Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 982

It took Tian Rangju half a year to completely pacify the Zhongshan Kingdom, which made Qingji very dissatisfied.

It is true that Qingji knew that the Zhongshan Kingdom was unruly and the terrain was complicated and difficult to deal with, but the more than [-] Wu troops could not even pacify even a mere Zhongshan Kingdom, so how could Qingji be satisfied?
Qingji is already planning his grand ceremony for proclaiming himself emperor!

"Your Majesty, in this final battle of the great unification, please ask your servant to serve on behalf of Zuo Sima!"

Wu Zixu volunteered.

"Wu Yuan, do you have a plan to put down Zhongshan Kingdom?"

Qingji asked.

"Have!"

Wu Zixu said solemnly: "In order to completely pacify the Zhongshan Kingdom and realize our great cause of unifying the Great Wu."

"I think it's because of the word 'ruthless'. I know a little about the battle that happened in Zhongshan. The Zhongshan soldiers are tyrannical, and relying on the complex terrain of Taihang Mountain, they mediate with our Wu army."

"Even if we stay in the city, my Wu army officers and soldiers can't live in peace, and they are often violated by Zhongshan people."

"All the people in Zhongshan are soldiers, the old and the weak, women and children all have the same hatred for the enemy, so there, they regard the Wu army as a bandit and often violently kill people. As a result, the war in Zhongshan has not made much progress."

After a pause, Wu Zixu said again: "If the king regards the minister as a general, after the minister takes office, he can slaughter those rebellious rebels who dare to resist, even the old and weak, women and children."

"Kill them all, burn them all, and rob them all. To deal with the Zhongshan Rong hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas, I should also set fire to the mountains to smoke them out."

"It's really not possible, just poison the river and let them die of poisoning."

"With such a method of warfare, I don't believe it, and Zhongshan Rong can't be destroyed!"

"hiss!"

Hearing this, all the ministers couldn't help but gasped, feeling extremely shocked.

Even Qingji was a little dumbfounded.

Wu Zixu deserves to be a ruthless person, ruthless enough.

However, only a general like Wu Zixu can win against Zhongshan people.

As for Sun Wu and Tian Rangju, they couldn't beat the Zhongshan people for a while, because they were not ruthless enough.

Le Yang, who had destroyed Zhongshan in history, was also a ruthless person.

It is said that Le Shu, the son of Leyang, killed Di Jing, the son of Di Huang, and fled to Zhongshan.

Wei Wenhou sent Le Yang as the general to send troops to attack Zhongshan.

After Leyang sent troops, because the enemy was strong and we were weak, he implemented a strategy of delaying troops.

When the news came, there was a great uproar in the court, and the officials falsely accused Le Yang of collaborating with the enemy.

At that time, the king of Zhongshan killed Leshu, boiled it into meat soup and gave it to Leyang.

Le Yang showed his loyalty, so he sat in the military tent and ate the meat soup, finishing a cup of it.

Afterwards, Leyang defeated the Zhongshan Army and captured the Zhongshan Kingdom.

Can Sun Wu and Tian Rangju be as ruthless as Le Yang?
No.

But Wu Zixu may not be impossible.

"Your Majesty, no!"

Zuo Prime Minister Kong Qiu immediately stepped forward and said: "According to Da Sima's tactics, it will harm the peace of heaven!"

"If you kill too much, you will be punished by God! Zhongshan has a population of 10. Can I, Wu, kill them one by one?"

"Furthermore, poison the river, set fire to the mountain, and then burn, kill and loot the people of Zhongshan. How will our country of Wu govern the land of Zhongshan?"

"My great Wu is a kingdom of heaven, a country of etiquette, how can I violate morality and do such things that offend God?"

"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

"My minister agrees!"

Dazai Wenzhong then came out and said: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of my minister, you might as well take it slowly and influence the people of Zhongshan with a gentle policy!"

"If we can immigrate and guard the border, and move the Li and Shu from the nearby counties to Zhongshan, and then make it easier for the people, in the long run, the Zhongshan people will definitely belong to them."

"In this way, even if the Zhongshan rebels hiding in the deep mountains want to make trouble again, they can only watch and sigh. In the end, they will definitely take the initiative to go down the mountain and live in peace with my Great Wu, and they will never be separated from each other."

Hearing this, before Qingji could speak, Wu Zixu sneered and said, "Dazai, if you follow your method, when will it be effective?"

"Ten years? 20 years? 50 years? Or hundreds of years?"

"This……"

Wu Zixu waved his hand and said: "The effect is too slow, there must be variables!"

"If the main force of the Zhongshan Kingdom cannot be wiped out, and they continue to occupy the Taihang Mountain area to cause chaos, my great Wu's unification of the world will not be a real unification, but a formal unification!"

"If I use my method, Zhongshan will definitely be pacified within half a year at most!"

Upon hearing this, Wen Zhong snorted and said, "What Da Sima said is wrong."

"Your method has quick results, but if it hurts the peace of heaven, it will definitely lead to anger and resentment."

"How many people will die by then? One hundred thousand? Two hundred thousand? Or half a million?"

"You are clearly trying to harm my country of Wu! Sow the seeds of disaster for my country of Wu!"

Hearing this, Wu Zixu sneered and said, "For the great unification of my country of Wu, for the king's lifelong wish, our lifelong wish is to kill all the people in Zhongshan, so what?"

"..."

All the ministers were silent.

In their view, Wu Zixu was crazy for having such crazy thoughts.

Although Zhongshan people were born in Rongdi, they are still human beings, not pigs and dogs, so how can they kill them at will?

Is it really good to leave Wu Guo a dilapidated and devastated place like this?

"This matter will be discussed later! Retire!"

Qingji still didn't make a decision.

……

After leaving the court meeting, Qingji, who was dealing with government affairs in the Zide Palace, was suddenly asked to see him by Wu Zixu.

"Zixu, do you still want to tell the widow that the strategy to pacify the Zhongshan Kingdom is like that?"

"Exactly."

After Wu Zixu and Qingji sat across the table, he did not deny it.

With nothing to do and no one else around, Qingji and Wu Zixu are like a pair of close friends, people who cut each other's throats, talking, chatting and drinking tea together.

At this time, Qingji brewed a pot of tea for himself and Wu Zixu, and filled the cups.

Facing Wu Zixu's request, Qingji did not answer directly, but after taking a sip of tea, he thought for a long time, and finally frowned and said, "Zixu, what Confucius said is right, your countermeasures are too much to kill, and it hurts the peace of heaven." , will be condemned by heaven. How can you let the widow feel so cruel?"

"My lord, for you, for the unification of my Great Wu, I am willing to make sacrifices!"

Wu Zixu bowed to Qingji's elder body, his words were very sincere.

With such a loyal minister, how could Qingji not be happy?
However, this is a big deal.

The matter of divine punishment is mysterious and mysterious, and there is no room for Qingji not to believe it.

In history, such as Bai Qikeng killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Zhao army, and was given to death in the end; such as Meng Tian built the Great Wall, claiming to "dig out the dragon veins of the Great Qin", and was eventually killed unjustly.

For example, when Zhuge Liang set fire to the rattan armor soldiers, he still felt that he was hurting the harmony of heaven and thought that his life would be shortened...

There are countless such examples.

Now, Qingji asks Wu Zixu to do such a harmless thing. If Wu Zixu loses his life and thus dies badly, wouldn't it make Qingji feel guilty for the rest of his life?
(End of this chapter)