Chapter 18 4. Why did Kong Rong give up pears?

So, how did the pig-killer who was promoted to the general go, and why did he want to avenge his kindness and hurt the innocent and kind eunuch? According to nonsense in the history books, this is because the eunuchs are rampant and causing disasters to the country, so these silverfish must be eradicated.Whether it is a novel, or a history book "Three Kingdoms", or "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", it is explained in this way. In fact, the literati and bureaucrats did more of these things in terms of rampant lawlessness and disasters for the country.And more cruel, and more evil.

There are only three records in the history books about the rampant eunuchs.You must know that history books are written by scholar-bureaucrats. If the eunuchs have more bad deeds, the historians will definitely spare no effort.However, after a lot of searching, only three items were collected. We can see that the eunuchs did not do bad things, but they were obviously behind the scholar-bureaucrats in terms of the frequency of doing bad things. Let me first talk about the three records in the history books about the crimes of eunuchs: The first one is that in 160 AD, the eunuch killed Zhao Qi's family, a famous minister.

The second is that in 166 AD, eunuchs shot and killed folk women. The third is that in 179 AD, eunuchs killed people and hung their corpses. These three things are cruel and evil.But compared with the cruelty and evil of the scholar-bureaucrats, they fell behind. Let's just cite a few bad deeds done by the scholar-officials to see which side is more evil. Let’s talk about the scholar-bureaucrat Yang Qiu first. He married the daughter of the eunuch’s family, and finally climbed to a high position by flattering the great eunuch Wang Meng.Then he suddenly turned his face and sent both Wang Meng and his son to prison. Wang Meng pleaded with him, but Yang Qiu blocked the mouths of Wang Meng and his son with mud, and tortured the father and son to death.

Besides, the so-called case of eunuch shooting and killing civilian girls was actually done by Xu Xuan, the nephew of eunuch Xu Huang, but Huang Fu, a scholar-bureaucrat, arrested Xu Xuan's whole family, regardless of gender, age or age, and tortured them severely. In addition, there was Zhang Jian, a scholar-bureaucrat. He met the mother of the eunuch Houlan on the road, and he couldn't help but slaughter the sad old woman.Then he did not do anything, and continued, he simply led people into Hou Lan's house, killed all the family members of Hou Lan's family, more than a hundred people, and created a horrific murder.

After the incident, Zhang Jian abandoned his official position and fled. When he met someone on the way, he knocked on the door and asked for a place to stay.Therefore, there is a poem from later generations that says: "Looking at the door to stay and thinking about Zhang Jian, and waiting for Dugan for a while... Here, looking at the door and staying at the stop, it is said that Zhang Jian knocks on the door when he sees it."The people who stayed with Zhang Jian were all affected by the government's arrest. Among them, the most tragic one was Kong Rong's brother, Kong Bao.

"Rong is four years old, and he can make pears..." This is a story told in "New Three Character Classic".So, Kong Rong gave up the pear, and who did the big pear give up to? He gave it to his elder brother, Kong Bao. Brother Kong Bao, who was devastated, ate a big pear because of his greed, but was cheated by his younger brother Kong Rong. It is said that the scholar-bureaucrat Zhang Jian, after killing the eunuch and waiting for the whole family, old and young, fled all the way to the Kong family in Qufu and knocked on the door.The one who opened the door was Xiao Kong Rong, who was just 9 years old. Xiao Kong Rong let Zhang Jian in and took him in.

Soon after the incident, the government came to investigate the responsibility, saying: "Although the door was opened by Xiao Kong Rong, he is young and has no capacity for action and responsibility... Well, who, isn't his elder brother Kong Bao already 16 years old?" He has eaten big pears from Xiao Kong Rong before, right? That’s fine, it’s on Kong Bao’s fault.” … So Kong Bao was somehow dragged out by the government and had his head chopped off. This is the follow-up story of Kong Rong Rangli. In the blink of an eye, little Kong Rong also grew up, became the Prime Minister of Beihai, and became a scholar-bureaucrat.One day he held a funeral for his father and asked the local people to come out and cry. It was not everyone's father who died, so the people were forced to come, but they couldn't cry.Guess what Kong Rong did?

Kong Rong killed a man who was weeping at his father's grave, and the crime was not enough grief. Basically, this is the style and virtue of scholar-bureaucrats.In terms of human nature alone, they are by no means kinder than eunuchs, but they are ingenious and creative in evil. He Jin, who killed the piglet, wanted to destroy the eunuch group, not because the eunuchs did any bad things.There is only one purpose, to ward off charges. What charges? In 184 A.D., Zhang Jun, a doctor, impeached the ten permanent servants, accusing the Yellow Turban civil uprising, which was caused by the ten permanent servants.As long as the ten permanent servants are killed to thank the world, the world will be peaceful.