There are some things that people are not born with. The one who is born to know and knows everything is called a saint, and only one is produced in 500 years. Ordinary people, as they grow older, with the broadening of their horizons, and with the expansion of their contact areas, just like Heguangxiu, will continue to progress and change.

There is a saying: live and nourish qi, and nourish the will.

What is the difference between a farmer's child and a nobleman's child? One is ragged and digging in the dirt; A brocade cloth and jade food, high above, looks unattainable, what kind of dragon son and grandson, what kind of heavenly nobles. Is there really a person who is born to be a master? Exchange the tanuki for the prince, transfer the peasant children and the noble children one by one, so that the peasant children are born in the aristocratic family, he can also be high, and even do better.

Two thousand years ago, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang asked, what kind of prince will Xiangning? As long as there is an opportunity, mud legs can also influence the course of history; At the critical moment, it will only be the mud legs who will influence the course of history.

Dunsher is no exception. Although it has only been a short seven or eight months since he took charge of the army, it can be said that the impact of these seven or eight months on him and the changes caused to him are far greater than those of the past ten or so years.

In the face of pressure, he is constantly learning, learning from his own or others' failures; learn from your own success or the success of others; Learn how others speak and behave; As important, he found one of the best teachers ,—— history. Everywhere he went, every gram and every city, he gathered hungrily, he read hungrily; Even on the busiest days, he doesn't forget to read a page or two every day.

Failure produces lessons; Successful lessons learned. From others, he can learn from the sophistication of human feelings; Countless characters and stories in history have taught him how to govern the army and even, how to govern the country.

Thousands of years of history, countless successes and failures, countless heroic deeds. They are the wisest and most silent teachers; History is the most colorful and pragmatic textbook. Because, not only can you see its beginning, its progress, you can also see its end.

Someone once said that if you read history thoroughly, there will be no difficulties that cannot be solved.

Honestly! With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. How can reading have no history? Su Zimei, a Song person, drank wine with the Book of Han, and every time she felt something, she was white, although she was a literati and an elegant thing; But every time Deng She read the biographies of "The Huns" and "Wei Qing and Huo Quai", he was also generous and excited several times.

The world is full of knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article. History books are serious, and history books are lively and lively; It doesn't tell you the big truth, it just puts all the facts in front of you, it's up to you to judge, it's up to you to experience. Flip it over, a dynasty; Close, a life.

After reading through the history books, you will understand the world and human feelings.

Deng She didn't dare to boast of reading through, his greatest strength was self-knowledge. But many of his actions have been affected, and a discerning person can find the traces of history from them. For example, right now, to fight Shenyang, or to increase troops in Liaozuo; He did not express his opinion, but first asked about the grain and grass; Then invite the Jurchen tribal chief.

What does it mean?

A rough man like Yang Wanhu may not be able to see it; How could a person like Wu Henian not know? Taking advantage of the time when the generals walked out, he deliberately slowed down, pulled to the back, followed Deng She in small steps, pouted his beard, cocked his thumb, and said in a low voice: "General, be smart!" ”

"Oh? What's so clever? ”

"There is a saying in the lowly position, like a thorn in the throat. Say it, for fear that the general will blame; After all, this is a military discussion, and there should be no more talk about lowly duties; But if you don't say it, you are disloyal to the general, and you are uneasy about your humble position. ”

There are a lot of flower intestines. Deng She glanced at him, smiled, and said, "Say!" You are not guilty. ”

"Yes." Wu Henian looked at the generals in front of him, lowered his voice, and whispered, "Look at the current situation, it is impossible to fight Shenyang; Defend Liaozuo, passive. With such a good opportunity, how can you just keep it? It's so rare that this opportunity. Humble thinks, the best policy should be! …… Humble and ignorant, there is only one way to get the best policy. ”

"Which way?"

"Surface defense; Secretly aggressive. He stole Deng She's expression and cautiously added, "This is just a humble opinion, a humble opinion." ”

Wu Henian's appearance is like a mouse stealing eggs, dodging and dodging, afraid that people in front of him will hear it; While muttering, he clenched his fists and gestured in front of his chest from time to time to strengthen his tone. Deng She saw it in his eyes, it was really funny, he laughed, patted Wu Henian on the shoulder, and said, "Foolish? What a fool's opinion, haha, your fool's opinion is good. ”

"The general has been awarded, the general has been awarded." Wu Henian leaned sideways, leaning towards Deng She; He walked headlong, hunched his waist, and bowed his hand again and again, saying, "Humble and honest, honest, fearful,......, honestly afraid." ”

As he spoke, he heard someone coughing. Wu Henian hurriedly turned to look, and saw that three or two steps away, Chen Hu stopped moving, presumably waiting for Deng She. Wu Henian clasped his hands together, bowed to Deng She, and said, "Don't dare to delay the general's business, take the first step in your humble position." Passing by Chen Hu, he smiled humbly.

