Another Wei Shang?

Chao Cuo, will he become the next Wei Shang?

Liu Sheng said it was outrageous.

At least in Liu Sheng's opinion, the distance between the word 'Chao Cuo' and the word 'Wei Shang' is almost greater than the gap between 'Empress Dowager Dou' and 'Li Ji'!

Who is Wei Shang?

As Zhou Yafu said: Therefore, Wei Shang is guarded in the clouds, which is the person who was fabricated by the Huns - and the people at the bottom of the Huns, and worshiped in the morning and evening!

This is due to the fact that in the belief of the Huns, that is, in fundamentalist shamanism, the emphasis is on 'everything can become a god'.

A wolf, an eagle, or even a stone or a tree can become a god in the knowledge of the Huns.

As for human beings, they probably follow the principle of 'as long as they can't be defeated are gods', and will be spontaneously given godhead by the Huns.

For example, during the reign of Emperor Taizong, Wei Shang in the clouds was worshipped as a god by the Xiongnu herdsmen in the entire Munan grassland;

Another example is Li Guang, who created the name of 'Flying General' at the border during the reign of the first emperor.

Or in the future, Zhidu will break through the names of "General of War" and "Minions of the Country" in Yanmen.

But what the mother is undoubtedly sure is that there is at least one galaxy away from enjoying such treatment as the Huns.

- Wei Shang, that's a real moral gentleman!

- People are guarding in the clouds, they are really in the war, and they are even wounded again and again, and several sons have died on the battlefield!

People can enjoy such fame in the clouds, and that is also because of Wei Shang's selfless dedication, taking out all his money to supplement the families of the soldiers in the clouds under his command;

When the Huns besieged Yunzhong City, they took the lead and personally set an example for the entire Yunzhong City on the battlements of the head of Yunzhong City.

There was such a tragic battle, and Wei Shang was injured, his son took over, his son died, and the young son went up again.

Since then, this has become an instinctive reaction that the military and civilians in the clouds are engraved in the depths of their souls, and they can spontaneously make without thinking at all in wartime.

- In the inland, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the brother dies, which is the family property;

- The father in the cloud dies and the son dies, and the brother dies and the brother dies, but what he says is to go into battle to kill the enemy······

Because it is different from other Hanbian counties: Yunzhong County is like a sword thorn that suddenly bulges on the smooth northern border of the Han Dynasty;

As for Yunzhong City, it is located hundreds of miles north of the actual border between Han and Hungary, which is equivalent to a nail nailed in the chest, abdomen and hinterland!

When war breaks out, there will be no support in Cloudsdale;

After the end of the war, it will be difficult for Cloudsdale to get supplies.

They are like pioneers who live on an isolated island and need to be on guard against wild beasts at all times, living for generations and guarding the Han city isolated from the grassland.

And the patron saint of that isolated island is called: Wei Shang······

On the other hand, what is wrong?

It is true that both his officialdom resume and political achievements are better than Wei Shang, and even his popularity is much greater than Wei Shang.

But as the saying goes: there is specialization in the art industry.

Chao Cuo, in fact, is a civil official through and through, and he is also the pinnacle of civil officials - a talented man from a Legalist.

Such a person, if he was not born in the Han family, who was not a marquis, could not be a prime minister, but if he was changed to any dynasty in later generations, he would be able to assist Emperor Zuo and at least contribute to a famous minister who ruled the world.

But such a Wenchen, does he mean that he is the next Wei Shang, that he is the next general who is so frightened that the Huns can only take a detour, and he does not dare to draw his sword lightly?

Liu Sheng can only say: Although I am not very old, I am almost an adult;

If you want to deceive me, you don't have to be so perfunctory······

As for Chao Cuo, like Wei Shang, he mobilized the people to be young and strong during the war, and achieved the limit of what he could do, Liu Sheng would not deny it.

But if you want to use this as an argument that 'Chao Cuo is the next Wei Shang', Liu Shengke will be grateful for it.

Wei Shang mobilized the people in the clouds, and he didn't take the initiative at all!

It was the county guard of 2,000 stone who came to the war and participated in the battle in person, and even was wounded and killed his son, which aroused the common hatred of the people in the clouds, so they spontaneously participated in the defense of the city!

As for Chao Mistake?

Liu Sheng could guess with his toes: what kind of means would a 'famous minister' from a Legalist family use to 'mobilize' the people to participate in a war that should not have been participated in by them.

