Seeing that everyone was silent, Yang Meng's momentum rose again. He stared directly at Yang Ning and shouted:
"An Zhi, do you know that you have caused a big disaster? The Yang family will probably be destroyed in your hands! All of us will be killed by you, do you understand?!"
Yang Ning looked at Yang Meng calmly.
Yang Meng's gaze was like an arrow: "Now that the Hu people are powerful, the imperial court is in the southeast, and General Zu has been deprived of military power, who can protect us?
"An Zhi, you killed several Hu people today, and you succeeded for a while, but have you thought about the consequences? The Hu people will not sit back and watch today's defeat, they will definitely come back to take revenge!
"When the time comes, hundreds of barbarians will swarm in. How can the Yang family resist? You can kill and repel a hundred barbarians, but how can you kill a thousand barbarians with your own hands?
"An Zhi, you are too reckless, you have offended the Yang family to death, and you have pushed all of us into a pit of fire!
"Originally, we were protected by Wubao, but hundreds of barbarian horsemen could not defeat us and would only go to plunder the countryside.
"It's good now, the barbarians will send their army over, and we will all be buried with you!"
There was a gasp of air in the yard.
Yang Zheng fell into a daze again. He was frightened by Yang Meng's words; Yang Tong's eyes were blood red and he stared at Yang Ning fiercely, as if the other party had really pushed him into a mountain of swords and a sea of fire.
Li Qinghan and Yang Kui frowned at the same time, intending to speak for Yang Ning, but they had to admit that Yang Meng's speech was not without purpose, and it was difficult to organize the words for a while.
Yang Ning faced Yang Meng's cannibalistic eyes calmly and asked calmly:
"According to my second uncle's wishes, even if the barbarians kill my compatriots, plunder my property, and disrupt our country, we should not rise up to resist, but should be killed at our necks?"
Yang Meng's breath froze, and he immediately retorted: "Can you resist? You are not resisting, you are clearly harming the lives of your own family!"
Yang Ning retorted: "If you don't resist, does your second uncle want to take refuge with the Hu people and become their dog?"
Yang Meng blushed. He had indeed planned this, but he had just raised this matter with the old patriarch and had not yet received approval. Of course, he could not announce it to the public at this time.
"Everything must be done within one's ability, otherwise it will be self-destruction! The Yang family has no power to resist the Hu people, so they can only seek ways to protect themselves!" Yang Meng said the most cowardly words in the most ferocious tone.
Unexpectedly, Yang Ning nodded: "Second uncle's words are reasonable. The Yang family does not have the power to resist the Hu people."
These words interrupted Yang Meng's train of thought, and his planned follow-up words were suddenly stuck in his throat.
Yang Ning turned to look at the old patriarch and said loudly and forcefully:
"If we want to resist the Hu people and avoid the fate of being massacred, we cannot rely on the Yang family alone. It is for this reason that the grandson has to take the villagers back to Wubao.
"Grandfather, the Hu people are cruel by nature, good at fighting and ruthless, but not good at governing local areas, so they will always rob states and counties and gain wealth by killing.
“Today it’s the countryside that is suffering, tomorrow it will be our turn in Xiaowubao, and the day after tomorrow it will be the turn of the prefectures, counties and big cities. We can hide for a while, but not forever!
"How can there be an egg in a nest full of people? In troubled times, with the barbarians in front, they will retreat step by step. In the end, they will be doomed and no bones will be left!"
"If the Yang family does not want to kneel down and be like dogs to the Hu people, they can only imitate General Zu Ti, gather people and raise troops, fight against the Hu people with force, and defend their homeland with a strong army!"
Yang Ning's words were very precise, and his words were so penetrating that the old patriarch was very surprised. He looked deeply at the dandy grandson in front of him.
Yang Zheng looked at Yang Ning silently and said to himself: This young man with resolute eyes and extraordinary talents, whose son are you? How come I haven't seen you before?
It wasn't just the old patriarch and Yang Zheng who found Yang Ning strange.
