Chapter 312: Blood Splashed Imperial Court (2) Tongue War
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Su Zhe paused for a moment, and then said: "Mr. Dongfang, the old man has heard of your great achievements in assisting the Great Liao Emperor to quell the rebellion, which shows that you are really a talent for helping the world! Since Mr. is now in a high position in the Liao State, he should seek benefits for the people of Song and Liao, protect the territory and the people, and eliminate the thieves. But why since Mr. became the generalissimo of the Liao State, he has been arming himself for war and eyeing our country. In this way, wouldn't you have lived up to your status as a Song person, and greatly disappointed the people of the two countries? The old man's words are foolish and straightforward, please don't be surprised, sir!"
Dongfang Undefeated listened to it, smiled silently, and said: "Su Xiangye has to be a Song person, that is also very good, it shows that Su Xiangye does not treat Xiao Ke as an outsider." But Xiang Ye said that our country's army is like a tiger and a wolf, are the soldiers of your country like rabbits and sheep?" The last sentence was said loudly, which made all the Song officials present shocked.
Dongfang Undefeated looked around, and then said: "Xiangye knows that a person has been suffering from a chronic illness for many years, so he should first drink some gruel and take it with the medicine. When his lungs and abdomen are reconciled and his body is slowly stabilized, he can be nourished with meat and treated with powerful medicine, so that the root of the disease can be eliminated and the person can fully recover. If you don't wait for the patient's qi to calm down, you can give him strong medicine and strong-tasting food, and it will be very difficult to ask for peace. ”
"In recent years, tension between your two countries has intensified. Soldiers on both sides went to each other's borders to 'fight grass valleys', and civilians also fought against each other. The other day, our country was experiencing civil strife. Hundreds of thousands of elite divisions of your country have gathered on the border between Song and Liao, and there is a great tendency to take advantage of the fire to loot, and the war is about to break out. ”
"Fortunately, the Empress Dowager of your country is old and respectful, and she strives to maintain the overall situation of peace, coupled with my emperor Shengming. The rapid suppression of the rebellion by thunderous means was avoided from a disaster between Song and Liao. Since Xiao Ke received the title of generalissimo, he has also devoted himself to the peace of your two countries. The reorganization of the army is only for the purpose of consolidating peace. You don't understand the principle of 'making peace through war', right?"
"As far as Xiao Ke is concerned, 'war' is the means. 'And' is the purpose. After securing our Liao border, the people of Angui and our two countries have a foundation. On this basis, Xiaoke has introduced a lot of new measures to benefit the people. Not to mention anything else, this abolition of 'Grass Valley' can't be considered fake, right?"
"However, even after the abolition of the 'grass valley', your country did not pay the money in arrears on the covenant, and it was clear that it wanted to stir up trouble. In my opinion, this is the crime of 'living up to his identity as a Song and disappointing the people of the two countries'. It should be borne by the people in your court who have come up with this 'debt' for the emperor. Dongfang is undefeated, and Su Zhe has no words to answer.
At this time, one of the people in the seat suddenly asked in a loud voice, "Hmph." The 'Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun' under the rule of your country was originally the territory of my Great Song Dynasty, but it was ceded to the Khitans by the great traitor Shi Jingjiao a hundred years ago, and how much the tax on its territory can be worth the 'expenses for helping the army', needless to say, even if my lord is stationed on the Song-Liao border with millions of troops and thousands of generals, and is eyeing the chaos to attack the Great Liao, it is just to recover the lost land and restore the rivers and mountains of the Han family, so what's wrong?"
The East is undefeated and looks at it, but it is Shi Wen Yanbo, the servant of the Great Song Palace.
After thinking for a moment, Dongfang Undefeated smiled and said: "Hehe, according to Xiao Ke's opinion, there are three things that Wen Yushi just said is wrong. ”
Wen Yanbo sneered when he heard this: "Hehe, what you said is wrong, I would like to hear it in detail!"
