Dahan first prince

Chapter 46
"Ten days?"

Hearing Lu Shizhi's words, Liu Ying couldn't help but froze.

Xun means ten days, Xunyue roughly means 'ten days and a half a month', and Xunri means within ten days!

But now...
"The harvest is not over this autumn, the treasury is empty, and even though Chen Xi has the appearance of rebellion, he still hasn't acted as a rebel?"

"Father is going to fight at this time, isn't there any suspicion of forcing Chen Xi?"

Hearing this, Lu Shizhi only slightly nodded his head, and his face became a little serious.

"Indeed."

"However, this is probably the result of His Majesty's helplessness."

"I think back then, when Han Wangxin made troubles and replaced the North, it was nearly autumn, and His Majesty still insisted on going out to fight, and finally fell into Bai Deng's trap."

Speaking of this, Lu Shizhi's face was slightly sentimental.

"At that time, the minister also followed the late Zhou Lvling Wuhou, and led the army to help to relieve your majesty's siege."

"However, as far as Baideng, the minister saw that the soldiers brought by His Majesty, only a few hundred were killed by swords and guns, and nearly ten thousand died of hunger and cold!"

"Even the surviving soldiers, most of them were injured by the cold and lost the fingers of their hands and feet, so they had to return home sadly, thinking that they were farmers in the countryside..."

As he said that, Lu Shizhi's eyes turned red, and he loosened his clothes a little uncomfortably.

"The following year, more than half of the [-] officers and men of the Eight Divisions of the Northern Army returned to their hometowns to work as farmers."

"Thousands of households in Bashangmin, even a few families wear mourning..."

Seeing Lu Shizhi narrating these old events full of scars, Liu Ying couldn't help feeling a little sad even though she had never witnessed it with her own eyes.

What Lu Shizhi said was exactly three years ago, when Han Wangxin surrendered to the enemy, which led to the large-scale armed confrontation between Han and Hungarians in the Pingcheng World War!
In the most critical battle in the First World War in Pingcheng, that is, in the unprecedented "King vs. King" Battle of Baideng between the Han and Hungarians, almost all the losses of the Han Dynasty were caused by starvation and freezing to death.

Liu Ying still remembers the days when she was the puppet emperor in her previous life, and saw the battle report of Baideng Battle in Shiqu Pavilion.

And on the bamboo slips that were nearly several feet long, Liu Ying saw jaw-dropping statistics!
——War dead, 71 [-] people!
——Dead from serious injuries, 69 people!

——Nearly 7000 people died of frostbite; twice as many were injured or disabled!
——Famine and death, nearly [-] people!
In the battle of Baideng alone, the Han army had nearly 4000 more martyrs, and more than [-] soldiers who were frostbitten and disabled due to the battle of Baideng!

After the war, even the Northern Army, one of the two armies in Chang'an, had at least half of its key cadres, who had no choice but to face retirement.

Even under such a heart-wrenching huge loss, the Han-Hungarian Pingcheng Battle, which clearly gained greater strategic advantages and achieved greater strategic results from the Han Dynasty, not only did not become the glory of the Han Dynasty, but was regarded as an absolute treasure by the entire Han Dynasty. A great shame that cannot be forgotten!

In the original history, until several decades later, Emperor Wu Liu Che, who boarded the northern tower of Weiyang Palace, even used "Xue Zhen Zu Gao Emperor's Shame of Bai Deng" as a banner of righteousness to launch an all-out war against the Xiongnu!

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, the Han Dynasty regarded the Han-Hungary Pingcheng Battle, which was clearly victorious, as an unprecedented shame for the country, which is somewhat hypocritical.

But Liu Ying knew: this is not hypocrisy, this is pride!

It is the only cultural center in the known world, the most dazzling ancient civilization in the history of human civilization, and the unique dignity of the heavenly kingdom!

Killing [-] enemies is just killing [-] blood-drinking barbarians, nothing to brag about!

And being killed by such barbarians is a disgrace!

Being besieged by barbarians, causing tens of thousands of Chinese nobles to become disabled and die, is a great shame to the entire nation!
It is also under the blessing of this incomparable supreme dignity that the Chinese civilization has lasted for 5000 years!

——At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the world was divided into seven parts. In the Central Plains, the seven countries of Qin, Han, Chu, Wei, Yan, Qi, and Zhao wished they could play each other's brains.

But even so, the seven warlords of the Warring States came out with any Zhao country, and they could still expand the country thousands of miles north, so that the Hu people did not dare to go south to herd horses, but they fled when they saw the Han riders, and they did not dare to bend their bows to face each other!

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was divided into three parts, and the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu ruled the world, but even so, Cao Wei was still able to face the alliance of Sun and Liu with one enemy and two, while killing the barbarians in the northern grassland. First.

From Ji Zhou to Cao Wei, every unified regime in the land of China has never suffered from the invasion of barbarians!

Compared with this level of national dignity and bloodliness, the Sima family who usurped Cao Wei in later generations, and even the later Song and Ming Dynasties, do not know how ashamed they must be.

Regardless of what happened in later generations, at least for today's Han Dynasty, there is still only one way to deal with barbarians.

Either surrender to me, or be destroyed by me!
This has never changed.

Whether it is the current period of Liu Bang's reign with ruined walls and ruins waiting to be rebuilt, or the rule of Wenjing that was built with great efforts in the past, the ultimate goal of the Han Dynasty has always been only one.

——Gather your strength, go north to the Great Wall, punish the barbaric nomads in the name of civilization, and regain the glory of the kingdom of heaven!
Thinking of this, Liu Ying couldn't help feeling a little angry, and her breath became heavy!
Living in such an era, as a Han Chinese, Liu Ying is proud and proud.

But at the same time, as the only future leader of the Han people, Liu Ying also felt that a heavy burden was suddenly placed on her shoulders.

"Whoo~"

Exhaling quietly, Liu Ying didn't feel that the burden on her shoulders was going to lighten in the slightest.

But when Liu Ying raised her head again and looked at her uncle Lu Shizhi, Lu Shizhi suddenly discovered that there was an inexplicable majesty in Liu Ying's temperament.

And this kind of majesty, in the past few decades, Lu Shizhi has only seen it on one person...

"I'm lonely."

Seeing that Liu Ying nodded calmly, she immediately got up from her seat with a light smile.

"It's halfway through August, and the autumn harvest is coming."

"Even if we go out immediately, when the army arrives in Dai and Zhao, it will be September, and October will not be far in winter."

"The autumn harvest is not over yet, and the national treasury is empty."

"Since the prime minister has halved the salaries of courtiers in August, September, and October, and the army will go out soon, it is a foregone conclusion."

This is not difficult to understand: the official salaries of the Han Dynasty Central Committee will be hidden in the treasury in advance after the autumn harvest of the previous year.

Take the past few months as an example, the Prime Minister's Mansion ordered the salary to be halved, definitely not because there was no food in the treasury, but because the food that was originally reserved for salary distribution was now used for other purposes.

For example: supply the Guanzhong army led by Liu Bang himself, so that it can go out before the autumn harvest!

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Lu Shizhi nodded his head, and before he could speak again, Zhao Yao, the imperial historian, appeared again at the gate of the palace.

"My lord, Your Majesty's edict."

"Tomorrow at Chen's time, hold the court ceremony in the Changxin Hall, and wear the prince's court clothes to attend the meeting. Don't be late."

(End of this chapter)