"But Li Rusong is Li Chengliang's eldest son after all. Li Rusong's opinion of you has improved, which will be of some help to your future actions."
Seeing that Xiao Ruxun didn't care about Li Rusong at all, Yuan Huang disagreed and said in a low voice, "At least Li Rusong won't use those little tricks to embarrass you. If he embarrasses you, you'll also be in trouble. At least in Liaodong, you won't be able to move an inch."
Xiao Ruxun smiled.
"Mr. Yuan, I always hope that those who want to deal with me will use little tricks to deal with me. If I can deal with them, it will prove that I haven't been seen through by them. If they use their real skills to deal with me, it will be difficult! Li Rusong won't use little tricks to deal with me, but Li Chengliang will use big tricks to deal with me. When he finds that big tricks can't deal with me, he will use his real skills. "
Yuan Huang said hesitantly, "Although the imperial court doesn't pay attention to generals of your generation, the civil officials will never take it seriously with generals. It's not worth it, and there is no such practice. The civil officials of the Daming Dynasty don't have the power to kill generals like the civil officials of the former Song Dynasty. You have to know that those people look down on you, which means that they won't take it seriously because they don't think you can hurt them in key interests. What they want to deal with are people like Administrator Song. Generals are safer."
"But what I'm going to do will change all this."
Xiao Ruxun took out an Imperial Bodyguard waist token and showed it to Yuan Huang. Yuan Huang's face froze.
"This is …"
If I judge that I can do it, I will do it. No matter what the chances of success are, it is still better than not doing it. The world is bustling, and everyone moves for benefits. The world is bustling, and everyone is driven by benefits. Everyone can't escape from this. From this angle, there is no problem that can't be solved. The only thing that can be seen is whether one's means are strong enough. "
Yuan Huang stared at the waist token. After a long time, he said, "No one can stop you from doing what you want to do. But Ji Xin, they are definitely not what you imagine them to be. They are just ruthless and evil. Remember the fate of Shi Heng and Sun Tan. It will be of great help to you. You must know that power can make people lose themselves. Even the most resolute disciple of Confucius will be lost under the temptation of power. After all, you are a military general."
"The Daming does not have the tradition of a military general being inferior to a scholar. The Six Founding Dukes were all military generals. The Daming is not the Song Dynasty, and military generals are not livestock. They keep saying that the ancestral system cannot be changed. How did it change here? If they can change, so can I. I have the ancestral system, but they don't! I have the ancestral system of Emperor Taizu, but what about them? "
Xiao Ruxun put away his waist token. "Everything that moves leads to life, and if you don't move, you die. There is no principle that remains the same throughout the ages. Time moves forward, and no one can stop where they are."
Yuan Huang looked at Xiao Ruxun. He wanted to say something, but in the end, he did not speak.
After the army rested for a night, Xiao Ruxun received two pieces of news. One was that 4,000 cavalrymen and supplies had arrived at Kaesong, along with the King of Korea's representative, Yoo Sung-Ryong. The other was that the Japanese pirates in Seoul had withdrawn, and Seoul had become an empty city.
Xiao Ruxun's prediction was not wrong. After the Japanese army retreated in panic, they immediately chose to withdraw without any hesitation. Other than the Korean residents who were in a panic, there was no trace of the Japanese pirates in Seoul. Therefore, Xiao Ruxun sent Ma Gui to lead the army to Seoul first, and he reorganized the army and slowly moved to Seoul.
When Yoo Sung-Ryong arrived at Kaesong, he learned that Xiao Ruxun had defeated the Japanese army's main force of 40,000 at the Jade Hoof Hall. The Japanese pirates in Seoul had fled, and Seoul had been recovered. Originally, he was going to kowtow to the King of Korea to thank Xiao Ruxun for recovering Kaesong. But now, when he saw Xiao Ruxun, he knelt down from afar and prostrated himself on the ground in a very humble manner.
Xiao Ruxun was stunned and immediately stepped forward to help Yoo Sung-Ryong up.
"Mr. Yoo? What are you doing? I am not the King. How can you kneel to me? "
Yoo Sung-Ryong's face was filled with tears of excitement. He choked with sobs and said, "We can also kneel to those who are indebted to us. The Admiral has helped us recover our country, and nothing is greater than recovering our country. Our people should kneel to the Admiral for his kindness!"
Xiao Ruxun sighed and said, "It is my duty to command the troops. The decision to send troops was given by the Daming Emperor. If you want to kneel, you should kneel to the Daming Emperor, not me."
Yoo Sung-Ryong cried and said, "The Daming Emperor and General have helped us recover our country. I am so grateful that I don't know what to say. I can only kneel to thank the Heavens!"
Xiao Ruxun had nothing to say. When Yoo Sung-Ryong calmed down, he led the army to Seoul and stationed there.
On the 30th of November in the 20th year of Wanli, Seoul returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty's allied forces after half a year.
However, the moment they entered Seoul, Xiao Ruxun suddenly felt a surge of anger.
Before the fall of Korea, Seoul was the largest city in the Korean Peninsula. It was rich and prosperous. Although it was slightly inferior to China, it was better than most of the cities in Japan. That was why Korea was known as the "Little China". However, when the Ming Dynasty's allied forces entered Seoul, what they saw was hell on earth.
At this time, there were very few residents left in Han City. The whole city was like a ghost town. Most of the buildings in the city, including the ancestral temple, bell tower, and palace, had been burned down, leaving only broken walls. The few survivors were emaciated, and they wandered the streets like ghosts. The streets were full of corpses and horrible bloodstains. Even in the cold winter, the stench of corpses still permeated the whole city.
The whole city had become a huge morgue. Only a few monks were silently cleaning up the corpses and carrying them to the big pit in the east of the city for burial.
No one knew how much malice the occupying army had to harbor in order to ruin such a prosperous city like this. Judging from the brutal behavior of the Japanese in Seoul, they had never seriously thought about how to digest an occupied area and implement effective rule.
They acted completely based on the greed of beasts. Under the government's colonization policy of "eight divisions of the country", they were still like a group of nomads, burning, killing, and looting without any scruples. It could only be said that there was nothing else in the minds of these people except killing.
Of course, we can't blame these beasts. After all, hundreds of years later, the descendants of these beasts still haven't learned a single lesson from their ancestors. The narrow territory and the lack of living space have deeply buried the cruel and greedy genes in their blood. It has been passed down from generation to generation and will never be cut off. It can only be changed by education.
Thinking of Lushun, Nanjing, and the countless fallen cities and suffering people, Xiao Ruxun's anger became even more intense.
Baili Gong once said that there were two things that were most hopeless in Japan. One was education, and the other was military. He didn't know if that had changed.
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