At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"After sealing the throne, it is called usurping the throne, not rebellion. The usurping of the throne comes from the top down, and the rebellion comes from the bottom up. Mr. Cai, I seem to be usurping the throne, but in fact, I am an out-and-out rebellion."

Guo Peng held Cai Yong's hand: "As for why, how should I put it...Cai Gong, have you seen the farmers in the village? Not now, but more than 40 years ago, when Xiaoling was still in power. , you are still an official, and I am only a teenager."

"What do you mean?"

Cai Yong was puzzled, not knowing what Guo Peng meant by saying this.

"Cai Gong, you were born as a son of a wealthy noble family. Since childhood, you have been well-clothed and well-fed. You have enough food and clothing. You can read and practice calligraphy. You can understand the principles of the world. You are a scholar of heaven and man. You are famous all over the world and have written many books. However, you have Is even that one word written for those peasants?"

"…………"

Cai Yong's eyes were full of doubts, he opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

"No, right? Mr. Cai, from the beginning to the end, you never cared about any of them."

Guo Peng sighed regretfully: "In other words, you never regarded them as human beings."

Cai Yong was even more puzzled.

"what are you saying?"

"I'm answering your question, Mr. Cai, I'm telling you why I rebelled."

Guo Peng said slowly: "In retrospect, I decided to rebel. It was probably at that time that I started. When I was six years old, in that year, the Prime Minister of Pei Guoguo inspected the counties. My father was the county magistrate of Qiao County. In order to get Thanks to the Prime Minister's appreciation, he took me to the countryside for a tour.

Of course, it is not for the purpose of observing the sufferings of the people, but for inspecting a circle of subordinates, whether there are corpses lying on the side of the road that have died of freezing and starvation, and whether there are people in ragged clothes wandering around. He stipulated that these things are not allowed. People who hinder the weather appear in the field of vision of the Prime Minister of the country.

So he has to go deep into the countryside and ask his subordinates to clean up all the people and things that make the Prime Minister unhappy. On the day when the Prime Minister comes to inspect, they are not allowed to show up, and they will be replaced by people arranged by his father. Will pretend to be a farmer.

So, for the first time, I saw the group of farmers who lived with me in Qiao County, but they didn’t seem to live on a piece of land. I may have seen it before, but I can’t remember it. I remember it clearly. , that was the time. "

"Six years old?"

Cai Yong was even more surprised: "Didn't you say that Zhongping was four years?"

"The fourth year of Zhongping was the time when I made the final decision. If I really want to talk about budding, I have to talk about when I was six years old."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "There must be a reason for everything. It is impossible to say that you want to rebel. I will rebel. Even if it is me, I need some reasons to rebel."

"Your reason is those farmers? Why?"

Cai Yong couldn't figure out what Guo Peng meant, no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.

"Why? Mr. Cai, this is what I want to ask you. Why do you think the lives and deaths of those peasants are not important at all? Are they not enough reasons for me to rebel?"

Guo Peng suddenly became a little sad, and looked at Cai Yong sadly.

Faced with this question, Cai Yong also didn't know how to answer it.

He blinked his eyes, eyes full of doubts, full of puzzlement.

Guo Peng looked at it for a while, feeling deeply regretful.

"Mr. Cai, this is the most fundamental problem between you and me. You have never regarded them as human beings, so you think I am cruel, terrifying, and murderous, but I also treat them as human beings, people like me, So I don't feel like I'm a cruel tyrant."

Because it treats them as human beings, so it's not cruel?

Are they human?

They are not human?

Cai Yong's head was in chaos.

Then he found that he was rejecting this question instinctively, and instinctively didn't want to delve into this question.

He was inexplicably worried that if this question was dug deeper, some terrible things would be unearthed.

It will impact his long-established world view that cannot be stabilized anymore.

He didn't dare to think about it carefully.

But Guo Peng didn't intend to end like this.

"It is not cruel at all to watch the peasants destitute and starve to death so that the famous people starve to death."