Because Yang Meng was always thinking about plotting against Yang Ning and fighting for the family inheritance, and he always stared at the other party's words and deeds, he felt it even more deeply at this time.
He had some suspicion that Yang Ning was possessed by a ghost.
"To put it nicely, is it so easy to gather a crowd and raise an army?
"Although the Yang family has some property, they are only a local wealthy family after all. They have already tried their best to raise more than a hundred private soldiers. How can they build a strong army?"
Yang Meng didn't want everyone to be persuaded by Yang Ning, so he immediately retorted, "You are still too young. You don't know how expensive food and rice are when you are not a rich man. You are so passionate that you have wild whims, but you don't know that the world is difficult!"
Yang Ning turned around and said tit for tat:
"Seven years ago, when General Zu decided to make the Northern Expedition, he had only a few hundred refugees under his command, and the court did not provide soldiers and armor. Everything had to be done by General Zu himself.
"However, General Zu still bravely crossed the river, struck at the middle stream, and vowed to regain the Central Plains and be benevolent if he failed. How generous and tragic was that!
"After that, General Zu prepared for several years in Jiangyin, training soldiers and making ordnance. When the troops went to war, there were only two thousand soldiers!
"What happened in the end? Didn't General Zu successfully defeat the arrogant Shi Le and regain Henan?
"The generals of today's ancestors have strong soldiers and strong horses, and they have the aura of aggressiveness in Hebei. Are these false?
"Second uncle only knew that it was difficult to raise an army, but he didn't know that fighting against the barbarians was the aspiration of the people and the general trend!
"Anyone from my Han family who has the slightest bit of blood in his heart will gnash his teeth when he sees the barbarians slaughtering the people and showing off their power, and who wouldn't want to get rid of them quickly?
"If the Yang family raises an army, people with lofty ideals from all over the country will definitely gather in the city, so why worry about not succeeding?
"If my second uncle is timid and cowardly, he can just stay behind closed doors. He would rather raise an army on his own and do it with other tribesmen!"
Yang Ning's words were so passionate that they sounded like morning bells and evening drums in everyone's ears. Even the old patriarch couldn't help but lose consciousness after hearing this.
Yang Kui clenched his fist silently, feeling that Yang Ning's words spoke to his heart.
I remember that when he was guarding the border, it was common to kill the barbarians. Now the barbarians are able to run rampant in the Central Plains. It is really unreasonable and unbearable!
He made up his mind that as long as the Yang family raised an army, he would follow Yang Ning to the death!
Li Qinghan looked at Yang Ning's resolute profile, his big eyes flickering, and his eyes seemed to be glued to the other person's face.
In this situation, she felt that Yang Ning was really handsome and handsome.
Yang Zheng began to be in a daze again, his lips kept moving, and he didn't know what he was mumbling.
Not only Yang Zheng was in a daze, but Yang Tong was also in a daze. He looked at Yang Ning no longer with hostility in his eyes, because he felt that what the other party said made sense.
As a vigorous young man, Yang Tong certainly didn't want to succumb to the barbarians. It made no sense that they couldn't do what Zu Ti could do, and he didn't have a strong head or six arms.
Yang Meng was given a slap in the face by Yang Ning, and he was so angry that his eyes were filled with blood.
What he couldn't stand the most was Yang Ning's last words.
Who in the entire Yang family didn't know that Yang Ning was as timid as a mouse, and now he was actually being called a coward by the other party, but he still couldn't give a strong counterattack.
If he wanted to prove that he was not cowardly, he could only agree to raise troops, which Yang Meng could not do, so although his face was green and white, he could not say a word for a long time.
"Reckless man, brainless man!"
Yang Meng, unable to refute Yang Ning with reason, angrily launched a personal attack, "You are crazy, you will drag the Yang family into the abyss, I think you are possessed by a ghost today..."
Before he finished speaking, a cold voice suddenly came to mind in the yard: "Slave!"
