During the process of Zhang Liao coming, although no one went to Zhang Liao to raise any questions in person, Zhang Liao himself felt a sense of distrust, and it seemed that it had begun to spread around him.
This is a very dangerous signal.
Soldiers are those who hold swords.
Rangers also hold swords, and even butchers also hold swords.
They all hold swords, but only soldiers are the only professions that are approved by the state and are proud of killing.
Holding the knife in your hand, either killing someone or being killed.
In the army, there is a place where people are killed.
People's lives are slight in troubled times, and a trivial reason will kill people.
The knife was originally controlled by humans, but when people killed too much, it might become a habit, killing people like numbness. The mind got stuck and didn't even think about it, and it turned into a knife.
If Lu Bu was just a knife, he might not have had too many worries, but the problem is that Lu Bu could not be just a knife. He is the Great Protector of the Western Regions, and he has other responsibilities...
If Zhang Liao had not been in Hanzhong for a period of time and had not been in the local area for this period of time, perhaps Zhang Liao might not have known that for a region, there would be so many troubles in people's livelihood and government affairs. This is still a relatively sound area like Hanzhong, and the Western Regions...
It's hard to do, so don't do it.
Or it was to do it, but it was not done well.
All are dereliction of duty.
And dereliction of duty is enough to be a reason.
Although Fei Qian did not show suspicion of Lu Bu, Li Dian suddenly appeared in Hanzhong and replaced him and asked Zhang Liao to go to Guanzhong, Zhang Liao understood that there were already big problems...
This is not just a matter of Lu Bu, just like the Western Regions Protectorate is not just a simple position.
Lu Bu's every move will not only affect the Western Regions, but also affect the Xiliang Army of Bingzhou soldiers and other people who met Lu Bu...
For example, Zhang Liao himself.
Zhang Liao sighed deeply.
Zhang Liao didn't make anything about Lu's affairs in front of the cavalry, and what is the joke about me, Zhou, or Bingzhou Army and Xiliang Army are not just a matter of two people.
Once there are too many people, it will definitely not be a trivial matter.
If the worst situation occurs, the impact will not only be Lu Bu himself, but also about 20,000 new and old Bingzhou soldiers and Xiliang soldiers under the cavalry!
Zhang Liao understood that this was basically a problem caused by Lu Bu. If Lu Bu had not had prestige in the Bingzhou Army and the Xiliang Army and had certain merits, if it were others, they would have been arrested or even killed.
How to better solve this problem?
Not only for Lu Bu, but not just for Zhang Liao, but also for other Bingzhou troops and Xiliang soldiers scattered in other places...
For this reason, Zhang Liao did not even dare to bring his troops to Chang'an to express his absolute loyalty to avoid the suspicion that someone suspected that Zhang Liao wanted to do something based on his troops.
Fortunately, after Zhang Liao arrived at the Sanfu of Chang'an, there was no worst situation like he was immediately arrested, but it seemed very calm. However, Zhang Liao also heard that the Great Protector of the Western Regions was going to go to Chigu again, or even to fight to Dayuan, which made Zhang Liao's mood slightly calmer and tightly regain his mood again.
Lu Bu's move can be said to be a pioneering army, and of course it can be said to be something else that is not clear about, so the situation of the entire Bingzhou Army and the Xiliang Army is still a bit subtle.
Although even Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, or other generals may not be said to be completely representative of the Bingzhou Army and the Xiliang Army. Perhaps even if Lu Bu or Zhang Liao dies, there may not be many people to be buried with him, the meaning of death itself can already explain a lot, which will make many people uneasy and inevitably lead to various turmoil.
Nowadays, the Cavalry has been consolidating all over the country, from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, from Longxi to Hedong, from northern Mobei to southern Sichuan, almost all of them are stabilizing themselves, especially in the extension generation of these regions to expand and integrate the surrounding neighbors. This may mean that the Cavalry's tolerance for some small actions is constantly decreasing, and the requirements for local stability and development are also continuously improving.
So, in this case, is it necessary for Lu Bu to enter Chigu for the second time and conquer Dayuan?
Zhang Liao didn't know, but Zhang Liao knew that the cavalry gave the position of "Major Captain" a very high degree of tolerance.
However, behind this tolerance, we must also have a higher level of trust.
The Northern Region Protectorate, namely Zhao Yun, almost every year, sends personnel to Chang'an to submit annual reports, and Zhao Yun's deputy was also replaced. It is said that a group of middle-level military academy non-commissioned officers will return to Chang'an for training every year. These middle-level and lower-level military academy non-commissioned officers are either assigned to other areas or go back.
And the great protector of the Western Regions, since Li Ru's death, it seems...
Just when he was ecstatic, Xu Chu walked out and said that the cavalry was invited.
Xu Chu was covered with all his body, which should be the latest version of the armor. In addition to strengthening some of the previous weaknesses, it seems that some different patterns were added to the armor, especially when Xu Chu turned around and led the way in front, there was a particularly obvious pattern on the back of the helmet and on the back of the armor.
