PFC Chapter 6761 Revenge
Chapter 6761 Revenge
Chapter 6761 Revenge
"Brother Huang? You saw Cao Sikong fall and the crown prince ascend the throne at noon, and now you run back to inform the general about this?" Weng Fu was silent for a while and asked Huang Tao, how did you manage to come back so quickly, did you fly?
"Yes, I ran and flew all the way, and finally flew back before dark." Huang Tao said as a matter of course, but when he said this, Huang Tao's eyes did not even leave Liu Bei, because the extraordinary question he asked before was not actually asked for himself, but for those old soldiers in Xuzhou.
Although Huang Tao was also a veteran of Xuzhou, he was from Huaibei and his ancestral home was Guangling. If Cao Cao's massacre could have extended to Guangling, the entire Xuzhou would have fallen. So Huang Tao was only aware of this matter, but he had no direct hatred towards Cao Cao himself.
Theoretically speaking, none of Huang Tao's five generations of relatives were hit by Lao Cao, but if the old soldiers who were familiar with Huang Tao were included, the blow they suffered was too great.
How to say it, Huang Tao basically knows all the top elite veterans like Liu Bei, and Huang Tao has basically participated in one or several important banquets in the lives of these elite veterans. In the early years, Huang Tao did not have the current mobility, but he could still travel around the country in a very short time.
I still remember when Liu Bei met Huang Tao in Yangzhou, he asked Huang Tao why he was seconded here to serve as a centurion. Huang Tao replied that his ex-wife had passed away and he had no children at the time, so he traveled around to attend various wedding banquets all over the world. Then, when he came to Wujun, Yangzhou to attend a wedding banquet of his fellow soldiers, he met his current wife, so he got married in Wujun.
So if Huang Tao wants to talk about the circle of veterans, their reputation and status are all quite impressive. After all, who wouldn't like a brother who got married in Youzhou and brought a few big Yellow River carp that normally the locals would never see in their lifetime to attend the wedding banquet from afar?
So Huang Tao was not actually asking this for himself, because he had no grudge against Lao Cao. Although they were all from Xuzhou, Xuzhou was too big, and his fellow soldiers wanted to eat Lao Cao alive, so after determining the right time, Huang Tao would naturally ask on behalf of this group of people.
However, Liu Bei could not answer this question directly, he could only change the subject, but this attitude of not denying was enough for Huang Tao. After all, he now had first-hand information. Cao Ang could not have imagined that someone in Xuzhou had already received and confirmed the news.
This time difference is enough for the people of Xuzhou to gain the upper hand. As for whether they can kill Lao Cao, it depends on luck. Huang Tao is not sure whether Lao Cao has been sent to Congling. To put it bluntly, at this point in time, after Hua Ben, Gao Yi and other people from Xuzhou have been exposed, if Cao Ang is not stupid, he will definitely make a lot of arrangements when sending Cao Cao away.
Therefore, Huang Tao deeply doubted whether the Lao Cao he saw being sent to the north was Lao Cao. After all, in terms of technical strength, even a god like Huang Tao could not compare with a world-class force like the Cao family. But for Huang Tao, whether it was Lao Cao or not should be put aside for now. He would first send back the news of Lao Cao's downfall, and naturally a group of people in Xuzhou would find a way to confirm it.
To put it bluntly, all of Lao Lu's fellow villagers were slaughtered by Lao Cao. Although when his fellow villagers were slaughtered by Lao Cao, Lao Lu was still trying to go through Yizhou, down the Yangtze River, and make a big detour back to Xuzhou, by the time he returned to Xuzhou, his fellow villagers had been replaced like grass!
Although Lao Lu expressed deeply that he had not been back for decades and was almost becoming a Liangzhou person, and his ties with Xuzhou were not that deep, but when he returned to his hometown, he found that his peers who used to play with him naked have all become steamed buns. What does Lao Lu think?
Normally no one would pick on this matter. Lao Lu would definitely have the same attitude as Huang Tao. After all, he was the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty and had to give face to the Han Empire. Moreover, his relatives were not affected and he did not feel any personal pain. At most, when his local brother brought up the matter, they would stand on the same side. But when it comes to how active they were, Huang Tao and Lao Lu were actually not very active.
If we say that these two are the real bosses of Xuzhou, there is a substantial gap between Gao Yi's six-fold smelting with a finishing move and these two. However, these two basically hold an attitude of abiding by the rules on this matter, and only those who can remain calm and look at this incident from an outsider's perspective can hold an attitude of abiding by the rules.
The real victim, even if he is rational enough, will not adopt the so-called rule-abiding attitude when the law cannot give fairness.
