Chapter 454
Yang Zhengdao himself stood there solemnly, thinking about his plans for the future, as well as the real situation at the bottom of the society that he personally experienced, ready to make some sighs and summaries. But Luo Khan, who suddenly walked to his side, said a lot of things about his father, so Yang Zhengdao also turned sideways and nodded at Luo Khan, which can be regarded as expressing respect for his father, and then asked Luo Khan and said:
"Chuluo, I have been living in the Central Plains since I was born, and I have never traveled far. The farthest time was only with my father from Luoyang to Jiangnan. Even though I am very interested in things outside the Cypriots, I have to lack sufficient means to understand them, so I have always been unknown. So this is the first time I've heard of what you've just said, but in the court, I do hear the courtiers praise your father. Although there have been some unpleasant incidents in recent years, on the whole, your father is a good Khan, and a great man who definitely deserves the title of steppe warrior. Zhengdao also feels very sorry for the fact that he drove the crane to the west, and your father's departure is like a bright star falling, which makes people sigh. ”
After listening to Yang Zhengdao's words, Chu Luo Khan waved his hand at him, and then said to Yang Zhengdao: "Mr. Yang, I am not telling you about my father, not to show you how great my father is. I have also heard about your uncle's exploits in the steppe, and it is also thunderous. The Grand Canal, dug by your uncle, stretches for tens of thousands of miles from the bitter cold land of Goguryeo to the rich land of Jiangnan, and this great feat has been recited as a miracle by the people of the grassland.
We all share great predecessors, and we deserve to carry on their mantle. What I want to do is to reunite this fragmented steppe into a single Turk, and at the same time to suppress the Goguryeo people who have been facing us in the east. And what you should do, Mr. Yang, is to be like your uncle, to use one great miracle after another to silence everyone who doubts your uncle.
I tell you about this little incident that my father personally experienced, and what he did was nothing else, but to tell Mr. Yang that instead of letting the people under your rule eat each other because of hunger, and end up with a miserable end of thousands of miles of barren fields and bones everywhere.
It's better for you, Mr. Yang, to personally lead the troops to dominate the world again and restore your Yang family's dynasty. Even if some people are injured during this period, it is unavoidable. Besides, if they can die at the hands of your army, Mr. Yang, they can be regarded as a well-deserved death. After all, compared to the result of being fed by other hungry people after death, leaving only the white bones and corpses in the wilderness, these people who can die in the hands of the army under Mr. Yang can still end up in a thin-skinned coffin to bury themselves no matter what.
But, Mr. Yang, whoever achieves great things is not informal. In the current troubled times of cannibalism, the most taboo is cowardice and the kindness of women. Therefore, Mr. Yang, killing one person to save a hundred people, is still for that one person, choosing to ignore the lives of these 100 people.
Which side is light and which side is heavy, I believe Mr. Yang, you have your own considerations in mind. It's not too early today, so Mr. Yang will rest in the county government of Dingxiang County first. My men have already prepared it for you there, so you can just go and live. When you've thought it through, let Zhongyu come to me, and he knows where to find me.
The journey was tiring and hard. Mr. Yang, rest early. ”
After Chu Luo Khan finished saying this, no matter what Yang Zhengdao's reaction was, he directly turned on his horse and took his own soldiers, turned around and gradually moved away from Dingxiang County.
Looking at the figure of Luo Khan gradually moving away, Yang Zhengdao's heart was mixed. On the one hand, he naturally hates Yu Wenhua and these chaotic ministers and thieves, and he can't wait to be able to pick his skin, pump his tendons, eat his flesh raw, and drink his blood. But it's a pity that he doesn't have the possibility of outdoing Yu Wenhua in terms of force.
If Yang Zhengdao wants to treat Yu Wenhua as a prisoner, he can only rely on his army to defeat him on the battlefield and capture him alive. But in this way, it is inevitable to take countless lives that have nothing to do with this matter, which makes the heart of Yang Zhengdao, who has accepted the influence of Confucianism and takes benevolence and magnanimity as his own responsibility, very entangled. After thinking hard to no avail, Yang Zhengdao could only hang his head and let out a sigh. Then he followed Zhongyu to the county government of Dingxiang County and stayed temporarily.
I want to interject here, in history, Yu Wenhua and the rebels led in the Jiangnan area did not exist for too long, and they were defeated by Dou Jiande's army. In the original history, Dou Jiande invited Empress Dowager Xiao from the Jiangnan Palace to his palace after this battle. Not long afterward, it was dedicated to the Khan of the Eastern Turks.
However, because of the existence of Li Wenyuan, Yu Wenhua inherited a large amount of treasure brought to Jiangnan by Yang Guang, and directly exchanged all of them for 100,000 Hu soldiers. Relying on these 100,000 Hu soldiers, Yu Wenhua and even under unpopular circumstances, he still gained a firm foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, and survived tenaciously in the attack of Dou Jiande in the north and Xiao Mo in the west.
Although Yang Zhengdao has things in his heart, it is indeed too tiring to bump along the way. So I just washed my feet in a hurry under the care of my subordinates, and I didn't even have time to take off my clothes, so I fell headlong on the bed and fell asleep directly.
Yang Zhengdao slept really darkly this night, and he didn't wake up from the couch until three poles the next day. After waking up, Yang Zhengdao hurriedly put his clothes back on. I was really careless in my heart, I fainted directly on the bed yesterday, and I didn't even know who took off the quilt for myself, but fortunately it was in the territory of Luo Khan, and at the same time he didn't have the heart to harm himself, otherwise he wouldn't know how he really died.
After getting dressed, Yang pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard. The capital of Dingxiang County, because of its proximity to the Turks, a large amount of tax revenue in the county every year is used to repair the Great Wall in the north and the city wall of Dingxiang County. Therefore, the county government of Dingxiang County is very simple, with only a few houses and some cracked courtyard walls.
Yang Zhengdao stood in the courtyard, quietly looking at the cracked courtyard walls and couldn't help but be distracted: it happened to be a troubled time, and even the houses of the official family were dilapidated here, if the Great Sui was still there, how could this situation happen? Besides, the houses of the government are so dilapidated, so what will happen to the thatched houses of the people?