Dahan first prince

Chapter 395 The Unique 'Dove School' of the Han Family

To Liu Ying's surprise, the lifting of the ban on Changle Palace did not arouse even the slightest bit of public opinion in Chang'an City.

Perhaps in the past two years, the presence of Changle Palace was too low, and the government and the public did not pay attention to the changes in Changle Palace;

Or maybe it was Lu Zhi's act of "self-restraining Changle", which was not taken seriously by the government and the public, or in other words, did not dare to take it to heart.

In the early morning of the next day, the gates of the six palaces of Changle Palace were all opened at Mao when the curfew ended;
As for the officials, ministers, and meritorious officials in the court, as if nothing had happened, they went to Changle Palace to meet Lu Zhi according to the old practice.

For this result, Liu Ying was naturally extremely satisfied, her mood improved, and she ate two more bowls of corn porridge for breakfast!
But soon, Liu Ying's joy and relaxation due to the lifting of the ban on Changle Palace was destroyed by a letter with a very special specification.

One side is one foot and one inch wide, and the whole body is composed of new wooden boards. The first sentence of the opening sentence is the letter of credence of "Xiongnu Da Shanyu", which was sent to Chang'an, the capital of Han, on the same day that the Changle Palace was lifted... ·

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"Let's talk about it~"

"What should I say about this book?"

It was just dawn, and before the officials and ministers had time to go to Changle Palace, Liu Ying held this special meeting in the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace, which neither belonged to the Chang Dynasty nor the Shuowang Dynasty.

And the core of this meeting was written in front of Liu Ying, the letter of credence written by the Xiongnu Shanyu: Suo Modun from the first perspective...

"The internal history of Anguo Houchen's mausoleum, with a hundred obeisances, to honor your majesty."

There was no beating around the bush, and no cannon fodder came out to test - the first person to stand up was the quasi-prime minister, Wang Ling!

"Di Chief's words are light, and there are many insults, and few respect and friends, but he doesn't mention a word about the alliance in the past, and he dares to question Han Andong County with false actions!"

"As early as the time of Emperor Taizu Gao, our Han family and Di Chief Maodun formed an alliance at the foot of Baideng Mountain: opened the border and exchanged troops, Xu Han merchants went out of the wall to the north and back and forth, and the Han soldiers did not go north. Hu Qi can't go south;"

"Today, Chieftain Di Maodun despises the monarchs and ministers of our Han family, destroys the past covenant, and interferes in the internal affairs of our Han Andong County!"

"Your Majesty thinks that Yu Beidi's brutal act should be repaid with thunder!!!"

Liu Ying couldn't help being a little surprised by her extremely strong words, but seeing Wang Ling bowing as usual, she retreated back to the train with a sullen face;
After the royal tomb, several people were born one after another, showing their identity as 'hawks'.

It's just that the identities of these hawks...
"Zhonglang general Quan Xu, compared with two thousand stones..."

"The servant of the audience shoots Shu Jun, Qianshi..."

"The servant of Zhongmen, Ji Pan, is better than Qianshi..."

She silently read the official ranks of these 'hawks' in her heart, but Liu Ying raised her head calmly.

"What does Wei Wei think?"

"War it? And it?"

After being pointed out by Liu Ying, Li Ji felt sore all the time, sighed secretly, and then stood up bravely.

"Your Majesty."

"The minister tasted the news: the king humiliated the minister to death, and the king worried about the minister's labor;"

"The northern barbarian chieftain bullied our Han family too much. If we make peace now, the northern barbarian might become even more arrogant!"

Without hesitation, he stated the position of'I'm really not a dovish', Li Ji thought about it again and again, but finally changed the subject.

"Of course..."

"If we talk about fighting, although our Han family has enough armor, we still lack horses and cavalry. If we fight with Hu, we may have the difficulty of being unable to catch up and go too fast."

"The old minister thought, either war, or peace..."

Speaking of this, Li Ji did not forget to raise his head quietly, and glanced at the emperor Liu Ying who was sitting calmly on the imperial couch above the imperial steps.

Seeing Liu Ying's face, there was no useful information at all, so Li Ji finally shook his head to himself, and bowed to Liu Ying again.

"Whether war, or peace, you should think twice, think twice, and then act..."

