Chapter 55: The Origin of Guan Yu's Reading of 'Spring and Autumn'
Liu Ming's troops rested for a day in Le'an.
One reason is that the team has been fighting for many days and is about to arrive in Linzi. According to Tan Ma's report, Linzi has been surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army at this time, and Governor Gong is holding on, waiting for reinforcements. In order to prepare for the upcoming battle,
It is very important to adjust the status of the soldiers.
Another is that the problem of prisoners at this time was quite serious. In the past, every time Liu Ming led a team to defeat the Yellow Turban soldiers, the captured enemy soldiers were immediately absorbed by Huxiao Villa and divided. However, during this long-distance attack, although there were many soldiers along the way,
They beat a small group of Yellow Turbans and thieves, but they couldn't resist them many times. Now the 5,000 Youzhou soldiers led by Yang Jun and Zou Jing actually escorted more than 15,000 prisoners. The escort ratio was as high as 1:3. Not only these
The prisoners need to eat and drink, which puts a heavy pressure on the army's nourishment and baggage; just guarding it is a serious problem. Even if most of the prisoners are willing to surrender, they cannot just be inserted into the team. If this is the case
If you do it, the team will be turned upside down immediately.
Who can guarantee that these yellow turban soldiers and bandits who have just surrendered will not rebel when the time comes? Escape is a good thing; bombing the camp and rebelling in the nest will only hurt the strength of Youzhou's soldiers and horses; but!
If the two armies are confronting each other, if these surrendered troops rebel, their own troops will definitely be in dire straits, and by then they will be in dire straits.
For this reason, Yang Jun and Zou Jing repeatedly suggested to Liu Ming that instead of losing their tails to these captives, it would be better to kill them all immediately, eradicate the weeds, and finally get rid of them cleanly.
But now, although Liu Ming led the team to kill the Yellow Turban soldiers, he no longer had any psychological barriers and was used to it. But he really couldn't make the decision to massacre these unarmed and defenseless prisoners.
The day was dragging on until late, but now that he was about to confront the main force of the Yellow Turbans, he would not be able to escort these prisoners, so Liu Ming had to make a decision no matter what.
After a day of rest, Liu Ming thought carefully about the cause and effect, and finally came to the conclusion that he was definitely not a master who could sacrifice some people for the benefit of others.
You can never kill prisoners by yourself!
But now the problem is here again. It is impossible not to solve it. Liu Ming finally thought of a way and called Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Yang Jun, and the four of them gathered together to discuss the issue of prisoners.
Liu Ming first asked them what they thought.
Yang Jun still firmly believed that it would be easiest and quickest to kill these prisoners directly. At the same time, he advised Liu Ming: "My lord, in troubled times, you must not be benevolent as a woman. As the old saying goes, it is good to measure a small non-gentleman, and there is no poison."
Not a husband." And after looking through the people who have achieved great things in the past, there is no one who is not cruel and ruthless. He almost fooled Liu Ming and made Liu Ming throw away the thoughts he had prepared for a long time.
Liu Ming was immersed in the sentence "A petty person is not a gentleman, and a person who is not poisonous is not a husband." This sentence is almost an ancient saying familiar to modern Chinese people. The general idea is that a person with high morals should be generous, ambitious and capable.
People should be cruel when they should be cruel. Anyone who cannot handle things ruthlessly will not be able to achieve great things.
But Liu Ming murmured in his heart, if everyone was like this, what kind of ambition would they have? What fun would there be in living like this?
When Liu Ming was thinking about it, Zhang Fei beside him interrupted and said: "Mr. Yang, did you remember it wrong? This sentence seems to be "A small amount is not a gentleman, and a large amount is not a husband"!"
Yang Jun glared at Zhang Fei fiercely and said to Zhang Fei: "I am trying to persuade you, brother. Don't interrupt if you don't understand!"
"Oh." Zhang Fei shut up and stepped aside aggrievedly.
Liu Ming looked at it funny and thought: The truth of history is really inexplicable. A reckless man like Zhang Fei actually respected the old man and the Shilin people so much that he was beaten to death by the old man Yang Jun.
I can't believe it. If I were to return to modern times, who would believe it? Moreover, Guan Yu, who was so arrogant in history, would be joking even if he was influenced by himself, Yang Jun and Zhang Fei. Even those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to Mo.
Black, but this should be the revelation of the second brother's true character! The second brother is originally a warm-hearted, generous, and loyal man; otherwise, he would not stand up for unrelated people, and even kill people and flee the world. It can be seen that the original
Historically, the second younger brother followed the unhappy and angry Uncle Liu, and suffered a lot of hardships and frustrations. By the way, where did Liu Bei go? Why didn't he find him when he established a branch in Zhuo County?
Liu Ming was thinking wildly here. Over there, Guan Yu saw Liu Ming wandering around. Now his eyes were focused on himself. Knowing that his elder brother was distracted again, he quickly reminded Liu Ming: "Brother, we are still waiting for you to make up your mind."
"Oh." Liu Ming suddenly came to his senses, turned to Zhang Fei and said, "Third brother, what did you just say? Tell me carefully?"
"Lord!" Yang Jun stopped him worriedly.
"Mr. Yang, wait a moment, let Yide finish speaking first." Liu Ming stopped Yang Jun.
Yang Jun reluctantly stepped aside.
Zhang Fei said happily: "Brother, what Mr. Yang said just now is wrong. My master once taught me when he taught me how to read. The original text of that sentence is "A small amount is not a gentleman, and a large amount is not a husband." It means true.
A gentleman is by no means a narrow-minded and vicious person, but a broad-minded and tolerant person. Confucius said: A small impatience will mess up a big plan. It is also said in Laozi's "Tao Te Ching": A good tune means everything is wrong, and a wrong answer means everything is in vain.
If you are straight, you will gain if you pay attention; if you lose it, you will be new; if you pay less, you will gain; if you pay more, you will be confused. This is what they say."
After hearing this, Liu Ming suddenly understood: Yes! All things are great with tolerance. How could he change his original intention for others' words? If a person is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, then he will do it himself.
The meaning of this thing no longer exists, so how can it be really done well? It is true that those who achieved great things in history were all ruthless people, but it is precisely this that leads to the fact that after achieving great things, they just change the soup.
Medicine. No wonder the dynasties that have ruled China for so many years started out better, but then became more and more decadent, and produced so many corrupt elements, all with emotions that distorted the original intention. It is conceivable that the dynasties established by ruthless gangsters,
How good can it be?
Just when Liu Ming was sighing with emotion, Guan Yu said in admiration: "Third brother, you know so much, where did you learn it all?"
Zhang Fei replied bluntly: "They were all taught by my original teacher. These are all in the Book of Songs, The Analects of Confucius, The Great Learning, and the Tao Te Ching. Second brother, if you are willing to learn, I have another
"Spring and Autumn", I will send it to you later."
Guan Yu thanked him repeatedly.
Liu Ming stood aside blankly, feeling that this was how Guan Yu came about reading "Spring and Autumn".