Are all the generals of Great Qin who have read books?

How can one by one say this?

He really didn't know how to refute what he said, of course, he didn't want to refute himself, he just wanted to clarify his position and attitude, showing that he was not loyal to Yang Yinglong, but did his duty, and had no other intentions.

That's what he said, but whether the other party believes it or not, that's not something he can decide.

"The students have nothing to say."

This is how he expressed his helplessness.

"Looking at your appearance, it doesn't seem that Yang Yinglong is a die-hard loyalist, and it doesn't seem that you plan to die for Yang Yinglong?"

Zheng Ying smiled.

"Student...... Students and families ......"

"Seeing that you eat and drink, and take a bath and change clothes, I know that you don't want to die, but whether you die or not is not up to me, wait until you go to Jingshi, see how Your Majesty decides."

Zheng Ying shook his head and looked at him again: "By the way, tell me, what did you think when you suggested Yang Yinglong to attack Sichuan before?" ”

"This ...... Naturally, because Sichuan has the smallest number of officers and soldiers, it is the easiest to deal with, and there are still many ambitious people in Sichuan, as long as we defeat Ma Qiancheng and kill Wang Xiangqian, and then raise our arms, Sichuan will inevitably emerge a large number of people with bad intentions.

And the terrain of Sichuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, very suitable for separating one side, the Great Qin was founded for a year, the foundation is not stable, and the family foundation is not thick, if you want to start a full-scale war, I am afraid that it will not be possible, and in the end it can only be peaceful, then Sichuan will be taken by Yang Yinglong. ”

Sun Shitai is still very honest.

Zheng Ying nodded and said: "What you said is basically right, but you still have three mistakes, first, Ma Qiancheng may not lose so quickly, second, Sichuan was defeated, and there is still a large army of our army in Yunnan, which can go north to support at any time."

Moreover, there is also an army in Hanzhong, which can be attacked in the south, and you may not be able to gain a firm foothold in Sichuan, and third, you underestimate the national strength of Great Qin, and His Majesty the Emperor has prepared military supplies for this war for half a year. ”

"Half a year's quartermaster?"

Sun Shitai was stunned: "160,000 troops, half a year's military supplies?" ”

"Yes, half a year's military supplies and half of the strength of Jiangnan have been used to supply the 160,000 troops, Your Majesty is bound to win this battle, and you have underestimated Your Majesty's determination to regard this battle as the real battle for the founding of Great Qin."

Zheng Ying's face was full of pride.

"How many people do you need? Aren't you afraid of chaos? ”

Sun Shitai was incomprehensible.

"This ...... If you have the opportunity, you will see it, I won't say more, but your strategy is also a kind of gambling, and the smell of gambling is too strong, and there is no certainty of victory, right? ”

Regarding Zheng Ying's question, Sun Shitai smiled bitterly: "How can there be a perfect thing in the world? There are times when marching and fighting wars also depend on the will of God, it is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to achieve things, even if I can calculate everything, I can't calculate God. ”

"You're self-aware."

Zheng Ying nodded and said: "Okay, you go back, stay honest, wait for Your Majesty to deal with you, if Your Majesty doesn't kill you, count you lucky, if Your Majesty kills you, count yourself unlucky, but you deserve it, don't blame anyone." ”

Sun Shitai nodded bitterly.

"Students don't dare to blame anyone."

After Sun Shitai left, Zheng Ying thought about it again and again, but still wrote a letter and handed it to his personal soldiers, so that the personal soldiers could send it to Beijing as quickly as possible.

From Banzhou to Jingshi, the battle report arrived first, and it took fourteen days, and Zheng Ying's letter arrived later, which took fifteen days.

When Xiao Ruxun received the battle report, it was already the beginning of February, and the capital had already finished the New Year and Lantern Festival, and the people of Beijing received the rice, noodles, meat, and cloth rewarded by Xiao Ruxun, and spent a good year together and had a good meal.

