Under the gaze of everyone, Liang Shicheng put the stool in his hand forward and placed it in front of the three stools, forming a shape of one in front and three in the back. Then he wiped the four stools with his sleeves.
Zhang Shuye's eyes flashed and he shot at Liang Shicheng's back like a knife.
Changsun Moli's expression remained unchanged, but his brows twitched.
The rest of the people had different expressions.
Yu Huatian, who was standing next to him, turned even paler, and then nodded to Liang Shicheng with a complicated expression, and the two quietly stood back to the left and right sides of Zhao Si.
Zhao Si pointed to the stool casually and said: "Everyone, sit down and listen to the teachings of the gentlemen."
"Yes." The four princes responded, but none of them moved. After waiting for a few moments, the more impatient Zhao Kuo stood up and started to walk forward, but Zhao Geng quietly grabbed the corner of his clothes from behind.
Zhao Ting took a few deep breaths, then Shi Shiran walked to the front stool and sat down generously.
Zhao Kuo suddenly realized something and quickly lowered his head, following Zhao Lian and Zhao Geng to the stools in the back row and sat down from left to right according to their age.
Seeing the eight-year-old Zhao Ting sitting in the front, holding her head high like a young adult, Zhang Shuye and others sighed inwardly, she was worthy of being the Queen of the Prison State, and the emperor's legitimate son she taught was so extraordinary.
"Mr. Zhang, please continue!" Zhao said politely.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhang Shuye bowed his hand to Zhao Si and continued.
"In the past few years, dozens of groups of rebels have emerged in Korea, with some ups and downs. The eighteen groups that finally became popular are known as the Eighteenth Route to rebel against the king and cause trouble in Korea. These rebels range from thousands to more than 1,000 people.
Wan, in the past, they only gathered in the mountains and forests, but later they began to conquer prefectures and counties..."
"At the most critical moment, at the end of the year before last, the two imperial troops of Goryeo, Yingyang and Longhu, rushed into Kaijing City to fight for pay. King Ma of Goryeo fled in panic with the royal family and ministers, and hid in Zhenzhou Port where our army was stationed.
Ganghwa Island was able to escape alive, but Kaijing City was burned to the ground. Now, the Goryeo government has ordered that it can only be carried out in a dozen or so prefectures and cities. In the rest of the places, rebels are raging and bandits are everywhere."
The Xie Ke family sighed and added: "I heard that the rebels in Goryeo are extremely cruel. There are two groups of civil and military officials and a family of Confucian scholars. If they fall into their hands, they will be cramped and skinned, and their heads and limbs will be cut off. They will die without a burial place, and their wives and daughters will be raped and humiliated.
, the tragic situation is really shocking! Now the country of Goryeo has been swept away, and there is a smell everywhere..."
The ministers sighed for a while, feeling quite sad like a rabbit dying and a fox grieving for its own kind.
Although they are in no way comparable to the two classes of civil and military officials and Confucian scholars from the Goryeo Kingdom, they have all read the books of sages and sages by Master Kong, and each of them is the elite and "ruling class" of their own country. If you think about it carefully, it is a bit sad to say that the rabbit is dead and the fox is dead.
The feeling that things are injurious to their own kind.
Zhao Si frowned slightly. This Xie Ke family only knew how to lament for the scholar-bureaucrats of Goryeo, but had no idea of the real problem.
He glanced at the faces of the four princes in Zhao Ting and said loudly.
"According to the message sent back by Li Yi, the envoy of the Song Dynasty in Goryeo, the situation in Goryeo is indeed very bad."
"The ruling foundation of the royal family, Tao, states, and counties has been almost completely destroyed. The two groups of civil and military groups, and the nobles of the aristocratic families have almost been killed and injured. What is even more frightening are the rebels, large and small, who only know how to rob, not produce. They are now arrogant
Rampant, once there is no food to eat, the end will come. Perhaps, only after a greater disaster and chaos, everything will return to normal."
Zhao Si's words echoed in everyone's ears.
In fact, these cabinet elders all know that everything that happened in Goryeo was because of the implementation of the "enemy exhaustion strategy." This strategy was proposed by the officials. After several discussions and deductions by the General Staff Headquarters and the Secretariat Department, he finally made the decision.
Deliver execution.
After the war on the Datong River subsided, hundreds of Song merchants poured into Goryeo, and subsequently, tens of thousands of released Goryeo prisoners also returned home one after another. These people quickly spread throughout Goryeo, and an unknown number of craftsmen were mixed in among them.
Some of them were Song people disguised as Koreans; some were Korean captives who were "educated anyway" and became masterpieces of the Song Dynasty; some were also Korean captives who were just indoctrinated with the idea of "Ge Ming" and returned to Korea with only the intention of rebelling.
, leading the villagers to live a good life.
Behind these people were the secret support of the merchants and the army of the Song Dynasty - the Goryeo coastline was almost undefended, and any ship could come ashore in a grand manner and transport a batch of soldiers and armor, which were the same soldiers and armor that had been captured by the Goryeo army.
So a group of rebels can start.
Several rebel armies captured the prefectures and counties and made a name for themselves. As soon as the news spread, the hearts and minds of the "heroes" from all over the Koryo Kingdom became alive. These people had their own thoughts. Maybe they really just wanted to have enough food to eat. Some of them really
He is a hero in troubled times. No matter what, once he stirs up trouble, he cannot help himself.
There were wars and bandits everywhere, and the situation in Goryeo was rapidly deteriorating.
With the support behind the Song State, the Goryeo State could not suppress these rebel armies at all - after one group was destroyed, another one emerged again; the rebels were crippled, hid in the mountains, received a batch of aid, raised their arms, and returned to their original state.
The earth is filled with blood and resurrected...
As time went by, the consequences were that all regions were in chaos, taxes could not be collected, and the Goryeo royal family and the court had no money to raise troops and could not suppress them, so the local troubles became more violent; the more violent the troubles, the less taxes could be collected -
—A vicious cycle has formed.
The year before last, Ying Yang, Yong Hu and other imperial troops mutinied because they were in arrears with pay for more than half a year. They burned, killed, and looted, burning the centuries-old Goryeo royal capital into ruins.
Since then, the Goryeo royal family has become increasingly weak, and government orders have not left the capital. In addition to bandits running rampant in various places, many aristocratic families and people have also formed strongholds to protect themselves. It can be said that the Goryeo Kingdom exists in name only.
The Song Dynasty's plan to tire out the enemy was completely achieved. They just waited for the soup to simmer for a while, and then it would fall into place.
Zhao Si asked: "Have you ever thought about why the Goryeo Kingdom collapsed to such an extent?"
The Xie Ke family was stunned. He really hadn't thought about it, but looking at the faces of Zhang Shuye, Changsun Moli and others, they seemed to have thought about it carefully.
"Your Majesty, the Yilun Hall of the Hanlin Academy and the School of National Affairs of Sungkyun University have a research team that has conducted in-depth research on the chaos in Goryeo. Under the protection of the garrison, they once went deep into Goryeo prefectures and counties to conduct on-the-spot investigations...
Three reports have been published now, and studies were organized at the provincial affairs meeting of the Shangshu Province."
Zhang Shuye replied.
"Did you study it at the Provincial Council of Shangshu Province? Well, Mr. Zhang, you are ahead of the curve." Zhao Si praised, "Master Zong, Mr. Xie, and others here may not have read it. Mr. Zhang,
