Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 16 The joke of history

Jia Xu sipped his teeth, patted his belly, and spread it contentedly, "It's better for you, look at this beef is too much to eat..." He picked up another piece of beef and wanted to put it in his mouth, but just as soon as Lifting his head and opening his mouth, he burped loudly. He had no choice but to put the meat back on the plate with a look of pity.

Li Ru had already finished eating, and was sipping tea while reading a volume of slips, when he heard Jia Xu's words, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, "Wen and you can take back what you can't finish later. "

"Why take it home? I won't be able to eat it for a while, so if someone sees it, they want to share it with me? Why bother with that trouble—well, you still have the mood to read—you did the mess outside on purpose, right? ?” Jia Xu said casually.

   "Yes." Li Ru agreed with his nose, saying that he didn't need to answer such meaningless questions.

Jia Xu pointed his fingers and said, "First, ruin Dong Zhongying's reputation, then spread some rumors about monopolizing power and recklessly chaotic politics, then split up and win over Dong Zhongying's generals, and finally make a high-profile appearance to turn the tide... I say, you are so smooth Is it really okay to follow them?"

   "What's the problem?" Li Ru lowered his head to read the letter, and replied casually, "I just plan to follow their routine."

  Jia Xu was taken aback for a moment, blinked her eyes, and said puzzledly: "That's not right... Then your only way is to take the road of domineering... Why did you give up the kingly way? When did you change your mind?"

  Li Ru didn't answer directly, and without raising his head, he asked casually, "Wen He is good at military formation planning, why don't you try it if I ask you a question?"

   "Practice martial arts?" Jia Xu became interested, and even popped out Mandarin, "Come on, let's draw the line!"

   "Hehe, Wenhe, you have an army of 10,000 villagers and bandits... Well, there is not enough equipment, insufficient army horses, insufficient food and grass..."

  Jia Xu's face turned dark when he heard Li Ru's shortcomings, "What's your weakness?"

   "It's gone, listen up—Wen and you have ten thousand..." Li Ru continued calmly.

   "10,000 mobs... I see, what next?" Jia Xu said half-heartedly, having no interest in the "rabble" who had no fighting power.

  Li Ru continued, "Trapped in a small town, there are about 10,000 reinforcements..." He glanced at Jia Xu, "...It's also a mob..." In an instant, he saw Jia Xu spread out a little.

   "The opponent is - 400,000 county soldiers from all over the country and the Central Forbidden Army... The ultimate goal is to win a complete victory and defeat the enemy army within one night!"

  Jia Xu was tongue-tied, and after a while, pointed at Li Ru: "Are you playing tricks on me? How can this formation defeat the enemy?"—Li Ru, are you kidding me? Can a mob of 20,000 defeat 400,000 regular soldiers? Even if you line up and don't resist and let you cut off people's heads casually, you will cut until the knife is blunt!

  The quantity will change qualitatively to a certain extent, okay? Not to mention 20,000 versus 400,000, even two versus forty people can only escape, how can you defeat the enemy army? It is also required that within one night, every mob of me can transform!

  Li Ru handed over the slip in his hand, motioning for you to read it yourself.

  Jia Xu took it and looked at the sign first, and couldn't help blurting out: "Emperor Guangwu Note? How did you get it? Ah, you robbed Taiku?"

  Li Ru said lightly: "You don't need to rob, just order him to deliver it."

  Jia Xu glanced at the ten lines, and after reading it in a blink of an eye, she said in disbelief: "This is simply—it's unimaginable, extremely absurd! Look here—"

  Jia Xu pointed to a line of words in the letter, apparently feeling unbelievable about the description in the letter. I saw that it was written in the book-"Meteors fall into the camp at night, and clouds are like bad mountains in the daytime. When the camp falls, it falls, and it disperses when it falls below the ground. Officials and officials are disgusted." Will people of later generations feel familiar with this description when they read this passage?

  Li Ru said: "Then how do you think 20,000 versus 400,000 can win overnight? In the end, only 3,000 soldiers and 400,000 troops are left!"

   "This—" Jia Xu was also speechless.

Li Ru pointed to the pile of letters beside him, and said: "I have always been puzzled by the inexplicable failure two hundred years ago. It was obviously a good situation, but how could it be defeated in an instant? Ever since I read and retrieved these letters, the more I read them, the more I feel palpitations, there may be a side in this world that you and I don't know."

   Li Ru frowned, tapped his head with his fingers, and said, "The kingly way takes a long time! What should we do if another such situation occurs during the period?"

   "So you chose the road of dominance with a shorter time? But in this way, the difficulties you have to face have increased by not a little bit!"

   "Then do you think it is easier to face these difficulties or this situation?" Li Ru pointed to the letter in Jia Xu's hand and said.

   "Hiss..." Jia Xu also started to have a headache, "Let's choose the path of dominance—if the record in the book is true, it is really inexplicable..."

