"Hehe, the little brother is really interesting. ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper immediately laughed, and said in a low voice: "If it is about ability, even if it is Chu Feng, who is in the limelight today, I am afraid that it is not as good as one-tenth of the Emperor of the Laughing Heaven back then." ”

Lone Star listened to his words, but he was a little disapproving, he always felt that this shopkeeper was mixed with some personal emotions every time he talked about the current emperor, so he retorted to him: "Not necessarily, maybe the current emperor is slightly inferior in terms of strategy, but when it comes to marching and fighting, and rectifying discipline, the Xiaotian Emperor is still a little weaker, after all, no one is perfect, they just have their own strengths." ”

"Tsunaka?"

When the shopkeeper heard this, he snorted coldly and sneered: " If the discipline is not good, how can the Emperor Xiaotian respond to every call, you must know that any holy decree will come down through dozens of officials of all sizes in the court, if the order is really ridiculous, then even if you know that this is the emperor's intention, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will not let the emperor go his own way, but how about this emperor, it took ten years of hard work to do this thing that the world thinks is ridiculous, if there is no excellent discipline, does the little brother think all this is possible?"

"This ......"

Lone Star couldn't help but hesitate, he had lived in the mountains for a long time, and he knew very little about today's world affairs, and originally thought that this shopkeeper was just blindly praising the past and depreciating the present, so he opened his mouth to refute it, but he didn't think about it but was speechless by him, and he was embarrassed, so he listened to the shopkeeper continue: "If it comes to marching and fighting, it is even more incomparable, little brother, do you know what era the Xiaotian Emperor was born?"

Lone Star shook his head.

Then, I listened to the shopkeeper and said: "In 33 BC, the most chaotic era in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, the barbarian invasion, the war of the Seven Kingdoms, the Chu State was instantly pushed to the forefront because of its special geographical location, at that time it was not only the barbarians, but also the other six countries on the side, fueling the flames, assassination, assassination, sneak attack, discord, all the means used, the situation of the Chu State suddenly became precarious, and the destruction was imminent. ”

"No matter what you say, the Seven Kingdoms have been interdependent for so long, don't they know the truth of their lips and teeth? ”

"It's one thing to know, it's another to do it. ”

The shopkeeper shook his head, with a heartfelt anger in his eyes: "All they see in their eyes is the land and property left behind after the fall of the Chu State, greed and * dominate their minds, so that they have to attack their former allies, at that time, no one will think about what the consequences of doing this will be, in the face of this huge interest, they have long ignored their no longer firm position." ”

"The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant!"

Hearing this, Lone Star couldn't help but sigh, and then asked: "Since there was an invasion of barbarians in the front, and the back road has been cut off by the Six Kingdoms, under this dilemma, dare to ask how the Chu State resolved this crisis?"

I only heard the shopkeeper chuckle, and his eyebrows were full of energy: "What does it mean if you are always obedient, you can see a person's true courage in adversity, and in the same way, this is the best time to show the ability of this laughing emperor." ”

In the face of this mortal situation, the civil and military officials at that time were at a loss, the cry of the death of the country almost spread throughout the entire Chu State, and the people were also full of rumors, and the people were panicked, but only this Xiaotian Emperor was calm and different, it is said that he only used three steps at that time, and three steps to shock the barbarian army, take away the six countries, and finally let the Chu State become the head of the Seven Kingdoms, and the means can be described as shocking. ”

"What are the three steps?"

Hearing him say so much, the curiosity in Lone Star's heart also became stronger.

"The first step is to mobilize all the forces in the country to meet the barbarians, and to solve the most difficult enemy in the shortest possible time at all costs, and the second step is to force the large and small sects in the country to submit to it by iron-blooded means, and order them to firmly contain the ranks of the five countries in the rear, and at the same time drive the personal expedition and personally go to the rear battlefield to confront the six countries, and stabilize the hearts of the army and the people at the first time, and the third step is also a crucial step, resolutely give up about one-third of the territory in the territory, and the whole country retreats to the first line. ”

"Do you compromise for the sake of the big picture?"