"Whoo~"

Almost at the same time as Li Ji said the phrase'consider it carefully', Liu Ying, who was looking at Li Ji straight from the imperial steps, breathed a sigh of relief.

This is the overall view of the Han family's external strategy today.

——The dovish faction of Han Dynasty characteristics has an absolute upper hand!
As for the few hawks, they were either young generals and rising stars single-handedly promoted by Liu Ying, or the second generation of Gonghou who were closely attached to Liu Ying;

As for the No. 1 royal tomb of the court, which is written as an internal history and read as "acting prime minister", it is most likely not a personal opinion, but the identity of the "prime minister" and the political mission of the wealthy royal tomb.

——No matter how bad the situation is, even the emperor has retreated, and the prime minister must not show the slightest weakness in foreign strategy;

The same is true even if Wang Ling is not a prime minister in the true sense.

To put it more bluntly: Wang Ling is actually a "Han Dynasty characteristic dove", but out of his status, he stood in the hawk camp against his will.

The reason why the hawks here are described by Liu Ying as "the doves with the characteristics of the Han Dynasty" is because the doves in the Han Dynasty today are completely different from those cats and dogs in later generations.

In most of the later generations, dovishness means not resisting, not fighting, and submitting to all external threats, even willing to cut land and donate money, leaving a bad reputation forever;

In the final analysis, there is one sentence: Even if the sky falls, there must be no war!
But in the Han Dynasty, there was absolutely no soil for such 'doves', or national betrayers.

In the original history, the historical celebrity 'Di Shan' who appeared in Emperor Wu's reign proved this point.

The biggest difference between the doves of the Han Dynasty and this kind of capitulationist doves is that the doves of the Han Dynasty are not so much doves as calm hawks;

In other words, the Han Dynasty is not at all between the hawks and the doves, there is a dispute on the issue of "to fight or not to fight";

Rather, there is a slight disagreement on the issue of 'fight now or fight later' between the irascible hawks and the calm hawks.

The irascible hawks, of course, don't need to go into details, since everyone wants to be a two-knife turkey, regardless of the strength of the enemy and the enemy or the difference in combat power, they just want to chase the enemy and cut eighteen streets!
Such hawks can be said to be restless, irrational, and even unstable, but they are also the most indispensable factor for a civilization.

— Bloody!
As for the 'Han-style doves', that is, the calm hawks, they are not like these reckless men who only think about riding and hacking;
This group advocates peace, not like the doves of later generations, who advocate peace for the sake of peace, but choose temporary peace for the sake of reality and the comparison of the strength of the enemy and ourselves.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the doves of later generations seek peace is because they are afraid, because they don’t want to fight, and they even habitually seek peace;

But the doves in the Han Dynasty wanted to make peace, because they thought: Well, I think we can develop and develop again, and then fight after Liushen pretends, we will be invincible in the later stage.

So in fact, the members of both the hawks and the doves in the Han Dynasty today may seem very strange to future generations.

——The main battlers are all the second-generation children who have never been on the battlefield, or the civil servants with doctorates who claim to be "hard and strong";

On the contrary: it is those generals who have actually been on the battlefield and fought against the Huns with real knives and guns.

And now, the leader of the "Dove Sect" in the Chang'an court is also the representative figure of the Han Dynasty military: Qu Zhouhou's son, Li Ji.

This phenomenon of "civilian officials leading the battle, and military commanders leading the peace" may be very confusing at first glance;

——In the past dynasties of China, military generals have always clamored for war, and civil servants held high peace chess pieces. Why did the situation turn upside down when it came to the Han Dynasty?

But in fact, as long as you understand the internal logic of this phenomenon, it is not difficult to understand that this strange phenomenon will appear in the current rising period.

For the literati and the second generation, what is war?
It's just military rations, military salaries, hundreds of thousands of civilian men who transport food, an army composed of more than a dozen or 20 civilian children, and supporting weapons and equipment;

As for what a real war means and what a real battlefield looks like, they are not within the cognitive scope of these 'meat eaters' at all.

Therefore, regarding the question of "whether to fight or not", this group is prone to have an illusion.

——If you want food, I will allocate it for you; if you want soldiers, I will conscript them for you; if you want food, people, and all kinds of logistics, I will also guarantee it for you;

Then since I have done everything for you except fighting, it shouldn't be too much to ask your general to wipe out 10 enemy troops, right?
That is to say, for those who do not understand war, "whether they can fight" often only depends on "whether they can afford it."

