Chapter 4 Psychological Comfort

When I heard the servant said that I had recruited Gao Shun, I danced with joy. I jumped up from my seat and grabbed the hem of the servant's clothes and asked urgently: "Where is Gao Shun?" I despise you, how can a ten-year-old child grab an adult by the neck?

"Go back to the master. Gao Shun is right outside the door. I'll let him..."

Before he could finish speaking, I ran out barefoot and saw a strong man standing outside the door. This man is not very tall, well-proportioned and strong but not fat. He has big eyes, a square face, and high cheekbones. His appearance is very ordinary, but his deep eyes can make people see his loyalty. It fit the image in my mind so well that I shouted loudly: "Gao Shun!" Even his voice was trembling.

Gao Shun saw a young man running out of the house, his bare feet and hair disheveled, looking very funny. But when he saw this young man suddenly shouting his name, he was stunned. As the person who led him came out of the house, he introduced that this young man was not someone else, but the one who had saved him and made him surrender.

Gao Shun, who believed in receiving kindness from others and repaying it with a spring of water, and being honest in his word, did not look down upon me because I was still a child. He knelt down and saluted, "Gao Shun has met the master."

Thirty years in my previous life and more than ten years in this life add up to more than forty years. Except for the time when I was admitted to college, this moment brings me joy from the bottom of my heart. He stretched out his hand to pull Gao Shun up and said, "Don't call me master, call me lord!"

Seeing that I thought so highly of him, Gao Shun prostrated himself to the ground and shouted: "Lord!" His head was pressed tightly to the ground, and his shoulders kept shaking. This tough guy who never even frowned at the critical moment of life and death in Baimenlou actually cried over a sentence from a ten-year-old child!

Don't think that the difference between these two words is not big, but there is a huge difference. Master is what slaves and serfs call everyone, while master and subordinates are vassals on the basis of relative equality. One word can pull someone from hell to heaven.

After Gao Shun came, I asked him to study and practice martial arts with me. Gao Shun didn't know much about literacy, and his martial arts skills were only passable. Whether in novels or official history, his martial arts are incomparable to those of Liu Bei's Five Tiger Generals or those famous generals under Cao Cao and Sun Quan. What I like about Gao Shun is his loyalty, military training and battlefield command capabilities. Will those who can train famous people from the trapped camp have poor military training abilities? Once I have my own power, I will never give him only 700 people to train like Lu Bu did, but I will give him tens of thousands to 8,000 people no matter what. hehe! Think about it, if 700 people fall into the camp, they can kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and escape. What if there are 10,000 people?

As for martial arts, if you're not good enough in a one-on-one fight, then you'll have to find a way. What's more, being able to fight with the Xiahou family's elite for fifty rounds and still escape intact is not even close to that. But one day after I taught him a few times, I thought that when I met someone from the Xiahou family again, he might be the one who beat them all over the world.

Ask me what I teach?

What do I do! In his previous life, he was a major officer of the People's Liberation Army of China. Although he was a doctor, he could still draw several sets of military boxing. Originally, after I stopped taking elixirs, I just practiced for fun in order to strengthen my body. Of course, I didn't do any hard work and it was just a show. But when Gao Shun was comparing paintings that day, he saw it and was immediately amazed. When I saw the look of envy on his face, I didn't hesitate to teach him everything I knew right away.

These sets of military boxing were compiled by the People's Liberation Army by combining the strengths of various martial arts with the needs of hand-to-hand combat and inviting a number of martial arts masters. Especially the several sets starting from the third set are compulsory subjects for special forces. The viciousness of the moves and the obvious effect of killing the enemy are something no one in this era could have imagined.

So when these fancy routines came into Gao Shun's hands, earth-shaking changes took place. It cannot but be said that he is a wizard, and he has evolved a set of sword skills from these bare-knuckle techniques. Although my eyesight was limited and I couldn't tell how much Gao Shun's martial arts had improved, I could at least tell that he was much stronger than when he first came here. And seeing him practicing so hard, I felt very itchy. But if you ask me, a lazy person, to work hard and practice boxing, that will happen only if the sun comes out from the west. The senior's weapons and arm strength are not strong enough. After much deliberation, I might as well learn a few swordsmanships so that I can cope with them at critical moments. Among short weapons, the sword is easy to learn and difficult to master, but what I like is that it is easy to learn.

