In the wooden house, Jiang Wei's face sank like water, and he talked eloquently:

"Yesterday Yamuji was strong, then Yamuji was king; Today, Arden is strong, and Arden is king; Tomorrow you are strong in Yaraso, and Yaraso will be king. Even if there really is a day, I can tell you unmistakably that when you are out of reach, there will be new conquerors who will come out to challenge, not to mention, my great man is always an insurmountable mountain in front of you! You Wolf and Qiang people have changed from generation to generation, and you have never escaped the fate of slaughter, dumping, and destruction! If you don't believe it, let me ask where the first Lingqiang and Dangqiang, who were in the middle of the day, had 100,000 troops, and covered an area of thousands of miles, where is they now? ”

Yadan smelled it, and his face turned red. As a well-educated person among the Qiang people, he naturally knows the history of the Qiang people very well.

The first Lingqiang in Jiang Wei's mouth once united with the Xiongnu in the former Han Dynasty, and joined more than 100,000 troops to attack Lingju and Angu; In the following year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent the general Li Xi and others to lead an army of 100,000 troops deep into Hehuang and chase Zhuqiang westward. After chasing Zhuqiang to the west, Lingqiang retreated to the area of Qinghai Lake and gradually declined.

And Burning Dangqiang is the direct descendant of the legendary leader of the Qiang people. During the reign of Qiang King Dian Liang, the Qiang army was strong and conquered the surrounding Qiang tribes such as Xianling and Beinan; And Dian Liang's son Dian Wu further unified the Qiang tribe.

Under the leadership of Dian Liang and Dian Wu, it can be said that he was the leader of the Qiang tribal alliance, and he repeatedly invaded Wang Mang's new dynasty and the Later Han dynasty, which once shook the foundation of the imperial court's rule.

Later, in the Later Han Dynasty, regardless of the country's capital, under the continuous attack with all its might, some of the burning Dangqiang went away to the Faqiang area, and the rest were divided and conquered, scattered and sinicized.

Regarding Jiang Wei's assertion, Yadan instinctively wanted to refute it, but he couldn't find a suitable example, after all, what he said was an indisputable fact.

At this moment, Jiang Wei interrupted his contemplation and suddenly asked:

"You must be very admiring of Chinese etiquette articles, otherwise why would you read Han poetry and books? Have you ever dreamed back one day at midnight that you were a noble descendant of Zhuxia instead of a lowly barbarian who was spurned? ”

Yadan snorted coldly, noncommittal.

Jiang Wei slowly approached, his eyes were awe-inspiring, and he said, "Actually, there is one thing, I can talk to you about it." ”

"During the period of the three emperors and five emperors of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the three seedlings were counted in Jianghuai and Jingzhou, so Shun returned to the emperor, exiled the Gonggong to Youling, exiled Huandou to Chongshan, exiled the three seedlings to the three dangers, and banished the Kun to Yushan, so that they could lead Beidi, Nanman, Xirong, and Dongyi respectively, and then the world was Xianfu. After Sanmiao was banished to the West, he became the ancestor of your Xirong. ”

After a pause, he continued:

"After these four people are all Huang and Yan, then are they descendants of Zhuxia Miao? Not necessarily, only those who practice etiquette and are close to China can be Xia, and the rest are barbarians. During the Zhou Dynasty, Zheng Guo was originally a Zhuxia, but because his behavior was not in accordance with righteousness, he was regarded as Yidi; The state of Chu originally called itself a barbarian, but after the civilization progressed, the princes of the Central Plains allied with it, and they no longer regarded it as a barbarian. A certain saying: Yidi and Huaxia, then Huaxia; Those who are in China and Yi Di are Yi Di. ”

"Yadan, that's as simple as that I want to tell you. As long as you are with my Chinese clothes and my Chinese etiquette, you will agree that your department is qualified to be listed in the forest of Zhuxia Miao descendants. Thousands of years later, the descendants of your people will regard you as the three seedlings to Xirong; But if you don't want to forge ahead and cling to what you are lacking, then there is nothing to say between you and me, and all resorts to force are enough. ”

Jiang Wei said that, then turned around and led Ma Dai, Wei Rong, and Pang Hong out of the wooden house. As he was about to close the door, he suddenly stood up again and said:

"The Han people have a saying, called those who know the times are Junjie. Someone only gives you a stick of incense time to consider. If you still can't make up your mind. So what the big man wants, he will take it himself. Don't say something unpredictable! ”

Yadan looked at the slowly closing wooden door, his face uncertain, and fell into deep thought again.