Lone Star seemed to understand the emperor's intentions, but he was still a little puzzled: "But this territory is the foundation of the country, how can it be said that you can give up if you give up, and wouldn't it make the people even more chilled by the King of Chu?"

The shopkeeper sighed: "So, this is the gap between the people of the world and the Emperor of Xiaotian." ”

"What do you say?" Lone Star was puzzled, feeling that this Laughing Heaven Emperor was really unusual, and he couldn't always deal with common sense.

At that time, everyone thought that he was bent over to keep his throne, and even the people of Dachu no longer supported him, and the people scolded him for being a coward, and the ministers did not say anything about him on the surface, and they also disobeyed him behind his back, and the prestige of this emperor was almost low overnight. ”

"With the means and courage of this emperor, there must be his intentions to do this, and if he doesn't say it, it should have his own thoughts, but the damage to his majesty is inevitable, and the matter has come to this, if you want to regain your authority, I think it is only one killing. ”

Although Lone Star couldn't guess what the Laughing Sky Emperor was thinking at the time, his methods were more or less able to guess some.

Sure enough, the shopkeeper nodded, smiled and said: "Yes, if you want to be powerful, there is only one kill, but this kill is more than 200 lives of all sizes in the court." ”

"In 31 B.C., Emperor Xiaotian ordered in the middle of the night that officials of the court, large and small, who disagreed with this move, regardless of the official residence, were given a full house according to the disobedience of the holy order, this order came out, hundreds of masters of the inner world went out overnight, and the city of Luo'an, which was killed directly, turned upside down, nearly 60 officials and their families in the court and their families were all over the place overnight, and some of the officials' families were already in their old age, and some were still waiting to be fed, without exception, all of them were beheaded at home, and the head was hung on the city wall, and it was less than three days to deter everyone. ”

"Don't you let the old man and the child go?" Lone Star couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and said, "It seems that this is a bit too much. ”

The shopkeeper also sighed: " This laughing emperor was originally a person who is also good and evil, since the throne, no one can figure out his thoughts, although the killing is cruel, but it has an immediate effect, in just a few days, all kinds of criticism will disappear, the people consciously pay taxes three times as much as usual, the efficiency of the officials is also multiplied, after the war, all kinds of waste are prosperous, everything is developing in a good direction, and all this is only due to the fact that the former emperor has become the king of Hades in everyone's hearts at this moment, so that everyone is only afraid of it。 ”

"Awe makes people do something, but one day if awe is only left to make people fearful, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate, right?"

The shopkeeper suddenly smiled: " The little brother is too underestimated of people's healing psychology and the emperor's means, as everyone knows, this person is inferior, the more you let him, the more he will not spare you, on the contrary, if you give him a little color to make him afraid, out of balance, then the more he is afraid of you, the more he will miss your good, this Xiaotian Emperor is interested in this, after the strict law, the large-scale construction of water conservancy, while ensuring the harvest and exempting the people from all kinds of taxes within three years, since then has become the people in the mouth of the praise of the virtuous king, the prestige is even more than before。 ”

This is really in response to the old saying, the lord of troubled times is strict with the law, and the lord of prosperous times is benevolent. ”

After listening to Lone Star, he couldn't help but think of the way to govern the country when he listened to his grandfather's chatter when he was a child, and now that he thinks about it, it is indeed the truth.

"In the face of the crisis, this Xiaotian Emperor's various coping methods can be called amazing, but if it is just like this, it is enough to protect himself, but it will not make the Chu State grow into the head of the Seven Kingdoms, is there any hidden secret?"

"The seven kingdoms stood side by side, and there were them in ancient times, but it is a pity that the Chu country was not stronger than the six countries, and after this change, it is far inferior. ”

The shopkeeper seems to have different feelings for this smiling emperor, and always unconsciously admires him to the extreme: "But if he only has these means, then he can only be regarded as a Ming Jun, at most he has become an outstanding virtuous monarch like the contemporary emperor, but he is different, at this critical juncture, he chooses to use a special means to show the world how unique he is." ”