"The celebrity who watched the peasants suffer from the plague and did nothing, so that their bones were exposed in the wild and there was no rooster crowing, was not cruel at all."

"It is not cruel at all to steal the relief food and starve the peasants to death in large numbers."

"In the 20 years of turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, tens of millions of people died, tens of millions of people! None of you care about the death of 1000 million people."

"And I, who killed thousands of corrupt officials, are a rare and cruel person in the world, and it is the basis for Cai Gong to doubt my nature."

Guo Peng sighed sadly, and in turn held Cai Yong's withered hand tightly, stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "Mr. Cai, when you questioned my nature, did you notice that your own nature is the most important thing?" Is it real cruelty?"

"Me? I'm brutal?"

Cai Yong was taken aback, so shocked that the three views were about to explode.

Cai Yong, who has no strength to restrain a chicken in his life, has never even killed a chicken.

brutal?

"Aren't you cruel?"

Guo Peng asked sadly: "In your eyes, you only see thousands of corrupt officials who were killed, and there are no more than 1000 million Li common people who died due to natural and man-made disasters. There are thousands of people on one side and tens of millions on the other!" Lord! Who is the real cruelty? Who is the real hypocrisy? Do you really dare to say that is me?!"

Guo Peng roared angrily, let go of Cai Yong's hand, stood up and pointed at Cai Yong: "Why do you never see those farmers in your eyes? Why do you always look up but refuse to move down? A little bit?

take a look!Open your eyes and see, Mr. Cai!Look at how many people died of starvation, how many people died of illness, and how many people were still struggling desperately before they died!How many people have died without even a grave!They are all human!They are all just like us!Not livestock!Not ants!It's people!man! ! "

Cai Yong's face was pale, and he tilted his head, staring at Guo Peng who was screaming sadly.

He suddenly saw two tears gushing out of Guo Peng's eyes and flowing down Guo Peng's cheeks.

He had never seen such a sad expression on Guo Peng's face, that kind of heartfelt sadness couldn't be faked.

He is 84 years old, and he can tell what is false and what is true.

He lay blankly on the bed, forgetting all his illnesses, only Guo Peng's sad expression and those two tears in front of his eyes.

Guo Peng didn't wipe away the two tears, letting them flow down his cheeks and onto the ground.

He suppressed his emotions and didn't cry in front of Cai Yong, but he still couldn't control the two tears.

Just like the two tears he couldn't control when he was 19 years old.

He took a few deep breaths and gradually calmed down.

"Why did Xia, Shang and Zhou fall? Why did the Spring and Autumn countries fall one by one? Why did Qin fall? Why did the Han Dynasty fall? Cai Gong, you are very knowledgeable, I know, you will definitely give countless reasons, what is Meixi, what is Daji, what is it Bao Si, what is the cruelty of the Qin Emperor, what is the ignorance of Huan Ling!

Is that the reason?No, Mr. Cai, no!What is the real reason?I have thought about it for 40 years, and now I can tell you that it is because those monarchs and dignitaries never regard the people under their rule as human beings! "

Guo Peng pointed to himself again.

"Why can I replace the Han Dynasty and establish the Wei State? Why do they believe in me? Because I regard them as human beings."

Guo Peng patted his chest: "From the beginning to the end, I saw them as people like me. I wanted to live, and they wanted to live, and I wanted to eat, and they wanted to eat, too. To learn, they should want to learn too.

They are human beings just like me, and this is how I see them, so I know what they want, what they want, I can satisfy them, they will accept my rule, and pay taxes to me willingly.

And if one day, my descendants no longer regard them as human beings, but regard them as an inexhaustible cornucopia, then the time for the collapse of Wei State will come. The king has no mercy! "

Cai Yong lay on the bed and stared at Guo Peng, except for panting, he didn't move.

Guo Peng paused for a long time, as if he wanted to hear what Cai Yong said, but Cai Yong didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.

After waiting for a while, when he was sure that Cai Yong would not say anything, Guo Peng lowered his head desolately.