However, it was said that the four of them walked outside the door one after another, and after Ma Dai instructed the surrounding soldiers to strictly guard them, he frowned and said: "Yadan is naturally best if he figures it out, but if he disobeys the discipline, it will be a trouble." ”

Jiang Wei smiled and said, "Brother Ma is too worried." The Qiang people are accustomed to eating the jungle, and hundreds of lives in this part are in the hands of you and me, they have no choice but one way to go - that is, to submit to my big man! Those who are as wise as Yadan will surely know how to advance and retreat. After a stick of incense, you will know. ”

Ma Dai was reasonable, nodded, and let go of a matter of concern.

Outside the house at this time, the Han army was driving all the Qiang captives to an open place to guard, and the scene was quite chaotic. When he saw this, he confessed and led Wei Rongce to command immediately.

For a while, only Jiang Wei and Pang Hong were left on the grassland to stand in the wind. When the morning breeze is warm, the fragrance of plants and trees is sent into the mouths and noses of the two, and there will be a fragrance when they smell.

Pang Hong was moved by Jiang Wei's words, took two steps forward, stood side by side with him, and praised:

"Hongyuan only knows that Huaxia is Huaxia, and barbarians are barbarians, and the two are like chasms, and they are clearly distinguished. I don't want to say anything about Boyo today, Jiaohong has a sense of eye-opening. Those who are Yidi and Huaxia are Huaxia; Those who are in China and Yi Di will be Yi Di, and we will wait for this theory as a call next, why worry about the uncertainties? ”

Jiang Wei turned around and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Giant Master, you are still too young and thinking too simply. The Qiang people can believe what a certain party said, but you and I can't believe it. ”

Pang Hong was stunned for a moment and asked, "Oh? Why is that? ”

There can also be another explanation for this sentence, that is, when Yidi enters China, he must treat Yidi in a Chinese way, because when Yidi is powerful, they will definitely treat my Huaxia Miao descendants in a barbaric way. And to treat Yi Di in the Chinese way is to either force Yi Di to accept sinicization and take the initiative to surrender; Either the disobedient will be completely eliminated and there will be no future troubles. Master, do you know why? ”

Pang Hong hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”

Jiang Wei straightened out his thoughts a little and said:

"In the past, the Zhou family was weak, Yidi rose in all directions, destroyed Zong Zhou, and King Ping was forced to move east to Luoyi; As for Qin Xing, it is to build the Great Wall as a royal palace; At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the national power was in trouble, and Gaozu was besieged by Baideng, so he had to ask for peace with his relatives; In the period of Emperor Wu, the national strength was strong, so that Huo Bi rode north but the Huns, sealed the wolf Juxu, and finally played my famous name in China, which can be praised for thousands of years! However, the eunuchs of the Later Han Dynasty took turns to interfere in politics, the country declined, the officials were corrupt, and the Qiang people had trouble again. Since the Qiang rebellion for more than ten years, the soldiers and divisions are old, and they do not take a break, and the military expenses are transferred to the committee, with more than 24 billion, the government money is exhausted, extending to the inner counties, and the dead of the border people are innumerable, and the two states are cool, so they are wasted. ”

As he spoke, he gradually changed color.

"The later princes rose up, which had a great deal to do with the Qiang chaos and the waste of the imperial treasury. Giant, it can be seen that the life and death of my Huaxia are closely related to the rise and fall of the surrounding barbarian Rong Di. You don't see Cao Wei pacifying Donghu like killing chickens and dogs, and my big Han is like digging into the bag to get things, in fact, this is just the appearance, but in fact it can't last. ”

Pang Hong frowned and asked, "What is the meaning of appearance?" ”

Jiang Wei explained: "Don't worry, listen to me carefully." In the past, the first king ruled Kyushu, and divided the near and remote areas of Wanggi. The first king knew that Yidi had different temperaments and were difficult to control with morality, so he excluded them from Huaxia far away, reduced their tribute, and only made an alliance with them. Therefore, three generations have opened up a vast territory, and the country has been extended. But to put it mildly, the prescription of the former Han Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, and even the current Cao Wei Yurong is contrary to the rule of the previous kings, which is fundamentally wrong. ”

Pang Hong said: "I was about to ask for advice." ”

