Zhao Yue didn't care whether his father believed his words or not, it would come naturally in the future, no matter how much he said at this time, it would be meaningless to guarantee more. He smiled and said, "Father, I heard that some military veterans with high prestige like Lu Zhishen don't express any opinions on how to fight Goryeo? ”

"Hey."

Zhao Dayou sighed and said: "There are not a few such generals, represented by the great monk, who said that I, the king and the headquarters, will fight how they fight, resolutely obey the order, fight to the death, and never take a step back from the battlefield for fear of death."

This is a kind of loyalty, not mixing with controversy, adding fuel to the fire, making me less burdened and less angry, but it is not necessarily not a kind of cunning.

The great monk is loyal, he is not good at reasoning and arguing, he does not say, he pursues nonsense and does it seriously, he is simple-minded, but he has become the object of the two factions, and his status in the army has been highlighted. This man is a blessed man who is wise and foolish. ”

"As the commander of the corps and the chief of the general staff, Xiao Du and Xiao Xiao also took on great pressure and were also worried.

If we cannot persuade all parties to agree on their views and determination, such a big battle will not be able to be fought well. As soon as the fight starts, there will be some demon moths if they can't keep it, leading to an uncontrollable situation. In the final analysis, they are still too young, their prestige is not enough, and they can't suppress the arrogant generals below when there is a big event. ”

Zhao Yue was still unhurried and smiled.

"Father, what's the opinion of the headquarters?"

Zhao Dayou said twice: "What other good ideas can you have?" It is nothing more than a compromise after synthesis. ”

"The island is crowded, the horses can't run away, and the space for soldiers to train is too small, so it can't be solved if it is not solved."

"The preliminary idea is to concentrate forces on the southern part of the peninsula first, occupy a piece of territory, establish a base area, have arable land, solve the huge burden of grain transportation and supply, divert the population of the island, let the war horses have a loose space to run and keep the wild from degradation, and other livestock can have more pasture to eat.

Occupy the territory, take measures to win the hearts of the people under his rule, attract the Goryeo people outside the base area, and dismantle the Great Wall of the hearts of the Goryeo people. With superior cavalry, we replaced defense with attack, constantly raided, looted, and interfered with the Goryeo territory outside the base area, weakened the opponent and strengthened ourselves, and the power rose and disappeared, and then gradually advanced north according to the actual situation. In this way, it is neither conservative nor radical, and it is more comfortable to advance and retreat, which can ensure the steady realization of strategic objectives to the greatest extent, reduce risks, and facilitate military training and the preservation of strength. ”

Zhao Yue snorted and said, "The capital of Goryeo is in the south. Attacking the south is to destroy the Goryeo Kingdom, and won't it also provoke the whole country of Goryeo to revolt? ”

Zhao Dayou sighed and said, "Yes." ”

"But if you hit the north. The northern part is poor and water-scarce and cold, and it is not a grain-rich area, so it is of little significance to lay down, and it is also necessary to face the Jurchens coming to loot from time to time, and directly confront the Jurchens, and it is easy to be attacked by the north and south by Goryeo.

Anyway, no matter where it is fought, Goryeo will also rebel with the whole country, so it will simply fight the south directly, at least forcing it to move its capital.

In this way, the main thing is to avoid the loss of human lives in siege warfare and street fighting, which is conducive to the use of cavalry, and is not afraid of confronting it. ”

Zhao Yue shook his head with a smile and said, "This plan seems to be safe, but in fact, it disperses the troops.

Goryeo is a country of a single race, and the Goryeo people will not be willing to invade and rule over foreign races, and the hearts of the people will be very united. If the country is not destroyed, how can it be so easy to subdue people's hearts?

We only have this total of troops, not only to guard the base area of the Goryeo honest and obedient not to fight and make trouble, but also to fight with the millions of Goryeo troops outside the base area, will inevitably fall into the tactics of crowds, all over the country is in a passive situation of fighting more with less, it is the internal and external troubles, fighting fires everywhere, and being exhausted to deal with it, how to talk about attacking instead of defending?

