"The spiritual character of the state determines the formation of the future nation-state?"

Li Jinglong smacked this sentence carefully, but he still couldn't understand it.

Jiang Xinghuo: "Which word don't you understand?" ”

"Both the nation and the state understand, the nation does not." Li Jinglong said frankly.

"That doesn't seem right." Zhu Gaoxu looked at Li Jinglong, "How do I feel that what matters is not the nation-state, but the spiritual characteristics." ”

Li Jinglong nodded: "What you said also makes sense, what is the reason?" ”

"Do you think, if people don't have spirit, then it's just like the walking dead, whether you are a walking corpse or a walking corpse, what's the difference?" Zhu Gaoxu used the most simple words to reveal the most straightforward truth.

“.”

Li Jinglong said: "Then it's okay, what did Jiang Lang say?" ”

"I really wanted to talk about the nation-state first." Jiang Xinghuo looked at the clear blue sky, "But the spiritual characteristics of the country are indeed prerequisites. ”

"But didn't Mr. Jiang already talk about the spiritual characteristics of China due to the geographical environment?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little puzzled.

"That's a geographical decision, but that's only part of the story." Jiang Xinghuo said seriously, "The most important thing is the Chinese spiritual traits shaped by countless people who have lived in historical time and space. ”

"Still can't understand, is that important?"

Li Jinglong himself is a person with little faith, in his eyes, except for himself and glory and wealth, nothing is important, so anything that is not spiritual is a lie.

"It's important."

Jiang Xinghuo said solemnly: "If a person lives in the corner of history, he may never know why his ancestors were born, why this civilization was established, why he was able to create such a great culture, and why he was frustrated by disasters again and again. They don't know, they don't even know who they are or where they come from. However, if the spirit can continue in this generation, they will gradually discover the meaning of their own existence and that of their ancestors, and it will become stronger and stronger. ”

"Isn't that just worshipping our ancestors?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

"It's different."

Jiang Xinghuo said: "That is the traditional patriarchal system, and it can indeed make future generations remember and recall their ancestors, and influence people's actions to be inspired." ”

"But I'm talking about the spiritual qualities of the nation-state."

"Oh! Got it, got it. Zhu Gaoxu suddenly realized, "In my opinion, this is like treating all the surnames and clans in the world as one, this general spiritual trait." ”

Jiang Xinghuo bowed slightly and continued.

"Everyone's thoughts are guided by the spiritual characteristics of the nation-state, and the spiritual characteristics of the nation-state are the source of our spirit; However, with the passage of the times, people are exposed to more new things and new ideas, and their interest and pursuit of certain ideas in the past will disappear, and their spiritual characteristics will be forgotten or even slowly changed. ”

"When the spiritual characteristics of the nation-state become negligible or even worthless in the minds of future generations, then what our ancestors left us will completely dissipate, our spiritual world will fall into chaos, and the entire spiritual world will collapse and eventually die."

"Is that really the case?" Li Jinglong habitually questioned.

"Absolutely." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Seeing that the two were arguing, Jiang Xinghuo continued to talk to himself.

"Hundreds of years ago, the Jurchens established the Jin State in the north and destroyed the Liao State that oppressed them, and then, in nature, the Jin State, which was strengthened by the war of resistance and oppression, began to grow ambitions, looked at the Central Plains in the south, and launched a war of aggression."

"Taiyuan was besieged into a lonely city, the 200,000 Western troops sent by the Northern Song Dynasty to rescue were destroyed, the Jin army went south twice, and the shame of Jingkang occurred, and the emperor, concubines, and palace maids of the Northern Song Dynasty were all taken captive to the north and humiliated."

"At the time of the crisis of the family and the country, Yue Fei rose in the ranks, the main town of Jingxiang, several times the Northern Expedition, the last time was to defeat the main force of the East Route Army led by Jin Wushu of the Jin State, and he was about to recover the old capital and realize the last wish of Zongze Sanhu to cross the river."

"But due to the obstruction of Wanyan Gou and Qin Hui, the two monarchs and ministers, the twelve gold medals were sent to the hands of more than ten commanders of the Yue family's army, and Yue Fei was forced to withdraw the army, and then died unjustly in the Fengbo Pavilion, which became a resentment for the ages."

Jiang Xinghuo only asked one question in the end.

"Do you think Yue Fei is a national hero now?"

