Chapter 1429: Had to Do It
Lian'er was still a little puzzled, and Yang Huairen then explained, "The Liao State has a lot of troops, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of our Great Song army.
But aside from the soldiers, let's just say that the generals and colonels in their army are all children of the aristocracy, of course, there are warriors who rely on military merits to become generals, but the real high-ranking ones are still Khitan nobles.
When fighting, in fact, the Khitans are not as terrible as we imagined, and they may be stronger than the average Song soldiers, but compared with the Wude army, except for Ma Duo, there should be no advantage.
In the past, the Khitans led their troops to fight, and they were all military generals who took the lead, so when their soldiers saw that the generals were brave, their courage naturally followed, so they fought bravely.
But now it's different, a group of savages have spent more than 100 years living a civilized life, and they no longer have the courage and combat skills they used to have.
Now what we have to do is to sell sugar, wine, and a lot of good things to them, so that they can indulge in pleasure, and raise them fat and fat, as good as pigs. ”
"Huh?"
Wang Xialian asked, "Official, is this really okay?" ”
Yang Huairen had long known that the nobles of the Liao State were such a result, and when the Jurchens founded the country more than ten years later, the Khitans also sent troops to fight, but suddenly they found that the Jurchens, who had been slaved tribes all along, were no longer so easy to bully.
On the one hand, the Jurchens have been oppressed by the Khitans for a long time, so they naturally know how to improve themselves, gradually improve the combat effectiveness of their own race, give birth to more people, accumulate wealth and buy weapons to arm themselves, so they are constantly getting stronger.
On the other hand, the Khitan people themselves are not angry, there is no war to fight all year round, and most of the new generation of generals and soldiers have not experienced real wars, and they bully those nomads in the north one-sidedly, which is not a war.
In addition, most of the generals are from noble families, and their lives are comfortable, and they have long since lost their bravery.
Yelu Hongji insisted on making bowls in all seasons every year, just to take advantage of the opportunity of bowl hunting, so that the generals and noble children under his command could still maintain the bravery of their own nation when they were about to build the country.
But now that he is dead, whether it is his waste grandson in the original history or the current Yelu Bawotai, it is too far from Yelu Hongji's wisdom, so those nobles and generals will only get weaker and weaker day by day.
In this way, it is not difficult to understand why only a Jurchen with a population of only a million can wipe out the Khitan people with a population of tens of millions.
Yang Huairen smiled, "Okay, why not?" The original eating habits of the Khitan people were mainly beef and mutton, and now although they have begun to take rice and pasta as staple foods like our Song people, their diet is extremely unhealthy.
You may not think it's intuitive for you to say this, but if I say one thing, maybe you can understand it more easily, the average life expectancy of the Khitan people is many years shorter than that of our Song people.
Do you think about what caused this?
First, they were originally in the bitter cold land of the north, and their living conditions were poor, not to mention medical conditions, so ordinary Khitan people did not live long.
Even if the nobles and those big families live longer, it is because they moved south to live an agrarian settled life, and they have learned our etiquette, but the details of life are still not as exquisite as our Song people.
The second is caused by their eating habits, let me tell you a truth, people's lifespan, part of it is born, part of it is acquired, this is what I often tell you about health preservation.
Life is to be raised, and the better you raise, the longer you will live. But this raising does not mean that you don't do any work with delicious food and drink.
It is necessary to take reasonable intake, moderate exercise, and make up for the deficiencies in the body, but it is not difficult to understand the reason that it is not difficult to understand that it is not difficult to make up for the deficiency of the body.
But the Khitans don't understand this, they live a comfortable and good life, so naturally they wear any good things on their bodies and stuff them into their mouths.
What about us, we just try to supply them with these good things, earn their money, and also discount their lives, for us Song people, why not?
Think about it, when there was a war between Song and Liao one day, the generals who led the Khitan troops were all big fat men, and the horses couldn't move them, so what else to talk about?
The soldiers under their command, seeing that their own generals are not fully trapped in battle to set an example for them, who will rush forward and kill at the cost of their lives?
Therefore, the sugar produced by our family is sold to Liao as much as possible, and it is cheaper than what was sold in Liao before, so that more and more people can afford to eat it, and they have to eat it every day.
When I go back, I will write a letter to my hometown, asking the college and our family to develop more sweet fruit candied fruit, and then deliberately pass on the production method to Liaoguo.
This shouldn't be difficult, let's follow the dishes of the garden, not only the restaurants of the Great Song Dynasty follow the learning, but the Khitan people are also imitating.
This time, we were generous, let's just say that it was the face of Princess Anguo, and took the initiative to teach them, so that they could sell sweet fruit preserves everywhere after returning to Liao.
People are greedy, and those Khitan people who have never eaten good things are even more greedy, and when they have good things to eat, they are not afraid that they will not rush to them.
After that, they will also reduce the amount of tea sold to Liao, a little bit, so that they will not find out, and by the time they realize that the situation is not right ten years later, it will be too late.
I want to see the picture of a bunch of big fat people surrounding the Khitan Emperor in the Liao court, especially those former fierce generals and warriors, one by one, who are full of fat brains, I am the most happy.
At that time, we don't have to do it in the Great Song Dynasty, just instigate and instigate the Jurchens, Mongols, Murwei people, Xi people, or any tribe to fight the Khitans, and the Liao Kingdom will definitely be in chaos!
Our Great Song Dynasty can take the opportunity to take back the land of Yanyun, haha! ”
Yang Huairen was happy, but the latter gradually deviated from the topic, and Lian'er was also happy with Yang Huairen, "The truth that the official said, Lian'er understands, but the military affairs in the back are not something that a woman like a concubine can understand."
The official's method must be good, and it will definitely be successful, and the concubine is here to hope that these things that the official said can really happen in the future.
Just ......"
Lian'er hesitated a little, and turned her head embarrassedly to glance at the ghost sister who was also squatting on the edge of the pond not far away and playing with her children, and said, "Jie Xi is also a Khitan, isn't it a little ...... for us to treat her clan and father like this?"
Yang Huairen also looked over, Sister Ghost was having a good time at this time, the smile on her face was very innocent, and she had already lost the treacherous feeling she had when she was in Liaoguo.
Yang Huairen sighed, "As a husband, this is indeed a bit excessive, but as a Song person, for the sake of my country and nation, I have to do this!" ”