Chapter 6779: The Generation Gap Between Right and Wrong

Chapter 6779: The Generation Gap Between Right and Wrong
"Attack!" Zhu Tao asked in confusion, "The Saint Death Knights on the other side, according to you, only have about a thousand people. Why are you so scared?"

As he spoke, Zhu Tao's eyes suddenly became sharp. He was not a fool. To say that someone who could become the commander of the Central Guards was brainless would be looking down on him.

Therefore, Zhu Tao realized what the real situation was after he had only said half of it.

"Second brother, come here!" Zhu Tao, who had vaguely guessed something, glanced at everyone and then called out to his second son.

Zhu Gai walked over helplessly. He knew that his own father would definitely not forgive him if he came over. However, was this his business? This was not the case.

"What's going on?" Zhu Tao swept his son with an eagle-like sharp gaze, and there was an indelible gloom in his voice.

That kind of materialized gaze made Zhu Gai, who had already reached the fifth level of smelting and was theoretically at the same level as his father, shiver.

Although it was the same fifth level of smelting, Zhu Gai knew it very well. His father was at the fifth level because his father focused his energy on skill simulation talent, and he was at the fifth level because he could only reach the fifth level now.

"There are only more than a thousand Holy Death Knights. Why don't you organize manpower to attack the enemy? With the current scale of soldiers on the parade ground, you can cooperate with some elite soldiers. It can be reversed three times at most. Even if the miracle of a mere thousand-plus people without backup is not destroyed, their hematopoietic and organizational abilities will be destroyed." Zhu Tao looked at his son coldly.

"Because it's not worth it." Zhu Gai wanted to defend himself, but considering his father's certain perceptions, he gritted his teeth and spoke frankly.

After hearing this, Zhu Tao raised his hand and slapped his fully armored son, who was a head taller than him, away. Zhu Beg even rolled twice on the ground before stopping. It was fortunate that Zhu Tao still remembered that this was his son, his biological son, otherwise this slap in the face would have been enough to shatter Zhu Beg's brains.

"Who else thinks it's not worth it?" Zhu Tao said with murderous eyes looking at the officers and soldiers present. The old guys behind him had also experienced hundreds of battles, and most of them realized what was happening at this time. The originally lively scene suddenly became cold, and everyone's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Although Lao Cao has many faults, such as massacres and targeting aristocratic families, in the eyes of Zhu Tao, an old guard who is over 70 years old and has truly experienced many great things, these are not a big deal.

After all, for these people, which one of them did not follow Huangfu Song to build a Jingguan with hundreds of thousands of people? Some earlier guys like Peng Hong, even when he was following Duan Xing, killed so many Western Qiang that the ground was soaked in blood and turned dark red.

Is massacre a big deal to these people?

When I followed Duan Xing and Huangfu Song in Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Jizhou, I didn't cause tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of casualties in those places. Didn't Cao Cao just kill a few people? Wasn't it more than the number of deaths I have seen? I am completely used to it.

It sounds crazy, but in fact, it was true for Zhu Tao and his group of veterans. That was their era. Death was very common, and large-scale death was also very common. Although massacre was not morally recognized, the way to quickly solve the problem was to kill everyone, so that massacre was commonplace in that era.

Therefore, these old men could completely accept Cao's behavior. At least as members under Cao Cao's rule, they were fully able to accept Cao's behavior with the food and rewards given by Cao. Zhu Tao and others who had experienced too much killing believed very simply that the Han Dynasty was like this, all about killing, and the princes of the Han family would work for whoever gave them food!

It may sound silly, but for this generation, this is the fastest and most effective solution. Just like what Huangfu Song said, he knew that the Yellow Turban Rebellion was a counterattack against the country and the government by the people who could not bear the exploitation, who had no food to eat and had to exchange their children for food. But so what? If you can't even get past me, Huangfu Song, how can you realize your fantasy!

Knowing that you are righteous doesn't mean that I am evil.

What is most contrary to justice is not evil, but another kind of justice.

Overthrowing tyranny is justice for all people, but suppressing riots is also justice for the country, so if you think your justice is justice, then overthrow my justice and make me evil!

