Will Ming

Chapter 770 Waiting for your triumphant return "Sir, the emperors of the Central Plains have always ruled the country with generosity and benevolence. How about governing the country with benevolence?"

In the slightly shaking carriage, Ye Huaixi asked while making tea.

In the past few days, he has been reading books about Confucianism, and his thinking has been more or less influenced.The things advocated by Confucianism are different from what he saw, heard and learned on the grassland.For a moment, he was even in a trance.It seems that the strategy of governing the country with leniency and benevolence in the Central Plains is the real trick of power, while the emphasis on absolute strength on the grassland seems a bit rough and barbaric.

"Literally speaking, it really makes sense to govern the country with tolerance and benevolence."

Li Xian took a sip of tea, thought for a while and said: "But if you know enough about the dynasties of the Central Plains, you will find that the so-called tolerance is just a cover. The king holds grace in one hand and punishment in the other. However, those wise emperors in the past magnified the lenient side indefinitely, while hiding the punitive side. Usually, the more the emperor advertised the lenient, the more people he killed. Because the ostentation is to cover up his hand The blood in it."

"Speaking of it, it's a bit hypocritical."

Li Xian laughed at himself. When he said this, he couldn't help but think of himself.

"Everyone has two selves, one side is real and the other side is false."

He looked down at the teacup in his hand and felt the warmth in his palm: "Blind tolerance will only make everyone think you are weak. Blind punishment will make everyone think you are barbaric. All the kingdoms of the Central Plains have advertised These things are benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and belief. And these things seem to have some magical powers, even if foreign peoples live in the Central Plains for a little longer, they will become full of benevolence and righteousness, and call themselves orthodox."

"It's nothing more than a means to rule the people. Speaking of it, it's not as straightforward as you grassland people."

"Mister is advocating the way the prairie people govern the country?"

Ye Huaixi asked a little puzzled.

"Rule the country..."

Li Xian shook his head: "I don't want you to forget your origin just because you have learned a lot about the Han people in the Central Plains. The things of the Central Plains people may not be useful on the grasslands. People on the grasslands advocate strength. If you want to become a ruler of a nation, you have to make yourself the most powerful person.”

Ye Huaixi nodded, but still couldn't help but wonder if if the grasslands were governed with benevolence and righteousness, would the people on the grasslands become docile?

"Every place has its own different culture. People in the Central Plains have always said that grassland people are barbaric. But what are grassland people barbaric? Have you ever thought that to be king on the grassland, you must be strong enough, and often the one who kills the most Is it the king?"

"This is because for thousands of years, people in the Central Plains have emphasized benevolence and righteousness. The common people also regard this kind of thing as the most reasonable thing, but it is different on the grassland. For thousands of years, there have been many ethnic groups on the grassland, each of which does not belong to each other... If Without a ruthless heart to kill, how can these equally violent nations be subdued? Relying on rewards? Relying on reason?"

"Even if it doesn't work...you still have to rely on the scimitar."

"The scimitar of the prairie people...is the same thing as the benevolence and righteousness of the Central Plains people."

Li Xian's words jumped, but Ye Huaixi still understood what he meant.

"Adapted to local conditions?"

he asks.

"Because of people"

Li Xian said softly.

"Sir, how long will it take to reach the ground in Hebei?"

Ye Huaixi asked a more practical question.

"It will take about half a month."

Li Xian put down the teacup in his hand, and asked after a moment of silence: "If you command 10 troops to attack Hebei and win the battle...then how do you deal with the soldiers, ministers, and common people?" deal with?"

Ye Huaixi thought for a while and said: "The people are still the people, and there will be no change. If you want to stabilize the people's hearts, you only need a little more than what Dou Jiande gave. All the armies, from the top to the top, have veterans of the Yanyun Army serving. As for the surrendered ministers... it is better to kill more if they can kill more."

"what?"

Li Xian asked again.

"Because they are in high positions."

Ye Huaixi said: "They are under Dou Jiande, general, prime minister...and if Dou Jiande is defeated, even if they surrender, it will be difficult for them to regain the glory they had when they were under Dou Jiande. But when a person reaches a certain position There will be ambition, and this kind of ambition can be suppressed by any means other than killing. If after submitting to Mr., their status is lower than before, they will feel dissatisfied, dissatisfied, and as time goes by... it will inevitably lead to disobedience heart of."

Ye Huaixi concluded: "Instead of doing this, it's better to kill more to frighten people's hearts. Mr. said, break before you stand."

"Break and then stand?"

Li Xian smiled, and did not comment on the right or wrong of Ye Huaixi's words.

