Chapter 182: Civilization and Barbarism

Seeing Ye Qing turn his head to look at him, Wu Juan was also a little jealous of the existence of Old Liu Tou, but looking at Ye Qing's easy-going and uncaring smile, he nodded silently, and then paused and said: "A courtier of the Xia Kingdom, similar to the City Division. ”

Ye Qing nodded silently, in fact, he should have imagined that the only people Xia could trade now were the Tatars and Song, but Song and Xia, because of the threat of the Jin people, did not dare to trade openly, so they could only trade privately.

Just as the Western Xia also demanded that the Southern Song court not stop the merchants from buying Western Xia green salt in order to protect the Southern Song Dynasty salt tax, Xia bowed to Jin and would also be suppressed by Jin in all aspects.

"By the way, the cake that the general just said...... The last general doesn't understand this matter too well, and hopes that the general can teach him. Wu Juan had been analyzing Ye Qing's purpose for coming here and his own situation in his heart, and then asked.

"Cake? Oh, it's just interests, I'm just changing the name, it doesn't mean anything. Ye Qing smiled and listened intently to the weakening voices in the opposite room.

And the old Liu Tou, who had been squatting for a while, had already approached the crack in the door that was not very tight, peeking in obscenely, and from time to time he looked back like Ye Qing shaking his head, indicating that he was not the leader of the Tatars.

Ye Qing speechlessly glanced at Lao Liu Tou's obscene appearance of peeping into other people's privacy, and continued to smile and say to the military judge: "Are you curious about why I came here and why I want to find Tatars, right?" ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ A little. The military judge couldn't grasp Ye Qing's character, so he had to smile and say implicitly.

"It may not be obvious now, but if after the Jin people move their capital to Yanjing, when the attention of the Jin people is not further north, but continues to focus on how to make huge profits from our Great Song Dynasty, this part of the Tatar tribes that are now also subject to the rule of the Jin people will begin to take advantage of the opportunity to rise ......." Ye Qing squatted on the ground, drawing a rough map of the north on the ground.

With the faint light, when he watched Ye Qing mark out Yanjing, as well as the Jinren's Shangjing, Huining Mansion and other places, including the huge territory where grasslands and deserts coexisted, Wu Juan couldn't help but say loudly: "If this is good for my Great Song Dynasty, right?" With the rise of the Tatars, the Jin State will inevitably be weak, and when the time comes, when the two sides clash, wouldn't my Great Song Dynasty be able to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight? ”

"That being said, if the Jin people are at war with the Tatars and they suffer heavy losses, where will he take advantage of them to compensate for their losses?" After Ye Qing threw away the small wooden stick he picked up in his hand, he said to the thinking martial judge.

In the opposite room, the woman's coquettish voice was heard again, as well as the man's heavy gasping sound, and even mixed with the sound of flesh colliding, which made Lao Liu Tou panic and hate on his face.

"From my big song? But if so, we ....... Wu Juan picked up the twig, looked at the steppe where the Tatars were, and then looked at the clearing in the south, connected the two places, and said, "What if we fight with the Tatars?" Forming a situation of a north-south attack, isn't it profitable for me to be in the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Ye Qing didn't speak for the first time, but looked at the martial judge with deep meaning in his eyes, until the martial judge who was watching began to panic a little in his heart, and hurriedly asked Ye Qing if he had said the wrong thing, and then sighed.

Ye Qing said a little helplessly: "Don't our Song people, or the imperial court, have long memories?" What were the consequences of Lian Jin's resistance to Liao in the first place? My Great Song Dynasty lost half of the country, so what do you think will be the final consequence of my Great Song Dynasty once again joining the Tatars to resist Jin? ”

The martial judge was stunned for a moment, and then smiled with relief: "The ambition of the golden man and the wolf, the court was wrong back then, and lost half of the country, but ...... Relatively speaking, those savages on the grassland who are still not well fed and clothed, who live by water, and drink blood, will they also want to devour the remaining half of my Great Song Dynasty after resisting Jin? Besides, the Huaishui and Yangtze River moats are general, and the Jin people can't break through them, and the grassland savages who can only ride horses can fight across the Yangtze River. ”

"I really hope that my subjects of the Great Song Dynasty, there are not too many people who hold your opinion." Ye Qing looked at the martial judgment quietly and did not refute.

If he didn't know the trajectory of history, would he be like them, jealous of the Jin people, despise those barbarian people on the grassland who don't have their own writing, no legal provisions, just live by water, are in turmoil, and can die hundreds of people for cattle and sheep as a threat to the Great Song Dynasty?

But history is history, the generation of Tianjiao on the steppe, sooner or later will shock the world, become a powerful existence that makes the Eurasian continent tremble, although the Southern Song Dynasty was conquered by the Mongols at the latest, but it does not mean how powerful the Song is, but the moat played his most vivid strategic position.

"Don't you think so?" Wu Juan watched the sneer on the corner of Ye Qing's mouth gradually disappear, and then asked carefully.

"If we can take back the sixteen states of Yanyun while the Tatars are unprepared before they form a real threat to the Jin State, or when the Tatars challenge the authority of the Jin State, maybe I will think that we can try to see them fight each other, and we will guard our own gates." Ye Qing smiled, no matter what, it's a good thing to take precautions, but it's not a good thing to be too preemptive.

