The young people who gathered at the South Gate in the morning could only "enjoy" breakfast at the street stalls nearby. Even a few children from wealthy families could only eat a few hasty meals because they needed to perform intensive exercises early in the morning.
Now that his stomach is already empty, no matter how proud he is, he still has to endure eating with the disciples from a poor family just to study and train all morning.
But inside the Zhou Mu Mansion, there is a table full of delicacies, a variety of exquisite porridges and meals, as well as refreshing side dishes and various seasonings and sauces. The sight of it will increase your appetite and make you want to be alone.
Then he wiped out the entire table of food.
But unfortunately this is an impossible task.
Especially after Xiaoqiang actually did this one day and had to stay in bed for three days because of it, this really became a famous "legendary" mission in the Bingzhou Army, and it was the kind of mission that no one dared to challenge.
After all, no one knows whether there are some "landmines" that can make people lie down for three days or even forever.
A certain tough lolita behaves in a very tough way.
But there is no need to worry that the table full of delicacies will be wasted, because the table is also full of diners.
In other words, the place is rarely full during meal time. If it is not full on any day, it must not be because there are no guests coming to visit, but because the owner of this place is away from home and cannot return within a short time.
"Go to the south, you must go to the south. Shu Shi, I absolutely agree with the decision to go to Xuzhou, no, I fully support it."
"Why does General Fengxian care so much about things in the south?"
Okay. Uncle Huangfu, actually you shouldn’t ask this question. Didn’t you see that the counselors headed by Cheng Yu and the generals headed by Huang Zhong all turned their faces and refused to continue looking here?
, just because Xiaoqiang has become a habit of being out of tune.
You, a guy who is not very familiar with the situation, think that it is possible to save a creature like Xiao Qiang.
"Because we can meet Yuan Shu's troops, that guy Sun Ce should be there. I haven't had enough of the last battle."
Look, look, so Uncle Huangfu, please don't bother with that "He Qicu" Xiaoqiang anymore.
Seeing the uncontrollable expression of amazement on Huangfu Song's face, everyone had expressions like "Look, look."
Then, Uncle Huangfu, who was devastated by the "contempt" of everyone, turned his grief into appetite, and not only quickly swept away several plates of morning tea meals, but also swallowed a large bowl of lean meat porridge. Only then did he hit the mark.
He shouted angrily: "One more bowl!"
Suddenly, both sides of the round table fell over.
I don’t know whether it’s because the territory has become larger, so it’s easier to have emergencies, or whether it’s because everything happened to be in one place. Anyway, in the past two days, Li Shushi has received a lot of special reports from all sides.
document.
But generally speaking, there are no too difficult problems. At most, it is just like what Guan Yu, the captain of Wuji School, reported. There is a Qiang tribe that has never been seen before in the Hehuang area. It is said that they come from a country called Tang Yang.
The distant kingdom was probably established by the Qiang people. Although the specific location is not known, it should not be possible to cross the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
After all, after crossing the Himalayas, you will reach the territory of Kushan. Back then, Bo Diao never mentioned that Kushan had dealt with such a country, although he did not encounter some Qiang people who were able to cross the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley.
If these matters are taken seriously, they are of noteworthy value, but if Li Shushi is really asked to deal with them one by one, it will make him feel very embarrassed. Therefore, in addition to the issue of the Yizhou Army represented by Liu Zhang, Li Shushi is also prepared to discuss with his subordinates
After deliberation among the cabinet ministers, the rest was returned to the governors and generals of each state, allowing them to handle it as appropriate according to their own scope of authority.
Now that the territory has become larger, many things may need to be gradually decentralized. After all, the state governors and state generals appointed by Li Shushi already have potential in this area, and restricting them too much may be a waste of resources.
Even if you don't look at it, even a monster like Zhuge Liang, who has full power to manage the military and political affairs of the Shu Kingdom, is already exhausted. If he is allowed to learn from Zhuge Kongming's methods, let alone whether he can be exhausted to death, it will not be long before the world is in chaos again.
It's no longer far away.
Of course, it may be difficult for others to trust their subordinates and delegate authority, but for Li Shushi...
"You guys must be lazy again, right?"
