Jia Xu sipped the Yahuazi, patted his belly, and spread it out with satisfaction, "It's better than you, 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 raised his head and opened his mouth, he let out a loud burp. He had to put the meat back on the plate reluctantly 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."
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"Why take it back? I won't be able to eat it for a while, so what if someone sees it and wants to tell me whether I can share it or not? Why bother with that? Well, you are still in the mood to read. It's all messy outside because you did it on purpose.
Right?" Jia Xu said casually.
"Yeah." Li Ru agreed 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 like this
Is it really okay to follow them?"
"What's the problem?" Li Ru lowered his head to read the letter 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... Then your only way 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 formations?" Jia Xu became interested, and even came out with official words, "You can draw the line!"
"Haha, Wenhe, you have an army of 10,000 composed of local braves and bandits... Well, there are insufficient equipment, insufficient horses, and insufficient food and grass..."
Jia Xu's face darkened when Li Ru came up with a few shortcomings, "What else do you have shortcomings for?"
"No, listen carefully - Wen He, you have ten thousand..." Li Ru continued calmly.
"Ten thousand rabble... I understand, what next?" Jia Xu really couldn't muster any energy towards the "rabble" who had no fighting power, so he said half-heartedly.
Li Ru continued, "Trapped in a small town, there are about 10,000 reinforcements..." and 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? Twenty thousand people can defeat 400,000 regular soldiers.
Defeat? Even if you queue up and don't resist, you will cut people's heads casually, and you will cut them until the knife is blunt!
Quantity will change qualitatively to a certain extent, let alone 20,000 vs. 400,000. Even two people vs. forty people can only escape. How can we defeat the enemy? You also require that within one night, every one of my rabble will be defeated.
I can transform!
Li Ru handed over the letter in his hand and motioned for you to read it yourself.
Jia Xu took it and looked at the logo first, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Guangwu Emperor's Note? How did you get it? Ah, you robbed Taiku?"
Li Ru said calmly: "There is no need to rob it, I just ordered it to be delivered."
Jia Xu glanced at ten lines, finished reading it in a blink of an eye, and said in disbelief: "This is simply - it is simply unbelievable and extremely ridiculous! Look here -"
Jia Xu pointed to a line of words in the slip, obviously he couldn't believe the description in the slip. He saw in the book that there were meteors falling into the camp at night, and clouds like broken mountains in the day.
When people of later generations read this passage, will this description feel familiar to them?
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 cannot know."
Li Ru frowned, tapped his head with his fingers, and said, "The royal path takes a long time! How should we deal with this situation again in the meantime?"
"So you chose the shorter-term path of domination? But if you do this, the difficulties you will face will not increase at all!"
"Then do you think it is easier to face these difficulties or this situation?" Li Ru pointed at the slip in Jia Xu's hand and said.
"Hiss..." Jia Xu also started to have a headache, "Let's choose the path of dominance - if the records in the book are true, it is really inexplicable..."
It can be said that both Li Ru and Jia Xu's IQs are 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 almost forces others to do so.
, one step at a time, with a solid foundation, it doesn’t matter even if there are partial failures, the final overall situation will be the general trend, and no one can resist it. However, the only disadvantage is that the initial preparation takes too much time, and the rooting is
The deeper it is, the faster it will be in the final push; domineering is a path towards harming the enemy and feeding oneself back, constantly weakening and embezzling the 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 be automatically promoted as a replacement, ensuring that military orders are implemented consistently and have strong 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 the delay, the more likely he would 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 the queen.
Da Sima, the worst-performing person in the clan is also a general or a marquis, and they are all dignitaries.
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 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, and took care of the family members internally.
Wang Mang's elders and uncles made friends with celebrities and wise men, so that he soon attracted the attention of the entire imperial court, and Wang Mang's reputation grew 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 used his salary and property to
He came out and distributed it to the poor and to the wise. Therefore, his official position became higher and higher, and his reputation became more and more famous. Everyone from the government to the public praised Wang Mang as a role model in the world. No matter it was the public opinion of Qingliu or the public opinion of Baiding people,
, were firmly held in his hands.
Is this kind of foundation stable and solid enough, and is the foundation deep enough?
In the first year of the Christian era, 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 dollars and thirty pounds of land to help the poor people near Kyoto. All officials in the court followed his footsteps. The following year, 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. Rent-free houses were achieved in the Han Dynasty!
For accomplishing this, everyone in the 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 name of the country to a new one. The government and the public cheered for this, and almost no one objected. Logically speaking, Wang Mang properly implemented the path of kingship, and this is the basis
In prison, the people who supported it from the government to the fields should have a perfect ending. However, history seems to have made a joke...
Wang Mang subsequently introduced a series of new policies, some of which are very interesting:
The implementation of state-owned land - land is no longer private and all is nationalized. Does it feel familiar to you?
Does the redistribution of cultivated land—confiscating land from large landowners and then distributing it to landless peasants according to their needs—feel a little more familiar?
Freeze the slavery system - a big step directly across the feudal serfdom society, this, haha...
Currency centralization - local governments no longer have the right to issue currency, and the central government will print and issue it uniformly...
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 just the above ones, do you feel an unusually cordial feeling after reading them? Think about it, it was at the end of the Western Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Christian era, and Jesus was just a big ass.
