Every country has moments of decay and needs to be saved.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, thinking about the Northern Expedition and saving China?

In the Southern Song Dynasty, thinking about destroying Mongolia and saving China?

In the late Ming Dynasty, thinking about destroying Manchu and saving China?

Ding Siyu asked how you would save Carthage if you were Hannibal.

But the real question is, what will save you, my country?

And Li Qing is tragic and gives an answer to the street.

Conniving at enemy invasions, even massacres.

Ding Siyu was very dissatisfied, and Li Qing explained: "The building will fall, and it is difficult to support it alone, and it is impossible to support the house just by relying on a pillar." Whether it is Yue Fei or Hannibal, their tragedy is that they want to be a single tree and want to support the whole country by themselves! ”

"But I forgot about it, a pillar can't support the house. Even if you are lucky enough to support it against a pillar, sooner or later it will decay. Hannibal and Yue Fei are both human beings, they can't live forever, they can't support the house forever, they will all grow old and turn to dust. At that time the house lost the only supporting pillar and would only fall! ”

"One pillar can't support the house, it's better to support dozens or hundreds of them together, then it will be extremely safe. This is also the difference between the era of national prosperity and the last days, in which there are hundreds of pillars that together support the house; And in the last days, it's just a pillar to support the house! ”

"Hannibal was a loser, he was a good military strategist, but he was a failed politician. Political defeats cannot be compensated for by military victories. He won one victory after another on the battlefield, but he failed to build hundreds of pillars for Carthage, so he failed! ”

Ding Siyu asked, "Then how to build hundreds of pillars for the house?" ”

"Then it's going to be a sacrifice!"

Li Qing said.

"Sacrifice?" Ding Siyu was at a loss, she was a science student, and she really didn't understand these things!

"The major affairs of the country, only Rong and sacrifice!" Li Qing said: "Rong, in a narrow sense, is war, and in a broad sense, it is a variety of things related to war, such as strong economic strength, strong military industry, huge population, well-trained army, etc., all of which are related to the victory or defeat of war; And the sacrifice is a sacrifice, the sacrifice is not a feudal superstition, the purpose is to enhance cohesion and enhance blood! ”

"The former refers to the hardware and the latter refers to the software. Many civilizations are declining, and many countries are declining, often because the hardware is too advanced and the software is too backward. It's like Carthage, which has a strong economic power in hardware, a democratic system, a strong military, a strong navy, a strong finance, and a huge population base, but the software is too weak and finally extinct. The same was true of the Song Dynasty, and the same was true of the Ming Dynasty! Therefore, if a country wants to be strong, it must learn to sacrifice! ”

Ding Siyu smiled and said: "Then the Song Dynasty fell and the Ming Dynasty fell, just because they didn't learn to sacrifice!" ”

"That's right, that's the truth!" Li Qing nodded and said, "Sacrifice is a profound science. Many people can't learn that when someone sacrifices, it's just pigs, cows and sheep, it's just a lie. According to legend, when the Romans approached the city, the Carthaginians killed hundreds of children to sacrifice, and this is just a trivial matter, not a real sacrificial avenue! ”

"The real sacrifice is often made with hundreds of thousands of people, or even millions of people. And the emperor is essentially a sacrifice. The emperor who dares to take himself as a sacrifice is the real emperor. At this point, Emperor Chongzhen is a qualified emperor, he is a qualified sacrifice, dare to treat himself as a sacrifice and sacrifice to the Ming Dynasty! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Ding Siyu was slightly stunned, even if she was a little sluggish, she also understood that this sacrifice was not a simple sacrifice, not a sacrifice in the traditional sense.

"What is patriotism and what is cohesion? In many moments, the people are unpatriotic, and patriotism is only a mouth patriotism, only after experiencing a series of tragedies, the wife was raped by the enemy, the old parents at home were forcibly killed by the enemy, and the baby was stabbed to death with a bayonet, leaving a bitter hatred, can there be cohesion and patriotism! ”

Li Qing said lightly: "Patriotism and cohesion originate from hatred. And patriotism and cohesion are the most important software for a country. If Carthage had this software, Rome would have perished; If the Southern Song Dynasty had this software, Mongolia would have been extinct long ago. And this is also the power of sacrifice, cohesion of national software, and enhancement of national cohesion and patriotism"

Ding Siyu immediately felt a little cold in his hands and feet.

I finally understood what the sacrifice was all about.

The sacrifice here is not the traditional killing of a few pigs, cattle and sheep, or killing some slaves, standing in front of some spiritual tablets, chanting words, praying for the blessing of the gods.

The sacrifice here refers to inducing the enemy army to invade the motherland, killing people on a large scale, and creating tragedies one after another, so as to arouse the resentment of the people, so as to enhance cohesion and patriotism. And in order to expand the sacrifice, even some high-ranking officials, emperors, etc., were killed by the enemy, as sacrifices, to stimulate the national blood, cohesion, and patriotism.

"Isn't this too ruthless, too cold-blooded!" Ding Siyu said.

"A person crying is better than a family crying, a family crying is better than a street crying, a moment of crying is better than a lifetime of crying, this life is better than children and grandchildren crying!" Li Qing said lightly: "Ruthlessness is the greatest affection!" ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yangzhou Ten-Day Massacre was a turning point in the entire Ming Dynasty War.

From Wu Sangui letting the Manchu Qing Dynasty enter the customs, to sweeping the entire north and occupying the Jiangnan region, it only took a year to defeat the peasant army and defeat a large number of regular troops in the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as overwhelming; But then, when it swept the southeast and southwest, and attacked some marginal areas, some stragglers, bandits, and pirates, it took the Qing army more than 20 years.

Before the 10-day massacre in Yangzhou, the people were not patriotic, and the north was fighting a bloody war, but the people in the south of the Yangtze River were still living a small life. When the Manchu Qing captured the city of Beijing, the ****** of the Southern Ming Dynasty did not think of resistance, nor did they think of the Northern Expedition, but wanted to negotiate peace, want to divide the river, and wanted to divide China.

In the eyes of those people in Jiangnan, the north is a burden and a burden, which needs to cost a lot of money in Jiangnan, and the gains outweigh the losses; And now that the north is occupied by the Manchus, it is just right to get rid of the burden.

Then, in just one year, the Manchu Qing Dynasty defeated the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, defeated the peasant army, and occupied the political center and economic center of China.

It's just a qiē of all kinds, and with the Ten Days Massacre in Yangzhou, drastic changes have taken place.

With the massacre, the people, who had no patriotic heart, suddenly became united and became extremely patriotic, and the battle of the Qing army became difficult.

What they faced was only the remnants of the peasant army, the remnants of the Ming army, or the pirate armament, etc., which belonged to the third-rate troops, but in the battle, they broke out with first-class combat effectiveness, which made the advance of the Qing army extremely difficult, and there were several times when they almost turned the tables.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, before the Nanjing Massacre, many people were unpatriotic, China lacked cohesion, a typical plate of scattered sand, and many intellectuals wanted to negotiate peace with Japan; However, after the Nanjing Massacre, the cohesion of the Chinese people became unprecedentedly strengthened, the patriotic spirit became unprecedentedly strengthened, and many intellectuals who wanted to negotiate peace became the main battle.

So what will save you, my homeland?

With the flesh and blood sacrifices of millions of people, with the emperor, the powerful and other upper-class people as sacrifices, sacrificing the entire nation, arousing patriotism and cohesion, there is the possibility of salvation!