Chapter 174

Fang Xie put down his marching notes and his mind was full of magnificent pictures of the war between the Sui Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. Thousands of troops and horses cross the river to clean up the southwest. The Shang Dynasty, with a history of hundreds of years, trembled under the iron hoof of the great Sui Dynasty, the mountains and rivers cracked, and the royal family disappeared.

Ning Yan's notes are very detailed. Where did he go, what did he do, when did the war start and end.

In particular, the war of invading Yongzhou was recorded in detail. The left avant-garde of general Luo Yao took the lead in breaking through the gate of Yongzhou, and the army poured into the city like a tide. In fact, the Shang people had completely collapsed at this time, and the soldiers guarding the city had no fighting spirit. Although there are hot-blooded generals who organize disabled soldiers to resist, how can they resist the crushing of the soldiers of the great Sui Dynasty? The soldiers of the great Sui Dynasty who had killed people turned into a sharp horizontal knife, which no one could stop.

Luo Yao killed the eight grade talisman with a fist outside the Yongzhou palace. It is also recorded in the notes, but I don't know why it's just a pen, and there's no detailed description.

Fang Xie closed his notes and couldn't help breathing a long sigh of relief.

"What do you seem to be worried about?"

Ning Yan sat aside and looked into Fang Xie's eyes.

Fang Xie said: "Don't dare to hide, sir. The students know that the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty have not been defeated for more than 100 years, and the Central Plains is invincible. However... The students are worried that the army has not experienced war for 20 years, and the soldiers in the army are new. The Veterans when the business was destroyed should have been demobilized and returned to the field. Such an army does not lack spirit, but lacks experience... I don't think it's big Sui will lose the war. I'm just worried about whether the early stage of the war will not be as smooth as people expected. "

"Once frustrated... Will you lose your determination?"

Fang Xie asked.

"When the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Shang state, the soldiers had not fought for ten years."

Ning Yan said calmly, "you were born in the frontier army. Naturally, you know the characteristics of soldiers in the Sui Dynasty. Once they go to the battlefield, they will no longer be a group of people, but a group of wolves."

"Show you something."

Ning Yan took out a thin piece of paper from his cuff, Fang Xie took it with both hands and looked at it carefully. The words on it were not many, but they were definitely enough. These were the twelve military regulations issued by the emperor of the western expedition of the great Sui Dynasty. Although they had not been publicized, it was not difficult for the professors of the martial arts academy to get it.

"Fugitives, kill"

"Those who fail to rescue, kill"

"Whoever doesn't obey orders, kill"

"Underestimate the enemy and kill those who advance rashly"

There are 12 murders in total, and any one of them is a capital crime. I have to say that this military order is extremely solemn and strict. But Fang Xie couldn't help frowning after reading it, and then read it again from beginning to end.

"What do you think is wrong?"

Ning Yan asked.

"The twelve military regulations... Seem to restrict the soldiers in tactics and war, and do not restrict some inevitable things in the war. For example... The soldiers robbed the property of the people of Mengyuan, occupied the women of Mengyuan, and burned the houses of the people. None of these things were mentioned."

Fang Xie was surprised and said, "these things have no constraints. Will they lead to anything wrong?"

Ning Yan said with a smile, "do you think it's your Majesty's omission?"

Fang Xie was silent for a moment and shook his head: "No... your majesty can't think of this. Sir, I think I understand your intention. Although the great Sui Dynasty and Mengyuan had a hundred years of peace, your majesty even signed a trade treaty with Mengyuan Great Khan mengge, there is no doubt that there is absolutely no friendship between the two countries. Once the war begins, both sides will bite each other like red eyed wolves, never Will give each other breathing room. "

"Because of this hatred, the strong Mongolian Yuan people are no longer common people. They are also soldiers when they pick up machetes. Even women will bite the soldiers of the great Sui Dynasty with their teeth if they have the chance. Kuan Jen can't win, so your majesty never thought about Kuan Jen to the Mongolian Yuan people. Similarly, if the cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan Empire rushes into the territory of the great Sui Dynasty, it will be a hundred years The surnames are only afraid of the same reaction. So... Instead of being lenient, it's better to simply let go and kill, so that the people of Mengyuan feel afraid. Only fear can make a tough nation finally give in. "

Ning Yan said, "Kuan Jen is something in the future, but it is by no means something in the war."

He paused and continued: "As you just said, both the great Sui Dynasty and Meng Yuan had their own pride. This pride did not allow the other party to desecrate, so the war would be very fierce from the beginning. When the soldiers rushed into the grassland, they could not control themselves. They would kill and plunder like demons. This kind of thing could not be stopped at all. The military law was powerless in front of the madness of the soldiers. So... Your majesty simply let the soldiers kill. "

Ning Yan smiled and said, "many years ago, I had a similar discussion with general Luo Yao when we had nothing to do. At that time, the general asked me, if the imperial court goes to war against Mongolia Yuan, the army goes straight into the grassland and finally wins, how can we firmly and properly control the tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains? How can we make hundreds of millions of people of Mongolia Yuan submit?"

"How do you answer, sir?"

Fang Xie asked.

Ning Yan said faintly, "I answered the general at that time... If the people of Mengyuan are subject, there is no need to talk about how to stabilize thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. The simplest and effective way to make the people of Mengyuan submit is to kill all those who do not submit. Five or six out of ten will be afraid."