But when I asked Gao Shun to teach me, he said he couldn't. He also said that if the master wanted to learn the long sword, he would reluctantly teach me.

I have no choice but to figure it out on my own again, right! There are several dagger routines in Juntiquan. Although it has been so long that I can't recall the full set, I can still remember the general number of routines. He immediately summoned Gao Shun to give him a rough demonstration of the dagger routine. When he turned around, he wanted to ask him if he could use it as a sword. I saw that Gao Shun had already drawn a sword and started gesticulating wildly. It was obviously the same few times, but the murderous aura that rushed towards my face made my scalp numb. I really didn't expect that because of my actions today, I would switch to using a sword after being trapped in the camp.

I practiced martial arts while studying, and of course Gao Shun mainly practiced martial arts. I am also a strategist type talent. If you ask me to charge into battle, I will not do it even if you kill me.

Just like this, three years passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the sixth year of Guanghe. Next year would be the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising. At the age of thirteen, I no longer asked my husband to teach me at home. It's not that I can't afford it, but that people like me, who have never had anyone serve as officials in the past dynasties, are still a small member of the ruling class, but they can only be called poor people. Educated people often come from rich and famous families, so they naturally disdain being a teacher for a humble scholar.

Since my filial piety period has expired and I can't find anyone to teach me, I have no choice but to leave home and study outside. The destination has been planned for a long time, which is Yingchuan Academy.

Several large families in Yingchuan, headed by the Xun family, merged the original private schools to form one large private school, the famous Yingchuan Academy, in order to facilitate their children to study better. Since the teachers are basically celebrities from major families, it has become a holy place for students from all over the world to study and travel. During the Three Kingdoms period, many military strategists and politicians studied and traveled here. Throwing a brick there can lead to a person who will become famous in the future.

Arrange things at home, but there is actually nothing to arrange. I have sent the servants in batches to the young servants who have already established their roots in other places. The old house in Yangdi only has two maids to take care of my daily life and a bookboy who studies with me. I sent the two maids away as well, took Shutong and Gao Shun with me and set out on the road.

Time is running out! Once the Yellow Turban Uprising breaks out next year, Yingchuan Academy will be forced to close. A year is neither long nor short. I made up my mind to read more and talk less when I went there. I let it happen naturally and did not intend to do it deliberately. However, I still had to observe their words and actions and analyze their psychology. After all, I might meet these people on the battlefield in the future. .

Along the way, I discovered that chaos had arisen. It has been widely circulated among the people that "the sky is dead, the yellow sky will stand, and the age of Jiazi will bring good luck to the world." The word "Jia Zi" was also written on the entrance of the government office in white clay. As far as I know, this was done by Zhang Jiao to boost morale by his subordinates, which meant that he would take charge of the government office in the year of Jiazi.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a struggle for power between relatives and eunuchs within the ruling class. They took turns to take advantage of each other, and at the same time exploited and oppressed the people more cruelly. The royal landowners powerfully occupied the land, resulting in the situation of "houses spread across states and counties, and fields connected to each other." Fangguo." Increased taxes were imposed on the people, coupled with droughts and floods occurring year after year, resulting in the majority of farmers living in poverty, losing their families and possessions, "living in the ravines, marrying their wives and selling their children." Everywhere, "the land was too vast to be cultivated, and the people were criticized." The desolate scene of having nothing to eat."

According to my understanding of this historical period, Taipingdao emerged in the context of the proliferation of theological trends. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an increasing number of resistance activities with religious overtones (I can't remember the specific resistance activities), which had a significant impact on the organizational form of the Yellow Turban Uprising; the rulers of the late Han Dynasty were tolerant of heretical theology, which provided the basis for Zhang Jiao and others to use religion as a It provided an opportunity to launch and organize a major uprising; Taipingdao's sixteen-character slogan had great appeal to the poor people, and its practical function of treating diseases and helping the poor was not only protective, but also conducive to organizing and mobilizing the people.

