(Two changes in one)

It seems that Yang Zhi seems to be convinced, but since the words have been said here, and today the people are more together, Zheng Fei decided to talk a little more, the most fundamental purpose of all Zheng Fei's efforts is to defend Huaxia and avoid the shame of Jingkang and the recurrence of those tragedies in the Central Plains in the future, but there is a problem that is also bothering Zheng Fei, he can now work hard to make the Han people avoid a catastrophe, but how can the Han people avoid similar catastrophes forever?

Gongsun Sheng's words today are equivalent to finding a new direction for himself, that is, to find a way to promote national integration! By integrating the existing ethnic groups into the big family of the Chinese nation, everyone will become a family, and naturally there will be no struggle for ethnic differences.

The Han nationality undoubtedly has an innate advantage in this regard, because the culture of the Han nationality itself has a strong assimilation power, and the ethnic groups that invaded the Central Plains in history, as long as they dare to live in the Central Plains for a long time, the result is often that they cannot escape being assimilated by the Han people, or by the Han culture.

At the same time, this also coincides with the foreign strategy that Zheng Fei has always wanted to adopt.

From ancient times to the present, if we only make a general division, the defense between countries and between forces can be divided into two types, one is passive defense and the other is active defense.

Passive defense is easy to understand, as the name suggests, it is to constantly develop and develop yourself on your own turf, and wait until others attack you to fight back. The key to passive defense is to be strong enough, the stronger you are, the more you dare not provoke yourself easily by external enemies, and even when you are so strong that you are invincible in the world, it is enough for them to burn incense for those external enemies if you do not attack them. On the contrary, if you are not strong enough, you will inevitably be attacked sooner or later, or you will face endless harassment.

The advantage of passive defense is that you can have enough time to develop yourself before the next war, and the disadvantage is also very clear, that is, the word "passive", even if you are strong, the tiger has a time to nap, and will react when the enemy attacks, and it will inevitably fall behind in the early stage of the war, and may even be seized by the enemy to seize the hole that some major problems on your side lead to a big loss of strength and suddenly launch an attack, leading to serious consequences.

Most of the dynasties in the Central Plains adopted this defensive strategy most of the time, and after the first generations of monarchs died and the country's territory was basically stabilized, the subsequent generations of monarchs would gradually lose their ambition to expand their territory, and put their armies only within the national border for defense, passively meeting the attacks and harassment of the nomads outside the country.

A ready-made example is the Northern Song Dynasty, since the signing of the Yuanyuan Alliance with the Liao State, the subsequent generations of emperors have relaxed, so that only the Northwest Army, which is responsible for defending the Song State, has some combat effectiveness left in the millions of troops in the world, and the rest of the hundreds of thousands of troops are like a plate of scattered sand, which was easily destroyed by the Jin State.

The so-called active defense is to take the initiative to take certain active measures to replace passive defense, which can be roughly understood as "attacking instead of defending", that is, taking the initiative to go out to attack the enemy, destroying, driving away or dominating the enemy, eliminating all hidden dangers, and waiting for no enemy around the attack, of course, there is no need to worry about it. The cost of this strategy is significant, such as hindering one's own development through years of warfare and reckless warfare, but if successful, the benefits are obvious.

Many of the best emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty in history adopted this strategy, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. The Han Dynasty has been plagued by the northern Xiongnu in the early days of its establishment, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to replace the humiliating nature of the peace policy with military means to completely solve the threat of the Xiongnu after succeeding to the throne, he sent the famous generals Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to launch three large-scale campaigns against the Xiongnu, recovering the Hetao area, seizing the Hexi Corridor, conquering the Western Regions, and driving the Xiongnu to Mobei in one fell swoop. Therefore, although the later Han Dynasty experienced serious national civil strife, it did not encounter foreign invasions at the same time, which was inseparable from the blow of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the Xiongnu.

Tang Taizong is better than the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin just succeeded to the throne when it was also the most powerful period of the Turkic people, the Turks established a powerful Turkic Empire, they were the same as the former Xiongnu, the Turks also never forgot to covet the Central Plains, constantly harassing and attacking the Tang Dynasty, and even when Li Shimin just succeeded to the throne, the Turkic Jieli Khan actually led an army of 200,000 to the edge of Chang'an, only forty miles away from Chang'an, almost wiped out the Tang Dynasty, threatening the Tang Dynasty all the time!

