In the persuasion of the peasant city, a wine table was set up in the backyard of the official office. The wine on the table is a famous wine from the capital, but it is not from the Du family. Du Zhongxiao likes to taste other people's wines, even if the Du family's wine is the most famous. A sheep was roasted beside it, and oil dripped from the fire, making a sizzling sound.

Du Zhongxiao looked at the waning moon in the sky and did not speak.

Before I knew it, it was the beginning of March, and it was already late spring in March. Last year's leap month, this year's spring came early, and even Dading Mansion was full of flowers. The spring breeze blows on the face, without a trace of coolness.

When he returned to Beijing last year, Du Zhongxiao didn't expect that he would cross Yanshan so quickly and have a decisive battle with the Khitan. Things are moving faster than expected. The once powerful Khitan Empire turned out to be a dilapidated house in the end, and the Song Dynasty was about to fall with a slight push.

Yes, there has never been such an empire in the world. There is the largest population, the largest plains, the most united nation, and the most powerful productive forces. Even in previous lives, no such country was born.

How powerful would such a country be? Think about the past China, when it was backward, it was beaten by an island country that was only one province of China and had no power to fight back, and you know how powerful the current Song Dynasty should be. In front of such a Song Dynasty, the Khitan had no power to fight back, so they could only be held down and beaten. Now looking at the remnants of the Khitan army, Du Zhongxiao already feels incomprehensible.

If it weren't for the fact that they didn't want to spend their national strength and increase the burden on the people, the Song Dynasty army could have been fighting westward like this, all the way to the shores of the Atlantic. But, what's the point? Du Zhongxiao shook his head, it didn't make sense.

There is not only oppression and exploitation in this world, not only aggression, not only extermination. The most important thing for a regime is to make the people under its rule happy, eat well, live well, and live a long time. Looking back on his previous life, especially the colonial history of Europe and the United States, Du Zhongxiao cut off the idea of continuing to expand outward after defeating the Khitan. What's the use? In the end, the land of the Chinese is still the Central Plains and its surroundings.

Spain used to be an empire on which the sun never sets, but what happened in the end? The British Empire was once an empire on which the sun never sets, and what happened in the end? The whites occupied the Americas, they occupied Oceania, but they could not occupy Africa, which was the nearest one. Why? It can really kill people. Without slaughter, isn't America white? Oceania is not white? Yes, because they were the first to start the Great Voyage, the first to create practical gunpowder weapons, the first to start the Industrial Revolution, and the first to lead the world to a new era.

What if China were the first to start? It will not build colonies, it will not enslave other ethnic groups, but it will focus on developing its own internal development. The Chinese are not without a sense of adventure, and the vast territory is not sent by charging phone bills. Rather, the Chinese do not have the inexplicable missionary spirit of Europe, nor do they have their racist temperament, and do not treat people of other ethnic groups as beasts. For the Chinese, you are you, I am me, and each of them lives their own lives. It's normal for everyone to trade, and they don't take looting as normal.

Europe has colonized for hundreds of years, and in the end, their land is still on their European land. What they once had, all lost, that was not theirs. Even in the end, their own land was flooded with a large number of outsiders.

Colonization is not a good way, developing oneself is a good way. Only by developing oneself can one keep everything.

Zhao Zi, Liu Ji, Wang Kai and Jia Kui arrived and saluted Du Zhongxiao.

Let a few people sit down, Du Zhongxiao said: "Tomorrow, the army will besiege the city, and Wang Kai and Jia Kui will attack each Luduo." Nothing to do tonight, kill a fat sheep, and let you have a glass of wine. Some things have to be set tonight. ”

Wang Kai and Jia Kui crossed their hands: "If there is something to be ordered by the captain, which one dares not to obey!" ”

Du Zhongxiao waved his hand: "It's not an order, there are some things that can't be explained clearly by a military order." We have to think the same way for things to go well. If what I think is different from what you think, how can things be done? ”

The mutton over there was cooked, and the soldiers cut it and put it on a plate. It is sprinkled with spices and looks very appetizing.

Du Zhongxiao said: "The mutton is roasted, and then sprinkled with benzoin fennel, which is really delicious in the world." The sheep here is extremely delicious, less smelly than the mutton in the Central Plains, and more fragrant, you can eat more. It's a pity that there are no chili peppers, if there are chili peppers, it is the most perfect. ”

Zhao Zi said: "Taiwei, what is a chili pepper?" What does it taste like? ”

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while, shook his head and said, "This is not good." What do you say spicy tastes like? Now it's spicy, and it's different from that. It's a seasoning I've eaten before, and I can't find it again, so it's tempting to look back on it from time to time. ”

Several people whispered silently and asked each other what the chili pepper was and what it would taste like.

After leading the wine, Du Zhongxiao said: "Tomorrow, the army will besiege the city, and at the same time attack and scatter the surrounding Huluduo, we must first set the principle." Although we fought here, the Khitan was a brotherly state of the Song Dynasty after all, and there were still many Han people under its rule, so you must pay attention to military discipline. Let me make it clear that whoever lays down his arms and wishes to surrender will not be killed. After being captured, as long as they obey the management, they will not be killed. All towns, as long as the Khitan people are willing, are first managed by Khitan officials. Of course, these Khitan officials had to be obedient. ”

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao drank the wine in the cup in front of him in one gulp, and said loudly: "We are the kings of the Central Plains, and we can't be like the barbarians of the grassland, we only know how to loot and kill." We are better than them in how to govern the people under our rule and let them live and work in peace and contentment. As long as the people of the Khitan are loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, they will also become Song people, and there is no need to kill them all! ”

Seeing that Du Zhongxiao said seriously, Liu Ji, Wang Kai and Jia Kui sang together with their hands.

In fact, why kill? Can killing really exterminate a nation? I'm afraid it's hard to do. The most slaughtered can be compared to when the United States moved westward? In the end, the Americans did not exterminate the Indians either. If the world changes, can these Indians develop again? The aborigines of the Americas and Oceania were exterminated, and the most important thing was that they were too backward and still in the tribal period. The whites came, they couldn't fight, and the land was taken by the whites. It took hundreds of years before they were finally driven into the reserve.

It is civilization that really exterminates the nation, and it is the advanced civilization that has destroyed the backward civilization. There is no need to kill, as long as the backward civilization has been backward, they will tend to extinction. Women will tend to marry advanced civilizations, backward civilizations will not be able to support children, and the population will continue to decrease for hundreds of years. Finally, the day came when the backward civilization quietly disappeared.

Even in China, because of its backwardness, there are a large number of women who marry foreigners. If there is not enough population, without a large area of land to back it up, and without the rapid development of national strength, the population will also decline.

It is the advanced civilization that quickly eliminated the backward civilization, and this process did not come by slaughter. The massacre would speed up the process, but it would not be decisive. If it weren't for the fact that Indians were markedly different from whites, the Indians of North America might not have existed anymore. Also in the Americas, Latin America has a large mestizo population. The Song Dynasty's war against the Khitan was a war between an advanced civilization and a backward civilization.