end song

Chapter 754

"country?"

Liu Zheng asked back, his tone quite disdainful.

Afterwards, he raised his palm and took a look, looking more and more arrogant, and said: "I have the ability to destroy the country, I should have been like Wang Jian, who destroyed Yan, Zhao, and Chu; I should be like Yang Su, who Yang Jingjiang expressed , Ping Nanchen; I should be like Su Dingfang, destroying the three kingdoms one after another, and capturing their masters alive... I should be like these famous generals."

The palm turned slightly, clenched into a fist, and then let go.

Only then did Liu Zheng look at Li Xia, and said, "After Meng Shaobao, if Zhao Song is willing to use me, I also have the ambition to restore the Central Plains to the north; if the Mongols listen to my advice, I will defeat you sooner or later, and go south to destroy Song... Country? How many times has it risen and fallen since ancient times, the country was built by people, and it was also destroyed by people.”

"So you only have yourself in your eyes, but no country."

"Why not? Su Qin used his talents to dominate the feudal lords. He is responsible for the rise and fall of the six kingdoms. The country he lives in is more important than the country he goes to."

"I didn't see your talent." Li Xia said: "I only saw you lose once and then again, Jiantandu lost a lot, Beiluoshui lost again, and Hekou Town lost three times."

"that is because……"

"That's because you don't have 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. Looking at you, you are a tree with no roots at all." Trees, want to resist the wind? You fall down as soon as the wind blows, a person without a country, do you have roots? Do you have a sense of belonging?"

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

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

Liu Zheng was silent.

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

--No.

But it was hard to speak, so he had to raise the big Mongolian country to show his tyranny, but he was pushed back with one sentence.

He clenched his fists, feeling intense unwillingness and anger.

"Why should I fight to the death?! Mongolia treats me like a dog and a horse, but I treat it like a countryman. Zhao Song treats me like nothing, but I treat him like an enemy, so why should I fight to the death and die?!

That’s right, I’m the general of the defeated army. If you want to kill me, I’ll do whatever you want, but you don’t have to question me with unwarranted words of loyalty. You are not qualified. You are also a traitor. ? ! "

"I have."

Li Xia answered very simply.

Liu Zheng hesitated for a moment, and then scolded: "Bold and shameless. Although I am out of morals, I don't bother to imitate your reputation."

"I do have a heart of loyalty to the country, not to Song."

After Li Xia finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed at the wheat field that had been burned to ashes, and said, "You say that I am famous, but if what I say is false, why don't you take a look at the world and the wheat field that you burned with your own hands?" ..."

"Ridiculous! You are also a general. You don't know that fighting means killing people and killing people all over the country. 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 land?"

"That's right, the 67 acres of wheat fields and 81 innocent lives in Gaoling County are nothing to you, because tens of millions of people have been killed by the butcher's knives after years of war! Compared to this, this is nothing. "

"How innocent is the Liu Heima you recruited? In the past 30 years of fighting in the south and north, have there been few innocent souls who died at his hands? Which one in the world is clean under the hands of a general? Are there no dead souls and dead bones?!"

At this point, Liu Zong glared at Li Xia, and cursed again: "Hugh is hypocritical, in this troubled world, people are nothing but two-legged sheep, and people are worse than cattle and sheep. Thousands of people who died under the butcher's knife I didn't kill people, and if I don't kill people, I will be killed by others. When people live in this world, they can only choose to become a knife or a fish. I choose the knife. What's wrong?! This is the way of the world!"

"That's why there is a need for a state, isn't it?"

Li Xia asked back, and said: "In peacetime, I can barely understand you people who put personal interests far above the country. But in this troubled world where foreign bandits can wantonly and crazily mutilate each of us, You still can’t understand how weak an individual’s power is in front of foreign invaders? Without a strong country to protect, most people’s lives are worse than dogs..."

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

When the foreign bandits came to kill, the wives, children and parents were cut open before their eyes, and they were used as the pleasure of the Hulu. What power could stop them?
There is nothing the individual can do.

When Song Ting was unable to protect these people, only they themselves could understand what is "despair that makes the sky not work and the earth should not respond".

There is no place to redress injustice, and no place to seek justice.

Don't say it's worse than pigs and dogs, people live like ghosts, not even farts...

Li Xia couldn't finish talking about the suffering of people without a country, shook his head, and said: "I treat the princes of the North, regardless of my deeds, and I can treat you the same way. If they want a country, they are all looking forward to it, hoping to have a decent country, but you don't have it."

"How do you know I don't?!"

"You think you are talented, and you just want to be that rootless tree. The whole world calls you Liu Zhengjun slightly unparalleled, and you look down on everything with your personal talent, and then what? You live more like a dog than others? And today, you You still refuse to reflect on yourself, and your eyes are full of personal interests. Selfishness is not a crime, everyone is selfish. But don’t you think that you are already hopelessly stupid?”

That's why he didn't plan to use Liu Zheng.

He can feel a similar belief from Zhang Rou's protection of academics, Liu Heima's intercession for the people, and the efforts of the former northern literati to establish the Han system-a strong country is needed to end the troubled times.

And Liu Zheng didn't make 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 "deadly stupid".

After asking this sentence, Liu Zheng's face turned red, and veins burst out on his forehead.

He disagrees.

And was insulted by the word "stupid", furious.

