Chapter 16 The joke of history
Jia Xu sipped the yahuazi, patted her belly, and spread it out with satisfaction, "You are better, look at how much beef you can''t finish..." He picked up another piece of beef and wanted to put it in his mouth, but as soon as he He raised his head and opened his mouth, then let out a loud burp, and reluctantly put the meat back on the plate with a look of pity on his face.
Li Ru had already finished eating, and was sipping tea while reading a scroll of letters. When he heard Jia Xu''s words, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, "Wen and you can take back whatever you can''t finish later." "
"Why are you taking it back? I won''t be able to eat it for a while, so what if someone sees it and wants to share it with me? Why bother with that? Well, you are still in the mood to read - the mess outside is your intention, right? ?" Jia Xu said casually.
"Hmm." Li Ru nodded with his nose, saying that he didn''t need to answer such a meaningless question.
Jia Xuba pointed his fingers and said: "First, ruin Dong Zhongying''s reputation, then spread some rumors about monopolizing power and disorderly government, then divide and win over Dong Zhongying''s generals, and finally make a high-profile appearance to turn the tide... I say, you are so smooth Is it really okay to come with them?”
"What''s the problem?" Li Ru lowered his head to read the slips and answered casually, "I just plan to do it according to their routine."
Jia Xu was stunned, blinked, and said doubtfully: "That''s not right...The only way for you is to take the path of dominance...Why did you give up the kingly way? When did you change your mind?"
?? Li Ru did not answer directly, did not raise his head, and asked casually: "Wen He, you are good at military formation planning, why don''t you try it if I ask a question?"
“Performing martial arts and discussing formations?” Jia Xu became interested and even spoke in Mandarin, “You can mark the path!”
“Hehe, Wenhe, you have an army of 10,000 composed of local braves and mountain bandits... Well, there are insufficient equipment, insufficient horses, and insufficient food and grass..."
Jia Xu’s face turned dark when Li Ru mentioned his shortcomings, “What else do you have shortcomings for?”
"No, listen up - Wenhe, you have ten thousand..." Li Ru continued calmly.
"Ten thousand rabble... I understand, what next?" Jia Xu really couldn''t arouse any enthusiasm for the "rabble" without fighting power, so he said half-heartedly.
??Li Ru continued, "Trapped in a small town, there are about 10,000 reinforcements..." He glanced at Jia Xu, "...It''s also a mob..." and instantly saw Jia Xu spreading down a little further.
"The opponent is - 400,000 county soldiers from various places and the central imperial army...The ultimate goal is to win a complete victory and defeat the enemy army in one night!"
Jia Xu was speechless, and after a while he pointed at Li Ru: "Are you kidding me? How can this formation defeat the enemy?" - Li Ru, are you kidding me? Can a 20,000-strong mob defeat 400,000 regular soldiers? Even if you wait in line and don''t resist, you will cut people''s heads casually, and the knife will be blunt!
The quantity will change qualitatively to a certain extent, let alone 20,000 vs. 400,000. Even if two people vs. forty people can only escape, how can they defeat the enemy? I also asked that within one night, every one of my gang members could transform!
?Li Ru handed the letter in his hand over and motioned for you to read it yourself.
Jia Xu took it and looked at the logo first, then couldn''t help blurting out: "Guangwu Emperor''s Note? How did you get it? Ah, you robbed Taiku?"
Li Ru said calmly: "No need to rob, just order them to be delivered."
Jia Xu glanced at ten lines at a glance, finished reading it in a blink of an eye, and said in disbelief: "This is simply - simply unbelievable, extremely ridiculous! Look here -"
Jia Xu pointed to a line of writing in the letter, obviously feeling unbelievable about the description in the letter. I only read in the book - "At night, there are meteors falling into the camp, and during the day, there are clouds like broken mountains. They fall when the camp is on the ground and scatter before they reach the ground. All the officials are tired of lying down." Will this description feel familiar to future generations when they read this passage?
Li Ru said: "Then how do you think you can win between 20,000 and 400,000 overnight? In the end, only 3,000 of the 400,000 troops were left!"
“This—” Jia Xu was also speechless.
Li Ru pointed at the letters piled up like a hill beside him and said: "I have always been puzzled by the inexplicable failure two hundred years ago. It was obviously a good situation, but how could it fail so quickly? Ever since I read and retrieved these letters, the more I read them, the more palpitated I became. There may be a side of this world that you and I don’t know.”
Li Ru frowned, tapped his head with his fingers, and said, "The royal path takes a long time! What should we do if a situation like this happens again during this period?"
"So you chose the path of **** with shorter time? But in this case, the difficulties you have to face will increase a lot!" ? ? ? "Then do you think it is easier to face these difficulties or to face this situation? "Li Ru pointed at the slip in Jia Xu''s hand and said.
"Hiss..." Jia Xu also started to have a headache, "It''s better to choose the path of dominance - if the records in the book are true, it is really inexplicable..."
