Nirvana is alluring, nine thousand years old, please respect yourself

Chapter 454 War and Human Life

There is news that Xuan Yuheng wants to start raising food from the people now. There is no food in the national treasury. No matter how hard the people are squeezed by him, there will always be some people who have surplus food. Everyone came together to donate food to meet Beichen's snow disaster. Every day that passed, the lives of millions of people in Beichen were more in danger. It was difficult to find the dead, and Xuan Yuheng became more and more anxious.

He is a young king. He is a king who made mistakes, but he is also a king who truly loves this country and its people. He is paying a painful price for the mistakes he once made. Now , he wanted to make amends, but it was extremely difficult.

Because he has lost his credibility, the people of this country have no trust in their emperor at all, and even the people are disgusted with Xuan Yuheng, and will call him a fool, a tyrant in a place where there is no one.
Therefore, his method has almost not been promulgated, and he died before he even left the palace. After hearing Xuan Yuheng's thoughts, all the officials told Xuan Yuheng with many deeds in the past. possible things.

It is impossible for people who are already poor and have no males at home to listen to Xuan Yuheng's words and give their rations to others?Stop dreaming.

So Xuan Yuheng was very frustrated.

Lian Qingcheng brought some food in his hand, and asked the little eunuch to report that he wanted to see the emperor, and the little eunuch who followed Xuan Yuheng was a sensible person, knowing that the white-haired demon girl who was not convinced by everyone was the emperor's heart The treasure in the meat hand, so I immediately ran in to pass the word, not long after, the ministers in the imperial study came out one after another, seeing Lian Qingcheng standing aside with low brows, they were all staring, some even passed by Lian Qingcheng's feet In their hearts, Lian Qingcheng is what they are talking about, Ye Zi is very annoyed, and wants to go forward to argue with that person, but Lian Qingcheng pulls her back, now it is not about these things when.

Seeing Lian Qingcheng walking in, Xuan Yuheng asked Lian Qingcheng to sit down, opened the food box she brought, smelled the aroma of the food inside, and pretended to be relaxed and said: "Did you cook all these?"

"Well, I heard that you haven't eaten properly for several days, why don't you give it a try?" Lian Qingcheng said.

After Xuan Yuheng had finished eating, Lian Qingcheng packed up the food box and said: "Actually, you borrow food from the common people, this move will not work."

"I know, it won't work, it's just...just that there is no faster and better way than this." Xuan Yuheng pretended to be relaxed, but after Lian Qingcheng's question, he immediately fell apart, and he sighed.

"Actually, there is another way." Lian Qingcheng slowly packed the food box and said to Xuan Yuheng.

"any solution?"

"You know it too, disarmament."

"Qingcheng, you clearly know..."

"Disarmament, to disarm the overstaffed army, at least 30 troops can be disarmed. These people can go home to reunite with their parents, wives and children, and they can also help their families through the crisis brought about by the snowstorm, avoiding the disaster. Where houses were crushed by the snowstorm, but there are no men in the family to repair it, and it can also resolve the backlog of public anger and grievances caused by the previous massive conscription. It can kill two birds with one stone." Lian Qingcheng's voice was not very loud, but there was a kind of The inexplicable unknown power, what she said is true. The biggest benefit of doing this is to quietly resolve the accumulated public grievances in this winter of panic and displacement, so as to avoid chaos again.

"The army is what I want to use to protect Beichen's apprentices from being violated. If you let me cut them off, won't you expose me, Beichen, to the danger of being unprotected?" Xuan Yuheng smiled with narrowed eyes, Obviously, Lian Qingcheng's proposal would not be considered.

"Beichen's army is at least 100 million. These people need money and food every day when they open their eyes. This is a huge expense. It is much more than those used by the concubines in the harem. The money and food in the army can be sent to the disaster area, and used by the people who are starving and freezing, besides, if you don’t disarm your army now, how long can your military salary support this huge army?”

Lian Qingcheng asked him, very early on, Beichen didn't have any extra money or food, otherwise they wouldn't have been wooing and intimidating those rich businessmen and wealthy businessmen of Beichen, and tried every means to get it from this group of people. Get more money, the daily consumption of a million-strong army is terrible, if you cut down 30 soldiers, even if the rations of 30 soldiers are saved for a month, the savings are still a considerable number, the more you send and go , and the more it can alleviate the food problems of millions of affected people after the snow disaster.

Xuan Yuheng naturally understood this truth as soon as he heard it, but he remained silent. For him, the way of looking at problems is naturally different from Lian Qingcheng's. What Lian Qingcheng sees is only cold numbers , but what Xuan Yuheng saw was the unavoidable and inevitable battle in the future, the integrity of Beichen's land, and whether Beichen could really win with more.

So his silence became logical, and he shouldn't even be blamed. How should he choose the territory and the people?This problem is enough to give anyone sitting on the dragon chair a headache for a long time.

"Don't move in the army, I will think of a way." Xuan Yuheng seemed to choose the territory in the end, and Lian Qingcheng was not surprised by this.

Lian Qingcheng just insisted: "Does Beichen really need such a huge army? With Beichen's territory, 60 to 130 soldiers are enough, but you insist on doubling the army. At the time, it even reached more than [-] million. You said that you were trying to prevent Jili from coming over, but Xuan Yuheng, you should know better than anyone else that in a war, it is not which side has more people, which side will win. You ask yourself Take a moment, is the victory or defeat of the war really based on the accumulation of human lives?"

"I can't win against him just by marching and setting up an army. If I can't even bear to pile up human lives, what hope do I have of winning?"

"Okay, then let's talk about the issue of human life. Back then, Jili defeated your Beichen's 10,000+ soldiers with an army of [-]. This is what you saw and heard with your own eyes. Is it true? Last year, you integrated Bian Yang was unscathed, but you Beichen lost a whole navy and [-] light cavalry. They are all well-trained veterans, and Ji Li As for Li, his hands are full of recruits who have just entered the battlefield and don’t understand anything, but they defeated your army, and what about him? What did he lose? This is what you said to pile up people’s lives, but do you know You know, it’s better to practice more than to practice more.”

(End of this chapter)