"You must not divert military rations, let alone distribute them to the people. It is better to suffer the people one more time."
Sun Chuanting stared at the embarrassed expression of the Supreme Emperor, walked out of the queue of civil servants resolutely, and said what he was thinking.
Everyone else was silent after hearing this. Sun Chuanting made such remarks, which was really frightening. However, several Kaiyuan veterans quickly came to their senses. You must know that Sun Chuanting has always been famous for his cruelty in Kaiyuan. Taichang Er During the Battle of Hetuala in 2001, he was able to force thousands of Han people to fill trenches and attack the city. Now, for Da Qi, he sacrificed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, which is in line with this person's consistent style.
"Mr. Sun Ge! You! Do you know how many people will starve to death if we don't provide relief in Liaodong? Can you shoulder this responsibility?!"
Regardless of the presence of the Supreme Emperor, Xie Yang pointed at Sun Chuanting's nose and yelled. He pulled off the wig and hat on his head, revealing his bare scalp underneath. Whether it was because of rage or excitement, Xie Guangkun's scalp glowed red, like It's about to catch fire.
"We won't all starve to death. At most, 30,000 to 50,000 people will starve to death. If there are floods this year, there will be a bumper harvest next year. As long as we get through this winter, we will be fine."
After Sun Chuanting finished speaking calmly, he raised his head and glanced at Director Xie, with an understatement between his brows.
As the deputy prime minister of Da Qi, Sun Chuanting already understood the current operating logic of the empire. Although he still does not fully understand the meaning of terms such as totalitarianism, extreme oppression, and scissors, his intuition tells him that the more critical the moment, the more he must continue to "suffer the people."
"When a soldier is in battle, he moves from time to time. When he moves, he is powerful. When he watches, he plays, and when he plays, there is no shock. (Note 1). When the sword is out of its sheath, it must see blood. The army has gathered in Liaodong, just to see the real seal with North Korea. If If you stop the army at this time because of insufficient food and grass, all your previous efforts will be wasted."
Everyone did not dare to speak when they heard these crazy remarks.
Emperor Wu Ding put down his chopsticks and ended the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet. He wiped the crumbs from his mouth, looked around and said:
"There is not enough food and grass, so the food is confiscated from the enemy because it is from the Korean state. Why suffer the people? After so many years of fighting in Liaodong, the people have suffered enough."
As soon as the Supreme Emperor said these words, the surroundings fell into an uproar.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that using food to attack the enemy is not a panacea. It may be effective when dealing with Annam, Japan, Champa and other places. It is not necessary to deal with North Korea, because there is really no such thing in North Korea...
It was Sun Chuanting who was the first to retort: "I have been stationed in Kuandian for many years, and my understanding of the situation in Korea is that the land of Korea is barren and the people are poor, and it is impossible to meet the needs of the army. It has long been established that the Holy Emperor will personally conquer the country, and everyone in the world is watching. Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting to attack Pyongyang, and their eyes are bleeding! How can we postpone the army plan just because a few people starve to death?!"
Ma Shiying finally stopped being silent and expressed that he could endure the hardships of the people and carry out a seventeenth-century march of suffering around Shenyang.
The Supreme Emperor secretly made up his mind to carry out a policy of plundering North Korea and robbed all the food.
From now on, massacre of the city is inevitable.
On that day, the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet broke up unhappy, and Liu Zhaosun was in a dilemma.
When Jin Yuji heard about this, she persuaded her husband not to massacre the city in North Korea, otherwise the resistance would only become stronger. When Kublai Khan conquered North Korea, he dispatched nine armies before he could gain a foothold here.
In a dilemma, Bumbutai led the Horqin tribe back east and brought back 20,000 cattle and sheep.
Bumbutai is willing to dedicate these cattle and sheep to Daqi.
"How is Lin Dan Khan doing?"
Bumbutai replied, "He has died of illness in Qinghai."
Horqin's great enemy was dead, and now he no longer had any worries, so Bumbutai led his army to support the Qi army.
Liu Zhaosun was secretly glad that he did not have to become a heinous warrior, and he also had an explanation for Jin Yuji.
The three sisters, Jin Yuji, Yang Qing'er, Bumu Butai, reunited after three years apart. The Mongolian girl is now eighteen years old. She has become more and more beautiful.
The three of them chatted together, and Yang Qing'er told Bumbutai how she was rescued in Xiaoyan Mountain. Bumubutai was overjoyed, and the three recalled the scene in Kaiyuan.
Bumubutai suddenly asked: "Is Mr. Private School still there?"
"No more. Now children are studying in schools. The Ministry of Household Affairs and Civil Affairs have joined forces to hire many teachers to teach children." "Tuition is not charged," Yang Qing'er added.