That’s why Huangfu Song never preached to the Yellow Turbans. He just did it. If you could defeat me, you would be qualified to practice your justice. But if you couldn’t even defeat me, what justice are you practicing?
Similarly, the soldiers of that period did not think about so-called social ethics, nor did they think about the consequences of their actions. They were simply soldiers who earned a living. You provided money and food, and I provided my labor and my life. It was such a simple relationship.

There is no such thing as a rosy picture, and don't expect to talk about the future, let alone any justice, faith, or why we are fighting. It is purely about being a soldier and eating. The money is in place, the food is sufficient, and all that stuff doesn't matter.

As for whether to massacre or not, it all depends on the opinion of the chief officer. The chief officer Duan Xing said that no one in Xiqiang should be left alive, so everyone in this area must die, the kind of death that the wheels of the car must be laid flat on the ground. The chief officer Huangfu Song said that all the Yellow Turbans must be killed, and 50,000 of them were kicked into the river to feed the fish, and the other hundreds of thousands were piled up on the spot to form a Jingguan.

Morality? I have no morality, what the hell do I need morality for!
With this kind of logical thinking, these old soldiers from the previous era did not have any special feelings about Lao Cao's behavior. Compared with the previous era when the country was short of money and food and supplies were not fully distributed, they even felt that Lao Cao was an okay person, at least he provided all the money, food and salaries.

Everything invented before I was born is taken for granted, everything invented between the ages of 15 and 35 is destined to change the world, and everything invented after I was 35 is anti-human.

This is true for technology and also for moral concepts. Although the moral concepts accepted by the elderly, led by Zhu Tao and Peng Hong, have a good side and the universal morality of repaying a drop of kindness with a spring of water, when it comes to aspects related to war, they still follow the old ways.

Similarly, this is also the reason why we rarely see the older generation seeking revenge on Cao Cao. To put it bluntly, their concepts and cognitions are stuck in the past, in an era where the victor is the king and the loser is the bandit.

The loser comes here for revenge. I didn’t kill your entire family last time, but this time I found out and I’ll just count your entire family and send you off with me!
This is the cognition and concept of the last era.

Therefore, Zhu Tao was very dissatisfied with the behavior of his son Zhu Gai. In his view, serving whoever's soldier you are, eating whose food you eat, and working for whoever you are, this is his simple morality.

The Holy Death Knights are very powerful, but what is there to be afraid of with only a few thousand of them?

If you can’t win in one attack, try a second time. If that doesn’t work, try a third time. All the Holy Death Knights are immortal!
"Do you all think so?" Zhu Tao asked coldly while looking at the high-melting elites in front of him. Most of the guys present were his nephews or his subordinates in the past.

There was no way. After experiencing the natural disasters and the curse of world consciousness, those who could reach the fifth level of smelting were basically over 45 years old, and most of them were fifty years old, which just happened to be the time when Zhu Tao was the commander of the Central Imperial Guard more than 20 years ago.

Most of Cao Cao's highly skilled veterans were from Yongzhou, and naturally most of them had served under Zhu Tao. Therefore, when Zhu Tao looked at these youngsters serving in the army with a gloomy face, even elite backbones like Xu Yuan felt a little scared.

As for the small number of veterans who did not know Zhu Tao, they felt their scalps tingling when they saw Zhu Tao knock out the fully-armored Zhu Beggar with one slap. After all, Zhu Beggar was also a ruthless man who had reached the fifth level of smelting, and none of the veterans present could beat Zhu Beggar like that.

"Um, Uncle Zhu, can I say something?" Xu Yuan said with a stiff face. The reason why he didn't like these old guys was because most of them were too stubborn. Now it was even worse. The stubborn old things were stronger than him. Fuck it!

Most old people cannot be persuaded by words, they can only be persuaded by force. The good thing about old guys is that most of them agree with power and violence.

For them, as long as the power overwhelms them, something does not violate universal morality but only violates their own ideas, they can be accepted. This is a universal trace left over from the last era.

However, now there is a problem. The strength of these old guys is a little bit beyond the limit. At least Xu Yuan, the leader among this group of old guys, is not sure he can defeat Zhu Tao.