- Legalist Legalist, isn't it the 'strict law' that has made Yingzheng strong quickly······

"As the commander of the Northland, Chao Cuo can still organize the people to resist the barbarians under the premise that the entire army of the Northland Commander's Department is annihilated, instead of panicking, which is indeed worthy of admiration."

"But as a martial artist, Tiaohou shouldn't be unintelligible: What does my Han family's army talk about, right?"

After a long silence, Liu Sheng finally relented and said so.

As Liu Sheng's words came out, Zhou Yafu finally lowered his head with a helpless sigh.

And Liu Sheng's words did not end with Zhou Yafu's head.

"My Han family's army, especially the generals, speak with military merits."

"The performance of a general in a war is mainly based on 'floating beheading'."

"The performance of the defenders should be reflected in the degree of military and civilian casualties and local damage as a reference."

"And in this battle, Chao Cuo's performance in the above aspects is not satisfactory······"

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"In terms of military merits, Chao Cuo is defenseless, since the position of the Imperial Historian is the northern guard, this is the first time that Chao Cuo commands the battle as a 'general'."

"And in this war, Chao Wrong Division, that is, the floating ······ of the Northland Commander's Department"

"-Even if in this battle, Beidi County won thousands of Xiongnu heads, but the more than 5,000 soldiers of the Beidi Commander's Department were wiped out, and its floating beheading could not be positive."

"What's more, the Huns have a custom of strong corpses, and this battle is to bully the widow with the crowd and the weak with the strong, I can even conclude now: In this battle, the head of the Huns captured by the Captain of the Northern Land is not even a 'hundred'."

"That is to say, in this battle, the Northland Commander's Department led by Chao Cuo will be at least minus four thousand nine hundred."

"This alone is the sin of the death of the ······"

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"If you talk about military and civilian casualties and local damage, that's not to mention."

"——I just got the news: after the Huns withdrew from the border wall, almost four out of every ten families in the four counties of Beidi, Yanmen, Shang, and Dai either had their children die under the Huns' knives, or their sons and nephews were taken away by the Huns."

"Among them, the most serious situation is the Chao Cuo Beidi County: eight out of every ten households have been affected, and almost every family is wearing filial piety;"

"There are hundreds of thousands of people in the county, and the abductees are probably no less than forty percent ······."

Speaking of this, Liu Sheng finally straightened his face, and looked at Zhou Yafu with a little unhappiness in his eyes.

"Is this the 'another Wei Shang' in the mouth of the Marquis?"

"Could it be that back then, Wei Shang, the guard of Yunzhong, also wiped out a 5,000-strong commander in a certain war?"

"Or let the people under his rule lose forty percent of the battle, and be brutally killed and captive tens of thousands of people by the Huns?"

"Feng Tang back then, was it for such an incompetent general that he pleaded with Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and was approved by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen?"

As soon as these words came out, the hall was quiet again, it was Zhou Yafu, who was also stunned and speechless.

For later generations, 'Feng Tang is easy to be old, Li Guang is difficult to seal', in fact, it is quite a famous historical allusion.

But apart from these eight words, later generations don't know much about this allusion.

The reason why Li Guang is difficult to seal, Liu Sheng has basically figured it out as early as when he was still the crown prince and even the prince was victorious.

As for the reason why Feng Tang is so old, Liu Sheng only needs to get a glimpse of most of it from books.

And the most fundamental reason for 'Feng Tang Yi Lao', or the main event that led to 'Feng Tang Yi Lao', is actually the incident that Zhou Yafu just said.

- During the reign of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the Xiongnu invaded the border land year after year;

However, in the third year of Emperor Taizong, after the long-planned battle, but it was disrupted by the rebellion of Liu Xingju, the king of Jibei, which led to the waste of a large amount of materials in the Han Dynasty and did not actually break out, the Han family has once again established the strategic policy of 'fighting outside must first secure the interior'.

In the vernacular, it means that until the internal stability is completely stable and the hidden danger of the vassal kings is not completely eliminated, in principle, the Han family should no longer take the initiative to initiate, and should do its best to avoid large-scale armed conflicts with the Xiongnu.

Therefore, for the invasion of the Huns for many years, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen also felt distressed.

Fortunately, the border passes have been looted for many years, but there is still a place where the Han family can be comforted.

This place is Yunzhong County under Wei Shang, or it should be said that Yunzhong City.

Over the years, the Huns have been besieged every year, but in the entire northern wall of the Han Dynasty, only Yunzhong County can do 'not be bullied too badly';

When you don't have to, you can even get a lot of kills, and even get 'floating slashes are positive', that is, the number of kills is greater than your own casualties!

