The reborn general girl is the emperor

Chapter 75 The Origin of Wu'an

"Yes."

Meng Shulan didn't hide anything, but the smile on her lips was hidden.

Seeing the change in Meng Shulan's expression, the emperor's lips moved slightly, and he murmured for a moment before saying, "I know you are blaming me."

Meng Shulan didn't speak, but she acquiesced.

After Wen Zhemao left the palace at the age of six, Meng Shulan was only one year old, and there was not much interaction with Wen Zhemao after that.

But when he was 13 years old and went to the southern border to supervise the army, but ordered all the water thieves who had surrendered to be executed for public display, it can be seen that he is not a kind-hearted person.

There are many waters in southern Xinjiang, and there is plenty of rain. It suffers from floods all year round. Many water thieves are also forced to fall into the weeds and become bandits.

Originally, after the water thieves were put down, it was time to recruit strong men to build water conservancy and strengthen the fortifications.

Perennial floods have caused crop failures, and the victims are starved of food, making it difficult to recruit enough people.

However, the pirates who plundered merchant ships to eat their stomachs were actually strong and strong. If the surrendered pirates could be put into water conservancy construction, the manpower problem would naturally be solved by more than half.

But Wen Zhemao ordered them all to be executed on the grounds that the water banditry was hard to change.However, they turned to mobilizing soldiers on the frontier to repair water conservancy, and allocated military salaries and rations for disaster relief.

This action made the ignorant victims feel grateful to Wen Zhemao, but they didn't know that it is a taboo for military strategists to arbitrarily mobilize soldiers on the frontier and use military salaries, especially military rations!

If it was in the past, Meng Shulan might also praise Wen Zhemao, but after four years in Xijiang and managing military affairs for four years, he knows very well what military rations mean to soldiers.

The duty of the border guards is to guard the border, and what they face are people from other countries who have no sympathy for them.

If other countries took advantage of the turbulent border situation and the soldiers on the border were transferred to attack aggressively, what would the soldiers who were short of soldiers and food do to defend the border?

Once the line of defense is lost, the previously repaired fortifications and the rescued victims will fall into disaster again!

What's the point of doing it before?
Even in terms of the topographical distribution of Wu'an, once the defense line of any of the four borders falls, there will be a flat plain!The enemy army can drive straight in and hit Huanglong directly!
If the country will not survive, how can the people be peaceful?
Wen Zhemao was lucky, the defense line in southern Xinjiang was near the sea, and if the Japanese pirates wanted to attack aggressively, they had to cross the sea and land first, so there were no major military incidents for many years.

If he dared to do this in the western and northern borders, the people from Xirong and Xueyuan would have already broken through the line of defense!

He believed that the emperor, as a person who had personally led soldiers on the battlefield before, would not fail to understand this truth.

But the emperor still highly praised Wen Zhemao, and asked him to assist the military department, and then helped him in various ways, and even asked him to assist the six departments.

But Wen Zhemao was never satisfied.

The more the emperor delegated power to him, the more he wanted, and he kept making small moves in private.

He upholds that this is a matter of the royal family, and remembers what his mother and concubine said about being a minister, even if he is in the palace with all kinds of foxes and tigers, he will not be contaminated by these imperial power struggles at all, just as a man who knows nothing and sees nothing. , the deaf fool, the blind, the deaf.

But at this time, Wen Zhemao had already killed his brother and father, and rebelled. He wanted to ask the emperor why he had been arguing with Wen Zhemao for so many years?
If the emperor is not benevolent, how can people in this world survive?
Is this kind of Wu'an Jiangshan Sheji what he wants?

Meng Shulan was on fire in her heart, but she didn't say a word.

Although the emperor is his uncle who dotes on him, he is the emperor first and then his relatives.

The emperor was silent for a long time. He didn't ask Meng Shulan's reason for coming, nor did he mention why he was partial to Wen Zhemao. Instead, he asked Meng Shulan: "Shu Lan, do you know how Wu Anguo came here?"

Meng Shulan was a little dissatisfied with the emperor's avoidance of talking about Wen Zhemao's question, she pursed her lips slightly, but still answered respectfully: "The former emperor was tyrannical and ruthless, and the people of the world are in the middle of frying and cooking, and the people are in dire straits. Gaozu is dissatisfied with the former emperor It took three years to overthrow the previous rule and establish a new country. Because the tyranny was overthrown by force and the country was established, and the country was peaceful and the people were praying, the country was named Wu'an."

The emperor asked again: "Then do you know the origins of the Four Borders and the Four Great Masters?"

Meng Shulan frowned, not understanding why the emperor asked these questions.It can't be this time, test his homework, right?
But when the emperor asked, Meng Shulan could only answer: "The so-called four borders refer to the four defense areas divided by the Wu'an border according to the terrain. They are guarded by three of the four major families and the royal family for generations."

"The Four Great Families refer to the four great families who followed Gaozu to conquer the world and were enfeoffed after the founding of the People's Republic of China. They are the Yan family who guarded the western border and sealed the town of Xihou, the Guo family who guarded the northern border and sealed the town of Beihou, and guarded the southern border and sealed the town. The Li family of Nanhou, and the Xu family who have been ministers for generations."

"The eastern border bordering Daliang is guarded by the emperor of the current dynasty, who conferred the title of Marquis of Zhendong, so the Marquis of Zhendong is generally not hereditary."

After listening, the emperor nodded slightly, but asked again: "Then do you know that the four great masters today were actually five great masters in the previous dynasty?"

Of course Meng Shulan knew this.

Whether it is the royal family or the four great families, they were already a big family occupying one side in the previous dynasty.

So when they rose up, the tyranny of the previous dynasty was resolved within a year.

In the next two years, it was the run-in and compromise of the forces led by the five families, and finally, under the consideration of all parties, the current Wu'an Kingdom was formed.

They were all very simple questions. The emperor taught him the history class in person. The emperor had already talked about these things, so the emperor himself should know the most about whether he knew these things.

But since the emperor asked three obvious questions one after another, if the emperor was not in a hurry, then there were some non-obvious things in these obvious questions.

This time, Meng Shulan didn't answer, but asked, "What does the sage want to tell me?"

The emperor looked at him in silence for a moment, and then said: "What you said before, except for the territory management of the four major families and the royal family, everything else is false."

Meng Shulan was taken aback, but the emperor continued without pausing: "There were no five great families in the previous dynasty, and the current four great masters did not follow Gao Zu to fight."

"Gaozu didn't come from a wealthy family, he is a mud leg."

"The Xu family is not a family of counselors. The ancestors of the Xu family who were the same generation as Gao Zu were fortune-telling magicians."

"The Li family is not a family of military generals. The ancestors of the Li family were just a businessman who ran around, had some skills, and took black and white."

"The Guo family is an upright general, but they were not valued by the former emperor. They were framed and killed, leaving only one orphan living outside. Later, they staged an uprising in the north and rebelled against the previous dynasty."

"The Yan family..."

Speaking of the Yan family, the emperor paused, "The Yan family is not from the previous dynasty."

(End of this chapter)