The IQs of Li Ru and Jia Xu can be said to belong to the top level of the contemporary era, so there are more things to consider. For example, as Li Ru is worried, it is of course best to follow the road of kingship, because the road of kingship is almost to force people with power , one step at a time, with a solid foundation, even if there are partial failures, it doesn't matter, the final overall situation will be the general trend, and no one can resist, but the only shortcoming is that it takes too much time to prepare at the beginning. The deeper it is, the faster it will be at the end of the flat push; domineering is a way to harm the enemy and feed back itself, constantly weakening and encroaching on the enemy force, making itself rapidly expand, suppressing one victory after another before the conflict breaks out, but in the direction of If you are not careful when you succeed in the end, internal and external contradictions will erupt at the same time, causing you to collapse as quickly as ice and snow melt.

In the past, Li Ru helped Dong Zhuo in Xiliang basically follow the kingly route. The Xiliang Corps was built extremely strong by him, with a perfect pyramid structure from top to bottom. The Qiang people and Hu people are auxiliary soldiers, layer upon layer. When Xiliang soldiers at each level die during the war, the sergeants at the next level will automatically be promoted to substitutes to ensure that the military orders are implemented consistently and have super executive power.

However, after arriving in Luoyang, when Li Ru retrieved the books in the Royal Shaofu Taiku in order to understand his doubts, he found that the longer the time dragged on, the more likely he would encounter variables, especially when the variables were beyond imagination. outside.

   What Li Ru and Jia Xu talked about is one of the few mysteries in history, and it was also a variable in the Han Dynasty. It was an inexplicable turning point. Unfortunately, this great pioneer failed to make a successful transformation.

   This great pioneer is named Wang Mang.

  It was the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and more than 150 years had passed since the founding of the Western Han Dynasty. When Wang Mang was born, his family, the Wang family, was already the leading family of relatives. His aunt was the queen, and his uncles took turns to be the chief minister. The worst in the family was also a general or a prince. noble.

  At that time, Wang Mang devoted himself to studying and lived a simple life, which was completely different from other yamen who indulged in lust, luxury and lust, and committed all kinds of evil. After the death of his father and brother, he alone supported his mother and widowed sister-in-law, raised the orphan of his elder brother, took care of the elders and uncles in the family, and made friends with celebrities and sages outside. It's getting bigger and bigger.

   Later, when Wang Mang was in his 20s, he was elected as an official in the court because of his reputation as a virtuous man. After becoming an official, Wang Mang did not become arrogant and indulgent because of this. On the contrary, he became more humble and simple. Therefore, his official position is getting higher and higher, and his reputation is getting bigger and bigger. Everyone in the government and the public praises Wang Mang as a role model in the world. Whether it is the public opinion of Qingliu or the public opinion of Baiding people, he firmly grasps it in his hands.

   Is this kind of foundation stable enough? Is the foundation deep enough?

  In the first year of AD, Wang Mang was granted the title of Duke An Han, and he has monopolized power ever since. He bestowed rewards on noble officials, supported widows and widows, and bestowed favors on common people and scholars. All social classes are grateful to him.

  He took the lead in living a simple life. It is recorded that he donated millions of dollars and 30 yuan of land to help the poor near Kyoto. In the following year, when there was a severe drought across the country, Wang Mang led more than 200 officials to donate their land and houses to the victims. At the same time, they built free houses so that they could live in peace. Rent-free houses were achieved in the Han Dynasty!

  For this sake, the world called Wang Mang a saint in the world and worshiped him. Since then, all roads have been opened up, and all obstacles have been trampled under his feet.

   In the eighth year of AD, Wang Mang accepted the abdication of Emperor Ruziying very smoothly, proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the name of the country to Xin. The government and the public cheered for this, and almost no one opposed it. It is reasonable to say that Wang Mang has properly implemented the road of kingship, with such a solid foundation, the people who support him from the government to the field should have a perfect ending, but history seems to be a joke...

  Wang Mang then introduced a series of new policies, some of which are very interesting:

  Implementation of state-owned land—the land is no longer privately owned, but all land is nationalized. Does it feel familiar?

  Arable land redistribution—Confiscating the land of the big landlords and distributing them to landless farmers according to needs, is there a more familiar feeling?

  Freezing slavery—a stride directly across feudal serfdom society, this, huh…

  Centralization of currency - the local government no longer has the right to issue currency, and it is printed and issued by the central government...

  Government intervention in the economy—the government participates in formulating guiding prices, and establishes monopoly systems for state-owned enterprises such as salt and iron...

   Well, there are still some detailed rules that I won’t list in detail, but with the above few items, do you feel an unusually cordial feeling after reading them? Think about it, it was at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, at the beginning of AD, when **** was just a big kid...

The record of Liu Xiu, the forbidden curse mage, Liu Xiu, meteor and fire rain is from Emperor Guangwu, and it belongs to the descendants. Dafang’s family doesn’t need to worry about it, but Comrade Wang Mang, if he is also a traveler, he should be a good comrade from the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China to before the reform and opening up. , you know the reason... There were rent-free houses in the Han Dynasty, which makes me feel so hard...

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