Do you think that what you think is what you think?
This somewhat convoluted sentence, Xiao Han had always thought of it as fart!
But it wasn’t until today that I discovered that there is clearly great wisdom hidden in this sentence!
Never think that what you know is right! Many times, the more "common sense" you are, the easier it is to make mistakes!
In the past, or in other words, Xiao Han's previous life.
Almost everyone, including him, habitually thought that Japanese pirates only appeared during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties!
And the story of Qi Jiguang’s anti-Japanese war, a great hero of the Ming Dynasty who is widely known to the world! It is more like stamping this “answer” with an eye-catching seal.
So much so that whenever the Japanese pirates are mentioned later, the Ming Dynasty must be the one that comes to everyone’s mind, not running away!
But it seems that everyone has forgotten: the word "倌" for the Japanese country was given to them by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu!
That's right, it's Liu Xiu who is favored by heaven and earth, blessed by natural luck, son of the plane, and known as the great mage!
(As for Liu Xiu’s story, interested friends can search it on their own. Anyway, judging from his experience, I would not dare to write about it in a novel...)
Since it was Liu Xiu who used the name of Japan as the country's name, it means that at least during the Han Dynasty, Japan had found a safe way to reach the Central Plains!
Poor Jianzhen spent decades and six experiments to go to Japan before he succeeded!
While Jianzhen hasn't left yet, Xiao Han really wants to find him and ask: Can't you capture a Japanese and learn how they move?
"Xiao Hou, do you know the Japanese country very well?"
Someone's mind was still thinking wildly, but over there, looking at Xiao Hou, whose face turned dark when he mentioned the name of the Japanese country, Yang Wen Zhang's heart tightened, and he quickly raised his hands carefully and asked.
"Ah? Oh!" Xiao Han suddenly came to his senses, then subconsciously clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said: "Understood! How could I not understand! Humph, I thought I had no chance to deal with them before, but I didn't expect that they would dare to come to my door!
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"Delivered to your door?"
Cui Jingzhi became more and more surprised when he heard Xiao Han's words as if talking to himself, but before he could ask, Xiao Han laughed and said again: "Where are the Japanese... pirates outside now?"
Cui Jingzhi quickly replied: "I heard from the messenger that they are between Yangzhou and Chuzhou and are coming towards Yangzhou! But they don't have horses. It will take at least five or six days to get near Yangzhou!"
"Five or six days?" Xiao Han's eyes flickered a few times, then he pondered for a moment and then said: "How many troops and horses are there in Yangzhou now? Can we fight?"
"This..." Cui Jingzhi was stunned, then smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest with you, Lord Marquis, there are only about two or three thousand soldiers and horses in Yangzhou now. How can we fight?"
"What? Why are there only two or three thousand people?" Xiao Han was a little shocked when he heard this, "Why are there so few?"
Cui Jingzhi's old face turned red, lowered his head and coughed softly: "Ahem, Lord Marquis, you don't know that the martial arts style in Yangzhou has never been strong, so there are only a few soldiers, and three thousand have been lost..."
"Oh~" Xiao Han heard what Cui Jingzhi said, and then he remembered that he was in Yangzhou, not Guanzhong, where the folk customs are fierce! So he could only sigh helplessly: "Two or three thousand people, two or three thousand people can
What to do? I originally wanted to go out and kill them, but now I can only defend the city!"
Yang Wenwen frowned and sighed: "Hey, Mr. Hou has never been in contact with pirates. I don't know that pirates live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, so they are always extremely vicious!
In the past, it would take three or four soldiers to deal with one pirate in a small-scale robbery. Now that they are coming in groups, we need at least 20,000 to 30,000 people to defeat them."
"Thirty thousand people?" Xiao Han looked at Yang Wenwen, shook his head and said: "You don't need that many! The real elite of the army, with up to seven thousand people, can kill this rabble running all over the ground! If it were replaced by Xuanjia
Three thousand troops are enough!"
Cui Jingzhi was not in the mood to study each other's combat prowess with Xiao Han. He just said with a defeated look: "But these elites are all in Chang'an, thousands of miles away. It's useless if they can't get across!"
"Hey, that's true, but I can't fly here!"
The room became quiet for a while, and only a series of sighs could be heard.
Seeing that no one spoke anymore, Sun Simiao, who had not made a sound since he came in, couldn't help but said: "You guys, stop sighing, can't you think of a solution? There are not many soldiers here? Can't we mobilize troops elsewhere?
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"Go to other places to mobilize troops?" After Cui Jingzhi heard this, he raised his head and looked at Sun Simiao with a bitter look on his face: "Old god, you may not know, let alone deploying troops privately is tantamount to rebellion! Even if we have the right to mobilize troops, but here
Where are the troops around Yangzhou for us to mobilize?"
"No soldiers?"
Sun Simiao frowned slightly, then thought of something again, stared at Xiao Han and asked: "By the way, Li Xiaogong and Chai Shao were here a few days ago. It is impossible for them to have no soldiers under their hands, right? Can't we just find them?"
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"What? Are you talking about Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian, and Chai Shao, the general manager of the marching road?"
Sun Simiao finished speaking, and before Xiao Han had time to reply, Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wenwen on the side jumped up first, and then both looked at Xiao Han with dark and unclear expressions.
When did these two important ministers of the court come to Yangzhou? And when did they leave? Why didn’t they, as landlords, get any news?!
"Ahem, they were just passing by here and came in to see me." Looking at the shocked eyes of the two, Xiao Han touched his nose and gave a simple explanation in a calm tone.
"Are you just passing by?" Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wenwen heard this and looked at each other, feeling a little emotional in each other's eyes.
Hey, I had only heard that the Marquis was very popular, but I didn’t expect him to be so popular! Even the prince would come to visit him when he passed by. How much dignity does it take to do this?
"But no matter what, the King of Hejian is nearby, which is indeed good news!"
They secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Since they just learned that Li Xiaogong is not far from Yangzhou, Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wen Zhang suddenly lost half of their hearts!
Different from those fierce generals who exist in biographies, Li Xiaogong definitely earned his reputation in the Jiangnan area by fighting every battle, sword by sword!
What Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyou.
What Shen Faxing, Li Zitong.
Almost all of them were killed by him! It can even be said without exaggeration: Li Xiaogong defeated the entire Jiangnan!
With such a peerless general by his side! Cui Jingzhi felt that let alone eight thousand pirates, what could eighty thousand do?
However, before Cui Jingzhi could get over his excitement, Xiao Han poured a basin of cold water on him.
"Don't think about them anymore. These two people have run away a long time ago! Even if I get the news, it will be too late! Not to mention that I can't contact them now..."
