Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 521 Datang will not repeat the same mistakes
Chapter [-] Datang will not repeat the same mistakes

When Xun Xiang and Liu Tong led the Beiwei Army to recruit refugees and miners who could not survive in the Songshan Mountains, Chen Ying also led his subordinates to launch a tentative attack on Yanshi City.

Because Zhao Jiqing, under Wang Shichong's command, improved the trebuchet and fired red-hot stones as stone bullets, the power of the stone bullets was brought into full play, and within [-] steps of the Yanshi City Wall, it became an insurmountable forbidden area for life.Chen Ying hated the behavior of using human life to consume the enemy's weapons and equipment, so the soldiers of the Tang army just lined up outside Yanshi City.

Then, Chen Ying divided the troops into a brigade and launched a tentative attack on Yanshi City. Rather than saying that this is an attack, it is better to say that Chen Ying is experimenting with new tactics.Compared with the customary Phalanx in ancient times, Chen Ying is more accustomed to this formation of skirmishers and assaults. Each soldier is more than ten steps away from each other, and the brigade of more than one hundred people is fully deployed, almost scattered. Five or six miles.

Since then, General Zheng Jun and Wang Shiyun, who were guarding Yanshi, felt extremely painful, because Tang Jun's arrangement was too scattered, and instead of attacking in a straight line, they took a serpentine position, and there was no way for the trebuchet to do anything. Aim, as for the bed crossbow, there is also no way to aim.

Seeing this scene, Wang Shiyun was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Child Chen Ying is too despicable and shameless to use barbarian tactics!"

Wang Shiyun's lieutenant asked strangely: "Is this actually a barbarian tactic?"

"Yes, I can't be wrong!" Wang Shiyun nodded and said: "Back then, my Majesty and I went to the Yanmen Pass and fought against the Turkic people. This is how the Turkic people fight. , repeatedly harassing and consuming our arrows and physical strength. When our army's arrows and physical strength are exhausted, we will use heavy troops to attack and smash our forward positions in one fell swoop. If His Majesty hadn't resisted with chariots layer by layer, I am afraid of the consequences. Unbelievable..."

The lieutenant general said in disbelief: "If this goes on like this, how long will this battle last?"

"I don't know, it depends on Chen Ying's mood!" Wang Shiyun said depressedly: "Maybe a month, maybe two months, maybe half a year, God knows how long it will take!"

The deputy general murmured: "Your Majesty wants to destroy Li Shimin's remnants. It will take ten days and a half months at most. We only need to keep Chen Ying outside Yanshi City for half a month, and it is enough for Your Majesty to destroy Li Shimin!"

Seeing that Zheng Jun neither fired the bed crossbow nor the trebuchet, Chen Ying looked at the sky and ordered: "It's almost noon, call back the troops!"

Li Xiuning asked strangely: "Are you going to withdraw the troops?"

"I didn't intend to storm Yanshi City at all, the casualties would be too great!" Chen Yingdao: "Pass down the order, all the soldiers have worked hard to attack the city today, and the whole army will have extra meals!"

All the generals and soldiers of the Tang army cheered like thunder.The head of the Tang Army cut the dried horse meat marinated with salt into thin slices, and put it directly into the pot, then poured the washed millet, millet, wheat, and bean into the pot, boiled it and cooked it directly. They added vegetables, and the Tang army officers and soldiers also scattered around, looking for wild vegetables in the wild.

Seeing all the soldiers beaming with joy, Li Xiuning asked half understandingly: "Chen Lang, are you planning to attack the city?"

Chen Ying smiled and said: "That's okay. Wang Shichong is expanding his army crazily now. He must be short of supplies. It would be nice if the Yanshi defenders can eat half full. Now they are watching us Tang soldiers on the city wall. I'm afraid he will be full of complaints if he eats and drinks, and when the time comes, hehe, it's hard to say whether Wang Shiyun can calm down the soldiers!"

The efficiency of Tang Jun's gang leader is very high, and the meal is ready in less than half an hour. Of course, Chen Ying doesn't have to eat with the big soldiers. Li Xiuning's favorite food is beggar's chicken. Li Xiuning looked at the slightly sumptuous meal and sighed: "It would be great if there were no wars, if there were peace and prosperity..."

Before Li Xiuning could finish speaking, Chen Ying interrupted Li Xiuning and said, "Is it rare in a peaceful and prosperous age?"

Li Xiuning said: "Why is it not rare? But who doesn't want to live in a prosperous world? But who doesn't want to be able to create a prosperous world for a country's monarch?"

"Actually, it's not difficult at all to want a prosperous world!" Chen Ying said with a slight smile, "Just go to a war and kill all the people, and then distribute the land to those who survived, and save a few more years." Taxes, the prosperity will come soon."

Li Xiuning was stunned, and Chen Ying said with a blank look: "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know how many people have to die in every prosperous age, and how much effort has been devoted to creating it. Looking at thousands of years of history, there are only a handful of eras that can be called prosperous ages..."