After a long period of preparation, Li Shimin sent the general Li Jing to lead the army to suddenly attack the Turks, rape the main Turkic force, capture the supreme ruler of the Turks, Jieli Khan, and capture him to Chang'an, achieving the most glorious battle of the Tang Dynasty!

The significance of capturing Jieli Khan alive is not trivial, he is the first time in the history of the Central Plains Dynasty to capture alive the ruler of the steppe superpower, and the effect is basically the same as that of a certain country attacking the United States and capturing the American president alive in the future. This battle basically solved the threat from the Turks and laid a solid foundation for the stable development of the later generations of the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty are successful cases of active defense, and the Song Dynasty actually implemented active defense at the beginning of the founding of the country, in order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Song State took the initiative to launch several large-scale battles against the Liao State, but unfortunately, they all ended in failure, and since then they had to turn to passive defense, it is conceivable that if the Song Dynasty really recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun in the early days of the founding of the country, even if the passive defense is started from there, it will be much stronger than the implementation of passive defense in the case of losing the sixteen states of Yanyun, At least it will not be unhindered by the Jin army to enter the Central Plains, and history will inevitably be rewritten.

Zheng Fei decided to follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and after defeating the Great Song Dynasty and unifying the Central Plains, he would adopt an active defensive strategy to completely eliminate the three major snobbery that might threaten the Central Plains, the Liao, Jin, and Xia Kingdoms, and sweep away all threats to the Central Plains! If the threat is no longer there, we will be more sure to keep the peace of the future generations!

However, although the active defensive strategies of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty were successful, they proved not to be completely successful, and after them, the snobbery of the outside of the Han Dynasty gradually recovered and formed a threat to the Han and Tang dynasties again. The reason for this, as Gongsun Sheng said, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty only ruled their subjects and annexed their land after defeating the Xiongnu and Turks respectively, but they did not find a way to integrate those foreign ethnic groups with the Han nationality, the Xiongnu, Turkic and other foreign ethnic groups are still independent nations, with their own independent culture, ideas and beliefs, intermarriage is still based on the ethnic group, the older generation may be afraid of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the new generation is not afraid of the Han and Tang Dynasties, as soon as they have the opportunity, they will rebel again, Drove out the army of the Han and Tang dynasties and regained the country.

The Manchus were very clever in this regard, as soon as they entered the Central Plains, they implemented the "shaving of hair and easy clothing", ordering all ethnic groups under their rule, especially the Han people, to change to wear full clothes, and should shave their hair, in order to weaken the national consciousness of the Han people and facilitate the rule, in order to achieve this goal, they even shouted, "Keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head", which caused a strong resistance from the Han people. system, but under the bloody suppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han people were finally forced to accept it, and the result was that after only a few decades, the Han people completely accepted the rule of the Manchus, and even when it came to the Republic of China, the government of the Republic of China ordered to cut off the big braids, and a large number of Han people still wept bitterly and refused to comply.

However, the Manchus still made a mistake, they did not take the opportunity to destroy the culture of the Han nationality together, and even vigorously promoted it, the result is that in the end, the Manchus are more like the Han than the Han people, in the early Qing Dynasty, the Manchus are still Manchu Chinese, but in the middle of the Qianlong period, there was a trend of Chinese language to replace the Manchus, in the 40th year of Qianlong (1775), the Shengjing Manchurian banner man Guo Ermin took the pen post type to supplement the household department, and when the Ministry of officials introduced, Emperor Qianlong used Manchu to talk to Guo Ermin because he was a Manchurian banner man and had obtained a pen post style specializing in translating Manchu Chinese. However, Guo Ermin did not know anything except reciting his resume, and Emperor Qianlong felt that "it was a real accident", and by the end of Qianlong, even the Manchu officials in Shengjing could not write Manchu. For this reason, the Qing court hurriedly ordered measures to save the Manchu language and the Manchu language, but it still could not reverse the trend of the Manchus using the Chinese language. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were very few people in the world who could speak Manchu.

