Chapter 223 The Tang Dynasty will not repeat the same mistakes

Just when Xunxiang and Commander Liu led the Beiwei Army to recruit those refugees and miners who could not survive in the Songshan Mountains, Chen Ying was also leading his subordinates to launch a tentative attack on Yanshi City.

Because Zhao Jiqing, under Wang Shichong, improved the catapult and fired red stones as stone bombs, the power of the stone bombs was maximized, and within 300 steps of the Yanshi City Wall became an unsurpassed forbidden area for life. Chen Ying hated the behavior of consuming enemy weapons and equipment with human lives, so the Tang soldiers only lined up outside Yanshi City.

Then, Chen Ying divided the troops into a brigade and launched a tentative attack on Yanshi City. It is better to say that Chen Ying is experimenting with new tactics. Compared with the dense formations of ancient habitual conditions, Chen Ying was more accustomed to this kind of straggling commando formation. Each soldier was more than ten steps away from the soldiers, and the brigades of more than one hundred people were all spread out, almost spreading five or six miles.

Since this, the Zheng army generals and Wang Shiyun, who were guarding Yanshi, felt extremely distressed, because the Tang army had arranged too scattered, and they did not take a straight line attack, but instead of taking a serpentine position. The catapult had no way to aim at it, and the crossbow was also unable to aim at it.

When Wang Shiyun saw this scene, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Chen Ying'er is so despicable and shameless, he actually uses barbarian tactics!"

Wang Shiyun's deputy general asked strangely: "Is this actually a barbarian tactic?"

"Yes, it's definitely not wrong!" Wang Shiyun nodded and said, "I went to Yanmen Pass with Your Majesty and fought with the Turks. This is how the Turks fought. The two armies faced each other. First, use light cavalry and repeatedly attacked them in teams to consume our arrows and physical strength. When our army's arrows and physical strength were exhausted, then use heavy troops to assault and smash the frontier positions of our army in one fell swoop. If His Majesty hadn't resisted with layers of chariots, the consequences would probably be unimaginable..."

The deputy general said incrediblely: "If this continues, how long will this battle last?"

"I don't know, it depends on Chen Ying's mood!" Wang Shiyun said depressedly: "Maybe one month, maybe two months, maybe half a year, God knows how long it will take!"

The deputy general murmured: "Your Majesty wants to destroy Li Shimin's remnants, at most ten days and half a month. As long as we keep Chen Ying outside Yanshi City for half a month, it will be enough for Your Majesty to destroy Li Shimin!"

Seeing that Zheng Jun neither fired a bed crossbow nor a scattered plane, Chen Ying looked at the sky and ordered: "It's almost noon, let's stop the troops!"

Li Xiuning asked strangely: "Is it time to withdraw the troops?"

"I have no intention of forcing Yanshi City to attack, so there will be too many casualties!" Chen Ying said: "Send the order, the soldiers will work hard to attack the city today, and the whole army will have a meal!"

The Tang army soldiers were cheering like thunder. The Tang army leader cut the dried horse meat pickled with salt into thin slices and put them directly into the pot. Then poured the washed millet, sorghum, wheat and beans into the pot, boiled on high heat and cooked directly. In order to add vegetables to the soldiers, the Tang army soldiers also spread around and looked for wild vegetables in the wild.

Seeing the soldiers happily, Li Xiuning asked with a comprehension, "Chen Lang, are you planning to attack the city and the heart?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "That's all. Wang Shichong is now expanding his army madly. His supplies must be scarce. It would be good if the Yanshi defenders could eat half full. Now they are watching our Tang soldiers on the city wall, eating and drinking, and they may complain. At that time, hum, it's hard to say whether Wang Shiyun can calm the morale of the army!"

The Tang army's head army was very efficient and had prepared the meal in just half an hour. Of course, Chen Ying didn't have to eat with the big head soldiers. Li Xiuning and Chen Ying had a small meal in the coach's tent, especially braised mutton and stewed radish. Li Xiuning also liked beggar chicken, which was the most popular. Li Xiuning looked at the slightly sumptuous meal and sighed: "It would be great if we could not fight, if it was a peaceful and prosperous era..."

Before Li Xiuning finished speaking, Chen Ying interrupted Li Xiuning and said, "Is it rare to have a peaceful and prosperous era?"

Li Xiuning said: "Why is it not rare? Who doesn't want to live in a prosperous era for any man? Who doesn't want to live in a prosperous era for any man? Who doesn't want to create a prosperous era for any man?"

"Actually, it's not difficult to have a prosperous era!" Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Just fight a war, kill people, and then divide the fields to those who survive. If you are exempt from taxes for a few years, the prosperous era will not be long before."

Li Xiuning was stunned and glanced at Chen Ying and said, "What are you talking nonsense? I don't know how many people will die in every prosperous era, and how much effort it takes to create it. Looking at thousands of years of history, there are only a few eras that can be called prosperous era..."