After all, no one can understand him.

He let out a long sigh.

"Cai Gong, you will never understand, let alone want to understand. I know it, so you can pretend that I didn't say this, and you can pretend that I am a foolish and tyrant, but after thousands of years, Future generations will give me the fairest evaluation.

It doesn't matter who is a benevolent person and who is a cruel person, because you don't even care about who is a human being. Since you don't regard them as human beings, you are not qualified to comment on who is benevolent, Who is cruel! "

After finishing speaking, Guo Peng turned around, suppressed the grief and indignation in his heart, and left the ward quickly.

When he opened the door, an old servant with a pale face stood at the door.

Guo Peng's eyes instantly turned cold, and the killing intent flashed past.

"You didn't hear anything, nothing happened today, understand?"

The old servant was taken aback for a moment, then nodded quickly like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Understand! Understood! Understood!"

"Go and take care of Mr. Cai. Mr. Cai is very weak and cannot live without people."

After all, Guo Peng quickly left the Cai Mansion.

He couldn't stay here any longer.

He needs to be alone.

Three days later, Cai Yong passed away.

Chapter 1620 One thousand 540 Father, are you going to rebel?

Cai Yong's death is like a natural result.

The Great Medical Center mobilized almost all its forces to save Cai Yong's life, but still failed.

Several main players stayed in the Cai Mansion for a day and a night, trying their best.

All kinds of precious medicinal materials were used in turn, and even the most precious Liaodong wild ginseng was used to prolong Cai Yong's life, but in the end it failed to save Cai Yong's life, and Cai Yong finally died.

When he died, Cai Yong's expression was very uneasy, as if he was struggling for something.

In the end, there was no result of struggling.

His life was fixed on the third day of May in the third year of Xingyuan.

The group of the Great Medical Center waited tremblingly for the fate of Guo Peng and Emperor Guo Jin, but Guo Peng and Guo Jin did not blame the Great Medical Center.

When Guo Peng heard the news in the Taishan Palace, he was repairing the textbook "Gewuxue" and adding some new content.

He was not surprised by the fact of Cai Yong's death, he had a premonition and was mentally prepared.

Knowing everything, Cai Yong no longer has the desire to survive.

So he was not surprised, even the sadness was faint.

The two finished their farewell at the last moment of Cai Yong's life. The pain of the farewell and the pain of Cai Yong's death seemed to be neutralized, taking away most of the negative emotions in Guo Peng's heart.

He just put down his pen, walked silently to the gate of Taishan Palace, looked up at the vast sky, recalling the past when he met Cai Yong.

If life is only as it was at first sight, then it is naturally a beautiful thing.

But the final break is not something he can control. It is a break in history, a break between the past and the future, and it is inevitable.

I just don’t know if Cai Yong could recall the afternoon when the two first met 40 years ago before he died.

12-year-old Guo Peng met 44-year-old Cai Yong in a small pavilion in the backyard of the Cai Mansion.

Cai Yong was playing the piano, while Guo Peng stood there listening.

After the song was over, Cai Yong looked up at Guo Peng.

"Who is coming? Why did you stand outside the pavilion and say nothing?"

Cai Yong's voice 40 years ago seems to still be echoing in Guo Peng's ears.

It's a pity that until 40 years later, Guo Peng still couldn't understand the sound of Cai Yong's piano.

Naturally, Cai Yong couldn't understand his voice.

This is a helpless era, an era of hatred.

Cai Gong, if we can meet again in the peaceful and prosperous world in the next life, let's talk about music and ideals together.

May there be no more differences then between you and me.

May all beings be equal at that time, and everyone is human.

84 years old is an age that most people dare not think about, including Guo Peng, they don't think they can live to 84 years old.

Cai Yong should have died after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, because of his zero political level, and because of Wang Yun's expansion.

And because of Guo Peng's intervention, Cai Yong lived more than 20 years longer than before, and lived safely until Guo Jin became emperor.