Sending Jiao Luting away, Bai Yutian asked the shopkeeper for a bowl of rice, and after eating, there was not a single grain left.

Zhang Yan'er saw that Bai Yutian's appetite had increased greatly, and she must have something in her heart, so she asked in a low voice, "Brother Bai, do you still have something to do?" ”

Bai Yutian was very happy to see that Zhang Yan'er was like a roundworm in her stomach, and replied with a smile: "Our horses have all been taken away, and I want to go and come back." ”

When everyone heard this, they were first surprised, then incredulous, with expressions on their faces.

Zhuo Yifei asked: "Who is so bold and dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head, there is really no royal law?" ”

The prince is guilty of the law, and the common people are guilty of the same crime. What a wish! But the people of the world just know the word "accommodation", add "extrajudicial mercy", and add "the punishment is not a doctor".

Hu Yanqing answered: "Wang Fa, God gave it to the emperor, the emperor gave it to the minister, the minister gave it to the local officials, the local officials gave it to the local heroes, and the heroes and the powerful used it for the people." One level presses one level, whoever has a high status is the king's law. ”

Jingyin Dao Chang smiled and said: "So, from the First Emperor to the present, countless people have fought bravely to kill the enemy for supreme power, not only pretentious, but also known as heroes. Extremely disgusting, really ridiculous. ”

The wise Venerable Master disagreed, saying, "Is it necessary to be so cynical? As long as the rule of law remains, there will be a day when everyone will be equal. ”

Bai Yutian said: "It's still Li Lao who can see and think far." There are two sides to everything, you can say it's good today because you need to, and tomorrow you can say it's bad because you don't need it. Whether it's good or not, leave it to time to test, it's right. ”

Zhang Yan'er said: "Brother Bai, will I go with you?" ”

Bai Yutian said: "There is a reward for paying." You sing a song, everyone is satisfied, and they will take you there. ”

Zhang Yan'er asked in a low voice, "Big Brother Bai, do you really want to hear it?" ”

Zhuo Yifei said with a smile: "Good people sing good songs, good songs send good people, and sing a cappella song to know each other." ”

Zhang Yan'er stood up, glanced at Bai Yutian, and said, "Then I'll sing, you can't laugh at me." ”

Hu Yanqing encouraged: "Sister, you can sing whatever you want, and it's good to be unrestrained." "Hehehe.

Zhang Yan'er looked around, and saw that a tree and flowers were blooming outside the store, but no one appreciated it, and the pity came from the bottom of her heart, thought of a few words, and sang:

"Smiling Dai Yingying outside the window, an inch of lovesick magnolia knows. Quietly standing at the tip of the head people do not know, half a trace of smoke and rain for a long time. ”

Several people gave a round of applause, Zhang Yan'er blushed, ashamed, ashamed, ashamed! Cowardice, cowardice, cowardice! Shy and timid.

Bai Yutian stood up, took his hat, and walked out of the door, leaving behind a word that shocked the audience.

"If the dust is clean, the color is like a white cloud, and the beauty is like a fairy. The breeze is light and the fragrance is overflowing, and goodbye is slim and elegant. ”

Zhang Yan'er heard it, chased to the door, and saw Bai Yutian following behind the shopkeeper, faintly far away, like a sentence: Walking with heaven and earth, the heart is tied by trivial matters, and the rain is life.

Bai Yutian and the two walked several times, got out of the town, and came to a village.

The shopkeeper stopped outside an ancestral hall and said, "Childe, this is it." ”

Bai Yutian paid the shopkeeper twenty copper plates and said, "Thank you for leading the way!" ”

The shopkeeper took it and said kindly: "Childe, the people here are all protecting their own shortcomings, you must not be like them." ”

Bai Yutian replied with a smile: "Okay, convince people with virtue." ”

The shopkeeper said: "It's great that Childe can think like this." He smiled and walked away.

Bai Yutian stepped into the gate of the ancestral hall, but did not see a figure, and was blocked by a voice.

"Sir, the Great Song Dynasty is so rich and powerful, why is it always bullied by the north?"

An old voice replied: "Shi Jingjiao's dog, for his own selfishness, ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun on the first line of the Great Wall to the Khitan, and the Han family has since lost the natural city wall composed of lofty mountains and mountains, and the vast Shandong Plain is exposed to the iron hooves of the northern nomads, can it be unobstructed, can it not be bullied!" ”

A young voice said, "Sir, why don't you train your own cavalry?" I was so humiliated and humiliated. ”

The elder sighed: "My Da Song is rich, but I am not good at raising horses, and I don't like to raise horses. Without horses, building a strong cavalry is easier said than done. ”

A young voice: "There are no horses, you can buy them!" As long as you have the heart, there is nothing you can't do. ”

The elder sighed and said, "Emperor Taizu established the Great Song Dynasty, in order to strengthen the centralization of power and prevent those generals under him from supporting their own troops, he took the military power from his subordinate generals with a glass of wine. Let's draw another salary, organize all the elite troops into a forbidden army, defend the Beijing Division, and put them under the direct command of yourself. The forbidden army is all staying in Beijing, and there is no need to run around, so naturally there is no need for a large number of cavalry. ”

A slightly mature voice: "Sir, now even a party member has jumped out, daring to and pee on my Da Song's head, and do nonsense." Why is Da Song so vulnerable? ”

