"I don't want to return!"

This is the reply letter from He An, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, when he obtained the consent of the Son of Heaven and repaired the book to the officials of the Hanlin Academy scattered all over the Great Zhou Dynasty and invited them to return.

It's not because the Hanlin Academy is not as big as before, it's because these people have found the joy of life in the local area and in the borderlands.

Watching the Warats, Jurchens, Koreans, and Tibetans who were originally illiterate and couldn't even speak Chinese learn to write Chinese characters and speak Chinese day by day, there was an indescribable sense of accomplishment in this.

And what can they do when they stay in Hanlin Academy?

Although He An's letter is very clear and clear, revising history is a matter of leaving a name in history, but after staying on the border for a long time, they have long forgotten what fame and fortune are.

Of course, it's not that no one has returned to Beijing.

Those who are keen on fame and fortune are naturally willing to go back, but how can He An choose people, how can he choose such people to cultivate history?

"Looks like we'll have to ask the Academy of History for help!" In the end, He An could only make a request to the School of History of the Royal Academy to ask the students and teachers there to help revise history.

Revision of books, especially the history of retirement, is an extremely tedious and time-consuming matter.

A history book may take several years, or even more than ten years, to complete.

Because it is not only necessary to use the most concise words to describe the distinctive characters of historical figures and analyze the various factors of the outbreak of historical events, but also to examine the authenticity of historical figures and historical events.

Repeated verification, repeated comparison, checking and filling in the gaps, and so on, are really cumbersome.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, have you heard? Our Son of Heaven has built a cemetery in Pishan Mountain, north of Luoyang, where only warriors who fight for the country are eligible to be buried. ”

Far away in the Zhou army camp on the east bank of the Euphrates River, all the middle and upper-level generals of Ma Jinzhong and Sun Dingzong gathered together and said with wonderful expressions.

"We are in a foreign country, throwing our heads and spilling blood, aren't we just for the sake of profit before death and fame after death?

Now, the Son of Heaven has given us a chance, an opportunity that is enough to glorify the ages.

As long as we can defeat the Europa coalition this time, we will have the opportunity to be buried in the Bishan Cemetery after our deaths, and be commemorated by the Son of Heaven and the Manchu Dynasty.

What an honor is this?

I don't think the old man needs to say much here!

Therefore, after discussing with the Marquis of Xining, the old man decided to start a decisive battle against the Europa coalition forces in three days, and if he did not succeed, he would become a benevolent.

Can you have confidence, generals? ”

Looking at Sun Dingzong's blazing eyes, the eyes of the middle and high-level generals present were also bright, and they shouted: "Yes!" ”

Perhaps, some of the generals here will be greedy for life and afraid of death, but for the glory behind them, for their children and grandchildren to be able to hold their heads high, they will still sacrifice their lives at the necessary moment.

Because they hope that one day in many years' time, their children and grandchildren can proudly say to others: "My father/grandfather/great-grandfather/ancestor is buried in Bishan Cemetery!" ”

Then point to their tombstones, and their descendants can proudly tell their heroic deeds.

"Brother Sun, you say, can we win this time?" After everyone left, Ma Jinzhong asked with a frown.

In Ma Jinzhong's view, although this can boost morale, the strength of the Europa coalition army should not be underestimated, and in the face of them, the Zhou army is actually not sure of victory.

"Brother Zhou, I have just said that if this battle is not successful, it will be a benevolent!" Sun Dingzong sighed and said.

How could Sun Dingzong not know that the victory or defeat in this battle was five or five?

But Sun Dingzong had no choice.

Although the imperial court did not urge, Sun Dingzong still learned from the letters of his brother Sun Ding'an and his nephew Sun Qicheng that now, the finances of the imperial court have reached the point of being stretched.

Even, the Son of Heaven also ordered the transfer of 50 million taels of reserve silver from the Royal Bank to ease the financial pressure of the imperial court.

An army of 300,000 is fighting outside the country, and the salary required is not a small amount.

Whether it is weapons and ammunition, grain, grass, quilts, and clothing, the silver consumed from the Great Zhou or the South Seas to the present side of the Euphrates River is huge.

