"What kind of silence?" Mu Zheng asked nervously.

Zheng Lang said: "Mu Zheng, I once said at the court meeting that our dynasty regards itself as a great country, calling the surrounding races Fan, Hu, Qiang, Rong, Yi, Di, Man, Dong, and Liao, with a noble attitude. But why are they controlled by the Khitan and troubled the Xia thieves? If you want to be high, you must become a real strong man. It is not enough. A real strong man should have an attitude of embracing all rivers. Since it is our people, it is a family, how can the Han and barbarians be divided into Han and barbarians? Those who are loyal to our dynasty are His Majesty's good children. Those who are not loyal to our dynasty are also thieves of the country!"

It cannot be said that China has been a great power chauvinism in all dynasties in the past. It is true that before the demise of the Song Dynasty, China was the pinnacle of world civilization, and pride was inevitable. However, if this mentality continues to be maintained, it will harm future generations and will not be conducive to national integration.

There was no answer to Mu Zheng, but Mu Zheng still didn’t understand?

He stood up respectfully and said, "Mr. Zheng, I'll go to the capital right away."

Regardless of the approaching dusk, he led his subordinates and the escorted Song Bing to leave Chang'an City.

Zheng Lang also left Chang'an the next day. This journey was very fast, and speed was the key!

Three thousand soldiers quickly arrived in Qinzhou.

Wang Shao and Zhang came to see each other.

The coach becomes Zheng Lang, so I have to ask how Zheng Lang is in command.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "Zichun, you don't have to be restrained. You Zichun will be responsible for attacking Huangzhou. You stay in the ancient Weicheng to prevent Xixia. What to do, I will give it to you. There are only two premises: the Xia people are cunning and any tricks can be used. Tubo cannot do it. Since the Tang Dynasty, Tubo has been martial, and the two armies have to use tricks to fight. But no matter how they use tricks, at least Tubo should think that it is on the front battlefield. Our army can easily win, so that they can be convinced by our dynasty. Otherwise, victory will still bring endless harm."

Wang Shao's forehead.

This sentence touched his heart.

"The second is the issue of treating prisoners. You can kill pokes on the battlefield. The more fierce the kill pokes, the greater the deterrence, and you can surrender. You can't kill any more prisoners."

Killing pokes and killing prisoners on the battlefield are two different things.

Bai Qi killed the prisoners, but although Qin State did not suffer any losses, he died at the hands of Fan Ju. The most tragic thing was Xiang Yu, who killed the prisoners first, then entered Guanzhong and did things wrong, and eventually lost the world and committed suicide. Those who won the hearts of the people won the world, and those who lost the hearts of the people would lose the world.

"What else?" Wang Shao asked.

Maybe Wang Shao is not convinced by others, and dare not be dissatisfied with Zheng Lang. This explanation is too simple.

"If there is. There is only one sentence, siege the city as the best. Annihilation of the enemy's vitality is the best, especially the Xixia people. There will be nothing else. If you have any requests, just make it. If you need me, I can cooperate with you."

This is Zheng’s tactic, Bai Qi’s tactic, and Taizu’s tactic!

"Here," the two of them retreated excitedly.

Fan Chunren was very suspicious and said, "Mr. Zheng, isn't this a bit bad?"

"That's not good at all?"

"You are like letting them go together..."

"Yaofu, what would happen if Emperor Taizong of Tang asked Li Jing and Li Ji to govern the country and Fang Du Wei to conquer Wang Gui to go to war? Let's talk about the wise and demonic Xu Maogong Li Ji, who was entrusted to Emperor Gaozong of Tang for state affairs before his death. Although he had made great contributions to the conquest of Goryeo, what would it make in government affairs? Supporting Wu Zetian as the empress is a political achievement? Although Li Ji was a meritorious person in the early Tang Dynasty, his political achievements were far inferior to those in the political achievements of Emperor Gaozong of Tang himself."

"Mr. Zheng and Cao Bin also suffered a crushing defeat in Gao Lianghe."

"Yaofu, Cao Binyu is the best general of our dynasty. He has made great contributions to destroying the Southern Tang Dynasty, how much resistance does he encounter? In fact, Cao Bin's military ability is far inferior to Pan Mei, Yang Ye and his son Cao Bin. However, Cao Bin is unparalleled in virtue, so he is listed as the ranks of good generals of the dynasty."

Cao Bin's actual military capabilities were very limited in the defeat of Gao Liang River, and there was another reason.

