Lu Dynasty

Chapter 403 Appease
Kong Rong naturally couldn't understand what I meant, but Mi Heng was thoughtful.I looked at Kong Rong's confused eyes and said with a smile: "Uncle Kong, war is not that simple! Fighting will kill people and consume soldiers and food. If we win, everything will be easy to talk about. If there is a peace, we will naturally fight for the greatest strength." Even if we are defeated, we must win in the negotiation! Whether it is captives or resources, they are all good things. Sun Tzu also said: eat the enemy for one minute, and treat me for twenty minutes!"

After listening to my words, Kong Rong asked with a puzzled face: "Since you are defeated, what are you talking about? Is it about surrender? As for eating the enemy, it is a matter of war! After the battle, why eat the enemy?" "

"Wenju, don't interrupt, let Ba speak first!" Mi Heng is a debater, unlike Kong Rong, a great Confucian who is stupid in reading, he is very interested in what I have to say.

I saw that You Heng understood what I meant, so he smiled and said: "It seems that your uncle has already gained a little. Well, let me explain briefly. Your uncle, do you know my Chang'an and Luoyang, and even Chang'an to Luoyang How was the road between them built?"

"We really don't know this!" Cao knew that I used Qiang slaves to build the city and roads, but Kong Rong and Mi Heng were not Cao's direct descendants, so Cao naturally wouldn't disclose such important news to him.

"I built it with the slave army!" Kong Rong was shocked when I said that, because slavery had basically disappeared as early as the Qin Dynasty.But now I say that I have a slave army under my command, which makes Kong Rong a little at a loss.

You Heng looked at me and said with a smile: "Good idea, but Baxian, where did your slaves come from? You can't use me as a slave, right? Even if you are a prisoner, it is too much to use as a slave!" Wanting to excuse me, he knew that it was unacceptable for Kong Rong that I used slaves.

I looked at Kong Rong with a smile and said, "Uncle Kong doesn't have to be like this. The slaves I use are all foreigners! Those foreigners didn't have enough food and clothing on the grasslands, so I captured them. Anyone who can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, I Let them be the people of the big man, and the rest will be compiled into a slave army to benefit the people of my big man. Although it is a bit hard and tiring, I will give them enough food. At least they don’t have to starve and suffer, and they will come to my big man to fight Grass Valley! Of course, if they don’t understand Sinicization, they must be strictly restricted, so I call them the slave army!”

After listening to my explanation, Kong Rong wiped the sweat from his brow and said, "You said it earlier! I was shocked! I thought I was going to work for a slave trader! But what about the old people, children and women of foreign races? "

"Uncle Kong, you don't know! With the living conditions of foreigners, except for nobles such as chiefs and leaders, who can live past the age of 50! Of course, I chopped off those leaders! Other men who are about 50 years old Carrying stones and moving wood, no problem at all! As for women, it’s a little more troublesome, young ones are assigned to meritorious soldiers as wives and concubines, and older ones are assigned to work as maids in various construction sites, at least give them a bite to eat! Children The simplest thing is to educate them in schools! After 30 or [-] years, these children will be proud of being Han Chinese! Foreign races will no longer exist! If they learn more about Confucian moral values ​​and use the behavior of a gentleman as a model, What does Uncle Kong think we big men will become?"

Although Kong Rong thinks the prospects I have described are beautiful, he also knows that it will take a hundred or even a thousand years of hard work.Kong Rong said with a smile: "Baxian doesn't need to paint a cake for me. I know that it will take many generations of hard work to achieve the situation Baxian described!"

"Uncle Kong, it's not like that. Everything is difficult at the beginning. If we make a good start for future generations, they can continue to explore! If there is no good start, it will be like Qin Shi Huang, who ruled the world, died before the third generation! Maybe We can't see it anymore, but after a thousand years, our descendants will probably still remember us because of our contributions, and remember us pioneers!"

"But Ba Xian, if you do what you do, won't we big men have no slaves in the future?" You Heng is too rude, Kong Rong is trying to persuade me not to use slaves, but he is good, but he thinks there are too few slaves!

"Don't worry, don't worry! The world is very big! After defeating the Qiang, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan, and then go all the way to the southeast, north, and west, there are still huge places. These places are at least as big as forty or fifty big men. Worried that there are no foreigners?" The ancient people had relatively little experience, and they went to few places. Even Daqin was passed on by some businessmen and Buddhists. It is normal for Mi Heng not to know.

"Doesn't that mean we have to fight all the time?" Kong Rong asked; "You know, even if a country is big and warlike, it will die!" Hearing what Kong Rong said, Mi Heng became a little impatient.Mi Heng is always instilled with these Confucian ideas by Kong Rong. Although Kong Rong is refuted every time by Mi Heng, Kong Rong is still stubborn!And I'm not Mi Heng, so I can't force Kong Rong to agree with me, so I have to use the words I used to fool Guo Jia and the others to fool Kong Rong.

It was very easy to convince Kong Rong, but I found that Ni Heng was much easier to persuade than Kong Rong.In fact, whether it was Mi Heng in history or the current Mi Heng, he didn't want to be right with Cao, but he just couldn't control his mouth, and he offended the lord and his colleagues as a result.But Mi Heng said these words without malice, he just wanted to have fun with his mouth!If Mi Heng followed Cao earlier, it would be fine.It's a pity that when he followed Cao, Cao had a cloud of advisers and a pile of generals, and Mi Heng was not too many if he was more, and there was not much if he was missing, so Cao didn't have to endure Mi Heng's stinky personality.

It is undeniable that Ni Heng is talented, but like Xu You, he is a little arrogant and proud of his achievements. As a result, Cao couldn't stand his poisonous tongue, so he threw him to Liu Biao.In fact, Cao has a good temper. If Yuan Shao were to be replaced, he wouldn't care if Mi Heng was a great talent or not, and he would just chop it off!

I chatted with Kong Rong and Mi Heng for a long time, and finally comforted these two uncles. At this time, Cai Yong walked in. He looked at Kong Rong carefully and said with a smile: "Wen Ju , I heard that you did another feat today, and seeing your clothes, I know the rumors on the street are true!"

As soon as Cai Yong said, several people in the hall laughed.It turned out that after the ceremony, Kong Rong came to me without changing his clothes.He was originally covered in dirt on the ground, but he came here in a hurry just now, and the dirt mixed with sweat turned into mud!Mi Heng patted the table and said with a smile: "Kong Wenju, thank you for being a great Confucian, you are now a mud monkey! If Confucius had a spirit underground, he would definitely show up and beat you up!" Kong Rong looked at his clothes and felt the same. It's outrageous, so under the leadership of the servants, I found a piece of Cai Yong's clothes and changed into it.When Cai Yong met his three old friends, Kong Rong and Mi Heng, they naturally had endless things to say.I ordered someone to prepare a banquet for them, and let them chat while drinking. As a result, the three of them drank under the table together, and they all passed out!

(End of this chapter)