Xu Chu led Zhang Liao to the hall and sang the name loudly. Then Fei Qian's voice came out, "Please."
Zhang Liao bowed into the festival hall, bowed his head and bowed, "I will meet the lord in the end!"
Fei Qian smiled slightly, asked Zhang Liao to give up the gift, and then signaled Zhang Liao to sit down aside.
Looking at the slightly restrained look in Zhang Liao's eyes, Fei Qian also knew it in his heart.
Zhang Liao is not like Lu Bu, he is smarter than Lu Bu.
Since you are smarter, there is no need to say stupid things.
After Fei Qian asked and greeted some of the most basic words, he asked directly: "Wenyuan, do you think Feng was ahead of the Western Regions, can he calm the place?"
Zhang Liao's heart suddenly jumped.
If Lu Bu is indeed a good player on the battlefield, there is almost no one to deny it, but if Lu Bu is a third-rate in civil affairs, it is really a compliment to him.
Because like Lu Bu, who has neither experienced the career of a local official nor undertakes any specific work of the central administrative department... It is no exaggeration to say that this guy with a military value may be full, has failed the political value in terms of power struggle, and may even be much lower than ordinary generals.
Fei Qian asked about victory, nor was he conquering Chigu or Dayuan, but Jingping.
War can gain something, but it will destroy more.
Zhang Liao didn't know how to answer for a while.
Fei Qian pondered for a moment, and then did not say that he would ask Zhang Liao to answer, but stood up and said, "Wen Yuan, come with me."
Xu Chu lit up the guards and left the cavalry office, and the group headed straight towards the labor camp.
In the early days, the labor camps were basically Xianbei and Qiang people. Some of those people have survived the labor stage, escaped from their slave status, and are moving towards the direction of the Han residents.
These early laborers who had been separated from slave status basically lived near the labor camps. On the one hand, these guys who had been separated from labor were very familiar with the work in the labor camps, so they became helpers hired by the labor camps in turn, and could share some work for the Han people. On the other hand, they were also demonstration models of new labor slaves, so that they would not feel completely hopeless and cause unnecessary problems.
In addition to a small number of war criminals or criminals who are extremely guilty, they are sent to more dangerous jobs such as minerals and quarry, normal labor is actually harder and relatively less dangerous. There are also dedicated people responsible for eating and drinking every day, so as to ensure that these labor forces will not be damaged by greater damage.
When they were about to arrive near the labor camp, soldiers had already notified the officials of the labor camp. The labor camp manager came to welcome Fei Qian hurriedly.
Zhang Liao didn't understand what Fei Qian meant, so he could only guess it secretly.
Fei Qian did not say anything more to the labor camp manager, but directly asked the labor camp manager to lead him to the labor camp kitchen.
"No gift." Fei Qian waved his hands at the busy chef and the chef in the kitchen, "all of them are busy with their own."
The labor camp kitchen is a semi-permanent earthen house. The food should be stored in the house. The stove is built under the shed outside the earthen house. There are a row of more than a dozen large cauldrons, which are stewing something, steaming.
On the other side of the cauldron is a fire pit similar to a baked bun. The bauding is pasting some black and gray cakes into it, then taking out the baked cakes and repeating them.
Fei Qian asked Xu Chu to pick up a baked black cake, then broke off a small half, and handed it to Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao took the black pancake and looked at Fei Qian, not understanding what it means.
"Eat and see."
Fei Qian said to Zhang Liao, and then Fei Qian broke off a smaller piece from a small half of the black cake in his hand and threw it into his mouth.
Black cakes are ground with aged wheat, millet, etc., and with rough things such as wheat bran, they not only taste a little wheat aroma, but also the rough wheat bran. Although they can inspire the aroma of some food after baking, they still cannot cover up the bad taste, just like biting rough wood chips.
In order to make the "wood chips" taste a little bit more delicious, usually in addition to adding coarse salt when kneading dough to make cakes, some fish meal will also be added. The fish meal is made of dried small river fish, and the powder grinded with the head and tail. It has a lot of fishy smell, which also gives the black cake some extra flavor.
But it will still belong to the ranks of dark cuisine...
The soup in the cauldron is basically ordinary wild vegetable soup. In spring, there will be a lot of wild vegetables growing, and there are also special laborers responsible for picking them in the Qinling Mountains.
"This thing is really unpalatable..." Fei Qian did not mean to try wild vegetable soup. He just swallowed the small piece of black cake in his mouth, and pointed to the busy laborers in various workshops in the distance and said, "No one in ordinary people's homes can eat such black cakes... These labors are heavy physical strength, and they work longer every day than ordinary farmers. If they can't eat such black cakes, they can't bear it... Of course, we can save these expenses, but... in this way, what do you think will happen in Wenyuan?"
