Regardless of the four words "Wangbai is empty", whether Xin Er's understanding is right or not, and whether his original meaning is "from a high position"? It doesn't matter. The important thing is that he realized that the ruling side must have a guiding ideology. There's nothing wrong with that.

Lao Ziyun: "To govern a big country, if you cook a small fresh." The Tao comes to the world, and its ghosts are not gods. ”

This "Dao" is the guiding ideology, and if the Great Dao is used to govern, the world can be in its place, and even ghosts and ghosts will not appear to haunt them.

After two months of hard work, I finally understood this.

Now he is really eager to find a "Juche idea" that suits him and Jiankang County.

His own knowledge is limited, and he searches through his memories, and that Agua has no opinions on politics, and even does not know enough about the current politics, culture, economy, religion, social class environment, etc., and cannot "make decisions by himself"; The only way to do this is to turn to the wise.

And the wise people can not be found, and when they are depressed, they suddenly hear Zhang Gui saying "the way to do or not to do", and they are naturally thirsty for it.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to take the risk of angering Linghu Feng, and hoped that he could save this person.

Because of this, although he listened to Zhang Gui's suggestions on "promoting fame" and praised him in his heart for "being Zhang Jin's lackey and quite familiar with the skills of scholars to promote fame," which was indeed very helpful to his current situation, the "guiding ideology" of governing government was still what he was most concerned about.

Zhang Gu said the way to help Xin Er become famous for a long time, his tongue was dry, and he sighed twice.

Xin Er smiled and said, "Are you thirsty?" But it's my fault that I forgot to serve you tea. ”

He listened to Zhang Gui's "what to do or not to do", but he really forgot about the tea, and immediately called the attendants outside the hall to serve tea soup and buttermilk.

Zhang Gui picked up the tea soup and drank it all.

"Can you say that?"

From Xin Er's repeated questioning, Zhang Gu realized his eager mentality.

If you change to a scholar with a lot of eyes, you may take advantage of this to twist your posture and count on a "self-raising value", Zhang Gui is honest and sincere, and he doesn't take it seriously, so he quickly swallows the tea soup, wipes his mouth, and then says: "Turtle, please analyze the situation in the world for Ming Gong first." ”

Xin Er looked at him with admiration, and said in his heart: "Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain." Zhang Changling's words have the demeanor of a national warrior. He sat down and said, "Please speak." ”

"Dingxi hangs lonely in the northwest, blocking the road from the imperial court, sending envoys into the court, you must first pass through Ranxing, and then pass through Shuzhong, the road is difficult and dangerous; Therefore, for decades, it has been difficult to communicate with the DPRK and China, often three or four years, or seven or eight years, before a single message can be communicated with the imperial court.

"The last time I communicated with the imperial court was five years ago. At that time, Jiang Zuo was discussing the destruction of Shu in the middle of the court, hoping that our king would send troops to cooperate; But then, the matter was closed. What is the situation in the court now, we don't know anything in Dingxi, we only hear that He Hun, the general of Tianzhu of the pseudo-Wei Dynasty, and the imperial court are in the Huainan area, and there are constant small battles, each with its own victory and defeat. ”

"When I was the king's servant, I heard of the name of He Hun's evil."

Qin and Wei are the two most powerful Hu countries today, Xin Er as a Tang people, of course, these two countries are very interested, to Jiankang, in addition to official business, a lot of search for the two countries of the emperor, civil, military, political, military and other information. It's just that Song Pian and Fu Qiao are not very interested in these, and the county government officials are not at the same level enough, and they don't know much about the inside affairs of the two countries, so they don't get much.

However, He Hun's evil name, he has admired it for a long time.

Xin Er asked: "He Hun is not a Xianbei person, but a Qianbei person, right?" ”

"Yes. At the end of the Western Dynasty, the six Yi disasters were in turmoil, the first to claim the title of emperor was the Xiongnu Zhao clan, entrusted with the name of the nephew of the Qin Emperor, the establishment of the country and the pseudo-Qin, when it was in its heyday, there was a land in the north of the river. At that time, I was in danger of losing my life. ”

"Western Dynasty" is a synonym for the imperial court before the Tang dynasty moved to the left.