But because he was a prisoner, he couldn't violently kill Li Xia, so he had no choice but to clench his fists before organizing a verbal counterattack.

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

……

In Xiayangdu, Liu Zheng’s second son, Liu Yan, faced the questioning of the soldiers of the Song army, and cut off his own ears in excitement, unwilling to listen to those who had not experienced the suffering of others, standing on a moral high ground and pointing out.

Liu Zheng didn't cut off his ears.

He is not young anymore, less impulsive.

Today when he came to see Li Xia, he wanted to keep his eldest son and direct descendants, but he still had some reluctance.

Unwilling to die at this point, but also want to show their talents.

In the end, he was irritated by Li Xia's expression of serious discussion.

"It was Song Ting who turned his back on me first! He said that the K-Enemy Camp was collaborating with the enemy, but before the K-Enemy Camp cooperated with the enemy, Zhao Fangfang had already left a legacy to ask Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui to kill us. You never regarded us reformers as your own!"

As Liu Zheng said, he pulled open his skirt, revealing his scarred body.

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

Li Xia had also been on the battlefield, and he knew at a glance that these were old injuries of 30 or [-] years.

Only when he was a pawn or a school general could he suffer so many injuries. When he became a general or a commander, he had excellent armor and personal guards, which was completely incomparable to when he was a pawn.

From these old wounds, it seems to be able to see how tragic the end of the Song-Jin war and the beginning of the Song-Meng war were.

"In the sixth year of Shaoding, in the Battle of Guanghua, I joined Meng Shaobao in the battle against the golden general Wuxian, and won a great victory, capturing [-] enemies. I followed General Zhang to kill Wu Tianxi and seriously injured four places;"

Liu Zheng heavily tapped his chest and shoulders four times.

"In September of that year, during the Battle of Kuizhou, I crossed the moat and ascended the city, took Xinyang first, and wounded seven places. I followed Meng Shaobao into Caizhou, and saw Meng Shaobao split Wanyan Shouxu's body in two and destroy the gold;

In the third year of Duanping, in the Battle of Jiangling, we smashed 24 enemy camps and recaptured [-] 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 would a North returner suffer from becoming a general from a pawn during more than [-] or [-] years of war?

Pointing to the scars on his body, Liu Zheng became more unwilling and angry.

"You became the king of the county at a young age, and I have made more contributions to Song Ting and suffered more injuries than you! Every time I make a plan, I will be denied, but the credit will be concealed. Why should I serve Song Ting again?" Death?!

Until I figured it out.So what if I win the Arrow Beach Crossing?Can get what I deserve?On the contrary, it was because I preserved my strength that Song Ting didn't dare to punish me... How did I figure it out?Lu Wende can do it, why can't I do it? ! "

"..."

Liu Zheng thumped his head and said for a long time.

In the end, he stared at Li Xia with red eyes, still proud.

"Speaking of it, I can be called a sharp sword. Some people can use it to level the world, while others are only afraid of being hurt by it. Do you, Li Xia, have the heroism of Meng Shaobao? Do you dare to hold this sharp sword?"

Liu Zheng didn't seem to come here to beg for surrender, but rather to make a promise to Li Xia.A promise of "Use me, I can conquer the world for you".

A sword hung from Li Xia's waist.

He patted the long sword, but said: "This is not a question of sharp swords, but a question of why we draw our swords."

There was a hint of hope in Liu Zheng's eyes, as if some kind of ambition had revived. Hearing this sentence, he was stunned again.

"I drew my sword, aiming to build a strong dynasty and give many rootless people like you a sense of belonging. But you take personal honor and disgrace too seriously, proud and stubborn. Like a sword that only wants to be stained with blood , how do I use it?"

"You do not dare……"

"I dare not, or don't appreciate you, you know it in your heart." Li Xia said: "From the beginning to the end, all you talk about is talent and grievances. You are too proud, too stubborn, and you will never repent. I will not use you."

In a word, Liu Zheng became more and more angry.

His clenched fist tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened again, and there was still a look of unwillingness in his eyes at the end.

"You don't have to lie to me, my son is attacking Tongguan..."

"If you are willing to persuade them to surrender, I will give them a chance to change their ways; if you are not willing, I will defeat them. You can consider this matter. Of course, when they face my soldiers, they will also consider it. "

Li Xia took another look at the festering wound on Liu Zheng's leg, and said, "As for you, time is running out, so you should think about it carefully."

He turned and left.

But Liu Zheng roared angrily: "Li Xia, don't be so crazy! You will regret not recruiting me sooner or later, and it is rare for a general in the world to be able to be with me..."

"Don't you understand yet?"

Li Xia turned her head and sighed slightly.

"I met you today not to recruit you. I met you because you are the epitome of this era when the North and the South were divided and countless people were homeless. You were destroyed by this era, and I feel sorry for you."

He met Liu Zheng's angry eyes and stepped forward.

"I can't criticize you and Song Ting's right or wrong. What I want to do is to change this bad era. From your experience, I discuss where it is bad, why it is so bad, and think about how to change it...these are the important things , because people all over the world want a country that can give them a sense of belonging, security, and pride. This is the general trend, mighty and unstoppable. Why do we fight? Why do we win or lose? The answer is all in it .And the talent in military strategy that you have always cared about is not worth mentioning in comparison, understand?"

The words "not worth mentioning" came to my ears, and Liu Zheng's pupils shook, his face was ashen ashes...

(End of this chapter)