The gods began by supporting Guo Jing to become emperor

Chapter 43 You're the only one who can blame me

His sadness did not affect Su Ming at all. "Who are they?"

Guo Jing's eyes flashed with sadness, and he said in a heavy voice, "They were the slaves that Tuolei brought with him. I personally led them to the battlefield. There were nineteen of them in total, and now only ten are still alive."

"How did they die?"

"They followed the disciples into the battle and were killed while fighting the enemy!"

"You didn't explain it in detail enough. Tell me again, how did they die?"

Guo Jing recalled the scene of their fight. He suppressed his grief and continued to repeat, "My disciple led them to charge. The enemy was numerous. We charged too fast and lost touch with the main army. Our friendly forces could not support us. They sacrificed themselves to protect me."

"Not clear enough, tell me more!"

The teacher's question surprised Guo Jing, but he still obeyed obediently, "Let's charge..."

However, after listening to it, Su Ming still had no expression on his face, "Tell me again how they died!"

At this moment, Guo Jing felt a little irritated. He kept repeating the same thing over and over again. The scene that appeared in his mind made him very sad. "Disciple..."

"Not enough, explain it more clearly!"

"..."

"Tell me more about how they died."

Guo Jing repeated this over and over again. There was only one image in his mind that kept attacking his mind. In the end, he only had one thought left, "It was my disciples who harmed them."

As he spoke, his eyes turned red, tears welled up in his eyes but didn't fall.

After hearing this answer, Su Ming did not continue to ask.

At this moment, Guo Jing's face was filled with sorrow, and there was a faint flash of blood in his eyes. He seemed to have suffered a great blow, and he murmured to himself, "It was me who harmed them, it was me who harmed them."

Su Ming looked at him seriously and said in a deep voice, "The reason they died is because you are not strong enough. What you said about charging too fast is all lies. If you were as brave as Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao, they would not have died because of protecting you."

"If you want to blame someone, just blame yourself for being too weak. This is just the beginning. If you are not strong enough, you can only watch the tragedy happen without being able to do anything. You can't save your friends and your relatives. Do you understand?"

Guo Jing nodded heavily, "Disciple understands."

In the past, Guo Jing went to the battlefield without any worries, but this time, he brought nineteen people with him. These nineteen people were his subordinates. If it weren’t for his mistake, not so many of them would have died.

Su Ming asked Guo Jing to take them to the battlefield so that he could witness death with his own eyes and witness his own powerlessness. Only loss can prompt him to grow. Guo Jing is a man who values ​​friendship and loyalty.

This is a good quality and everyone wants to have such a friend.

But such qualities will become his weakness at certain times. He has to learn to be cold-blooded and learn to give up. Su Ming knows that he cannot treat everyone equally, but sometimes he has to make choices. He cannot have his cake and eat it too.

Su Ming could not teach him this truth, he could only let him experience it slowly by himself. No matter how much others said, it would not be as good as his own personal experience. This would not be the first time, nor would it be the last.

After Guo Jing calmed down and wiped away the tears from his eyes, Su Ming continued, "Tell me everything you've experienced in the past six months, without any mistakes or omissions."

"Yes, teacher." The two sat down in the tent. Su Ming personally poured him a glass of milk wine. Guo Jing held the wine bowl and told him about his experiences in the past six months.

This time, Temujin attacked a tribe close to the border of the Jin Dynasty. The tribe had tens of thousands of people and had some connections with the Jin Dynasty. They often robbed Temujin and his people of their goods.

That was why Temujin took action to deal with them.

In this battle, Guo Jing led a team of 100 men. He was just a small team leader and could only obey the orders of his superiors. He would rush wherever his superiors told him to go. He had 19 personal soldiers and more than a hundred men under his command, and he made many contributions.

In the final battle to destroy the tribe, Guo Jing rushed too fiercely and became separated from the rest of the team, losing nine people and being injured himself.

"How do you feel about going to the battlefield this time?"

Guo Jing pondered for a moment and said solemnly, "My disciples have not learned enough, and I have too few men under my command. In that battle, if I had 300 men under my command, I would have been able to defeat the enemy instead of being almost surrounded."

"If you haven't learned enough, you can learn slowly. If you don't have enough people, find them yourself. These are your soldiers."

Guo Jing nodded and expressed his thoughts, "Teacher, there are still many Han slaves on the grassland. I want to use them to train soldiers. As Han people, they can live better here with my disciples. The ten people who survived the expedition with me this time have all received military merits and rewards. They can now gain a foothold on the grassland and they don't have to be slaves anymore."

Su Ming glanced at him and found that the boy was very excited. Helping these Han slaves gain freedom and dignity gave him a great sense of accomplishment.

However, this also inadvertently led to the path that I had envisioned for him.

If Guo Jing is going to be a general under Temujin in the future, he must have a base under his command. He is Han Chinese, and most people on the grassland are Mongolians, so there is a natural gap between them. These gaps will continue to expand as he stands out under Temujin.

Where there are people, there is struggle, and xenophobia is inevitable.

It’s not that the Mongols are untrustworthy, but because the Han people in a foreign country will naturally tend to stick together for warmth. If Guo Jing can gain a foothold on the grassland, he can gather the Han people on the grassland and build an army with them as the core.

Temujin will establish Mongolia in the future. This country has been expanding and is extremely inclusive. If it were someone else, they might be suspicious of him, but Temujin would not.

Guo Jing has Han people as his base, so he has a foundation, not a rootless duckweed. If he marries Hua Zheng, his position will be more stable. In history, Kublai Khan's success in ascending to power also relied heavily on the Han officials under his command. Guo Jing may not be unable to replicate this path.

If he wants to make progress, he must have his own team.

Li Shimin had the Tian Ce Palace, so he was able to immediately control the situation in the court after the Xuanwu Gate Incident. Zhu Yuanzhang had his old subordinates from Huaixi and his confidants who had surrendered to him, so he was still able to rise again after Guo Zixing took away his military power.

Of course, Guo Jing is still a long way from this step, but he did the right thing by gathering the Han slaves. Even if these slaves set up their own businesses in the future, they will still tend to be close to Guo Jing inherently.

"Go ahead and do it if you want to. You should have made a lot of contributions this time. It's enough to buy some Han slaves, but don't buy too many, or you won't be able to afford them. Training an army is not an easy task."

Seeing that Su Ming agreed with his idea, Guo Jing smiled and said, "Teacher, don't worry. I will save myself the trouble."

The two chatted for a while, and then Guo Jing stood up to say goodbye. He had just returned and had not yet met the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, so he had to report his safety to them.

A month later, Temujin's reward came down, giving Guo Jing a pasture, hundreds of slaves, thousands of cattle and sheep, and some tools. At Guo Jing's request, all these slaves were Han people.

　I have a headache today, so there is only one chapter. I will make up for it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)