Gao Yi was able to look at the problem with the attitude of punishing the main culprit. It was not because Gao Yi was rational, but because Gao Yi had killed enough soldiers under Cao Cao on the battlefield and was able to look at the problem calmly.
Among Gao Yi's six elite talents, there is a very special idealistic talent, that is, the enemy's fatal attack cannot cause fatal damage to himself in the first attack. Non-fatal damage is all suppressed by Gao Yi's life will.
This idealistic talent is the idealism that Gao Yi sublimated and melted from killing a large number of soldiers under Cao. His original mentality was that all the soldiers under Cao deserved to die. If he didn't kill these people, he would never die. His whole family and ancestors were watching him, and he must not die at the hands of Cao and his men. Relying on this life-threatening method, Gao Yi paid for his whole family and all his ancestors for five generations with a soldier under Cao, and it was more than enough.
I've killed enough, so I calmed down and started to choose to kill the main culprits.
Because for Gao Yi, it is meaningless to continue killing ordinary Cao soldiers. Only Lao Cao himself is meaningful. Of course, if he can meet Lao Cao's brothers and kill them, Gao Yi will not waste them.
Even for Gao Yi, as long as the officers under Lao Cao did not stop him from killing Lao Cao, he would not have any special feelings, unless he had solid evidence that these officers had killed his acquaintances. As long as they did not kill acquaintances, Gao Yi would basically not pursue the matter.
After all, Chen Xi's answer was very clear, and enough people had been killed, so people could understand and accept Chen Xi's answer. It was enough to kill Cao Cao. It didn't matter whether the others were innocent or not. If they blocked the way to kill Cao Cao, then do it. If they didn't block the way, then don't care, because in that era, everyone had a bloody hand.
Lao Lu and Huang Tao are not victims, so they abide by the rules, but precisely because of them, their comrades asked them countless times; and when they really have the opportunity, Huang Tao will play by the rules.
When Cao Cao was one of the Three Dukes, I could not ask this question, nor could I kill him, because he was the pillar of the country. But now that he has fallen and is no longer one of the Three Dukes, his status is just a rich man, and his title has been passed on to Cao Ang, am I just killing him out of personal vengeance?
Liu Bei did not give an answer, but not answering was already the best answer, because not answering could be understood as tacit consent, and even if it was misunderstood, without direct denial, it meant nothing more than the murderer paying with his life.
There are at least 800 brothers in Xuzhou who are willing to die with Cao Cao. If we include those ordinary people who have no chance anymore, are suppressed by the social system, have no power, no time, and no leisure, and cannot do anything out of anger, then the number must be at least 80,000, if not 100,000!
A person who died with Cao Cao for revenge of more than 100,000 of his fellow villagers is at least a hero. Not to mention in ancient times, even in modern times, there are countless people who are unwilling to live in mediocrity and want to be heroes for a few seconds!
"Brother Huang's agility is indeed very advanced." Xia Fei said with some emotion. It is precisely because of the same agility that he can more clearly realize how exaggerated Huang Tao's mobility is.
"Almost there, the point of the fleeting light still cannot be locked. If this can be accomplished, long distances will not be so troublesome." Huang Tao shook his head and said, then looked at Liu Bei, "General, please make plans early. The news of Cao Sikong's abdication will probably spread soon."
"Forget it, Mei Wan, give Huang Tao an extra pair of chopsticks and talk about this after we finish eating." Liu Bei's mind moved slightly, and he felt that he really didn't have any good way to deal with this matter. Besides, things had come to this point, so he just had to wait and see the outcome. Besides, there were still Chen Xi and the others. For such a big matter, Huang Tao would not be much faster than the official, and professional intelligence organizations were no pushovers.
Mei Wan nodded upon hearing this. The general was indeed open-minded. At this point, it was inappropriate to do anything else. Besides, he was a veteran from Yanzhou. You know what veterans from Yanzhou are like. The people from Xuzhou said they wanted to kill Lao Cao. Mei Wan knew very well why. How to say it, am I the one who dug the grave?
The question is, is it my fault? I am just a small soldier who didn't follow the orders of my superiors. Shouldn't I be punished by military law? I didn't have the fighting power I have now. Even if I had the fighting power I have now, I would still be digging graves. There is no way to avoid this.
To be honest, Mei Wan didn't feel any pressure about the Xuzhou incident. He was the type of person who would do whatever his superiors told him to do. Oh, and the same thing happened to Li Huan. He and Li Huan, Bi Laoliu, and Huang Fang followed Liu Bei after Cao Cao fell and Liu Bei took power.
