Those are baby girls who are either dead or still breathing on the stone slabs, but are being bitten by insects and ants...

For a moment, everyone couldn't help but ponder.

——"Could this blood belong to these baby girls?"

——"Could it be that...did those old people send their baby girl here just now?"

Thinking of this, countless people's eyes widened in disbelief at the sight in front of them.

Many kind-hearted officials quickly picked up the baby girls who were still alive, still sobbing, and had insects and ants crawling on their bodies, and listened to their cries of "wuwuwu"...

Or there are other children who have already cried out the last drop of tears and have no strength to cry.

The officials felt extremely heavy.

Who would have thought that Bashu... would have such a stone tower hiding such a group of baby girls.

In fact, it’s not just Bashu…

There is such a cruel place in every place in the whole Han Dynasty.

How could these officials who had read all the saints' books imagine that there could be such a dark and ghastly place under the bright sky!

At this moment, in this sad atmosphere, Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, his tone was high, but his tone was extremely sad.

——"Everyone has seen this Eagle Tower. I sent people to check it out. In Shu alone, there are no less than 700 Eagle Towers like this. Rather than saying they are Eagle Towers, it is better to say... they are Baby Towers!"

Even though he was well prepared, when he was actually in the Eagle Tower, surrounded by the sobbing of the baby girl, and seeing this bloody scene, Zhuge Liang still choked with sobs.

He was silent for a moment, calmed down, and then continued to speak. "I only recently learned that the actual function of this Eagle Tower is to 'bury' the bodies of baby girls. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the present day, hundreds of

Over the years, many young babies have been abandoned by their families in this stone and brick baby tower because they were girls!"

"Let these fresh lives lie among countless...baby girls who have become bones, are rotting, or have just lost their breath! Insects and ants bite them, and they will fend for themselves!"

Zhuge Liang's voice was as calm as possible, but he couldn't hide the sadness and complaint about the injustice of the times.

Following Zhuge Liang's words, everyone here was shocked...

Everyone held their breath... couldn't believe what Zhuge Liang said was true.

Ma Su quickly asked: "How could someone be so cruel? How could there be parents so cruel...to put these baby girls in this Eagle Tower?"

Ma Su's eyes almost burst out...

As a Jingzhou aristocratic family, the scene he saw in front of him had a huge deviation from the world he understood.

"Reason? Does this need a reason?" Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly, "Throughout the ages, countless babies have been drowned by their families because they were daughters, and their bodies have been dumped in the streets and alleys, left to be exposed to the sun and rain, and wild beasts to feed themselves! There are no bones left.

It can be preserved!”

"If you have read a book, don't you know that it was mentioned in "Han Feizi Six Antis", 'Parents treat their children as such: if they give birth to a boy, they will congratulate each other, and if they give birth to a girl, they will kill them!'"

"I didn't believe this at first, but I have visited many villages recently. According to their stories, in every village, every month, an old woman will skillfully lift up a newborn baby girl and throw it into the

In the large basin in the courtyard, you picked up a thick wooden board, pressed it hard on the baby girl, and completely immersed your baby girl's head in the water... It only took half a quarter of an hour for the baby girl to become stiff, with only one left.

Cutting the umbilical cord and leaving it floating in the water...is called "drowning" among the people."

call--

Zhuge Liang exhaled deeply. He said this while feeling endless sorrow in his heart.

But he still resisted the throbbing and continued talking.

"If your family can't do anything, you can also ask the neighbors to help, or the old man like just now, after seeing that his daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby girl, they will take them to the Eagle Tower.

Let this baby girl cry out of strength and fend for herself in the Eagle Tower!"

What Zhuge Liang showed is the darkest side of the Han tax system since the Zhou Dynasty, after thousands of years, and even to the present day.

His voice became more and more shrill.

"Drowning female infants is a bad custom among the people. There are eagle towers in all the villages outside Hancheng County. There are many records in the pre-Qin Dynasty. It is still the same in the Han Dynasty. Whether it is the rule of the world or the troubled times... there are endless books in history! Compared with

Drowned to death and abandoned casually, this seemingly insane and cruel Eagle Tower is actually the best and most honorable destination for these baby girls!"

Zhuge Liang controlled his emotions as much as possible.

At this time, some people in the civil and military circles could not help but stand up.