Xin Er asked: "When Zhao Qin was in time, I hadn't yet claimed the title of king in Dingxi, right?" ”

"Yes. Speaking of which, one of the reasons for the founding of the country in Dingxi is precisely because Zhao Qin's soldiers were strong and repeatedly violated my realm. ”

King Wu is the nickname of Ling Huxing after his death.

Linghu Wen did not claim the title of king, and Linghu Lian called himself the Duke of Longzhou, and he was not called the king of Dingxi until the middle and late stages of Linghu Xing's power.

Xin Er nodded and said, "You go on." ”

"Yes. Fortunately, Hu Yi was beastly and killed, and later there was civil strife, and the crisis of our country was solved. The Rong, Zhuyi and Zhuzahu of the Zhao and Qin kingdoms first defeated the Xiongnu Zhao clan, slaughtered their clans, and then killed each other, causing chaos for many years.

"The Rong people went west and returned to the neutral country, and now Pu Qin is also.

"The chieftain of the Qiang people usurped the throne of Zhu Hao, according to the Kanto, also known as Qin.

"When the war in the north lasted for a long time, below Zhao Qin, the Hulu chieftains had many fields for grazing, and the people were not able to make a living, and there was a shortage of food. The tyrannical Qin actually fed on people, called 'two-legged sheep', and drove them to transport their baggage during the day, and killed and ate them at night. Two generations. The people in the territory raised the flag to beg, the momentum was huge, the Xianbei who was originally nomadic in Mobei took the opportunity to go south, the great-ancestor of He Hun evil was the general of Qin, led the people to surrender, and Qin was destroyed. ”

The name of the beggar is also known.

Begging does not refer only to a rebel army, nor does it only exist in the Qin Dynasty. Since the first begging flag was raised, this flag has not fallen. Whether it is Qin Qin, or the current Wei, Pu Qin, and Ran Xing, when the people can't survive, someone will come out and raise this banner to call for resistance. Liu Zhuang's friend when he was a teenager participated in such a team.

Xin Er sighed and said, "Meat eaters despise, so that the world is in chaos. How bitter are the people, how bitter are the people! ”

Zhang Gui's name is a disciple of the Zhang family, but he is a distant branch, similar to the Han Shi, and knows the suffering of the common people, so he also sighed and said, "Yes." ”

Xin Er said in his heart: "These clans and nobles are pampered and extravagant, and what they use is the fat of the people and the people, and they do not think about the country and the people, but for their own interests, leading to chaos at home." What a pity for them to die! That's just carrion! But what are the people of the world who are innocent? Woe to you! Hateful, angry! ”

From this, he thought of the current valve clan, supported by the people, who did not know how to reciprocate, while despising the small people and not interacting with them, on the other hand, they were still the same as the clans and scholars of the Western Tang Dynasty, full of thoughts and only for their own interests, which was simply inferior to parasites!

Some parasites can at least do something for their hosts, they are not enough to suck blood, and they will bring disaster to the people.

Now is not the time to think about this issue, thinking too much, causing anger in vain and not helping, Xin Er stopped his train of thought and said to Zhang Gui: "You continue. ”

"Yes. Xianbei usurped the position, the founding name Wei, that is, the current capture of Wei.

"After the founding of Xianbei, he wantonly slaughtered the Qiang people, and the two or three hundred thousand people died, and the remaining Tai half was attached to the account of He Hun's evil great-ancestor.

At that time, the Jiangzuo court took this opportunity to raise troops for the Northern Expedition, and the peak of the army once reached Hebei. The capture of Wei was terrified, so he stopped the infighting, and the lord of Wei promised the land of Huaibei to He Hun's great-ancestor; and formed an alliance with Pu Qin. The Wei lord commanded the army and fought with the Wang division in Hebei; Pu Qin attacked the left flank of the Wang Division, and He Hun's evil great-ancestor led the troops to attack Huaibei, winning several battles in a row, and was about to attack the right flank of the Wang Division from the east. Wang Shi then withdrew his troops back to Jiangnan.

