Chapter 223 Datang will not repeat the mistakes of the past

Just when Xun Xiang and Liu Tong led the Beiwei army to collect those displaced people and miners who could not survive in the Songshan Mountains, Chen Ying also led his subordinates to launch a tentative attack on Yanshi City.

Because Zhao Jiqing under Wang Shichong improved the trebuchet and fired the red-hot stone as a stone projectile, the power of the stone bullet was exerted to the extreme, and within 300 steps of the Yanshi city wall, it became an intransmissible forbidden area of life. Chen Ying hated the act of taking human lives to consume the enemy's weapons and equipment, so the Tang soldiers just lined up outside Yanshi City.

Chen Ying then divided his troops into a brigade and launched a tentative attack on Yanshi City, which he said was an offensive rather than an experiment with a new method of warfare. Compared with the ancient habitual phalanx, Chen Ying was more accustomed to this kind of straggler commando formation, where each soldier was more than ten steps away from each other, and the brigade of more than 100 people was all spread out, almost scattered for five or six miles.

In this way, the generals of the Zheng army and Wang Shiyun, who were guarding the Yanshi, felt extremely painful, because the Tang army was too scattered, and instead of attacking in a straight line, it took a serpentine position, and the trebuchet had no way to aim at all, and there was no way to aim at the bed crossbow.

When Wang Shiyun saw this scene, he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood: "Chen Ying'er is so despicable and shameless, he actually uses barbarian tactics!" ”

Wang Shiyun's lieutenant asked strangely: "This is actually a barbarian tactic?" ”

"Yes, you can't be wrong!" Wang Shiyun nodded and said: "Back then, I went to Yanmen Pass with Your Majesty, and fought with the Turks, and the Turks fought like this, the two armies faced each other, first using light cavalry, taking the team as a unit, repeatedly attacking and harassing, consuming our arrows and physical strength, and when our army's arrows and physical strength were exhausted, we then used heavy troops to attack and smash our army's forward positions in one fell swoop......

The adjutant general said incredulously: "If it goes on like this, how long will this battle take?" ”

"I don't know, it depends on Chen Ying'er's mood!" Wang Shiyun said depressedly: "Maybe a month, maybe two months, maybe half a year, God knows how long!" ”

The deputy general muttered: "Your Majesty wants to eliminate the remnants of Li Shimin, at most ten days and half a month, we only need to block Chen Ying outside Yanshi City for half a month, it is enough for Your Majesty to eliminate Li Shimin!" ”

Seeing that Zheng Jun neither fired a bed crossbow nor a trebuchet, Chen Ying looked at the sky and ordered: "It's almost noon, collect the troops!" ”

Li Xiuning asked strangely: "This is the collection of troops?" ”

"I didn't plan to storm Yanshi City at all, so the casualties would be too great!" Chen Yingdao: "Pass the order, all the soldiers are working hard to attack the city today, and the whole army will have more food!" ”

The officers and men of the Tang Army cheered like thunder. The head of the Tang army will use salt to marinate the horse jerky, cut it into thin slices, put it directly into the pot, and then pour the washed millet, millet, wheat, and mushroom into the pot one by one, boil it over high heat and cook it directly.

Looking at the beaming soldiers, Li Xiuning asked as if he didn't understand: "Chen Lang, are you planning to attack the city?" ”

Chen Ying smiled and said: "That's okay, Wang Shichong is now crazy about expanding the army, his materials must be scarce, it would be good if the Yanshi defenders could eat half full, now they are watching our Tang soldiers on the city wall, eating and drinking, I'm afraid they will also complain, when the time comes, hum, whether Wang Shiyun can appease the army's heart, it's not good to say!" ”

The efficiency of the Tang army's gang leader is very high, and the meal is cooked in just half an hour, of course, Chen Ying doesn't have to dine with the big head soldiers, Li Xiuning and Chen Ying open a small stove in the handsome tent, especially the braised mutton stewed radish, and Li Xiuning's favorite food is called flower chicken, Li Xiuning looked at the slightly sumptuous meal, and sighed: "It would be good if I could not fight, if only the peace and prosperity ......"

Without waiting for Li Xiuning to finish speaking, Chen Ying interrupted Li Xiuning's words and said, "Taiping and prosperous, is it rare?" ”

Li Xiuning said: "Why is it not rare? But who doesn't want to live in a prosperous world? But as a monarch of a country, who doesn't want to be able to create a prosperous world? ”

"In fact, if you want to be prosperous, it is not difficult at all!" Chen Ying smiled slightly: "As long as you go to fight a war, kill people to the fullest, and then distribute the fields to the survivors, and exempt them from taxes for a few more years, it won't be long before the prosperity comes." ”

Li Xiuning was stunned, glanced at Chen Yingdao, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" Each prosperous era does not know how many people have to die, how much effort to create, looking at thousands of years of history, there are only a handful of times that can be called prosperous......"

