Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

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Chen Ying said with grief and indignation: "It's not just dangerous, it's the end of the world! In a place called Tumubao, this empire suffered the most tragic defeat since the founding of the country. The 20 troops were defeated by the enemy with a mere 50." All the people were killed, more than [-] ministers of civil and military affairs died on the battlefield, generations of emperors painstakingly managed, the accumulated elite soldiers and talents were wiped out, and even the emperor was taken prisoner!"

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment and said: "This result is also expected, but I still don't understand your intention of telling this story."

Chen Ying said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the story is not over yet. After hearing the bad news, the ministers of this empire greeted the emperor's younger brother with unprecedented efficiency, and expressed to the enemy that he was a prisoner." It's already expired, you kill as you like, and let go as you like, we don't care at all, if you want to fight, we will accompany you to the end! These are all normal, but there is one thing that is very abnormal..."

Chen Ying paused, noticing that Li Jiancheng was listening carefully, and continued: "When the new emperor came to court for the first time, all the civil servants who had been so frightened by that idiot in the past jumped out and sent the defeated All the blame is on that idiot's stupidity, asking the emperor to destroy the nine clans of that guy. This does not wrong that idiot, he really deserves to die, but... the ministers seem to be too excited, the emperor hasn't made a decision yet, they just pretend to be Watching the emperor fight against that idiot's accomplices, beating three of them to death in the court hall, really let the emperor see the blood and might of these frail scholars, it is said that the emperor was so scared that his face turned pale."

Li Jiancheng frowned and said: "This is too presumptuous. If it is placed in our Tang Dynasty, no matter what the reason is, those who do such things will be punished extremely severely and will never be forgiven."

"Your Majesty, I think that the emperor probably wanted to punish them, but he really didn't have the confidence, because the most loyal troops and nobles to the royal family were buried outside the pass..." Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and said: "In the end he had to squeeze Sniffing his nose, he acquiesced in the absurd behavior of the ministers, and executed all the henchmen of that idiot. There is nothing wrong with this matter, but it is not difficult to see right and wrong. No matter how corrupt and corrupt they are, intrigues, and make a mess of state affairs, no one can do anything to them, and this pattern will continue until the dynasty's demise!"

At this moment, Li Jiancheng seemed to have understood what Chen Ying meant.

The emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together. This is the highest ideal of civil servants and their lifelong pursuit. Is this view wrong?

Li Jiancheng had all sorts of questions in his mind, but he had no choice but to continue listening patiently.

Li Jiancheng began to think, which dynasty is the Ming Dynasty that Chen Ying is referring to?Could it be... What Li Jiancheng thought about but didn't understand is that the Ming Dynasty is still 800 years later.

Chen Ying sighed for a long time, and continued: "This incident has completely changed the fate of the empire. Before this, the empire forged ahead, and the barbarians surrendered. After this battle, the empire became closed and conservative, and quickly lost Without the bloody spirit of the founding emperor who swept across the desert, the kings of all dynasties since then regarded the border as daunting, not to mention the imperial conquest, they dare not even take a look at the border."

Chen Ying paused again, and said with some self-mockery: "However, there are exceptions to everything, just like the Han Dynasty. From Gaozu to Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, they were all afraid of the Xiongnu like a tiger. After Emperor Wuwen of the Han Dynasty, this was completely reversed. This situation. Decades after the death of the emperor who had suffered a crushing defeat at the border and even made himself a prisoner, his grandson sneaked out of the capital and ran to the border, mobilizing a large army to fight fiercely with the nomads who frequently invaded the border of the empire. It was a battle, and it was a battle of 10,000+ troops repeatedly charged and killed. In the end, I helped my grandfather find the place. The nomads did not dare to be arrogant for a long time after that, but the funny thing is that according to historical records, this battle The imperial army killed sixteen enemies!"

Li Jiancheng is a well-informed soldier. He blurted out: "How is this possible! 10,000+ troops are fighting to the death. Even if they don't use knives or guns, they can kill more than just a few people with bricks! Tens of thousands of people will die in a stampede. Hundreds of people fell! I must have misremembered!"

