The reason why a person grows is destined to be the stimulation of a series of people and things from the next life, which creates some pressure, which forces people to move forward continuously.

It is difficult for people in good times to grow. Only when appropriate adversity makes people feel a certain pain can they have the motivation to change. If Zaichun is always trapped in the capital, surrounded by a group of actors who pretend to be peaceful in the world and cannot feel the sense of crisis, then he will have no motivation to reform.

Zaichun's education was extremely failed in real history. As an emperor, he had just taken power and failed to solve the more serious problems of the empire. Instead, he had to rebuild the Old Summer Palace. Perhaps in his eyes, the burned scar in the capital was the biggest problem of the empire. As long as the scar was made up for that scar, the prosperous era of Kanggan would come again.

Think about it so naive! But this is not Zai Chun’s fault. What kind of thoughts can a sixteen-year-old child have? If you can’t meet a good teacher, you can only become like him.

The Holy Ancestor Kangxi ascended the throne at the age of eight and performed much better than Zaichun in his ten years in office. That was because Kangxi really met a grandmother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang who taught him real things, as well as the teachings of great scholars such as Chen Tingjing, Xiong Cilu, Wu Ciyou, and even Western scholars, such as Joshua Wong, Nan Huairen, etc.

Kangxi's ability to become a saint is inseparable from the excellent education he received in his early years, but Zaichun obviously did not have the luck. There are many flatterers, wolves and ambitious people around him, and there are countless villains who are thieves and prostitutes in his heart. In the Forbidden City, there are probably only Empress Dowager Ci'an and Grand Secretary Weng Tonghe, who are loyal and educated Zaichun, but after all, they are single and lonely.

Failed education and distorted environment ultimately shape a tragic emperor!

In life, growth cannot be separated from pressure, but pressure also requires a degree. When the pressure reaches a certain level, it exceeds a person's tolerance limit, that kind of change will cause genetic mutations. In the smallest, it is called personality defects, and in the large, it is perverted.

As for everything Zaichun faced today, the Far East battle was a bit too much pressure for the thirteen-year-old. If Xiao Letian was on the scene today, he would never let Zaichun know about Qiqihar's intelligence, because the master knew his apprentice too well, and he would not let the thirteen-year-old Zaichun bear such great pressure alone.

Xiao Letian will suppress this information for at least three years. At least, when Zai Chun takes power after he is sixteen, he will tell him, so that his heart will be firmer and more prepared. If the young saplings cannot experience the typhoon too early, they will be broken.

Xiao Letian had been struggling with whether to bring Zaichun to the front line in this Far East War, but later he nodded and agreed after Emperor Tongzhi's begging.

According to Xiao Letian's original intention, Zaichun should be gradually trying to understand the stage of war, rather than throwing it into the cruel battlefield at once.

Imagine a thirteen-year-old child personally ran to the Shura hell of a sea of ​​corpses and blood. He watched the human internal organs and broken limbs and arms soaked in a pool of blood, and watched the lives being crushed into powder. Even adults can't stand this huge impact, let alone a child.

In Xiao Letian's plan, Zai Chun should always be by his side, looking at the battlefield from afar, feeling the atmosphere of war instead of understanding the cruelty of war at once, and not letting him go directly to the front line to get close to the god of death.

This is a huge harm to the child's mind! But Zai Chun, a disobedient idiot, actually ran out secretly at the command center, and ran to the front line and almost made the entire defense line lose.

The final closure appears to be a punishment for Zaichun, but in fact it is more of Xiao Letian's care for Zaichun. He hopes Zaichun can think alone and not run around, stay away from war and stay away from the place where human nature is destroyed. After he completely digests the impact of this bloody battle and gets rid of the shadows, he will contact the deeper evil of human nature.

Unfortunately, human calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Zaichun is destined to be a tragedy. No one can understand the essence of this educational theory when Xiao Letian is not around, and this new spiritual shock or explosion occurs.

This Far East Battle was a major node in life for Emperor Tongzhi. His character began to change at this moment. It was very subtle but irreversible. This was the initial origin of the great tragedy three years later.

Xiao Letian once had the possibility of portraying Zaichun into an excellent Manchu emperor. Even Xiao Letian had thought of including the Manchu group led by Zaichun into the category of the Chinese nation, but that was just a possibility and hope.

Zaichun had a strange change after this war, and at the subtle moment when the cancer was just born, Xiao Letian, the only psychologist who could remove the cancer, was not by his side.

After all, fate has its own set of operating rules, so it is not easy to reverse fate.

"Ah...Ah...Ah...Ah..." Three huge sneezes sounded on the horse-drawn sledge. Xiao Letian, who was wrapped in a bear fur coat, rubbed his nose and scolded, "Who is talking about me? Or is someone scolding me?"

The frozen Amur River is covered with snow, and the weather is already a little warm. In the vast white area in the distance, you can see a trace of black lines. The first melting ice and snow on the sun surface reveals the black soil below.

The Volunteers headed north from the sea by boat, and 20,000 elite troops landed at the mouth of the Amur River. They did not have to go on land to make a large number of simple sledges from local materials, and used cold-resistant Mongolian horses and dogs to drag soldiers and supplies and equipment directly to the ice.

Each of the soldiers was also equipped with a sled, which marched extremely quickly on the flat ice surface.

The intelligence personnel of the Misty Hidden Imper had already produced a detailed topographic map of the Amur River as early as last year, from the place where the Ussuri River flows to the sea, all areas where the army can cross the river are marked in detail.

Theoretically, the ice surface of the Amur River in Heilongjiang is very strong in the cold winter, and people can walk freely in any place. It seems that Tsarist Russian Cossack reinforcements can cross the river at any point.

However, a large army of more than 10,000 people crossing the river is completely different from a small army of dozens of people. When they cross the river, they must consider factors such as roads on the other side, mountain forest terrain, mountain structure, etc.

No commander would foolishly allow tens of thousands of troops to enter the primeval forest, and no one would let the delicate war horses walk on the rugged mountain paths in the chaotic world.

The army is not an expedition team, and their marching must follow many rules. Therefore, the entire river defense line, the Qing Dynasty and the Volunteers only need to defend more than a dozen important ferries, and the rest of the places cannot provide Tsarist Russian troops for advancement.
Chapter completed!