The elder said, "That's all the fault of the Abyss Alliance. ”

A young voice said, "Sir, what is the Abyss Alliance?" ”

The elder said: "In the first year of Zhenzong Jingde, the Liao army marched south and attacked our Great Song Dynasty. Emperor Zhenzong drove the expedition in person, crossed the Yellow River, and arrived at the northern city of Lanzhou, and the Great Song army was greatly boosted for a while. The Liao army went deep alone and suffered a serious setback. In view of the defeat of the army and the low morale of the army, Empress Dowager Xiao proposed peace. Emperor Zhenzong was afraid that the Liao army would break through the Yellow River defense line and endanger the Jingshi Bianliang, so he also made concessions and gave the Liao State 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk every year to achieve peace and righteousness and sign the Yuanyuan Alliance. ”

A voice said, "Sir, it's a good thing to negotiate peace!" The war costs the people and money, so how can it not be fought endlessly. ”

A slightly calm voice said: "Sir, after the alliance between the Song and Liao, the Song and Liao countries have been peaceful for more than 30 years, and the silver earned by the Great Song Dynasty in the trade between the two sides is much higher than the annual tribute sent to the Liao State every year, there is nothing bad about it." ”

The elder sneered: "Since peace can be bought with money, and after having peace, you can earn back the money spent on buying peace, then what do you need the army for!" Since then, the imperial court has lost its attention to military construction, and the army does not need to be trained, as long as the internal stability of the army is ensured. The sage said, born in sorrow, died in peace. ”

A young voice said: "But there are only a few people in the party, but only a million." I have millions of soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty, but they will collapse at the first touch, and I really can't figure it out. ”

The elder replied: "What is there not to understand, the forbidden army and the box army are seriously out of balance, and the inside is heavy and the outside is light. There are many hidden dangers on the border, and the number of troops guarding the border is pitiful, so how can the border be peaceful. Moreover, since Taizu's cup of wine released the military power, every time a foreign tribe invaded, the local defenders first suffered a defeat before sending out the forbidden army. The forbidden army is not familiar with the battlefield, is not familiar with the opponent, and the generals do not know their subordinates. ”

A voice said: "Sir, no wonder in foreign wars, my Great Song Dynasty lost more and won less, it turned out to be like this." ”

The elder said: "The generals who are usually in charge of military training cannot go out with the army in wartime, but those generals who command operations are temporarily selected, most of them are civilian officials, they have little experience in leading troops to fight, and they don't know the soldiers under them, so that the generals don't know the soldiers, and the soldiers don't know the generals." What is even more infuriating is that the commander-in-chief who commands the operation at the front cannot make his own decisions, and every zhang must first draw a battle formation map and send it to the emperor, and only after the emperor's approval can he implement it in stone. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and how long it will take to come and go, and by the time the emperor's orders are sent to the front, both warring sides have almost gone home to eat dinner and go to bed. Although the alliance brought peace, it also concealed all the dangers. ”

A young voice said: "I have a million soldiers in the Song Dynasty, the forbidden army is not good, and there are still local army troops?" ”

The elder sneered: "The local Xiang Army, the school parade Xiang Army is a little better, so it will be reviewed once a year to see if there has been any training." If it is not proofread, it will not even be exempted from the annual review, and if it is asked to fight on the front line, in addition to being able to fill the number of people and engage in aura, once it is really engaged, it is to give away people's heads. ”

A voice became excited and said loudly: "Why does the imperial court keep so much waste? The poor people who are suffering from excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes are miserable, what is the purpose of the hell? ”

The elder sighed and said, "What a picture! Tu He Zhao family has a sentence that has been passed down from generation to generation, there are only chaotic people, not chaotic army. ”

A voice was puzzled and said angrily, "Why? ”

The elder sneered: "The army belongs to his Zhao family, and it is his Zhao family who is paying military salaries, which can be controlled by military law, and the generals still have to rely on his Zhao family to eat, be promoted, and make a fortune, as long as there are no serious mistakes, they will never make a rebellion against his Zhao family." The common people are different, all the expenses of the royal family, the salaries of millions of troops and the salaries of hundreds of thousands of officials, are all scavenged from the people through taxes. Moreover, the peasant uprisings of all dynasties and dynasties were mainly composed of displaced people, and the common people encountered natural and man-made disasters and were separated from the land, and there was no way out except to rebel, so there were those who did not rebel. ”

A voice erupted: "No wonder in the nearly 100 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as there is a natural disaster, the first thing the imperial court does is to recruit troops, recruit troops, and recruit soldiers again." Those strong, strong refugees were recruited into the army just to eliminate the rebellion of the displaced people, and the people were never really treated as human beings. ”

Such a poisonous trick did greatly reduce the uprising of the displaced people in the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty has only been established for 80 years, and the army has exceeded 1 million. Redundant soldiers, not only the imperial court's finances could not be eaten, but also brought corruption, corrupt officials and corrupt officials for a long time, and the poor people were miserable. The elder sighed and sighed, "Hey! This fatal wound, if it is not treated, will be terminally ill, and non-medicine stones can do it for you! ”

When the words fell, there was an instant silence inside, and only a few scattered sighs were heard.

Bai Yutian shook off the rain on his coat, put the hat straight, and walked inside.