"I also hope that this is wrong, but this is not wrong. Killing sixteen enemies, the emperor personally killed one enemy soldier, and it will be recorded in the history books with dignity." Chen Ying spat angrily, and said : "It's really a joke in the world!"

"If this is the case, then it's even more impossible! The emperor personally killed an enemy soldier, which shows that the battle was extremely fierce. The enemy army broke through numerous defenses and came to the emperor. How could it be possible to kill only sixteen enemy soldiers? Soldiers!" Li Jiancheng suddenly remembered the newly revised "Book of Jin", in which a paragraph recorded a battle.

In the battle of Liantai in the eighth year of Jinyonghe, Murong Ke connected the horses with iron locks, and selected [-] brave but not self-willed soldiers from the Xianbei soldiers who were good at shooting, and marched in a square formation.Ran Min, the leader of Wei at that time, led his trilogy to repeatedly rush to the front of Murong Ke's formation. He joined the army to save Murong Ke, but was stabbed by Ran Min with a spear and died.

However, although Murong Ke won that battle, the 14 cavalry under his command were disabled by Ran Min's [-] infantry, and he completely lost his combat effectiveness. Even in the subsequent siege of Yecheng, Murong Jun had to send a general Murong Ping led the army to attack.As long as Murong Ke still has a little bit of strength, he will never give up the merit of destroying the country.

What's even more regrettable is that it took two years for Qianyan to actually send out to control all parts of the Central Plains, because Wei Guo used a soldier of less than 20 to fight all of Qianyan's [-] elites. put one's oar in.

"If it were a minister, I wouldn't believe it. Seventy to eighty thousand troops went out to fight and killed sixteen enemies, and the emperor killed one person. That means that the tens of thousands of troops only wiped out fifteen enemy troops, and the emperor could snatch one of them like this." , that luck can’t be better! But, that’s how the historians recorded it, and so did the civil servants.” Chen Ying said with a wry smile: “At the beginning of the battle in Lingzhou, I wiped out more than [-] Turkic troops. , the only enemy I personally kill is to clean up the battlefield after the battle!"

At this moment, Li Jiancheng finally came to his senses.

He blurted out: "It must be because the civil servants don't want the emperor's real battle to be known and improve the emperor's reputation, so they hid the real record of this battle, yes, it must be like this! You said earlier, in the After the fiasco of the Civil Fortress, civil servants overwhelmed the emperor for the first time, for the sake of their own power and status, they certainly don't want to let the emperor suppress it again!"

He clapped his hands excitedly, and said: "From this, it seems to be inferred that in that fiasco, the civil servants were probably not innocent, maybe they were looking forward to the emperor's fiasco, and all the troops and generals loyal to the emperor were buried outside the customs." , in order to realize their family's dominance ambition..."

Having said this, Li Jiancheng suddenly trembled and was dumbfounded.

Because he suddenly thought of the former Sui Dynasty, and thought of Yang Guang's army of millions.

They also set out on an expedition with an absolute advantage, they also suffered an inexplicable defeat, almost lost their elites, and the same thing...everything, what happened to Yang Guang, was so similar to what happened to the unlucky emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

However, what is ashamed is that the level of these aristocratic families seems to be inferior to the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty. At least those civil servants did not show their mountains and dew, but they did it so blatantly!

Li Jiancheng is very clear about who is behind Yang Xuangan's chaos.

Li Jiancheng is more aware of what is going on with the 36th road in the world against the king, and the dust and smoke of the 72nd road.In fact, the Li Tang court also played a disgraceful role in this fission.

The technique is the same, the result is the same, even the ultimate goal is the same!

During the three expeditions to Goguryeo, Yang Guang buried millions of troops loyal to him, and Jiangdu, which died tragically in the end, had no bones left.

However, during the same period of time, he has been angry and confused. He didn't know that those guys were desperately dragging their feet and plotting against Chen Ying. Once Anxi's army turned against the court, the world would be in chaos. Li Jiancheng couldn't understand what they were planning. What, now the lightning cut through the fog, and the terrifying answer slowly appeared before his eyes with a bloody conspiracy.

What they want is power!Supreme power!

Those guys already existed beyond the law in Datang. They have supreme power, and they are afraid of being separated a little bit by others.

