The journey to Xiliang alone is not dull. After leaving the Eight Passes around Luoyang, even in Hedong and Hongnong counties between Chang'an and Luoyang, there are bandits and bandits on relatively remote sections. This situation will improve if you enter the Chang'an boundary, but when you leave Chang'an, it will become more serious.

This is the case in the important places of the capital, where the Han Dynasty is the core, so it is even more conceivable that other places where the Yellow Turban thieves are still making trouble. If you are walking alone outside, even the travelers you meet on the road may occasionally play a guest appearance as a robber. Although those travelers who will turn into robbers in sparsely populated areas are not the most important factor, it is undeniable that the quality of ancient people is actually not as high as that of some modern people.

Perhaps they pay great attention to rural morality and family laws, but that is because they often live for life, or even several generations, and live in one place. In this case, rural morality and family laws are already recognized by them and are generally binding private laws. If they do not comply with them, they will not be able to survive on this land.

If this scope is expanded to the country, we will find that the ancient people's legal concept was actually quite weak. There are many people who dared to kill, rob, or even rebel. The reason is that the coercive binding force of national laws does not have a strong enforcement ability to ensure it.

Kill someone, then change your name and surname and run to another place, and you can basically be free for the rest of your life. This is even more true if you are in a remote area. Just find a valley to hide for a while, and no one will come to chase you again.

There was even a law in ancient times: "It is not a crime to hide relatives" - relatives help their relatives conceal their crimes, which is not considered a crime. This has artificially increased the difficulty of enforcing the law.

Because of this law, some local clan forces can mobilize the entire village and town to arm the law to fight against legal personnel and blatantly shelter criminals - tens of thousands of people living in that place are related to each other.

Even in later generations, foreign laws have similar principles to the principle of "concealing one's relatives and not being guilty of being a crime". But no matter what, even though they know that the other party has committed a crime, they still choose to conceal the crime for the other party. This is undoubtedly a crime of shelter and should be punished by law. Even if it is committed for a relative, it is just a choice to gain personal emotions between personal emotional gains and personal interests. Then you must bear the risk of this choice and accept the punishment of sheltering failure when you are arrested.

They don’t want their relatives to be arrested, and they don’t want to take on their own guilt after failing to cover up. How can there be such a good thing in the world? But there is a point of “to hide one’s relatives but not to be guilty”. Everyone wants to gain personal emotions, but not to lose personal interests. This is the fundamental reason why the obvious and nonsense law of “to hide one’s relatives but not to be guilty” is recognized by everyone.

Although some people may say that reporting on relatives is not a violation of morality, it is just a morality within the family. Although each family thinks that such "traitors" appearing in their own family is very hateful, if it is another family, the social harm caused by others to shelter criminals will be greater.

Therefore, "to hide one's relatives and not to be sinful" is the true immorality. It betrays social morality for the sake of personal morality. It was still determined as a law in later generations, which does not represent the progress of morality and the humanization of the law, but reflects a public immorality. Moreover, it has caused a human loophole in the law and made the formulation of the law no longer scientific.

Those so-called Qin and Han powders, Three Kingdoms powders, Tang and Song powders, Ming and Qing powders, and even the Republic of China powders and ancient foreign fans, really don’t know what they are thinking about. They will regard all aspects of this as evidence that ancient times are superior to modern times. The times are constantly moving forward, and an era that is better than the present can only be the future.

There may have been many wonderful historical events in some eras in the past, which can be regarded as a big show for future generations to fully entertain the body and mind. However, I love the house and the Uzumaki and think that ancient times are better than modern times, but there is no reason to stand firm.

Just as many people think that the moral qualities of ancient people are higher than those of modern people, and the older they are, the higher they are, the higher they are, the more powerful they are. Even when yy was yy, many people think that yy's principles were yy's power than those of modern people, and the more ancient they are, the more powerful they are. These obviously do not conform to the laws of development and change of things, but are just imaginations that humans make excuses for their incompetence in order to escape reality.

If these guys who are good dragons of Ye Gong were really sent to ancient times, they would probably not be able to fan the era again. They also thought that they would be so mighty after traveling through time, and they could save the world without wearing underwear. First of all, they could save their lives and burn the incense. No matter how safe the ancient times were, they were several times more dangerous than modern times.

Like the Party Patriotic, even if he kept walking on the official post road, there were no less than a dozen bandits sent out along the way. After entering the Xiliang area, there were even more horse bandits riding horses. However, those horse bandits were all beaten up on rainy days - they were idle, so when they saw the Party Patriotic running, they just followed him and robbed him.

