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Chapter 60 Moderation

After several wars, there were no residents or internal areas in Xiangcheng; during the occupation last year, the Chu army surveyed and mapped the entire city in detail, and knew the layout of the city, so they took advantage of the rain curtain to attack the city in one go.

The battle in the city would not be suspense, but there was some trouble outside the city. Seeing the Chu army attacking, the Qin soldiers and the powerful soldiers scattered. The First Division of Heavy Cavalry under Gui Jing was not sent to attack the city, so the heavy knights surrounded the left and right, driving these people, especially tens of thousands of Korean soldiers back.

The powerful soldiers were in a panic when they fled. Those who entered Fangcheng threw the stolen clothes and weapons all over the ground, which made the knights angry. In order to drive them back, some knights had to chop and kill them. Gui Jing's men brought the clothes and weapons they had been picked up under the phoenix flag, especially in front of Zhuang Wudi.

"King, these thieves help Qin to abuse and plunder the people's wealth and goods, and they must be killed." Gui Jing pointed to the steed soldiers kneeling on the mud not far ahead and spoke loudly. Some people could understand Chu's words. When they heard that the generals who drove them back were going to kill them, the crowd quickly cried out in the crowd. At this time, Xiong Jing realized that most of these steed soldiers were actually women.

"King, it's obvious that the Qin people are tyrannical, what's the Korean people? Why are the women?!" Zhuang Wudi guessed that this was the case. The Qin army soldiers were often healthy women, and men aged 17 to 60 had to join the army.

"King..." The massacre of the woman was obviously beyond everyone's bottom line, Xiang Liang, the Xiang army was the first to speak out.

"King, if you kill a woman, I will not obey you." Dou Jian of Dou family saw Xiong Jing not speaking out, so he simply expressed his attitude.

"Where is Jun Zheng?" What I can't do is just that I can't do it. Xiong Jing sighed in his heart and called Jun Zheng.

"I'm here." Jun Zheng was in charge of the law. When Xiong Jing shouted, Jun Zhengmeng came out.

"What should I do about this?" Xiong Jing asked, pointing to the Korean woman crying in front of him.

"My..." The king called out to himself, and naturally he wanted to come up with a way to deal with it. These women were forced by the Qin people to become powerful soldiers. It is indeed inappropriate to kill them. They can be released without any punishment. In the future, there will be more and more people. "I think it is the reason for the ink, and if it is still the same as the offender, it is the only way to put it in."

"There are those who entered Chu and those who did not, and those who did not, the army. How can we distinguish them?" Xiong Jing was about to nod his head to agree, but the right Shi Yixian suddenly spoke. "And since he was a case, where are the litigants? If there were no litigants, there would be no staggered decisions?"

"This..." As soon as the Right Shi asked, Mengtong didn't know how to deal with it. Tens of thousands of people wanted to identify who went to Chu, and who didn't go to Chu, and it might take more than a month to ask him just for a question. I asked the lawyer again. In just a few years, or more than ten years, the case could not be resolved.

"Since that's the case, let's decide the case here." Xiong Jing said with a smile. "When will it be done, it will be opened."

"Military information is urgent, how can our army stay here for a long time?" Zhuang Wudi was reluctant to do so. After one day of repairing Xiangcheng, the army will attack Ye Yi tomorrow.

"Is the military information the most important or fair?" Xiong Jing asked back and replied: "I think fairness is the most important. Since fairness is the most important, military information can be abandoned. I ordered the entire army to rest here, and when will the case be settled, and when will the case be opened."

Xiong Jing was obviously angry. This was not only angry at the people around him, but also angry at the extremely unfavorable position of Chu. The Chu army could not do anything that the Qin army could do. And in his heart, he was also extremely opposed to the massacre of prisoners of war and commoners.

To be selfish, massacre can indeed shock the enemy, but it will not be beneficial to oneself, especially the Chu army, which has a strong sense of honor, and may also destroy the entire army. Even the German SS or even the infamous Einsatzgruppen. As more massacres, soldiers will have serious psychological problems, and their combat effectiveness and fighting will decline dramatically. Therefore, the generals of the German Wehrmacht directly reject such dirty work.

Xiong Jing did not understand the logic, but it is certain that massacre will damage the soldiers' inherent sense of justice. Once he finds that he is not the righteous side but the sinful side, he will easily lose the will to survive and accept the fate of being killed by the enemy calmly because he should have died. It is said that before Bai Qi gave him death, "I will die," it should be a manifestation of this desire for death.

Because they wanted to judge the Korean soldiers and stayed here, the leaders of each division were anxious after hearing this. Fortunately, after noon, the military order for the deportation was issued. The generals immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Gui Jing, who insisted on severely punishing the Koreans, immediately came over when he heard the order of the king to set off.

