Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 63 Someone Wants to Take a Shortcut
Since human beings broke away from the primitive social form, they have started the road of involution.

The Han Dynasty, like the later generations, also had introversion, but the degree and form were somewhat different.However, at the end of the Han Dynasty, social involution began to become deformed.

The original way of involution was blocked by the gentry, or monopolized.

All social classes began to solidify, and smart people lost their way to rise. They either performed poorly, or... they began to take shortcuts.

But others are not stupid. If one person takes a shortcut, everyone will follow suit and follow suit. Then this so-called shortcut will naturally not be close, and it will even gradually block the original main road!
But those who leave don't care about these things, who doesn't want power, money, and beauties, most people will only be left with "true fragrance" under temptation.

So, gradually, the so-called shortcuts are not easy to take, after all, not everyone has enough conditions...

Just like promoting filial piety and honesty, this is the way to enter the official career created by the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and it was consolidated with the continuous deepening of Confucianism. Therefore, in the eyes of the ruling class, filial piety can be loyal to the emperor, not easy to rebel, and have the opportunity to participate in governing the country.

The same is true for honesty. Only honest people will keep themselves clean after taking office, and they will not fish the common people, so this is also one of the thresholds.

The intentions of these policies are good, but they lack standards and are extremely easy to be faked...

Ever since the first gentry hired a "water army" to fabricate various deeds to flaunt his filial piety and integrity, this method of introversion has gone astray.

If you want to be an official, you don't have the financial resources to "bloat" your reputation, and you don't have gentry connections to promote filial piety.Want to start a business, no start-up capital, no commercial care under the gentry.

The threshold for shortcuts is raised higher and higher, gradually becoming the exclusive channel of the gentry, and even the small gentry often cannot drink soup...

As for the people at the bottom, of course they can only watch and accept their fate silently!

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For people who travel through time, it is a little easier to take shortcuts, but the shortcuts they want to take are very different from what ordinary people see...

In Yangzhai County, Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, some people wanted to take a shortcut.

When Cao Cao arrived here, he was injured before he could go to Yingchuan Academy...

The reason is that he was assassinated, luckily he was only injured...

Of course, the murderer was not caught either.

Everything happened so suddenly that Cao Cao was not prepared. Since he had already purchased a lot of iron along the way, Cao Cao arranged for Cao Hong to bring most of the guards back to Qiao County yesterday. Only Xiahou Dun and two other relatives were left by his side. guard.

After finishing the purchase, he originally planned to go to Yingchuan Academy.

But when Cao Cao just walked out of the inn and was waiting for his guards to bring the horses, the assassin who had ambushed not far away shot an arrow at him with a crossbow!
That's right, there is only one assassin, and of course there are two other people who are responsible for confirming the target and responding, but there is only one person who does it.

The effectiveness of crossbows and bows in the Han Dynasty is different, but this kind of short-distance fixed-point attack with a distance of dozens of steps between the two sides, the crossbow has an absolute advantage. Not only is it extremely fast, it has strong penetration and lethality, and it is not affected by the wind direction. and other unstable factors.

Therefore, the assassin's assassination plan did not arrange a follow-up plan for making up the knife. Of course, after seeing Cao Cao repatriate most of the guards, he felt that he was sure of it!
However, a coincidence with a small probability happened...

Of course, it wasn’t that the assassin’s skill was not good enough to miss, but the moment before he launched, Cao Cao fell in love with a beautiful girl passing by on the street, and unconsciously took a step to the side...

Regarding the flying speed of the crossbow, such a short distance, even the most agile body reaction is impossible to dodge, but the problem is that Cao Cao just moved ahead of time.

Life and death can be determined within a millimeter!
The crossbow flew towards Cao Cao with huge kinetic energy, pierced through his arm, and directly plunged into the ground in front of the inn with his flesh and blood.

After the assassin pressed the crossbow, he found that the target that was not moving had deviated from the direction, but quickly replaced the crossbow and shot another arrow. Xiahou Dun ran to the other side of the inn with Cao Cao on his back to avoid it!
Seeing that the other party was prepared, he could only leave quickly in resentment...