It was Yang Ye. Zhao Kuangyin returned in vain in the Northern Han Dynasty. However, after surrendering to Zhao Kuangyi, Zhao Kuangyi must have regarded Yang Ye as his own. Yang Ye died tragically, and Zhao Kuangyi must be unhappy, so he punished Pan Mei. However, Zhao Kuangyi cannot ignore his IQ just because Zhao Kuangyi was defeated by Gao Lianghe. This is also a demon. One is Yang Ye and the other is the failure of the entire Northern Expedition. What is the light and what is the heaviest? Can't Zhao Kuangyi tell the difference? Even if Yang Ye has a lot of weight in Zhao Kuangyi's mind, it makes people doubt. Look at what official position Yang Ye has given him several sons? The highest official position is Yang Yanzhao, or he himself made great achievements and was recommended by Kou Zhun to be appointed as the deputy chief of Gaoyang Pass Road. In the eyes of ordinary people, it may be a high-ranking official, but in Zheng Lang's eyes, there is nothing, and there is no need to inform the court. Such a military officer Zheng Lang can also be killed.

Why did Pan Mei lose Yang Ye and end up being very sad? Cao Bin led to the failure of the entire Northern Expedition, and even Zhao Kuangyi was injured by arrows, but he rose to prominence all the way?

After breaking through hypocritical historical records, the truth is easy to come up. How can Zhao Kuangyi not like such a minister who can take the initiative to bow to the literati and be punished for Zhao Kuangyi? How can the literati and officials not like it?

But you can't say that you shouldn't talk too much about Zhao Kuangyi's right and wrong, even Cao Bin's right and wrong. Don't forget that there is a woman in the palace, even if the person you talk to is his own student.

Fan Chunren didn't mean that.

Zheng Lang also understood that he had made many achievements in the northwest in the past, but he had to know that it was also an illusion.

The biggest golden finger of the time traveler is the knowledge of later generations. This knowledge is difficult. He brought his own hard drive, but when he made the weapon, the whole country supported him. How is the progress? A small industrial alcohol even went around a thousand miles. As for artillery, it can only be equivalent to the level of the late Ming Dynasty, and its power is sloppy, but Zheng Lang didn't even think about the school artillery technology.

As for the previous victory in the Northwest, there was a reason. The first golden finger was to use people. After using several brave generals, the second one was to have some historical pulses at that time. However, when I was in Xining, I was conquering Huangzhou, what were the historical pulses?

Wang Shao and Zhang Yu’s military talents are far better than Cao Bin, and their military talents may not necessarily be as good as Zhao Kuangyi. What should I do under this premise?

These cannot be said.

Zheng Lang said: "I am not as far as the magistrate in military affairs, so why should I intervene? In the future, you should also remember this point in Hezhou. Master the financial power. This is your strength. You supervise in military affairs. But when the war comes, don't intervene. I will let Miao Shu stay. This person's military talent should not be underestimated. Although I discussed some military knowledge with you along the way, it was just a paper talk. Zhao Kuo and Ma Su were the previous teachers."

Fan Chunren did not speak out, and he did not agree with it in his heart. At least he would not agree that Zheng Lang was far inferior to Wang Shao in military affairs.

Zheng Lang also said: "It is easy to capture, but governance is the most difficult. To put it bluntly, it is the conflict between left and right lapels, and to put it bluntly, it is the conflict between nomadic peoples and farming peoples. Fortunately, since the Tang Dynasty opened up Hehuang, whether Hehuang or Xixia, Youyun or southeastern Liao, they have begun to have a semi-cultivation and semi-pardon life, and it is not difficult to integrate. As for the desert in the Western Regions... the speed cannot keep up, it is no longer possible to think about it."

This is the problem of speed.

If the mining and smelting technology of the Song Dynasty kept up, steam trains could become a reality and national strength kept up. Even if the territory was extended to the Arabian Peninsula, they could rule it. Otherwise, Genghis Khan's martial arts would inevitably collapse in decades.

It has nothing to do with weapons. Even the steam train has come out. Can't the weapons keep up?

"Mr. Zheng, please rest assured," Fan Chunren said.

In recent years, under the promotion of Zheng Lang, not only promoted alfalfa cultivation, but also promoted local bitter herbs, croaker, cypress, cypress, wool grass, etc., and even asked merchants to bring African wolftail grass, Sudan grass, rye grass, elephant grass, red three-leaf, high-rod spinach, polymer grass, rosin herb, protein grass and other forage varieties from overseas North Africa, Europe, Arabia and Oceania. Some of the forage grasses are not only cold-resistant, but also drought-resistant. The latter has not been officially popularized and has only been cultivated and evolved in a few areas, but Fan Chunren knew about this.

Compared with the stability of Hehuang, the imperial court will definitely give priority to supplying these seeds to Hehuang.

Foragers have been planting for a long time, not only Xixia, but also Tubo is learning. In other words, all conditions are ripe. Once all Hehuang changes pastoralism to captives, the lifestyle of semi-cultivation and semi-pardon will change, and the people settle down and are easy to manage. Moreover, the pastoralism to planting, and the lifestyle is gradually approaching the Han people. The civilization conflict that Zheng Lang mentioned will be gone forever.

"If the granaries are full, you will know etiquette; if you will know honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing."

"Yes." Fan Chunren sat upright.

