Chapter Eighty-Nine: Willing to Be a Horse Bone

Seed Master Dao looked at Zhao Ming as if he was deciding a very difficult matter, he bit his somewhat shriveled lip with his teeth and smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for the national disaster, maybe the Seed Master Dao could really die happily on the bed, but now that the Seed Master Dao has been so cherished by the emperor, the old minister has nothing to repay, so he can only return the horse leather shroud!" ”

Zhao Ming looked at the sitting seed master, and couldn't help but sigh and said, "Old general, your body really doesn't allow you to lead troops to fight again, so I don't want you..."

Seed Master Dao looked at Zhao Ming and said quietly: "Doesn't the emperor want to hear what kind of words the Seed Master Dao wants the emperor to add to the edict?" ”

Zhao Ming looked at the cultivator with an extremely resolute face and said, "I am listening! ”

The Seed Master Dao said in an unusually calm voice: "Once there are variables in the war, the Seed Master Dao has the right to delegate military power to others. ”

Zhao Ming looked at the unusually calm face of the Seed Master Dao and said, "Old General, are you really determined to push out the Seed Seed?" ”

"I really thought about our family and wanted to leave a little blood for our family, but judging from the current appearance of the child, the patriotic heart of the seed can show the sun and the moon!"

Zhao Ming didn't say anything, he knew that if he let the Seed Master Dao go out of the mountain again, it would definitely be able to improve the determination and morale of the soldiers to resist the Jin, and although it was impossible for the Seed Master Dao to personally handle the horse, but the Seed Master Dao's understanding of the battle situation and his mastery of tactics could really inflict a heavy blow on the Jin soldiers when they crossed the river.

However, once he appointed the seed master to Mengjin to control the war of resistance of the various armies, then deep down in his heart he really felt a little guilty about this veteran.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ming shook his head and said, "Old General, speaking from the heart, your mood is really gratifying, but it is really difficult for you to agree!" ”

The seed master Dao was not in a hurry to distinguish with Zhao Ming, and asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, the story of King Yan Zhao's daughter buying horse bones back then, has the emperor ever forgotten it?" ”

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Yan Zhao took the throne after cleaning up the ruined Yan Kingdom, and he was a corporal of Lixian and used a rich dowry to recruit talents, wanting to rely on them to avenge the killing of his father by Po Yan of Qi State. For this reason, he went to see Mr. Guo Kui and said: "The Qi State took advantage of the danger of the people to attack our Yan State, and I know that the Yan State is weak and unable to retaliate. However, it is my wish if I can get a wise man to govern the country with me, and I will be ashamed of the Snow King. May I ask what should I do if I want to avenge the country?"

Mr. Guo Kui replied: "The monarch who has achieved the imperial cause takes the sage as his teacher, the monarch who has achieved the royal cause takes the sage as his friend, the monarch who has achieved hegemony takes the sage as his minister, and the monarch who is about to perish takes the sage as his servant." If one can grovel to serve the sages, and bow down to the lower position to receive teachings, then those who are a hundred times more talented than themselves will come; Study earlier and rest later, seek advice from others before meditating, and then the one who can outperform himself ten times will come; What others do, they themselves will follow, and then the person who can be equal to himself will come; If you rely on a few cases, with a cane, and command others with an arrogant manner, then the man who drives the errand will come; If you indulge in arrogance, behave roughly, shout and curse, and shout loudly, then only slaves and prisoners come. This is how to implement the royal way and attract talents throughout the ages. If the king really wants to widely use the sages of the country, he should visit in person, and the sages of the world will definitely rush to the Yan Kingdom when they hear about the king's move. ”

King Zhao said, "Whom should I visit first?" Mr. Guo Kui said: "I heard that in ancient times, there was a monarch who wanted to buy a thousand horses with his money, but he couldn't buy it for three years. One of the palace attendants said to him, 'Please let me buy it.' And the king sent him. Three months later, he finally found Maxima, but unfortunately the horse was dead, but he still bought the horse's bones for five hundred gold, and returned to the king to restore his life. The king was furious and said, 'I want a live horse, where is there a dead horse, and five hundred gold have been wasted?' The servant said to the monarch with confidence: 'It is worth five hundred gold to buy a dead horse, let alone a live horse?' People all over the world must think that you are good at buying horses, and Maxima will soon be sent. So in less than a year, several horses arrived. If the king really wants to recruit talented people, then start with (respect) me, (those who are not very talented in my way are courteous), let alone those who are more talented than me? Why didn't they come to you because they were far away from Yan Kingdom? So King Zhao built a house for Guo Kui and worshipped him as a teacher. The news spread, Le Yi came from Wei, Zou Yan from Qi, and Ju Xin also came from Zhao, and talents rushed to gather in Yan. King Zhao also paid tribute to the dead in the kingdom, comforted the living, and shared weal and woe with the people. In the twenty-eighth year of King Yan Zhao, the Yan Kingdom was rich and powerful, and the soldiers were in a good mood and willing to serve. So King Zhao used Le Yi as a general, and Qin Chu and Zhao Wei Han of the Three Jin Dynasty jointly planned to attack the State of Qi, but the State of Qi was defeated, and King Min of Qi fled abroad. The Yan army defeated the army alone, and fought until Linzi, the capital of Qi, plundered all the treasures there, and burned down the palace and temple of Qi. The cities of Qi that were not captured, only Ju and Jimo remained.

Zhao Ming is not very familiar with this history, but now when he listens to the story of the seed master, Zhao Ming is silent. Zhao Ming understood the meaning of the Dao of the Seed Master very well. Since the Taizu of the Great Song Dynasty, the military power was released with a glass of wine, and since then it has created a peculiar situation of supervising the military with literature, thus laying the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers.

This situation is not only a question of which monarch, but also a problem in the system, which has also caused the people of the Northern Song Dynasty and the scholars to emphasize literature and ignore military force, and it is really difficult to break this consciousness.

Zhao Ming suddenly had a flash of inspiration, understood the meaning of the Seed Master's Dao, he looked at the Seed Master Dao with shining eyes, and said, "The old general hopes that Zhao Huan can achieve the hegemony of King Zhao?" ”

Seed Master Dao looked at Zhao Ming and nodded: "Thinking of my China, since ancient times, the land of Longxing has been Chang'an, Shaanxi. After the death of the Tang Dynasty, the monarchs wandered between Luoyang and Kaifeng, which is nothing more than that these two places belong to the Central Plains, but these two places can certainly make the city strong, but from the perspective of the entire terrain, it is not where the feng shui of the powerful country is, but the majestic place of King Yanzhao back then was a little domineering! ”

"Beijing!" Zhao Ming almost blurted out, he suddenly felt that the Seed Master Dao was really a rare talent, but it was a pity that the sky did not keep him. Zhao Ming sighed and said, "Youyun Sixteen Prefectures! ”

Seed Master Dao nodded and said: "If we can occupy Youzhou and gradually repair the Great Wall left over from the Warring States Period, it will be a natural barrier to defend against strong enemies, a good thing once and for all!" ”