"You have known for a long time that I was the person who blocked your way that day, right? Sadly, from the first day I entered Yangping Pass, I was taken advantage of by others, and I didn't even know it. I was so stupid that I thought I was hiding it.
Who passed.
In front of you princes, my little thoughts are really out of the ordinary. The Lord of Shu is very happy to see me playing monkey every day, haha."
His face was smiling, his heart was frozen.
Liu Zhang quietly looked at the cold wall under the moonlight, "As the leader of the party, I will not feel ashamed of my calculations, but the girl's kindness moved me. I am willing to explain to the girl that I really intend to take care of her."
Those people, if it were not for the arrival of the Xiliang Army."
Liu Zhang also looked at Guan Yinping: "You should know."
"Then how do you explain that female corpse?" Guan Yinping stared coldly into Liu Zhang's eyes.
Liu Zhang was stunned, "What female corpse?"
"You don't know? Haha, no wonder, you don't need to do these things yourself." Guan Yinping laughed sadly.
Liu Zhang thought for a moment and suddenly knew what Guan Yinping was referring to. He frowned and said to Wang Xu next to him: "When dealing with those sick and injured people with fever, aren't we asking you to just throw them away and bury them? How did Miss Guan know?"
The female body that Guan Yinping saw was the mother of the febrile child who kowtowed in the refugee camp on the first day.
When she saw the appearance of the female corpse, Guan Yinping was shocked, as if her head had been blown up, but Liu Zhang had such a good impression on her that she didn't want to believe that Liu Zhang had done it. There must be other reasons for this female corpse.
In the next few days, Liu Zhang talked and laughed, showing his calmness and courage in supervising the battle at the top of the city, his concern for the soldiers, and his shrunken expression when he was scolded by the girl from the Western Regions.
Guan Yinping was convinced that Liu Zhang must not know about the female corpse.
But it wasn't until tonight, when Guan Yinping saw Liu Zhang's true side, that he suddenly realized how wrong he was. He could ignore the lives of so many refugees, let alone a female corpse.
The fantasy in my heart was shattered in an instant.
Wang Xu said in panic: "My lord, we carried out secret executions and buried them secretly according to your request. But sometimes there are too many corpses to bury them. When the soldiers rest, there is only a little gap. Unexpectedly..." Wang Xu looked at
He glanced at Guan Yinping.
"Do you know what the consequences will be if these things spread?" Liu Zhang said to Wang Xulu coldly, the expression on his face showing that he was extremely angry.
"Hahahahaha." Guan Yinping suddenly laughed out loud, facing the moonlight, laughing forward and backward, "Liu Zhang, you let me see the ugliest side of the princes. You are not at all ashamed of your behavior of killing the people.
You are blaming your subordinates for not concealing it well, can you be any more shameless? Do you think you can hide it from everyone in the world?"
A girl from the Western Region came out to bask in the moonlight. In a corner where Guan Yinping and others could not see, she sat comfortably with her knees in her arms, pulled out a bunch of hair from her forehead, and quietly looked at the bright moon in the sky.
Liu Zhang was silent for a long time and said calmly: "I just do what I think I should do. I know what I am doing."
"No matter how great the reason is, it cannot be an excuse for you to kill the people." Guan Yinping shouted loudly, shouting out all the anger in his heart towards Liu Zhang.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment; the higher the expectation, the harder the fall.
Guan Yinping had planned to follow Liu Zhang all his life, not only to fulfill his dream of becoming a military general, but also to benefit the people of the world, but now he realized that everything was false.
Liu Zhang is just a cruel king who hides deeper and conceals it better than other princes. That night, Guan Yinping heard every word Liu Zhang said, which hurt his heart. After this night, he would never believe in this troubled world again.
There will be kindness.
When Guan Yinping finished saying this, Liu Zhang was stunned, looked at Guan Yinping, and said in a deep voice: "Miss Guan, you are the second woman who has said this to me."
"Really?" Guan Yinping smiled, stood up, and looked at Liu Zhang: "Liu Zhang, I'm going to leave now. Leave here as if I've never been here, and I've never known a selfish, cruel and shameless person like you."
Guan Yinping said as he walked towards the city wall, where there was a hanging basket.
"Selfish, cruel and shameless." Liu Zhang repeated these six words, sat motionless, and said softly: "People of different ways do not agree with each other. You can leave, but I have to kill one more person. Before you leave, I think
It is necessary to tell you."
"Who?" Guan Yinping stopped.
"Your sister." Liu Zhang said calmly.
"What?" Guan Yinping turned around and glared at Liu Zhang: "Liu Zhang, are you crazy? How many people do you have to kill? Is it because my sister is an internal agent of the Xiliang Army and reported the news to Ma Chao? Then I
I am also from the Xiliang Army, so please kill me too."
Guan Yinping looked at the calm Liu Zhang and smiled dejectedly: "I forgot, you are so fierce and decisive, how could you care about the life of a little girl like me? But I am not threatening you, I am asking you to kill me.
"
Guan Yinping looked at Liu Zhang resolutely. If Ma Yunlu was killed, Guan Yinping would never be alone.