It can be said that the IQs of Li Ru and Jia Xu are both at the top level of the contemporary era, so they have more things to consider. For example, as Li Ru worries, it is of course best to follow the kingly path, because the kingly path is almost to force others with force. , one step at a time, with a solid foundation. Even if there are partial failures, it doesn’t matter. The final overall situation will be the general trend, and no one can resist it. However, the only disadvantage is that the initial preparation requires too much time. The deeper it is, the faster it will be in the final push; domineering is a path towards harming the enemy and feeding oneself, constantly weakening and embezzling hostile forces, making oneself expand rapidly, and suppressing conflicts with one victory after another before the conflict breaks out, but in the direction of If you are not careful when you finally succeed, internal and external conflicts will burst out, causing you to collapse as quickly as ice and snow melting.
Originally, Li Ru was basically following the royal line when he helped Dong Zhuo in Xiliang. He built the Xiliang Corps into an extremely strong, complete pyramid structure from top to bottom, with Xiliang''s local hard-clad soldiers as the main skeleton, and the addition of surrender. The Qiang and Hu people are auxiliary soldiers, layer upon layer. If a Xiliang soldier at each level dies during the war, the sergeant at the next level will automatically be promoted as a replacement, ensuring that military orders are implemented consistently and have super execution ability.
However, after arriving in Luoyang, when Li Ru retrieved the books in the imperial treasury to understand Xin Xin''s doubts, he realized that the longer time passed, the more likely he was to encounter variables, especially when the variables were beyond imagination. when outside.
? ? What Li Ru and Jia Xu were talking about is one of the few mysteries in history that is difficult to solve. It is also a variable in the Han Dynasty and an inexplicable turning point. It is a pity that this great pioneer failed to successfully transform.
?This great pioneer was named Wang Mang.
It was the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and more than 150 years had passed since the founding of the Western Han Dynasty. When Wang Mang was born, his family, the Wang family, was already the leading family of relatives. His aunt was the queen, and his uncles took turns to be chief ministers. The worst-off people in the family were either generals or marquises, both of them. dignitary.
At that time, Wang Mang devoted himself to studying and lived a simple life. He was completely different from other yamen who indulged in sex, arrogance and lewdness, and committed all kinds of evil. After the death of his father and brother, he supported his mother and widowed sister-in-law by himself, raised his brother''s orphans, took care of his elders and uncles internally, and made friends with celebrities and wise men externally. In this way, he soon attracted the attention of the entire imperial court. Wang Mang''s reputation It''s getting bigger day by day.
? Later, when Wang Mang was in his 20s, he was elected to the court as an official because of his reputation as a virtuous man. After becoming an official, Wang Mang did not become arrogant. Instead, he became more humble and simple. He was simply a model representative. He often took out his salary and property and distributed it to the poor and the wise. Therefore, his official position is getting higher and higher, and his reputation is getting bigger and bigger. Both the government and the public praise Wang Mang as a role model of the world. He has a firm grasp on the public opinion of Qingliu and the public opinion of Baiding people.
??Is this kind of foundation stable and solid enough, and is the foundation deep enough?
In the first year of AD, Wang Mang was granted the title of Duke of Anhan, and from then on he had monopoly power. He rewarded nobles and officials, supported widows and orphans, and showed kindness to common people and scholars. All social classes were grateful to him.
??He took the lead in living a simple life. It is recorded that he donated millions of money and 30 acres of land to help the poor people near Kyoto. All the officials in the court followed his footsteps. The next year when there was a severe drought across the country, Wang Mang led more than 200 officials to donate their land and houses to the victims, and at the same time built free houses so that they could live in peace. In the Han Dynasty, rent-free houses were achieved!
For accomplishing this, the whole world called Wang Mang the saint of the world and worshiped him. From then on, all roads were opened and all obstacles were trampled under his feet.
In the eighth year of AD, Wang Mang successfully accepted the abdication of Emperor Ruziying, proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the country''s name to a new one. The government and the public cheered for this, and almost no one opposed it. It stands to reason that Wang Mang has properly implemented the road of kingship. With such a solid foundation and his supporters from the government and the public to the fields, there should be a perfect ending. However, history seems to have been a joke...
?Wang Mang subsequently introduced a series of new policies, some of which are very interesting:
The implementation of state ownership of land - land is no longer private and all is nationalized. Does it feel familiar to you?
??Farmland redistribution—confiscating land from large landowners and distributing it to landless farmers according to their needs, does it feel more familiar?
??Freeze the slavery system - a big step directly across the feudal serfdom system society, this, haha...
Currency centralization—currency no longer has the right to issue locally, and is uniformly printed and issued by the central government...
Government intervention in the economy—the government participates in formulating and guiding prices, and establishes a monopoly system for state-owned enterprises such as salt and iron...
?Well, there are some details that I won’t list in detail, but after reading the above few, do you feel an unusually cordial feeling? Think about it, it was at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, at the beginning of the Christian era, when **** was just a big kid...
The record of the Forbidden Curse Mage Liu Xiu''s Meteor and Fire Rain comes from the present era of Emperor Guangwu and belongs to later generations. There is no need to worry about it in the Dafang family. However, if Comrade Wang Mang is also a time traveler, he should be a good comrade from the early days of the founding of the People''s Republic of China to before the reform and opening up. , you know the reason... There were rent-free houses in the Han Dynasty, which made me miserable...
(End of this chapter)