Pig Killer

Chapter 281

"Fight to support the war, what can be found in this poor and remote area? Mountains of gold and silver?" Huang Zhongchang snorted and curled his lips in disdain.

"You said I was obsessed with money, but you are the one who is obsessed with money." Shen Hui'e shook her head and laughed, "Wealth can only be grown in the soil. You can sometimes not buy a grain of rice with a mountain of gold or silver." She said unhappily, "Gold and silver are just intermediaries between goods. Before gold and silver appeared, everything was barter!"

"Okay! Let's not talk about gold and silver. Is there any food in the remote areas along the way? How do you get food?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her and said, "For example, the Xiongnu don't grow food. They just graze horses and sheep. When they encounter disasters, they come to rob us. How do you support the war with war?"

"You asked Mr. Zhang." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear eyes.

"Of course." Huang Zhongchang swallowed his saliva and said, "I am afraid of the 400,000 cavalrymen on the border. If they charge over, who can withstand it? These are government troops, not prisoners' troops, and certainly not a mob."

"Then have you asked? The food and fodder of the Huns are cattle and sheep. They carry these food and fodder wherever they go." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her black pupils.

"Mother wants us to drive the cattle and sheep to fight in the war!" said the big tiger, looking at her with a smile.

"Why not?" Shen Hui'e said, tilting her head slightly and looking at her son outside the railing.

"You've finished watching." Shen Hui'e looked at the two of them with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "Did you see anything good?"

"No." The raccoon slave shook his head slightly, "Neither of them is suitable."

"Why is it inappropriate?" Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at her and said, "There are a lot of jewelry."

"I don't have a chance to wear it now." The raccoon pointed to his head and said, "I just want to take a look! It's really beautiful."

"Keep it for later and wear it when you like it." Shen Hui'e reached out and rubbed her furry head.

"Yeah!" Li Nu nodded.

"Father, Father, are we going to fight the Huns?" The tiger said to him with green eyes.

"Why fight the Huns?" Huang Zhongchang reached out and patted his head. "It's a question whether we can survive under the swords and guns of the government troops. You think too far ahead." He looked at him with a flash of black eyes and said, "Besides, who can fight a war and herd sheep at the same time?"

"That's what the Huns did." Shen Hui'e said, looking at him with a smile.

"I heard from Mr. Zhang that the Xiongnu were very powerful, and their cavalry was invincible." Huang Zhongchang looked at them with his dark eyes and said, "How else could we deploy 400,000 troops on the border to defend against them?"

"The best defense is offense." Shen Hui'e said with gloomy eyes, "The Xiongnu grew up on horseback, so of course they are good at riding horses. This is a disadvantage for us. And the border defense line is too long, so we need so many people to defend it." Then she continued, "The Xiongnu don't actually have that many soldiers and horses, but it's usually hard to stop them in the vast grassland. They are not so deified and invincible, but they are also mortals, and they will bleed and die if they are cut by a knife." Then she continued, "And the Xiongnu have no fixed place to live, they live by the water, and they are hard to find. Unlike us who farm, we have cities, villages, and gather together."

"Why do they have no place to live? Why don't they farm?" Da Chong asked her with his innocent eyes.

"Because you can't farm on the grassland! You can only raise horses and sheep and live near water. That's because where there is water, the grass is lush and can feed cattle and sheep." Shen Hui'e said to them with her eyes as gentle as jade.

"Is this how they live? Where do they sleep?" The raccoon looked at her with his black grape-like eyes and asked, "Can this house follow them wherever they go?"

"Their houses are not like ours that can't be taken away. Their houses are tents! They can be packed up, rolled up, put on horseback, and taken wherever they go." Shen Hui'e smiled at her with her beautiful peach blossom eyes.

"It's hard to have no fixed place to live." The raccoon slave said to her with his childish face.

"Natural conditions determine different lifestyles." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her bright black eyes and said.

"Then they shouldn't come to steal our food. They should find a way to transform themselves." The cat slave said with a pout.

Shen Hui'e smiled as she heard this and said, "My daughter is right."

"We must be bad at riding, the horse is too difficult to control." Huang Zhongchang said regretfully, "We can't be like the Xiongnu, who can shoot arrows on horseback and never miss a single shot. They learned it since they were young. We can't compare with them."

Shen Hui'e's deep black eyes flashed slightly. She didn't have that many horses yet!

"We only need 20,000 cavalry to attack proactively." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her deep and clear eyes and said, "If they are as familiar with the grassland as the Huns, we won't be afraid of not being able to defeat them."

"We have 400,000 troops ready for battle, and your 20,000 troops are enough." Huang Zhongchang looked her up and down and said, "You are joking!"

"I'm talking about taking the initiative." Shen Hui'e looked at him unhappily and said, "Look at the map. The cavalry robbed the food and grass in the city and ran away. They ran into the vast grassland. You couldn't find them anywhere. They even got lost!"

