"No!"

At this time, someone shouted, Luo Xin turned his head to look, and saw Hu Zongxian walking towards him under the protection of several personal soldiers.

"Brother, are you well?" Luo Xin and He Xinyin greeted them.

"It's no big deal." Hu Zongxian looked at Luo Xin and said, "No, I'll go into the mountain with you." ”

"No way!" Luo Xin shook his head and said: "Brother, your body has not healed yet, although there is no major problem, but you have also entered the old forest, and you know that the environment in the old forest is sinister." Your body does not have the conditions to enter the old forest now, so you stay outside, and I will leave you 10,000 soldiers to encircle and suppress those thieves who ran out of the old forest. ”

"Don't ......"

"Brother, you are also a commander, and you know that sometimes you are unwilling."

"I ......"

"And it's also very important to stay outside."

Hu Zongxian's face showed a hint of displeasure and said: "No, don't fool the elder brother, you also said that the elder brother was also a commander, wouldn't the elder brother know that it is important to be outside the mountain?" ”

"Not what you think!"

Luo Xin waved his hand, and followed his guards to retreat, He Xinyin thought about it, it was estimated that Luo Xin wanted to say some private words to Hu Zongxian, so he also nodded to Hu Zongxian and Luo Xin, and retreated to the side. Hu Zongxian also waved his hand, and his personal guards also retreated, leaving only Hu Zongxian and Luo Xin.

Luo Xin closed his eyes, and the afterglow of the sun fell on his body, as if he was covered with a layer of golden armor.

Hu Zongxian stood aside, and there was silence around him. Hu Zongxian gradually felt the pressure from Luo Xin. He didn't have this feeling before, I think when he first met Luo Xin, Luo Xin was just a Qipin City Bo Si Promotion, at that time, Luo Xin was a fly that could be slapped to death in front of Hu Zongxian.

He watched Luo Xin step by step to a high position, and now he is the strategy of the entire south. But because he is very familiar with Luo Xin, and he has been friends since Luo Xin was at the end of his life, he has never felt pressure from Luo Xin. And Luo Xin has never had any shelf in front of him, just like two old friends.

But......

Now that he felt the pressure, his Adam's apple squirmed, and he spoke dryly:

"Don't ......"

Luo Xin also opened his eyes, looked up at the afterglow in the sky, and said softly:

"Brother, what do you think my purpose is in the mountains this time?"

"I think you will slaughter the eighteen villages, they killed you and sent a messenger, there is no need to surrender."

"Not bad!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "I will slaughter the eighteen villages and find Zhang Daoyuan's lair." But, brother, do you know how many people really live in the eighteen villages? ”

"How many?"

"There are four or five thousand people in Xiaozhai and twenty or thirty thousand people in Dazhai. However, there are less than 300,000 people living in the 18th village. However, the total number of mountain dwellers is more than one million. ”

Hu Zongxian nodded solemnly and said: "We also suffered this loss at that time, and after entering the mountains and forests, we found that we were completely at a disadvantage, not only did we not occupy the right time and place, but the number of people was not as large as the other party. ”

"If you have a cottage, you can't run. Therefore, I can destroy the eighteen villages, but I can't destroy the nearly one million mountain people who are not in the cottages. Those mountain people are too scattered, one by one they look for a random place, and then build a small cottage. Each cottage, with only a few dozen people and a few hundred people, is dotted around, but it will be a headache. ”

"And what are you going to do?"

"If I destroy the Eighteen Villages with the power of thunder this time, and then follow the vine to find Zhang Daoyuan's lair, and destroy Zhang Daoyuan's last strength. Then he returned to the court. Then, a few years later, there will be another eighteen villages. ”

"You want to take this opportunity to solve the problem of the mountain people together?"

"Hmm!" Luo Xin nodded.

"Then you want to wipe out the mountain people completely? That's more than a million, and in the deep mountains and old forests, as you said, there are cottages, and you can't run. But those small cottages with dozens or hundreds of people, they don't have a cottage at all, and they can build a cottage by running a random place, and it is not impossible to exterminate the millions of mountain people, but it will take a long time.

No, we don't have that much time. ”

"I didn't want to exterminate all the millions of mountain people, so wouldn't I become a butcher?" Luo Xin said calmly: "To treat these ignorant mountain people, we must pay equal attention to suppression. For people like Eighteen Villages, who have absolute prestige among the mountain people, and stubbornly oppose the Ming Dynasty. We must resolutely encircle and exterminate them. In this way, the remaining mountain people, although they are numerous, have also become a piece of scattered sand. When they see that the eighteen villages they were afraid of in the past have been slaughtered by my Ming Dynasty, they will be afraid. At that time, it was time for us to pacify, and we couldn't force them to the opposite side of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it would cause the mountain people to fight more and more, and let us fall into the quagmire of suppressing bandits. ”

"In fact, the consequences of this large-scale war for the mountain people are very serious. Millions of mountain people, but 300,000 in the eighteen villages, only the eighteen villages have some grain.

And the war you launched against the mountain people and the anti-thieves before has affected their spring planting, so to speak, by the autumn, they have no harvest. They can only rely on hunting, but can that sustain a million people?

The relationship between Shibazhai and Zhang Daoyuan is intricate and close. But the remaining nearly one million mountain people may already hate Zhang Daoyuan in their hearts, because this disaster was brought to them by Zhang Daoyuan.

This point, even in the process of our attack on the eighteen villages, can be used. ”

"No!" Hu Zongxian said worriedly: "If you slaughter the Eighteen Villages, aren't you afraid that those officials in the imperial court will impeach you?" ”

Luo Xin frowned, then nodded and said, "Those old officials in the capital, one of the things they preach is education, especially those who speak the officials.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, these officials also played a very important role in cracking down on corruption and perverting the law. They were not afraid of power, upheld justice, and made a glorious image in the Ming and opposition books, and then won the worship of the Ming and the opposition, and finally gained the right to dominate public opinion.

If you are really targeted by them, it will be really troublesome! ”

"Yes! No, you have to be on guard! ”

"Then you have to prepare in advance!"

"What are you going to do?"

"Prepare to dominate public opinion! Brother, you don't care about these things for now, you stay, and take 10,000 people outside the mountains and forests. Don't look at those mountain people in the mountains and forests, they have strong combat effectiveness, once they get out of the old forest, they can't compare with our soldiers at all. ”

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