"country?"

Liu Zheng asked back, with a rather disdainful tone.

After that, he raised his palm and took a look, looking even more arrogant, and said: "I have the ability to destroy a country. I should have been like Wang Jian, who destroyed Yan, Zhao, and Chu; I should have been like Yang Su, Yang Jing Jiangbiao

, pacified Nanchen; I should be like Su Dingfang, who destroyed the three kingdoms before and after, and captured their masters alive... I should be like these famous generals."

The palm turned over slightly, clenched into a fist, and then unclenched.

Liu Zheng then looked at Li Xia and said: "After Meng Shaobao, if the Zhao and Song Dynasties are willing to use me, I also have the ambition to restore the Central Plains from the north; now if the Mongols listen to my advice, sooner or later I will defeat you and go south to destroy the Song Dynasty...

Countries? Countries have risen and fallen many times since ancient times. Countries were built by people and destroyed by people."

"So you only have eyes for yourself and no country."

"Why not? Su Qin used his talents to dominate the princes. He was involved in the rise and fall of the six kingdoms. The country he lived in was important, and the country he went to was light."

"I didn't see your talent." Li Xia said: "I only saw you lose again and again, the Jiantandu defeat, the Beiluoshui defeat again, and the Hekou Town three defeats."

"that is because……"

"That's because you have no faith. When you talk about Wang Jian, Yang Su, and Su Dingfang, you only know that they have the power to destroy the country, but you don't see how powerful a country is behind them. Look at you again, you are a tree without roots.

A tree, trying to withstand the wind? If you are blown by the wind, it will fall over. A homeless person, does he have roots? Does he have a sense of belonging?"

"The Mongolian country standing behind me is a hundred times more powerful than you!"

"Then why don't you fight to the death for Mongolia?"

Liu Zheng was silent.

He originally wanted to answer Li Xia's question, "Do you have a sense of belonging?"

No.

But it was difficult to open his mouth, so he had to bring up the Great Mongolia to show his tyranny, but he was pushed back with one word.

He clenched his fists, feeling strong unwillingness and anger.

"Why should I fight to the death?! The Mongols treat me like a dog and horse, so I treat them like a fellow countryman. Zhao and Song treat me like a piece of grass, and I treat them like a bandit. So why should I fight to the death and be martyred?!

Yes, I am the general of the defeated army. You can kill or behead me as you please, but there is no need to question me with unwarranted words of loyalty. You are not qualified. You are also a traitor and a traitor. How can you be loyal to the country?

?!"

"I have."

Li Xia answered very simply.

Liu Zheng hesitated for a moment, and then cursed: "Shameless. Although I have lost my integrity, I don't bother to imitate you in order to gain reputation."

"I do have loyalty to the country, not the Song Dynasty."

After Li Xia said that, he raised his hand and pointed at the wheat field that was burned to ashes, and said: "You said that I am just trying to show off my reputation, but what I said is false. Why don't you first take a look at the world and look at the wheat field that you burned with your own hands?

…”

"It's ridiculous! You are also a general. Don't you know that fighting means killing people in the city and filling the fields? Do you know how many people died when the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms and the Tang Dynasty opened up the territory? What is this? A hundred acres of farmland?"

"Yes, of course you think the 67 acres of wheat fields and 81 innocent lives in Gaoling County are nothing, because after the wars in these years, tens of millions of people have died under the butcher's knife! In comparison, what is happening in front of you is

what is this."

"How innocent is the Liu Heima you recruited? How many innocent souls died at his hands during the thirty years of military campaigns? No general in the world has clean hands. If you want to be benevolent and righteous, how dare you say that you

There are no dead bones of wronged souls under your feet?!”

At this point, Liu Zheng glared at Li Xia and cursed: "Don't act like this. In these troubled times, people are just sheep with two legs. They are worse than cattle and sheep. They will die under the butcher's knife for thousands of reasons."

I am not the one who kills people, and if I don’t kill, I will be killed by others. When a person lives in the world, he can only choose to be a swordsman or a fish. What’s wrong with me choosing to be a swordsman?! This is the way of the world!"

"That's why we need a country, isn't it?"

Li Xia asked back and said: "In peacetime, I can still barely understand those of you who put personal interests above the country. But in this troubled world where foreign invaders can kill each of us wantonly and crazily,

You still can't understand how weak an individual's power is in front of foreign invaders? Without a strong country to protect them, most people will live worse than dogs..."

Over the years, the people he met who had survived in Sichuan and Sichuan had too many stories.

When the foreign invaders came to kill, my wife, children, parents were cut open alive in front of my eyes. As the barbarians' pleasure, what power could stop them?

There is nothing the individual can do.

When the Song Dynasty could not protect these people, only they themselves could understand what "the despair that makes the heaven and the earth do not work".