These are all valuable lessons, as Gongsun Sheng said, foreign wars also need to attack the heart, even more critical and important than the attack on the heart of the civil war, and the ultimate goal of this attack is to try to promote national integration! Or rather, a "cultural invasion" of all alien races, exterminating their beliefs, exterminating their writing, exterminating their languages, exterminating their customs, exterminating their clothing, in short, exterminating everything but the flesh!

When all these goals are achieved, what is the use of different appearances from the Han people? Is a nation that has nothing but life still a nation?

Of course, foreigners are not stupid, and they will not be so receptive to cultural invasion from foreign peoples, just like the Han people in the early Qing Dynasty. Of course, Zheng Fei can also adopt a high-pressure policy and use a butcher's knife to force foreigners to comply, but Zheng Fei doesn't want to do that, first, he can't bear it, and secondly, the risk is too great.

Therefore, Gongsun Sheng's "marriage strategy" shows its uniqueness, first of all, when attacking Liaojinxia and other countries in the future, appointing the princess of their clan as the commander of the three armies, then for the people of the three kingdoms, the war they launched is no longer a war of aggression, but a civil war, which will inevitably reduce the resistance from the clansmen.

Subsequently, after occupying various countries, the princesses were appointed as the empresses of their own countries, and then by ordering their own people to give up their national customs little by little in the name of the empress of their own country, and then vigorously promoting the national education of the Han people, so that they could accept the culture of the Han people little by little, so that they could not only reduce their resistance, but also subtly change them, and finally complete the cultural invasion!

This will be a process that will require long-term efforts to achieve, but Zheng Fei has enough confidence and patience to do it, of course, all kinds of obvious difficulties in the whole process are also necessary, such as the need to always beware of the counterattack of the remnants of the royal family, such as the need to beware of the ambitions of each "empress", this is also normal, there is no smooth sailing in the world, Zheng Fei will also be fully prepared for this in advance.

Although all this seems to be far away, it is actually an urgent matter, and in order to better realize him, it is best to start preparing now. And the first step to prepare is to unify the thinking of the whole army, because of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Song people still hate the Khitans, today's Yang Zhi's reaction is a proof, although these generals and their soldiers can love the people and respect the people under their own leadership, but this "people" only refers to the Han people, and when they go out of the border, if they all hate the Khitans like Yang Zhi, they will inevitably make a bloody move against the Khitans, which Zheng Fei is extremely unwilling to see, It will also have a serious impact on the plan of national integration, so they must be reminded in advance.

Zheng Fei thought about it, glanced around the hall of generals, and saw that everyone seemed to be touched by the scene that had just happened, and they were all thinking about something, Zheng Fei said, "Brothers, since the establishment of our Heavenly Dao Army, I have asked everyone not to do anything that harms the people, and everyone has done a good job of this, and I am also grateful!" ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Fei stood up and hugged his fists to everyone in the hall very seriously,

And all the generals hastened to their feet,

Zheng Fei motioned for everyone to sit down again and continued, "Just now Gongsun Sheng asked me which world I aspire to. Now I can tell you unequivocally that I am determined to be the whole world! After the little sister Song Kingdom and the Central Plains are unified, I will take everyone to recreate the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties! ”

Reproducing the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties is the dream of the Han people for many generations! It was the first time for many people to hear Zheng Fei's affirmative answer, and they couldn't help but feel their blood rolling in their hearts, just when someone was about to speak, they heard Zheng Fei continue, "At that time, in our territory, there will be not only Han people, but also Khitan people, Dangxiang people, Jurchens, Xi people, Murwei people and other different races, just now I told Yang Zhi that everyone has also heard, the enemy can never be killed, the best way to treat the enemy is to turn the enemy into his own people, my purpose is not just to restore the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, There is also to turn all the people on this map into one of us, only in this way can we forever eliminate the danger of our future generations, when the time comes, whether it is the Khitan or the Jurchens, or the party people, or the Xi people, will only become a code name of history, and instead, it will be included by our Han people into a new nation, the Chinese nation! Have you memorized them all? ”