"Every dynasty has been prosperous for a long time after the founding of the country, and this thing is not rare at all!" Chen Ying pulled the beggar chicken open, turned to Li Xiuning's eyes, and said seriously: "Every prosperous era was built on the silk bones after the collapse of the previous dynasty. Without great chaos, there would be no great rule. This has been the case since ancient times. I know, you must say that the sages will tell us that a certain monarch has made great talents and strategies, and has embraced the common people, and created this prosperous era. In fact, these are all lies."

Li Xiuning asked vaguely while eating beggar chicken: "Then tell me, how did this prosperous era come from?"

Chen Ying shook his head and laughed: "Sanniang, you have read a lot of books and understand past historical materials. Then tell me why Xia died, why Shang died, why Zhou died? Why Qin died? Why Han died? Why Sui died?"

Li Xiuning said: "Is this more than anything? Of course, it was because of the tyrant king's excessive debauchery and the construction of the country made the heavens angry and the people resented, and the people were in trouble, and finally the people were resentful..."

"In the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the kings divided the princes into nine robes, and the world was divided into nine robes!" Chen Ying said: "According to the "Zhou Li·Xia Guan·Zhi Fangshi": It is said that the nine robes are: a thousand miles away is called the king's capital, five hundred miles away is called the marquis', five hundred miles away is called the marquis', five hundred miles away is called the marquis', five hundred miles away is called the marquis', five hundred miles away is called the marquis', five hundred miles away is called the marquis', five hundred miles away is called the lieutenant, five hundred miles away is called the lieutenant, five hundred miles away is called the fraternal robes. The three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties are called the bride. In fact, the kings can manage are all places around the royal capital of a thousand miles away. I looked at history and summarized the reasons. What kind of tyrant kings are extremely desolate and erotic, and the construction of large buildings are all fake, and they are all lies. For example, the emperor of Shang Zhou, do you think he is a tyrant?"

Li Xiuning said: "Why is he not a tyrant?"

In fact, is Emperor Xin a tyrant? *** once commented on King Zhou of Shang: "In fact, King Zhou was a very capable person, civil and military. He managed the Southeast and consolidated the unity of the East and Central Plains. He made contributions in history. Emperor Xin attacked the Yi Yi of Xuzhou and won battles, but the losses were great, and he captured too many prisoners and could not be digested. King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the opportunity to attack, and a large number of prisoners turned against him, and the Shang Dynasty destroyed the country."

There are many kings who lost their country in Chinese history, and many who can be called tyrants. In fact, kings who lost their country are not tyrants, and they lack objective and fair judgments. Whether Emperor Xin was a tyrant, we must first look at the fundamental reason for the demise of the Shang Dynasty. Basically, all the tyranny of Emperor Xin was the history written by the Zhou Dynasty, and the credibility was very low. The history books of the Zhou Dynasty wrote that Emperor Xin was proud of his contributions in the late reign of the reign, spent a huge amount of money to build a deer platform, build wine ponds, hang meat into forests, build luxurious palaces and gardens, and lived a life of extravagance and desire, making the national treasury empty. He was stubborn and could not listen.

To put forward the correct opinions, form opposition in the upper class, use tortures such as cannons (battery was invented by Xia Jie Si Lu Gui) and suppress the people. Kill Bigan (in fact, Yin Bigan was not killed but died of old age), imprisoned Jizi, fought every year, and lost people's hearts. When he was attacking the Dongyi, he did not pay attention to the prevention of the Western tribes, and used troops for years and the national strength was depleted. He also had to face the burden of how to deal with a large number of prisoners who had accumulated over time due to years of war. (This paragraph has long been unable to be investigated and was compiled by Zhou Wu, so his historical credibility is extremely low.)

In fact, the cause of the demise of Shang Dynasty, such as corruption in government, relatives with villains, and farewell to wise ministers, are all nonsense. The Shang Dynasty was a slave country. From a political perspective, there was no layer of management from the central government to the local government. At that time, they were all fiefdoms, divided into five classes, including Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Ma. All the princes managed their own places and only needed to pay taxes to the Shang king. If the Shang Dynasty court had a constant government order and could not manage the following states, then the only situation would occur, and the princes did not listen to the hello. For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Zhou emperor was just a deaf person's ears and decorations.

Chen Ying found that if he argued with Li Xiuning, he would probably not be able to explain it clearly after three days and three nights.

"The destruction of all dynasties has a common characteristic. People are living in poverty, right!"

Li Xiuning nodded.

Chen Ying asked: "Why do people live in poverty? The historians will point the finger at the emperor without exception, believing that the emperor has lost virtue, which makes the people live in poverty. How to lose morality? You just said, "It's wasteful, lustful, and erotic, and great construction, and value cruel officials, and be nepotism, and value villains and farewell to wise ministers... so many that I can't count them."

Li Xiuning asked in surprise: "Isn't that right?"

"If you don't say anything else, just talk about Yang Guang. Does he have more than seven concubines in the last year? Do he have more than four sons and three daughters?" Chen Ying smiled and said, "In the Book of Sui, I remember that one of Yang Guang's major crimes was licentious. If he was considered licentious and licentious, how many emperors would not be licentious or licentious?"

