Erzhuzi muttered something disapprovingly, and the expression on his face became disdainful. Liu Yu looked at him with a smile: "Brother Erzhuzi, it seems that you have an opinion on what I said. Come on, old brother today Let’s just talk here as usual and say whatever comes to mind, what do you think?”
Erzhuzi gritted his teeth: "Brother Jinu, I am an outspoken person and a country person with no sense. Just think that I have gone crazy after drinking too much. Just don't punish me afterwards. There are laws in the court and military laws in the army, but you don't dare to You’re talking nonsense.”
Liu Yu laughed loudly: "Er Zhuzi, there is no imperial court here, and there is no military law. It's just a common thing among the folks in Jingkou. There are only slaves, Er Zhu, Si Niu and Wu Gouzi here. There is no such commander-in-chief or that one." General, whatever you say today will be fine as long as it is not rebellion!"
Erzhu nodded and said sternly: "Brother Jinu, you said those high-ranking people from aristocratic families who dance and write all day long, what's the use of learning this poem and that rhyme? If they all put white powder on their faces, they will look like men. Just like a woman, she gets tired after walking even two steps. She can’t ride a horse and can only sit on a cart. She is just a useless snack that doesn’t work hard and doesn’t distinguish between grains. Otherwise, how could we, the Eight Brothers from Beijing, conquer the world? What about seizing power? Now, as long as they dare to bully us again, like killing brother Tingyun, we can kill him all over the house. Do we need to learn anything from people like them? "
Erzhuzi's words aroused the echoes of the surrounding people: "Yes, Erzhuzhu said it well. As long as we can fight and kill, a knife is all we need. What kind of culture do we need to learn?"
"Wouldn't it be better to have more time to practice martial arts? We country people are not naturally good at that."
"Brother Jinu, you haven't been studying since you were a child. You haven't gained power with your fists and knives. If we want to learn, we should learn from you. We should open more fighting arenas in Jingkou, and racetracks are the best. Let the martial arts conference become a Open every month!”
Liu Yu smiled and listened to these words one after another. Until all the sounds subsided, he said to Erzhu, who was standing with his arms folded with a proud look on his face: "Brother Erzhu, then I Let me ask you, on the battlefield, if you want to gain merit and count beheadings, how do you calculate them?"
Erzhu laughed loudly: "If you cut off an enemy's head, tie your braid to your belt, hang the enemy's head, and continue to chase the next one. Brother Jinu, you know that the most I can kill in one battle is I got seventeen enemy armor heads, the same time I killed the Xianbei thieves in the Battle of Luoyang."
Liu Yu said with a smile: "Yes, your belt was full at that time, and you asked the two personal guards behind you to help you kill people. In that battle, you ranked fourth in the army in terms of merit. I will give it to you personally. He was given wine to drink together, and because of this he was promoted from the leader of the team to the leader of the building."
Er Zhuzi's eyes were full of glory, because at this moment, he seemed to have returned to the peak of his life. He kept nodding his head: "Yes, Brother Jinu personally acknowledged the merits that I, Er Zhuzi, will never forget in this life." Yeah, the wine that day..."
Liu Yu interrupted him and said, "But do you still remember how you counted the heads at that time?"
Er Zhuzi's expression changed, and he also fell into deep thought: "Well, how did I count at that time? Ah, I remembered, I tied it on my belt, and several of my soldiers The collected enemy heads were all spread out on the ground, and then they were counted one by one, one, two, three..."
His eyes were shining, and his fingers pointed to the open space in front of him, as if he had done it when he was counting heads.
Liu Yu shook his head: "Then, when you count to ten, you can't count anymore, because you only have ten fingers, right?"
Er Zhuzi's face was red, and the five dogs of the Fan family on the side laughed and said: "Later, I remembered the soldiers beside him, and I used my fingers to count them, and then I counted, and there happened to be two soldiers. Including his own, the count reached twenty-seven. I said two pillars. If you chop three more, ah, no, four more. If you chop four more, there won't be any more guards to help you. Count them."
A burst of laughter erupted from the surroundings, and Erzhuzi said angrily: "You are the only one who is smart. I know that your brother knows how to make plans and settle accounts. Do you need to show off?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Yes, what brother Erzhuzi said is right. Even if we have made meritorious deeds on the battlefield and killed dozens of enemy soldiers, we can't even count the merits before our eyes, let alone write them down. The documents report the merits to the superiors. Is it true that the reward after the fact is like counting watermelons, counting them one by one on your fingers? Or is it that all official documents and military orders now are based on door-to-door shouting? "
Having said this, Liu Yu looked at Erzhuzi: "Just like today we are here to gather. How do you know about Erzhuzi? How did you come here?!"
Erzhuzi replied without hesitation: "Yesterday, the county's chief historian notified the officials, notifying every household, and asked us to read the official document. I said Brother Jinu, you know that we can't understand these words. More..."
Liu Yu said with a smile: "That's it. If you don't know how to read or count, then you can't issue orders and you can't count military merits. Brother Erzhu, you said that with the power in your hands, you can live a life without worries, but you can't even do this If you don’t know how to use your power, how can you be worry-free? Do you mean that your family has enough to eat, you don’t have to pay taxes, you have wars to fight, and nothing else bothers you, just live like this for the rest of your life? Maybe you can live like this, but your son Where is your grandson, and where are the thousands of other people in the Jin Dynasty?"
There was a burst of whispers in the shack, and everyone was talking to each other. Erzhuzhu gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Brother Jinu, you are right. To be literate, you must learn literacy, but , We don’t have to learn it ourselves. Just like you, you can do well by joining the army. We can also leave these things to the children of literate families to take care of them. "
Liu Yu put away his smile and said sternly: "There is a saying among the scholars that names and tools cannot be faked. That is to say, names and power cannot be handed over to others casually. Although it is said that in any country, any country When a dynasty was founded, it was all defeated by military conquests. But after the world was at peace, people always felt at ease and there were not so many wars. It was always a period of peace. How did we keep the power in our hands at this time? In the past, We Jingkou people have also been bullied by officials. Although we will not have our families destroyed like the people in other places, when Diao Kui came to us as governor, he could make us have no place to stand and force us to sell our land and houses. In the end, I could only become a tenant of his family. If I hadn't resisted at that time and the Xie family also supported me, we brothers would have become their slaves long ago, and how could we have made any achievements?"