In fact, the same is true for Zhao Zhen. No one would think that he was born in Yanzhou, and he is one of the only two people in the world who have opened the Heavenly Demon Disintegration and are still alive, and can reach the seventh level of smelting. Although Zhao Zhen fell down, he has only joined the army in the past ten years.
What a joke, Zhao Zhen was also a soldier from Yanzhou back then!
This is also why Zhao Zhen, an incredibly active veteran, has basically never appeared in the same frame with Xuzhou's top veterans such as Huang Tao, Lao Lu, and Fu Ji, because Zhao Zhen really did it!
The veterans of Yanzhou have lived to this day, and who hasn't done anything to reach the fifth level? Honestly, if you hadn't been a soldier at that time, how talented would you have to be to be able to reach the sixth level of smelting now? The youngest sixth-level smelter in the world, Anling An Gouzi, also served in the army sixteen years ago, let alone others.
If you say that this group of people are bad people, then their behavior during that period completely fits the description of bad people, but if you want to put the blame on this level, then Chen Xi will have a lot to say, because according to this description, more than 70% of the people in the Han Dynasty would have to die.
That's not the way to say it. The background of the times must be taken into consideration. So Chen Xi's way of dealing with many things is to punish the main culprit and then move on to the management level at most. The executive level has basically no way to refuse under militarized management, so the executive level should not be considered a crime, but should be identified as having made a mistake.
Of course, the executives deserved to be hacked to death when they were executing this thing...
Based on this logic, all the senior executives of Dong Zhuo’s group should be liquidated, and similarly, the senior executives of Cao Cao’s group should also be liquidated.
Of course, Dong Zhuo's group was not completely liquidated. Dong Zhuo himself and some of his high-ranking officials were liquidated. Dong Zhuo's entire family was killed, and he himself was burned to death to repay the lives of the millions of people who moved the capital to Luoyang. It may not be enough, but only the three idiots and Li Ru were left in the entire Dong Zhuo group. Li Ru changed his name and the people at the bottom didn't know he was still alive, so it was completely reasonable for the three idiots to be assassinated by people in Luoyang.
After all, the Three Idiots were considered the executive layer back then, and behind them were the only remaining management. Even if they were not the main culprits, it was completely reasonable for them to share some of the crimes, and it was natural for them to be assassinated. As for Li You, the lower levels didn't know that he was Li Ru, but the higher-ups and the aristocratic families knew it very well, but they had no time to calculate these things with Li You.
Just like the Three Kings and most of the wealthy families, there was no time to settle accounts with the Three Idiots because they had other things to do.
Just like the old saying goes, ordinary people have short-sightedness and can only look at the present, because they have to consider how to survive today. Without today, there is no need to consider tomorrow. The reason why aristocratic families and wealthy families have a long-term vision is simply because they no longer need to think about how to survive today. They have enough time to think about the future.
It’s not that ordinary people can’t see the future, but that they are exhausted just to survive today.
Therefore, the noble families can be patient and wait for the right time to take revenge, but ordinary people are exhausted just by considering the problems before them.
Just like the so-called "living off parents", why are ordinary families called "living off parents" when they try their best to help their children? Do wealthy families not support their children, or give less than ordinary families? Do wealthy families really think that their children will be independent at the age of 18?
What nonsense! If Xun Wenruo was selected as a filial and honest official, he would be directly appointed as the Palace Guard Commander. No one would think that this was Xun Yu's own ability. You can imagine how much effort the Xun family put in behind the scenes.
In other words, Dong Zhuo bears the brunt of the crimes committed by his forces. Even after his death, the management will also have to bear the blame. All the executive personnel below the management will be considered guilty, and only if they are caught on the spot and their appearance and names are remembered will they be considered guilty. Otherwise, they will be let off.
However, the outrageous thing about the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is that this group of people can even find crimes in the executive level that are remembered by many people and even recorded in history books. The thousands of Xiliang Iron Cavalry that need to have their black materials cleaned up are basically the executive level. However, their crimes...
On the other hand, the crimes committed by Cao Cao's forces were actually not as great as those of Dong Zhuo's group. However, if we compare them with the leader of Dong Zhuo's forces, who exterminated all nine clans, burned himself to death, and killed all his sons-in-law, relatives, and brothers, leaving only the three early executive layers and the later management layer, then at least Cao's entire family would have died. However, Cao had not offended the aristocratic families before, so the backlash was not that serious.
But even so, if we really compare them based on the number of massacres, Cao Cao only massacred Xuzhou in this life, which is only one-tenth of Dong Zhuo's crimes. This is not something that can be atoned for by the death of Cao alone.