"Every dynasty is prosperous for quite a long time after the founding of the country, and this thing is not rare at all!" Chen Ying pulled the beggar chicken away, looked into Li Xiuning's eyes, and said seriously: "Every prosperous age is It was built on the bones after the collapse of the previous dynasty. Without great chaos, there will be no great order. It has been like this since ancient times. I know, you must say, the sages will tell us that a certain monarch is so talented and generous, and he created this world. Sheng Shi, in fact, these are all lies."

While eating beggar chicken, Li Xiuning asked vaguely: "Then tell me, how did this prosperous age come about?"

Chen Ying shook his head, and said with a chuckle: "Sanniang, you have read a lot of books and understand the historical materials, so tell me, why did Xia die, why did Shang die, why did Zhou die? Why did Qin die? Death? Why did Han die? Why did Sui die?”

Li Xiuning said: "Does this need to be said? Naturally, the emperor's licentiousness and excessive construction made the sky angry and the people resentful.

"In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the king divided the feudal lords, and the world was divided into nine uniforms!" Chen Yingdao: "According to the "Zhou Li·Xiaguan·Zhi Fangshi" cloud: it is a state that distinguishes the nine obediences: Fang Qianli is called Wangji, and the outside Five hundred miles outside is called Houfu, and five hundred miles away is called Dianfu, and five hundred miles away is called Nanfu, and five hundred miles away is called Caifu, and five hundred miles outside is Weifu. Fu, and its five hundred miles away is called Manfu, and its five hundred miles away is called Yifu, and its five hundred miles away is called Zhenfu, and its five hundred miles away is called Fanfu. Xia, Shang, In the Zhou Dynasty, Fang Qianli called Wang Ji. In fact, the place that the king can manage is a thousand miles around the capital. I looked at the history and summed up the reasons. It’s a lie, it’s all deceptive nonsense. For example, the emperor Zhou of Shang, do you also think he is a tyrant?”

Li Xiuning said: "Why isn't he a tyrant?"

Is Di Xin actually a tyrant? *** once commented on King Zhou of Shang Dynasty: "In fact, King Zhou is a man of great ability, literary and military skills. He managed the southeast and consolidated the unity of Dongyi and the Central Plains. He has made great achievements in history. Emperor Xin conquered Xuzhou Zhiyi won the battle, but lost a lot, and there were too many prisoners to digest. King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the emptiness to attack, and a large number of captives defected. As a result, the Shang Dynasty perished."

There are many subjugated kings in Chinese history, and there are also many who can be called tyrants. In fact, the subjugated kings are not tyrants at all, and there is also a lack of objective and fair judgment.Whether Di Xin is a tyrant or not, we must first look at the root cause of the demise of the Shang Dynasty.Basically all the tyranny of Emperor Xin is the history written by the Zhou Dynasty, and its credibility is very low.According to the history books of the Zhou Dynasty, in the later period of Emperor Xin's reign, he took credit for his pride and spent huge sums of money to build deer towers, wine pools, hang meat for forests, build luxurious palaces and gardens, live a life of extravagance, and empty the treasury.He was self-willed and refused to listen to correct opinions. He formed an opposition group at the top and used torture such as Pao Lao (Pao Pao was invented by Xia Jie and Si Lu Gui) to suppress the people.Kill Bigan (in fact, Yin Bigan was not killed but died of old age), imprisoned Jizi, fought every year, and lost the hearts of the people.When he crusade against the Dongyi, he did not pay attention to the precautions against the Western tribes. He used troops for years, and his national power was exhausted. (This paragraph has long been unable to be studied, it was written by Zhou Wu, so the historical credibility is extremely low.)
In fact, the reasons for the demise of the Shang Dynasty, such as corrupt officials, pro-villains, and distant and virtuous ministers, are all bullshit.The Shang Dynasty was a slavery country. In terms of political system, there was no management at all levels from the central government to the local government. At that time, it was a feudal country divided into five categories: Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Nan. They all manage the place by themselves, and they only need to pay taxes to the King of Shang.If the court of the Shang Dynasty was constantly decreeing and could not govern the vassal states below, then there would be the only situation where the vassals would not listen to their greetings, like in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the Son of Zhou was just a deaf ear, just a decoration.

Chen Ying found that if he argued with Li Xiuning on this issue, he might not be able to explain it clearly for three days and three nights.

"The demise of all dynasties has a common feature. The people are in dire straits, right!"

Li Xiuning nodded.

Chen Ying asked: "Why do the people live in poverty? Historians will point the finger at the emperor without exception, thinking that the emperor has lost his morals, which is why he made the people's lives difficult. The specific method of losing morals is what you just said. Building large-scale construction projects, emphasizing cruel officials, relying on cronyism, emphasizing villains and far away from virtuous ministers...the number is too numerous to count."

Li Xiuning asked in surprise, "Isn't it right?"

"Don't talk about anything else, let's talk about Yang Guang. Does he have one queen and seven concubines? Four sons and three daughters?" Chen Ying said with a smile: "I remember that one of Yang Guangda's crimes in the "Sui Shu" is licentiousness. If he is considered absurd and obscene, then how many emperors are not obscene and obscene?"

