"I also think General Luo is right..." Fan Qian used to be Luo Huo's boss. The two knew each other when they were running caravans. Later, their friendship became even deeper during the bloody battle in the mountain temple. He saw his uncle fall into After pondering, he quickly said a few good words to Luo Huo.
"When I was young, the Fan family's business had already declined. At that time, our family relied on a few acres of thin farmland in the mountains and the income from my father's accounting work. We were very difficult..."
"You know what kind of place Shanxi is? To the west is Luliang Mountain, to the east is Taihang Mountain, with a long and narrow plain sandwiched in between. There are many mountains, more hills, and less plains. The food produced in Shanxi is never enough to eat..."
"In a good year, you can still get a 70% or 80% guarantee, but when you encounter floods, droughts, or famines, all the love you usually have in the countryside disappears..."
"I was seven or eight years old at that time. That summer was extremely hot and rainless. Even the most cold-resistant millet and millet died in large tracts. Neighboring villages fought to grab the last bit of water from the dam. Guess what happened in the end. "
Old shopkeeper Fan Lian's eyes turned red, "At that time, my father and I happened to be passing by that creek. Thousands of people from the two villages of Tianjiazhuang and Lujiaying gathered by the stream. All men, women, old and young looked at each other with hatred, their white hair was white. All the old women stood up and waved flags for their village and people..."
"It was not a fight with weapons, and there was no pressure from the government. At that time, there were even two government officials sent by the county government as witnesses... The clan leaders on both sides worshiped their ancestors, heaven and earth, and then drew long and short lots, and a village selected a dead man. Duel in the stream..."
"It's really like killing each other. There is just a river... They have been intermarrying with each other for hundreds of years. They were originally two big clans that broke their bones and connected their tendons. But in order to live and save a few people from starving to death, they became Got a ghost."
"Every man who draws the death lottery shrinks because he knows that if he shrinks, his whole family will be abandoned. Let alone the year of famine, even if there is a good year on weekdays, a family without a family will not live as well as a dog..."
"It doesn't matter if the other person is your cousin or not, let alone your best friend since childhood. At that moment, all he can do is kill like crazy. If you don't kill him, he will kill you. He will kill you with a knife, a stick, a dung fork... Blocks and even teeth and nails are weapons.”
Fan Jian was immersed in the horrific memories of his childhood and couldn't help himself. He was trembling all over. "No one begged for mercy or stopped the fight. Everyone encouraged and cheered their own people like wild beasts until one party fell and could no longer stand up... "
"The losing side carried away their relatives who were still alive and dead, and the victor roared in the stream covered in blood... Is there anyone else who wants to accept it? After shouting three times, if anyone refuses to accept it, they will continue to fight..."
"There is no rule of winning two out of three games. If you don't accept it, you will send another person. If you are beaten to death, you will send the next one... The two sides will fight each other like crazy people, until in the end one party is completely frightened and frightens the dead. I got scared and finally gave in and backed down..."
"The winner has all the rights to use the dam, and the fields in his village can be irrigated, and this year's harvest is guaranteed, while the loser can only cry and plead, hoping that the other party will show some kindness and leave some kindness. Water, leaving a chance of survival..."
Hey... the old shopkeeper sighed, "In that desperate fight for water, what impressed me most was the stream of bright red blood. I really don't know how many lives the food poured out by human blood can save. From that moment on My father and I made up our minds not to take the old path of digging in the dirt, which would really be a dead end."
So it turned out that everyone knew that Fan Qian and his son chose to go into business not only because they wanted to restore the glory of Shanxi as the top merchants in the past, but also because there was really no way out in the poor area of Shanxi without doing business.
"It's all about survival..." The old shopkeeper patted my uncle on the shoulder, "I said this to tell you that sometimes death is the most effective way to solve difficulties, as small as a family or a clan, It’s as big as a region or even a country, and they’re fighting for their lives over just one life.”
"If you want to live, if you want to live a better life, you must not be afraid of death... Use your unafraid of death to scare the enemy and let them know that we are not easy to mess with. Even if we kill a thousand enemies, they will die." Eight hundred, if you don't scare them like this, you won't be able to get rid of those wolfish ambitions."
It is true that every old man in a family is like a treasure. Xiao Letian's ears seem to be ringing with the voice of Hong Zhong Da Lu, and he is now enlightened.
What exactly is the enemy afraid of China? Is it a more elite army and more powerful warships? No, what the enemy is afraid of is the spirit of the Chinese people who are willing to die generously without fear of failure.
Killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to oneself must let the foreign invaders know that any military action against China, even if it succeeds, will be a disastrous victory, and any military action against China is destined to become a loss-making business.
Don't be afraid of failure, just try again, just like a fighter standing in a blood-stained stream, even if he is dying, he still shouts "Who else, will you accept it?".
Foreign devils also have a life. During the bloody battle in Shiqiao Highlands, when they saw that they could not defeat the Chinese no matter how much they sacrificed their lives, they would be afraid and run away.
What intimidated those enemies was not how sharp the weapons of the new army were, nor how well-trained they were. It was the ruthlessness that was not afraid of death. If the opponent was a beast, you had to be more cruel than a beast. .
Xiao Letian patted his head and sighed to himself that the habits developed in the past peaceful times were too powerful. Can people's values be the same in the peaceful and prosperous times as in the troubled times? Even in the peaceful days of later generations, in the final analysis, they are not sleeping on the Korean Peninsula. Are the hundreds of thousands of heroic bones shocking?
All living people should remember the achievements of those who died. Xiao Letian, Xiao Letian, it’s not that you have to take away so many fresh lives, but that so many bloody lives are needed on the altar of the rise of the nation.
No one can avoid this curse of flesh and blood. Even the United States, which had the largest national power in the world during World War II, had to lose more than 300,000 lives to achieve final victory, and there were no less than a million disabled soldiers left.
Even the powerful United States could not escape such a curse, so how could Xiao Letian avoid it? Thinking of this, Xiao Letian suddenly felt enlightened. He walked to the window and looked at the stars and the Pacific Ocean, smiling to himself.
"The time-travelers were educated by the ancients. This is really a joke that cannot be laughed at. It turns out that no one is omnipotent, not even the time-travelers... Every era has its own rules, which cannot be reversed by one person. Apart from not forgetting my original intention, I can’t control anything.”
"Now that the flesh and blood mill has started, let me take the helm. At least I will not let this country take detours. As for how many lives will be sacrificed in the end, it will definitely be much less than the real history..."
"Being able to do this, I am already extremely meritorious, right?"
On the Pacific Ocean to the east, dark clouds are gradually coming over. The most common Pacific hurricane in summer has gradually taken shape. The situation of the times has actually become more exciting from this moment on.