The concept of nationality is not difficult for the two to understand, the Han people who established the Ming Dynasty are one nation, and the Mongols who established the Yuan Dynasty are another people.

Just like what Han Yanxuan said in the inspiring essay written by the famous man Li Bi during the Northern Expedition - the way of heaven is good, and China has a reason to do it; The hearts of the people are obedient, and the husband will take revenge.

These things are naturally engraved in their hearts.

And since they are all Han Chinese, they all know how the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty brutalized the Han people, especially the Han people in the south, how can they not be angry?

This anger made them feel disgusted and hated from the bottom of their hearts for the Mongols who were the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty.

Of course, just as there is no absolute distinction between good and bad people, the Mongols are not all bad, in Zhu Gaoxu's cognition, at least the Sinicized Mongol Tatar officials who fought side by side with him were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and from the perspective of life and language, they were almost the same as the Han people, that was good.

This only represents Zhu Gaoxu's personal thoughts as a military general.

Back to Jiang Xinghuo's question.

Li Jinglong pondered for a moment and said: "My hero, his enemy." ”

"If you look at it from the perspective of our Han people, of course Yue Fei is a well-deserved national hero, Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty Taizu has already posthumously crowned Yue Fei as a martial saint, but if it is a Jurchen who retreats to the capital of Liaodong from now on, from their point of view."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly answered: "He is also a hero of the world." ”

Li Jinglong was a little stunned.

"Don't you know?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Li Jinglong strangely.

"Know what?"

Zhu Gaoxu had been to Liaodong and said with certainty: "The Jurchens over there in Liaodong all set up temples for Prince Yue to worship. ”

"Why?" Li Jinglong really didn't understand it now.

Zhu Gaoxu simply spit out three words.

"I'm convinced."

Hearing this, Li Jinglong was silent for a long time.

The secret room next door.

Zhu Di frowned and asked, "What does Mr. Jiang mean by this?" What do you mean by 'feeling now', and don't you feel it in the future? ”

probably knew that Jiang Xinghuo had some kind of ability to perceive the future, except for Gu Cheng, the other people were not too surprised.

And Zhu Gaochi explained to Gu Cheng, but Gu Cheng frowned deeply.

Gu Cheng got up and saluted Zhu Di, and then said.

"Your Majesty, you said before that this Jiang Xinghuo was suspected of being an immortal, and the minister didn't dare to talk about this, but the various policies and theories put forward by his people can't be faked, and he is indeed a great talent who has passed through the heavens and latitudes, so the minister didn't question it."

"Including today's 'World Island War', it is also a theory that has never been seen before by soldiers, and it is indeed very novel."

"Although there is nothing on the minister's face, his heart is indeed deeply shaken."

"But." Gu Cheng's eyebrows were serious, "The so-called insight into the future is like seeking immortality, it is just something mysterious and mysterious, not real." ”

After a pause, Gu Cheng continued: "Just like those 'strange people' at the turn of the two Song Dynasty where Yue Fei was, it was only said that there was a magic spell to reach the sky, so even the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty believed it and let the Taoist priest defend the city, which eventually led to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, but in fact, these are all wrong from ancient times to the present, and it can even be said that they have never been fulfilled. ”

But there are allusions in this.

When the Jin people were besieging the city, Sun Fu, who was in charge of Kaifeng's defense, found the strange man Guo Jing according to the "Sentimental Poem" and asked Guo Jing if he had any spells to retreat from the enemy.

According to the record of the "Three Dynasties and the Northern Alliance", Guo Jingyan: You can throw beans as soldiers, and you can be invisible, and now you can use 7,777 soldiers in Liujia to break the enemy. The enemy is not moving, and the divine soldiers are used, and there is no way forward.

Song Qinzong immediately appointed Guo Jing as the doctor of Wulu and the assassin of Gwangju, and gave tens of thousands of gold silks to let him recruit troops independently. Guo Jing didn't ask if he could have military skills, and only chose those who were in the best six grades. As a result, all you get are scoundrels. There is a military general who wants to be Guo Jing's deputy, but he refuses to say: Although you are brave, you will die in the first month of next year, and I am afraid that I will be tired.

Then under the pressure of the emperor, Guo Jing took the Liujia soldiers to meet the Jin army, and after the defeat, the city gate was opened, and the Jin soldiers took advantage of the weakness to enter, Kaifeng fell, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

Gu Cheng's statement is the opinion of the old minister.

- Don't believe what these strange people say.