...... the Chinese nation, everyone silently recited a few times in their hearts and kept it in mind, and said in unison, "Yes!" ”

Zheng Fei nodded with satisfaction, and looked at Gongsun Sheng again,

Gongsun Sheng had also put down all the burdens in his heart at this time, and said to Zheng Fei without hesitation, "Just now Brother Yang Zhi asked me how to solve the impact of the 'marriage' with the Khitans on the commander, and I have also taken this into account, and I think that this matter must not be deliberately concealed, the reason is very simple, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and this kind of thing cannot be concealed at all. Therefore, instead of not being able to hide it, it is better to admit it directly and generously, and it is better to make it known to everyone in the world from the beginning! ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Lin Chongqi said, "If this is the case, won't the people of the world still misunderstand us?" ”

Gongsun Sheng replied with a smile, "Of course, it's better not to tell them simply, so we have to think of a separate way to tell them that the people can accept." Let's think about it, why do the people of the Song Kingdom hate the Khitans so much? Because they occupied our sixteen states of Yanyun, and the Song State couldn't defeat them, and they signed a peace treaty with them that forfeited power and humiliated the country, and the people felt humiliated! And my method is to start from changing the humiliation of the people, we might as well advertise the world, just say that the Song court was beaten by us and had no power to fight back, in order to deal with us, they actually asked the Khitan people for help, asking the Khitan people to send troops to attack us, but the Liao State did not dare to help the Song State, in order not to offend us for fear of causing our misunderstanding, they specially married a Khitan princess to our commander, as a guarantee. In this way, not only did it hit the image of the Song Dynasty again, but also made this matter reasonable, and the people were not only more tired of the shameless behavior of the Song State, but also felt our strength from this matter, and even frightened the Liao State to take the initiative to marry, which is really proud! ”

Zheng Fei's heart moved when he heard this, and he looked at Zhu Wu and Wu Yong, only to see that the two of them nodded towards him together after pondering for a moment, Zhu Wu said, "Commander, I think Brother Gongsun's plan is feasible, how can the common people have any chance to distinguish the true from the false?" Moreover, the signing of the alliance between the Song State and the Liao State is known to the world, since the Song State can do such a humiliating thing, then it makes sense for him to go to his allies to seek reinforcements now, and the people will definitely believe it! The remaining key issue is the attitude of the Liao State, the Liao and Song States are already inseparable because of the Song State's secret alliance with the Jin State, the Liao State may not be able to help the Song State speak, and the Liao State does not need to stand up to refute this matter at all, as long as they make a silent attitude, it is equivalent to acquiescing to our words, then the black pot of the Song State is determined! And judging from the fact that Ye Luchun is so eager to ask the commander to accept this marriage, it should not be difficult for him to agree to cooperate with us. ”

Zheng Fei nodded, it's time to make a decision, although he has always been very opposed to various forms of political marriages without emotional foundation, but only now does he feel that sometimes this is also a choice out of helplessness, if just because he accepted a marriage, he can avoid hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries in the future, then this is actually a very cost-effective thing, what reason do he have to refuse?

"Okay!" Zheng Fei said to Zhu Wu, "Brother Zhu, please send a letter back to Ye Luchun and tell him that I can accept all his conditions, but the premise is that he must also accept our conditions, otherwise, there is no need to talk about it." ”

"Oh yes," Zheng Fei added after a moment's thought, "don't forget to tell him again, I want a real princess, and I have to be pretty, and if you dare to deal with me with a palace maid or an ugly bastard, then there is no need to talk about it." Also, there is no shortage of dowry! Three thousand...... No, 5,000 war horses, if there is one less, no one will have to send them over! "Since accepting the marriage is already an inevitable choice, Zheng Fei doesn't want to suffer a secret loss, it's not too much to marry a beautiful princess with real value, right? If you don't take the opportunity to slaughter Na Yeluchun, you can't say anything.

Everyone laughed when they heard it, and Zheng Fei also laughed, but the smile was a little bitter, because he couldn't help but think of the three ladies in the family,

Alas...... how should I explain this to them?