Dongfang Undefeated explained: "First, when my country won the 'Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun', it was twenty-four years earlier than the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, so this boundary is naturally not the territory of the Song Kingdom. Second, Shi Jingjiao was originally a Shatuo person, and his courtesy to the emperor is also a nomadic habit, since he is not a Han at all, he is definitely not a traitor, let alone a big traitor. Third, most of the people living in the sixteen states are Han people, and they were originally the rivers and mountains of the Han people, and they don't need your country to restore them. ”
Wen Yanbo was not convinced, and continued: "If you are not under the rule of my Great Song Emperor, how can you be regarded as a Han land?"
Dongfang is undefeated and righteous and sternly said: "Can Wen Yushi have heard the truth that 'the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light'? Since the people are precious, then the place where the Han people have settled for a long time is naturally the boundary of the Han family, where does it have to be governed by the Han monarch?"
As soon as these words came out, Wen Yanbo was finally speechless.
Another person in the audience asked: "Does the marshal of the East want to follow the example of Zhang Yi and Su Qin to persuade our Song State to pay the money with his incorruptible tongue? ”
Dongfang was undefeated and saw that it was Fan Chunren, the privy envoy of the Song State, so he replied: "Fan Shumi thinks that Zhang Yi and Su Qin are debaters, but he probably doesn't know that he is also a hero; After a few words, you instigated Emperor Song to use swords and soldiers, and you are embarrassed to laugh at Su Qin and Zhang Yi here?"
Fan Chunren was also speechless when asked.
Suddenly, someone asked: "I look at the words and deeds of Marshal Dongfang, which are quite similar to Cao Mengde back then, I wonder what kind of person the marshal thinks he is?"
Dongfang Undefeated looked at that person, it was Fan Zuyu, a scholar in the Great Song Dynasty and a bachelor of Hanlin, and immediately replied: "Cao Cao is a great hero who has helped the people in the world, does this still need to be asked?"
Fan Zuyu suddenly said sharply: "How can the marshal come out of this without the words of a monarch and a minister, father and son, and without high and low ethics? Since Cao Cao is a Hanchen, he has a heart of disobedience, and you actually call him a great hero. ”
"I think that the marshal should dispel these thoughts, which is the right way to be a minister. Cao Cao's ancestors ate Hanlu, but did not think of repaying the filial piety of the Han family, but had the heart of usurping power and rebellion, which made the people of the world resentful, but the marshal said that he had helped the people through the world, and he really had no father, no king, and no common words!"
Unexpectedly, Dongfang was undefeated and was not annoyed, but smiled slightly and said, "Haha, Fan Hanlin is not right." From the Han and Tang dynasties to the present, there are very few people who can be compared with Cao Cao in terms of his achievements in helping the people. Although Xiao Ke is a latecomer at the end of school, he is not afraid of being ugly, and he wants to tell the bachelors one by one about the places where Cao Cao can be called a big hero. ”
"This is the case, as the saying goes, 'the people take food as the sky', and Xiao Ke starts with the food of the people. In the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao adopted the suggestions of his subordinates Zao Yi and others, and used the materials seized from the attack on the Yellow Turban to recruit people to Tuntian. Later, he ordered the establishment of field officials in various prefectures and counties, and the establishment of tuntian, which effectively solved the food problem of the local people. ”
At the same time as the construction of tuntian, Cao Cao took various measures to support the yeoman peasant economy. In view of the loss of population and the barren land at that time, he successively adopted such methods as recruiting displaced people, migrating the population, persuading farmers to teach mulberry crops, building water conservancy, and checking household registration, so as to enrich the number of households and restore agricultural production. ”
In addition, Cao Cao also issued decrees one after another to restore the normal rent adjustment system to prevent the powerful from annexing small farmers. The series of measures he implemented before and after him enabled the yeoman peasant economy, which was on the verge of collapse, to be continuously restored and developed. (To be continued......)