Since then, the Qianren have occupied Huaibei, often fighting with Wang Shi on both sides of the Huai River. After the death of He Hun's great-ancestor, the military power of his subordinates was passed down to He Hun's evil for several generations. He Hun is brave and powerful, and he is really a fierce general who captures Wei and is today. ”

Zhang Gu paused, and then said: "The reigning Lord of Wei, a few years ago, suspected that the sons rebelled and killed four or five sons, the newly established pseudo-prince is young, not yet weak, and the Lord of Wei is already old; At present, in the middle of the Wei Kingdom, it is rumored that He Hun will rebel. Wei was originally far away from our country and did not border, and now its domestic instability will not pose a major disaster to our country and the Jiangzuo court for the time being. ”

After Jiang Zuo and Lu Wei finished speaking, Zhang Gu began to say Pu Qin, Ran Xing, and Shuzhong in order.

He first said Shuzhong and Ran Xing, and said: "Shuzhong Li, take advantage of the chaos to make a false name." The Jiangzuo court has attacked it twice, both times attacking the city and conquering the city, and the battle is invincible, but unfortunately in the end they were forced to withdraw their troops because of the instability of the court. Despite this, the Li family's state is declining, and if nothing else, it will be decided by the imperial court sooner or later.

"Ran Xing, a small country ear, is of the same clan as Pu Qin. Whether it is our country or Puqin, it can be destroyed. Only because my country is jealous of Pu Qin, and Pu Qin is jealous of our country, the two are jealous, and they are both worried that they will be attacked by the other party when they attack Ranxing; Ran Xing has been able to survive in the country to this day. ”

Xin Er said: "I heard that Pu Qin's new master, Pu Changsheng, has a strong reputation. ”

"yes. There have been several rebellions in Pu Qin in recent years, and after Pu Changsheng ascended the throne, it was only a year or more, and the war in the east and west had been decided. Its prime minister Puguang, Taiwei Buqi and others, although they are barbarians, are more wise; His clan is full of luxury, good books and Confucianism, and he is very famous. ”

When Zhang Gu said this, he looked worried, and said, "Since I established the country in the west, there was Zhao Qin first, and now there is Pu Qin, all of which are strong enemies in the East. Compared with Zhao Qin, although Pu Qin's territory is not as good, its country is stable, civil and military, especially the great enemy of our country. ”

Although Zhao Qin of the Xiongnu was strong, he lacked institutional construction.

Pu Qin is not, first, its national Xirong is different from the Xiongnu, not purely herding for a living, as early as the Qin period, there has been a phenomenon of agricultural settlement, there is a basis for agricultural civilization; Second, in the decades since its founding, there has been no shortage of visionary people in the Qin lords of the past dynasties, so the development of today, although it cannot be compared with the complete system of the Tang state, but in the political, military, economic and other aspects, imitating the Tang system, its country has been roughly equipped with the form of state regulation.

In terms of civilization, Puqin already had a tendency to break away from their own half-pastoral and half-cultivated early tribal civilization and turn to a systematic national civilization. In other words, it is already on the road to Tangization at a deeper level.

The confrontation between countries is, in the final analysis, a confrontation in the form of civilization.

In the absence of a generational gap in weapons, advanced civilizations may not be able to defeat backward civilizations, but most of the time, advanced civilizations are certainly more threatening than backward civilizations.

Zhang Gu did not have the concept of a civilized country in later generations, but he also saw the difference between Pu Qin and Zhao Qin.

For a long time, although Liuyi dominated the north, the Tang dynasty favored the left of the Jiang, from the Zhao Qin of the Huns to the present, the boundaries of Jiangbei have been ruled by the Hu people for nearly a hundred years, but there is a saying that has been popular, that is, "since ancient times, there is no Hu person as the son of heaven".

This sentence was not said by the Tang people, but by the Hu people themselves. The root of this statement is actually their lack of confidence in their own civilization, but if Pu Qin is allowed to develop like this, this conclusion may change.

Xin Er completely agreed with Zhang Gui's worries and said, "I asked the Marquis of Koji. The Marquis of Koji sits in the east of the country and knows a lot about Puqin. Pu Qin is indeed the great enemy of our country. ”

"And Rouran. The founding of the country was not long. They were originally Xianbei's captives (1), Xianbei went south, and the desert north was empty, and they rose from it. A few years ago, fortunately, in the past few years, Rouran plundered our border at every turn, invaded Dunhuang the year before last, and cut off the trade routes in the Western Regions.

