Chen Ye reached out and patted Zhao Huan on the shoulder. This action was not far away from the two of them. The magistrate of Jincheng and Jincheng, who were standing carefully, both twitched their eyelids and quickly lowered their heads.
"Officials, you should calm down. This is all normal. It has been passed down since ancient times that one general can achieve great success."
"But too many people died! I have heard people say how ferocious the Jin army defended the city in the past, but I still didn't believe it.
The city wall is so high, how can it be climbed? The city wall is so thick, how can it be broken down?
But what I saw today is that in the face of tens of thousands of troops, it is extremely difficult to defend the weak city, and it is even impossible to defend it at all. If I hadn't arrived in time, would the soldiers and people of Jincheng have survived?
Not to mention the people on the moat below the city. They are all people from Longde Mansion, Jincheng, and the villages and towns along the way. These are all ordinary people!
What a bunch of beasts!”
Facing Chen Ye's pat on the shoulder, Zhao Huan first subconsciously resisted, then relaxed and adapted, and even felt a little warm. He had never experienced this kind of closeness.
The person next to him was not one of his people, let alone someone he could threaten or even be harsh with. Even Chen Ye had a higher status than him, but he was as old as him.
Patting him on the shoulder was like Zhao Ji patting him on the shoulder. He had no emotion at all.
"If it weren't for these innocent people who were used as human shields, the Jincheng defenders would actually be better than the crazy Jin Army, which killed thousands of people here.
And on this point, that is, your love for the soldiers and civilians, you are better than your father."
"Hmm? Imperial Master, please enlighten me on this."
Zhao Huan raised his head and looked at Chen Ye doubtfully. Behind him, the Jincheng magistrate and the commander lowered their heads and looked at their toes. Their whole bodies were trembling. They involuntarily performed ghost steps and carefully backed away. Can he hear this?
This is a topic that cannot be touched! Someone said that his father is not good in front of the emperor? What kind of grade does this person have to dare to say this? Please don’t spill blood on them later.
"This time the Supreme Leader encouraged the students to follow and watch the battle. There was no need to actually let the students fight. After all, how much fighting power do they have?
Those soldiers and common people who follow the Supreme Leader into battle are the future of the Song Dynasty. They are thousands of times stronger than those who stay in the city and follow the crowd behind you, who are greedy for life and afraid of death.
At least they are sincere to the Song Dynasty and your Zhao family, but because the Supreme Emperor suddenly rose up and asked the people to follow him in the attack, the Jin army quickly attacked the people first.
Throughout the Song Dynasty, there were far fewer people who had the flesh and blood to truly dare to die for the country and the royal family. And afterward, his attitude... Hmm.
Except for what I said on my own initiative, I’m basically not sad at all.”
"Master, you misunderstood. In fact, among the people who went there, the Forbidden Army made up the majority. I and the Supreme Lord also sent strong soldiers from the Forbidden Army and the Victory Army to protect them.
But unfortunately, even with the imperial army protecting them, more than ten people still died. When His Majesty found out, he was also very sad. I am too lazy to understand this clearly.
Although I did not follow the first battle formation, when I arrived, I only saw the victory and the surrender of the Jin army, and had no idea of the tragedy ahead.
But according to what the Supreme Leader and the Forbidden Army said, when those soldiers faced the Jin people's weapons, although many soldiers died, no one escaped.
In fact, the death of so many people is a kind of rebirth for the Song Dynasty! In the future, I will definitely reuse the survivors who followed the battle this time.
The officialdom of the Song Dynasty in the future will definitely be very different."
After listening to Chen Ye's words, Zhao Huan did not follow up and speak ill of Zhao Ji, but talked normally. Speaking ill of Zhao Ji not only violated filial piety, but also made Zhao Ji have a grudge against him.
Chen Ye shrugged. He didn't have so many miscellaneous provocations. He just told the truth. Zhao Ji was an old emperor. It was already the emperor's instinct to love his people as his own children.
What Zhao Ji really pursues is art, which is to stabilize his position and make the whole country better. At his age, what he considers is how to make people's death worthwhile and their death valuable to him.
Just as he was about to continue speaking, there was a sound of footsteps and guards with torches arrived.
"Report! Report to the officials! We found Nianhan dozens of meters outside the city!"
"What? He's still alive?"
Hearing the report from the guards who suddenly ran over, Zhao Ji and Chen Ye exclaimed at the same time. The incendiary bomb at that time was fired directly at Wanyan Zonghan.
Afterwards, he specifically asked people to dig up the corpse, but he couldn't find it. He thought that Wanyan Zonghan had been burned to ashes. Who expected that with the intensity of the attack, Wanyan Zonghan was not dead?
"Back at the official's house, Nianhan crawled out on his own. Several bones were broken, and his hand was broken and had burn marks. He is still unconscious and dying.
