Li Chang sat on the wooden board for a long time before he saw Kong Yuanda walking out of the room with red eyes. After silently clasping his fists to apologize, he sat blankly opposite Li Chang without saying a word.
Li Chang smiled and said: "I accidentally looked at your notes on the desk just now and found that you have taught a total of 6,300 people to read and read in the past ten years. This surprised me very much. I really want to know who you are. How did you do it?"
Kong Yuanda whispered: "It's easy. As long as I teach a child a few words, I will ask the child to teach the things he learned from me to five more people. This can offset the constraint and make the people who teach better. The children with the most will also receive special rewards from me.
The reward was not huge, sometimes it was a book, sometimes it was a pen, and more often it was a word of affirmation. Therefore, in ten years, the number of people who have been influenced by me has easily reached this number.
Now in Zhuolu County, as long as there are children at home who have received my teachings, they all know a few words."
"You let those kids teach those words to his family and neighbors?"
"A few words, such as China, Huaxia, Yanhuang..."
"Is it effective?"
"I don't know, but I tell the children a lot of stories about these words.'
Li Chang smiled and said: "It has already had an effect. When I came to see you just now, some of the village elders asked me about the old stories of Hejian Mansion after they knew that I was from the Song Dynasty. They also said that his hometown was Hejian Mansion. Enlightenment The merits of this work will benefit the present generation and will last forever. Brother Kong, thank you for your hard work."
Kong Yuanda sighed and said: "Since Shi Jingtang presented Yan Yun as a gift to the Liao Emperor, this place has been separated from the control of the Song Dynasty for a hundred years.
The bones of the instigators back then have been turned into soil, but the poison still plagues the world. The late emperor's three Northern Expeditions all failed, resulting in heavy casualties for the people of Yanyun who wanted to return to the Han Dynasty. Now it is difficult for us to return to the appearance of the first Northern Expedition. It’s getting harder and harder.”
Li Chang nodded solemnly and said: "We don't expect the people to eat pots of pulp when Master Wang arrives. We just hope that the people here will not join the Liao people to fight against Master Wang."
Kong Yuanda nodded and said: "You really can't expect too much. People's disfavor has always been a big deal. It will take a long time to make up for the pain in the hearts of the people of Yanyun. Among them, the Song Dynasty must show enough sincerity. Impress the people, treat them well, and let them directly feel the care from their relatives.
Marquis Yun may be the most outstanding commander-in-chief of the Song Dynasty, but he is not the best person to appease the people of the Song Dynasty. The iron-blooded commander often has the only way to deal with the disobedient people, killing them."
Li Changdao: "Some people once said that as long as all the people in Yanyun are moved south and the people from the Song Dynasty are moved to Yanzhou, the civil unrest will be easily solved."
"Absolutely not!" Kong Yuanda waved his hands repeatedly.
“The people of Yanzhou were born and raised here. This place has been their homeland for hundreds of years, and this land has been connected with them by flesh and blood.
Forced inward relocation will only arouse greater civil unrest. Once the general sees blood, more than three million Han people will take risks. In this way, we, the Song Dynasty, have only two choices, either to kill all the Han people. , or our army will be swallowed up by millions of people from the Han region."
"The people's hearts are as strong as iron, and official laws are as strong as furnaces. In troubled times, who dares to show up and cause trouble?"
Kong Yuanda looked at Li Changtieqing's face, looked up to the sky and sighed: "If this is the case, what is the purpose of Kong's ten years of hard work?"
"That is the worst-case scenario and may not happen in the future."
Kong Yuanda said sadly: "It will happen, it will definitely happen. Marquis Yun is an iron-blooded general, and he has never given up in his heart.
The thousands of miles of red land in Yunnei Prefecture is a clear proof. I heard that the general's troops have arrived in Fengsheng Prefecture. The people of Zhuolu County are already panicking. Many wealthy families have dragged their children and daughters away from Zhuolu County and are heading towards
Heading towards Zhongkyo Road."
Li Chang laughed loudly and said: "Does Zizheng think they will be safe when they reach Zhongjing Road? The huge army that has no hidden secrets is now on Zhongjing Road. The reason why he traveled thousands of miles to Zhongjing Road is that his strategic purpose is to plunder
population, and then sent them to the west of the desert to open up territory for him.
Nowadays, the Zhongjing Road is already raging with war. Xixia's capture army is roaming across the grassland, and anyone who can walk on two legs is within their plundering range.
On the barren mountains and remote areas from Nakakyo Road to Black Mountain, there is a constant flow of people day and night. I heard that the corpses lying on the ground are not even eaten by goshawks in the sky. Are they going to Nakakyo Road to die?"
Kong Yuanda was shocked. He suddenly stood up and pointed in the direction of Zhongjing Road and said loudly: "Is it true that Zhongjing Road has fallen?"
Li Chang chuckled and said: "It is not possible that all of them will fall, but I heard that Xixia's life-capturing and slave-catching armies have spread all over the Zhongjing Road. The Liao people can only defend a few cities, and those cities are one day away."
Three surprises, and the city will be destroyed in a matter of seconds."
Kong Yuanda fell to the ground in shock. He had lived in Zhuolu County for ten years. Naturally, he would have some wealthy friends here who talked about poetry on weekdays, and there would also be some sage brothers from Liao who funded his lectures and enlightenment in Zhuolu County.