When Xiahoudun moved Cao Cao to a safe place, he angrily searched for traces of the assassin, but the assassin had already escaped from the city...

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Cao Cao has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his physique is also strong. After the timely care of the famous doctors in Yingchuan, he was not in danger, and he seemed to have avoided the risk of infection...

However, the doctor told Xiahoudun that the tendons in Cao Cao's left hand were severely damaged, and he might not be able to carry weight anymore!

After Cao Cao was in a coma for two days, he woke up and learned about the situation and thought about it for a while, so he endured the pain and told Xiahou Dun to immediately find a carriage to drive him back to Qiao County.

But Xiahoudun didn't obey, now Cao Cao was surrounded by him and two other personal guards, what if the other party intercepted him on the way back now...?
He ordered one of them to go back quickly to rescue soldiers, while he stayed by Cao Cao's side!

However, Yingchuan Cao Cao didn't want to stay any longer. He never thought that he would be assassinated. The feeling of life and death this time completely aroused his suspicious character...

Cao Cao's first reaction was that his conspiracy was discovered. Could it be that someone in the family leaked the secret! ?
But after thinking about it calmly, he felt that it was unlikely. After all, there were not many people in the clan who knew the details, so they should all be trustworthy.

Most importantly, even if the other party knew about his plan, he shouldn't have come to assassinate him!

Wouldn't it be better to directly report to the official or come to threaten to ask for benefits...?
Since there was only one assassination, it is also impossible to be someone from the imperial court or the state...

But who is the assassin...?
Cao Cao really can't beat her sister...

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Assassins are dead soldiers of Longwei Mansion. This kind of killer who has been cultivated since childhood is called Longwei Mansion, Tianlong Task Force...

In fact, it originated from Ouyang Long's idea of ​​forming a special force, which Ouyang Qi compiled into an army a few years ago.

The main task after their establishment is naturally to take shortcuts for Longwei Mansion...

Getting rid of all those who are capable, lucky, unwilling, and unable to be used by Long Wei in advance is what Ouyang Long thinks is the fastest way to win the world!

Of course, only he, Ouyang Long, can take this shortcut. When he knew his fate was near, he wrote this shortcut into the Heavenly Book of Longwei Mansion, asking his descendants to strictly implement it...

There are actually not many characters mentioned in the Tianshu, maybe because Ouyang Long doesn't know the Three Kingdoms very well, maybe he thinks that after getting rid of the core people, the others are nothing to be afraid of.

The only people who had to be eliminated were Liu Bei and Cao Cao. Originally, there was Sun Jian and the Sun family, but after Ouyang Long sent someone to observe secretly, he changed his strategy towards the Sun family and focused on wooing the Sun family for his own use.

Just like some later Three Kingdoms games, Ouyang Long plans to get rid of the heroes before accepting the famous generals that belonged to them, such as Liu Bei's five tiger generals, such as Cao Cao's five good generals...

However, this idea seems to have failed so far.

First of all, Ouyang Chong sent people to search Zhuojun for a long time, but they still couldn't find Liu Bei, the assassination target that conformed to the records in the heavenly scriptures. Naturally, he couldn't do it, but his future righteous brother Zhang Fei did find it.

The second is Cao Cao, who was found by the Tianlong Task Force as soon as they arrived. After all, the Cao family is also a prominent family in Qiao County, which is very conspicuous.It's just that Cao Cao is usually surrounded by members of the clan, and has never had a chance...

However, the elite contingent sent was also very patient, waiting for Cao Cao to go out of the mansion until Yingchuan, and waited until there were only a few people left around Cao Cao.

However, the assassination still failed!
And he even stunned the snake...

They waited for a few more days, but they couldn't find a chance to get off the phone, so they had no choice but to return to their home first.It is conceivable that what awaits them must be severe punishment!

It seems that this shortcut is really not easy to take...

(End of this chapter)