"In the former Han Dynasty, Xian Lingqiang invaded the border, and the general Zhao Chongguo moved Xian Lingqiang to the interior; In the Later Han Dynasty, Burndang Qiang invaded, and Ma Wenyuan (Ma Yuan) moved Burndang to Sanfu. The imperial court, greedy for temporary stability, believed that the Qiang people could be tamed, calculated the expediency of daily expenses, and forgot the long-term strategy of governing the world. Is this what those who perceive subtlety do? What's more, Cao Wei was afraid that the lord would become bigger, so he forcibly moved the people of Hanzhong and Wudu Qiang to Guanzhong and Longxi. They have forgotten the ancestral teaching, 'Those who are not of my race will have different hearts.' ”

"You don't see, since Dong Zhuo's rebellion and the rise of the princes, there is not one Han in Guanzhong and Longxi, and the Hu people of different races are moving more and more, and the friction and contradictions between the Han and Qiang are also becoming more and more intense, and they may evolve into a spark when they will burn the prairie fire. Now that the Wei State is in power, and the soldiers are all experienced in a hundred battles, they can still barely suppress these Yidi who are not subject to the king. But now that the conquest between the Three Kingdoms is not stopped, the more powerful the internal friction of our Han people, the more powerful Qianghu is, under the advantages of one another, let me ask the Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Hebei after a hundred years, must it still be the world of my Han family? ”

These words were commanding and loud, Pang Hong listened to it, pondered for a long time, the morning breeze was slightly cool, but he was sweating profusely.

At this time, he had already changed into a look of inquiry, and asked concentratingly: "In my opinion, in the face of such a situation, how should we and other descendants of China deal with it?" ”

Jiang Wei looked at the east, stood with his hands in his hands, and said slowly:

"What we can do is to unify the United States in the shortest possible time and completely eliminate civil strife. Borrowing the prestige of the Han family, it inspires people internally and protects the Han people; Hold high the banner of respecting the king and sinicizing Yidi. ”

"Dare to ask how to respect the king and how to sinicize Yidi?"

"Respecting the king is the first to advocate in the Spring and Autumn Period, the way of respecting the king is to defend the advanced Chinese culture in order to develop, and the opposition is to succumb to the customs of Yidi and regress to Gou'an. Mencius said: I have heard of those who use Xia to change to raze, but I have not heard of those who have changed to raze. As descendants of China, what we need to do is not only to destroy the disobedient Qianghu body, but also to inspire the spirit of the obedient. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Wei turned around, his gaze gradually becoming cold.

"Jushi, you have to remember that since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, my Chinese ancestors have opened the way by force and crusaded against the unsubordinate; After the ritual music, conquer its heart, so that my Huaxia can become the representative of the royal road, and I can wait for future generations to become the master of this land, and get its anointing. Since you and I are the descendants of China, for the sake of long-term planning, and for the sake of future generations, we should follow the practice of the three generations of ancestors and sages Guan Zhong, and follow my Hu Kechang, and those who oppose me really do not need to be polite, and must be absolutely eliminated from the physical body to the spirit. ”

When Pang Hong heard this, he was silent.

While he was trying to sort out and digest Jiang Wei's remarks, he was shocked. Because in his heart, Jiang Wei has always been a very kind person, but he doesn't know why he has such a deep hatred for Yidi.

But Jiang Wei, who has been a man for two generations, understands very well, a hundred years later, the Han people who are of Chinese Miao descent are in decline, and no one can suppress the Yidihu people who are all over the Central Plains and beyond.

The Wuhu Rebellion, the purgatory of the Han people, officially opened a chapter.

As a result, the Heng Dynasty went to the north, and it was all mounds and ruins; Cuitong has been west, and the fireworks have been cut off; Qi Fang Quan Zhao, died in chaos; People's livelihood is depleted, and most of them will be. The Han people are cannibalistic, the bones are all over the field, there is no smoke for thousands of miles, and there is no crown belt in China.

In Yi Di's eyes, the old and thin men of the Han people call it 'Rao Grip Fire', the Han women and young Ai are called 'unenvious sheep', and the Han children are called 'and the bones are rotten', and they are collectively called 'two-legged sheep'.

This is how Yidi treats the Chinese Miao people.

In the past, someone asked Confucius: What is it like to repay grievances with virtue?

Confucius replied: How to repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue.

His reply is simple and rude, that is, there is revenge and revenge, and there is kindness to repay kindness.

Yidi is immoral, faithless, and rude, like a jackal and a beast, and his teacher is nameless and treacherous. In Jiang Wei's view, to deal with such an enemy, Confucius's words of response are deeply involved.

The suffering and humiliation of the Han people did not stop there.

After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties dominated the world and created a prosperous era.