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Most of these people are already ready to move north. If they drag their families to Zhongjing Road like this, wouldn't it be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?
Li Chang patted Kong Yuanda on the shoulder and said with a smile: "The entire Northern Expedition plan was formulated by Marshal Yun and Marshal Di as well as countless elites of our Song Dynasty.
This time, for the sake of the Northern Expedition, everyone in the Song Dynasty devoted all their resources to support the Northern Expedition. Even some unruly bandits in the south died out within the past six years.
Under such a huge, sophisticated and thoughtful plan, how could the people of Yanyun have any room to choose their own future?
If these things could not be predicted, Yun Shuai and others would be considered elites of the Song Dynasty!"
Kong Yuanda's eyes suddenly lit up and then dimmed again.
Li Chang knew what he was thinking. He took out a map from his pocket, pointed at the icon of Tokyo Road and said, "Zizheng must have been thinking about letting those people go to Tokyo Road just now, right?"
Kong Yuanda nodded and looked at Li Chang hopefully, waiting for him to give him a satisfactory answer.
Li Chang whispered: "I'm afraid Zizheng will be disappointed.
Marquis Yun once had a Jurchen general under his command. He studied under Marquis Yun over the past few years and learned how to fight. He has achieved great success in battle. The best thing is that this person had a grudge against the Liao Kingdom for genocide. As early as four years ago,
A few years ago, this general left the command of Marquis Yun and led the Jurchen warriors in the Song Dynasty to sneak back to the White Mountains and Black Waters to prepare to recruit the old Jurchen tribe..."
Kong Yuanda said in surprise: "But the Liaodong Black Eagle?"
Li Chang looked at Kong Yuanda strangely and said, "Do you know this person?"
"How could I not know that the Black Eagle disaster has spread to the northeast of Liaodong? He burned, killed, and looted in the land of Liaodong, and he never failed in the grasslands. I heard from Liao officials that this person's threat to Liao has exceeded his usual
Bandit Keribao."
Li Chang chuckled and said: "Brother Kong has been in Liao for so long that he almost considers himself a Liao native. I heard an allusion from Yun Shuai and thought it made sense. Now I will tell it to Brother Kong.
Yun Shuai believes that the enemy of the enemy is our natural ally. Both Black Eagle and Keribao are doing things to weaken the strength of the Liao Kingdom. So if you are not particular about what you do, as a Song Dynasty person, you will recognize this ally by pinching your nose.
That’s right, not only can we not criticize these people, but we must find a righteous cause for them.
For example, the slogan they are currently using to save the Jurchens and return the East China Sea came from the mouth of Brother Yu. Don't tell me, as soon as this slogan came out, the wild Jurchens hiding in the mountains also came out one after another to join their team to fight against the Liao Kingdom.
A lot of the armaments eliminated by our Song Dynasty were shipped to Liaodong. Marquis Yun said that even a sword would be of great help to the Song Dynasty after it was shipped to Liaodong. God knows how many Liao soldiers this sword would kill.
people."
"Zhuolu, this is the real Zhuolu! The land of the common people is the fat deer. The paddock has been set up. The hunters are gathering from the distance to the center. I have heard the barking of hounds and the falcons.
The long chirp, the piercing scream of the warhorse, the roar of war horses galloping in the hunting ground...
The poor three million people in Yanzhou have no way to go to heaven and no door to earth. They can only fall into the dust after the sound of thunder and the sound of bowstrings..."
Li Chang smiled and said: "The hunting ground has been prepared, and Marquis Yun has prepared a sharp deer-cutting knife. Seeing that the most plump piece of hind leg meat in Yanzhou is about to fall on the plate of my Da Song Dynasty, doesn't Brother Zizheng think for a moment?
Are you happy about this?"
Kong Yuanda stood in front of the wooden building, looked at the farmers busy in the fields and sighed: "Why do I see skeletons walking everywhere?"
"Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs. What is the difference between humans and grass and trees? Spring and autumn are the cycle of reincarnation. However, God also has the virtue of good life. After the Great Evolution, there is still one that has escaped, and this one has escaped.
This is what Brother Kong is doing now.
Surrender, they have no choice but to surrender, otherwise they will only face destruction. The armored cavalry of the Song Dynasty will traverse every inch of the mountains and rivers here and knock on the door of every house. Either surrender or destruction, nothing else."
Kong Yuanda thought of what the patriarch said in the letter to him, and sighed again. He suddenly felt that his ten years of hard work in the Liao Kingdom would turn into nothing.
The Liao people are tough, but it is a pity that they encountered enemies as ferocious as jackals and as powerful as tigers and leopards. Their personal will may have long been out of the consideration of those in power.
The Kong family played a disgraceful role in this unprecedented Northern Expedition. His only mission was to appease the panicked people, tell them to give up resistance, and calmly accept the rule of the Song Dynasty. This was the role of the Kong family in
The only meaning of Yanzhou’s existence.
Kong Yuanda calmed down and said, "I don't have enough manpower!"
Li Chang smiled and said: "The messengers have been prepared for Brother Zizheng. As long as Brother Zizheng starts repairing the book, they will send Brother Zizheng's letter to wherever you want to send it as quickly as possible." (Unfinished)