Bumbutai rolled his eyes and blurted out: "Does the little emperor also want to study?"
"Of course I have to read it, and it's much worse than when you were there."
The Empress Dowager Cisheng was right, the little emperor Liu Kan was much worse off than his little sister Bumu Butai.
In accordance with the emperor's decree, the two great scholars Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yongchun arranged early for the young emperor to visit the court and give lectures.
This little emperor, who was less than five years old, had to oversee the government and manage the government every day (although it was just a formality), and he had to continue teaching and reading after he retired from the court. He was much worse off than the children of the same age who were in the kindergarten in the future, eating, drinking and having fun without any worries. .
Liu Kan had to go to court on the second, fourth and eighth day of every month. During the rest of the time, he had to go to the Wenying Hall and follow several imperial teachers to give lectures.
Liu Zhaosun devoted all his efforts to the education of his son Liu Kan, and he was a chicken boy to the extreme.
He personally stipulated that the books that the little emperor would read were "University" and "Shangshu". Qian Qianyi was in charge of "University", while Zhou Yongchun explained "Shangshu" to the little emperor. He required that he must read it by heart and memorize it every time before the teacher started to lecture. , Liu Kan needed to recite the two books five times. As for whether he understood them and whether he could remember them, it depends on luck.
Liu Zhaosun felt that he was not good at studying, so he was extremely strict with his son in this regard. It was a complete cramming education. After several visits to Shangshu University, he didn't care whether his son understood it or not, so he immediately started to let the little emperor practice marking. Memorial.
The commander-in-chief Dongfang Zhu sent people to put the memorials from all yamen and provinces in a red lacquered wooden box in front of the young emperor and presented them to the young emperor for his inspection.
Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yongchun retreated to the east wing to wait. If Liu Kan didn't understand anything, they stepped forward and explained everything to the emperor.
So busy until noon, Qian Qianyi took the young emperor to read "Tongjian" (Note 2), telling the young emperor the gains and losses of the past dynasties in the most popular and straightforward language.
After finishing "Tongjian", it was lunch time. The imperial chef would deliver the food directly to Wenying Palace. After finishing a fairly sumptuous lunch, Liu Kan took a nap for half an hour and then woke up to start a new study task. .
In the afternoon, it was the emperor's art and natural science time. Wang Xijue's grandson Wang Shimin came to Wenying Hall. After a lot of red tape between teachers, students, monarchs and ministers, Wang Shimin spread out the rice paper, looked at the cone in his hand intently, and began to splash on the white paper as if no one else was watching. The tip of the pen made a slight rustling sound on the rice paper, filling the little emperor's eardrums, as if silkworms were eating leaves.
After a cup of tea, a picture of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers suddenly appeared in front of me.
"The painting is really like it," the little emperor couldn't think of any other words. He stared blankly for a long time and just clapped his hands.
Wang Shimin waited for the ink on the rice paper to dry, carefully rolled up the painting, presented it to the little emperor and said:
"Your Majesty, you can copy as many times as you can, as long as you have the skills."
At this time, Francisco and Ginny were outside gently tapping the window. They held a huge globe in their arms, went deep into the hall with their furry arms, and raised their middle fingers to signal the painter to stop dragging the hall.
"Mr. Wang, what is the meaning of this painting?"
Liu Kan suddenly asked.
Wang Shimin, who was putting away his brushes, was slightly startled, obviously not expecting the little emperor to ask this question.
"The Supreme Emperor overcame all obstacles to achieve the territory that Da Qi has today. I hope that His Majesty will take charge of the government as soon as possible and open up thousands of miles of rivers and mountains for Da Qi, so that no one in the world will be frozen..."
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By the time Liu Kan finished all his art and science classes, it was already afternoon time.
Bu Mu Butai was lying on the window of the Wenying Palace, looking inside through the gap. When he saw the exhausted look of the young emperor Liu Kan, he cursed and subconsciously wanted to beat the two red-haired Yi emperors from the bench.
Note:
1. King Mu was about to conquer the dogs and soldiers, and he offered sacrifices to the public and his father remonstrated: "No. The former king was so virtuous that he did not observe the soldiers. The soldiers moved when they were fighting, and they were powerful when they moved. When they watched, they played, and when they played, there was no shock. - "Guoyu · Zhou Yu·Sacrifice the Duke and Admonish King Mu to Conquer the Dogs and Rong"
2. The content of Emperor Taichu’s lectures when he was a child is completely consistent with that of Emperor Wanli who ascended the throne at the age of ten in history. See Volume 2 of "The Complete Works of Zhang Wenzhonggong" "Memories II: Notes on the Lectures of the Day". Volume 4 of "Records of Ming Shenzong", August Bingyin of the sixth year of Longqing.
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