Probably many people will think so.
"By the way, Uncle Huangfu, do you think the question this time is too difficult? Many people may not know what a frontier is like. Do you think they can submit any more constructive plans?
?”
Huangfu Song was specifically told to call Huangfu Song this way. Although Huangfu Song and Tong Yuan were peers, even to Tong Yuan, Huangfu Song was still a Shangguan he respected very much. As Li Shushi, Tong Yuan's nominal
"Grandson", calling Huangfu Song "uncle" is a very rude thing no matter how you look at it. But in someone's words...
"I can still fight for another twenty years. I don't want grandpa and grandpa to always remind me of the sick bed!"
, allowing Li Shushi to climb to the same level as Lu Bu, and he immediately felt refreshed and clear-minded.
"The questions this time are indeed a bit difficult for young people like them who have little experience. However, it does not mean that all young people are not capable of completing the questions this time. At least I know that there are several people who signed up in the past few years.
The young people who participate in our annual winter hunt seem very confident and they seem to be well prepared."
"I hope so, but judging from Liang Dao's testing, I'm afraid the situation is not too optimistic."
"Oh? I don't know about that. Could it be that having experience in communicating with foreign races would harm them?"
"Yes, just because they are people with 'experience', they have problems with their judgment."
"Well, such a problem may indeed arise. Their 'experience' is indeed helpful for this question, but if it is misunderstood, it will also turn into a huge obstacle."
"If it weren't for Liang Dao, I never thought that things would turn out like this."
Yes, these gangsters who have been to the north and come back alive do have experience in grassland matters, but their experience is mainly focused on how to cut down their targets. As for communication? Is there that American time?
They might as well cut down two more tribes, or flee early, otherwise God knows when others will make dumplings for them.
But what Li Shushi needed was for the tribe controlled by Tuoba Liwei and others to expand to a relatively large size in a short period of time. Only in this way could they barely protect themselves from the power of the Xianbei army that would integrate the grasslands in the future.
Killing is indeed a good method. But if you only know how to kill people, you will probably understand it if you look at how Huo Qiaoqi died.
Well, Li Shushi also knows that these two things seem a bit unrelated.
"This is not surprising. After all, my lord's thoughts are very rare. I usually win over some tribes that I can win over, and then give these tribes appropriate support. As for how it develops, I don't really care. As long as
Just let the civil strife continue on the grassland. On the contrary, if you let a certain tribe grow bigger, it will become a hidden danger on the national border. Therefore, there are some difficulties in asking these young people to do something that no one has thought about before.
It’s inevitable.”
Well, Li Shushi knew that Huangfu Song was reminding him. In fact, he himself was also very aware of the consequences of doing so, but it was just like what he said about putting carnivorous fish in the pond to ensure the vitality of a certain kind of fish.
The reason is the same, because the terrain around the Central Plains determines that unless there is an explosive breakthrough in technology, the face of
Facing the severe cold in the north, the desert Gobi in the west, the huge rainforest in the south and the vast sea in the east, the Central Plains dynasty, which owns fertile land, loses the motivation to enter too easily - even if there are some barbarian tribes around, if the loss is not enough to make the Central Plains
If the regime takes it seriously, this loss of enterprising spirit will still be irreversible.
It is precisely because of this that the Central Plains Dynasty has developed a very interesting habit - when faced with strong foreign enemies and weak itself, the Central Plains Dynasty can endure humiliation and hardship that ordinary people cannot endure, and its foresight can even last for decades and generations.
people.
In ancient times, there was Fu Chai who worked hard and Gou Jian who worked hard and endured hardships. In recent times, it took four generations to avenge the siege and the humiliation they suffered for nearly a hundred years. If there are still Yang Jian and Li Shimin in the future, they have insisted on the same policy since Deng Gong.
Just like the Qin State insisted on Shang Yang's reforms for several generations, there were generations of leaders who would rather be called traitors by the people of the country than change their faces.
Ahem, the above views only represent a certain aspect, others such as Fu Chai, who was given by God, Gou Jian, who killed the donkey, Liu Bang, the originator of the rogue emperor, Liu Yezhu, the famous two-way plug, and Yang Jian, who bullied orphans and widows
, Li Shimin, who killed his brother and stole his sister-in-law, and the second, third, and fourth generations who were dual-track, greedy, and pretentious... we will ignore it.
