Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 608 Glory and Dignity

Yang's girls' school.

"What is a soldier?"

"Soldiers shoulder the heavy responsibility and mission of defending the country..."

"Soldiers care about the safety and peace of the court people..."

"Soldiers are the ones who are at the forefront of the national crisis. They risk their lives and forget to die. They are the ones who stand in the front line with their flesh and blood..."

A little girl read a passage from "A Letter to All Luo Yu's Soldiers", danced excitedly, and said loudly: "I will marry a soldier in the future!"

Zhou Xiaomei curled her lips and said disdainfully: "You changed your mind? You just said not long ago that you would marry talented people like Li Yu and Bi Shi'an."

The little girl's name is Li Mei, the granddaughter of the former Prime Minister Li Gu, and her father is Buque Li Ji.

Li Mei blushed and said, "Didn't I read Your Majesty's "Letter to All Luo Yu Generals and Soldiers" before? How did I know that soldiers are so great? I used to talk about the elegant things of gifted scholars and beautiful women, but after reading "To All Luo Yu" "Luo Yu's Book of Generals and Soldiers", I suddenly feel that the soldiers are the real heroes."

She took Zhou Xiaomei's hand and said, "Little sister, don't you think soldiers are very honorable?"

Zhou Xiaomei said: "I don't think so, but I think the emperor's brother-in-law is very powerful. This "Letter to All Luo Yu's Generals and Soldiers" shocked the whole capital of Bianjing."

Her eyes twinkled with little stars, and she pouted dissatisfiedly.

She has never seen her brother-in-law in the palace these few times.

Her elder sister said that her brother-in-law was busy with official duties and received ministers of civil and military affairs every day, and slept directly in Wende Hall at night, and did not go to the back garden on some days.

Li Mei said: "Of course your majesty is powerful, but can't you marry your majesty?"

Zhou Xiaomei was absent-minded, and said casually: "Why not!"

Li Mei couldn't answer for a while, looked at Xiao Chuo who was seriously reading the newspaper, and said, "Yanyan, you come to judge..."

Xiao Chuo said childishly in his heart, but ignored it coldly.

Zhou Xiaomei didn't check for a while, she slipped her mouth, and saw that no one cared, she was relieved, and saw Xiao Chuo staring at the newspaper, poking his head curiously to read it.

Xiao Chuo read the "Letter to All Luo Yu Generals and Soldiers".

A trace of vigilance flashed across Zhou Xiaomei's eyes, and she asked, "Xiao Leufeng, what's so interesting about this?"

Xiao Chuo cast a dissatisfied glance and said, "I told you, do you understand?"

Zhou Xiaomei was a little crazy.

Zhou Xiaomei was three years old when Xiao Chuo was older. In the beginning, Zhou Xiaomei was able to bully Xiao Chuo in various ways by virtue of her age.

But as Xiao Chuo grew older and his talent appeared, Zhou Xiaomei found that she could no longer control Xiao Chuo.

Zhou Xiaomei said: "Then you understand?"

Xiao Chuo shook his head and said: "I don't really understand, there are too many things involved in it. Even Bi Shi'an and Zhang Qixian can't fully understand it, so I can't understand it."

She said that she was a little ghost, imitating Bi Shi'an and sighing: "Your Majesty puts order out of chaos, even ghosts and gods are unpredictable!"

It turns out that Xiao Chuo and Zhou Xiaomei's teacher Yang is Dou Yujun's adopted daughter.

At that time, Yang's father was a domestic servant of the Dou family. He stole the [-] yuan that Dou Yujun used to run the school, left his daughter Yang to Dou Yujun and ran away, and wrote a bond on Yang's arm "forever". Sell ​​this girl and pay for the money."

Dou Yujun burned the bond, adopted Yang as a adopted daughter, raised her, found a good marriage for her in the school, and prepared a dowry for her.

The man Yang married was Su Yuan, who was awarded a Jinshi during the reign of Zhou Xiande, and now serves as a doctor of the Ministry of Punishment in the court.