When Li Xiuning was stunned, she really had no choice but to say it. If others don’t mention it, even after Li Yuan became the emperor, he had more than 100 women in the harem, and Li Yuan’s children were more than ten times that of Yang Guang.

"You have found the problem, too?" Chen Ying smiled and said, "Hold the pen in their hands, and they can write whatever they want."

Speaking of this, Chen Ying unconsciously remembered later generations. Some public intellectuals made a lot of talk, such as China's housing prices mentioned by mother-in-law, China's carbon dioxide emissions caused by bicycles, etc., etc., and so on, there are too many principles and media. In fact, there are too many bottom-line principles and media. In order to show their masters, they dare to say anything, especially those who write various soft articles for money to deceive ignorant people for their livelihoods. They are simply inferior to prostitutes, which is too shameful.

Seeing that Li Xiuning had no intention of eating, Chen Ying continued to explain: "But there are two things that they did not write about, that is, the government exploitation, land annexation... Yes, every time the end of the dynasty, the government was corrupt and land annexation were the real reasons why the people were living in poverty."

Li Xiuning suddenly realized.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and she was a personal experience. She knew more. Yang Guang dug the canal and clearly stipulated that the method of drawing one rank for five households was adopted. At that time, the Sui Dynasty had 8.9 million households, and one rank was transferred. Is this proportion high? In the feudal era, such a proportion was really not high.

In order to unify the world, the Xianbei Murong Jun adopted the method of five or three to force a troops of one million. However, nothing happened. Because Murong Jun was not the king of the destruction of the country, because Murong Jun was not a Han Chinese.

However, historical books record that in order to build the Grand Canal in Beijing and Hangzhou, 2.5 million people died in a year. However, Yang Guang did not recruit so many people at all.

Chen Ying said: "Land is the fundamental reason. Land is limited, but everyone has to breed descendants, and their children have children, and their children are endless. Each person can maintain sixty acres of dry land and forty acres of paddy fields, and there will be no waste. The output of land is enough to allow them to live a life of food and clothing after paying taxes. Therefore, this era is called a prosperous era. Yes, a country that has come from troubled times, as long as there is no chaos, even if the king is incompetent, after a hundred years of hard work, it can usher in a prosperous era."

Li Xiuning calculated silently in his mind that the Qin Dynasty had been in full swing from Shang Yang's reforms to the Qin Shihuang period, which was exactly a hundred years. And Liu Bang founded the country and the Liu Che period. But it was also a hundred years. Li Xiuning said: "But in the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan was already in a prosperous era?"

"Bah, don't mention Sima Yan to me!" Chen Ying said disdainfully: "The Sima family except Sima Yi is all waste. Including Sima Yan, did he create a prosperous era? He just stole the achievements of the three generations of Cao Wei."

In fact, Cao Wei started to cultivate farmland, and even fell into farmland. In the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the people of the world lived in poverty and lost their land, and there was nothing but a life. Cao Cao established the military farmland system, and the court produced farm tools, seeds and oxen, which were divided according to the income ratio of 46. Then, Cao Wei served as soldiers during the war and for the people during the leisure time, and quickly became stronger in the Three Kingdoms era.

However, the farmers were ignorant and stupid. More than twenty years later, the first generation of farmers who experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion died. The second generation of farmers felt that Cao Wei was too dark, so it was wrong to exploit them like this, so they acted as the helper of the Sima family. As a result, they killed Cao Wei, welcomed the land of Shenzhou, and moved south.

Chen Ying sighed and said, "A major disadvantage in prosperous times is that they have abundant resources, a peaceful country and a safe country, and the people can reproduce with confidence, so the population grows rapidly. However, the population needs land as support, and a country's land is limited, and the limited population supports an infinitely growing population. Everyone knows what will happen. So, when the population exceeds the limit that the land can accommodate, the prosperous times will turn into passing clouds and mists, and what follows is a chaotic era. More and more people are fighting openly and secretly for less and less land, and they can't do it. If there are a few more large-scale natural disasters or wars at this time, it can be said that this country is dead."

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the world is dominated by the general trend, and the separation will be divided and the separation will be divided for a long time. In fact, this is a vicious circle of Chinese civilization, from division, war to unity, prosperity and strength, and then turmoil, division, and destruction.

Hearing Chen Ying's explanation, Li Xiuning seemed to understand. Her hands were sweating nervously, and she grabbed Chen Ying's hand tightly and said, "Then three or four generations will the prosperity begin?"

"Yes." Chen Ying nodded.

Li Xiuning looked horrified and his hands were trembling slightly: "Then, due to the prosperity of the country and the peace and security, the abundant supplies, the population increased rapidly, and continued to increase to a point where the land could not accommodate it. Then, a chaotic world came? Then... the Tang Dynasty!"

Chen Ying held Li Xiuning's hand and said, "Don't worry, with me, the Tang Dynasty will not repeat the same mistakes!"
Chapter completed!