Chen Hu's face was like water, he only nodded slightly, looked at him coldly and walked away, and said: "Nod your head and waist, flattery." General, such a villain, it's better to stay away. ”

Deng She smiled and said, "Uncle Chen still has this temper, and he can't rub sand in his eyes." ”

"Sand? He deserves it too! Chen Hu was very disdainful. What is Wu Henian? A thing that lifts shoes and licks his feet can't get into his eyes.

"Villains also have the usefulness of villains. …… Uncle Chen, what's the matter? ”

"Just before the military discussion, looking at the general's meaning, it seems that he has other ideas. Summoning the Jurchen tribal patriarch, do you want to fight? ”

"Uncle Chen didn't mention it, I also wanted to discuss it with Uncle Chen. Liaodong loses both, a good opportunity, it's a pity to let it go. I think so, we can't just guard, no matter how many people are sent by Gaizhou, after all, it is too far away, and it is in a corner, and I don't want Liaoshen to extend in all directions. If something changes, I'm afraid it's too late to respond. ”

"What does the general mean?"

"There are two ways to fight."

"Why are there two soldiers?"

"That's where the Jurchens come in. Shuangcheng and Guanbei are their hometowns, and there are too many Jurchens. We don't care about the northeast border, just the territory under the jurisdiction of my Shuangcheng Government, including those who moved in later for the winter, add up to no less than 70,000 or 80,000 people. ”

The northern part of Goryeo is located in the plateau area, where the Jurchens live, and the winters are bitter cold and long. Their level of production is low, and many of them do not even have a hut to live in, and the birch bark huts are only a few feet high, and they are covered with heavy snow, and they live and eat in them; In backward areas, even the dwellings are still in the crypts.

In terms of food, the Jurchens in the northeastern part of Shuangcheng, except for a few who were influenced by the Han Chinese, cultivated the land for a living; Most of them are still mainly fishing and hunting. When winter comes, the mountains are also sealed, the rivers are frozen, it is difficult to hunt and fish, it is difficult to call a cold and hungry, this day is lived, one word: bitter, in the eyes of the Han people in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, it is not an exaggeration to call it Ru Mao drinking blood.

Therefore, there are Jurchen tribes that migrated before, and other tribes look at it, and they are really doing well. Therefore, there are really a lot of people who have migrated in the later period.

"Excluding women and children, Ding Zhuang said that there are about 20,000 people, and one Tong Doulan rebellion can mobilize seven or eight thousand people within 100 miles,...... Uncle Chen, raising soldiers for a thousand days, is used for a while. Deng She meant a long time, and quoted a common saying, "As the saying goes, if you hit a child on a rainy day, you will be idle if you are idle." Uncle Chen. When people are idle, they will look for trouble. It's time to put them to use. ”

What Deng She said, Chen Hu had thought about it.

Deng She's conditions for the Jurchens were too good, and when they migrated, they gave land to those who farmed, those who hunted to the mountains, and those who fished to the fishing grounds, and set aside a piece of land for them to live in; It is also exempt from taxation for one to three years. Especially when Zhao Guo was in Jiashan, it can be said that whatever the Jurchens urgently needed, as long as it was not military supplies, he would give it, give it generously, and not ask for anything in return.

And he treated the Han people, Jurchens, and Goryeo people impartially, fairly, and justly. Who has no heart? Treat him with innocence, and he will repay him with boldness.

But then again, after all, dragons give birth to nine sons and sons are different. There are those who repay virtue with virtue, and there are those who repay virtue with grievances. Deng She treats Tong Doulan well, he is just as rebellious; Although there were a few people who received favor from Zhao Guo and did not participate, and they also reported the news, how many of them participated in the rebellion? Far greater than those who did not participate in the rebellion. Not to mention, there are quite a few neutral ones.

What does this mean?

This shows that Deng She's plan to recruit the Jurchens was half successful and half failed. Success in the Jurchens did come, and there were many; The failure failed to bring them under control, and civil strife broke out. Failure is more terrible than success.

