The Light, The Sword

Chapter 160: purpose

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"Minxin?!" Gao Shengtai felt a little disapproving. He was an irrelevant figure who was despised by almost everyone from the Gao family, relying all the way on his own blood and fighting, and now he has almost become the kingdom of Dali today. The position of the first person in control of true power has always been the one who relied on his own tactics and calculations, ambition and strength. For this view of Mr. Ba, some people think that it is nothing more than a ruthless view. It’s just that he knows the personality of Mr. Ba in his heart, and he doesn’t want to be more true about this matter. He just smiled and said: "The Song Dynasty can survive for more than a hundred years, even if it suffers from Jingkang’s changes. , Can still stand upright, there is a reason for it. Although the words of the people's hearts are a little too elusive, it may be one of the reasons."

"Jun Hou's words are wrong." That Mr. Ba bluntly refuted Gao Shengtai's words, and shook his head vigorously: "It's not so ridiculous, but it's not ridiculous!"

Gao Shengtai's eyes condensed slightly on that Mr. Ba’s face, as if he was judging whether he was really sour and rotted, or he was pretending to be crazy and stupid. As far as he was concerned, he was only facing that one in the end. Mr. Ba nodded slightly, and said, "I don't know what the husband can teach me?"

"Although the people's mind is unpredictable, it is really not something that is invisible, unexplorable, and unattainable, otherwise it will not be under the three generations of the holy kings. The wise and wise men of the past will have to manage the people's mind as the first priority", Mr. Ba raised his head and looked at Gao Shengtai with a smile, not a serious expression, and said with a rare serious expression: "The ruler only knows the people's heart is an unpredictable thing, but it is the root of the people's heart, but it is only in the ordinary people. The firewood, rice, oil and salt, between daily use!"

"The foundation of the people's mind is between ordinary people's firewood, rice, oil and salt, and daily use?!" Gao Shengtai heard Mr. Deba's words. He didn't know why he felt a little bit of horror. He put away his face. Smiling, sitting upright, looking at the Mr. Ba, waiting for him to continue.

"Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, after the two kings of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi defeated the Southern Tang and Northern Han Dynasties, there is really no commendable victory. Not to mention that when the Liao Kingdom was in its heyday, it seemed to have a single move. The power of the Song Dynasty was flattened, and even the emperor of the Song Dynasty had to impose an imperial conquest to inspire morale, and then barely resisted the army of the Liao Dynasty. He also paid countless gold and silver coins every year and signed'Qi Yuanzhi'. Meng', this barely survived. Even the Xia State, who claims to be the emperor from the northwest border, often sent troops to harass the Song family. It seemed to have taken the initiative, so that Song State had no power to fight back. After more than a hundred years, the great Liao Dynasty that was at its peak that day has fallen apart, the scenery of the Khitan people is no longer restored, and in the last few years before the Jingkang change, the Song Dynasty built a fort on the mountain and built a city, gradually advancing. He has already established a strategic advantage over Xia’s country,” said Mr. Ba, casting his eyes out of the window: “If it weren’t for God’s will, a group of Jurchen savages would have sprung up between the white mountains and the black waters. He knocked down Song Shi Bianjing by accident. I'm afraid that there is no place for Xia Guo's party members in the world now!"

"When I was a teenager, I traveled everywhere, and I also visited the old Liao and Xia states. When the Jurchen Kingdom rose up, Meng Junhou did not abandon it, and I was also appointed to go to Beijing as an envoy to the Kingdom of the Jin Dynasty. In addition, I entered the Song Dynasty. But I arrogantly said that it was traversing the countries.” The Mr. Ba sighed and said: “However, if it were not for seeing it with his own eyes, Ba was really hard to believe that the people of the Song Dynasty are so rich that they are as high as Si, the high-ranking official of Liao. The aristocratic families of Xixia, or those Jurchen aristocrats who are proud of their martial arts today, if they really talk about the comfort and richness of life, I am afraid that they are not as good as the gatekeepers of the small towns in the border town here. In such a world, why don’t you need to worry about the people’s support? How could it be possible that the country is immortal and suddenly extinct?!"

"If you think it is," the Mr. Ba looked at Gao Shengtai and asked slowly: "Then the king thought that the weight of the Gao clan among the people of Dali, compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, how much weight?! "

"Mr., this is a good question," Gao Shengtai was silent for a while, then sighed for a long time, shook his head lightly, and smiled bitterly: "Gao is speechless!"

"Since the prince has understood," Mr. Ba never let it go. Instead, he asked himself: "Does the prince still insist on this trip to the Song Dynasty?!"

Mr. Ba went to and fro, said so much, in the final analysis, he still wanted to discourage Gao Shengtai from entering the Song Dynasty this time, in his opinion, anyway.