"Have you had enough?" Liu Zhang looked up at Guan Yinping with anger on his face. The girl from the Western Regions in the corner heard Liu Zhang's unkind tone and moved towards the wall.
Liu Zhang stood up and glared at Guan Yinping: "Don't be cruel, shameless, and sarcastic. You, Miss Guan, are alone. Of course you can scold loudly. I will kill you now. No one will be able to live because of your death."
If you go on, of course you can be impassioned and show your righteousness.
But have you ever thought about me? Behind me are 400,000 soldiers of the Sichuan Army, tens of thousands of generals, and thousands of ministers. We passed the land order for the four civil servants, in order to allow the people to have land to farm and not be exploited by the aristocracy, in order to allow poor families to work.
Official, not excluded by the family.
After a bloody battle, tens of thousands of soldiers were sacrificed successively. There are many memorial tablets in the Hall of Meritors. I, Liu Zhang, have not had a good night's sleep in the past two years. There are endless books to approve and endless government affairs to deal with every day. Even if I faint, I can't do anything.
I asked the soldiers to wake me up in the middle of the night, and I couldn't even stay with my wife when she gave birth. What am I doing for this? What are we doing for this?"
Liu Zhang took a breath and continued: "Yes, I am cruel, I am insensitive, my hands are stained with blood, I am a violent lord who can be punished by everyone with lofty ideals, I have killed hundreds of thousands of people, I
I also know that most of them are innocent people who were implicated, and many of them are good people, as kind-hearted as you, Guan Yinping.
But what am I for? Why do I want to kill them? In your eyes, Guan Yinping, am I, Liu Zhang, a person who takes pleasure in killing people?
Miss Guan, let me tell you, I will kill not only those former aristocratic families, those who blindly follow the people, those sick and injured refugees, but also your sister. Moreover, I am insensitive and will not feel any guilt. I will kill without any regrets and I will do it again in the future.
Will continue to kill.
If I were soft-hearted today and let those so-called innocent people go, the people would definitely fight back if they were determined not to give up.
Today I let go of a blind and obedient citizen, but tomorrow there will be a hundred foolish people who will take risks and treat me, Liu Zhang, like child's play.
Let go of those sick and injured refugees. Those who will die tomorrow will not be them, but the soldiers who fought bloody battles in Guanzhong. It will be you, me, and even the soldiers at Yangping Pass will be confused. After the Yangping Pass is broken, the millions of Hanzhong people will be left behind.
You can say that no matter how great the reason is, it is not an excuse to kill the people, but in order for the New Deal to continue, to allow the people to continue cultivating the land they have obtained, and to allow poor families to continue to freely enter and leave the government, I cannot be great.
Why did you Guan Yinping get angry immediately because I wanted to kill your sister? Do you want to live or die? A sister behind you is like this, what is behind me?
To change an old world, sacrifices are inevitable, even if they are innocent. That is the misfortune of the times.
If you think that my killing of these people today is just a game played by the rulers, and the reasons I spew out are high-sounding excuses, then it’s up to you, I know what I’m doing.”
After Liu Zhang finished speaking, he felt a little headache and pinched his forehead with his fingers. He didn't know why he was so excited and talked so much today. Wang Xu saw something was wrong and immediately stepped forward to support Liu Zhang.
After listening to Liu Zhang's words, Guan Yinping was stunned on the spot.
"You Miss Guan are alone, of course you can scold loudly. If I kill you now, no one will be able to live because of your death. Of course you can be impassioned and show your righteousness."
This sentence touched Guan Yinping's heart. Yes, it seemed that he had never thought about it from Liu Zhang's perspective. It was just his wishful thinking that everyone should be like him, helping the weak and the poor, benevolent and righteous.
Liu Zhang worked hard to implement the New Deal. It can be said that it did not have any benefit to his rule. Instead, it freed at least half of the taxes of the people and the shackles of serving as an official from a poor family. If Liu Zhang's regime failed, not only the civil servants and generals who followed him would decline, but also the
Those who are declining are also poor families and common people.
The family that he despises will again control the rules of the game in Jingyi.
"To change an old world, sacrifices are inevitable, even if they are innocent. That is the misfortune of the times."
"In order to achieve an era, do we really have to sacrifice a generation? It seems so, but I never thought about it, and when I really started to think about it, the answer is so cruel."
At this moment, Guan Yinping suddenly felt that his previous ideas were so naive in front of Liu Zhang. He was angry because of Ma Yunlu, not to mention that behind him was the entire Jingyi Group, the ideal of the New Deal.
You are taking care of yourself, so what right do you have to blame him?
Is this what Zen Master Pujing of Zhenguo Temple calls Da Ren and Xiao Ren?
When I heard about it, I didn’t take it seriously. I just thought that good is good and evil is evil. Good should not involve innocent people and should be clear about good and evil. Now that I think about it, I feel so ignorant.
"Can I not kill my sister?" After a long time, Guan Yinping's face slowly returned to calmness and she said slowly.
"No." Liu Zhang replied coldly. After a moment of silence, he pressed his forehead hard with the five fingers of his palm and explained: "If you don't kill him, the people will not be angry."