The heroes of Liangshan are not that magical, they are just three thieves, but if they were not desperate, they would have fallen to where they could? The barbarians violated the Han people many times. If they could live a life, how many people would be arrogant and insist on opposing the Han people?

In fact, this is Zheng Lang's theme of governing Hehuang.

Let the people settle down and completely assimilate from a civilization. At the same time, bring advanced production methods and make the people of Hehuang rich. When they become rich, they will nostalgic for a better life and will not fight to the death. The rebellion will naturally be reduced. The court can completely occupy this piece of land.

This is also Zheng Lang's doctrine of the mean.

Taking Confucian sage and benevolence as the heart, and the Legalist bride as the bride, he held a blood sickle in one hand and a Buddha lotus in the other.

There is no absolute benevolence and violence in the world, nor can there be absolute benevolence and violence in the world. Similarly, the world cannot implement absolute freedom or imprisonment. Just like the Arab Spring in later generations, countless people in the Middle East obediently swallowed the bitter fruit they planted themselves. Or like the Jin family dynasty, under the policy of fooling people and brainwashing of the state machine, even if the people starve to death, the people will not complain. However, Zheng Lang believes that if history does not change, the Jin family dynasty will also swallow the bitter fruit they planted themselves.

Zheng Lang thoughts that Fan Chunren could not know all about Fan Chunren, but from Zheng Lang's military thought to governance thought, he naturally thought of Zheng's mean doctrine and murmured: "Mr. Zheng, it's so difficult."

"Yaofu, Renzong also said that the mean is difficult. Your father brought me a letter before his death, which was to ask me to find a relatively simple path to govern the country, so the later doctrine of the mean was found. This is also the case for the Master to replace the multi-faceted view with the two-sided view. But it is indeed very difficult. Think about it, the Master said that self-cultivation and management of the country will be difficult if he does not have a good background, and it will be difficult to manage the country, let alone govern the country."

There were more than 10 million households in the Song Dynasty, nearly 20 million households. How many families entered a well-off family, most of whom lived below the poverty line. But what the Master said about running a family was not only to make the family rich, but also to make the family moral, which was even more difficult.

The same is true for the country. It not only needs to be rich but also strong. The people also need to feel happy without brainwashing. Only by achieving this goal can we barely approach the realm of Datong as the Master said. This is even more difficult than climbing Mount Everest in the Song Dynasty.

It was as easy as what the scholars and officials in the court said.

Fan Chunren stayed, and Zheng Lang quickly went west with the army, but Wang Shao wanted to take the main force to Hezhou, and Zheng Lang and Zhang Feng stayed in the ancient Weizhou City.

Before leaving, Zheng Lang said to Wang Shao: "Smart is the most important thing, only Huangzhou, I believe you will not be able to struggle, and there are also Xixia and Khitan. Even if we have Tuoba Tao's ability to defeat Liu Song, Rouran and the Xiongnu Xia Kingdom's three-nation coalition forces), the court will not let us mess with our national strength."

Although Zheng Lang set up chess pieces when he came, it was a good idea to take Huangzhou long ago, even if he and Zhang Feng were doing nothing in the ancient Weizhou City. Zheng Lang said in the capital that the Khitan ruler would not attack the Song Dynasty. But taking Hezhou and taking Huangzhou are two different things. Once Huangzhou is taken, there are several ways to attack Liang, Gan and Lanzhou in a fan-shaped manner. Facing this situation, coupled with the heavy pressure from the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty could easily win over the tribes of the Hexi Corridor.

Moreover, since ancient times, Hexi has mostly been ruled by China and will not be too repulsive to the Song Dynasty. Without the Hexi Corridor, Xixia is in danger. He quickly took Huangzhou and made raw rice into mature rice. The Khitan had no choice but to do anything. If it dragged on for a long time, the Khitan was not without talents, and some changes might occur.

If the Khitan sent heavy troops outside the Three Norths and Yanmen Pass in Hebei, Xixia would have the confidence to mobilize the army to counterattack wildly, and some tribes within Huangzhou would also resist. In addition, the country would suffer severe disasters, the consequences would be absolutely unlucky.

There is no need to explain much, Wang Shao will understand.

"Here." Wang Shao finished speaking, and drove away, and set out in a steady stream of directions to the west along with the army.

Seeing the soldiers disappear from their eyes, Zheng Lang had some expectations and some worries in his eyes.

I haven't said much, for fear of adding burden to Wang Shao and affecting his judgment. Not only is it fast, but it also requires a certain victory or defeat in this battle. It is a very strange requirement, even when the Han and Tang Dynasties failed, the weak Song Dynasty actually won the victory or defeat. But this strange requirement is exactly what must be achieved at the moment.

Once the battle of Huangzhou fails, it is impossible to imagine what is implicated.

Wang Shao had already mixed into the dark dots in the sky, and could not tell the difference. Zheng Lang said silently in his heart: "Wang Shao, you must win."
Chapter completed!