"Every dynasty is prosperous for a long time after the founding of the country, and this thing is not uncommon at all!" Chen Ying tore away the flower chicken, turned to look at Li Xiuning's eyes, and said seriously: "Every prosperous era is built on the tired silk bones after the collapse of the previous dynasty, there is no great chaos and no great governance, it has been like this since ancient times." I know, you must say, that the sages will tell us that a certain monarch was brilliant and brilliant and created this prosperous era, but in fact, these are all lies. ”

Li Xiuning asked vaguely while eating the flower chicken: "Then tell me, how did this prosperous world come about?" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said with a smile: "Sanniang, you have also read a lot of books and know about the past historical materials, so tell me, why did Xia die, why did Shang die, and why did Zhou die?" Why did Qin die? Why did Han die? Why did Sui die? ”

Li Xiuning said: "Do you need to talk about this? Naturally, it is a faint monarch who is extravagant and promiscuous, and builds a large number of buildings, which makes the heavens angry and resentful, and the people are not able to make a living, and finally the people's resentment boils......"

"In the third generation of Xia Shang, the king divided the princes, and the world was divided into nine suits!" Chen Yingdao: "According to the cloud of "Zhou Li, Xia Guan, and Zhi Fang": It is the state of the nine suits: Fang Qianli is called Wangji, its outer 500 li is called Hou Fu, and its outer 500 li is called Dianfu, and its outer 500 li is called Men's Clothing, and its outer 500 li is called Caifu, and its outer 500 li is Wei Fu, and its outer 500 li is Barbarian Fu, and its outer 500 li is called Yifu, and its outer 500 li is called Zhenfu, and its foreign 500 li is called Vassal Service. Xia, Shang, and the third dynasty, Fang Qianli said Wangji, in fact, the king, the places that can be managed, are all a thousand miles around the royal capital, I looked at the history, summarized the reasons, what faint monarch is extravagant, big construction, all fake, are all deceitful nonsense. For example, this Shang Emperor also thinks he is a tyrant? ”

Li Xiuning said: "Why is he not a tyrant? ”

Is Ti Xin in fact a tyrant? once commented on King Shang: "In fact, King Su is a very capable, capable man of literature and martial arts. He managed the southeast and consolidated the unification of Dongyi and the Central Plains, which was meritorious in history. Emperor Xin attacked Xuzhou and won the battle, but the losses were great, there were too many prisoners, and they could not digest it, King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the weakness to attack, and a large number of prisoners defected, and as a result, the Shang Dynasty perished. ”

There are many kings who have died in Chinese history, and there are many who can be called tyrants, but in fact, the kings of the dead countries are not tyrants at all, and there is a lack of objective and fair judgment. Whether Di Xin was a tyrant or not, we must first look at the root cause of the fall of the Shang Dynasty. Basically all the tyranny of Di Xin is a history written by the Zhou Dynasty, in which the credibility is very low. It is written in the history books of the Zhou Dynasty that in the later period of his reign, Di Xin was proud of his achievements, spent a huge amount of money to build a deer platform, a wine pool, a forest of hanging meat, built luxurious palaces and gardens, and lived a life of poverty and luxury, making the treasury empty. He was stubborn and self-serving, unable to listen to correct opinions, formed an opposition at the top, and used torture such as cannon branding (which was invented by Xia Jiji) to suppress the people. Kill Bigan (in fact, Yin Bigan was not killed but died of old age), imprisoned Jizi, fought every year, and lost people's hearts. When he was crusading against Dongyi, he did not pay attention to the precautions against the Western tribes, and he used troops for many years, and his national strength was exhausted, and he had to deal with the burden of how to deal with the large number of prisoners that had accumulated over the years due to his long years of warfare. (This paragraph has long been unsophisticated, and was written by Zhou Wu, so the historical credibility is extremely low.) ）

In fact, the cause of the death of Shang, what kind of officials are corrupt, pro-villains, and far-reaching ministers, these are all. The Shang Dynasty was a slave country, in terms of political system, there was no such thing as the current management from the central to the local, at that time they were all feudal states, divided into five categories, such as Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Male, all of whom managed the place by themselves, and only needed to pay taxes to the Shang king. If the court of the Shang Dynasty is a government decree and cannot govern the following candidate countries, then there will be the only situation, the candidates do not listen to the greetings, like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhou Tianzi is a deaf man's ear, just a decoration.

Chen Ying found that if he argued with Li Xiuning about this issue, he was afraid that he would not be able to explain it for three days and three nights.

"All dynasties have perished, and there is a common characteristic, the people are not happy, right!"

Li Xiuning nodded.

Chen Ying asked, "Why are the people not making a living?" Historians will invariably point the finger at the Son of Heaven, thinking that the Son of Heaven is immoral, so it will make the people unhappy. There are too many to count. ”

Li Xiuning asked in surprise: "Isn't it right?" ”

"Don't say anything else, let's just say Yang Guang, does he have more than seven concubines? Are there more than four sons and three daughters? Chen Ying smiled and said: "In the Book of Sui, I remember that one of Yang Guang's sins is absurdity, that is, lewdness, if he is desolate and lewd, then how many emperors are not absurd and lewd?" ”

Li Xiuning was stunned, she really had no way to say. Others don't mention it, that is, after Li Yuan became the emperor, the harem was blessed with more than 100 women, and Li Yuan's children were more than ten times that of Yang Guang.