Zhang Liao took a bite of the black cake just now. It was obvious that he bit a bit larger than Fei Qian's broken off, and there was no soup. Then he naturally had difficulty swallowing. Seeing Fei Qian asking, he wanted to speak again, but there was powder in his mouth, and he coughed twice, which caused Fei Qian's laughter and signaled Xu Chu to give Zhang Liao a water bag.
Xu Chu took off the water bag from his waist, then handed it to Zhang Liao, and took the remaining black cake from Fei Qian and Zhang Liao, threw it back to the labor camp manager's hand, and then let the manager go further.
If Fei Qian had let these rough foods be eaten a few years ago, he would have been able to eat them, but now there is no need for this, and the other is that he really can't eat them.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
After drinking water, Zhang Liao finally swallowed the food in his mouth. "At the beginning, labor may be able to hold on, but it will gradually weaken and die..."
Fei Qian nodded, "That's right. Even if we don't care whether there will be resentment, once the labor service dies too much, it will inevitably shake morale and morale. At that time, there will be either riots or large-scale deaths. At that time, we will be forced to invest more military soldiers, or arrest new labor... If we still don't give enough food, under the heavy labor, the new labor service will not last long..."
Fei turned his head and asked Zhang Liao, "What does it mean in the end if we continue to cycle as we said just now?"
Zhang Liao nodded, "Rebellion, endless rebellion."
"Not only these, the rebellion will also cause all the previous constructions to be damaged again." Fei Qian nodded and said, "This is just labor... the most basic, the labor that bears the heaviest work... What if we go further, for example, in the market in the Chang'an Lingyi, the ordinary people in the shops, if they were asked to continue eating this kind of black cake, drinking wild vegetable soup, and eating and drinking for a lifetime, what would happen?"
"This..." Zhang Liao was stunned. He seemed to realize something and understood why Fei Qian brought him here.
"In enlargement, to the three servants of Guanzhong, and even the whole world," Fei Qian raised his hand and drew a larger circle in the air. "If the people of the world find that they eat poorly every day and are so poor, and then for the rest of their lives, even their children can only eat poorly or worse things, and can only continue to work, without savings, no family property, and can only work until they cannot work, and die... Wen Yuan, do you think such a life is far from the Yellow Turban Rebellion? The Yellow Turban Rebellion is a crime against the emperor, the ministers, the local prefect, the rural gentry, or those people?"
Zhang Liao was speechless.
Fei Qian glanced at Zhang Liao.
Even though Fei Qian came from later generations, he only knew these words about the concept of "people's needs". Only at the moment, as the leader of the Shanxi political group, can he understand the true connotation more deeply.
Of course, this thing is simple to say and difficult to do, whether it is the Han Dynasty or later generations.
Similar words, for example, "The king is a boat, and the common man is water. Water carries a boat, and water capsizes the boat", but if it is really just a consideration but one-sided control and rule of the people, it will inevitably fall into the metaphysical trap again.
The labor camp can be regarded as the lowest-level people at the moment, but even the people in the labor camp have their own needs, not to mention the current people of the great man in other classes.
Do you know what you are going to build? Or where did the bricks and stones produced in the factory in the labor camp go? Obviously, these labors are not clear. Just like the people in the Han Dynasty, they will not know the meaning of their labor, the direction of the future, etc., but it does not prevent them from needing the most basic survival needs, food, clothing, and a stable and orderly living environment.
The same is true in the Western Regions.
If the people in the Western Regions find that Lu Bu cannot bring them a stable life and continue to develop, they will inevitably have some complaints. These complaints are piled up like firewood under the Great Protectorate of the Western Regions, waiting for a little bit of flames to burn. But Lu Bu didn't even think about how to calm the resentment and cleared the firewood away, but instead brazenly provoked the war.
『Do you understand now?』 Fei Qian said to Zhang Liao, 『Chang'an and the Western Regions are like the two sides of the Wei River, and Hexi Longyou is a bridge built on the Wei River. Now the bridge is still there, but the cornerstone of the other side of the Wei River has begun to collapse...Wenyuan, among the generals, you know Fengxian the best. In your opinion, can Fengxian still repair the cornerstone of this bridge?"
Zhang Liao pondered for a moment, bowed and said, "Lord, please allow me to go to the Western Regions..."
Fei Qian frowned slightly, "Why?"
Zhang Liao lowered his head and said, "I have been separated from Feng Xian for a long time, and I don't know the changes in the Western Regions... If I say something lightly, wouldn't I let my lord down on the idea of ​​taking the moon in the future... In the labor camp, Hu people were the main ones, and in the Western Regions, Hu people were mostly controlled by Han people. If they could not eat and wear food, they would cause chaos and destroy the place. At that time, it would be like the old incident in the Western Qiang. After years of repeated recurring, the country's strength would be in decline and it would be difficult to resolve... I beg my lord to allow him to go to the Western Regions to make a statement, and to fight Feng Xian was lost... "
Fei was silent for a long time before finally nodding slowly, "Good."
Zhang Liao didn't say what would happen if he couldn't save it, and Fei Qian didn't ask either.
Chapter completed!