"Don't you even Tatar anti-gold?" Wu Juan shook his head, obviously he had his own opinions, and after looking at the wooden door where the woman's voice was gradually weakening, but the man was still fighting high, he thought for a while and said: "If the imperial court can recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, it will be equivalent to being invincible, at that time, let alone the general sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, I am afraid that the entire Great Song Dynasty will be ambitious, and will think of even the Tatar resistance to Jin, so as to wash away the shame that Jingkang has brought to my Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Looking at Ye Qing, who was quietly silent, Wu Juan continued as if he had opened a chatterbox: "So if you talk about the war on paper, at this time and that time, the time was wrong for Yue Wumu to welcome back the Second Sage, so he was unjustly killed by the imperial court. If after my Great Song Dynasty recovered the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, if you still choose to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and watch Jin and Tatar fight to the death, instead of thinking about washing away the difficulties of Jingkang, I am afraid that you will take the initiative not to fight, and you may also be the second Yue Wumu who has no idea. ”

Ye Qing didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what Wu Ju said, he gave a thumbs up to Wu Ju, and then nodded in agreement: "If there is really that day, maybe it will really be like this, everyone wants to do the thing of beating the water dog, but I am afraid that our Da Song will not be able to bear the consequences...... I'm afraid that I will send away a fierce tiger and usher in a more treacherous, insidious, cunning, united, and ferocious wolf! ”

"Perhaps the day that the general imagined would never ...... General, you mean ....... Wu Juan sat on the ground with a shocked expression, and looked at Ye Qing with an easy-going smile on his face in disbelief.

"Yes, I came to the Tatars for this purpose, although it is not yet time, but it is ...... to prepare for a rainy day."

"But how can the general be sure that the Tatars will definitely become a potential threat to the Jin State? What if it doesn't happen in the future? The military judge suddenly felt a little unreal, and he didn't want to be taken seriously by the young man in front of him after a discussion on paper just now!

No, it should be said that Ye Qing has taken it seriously for a long time, since he entered Sizhou, or knew that there were Tatars in Sizhou, it was obvious that Ye Qing had such a bold and naΓ―ve idea, otherwise he would never have brought himself here to find the Tatars.

Ye Qing looked at the shocked martial judge, stretched out his hand to pull up the martial judge who was sitting on the ground, and then continued to say lightly: "Do you know the word prediction?" The responsibility of the Imperial City Division is to predict the coming of danger, predict in advance, predict in advance what potential threats and potential enemies our Great Song Dynasty have, and then nip him in the bud. The Imperial City Division will monitor the ministers, the merchants, and everything that is not conducive to the rule of the imperial court in our Great Song Dynasty, and then destroy them. So why can't we go one step further and become a real blade to protect the country and the people? ”

"But...... That's weird, isn't it? No one will believe what you say today, General, I'm afraid...... Fear....... Wu Juan pointed to the opposite room, and after venting his desires at this moment, the man said in a satisfied voice: "I'm afraid that even they Tatars will not believe that one day, they will be strong enough to confront the Jin people, or even destroy the Jin Kingdom." ”

"Don't underestimate any enemy." Ye Qing sighed, he himself knew that no one would believe this kind of thing, unless he could have absolute influence and popularity like a monk and a Confucian, maybe after saying this, no one would believe it.

Looking at the martial judgment that had not yet recovered from the shock, Ye Qing continued: "Don't underestimate any enemy, let alone a horseback nation that drinks blood and is called a barbarian tribe by my Great Song Dynasty, because ...... Once they become stronger, the whole world will not be able to stop them from fighting in all directions! ”

"Today they can enter the Central Plains and start to use the relationship between Jin and Xia to do trade, then tomorrow, it is possible to use the contradiction between Jin and Xia to strengthen themselves. Or after seeing the prosperity and wealth of my Great Song Dynasty, I will be more ambitious, and I will begin to covet my Great Song Dynasty, more colorful material and humanities. We claim to be civilized but stand still, despised as barbarism, but we are constantly learning and evolving. Jin, Xia, and Liao, which one was not regarded as a barbaric nation by our Song people at the beginning, but in the end? They all made a deep, bleeding hole on my Da Song! They started to learn from the lack of writing, and then imitated our Great Song Dynasty to create their own writing, law, handicrafts, farming culture, etc., and have been studying until today's three provinces, six departments, nine temples and five prisons to govern the country and the country. But what about my Great Song, and what did I learn from them? We look down on those nations that we call barbaric and backward, but we have to shrink into a corner, and then comfort ourselves that we have the most orthodox culture, the most authentic bloodline, but we are beaten and bullied everywhere, we rule the country with literati, and they open up the territory with strength, so in the end, they destroy our civilization, or do we conquer their toughness, or merge into a strong civilization? Nobody knows! But we also need to learn from their toughness and savagery, so as to integrate into the blood and bones of our Han nation! ”

Ye Qing said in the end, even a little passionate and generous, even a little unsatisfied, and even a little like dissatisfaction with the court, and the back was hideous, and spit on the ground fiercely.

And the military judge, as well as the obscene old Liu Tou who had been peeking inside, were obviously stunned by Ye Qing's words, and looked at Ye Qing blankly, as if it was not a person squatting on the ground, but an extremely ferocious beast!