Before they had experienced the 81st difficulties, the Party Patriotic Kingdom arrived in Shangqi. This place was already occupied by them when Han Sui and Ma Teng were the powerful kingdoms of Hanyang County.

After Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo defeated the kingdom, Han Sui and Ma Teng gathered the defeated troops and fled back to Hanyang County. Facing Dong Zhuo who was like a wolf on the grassland, both far and near, slowly following them, intending to wait for an opportunity to pounce on them and eat them, the two of them voluntarily gave up Shangji and retreated to another town between Ji County and Shangji, the capital of Hanyang County, Wangyuan.

However, after easily taking Shang Zhi, Dong Zhuo did not advance, but chose to station on the spot - even Dong Zhuo himself has always lived in the military camp outside the city.

There are three reasons for this:

First, Dong Zhuo did not want to destroy Han Sui and Ma Teng so quickly, especially when the court once sent someone to promote him to Shaofu.

Second, after Huangfu Song returned to the court and took away the army originally belonging to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo divided his troops at Sanguan again. Now he was indeed short of troops. If he wanted to continue to go deeper, he would have to divide his troops to garrison Shangji again, and the troops in his headquarters would be reduced to below the cordon.

Third, although Shanggui has "recovered", the powerful people in and around Shanggui City are still those who were originally vassals and rebels. Dong Zhuo really couldn't let them go, so he didn't dare to move into Shanggui City.

Now even if the powerful forces in Shangqi accepted the occupation of Dong Zhuo's army without resistance, it is difficult to guarantee that they would not secretly attack Dong Zhuo's army, which was not particularly large under the instigation of Han Sui and Ma Teng. This place can still be regarded as an "enemy-occupied area". They have been marching and fighting for many years, especially Dong Zhuo, who has rich experience in dealing with the Qiang people who do not have too many moral concepts, will naturally not be negligent and rashly go to the city to enjoy the happiness, waiting for the local tyrants to catch turtles in a jar.

In any case, Hanyang County is one of the bases for the rebellion of Han Sui and Ma Teng this time. Without the support of local tyrants, these two people would not have caused any trouble. This can be seen from the fact that they first supported the Hanyang tyrant kingdom and then kidnapped the famous Hanyang scholar Yan Zhong as the leader.

For example, Longxi County in the southwest of Hanyang County and Anding County in the northeast did not participate in the rebellion. The reason was that Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song. Dong Zhuo was born in Longxi County. After becoming more developed, the Dong family became the first family in Longxi County. The same is true for the Anding Huangfu family. Without the support of local tyrants, the rebels did not even dare to go deep into these two counties.

It is precisely because of this that Hanyang County participated in this rebellion. It is impossible for the local tyrants to have no connection with the rebels. It is just that "the law does not punish the masses". Even if the central government suppresses the rebellion, at most it can only destroy the local tyrants that are openly rebelling under the banner, but it cannot kill all local forces.

If the central government only eliminates some of the forces, the interests they leave behind will be divided by other forces, and the actual rulers of this area are still local tyrants. However, if the central government really wants to use the name of "Tongbing the Bandits" to clear out all the complex forces in the local area, it will definitely cause the most resolute resistance or even rebellion in the local area - you have to dig the roots of others, and they will definitely make you die.

Although it is indeed very stupid to say that these people who can really fight for the slightest benefit in front of you - no matter how much you have, you have to be willing to enjoy it, it has to be said that such short-sighted people have always been the majority from ancient times to modern times.

However, it is precisely because of this that those "high-level leaders" who can clearly calculate their interests tend to compromise with those narrow idiots at non-essential moments. This can also be regarded as soft and afraid of hard, hard and arrogant, arrogant and stupid, and desperate. But in fact, those who can compromise, compromise, and are good at compromise are mature politicians.

As long as you can achieve your political goals, basically control this area, and collect taxes, there is no need to clean up all local forces.

Or it is okay to clean up all the local forces, but the central government will inevitably not be able to manage this area in person after that. With ancient information transmission methods, the cost of such fine management is too high. In this way, the central government will have to build new forces to fill the gaps. Even if the forces in this area can eventually make the forces in this area more obedient, the benefits they gain will not be much more than before.

Therefore, when facing local tyrants, the central government's consistent attitude is to turn a blind eye to "small problems" unless it is very necessary, and it will not eliminate all local forces. Even if they are local emperors, the central government can turn a blind eye. As long as the orders issued by the central government can basically be implemented, the central government's tax requirements are enough. As for how much benefits they can get from themselves in addition to completing the central government's tasks, it depends on their own abilities.

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