Chapter 58 The Dust of History (Central)

"That master, aren't you and General Wu? Are you not your brother-in-law?" Deputy Governor Tang Tao didn't notice the regret in Han Jianhong's eyes at all. He suddenly leaned back and exclaimed sharply.

"Why is it my brother-in-law, my uncle-in-law." The clerk's secretary made a loud correction immediately, "The commander of Wu Du is our uncle and uncle-in-law, haha, although he has turned a corner, he is still a brother-in-law."

"The brother-in-law is of course also my brother-in-law." Other officials from the military department agreed and looked at their boss Han Jianhong, which became increasingly different from before.

Wu Liangmou has been in Jingxiang for more than half a year, and with three brigades of war soldiers, he has defeated the 100,000 Yuan army. His reputation and achievements have long spread across the north and south with the wind of the river. This time, General Manager Zhu led the army to fight, leaving Liu Ziyun, Wang Kerou and other generals without using it, but he transferred this person from Jingxiang to take half of the army to take charge of the center, which fully demonstrates the weight of this person in General Manager Zhu's heart. It can be foreseen that in the near future, Wu Liangmou's position will inevitably rise sharply. Han Jianhong, as his close relative and friend, has made real contributions and must be taken to a higher level.

Thinking of this, the officials looked at Han Laoliu more eagerly, and the words he said became more respectful. However, Han Laoliu had already flew out of the military department, floating around and flying toward nowhere.

"Auntie was really far-sighted at that time. He even gave up such a big family business and followed our chief executive without hesitation." I don't know who it was, and he exclaimed in his ear.

"Sacrifice your family for the country. Isn't that the ancients said that sacrificing your family for the country?"

"Or why are adults?" Several other colleagues looked at Han Jianhong with envious eyes and laughed at each other, "Old Lu, if you were the ones, I'm afraid you wouldn't have the courage. Even if your family members force you with a knife, they might not be sure to die and retreat."

"That's right? At that time, I didn't even dare to kill all the chickens, let alone, hey."

"Not to mention that at that time, even when the adults first arrived in Yangzhou, I had to ask for talented people. I hesitated for a long time before I dared to come and apply for the recruitment."

"If you are timid, maybe if you are ten days and half a month in the morning,"

"Don't talk nonsense. In the morning, this position should be from Lord Han. He gained fame through real swords and guns. Unlike us, it depends entirely on the pen."

The sounds came from his ears were extremely chaotic, but Han Jianhong faintly heard the father's explanation the night before leaving home, "Little Liuzi, don't blame your grandfather for being cruel. Since ancient times, everyone's family has been like this. The world is going to be in chaos. Our Han family must find a few more ways to survive."

Since ancient times, every family has been like this. Han Jianhong didn’t know much about it, but he clearly remembered that in the Three Kingdoms era, there was a minister named Zhuge in all parties of Wei, Shu and Wu, and the officials were very good at doing it.

This is the survival wisdom inherited by the ancestors. All families with a slightly larger age are basically well aware of this. Therefore, whenever a chaotic world comes, the young children in the family become the bargaining chips for betting. The court bets a vote, and the "rebels" also bets a vote. If it is possible, or the judgment is inaccurate, different rebels have to place bets separately, rather than less.

For the children who are used as bargaining chips, if they are bet on the party who loses the bet, their personal ending will inevitably be very tragic. For the entire family, no matter which party successfully wins the championship in the end, the entire family can benefit from it. Even if they cannot rise, they can at least ensure stability and continue to reproduce and inherit.

Han Laoliu, Han Laosan, Han Shiqi, Han Shijiu and others were all bargaining chips sent by Hanjiazhuang. The qualifications of several people were not very good. In the eyes of the grandfather, who is the patriarch, they were not very popular. Therefore, even if they died in an unknown gutter, apart from their respective parents, few people in the entire village would feel distressed.

Not only did the Han family, but the Sun family, Li family, Li family, Xu family and other villages have similar gambling books. They probably had the mentality of having a date or not before hitting three poles.

Who made General Zhu have only one thousand ten brothers under his command at that time? Although his combat power was really terrifying, he had just defeated the Asu Army, which was three times more powerful than him, but compared to Liu Futong, Xu Shouhui, Bu Wangsan, and Monk Peng, it was obviously not enough. Only Wujiazhuang and Liujiazhuang were exceptions. These two families sent out absolute leaders in their respective families, Wu Liangmou and Liu Kui, so these two families have won the most now. One is the trusted Zhengdu Commander, and the other is the deputy commander who can make General Zhu feel at ease. The two brothers help each other and are awesome.

People always like to show off their intelligence after the incident. Now, the owners of the villages on the banks of Shanyang Lake mentioned that no one boasted about their long-term vision back then? As for the young people who have experienced the baptism of war and still survived to this day, whether they are born in the regular or common people, and their specific status in their respective families at the beginning, of course, they have also decisively become the first branch of artemisia in the clan, and have been focused on and trained since childhood.