The military doctor has already looked at him and said that he only had a few hours left and there was no need to treat him, so he just stopped the bleeding, but his face was pale and he must have lost his vitality."
"Well, have all the other generals been captured? How many escaped?"
"The remaining Jin army's right commander Wanyan Wuting was cut into pieces, and only half of his armor was recovered. Marshal's right commander Wanyan Xiyin has fled to Longde, and his life or death is unknown at the moment.
Among the various commanders, left general Xiao Qing, Shangmeng An and Feng Shu surrendered on the city wall, while the remaining Yang Zhengao, Gao Qingyi and others are missing and must have fled to Longde."
"Okay, let's go down. I'll leave Wanyan Zonghan alone for now. I'll consider whether I want his whole body."
Zhao Huan waved his hand and asked the guards to leave, then looked at Chen Ye with some disappointment.
"National Master, it seems that not one of the big fish you mentioned has been caught. There is no need to treat Wanyan Zonghan. It would be a waste of medicinal herbs to save him."
"The big fish are originally the coach and other supervisors, but when you reach the Kingdom of Jin, there will be more big fish. Then you can catch Wanyan Sheng, a little kid, and do whatever you want.
As for Wanyan Zonghan, he still needs to be saved. After all, he died anyway, which is a bit advantageous to him. He should be tried and then executed by the Song Dynasty.
Only in this way can we tell the world that anyone who offends the Song Dynasty will die. At the same time, even if he dies, he will die on the gallows of the Song Dynasty!
This is a trial! This is not a matter of death.
In the same way, Wan Yan Sheng is the same. What you have to do is to capture him and all the ministers of the Jin Kingdom, and don't give them a chance to surrender and negotiate.
Fight directly, destroy the city and kill those who do not surrender. Since they dare to launch a war to destroy the Song Dynasty, they must also suffer the pain of destroying the country and accept war trials.
You have to tell the world that the Song Dynasty is a trial. Even if the country is destroyed, the Song Dynasty will declare the demise of the Jin Kingdom and make the leader of the Jin Kingdom plead guilty!"
Chen Ye's words made Zhao Huan feel excited. Yes, as long as he leads the army north and catches Wanyan Sheng, that will be the real big fish and that is what all the people want.
Looking back, you can see from the city wall that the entire Jincheng is brightly lit, and some people are celebrating their survivors and the arrival of officials.
But more than anything else, the whole family was grieving. News was received from the mountains and forests. The people who guarded the city came back and faced their lost relatives, and the cries shook them.
"When I destroy the Jin Kingdom, the people will no longer worry and cry."
"Hehe, there is a poem for you to listen to.
The peaks and mountains are like clusters, the waves are like angry waves, the mountains and rivers are outside and inside Tongguan Road, looking at the Western Capital, I feel hesitant.
It is sad that wherever the Qin and Han Dynasties traveled, thousands of palaces and palaces were turned into dirt. When they prospered, the people suffered; when they died, the people suffered!"
"What a poem! What a poem! The Imperial Master deserves to be the Imperial Master. The peaks and ridges are like clusters and the waves are like angry waves. This is the Hedong Road!"
It's just that the Imperial Master remembered it wrong. Tongguan is to the west of Xijing and not on Hedong Road. However, Tongguan is indeed connected to the Yellow River like Jincheng. It should be said that Tongguan is on the Yellow River.
So it should be Shanhe Biaoli Hedong Road, but this one at the back... um.
Imperial Master, was this poem written by you in Tongguan, Ming Dynasty?"
When Zhao Huan listened to Chen Ye's poem, he couldn't help but praise him repeatedly. However, the place name Tongguan immediately made him confused, because Tongguan and Jincheng were actually in two directions.
It's just that the people's suffering and death are a bit serious. He doesn't want to take the initiative to mention it, but there is an unpleasant feeling in his heart.
"Well, it's fair to say that this is written by officials of the Yuan Dynasty who successively destroyed Xixia, Jin, and your Song. They spanned tens of thousands of miles across the entire continent and destroyed forty-seven countries in total."
"Hiss! Is that the Yuan Kingdom a hundred years later? The Yuan Kingdom that was destroyed by the Ming Kingdom? I remember that after they destroyed the Song Dynasty, didn't they just go north and destroy so many countries?"
Zhao Huan exclaimed, historical documents were mainly written on the theme of the Central Plains, and the historical records of the Ming Dynasty did not introduce much about the Yuan Dynasty. After all, the time from the Southern Song Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty was still very short.
"Yes, it is such a powerful country, spanning the Eurasian continent, and its cavalry is invincible.
But for such a powerful country, it stands to reason that the people in the mainland should be living a good life, but the people rebelled against it and eventually the country perished. Why do you think it happened?"
"Although the country is big, if it is warlike, it will perish! This Yuan Kingdom just has too many wars. Tsk, tsk, tsk, forty-seven kingdoms."
