The Nameless of the Common Clans

The carriage was not traveling very fast. Sitting in the carriage, Chen Mo felt that in such a season, what he saw was often the endless fields, the farmers working the land, and the abundant vitality that filled the world, which was no different from his hometown.

But what we really see are uncultivated, overgrown weeds, messy things left by people, and occasionally bones lying on the roadside.

It was full of greenery, but somehow Chen Mo couldn't feel the vitality of spring. It was like they were the only people moving forward slowly between heaven and earth. They didn't know where they came from or where they were going. Just keep going forward.

The longing and expectation of the first trip were gradually replaced by emptiness and longing for my mother. This was only the third day after leaving. According to the teacher, this journey would take at least a month. A team like theirs could not move fast.

"Teacher." Chen Mo turned his head and looked at Zang Hong, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, and couldn't help but say.

"Huh?" Zang Hong slowly opened his eyes and looked at Chen Mo: "What's the matter?"

"Why do you think the Taiping Sect is causing chaos? And how can it be so large?" Chen Mo looked a little serious. He had also heard from Zang Hong in the past two days that with the current situation, the Taiping Sect had swept across the world in just two months. Most of the Han Dynasty, and at least eight of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty were paralyzed. In the remaining places, there were also bandits, but they were not enough to hinder the government administration.

Chen Mo had personally participated in the combat power of the Taiping Religion. It was hard to imagine how such an army could defeat the elite soldiers and generals of the Han Dynasty.

"It's a bit complicated. If you say it's all Zhang Jiao's fault, that's not right. If the imperial government is clear and the emperor is diligent, then even if Zhang Jiao has the ability to reach the sky, he will not cause turmoil in the world. Therefore, this banditry is certainly a problem. Because of Zhang Jiao, the court cannot shirk its responsibility." Zang Hong sighed.

"Then the imperial court..." Chen Mo felt that it was unethical to discuss the rights and wrongs of the imperial court, but what the teacher said seemed to be good.

"Now the imperial court has assembled elite troops to clear out the rebels from various places. Although the Taiping Sect is powerful, it hastily gained momentum and will not be able to accomplish anything within two months. Next, it will decline." Zang Hong did not respond to Chen Mo's question. Annoyed, he began to answer seriously.

"My mother said that the Taiping Sect's ownership is unknown and it does not really win the hearts of the people. It will fail sooner or later." Chen Mo thought.

"Madam is indeed a strange woman." Zang Hong nodded. This is an opinion that many scholars may not have.

"Disciple heard that the reason why the world is like this is because of eunuchs' interference in politics?" Chen Mo asked curiously.

"This..." Zang Hong did not answer immediately. He looked at Chen Mo with complicated eyes and said, "Mo'er, what do you think of this eunuch doing politics?"

"If you look at it from a public perspective, the events of past dynasties have proven that the harem's involvement in politics is a recipe for disaster." Chen Mo thought for a while and said, what Zang Hong told him the most these days was the period from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. what happened.

"Oh?" Zang Hong looked at Chen Mo with interest and said, "In terms of public service? Does that mean there is also private use?"

"Yeah." Chen Mo nodded and said, "It just seems a little..."

"But it doesn't matter, we can just discuss it as master and disciple." Zang Hong said with a smile.

"The emperor is also a human being. Since he is a human being, he will naturally have closeness and distance. The disciple is thinking that the emperor seems to be surrounded by eunuchs and concubines, right? I don't know what the emperor is like. But as far as the disciple is concerned, if the mother said to the disciple If what Uncle Yang said to me is different from what a foreigner said to me, I will naturally believe Uncle Yang."

This is what Chen Mo has been thinking about recently. Ever since he knew that the emperor was a human being, similar to himself, he began to think about these issues.

"Teacher, does this mean that the father hides from the son, and the son hides from the father?" Chen Mo looked at Zang Hong curiously.

"The emperor's family background is much more complicated than this, but that's what it means." Zang Hong nodded and looked at this disciple with satisfaction. He found that Chen Mo remembered things very quickly and could often draw inferences about other cases. Many things would have his own reasons. Ideas, in the eyes of some teachers, are not very good and may even arouse disgust. However, for Zang Hong, they value it more. It is not a bad thing for people to have their own ideas. As a teacher, you try to guide your ideas to the right path, and Don't kill it.

Moreover, this child has a temperament that ordinary people don't have. It is a kind of free and easy attitude that looks down on life and death. Perhaps the experience of this war has sharpened this child's character. As a commoner, facing myself and Zhang Chao like this A character who can be neither humble nor arrogant. Let alone a ten-year-old boy, even young people may find it difficult to have this mentality.

"You have nothing to do, how about you come and play chess with me?" Zang Hong felt a little bored after sitting for a long time. He pointed at the chessboard in the carriage and said with a smile.

In fact, it is not suitable for playing chess on a bumpy car, but this journey is really boring. Not to mention a child like Chen Mo, even Zang Hong can't bear to stay in the car most of the time for three consecutive days. Traveling in the past can There is no such big battle.

From Donglai to Guangling, if we work hard, we can arrive in ten days, which is not like now.

"Teacher, this disciple doesn't know how to..." Chen Mo looked at the chessboard and was dumbfounded. He remembered that there were basic chess skills in the system fairy's dream training camp, but Chen Mo felt that this thing was of little use to him, and it would also cost five points of luck. Some are not worth it.

"People need to be eager to learn. The teacher will teach you. This is not difficult." Zang Hong smiled as he sat behind the chessboard and said, "Although you don't need to be proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, you need to know at least some of them. It's best to be proficient in one or two of them. In this way, it will be much smoother for you to enter the official career in the future."

In fact, the teacher just wants to find something to do to kill time, right?

Being familiar with Zang Hong, although Chen Mo would not make such remarks directly, he would still silently complain in his heart. He really couldn't think of how music, chess, calligraphy and painting were related to the official career?

But since the teacher wanted to teach him, Chen Mo couldn't refuse. He could only kneel on the mat opposite the teacher as the teacher said, and learn to open the chess cup like the teacher, and listen carefully to the teacher's explanation of the rules of the chessboard.

The rules of Go are not difficult, but playing well is another matter.

On the post road in late spring, the speed of the convoy was still neither fast nor slow, but the sound in the carriage was gradually replaced by the sound of chess pieces. On the boring journey, the master and apprentice seemed to have found fun to dispel the boredom, and playing chess gradually replaced talking.

"Ah~" Dalang took a nap on the food carriage, looked around and smiled at the driver beside him: "Uncle, is the world peaceful?"

"How should I know? But these three hundred elite soldiers were killed from the battlefield of Bingzhou. Even if there are stupid thieves from the Taiping Sect, they can be easily defeated."

"Where is Bingzhou?"

"To the north, very far away."

"How far is it?"

"I haven't been there, how can I know? Just focus on learning to drive, why are you talking so much?"

The driver was annoyed by the questions, glared at Dalang and said unhappily.

The boring journey continued. As Chen Mo had expected, robberies by Taiping rebels would occasionally happen. However, as the driver said, the 300 accompanying guards were all veterans from the Bingzhou battlefield. Ordinary Taiping rebels would often be defeated by a single charge. In a war, having more people is not always helpful.