Chen Hu nodded in agreement and said, "At first, we migrated the Jurchens and recruited them because there were too few Han people, and if we wanted to rule the vast majority of the Goryeo people, we had to have an alliance. The Jurchens, as the second largest force in the region, are the most suitable. Nowadays, there are quite a few Jurchens, and it is time to use them. ”

He was a little suspicious: "But, general, how to use it?" They are only now in civil strife, if we act rashly, will we? ”

Deng She smiled but did not answer, and said, "Winter is coming." ”

The two whispered, talking as they walked, and when they arrived in front of the dining hall, they saw Yang Wanhu and He Guangxiu standing outside. Chen Hu arched his hand and stepped into the hall. Deng She asked, "Two generals, why don't you go in?" ”

Ha Guangxiu took a half step forward: "I'm waiting for the general." ”

"Oh? Is there something wrong? ”

"It's nothing. It's just that the general, the military discussion just now, what do you mean, the two generals don't understand. ”

"I was about to discuss it with you two."

"General, please."

"Come here with your ears."

The three of them spoke softly, and when they didn't talk much, Yang Wanhu and He Guangxiu smiled. The sun rises, the sky shines into the courtyard, and the shadows of the trees and people are intertwined. The Jurchen tribal patriarchs who Bi Qianniu personally invited rushed over and said, "Back to the general, everyone has been invited, so come." ”

It is said that it is the patriarch of the Jurchen tribe, but in fact, not all of them are patriarchs, and some of them are just the immediate relatives of the patriarchs, who live in the city as representatives of the patriarchs. Tong Doulan's civil strife and Qian Shide's civil strife imprisoned a batch, and later released them. Deng She specially opened up an area for them, called the Jurchen Alley.

Dunshe personally greeted him out the door.

There were two civil strife in succession, just when the grass and trees were all soldiers, and the blood stains of 93 human heads in the school field had not dried; Thousands of Jurchens in the camp were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered; Within a radius of 100 miles, from the northeast border to Shuangcheng, Jiashan, and even as far as Tokugawa and other places, tens of thousands of troops are eyeing each other.

Outside the gate of the Shuaifu, there was an endless stream, and in less than two quarters of an hour, all the leading figures of the Jurchens in the city came.

"Everyone, please come in." Deng She laughed accordingly and let them enter the hall one by one. This banquet hall is not large, it can accommodate only a few dozen people, and the lieutenant generals and officers of the army are full for a while. In winter, it is late in the morning, and it is cloudy, the light is not good, there are candles burning on the desk, and there are torches on the wall, reflecting the shadows of many people.

Among the Jurchens who came, except for a few with a clear conscience, most of them were nervous and made eye contact with each other.

After they all entered the hall, Deng She was surrounded by his own soldiers and strode into the chairman. He sat on a high seat, looking down at the crowd, and the generals on the left, everyone held their chests up and raised their heads; The Jurchens on the right are all restless. The custom of the Yuan Dynasty, the right is the top, and the Jurchens are invited to sit on the right, which has the meaning of respect.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't be cramped. I came back from Gaizhou, and I wanted to meet you. To be honest, I miss you all very much. Deng She smiled and nodded the names of a few close to the Jurchens, "I still remember that before I went to Gaizhou, I drank with a few people, good amount of alcohol, you are all good amount of wine." Forthright! I can't drink enough, so I'm willing to bow down. ”

Those Jurchens did not participate in the rebellion, and they were the ones who reported the news, and they all laughed when they heard it.

Deng She also laughed, changed the topic, casually glanced at the others, and said, "But you also know that there are too many things, wave after wave, and I can't deal with it." He sighed and patted his seat gently, "It's too difficult to sit in this seat." ”

The meaning of his words is clear, what does wave after wave mean? Suddenly, the leaders and representatives of several small tribes sweated on their foreheads.

Someone pondered: "Except for Tong Doulan, that is the culprit, and he must be killed." The others were beheaded, but there was not a single patriarch of a large tribe, all of them were from small tribes. I couldn't help but feel my heart pounding, and guessed, "Do you dare to see that the situation is stable, and you want to settle accounts after the autumn and take a few people again?" ”

No wonder they are worried, once the northeast border is blocked, tens of thousands of Jurchens in Shuangcheng Mansion will have no way out, like sheep in cages. A few thousand Ding Zhuang were captured, and there were only more than 10,000 people left to fight, not to mention that the army of the two cities was guarding the side and closely surveilling; Even if you fight with a knife and a gun, can you do it better than artillery?

Hong Jixun was outnumbered and defended the twin cities for more than half a month; Deng She came back and brought more than 20,000 good fighting tigers, to kill or live, Deng She's words. Maybe he will worry about killing ruthlessly, and the Jurchen tribes in the northeast are angry and desperate to take revenge; But if you want to kill a few more little patriarchs, who will care?