"Therefore, Lao Chen thinks that even if His Majesty really sees the so-called insight into the future, it may only be regarded as good luck, and he must not use this as a basis for governing the country."

Zhu Di's mind crossed Yu Qian's stubborn little face.

Really, is it just a coincidence?

Zhu Di frowned and was silent for a moment when he heard this, then looked up at Gu Cheng and asked.

"Then if there are indeed mountains of gold and silver in Japan, and they are indeed in the locations painted by Mr. Jiang, and I can be sure that Mr. Jiang has been in the countryside at the foot of Mt. Keitei for the past twenty years, and has never been to Japan, can you prove it?"

Before Gu Cheng could answer, Li Jinglong, who was separated by a wall, also came back to his senses at this time and asked the same doubt.

"Isn't Yue Fei a national hero in the future?"

An idea suddenly flashed in Li Jinglong's mind.

When this idea overlapped with the scene on his painting boat on the Qinhuai River.

It was as if something had opened his heavenly spirit cover, and he shivered with cold.

Li Jinglong looked at Jiang Xinghuo in disbelief.

He didn't know Yu Qian's follow-up, but at this time, he seemed to realize that something was wrong.

"Jiang Lang, what do you mean, no, in the future, the people who rule China will not be Han people, right?"

Jiang Xinghuo nodded.

"Jurchens."

"Impossible!" Li Jinglong and Zhu Gaoxu were both stunned.

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was stunned.

"How is that possible?" Gu Cheng's eyes widened.

"How could it be?" Dao Yan, who didn't speak for a long time, opened his mouth and said, "If you were a Hebei Han during the time of Song Zhenzong, would you believe that a small tribe called Jurchen in the northeast would perish in the Great Song Dynasty a hundred years later?" ”

"If you were a Han Chinese from Hebei at the time of Jin Shizong's 'Great Ding Zhizhi', would you believe that in a few decades, the Mongols on the steppe would sweep the world?"

Dao Yan's two questions, several people were stunned.

Zhu Di was also a little uncertain: "I can't believe that this kind of thing will really happen, but the facts are in front of me, every word that Mr. Jiang said before about the future, which can be fulfilled at the moment, has been fulfilled. If Japan's gold and silver mountains have also been fulfilled, does that mean that today's Mr. Jiang said that the Jurchens will rule China again, and this is also what will happen in the future? ”

“…… This—this is incredible! Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but sigh.

"Whether it's true or not, if Japan's gold and silver mountains are verified, then it should be treated as if it is true."

"Old General Gu."

"The minister is here." Gu Cheng stood up and saluted.

Zhu Di also got up, put his hands behind his back and said proudly: "If a month or two later, Cao Guogong's delegation comes back from Japan and brings back the exact news about Jinshan Yinshan, then the plan to exterminate the Jurchens of Liaodong must be put on the agenda and carried out vigorously!" ”

"To what extent does Your Majesty mean to go?" Gu Cheng habitually confirmed the plan.

Zhu Di's words were loud.

"Plough the court!"

"Sweep its holes!"

"Exterminate the species!"

Gu Cheng gasped, this was the intention of completely destroying all the Jurchens.

Sure enough, it is in line with Zhu Di's character, either don't do it, or do it absolutely.

Zhu Di said angrily.

"The first emperor raised troops to resist the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty, until the Mongols were driven out of the Central Plains, there were tens of thousands of casualties among the generals and soldiers, and nearly eight million Li Shu suffered military disasters, but these are all for the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty, in order to let the Han people in the Central Plains have a foothold! Now that the Jurchens may rise again and harm the Han people, how can I ignore it? If the Jurchens are really allowed to continue to hide in the mountains, the shame of Jingkang will really happen again, and Li Shu in the Central Plains will lose peace forever! I will never forgive myself in my heart when I go underground! ”

"Therefore, I do not want to see any people displaced, their wives separated, and I will not allow any city to be destroyed."

"The Jurchens can only be crushed into powder!"

This is really a big fight, or rather, this is the first large-scale battle after the Battle of Jingjing.

But it's no wonder that the emperor attaches so much importance to this matter, after all, any son of the Han family, who heard that the world he ruled would be ruled by a foreign race in the future, and at the moment, this foreign race is still very weak and will let it go.

After all, this kind of thing, only killing mistakes, not letting go.

What's more, it is an immediate emperor like Zhu Di, and the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty that won the country by expelling the Tartars?

