68. Family letters
"Lord Wang, the lower officials do not agree to the peace talks." Zhang Baihu couldn't hold his breath the most, and was the first to jump out and roar angrily.
"Lord Wang, the lower official seconded the proposal." Everyone else shouted.
For a time, the entire council hall was full of roars. The soldiers who were guarding outside in surprise asked each other what had happened.
You must know that everyone is working hard here with their heads up, but not for peace talks, if this is really a peace talk, what has become of their efforts, and what are the dead soldiers? People will only say that they are incompetent and have not been able to defeat the Northern Barbarians. And no one remembers their results, remembers their efforts.
What it was like before they came, and what it was like now.
At that time, it was a mess, full of dead bodies, ten rooms and nine empty. Now no matter what, some of the people have slowly returned to normal life, as long as they can live, the people will do what they should do, with the protection of King Ping, the life of the people in the city is not only depressed a lot, but now the people who are alive still have to live, those who should farm have farmland, and those who should do business are also doing business.
It's just that everyone's life is tighter and more miserable, because most of the people have died on the battlefield. Even if most of the rest are old and weak women and children now, they can slowly recover, and it is much better than being occupied by the Northern Barbarians. In those places occupied by the Northern Barbarians, the people either died early, or were enslaved by the Northern Barbarians, living a life that was worse than death.
It's just strange, the prince and his family wasted 200,000 troops in vain. Now that I think about it, I can't figure it out, how did the 200,000 army be killed by the Northern Barbarians so lightly? It is unbelievable that they could not withstand the mere 3,000 garrisons and tens of thousands of ordinary people in Jeju Province. In fact, the Daqing Dynasty not only lost more than 200,000 troops, but also the number of deaths among the people, and the population of Beiliang County and Xinzhou plus several counties below Jeju Province added up to at least 300,000.
King Ping was also puzzled by this question, and spent a lot of effort to investigate, but he couldn't find any clues. The people who were in it at the beginning were basically dead, and they couldn't find a way to live at all. Sometimes, Ah Hao wondered if there were spies of the Northern Barbarians in the army at the beginning, and when they came to join forces, the Northern Barbarians would take Beiliang and Xinzhou so easily. But there is no real evidence, but he can only think about it in his heart, where he dares to say it.
Seeing that these people were all the main battle faction, King Ping was very satisfied with everyone's expression, no matter what, the most important thing at the moment was not to be disturbed. Only by working together can we have a chance. Otherwise, it's all in vain.
"Since everyone disagrees with the peace talks, that is, they will fight to the death, so this news must not be known to the soldiers, so as not to discourage the army. Otherwise, shoot and kill. ”
King Ping gave an order, and everyone at the bottom replied: "Yes." Rajah. ”
"Lord, if the court advocates peace talks, what are we going to do?" Ah Hao asked.
"I think everyone also understands that in recent days, the supplies given to us by the imperial court have become worse and worse, and there are fewer and fewer supplies, especially the soldiers. Therefore, we must first unite with the main battle faction in the DPRK and China to attack the peace talks. Ladies and gentlemen, there are some forces in Beijing. Now is the time for them to help. King Ping sneered.
Although the hundreds of families from these big families are not the highest elite families, they are all big families that have been in Kyoto for nearly a hundred years, and they are entangled in private, which is somewhat useful. He is now in Jeju, and he can't handle the affairs of Beijing, but he can't be caught with his hands, so he has to plan well. Otherwise, why would he have to travel thousands of miles, go through a lot of hardships, and have to die here all his life.
Although King Ping is not outstanding on the surface, he has actually never had any grudges with others, not to mention that when he was still young, he was able to lead troops to fight, how could he be an incompetent person. It's just that after his mother died suddenly, the emperor somehow annoyed him, and at that time there was a real concubine of the Empress Yuan, who was a righteous prince.
But what should be done, he didn't do less at all, the identity of the prince, when he was very young, he knew that he should plan for himself, it is true that he didn't think about sitting in that position before, but no matter which brother succeeds to the throne, he also has to ensure that he lives well, not to mention that he wants to be in a high position, at least he has to live comfortably.
Being pushed out to fight on the cusp of the storm has made him very prepared. So he will definitely not let the court really make peace. After ten years of Taoguang's obscurity, he also secretly arranged a lot of people. The ministers of Beijing, he also understands how some people will think and act? Originally, after jumping out, he saw a lot of things clearly. So in the past ten years, he has been drinking happily every day, not doing business, but seeing it more clearly than others.