Li Xiuning was stunned, she really couldn't say anything.Others don't mention it, but after Li Yuan became emperor, more than 100 women were blessed in the harem, and Li Yuan's children were more than ten times that of Yang Guang.

"You also found the problem?" Chen Ying smiled and said, "The pens are in their hands, and they can write whatever they want."

Speaking of this, Chen Ying unconsciously thought of future generations.Some well-known big Vs are talking nonsense, saying that the mother-in-law brought up housing prices in China, and saying that China's carbon dioxide emissions are caused by more bicycles.And so on, there are so many strange speeches. In fact, there are too many bottomless principles and media. They dare to say anything in order to win the attention of their bosses, especially those who write all kinds of soft articles for money to deceive ignorance. People who live by the people are even worse than prostitutes, it's too shameful.

Chen Ying saw that Li Xiuning had no intention of eating anymore, so he continued to explain: "But there are two things that they didn't write down, that is, government exploitation and land annexation... Yes, at the end of the dynasty, officials were corrupt and land annexation, This is the real reason why people are living in dire straits.”

Li Xiuning suddenly realized.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and she experienced it firsthand.She knew more. Yang Guang dug the canal, and it was clearly stipulated that five households would be withdrawn from one household. At that time, there were 890 million households in the Sui Dynasty, and one household was allocated.Five households smoke one ding, is this ratio high?In the feudal era, such a proportion was really not high.

In order to unify the world, Murong Jun of the Xianbei nationality adopted the method of drawing three out of five people, and forcibly recruited 150 million troops, but there was nothing wrong with them.Because Murong Jun is not the king of subjugation, because Murong Jun is not Han.

However, according to historical records, 250 million people died in a year to build the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.However, Yang Guang never recruited so many people.

Chen Yingdao: "Land is the root cause. Land is limited, but everyone has to breed offspring. Children have grandchildren, grandchildren have sons, sons and grandchildren, and grandchildren are endless. Each person can maintain [-] acres of dry land and [-] acres of paddy fields. , there will be no waste, and the output of the land is enough for them to live a life of food and clothing after paying taxes. Therefore, this era is called a prosperous age. Yes, a country that has come from troubled times, as long as there are no major troubles, No matter how incompetent the monarch is, after a hundred years of hard work, he can usher in a prosperous age."

Li Xiuning silently calculated in her heart that the Qin Dynasty was exactly a hundred years old from Shang Yang's reform, reform and strengthening to Qin Shihuang's period.And Liu Bang founded the country, and it was also a hundred years before Liu Che's time.But there are differences.Li Xiuning said: "But in Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan was already in prosperity?"

"Bah, don't mention Sima Yan to me!" Chen Ying said with disdain on his face: "Except for one Sima Yi, the Sima family is trash. Including Sima Yan, did he create a prosperous world? He just stole the wealth of the three generations of Cao Wei." It's just the result."

In fact, Cao Weixing was garrisoning the fields, and he was also garrisoning the fields when he died.At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the people of the world were in dire straits, and the peasants who lost their land had nothing but a life.Cao Cao established the system of garrisoning fields, and the imperial court provided agricultural tools, seeds, and farming cattle, and the ratio of income was [-] to [-]. Then, Cao Wei served as soldiers in wartime and the people in leisure time, and quickly became strong in the Three Kingdoms era.

However, farmers are ignorant and stupid.After more than [-] years, the first generation of farmers who experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion died. The second generation of farmers felt that Cao Wei was too dark, and it was wrong to exploit them like this, so they acted as Sima's accomplices. After Cao Wei died, Shenzhou Luchen ushered in, and his clothes moved south.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "One of the disadvantages of the prosperous age is that the products are abundant, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the people can reproduce with confidence, so the population is growing rapidly. But the population needs land to support it, and a country has limited land and a limited population to support it. With an infinitely growing population, everyone knows what will happen. Therefore, when the population exceeds the limit that the land can accommodate, the prosperous age will turn into a passing cloud, followed by chaotic times. More and more The population is fighting openly and covertly for less and less land, and it doesn’t matter if you think about it, if there are a few more large-scale natural disasters or wars at this time, it can be said that this country is doomed.”

In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", using the general trend of the world, separation and unity, long-term unity must be divided, and long-term separation must unite.In fact, this is a vicious cycle of Chinese civilization, from division and war to unity, prosperity and strength, and then turmoil, division, and extinction.

Hearing Chen Ying's explanation, Li Xiuning seemed to understand.Her hands were sweating nervously, she firmly grasped Chen Ying's hand and said, "Then after three or four generations, the prosperous age will begin?"

"Yes." Chen Ying nodded.

Li Xiuning looked horrified, and her hands trembled slightly: "Then, due to the prosperity of the country and the people's safety, the abundance of supplies, the population increased rapidly, until the land could not accommodate it, and then came the troubled times? Then... Great Tang!"

Chen Ying held Li Xiuning's hand and said, "Don't worry, with me, Datang will not repeat the same mistakes!"

　Regarding the issue of whether King Zhou of Shang was a tyrant, friends who are interested can go to my Koukou space to have a look. I have written such a post before.

　　
　
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