It would be good not to be broken and annihilated by the opponent with superior forces. ”

Zhao Dayou sighed again, "Alas, it's just that I don't have a perfect plan to worry." ”

"The problem you said, the headquarters took it into account. Therefore, this plan has not yet been revealed to the soldiers.

Revealing it will not calm the controversy, it will only increase the controversy.

It is difficult for the whole army to unify its will, so it does not dare to wave its troops with confidence.

Your eldest brother doesn't have a good idea, he just said that he wants to calm the morale of the army, so he can only let you come. We've never had an opponent like this. Dad has never presided over this kind of war, and if he doesn't discuss it with you, he won't have a bottom in his heart. But no matter what, you have to come up with a decision as soon as possible to end the argument and get started.

Fighting all day long, no matter how reasonable it is, there is no use for birds? ”

Fan Zhengping sat silently in Zhao Dayou's outhouse, guarding the door to prevent anyone from entering to disturb the private communication between the king's father and son.

He drank tea without a sip, his eyes looking out through the glass window, but his ears were sticking to the movement in the inner room.

He is the grandson of Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, the son of Fan Chunren, the second son of Fan Gong, Zeng Mengen did Kaifeng Lieutenant, because he participated in Cai Jing's enclosure of the Empress Dowager to cover Ciyun Temple and hurt the people, and was framed and dismissed from office, and was depressed and had nothing to do, so he simply no longer sought to be an official of the Great Song Dynasty and went to Zhaozhuang to learn practical new knowledge, and then joined Cangzhao to secretly follow as a thief, and is now the secretary of King Zhao Dayou.

His cousin Fan Zhengchen, the son of Fan Zhongyan's eldest son Fan Chunyou, had known and befriended Zhao Gonglian in his early years.

At the beginning, Cangzhao suddenly shocked the Great Song Dynasty with many heavyweight projects that benefited the country and the people, such as loyalty and patriotism, benevolence, righteousness, courage and fearlessness, invention of dictionaries, and innovative and efficient agricultural tools that benefited the country and the people, and quickly became famous all over the world.

Fan Chunli, the third son of Fan Zhongyan, who was still alive, said: "Such a virtuous family, with the same conduct as our clan, our clan should be close to the help of learning." And with the huge influence of the glorious image of the Fan family in the Great Song Dynasty, he strongly supported Zhao Ji in the matter of giving Cangzhao a knighthood, so that Zhao Gonglian was more recognized by the government and the opposition, and more smoothly jumped from a young commoner to an uncle, and Cangzhao also became a nobleman and a general of the Great Song Dynasty from the home of the common people at the border pass.

Because of the attitude of the elders in the family, Fan Zhengchen went to Zhao Zhuang to sincerely get acquainted with Zhao Gonglian when he was not yet an official in the imperial examination, and the two sides formed a friendship.

After Zhao Gonglian became an official in Tokyo, Fan Zhengchen became an official in Taichang Temple, and the two sides became closer, with a sense of like-mindedness, and the friendship became deeper and deeper.

After Zhao Yue laid down Taiwan Island, Zhao Gonglian was also transferred to his hometown to govern, Fan Zhengchen's thinking has changed, and his vision of understanding the world is more far-reaching, trapped in Taichang Temple and not allowed to show his new ability to learn from Zhao Gonglian, plus he was excluded by officialdom, and resigned and returned to his hometown for some reason. The deputy minister of the Propaganda Department is in charge of customs and many other responsibilities.

Fan Zhengping's brother Fan Zhengsi has never held a formal official position, and has been taking care of the family elders on behalf of the brothers in the family to deal with internal affairs.