For example, Zhang Baihu's family has a princess, Deng Baihu's family has a housewife from the Hou Mansion, and even the most inconspicuous A Hao has a teacher Yu Mingyi who responds to every call among the literati.
Sure enough, someone immediately said: "Zeng Baihu's mentor, Baron Yu, speaks with a lot of weight." ”
As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes fell on Ah Hao.
"Baron Yu is in Beixian County, located in a remote area, and he doesn't go to court, except for teaching his son, he doesn't care about other things, if he wants to be the emperor, I'm afraid it's not easy." Ah Hao said.
"You immediately write a letter to Baron Yu, and ask him to think of a book to order the literati and students to write and ask for war." King Ping said. How can such a useful person leave it unused.
"Yes, lord." Ah Hao replied that he and Yu Mingyi were one a long time ago, and it was impossible to throw them away at this time.
"A few of you, too, do the same, now everyone is here to write a letter to the family, and after the writing is finished, I will send someone to send it immediately. Don't expect a message from the station. King Ping said again.
Soon, someone sent pen and paper and other things, and everyone had to order, and everyone began to bury their heads in writing letters.
Because I want to say that I want to move my family to contribute, everyone writes a letter that is hollow out of their hearts, and it is necessary to write sensational and reasonable, in short, it is not easy to write this kind of letter, especially since everyone is a martial artist, there is no literary style at all, and usually writing a letter is just a flat and straightforward statement, and a few short words are over. But now the requirements are too high, everyone is so anxious that they scratch their ears and cheeks, and the letter written is simply so that King Ping does not dare to look at it directly. Later, it was Ah Hao and several of King Ping's military advisers who polished everyone before they passed the test.
After writing the letter, Ah Hao suddenly came up with a new idea and said, "Lord Wang, there is a way for the lower officials, I don't know if it works?" ”
"Speak up and listen."
"At present, the letters written by a few of us, even if they can be effective, are limited, it is better to ask all the soldiers to write letters back home, not like us, directly write about the number of dead and wounded, how difficult everyone is, and so on. In order to defend the borders of the land. Ah Hao said.
"This is reasonable, my lord, this is a good way, the soldiers come from all over the world, and their letters are very real, it is conceivable that when these letters are sent to all parts of the country, the people who receive the letters will spread it a little more, and everyone will know our credit here." It was said.
"That is, at that time, I saw that a faceless and skinless person mentioned peace talks again, and so many people died, even if they used a pile of white bones, they had to block the footsteps of the Northern Barbarians from waving their troops south, and only by working together could they truly defeat the Northern Barbarians. Otherwise, today the land will be ceded to the northern barbarians, and tomorrow the southern barbarians will follow the same example, will they cut the land again, and in the long run, how will the Daqing Dynasty gain a foothold? "Someone said.
"That's it, that's it." The crowd chimed in.
After listening to everyone's words, King Ping was in a good mood, and laughed and said, "This move is really meaningful. Okay, give the order to all the soldiers to write a letter back and send it directly from the post station. It's about letting everyone know about it. "He's also thinking about how to expand his influence, which is a good idea.
"It's just that most of the soldiers are illiterate, how can they write letters to their families?" Someone asked.
"What kind of words is this, there are many illiterate people, why are there people who write letters on their behalf?" Someone laughed.
"That's it, why don't you say it, few of the people are literate, why do the post stations have to pass so many letters from the people, and people still have a special job to read letters to illiterate people." Someone else said.
For a while, everyone laughed. After all, they are all from the aristocracy, and they have been raised like brocade clothes and jade food since they were children, where do they know the life of the people, and they have their own ways to be illiterate if they are illiterate.
So, the next day, all the soldiers, the literate ones came to get pen and paper to write letters, and the illiterate ones came to find the literate ones, and even Ah Hao and others waited here to help people write family letters. In short, everyone has to send a letter back to their families, and it is better for the family to be illiterate, so it is just to let the literate person read it. Anyway, what is written in these letters is not something unseemly.
The special letters of Ah Hao and others were sent out early in the morning through the secret line of King Ping, and now, like the soldiers, they have also written ordinary family letters, and these letters are divided into several batches and sent to all parts of the country through multiple post stations. After everyone came here, where did they have time to write letters home, so when they heard that King Ping had ordered everyone to write letters home, everyone was overjoyed. Everyone has a stomach to tell their family, and if there is no letter delivered for a long time, the family will think that they have died a long time ago.
If so, everyone is waiting to see what kind of effect 40,000 or 50,000 letters will be sent out.