In order to keep the power in their hands forever, they will use all means to eliminate the challenger, even if they lose their lives.

Despicable, shameless!

Li Jiancheng's eyes burst into flames of anger, and the cup in his hand rattled, bursting into thin cracks.

Chen Ying noticed the tragic experience of the cup, and said nothing, hiding a smile in his eyes.

This conversation was very casual, somewhat rambling, but it was like a [-]-megaton nuclear bomb thrown into the sea, which was about to set off monstrous waves.

At this moment, Li Jiancheng finally understood one thing.

The army is his only support.As President Xi Jinping said, Russia has only three allies, namely the army, air force and navy.

Then Datang, Li Jiancheng's allies, in fact, there are only sixteen guards, 360 armies in the world, and the four major guards, only those generals who made their fortunes by relying on military exploits.

If there are no military generals to check and balance the civil servants, they will expand without limit, and finally suppress the imperial power under their feet and ravage wantonly.

Chen Ying's story is over.

Li Jiancheng was still deep in thought, his hands trembling slightly, presumably a fierce battle between heaven and man was going on in his heart.

Chen Ying didn't speak anymore, he said everything that should be said, and it was up to Li Jiancheng to make a decision.

He picked up the wine glass and sipped the fine wine, waiting patiently.

After a while, Li Jiancheng raised his head, forced a smile and said, "This dream of yours is very exciting."

Li Jiancheng took a sip of wine and said with lingering fear: "Those merchants..."

"It is basically impossible to win battles by advocating culture and deposing martial arts. Advocating business and suppressing military... will only lead to extinction!" Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and said solemnly: "Merchants can only be used, not reused. The two Guanzhong grain wars, Once I passively counterattacked, and once I provoked it, it doesn’t matter, the important thing is that they are all greedy rats. Whether it is aristocratic clans or merchants, they are all the same species, regardless of each other! In the eyes of merchants , They don’t care, even if the dynasty perishes, they can still make money! For them, the whole dynasty is just a market, if they don’t get along well here, they can withdraw their funds and leave at any time!”

Li Jiancheng punched the table again, but this time it was heavier, and his fist was already bleeding.

Li Jiancheng said as if he hadn't realized it: "Don't mention these disappointing things, and tell me about your dream again. You seem to say that this dynasty has perished. How did it die?"

"It died due to internal and external troubles. In the last 50 years of this dynasty, the border troubles became more and more serious, and it encountered the terrible Little Ice Age. The climate became extremely bad, natural and man-made disasters continued, and officials became more and more rampant. Finally, Natural disasters and man-made disasters drove the people to a dead end. The people rose up to overthrow the dynasty, and the enemies outside the Great Wall were also watching. The most frightening thing is that even at this point, the civil and military officials in the court are still fighting each other, holding each other back. When the last batch of soldiers capable of fighting and the last few generals capable of fighting were killed by them one by one, the 300-year dynasty of Xiangguo finally collapsed."

Chen Ying's eyes showed sincere sadness, he sighed, and then said: "The emperor is still good, until the end he didn't borrow troops from other peoples to deal with the peasant army, when he lost the country and the capital, , Hanged himself on a tree, hateful civil and military officials! The emperor borrowed money from them as military expenses to resist the enemy. They all cried and shouted that they had no money, but after the peasant army broke through the imperial capital, they breathed a sigh of relief. 7000 million taels of silver were copied from their home, which is equivalent to 24 years' income of the entire imperial treasury!"

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and said, "This scene seems familiar!"

"That's right, in the fourth year of Wude, our Tang Dynasty fought against Wang Shichong in Luoyang!" Chen Ying seemed to have returned to the time when his blood was boiling, and said with a confused face: "King Qin was defeated in Luoyang, and the court lost a hundred thousand troops. The court borrowed from them money……"

Li Jiancheng said angrily: "They took the opportunity to sit on the ground and start a family, and wanted to carve up the land of Henan Prefecture. After Henan's victory, the imperial court owed them a huge debt!"

Having said that, Li Jiancheng stood up suddenly and said, "I finally figured it out!"

"Just figure it out!" Chen Ying sat there calmly.