Xue Rengui said with a smile: "Of course not. No matter how far-sighted and wise the Duke of Yue is, how can he predict the future? At that time, the last general was still under the command of the Duke of Yue, serving in the navy. He once talked about attacking cities and plundering territories to open up frontiers.
At that time, the Duke of Yue looked down upon his achievements in expanding the territory. He once said that today's soldiers are competing for the lead and the country is at its peak. Naturally, it will dominate the world. No one dares to disobey. However, if the land is conquered, it will not be accepted. In the future,
As the country's power declines and its military strength cannot be sustained, these lands will also rebel and even massacre the Han people to show their toughness."
Li Xiaogong nodded, what he said made sense.
The Han dynasty has conquered more than ten thousand miles of land throughout the ages. Even Goguryeo today was ruled by the Han people back then, and the land of Annan was even more subject to the jurisdiction of the dynasty. Wasn't the Western Region not the territory of the Han Dynasty back then? It's just that the dynasty collapsed, and these places
They immediately revolted and the Han people who stayed here were brutally slaughtered.
This is an unsolvable problem. "It is easy to plunder their land, but difficult to win their hearts." It is extremely difficult to integrate these barbarians into the Han family.
Not only did he wonder: "Does Fang Er have any clever ideas?"
Xue Rengui looked strange, pondered slightly, nodded and said, "Yes."
Li Xiaogong became more and more interested: "I would like to hear the details."
He cut the roasted mutton with a knife, and the two of them ate heartily with a mouthful of meat and a mouthful of wine. Xue Rengui said: "Even an empire that is at its peak will also decline. The territories that were conquered in the past will inevitably become more and more resistant. Following the trend,
Resistance is the general trend of the world, and it has never been like this throughout the ages. However, when you conquer a place, you will slaughter all the indigenous people, and all the people on the land will be the subjects of the empire. Naturally, they will be loyal to the empire. Even if the times have passed, the territory has changed.
There is a rift between the descendants of the inner people and the empire, but after all, they are from the same species, so they are much closer by nature. Even if they are isolated and form their own country, they are also allies connected by blood. Moreover, they are all subjects of the empire.
Even if they fall into the hands of a powerful enemy one day, these people will still yearn for their homeland. As long as there is a chance, they will resist and return to the embrace of the empire... Only in this way can the occupied territory be completely assimilated for thousands of generations and forever.
No changes.”
Li Xiaogong was speechless and snorted: "I've been talking for a long time. Isn't it just that every time we occupy a land, we slaughter all the people and immigrate to fill it? Although this method is good, it will harm the harmony of nature, and it must not harm people.
The premise is mentioned, otherwise if you are listened to by those old Confucian scholars who talk about benevolence, morality and morality, you will be scolded as having no conscience and no different from an animal."
If there is too much killing, there will be peace and harmony. This is a value that has been passed down in China for a long time.
"Benevolence, forgiveness" and "fraternity" are moral systems that kings of all dynasties have strongly advocated. They cannot even kill captives, let alone the people of the land they rule?
However, they have forgotten that even Confucianism, which advocates benevolence and righteousness, has always firmly believed that "Hua and Yi are different."
The so-called "When the Barbarians enter China, they will be conquered by China, and when the Barbarians enter China, they will be conquered by the Barbarians" is even more pure nonsense. This sentence is derived from the book "Yuan Dao" written by Han Yu after his annotation of "Spring and Autumn". Its original meaning is "the Barbarians will invade
After entering China, either the barbarians should accept sinicization and surrender voluntarily, or they should be eliminated."
Mencius even said, "I have heard of using Xia to transform barbarians, but I have never heard of people transforming barbarians into barbarians." I have only heard of using Chinese civilization to transform barbarians, but I have never heard of Chinese people turning themselves into barbarians...
Later, this sentence evolved into "As long as they believe in Chinese culture, then it is legitimate for a foreigner to be the emperor of China." Because the Yi and Di have also become Chinese. Who was the first person to propose this explanation? Xu Heng, a famous Neo-Confucian scholar in the Yuan Dynasty.
Who is Xu Heng?
Regardless of anything else, we only need to know that when the Mongolian army marched south to Shenzhou, the famous Confucian scholars like Xu Heng and Wu Cheng were all begging for mercy and bowing their heads. However, there were Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu, Xie Dieshan and others who refused to submit to the Yuan Dynasty.
Going forward one after another, fighting for justice...
Chinese culture is extremely tolerant, but it has never recognized the culture of the Yi and Di. Either you join in and become my younger brother, or I will destroy you.
Confucianism, on the other hand, has the bad nature of "softheadedness" and "false benevolence and righteousness." This is not a problem with Confucianism, but rather with the dominance of Confucianism, which has led to various schools of thought, leading to deviations or even complete misinterpretations of the ancestral classics.
