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发表于 10-10-2018 01:39:12
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The owner was a cripple and walked around using two walking sticks under his armpits. He brought up two jugs of yellow rice wine, a bowl of broad beans, a bowl of salted peanuts, a saucer of dried tofu and three sliced salt marinated eggs, proceeded to sit on the bench at the front of the pub and stared at the setting sun, paying no attention to the three men beside him.
XiaoTian pours out three bowls of wine and says, “Forgive me for not ordering meat, we are down-town and meat is hard to come by here. Stores only sell meat twice throughout the month, once early in the month and once midmonth,” Zhang Fifteenth replies, “It’s fine, we have wine and that’s enough. From your accents, I assume you are from up north too?” TieXin replies, “We are from Shandong Province, but we got sick of the Jin vermin. We came here three years ago and loved the people here, and so we moved in. You said before that the emperor, living in Jiangnan Province, has only to worry about when the Jin are to come. Do you think they will?”
“Jiangnan is a heavenly place, with many riches and women. There is not one day where the Jin don’t want to invade. However, whether they come or not is not their decision, but our imperial court.”
XiaoTian and TieXin were perplexed, “How does that work?”
“Our country has a hundred times more people than the Jin. If our officials picked loyal officers, with our massive numbers advantage, let alone defend, we can break through their defence and claim all their land. You think we lost our territories up north because we couldn’t defend them? No! We lost them because our three previous emperors, bastards the lot of them, decided to give it to them! These three emperors, Huizong, Qinzong and Gaozong, used corrupt subjects, mistreated citizens, and most importantly, either fired or killed every military officer who tried to stand up to the Jin. They also handed over our territory in a literal sense out of fear. The Jin have no reason not to accept and have since then asserted dominance over us. From that day forward, the emperors might as well be kneeling in front of the Jin, begging them to invade. Ironically, the military officers they fired or killed could have wiped out the Jin by now!”
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