For this reason, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen trusted Wei Shang very much and appreciated it very much, and even regarded Wei Shang and Yunzhong County under his rule as a benchmark and example of 'anti-Xiongnu aggression' all year round.

Until one year, the number of beheadings reported by Wei Shang to Chang'an had a single-digit error - the beheadings reported by Wei Shang were six levels more than the actual number of Xiongnu heads;

Some people say that someone wanted to assassinate Wei Shang, so he secretly 'stole' six Xiongnu heads;

Some people also say that this is because the Huns robbed the corpses, which caused Wei Shang to report the number of kills six levels more than the actual Xiongnu head.

But no matter what people say, Wei Shang's move can obviously be regarded as a lie, and it is an overreport.

To put it mildly, this is Wei Shang's greed for merit, and through immoral methods, he put gold on his face;

To put it mildly, this is a bully······

The 'anti-Hu model' he created single-handedly was found to be a bully, and Emperor Taizong naturally felt very hurt.

After ordering Wei Shang's officials and lords to be stripped of and taking 'one year of streaming' as the final punishment, Emperor Taizong, who was deeply distressed, rode out of the palace in the imperial chariot.

When he met an old man on the road, Emperor Taizong chatted with the old man.

Hearing that the old man was a Zhao person, Emperor Taizong sighed: Once upon a time, famous generals such as Lian Po and Li Mu of Zhao State made the Hu people dare not approach the area within thousands of miles in the north of Zhao State;

If I can get generals like Lian Po and Li Mu, do I still have to worry about the Huns?

Unexpectedly, when the old man heard this, he replied without thinking: Even if Your Majesty gets talents like Lian Po and Li Mu, he will not appoint them!

was replied to in such a straightforward way, Emperor Taizong was not in a very beautiful mood, and he fell to the bottom in an instant, but because of the other party's age, it was not easy to add guilt, so he sulked and returned to the palace.

The more you think about it, the more angry you get, and the more you think about it when you take a step back, the more you lose;

Emperor Taizong, who had never been able to swallow this breath, finally invited the old man into the palace again.

Emperor Taizong asked again: Is the old man dissatisfied with me?

If so, then you can tell me in private, or even scold me in private?

Outside the palace, in front of outsiders, accusing me of being the emperor's faults, doesn't it embarrass me?

And the old man had to answer, but only a very short sentence: contemptible people do not know taboos······

"Back then, Feng Tang told Emperor Taizong: Contemptible people don't know taboos."

"Today, does the Marquis also have to tell me: Doesn't the Marquis know the taboo?"

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"Feng Tang didn't know the taboo, but he still pleaded for Wei Shang, a hero who really made outstanding achievements, but only misrepresented the numbers on the report and overreported the sixth-level beheading."

"Even if the Marquis doesn't know the taboo, shouldn't he intercede for a criminal minister who has the imperial order to shepherd the people of a county, but loses all his army and nearly half of the population in a war?"

"——If others say that Chao Cuo is the next Wei Shang, I can still say that this person does not understand the military formation, and does not know the army of my Han family, how to judge the merits of the generals."

"But Tiaohou, but my Han family knows the most about the military formation and understands these truths?"

"How can even Tiaohou say something stupid like 'Chao Wrong is the next Wei Shang'?"

After saying that, Liu Sheng only shook his head and sighed, as if he was disappointed with Zhou Yafu's performance;

After a long time, he raised his head slightly depressed, and looked at Zhou Yafu, obviously asking Zhou Yafu to give an explanation for this.

And Zhou Yafu's next explanation once again greatly surprised Liu Sheng's expectations······

"Minister, of course, I understand that the generals in the army rely on military merits and floating beheadings;"

"I also understand that in this battle, whether it is from the floating beheading, or the casualties of military and civilians, local damage and other aspects, it is 'ineffective in combat'."

"But the minister still has a sentence that he wants to tell His Majesty."

"——If someone else is the Northland Guard, it will never be better than Chao Cuo."

"Even if there is a change of ministers, the result of this battle is probably not much better······

After saying that, Zhou Yafu finally kowtowed, and then met Liu Sheng's gloomy gaze without fear.

"Minister, I'm not pleading for Chao Wrong."

"It's for a new general who has done everything he should do, but still hasn't been able to change the outcome of his failure, and asks for His Majesty's forgiveness."

"——Now my Han family, there are no hard generals, and there are even good and handsome people!"

"Chao is wrong, and it is not the mediocre person who will be incompetent and affected by the three armies in the mouth of His Majesty······"