"Not anymore." The big insect looked at him with its dark eyes and said, pointing to the sky, "There is the sun and the stars."

"But we are not familiar with the terrain, so it is still very dangerous." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with deep and bottomless eyes.

"Then send someone to investigate!" said the raccoon slave, looking at them with bright eyes.

"You two are really inexperienced." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her jade-like eyes flashing with warm light.

"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle." Li Nu said with a bright smile on his face.

"Hmm!" Shen Hui'e smiled and nodded, "Take the initiative to find opportunities to fight, and live by the water like the Huns." She pursed her lips and said, "The Huns cannot be eliminated."

"Why do you say that?" Huang Zhongchang straightened up immediately after hearing that.

"Because they can run!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her pure eyes and said, "When you are strong, he is weak, and when you are weak, he is strong." Then she added, "You beat him to a pulp, and he will grow up again in ten or twenty years."

"Then what should we do? Is there no permanent solution?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her with dark eyes.

"Everything has two sides. If you have a good neighbor who is as fierce as a wolf or a tiger by your side, you should be prepared for danger in times of peace!" Shen Hui'e said to him with her deep and bottomless eyes.

Huang Zhongchang looked at her in astonishment, "How can you think that?"

"Didn't you just say that the land of pleasure is the home of heroes? A comfortable life can easily make people lose their fighting spirit." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear eyes and said with a smile.

Huang Zhongchang shook his head and laughed when he heard this, "Having a wolf by my side forces me to become stronger."

"That's right!" Shen Hui'e nodded and smiled, "After all, we are rich here, and life on the grassland is hard. If you are poorer than him, we should go and rob him."

"Haha..." The big tiger laughed when he heard this.

"What are you laughing at?" Shen Hui'e snapped her fingers and gave him a slap.

"Mother is telling the truth." said the big tiger with a smile.

"There are 400,000 troops blocking the western border! The Huns are still far away from us! Let's not talk about him." Huang Zhongchang said to them with a gentle look.

"Not far!" Shen Hui'e looked at him seriously and said, "After breaking through the defense line, the road ahead is smooth. The Xiongnu rushed thousands of miles to the capital." She raised her eyebrows and said, "You can tell from the map. If they surround the capital, they can trap everyone in the city to death."

"Mother, what should we do?" Li Nu said nervously, grabbing her arm.

"Can't they run away, Emperor?" said the big insect cleverly.

"If the emperor runs away, the whole country will be finished. Anyone can run away, except the emperor. He is the pillar of stability. If the emperor runs away, the army and the people will be in chaos." Shen Hui'e looked at them with deep and bottomless eyes and said, "Guarding the territory and protecting the people is the unshirkable responsibility of the emperor. If he runs away, what does he want to do? The emperor dies for the country."

"Then why can we run? And we can even cheer if we run away." The big tiger looked at her in confusion.

"Because we are not the emperor! We call it strategic withdrawal and strategic transfer." Shen Hui'e looked at him with curved eyebrows and said.

"Then we have no choice but to fight to the death." The tiger looked at them with sparkling eyes and said in a conscientious manner, "We must never relax our military preparations at any time."

"If you spend time in normal times, you won't be in a rush at the last minute." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her shiny black eyes.

"Can't we just live a peaceful life farming?" The tiger frowned and muttered like an old man.

"We can't do anything. This is normal. They don't let us farm properly, so we plant them in the fields." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her deep and bottomless eyes.

"Plant it in the ground!" said the raccoon, looking at her with sparkling eyes.

"Yes! They will be obedient when planted in the ground." Shen Hui'e said, patting her dog-skin hat.

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Huang Zhongchang looked at her without blinking and said, "I understand you a little bit now."

"What?" Shen Hui'e looked at him, not quite understanding, "What are you talking about?"

"You should solve the money and grain problems yourself instead of taking advantage of others." Huang Zhongchang looked at her gently and said.

"I feel the love of the common people." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at him with a smile in her eyes.

"It was so sudden, it gave me a fright." Huang Zhongchang said with red eyes, "Their love is very obvious."

"They have a clear distinction between what they like and what they hate. Their preferences are very obvious. They don't say it, but they know it in their hearts!" Shen Hui'e pointed to her eyes and said, "This is very clear."

"It's not that I don't say it, it's just that no one would listen even if I said it." Huang Zhongchang said with a wry smile.

"Yeah!" Shen Hui'e nodded slightly.

"Why is it that no one listens even when I tell you?" The big tiger looked at her with his black eyes full of confusion and asked.

"Every day the emperor faces all the civil and military officials in the court. They have thousands of acres of fertile land and countless servants!" Shen Hui'e said simply and rudely, "The emperor and his ministers have never picked up a hoe and planted the land. How could he know the hard work of planting the land?"