"You say." Zhu Tao looked at Xu Yuan's half-guarded expression and spoke with a gloomy face. In Zhu Tao's opinion, he was able to listen to the suggestions of his subordinates, so if Xu Yuan wanted to defend himself, he was still prepared to listen, so he just stared at Xu Yuan coldly.

"Let me first tell you about how I chased the general to the Ganges two years ago, and everything I saw in the Central Plains before, plus the situation in Kandahar. How about we stand neutral and just judge the situation?" Xu Yuan took a deep breath, and the power of muscle defense and muscle liberation was fully released. He quickly increased from 1.8 meters to 2 meters. He was ready to fight if the talks failed.

There is no way. There is no way to reason with the old guys. What Xu Yuan thinks the brothers are doing is right may not be right in the eyes of these old guys.

Who knows, we might have to take action by then. As for what we said in advance about standing neutral and judging right and wrong, those were just polite words. If it were Xu Yuan himself, he would also resort to physical force when he found that he was not right. My martial arts are not for debating, they are for beating people!
So be prepared to take action before you reason with me. I, Xu Yuan, am no pushover!
"General? Oh, Lord Xuande, you are a trustworthy man!" Zhu Tao nodded and said. Even he recognized Liu Bei. After all, Kandahar could not isolate Liu Bei's benevolence. He still knew who was the one who guaranteed the payment of pensions and money and food salaries.

No matter how much Zhu Tao and his group of old guys follow the logic that the county magistrate is not as good as the current manager, they will not deny the benevolence of the people above them. The ability and morality of the people above are the key to allowing the idiots in the current manager to feed them a few more bites of food, so it is still useful to mention Liu Bei.

Xu Yuan adjusted himself to the best state, and then began to talk about what happened in a neutral position, and emphasized that after the over-issuance, the Cao and Xiahou families redeemed the shares for the second time, which destroyed their credibility, and finally Cao Cao killed many people but did not kill the main culprit of his own family.

"Uncle Zhu, what would you think if your in-laws were gone like this?" After Xu Yuan finished telling everything, he looked at Zhu Tao and asked.

There is no point in mentioning those things in Xuzhou. That is the business of the people of Xuzhou, not theirs. To be frank, people of Zhu Tao's generation will definitely not have the concept of empathy in this matter.

On the contrary, it is meaningful to mention Liang He. After all, even though Zhu Tao has only met Liang He a few times, at least he knows that this incident happened and there is such a person. He understands the cause and effect and at least has the awareness of sympathy for his own kind.

Empathy, at the very least, requires people to have sympathy.

The servant who said that the young lady who was dressed in fine clothes and fed with delicious food was pitiful was simply mentally ill.

The objects of empathy for normal people are generally only people who are similar to themselves. After all, the pain and sadness that some people claim to have are nothing more than whining in the eyes of most people, or even a life that they cannot get. How can they empathize with this?

"Is this the reason?" Zhu Tao's eyes were as calm as water, without the slightest ripple, and he just looked at Xu Yuan quietly, "Is this what you call the reason?"

"Yes!" Xu Yuan stood up and shouted at Zhu Tao.

However, before he could finish his words, Zhu Tao had already punched Xu Yuan in the chest. Compared to the two-meter-tall Xu Yuan, Zhu Tao, who was just over 1.7 meters tall, was not very tall, but the sound of wind and thunder when he raised his hand was scary.

"Buzz!" A punch hit Xu Yuan's chest armor. The dull explosion sound and the air wave formed directly behind Xu Yuan were enough to illustrate the power of this punch. However, Xu Yuan, who took the blow head-on, just looked at Zhu Tao silently.

"Uncle Zhu, I'm not that 20-year-old kid anymore." Xu Yuan looked at Zhu Tao and said seriously, "If you still want to use force to make me admit my mistakes like you did back then, you're overthinking it."

As he was speaking, Xu Yuan's right arm smashed towards Zhu Tao directly with an explosion sound. There was no special effect, only extreme power. The violent power brought by the release of the fifth-level muscle strength smashed Zhu Tao's side directly. However, Zhu Tao did not even try to parry, but took the blow head-on, took a step around, and the solid ground was directly shaken into fine sand-like fragments. Then the two of them watched quietly.