Also under Dou Yujun's sect, Bi Shi'an, Zhang Qixian and Su Yuan had an inseparable friendship, and the two met to visit.

Xiao Chuo helped Yang make tea for the three of them, and happened to hear the three of them talking about "Letter to All Luo Yu's Generals and Soldiers".

The words and deeds of the three of them made Xiao Chuo, who is particularly sensitive to politics, remember everything in his mind.

Thinking about it now, it is still vivid.

Su Yuan was the first to say: "13 sons marching backwards to the north, how magnificent is it? Throughout the ages, only our Luoyu court has this scene."

Bi Shi'an was silent for a while, and then said: "To tell you the truth, I have always been prejudiced against warriors about Wang Yansheng in the past. Today, when I read Your Majesty's "Letter to All Luo Yu's Generals and Soldiers", and saw 13 Erlang go north, I suddenly felt that I was in vain. People. There are people like Wang Yansheng in this world, and there are also heroes who serve the country and the people."

Zhang Qixian also went on to say: "Only Your Majesty dares to face the front and back of the warriors. I am also deeply touched by the details written by Your Majesty. We really can't kill all of them with one shot because of certain people and certain events of the times. Regarding Talent, how amazing Yang Xiong was in the past, but because of Wang Mang's eyes, he was ridiculed for thousands of years. You must know that Yang Xiong even has the reputation of Confucius of the West... There are moths among literati, how can it be said that all literati in the world are Like Yang Xiong?"

Su Yuan looked at Bi Shi'an and Zhang Qixian and said: "From now on, talented people no longer focus on being beautiful."

Bi Shi'an came over knowingly and sighed: "Your Majesty set things right, ghosts and gods are unpredictable!"

Xiao Chuo repeatedly read "Letter to All Luo Yu's Generals and Soldiers", but after all, because of his young age, he failed to understand the deep meaning in it.

But the meaning revealed between the words made her a little obsessed.

At the same time, Luo Youdu summoned Song Xiong, who had been serving as the dean of the Jinzuo Academy for half a year, in the Hall of Yanhe, and assigned him a task.

"Song Qing, from today onwards, the newspaper will reserve a page to introduce the flood situation of the Yellow River and the situation of the imperial army in detail, and report their deeds and sacrifices in the newspaper one by one. They are soldiers, and they are all heroes who serve the country and family."

Luo Youdu's mood is extremely complicated now, he is worried about the disaster, but also excited about the opportunity.

He had been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to give a soldier real honor.

To build an invincible division, when the five generations of military leaders are not feasible, only by giving them dignity and glory can they inspire their faith and fighting power.

Why was it normal to win more with less in the Han and Tang Dynasties?
After the Song Dynasty, it is not to be said that the less wins the more, and the more fights the less, it is not necessarily victorious.

In the final analysis, Luo Youdu personally feels that the army has lost its due sense of honor.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, a good man should not be a soldier, and a good iron should not be nailed.

As soon as these words came out, being a soldier actually became a shame.

It is a shame to do the hardest, most tiring and life-threatening work, and it is not well received.

Who is it for, who is willing?For whom, who is willing to sacrifice their lives?

On the contrary, look at the stories of scholars, talented scholars and beauties, what books have their own golden houses, and books have their own Yan Ruyu.

In short, it can be said that a talented man is good in everything, but a soldier is bad in everything.

Luo Youdu wants to break this ignorant thinking while the literati group has not yet risen. Talents are certainly worthy of praise, but soldiers are also worthy of respect.

This disaster gave Luo Youdu this opportunity. The "Letter to All Luo Yu Generals and Soldiers" tells all soldiers to put aside the bad habits left over from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and prove to the common people and the literati who look down on them that they are soldiers. Being able to defend the country on the front line and protect the people in the rear is a glorious soldier, not a soldier who bullies the people.

From then on, scholars will be compared to soldiers, and talented people will be compared to soldiers with meritorious service.

Scholars are no longer unique. Soldiers have the status and dignity of soldiers.

(End of this chapter)