.

Because of the collision of values ​​between the ancients and the later generations, this kind of joy of knowing celebrities was washed away.

When he saw clearly the true faces of these ancient aristocratic families, he felt a kind of fear from the bottom of his heart.

That is, the most basic morality of being a human being was not established in ancient times.

There is a very big difference in the moral standards of the two sides to see things.

It's like 24 filial piety, in the eyes of most people in later generations, should belong to the old-fashioned stupid filial piety.

But in the eyes of the people at that time, it was the highest moral standard.

No wonder Wuhuluanhua happens.

Distorted morality, coupled with the aristocratic family never put the bottom people in the eyes.

When the upper class does not regard the lower class as human beings, when the common people are reduced to two-legged sheep.

Why do you expect them to be able to defend your home and country for you upper class people?
This worried him.

However, after thinking for a long time, Shen Chen finally put this matter behind him for a short time.

After all, the values ​​of future generations come from basic moral values, and also from sufficient productivity, sufficient warehouses to know etiquette, and ability to afford food to think about life.

In this war-torn era, if you tell everyone that the life of the people at the bottom is also their life, it is tantamount to playing the piano to a cow.

So this discussion about current affairs will be over soon.

Everyone was a scholar, and they talked about academic research again. Shen Chen cheered up and stopped talking about the Three Views, but blended in.

Although the three views are different, but when the whole world is like this, I become a different kind.

So there's no need to be repulsive by saying things they don't like to hear.

In the afternoon, everyone was full of wine and food, and chatted for a long time, from astronomy and geography to people's livelihood, from ancient classics to today's culture, and soon everyone became friends who talked about everything.

When the rain stopped and the banquet was over, Wang Can planned to visit a friend in Zhonglu County in the afternoon, Pan Jun and the others wanted to go back to the academy, Xu Shu sent Pang Tong back to his hometown, only Shen Chen said he planned to go back to the city Uncle's house.

The wine shop arranged carriages and horses for them respectively. When Shen Chen arrived at his uncle's house, he learned that Deng Hong had gone out to visit friends, and he didn't want to go back to the academy, so he simply took some bacon from his uncle's house as a gift and asked the servants of the mansion to drive the carriage. Send him to Chengxi Longzhong.

After Zhuge Xuan arrived in Xiangyang, he lived in Longzhong, bought some land to build a house, and after marrying Zhuge Liang's two older sisters, he also relaxed a lot and raised Zhuge Liang's two brothers by himself.

After arriving in Longzhong, he knocked on the door with ease, and it was Xiaotong, a servant of Zhuge's family, who opened the door. Shen Chen asked the boy where Zhuge Xuan was, and he wanted to visit his elders first.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Tong told him that Zhuge Xuan also went to visit his friends.

Because it's the end of the year, the state capital is on holiday, and many officials are on vacation, so if they haven't packed their bags and returned home at this time, they will take advantage of this time to visit friends.

However, although Zhuge Xuan was away, Brother Zhuge Liang was studying at home. Hearing that Shen Chen came to visit alone, he happily invited him to the backyard.

After Shen Chen gave the gift to Xiaotong, he followed Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jun to the backyard.

"Ah Chen, but you haven't seen me for more than a month."

Zhuge Liang is 15 years old this year, with a height of 1.7 meters and a very slender body. He enthusiastically led Shen Chen to the backyard.

"Is brother reading at home?"

Shen Chen saw that a charcoal pot was burning in the back room. There was a mat on the ground next to the charcoal pot, and books were placed on the wooden boards on the left and right sides. The weather was cold recently, so he burned charcoal at home to keep warm and read.

Zhuge Liang sat down cross-legged, nodded and said: "Yes, the end of the year is approaching, my uncle said that he will visit his two brothers-in-law for a few days, and then he will worship his parents and ancestors with his sister and brother-in-law, so he will stay at home for these two days and cannot go out. "

The Han Dynasty had a very grand sacrificial culture. During festivals, ancestors must be sacrificed.And there is a set of rituals in the process, such as bathing and incense, not going out, and if it is the cold food festival, you can't eat hot dishes.

Shen Chen sat next to him and said, "Well, we are planning to go back to Huangmenting to celebrate the New Year in a few days. It has been more than two years since we moved from Xuzhou to Jingzhou. I'm afraid we won't be able to go back to our hometown, so we can only Set up an altar in Jingzhou to worship parents and ancestors."

Zhuge Jun next to him was 12 years old, a little shorter than Shen Chen, and suddenly said: "I heard that the emperor has returned to Luoyang and got rid of the control of those Xiliang warriors. Will the world be peaceful in the future, and we can also return to Luoyang?" How about going home?"