"You are indeed qualified to stand up and talk to me." Zhu Tao nodded at Xu Yuan.

"You can beat ten, I can beat eight at least." Xu Yuan took off the armor on his upper body, and then his muscles trembled and quickly expanded more than twice. "I don't think we are wrong."

"Not defeating the opponent and avoiding fighting because of internal disputes, is that not wrong in the military?" Zhu Tao asked Xu Yuan.

"Do you all think that when there is internal discord, we should choose to avoid fighting externally?" Zhu Tao asked, looking at the relatively young elite backbones around him.

"That's not what you said." Xu Yuan shook his head and said, "What we need is a serious and solemn explanation and apology, a reason for us to continue to believe."

"So what?" Zhu Tao looked at Xu Yuan with some disappointment.

"Who taught you that you must first stabilize the country before fighting against foreign enemies?" Peng Hong also came over and asked Xu Yuan.

"No one taught me." Xu Yuan said to Peng Hong.

"Brothers quarrel with each other, and we have to defend ourselves against external insults. Don't you understand?" Zhu Tao looked at Xu Yuan and his son, and felt only annoyance. He didn't know why these guys became like this.

"Zhu Gai, recite to me what I taught you before." Zhu Tao looked at his son coldly. Zhu Gai was confused and didn't know what to recite. His family was a good family and he had been to school properly, but at this moment Zhu Gai really didn't know what Zhu Tao wanted him to recite.

"If you abandon your people in a hurry, you will allow the barbarians to be violent outside and hurt your ministers inside. If you don't save them at this time, if the Xiongnu invade the border again, how will Your Majesty send generals?" Peng Hong sighed and said, "The country will not abandon us who are still alive!"

The Eastern Han Dynasty had many problems, such as the young and weak emperor, the harem meddling in government affairs, the power monopolization of external relatives, the abuse of power by eunuchs, the formation of cliques by aristocratic families, the arbitrary rule of local tyrants, etc. However, the Eastern Han Dynasty was able to survive and lived a comfortable life, so naturally there were reasons why people were willing to die for it.

And what Peng Hong said was the most important reason and the basis for supporting the military power of the Eastern Han Dynasty - don't worry, brothers, just fight the opposite side, no matter how far away the friendly forces are from you, no matter what our current situation is, even if they are thousands of miles away and the emperor dies, as long as the friendly forces can receive the news, as long as we can hold on until that time, they will definitely come to help.

"Waste!" Zhu Tao kicked his son away, and unlike the last slap, this time Zhu Tao really kicked out with hatred. The anger that his career, which he had worked on for decades, was ruined by his son directly kicked Zhu Gai so hard that he vomited blood and flew out.

"I should have grown a placenta back then! Even if I can't tell right from wrong, I would never do such a thing." Zhu Tao roared in anger.

"F*ck you guys, do you understand that this is destroying the century-old foundation of the Han Dynasty? You don't like Cao Cao, so you just stab him to death when you pass by, and that's it. Avoiding war? Avoiding war because of internal disputes? How many brothers died in vain, are you pigs?" Zhu Tao pointed directly at Xu Yuan and cursed, "Is this your reason? Killing your own brothers because of some minor disputes? If you are really dissatisfied, can't you kill the other side first and then deal with the internal disputes?"

"Of course, if you have the ability to fight among yourselves and defeat the enemy externally, that's fine. But if you don't have that ability, why bother fighting among yourselves?" Zhu Tao slapped Xu Yuan so hard that he staggered. "Is the Han family like this? Is the Han family like this? Xu Yuan, tell me, is the Han family like this?"

Xu Yuan said nothing and couldn't utter a single word of the speech he had prepared. Although Zhu Tao was stubborn in some aspects and immoral in some things, his words this time were no less than the morning bell and evening drum for Xu Yuan and others, waking them up directly.

Different things, standing at different heights, will have different rights and wrongs. Of course, for some things, the difference in concepts and cognition has a greater impact. Please give me the monthly ticket for next month.