It is simply impossible for Zhu Di to allow the alien race to rule China again!

In the final analysis, Zhu Di's plan to conquer Mobei was not because he was afraid of raising tigers, and after the Mongols recuperated and became bigger again, he had the ambition to invade the Central Plains?

Moreover, don't really think that Zhu Di is worrying about the sky.

It is important to know that since the Mongols conquered most of the known world, several major Mongol khanates have spread out everywhere, and it has been hundreds of years now.

And in fact, except for the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang, which overthrew the rule of the Mongols.

At this point in time, in other parts of the world, such as in Central Asia, there is still the Turkic Mongol establishment of the extremely terrifying Timurid Khanate; And this year, the Northern Yuan has just been formally destroyed, and to the west of the divided Warat, Tatar and other tribes, is another great country of 10,000 miles, the Kipchak (Golden Horde) Khanate.

Therefore, the threat of alien races is still very severe in the face of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not optimistic.

And now Jiang Xinghuo told him that the next alien race to rule China was not the Mongols, but the Jurchens.

Zhu Di breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, if the Ming wanted to theoretically destroy the Mongols, they would have to first sweep away the Warat and Tatars, and then destroy the Timurid Khanate to the west, and then continue to destroy the Golden Horde to the west.

This theoretical difficulty can be said to be infinite, after all, the Ming army has to eat logistics.

But if it were only the descendants of the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom who are now huddled in the mountains and make a living from fishing and hunting, then things would be much easier.

If you think about it carefully, this matter is quite simple, after all, how difficult can it be to deal with the Jurchens with the elite of a hundred battles?

And if it is done well, it can be called prevention.

But Gu Cheng felt that such a decision seemed to be too impatient, but there was nothing to say - although he didn't think that Jiang Xinghuo had the ability to predict the future, he also felt that it was not difficult to crush the Jurchens into powder, and it was still worth a try if such a low-cost thing could be done to protect the safety of the Han family.

There are jujubes and no jujubes to hit three poles.

Gu Cheng just suggested from the perspective of a chief of staff: "It's September now, and when Cao Guogong comes back from Japan, it will be November, at that time, the weather in Liaodong is bitter cold and heavy snow covers the mountains, it's not that our soldiers can't stand the cold, but the mountain roads are slippery, once the army is dispatched, it is difficult for the civilian auxiliary troops to transport logistics food and straw supplies to keep up, and the loss rate will be huge, it is better to wait for the spring snow to melt before sending troops." ”

"Makes sense, too." Zhu Di pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "Old General Gu, the matter of sending troops can be postponed, and the troops will be sent again in the spring of next year, no matter what, it is not necessary to brave the snow to enter the mountains, and the Jurchens don't know that I plan to completely wipe them out but now I have to start acting, most of the generals who can fight are now in Nanjing, and I have to work hard to return to Beiping after the old general Gu reports on his work, and personally mobilize troops and horses to take command and carry out this matter." ”

Gu Cheng nodded and said: "Your Majesty Shengming, it is winter now, most of the Jurchens are still hiding from the wind and snow, and it is not easy to find them in the mountains. And when the spring flowers bloom next year, the Jurchens will naturally come out of the mountain, and then attack again, so that it is safe. ”

Regarding the matter of taking command to exterminate the Jurchens, in fact, this is also the first time that he has stepped on the battlefield in a real sense since Zhending was captured by Zhu Di.

And the task he carried out was also familiar with dealing with the barbarian tribe.

In the Hongwu era, as a general of Zhennan, he guarded the town in Guizhou for 20 years, killing the Tusi who did not know how to get up and blow up the thorns, and the military experience of this kind of mountain combat can be said to be extremely rich.

When he returned to Nanjing this time, Gu Cheng's original intention was also to apply to return to Guizhou to guard again.

But now that he has a similar mission, the old general doesn't mind going through it himself.

"In addition, after the Jurchens are eradicated, General Gu can take the opportunity to send troops to North Korea to have a good earthquake and deterrence, and I will also send envoys to Li North Korea to claim back to Jeju Island, so that they will not be crooked when the Ming Dynasty is on the day of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time take on the work of supply, after all, if you transport supplies across the sea from Dengzhou or Ningbo, the Ming Dynasty has no experience in this area, and Jeju Island is very close to North Korea, and now it is time for North Korea to make some contributions to the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Di's military plan has been thoroughly formed.

(End of chapter)