The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 353
"Duke Ming, it seems that he has always looked down on rangers and suppressed them."

Yan Zhong hesitated, but finally asked.

Xu An was taken aback when he heard Yan Zhong's question. He did indeed pursue a policy of suppressing the rangers in his jurisdiction.

It is forbidden for chivalry to commit crimes with martial arts, and there are many rangers in one place, which is not conducive to public security and jurisdiction.

Rangers use their own swords to deal with lawbreakers privately, but many of them follow not the law, but the moral standards in their hearts.

And this standard varies from low to high, and even because of this, many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases will occur.

If the existence of rangers is condoned, then the law will be just a dead letter in the long run.

From ancient times to today's Eastern Han Dynasty, many rangers are not worthy of being called knights, and these people sometimes even commit banditry.

Yan Zhong unfolded his silk fan and said with a smile: "It's true that chivalrous men use martial arts to break the ban, but rangers naturally also have rangers. Minggong, it wasn't because Yingwei was suppressed by Hanting's embroidered clothes envoys before. Are you upset?"

"Now that Zhou Jing is here to vote, I'm afraid it will greatly change the situation of Yingwei in Jizhou."

"The military adviser is not joking, Zhou Jing is just a ranger, and the embroidered emissary now has the support of Emperor Han, and his manpower and financial resources are far superior to our army's Eagle Wolf Guard."

Xu An frowned. Although he knew that Yan Zhong couldn't joke, he didn't think that Zhou Jing, a knight-errant, could affect the battle between the Jizhou Embroidered Clothes Envoy and the Eagle Wolf Guard.

"Duke Ming, if you don't know about rangers, you naturally don't know how rangers work."

Yan Zhong was not impatient, and explained.

"Although Zhou Jing is a ranger in Peiguo, his reputation among Jizhou rangers is at the top."

"The emperor of the Han court today is incompetent and incompetent, resulting in two wars in Jizhou, and the people are impoverished and struggling to survive."

"But this time Wang Fen plotted to abolish the emperor, Zhou Jing and Xu You, as accomplices, were also on the wanted list of the Embroidered Clothes Messenger. Zhou Jing's reputation in Jizhou will definitely rise to the peak because of this."

Yan Zhong saw that Xu An was still a little puzzled, so he continued to remind him.

"Duke Ming, do you still remember the old incident when Yu Du led his army to join you?"

"You mean..."

At this time, Xu An roughly understood what Yan Zhong meant.

Yu Du led the army to join, to a large extent, because Zhang Yan, who was born as a ranger at the time, was attached to Xu An.

In history, after Zhang Yan entered the Taihang Mountains, it only took a short time to unify the Taihang Mountains, precisely because of his fame.

Unlike Xu An's battles in the South and the North, most of the bandits in the Taihang Mountains chose to join because of Zhang Yan's reputation.

"good."

Yan Zhong nodded and laughed. Every time he talked with Xu An, discussing the military, most of the time, Xu An would understand the general situation as long as he talked halfway, and even draw inferences from one instance, which made Yan Zhong feel like a confidant. .

"Duke Ming can let Zhou Jing join the Eagle Guards and manage the Eagle Guards in Jizhou. With Zhou Jing's reputation, he can surely recruit a large number of rangers to enrich the Eagle Guards, and even instigate some rangers who have joined the Embroidered Clothes Emissary, so..."

Without waiting for Yan Zhong to continue, Xu An went on to say the following.

"In this way, as long as the Eagle Guard has the power to suppress the Embroidered Emissary in Jizhou, our army will have a greater advantage when the Yellow Turban returns."

"exactly."

Yan Zhong stroked his beard with a smile. If it was said that he defected to Xu An in Taihang Mountain, it was just opportunistic.

So now Yan Zhong is really offering advice for Xu An sincerely.

Like-minded people are called comrades.

During the Battle of Sunflower City, Xu An revealed his secret. From then on, Yan Zhong believed that Xu An really possessed the Mandate of Heaven.

But Yan Zhong, who was completely convinced, was not in Kuicheng, but in Jinyang City.

It was Xu An's impassioned speech at the opening ceremony of Jinyang Chengmeng School.

Yan Zhong always remembered what Xu An said on the lecture platform.

"The voice of one person is like mosquitoes and flies, the voice of ten people is already a crowd of voices, but the voice of a hundred people can deafen the deaf."

"With the power of thousands of people, rivers can be reversed, mountains can be flattened, and it is not difficult to change the world!"

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Yan Zhong served under Huangfusong's tent, everything that Xu An saw, he actually saw.

Yan Zhong is not someone who doesn't understand military affairs, he is used to fighting in Liangzhou, and he has seen a lot of battle formations.

He has seen the Qiang people, the Xianbei people, the Huns, and the Han army, but he has never seen an army like the Yellow Turban Army.

During the battle of Guangzong, even though the weapons in their hands were just a bamboo spear and a pair of farm tools, and they were only wearing single clothes or bare upper body, those yellow scarf soldiers were not afraid.

The yellow angels in the back of the palace, and the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army who were determined to die, all left indelible marks in Yan Zhong's heart.

Outside Guangzong City, those Yellow Turban soldiers who had no way to escape in time, many of them chose not to surrender, but resolutely jumped into the icy cold river.

Yan Zhong is not those aristocrats whose eyes are high above the top, he also knows the hardships of ordinary people, he wants to change, he wants to change this situation.

But he has no choice, he is powerless, and his family has no way to help him ascend to the high position in the temple.

He has only been a county magistrate for one term, but he is still constrained. The Han Empire has decayed, and the power of the aristocratic family is too powerful.

So what Yan Zhong thought of was to let Huangfusong take advantage of the power and prestige of quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion to overthrow the decayed Han Empire.

Build a brand new country so that the people at the bottom can have hope.

At this moment, Xu An entered Yan Zhong's field of vision.

"Ming Gong's intelligence is very human."

"As long as it is confirmed that the Eagle Guard's information is correct, Wang Fen is indeed dead, and what happened in Jizhou is true, then Xu You and Zhou Jing can be appointed."

Yan Zhong sighed in admiration.

Suddenly there was some melancholy in his heart, and a trace of fatigue appeared on his face unconsciously.

Xu An in front of him is in the prime of his life, full of fighting spirit, but he has already reached the age of destiny.

Although his body is still strong now, he obviously feels powerless, and his body is getting worse day by day.

"military adviser?"

Xu An also noticed something wrong with Yan Zhong's face, and said with concern.

"The military adviser has been dealing with official duties since morning, and it seems that he has never rested. Why don't he take some time off first?"

Yan Zhong put away the silk fan and said with a smile.

"Thought too much, I was a little troubled, but it made Minggong laugh."

After Yan Zhong laughed, the melancholy in his heart did not dissipate.

The road ahead of the Yellow Turban Army is bumpy and full of thorns, and this will be a protracted battle.

(End of this chapter)