"The king said: Whoever is good will bully anyone, and if so. I heard that those who are not good at doing things cannot achieve honor and fame, and those who are evil and shame cannot make great contributions. If I am innocent today and let the Han people go to Chu, the world's powerful soldiers will all follow the Qin people and enter Chu in the future. Qin attacks me with people from the world, and I will only fight against the people of Chu. If the war is defeated, the country will be destroyed. Please think twice."

"I have thought twice!" Xiong Jing knew that Gui Jing would come. Although he was a nobleman, he married a woman from a woman who was a wife for a while. He was very clear about the psychology of the common people. "The Qin people governed the army with profit, and I, the Chu people governed the army with reputation. I, the Qin people, cannot do what the Qin people can do, and the Qin people cannot do what the Chu people can do. The fate has been settled, why bother with resentment?"

"Governing the army with reputation, we must also survive the country." Gui Jing seemed extremely excited. The Chu army did not block the news of Daze's defeat, but did not inform the entire army of the specific losses. There were five days in the Battle of Daze, so don't read any battle reports. Just from the deployment of each division and its own actions, some intelligent generals have guessed that the Western Front should be wiped out.

"If the country does not exist, it will be bloody. How can we face our ancestors when we go to Huangquan?" Gui Jing asked, and the man was already paused.

"If the country does not exist, blood and food will be eliminated. From Huangquan, you will naturally have no face to face your ancestors. However, if the Chu people are no different from the Qin people, you are greedy and vicious, kill indiscriminately, fight for your own efforts, and you can face your ancestors?!" Xiong Jing's tone was extremely melancholy.

His remarks not only made Gui Jing lose his words, but also lost his mind. Just when Gui Jing lost his mind, Xiong Jing said again: "If it is not the nine heavens, it is great. My mother dares to conquer the heavenly spirit. The state of Chu can be restored again. If the heavenly spirit is lost, I would rather... than blasphemy!"

The previous second was Gui Jing still lost his mind, but the next second he woke up completely. After calming down, he asked again: "If the country is destroyed, the Qin people will kill me, Chu people and humiliate me, Chu women, and the king will not regret not doing anything cheap today?"

"If the Qin people are like this, the heavenly spirit will punish you!" Xiong Jing looked at Gui Jing. Although he was calm, his eyes were trembling. "I will not regret it even when I go down to Huangquan."

"Tian Ling?!" Gui Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly. He thought the king was wise, but he didn't expect that he would be so blind at this critical moment. After changing to a more respectful tone, Gui Jing asked again: "Dare you ask the king, where is the heavenly spirit?"

"The spirit of heaven is in my Chu people's heart!" Xiong Jing also smiled bitterly. Gui Jing is not a pious person. He smiled bitterly and was often realistic. People in reality are often afraid of death. No! People in reality are not only afraid of death, but even fear of birth, because a new life is always troubled by parents from birth to growth.

"I am speechless." Gui Jing stood up and prepared to leave.

Looking at the minister who was about to sue, Xiong Jing opened his mouth but swallowed back what he wanted to say. He just waited for Gui Jing to walk out of the tent and disappeared before he gently spit out what he wanted to say: "You should do your own thing, and you are not afraid of life and death..."

"King!" Others did not understand Xiong Jing's meaning, and the left and right Shi was stunned when he heard this. Seeing Xiong Jing's appearance, the right Shi bowed and said, "The king's witty words are deeply understood in the doctrine of the mean."

"Mean?!" The conversation with Gui Jing was also a touching touch to Xiong Jing himself. He had already seen the destiny of heaven before, but now he followed the path of Chu people and saw the final ending.

"A gentleman acts without being in his position, but does not want to be outside. He is rich and noble, but does not act in wealth; he is poor and humble, but does not act in poverty and humble; he is barbarian, but does not act in danger; he is barbarian, but does not enter the troubles, but does not seek self-satisfaction. He does not enter the superior position, but does not support him in the inferior position..." No matter how the historians always have some connection with Confucianism and Taoism, Zuo Shi Zhuyong naturally recites the sentences in "The Doctrine of the Mean".

"Zhongni said: A gentleman is a doctrine of the mean, but a villain is a villain. Why? The king fears the heavenly spirit, but the villain is unscrupulous." Yixian added.

Confucius' Confucianism was originally linked to the nobles' voices. If Xiong Jing was happy to discuss this topic in normal times, the two historians in the Chu State were in danger and worry about gentlemen and villains, which made Xiong Jing angry. However, when he thought about himself, Chu State was in danger, he could not break out of the category of a gentleman and acted as a villain. What kind of King of Chu was considered?
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