"You've noticed a problem, right?" Chen Ying smiled and said, "The pen is in their hands, and they can write whatever they want." ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ying unconsciously thought of the future generations. Some well-known big Vs make a lot of nonsense, what Chinese housing prices are brought up by mother-in-law, and what Chinese carbon dioxide emissions are caused by bicycles. In fact, there are too many bottomless principles and media, in order to show their masters, they dare to say anything, especially those who write all kinds of advertorials for money to deceive ignorant people for a living, they are even inferior to prostitutes, it is too shameful.

Chen Ying saw that Li Xiuning didn't mean to eat anymore, so he continued to explain: "But there are two things that they didn't write, that is, the government is exploiting and land is annexed...... Yes, in the last years of the dynasty, the government was corrupt and the land was annexed, which was the real reason why the people were not able to make a living. ”

Li Xiuning suddenly realized.

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and she was a first-hand experiencer. She knew more, Yang Guang dug a canal, and clearly stipulated that the method of drawing one ding for five households should be adopted, and the Sui Dynasty had 8.9 million households at that time, and one ding was drawn. Five households smoke one ding, is this ratio high? In feudal times, such a proportion was really not high.

In order to unify the world, Murong Jun of the Xianbei clan adopted the method of drawing three out of five to forcibly recruit 1.5 million troops, but no one had any. Because Murong Jun is not the king of the dead country, because Murong Jun is not Han.

However, it is recorded in the history books that in order to repair the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, 2.5 million people died in a year. However, Yang Guang did not recruit so many people at all.

Chen Yingdao: "Land is the fundamental reason, land is limited, but everyone has to breed offspring, grandchildren, grandchildren, grandchildren, endless, each person can maintain 60 acres of dry land, 40 acres of paddy fields are cultivated, there will be no waste, and the output of the land is enough for them to live a life of food and clothing after paying taxes, so this era is called the prosperous era." Yes, a country that has come through troubled times, as long as there is no big chaos, no matter how incompetent the monarch is, after a hundred years of hard work, it can usher in a prosperous era. ”

Li Xiuning silently calculated in his heart that the Qin Dynasty changed the law from the Shang Dynasty and reformed to the time of Qin Shi Huang, which was exactly a hundred years. And Liu Bang's founding of the country was also a hundred years to the time of Liu Che. But there are differences. Li Xiuning said: "But in the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan was already in his prime? ”

"Phew, don't mention Sima Yan to me!" Chen Ying said with disdain on his face: "Except for one Sima Yi, the Sima clan is all waste, including Sima Yan, did he create a prosperous world?" He just stole the fruits of three generations of Cao Wei. ”

In fact, Cao Weixing is Tuntian, and he died in Tuntian. At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the people of the world were struggling to make a living, and the peasants who lost their land had nothing but a life. Cao Cao founded the tuntian system, and the imperial court produced farm tools, seeds and ploughing cattle, according to the ratio of income to four or six, and then, Cao Wei was a soldier in war and a man in his spare time, and he became strong and strong in the Three Kingdoms era.

However, the peasants were ignorant and stupid. After more than 20 years, the first generation of farmers who experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion died, and the second generation of farmers felt that Cao Wei was too dark, and it was wrong to exploit them like this, so they acted as Sima's helpers, and as a result, they killed Cao Wei, ushered in Shenzhou Lu Shen, and moved south.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "One of the major disadvantages of the prosperous era is that the products are abundant, the country and the people are safe, and the people can reproduce with confidence, so the population is growing rapidly." But the population needs land to support it, and a country has limited land, and the limited population supports the infinitely growing population, and everyone knows what will happen. Therefore, when the number of people exceeds the limit of what the land can hold, the prosperous era will become a thing of the past, and the chaotic times will follow. More and more people are fighting openly and secretly for less and less land, and it is impossible to think about it, and if there are a few large-scale natural disasters or wars at this time, it can be said that the country is dead. ”

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", with the general trend of the world, divide and merge, divide and merge, and divide for a long time. In fact, this is a strange circle of Chinese civilization, from division and war to unification, prosperity and strength, and then turmoil, division and extinction.

Hearing Chen Ying's explanation, Li Xiuning seemed to understand. Her hands were sweating nervously, and she grabbed Chen Ying's hand and said, "And in another three or four generations, the prosperous era will begin?" ”

"Yes." Chen Ying nodded.

Li Xiuning's expression was shocked, and his hands trembled slightly: "Then, due to the peace and security of the country and the people, the abundant materials, the population increased rapidly, until it increased to the point that the land could not accommodate it, and then, the troubled times came?" That...... Datang! ”

Chen Ying held Li Xiuning's hand and said, "Don't worry, with me, Datang will not repeat the same mistakes!" ”

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