Deng She paused, took a sip of tea, paid attention to the reaction of the Jurchens in the corner of his eyes, looked at one of them, and suddenly asked, "Are you?" Oh! General Tong's clansmen? ”

The person who was asked was in his early twenties, handsome, not like a Jurchen savage, like a jade-faced gentleman. He hurriedly stood up, saluted very respectfully, and replied, "Back to the general, the villain is exact." Tong Doulan is the villain's brother. ”

This person's name is Tong Shengyang, and Tong Doulan's uncle and brother, Tong Doulan asked Deng She to ask for land and settle the clansmen, and a total of more than 8,000 people came, headed by Tong Shengyang's father. Tong Doulan was captured, in order to avoid Deng She's revenge, Tong Shengyang's father sent him to Shuangcheng, called to make amends, to be a proton, it was actually an expedient measure, so as to delay time, send messengers, and discuss countermeasures with the clan elders who stayed in Sansan and other places.

"Oh, after the martyrs, King Yue Wumu is the person I admire the most, loyal to the country! It's a pity, it's a pity. Deng She put down the tea bowl, got up and paced two steps, and said, "General Tong and I have similar interests." Thinking that day, he saved me from the danger of Shuangcheng, and he went deep into the enemy alone, with a single horse and a single gun, and his arrows were unparalleled, and he was invincible. ”

He fell into deep thought, as if recalling Tong Doulan's heroic posture, and said to himself, "Heroic and heroic, a good man." To tell you the truth, I wanted to be a brother to him, who knows,...... Alas. As if sorry and angry, Deng She drew his saber with his backhand and cut off a corner of the case.

Everyone in the hall was silent, Tong Shengyang stood bent down, and his heart was beating.

Deng She slammed his knife on the ground, sighed, and said, "Zhao Xiaosheng misunderstood me!" I can't wait to smash the corpse into thousands of sections, and peel off the skin and extract the marrow! Dropping the saber, he seemed exhausted, looking like he was remembering his old friend and couldn't extricate himself. He sat back on the soft couch and looked at Tong Shengyang, speechless for a long time.

Tong Shengyang was very uncomfortable with him, and said, "General? ”

"You are very similar to General Tong."

Isn't it nonsense, can't it be like an uncle or brother? There is always something similar. "When I saw your eyes, I couldn't help but think of General Tong. It's also this look, confident and high-spirited. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare. Villain ,......"

"Do you know how to shoot arrows?"

"Yes."

"Come, take a bow and arrow."

The soldiers sent bows and arrows, and the targets were placed outside the hall, and Deng She asked, "How many steps can you shoot?" ”

Tong Shengyang was confused, he grew up on horseback, he was proficient in bows and arrows since he was a child, and shooting arrows with a bow was like a daily routine; Because he didn't know Deng She's intentions, for the sake of prudence and to preserve his strength, he shortened the distance, hesitated for a moment, and replied: "Go back to the general, at most a hundred steps." ”

"100 steps." Deng She motioned to his soldiers and pulled the target back; Enough for a hundred steps, he ordered Tong Shengyang and said, "Shoot." ”

Not only Tong Shengyang was inexplicable, but the Jurchens and many officers in the hall looked at each other, and they couldn't guess what medicine was sold in Deng She's gourd. Didn't you come for breakfast? I haven't eaten for a long time. That's right, the drunkard doesn't mean to drink, take 10,000 steps back and say, if you want to settle accounts after the autumn, what kind of arrow to shoot? No one spoke, sitting silently and watching.

Tong Shengyang changed his strong bow, the string fell and the arrow came out, and the soldiers in the distance reported loudly: "Medium!" ”

Deng She was overjoyed, jumped up, and said, "Jiangmen Huzi!" Good, good! He has the demeanor of a brother. I'm so happy to see you today, I'm so happy! My heart is sorrowful about my brother's death; See you today, there is a successor to the Tong family! Da Tong is gone, Xiao Tong, would you like to be a brother with me? ”

The Jurchens were in an uproar, and the officers were surprised. Chen Hu smiled slightly, and Tong Shengyang was stunned.

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1. Their production level is low again.

The residence of the Jurchens, "its customs live in the valley, and the wood is the fence." The house was several feet high, without tiles, and covered with planks, birch bark, or grass. The walls and fences are all made of wood, and the doors are east-facing. The ring house is an earthen bed, under which the fire is burned, and the sleeping and eating are on it, which is called the kang to keep it warm. ”

“…… The winter is extremely cold, and the house is only a few feet high. ......" Until the Qing Dynasty, the residents of the Northeast still maintained this custom.