Although the people of Kyoto are now able to eat two meals to their stomachs, and some families are beginning to move towards three meals, eating meat is still not an easy task.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun widely promoted the raising of poultry and livestock in various villages and towns in Beizhili to enrich the people's tables, and promoted the planting of bean plants to make tofu and put it on the market, so that people could eat more tofu and consume enough protein.

If you can't eat meat, then eat tofu for a while, and in the future, you will definitely be able to let people eat meat and make your body great, which is Xiao Ruxun's biggest expectation.

During the Chinese New Year, the food in the palace has become more luxurious, which is also specially approved by Xiao Ruxun, during the Chinese New Year, he invited the courtiers to eat, not the kind of invitation in batches, but in batches, not according to the level of the official position, but according to the size of the contribution.

According to the ranking of officials' political achievements in the past year, the first batch of invitations with the best political performance belonged to the first-class banquet.

Invite them to eat the best food, use the most high-end ingredients to let those chefs who are recruited from all over the world give full play to their strengths, and invite them to eat a variety of luxurious dishes from the mountains and seas.

Not only that, but they are also allowed to bring their parents and their wives and children to the banquet together, give them enough face in front of their parents, wives and daughters, and personally give them big red envelopes, and their parents, wives and daughters also have their own rewards.

Then in turn, those with inferior political achievements will eat a slightly inferior second-class banquet and get a second-class red envelope.

There are nine levels of such a level, just like the nine grades of officials, one level follows one level, and you are not allowed to bring your family to the next three levels, and you are not allowed to bring your family to the banquet alone, and the red envelopes are pitiful, and the last level is all mediocre officials with poor political performance, not only do not give red envelopes to bring your family, but eat white rice and pickles.

Taunt them for eating dry rice for nothing, and warn them that if they continue to do so, there will be nothing to eat.

After such a rule was set, all the officials knew at a glance that this was the barometer of the Holy Family made by the emperor, and those who enjoyed the special banquet were obviously very favored, and those who were concerned by the Holy Family were very likely to be promoted in the second year.

The latter asked the grandfather to tell the grandmother to burn high incense, hoping that he would not be reduced to his official position, or even deposed and driven out of the court.

Moreover, Xiao Ruxun's practice of inviting officials to eat New Year's dinner also gave birth to a very interesting phenomenon in the officialdom of Daqin, and the more later, the more people described the high-grade officials who could only eat low-level banquets as "X high-ranking officials" or "X products and X officials", in order to mock their corpses and vegetarian meals.

For example, if a scholar eats an eighth-class or ninth-class banquet because of his extremely poor performance or mediocrity, people begin to ridicule him, he is a ninth-class high-ranking official, or a second-class and ninth-class official, not to mention whether the emperor wants to cut him down, and the ridicule of his colleagues can make him embarrassed.

There is no clear standard for the level of this banquet, everything is the emperor's will, and the rank and status of the officials have nothing to do with the number of banquets they eat.

The emperor thinks that you can eat a few banquets, so he will send you an invitation to a banquet, and when you wait until the ninth class, it is still a wait, and there is hope, although you are reprimanded, you have to eat white rice and pickles, so you still have food to eat.

There are also some officials who will be arrested for corruption and crimes, and they will not be able to eat this banquet, which is basically equivalent to the end of political life, because the emperor's meaning is that Daqin has no more money for you to eat.

The officials thought so, they thought for themselves, but if the emperor did the same, it would confirm the officials' thoughts, so five days after the New Year, after the next wave of officials in the court changed positions and purged, the officials basically determined the emperor's thoughts.

The emperor wants the court officials to always be vigilant, always have to do things, don't think about the corpse, and hold power but do nothing, which is as hateful as corruption.

And in such an atmosphere, the first good news of the second year of Longwu came.

Banzhou won a great victory, the Great Qin army successfully pacified the Banzhou rebel Yang Yinglong, Yang Yinglong's father and son were captured alive, and the Banzhou rebels were annihilated.