Chapter 363: Those who win hearts and minds win the world
Murong Nan looked at Liu Yu and sighed softly: "Although since ancient times, the weak eat the strong, and ordinary people will only succumb to strong force, but if this powerful force cannot ensure the basic survival of the people, it will not be maintained, Ran Min himself is just an ambitious butcher, and he has no talent for governing the country, whoever supports him as emperor will use whom, and whoever hinders him from becoming emperor will kill whom, in this regard, there is no difference between Han and Hu people." ”
Liu Yu sighed and said: "Yes, after he gave the order to kill the Hu people and seal the official, he relied on the Han people to help him slaughter hundreds of thousands of Hu people, and successfully ascended the throne as the emperor, but after ascending the throne, he gave his son a big single Yu and asked him to lead the surrendered Hu generals, just because these Hu people have combat effectiveness and can help him." For the Great Jin, he was disdainful when he was strong at the beginning, but when he was about to perish, he begged for help, I used to think that he was our Han hero, the savior of the nation, but then I read more history books to know that this person's evil is better than Zhao, and destruction is inevitable. ”
Murong Nan said with a smile: "That's the truth, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, why did Ran Min, as a Han Chinese, abandon his compatriots in his own clan?" It is because he can't let people live, he can't organize the people to produce, the people take food as the sky, and they will starve to death if they don't eat or drink. ”
"Our Murong family saw this, so when we went south, we not only brought a large army, but also brought grain, grass, cattle and sheep that had been stored in Liaodong for many years. You say, such a once-in-a-millennium opportunity was seized for us, and the people of the north regarded us as saviors at that time, after we eliminated Ran Min, could we continue to submit to the Eastern Jin Dynasty as a courtier of the Jin Dynasty? ”
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "Ran Min has no way, but it doesn't mean that our Great Jin will be like this, at that time, our Great Jin was not inactive, but Yin Hao and Huan Wen made two northern expeditions, just to save the people in the north from fire and water." How can we say that we don't do things? ”
Murong Nan laughed: "Come on, Liu Yu, I'm not one of my subordinates who can't even speak Chinese well, I know these histories of yours clearly, and it is not our northern Hu cavalry who can stop your Northern Expedition in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but your own people!" ”
Liu Yu sighed and closed his eyes in pain, but Murong Nan's cold voice came from his ears: "Yin Hao's Northern Expedition is because he wants to rush the Northern Expedition before Huan Wen, so as not to rely on the Northern Expedition to further strengthen his power and reputation, and finally do something rebellious." Because of the haste of the incident, the imperial court in the Jiankang area did not have a strong offensive force for many years, so Yin Hao had no troops available, so he could only use the alien soldiers and horses of Yao Xiang of the Qiang people to fight the vanguard, but because of the arrogance of him and his men, he forced Yao Xiang to rebel, causing the best opportunity to be missed. ”
"When Yin Hao stepped down, Huan Wen was in charge and went on another northern expedition, but at this time, our Dayan had stabilized the north, and both the Han and Hu people in the north were grateful for our kindness and sincerity, so after Huan Wen hit the Yellow River, he was no longer able to move forward."
"In addition, your Eastern Jin Dynasty is fighting for power and profit, and the Gaomen family in Jiankang City secretly restrains Huan Wen, although I don't know what they did specifically, but I heard King Wu say that Huan Wen, who was against him back then, did not suffer a loss when he was facing each other, and in the end he was forced to retreat because of the exhaustion of food, giving him the opportunity to pursue for thousands of miles. Afterwards, Huan Wen pushed this responsibility onto the former Shouchun guard, Yuzhou Assassin Yuan Zhen, and eliminated him in a fit of anger, but Yuan Zhen never had the courage and motivation to do this kind of thing, and the only one who could make Huan Wen's military food problems was your Gaomen family. ”
Liu Yu's eyes widened, and he said sharply: "Enough, this is just your speculation, there is no real evidence, even if our Great Jin is like this, how good is your Yan Kingdom Murong Clan?" Forcing the pillar of the country, the Great Wall-like Murong Chui to the enemy country, and finally destroying the country, I think you are more powerful than us in this kind of internal friction. ”
Murong Nan bit his lip tightly, the smug look on his face when he mocked Liu Yu just now was gone, he sighed and said: "We don't have to laugh at fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, what I want to say is just to tell you that the northerners are what the people want, when Ran Min can't let the northerners survive, they will naturally turn against him, and after more than ten years, when our Dayan civil strife makes it difficult for the people to survive, they will fall to the Qin State." Therefore, if you want to calm the world, it is not enough to win the war, the important thing is whether you can stably ensure the people's livelihood after the war, this is what you Han people call the peace of the world! ”
Liu Yu nodded: "What you said is right, it is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to level the world." Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu back then, was almost undefeated in his life, and only lost the last battle, because he was brutal and unkind, committed to killing, and the people hated him to the bone, and they all wanted to Liu Bang, the king of Han, so Liu Bang was defeated repeatedly but could quickly recover his strength and finally win. I understand what you mean now, you mean that although Huan Wen seemed to have a strong military back then, he could even easily kill Wang Tanzhi and the Xie family, but after all, his power was limited to Jingzhou, and he had no foundation in the Sanwu region and Lianghuai, as well as Lingnan and Shu, and if he wanted to usurp the throne, these places would inevitably rebel. ”
Murong Nan smiled slightly: "You are a smart person, I don't need to say this truth, I can understand it at a glance." If you want to control such a large territory and so many people, he must at least have hundreds of thousands of troops, even if there are so many troops, then his military food consumption is a huge number, since the Eastern Jin Dynasty has been a hundred years, although it has always been the most powerful family in charge, and then alternately govern, but after all, there is the emperor as the co-master, once you throw away the emperor as the co-master, then all the families will unite against Huan Wen, they don't seem to have an army in their hands, but Wu Di and Lianghuai are all the manors and fields of their family lords, Tenants can be organized to fight at any time. ”
"Even if Xie An and Wang Tanzhi are killed, Wang Xie and these families have dozens or hundreds of families all over the north and south of the river, and they can even lead the Hu army in the north to the south. Huan Wen is not sure of victory, once the Hu people intervene, it is likely that everyone will end up together, and everyone will be a loser. ”
Liu Yu breathed a long sigh of relief: "It turns out that the truth that Huan Wen did not forcibly ascend the throne back then is here. Taught. Murong Nan, I want to ask you, if you were me, would you support the Huan family, or would you invest in a high-ranking family like the Xie family? ”