In silence, Zhou Changshou cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, those who want to achieve great things must not stick to small details. Throughout the ages, how many emperors have had their hands stained with blood. No matter how bright and great they are promoted by future generations, they cannot wash away themselves.
The sins created.”
"This is the Taizu of this dynasty. Faced with the remnants of the previous dynasty who defended Qinghe City and could not attack it for three years, does your Highness know what method he finally used to break the city?"
After hearing these words, Wu Qingcang and Wu Bishan looked at Zhou Changshou as if they were looking at a lunatic.
Even if more than three hundred years have passed, these three words Qinghe City are still taboos that cannot be mentioned in the Qin Empire.
Many people did not know about this matter at all. Even the city had been erased and no longer existed in any documents. However, as high-ranking officials of the imperial court, those present were naturally exposed to some secrets that ordinary people did not know.
It can be said that this incident was one of the biggest stains on Taizu of this dynasty. Even in Taizu's later years, people were often imprisoned for mentioning this incident.
Li Chen said expressionlessly: "Of course we know that in Qinghe City, there is a Qinghe River that runs through the whole city. The people rely on this river to thrive. After being unable to conquer it for a long time, some people suggested that Taizu poisoned Qinghe River, and Taizu adopted it.
This advice.”
"In the end, all the fish and shrimps in the Qinghe River that stretched for three hundred miles died overnight, and their bellies turned white and floated on the river, forming the wonder of the Baihe River. Seventy-eight of the 300,000 people in the city were poisoned to death, and the survivors
, all died in pain due to illness.”
"When the imperial army entered Qinghe City, they were like ghosts. Baili Xiuqi, the founding general who was the main attacker at that time, hanged himself at the gate of Qinghe City after this incident, leaving a suicide note saying that he was worthy of the country, worthy of Taizu, but worthy of the common people.
I am ashamed of the 300,000 dead souls in Qinghe City."
Li Chen's words did not have many emotional ups and downs, let alone lifelike, but just such a few simple words painted an extremely cruel picture in front of everyone.
In that picture, there were hundreds of thousands of innocent people who died tragically, and there was also a ghost town without any living people.
Zhou Changshou took a breath and said seriously: "Your Highness, as I said before, if you want to achieve great things, you can't stick to small details."
"In your eyes, the lives of hundreds of thousands of people are just a trivial matter?" Wu Bishan couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Changshou said calmly: "It depends on what you compare it with. If it is ordinary, even one human life is a matter of great importance. But if you compare it with the tens of millions of people in the entire country and the Qin Dynasty, these hundreds of thousands of people are just a small detail."
.”
Wu Banshan raised his eyebrows. Although he was full of dissatisfaction, he was actually speechless by Zhou Changshou's words.
He wanted to refute, but couldn't find a reason to refute.
In the end, he could only say with gritted teeth: "We soldiers are killing people like nothing, and we have a lot of enemy lives on our hands. But that was on the battlefield, fighting for the country. In terms of cruelty, it is incomparable."
Come on, you literati who have read poetry and books!"
Zhou Changshou looked at Wu Banshan and said coldly: "General Wu, may I ask if the enemy soldiers are human beings? Are they the common people of the enemy country?"
Wu Bishan replied subconsciously: "Of course it is."
"Since we are all common people, we are all human beings, but they are born in different countries and have different beliefs. Just because of the competition between countries, General Wu can kill people without any psychological burden. Then he is also fighting for the country.
