Zhao Kuo patted Song Yi's shoulder and comforted him softly.

Then, he walked up to Mao Sui and said: "Mr. Mao stands here, you can see that there are battlefields everywhere under the mountain, a white land, and the eyes are full of desolation. ”

"Exactly, the general fought hard."

"It was originally a place where ordinary people lived. If there was no war, it would have been chickens, dogs, mulberry and hemp, cooking smoke and kankan. Zhao Kuo looked into the distance and could see his god.

"The Qin people are brutal and oppress the people, and they really deserve to be killed." Mao Sui didn't pay attention to Zhao Kuo's meaning, and said.

Zhao Kuo shook his head: "The military discipline of our army is just like that." Adultery with women and robbery of property. Some of those ordinary people hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and they still didn't let go. In the chaos of war, people are worse than the horse you brought. ”

The more Zhao Kuo said, the more excited he became: "Last month, there were a few cavalrymen who went to the hometown with me, and when they were patrolling, they saw a hunter in the sheep's head mountain, carrying the harvest on their backs, and seeing the wealth, they followed all the way, touched people's homes, killed people and robbed goods, and killed the eldest lady of the family after ruining them, and came back to say that it was the Qin army."

I believed it at first, and I was afraid that the Qin army would touch it from Yangtou Mountain, so I went to investigate it in person, and those cavalry knew that they were afraid, so they told the truth. I wanted to kill those cavalrymen right away. As a result, and guess what! ”

Mao Sui saw that Zhao Kuo's face was not good, and he didn't dare to answer.

Zhao Kuo walked directly to his subordinates, starting with Wang Rong, including Si Li Mu, Su Jie, and Tie Leopard, and pointed over one by one: "You! You! And you! Everyone told me that it was a very common thing, that soldiers were working hard outside and needed to vent or something would happen. This kind of thing is very common, and a little reprimand would be fine. ”

"Even you, Song Yi, you are from a common people's background, you think this kind of thing is nothing. Don't argue, I don't know if you did it, but I see it often! ”

Zhao Kuo's face turned pale, and he pointed at the soldiers around him and scolded: "Forget about those hereditary officers." None of you are mud-legged. If you have a sword in your hand and armor on your body, you can casually rob those who are like yourself and the goods of those who are clay legs, and rape the wives and daughters of others. ”

"And a few of you officers, tell me for yourself, can you all turn a blind eye to the things that these brutes can do, are you human? Did you come out to fight as soldiers just to get rich, to be promoted, to be rewarded, to be a prince? No one thought of fighting for these mud legs who had worked so hard to provide you with food and food. ”

"Everyone is here today, and I, Zhao Kuo, put my words here. If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter my place, please go to him for promotion and wealth. I, Zhao Kuo, fight the war, just hope that one day the whole world can be free from fighting, those mud legs can live peacefully at home, they can eat a bite of lard bibimbap during the New Year, and they can drink a mouthful of hot soup when they go home from the field. ”

"See for yourself, if you can think like this, stay, I, Zhao Kuo, will not treat my subordinates badly. If you can't figure it out, while our army is superior now, you should get out, I won't force you to stay. ”

Zhao Kuo said impassionedly, and Wang Rong and the others lowered their heads with red faces.

They never moved the idea of leaving Zhao Kuo.

On the contrary, Li Yun and Sima Yue raised their heads high, looking proud. At the beginning, it was the two of them who were loyal to Zhao Kuo, and personally killed those cavalry.

Zhao Kuo also asked people to send the few rewards he had left to the homes of the few cavalrymen he executed.

Then, Zhao Kuo turned his head, looked at Mao Sui, and continued: "Mr. Mao just said that the Qin people were harsh and unwilling to negotiate peace, and the king wanted me to continue fighting. I'm not afraid of war, I'm not afraid of death. I personally led a thousand people to attack the rear of the Qin army, and no one in the whole world dared to say that I was afraid of war.

But here in Changping, after a long war, the common people are struggling to make a living, and it is difficult to continue. I implore Mr. Mao to go back and persuade the king not to fight again. Ordinary people, I really can't stand it anymore. Even if they win, these ordinary people will not have a good life.

When the country prospers, the people suffer, and when the country dies, the people also suffer. What kind of world is this! ”

Zhao Kuo's words made everyone present fall into deep thought, most of the nobles of the family, even high-level guests like Mao Sui, have never considered the feelings of the people at the bottom.

Song Yi began to understand a little why Zhao Kuo wanted to force himself to be literate with these mud legs.

is illiterate, can't understand the meaning of Zhao Kuo's words at all, and can't think at all, so generation after generation is blind.

The middle-aged man next to Mao Sui heard the last sentence Zhao Kuo said, but his eyes lit up.

He originally planned to come to see the hottest general in the whole Zhao Kingdom and complete his journey of reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, but at this time he was interested in talking to Zhao Kuo in detail.

When he stood up, Wang Rong and Li Mu saw him and stood up in shock.

They didn't pay attention at first, and they didn't expect this person to come.

"Who is Your Excellency?" Zhao Kuo asked curiously.

Before the man could speak, Li Mu hurriedly went over to salute and introduced: "This is the pride of our Zhao people, the famous Xun situation, extremely highly educated, we all respect him as Xunzi." ”

"Zi" was originally the honorific title of the secretary to whom the Son of Heaven belonged, and after the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes' secretaries were generally called "son". However, by the time of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "Zi" became an honorific title for famous scholars and teachers.

Those who can be called sons are all highly famous scholars, such as Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, etc

The middle-aged man, that is, Xunzi smiled at Zhao Kuo and said: "I am going to go to the Jixia School Palace of Qi State to serve as a sacrificial wine, and before leaving, I specially wanted to come and see the most powerful general of my Zhao Kingdom. ”

"Why not."

The two walked to the open space next to them, and Xunzi said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of the general's jokes." I recently prepared to go to Qi to teach, but I wished. But he didn't want to talk to others, so he asked people to sell the house.

There were already people willing to bid for my house. I didn't think that the house next door to me would be sold, and the price was not much more expensive than mine, so the buyer finally rejected me and bought the house. By the way, that house was forcibly bought by the general before he took command. ”

"Oh? I'm really sorry, but Xunzi can't sell the house. Zhao Kuo arched his hand, unable to figure out what Xun Guo meant by this.

Xunzi continued to chuckle: "A little blockage, it's nothing. I have a slight name, and no matter where I go, the local officials and scribes will always receive them seriously. However, I am a little curious about the general's sudden sale of the house. Here I first told the general to confess, and I asked my friend to follow the doorman who was in charge of the sale of the house for the general. ”

"Oh!" Zhao Kuo had already grasped the hilt of the sword at this time, and his eyebrows were cold.

Xunzi just didn't see it, and continued with a smile: "My friend is extraordinary, presumably no one can detect his tracking. When he returned, he told me that the general had sold several houses, and the money in exchange for them had been sent to the families of the dead soldiers. If King Zhao knew about this, what would he think? ”