What he thought of was that in the history he knew in his previous life, Li Shimin captured Dou Jiande alive, and Great Xia Kingdom perished.Li Shimin's generals took over the counties in Hebei and acted harshly. Finally, Dou Jiande's old general was forced to rebel.Then the Great Tang reconquered, and Li Jiancheng was the commander... Li Jiancheng used another method, buying, wooing, and appeasing, which was obviously more effective than the strength of Li Shimin's generals.

But the current Datang is no longer the one he saw in the books.

"gentlemen……"

Ye Huaixi looked at Li Xian and asked, "Am I wrong?"

Li Xian shook his head, still thinking about Hebei.

The generals Li Shimin sent to Hebei made a mistake in suppressing Dou Jiande's old generals.But it's not necessarily their fault that they are ruthless... maybe it's that... their hearts are not ruthless enough.

... Maintaining stability is Li Jiancheng's strategy for Hebei.

Without a doubt, he succeeded.

But in the era that Li Xian lives in, there is no Li Jiancheng, no Li Yuan, no Liu Heita, and even Li Shimin... According to the history that Li Xian knows, although Wang Fubao is a general under Dou Jiande, But in history, it has never had such an important position as it does today.

Is Wang Fubao in history not as good as Wang Fubao in this era?

No!

It is because there are no other people available under Dou Jiande's subordinates in this era. If those old ministers under his subordinates are still there, it may not be Wang Fubao's turn to carry the Jiangshan Sheji of Daxia.There is no doubt that Wang Fubao's military exploits are the most among Dou Jiande's officials.But the historical Wang Fubao is dead at this time...died at the hands of Dou Jiande.

Because of his great achievements, the other generals were jealous.So they framed him as having the intention of treason, and Dou Jiande didn't even interrogate him, so he directly sent someone to arrest Wang Fubao and chop off his head.

If Su Dingfang was still there, Yin Qiu, Shi Zan and others were still there, maybe Dou Jiande would still kill Wang Fubao without hesitation.

But now, these people are all dead.

Who does Dou Jiande use instead of Wang Fubao?

And when a person is forced to reach a position, he can often release all his abilities.Even, he can squeeze out some abilities that he never had before.Wang Fubao was the one who was forced into that position, and now Daxia can only rely on him.

The snowy night attacked Wei County, and Wang Fubao fought the battle beautifully.

But because of this battle, the faint trace of love for talents in Li Xian's heart disappeared.As a person who came here from another world, and in this world there are many famous generals and ministers who are familiar to him in his previous life, and he has this opportunity to make these generals and famous ministers his ministers, how could he not be moved?

But this heartbeat does not mean that he has lost his mind.

It is impossible to subdue Wang Fubao.

Therefore, when the news of the fall of Wei County from the Military Inspection Office was sent to the army going north, only one word came to Li Xian's mind.

kill.

"Xue Wanche is in Fanshui, why didn't he counterattack?"

Li Xian frowned slightly and asked the secret spy of the military inspector guard in front of him: "No matter how fast the news from the military inspector's office is delivered, it will take at least three to five days from Fanshui to the isolated army. Kill it, Wei County should have taken it back."

"Lord"

The messenger agent lowered his voice and said, "General Xue is not in Fanshui."

"Ok?"

Li Xian glanced at the secret spy, and the secret spy continued: "When my subordinates received the letter from Fei Ge, General Xue had already left Fanshui with the army, but he did not go in the direction of Wei County. People have never been able to participate in military decision-making, and General Xue blocked the news, and the generals and schools below did not know where the army was heading. Fanshui's spies only made inferences based on the direction of the army. As for whether it was true... His subordinates did not know Be sure."

"Say"

Li Xian ordered.

"On the night when the news came from Fanshui, General Xue left Fanshui County with 4 people at night. He went all the way to the northwest, not the nearly true north where Wei County is located. The 1 people who stayed behind in Fanshui The people and horses are heavily guarded, it should be an illusion for Xia Jun to see."

"northwest……"

Li Xian pondered for a while, and unfolded the map on the table case.

"Xue Wanche is about to play a big game of chess..."

Li Xian suddenly smiled, and his slightly frowned brows slowly relaxed: "You go down first, the people in the military inspection department don't interfere with military affairs, that's very good. But if Xue Wanche wants to win this battle, there is no military inspection. It is also extremely difficult to obtain intelligence information. If you send information to the secret spies in Xue Wanche's army, if Xue Wanche didn't tell them the purpose of the march and you feel conflicted, you will not be tolerated."

"Here!"

The spy who summoned the messenger responded and turned to leave.

Ye Huaishu, who was sitting next to Li Xian, looked at the map and couldn't help but shook his head