After the rise of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it even completely deviated from the original intention of Confucianism and blindly clung to the rulers. Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which was originally unknown in the Song Dynasty, suddenly flourished in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, it was suppressed by Wang Yangming's Xinxue.
After Xiong Cilu and others' vigorous advocacy, he once again dominated the literary world...
Its original meaning can be seen from its development context.
(Ahem, that’s too far off topic. It’s just that I have a lump in my chest and I can’t vomit quickly.)
When Fang Jun mentioned this matter to Xue Rengui, he was inspired by an example of later generations. Countless white people crossed the ocean and came to a new continent, slaughtered all the indigenous people, exterminated their descendants, destroyed their culture, and then occupied
Magpie Nest established itself as a country, but then transformed into advocating human rights and freedom.
When its country is strong, it can dominate the world from a corner; when its country is declining, it can beg for mercy and recognize its ancestors.
Look left and right, the winners are all the ones who never set when the sun was setting on them...
Xue Rengui said with a smile: "But it was just a joke at the time, so how dare the general to publicize it so much that the Duke of Yue was criticized? But having said that, the commander left Jiaohe City and went to the front line in person, but what important matters can he give to the general?"
He really couldn't understand the motive of Li Xiaogong's trip. As the Protector of Anxi, why did he come to Gongyue City instead of sitting in Jiaohe City?
You are the commander-in-chief of an army. Is it really appropriate to advance so rashly?
Li Xiaogong didn't answer. He cut a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, chewing it fullly. After swallowing it, he took another sip of wine and then said in a deep voice: "Recently, something is not right in the Anxi Army."
Xue Rengui was startled and asked hurriedly: "What does the commander mean by this?"
Li Xiaogong thought about it briefly and said slowly: "The Anxi Army is a separate army and is too far away from Chang'an, so there is little contact between the army and Chang'an. The Guanlong clan has penetrated the Anxi Army to an unimaginable degree. It seems that the top brass in the army
There are not many people from Guanlong, but in fact almost all the middle and lower-level officers are controlled by him. In this way, military orders are difficult to implement in the army. If things go on like this, how can the Anxi Army be called the army of the Tang Dynasty? It will become the private army of Guanlong.
"
Xue Rengui remained silent.
How could he not know about this situation while he was in the army?
For example, the legitimate son of the Changsun family died tragically outside of Suiye City. He had heard about it, but soldiers from the Anxi Army were stationed at the place when the incident occurred, but no word of the report was ever delivered to him.
With the Anxi Army's control over the Western Regions, how could they be ignorant of this matter?
It can only mean that the officers below deceived the superiors and concealed the matter secretly. The serious relationship involved is indescribable.
Since the death of the legitimate son of the Changsun family at the station of the Anxi Army can be colluded and concealed, how can the rest of the things not be avoided? But now the interests of the Anxi Army and most of the Guanlong clan are consistent, that is, to resist foreign aggression and protect the Silk Road, so the army
We work together as one and fight to the death.
But if the interests of the Anxi Army and the Guanlong clan conflict, Xue Rengui doesn't know how many troops he can command.
It's even possible that those daring people might plot to kill him in the army...
Li Xiaogong was worried: "This time when the cannibals invaded the Western Region, there were all kinds of unknown signs beforehand. After that, the cannibals marched straight in. It seems that the Anxi army knew all the information about where the troops were stationed in various places, the strength of the troops, etc. If there were no
Is it possible for people to leak it and eat people knowingly? Especially recently, various forces in Jiaohe City are ready to move, and I predict that they must have a big plan."
Xue Rengui said in a deep voice: "So, the commander personally rushed to Gongyue City to make Jiaohe City vacant and lure the snake out of its hole?"
"Where do you dare to lure a snake out of its hole?"
Li Xiaogong smiled bitterly and sighed: "Nowadays, the cannibalism is coming fiercely, and there are spies within our army who leak secrets at any time. Although the Battle of Hexi is a great victory, the Tibetans are still watching, and the winds and undercurrents in Guanzhong are surging, and there is always a danger of overthrow.
Who dares to lure the snake out of its hole? I just hope that those guys will realize that their plot has been exposed, and I will take precautions. I hope that they can use the enemy's weapon and not dare to act rashly."
Xue Rengui was speechless.
It turns out that it is not "leading the snake out of the hole", but singing an "empty city strategy"...
He led his army to fight against the Arab army. Although he was retreating steadily, he had everything under control. He thought that victory was in sight as long as he continued to deal with it. However, he did not expect that the situation in the Western Regions was already so critical that the so-called "internal and external troubles" cannot be described.
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Is it possible that the Anxi Army was seriously defeated due to civil strife, and that the Great Western Region would eventually fall under the hooves of foreigners?