Zhao Huan was a little stunned when he said this, because one country can destroy forty-seven countries, how powerful is it?
"Oh, your Song Dynasty was not wary. Except for the founding of the country, you didn't destroy anyone after the founding of the country. You also kept giving money and gifts to others. Why did your territory keep shrinking? In the end, it was destroyed?"
"That's because the Jin people don't care about credibility. They are barbarians. Of course, the officials in the Song Dynasty did not act and the soldiers were weak."
Zhao Huan murmured, and he wanted to say that it was because Taizu's system hindered the military development of the Song Dynasty, but the facts proved that Taizu's strategy was right.
Until the fall of the Song Dynasty, there were no rebellions in feudal lords and towns. There were only surrendered soldiers. Except for civil uprisings, there was no case of non-wartime rebellion.
"If a country is big, it is right that if it is warlike, it will perish. But what about the next sentence, although the world is safe, if it forgets to fight, it will be in danger?
The Song Dynasty was attacked by Jin, Song and Xixia, so why did it never reflect on it? Apart from increasing border defense, nothing meaningful was done."
"I remembered it. There are records in the Ming Dynasty that the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed because their royal family suppressed the Han people. They ignored the lives of the people. Not only did they not provide relief during severe droughts, they also withheld relief food. If the people could not survive and rebelled, they suppressed them by force.
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But the Song Dynasty is different. The Song Dynasty attaches great importance to disaster relief. The people of the Song Dynasty cannot survive. If there is a rebellion or even an uprising, the court will not take the initiative to kill them, but will recruit them. This is incomparable to the Yuan Dynasty."
Zhao Huan was very proud when he said this. Through the subsequent evaluation, he could see that the Ming Dynasty did not have much negative evaluation of the Song Dynasty.
The disaster relief system of the Song Dynasty was very complete. In fact, the people's lives were not bad in both the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. But after understanding the previous policies of the Ming Dynasty, he could feel that the Song Dynasty was indeed benevolent.
Regarding this point, Chen Ye also nodded. The Song Dynasty's kindness to the people began with Jingkang as the turning point. Before Jingkang, the people's lives were quite prosperous, and the imperial oppression was not deep.
On the contrary, in the Ming Dynasty, although the border troubles were not serious, the common people could not withstand any changes due to their inheritance for generations.
"What's more, why are the national masters prospering? The people are suffering, and the people are suffering when the country is destroyed. The people are reduced to slaves when the country is destroyed. Naturally, they are suffering. Why is it so painful to prosper?"
"Because, no matter whether it rises or falls, the people will still have a bad life. When prosperity is strong, the army will be strong, and there will be corvees and taxes. Needless to say, there will be death."
"If that's the case... wouldn't it be enough to just do light corvee and receive a small amount of wealth?"
"You can do it, but what about the officials? How can they govern so many people if they do light corvee and low taxes? Where will the people of the world get the money to treat them when they encounter disasters?"
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Zhao Huan was silent. How would he answer these questions? In other words, except for surviving the capitalism of sheep-eating people and the modern era of demographic dividend and infrastructure madness, which ancient country could solve these problems?
"Does the Imperial Master have a strategy?"
"Aren't you planning to destroy the Jin Kingdom this time? If the Jin Kingdom is destroyed, you will find a good piece of land to cultivate a puppet state."
"Puppet country? But, how is this different from directly accepting the Jin Kingdom? And it can also directly govern it, wouldn't it be better?"
"The bigger the country, the better. You have to be responsible for your land, do you understand? All you need is to control the mineral and agricultural land.
Are you afraid that they will rebel? Suppress their military strength. As long as you have planes and tanks and they don't, they will never be able to resist.
You can slowly suck their blood. Anyway, they are not the people of the Song Dynasty. Their talents will only think of the Song Dynasty. The people at the bottom will always...'
Chen Ye told a whole set of routines used by modern big countries to suppress small countries, which made Zhao Huan shudder for a while. According to this statement, he can be sure that the small countries that are separated will never be able to turn around.
Seeing Zhao Huan thinking, Chen Ye smiled faintly. This trick was used by all dynasties, and it could maintain the technological leadership for at least three hundred years.
As long as it is properly controlled, three hundred years will be enough for the Han people to become the leaders of that time and space, and other nations will never have a chance to stand up. Fifty years will be enough to turn France into black, and three hundred years will be enough to turn the world into yellow.
After a while, Zhao Huan himself gradually smiled and stopped discussing. The two walked down the city wall, and Zhao Huan began to distribute supplies door to door throughout the city according to the script given by Chen Ye.
These supplies include paper money and ingots, as well as a variety of food with added technology. The taste is enough to make the people temporarily forget their sorrow. The various jars and boxes are beautifully packaged, and the people cherish them.
One night passed, the whole Jincheng was talking about Zhao Huan, a good official.