Now Fan Zhongyan's last son Fan Chun has also passed away, and before he died, it was as expected by Wen Chenghou, the Jurchens were becoming stronger and stronger, the Liao State was becoming more and more defeated, and the Great Song Dynasty was inevitably destroyed by foreign races.

Fan Zhengsi accompanied the Fan family's loyalty to the Northern Song Dynasty in the previous generation, buried his uncle, and according to Fan's pure deathbed confession and new hope, the family followed Cangzhao, ostensibly with the declining family to Qingzhou and Zhao Gonglian, who had a family relationship, to deal with the court and the people's attention to the remnants of the Fan family, in fact, the connection with the Song officialdom was severed, and all the clansmen who stayed in the Great Song Dynasty secretly emigrated, changed their identities in the new empire, and continued to fulfill the family's principles and aspirations for the country and the people with new ideas and new spirits.

The change in the fate trajectory of the Fan family is fundamentally related to Zhao Yue's special care.

Confucianism and national classics have educated more famous hypocrites, soft bones, traitors and traitors who are very good at deceiving the world and stealing fame.

People's jealousy and competitive nature make people accustomed to whether the present is praised in the past, and what words can be concluded only when the coffin is covered.

No matter how noble your character is, no matter how capable you are, as long as you are alive and affect the interests of others, you will usually not be recognized and respected by the authoritative people at that time, and there will always be people who will jump out from time to time to find fault with you.

Of course, this also has to do with the limitations of human understanding. It takes time to prove whether things are right or wrong.

But Fan Zhongyan was an almost perfect person, so much so that the Song people were proud to have such a clan as Fan Zhongyan, and when Fan Zhongyan was alive, they praised Fan Zhongyan as the first person in three hundred years, comparable to Confucius Mengsheng.

Esteemed.

This shows how dazzling Fan Zhongyan's personality charm is, and it also proves how the Confucian and Mencian standards are inflated and difficult to achieve.

Zhao Yue scoffed at the 'comparable Confucius and Mencian sages'.

It's not that I think Fan Zhongyan is unworthy, but I really want to ask the people of the world, Fan Zhongyan has made great contributions to the country and the people, Confucius and Mencius were promoted as god-like saints, what earth-shattering contributions did these two make to the country and the nation when they were alive? What qualifications do they have to become an unsurpassable monument to people's minds?

The two ancient thinkers and educators were extraordinary, but the ideas they pioneered were distorted and exploited by later generations.

What Zhao Yue saw was only the harsh detention and poisoning of the thoughts of the Han nation by the infinitely elevated and distorted way of Confucius and Mencius, and the most hateful thing about this poison was to strangle the development of science and technology, making the Han nation a giant of mouth and spirit, and a dwarf of action and power.

There is nothing wrong with educating the people of the world to be civilized and good.

But ignoring the cruel reality and blindly demanding that you be noble, it is stupid.

Surrounded by robbers who pursue pragmatism, your country and nation are being docile, friendly and good, regardless of inside and outside, regardless of who is close to whom, hypocritical and cruel to your own people, and generous, loyal and trustworthy to outsiders in order to show a tall and civilized demeanor, is this not pure self-inflicted bad luck?

In another life, Westerners abuse the East like dogs, they can abuse as much as they want, and they can abuse when they want, and when they want to abuse, the root of history is pragmatism, banditry, logic, and the defeat of self-help and self-masochistic idealism of habit and false spirit.

Zhao Yue admired Fan Zhongyan's practice of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the joy of the world after the world", but he did not advocate it in the new country.

Promoting moral standards that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve has no other positive effect than creating more mouth-to-mouth hypocrites.

The government departments of the new empire did not hang plaques such as "Above Board", "The World is for the Public", and "Mirrors" were hung high, and there was no traditional hierarchical distinction in civilian uniforms.

These things that are empty to the bones and deceive themselves are only liked by the East.

Honesty and honesty in performing official duties fundamentally depend on an effective system. Ideological education is important, but it is not a fundamental guarantee, not even an effective guarantee.

