In the story of the Three Kingdoms, there is a plot that modern people can't understand, that is, Guan Yuguan's second brother openly said the plot of his murder and escape in the tavern, but everyone didn't take it seriously. Some people's brain supplement is that the people who eat melons don't dare to move at all when they see the figures of Guan Erge and Zhang Sanye, this is a typical good people's thinking, and they don't know much about the Eastern Han Dynasty and Jianghu society.
The Eastern Han Dynasty in which Second Brother Guan lived was a very happy era, many times it was really okay to kill people, not only did he not arrest you, but the high-ranking officials and heroes were also proud of you, and even the imperial court had to ask you to be an official. The Eastern Han Dynasty paid attention to the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, when judicial officials tried cases, they directly disregarded the national laws and tried cases with the spirit of works such as "Spring and Autumn". A very important conclusion of the study of the "Spring and Autumn Period" by the two Han people is the concept of great revenge, in short, revenge is justified, someone's father was killed because of grievances, he can find a judge to play with his life (but he must avenge his elders, teachers, and friends, and he must be exempted and even praised, and the most direct way of praise in the Eastern Han Dynasty officialdom is to let these people become officials. The most typical example is Yangqiu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, this big guy directly killed the enemy's entire family, just because he was avenging his mother, not only was he fine, but he also became a high-ranking official at the level of 2,000 stones.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the revenge of the seven women, and the killing of Li Shou by Zhao E were all cases that caused a sensation throughout the country. After Zhao E killed Li Shou, Liangzhou Assassin Shi Zhou Hong, Jiuquan Taishou Liu Ban and others asked the Eastern Han Dynasty court to set up a monument to praise, and Taichang Hongnong Zhang Huan personally sent the brocade to the door (a splendid 18,000 Wen, the pennant of that year was much more valuable than today's pennant) praise. The Zhao E incident occurred in 179 AD, a few years after the year when Guan Erge revealed his identity.
Among the fierce people of Guan Erge's contemporaries, at least four of them killed people almost at the same time, and there was no, and the four heavenly kings who killed were Xiahoudun, Xu Shu, Dian Wei and Liu Ye. Xu Shu and Xiahoudun both killed the sluts who humiliated their teachers, and the Eastern Han Dynasty officialdom did not arrest them, as long as they left, the six doors of the Eastern Han Dynasty should not be seen. Liu Ye killed his father's servant at the age of 13, just because killing this person was his mother's confession before she died, and the Eastern Han Dynasty government did not arrest anyone at all. Weapon master Dian Wei rushed into the house of Li Yong, a native of Suiyang, and killed Li Yong's family to the point of extinction, but it was still fine. This is because Dian Wei is a native of Chenliu, and the Xiangyi Liu family where he is angry also belongs to Yanzhou Chenliu, and Dian Wei and the Liu family are fellow villagers. Suiyang, where the bitter lord Li Yong is located, belongs to the Liang State, and He Dian Wei is not a fellow countryman (the history books do not say who is right and who is wrong between Li Yong and Liu). The people of the Eastern Han Dynasty regard the county as the country and the Taishou as the king, and the Chen Liuren regard Dian Wei as the pride of their hometown.
Killing people in the Eastern Han Dynasty is not the key, the key is why killing, murdering for money, rape and plundering and killing, that is everyone shouting and beating, even if the murderer is big, after the local pavilion chief knows, he also dares to take the crossbowman to shoot intensively (the pavilion chief of the two Han Dynasty is generally a crossbow arrow shooting master, and the pavilion chief is not easy to provoke); Not to mention the unspoken rule that the Eastern Han Dynasty used outlaw swordsmen as soldiers, and the Eastern Han Dynasty conscripted soldiers like to use outlaws, and murderers can be exonerated if they fight for the country. The most typical example of this is Dou Xian, Dou Xian was held by the Empress Dowager Dou after killing the Hou Ye Liu Chang, and had to take the initiative to ask Ying to go on an expedition against the Xiongnu, so that many Huns became victims of his commutation.
This is the atmosphere in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there is no problem at all with Second Brother Guan doing this. Of course, some people will raise the bar and say that the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is Luo Guanzhong Yunyun, not the customs of the Eastern Han Dynasty. But you look at the Water Margin story of the same period, what is the background of the officer Lu Da in the late Northern Song Dynasty when he saw Shi Jin, but Shi Jin fled after overturning the official army that captured him, and he also confessed when he saw Lu Da; This is because the homeless society doesn't care about killing, and those who dare to kill people and set fire to them for the sake of righteousness are heroes, and stories such as Three Kingdoms and Water Margin follow this logic. Whether from the perspective of history or the author, it is normal for Second Brother Guan to bluntly say that no one reacts when he kills someone.