Anyway, the patriarchs are always wise. Their wisdom is absolutely proportional to their age and thickness. They are now working hard to carry forward their wisdom and stuff the real artemisia and talents in their families into the yamen and Huai'an army at all levels of the General Administration Office, in order to hope that they can gain more in the near future.

But Han Jianhong knew that the patriarchs would probably be disappointed in the end, because the teenagers would soon have their own dreams, which were completely different from the dreams of the old.

They will soon find that their joining the Huai'an Army was not simply to gain personal fame. On their shoulders, they also bear the future of all the Han children like themselves. Since the day they joined the Huai'an Army, they have not only fought for one family, but also to defend and reshape the entire Chinese nation.

Han Jianhong didn't understand these principles at first, but now he is becoming clearer and clearer. As for who it is and when, he can't explain them clearly.

Maybe it was subtle. Han Jianhong vaguely remembered that not long after he was ordered to join the army, an instructor told him in person that people are equal, no one is born to be slaves, and no one is born to like to be enslaved by others.

Han Jianhong vaguely remembered what he said when General Zhu ordered the captured Mongols to sell the captured Mongol soldiers at a discount, "They treat us as donkeys, and we will come and not be rude. If they treat us as human beings one day, we will naturally treat them as human beings. There is no saying that kindness or forgiveness is not kindness or forgiveness, only equality."

Han Jianhong still vaguely remembered that one night, the teenagers sat beside the fire to boast about their ancestors, and suddenly they were surprised to find that their ancestors had actually fought for the Song Dynasty under Li Tingzhi's tent. After the Empress Dowager of the Song Dynasty led all the civil and military officials to surrender, the hardships and humiliation that the ancestors endured immediately surged into everyone's heart.

"Prime Minister Boyan set up a tent on the riverside, and the left prime minister Wu Jian led the generals to come in with grass, and sang the name and kneeled down to worship." The records about this history in the genealogy are very vague, but when retelling this passage next to the fire, the tremor brought to Han Jianhong's soul was extremely clear, (Note 2)

Donkeys, it turns out that in their eyes, our ancestors were a group of donkeys, yes, just a group of donkeys. In the eyes of the Mongolian court, all Han people were donkeys. Even if they climbed to a high position like Zhang Song and Lu Luzeng, it was the same. They just turned into a big donkey that could push mills and pull carts, which was no different from other donkeys.

Then, the young men clearly discovered that the so-called destiny and the so-called five virtues reincarnation were just a piece of fig leaf with rotten litter. At the moment when Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with Emperor Song carrying the back of Emperor Song, China had already perished. The current court was just a court of a group of foreign conquerors. They took advantage of the weakness of China to conquer civilization with barbarity.

Then the teenagers stood up awake and vowed to never kneel down and worship under the savage.

They should have stood up long ago, expelled the Tartars and restored China. Maybe they would fail, but they would die like individuals, instead of continuing to live as donkeys and continuing to let the conquerors bully them.

Most of the young men who swore by the fire at that time had already died in battle.

Han Jianhong remembers the names of each of them, but he can't remember the faces of most of them.

There was a time when the dreams in his heart were as blurred as the faces of the deceased. However, after being driven down from the position of the Salt Administration Ambassador, he slowly remembered his dreams and vows when he was young.

Live like a human, die like a human, even if you die, there is no place to bury it.

This dream and oath do not belong to the old people in the clan, but to every young man who grew up in the army. They should not forget it, nor will they dare to forget it.

"Sir, sir, I heard that you, together with General Wu Liangmou, climbed into Huai'an City from the gutter." While immersed in the memories of the past, suddenly the voices of your colleagues were full of expectations in your ears.

"Ah, you said Wu Liangmou, that guy has been unemployed since he was a child. He only climbed walls and ditches all day long. So, under Huai'an City, his skills came in handy." Han Laoliu's memory was instantly pulled to the most glorious moment in his life, and responded loudly with a little pride.

Note 1: In the dust of history (Part 1), an annotation was left out. His son committed a heinous crime and his father was not implicated at all. Only Yang Guang was so generous in history. When he was trapped in Yanmen Pass, Yu Wenhua and his brothers stole military rations to the Turks. After being discovered, he could not bear to let his favorite minister Yu Wen Shu lose his son when he was old, so he only gave Yu Wenhua and his brothers a very light punishment, and Yu Wen Shu was not implicated at all.

Note 2: The left prime minister Wu Jian was famous for his timidity. He once wrote poems to express his aspirations, "It is better to build houses, clouds and mists, and no one should be wrong outside the door." In 1275, the Yuan army came to the city of Lin'an, the capital of Song. Wu Jian went to the Yuan army camp to seek peace. In the first month of the following year, he was promoted to the left prime minister and privy envoy. He went to the Yuan camp to discuss surrender again. Later, in order to pray for envoys, he went to the Yuan capital (now Beijing) to submit a surrender statement and handed over to Song Xi. After the fall of the Song Dynasty, Wu Jian died quietly in Dadu.
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