Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3244
Xue Rengui smiled and said: "Of course not. No matter how far-sighted and unparalleled the Duke of Yue is, how can he be unpredictable? At the beginning and the end of the year, the general was still under the command of the Duke of Yue, serving in the navy, and he once talked about his siege of cities and territories. At that time, the Duke of Yue dismissed the merits of expanding the land. He once said that today's soldiers are striving to be the first and the country is at its peak. The country is in decline and the military power is unsustainable, and these lands will also rebel, and even kill the Han people to show their toughness."

Li Xiaogong nodded, his words made sense.

The land conquered by the Han Dynasty throughout the ages is far more than thousands of miles?Even today's Goguryeo was also dominated by the Han people back then, and the land of Annan was even more subject to the jurisdiction of the dynasty. Wasn't the Western Regions not the territory of the Han people back then?It's just that when the dynasty fell, these places rebelled immediately, and the Han people who stayed here were slaughtered.

This is an unsolvable problem. "It's easy to plunder their land, but it's difficult to take in their hearts." It's hard to beat the heavens to integrate these barbarians into a big man's family.

Not only did he wonder: "Does Fang Er have any clever strategies?"

Xue Rengui looked strange, pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Yes."

Li Xiaogong became more and more interested: "I would like to hear the details."

Cutting the roasted mutton with a knife, the two of them had a mouthful of meat and a mouthful of wine. Xue Rengui said: "No matter how prosperous an empire is, there will be a day of decline. The territories conquered in the past will inevitably become more resistant. Rebellion is the general trend of the world, and it has never been like this throughout the ages. However, when a place is conquered, its aborigines will be slaughtered, and all the people on the land will be the people of the empire. Naturally, they will be loyal to the empire. There is a rift between the descendants of the internal people and the empire, but after all, they are of the same origin and the same species, so they are much closer by nature. Even if they are isolated and form their own country, they are also blood-linked allies. Moreover, their land is all the people of the empire Occupied, even if one day falls into the hands of a powerful enemy, these people still love their homeland, and as long as there is a slight chance, they will resist and return to the embrace of the empire... Only in this way can they completely assimilate the occupied territory, for generations to come, forever No change."

Li Xiaogong was speechless, and said with his nose: "I've been talking for a long time, isn't it just that every time I occupy a piece of land, slaughter all the people, and emigrate to fill it? Although these methods are good, they are harmful to the peace of heaven, and they must not be harmful to others. The premise is mentioned, otherwise, once those old Confucians who are full of benevolence and morality listen to it, they will call you devoid of conscience and no different from a beast."

The killing is too much, and there is harmony between heaven and earth. This is a value that has been passed down in China for a long time.

"Benevolence, forgiveness" and "fraternity", this is the moral system strongly advocated by the kings of all dynasties. Even captives cannot be killed, let alone the people of the ruling land?

However, they have forgotten that even Confucianism, which advocates the way of benevolence and righteousness, has always firmly believed that "Hua Yi is different from Yi".

The so-called "Yi Di enters China, then China, China enters Yi Di, then Yi Di" is pure nonsense. Entering China, either the barbarians accept Sinicization and submit to them, or they should be wiped out.”

Mencius even said, "I have heard that Xia was used to change the barbarians, but I have never heard of those who changed from the barbarians." I only heard that China's civilization was used to transform the barbarians, but I have never heard of China turning itself into a barbarian...

Later, this sentence evolved into "As long as you believe in Chinese culture, it is justifiable for a foreign race to be the emperor of China", because Yi and Di have also become Chinese, and who was the first to put forward this explanation?Xu Heng, a famous Confucianist in the Yuan Dynasty.

Who is Xu Heng?

Regardless of other things, one only needs to know that when the Mongolian army went south to Shenzhou Luchen, those Confucian scholars such as Xu Heng and Wu Cheng, who were famous in Confucianism, all begged for mercy and bowed their heads, while Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu, and Xie Dieshan refused to be courtiers. Going forward, fighting for righteousness and death...

Chinese culture is extremely inclusive, but it has never recognized the culture of Yi and Di. Either you join in as a younger brother, or I will destroy you.

However, Confucianism has the inferiority of "soft bones" and "false benevolence and righteousness". This is not a problem with Confucianism, but a variety of schools have been extended after Confucianism became dominant, leading to deviations and even complete misinterpretations of the ancestors' scriptures.