"Kill half..."

Fang Jie murmured again, feeling a little cold in his heart.

Ning Yan smiled: "Now the people in Jiangnan are proud of the Sui people... You know, the general surnamed Li killed less than half of the population in Jiangnan a hundred years ago, but there are still 30% of them. Kill first and then comfort the people until they are scared, and then implement benevolent policies. If the living get benefits, they will be happy and satisfied for the rest of their lives. It only takes them a hundred years to remember People in Yongzhou wear Sui clothes and spend five baht. Children under the age of 14 enter the school of the great Sui Dynasty, and people over the age of 60 take the silver issued by the imperial court. It's only 20 years... They have adapted to their current life. You see, it's not a long time, is it? "

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Prison can change a person, which is good after all.

Although Fang Xie's prison is special, this kind of life still has a great impact on his ideological change. It is precisely because in this environment that Ning Yan can understand more thoroughly what he said about killing half. If in the past, Fang Xie would certainly disagree.

He would even argue and tell Ning Yan that the people will treat you leniently only if they treat the people leniently. But the current fangxie would never say such a thing. The emperor, who is in charge of the national artifact, has far more things to consider than the people. These things are difficult to be defined by simple good and evil. You can have your own likes and dislikes, but you can't force the emperor to make decisions The label of the last tyrant.

Ning Yan and Fang Xie didn't discuss the military law too much. After all, if people knew about it privately, they would be called disrespectful.

In the world where imperial power is supreme, how many people are crushed to death by this hat is immeasurable.

The ground was cluttered with books, and the map on the wall was sketched beyond recognition. One stone lock on the ground was missing and embedded in the wall. On the stone bed was Ning Yan's marching notes, and the flying fish robe at the door seemed to be shouting something. When Fang Xie calmed down from meditation, he heard that the flying fish robe was shouting to take the food.

Meals for two, meat and wine.

"It's a nice place."

Ning Yan didn't disturb Fang Xie, who was deep in thought. He knew that Fang Xie needed time to digest what he had said before. Although the young man was in prison, since he sat here to lecture, no one could firmly believe that the young man didn't see the sun again. Speaking of his majesty's handling of Fang Xie was very contradictory. He was locked in prison, but the professors of the martial arts academy ran a few blocks Come and give him a lecture alone.

He was not free, but he seemed very free in captivity.

"Quiet, no one bothers, you can realize a lot of things."

Ning Yan poured himself a glass of wine without chopsticks. He pinched a piece of cooked beef and chewed it slowly: "it's a clean day with wine, meat and books. If I have a chance, I'd like to enjoy it."

Fang Xie smiled helplessly and said, "it seems that you don't just say that this is a kind of enjoyment. Maybe the realm of students is not enough, so now I think it's suffering. I haven't found any comfortable place."

"It has nothing to do with the realm."

Ning Yan took a sip of wine and breathed comfortably: "There is a realm in martial arts, but there is no realm for literati. Say a few words that seem to have profound truth, and write a few prosperous and beautiful articles. The realm spoken, the realm written, and even the realm seen by others are not realms. They are pretending. The higher their status, the more they will pretend. The world has ideas, and everyone has the chance to feel the true meaning. This is the realm? Then isn't everyone's realm the same? "

"Some people look for a place with beautiful scenery to live. They write the words of picking chrysanthemums in the South Mountain and planting peaches in the north mountain, which is the realm? The realm of hunter in the mountain and old farmer in the field is higher than him."

"It's mentality"

Ning Yan said faintly.

"Mentality"

Fang Jie was stunned and nodded immediately.

"The four walls of the prison are firm and unbreakable. Even if the instruments of torture on the wall are changed into maps and there are more books and professors around you, the prison is still a prison and has not changed. The prison is immutable, so you can only change it yourself. If you can bend your head and feet in half and be a grandson and hold your head high when you are straight, you are an owl."

"The Sui Dynasty didn't need an owl."

Fang Xie said seriously.

"What the Sui Dynasty didn't need was to be an owl, not to have such a heart."

Ning Yan said, "who has no ambition if he holds power?"

"Sir, if this is heard, it is a great sin of disrespect."

"What kind of disrespect is that? And I'm a sinner, and I'm afraid of more? Your majesty also knows my nature. Those who say these things frankly may not be thieves, and those who flatter may not be loyal ministers. If you can get out of here in the future, you must join the army. I'm just telling you something that a general must understand."

"As long as you can win in the end, why do you care about what means? Although today's days seem a little sad and make you unwilling, if you can't bear this, how can you put in a war? A victory or defeat? If you can't even fit a victory or defeat, what qualifications do you have to talk about future success or failure? A coward and an idiot should die."

"Your heart is a school, and here is not a prison. Your heart is a prison, and everywhere is a prison. Your heart is unwilling. Even if you walk in broad daylight, you are still full of obscurity and cold. Your heart is calm and broad, so you can run thousands of troops. You are not willing to learn comfortably, but forcing yourself to learn. Although both are learning, what you get is very bad Don't go thousands of miles. "

Fang Jie murmured a few words: "mentality... Students understand."

PS: reward the red ticket and pay back the third watch.