Shen Chen shook his head and said, "The Son of Heaven just came out of the tiger's lair and entered the wolf's den. Now Cao Cao has set up a court in Xuchang and controls the court. The so-called flattering the Son of Heaven is nothing more than coercing the Son of Heaven to command the princes. In the future, there will be wars in the Central Plains, and we don't know how many years we will fight."

"Did Cao Cao get the emperor?"

Zhuge Liang frowned.

Both he and Zhuge stayed at home all day and did not know the outside news.

The information currently obtained is that Zhuge Xuan casually mentioned more than a month ago about the emperor's visit to Luoyang, and Jingzhou is located in the south, so it is relatively late to know the news.

For example, Liu Xie arrived in Luoyang in July and autumn, and then moved his capital to Xuchang in September. Liu Biao only got the news a few days ago and sent envoys to worship.

So now the information that Jingzhou has received is that Liu Xie moved the capital to Xuchang in September, and Zhuge Liang and the others are lagging behind what ordinary people know because their information sources are relatively closed.

Shen Chen nodded and said, "Well, yes, now that the Son of Heaven is in Cao Cao's hands, many people think that Cao Cao will be Zhou Gong and Huo Guang, what do you think, brother?"

Zhuge Liang pondered for a long time, then shook his head: "I don't know."

Shen Chen asked: "Does elder brother also think that someone like Cao Cao would choose to help the Han family?"

"Looking at his behavior, he is extremely cruel, but I don't know, but I think that Zhou Gong and Huo Guang should not be so fierce."

Although Zhuge Liang was smart since he was a child, he didn't dare to make a judgment now. He just went all the way south from Xuzhou and saw too many tragic situations. He felt that Zhou Gong and Huo Guang probably wouldn't be so cruel.

Shen Chen asked again: "Brother, do you think the common people are important?"

"nature."

Zhuge Liang said: "Mencius said: the people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the least."

"But why do those aristocratic families and nobles feel that the common people are like weeds and wantonly trampled on?"

"You mean Cao Cao?"

"No, today I was with some wealthy children and watched their words and deeds. I asked them what they thought about Cao Cao's massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou. They thought it was not a big deal."

Shen Chen was a little depressed, and his values ​​were different from those of the ancients, which caused him to have some doubts about his original values.

It's not that I doubt whether the values ​​of later generations are right or wrong, but I'm thinking whether I really haven't adapted to this era, whether I should learn from the children of those aristocratic families, and sometimes I should be more cruel.

He has always felt that he is not a particularly smart person, he will make mistakes, and he will sometimes be inconsiderate.But Shen Chen felt that his advantage was that he could reflect on himself, and he would review the game afterwards.

Today, this matter was revisited, and he would always think about whether he was incompatible with this world, or the world was wrong, and he was the right one?
Zhuge Liang thought for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Chen, I can't give you an answer, but I think it's definitely wrong to wantonly slaughter people."

"I am vexed."

Shen Chen scratched his head: "I don't understand why this happened."

"Maybe someone can tell you."

"Who?"

"You can ask Lord Pang De."

Zhuge Liang said: "Uncle took me to visit him last month. I think he is a very wise elder."

Shen Chen said: "Then brother, can you go with me?"

"it is good."

Zhuge Liang glanced at Zhuge Jun and said: "Brother, you are at home, I will go to Yuliangzhou with Ah Chen."

Zhuge Jun said: "It's already afternoon, and we still have to take a boat to go to Yuliangzhou, can we come back today?"

Shen Chen said: "It's okay, if you don't come back, you can live in the city."

The two set off immediately.

Yuliangzhou is actually far away from Longzhong. Longzhong is about 7 Hanli to the west of Xiangyang City, which is about 10 kilometers in later generations. It takes four to [-] minutes to get to Xiangyang by horse-drawn carriage.

To get from Xiangyang to Yuliangzhou, you have to take a boat. From the wharf to the east along the Han River, it is about 30 miles. Although it is along the river, it takes more than an hour.

So it may take an hour to go there, and two hours to go back and forth.In addition, I have to talk to Mr. Pang De, it is already about one or two o'clock in the afternoon, and it may be too late to return to Longzhong today.

But since Zhuge Liang agreed to go with him, it didn't matter, anyway, Shen Chen's uncle's house was his house, and it wouldn't take much space for him to sleep alone.

The two arrived in Xiangyang in a carriage, and then took a boat to Yuliangzhou at the pier, escorted by two servants of the Deng family.

At about [-]:[-] p.m., I arrived at the Pound House.