But he is rarely used to transferring domestic conflicts to foreign countries. Even if it is like Dou Xian, it is more because the boy has caused too many troubles himself rather than the internal conflicts of the country. Or it can be said that because the surrounding areas are too poor, even if
If you want to transfer, it will only deepen the accumulation of domestic conflicts because the harvest is not proportional to the output.
Therefore, when the Central Plains dynasty was active, it must have been when they had some money. When they had no money, they worked hard to save money at home. When they had money, they either forgot their last names, or they spent all their money on military preparations.
I am going to ask those who "spit out what I have eaten and hand over what has been taken from me". As for whether they spend too much money...
We just have money, and if we live up to it, you will bite me.
So if we look at other countries, they all have no money to be pirates, and those who have money are to be gentlemen. Only the Central Plains Dynasty created by its special geographical location is to be obedient people when they have no money, but when they are rich... they must be uncles.
Okay, I accidentally took the topic to a strange place.
In other words, when you are an obedient citizen in this country, as long as you are not too unlucky, you can always make some sober decisions, so Li Shushi is not worried. But what he is worried about is that if this country becomes a master, then he
Should we place a vicious dog next to this uncle that makes him uncomfortable, to remind him not to be so crazy that he loses the wolf?
Okay. If the sky is going to die, all kinds of weird things will probably appear, and Li Shushi's good wishes will come to nothing.
But if you haven’t tried hard, you will always feel unwilling.
Li Shushi still remembers what his grandfather, who passed away before time travel, once said:
"To make mistakes, make mistakes worth making."
I used to think it was an old man's trick. After all, since it is a mistake, it should be avoided. Why make it again?
But now, Li Shushi feels that he can understand the old man's thoughts - even if his decision is a mistake, Li Shushi feels that it is a mistake worth making, and he has no regrets!
Of course, saying this definitely does not mean that Li Shushi will sympathize with those corrupt officials who deserve to die but none of them seem to have died. Although from their perspective, those are mistakes worth making.
Well, let’s see if there are girls, money, and all kinds of things, how many of them can resist making mistakes.
Therefore, no matter what era it is, as long as it is a government civil service examination, it can always attract the vast majority of social elites.
Okay. It seems to be a bit far off topic again.
All in all, Li Shushi is determined to play a "there are others sleeping beside the bed" this time.
As for whether the final result is success or failure, let's follow the example of the ladies of the Wu family and erect a wordless monument for future generations to comment on.
However, Li Shushi's thoughts were clear. But someone at the table didn't know why his thoughts were not clear.
"I'm telling the truth, this matter has been discussed on and off for several days, and my ears are almost scratched from hearing it, and then you asked the young people below you from the staff and the military academy to write this
Write that, I said, is this really that complicated?"
One chopstick... a plate of shaomai was swept away by Huangfu Song, causing the other pair of chopsticks to stop midway; another pair of chopsticks... a plate of xiaolongbao was swept away by Su Xiaololi, causing the other pair of chopsticks to retract directly; another pair
Chopsticks... A plate of shrimp dumplings was swept away by several girls, so that the other pair of chopsticks didn't even dare to reach out, because Mrs. Yan seemed to be quite happy eating it.
So after a few chopsticks, Xiaoqiang, who had a full stomach of gruel, could only look at Li Shushi with resentment on his face.
However, compared to Xiaoqiang's resentful eyes, his expression, which he didn't know whether to call it a complaint or an opinion, caught Li Shushi's attention more.
"Since Fengxian thinks this matter is not complicated, if Fengxian wants you to do it, do you have any 'simple' solution?"
"Huh? Are you asking me? Are you sure you are asking me?"
Well, I wanted to hear his "insights" once in a while, but this little guy was out of breath again.
Faced with this situation, Li Shushi, who covered his face with his hands and looked helpless, could only say: Xiaoqiang, why are you so anxious to die? Then I will help you, take the move!!
"Ugh!" x2.
As a result, there were two large prawns under the dining table with their heads hunched over.