All I can say is that it's all fate, but it does matter whether it's noble or not. Or to be more direct, Chen Xi's reputation has indeed shared a lot of the blame with Lao Cao. Yuan Feng's previous decision to let bygones be bygones at least avoided the situation where Lao Cao had to choose between lighting the sky lantern and playing the Nine Clans Candy Crush Saga.
Similarly, the crimes of the executive level were basically cleared by Liu Bei and Chen Xi.
Otherwise, in Mei Wan's case, should she also be executed?
Mei Wan not only killed people from Xuzhou, but also people from Yuzhou and Jizhou. In Mei Wan's words, the order from above was to kill people. If I didn't, I would be killed. What do you think? If I was killed by me, I deserved it. If I took up the sword and went to the battlefield, I would either kill people or be killed. If you don't have this awareness, you're my mother!
Those who commit massacres are indeed beastly, but I have no way to fight against the orders from my superiors, and I don’t want to die!
This type of sin was attributed by Chen Xi to the sin of the times. This was also the reason why Chen Xi allowed the Yellow Turbans to worship Daqu Shuai, because the idea of overthrowing this sin was correct, but the power was not enough.
Similarly, the reason why Liu Bei and Chen Xi were able to break off this karma, in addition to their own justice, was also very important, which was their strength. In this fucked-up era, without strength, no matter how just you are, it's useless. All the people from Xuzhou who died at the hands of Zhao Zhen, they all fought for justice, but it was useless because they couldn't win.
So after Cao Cao's downfall, Liu Bei didn't want to say anything extra. He succeeded in killing the man in Xuzhou, and that man's debt was cleared. The matter ended there. The Cao family, the Xiahou family, and the Cao officers who participated in the Xuzhou massacre stopped here. If someone went to assassinate these people, the killer would pay with his life.
Of course, after he was killed and escaped, the Han Dynasty turned a blind eye to it. According to universal morality and the theory of great revenge in Gongyang Chunqiu, if he ran away, the officials would catch him if they encountered him, but if they didn't, the officials would not investigate unless the people reported him.
The three idiots also implemented this, because the three idiots were considered the executive layer before Dong Zhuo died, and even if they were included in the management layer, Dong Zhuo's Nine Clans Elimination Game plus some Sky Lanterns would make up for a lot.
Therefore, essentially speaking, his guilt was more about the crimes that continued after Dong Zhuo's death. In this life, without the Li-Guo Rebellion and the subsequent vicious events, his guilt was not enough to warrant the extermination of the entire clan.
But the three idiots killed Wang illegally, and Wang must be killed back.
Wang Ling could even pat his chest and promise revenge. When his family came to attack, he would take away as many of the Three Idiots' allies as he could, but the others would all die. The title would also be inherited by the Three Idiots' descendants. The Three Idiots' descendants would have to face the same situation as he had encountered back then!
They actually compared the Three Idiots with Cao Cao, saying that the Three Idiots did so many evil things but still didn't die, so why did Cao Cao die? Cao Cao's target was Dong Zhuo, okay? The Three Idiots were not targeted by Cao Ren, Cao Hong, and Xiahou brothers, but Le Jin, Xu Huang and others. In my book, Li and Guo hadn't fallen out yet, and hadn't started the harm mode before they were persuaded by Sima Lang, and then he pulled two carts of Cai Yong's calligraphy to Zhong Yao, who made a big move. This was the reason why the brother in Luoyang assassinated the Three Idiots, but the brother in Chang'an tipped off the situation, because the harm link with Li and Guo as the leaders of the power was not started at all in this book. Instead, it was Cao Cao, as the leader of the power, who needed to bear the guilt of the entire power. As the saying goes, "He who bears the blame of the country is the master of the country." Book friends would not think that Cao Cao, who ordered the massacre of Xuzhou to avenge his father, was guilty of the same thing as the brothers Xiahou, the brothers Cao, and Li Dian who organized the soldiers to massacre.
Comparing Cao's crime of ordering the massacre with the crime of the three idiots for moving the capital is basically the same logic. Cao's crime can only be compared with that of Dong Zhuo who ordered the relocation of the capital. Of course, this crime is indeed smaller than Dong Zhuo's relocation of the capital, but if compared with the three idiots, the three idiots were organizers, not leaders. If we really want to talk about the leaders' crimes, the official history must wait until Li and Guo are in power. In my book, the three idiots did not have time to split up due to lack of food. The crimes that really needed to be settled during the entire period of Chang'an's rule, in addition to the problems left by Dong Zhuo, were actually more about intimidating Emperor Liu Xie and exterminating the Wang family of Taiyuan. There is nothing much to say about the latter. The Wang family of Taiyuan will come back sooner or later. There is no way to talk about homomorphic revenge, and the law is meaningless at this point.