The exclusive power of foreign relatives and eunuchs also hindered the promotion of sergeant-officials in the imperial court, causing fierce struggles between local officials and foreign relatives and eunuchs, leading to two "party-controlled disasters" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and deepening the political crisis within the ruling class. Due to political darkness, official corruption, high concentration of land, and poor rural economy, the majority of farmers were miserable and continued to hold uprisings. During the Guanghe period, Zhang Jiao served Huang Lao and preached with the "Taiping Jing" (also known as "Taiping Qingling Book"). He was known as the "Taiping Dao" and claimed to be a "great sage and good teacher". His disciples traveled far and wide to preach and won the trust of farmers. In more than ten years, there have been hundreds of thousands of disciples throughout the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan and Henan. Zhang Jiao deployed Taoist disciples in thirty-six directions, with more than 10,000 people in Dafang and six to seven thousand people in Xiaofang, each led by a Qu commander.

Mencius once said: When a country is about to perish, evildoers will appear!

In my opinion, this monster is a natural disaster. In recent years, there have been either floods or droughts in various places, and locust plagues have been raging. But natural disasters can be rescued to a certain extent. As long as everyone is united and well-organized, natural disasters can be overcome; but the most important thing is man-made disasters. Relatives and eunuchs are just clowns in man-made disasters. The root cause of man-made disasters lies in the excessive imperial power.

From a psychological perspective, when a person can do whatever he wants without any hesitation, then the various desires in his heart that have long been bound by various laws, moral concepts, religious beliefs, etc. will expand day by day, and eventually expand to the point where they cannot be increased. At this time, the ugliest part that has been suppressed for a long time in the heart will often be gradually exposed, and finally the hysteria reaches the point where the so-called God will let anyone perish first. One of the most typical examples is Emperor Ming Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty. In the first few years of his rule, he worked hard to achieve the so-called Kaiyuan Age. However, as his desires expanded, he even brought his daughters-in-law to the palace to become his concubines. Later the Anshi Rebellion

And who in Chinese history is not bound by laws, moral concepts or religious beliefs? The answer is clear and that is imperial power. Imperial power does not only refer to the emperor but to the entire ruling class represented by the emperor. This class is above the law and frantically absorbs wealth for their own enjoyment. Once someone violates the rules of the game within the class or if someone wants to completely overthrow the class, they will be attacked by a group.

The main reason why peasant uprisings in the past dynasties have failed continuously, apart from ideological immaturity, is that once this class discovers that someone is trying to fundamentally deny their existence, they will unite and carry out crazy suppression. Make appropriate adjustments within. The result of adjustment is often a change of dynasty, and the cost is to change the leader and the name of the dynasty at the same time.

The continuous success of changing dynasties lies in the fact that as the leader of this class, the emperor and the family, after enjoying the greatest privileges, the price they have to pay is that when danger comes, they are treated as the scapegoat of the entire class and are ruthlessly abandoned. Send it to the world. See, we have overthrown the foolish king. Those of you who rose up in rebellion should be satisfied!

There are also unique game rules in this class. If you follow the rules, you can enjoy various privileges. But once you violate the rules of the game, when the degree of violation reaches a level that makes most people in this class angry, they will unite to destroy those who break the rules. Most of the reforms in history were unsuccessful because the reformers broke the rules of the game and affected the vested interests of others.

And people within this class are not always united. The law of the jungle has been prevalent throughout the entire history of this class. Desire is endless. In order to reach the highest point of power and enjoy the privileges so that they will not be deprived of their benefits by higher privilege holders, people within the class will compete with each other when the outside world is relatively safe. .

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, foreign relatives, eunuchs, and scholar-bureaucrats would take the initiative to unite when faced with external pressure that might lead them to be overthrown and enjoy privileges. When the danger no longer existed, a new period of self-adjustment began. The demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the inevitable result of this adjustment. Because we need one person or a group of people to be responsible for the dangerous situation that was brought to us in the previous stage, so that the entire class of people can get a kind of psychological comfort.