Do you think that what you think is what you think?
This somewhat convoluted sentence, Xiao Han had always thought of it as fart!
But it wasn’t until today that I discovered that there is clearly great wisdom hidden in this sentence!
Never assume that what you know is right! Many times, the more "common sense" you follow, the easier it is to make mistakes!
In the past, or in Xiao Han's previous life.
Almost everyone, including him, habitually thought that Japanese pirates only appeared during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties!
And the anti-Japanese story of Qi Jiguang, a great hero of the Ming Dynasty who is widely known to the world! It's more like stamping an eye-catching seal on this "answer".
So much so that whenever the Japanese pirates are mentioned later, the Ming Dynasty must be the one that comes to everyone’s mind, not running away!
But it seems that everyone has forgotten: the Chinese characters for the Japanese country were given to them by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu!
That's right, it's Liu Xiu, who is favored by heaven and earth, blessed by natural luck, son of the plane, and known as the great mage!
(As for Liu Xiu’s story, interested friends can search it on Baidu. Anyway, judging from his experience, I would not dare to write about it in a novel...)
Since it was Liu Xiu who used the name of Japanese Gua as the name of the Japanese country, it means that at least during the Han Dynasty, the Japanese country had found a safe way to reach the Central Plains!
Poor Jianzhen spent decades and six experiments in order to go to Japan before he succeeded!
While Jianzhen hasn't left yet, Xiao Han really wants to find him and ask: Can't you capture a Japanese and learn how they move?
"Xiao Hou, do you know the Japanese country very well?"
Someone's mind was still thinking wildly, but over there, looking at Xiao Hou, whose face turned dark when he mentioned the name of the Japanese country, Yang Wen Zhang's heart tightened, and he quickly raised his hands carefully and asked.
"Ah? Oh!" Xiao Han suddenly came to his senses, then subconsciously clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said: "Understood! How could I not understand! Humph, I thought I had no chance to deal with them before, but I didn't expect that they would dare to come to my door! "
"Delivered to your door?"
Cui Jingzhi became more and more surprised when he heard what Xiao Han seemed to be talking to himself, but before he could ask, Xiao Han laughed and said again: "Where are the Japanese... pirates outside now?"
Cui Jingzhi quickly replied: "I heard from the messenger that they are between Yangzhou and Chuzhou and are coming towards Yangzhou! But they don't have horses. It will take at least five or six days to get near Yangzhou!"
"Five or six days?" Xiao Han's eyes flickered a few times, then he pondered for a moment and then said: "How many troops and horses are there in Yangzhou now? Can we fight?"
"This..." Cui Jingzhi was stunned, and then said with a wry smile: "To be honest with you, Lord Marquis, there are only about two or three thousand troops in Yangzhou now, how can we fight?"
"What? Why are there only two or three thousand people?" Xiao Han was a little shocked when he heard this, "Why are there so few?"
Cui Jingzhi blushed, lowered his head and coughed softly: "Ahem, Lord Marquis, you don't know that martial arts in Yangzhou has never been strong, so there are only a few soldiers, and three thousand have been lost..."
"Oh~" Xiao Han heard what Cui Jingzhi said, and then he remembered that he was in Yangzhou, not Guanzhong, a place with strong folk customs! So he could only sigh helplessly and said: "What can two or three thousand people do? I originally wanted to go out and kill them, but now I can only defend the city!"
Yang Wenwen frowned and sighed: "Hey, Mr. Hou has never been in contact with pirates. I don't know that pirates live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, so they are always extremely vicious!
In the past, small-scale robberies required three or four soldiers to deal with one pirate. Now that they are coming in groups, we need at least 20,000 to 30,000 people to defeat them. "
"Thirty thousand people?" Xiao Han looked at Yang Wenwen and shook his head: "You don't need that many! The real elite of the army, with up to 7,000 people, can kill this ragtag group of people running all over the ground! If it were replaced by Xuanjia Army, three thousand is enough!"
Cui Jingzhi was not in the mood to study each other's combat prowess with Xiao Han. He just said with a defeated look: "But these elites are all in Chang'an, thousands of miles away. It's useless if they can't get here!"
"Hey, that's true, but I can't fly here!"
The room was quiet for a while, and only a series of sighs could be heard.
Seeing that no one spoke anymore, Sun Simiao, who had not made a sound since he came in, couldn't help but said: "Stop sighing, can't you think of a solution? There are not many soldiers here? Can't we mobilize troops elsewhere? "
"Go to other places to mobilize troops?" Cui Jingzhi heard this and looked up at Sun Simiao with a bitter look on his face: "Old god, you may not know, let alone deploying troops privately is tantamount to treason! Even if we have the right to mobilize troops, but here Where are the troops around Yangzhou for us to mobilize?"
"No soldiers?"
Sun Simiao frowned slightly, then remembered something, stared at Xiao Han and asked: "By the way, Li Xiaogong and Chai Shao were here a few days ago. It is impossible that they don't have soldiers under their hands, right? Can't we just find them?" "
"What? Are you talking about Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian, and Chai Shao, the general manager of the marching road?"
Sun Simiao finished speaking, and before Xiao Han had time to reply, Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wenwen on the side jumped up first, and then both looked at Xiao Han with dark and unclear expressions.
When did these two important ministers of the court come to Yangzhou? When did you leave? Why didn't they, as landowners, get any information? !
"Ahem, they were just passing by here and came in to see me." Looking at the shocked eyes of the two, Xiao Han touched his nose, spoke in a calm tone, and gave a simple explanation.
"Are you just passing by?" Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wenwen heard this and looked at each other, feeling a little emotional in each other's eyes.
Hey, I had only heard that this Marquis was very popular, but I never expected that he would be so popular! Even if the prince passes by, he will come to visit. How much dignity does it take to do this?
"But no matter what, the King of the River is nearby, which is indeed good news!"
They quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since they just learned that Li Xiaogong was not far from Yangzhou, Cui Jingzhi and Yang Wen Zhang suddenly lost half of their hearts!
Different from those fierce generals who exist in biographies, Li Xiaogong definitely earned his reputation in the Jiangnan area by fighting one battle at a time and with one sword after another!
What Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyou.
What is Shen Faxing? Li Zitong.
Almost all of them were killed by him! It can even be said without exaggeration: Li Xiaogong conquered the entire Jiangnan!
There is such a peerless general by my side! Cui Jingzhi felt that not to mention 8,000 pirates, what could 80,000 do?
However, before Cui Jingzhi could get over his excitement, Xiao Han poured a basin of cold water on him.
"Don't think about them anymore. These two people have run away a long time ago! Even if I get the news, it will be too late! Not to mention that I can't contact them now..."
"Gah?!"