Lord Pang De has a big house on Yuliang Island. In "Xiangyang Ji", his family has many servants besides his wife. It can be seen that as the patriarch of the Pang family, although he lives in seclusion on the island, his life is not bad.

At this time, Pang Dezheng was eating at home, and it was time for dinner in the afternoon. When he heard that Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang were coming to visit, he let them in.

Both of them held presents in their hands. In the hall, Mr. Pang De was with his wife, his son Pang Shanmin and his daughter-in-law Zhuge.

"Brother, why are you here?"

Zhuge was very surprised.

In history, Zhuge Liang met Pang Degong after his second sister married Pang Shanmin.

So he and Lord Pang De are also considered relatives.

Zhuge Liang said, "It's Ah Chen who wants to ask Mr. Pang about something. I'll come with him."

Shen Chen handed over the gift in his hand to the servant, and clasped his hands to Pang De for justice: "Mr. Pang, you take the liberty to disturb me."

Mr. Pang De was about 50 years old, he looked like he was in his forties, he was very kind, and said with a smile: "Let's eat together?"

"I ate with Xu Shu and Pang Tong before."

Shen Chen replied.

Pang Degong nodded and said: "Then you go to the hall and wait."

The two left and waited in the outer hall.

About ten minutes later, Duke Pound came out and sat cross-legged on the mat in the hall.

The two stood up to greet each other.

Mr. Pound waved his hand, motioning for them to sit down, and then asked, "What's the matter?"

Shen Chen said the matter again, and finally asked: "I want to ask Pang Gong, is the life and death of the people really not that important?"

Duke Pound thought for a while and said, "It's important, but it's not important."

"why?"

Shen Chen asked.

Pang Degong said: "When the world is in peace, the court needs the people to grow food to maintain the country's livelihood, so the people are more important than the country. But when the world is in chaos, even the country and the emperor can't keep it. Countless hungry people have become a burden. becomes unimportant."

Shen Chen pondered and said: "So when the world is peaceful, the country can still maintain the law. But when the world is in chaos, the country's law is no longer, and human lives are like worthless."

Pang Degong said: "The Book of Rites once said: "Everything has its origin and its end, and everything has its beginning and end.Knowing the sequence is the shortest way. "The country collapses and the rule of law does not exist. People will do anything to survive. Therefore, we have no way to morally condemn others for slaughtering people, but we can only say that he is brutal."

"Then Cao Cao massacred so many people in Xuzhou, you also think that he will be able to assist the emperor in the future and become Huo Guang, Duke of Zhou?"

Shen Chen asked back.

Pang Degong shook his head: "I'm not Cao Cao, and I don't know what he would think. I can only tell you that at least the emperor is now in Xuchang, so Cao Cao has the orthodoxy in his hand and can snare the world. Then he massacred the people, people will Choose to forget it."

"why?"

"Didn't it be said in "Six Secret Teachings"? The prosperity of the world is for profit; the chaos of the world is for profit."

"So the root cause of all this is power?"

"You could say the same."

"But if there were relatives and family members of those who were chasing power among those who were massacred, would they be the same?"

"It's the same for all big families. Shun killed Gun and Yu served under Shun. Marquis of Wei killed Yuanjiao and Yuan Yu was loyal to Marquis of Wei. If a family wants to prosper, it cannot be done without power."

"I understand."

Shen Chen probably understood the values ​​of this era.

For aristocratic families, the interests of the family are above all else, especially in the late Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, when family politics was the mainstream of society at that time.

Therefore, the life and death of the common people is nothing in the eyes of the aristocratic family.

Because they are for the benefit of the family, even if they serve as enemies, it doesn't matter.

For example, Sun Ce broke through the Lujiang River and almost wiped out the Lu family.But Lu Xun was still an official in Soochow and dedicated himself to the Sun family.

Cao Cao killed Zhou Buyi, and his uncle Liu Xian didn't dare to fart, and later became Wei Guoshangshuling.

For the sake of power, even the hatred of relatives can be let go. If the people who have nothing to do with you die, what does it matter to them?

So it's still the same sentence.

In the ancient society, human life is like a pyramid, only those with noble status are important.

The people at the bottom of the pyramid are just a bunch of cattle and horses for the means of production.

Shen Chen got the guidance of Mr. Pang De, so he understood the nature of those aristocratic families in this era, and realized many things.

He thought for a while and asked, "Is there any way to make the common people pay more attention?"

"Have."

Pang Degong said: "If they can settle down, the people can produce more food and offer more money and food to the superiors, then they will be valued, but maybe it will become a kind of property."

"productive forces."

Shen Chen finally understood the explanation of what he learned in high school politics.

