Mi Jing also nodded: "Yes, the emperor of Jinling wrote to me and asked me some questions about Buddhism. After I answered them, he sent me a letter of thanks."
Xiao Rong: “…”
This is the eminent monk. His status is so high that even the little emperor had to write a letter to thank him.
If Mi Jing were in Jinling, he would definitely not be disliked so much.
Xiao Rong used to sympathize with him, after all, he did nothing wrong, but ever since Mi Jing exposed his affairs, Xiao Rong no longer sympathized with this person.
Hate it, you deserve it. …
The thank-you letter was sent last month. In this day and age, it is not uncommon to reply to a letter every month or even several months. Mi Jing planned to write the letter on the spot. He asked Xiao Rong what he needed him to write. Xiao Rong shrugged and said, "You can write whatever you want. Just give it to me after you finish writing it."
Upon hearing this, Mi Jing looked at Xiao Rong. He smiled slightly, but did not ask him what he was up to. After picking up the pen, Mi Jing paused for a moment, then wrote a page of paper fluently and gently blew dry the ink on it. He did not put the paper away, but handed it directly to Xiao Rong.
Xiao Rong took it and folded the letter carefully. Then he said to Mi Jing, "Thank you, Buddha. I'll leave first."
Mi Jing called out to him, "Wait, after your injury is healed, how do you plan to attack the Xianbei?"
Xiao Rong blinked, "Of course, the whole army will attack."
Mi Jing: "Can we defeat the Xianbei army in one battle?"
Xiao Rong was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Probably not. Even if the Xianbei army is dispersed, Shengle City is not that easy to attack. It is said that Shengle's city wall is four feet high and three feet thick. They used the walls of Shuofang, the capital of the Xianbei Yuwen tribe, and Chang'an, which they saw when they went south, as references. They are so tall and solid. If they want to force their way in, they can only open their gates."
But the Zhenbei Army knew this truth, and the Xianbei people naturally knew it too, so they would definitely gather at the city gate and try their best to protect that heavy city gate. No matter in ancient or modern times, at home or abroad, opening a door is always the most difficult procedure, and in most wars, that door is ultimately knocked open with human lives. The people behind step on the corpses of those in front to advance, and the carnival of killing and the roar of grief appear in the same picture.
The longer the time drags on, the more astonishing the army's consumption will be, and more and more people will die. Xiao Rong couldn't help but look at Mi Jing. He roughly knew what Mi Jing meant by asking him. As a disciple of Buddhism, Mi Jing hoped that this war would end soon, and as a human being, Xiao Rong also hoped that this war would end soon.
He opened his mouth, but in the end he could only say something that comforted him more than it assured him: "I will think of a solution, and everyone will think of it again. With everyone's brainstorming, maybe we can come up with a good idea."
Mi Jing smiled, and his eyes fell on the blank letter paper in front of him.
The letter to the young emperor arrived on the other side of the Huai River three days later. Xiao Rong did not intend to demolish the temporary post station after the war. Yanmen County was the birthplace of the Zhenbei Army. Xiao Rong had even thought about the scale of the mausoleum. Since the future imperial mausoleum was there, there would certainly be a lack of manpower there.
In addition, Shengle is also a good place. It is adjacent to Shuofang and Pingcheng and backed by the Yellow River. It is very suitable for development into a transit hub. Yanmen County is still too small, and the terrain is complex. It is not suitable for large-scale garrison and farming. After taking Shengle, it can become the new stronghold of the Zhenbei Army, which will also facilitate future expansion to the north.
In this way, these post stations will still be used in the future, and will be used for a very long time. …
In three days, the Buddhist's letter had reached Nanyong, but it took another day and a half for the letter to be delivered to the little emperor.
Even if the letter was written by a Buddhist, Sun Renluan would have to check it first. Moreover, at this critical juncture, Sun Renluan didn't even want to hand the letter to the little emperor.
However, he was a leader brought up by an aristocratic family and had a proud character. He would put the little emperor under house arrest and influence him, but he would not lie to him or mistreat his food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Well, correspondence with a monk is a hobby for Sun Renluan. …
Waving his hand, Sun Renluan asked the eunuch to take the letter away, and then he stood up and went to the front hall. Ever since the news of the serious injury of the King of Zhenbei came, the already noisy court has become even noisier.
Long before Qu Yunmie was injured, Nanyong had already thought about taking back all the territory north of the Huai River while he was out of the pass. The problem was that at that time, Qu Yunmie's capital was in the distant Yanmen County, and the people of Nanyong thought that they should first take back Jizhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, Ningzhou, and half of Yangzhou and Yanzhou. These places were rich and closer to them. They could occupy the other side of the Yellow River and change the natural barrier from the Huai River to the river. As for the other side of the Yellow River, they would slowly take it.
But who knew that Qu Yunmie would suddenly move the capital to Chenliu without any warning? As a result, as soon as they took action, they would have to face the 100,000 Zhenbei Army that was guarding the capital. Not to mention whether their 150,000 troops could defeat the 100,000, the more serious question was whether Qu Yunmie, whose hometown had been raided, would abandon the Xianbei and return directly.
As for people, the brave will die of overeating and the timid will die of starvation. There are plenty of cowards in the world, and there are also many reckless people. Even when Qu Yunmie just set out on the expedition, someone in the court had already mentioned that perhaps they could give it a try and occupy Chenliu, making the King of Zhenbei and the Zhenbei Army homeless. Everyone knows that Qu Yunmie is a person who will do anything when he is angry. After occupying Chenliu, they can take advantage of this, for example... capture his clansmen, threaten him to come alone, and then take the opportunity to kill him.
Sun Renluan: “…”
Good people are all the same, but bad people are all bad in their own ways. Naturally, from Nan Yong's point of view, we cannot say that this person is bad, we can only say that he is insidious and stupid.
The clansmen were certainly important, but were they really important enough to make the King of Zhenbei submit? Besides, Qu Yunmie was not someone who would be threatened. He would only charge forward in anger and chop all the enemies in the city to pieces.
If any of his people died during this period, he would become even more angry and feel sad, but he would not stop there. He would take revenge, and continue to take revenge. When everything was over, he would collect the bodies of his people and comfort their souls in heaven with the blood of his enemies.
Sun Renluan had at least met Qu Yunmie. When he was a teenager, he did not hide his disgust for princes and nobles. That was his nature, and human nature will not change.
Sun Renluan felt that if he wanted to threaten Qu Yunmie, his clansmen were not enough and he had to add more. He remembered that Qu Yunmie seemed to have a niece, who was the posthumous child of his eldest brother and the only descendant of their Qu family.
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