"General Beigong was in Dunhuang, broke through it, and captured hundreds. When the royal capital was sacrificed, it passed through Jiankang. Turtle taste out of view. and behold, the soldiers of their captives exuded filth, and were as straight as beasts. In the past, Gui Xi heard the words of Hu Shang in the Western Regions, saying that the Yue-like country in the Western Regions was called the country of dogs (2). This is a barbarian! Barbarian is not afraid of death.

"Although Rouran can't compare with Pu Qin, she is not a strong enemy of my country, but often disturbs my border and threatens the trade routes of the Western Regions, which is also a border trouble for my country."

"General Beigong" is named Beigong Yue, he was not a general when he defeated the invasion of Rouran, because of his merit, he had to be the general of Wupin Ningyuan, now in Xihai, partnered with Duya, and guarded the front line bordering Rouran.

Xin Er supervises the military of the three counties, and Beigong Yue is under his supervision, but because of the tight location of the West Sea, Beigong Yue cannot leave for a long time, Xin Er is busy cleaning up Lu Shuihu, and the county has never been to the West Sea until now, but the two have not yet met.

From the Jiangzuo Imperial Court, the capture of Wei, from far to near, to Rouran, except for the south of Dingxi Kingdom, and Dingxi Kingdom separated by Qilian Mountain, the Xianbei branch Tuyuhun did not mention, the situation in the entire sea, Zhang Gui so far, probably clear.

Xin Er knows most of what he said, but after listening to him explain it as a whole, it is also beneficial and has a deeper understanding of the situation in the world.

Zhang Gu said: "The situation at home is like this. Pu Qin and Rouran, one of the great enemies of our country and one side of trouble. The king is eloquent and strategic, not the lord of the master, the policy of collecting Hu, this is a plan to strengthen the army, and the turtle steals it, and the king must have saved the meaning of using soldiers Pu Qin and Rouran.

"Three or two years at the latest, one or two years at the shortest, when the Hu soldiers are trained and the treasury is full, the king will definitely gather the generals and transfer the troops to make a large-scale expedition, or attack Rouran first, and then attack Puqin; Or take Pu Qin directly. ”

Xin Er thought so deeply and said, "That's good. ”

"The king has the intention of using soldiers, and the turtle is foolish, and the current governance of Jiankang should be guided by this."

finally talked about the issues that Xin Er was most concerned about.

After a whole set, Zhang Gui's logic is very meticulous. First of all, the general trend of the world, which led to the national policy of Linghu Feng, clarified what the national policy of Linghu Feng was, and then, Jiankang as a subordinate county of Dingxi State, then, the measures of governance should naturally be based on this.

Xin Er leaned forward, looked at Zhang Gu intently, and asked intently, "How to use this as a guide?" ”

"Ming Gong should be mainly military, supplemented by politics. This is the turtle's 'do-it-or-don' way. ”

Xin Er asked: "How to focus on the military and supplemented by politics?" ”

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(1), Xianbei and Rouran: Like Lu Shuihu and others, Rouran is not a tribe composed of blood relations, and its source is also slaves. The ancestor of the chieftain of the department was the nobles of Tuoba Xianbei who "plundered and rode a slave", "the beginning of the eyebrows, forgot his name, and the master (person) of the word is called 'Mu Gu Lu'." Mu Gulu later "sat down and was beheaded", fled and hid in the "vast desert valley", and collected more than 100 soldiers, civilians and slaves of the Tuoba tribes who fled in fear of crime similar to his identity. By the time of his son Cheluhui, there were gradually subordinates, calling themselves soft, but still subordinate to Xianbei. After Xianbei went south, they took the opportunity to rise to Mobei. The name of Rouran, probably the same as Wuhuan and Xianbei, is taken from the name of the mountain.

(2), Dog Country: Yue is a nomadic country north of Qiuzi, perhaps a descendant of the Northern Xiongnu, although it is a nomadic people, but loves cleanliness, "its people are clean in Hu, vulgar hair cut eyebrows, painted with Daigo, Yu Yuran luster, three baths a day, and then eat."

In order to show favor to Rouran, the king of Yueban led thousands of people to Rouran to meet their khan, but after entering the territory of Rouran, "seeing that his people did not wear clothes, did not trip their hair, did not wash their hands, and the women licked utensils with their tongues", he was disgusted, called it the country of dogs, and led the people to return.