He just said that the remarks that Gao Shengtai said were deliberately exaggerated in some places to increase persuasiveness, but most of them were based on what he had seen and thought over the past few days, and he sent it with feelings.

Before entering the Song Dynasty, he did have a bit of disdain for the Southern Song Dynasty, which was repeatedly defeated. He also had great ambitions. He felt that Dali might not be able to do a lot in the future, as long as the Gao family of the Dali Junior High School could truly represent it. However, it integrates the various forces that were originally disintegrated in the center of the court and confines each other, and then smooths the local forces, and establishes a Dali military and political system that can unify government orders and command uniformly. Then Dali will enter the original map and compete for the world, but it will not It's not too far out of reach.

Just to achieve such a goal and to enter the picture, it is bound to wait until the general situation in Dali is settled. This is the reason why this Mr. Ba has been trying his best to discourage Gao Shengtai these days.

However, after traveling in Song Dynasty these days, Mr. Ba’s thoughts have also changed a lot. After all, he is a Confucian student who wears a Confucian shirt and has been studying sage books since childhood. These days, he has personally seen He was really shocked to witness this land under the rule of the Song Dynasty, such a rich and abundant scene.

Throughout the ages, I am afraid that all Confucian scholars who read the books of sages and claim to be disciples of sages have a dream in their hearts that is no more than a saint inside but a king outside. It has become an eternal dream in the hearts of all Confucian scholars. When Mr. Ba was young, he was conceited and ambitious, and it was natural that he had such thoughts, but afterwards, he suffered repeated blows. He was over half a hundred years old and did nothing. He was ambitious. He slowly faded away, and it was because of his unrequited love in his life that he developed the personality that pretends to be as mad as he is now, but today he came to this Southern Song Dynasty in person, and he walked along the way these days. Some people are fascinated by the life of the people in the city under the rule of the Song Dynasty. Although he still does not want to admit it now, deep down in his heart, he has already faintly identified with him. Those Song Confucian students who looked down on said that they began to think that these Song Confucian students originally boasted that they had the Song Dynasty superfluous Han and Tang Dynasties, but it is not too unreasonable.

Regardless of where these Confucian scholars are in their country, the rich and prosperous rule of Great Harmony recorded in the same allusions they read will be useful, old-fashioned, roadless, and closed at night, and will surely become their common ideal. But before he came to the Song Dynasty, this Mr. Ba always felt that this was just an unattainable dream. It was not until this trip into the Song Dynasty that he saw the never-night city in the Song Dynasty of the Southern Kingdom that was almost bright day and night. Going to the prosperous place, the richness is beyond the imagination of Mr. Ba’s life in the city. It really makes the Mr. Ba feel like he has come to a dreamland. He originally imagined the prosperity of Datong, I’m afraid It's just such a situation, and it can even be said that life in the Song State city-state is, to a certain extent, even more magnificent and strange than the prosperous world he could imagine. .

"Yes!" Gao Shengtai didn't have any extra expressions, he just nodded lightly, and responded indifferently.

"Bamou didn't know why the prince would believe in the imaginary words on Qin Hui's calligraphy." That Mr. Ba rarely obscured the words, but said directly to Gao Shengtai: "It's just that Qin Hui The statement on the book is true. It depends on the situation of the soldiers and civilians of the Song State. Does the ruler think that the entire Southern Song Dynasty can be overturned just by saying this?!"

"If what Qin Hui said is true, then this Southern Kingdom's emperor official is an imposter." Gao Shengtai seems to be a little interested because he rarely sees this serious appearance of Mr. Ba. Looking at the Mr. Ba, he said without hesitation: “In the eyes of Mr. Qin Hui, the power cultivated by Qin Hui’s own government for more than ten years, under such a situation, it has actually turned upside down. Can't the entire Southern Kingdom Song Dynasty?!"

"Of course," the Mr. Ba replied decisively: "Although Qin Huizhi's claim is originally absurd, even if Qin Hui really has Zhao Gao's ability, he can refer to the deer as a horse, and find out what can prove that the emperor of the Song Dynasty is false and untrue. Come, but under the circumstances of the Nanguo people’s sentiments, I am afraid that Qin Hui would absolutely not dare to add Huangpao to his body, and even based on the Southern people’s heart, Ba can affirm that even if Qin Hui has a temporary advantage at this time, I’m afraid not. No matter how powerful he is, no matter how powerful he is, he will definitely not be left behind!"

"Jun Hou feels that what Ba has seen is too arbitrary?!" The Mr. Ba looked at Gao Shengtai and he was silent, he couldn't help but raised his brows and asked in a deep voice.