Duke Pang asked curiously: "What is productivity?"

Shen Chen said: "It refers to the output of the field. Cao Cao massacred the people, one is to prevent Yuan Shu from going north, and the other is that there is no food in the army, so he killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in Xuzhou, and looted food and grass to solve the shortage of food. Problem. Maybe he wouldn't have done it if the fields had more yields and more food."

The previous analysis of Cao Cao was to prevent Yuan Shu from going north, but another reason cannot be ignored, that is, the problem of insufficient food and grass.

If Cao Cao had enough food, there was no need for him to engage in massacres. He could just do the great migrations in Hanzhong and Huainan later.

So in the final analysis, it is still a question of productivity.

Because of the abundance of supplies and sufficient productivity in later generations, many people have ignored what it means to not have enough to eat, and what it means to be so deficient in supplies that starvation is everywhere.

Even after Shen Chen crossed over, he still had no worries about food and clothing, so it's normal that he didn't think of this at the first time.

But after Mr. Pang De mentioned it, he remembered it.

Huang Menting has no shortage of food through retting technology.

But the world is not full of Huangmen Pavilions, there is no suitable farming environment during the war in the Central Plains, and there is a great famine everywhere.

If the productivity is sufficient, maybe Cao Cao doesn't need to resort to massacres to solve his crisis.

"Yeah, the root of the problem is that people need to eat."

Pang Degong sighed: "If everyone can have enough to eat and everyone can read, then why do those aristocratic families dare to treat the people like weeds?"

Shen Chen suddenly became serious at this moment, got up and bowed his hands to Pang Degong earnestly and said: "Thank you Pang Gong for clarifying my doubts."

Duke Pound looked at him with interest and said, "What do you understand?"

Shen Chen said: "I understand why this world is unfair, why this world has become like this."

"why?"

Lord Pound asked.

"It's because the people at the bottom are struggling to get enough to eat, so their lives are as cheap as grass. Moreover, the classics handed down by the ancient sages are all controlled by aristocratic families. The people have no way to rise, and they can't change their poor fate. .”

Shen Chen replied: "The wine and meat of the Zhumen stinks, and the roads are frozen to death. Isn't the root of the Yellow Turban Rebellion that the common people's fields were occupied by aristocratic families, and they had no choice but to rebel to find a way out for themselves?"

Mr. Pang De praised: "It's very good that you can realize this. I also read a lot of books, met a lot of people, and traveled a lot of places. It took me many years to understand this truth. Then do you think, can such a world be change?"

"I think so."

Shen Chen said: "If there is a person who can stabilize the chaos in the world, find ways to increase the output of the field, and then impart knowledge selflessly to all the people, then the world will definitely become a better place."

"It's hard."

Mr. Pound shook his head: "I've been thinking about it for many years, but I can't think of a solution. So Liu Biao asked me to be an official several times, but I didn't want to go. Because I know, I can't change all this. I can only be here occasionally Teach, cultivate by yourself, but protect no one."

On this issue, Liu Biao and Duke Pound also discussed it.Liu Biao hoped that Lord Pang De would come out of the mountain to help him, so that the people in the world could be preserved.

But Mr. Pang De believes that everyone has a destination for everyone, and he has no ability to change all this, so it is better to be happy and poor.So in the end I chose to preserve my ego instead of becoming an official.

Zhuge Liang is different from him on this point. Although Zhuge Liang also knows that Liu Bei's strength is too weak and the possibility of success is very small, he still can't do it for the ideal in his heart.

Maybe Pang Degong sees the essence of the world more clearly than Zhuge Liang, but at least in this sense of righteousness and courage, Zhuge Liang surpasses Pang Degong, the teacher who once taught him.

"Pang Gong just wanted to live in seclusion because he was disappointed with the world and felt that he couldn't change, but I was just the opposite."

Shen Chen raised his head and looked at him with piercing eyes: "I firmly believe that there will be people in this world who treat the people as well as I do, and stick to the mission in their hearts."

Lord Pound sighed: "Young people are awesome, I hope you can be consistent and stick to this belief in your heart."

"I will."

Shen Chen nodded emphatically. At this moment, he understood the logic and laws of the operation of the late Han class, and also understood how to break this inherent social order.

　Shen Chen's setting is actually not as powerful as Uemoto's setting to defeat Chen Mu. Chen Mu's setting is actually very evil, with an IQ of 110. It's a great honor that I didn't write low-intelligence, he is indeed evil.As for Shen Chen, he is in the process of growing up step by step, so his understanding of social structure and the overall situation are far less than Chen Mu's, but believe him, he will grow up.It's about to be a big show, so look forward to it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)