It's Huang Zhong... He lost his son in middle age, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man away, and he was heartbroken.

He is the least able to understand such crazy behavior.

"Why? Why are baby girls abandoned? Why do they suffer such a wasted death? Aren't they the biological children of their parents? Military strategist, tell us, why?"

Huang Zhong's eyes were about to burst as he pointed at the vermilion, cold stone slabs.

"Because it's a gift, because it's a poll tax!" Zhuge Liang seemed to burst out suddenly, and he roared loudly. "If a baby girl is born, then for a family, there will be an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks.

Food, one more tax!"

"But because she is a girl, even when she grows up, she cannot do heavy work in the fields. She is too young and cannot be sold. If she does not get married at the age of fifteen, she will have to pay five times the head tax, which will only increase the family's income.

Burden! Today's people can't even...even support themselves, how can they raise their daughters? It is precisely for this reason that by sending them to this Eagle Tower, maybe the family can survive, but if not, the whole family will suffer because of

This heavy poll tax dragged us to death, and we were starved to death!"

Zhuge Liang shouted loudly and in a rare and crazy manner: "Otherwise, otherwise... As long as there is a way to survive, which parent and relative would be willing to send their child to this Eagle Tower and let her fend for herself?"

Poll tax…

The source of all evil lies in the heavy poll tax in the agricultural era!

"Then..." Huang Zhong's excited tone suddenly became mute. His eyes were wide open, as if... what he saw and heard today was something he had never encountered in the environment where he had grown up in more than fifty years.

.

This shattered his outlook.

"So what will happen to these baby girls?"

"——If there is a kind-hearted master, he may take away one or two baby girls and raise them as female slaves, or even as maids to fill his son's house. This is already considered the best destination for these baby girls, and more are

Live and die on your own in this Eagle Tower."

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang seemed to hear something, and he quickly shouted:

"Listen, you listen-"

Wow wow wow…

Wow wow…

Wow…

It seems that because Zhuge Liang's voice was too loud, the abandoned baby girls in the Eagle Tower next door heard it.

They seemed to have spirits, as if they heard the hope of living, they cried and sobbed crazily.

They were also just born into this world...

But fate left them with no choice but to leave again.

They don't even have the ability to fight.

Woohoo——

The neighing of these baby girls and the children's hope for life made every official burst into tears.

Some officials couldn't help but run to other Eagle Towers. They wanted to rescue these baby girls and let them escape from this unfair fate and destined Eagle Tower.

only…

As they picked up the baby girls, they realized there was only so much they could save.

As long as, as long as...especially the heavy poll tax, new baby girls will be sent to the Eagle Tower every day to become food for wild dogs and eagles.

call--

Accompanied by the heavy exhalations from everyone.

Liu Bei quickly stepped forward and stood in front of a blood-stained stone slab. He stared at the dried blood and pondered for a long time.

Finally, he spoke.

"Everyone, you have also seen...I have seen such a dark scene in this world!"

"I also saw it. Kong Ming took me to see this scene a few days ago. At that time, I thought... I wanted to destroy these eagle towers. But in fact, when I was about to give the order, I realized that this was not the case at all.

It’s the Eagle Tower’s fault! Those who sent the baby girl into the Eagle Tower were human beings, poor people in distress!”

"In the past, I often thought about the difference between me, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao. I always felt that his Cao Cao massacred the city, and I, Liu Bei, saved the people. His Cao Cao held the emperor hostage, and I, Liu Bei, saved the emperor. His Cao Cao wanted to usurp the Han, and I, Liu Bei, wanted to revitalize the Han.

Room, as long as 'every time you go against Cao, everything will work out'!"

"But... but when Kong Ming took me to see the Eagle Tower, and when the answer sheet from Jingzhou made me realize, what is a king? What is a minister? What is 'water can carry a boat but also capsize it'... I realized,

If I, Liu Bei, can finally defeat Cao Cao, I must not rely on the things I just mentioned, but..."

Liu Bei picked up a baby girl who had died and half of her body was cut off by an eagle. He cried and said:

——"What allows me to defeat Cao Cao is that my eyes and mood are completely different from his. What he sees in his eyes is dominance, a wealthy clan, and meritorious nobles. But what I can see is that he, Cao Cao, has spent his whole life.
To be continued...