There is no place for injustice and no place for justice.

Not to mention inferior to pigs and dogs, people live like lonely ghosts, not even farts...

Li Xia couldn't finish describing the suffering of a countryless person. He shook his head and said: "I treat the princes of the North regardless of their achievements, and I can do the same to you. But today I want to say one more thing, at least the people of the North are all

They really want a country, but they are all looking forward to a decent country, but you don’t have it.”

"How did you know I didn't have one?!"

"You rely on your talent and only want to be a tree without roots. The whole world calls you Liu Zhengjun slightly unparalleled. You rely on your personal talent to look down on everything. Then what? You live more like a dog than others? And to this day, you

You are still unwilling to reflect, and you only have personal interests in mind. Being selfish is not a sin, everyone is selfish. But don’t you think you are hopelessly stupid?”

This is also the reason why he doesn't plan to use Liu Zheng.

He could sense from Zhang Rou's protection of academics, Liu Heima's intercession for the people, and the efforts of those northern literati to establish the Han system that a similar belief required a strong country to end troubled times.

But Liu Zheng didn't let him feel that he had this belief...

Therefore, Li Xia was indeed asking seriously.

He really wanted to know if Liu Zheng felt that he was "hopelessly stupid".

After asking this question, Liu Zheng's face turned red and veins popped up on his forehead.

He doesn't agree.

He was insulted by the word "stupid" and became furious.

However, because he was a prisoner, he could not rise up and kill Li Xia. He had not yet organized a verbal counterattack, so he had to clenched his fists.

"Enough of Feng Liang's words!" Liu Zheng roared: "It's not that I betrayed the country, it's that the country betrayed me!"

…

At Xiayangdu, Liu Zheng's second son, Liu Gu, was so excited that he cut off his own ears when he was questioned by Song soldiers, not wanting to hear another word from those who had not experienced the suffering of others and were pointing out from a high moral position.

Liu Zheng did not cut off his ears.

He is no longer young and less impulsive.

Today he came to see Li Xia, wanting to keep his eldest son and his direct lineage, with some reluctance.

Not willing to die just like that, I still want to show off my talents.

Finally, I was irritated by Li Xia's serious expression.

"It was the Song Dynasty who betrayed me first! They said that the enemy's camp should be defeated and the enemy should be collaborated with the enemy, but before the enemy's camp was defeated, Zhao Fang had already left a legacy for Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui to kill us. You have never regarded us reformed people as your own!"

As Liu Zheng spoke, he pulled open his clothes, revealing his scarred body.

Those old scars are like ravines, densely packed...

Li Xia has also been on the battlefield, and he can tell at a glance that these injuries are from twenty or thirty years old.

Only when you are a pawn or a general, you can suffer so many injuries. When you become a general or a commander, you have sophisticated armor and bodyguards, which is completely incomparable to what you did when you were a pawn.

From these old wounds, we can seem to see how tragic the war between Song and Jin was at the end and the war between Song and Mongolia at the beginning.

"In the sixth year of Shaoding, in the Battle of Guanghua, I followed Meng Shaobao to fight against Jin general Wuxian, and won a great victory. I captured 70,000 enemies. I followed General Zhang to kill Wu Tianxi and severely injured him everywhere;"

Liu Zheng tapped his chest and shoulders four times.

"In September of that year, during the Battle of Kuizhou, I crossed the trench and ascended the city. I took Xinyang first and wounded seven places. I followed Meng Shaobao into Caizhou and saw with my own eyes that Meng Shaobao cut Wanyan Shouxu's body into two and destroyed the gold;

In the third year of Duanping, during the Battle of Jiangling, we destroyed twenty-four enemy camps and recaptured twenty thousand captured people. For this reason, we were hit by two arrows;

In the first year of Jiaxi, the Battle of Huangzhou...

In the second year of Jiaxi, the Battle of Xiangfan...

In the third year of Jiaxi, the Battle of Kuizhou..."

How many injuries must a Beigui man suffer from becoming a general from a pawn in more than 20 to 30 years of war?

Liu Zheng pointed at the scars on his body, becoming more and more unwilling and angry.

"You were granted the title of Prince of the County at such a young age, but I have made many contributions to the Song Dynasty and suffered many more injuries than you! Every time I made a plan, I was denied, but if I had any merit, it was concealed. Why should I continue to serve the Song Dynasty?

Death?!

Until I figured it out. So what if I win at Jiantandu? Can I get what I deserve? On the contrary, it was because I preserved my strength that Song Ting did not dare to punish me... How did I figure it out? Why did Lu Wende do it?

I can’t do it?!”

"..."

Liu Zheng beat his head and stamped his feet and talked for a long time.
To be continued...