It doesn't matter what you say when you are an official, the key is to see what you are doing.

Be pragmatic in your work. It is also necessary to be pragmatic in evaluating and measuring rulers.

But the Fan family should be recognized and treated preferentially.

Zhao Yue asked the family to reuse and take special care of the Fan family, Bao Zheng family and other families, which was silently conveying an idea to all the citizens of the empire: those who truly serve the country and the people, and who distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, will be praised and respected at any time and in any dynasty, and their contributions and the glorious traditions of the family will be blessed to their descendants. Being a good person and a good official is not a loss.

Tangible benefits can effectively inspire people living in reality to pursue nobility.

Propaganda erects an example, what people see is how this example abandons his family and business to suffer hardships and suffers, and how his family is unlucky when he can't get light, this example is so hard but he did not go to a prominent position to become a leader planted in the annals of history, but he died of exhaustion and hardship early, people will be moved and admired, but they are afraid that the education and tips they get are more negative.

Look, this is the sad end of being a good official.

We are law-abiding, corrupt officials and scum, but it is better to be a good official than to be an unofficial. With this understanding, then the remaining choice is naturally to give full play to the deep-rooted old tradition of what the Chinese do and eat, and try to benefit themselves and their relatives and friends as much as possible under the laws and rules.

Zhao Yue wanted to take care of the Fan family and set a vivid and convincing example for the empire, but it was not an ordinary difficulty to persuade a loyal monarch like the Fan family to change his mind and turn to the Ming Lord to find a new way to save the country and the people. Cangzhao made a lot of efforts and finally got a good result.

Although Fan Zhengping is not from Zhaozhuang, he is also the core old man of the Cangzhao Group, and he knows very well the magic of the second son of the Cangzhao family.

He was eager to know immediately what extraordinary insights the magical prince Zhao Yue would have in the battle of Goryeo, and what means he could use to quickly unify the minds of the army and begin to conquer.

But he couldn't hear the conversation in the room clearly, only loud exclamations and growing laughter.

It didn't take too long for the father and son inside to communicate.

Zhao Yue walked out and said to him with a smile: "Brother Fan, my father has to sleep well." Don't bother him easily. ”

Fan Zhengping smiled and asked, "What else does Your Highness have to order?" ”

Zhao Yue stretched out very unvividly and said, "Send two orders in my father's name." First, the telex to the South China Sea, the transfer of all large seafaring ships to the north, including the ocean-going trade fleet and the Haitan Island. 2. Order all officers on the island to hold an operational meeting at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the Great Hall. ”

Fan Zhengping was stunned for a moment and said, "Your Highness, everything you said refers to those with military ranks?" ”

Zhao Yue nodded, "Including logistics and military doctors." ”

Fan Zhengping couldn't help but be a little worried: "Forgive Zhengping for talking too much." His Royal Highness knew that there was an endless debate on the island, and many newcomers had joined, and the war was imminent, and the hearts of the soldiers were extremely restless. If the lieutenants of the rank of the squad also left the camp for a meeting. The subordinates are afraid that there will be no one in the army to maintain order, and there will be chaos. ”

Zhao Yue smiled but said, "Messing up is not necessarily a bad thing. ”

Fan Zhengping was stunned again, and then said for a moment: "Your Highness wants to test the quality and achievements of the army on this?" Want to find hidden dangers and clear them before the war? ”

Zhao Yue didn't answer, but looked at the continuous barracks outside the window for a while before whispering, "Execute the order."

Well, don't forget to inform my eldest brother. He will know my intentions. ”

"Yes."

Zhao Yue stretched his waist again and said with a smile: "The sea is bumpy, and I'm a little tired." I'm going to sleep. In the evening he will gather again with the congregation. ”

has no quarrel about Zhao Yue's casualness, Fan Zhengping has long understood it, and he also smiled. (To be continued.) )