Chapter 244 The logical closed loop of Beiting people!
If the civil servants want to form a rope to fight against the imperial power, they also need a large number of interests to be linked to each other. With such a huge benefit in front of them, how can the civil servants not be tempted?
However, although the mutual redemption of prisoners of war brought various benefits to Daliang officialdom, it also brought disastrous consequences to Daliang!
The most direct consequence is that for the upper-class nobles of Beiting, the cost of launching a war has become smaller. At least for them, the risk of launching a war has been reduced to the lowest point.
Sometimes, even for them, defeat is simply a blessing. As long as they are captured by Daliang, in order to make these Beiting barbarians "bathe into kings", Daliang officials will serve them with delicious food and drink as much as possible.
Uncle Beiting.
In the view of the corrupt scholars in Daliang, this can make these Beiting people feel the power of civilization, and even make these Beiting people aspire to become civilized people. The final result is that the people of Beiting can "yearn for kingship" and thus
Gradually eliminate the hidden dangers of war.
However, in the eyes of Daliang officials, entertaining these Beiting prisoners of war was another expense, and this provided them with another benefit to "fight for."
But in the eyes of Beiting people, there is only one sentence - "The people of Daliang are really rich. If I don't rob them, I would be sorry for myself!"
Therefore, after these Beiting people return to Beiting, they will indeed miss the days when they once "bathed like kings". And their way to resolve this nostalgia is not to put down their butcher knives and integrate into the Central Plains, as the rotten Confucians imagine, and then find ways to become
A Beiting person.
Their method is also very simple, just three words - rob him!
It is precisely because the cost and risk of launching a war are too low for those who launch the war. So now, the Beiting people only need to attack Daliang. No matter whether the final result is victory or defeat, they will definitely win in the next year at the latest.
Will do it again.
After all, it was the lower-class herdsmen and slaves who paid the price for defeat, and it was they themselves who gained huge benefits from victory. They did not suffer no matter whether they won or lost, and they could even make a bloody profit if they won, so why didn't they fight?
As the most important barrier to defend Daliang, the generals of Daliang, even though they were not passive in their work subjectively, in fact, their fighting will was weakened by the prisoner exchange policy.
War is often a competition of "qi"! Two opponents of equal strength will fight at the end of the fight to see who can hold on better. Whoever can hold on to the last breath will win!
For military generals, in a dynasty like Daliang, it is obviously unrealistic to expect the generals to be loyal to the emperor.
If a military general arrives on the battlefield and finds that the battle is extremely difficult to fight, whether he will fight to the death has a lot to do with whether the price he has to pay after defeat is high enough.
If a general fought a tough battle and then surrendered, he could be redeemed by the court in the end. The court would even reward him for not escaping from the battle and betraying the court and serving the people of Beiting. He would still pursue it desperately.
Win the battle?
This possibility is obviously no longer high...
that's why?
Even though Prince Wulu knew that the heavy equipment of Daliang's heavy troops was very good, he still looked down on the official army of Daliang.
Because this imperial court has been completely decayed from top to bottom, from inside to outside, including its army, and has long been out of service!
However, there are many twists and turns that Suler doesn't understand very well.
But he knew that he could try to be redeemed.
What really made him hesitate was what happened to Holiday and his own face.
In any case, it is a very embarrassing thing for a member of the top nobles of Beiting to be captured by a middle-level officer in Daliang. For the martial people of Beiting, this is already a great shame and humiliation.
After exposing his identity to Lu Xu, he was really afraid that he would be regarded as some kind of rare animal. Then where would he put his face as a top noble?
of course!
Having already done such a shameful thing as surrendering, it wouldn't be a big deal to lose again. So although Suler had this concern in his heart, he didn't care much about it.
The point that made him hesitate the most was what happened to Holiday.
It has been some time since Holledo was "murdered". The spies in Beiting also know what happened to Holledo?
As both the top nobles of the North Courtyard, Holledo encountered such a thing, how could Suler guarantee that he would not enjoy the same treatment?
At least in Suler's view, Lu Xu is definitely an "unruly" person. Moreover, this person seems to hate Beiting people extremely. Suler can't guarantee whether Lu Xu will really be cruel to him.
hand.
Lu Xu would never have imagined that a middle-level officer like him could be taken seriously by the top nobles of Beiting.
In fact, it can be said that the Beiting Khanate has mobilized all its people in order to destroy Daliang. The preparations they made definitely exceeded Lu Xu's imagination.
Just because the smuggling trade route controlled by Lu Xu might threaten the retreat of the Beiting cavalry, the Beiting people mobilized their intelligence network in Daliang to investigate Lu Xu's situation.
result......
This investigation really allowed the Beiting people to discover the reason why Lu Xu hated the Beiting people.
An obvious fact is that the people of Beiting would never have thought of such an outrageous thing as time travel, no matter how hard they used their imaginations.
Therefore, from the perspective of Beiting people, Lu Xu was originally a great talent with both civil and military skills and proficient in all kinds of skills. But after such a person was admitted to the Jinshi, he was actually considered to be a weakling.
Weak scholar?
This shows that Lu Xu deliberately hides his ability. Having such a strong ability but not wanting to expose it can only show that Lu Xu has a big plan.
But Lu Xu could not calculate at all costs. If he was sitting at home, disaster would come from the sky. Shen Binhong knocked Lu Xu into the dust with one strike, and all of Lu Xu's ambitions and ambitions were wiped out.
So much so that he had to expose his abilities in advance.
Lu Xu didn't have to suffer such a blow. At that time, Lu Xu was a new scholar. How could it be so easy to prove Lu Xu's crime?
The fundamental reason why Lu Xu's crime was so easily confirmed was because the Beiting people went south to destroy Qin Feng Road. The court was in urgent need of various talents to fill Qin Feng Road, and Lu Xu was on the Wu family's blacklist, so he
suffered such treatment.
If the people from Beiting did not go south, then even if the Wu family had great hands and eyes, Lu Xu would never end up in such a situation with his abilities.
From this point of view, doesn’t this close the loop? Lu Xu has found the reason why he hates the people in Beiting!
These are the mainstream views of Lu Xu among the people in Beiting, and Suler naturally has no reason to doubt this idea.
In Suler's view, he was one of the classes that Lu Xu hated the most as the initiators of the war against Daliang. Of course he would be worried that Lu Xu would seek revenge on him!