The household department once made a statistic and found that the 300,000 troops who were on the expedition to West Asia consumed various materials every day added up to more than 200,000 taels of silver.

Take the most ordinary grain and grass as an example, when it was purchased in Nanyang, the price of grain and grass was about half a tael of silver per stone.

And when it was transported to West Asia, plus the consumption along the way, the value of one stone of grain would be more than two taels of silver.

It more than quadrupled all at once.

That's why so much silver is consumed in one day.

And this battle has dragged on for more than half a year, so in this half a year, their expeditionary force has consumed at least 40 million taels of silver.

If you add the soldiers' salaries and all kinds of pension silver in the future, the silver consumed will be even more sea.

It was precisely because of this that Sun Dingzong decided to start a decisive battle with the Europa coalition forces.

Because the imperial court simply can't afford it.

Of course, there is another key factor in this, and that is that they do not understand the strategy of being able to fight and feed the war.

Or rather, they don't bother to do it!

If Sun Dingzong and Ma Jinzhong decided to feed the war by war, they could directly plunder the rations of the local people nearby.

But in this way, the army will inevitably arouse the hatred of the local people.

Originally, for the people of the Ottoman Empire, they hated the two armies fighting on their soil.

But hatred is also divided into many situations.

After Ma Jinzhong and Sun Dingzong gave a lecture before the decisive battle of Wan, generals at all levels returned to their military headquarters and delivered orders to the grassroots generals one by one.

Then the grassroots generals told the soldiers one by one.

In this way, after three days, the 300,000 Great Zhou troops on the east bank of the Euphrates River were mobilized, and the Euphrates River was forced to cross the Euphrates River amid the rumbling artillery fire, and launched a charge against the Europa coalition forces on the opposite side. 、

In contrast to the Great Zhou, the financial situation of the Europa countries is not much better.

It's not that their finances were stretched thin in the first place.

In fact, although the number of the Europa coalition army was larger than that of the Great Zhou army, and it could be shared among various countries, the food and material materials they had to bear were not much.

But the bad thing is that three months ago, the Jewish consortium headed by the Moses brothers continued to stir up trouble in the financial market of Europa, using various real estate, land, and mineral resources as collateral to extract a large amount of real money from banks in various countries.

Not only that, but the Jewish consortium also transported all the real money and silver in its own banks to the Great Zhou.

In this way, not only the major banks of the Europa countries, but also the depositors of the banks under the Jewish consortium were also trapped.

According to the joint statistics of the Bank of England and the Bank of France, this time, the Jewish consortium headed by the Moses brothers took at least 100 tons of gold and more than 500 tons of silver from major European banks.

By the time the European governments reported it, the Moses brothers and other Jewish consortia had already left, and had now arrived in the Nanyang region by boat, and they were afraid that it would take less than a month to reach Luoyang, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, safely.

At this time, the finances of the Europa countries completely collapsed.

More than 100 tons of gold, no matter in any country, is an astronomical amount, even in Europe.

No country in Europe can afford such a loss.

Even if it were to be shared among countries, it would be an unbearable loss.

If that's all there is, in fact, it's quite strong, and the European countries can still tide over the difficulties.

But what if there is a run on banks everywhere?

The depositors of the banks of the Jewish consortium headed by the Moses brothers were lost, and the depositors of other banks naturally wept when they learned about it, and went to the banks where they deposited their money to exchange their hard-earned money.

As a result, governments and banks will not have enough real money in reserve.

A few days later, the depositor saw that the money he had deposited in the bank could not be withdrawn, so what could he have paid back?

As a result, a large number of people began to march on the streets.

This situation soon affected the officers and men fighting on the front line.

Because the grassroots soldiers of the Europa coalition army found that they had not been paid money for two months, and the food was not as good as before.

Well-informed people naturally know what is going on.

If there is one person who knows the reason for the matter, there will naturally be a second person who knows, and so on, and over time, the entire Europa coalition army knows what kind of big things are happening in Europe itself.

For a time, the entire Europa coalition barracks were panicked!

At this time, the 300,000-strong army on the other side of the Euphrates River launched a decisive battle against the Europa coalition forces......