"Really, it's okay to talk about serious things while eating. It's not a formal occasion anyway, but being so playful is really rude to other people. You should really learn some etiquette.
!”
"I'm so sorry!" It's still the same x2.
However, although Li Shushi's "Great Summoning Technique" (Su Xiaololi glared) ultimately caused a lose-lose result, it at least suppressed Xiaoqiang's arrogance. And he seemed to be aware of the gazes of Li Shushi and even other people at the dinner table, and finally
He no longer seemed to speak according to his own temper as usual, but instead frowned and pondered for a while.
It actually makes people expect a little more from him.
"Everyone should be aware of my origin." After a while, Lu Bu slowly spoke.
His voice was a little soft and his speaking speed was very slow, as if he was reminiscing about something, and it seemed that he was very self-aware and had to take measures to express his meaning as accurately as possible in order to use his not very rich brain.
method.
In comparison, Li Shushi is more inclined to the latter conjecture, because looking at Xiaoqiang's awkward look, he obviously doesn't like this way and rhythm of speaking, because it is really different from the usually loud and heroic Lu Fengxian.
The degree of difference.
"I have the blood of an ordinary Huns. When I was young, I basically lived on the grasslands, so I don't really understand this group of guys whose way of thinking is actually very simple."
Well, the same argument cannot be made, because even Huangfusong, who has dealt with the Hu people many times, cannot guarantee that he can understand the true situation of those tribes more deeply than Xiaoqiang. The most Huangfusong has come into contact with is just some tribes
The leader or the chief shaman, and perhaps some tribal warriors below, but also the living conditions of ordinary herdsmen, Li Shushi felt that the other party might not know much about them. After all, he had visited privately incognito several times.
Although the targets of private visits are either the Wuwan tribe, which is heavily Sinicized, or the Han residents, who are heavily Sinicized.
"I heard that the Huns were just a few tribes at first, and they were not a very strong alliance on the grassland. At that time, there was a huge Donghu, and the land west of Hexi was full of Qiang and other tribes. I have a bad mind, so I remember
I can't help but understand these complicated things. If any of you civil servants are willing to trace the source, remember to tell me the results and I will cook a copy for my mother.
But later the Huns became the overlords on the grassland. Why is this?
Among them, of course, the Han people wiped out the Hu tribes near the frontier, and there were also several very powerful Chanyus among the Huns, but the most important thing was the unique inheritance method on the grassland."
"Method of inheritance?" I always feel like drama is coming.
"Yes, the inheritance method. The Han people attach great importance to blood and surnames. Today I was adopted to General Huangfu, so I will change my name to Huangfu Bu (Li Shushi really wanted to laugh). But everyone here knows that fake children are
Unless someone like the Lord inherits the family business and has some status, he or she will most likely have to return to his or her surname after adulthood.
But for the tribes on the grassland, in order to survive, it is not a shameful thing to surrender after defeat and become the slaves of the victor. Even if you are lucky enough to be integrated into a big tribe, you may be able to follow the victory of the big tribe in the future.
And get higher and richer
Rich rewards. Therefore, on the grassland, it is not a strange thing for the defeated to recognize the victor as his father, even if the son is older than the father. Even if he cannot wipe his face, having sons and grandchildren is nothing.
, you will lose your power anyway.”
"That is to say, as long as they win, the victor can get everything from the defeated, and even if it annexes the other party, there is no need to worry about any dissatisfaction or even rebellion."
Although Xiaoqiang's narrative cannot be said to be coherent, it is not difficult for people like Cheng Yu to extract useful things from it.
"As long as there is no sworn hatred between each other, there will probably be no problem. After all, manpower is a scarce resource on the grasslands, so even captives and slaves will make the best use of them, and the strong will still be respected, and they will do their best to
Enhance the strength of your own tribe. And even if there is a blood feud, it is usually only a problem between nobles, and the situations involving the whole clan are very limited."
"Does that mean the key lies in victory?" Li Shushi murmured to himself, his eyes seeming to have lost focus.
"Yes, this is the most critical point."
It seems that he understands Li Shushi's mood very well. Xiaoqiang's tone at this time is very affirmative, which is really different from him in ordinary meetings. (To be continued...)