Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Looking at the heads rolling on the ground, the whole place suddenly became quiet, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

He Yan slowly put away the paper in his hand, came to the execution platform, and reported to Wang Xiaolie who was sitting on the platform.

Wang Xiaolie said: "Come up and sit down."

He Yan lifted up the corner of his robe and stepped onto the execution platform.

Wang Xiaolie said: "When the two countries are at war, no matter how hard the soldiers fight on the front line, it is too much. You kill me and I kill you, all for the sake of our own victory. There is nothing to say. But to kill and surrender, to put swords and soldiers on people with empty hands, It's too much. What's worse, they use weapons on the people! Since the Jin army came south, the people of the Central Plains have suffered. How many people were separated from their wives and children in the war, and how many people went away with their wrongs in the war. The Central Plains has been a prosperous place since ancient times. As soon as the Jin army came, ten rooms were empty, and there was no cockcrow for thousands of miles! These 32 people in the audience were the culprits! It was them, with a group of tiger and wolf soldiers, who turned the once prosperous Central Plains into a scorched earth! How pitiful, I The people of the Central Plains were able to unite as one, chase the strong captives from the north, and capture them. If we don’t kill them today, it would be a mistake for the sky to have no eyes!”

Wang Xiaolie said something, and the messenger in the audience repeated it, and the sound shocked the sun and the moon.

The people in the audience heard it clearly, and they all stopped what they were doing and listened quietly.

To be honest, no one has ever heard of this saying that weapons should not be used on the common people during war. Because of the war, the people were affected and even robbed, and they could only secretly talk about their misfortune. Find a way to escape, what else can you do?
But when Wang Xiaolie said this on stage, it seemed like it was a matter of course. When the people heard this, they thought so. Why should war bring bad luck to the people? Those who are soldiers should beat those who are soldiers, why should they beat ordinary people? Ordinary people don’t think deeply about this difference.

Moreover, when the Song army defeated the troops, they robbed the people themselves, and then the court recruited the troops to retreat. It was as if nothing had happened. Neither the court nor the people had the consciousness to protect the people. It seems that the people are the grain in the fields, and they rob it as soon as they can.

Many consciousnesses are proposed and implemented by superiors. History is created by the people. In many cases, it means that the people elect the people in power, and then the people in power create history. When the person in power cannot represent the people, the people will overthrow him.

The attitude towards a specific matter may not necessarily be represented by the people in power, and sometimes the people can only passively accept it. For example, Zhao Gou's attitude towards the Jin Dynasty in history certainly does not represent the attitude of the people.

Some people, based on existing historical results, extrapolate people's attitudes and think they have discovered the truth. For example, the fact that the Southern Song Dynasty was historically peaceful means that a large number of people tended to be peaceful. Typically, it is speculated that people fleeing from the north want to go north, while the natives in the south do not want to go north. I think this is in line with human nature.

Such speculation does not make much sense.

Indeed, due to the influence of Jiangnan scholars, Zhao Gou chose Hangzhou. But this does not mean that the Jiangnan scholars do not want the Northern Expedition. Not to mention, many of the so-called Jiangnan scholars fled south.

In fact, the Northern Expedition was a common thought in the world at that time, and it was a choice that Chinese people would make based on ordinary patriotic enthusiasm. From historical data, we can only find a lot of regrets about the Northern Expedition. But I can't find the thought that I don't want to go to the Northern Expedition.

After a pause, Wang Xiaolie continued: "The natural cycle of retribution is not good! I will kill these people today to comfort the souls who died due to the invasion of the Jin Army, and to alert the people who are still alive. If we can't unite as one, , we cannot defeat the Jin people. We cannot kill so many generals of the Jin Kingdom here. But as long as we work together, we can overcome all difficulties and defeat all enemies!"

"What the people want is what I want; what the people are happy about is what I like; what the people hate is what I hate; what the people are sad about is what I feel sad about; what people are happy about is what I am happy about. . I will work with the people of the world to drive out the Tartars and restore China!" As soon as he finished speaking, the people around him applauded and shouted long live the mountain.

Long live the mountain, in the past, was an activity for people to spontaneously express their inner emotions. Big celebrations and ceremonies often end with shouts of "Long Live the Mountain", regardless of whether the emperor presides over it or not. By the Song Dynasty, the call "Long Live the Mountain" gradually became exclusive to the emperor, and it was considered arrogant for others to use it.

After returning from Hedong, Wang Xiaolie took many arrogances and became less cautious.

Now Wang Xiaolie desperately needs to change people's thinking. That is to say, the reason why he raised the army was to expel the Tartars and restore China, not to be loyal to Zhao Gou. Only by being loyal to Zhao Gou can you raise troops to rebel when Zhao Huaimao and the Jin Dynasty seek peace.

This is very important. Otherwise, Wang Xiaolie would lose the legitimacy of rebellion, which would be very harmful. Moreover, doing so also restrained Zhao Gou so that he would not dare to blatantly betray his country.

The current situation is excellent. Zhao Gou's request for peace will be very harmful to the Song Dynasty.

Seeing Wang Xiaolie and the officials from the Xuanfu Division leaving, Zhang Yuan shed tears. Said: "When Xuan Fu talked about it today, I realized how stupid I was to be used by the Jin people. I am a Han, and I should fight to the death with the Jurchens. Where is the other way?"

Li Qingzhao said: "The Jurchens are just people who drink hair and drink blood. Without the help of the Han people, how would they know how to govern the country?"

Zhang Yuan nodded repeatedly: "Although layman Yi An is a female, he can see things more clearly than me. In the past, I saw that the Jurchen generals arranged things in an orderly manner, and I secretly admired them. Now it seems that they can still fight with the Jurchen army. . If the army can fight, no matter how we arrange it, it will not go wrong."

The Jurchen army can indeed fight. If Wang Xiaolie hadn't adopted many methods of modern armies, it would have been difficult to defeat the Jurchen army. In the cold weapon age, the Jurchen army was almost invincible. The Song Dynasty could only use numbers to massacre the Jurchens.

When summarizing the history of later generations, they always like to summarize lessons and say what went wrong in the Song Dynasty. They say that treacherous ministers harm the country, that the king is ignorant and misdirects his affairs, and all kinds of reasons. In fact, the Jurchens had almost all the problems that the Song Dynasty had. The Jurchens also had a lot of problems that did not exist in the Song Dynasty.

In history, Nian Han was killed, Liu Yu was deposed, Wu Shu was in power, and the noble ministers were domineering. In the later period of Wanyan's reign, he often killed people while drunk, and the ministers were in panic all day long. So much so that Wan Yanliang and others committed regicide and monopolized power themselves, which caused even more trouble than the Song Dynasty.

But the Jin Dynasty's country was so impregnable that it could not be defeated only by the Jurchens. As long as the army can fight, everything else is a small problem.

Li Qingzhao came to the window, looked at the heads on the ground, and fell into deep thought.

Li Qingzhao understood what Wang Xiaolie said just now. What if another person rules this country?
(End of this chapter)