The actual founder of the prosperous era, Tang Taizong Li Shimin once said a widely circulated sentence, that is, the so-called "since ancient times, all China has been noble, and I love it as one".

When Yidi identified with Chinese culture and "Mu Ren and Righteousness, and Etiquette and Pleasure", he adopted an attitude of "no one else is the king" and advocated breaking racial boundaries.

But in Jiang Wei's view, Tang Taizong himself had reservations about this sentence, because the Tang Dynasty at that time, under his leadership, was constantly fighting the Eastern and Western Turks through large-scale wars.

The Chinese civilization occupied a dominant position in the conflict between China and Yi at that time, and he himself was honored as the "Heavenly Khan" by virtue of his outstanding martial arts.

Therefore, Jiang Wei privately guessed that Tang Taizong's words were very likely to be deliberately said to Hu Ren - just to win people's hearts.

What's more, only the victor is qualified to say such words as "love alone is one", so why can the vanquished say "king" and "harmony"? It's pretty much the same to be fused.

However, his descendants are missing a heart.

During the period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, because of the collapse of the Juntian system, the government military system could not be sustained, and the prime minister Li Linfu said: "It is better to use the generals, he is born and male, raise horses, and march in a long array, and his nature is also, if His Majesty raises and uses it, he will die, and Yidi is not enough for the country." ”

Tang Xuanzong Li Longji accepted it, did not take precautions against Yidi, and treated him favorably, especially An Lushan.

Such a policy of emphasizing the outside over the inside eventually led to the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, and even after the revival of the Zhongxing, the feudal towns were still difficult to control.

Since then, foreign powers have risen one after another.

Among them, the Khitan survived until the destruction of the Tang Empire and the chaos of the Central Plains, won the land of Youyan, rose in the East, and dominated for a hundred years; Taking advantage of the east wind of the Huangchao Uprising, the party became the feudal officials of the Tang Dynasty, and they were mixed until the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and finally achieved the imperial industry of the Western Xia.

The brilliance of these two alien races made the Great Song Dynasty, who later inherited the Taoist system of China, suffer. This has a lot to do with the Tang Dynasty's overly open policy.

In Jiang Wei's view, openness reflects Huaxia's self-confidence and bearing, and it also has a reference role in compatibility; But there must be a limit to openness -

After all, the statement of the ancestors that 'if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different' is by no means alarmist.

After being silent for a long time, Jiang Wei saw Pang Hongwu thinking silently, so he said:

"There is an example, in the pre-Qin period, the Shu people were also the people of Huawai, the generation of Yidi. Qin general Sima Coo led the army to destroy the Shu State, martial arts and rituals, the Shu people who dared to resist were wiped out, and the Shu people who obeyed were taught by etiquette and civilization, you see a hundred and ten years later, the Shu people have been completely integrated into the Chinese bloodline, and now they are a branch of the Han people, and there is no more "Shu people". What we have to do is to follow the example of our sages. ”

"Of course, now that Cao Wei is powerful, we still need to borrow the power of the Qiang people. Therefore, what we just said was to unite all the forces that can be united. When the world is decided, we must not return to the treasury and put the horse in Nanshan, because if we don't sinicize all these Yidi for a day, our cause will not be completed in one day. Of course, this is not an overnight effort, you and I should encourage ourselves! ”

Pang Hong finally understood it in general. He bowed deeply to Jiang Wei and said respectfully: "Hearing Bo You's high arguments, it is like seeing the clouds and seeing the fog, and you are taught in a grand manner." ”

With that, he walked to the hut.

Jiang Wei said: "Giant Master, a stick of incense hasn't arrived yet." ”

Pang Hong turned around and said: "Just now, you are righteous to Yadanxiao, and this upright teacher is also; This time, I want to make it clear to him that if he does not obey the Han Dynasty, hundreds of their clansmen will be wiped out. In this way, Qi Zheng was in harmony, and Yadan had to descend. ”

Jiang Wei laughed when he heard this, and waved his hand to signal Pang Hong to do it boldly.

He turned around and looked around, but saw that on the grassland, Ma Dai, Liu Yin, Zhao Tong, and Wei Rong were all busy driving away the Qiang people, or gathering livestock, or treating the wounded.

At the end of the day, a bright red morning sun finally jumped out of the valley, evaporating the thin clouds and shining brightly.

Jiang Wei was bathed in the morning light, and suddenly there was a burst of relief.

"As long as I have a successor in Huaxia, why worry about the uncertainties and why worry about the Han Dynasty!"