After the prosperity of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it even completely deviated from the original intention of Confucianism and blindly clinged to the ruler. Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which was originally unknown in the Song Dynasty, suddenly flourished in the Yuan Dynasty. After being hyped by Xiong Cilu and others, he once again ruled the literary world...

From its development context, its original meaning can be seen.

(Ahem, it’s getting too far away, but there is a lump in my chest, so I can’t vomit.)
When Fang Jun mentioned this matter to Xue Rengui at the beginning, it was an example that he felt for later generations.Countless white people traveled across the ocean to a new continent, massacred its aborigines, exterminated its descendants, and destroyed its culture.

When a country is strong and prosperous, it can live in a corner and dominate the world;

Look left and right, the winners are those who never set when the sun is setting...

Xue Rengui said with a smile: "However, the general dared to publicize it when he laughed and talked about it, causing the Duke of Yue to be criticized? But then again, the commander left Jiaohe City to go to the front line in person, but what is there to tell the general?"

He really couldn't understand Li Xiaogong's motive for this trip, as the chief protector of Anxi, why did he come to Gongyue City instead of sitting in Jiaohe City?
You are the commander-in-chief of an army, is it really appropriate to be so rash and aggressive?

Li Xiaogong didn't answer, he cut a piece of meat and put it in his mouth to chew, and after swallowing, he took another sip of wine, and then said in a deep voice: "Recently, something is not right in Anxi's army."

Xue Rengui was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What does the Commander mean by this?"

Li Xiaogong thought about it a little, and said slowly: "The Anxi army is a single army, too far away from Chang'an, so there is very little connection between the army and Chang'an. The penetration of the Guanlongmen faction into the Anxi army is beyond imagination. It seems that the high-level military There are not many people from Guanlong, but in fact, almost all the middle and lower-level officers are controlled by him. In this way, military orders are difficult to carry out in the army. If things go on like this, how can the Anxi Army be called the army of the Tang Dynasty? It will become Guanlong's private army. "

Xue Rengui remained silent.

How could he not know such a situation in the army?

For example, the son of the grandson's family died tragically outside Suiye City. He had heard about it, but when the incident happened, there were soldiers from the Anxi Army stationed there, but no word of report was delivered to him from the beginning to the end.

With the control of the Western Regions by the Anxi Army, how could they be ignorant of this matter?
It can only show that the officers below deceived their superiors and secretly concealed the matter, and the serious relationship involved in it is self-evident.

Since the son of the eldest grandson's family can collude and conceal the death in the Anxi Army's garrison, how can there be no other things?It's just that the interests of the Anxi Army and most of the Guanlongmen faction are the same, that is to resist foreign aggression and protect the Silk Road, so the whole army is united and fighting desperately.

But if the interests of the Anxi Army and the Guanlong Clan go against each other, Xue Rengui doesn't know how many troops he can command.

It is even possible for those daring people to murder him in the army...

Li Xiaogong was worried: "The big cannibals invaded the Western Regions this time, there were all kinds of unknown signs in advance, and then the big cannibals drove straight in. It seems that the Anxi army has all the information about the places where the troops are stationed, the number of troops, etc., if there is no People leaked it, so is it possible that the big cannibals are known from birth? Especially recently, all the forces in Jiaohe City are about to move around, and I predict that they must have big plans."

Xue Rengui said in a deep voice: "So, the commander-in-chief rushed to Gongyue City in person, left Jiaohe City vacant, and led the snake out of the cave?"

"Where do you dare to lure a snake out of its hole?"

Li Xiaogong smiled wryly, and sighed: "Now the big cannibals are coming in menacingly, and there are insiders in our army who should leak secrets at any time. Although the Battle of Hexi was a great victory, there were still Tubo eyeing it. Who dares to lure a snake out of the hole? I only hope that those guys will realize that their plot has been exposed, and I will be prepared. I hope they will be cautious and not dare to act rashly."

Xue Rengui was speechless.

It turned out that it was not "leading the snake out of the hole", but singing "Empty City Plan"...

He led the army to fight against the Arab army. Although he was retreating steadily, everything was under control. He thought that as long as he persisted, he would be victorious, but he did not expect that the situation in the Western Regions was already in such a crisis. The so-called "internal and external troubles" cannot be described enough. .

Could it be that the Anxi Army was seriously defeated in the civil strife, and the Great Western Regions will eventually fall under the horseshoes of alien races?
(End of this chapter)