As long as they can fight and gather enough supplies for the war, this group agrees to come to the conclusion that they can fight.

As for strategic gains and losses, chances of winning and the like, they are completely out of the scope of these people's considerations.

On the contrary, compared with those stunned young men who regard war as an online game and think that fighting = winning, military commanders obviously have a better understanding of war, the strength of the enemy and us, as well as their respective combat methods and restraint relationships. fully understand.

The decades-long foreign strategic disadvantages have made these generals very clear: in order to ensure that the losses are controlled within an acceptable range, while causing enough damage to the Xiongnu and achieving valuable strategic intentions, today's Han Dynasty , what else is needed, what is still missing.

Just as Li Ji said just now: Although the Han Dynasty has abundant troops and sufficient logistical support, if the enemy is the Huns, the biggest problem for the Han Dynasty is that there are not enough horses and cavalry.

Therefore, the group of generals who know what the Han Dynasty still lacks and how long it will take to make up for the vacancy will naturally have the view of "don't rush to fight first, and wait for two pieces of equipment to talk about it".

As for now, the dove faction in the Chang'an court has an absolute advantage, while the hawk faction is struggling to support it. It is for this reason that the prime minister even needs to stand by the hawk faction by default.

——In the Han Dynasty, at least in today’s Han Dynasty, there are almost few people who are qualified to appear in the Hall of Proclamation, and they didn’t come out of the army!

Why is there a distinction between civil and military in all dynasties, but not in the early Han Dynasty?

——Because in the early Han Dynasty, the courtiers, hundreds of officials, and meritorious officials were almost all civil and martial arts per capita!
Under such a political background, it is foreseeable that the irritable hawks, or the brainless hawks, are composed of only a few people with doctors of letters and the second generation of Gonghou.

no way.

——In today's Chang'an court, it is really difficult to find a fool who yells and goes to war all day...

The overall quality of officials, especially the senior bureaucrats, is really not enough to provide enough fools to form a huge brainless hawk...

As for this point, Liu Ying wanted to change.

"Wei Wei's words are indeed the words of the old minister seeking the country."

"However, in my opinion, there is a slight risk of overcorrecting?"

After saying a word in a calm tone, Liu Ying smiled and lowered her head, thinking secretly.

The main reason why the Dove Faction, which dominates the court today, can have such a huge force is that the Han family's military has unanimously concluded that if they want to defeat the Huns whose main arm is cavalry, they can only let the Han Dynasty, Also holds strong enough to cavalry.

To put it simply, only magic can defeat magic, and only cavalry can defeat cavalry.

It is also under this consensus that the voice of the temporary Lord and Harmony occupies such a huge proportion in the court.

But from the perspective of Liu Ying, a traverser, the cognition that "only cavalry can defeat cavalry" is obviously biased.

There is a common saying in later generations: it is often not your peers who defeat you, but cross-border;

Right now, the same is true.

——Who said that nomadic cavalry must use cavalry to be tough?

Isn't it okay to line up and shoot?
Isn't Maxim good?

Iron torrent, is he okay?
It is true that in the Han Dynasty at this stage, talking about queuing up and shooting, and the torrent of steel is undoubtedly a bit brainless;
But who said that in the era of cold weapons, there is no infantry unit that can defeat cavalry?

Thinking of this, Liu Ying only laughed lightly in her heart, but her face was completely indifferent.

——In the past two years, if you say what Liu Ying's biggest achievement is, it is undoubtedly that she has reached the full level of the skill of 'unpredictable emotions and anger'.

Of course, the unpredictable mood here does not refer to irregular rage, ecstasy, and similar violent mood swings, but...
Um······

To be precise, facial paralysis.

It took Liu Ying two years to develop a paralyzed face.

"Since you all have doubts~"

"Hey······"

"Let the Shaofu lead the way?"

Speaking in a relaxed tone, Liu Ying also had a rare faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

For two years, Liu Ying was busy with internal affairs;

But Shaofu is not like the npc in the game, if you don't look for him, he will just stand there stupidly.

In particular, Luban Garden in Shanglin Garden, with the achievements made in the past two years, Liu Ying is more than [-]% sure: the situation of the "doves crushing the hawks" in the court of the Han Dynasty will be closed before noon today. Announcing the end...
(End of this chapter)